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Kakashi and his shadow clone were walking through dark, narrow alleys away from the main street which was buzzing with people. The sky was clouded and it seemed about to rain. The humidity pierced their bones as they made their way to a small dark door covered in mold.
Kakashi opened the door slowly and cautiously examined the inside. He needed a few moments to distinguish the details, as a melted candle was the only source of light in this dark room. No windows, no furniture, but there stood a shadow, leaning on the far wall.
Kakashi kept himself calm, though he could sense the shadow clone wasn't that comfortable.
Turo, tied in the shadow clone's arms grunted as the latter threw the Leaf shinobi on the ground in front of the shadow.
Kakashi shut the door behind him and could finally see the woman standing in front of him.
She was a rather attractive woman. Short pitch black hair surrounded her sweet round face and her lips were covered with a red shiny lipstick. She was wearing little clothes, but a dark cloak hid all her curves. She was staring with a satisfied, but mysterious way at Kakashi and the shadow clone. She only glanced once at Turo.
The woman chuckled and focused on Kakashi.
Kakashi tried to smile, but look guilty as well.
The woman approached him, while her hand was playing with her hair.
"I thought there was supposed to be a whole team." She said with her girly voice.
The shadow clone looked at Kakashi and Kakashi looked serious at the woman as he spoke.
"There were four of them, but they got away." He told her. He wasn't used to his voice sounding so high. And it was too strange for him to be seeing with two eyes normally. He actually missed his Sharingan, but the worst part was the absence of his mask. He almost felt naked.
The woman continued playing with her hair as she examined Turo. Turo was looking at her furious, grunting with pain as the shadow clone kicked him in the ribs.
"They'll find you!" Turo growled trying to stand on his knees. The shadow clone was holding his wrists tight.
The woman smiled widely and turned to look at Kakashi and the shadow clone.
"What about your pal?"
Kakashi turned his gaze to the wet ground.
"They killed him. The Copy Ninja was with them." Kakashi said. His voice was trembling slightly.
The shadow clone was staring at him.
The woman chuckled.
"Hmm, the Copy Ninja from the Village Hidden in the Leaves! So, he is in that team indeed!" she said looking around the room and swirling around herself. The cloak danced with her, until she stopped to look at Kakashi.
Kakashi was shocked to see that the woman had suddenly pale eyes. There were no pupils visible, and Kakashi thought for a second her eyes had turned around in their sockets. But then he realized that she had the Byakugan. The extraordinary eyes the Hyuga clan possessed. Eyes that belonged only to them, as they were part of their genes.
Kakashi couldn't help but gasp.
He sensed his shadow clone next to him stand frozen.
"I see a weird amount of chakra in you, my friends. My accomplices didn't look like that, no. No, they didn't! You look like a cloud of chakra surrounds you. YOU BASTARDS!" she screamed and Kakashi felt stings pierce him all over his body.
He heard puffs! next to him and saw that he was standing alone in the dark room with the woman with the Byakugan.
"You thought you'd fool me, Hatake Kakashi! You make me laugh!" she laughed loud swirling around herself once more.
Kakashi couldn't move. He saw thin, transparent strings tightening his body and it ached as hell as they cut through his flesh.
Kakashi grunted and tried with his hand to grab his kunai from beneath his cloak, but the strings were too tight.
His decoy had failed. Fortunately he had used disguised shadow clones and thanked himself for not letting the real Turo coming with him, or else he'd be dead.
"So, tell me Kakashi!" the thunder kunoichi approached him and he saw her face almost touching his.
Her eyes were piercing through his and he so wished to have his Sharingan back, but these strings were draining his power. They were strings made of chakra.
"Did you kill all of my accomplices?" she asked slowly touching his ear with her lips. Kakashi felt the sticky lipstick and wanted to cut her throat.
He didn't answer, when she looked him back in the eyes and smiled at him.
"Oh, I so want to see you as you are! I always hated this yellow cloak! Ikaru never had a good taste in fashion!" she joked and with a flick of her forefinger the chakra strings returned to her hand.
Kakashi gasped for air and rubbed his arms, which were bleeding. The strings had cut him all over his arms and his torso.
He felt dizzy for a moment, but stood up straight not wanting to give this freaking woman the pleasure of seeing him in pain.
The woman smirked and put her hands on her hips.
'So? Show me the real you. I bet you hate it not having this famous Sharingan of yours!" she laughed.
Kakashi tried to find his strength in order to destroy her. He knew she was not alone here. There would be a trap, but he couldn't sense it. He needed time, so he decided to change into his real self. Then he would have the opportunity to activate his Sharingan and see the danger that was definitely surrounding him.
Kakashi looked at her and placed his hands in front of him vertically.
A cloud of smoke surrounded him and he felt himself again. The yellow cloak was on his feet, while he was wearing his usual clothes. He felt much more comfortable having his mask around his face.
The woman smiled satisfied and approached him a little.
"Ah! I like it better that way!" she said passionately.
She stepped back again and laughed.
Kakashi was about to reveal his Sharingan when she looked totally serious at him and jumped upwards.
Kakashi heard the roof shudder and broken pieces of wood fell on him.
He avoided them and tried to follow the thunder kunoichi.
He felt his one normal eye ache as he was blinded by the light of the day. After a few seconds he noticed that it was rather dark, being midday. Dark grey clouds covered the sky up to the horizon.
He stood on the roof, observing the direction the kunoichi had taken.
But she had disappeared. There was no sign of her.
He immediately thought of his teammates and run towards the woods to the west of the Village of the Blue Tree. He hoped with all his might that the thunder kunoichi hadn't found them.
Sakura…
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Turo and Yamato were standing in front of Sakura in a clearing in the forest. The dark sky had just let its first raindrops fall.
Sakura wiped one of them away as it had fallen on her cheek. She was observing the three shinobi standing in front of them. All wearing a threatening smile on their faces.
Sakura couldn't stop thinking of Kakashi-sensei. He had been gone for half an hour and they still had no sign of him. These three ninjas were definitely working for the thunder kunoichi Sakura had seen in the first two shinobis' minds who had attacked them two days ago.
She had felt fear, when she saw the black-dressed woman with the smirk on her face in the shinobis minds.
But she felt even more scared about Kakashi. Where was he.
"You knew that you would only find trouble here!" one of the three thunder shinobi growled. His thunder badge tied around his forehead, while green strands were falling on his face.
Turo tightened his fists, while Yamato was standing calm next to him.
Sakura moved so that she could stand next to Yamato. If they all three were to attack she would have to fight as well.
"Sakura-chan! Don't!" Yamato hissed silently to her.
Sakura didn't let the three shinobi out of her sight.
"Don't underestimate me." She said calmly.
Yamato looked surprised with her tone. She sounded too calm.
Yamato turned to look at his own opponent, a thin, tall man with a red beard and bold head. His huge red eyebrows hid his small eyes.
"Ah, so the girl will fight as well!" he said and he slapped the green haired one on his forearm and exchanged places with him. He was smiling satisfyingly as he looked at Sakura.
"Ha! There's no way turning back, little girl. You're mine!" he growled.
Sakura tried to keep her face relaxed. She didn't fear him. He was like so many shinobi she's fought. Cocky and arrogant. Too much of a talker.
Let's see what you're really capable of, she thought.
Sakura sensed Yamato's stare. He looked worried.
Sakura nodded looking serious in his eyes.
"I can handle it. I'll let you know if I can't. I promise." She whispered to him, so that no one else could hear her.
Yamato kept his eyes fixed on her and smiled lightly. Sakura felt courage filling her and smiled back.
The third thunder shinobi, who had his entire body covered in bandages, attacked Turo. Sakura noticed the last minute that the other two were in the air as well.
Sakura focused on the red bearded one and drew a kunai with each hand out.
The thunder shinobi had fallen with great force on her and it shocked her for a moment, but she managed to hold him in a distance from her with her kunais.
She gasped when she noticed he was holding the kunais with his bare hands around the sharp blade. But she could see no blood.
She grunted as she forced her chakra on her legs and jumped in the air, not letting her grip from her kunais, and flying in the air she kicked the thunder shinobi on his back. At that moment she let hold of her kunais and landed on her knee on the wet grass.
She felt another raindrop on her shoulder.
She turned quickly and saw her opponent on his knees a few feet away. Already trying to stand up.
Sakura stood up as well and thought of this red bearded shinobi.
He didn't bleed, when he grabbed my kunais, and he can stand up, even after a kick like that. He probably uses his chakra as a shield around his body. She frowned.
With the corner of her eye she noticed branches coming out from Yamato's hands and aiming the green haired shinobi, while Turo was fighting using pure taijutsu with the third thunder shinobi.
She looked back at the red bearded one and he was smirking at her. He looked like nothing had happened to him.
"That was a good kick, I must admit that! For a little girl like you!"
Sakura had to find out more about his fighting style before actually attacking him, so she decided to use the special technique she had invented on her own. A technique that could help her understand her opponent better- whether he is a close combat type or a distant one, and whether he is best in ninjutsu, genjutsu or taijutsu.
Sakura could see him running at her. She calmed herself and let her mind loose itself in a small amount of chakra which took control over it. Her hands were almost moving by themselves, as she had used this technique so many times. It was a complicated signal, but her mind remembered it, like she remembered riding a bicycle.
She opened her eyes and, with her fingers combined together, she looked straight into her opponent's eyes. He was already quite close to her and she had completed her jutsu on time.
"Mind Battle Simulation Jutsu!" she shouted and suddenly the clouded sky, the woods and everything around them disappeared.
They were placed in a room lit with electric blue lights making everything look alien like.
The red bearded shinobi froze with this sudden alternative scene and was looking around himself perplexed. After a few minutes he stopped at Sakura.
"What genjutsu is that?" he asked. He tried to sound controlled, but Sakura could easily distinguish the confusion on his face. His eyes weren't focusing on something specific, not that there was something to else to focus on except Sakura or the blue lights.
Sakura let her arms fall on her sides and approached quickly her opponent, but tried not to look hasty. The only flaw in this genjutsu was the time limit. Sakura had only two minutes time to find out her opponents type, before reaching a too high consumption of chakra, which could prove fatal to her. For creating this, she fortunately needed as big an amount of chakra as needed for the Transformation Technique. But the genjutsu techniques were always trickier, as they demanded mind control and chakra control.
If you couldn't control your feelings, it could hurt yourself as well.
Sakura was about to slash the thunder shinobi with a kunai, but he bent just in time and fought her using complex taijutsu. Sakura was able to fight back. That proved that he was rather good in taijutsu, and definitely a close combat type.
Sakura jumped backwards, keeping a safe distance from him and fell on one knee signaling with her hands.
"Hydro Blast Jutsu!" she shouted decisively.
The thunder shinobi looked amazed at the lake that was forming out of nowhere in front of his feet and, in a sudden, a swirling mass of water rose in the air and aimed for the shinobi.
He grunted, as the swirling water shining like a sapphire snake, growled like a beast as it was about to crush him to pieces.
Sakura noticed hardly, behind her creation, the thunder shinobi signaling quickly.
Then, a second before the swirling water crushed him, a wooden shield had rose above him. The sapphire snake crushed instead on the wooden shield and flooded the blue room.
The amount of water was so much that the water reached Sakura to her stomach, but the force of it didn't do her anything. She stood still like she was standing under a slight breeze.
She noticed the wooden shield retrieve and the thunder shinobi splashing out of the water. The water only reached him to his hips.
He was panting and staring at Sakura.
He smiled and pointed his forefinger at her.
"I underestimated you, girl. But now I won't keep myself restrained!" he chuckled, his voice sounded like a growl.
Sakura could already feel a burden on her mind. Like her head was about to explode. She had little time left. Only a few seconds, she thought intensively.
She jumped out of the water and forcing little chakra on her feet, landed on the surface and then run to her opponent.
He jumped out of the water as well and waited for her attack smirking.
Sakura sensed danger and saw wooden snakes emerge from under the water beneath her feet. She avoided them and jumped in the air and kicked the red-bearded man in his face.
He smirked again looking back at her, not feeling a thing.
Sakura threw four kunais in the air aiming the ceiling of the blue room and then tightened her arms around the thunder shinobi's neck. She tightened more as he was still smirking.
"You can't hurt me, bitch!" he growled.
Sakura approached his ear with her lips.
"Really?" she whispered and then she heard him gasp.
The kunais she had sent in the air were tied with chakra strings. She had managed to tie him while they were fighting. The chakra strings hissed as they touched his skin and he yelled swearing.
Sakura let go of her grip and turned to see him in the face.
"This is your weakness!" she said calmly watching him cry with pain, as the chakra strings had burned a piece of wooden armor that was hidden beneath his clothes. The wooden armor was feeding him with extra chakra and kept him from hurting. She wondered how he could manage to be so flexible in taijutsu while wearing this thing, but she had no time anymore to find out.
She took a last glimpse on the tormented look of the thunder shinobi and signaled her hands forming the last signal of her genjutsu.
She shut her eyes and let herself loose, releasing the Mind Battle Simulation technique.
She felt a chilly breeze surrounding her, but didn't notice the rain as she was already wet.
She opened her eyes and noticed her opponent standing in front of her like he was frozen.
He blinked his eyes a hundred times, panting.
Sakura took the advantage of this time to see what had happened with Yamato and Turo.
"SAKURA!" she heard the terrified voice of Yamato-sensei.
She needed a second to spot him on a top of a tree, at the other end of the clearing.
Turo was nowhere to be found.
"I'm alright!" she shouted back.
She was about to ask about Turo and if there was no sign of Kakashi, but the thunder shinobi was already wide awake about to punch her in the face. She counterattacked it with her legs and swirled around him.
She knew now, that as much she would hit him, he wouldn't feel a thing. The good thing with her technique was that the opponent never really remembered of these two minutes, so that gave Sakura a great advantage.
She tried to keep a distance and thought of a way of revealing this wooden armor of his and burning it.
If Sasuke was here, he would easily use his Fire Whirlwind and burn him to ashes, but my Water element jutsus will have no effect on him.
She had just made a huge mistake. She had thought of Sasuke. His face popped up in her mind and distracted her for a second. The thunder shinobi managed a kick on her face.
Sakura felt the world turning rapidly around and fell on the wet grass. She felt the rain caressing her skin and she had the deepest desire to cry.
Sasuke…
She balanced on her elbows and spit blood. She grunted with her recklessness.
"What? Are you too weak, bitch?" she heard the thunder shinobi shout at her.
She could hear him approach her.
She stood up, but felt too dizzy.
She was about to look at him but felt something break her ribs.
She fell back down on the ground, now the rain falling on her face making her sight blurry.
She grunted. He had kicked her on her side and she felt difficulty breathing.
How stupid, she thought. Stupid me!
She turned to stand up and, even though she hurt like she had a sword pierced into her lung she had to stand up. She was the medical ninja of this mission. Everyone depended on her. She had to correct her mistake.
The red bearded man smirked as he watched her move in pain.
Sakura slid her hand beneath her blouse, and send a small amount of chakra towards it so that she could heal her fractured rib. Although it was a complicated procedure, she had to fix it somehow so that she could move again. Fortunately her red blouse hid the dim green light and the rain had become too heavy for her opponent to notice the humming of her chakra.
"I'll kill you little…!"
Sakura felt the air flowing easier through her lung and looked up at the thunder shinobi.
"Don't underestimate me!" she hissed and drew two kunais out of her bag and stabbed the red bearded man on his shoulders as he was about to fall on her with all his might.
He looked shocked at her and there was a clicking sound.
Sakura pushed him away from her and noticed his clothes move. She remembered how his wooden armor was tied with chains at his shoulders, connecting the front part with the back part and, after storing chakra in her kunais, cut them loose.
The wooden armor slid from beneath his clothes and he looked at her furious.
His eyes had totally disappeared under his thick red eyebrows.
"You bitch!" he shouted and signaled with his hands.
Wood element, she thought and jumped high feeling the raindrops fall like little stings on her skin.
"Wood Prison Jutsu!" the red bearded man shouted and hundreds of wooden branches burst out of the earth aiming Sakura.
Sakura had nowhere to go as the wooden branches had surrounded her. She looked up and noticed the branches about to connect and imprison her. She frowned and focused a big amount of chakra in her right leg. Using the raindrops in the dark atmosphere as a source of power, she used the force and kicked with all her might on one of the branches and cracked it into two pieces.
A new branch emerged and hit Sakura on her back. She felt excruciating pain and gasped. Her lung was stinging again.
She was falling to the ground. She was losing her conscience and tried to think of a way to save herself, but thinking ached as well.
The air was too cold and her right lung stabbed every time she tried to breathe. Stupid me!
The ground was too close. She tried to focus her chakra on her hands and feet, but then she felt like a rock had crushed her. She needed a few moments to trust herself to open her eyes again.
The rain was still falling on her and she felt the wind more intense whooshing through her ears.
She looked up and noticed a face she so longed to see.
Kakashi-sensei was holding her in his arms as they were running.
The thick raindrops were falling on his face and his both eyes staring straight ahead.
Suddenly, after landing on the ground he halted.
Sakura felt another stab in her lung and her hand moved instinctively towards it. She rubbed her ribs and could feel the fracture. She grunted.
Kakashi-sensei shot her a worried glance but turned to the front again.
Sakura followed his gaze and saw the thunder kunoichi she had seen in the two shinobis' minds. She looked more horrid from close. She was smirking. The red bearded shinobi was standing next to her, his eyes fixed on Sakura.
Sakura gasped as she felt Kakashi's hand on her back and then slid under her blouse to her right ribs. She felt the warmth of his hand, although it was not touching her, his chakra made her feel strong again. She could barely hear the humming and a strange kind of dizziness took over her.
Keep focused, he's only healing you, she tried to make herself think.
But he was so close to her, healing her, making her feel warm and excited in a way no logical person would feel while standing a few feet away from two opponents.
Sakura could feel her heart beating faster as the chakra flow from Kakashi got more intense. She could feel her breathing less painful and her ribs moving inside of her.
She wanted to feel like this forever. Being under his protection, where nothing could go wrong.
SAKURA, she heard her inner voice order.
Sakura grunted as she could finally breathe normally. She felt Kakashi's hand slide from under her blouse and she could no longer feel him. She felt the urge of grabbing his hand and put it back on her rib.
She wanted to say something, but her intense feelings didn't make her think clearly. She couldn't risk saying something wrong. And most importantly now was not the perfect time to.
The thunder kunoichi suddenly signaled and thick black clouds formed over her head. The clouds were growling and slowly floated towards Kakashi and Sakura.
Sakura felt strong so she focused on her previous opponent. He was smirking all the time and then he jumped towards her signaling with his hands.
"Wood Release Snake Puppets Jutsu!" he shouted and Sakura saw with the corner of her eye small wooden snakes forming from the ground beneath her feet. She jumped upwards and avoided their bites, leaving Kakashi behind. He was fighting the thunder kunoichi using wind element techniques.
Sakura cleared her mind and focused on her own opponent.
I must not think of Kakashi, she said to herself and signaled with her hands keeping her eyes fixed on the thunder shinobi while avoiding his wooden snakes.
"Hydro Blast Jutsu!" she shouted as she landed on the ground and the rain and the humidity from the earth gathered in front of her feet forming a lake. She knew the shinobi didn't remember of this technique of hers, so she decided to waste no time and act as she did in her Mind Battle Simulation technique.
The water of the lake swirled in the air, this time it was much bigger as the water available in the real world was more. The snake, made of forceful water, disappeared towards the clouds like a hydro-tornado and then, Sakura could hear the loud growling of the water, as it dived from a thousand feet height aiming the thunder shinobi.
The red bearded man, with eyes wide open, reacted as he did in her genjutsu. He had summoned his wooden shield and protected himself beneath it.
Sakura couldn't help but smile.
She didn't lose time and ran towards him past her hydro-tornado and crushed the wooden shield with her chakra-full fist. The thunder shinobi looked at her shocked and she drew her kunai out and cut his face.
He fell on the ground screaming, as his palms hid his bloody face.
Sakura waited till he looked her in the eyes and then she punched him. He collapsed knocked out on the wet grass.
Sakura sighed deeply and felt the world spinning like she was on a rollercoaster. A rollercoaster out of control. She had just acted like she hated acting during battles, like a killing machine. Although she hadn't killed the thunder shinobi, she had just acted having no emotions in her. The way of a ninja she never approved, but had found herself following this way many times ever since…
Stop it!, she ordered herself and turned around to scan her surroundings.
The rain was pouring and it didn't help her look for signs or trails of her teammates.
So she ran away and tried to look for Kakashi, Yamato and Turo.
The raindrops were falling hard splashing when they hit the grass. The breeze was colder and Sakura touched her right rib, right where Kakashi had healed her. He felt so warm against this chilly humidity.
At that moment she noticed a shine coming from her left. It was a thunder. She didn't see any other sign of her teammates so she followed the thunder.
She ran through the dense woods thinking of Kakashi.
Please let him be alright, she thought.
If anything happened to him… she thought of that thunder kunoichi. She was scary and she had this threatening air surrounding her. Everything she witnessed from the memories of these two accomplices of hers, she felt that she was powerful and dangerous.
He can make it, she thought.
Sakura reached a clearing that was covered in light under thunders which had gathered and, as she noticed, Kakashi's Chidori.
They were bumping at each other, Kakashi hitting her with his Chidori, while the thunder kunoichi guided her own thunders towards him.
Sakura stood hidden behind a tree and watched Kakashi.
He was fast, he was flexible. She was not that fast. After a minute, she realized that this thunder kunoichi was a distant combat type. She always avoided Kakashi's close combat moves, by jumping away from him rather than counterattacking him.
Sakura saw that Kakashi had noticed it as well, as he halted on a tree branch and created two shadow clones. Like one, the three Kakashis signaled each differently.
Sakura saw the one Kakashi forming a Chidori holding his right arm, which was creating lightnings, with his left. The middle Kakashi did the same only his palm was upwards with a swirling light ball of chakra floating on it. Sakura immediately recognized the Rasengan. The third Kakashi was holding his hand in front of the cloth that was covering his lower face and a huge mass of fire emerged in the air. The Chidori, the Rasengan and the Fireball all flew towards the thunder kunoichi, who tried to avoid them with her thunders, but she only managed to avoid the Chidori which was suppressed by her own lightning jutsu.
The Rasengan hit her, but she had managed to create a substitution and the real thunder kunoichi appeared from behind of the three Kakashis.
The one fought her back, but she stabbed him with a kunai, leaving smoke behind him and the other two landed on a faraway tree branch.
Sakura wanted to go closer, but she would risk revealing herself and the last thing she wanted was to distract Kakashi.
Sakura didn't really understand what happened next.
She noticed the second shadow clone disappear and the real Kakashi focusing on the thunder kunoichi, who was forming new thunders out from the sky.
The tree on which Sakura was hiding shook under the loud thunder. The echo pierced her ears. It felt like the earth was erupting.
Sakura saw the thunders forming above the kunoichi swirl, like trapped in a whirlwind.
She noticed the woman looking confused.
Kakashi had his normal eye shut, while his Sharingan was fixed on his opponent.
Sakura felt fear inside of her. Like she could sense something really bad was about to happen.
She gasped for air and her legs were moving on their own as she was running back in the trees, towards Kakashi. She didn't care if the thunder kunoichi would notice her. Her instinct warned her. Kakashi was in grave danger.
She was panting, her mind focused on her sensei. She ran as fast as she could, the trees passing by, seeming invisible.
The rain blocked her eyes, but she knew where she was going. She could feel the strange chakra flow from Kakashi flood the area. All the animals in the vicinity had disappeared.
Sakura came closer to the clearing where Kakashi was and halted on a tree branch. She saw him on her right. On a cracked tree branch, with his Sharingan eating the thunder kunoichi's lightnings.
It was the Mangekyo Sharingan he was using.
Sakura felt a chill blocking her thoughts and looked back at Kakashi. He hadn't noticed her and his face looked tense.
Sakura didn't know how to act, without hurting him. She didn't know if she interrupted this technique, what it would do to him.
She felt her hands numb. The soaking wet clothes made her shiver.
Kakashi…
She suddenly caught a movement from her left and saw a rain of shurinken flying towards her.
She focused an unspecific amount of chakra on her hands and hit most of them, causing them to fall on the ground. But then she felt stings. She noticed some shurinken pierced in her legs. She flinched and in the last second avoided another wave of shurinken.
That must have woken Kakashi, as he hit some with his own kunai.
The thunder kunoichi laughed loudly and forced a whirlwind of thunders towards them.
Sakura heard Kakashi grunt and the next thing, she saw him kneeling on the tree branch hiding his Sharingan with his palm.
'Kakashi?" Sakura gasped.
He was grunting. He was in pain.
"Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura shouted.
She saw the massive lightning whirlwind approaching in tremendous speed and felt the wind around her warm up.
I won't let anyone else I care about get hurt. I promised that to myself three years ago. Now is the time to keep that promise.
This time it's my turn to protect you, Kakashi-sensei. You were there for me when I needed you, now I'm here for you.
Sakura frowned staring at the intense light of the thunder whirlwind and signaled quickly.
"Water Style Massive Tsunami Break Jutsu!" she shouted her throat aching, her limbs numb, her legs stinging. But her mind was thinking more clear than ever. She was needed. She was needed by Kakashi.
The rain above her, the water trapped in the earth, the droplets on the trees' and flowers' leaves rose and created a gigantic wave. Sakura could smell the salt in the air, she could feel it behind her as the sky darkened.
The tsunami covered a vast area and ran with the greatest velocity towards Sakura. Sakura grabbed Kakashi the last minute and together they fled from the tsunami's point of attack.
The earth quaked and many trees cracked as the massive wave crushed on the thunder whirlwind and on the thunder kunoichi.
Sakura landed clumsily on a tree branch watching the water of the tsunami flood the ground beneath her. The tree shook slightly.
Sakura leaned on Kakashi instinctively as she felt the shock wave of the tsunami hit her.
She glanced over her shoulder and was rather impressed with the huge lake that had formed in the clearing. There was no sign of the thunder kunoichi. She had a bad feeling though.
She tried to search with her eyes as she stood up. The rain seemed to stop. Sakura wondered if it was due to this jutsu, which demanded a lot of water.
The dark clouds seemed to get thinner, letting finally a few sunrays through. Sakura felt relief and shut her eyes enjoying the warmth of the sun. The last raindrops glowed like diamonds falling from the sky.
Sakura heard a grunt and turned too quickly to see Kakashi. She felt a rush threw her head and was about to collapse, but she leaned on her knees calming herself.
She noticed her sensei opening his normal eye, but then everything was blurry.
She felt great pain in her head and noticed that she was lying on the tree branch on which she had landed with Kakashi. She noticed a pair of black high heels and gasped as she saw the thunder kunoichi standing over her. She was smirking, her cloak ripped to pieces.
"You thought you beat me? You bitch!" she laughed and kicked her in her stomach.
Sakura felt her heart stop and gasped for air. She couldn't breathe. She couldn't move.
"I'll finish you off later. I'll deal with your dear sensei, and then it's your turn!" the girly voice chuckled and Sakura heard her heels as she moved towards Kakashi.
"No!" Sakura grunted trying to move.
She felt like something was blocking her airway and she felt her head about to explode.
Her heart was losing its strength.
"K-Kakashi!" she said, her voice too weak, too shaky to be heard.
She saw him leaning on the tree, his eyelid barely open as he was watching her. Sakura felt tears forming blocking her view. She grunted loudly trying to stand up.
She was on her knees and saw white sparks, but she knew it was only her brain's reaction to her standing so quickly up.
She held her stomach trying to suppress the tormenting pain. She felt the stabs as well on her legs and wanted to scream.
No! she ordered herself.
She moved a little on her knees and drew a kunai out. The last one in her bag.
The thunder kunoichi saw her and kicked her in her face.
Sakura collapsed and spit blood, feeling its warmth in her mouth.
Kakashi's warmth. He saved me. I have to save him.
Sakura saw Kakashi grunting, his face tensed and noticed a twitch under his cloth.
Sakura wiped her tears, noticing blood on her hand as well and looked at Kakashi.
GET UP SAKURA, she tried to force herself not lose consciousness.
"Kakashi!" she whispered.
The thunder kunoichi was kneeling in front of Kakashi.
She signaled and chuckled.
"Chidori!" she said calmly and her hand was surrounded by an intense light.
Sakura heard the thunders and felt a warmth take over her.
"KAKASHI!" she shouted feeling her lungs burn and then darkness drowned her.