For the one I love 29.
She didn't know what hit her. Before she could even bring her hand up to form her seals, my chakra-laden punch had already made contact with her chest cavity. I felt my fist connect with her spinal cord, crushing and splitting it before my fist came out of her back.
Of course by then, she was already dead. I could feel Katsuyu-sama behind me twitch in disgust.
"Don't you think that was a little too much force, Sakura?" she asked, her antennae twitching in disgust.
I smirked. "I've actually always wanted to do that." I replied, not at all moved by the amount of tissue, blood and bone on my left hand. As a Konoha medic, I had seen much worse.
"Saaaaaaaakura-chaaaaaaaan...any day now..." I heard Naruto yell. He, Sasuke-kun, Kakashi-sensei and Genma were surrounded by about thirty or more Iwa nin.
Of course, that was the plan.
"SHANNAROOO!" I yelled, jumping from the tree I stood on, the chakra glowing on my fist. The second my fist hit the ground, I let out a huge burst of chakra, splitting and breaking the dry earth under me and swallowing the Iwa nin, who were absolutely shocked. Naruto and I then jumped high into the air, as Genma, Kakashi-sensei and Sasuke-kun did the required seals. Three simultaneous bellows were heard.
"Katon: Gokakyuu no jutsu!" three huge fireballs were sent into the crack my fist had created, burning anything and everything within their reach, i.e. all the Iwa nin that had collected around them, and who were now trapped in the earth.
Ally and foe alike were stunned.
"Na-na-nani?" an Iwa kunoichi gasped in shock, her eyes wider than saucers as she watched her comrades get fried to a crisp. About half of the force sent to attack us had been destroyed at that moment.
"Sakura, Ino..." Kakashi-sensei drawled. We all jumped into the air as Ino and I did the required seals. Ninjutsu wasn't my strongest fighting technique, but I was a water-type. I always took advantage of using it when possible.
"Suiton: Siryuudan no justu!" Ino and I yelled together. The river behind us formed into two identical water dragons, and just as it was about to soak the hell out of the Iwa nin, who were still looking at us in shock, Kakashi-sensei and Sasuke-kun did their seals.
"Raikiri!"
"Chidori!"
The two lightning techniques hit the water dragons, and both men immediately removed their hands before they got electrocuted.
"Shi-" one of the (smarter) Iwa nin realised they were about to be electrocuted, but before either him or his comrades could think of escaping, they were hit by the water and screams could be heard all over the place, as tens of nin were electrocuted to death.
It suddenly dawned on the Iwa nin that an all out attack on Konohagakure no Sato was a drastic, dangerous mistake.
About fucking time they realised it too, CHA! My inner added.
"Re-"a very loud, very audible gulp. "Retreat! Retreat! Get the fuck out of here! Retreat!" One of the elite Iwa nin ordered.
Left, right and centre, what was left of the attack force were running for their miserable lives, retreating like cowards. As if reading my mind, Shikamaru smirked.
"Cowards," he spat at a particular kunoichi who was passing him. She stumbled and fell off a branch. She very ungracefully fell down from the branch, earning rude sniggers from Chouji and Kiba. She scrambled on her feet, terrified and panick-stricken, before getting onto another branch and continuing on her way.
Kakashi-sensei, (who was drastically holding back, since he hadn't used his sharingan), casually turned to Genma and nodded. Genma then hurled the senbon in his mouth at some random nin, (nobody knew how the hell he always did it) hitting his very lower back. The nin stumbled from the tree, falling and screaming. Before his disgraceful fall, Kakashi-sensei grabbed him by the collar.
It suddenly hit me what had happened.
"You have been paralysed from the waist down," Kakashi-sensei drawled in his sexy baritone, sounding aloof and detached as usual, but that dangerous knife-edge just beneath his tone. "You can't move your legs, rendering any means of escape useless. Knowing what kind of pathetic excuses of nin you guys are, nobody's gonna come and save you." He continued.
His voice dropped an octave lower, and got quieter. "The more you cooperate, the faster and more graceful your death is gonna be." My knees turned to jelly at his tone, and when I saw that sadistic battle smirk of his through his mask, a massively humongous burst of lust shot through every cell of my body and headed straight to my groin.
"This is how it's gonna be," he continued, still smirking and in that extremely sexy tone that turned my brain into mush. "Were gonna take you in and Ibiki over there," he nodded once to Ibiki, "is gonna interrogate you. You're gonna tell us exactly what we wanna know. If you get a little too terrified to talk, the Yamanaka's are gonna help us out." He looked up at Ino's dad, who smirked back in response.
"However," his tone got softer still, making moisture pool into my underwear as if it was on a mission to dehydrate me, "if you become unnecessarily difficult, Sasuke is simply going to get into your head and dig out whatever info we seek, then I'm gonna take it upon myself to make your death extremely slow and painful." He said to the nin, who by this time was teetering on the border of serious hyperventilation.
"Do I make myself clear?"
"Y-y-y-y-yes, s-si-sir." The guy replied, terrified beyond normal terror.
"Okay, Ibiki. Come and get him." His voice went back to normal. Ibiki casually strode to where he was standing and roughly grabbed the guy by the collar. "Good work, Kakashi. I can see you still have significant traces of ANBU in ya." He said.
"You know what they say. Once an ANBU, always an ANBU. Those skills do come in handy once in a while."
Ibiki just smirked, and walked away to the torture and interrogation department to begin his work.
By this time, my inner had promptly turned into goo, as I did my best not to let everyone see how turned on I was and trying to restrain my fluids from flowing down my legs.
Fucking hormones. How can Kakashi Hatake turn me on so badly by just a smirk and tone of voice?
Ino-pig, having been my best friend for so long thus knowing me so well, took one long look at my force, noticing how tense my jaw was because of my clenched teeth. She then looked at my legs, and noticed how tightly they were closed together.
"Ne, billboard brow, is there a problem?" she asked, smirking like hell.
I growled low in my throat. "Fuck off, pig." I snarled.
Kakashi-sensei's eye turned towards a particular point in the forest, more specifically, the spot just slightly to Naruto's left.
"I must hand it to you guys, that was an extremely cunning strategy you had there. Having your teammate wreck a little havoc on his former village as you mobilised that mini army from yours. But coming from intellects such as yourself, your teammate and the head of your organisation, it's normal to expect such an intricate and organised attack of such a high calibre. The current Tsuchikage, of course, had no qualms on attacking us. After all, we owe him an embarrassing moment or two, anyway."
The rest of us were staring in dumb shock. Who the hell was he talking to in the freaking forest?
Suddenly, there was a little rustling of the leaves, and the sole girly-looking blonde of Akatsuki came out, cocky smirk planted on his face.
We all stood there, in stunned horror.
"Damn, Hatake, clearly, the bingo books aren't exaggerating on your skill and intellect, yeah. I hear your dad was one of the most powerful shinobi in recent history, yeah. I'm sure he'd have been proud of ya, yeah. Connecting shit like that so fast and coming up with a beautiful counter attack...now that's what I call true art, yeah." Deidara drawled, in an almost sing-song voice.
It was so tempting to pummel his blonde pretty-face sixty feet under.
"Next time, do remember no one has ever attacked Konohagakure no Sato on its own soil and succeeded." And with a condescending show of extreme rudeness, he turned his back on Deidara and disappeared in a pouf of smoke.
Deidara turned to me, raking his eyes all over my body. I was gritting my teeth so hard, trying to hold in my temper, I could feel the enamel come off.
"You've really grown up, yeah." he said softly, blue eyes gleaming, looking at me right in the eyes and still smirking. "Sasori-danna is really looking forward to meeting you again, yeah."
I couldn't help it I smirked.
"Is he now?" I tilted my head slightly, my eyes gleaming with sadistic malice. "Well, you can tell him that next time, I will crush his heart, because there's no Kakuzu to save it now." I replied just as softly.
His smirk widened a fraction. "I'll be sure to give him your message, yeah." And in a flurry of gravel, he disappeared.
"Na," Naruto yelled, "let's report back to Tsunade no baa-chan. Temee is giving the report." And before anyone could tell him what an idiot he was, he was out of there.
"DOBE, YOU ARE FUCKING DEAD!" I heard Sasuke-kun roar in sheer rage as I was teleporting myself to Shihsou's office.
This is the randomest chapter in this story. I swear. I have no idea where this came from. It just popped into my head.
Anyway, as you've all decided you're not reviewing (most of you anyway,) don't expect an update in the next coupla days. I'm dead serious. Don't you dare even glare and/or scowl at me. You brought this upon yourselves, so you're gonna suffer the consequences. A writer needs encouragement too, you know. *sulking and brooding.*
And lightningscar, there's a rather huge hint at how Sasori survived his and Sakura's last encounter. Figure the rest out. I know you're a smart guy. You can stop bugging me now. :-p
