"This is the plan," Kakashi explained to Yamato while he let Pakkun snif on an item that belonged to Sara. "When we find Sara, we'll keep hidden. Give her a chance to explore our world on her own. We'll keep in the shadows to make sure she wont hurt anyone else."
"Okay," Yamato understood, "I'll have my wooden jutsu ready before she'll do anything stupid."
Kakashi replied sarcastically, "bit late for that I'm afraid." Then Kakashi explained to Yamato what happened with the pepperspray and how he hurt his leg and that he even needed an operation. He told him everything about the mysterious women he met in the in between dimension that was named Sara Hudson. "So we are not sure what other surprises she might trow at us. She might not be an enemy at all, but when she's still confused, she can be dangerous."
Even though Yamato found it hard to believe, he knew he could trust Kakashi. While Pakkun was picking up Sara's sent and tracking her way trough Konoha, Sara had freshened up by the river.
Sara's eyes were cleansed by the cool river water and it helped to get her vision back completely. Aside from the hot feeling in her face, she was fine now. Sara decided to continu her way.
When a huge red wall blocked her path, she crossed the river. The water seemed very deep, but luckily a simple bridge was build here to help people get across.
It was the same wall she bumped into at the beginning of her escape. It was like this whole region was surrounded by it. Will she ever find a way around it? She found it hard to accept this place exists here in the middle of some forest. This was no place she had ever been before.
'Another dimension.' The words crept in her mind. She stopped walking and closed her eyes. The quiet around her helpt Sara to clear her head and put everything in perspective. There were a lot of things bottering her that just didn't seem right.
Why was the temperature this high? Last time she checked it was still november and the air had been cold. Also with the green leaves on the trees this reminded her more of spring. Was she in a foreign country? That would explain she didn't recognize this place at all. This forest, that wall. She left Sweet Lake City, that's for sure.
She never realize that this Kakashi ninja guy could have taken her to such a far away place. Did she really loose her consciousness that long? Or... was this really another dimension? Could it be? ..No, it just can't, it's to unreal.
Suddenly Sara's thoughts got interrupted by noises up ahead. She heard people, perhaps they could come to her aid. Or will it be more ninja's like the ones that captured and interrogated her? Only one way to find out, but she needed to be careful.
She made sure she stayed hidden behind the trees and bushes while she walked closer. The noises became clear. It sounded like two people fighting. "Take that!" Someone shouted, the voice of a young boy. "Not fast enough." Replied the voice of an adult. What were they doing out here?
Sara crawled down, close to the ground to get an even better view. She didn't want to get detected before she would know what the fuss was about.
She saw a young boy, perhaps 12-years old, and an adult fighting. Kicking and punching each other. The 12-year old took quit the beating. In any normal situation she would have interfered, helped the boy. But.. they both wore ninja clothing, meaning they were from the same group as the ones that captured her. She will get in trouble if they will notice her.
With pain in her hart she kept watching the fight. She noticed the boy was extremely fast and agile. He even ran up a tree and did a backflip to get behind his opponent. But his adult opponent was faster and saw through his tricks. For every strike the boy attempted, the adult blocked and gave two full hits back. The boy was panting, tired, his breathing got irregular. The adult was smiling when he notice the boy lost his speed. "I thought you had been training hard?" He tried challenging the boy.
The boy replied, "I have! I'll show you!" The boy wasn't even close on giving up. He sounded determined and tired at the same time. "I'll never give up!"
Sara started to think these two were more training then actually fighting. But then the adult took out several knives and started throwing them at the boy! "Then show me!" The adult man replied cruelly to the boy.
The boy dodged the first knife by jumping into the bushes near Sara. Sara made sure to stay down before they would see her. When the boy got out of the bushes just next to her, he got another one thrown at him, it nearly hit him. The knife got stuck in a tree behind him. It barely missed the boy! It was near enough to make Sara feel uncomfortable, but she was far enough to not be in the danger zone.
Although that wasn't the problem. Sara couldn't just sit tight while the boy might be killed any moment now. Even if he was part of this ninja gang, he was just a boy, so young. She needed to do something about it. But how? She didn't have her gun. She only got her pepperspray that wouldn't work on such a long distance. Which was also getting empty, so the pressure of the spray will be disappointing.
The boy got his back stuck against a tree, he was trapped now. The adult ninja got out three knives this time, spread between his fingers. The boys face looked empty, emotionless. Like he had given up, accepting his faith. Crap, he was done for!
Meanwhile Kakashi, Pakkun and Yamato found Sara and watched her from a distance from high up in the trees. "Iraku and that kid Kohohamaru seems to be training up ahead." Pakkun told Kakashi.
"We will keep hidden and let her watch the fight. According to Inoichi they don't fight with chakra in her world." Kakashi whispered.
"Then this will be a perfect way of her to realize she isn't in her own world anymore." Yamato whispered back.
"Exactly. And she's well hidden, she is close, but with her low chakra level they will never noticed her like this. Let's make sure they won't notice us either and wait around here." Kakashi jumped to the next tree in silence to get a better view and stayed put there, leaning against the trunk of the tree.
Yamato got a bit higher in the tree he was already in and watched the fight from there. Trying to get a glimpse of the mysterious woman. But she was really well hidden, he couldn't see her at all. He started to wonder what she looked like because of Kakashi's stories. But it seems like he needed to be more patience.
Right on the moment they wanted to lean back and relax, Sara surprised them by jumping out of the bushes and standing between Iraku and Kohohamaru. Just on the moment Iraku threw his kunai knives in the direction of Kohohamaru substitution jutsu. But Sara didn't know that. She was trying to protect the boy because she thought the attack would be fatal. Yamato and Kakashi rushed in, but they were to far away, they were to late.
Sara's back was facing Iraku, two kunai stuck in her back an third one graced her arm, leaving a nasty cut on her arm. Kakashi and Yamato jumped down from the trees and were now staring at her back. Sara seemed frozen in place, she didn't move, she didn't turn around.
"This is bad." Yamato said taking in the damage, not sure what to do. Iraku was shocked, suddenly three extra people were on the training ground. He never noticed them being nearby. He knew Kakashi and Yamato, but he didn't know to woman with his kunai in her back "G..guys, what's going on? Who's she?"
Sara was stunned. She was towering over some wooden log that just had been a boy. She had been sure this was a boy a second ago. It just 'poofed' and it turned into a freaking log! Was she going crazy?! The log tumbled down and rolled against her foot. She faintly felled a sharp pain in her arm. But she ignored it. She was to shocked, her brain had trouble processing what she just saw.
"What are you doing lady? Anyone could see that was just a substitution jutsu stupid." Without moving, Sara shifted her gaze to were the voice came from. She recognized the voice of the boy. He was standing far away, they boy she was trying to safe.
He slowly came walking closer. But something was off. He was walking on the river. The same river she had been crossing, the river that was so deep. Did he.. was he? walking on water?! "How did you... how are you d..." Sara stumbled on her words. He took more steps over the water, like walking on a plain road. Leaving little circles of water around his feet every time one of his feet hit the water. Making it clear there were no stones he walked onto.
Sara kept staring at the boy in the distance in disbelieve. Her brain couldn't handle all this information at all. 'Really? Could this really be another dimension...?'
"Kakashi, she doesn't look very well." Another voice from under her. When Sara looked down she saw a small dog. With a blue scarf and a tiny blue vest. But were did the voice came from? "She looks like she has seen a ghost." It was the dog! It spoke!
It was too much, this was all too weird. She needed to get away from it all. Sara had a mental breakdown, her mind shutting itself off. Her body took over and started to run. Getting her the hell out of here. She left the wooden log, the boy walking on water and the talking dog. She never noticed the three men behind her, watching her closely.
"Yamato!" It was Kakashi who was the first to run after her.
"I know." Yamato replied. But instead of running he stood his ground, jamming his hand onto the earth below him. "Wood style jutsu!"
Before Sara could get very far, wooden branches started to gain up on her and flying around her. Soon she was stuck, captured. Sara who felt like she was going mad whispered to herself. "Square? I just got captured by freaking branches and I'm wondering why they are square?!"
She gathered all the sanity that she had left to look over her shoulder to see were the branches came from. The branches were wrapped around her shoulders, her chest, waist and upper legs. Besides her neck, she couldn't move a muscle.
The branches had emerged from the ground just behind her. In the distance she saw an unfamiliar ninja. Brown hair, his face framed by what seems like iron plating. It reminded her of a medieval helmet, but simpler. His hand was pressing against the ground. "Target secured." He said. Loud enough for Sara to hear.
"Don't tell me..." Sara whispered to herself again.
"Yes, Yamato did this to you." Kakashi voice startled her by coming right besides her. She never noticed him coming this close.
"You again!" Sara replied in her scare. Then she saw what Kakashi was holding, her pepperspray. She didn't even feel him taking it away from her.
"I hope you don't mind I'll take this for now. You caused a lot of trouble with this stuff."
Sara took a deep breath and slowly let the air out. She felt calmer now. What was the point of all of this? She needed to face the truth, she had seen enough now. She should stop fighting them. "You were right." Sara told Kakashi softly.
"hmm?" Kakashi replied. Either he didn't hear her or he didn't understand what she meant. Sara spoke a little louter this time, "about this being another dimension. I understand now. You were right..."