Past and Future
Chapter 21
Disclaimer; I do not own Nauto.
Sakura and Minato walked through the village, talked to Minato's friends. Sakura felt at peace while walking there beside Minato. She looked around and saw kids running around, playing, and laughing. Sakura smiled. She had a soft spot for kids ever since she started working at hospitals. There she met kids every day almost. Kids who were sick or were visiting someone who was laying in the hospital. Sakura felt Minato's grip on her hand tighten a bit. Sakura looked at him.
"Minato, is something wrong?" Sakura mumbled. Minato looked at her, his face serious. "Sakura-chan, I think someone is following us."
Sakura frowned and was about to look back but Minato stopped her. "Don't look back" He whispered. She obeyed and didn't look back.
"Where are we going?" Sakura asked. Minato let her hand go and wrapped his arm around her shoulders. He leaned closer to her face "Let's go to the training grounds, and see if our stalker will follow us."
Sakura nodded, feeling uneasy. She had a bad feeling and it wasn't too hard to guess who the stalker was. Sakura knew and Minato might have also known.
They walked to the training ground and the stalker was still following them.
Sakura gritted her teeth and narrowed her eyes. She was about to activate her Rekengan but Minato gave her a look which said ''Don't '' Sakura nodded and didn't activate her kekkei genkai.
"Why don't you stop playing and show yourself" Minato said out loud.
A shadow moved and jumped from a tree.
Sakura had a hard time trying to suppress her anger. "What the hell? Can't you understand you should leave me alone, Uchiha?"
Sasuke smirked but didn't answer. Sakura growled. Minato, who still had his arm wrapped around her shoulder, held her back.
"I'm sorry, but it's not you I want at the moment." Sasuke said, activating his sharingan. Sakura tensed and knew what he had meant. Minato, let her go and gently, pushed her backwards. "Let me handle this." Minato whispered.
Sakura couldn't help feel even more uneasy. She glared at Sasuke.
Sasuke smirked ''This will be easy, I'm far more powerful than that blonde, I can easily kill him. And after I kill him Sakura will be mine and no one else will touch her anymore.''
Sakura wanted nothing more than to kill Sasuke at that moment. She had a feeling what Sasuke wanted and if she was correct, Sasuke wanted to battle Minato.
"What do you want? I thought you were with the others?" Sakura asked her voice cold as ice. Sasuke snorted "Please, as if they could hold me back. So now I have a question, is Konoha's "yellow flash'' as strong as everyone is saying he is."
Sakura hissed and her kekkei genkai was activated. But Minato raised his hand, making her stop moving forward.
"I must admit, you have guts to challenge me but if you insist then, I have no choice..."
Minato disappeared and was behind Sasuke. He raised his kunai to slash Sasuke but his attack was blocked with a kunai. Minato, grabbed Sasuke's arm and threw him down to the ground.
Sasuke was back to his feet and started making hand seals and used chidori, he then ran forward. Minato used his speed, and dodged the Uchiha's attack. Minato jumped back and grabbed a kunai and focused wind chakra in the kunai and slashed in the air, destroying a part of the training ground. Sakura had jumped up to a tree to dodge Minato's attack. Sakura looked around and saw Sasuke hadn't been so lucky. He had taken some damage from the attack. But Sasuke wasn't the type to give up, he took his katana and ran forward, Minato started to use the Rasengan.
"So it was Minato who created the rasengan. No wonder, Jiraiya taught Naruto it. Like father like son."
Sakura thought. Sakura felt someone was coming towards the training ground.
"Oh great," she mumbled and right then Kakashi and Yamato arrived.
"Sasuke, what the hell are you doing?" Kakashi screamed, which took Sakura by surprise, Kakashi never screamed at his student even less at Sasuke."
Sasuke grunted but didn't stop. Using his version of chidori he threw the attack towards Minato. Minato, who still had more experience of fighting in a war, and was known for his speed, had no problem dodging Sasuke's attack.
Minato jumped back to Sakura, half glaring at the Uchiha.
Sasuke glared at Kakashi who had jumped to his side and grabbed his arms and forced them behind his back.
"Let me go, Kakashi, I have a fight to finish." Sasuke growled, but Kakashi didn't let him go, his grip only tightened. "Sasuke, I won't let you go until you have calmed down." Kakashi said getting annoyed by his former student.
Sasuke glared at Minato and Sakura. Yamato looked at Minato and felt relief that Sasuke didn't get a chance to hit Minato. But then again, Minato didn't become Yondaime hokage for nothing.
"Why even bother, Sakura. You know you must go with us back to the future." Sasuke said grinning. Sakura narrowed her eyes at this but didn't answer. She knew she might say too much, so she just glared at the Uchiha.
"Just shut it Uchiha. You are nothing to me. It was a miracle you survived that time we fought." Sakura said venom in her voice. Sasuke grunted. "Please, like you were ever able to kill me." Sakura decided it wouldn't be good to try to attack Sasuke right there. Her hand almost reaching to take out a kunai and throw it towards him.
Sakura looked at Kakashi. She saw emotions in the eye you only could see.
"I'm sorry for this Sakura. I just wish this wouldn't happen." Kakashi said looking over to Sakura. Sakura snorted. "Please, are you trying to protect him Kakashi?" Kakashi winced "No, Sakura you know me, I wouldn't do that. You were also my student."
"A student you didn't pay any attention to or help to train. You know what Kakashi, remember that day? I went and asked lady Tsunade by myself, asking her to train me, just because someone didn't want or even bother to help me. You only put your attention on that bastard." Sakura said pointing at Sasuke.
"And the chuin exam? You let Ebsu train Naruto, just because you could train Sasuke. You were playing favorites then and you still do it now by protecting him." Her voice trembled in anger. Kakashi knew this was the truth and he didn't even try to deny it. Kakashi was ashamed, he knew how he threatened Sakura and Naruto back then wasn't fair. He only trained Sasuke and sometimes Naruto only so they could protect Sakura.
Minato, who stood beside Sakura watched in silence and listened to her words. What Sakura said, he had a feeling Kakashi didn't realize what he had been doing that time, but as a sensei, you must teach every member of the team not only one or two but of three genin. Hell, even he knew it. As a teacher, Minato treated his students all the same. No one was left behind. Minato sighed.
"Sakura-chan?" he whispered loud enough for her to hear him.
"Maybe we should go?" Sakura looked at him and looked back to Sasuke and Kakashi. She nodded. They walked away, but without noticing Sasuke had got free from Kakashi.
"If I can't have you, no one will have you!"
Sasuke ran forward and raised his katana and struck his sword in her back.
Sakura eyes widened in shock, and she fell forward. Minato caught her before she hit the ground.
Kakashi and Yamato ran forward and grabbed Sasuke and forced him to the ground.
"Sasuke, what the hell did you do that for?" Kakashi said looking at Sakura, who coughed up blood. Minato carefully lifted her up, giving the Uchiha one hatred look and was gone in a flash.
Kakashi and Yamato knocked him out. Kakashi felt guilty. Knowing this wasn't going to be good when the Hokage heard this. Kakashi silently prayed Tsunade was still in the village and could help her.
Minato was at the hospital in a second, Sakura in his arms. She was barley conscious. When he came in the nurse who was in the reception saw Minato with Sakura, and the blood coming out from her mouth and the wound, she screamed to another to summon Tsunade.
Not soon after that Tsunade came and saw Sakura. She screamed out orders to other doctors and nurses. They took Sakura to the emergency room and started to heal and do what they must do.
Minato sat in waiting room, waiting, praying that Sakura would be alright.
Minato sat there for 2 hours before Tsunade came out to talk with him.
"How is she? Will she be all right?" Minato asked. Tsunade smiled
"he really does love her. I shouldn't be so surprised." "Don't worry, Minato. Sakura will be just fine, but it was a nasty wound, how did she get it?"
Minato's mood changed and he looked serious and angry.
"One of her "friends" who came her to get her did it. He attacked her from behind when we were about to leave the training ground."
Tsunade frowned and nodded "Well we must tell Sarutobi-sensei about it. Do you want to go or do you want to stay here and watch over Sakura. If thats so I wouldn't leave Sakura alone in a room without someone watching her."
"I can stay and watch her. And you tell the Hokage, if you aren't busy that is."
Tsunade nodded "Don't worry. I will go and tell him. She is in room 321."
Tsunade left and Minato hurried to Sakura's room. He walked in and saw her sleeping. Minato took the chair and sat beside the bed, taking her hand.
Tsunade knocked at the door to the Hokage's office. When she heard Sarutobi answer she walked in.
"Tsunade? Is something wrong?" Sarutobi asked, concerned. Tsunade didn't come to the office unless something had happened or she had a mission.
"Sarutobi-sensei, I'm here to report, Sakura-san has been attacked and is in the hospital. From what Minato told me, one of her friends did this, that Uchiha. "
Sarutobi eyes widened, and had a look of worry.
"Is she all right? Was it serious?"
"I was at the hospital and healed her wounds. And she is all right. Minato is there with her. I didn't want to leave her alone in the hospital without someone in there with her."
Sarutobi nodded. "Well then, I'll send a message to her friends and I will see what I can do about it. This is nothing I can't just push away, no matter what."
Tsunade nodded and left and returned to the hospital, to check on Sakura.
Sarutobi sighed and looked through the window. This would be troublesome.
Team 7/Kakashi were at the training ground when the message came to them, the Hokage summoned them. Kakashi knew why the Hokage had summoned them and didn't dare to think what the third had on his mind about this.
Kakashi was nervous and thinking about what the consequences would be.
They entered the office. Naruto was the one who started to speak.
"Why did you summon us old man?"
Kakashi groaned and Sarutobi looked amused at Naruto. "Well Naruto, thanks to your teammate, Uchiha you are here"
Naruto turned and looked at Sasuke, "Teme, what the hell did you do now?"
Sasuke didn't answer or didn't bother to look at Naruto or Sarutobi.
"I summoned you, because Uchiha Sasuke, did something to your teammate, Sakura Haruno. And I thought you told him what happened, Kakashi?"
Kakashi gulped and tried to sound normal but failed.
"Well I didn't know how to tell them."
"Well then, Sasuke Uchiha attacked Sakura and gave her a serious wound, luckily Tsunade was in the hospital when Minato arrived with Sakura, who was barley conscious."
"WHAT?" Naruto screamed and turned and glared at Sasuke. "What the hell is wrong with you TEME! you tried to kill Sakura?"
"Hm, If I can't have her, no one should have her." Sasuke just answered.
"Well, because of what you did, there will be consequences for trying to kill a shinobi of Konoha, your own village."
Kakashi was frightened. He didn't know what to say. When it comes things like this, the third Hokage had no mercy. Kakashi remembered when Naruto was just 3 years old. And there was a shinobi who even dared to try to kill him, but failed, the third did even kill that traitor by himself. And who knows what he will do with Sasuke.
"Sandaime-sama, If I may ask something?"
"Of course Kakashi." Kakashi breathed "I know Sasuke needs to be punished for this, but with your permission, me or Yamato can go back to the future and with a message from you, letting godaime Hokage punish him?"
"Can I trust you will tell the godaime? What I heard from Minato and what he had heard from Sakura, Sasuke was your favorite student."
Kakashi winced. Sakura wasn't the type to keep things like that quiet.
"Hokage-sama, I can go back with Sasuke." Yamato said. I am not so close to him and I would make sure he got punished."
Sarutobi nodded. "Very well then, I will write a message to the godaime and I hope you make sure to tell everything that has happened while you have been here, it's that clear?"
"Hai!" Yamato said and grabbed Sasuke's arm and held it tight.
Sarutobi write a simple message and give it to Yamato and they walked out.
"I can't believe it. How could he do such thing?"
Kakashi laid his hand on Naruto's shoulder. "I don't know, Naruto."
MEANWHILE
Sakura slowly opened her eyes and tried to sit up but a hand stopped her.
"Don't, or the wound might open again."
Sakura looked and saw Minato sitting beside the bed.
"Where I am?"
"At the hospital. Tsunade-sama healed your wounds." Just then the door opened up and in came Tsunade. "You're awake, how are you feeling?"
Sakura blinked and felt after, there was some pain in her back and waist. But nothing she couldn't handle.
"My back and waist are hurting. But nothing else." Tsunade nodded. "I expected it . I was able to heal the wounds you got, but you are going feel some pain for a while."
Sakura nodded. "It was Sasuke wasn't?"
"Hai, it was him. He struck his sword in your back and gave you a bad wound." Minato said with narrowed eyes. Sakura looked at him and took his hand.
"Minato can you do me a favor, there is someone I want to meet."
Minato, knowing who she wanted to see, nodded "Of course I will go and get her for you. Just stay here and rest." Minato stood up and before leaving, he kissed her forehead and then he was gone. Tsunade chuckled. "He really does love you, Sakura." Sakura looked at Tsunade and smiled. "yeah, and I against everything fell in love with him too."
"It's not so bad, Sakura."
Sakura smiled. Tsunade left for a while and Sakura sighed in relief. She needed some time alone but knowing Minato, he and that person would be here soon...
The door open and Sakura looked up and saw them. "It didn't take long, Minato."
"Sakura-chan? Why are you here, what happened?" Kushina said and hurried to her side and sat on the bed.
Sakura smiled. "Well, there was a guy who did it..."
"Who did it? Tell me his name and I'll kill him." Kushina said, worried for Sakura and looked at the bandage.
No one hurt her friend, and got away with it. Sakura smiled and saw Minato standing at the door even he had a smile when he heard Kushina's words.
TBC
wow, another chapter finish.
Tobi; TOBI IS A GOOD BOY!
Me; Tobi? What are you doing here?
Tobi; I wanna be a good boy and be here with you.
Me: oh well, then, I have not much to say here execpt, hope you like it.
See ya in next chapter!