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A smile crept onto Sakura's face as she saw the first men infiltrate the city. She shifted her weight, preparing herself.

Let's do this.

Sakura jumped, flying out from her spot at the top of the tree. She landed on the top of a building, rolling to lessen the impact. From the corner of her eyes, she could see the other ANBU agents making their moves, but focused her task.

Task: beat the crap out of some enemies.

Sakura figured she'd aim for the ones throwing the explosives, since they were doing the most damage. Sakura raced across the roof, jumping from one building to the next. The first explosive handler she'd targeted wasn't very smart, for he was turned around, focused completely on getting out and setting up his next bomb. Sakura raced up behind him, sticking out her arm as she passed and throwing him to the ground. He was dead in seconds.

An easy start, Sakura thought, looking around for her next target. It seemed like the other ANBU agents had also had the same idea and wiped out the men trained in explosives. The earth-style agents were being put to work with trying to slow down the men coming over the mountain.

Sakura spotted a small group of men, about three or four, slip past the main battle and set off. She decided to follow them, keeping low as she chased them from the rooftops. She had an advantage over them; she knew this city like the back of her hand. It pleased her when she noticed they were heading for a dead-end.

"Dead end," one of them stated as they all stared at the wall, taking a breath.

"Nice going, Shimu," another spat, turning on the man.

"It's not my fault, this place is huge!" Shimu defended.

"Guys, we need to get out of here," the one from before said.

"We know that, Juriko," the man said, glaring. Sakura didn't know his name, but she'd call him Meanie for now.

"Calm down!" Shimu said.

"Well, we need to go-"

"But can't just take a moment to find out where?"

"Then why are you arguing with me instead of doing that-"

"I-"

"Wait!" Juriko said, interrupting their squabble. "I think I sense-"

Sakura landed behind them, blocking their exit route.

"Her," Juriko finished quietly. His eyes got big behind his round glasses.

"A young girl," Meanie observed, eyeing Sakura up and down. "Has the ANBU really fallen so low to where they send weak little girlies to do their business?"

"Weak little girlie?" Sakura repeated.

Her hand slowly moved towards her pack of kunai. I'll start with those, then I'll release the katana on my back. Throw some punches in between there.

"Yes, that's what I said, should I say it again slower?" Meanie offered, a malicious smile on his face.

"W-wait, don't do that, Dianlo," Juriko said.

Aim for fatal areas with the kunai, cut down the Shimu guy, knock out the glasses kid.

"And why the h*ll not?" Dianlo asked, turning his head to look back at Juriko.

Try to keep it quick, and try not to take any damage. And during it all, I need to be awesome.

"Sh-she's got the pink hair," Juriko said quietly.

Sakura smirked as the Dianlo man turned to her, his confidence drained.

She made her move.

Sakura released a flurry of kunai, taking the time to aim a few. Some missed, falling to the ground, but quite a few pierced the ninjas, and they cried out. Sakura was in front of Dianlo in a second, her chakra-induced fist smashing into his face and sending him flying back into the brick wall. She was there in a flash, holding him up against the wall with a kunai pressed against his neck.

"You don't have the guts to kill," he said, weakly trying to insult her.

"Yeah, I do," Sakura replied, and pressed the kunai harder against his neck. She dropped him, letting him fall to the ground. He didn't get back up.

"How dare you-!"

Sakura whipped around, grabbing Shimu's wrist and leading it away from her body, dodging the kunai that he was re-using from her attack. She flipped him, dropping him on the ground and pulling her katana from her back as he slowly got up.

Sakura took pride in her katana, though she didn't get to use it often. It was a wickedly sharp, thin blade, with intricate engravings along one side. They were a metallic green, etched into beautiful swirling patterns. Embedded in the black handle was a small emerald given to her by Kakashi for her tenth birthday.

Shimu was done within seconds. He was easy and Sakura had done it quickly and cleanly. She turned towards the last one.

Sakura could have killed him even easier, and she could have done it simply on her way to kill Dianlo, but she didn't. She had encountered enemies like this before; ones that didn't want to be there, didn't want to be fighting the battle but were recruited. They didn't know the terribleness of Orochimaru's ways until after they joined, and they couldn't just leave or else they'd be hunted down killed.

The situation like this she remembered the most was when she had encountered a young boy (older than her, but still young) who was being forced to continue fighting for what he thought wasn't right. Sakura had saved him, bringing him back to the ANBU headquarters with her and he began training there. They became friends, and he became a trusted agent of the cooperation. He had introduced himself as Fu.

Sakura snapped back to the present, though her little flashback had only taken about a second. She didn't see any weapons on Juriko, so she assumed he was a medic, and didn't even want to fight at all, let alone for Orochimaru.

"I don't have to kill you," Sakura said, taking a step towards Juriko. He flinched back.

"A-and why not? You killed them," he said, glancing pointedly at the bodies lying on the ground.

"You didn't even like them, did you?" Sakura asked. "You hated them, in fact. You didn't want to be paired with them, yet you were. You didn't even want to come here, did you?"

"I, I-" Juriko stared at her in shock.

"You don't have to stay on Orochimaru's side," Sakura began to explain. "It's been done before, the switching. You can come on our side, and help defeat Orochimaru and save thousands of lives. You can come and stay in the headquarters, to where you never even have to fight, you can just heal. You're a medic, right?"

"Yes, yes I am," he replied, and stood a little straighter.

"Then don't fight me," Sakura continued, "but rather come on my side. You can help bring peace."

"I…." Juriko looked down at the bodies, then towards the sky. The sounds of fighting echoed around the streets. "I think I will."

Sakura smiled warmly at him. "We'll be glad to have you."

"Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh OH MY GOSH!"

Deidara, Gaara, and Sasuke ran for their lives.

"Watch out!" Gaara warned.

Deidara ran with his arms over his head for protection. He looked up, spotting what Gaara was warning them about; a large rock was flying towards them.

"Get out of the way!" Deidara shouted, diving to the side of a building and around the side of a Dumpster. Gaara fell in after him, and the rattling of the dumpster confirmed that Sasuke had pressed himself up against the other side.

The boulder landed with a large crash, shaking the ground and sending up dirt and dust. Deidara clenched his eyes closed, careful not to breathe in by also hiding his nose and mouth in his shirt. As everything settled, Deidara hesitantly brought his face up and peaked around the edge of the Dumpster.

Wow, he thought, staring at the damage. He felt Gaara crawl up beside him.

There was a large crater in the ground, and the rock was slightly cracked from the force of its fall. Deidara pictured what it would have been like if they had still been standing there.

"Let's go," Deidara said, eager to get away.

"To where?" Sasuke asked. "We lost any idea on where Sakura was about an hour ago. All we've done is almost die about fifty times!"

"Don't you guys want to find her?" Deidara asked.

"But why?" Sasuke inquired. "What would the purpose of finding her be?"

Deidara stood there, silent. "I don't know!" he exclaimed. "I just want to find her. I want to talk to her, talk to her about all of this."

"This whole attack thing going on?" Gaara asked, glancing towards the sounds of metal-on-metal and screams and yells.

"Just everything," Deidara explained. "I just…" he trailed off.

Gaara sighed. "So what do you suggest we do?"

Sasuke looked around. "I guess we just stay out of anyone's sight and look for Sakura. Oh, and not get killed."

"Not get killed," Deidara repeated.

That makes it sound so easy.

It was past noon.

Sakura was beginning to tire, so she jumped behind a building away from any fighting to take a break. Sakura reached behind her, digging through her pack for her soldier pills. She brought them out and stared at her hand; there were only four left.

This is going on too long, Sakura thought as she breathed deeply in and out.

It had been approximately six hours since the battle had begun. While Sakura's side was wearing thinner and thinner, Orochimaru's goons seemed never-ending. Whenever it seemed like they'd almost won, like victory was right in their reach, more would show up. Sakura knew this would be no regular battle; there was no way they could win by just what they were doing. To win, they had two possibilities; one, to pull out some super secret weapon or move that will make them win, or, two, defeat Orochimaru himself. Then, almost all of his men would be called off.

Sakura's thoughts seemed to have willed him, because, speak of the devil, she caught a glimpse of a man with snake-like features jumping on top of and in between buildings.

She normally would have charged after him, I mean he was right there! But she hesitated, cautious of him. She knew how powerful and tricky he was. She noticed how even though he was passing right by ANBU, no one else saw him.

She noticed how he made eye contact with her and smirked before plunging into the forest.

Sakura gave chase.

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WHOA, did I update? XD School started, and the beginning gets busy, so sorry bout that.

Truthfully, I'm kind of wanting to get this over with. I want to write LARRS (Like a Red Rose in the Summer) but I'm making myself wait until this is done.

But I'll still love it! :D This was one of my first good stories. I had started WvC like years ago and then was editing it/finishing it to post it here. All the ones I wrote before that are basically crap. XD

READ AND REVIEW PLEASE~! :D