happier news: i like this fic!!
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I always live in a fantasy.
Never the reality.
But I know,
That somewhere in this world,
someone is feeling the exact same way.
Except they feel like they don't live in either worlds.
-kokorodragon
Sakura leaped across the trees behind Sasuke and Naruto. No matter what, she still faced their backs. As Sakura jumped higher into the trees, she felt the cool wind flow in her hair. Sakura exhaled deeply and felt her feet jump across lower, then higher again. It felt unusually peaceful. Which was strange because the forest usually reaked with the smell of blood and death.
Not realizing it, a pair of eyes was watching Sakura. As she leaped upward, then back down to leap upward again. Naruto. He watched Sakura ever since he saw her in the academy. It was like love at first sight. Then when he found out that she liked Sasuke. He was of course furious, and hated Sasuke even more. He never knew it, but the girl he had been watching, had become more than a crush to him. It turned out Naruto really fell in love with Sakura. The way she would laugh, and somehow knowing it, she was going through the same thing as him...going after someone you can't get. It wasn't long before he and Sakura became friends, and when he and Sasuke grew respect to each other. So, for now, it was perfect.
Naruto smiled and turned his face back to the path. Something told him this was going to be a good year for the Chunnin exam. That something exciting was going to happen this year.
Before the trio could go any further, they were stopped by another trio of ninjas. The other ninjas looked at the trio with a smile on their faces. Naruto looked kind of freaked out by this, but stopped and. Sasuke stopped as well and jumped to the ground, as did Naruto. He stared at them with his hard onyx eyes against their gold mischievious ones. Sakura was the last to jump down, frowning because she didn't want to get into a fight, not just yet.
"What do you want?" Sasuke asked. He knew what they wanted, but he could tell something was odd with these shinobis, they all smiled as if they knew something Sasuke and them didn't.
"We just wanted to make a deal." One said he had long hair in a braid and had eyes that could pierce. Sasuke exhaled deeply. He was right.
"But first," Said another, she had two short pig tails and gold eyes that could scare. Sakura only stared back, as if dareing.
"We want to see if your capable of making this deal." This one had sharp hair that flew here , there, and he had eyes that can kill.
"..what type of deal is this?" Sakura asked, the girl in front of her wouldn't stop staring. Sakura seemed a bit scared.
The girl licked her lips and said, "This deal is all about blood. We want someone's blood, but unfortunately, we were disqualified on the first day of this forest."
"What'd you do?" Naruto asked. Frankly speaking, it was impossible to get disqualified unless you opened the scrolls.
"All we did was kill an instructor." The spiky haired guy said. He made it sound like nothing, Naruto and Sakura's eye widened. An instructor? As in a chunnin? Sasuke too looked surprised.
"Yes well, now their watching our backs, not right now though." The girl said again. She was quite the talkative type.
"We had braided guy over here do a sleeping jutsu on them. Since their strong though it won't hold for very long." Spiky haird guy said. He smiled evily and continued, "So, we decided, hey, if we can't pass, they can't either."
"So far, two teams have made it..and none have passed. Thing is, we're just waiting for a particular team, but, since you know all this we can't just leave you go without a fight." The braided guy said.
The girl licked her lips again and said, "The blood was taken, but the hunger is still here. Just try to defeat us, if you do, we'll get out of your way."
Naruto looked at them wide eyed. There were still blood thirsty people in this world? Who would've thought, out of all places, team seven wound up here. Sakura now had her hands fiddle with each other like Hinata. Except she was shaking a little. These guys were strong. Sasuke stood there speechless. What was there to say?
"What you guys scared?" Spiky guy asked. He made a tauntingly face. Naruto, beign Naruto just yelled, "Fine!!! BRING IT ON!!!"
Sakura was debating whether to kill Naruto or hurt him slowly. Sasuke's face looked the same. Were they really a match for these guys?
Sighing, Sasuke went ahead and asked, "So, how will we fight?"
"You'll see." The girl smiled. She pointed her finger toward Sakura, "That girl has been staring at me ever since I started talking! I wanna fight her!!"
"Fine fine." Oh, and this is like sudden death, one battle, and two people. So, are you sure you want to trust your teamate with Aiko over here?" The braided guy pointed to who was obviously Aiko.
Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other, than at Sakura. She looked scared, Sasuke and Naruto just couldn't risk it.
"Instead of Sakura i'll fight." Sasuke said. The other trio just staretd to laugh.
"What's wrong? Don't trust your own teamate in winning?" Aiko asked. She started to jump up and down. "Come on already! I wanna fight!!!"
Sakura looked to Sasuke and Naruto, who stared back at her. That's when Inner Sakura came in. She kept yelling at herself that she would be able to do this, she can fight! Sakura smiled at them and looked at Aiko.
"But if I'm correct! You stared at me first!" Sakura yelled. Sasuke and Naruto gawked. What the hell was she doing?
"Oh! So you wanna fight! Bring it on!!!" Aiko yelled she charged at Sakura, who got a kunai out. Aiko jumped and thrwe three shurikens, Sakura used the kunai to block every one of them. Aiko landed and immdiately went ot taijutsu mode. She ran toward Sakura and did a roundhouse kick, blocking it, Sakura grabbed it by her hand and threw Aiko across the ground. Sakura took this chance and threw the kunai. Aiko rolled over to her feet and the kunai hit right next to her.
"I don't know, but I think you have very bad aiming." Aiko smirked and started to run to Sakura. Sakura did some seals and mumbled the name. A burst of chakura headed toward Aiko. "A sleeping jutsu? Hel-loo!!! I'm the master of that jutsu, and it's probably one if the slowest of it's kind!" Aiko smiled and moved to dodge, but something caught her..something..sharp and thin.
Sakura held the fish wire in one of her hands while the other end was connected to the kunai she threw. Before Aiko had anychance to go under or over the fishline(A/N: aiko's a litto hiei(yyh) hiegth olay??), the jutsu caught her.
"I'm much much much much wekaer than you, but I'm not stupid you know." Sakura remarked, staring at the sleeping form of Aiko.
The braided guy laughed a little before saying, "Didn't expect that to happen. Aiko isn't really the fighting material. She loves to fight, but brains don't came as handy to her."
"Not unless you ask her about foods.." Spikey haired guy rolled his eyes. He waved team seven off. "Well? Go already."
"..that's..it?" Naruto asked. How..weird.
"WHat? Do you want a red carpet? Get out!" The two guys yelled. Naruto grabbed Sakura's wrist and all three ran.
The braided guy went over to Aiko and poked her in the sides. Willingly, she woke up.
"What's up Herb?" Aiko asked, she got up and dusted herself off.
"You prevented that attack with "kai" so why'd you pretend to lose?" Herb asked.
"Let's just say..I got the team we were waiting for...that Sakura's girl...she has very intresting eyes." Aiko examined. "When she stared at me, it was out of wonder and partly because she was scared. When that onyx eyed buy asked to fill in, her eyes became full of determination and ran out of fear. This girl though..I can't really predict what happens inside of her mind."
"..so?" asked the spiky haired guy whom name's we don't know.
"Well Seikyo, I just have a good feeling about this team. I mean, I sense very good chakura from the two boys..but the way I see it, that pinkeh girl has a couple of things hidden in her." Aiko said. She smiled and patted Seikyo on the back, who just glared at her in return.
"Yeah her attitude reminds me of someone." He anwered back.
"And we need to get to that someone." Herb said. He started to walk into the forest with Aiko and Seikyo following him.
Aiko put her arms in the back of her head. "You know, I can't believe that they believed that we killed a chunnin." Aiko laughed.
The other smiled at her and the three left.
--team seven---
"Hell yeah!! The third team to arrive!!!" Naruto yelled he started to do his victory dance while Sasuke and Sakura watched. In truth, they were all pretty happy. Being the third team is pretty good. Sasuke gave a small smile of acomplishment, Sakura started to try to calm Naruto down, but found herself very hyper too. She did it. She actually won a fight, something told her though..that the fight wasn't exactly finished.
When Sakura's sleeping jutsu was about to hit Aiko. Aiko let out a bit of chakura to perform "kai" so Aiko shouldn't have been infected. Sakura just assumed that Aiko didn't put chakura out in time. Shrugging it off, Sakura sat down and gave up on calming down Naruto.
Sasuke looked at Sakura at wonder, he never really saw her truly fight before. One day hewas curious and asked Naruto about her fight with Ino. Naruto started getting all cheerful and started to brag about how Sakura got Ino out of her mind because of him and junk like that. Sasuke was just surpirsed Sakura got Ino out. Coming to think, it always seemed Sakura had two minds of her own(A/N: right on). Sasuke turned to the doorway when he heard a creak.
A what looked like a jouninn came through the door asking for everyone to come meet in the main hall. Naruto smiled and jumped, it was time for the third round, and tournament number one. He grinned and started to tell Sakura how he was going to beat the crap out of Kiba and Sasuke. Sakura whacked him of the "Sasuke" part.
As the walked down the main room, Sakura caught sight of Ino.
Sakura grinned and mouthed, "I'm going to beat you." Ino returned her message by sticking out her tounge. Sakura smiled. This year was going to be different.
Like last year, all the chunnins and jounnins lined up and waited for the Hokage. Everyone stood in silent,Naruto was on the verge of just yelling and screaming, but Sakura kept him silent. Sasuke stood with his arms cross. Everyone soon got restless and just when a half hour had came and gone.
BAM!!!!! Everyone turned their heads to the main door and there stood Tsudande breathing heavily. She leaned on her knees for supprt.
"..sorry..I..had to..." Tsudande huffed and puffed until she finally waved her hand and said, "Oh forget it, let's just start the tournament."
It was twenty minutes into the tournament. Sakura was extremely happy to witness it all.
First match was Shinno vs. some other kid that was from Mist. Shinno won easily with his bugs and the mist guy had to be taken to imfirmary.
Second was Naruto vs. Choji. Naruto used his kage bunshin no jutsu to escape Choji's jutsu. He used one of his Kage clones to distract Choji, while the real Naruto jumped up and punched Choji in the head when Choji was stuck in a corner. Naruto managed to get a scratch at the end of the match and Hinata shyly gave him some cream to cover the wound.
Third was Kiba vs. Neji. It was an easy win for Neji, even Kiba knew that, but he didn't give up without a fight. Neji finally mangaed to clog all of Kiba's chakura holes and Kiba lost, with Hinata running to aid him. Kiba laughed because he knew he got the last hit..or should we say bite.
Third was Sasuke vs. Lee. This was an extremely long battle and took tons of chakura and taijutsu. Lee was at an upper advantage, but at last minute Sasuke used his fire jutsu and Lee took bait. Lee went to his side to dodge the jutsu, but found himself stuck right next to the wall. Sasuke threw some shurikens but Lee was too quick and used his feet to boost himself out of the way. Sasuke caught Lee off gaurd and jumped up and kicked him down, then landing a blow in his stomach.
After this was a mist vs. another foreign ninja. Seeing how it was no one she knew, Sakura went to the bathroom to freshen up. In the bathroom, Sakura leaned over the faucet, staring at her relection. She quietly washed her hands, the cool water running through her fingers, the feeling of refreshment as she splashed it through her face. Sakura heard the door open.
"Ino pig!! Just get out already!!" Sakura yelled.
"Why would I do that?" Sakura turned to the familier voice.
"Tsudande sama!!" Sakura said. She ran and hugged the Hokage.
Tsudande smiled and patted Sakura's head. "Excited?" She asked.
Sakura nodded and went back to the sink. "All of these rookies and gennins..they all have mroe experience than me.."
"Now now Sakura. I have to say..that's true. In fact the thoughts of you winning against most of these people are very slim..."
"Thanks for the confidence!"
"Don't mention it, but, I just want you to rember what I taught you. I'm sure you'll be fine." Tsudande patted Sakura on the back and gave her, her famous grin. Sakura smiled back, and laughed.
"Tsudande sama?"
"Hm?"
"Can I take off these weights now?"
"Uhm..no."
"What?!"
"But tell you what, don't hold back alright?" Tsudande smiled again and left. Sakura frowned and looked at her shoes.
"...these weights make my shoes look like their an inch taler than everyone else's"
--tsudande---
Tsudande smirked as she walked out of the bathroom, she held in her hands..a wrench, a screwdriver, and a couple of paper clips. She was going to fix the alignment just a little...
--Sakura---
When Sakura got out of the bathroom, everyone looked restless until someone finally pointed to Sakura and yelled, "There she is!!"
Sakura gave a questioned face and founf Naruto jumping up at her constantly yelling.
"What is it Naruto?!" Sakura yelled and she grabbed his shoulders and shook him. She felt a tap on her shoulder.
"Sasuke kun?" She asked. Sasuke said nothing, but pointed to the screen. Sakura turned and widended her eyes.
Haruno Sakura vs. Yamanaka Ino.
Sakura's head jolted to Tsudande who just waved back at her smiling. Then Sakura's head turned to Ino, who was already on the ground waiting for her. Ino smirked at her and Sakura smirked back. She happily jumped off the half second story and faced Ino.
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Koko chan: boohyah!!! update!! Xd haha, yeah. If your asking why I made Lee lose, is because I need him for a later scene.