Happy Go Lucky Chapter 25: Out of Your League, a naruto fanfic

Disclaimer: I Don't Own Naruto.

Key: "Talking"

'Thinking'

'Inner-Self'

(Actions Taking Place or a Sound Effect)

Warning: Characters will be out of Character

"You scared?" taunted Karin. She picked up a spare set of kunai and shuriken and quickly strapped them on.

When Sakura refused to answer Karin's face broke out into a smirk.

'Stupid pink-haired weakling.' she thought amusingly thinking of the many ways she could end this match quickly so she could show Sasuke how strong she came. 'Maybe he'll be so happy that he'll take me out on a date tonight.' she giggled girlishly.

"Dumb brat." she hissed to the pinkett.

Again, the "brat" didn't answer. Sakura merely just placed her weapons in her holster and cleaned off the few that had dirt on them. She threw the cloth that she used to wipe the weapons with in the hamper. Then walked out the locker room door.

Karin rolled her eyes at Sakura's retreating figure.

"Ow."

Hinata pricked her finger on a rose she was trying to pick. She quickly put her pricked finger in her mouth licking the blood away.

'That was stupid' she thought to herself when she clearly remembered about the dumb thorn being in the way. She quickly looked up and saw a figure thought the see though green house building. 'Eh? Sakura-chan?'

She placed the stack of freshly cut flowers on a nearby table and sprinted off to the direction she saw Sakura's figure take. It didn't take long for her to actually catch up to her long time friend.

"Sakura!" she cried off. But for some reason the girl just kept walking.

Hinata ran faster and finally caught the girl taping her on her shoulder. "Sakura…chan…" she said a bit out of breath. Silently cursing at the fact that she was winded from such a short run.

'I really need to get back in shape' she thought with a groan.

Sakura turned around and blinked. "Huh? Hinata-chan, what are you doing here?" she asked with an unusually loud voice.

Hinata leaned back at the sudden volume. "Ano…"

Sakura blinked one more time. "Oh, hang on a second." she took out her iPod and took off her wireless headset. "Now what were you saying?" she asked in her usual volume.

Hinata snapped out of it. 'No wonder she didn't hear me…' "Oh… Um I was just wondering where you were heading off to."

"Oh. I'm heading to the upper training ground."

"Training ground? How come? Are you doing some quick training?"

Sakura smiled before answering a quick no. "Just a quick sparing session."

"Sparing? With who?"

Sakura tried not to laugh at the thought of the red-head pest. "The girl with really bad split ends and ugly glasses that should be a crime to ware." she replied with a very cheerful voice.

Hinata's eyes widened. "Karin?!" she exclaimed.

Sakura nodded and smiled, "She wanted a continuation of what happened before at the front door."

'Wholly shi—' "D-does Sasuke-san know?"

"Sasuke? Why would he know." she tilted her head in a thoughtful position. "Well… on second thought he just might Karin's never been known to be discreet after all especially when it comes to showing off in front of Sasuke."

Hinata winced a bit quickly getting the undertone of Sakura's words. Sakura didn't see Hinata's reaction as she quickly looked over at her cell phone.

"Whoops! I better get going. Or red might come up with some idiotic reason why she was there and I'm not." then Sakura skipped on out of there.

Hinata blinked once more at her friend's behavior.

Then one thought crossed her mind. 'Uh-oh'

She sighed as she felt a small headache coming on.

(ring, ring)

Sasuke looked over from his laptop.

(ring, ring)

He picked up his cell not bothering to look at the ID.

"Hel—"

"Sasuke-kun!" came a squealing happy voice. Sasuke openly flinched at the volume and the high screeching.

"How are you?!" The banshee continued. Sasuke choose not to answer. "Anyway, as you can see I am up and ready for action. To prove that I am having a rematch with that forehead bitch this afternoon! It's all because of her that I was asleep in the first place! She snuck up on me and took a cheap shot! See how under mindedly evil she is!!"

'Rematch?' he silently thought before frowning at the possible outcome of this event. Eventually he shrugged it off as he hung up the phone while Karin chatted away.

'Must be one of her ploys…' he thought and got right back to work. 'No way she would be dumb enough to challenge Sakura.'

Naruto leaned against his office chair. Sasuke had been out on a family business trip since yesterday and Naruto was to watch over Sakura and report back to Sasuke if anything happened.

He rubbed his temples… 'Ugh. Did Karin really have to cause destruction where ever she went. I mean a match?! Is she fucking stupid!' he could just hear the scolding he'll get when chicken-butt comes back and finds out about this.

On one hand, it would be amusing to see Sakura beat the crap out of her--…again… for the nth time. On the other hand, the out come of the whole thing would leave Karin unconscious for another few days.

But then Sasuke's little investigation would be put on hold and time is not a luxury that they had.

Not to mention Sasuke's impatience in getting this case over with mixed with his overprotective side when it came to Sakura; equals an overbearing furious chicken-haired teme

Then there is the possibility that Sakura might—and that is a small might—get hurt. Hmm… but then that is a microscopic chance that she would get severely hurt.

'And if she was I'll be next dinner's menu…' he thought with a shudder.

Hard decision. Watch Karin get beaten and have the investigation stalled or stop the match with no one injured and have Karin pester everyone for the rest of the time she stayed with them…

In the end Naruto decided to allow the fight.

'I'd rather take a beating then hear four-eyes constant screeching.'

He quickly logged out of his laptop and quickly decided to find Sakura; after all, the best he could do was ask her to take it easy on the hits and just knock the girl out.

He took a short cut to the training grounds and soon saw Hinata under a tree as she assisted in helping Sakura stretch. As he got closer to the pair they instantly greeted the boy.

"Hello Naruto!" Sakura smiled up at him while Hinata waved a hello while she flashed him a happy smile. "How's it goin'?"

"Heard about the match." he said bluntly as soon as he was near enough.

"That was really blunt statement." Sakura said blinking at Naruto's forwardness. "But, yeah. Karin wanted a rematch and I have nothing better to do today. She minus well be put into good use." '…as a stuffing bag'her inner self finished off.

"Hm. That sounds a bit iffy…" Naruto said hesitantly. 'And I'm not sure Sasuke has no idea about this…' But then he had to make sure it wasn't for that purpose. "Are you doing this bec--"

"Revenge?" Sakura finished off for him. "Please. I wouldn't waste my time on that." she rolled her eyes at the thought. 'I have a much bigger fish to fry.'

She stood up as Hinata backed off giving her some space to do a slow back flip. "Hm. Yeah I guess that's enough stretching for now." she turned her attention back to Sasuke. "So I take it that we will have you two as audience for this little brawl?"

Naruto gave a swift nod. No way in hell would he miss this. And if Sasuke found out about this… his ass is cooked. He his mouth to say something.

"I won't knock her out like last time." Sakura said in monotone. "That would cause problems for you little investigation, right?"

Naruto's left eye brow rose. He was sure he never told anyone about Sasuke's investigation or his mini mission.

"Relax, no one told me I figured it out all by my little 'lone self." she said knowingly. Sasuke gave her a look that read "explain". "I'm not dumb. Yoh coming home, me staying here, Karin and those other two. You, Sasuke and the other's are planning something." she sighed, "The next thing you know you guys will have Yoh come out and I don't know make himself some type of spectacle for the whole world to kn—" Sakura stopped when she saw the look in his fearful eyes. "He is… isn't he?"

'Uh-oh emergency escape plan #1103! Emergency! Emergency!' his inner self screamed at the top of his lungs

Naruto sweated beads, "Er, I'll be—" Sakura's hand shot up and caught his, stopping him from making a quick escape.

"Naruto." she said evenly as she gazed directly in his eyes. "I hope you all thought this through."

"Er..." came his only answer.

Sakura's viridian eyes looked else where after hearing his answer. "Sorry… I know it's not your place to say."

She released his hand and turned her attention back to Hinata who was looking at the two with complete puzzlement. But Sakura gave her a don't worry about it smile.

"So Hinata, shall we get going to the main grounds?"

The shy girl nodded and followed her friend.

Naruto frowned at his sudden dismissal before he too followed Sakura down the hill.

"I thought you got scared and ran off." Karin sneered.

Sakura rolled her eyes

'Honestly how old is she?' her inner self asked rhetorically. 'Even a ten year old can come up with a better phrase.'

"Oh you know just catching up on some z's. got to have some sleep in some time, wouldn't want to fall asleep during this eventful battle." Sakura replied with a shrug of her shoulders and a happy smile.

Karin leered at her. "Don't worry, you'll get plenty of sleep after this."

"Oh I know. After all summer is about to be over and I finished all of my assignments. So all that is left is for me to relax and have fun!" Sakura stated with a happy tone.

"Che." Sakura's smile and carefree attitude was starting to get on her nerves. Karin moved into a fighting stance. "Oh you'll have fun alright. Fun sleeping in a hospital bed. Bitch!"

Sakura looked at the red head with an amused stare. "Oh?" Sakura waved her hand to Naruto who came sat next to Hinata. She then dug into her pocket and pulled out a whistle.

"Here Naruto." she said throwing the silver item at him. The blond easily caught the flying object and gave the pinkett a confused look.

"You are going to be the referee." she said casually flashing him a bright smile. "M'kay?"

"Hai…" Naruto said uncertainly biting the inside of his cheek.

"Okay rules are simple." Sakura said raising her voice so that everyone could hear. "You can use taijutsu, genjutsu, and ninjutsu along with any weapons you have at your disposal. First one to render their opponent's unable to continue looses. Agreed?"

Karin gave a swift nod.

"Alright. Naruto, we're ready when you are." Sakura said signaling the blond.

"Gotcha!" he grabbed a kunai from his holster, "Ready…" he threw the kunai, "Set… GO!" he yelled as the kunai landed in between the two with a soft thunk.

Both disappeared in a blur.

Sakura ran through the trees as she quickly calculated how far away Karin was.

'Five… ten… there!' she immediately halted on a branch.

She quickly made hand seals.

(Tiger, dragon, rabbit, tiger)

'Sakura Shinkirou no jutsu!' she thought in her mind and instantly the leaves in the tree began to shift making a light breezing nose before falling and turning into harmless cherry blossom petals. The petals enshrouded her a few times before they disbanded and disappeared.

A smile appeared on her lips before sitting back down 'Let the games begin.'

She took one of her kunai and shattered it with one punch creating little bits of shards behind. She quickly used her charka to manipulate the shards into her hands.

Sakura knew from long ago that Karin possessed the the Mind's Eye of the Kagura and her"healing" abilities . Other then that, Karin was just like any other nin.

'I wonder how strong she's gotten…' Sakura absentmindedly thought.

Sakura ran through the trees as she quickly calculated how far away Karin was.

'Five… ten… there!' she immediately halted on a branch.

She quickly made hand seals.

(Tiger, dragon, rabbit, tiger)

A smile appeared on her lips before sitting back down 'Let the games begin'

Karin hopped along the top of the tree canopy trying to get a better view on the terrain She knew that she had a home field disadvantage but that didn't mean she couldn't adapt. She jumped off the branch and leapt on to a higher one. Satisfied with what she was seeing she immediately closed her eyes and used a hand seal whispering a soft, "Kai (release)"

She did have to give credit to Sakura. She knew the pink-haired bitch must have gotten stronger since the last time they met. But that didn't mean that she's been laying down not doing anything. She's spent these last three years training her heart out and now Sakura will be the first to taste the fruits of her labor.

Karin searched the area around her using her infamous tracking abilities.

"Hm. Little forehead decided to go all the way to the outer rim of the training field." she whispered. Then started to do another set of hand seals. "Time for her to taste her own medication."

Sakura watched the girl from a safe—but close—distance. She saw that Karin had taped into her tracking abilities to try and find her.

'Too predictable.' she thought rolling her viridian eyes.

The last time that she had personally fought the girl was three years ago. It was a pathetic fight and down right annoying to begin with but it was a favor request from Sasuke himself; following with the fact that he wanted her to throw the match. Sakura didn't really care much about the fight so it had to be believable. Before that match between her and Karin three years ago, she had asked Neji and Shikamaru to spar with her to ware her out leaving her with less then twenty percent of her chakra when she left to fight Karin and a few wounds giving Karin a major handicap for their spar.

This time was much different. She was fully rested and no wounds to slow down her movements. But then again. She did give Karin a handicap. If the girl actually shows that she is a worthy opponent, them maybe she'll get rid of the handicap. So far the only thing that was different was the charka levels and the small advancement of her jutsus.

'At least this time she's thinking…' she thought at the memory of their last fight where Karin entered with a superiority notation and thought that her opponent was not one to be taken seriously. 'Big mistake on her part.'

She recalled how she decided at the last moment in the battle to hospitalize the girl for a few days. Hey Sasuke only said to loose the match that didn't mean that she couldn't hospitalize the girl like she deserved.

Sakura attention refocused on the red-head nuisance when she saw the girl start to do some hand seal which she recognized as a genjutsu style. Probably making and illusion. Sakura rolled her eyes at the weak defenses her opponent displayed.

Not that it had surprised her that the girl had yet to find out that she was not more then fifteen feet away.

If this had been for real Sakura would have already taken bottle-cap out of the picture. But at alas. This is only a game—for her anyway, for Karin it was for real. Well she better make some contact or this fight will last until sundown.

Sakura opened her hand holding the hand that held onto the kunai shards. Then she held the shards near her face before she blew the shards into the air.

By now, the shards were little more than fine powder that glistened in the air. She had applied a microscopic amount of charka to the powder before blowing them into the air and was able to manipulate the powder to invisibly surround the unexpected victim.

Then with a small flick of her finger bits of the powder clumped together and flew towards Karin's figure.

Karin stood there quickly finishing her hand seals. When she felt a something gently touch her cheek. It felt like a breeze but then came the prick feeling at the same place and she smelled it.

'Blood?'

She looked around no there was no one there. But the smell was definite. Being and assassin made her senses acute to that particular smell.

(drip)

She heard the drip fall to the ground where she stood. She looked down and saw the small droplets. Freezing for a second before she reached up to her face. Her left cheek was wet.

Staring at her hand she knew why. The blood was coming from her.

Attacks:

Sakura Shinkirou no jutsu--the art of cherry blossom mirage-- simple jutsu that is meant to enhance the genjutsu of the owner and meant to fool the opponent by helping cover the strength of the attacks used against the opponent. Can also be used to manipulate the setting of the area.

Mind's Eye of the Kagura--Karin's special ability that allows her to track specific people.

YoungLove: ha! all done!! I hate to leave this chapter like this, but I'm having issues coming up with names for battle moves and for Sakura's bloodline!! But mostly finding a name for Sakura's eyes!!! (pulls on hair) it's driving me CRAZY!!

YoungLove: so anyways… this chapter was a little hard to make… I hope it turned out alright… the next chapter will be harder to write but hey I hope in the end you the reviewers will like them. :D

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