Naruto World Chapter 7: After-match

"Wind Lash no Jutsu!" The nine shadow clone kunais dissipated and the real one fell to the ground. "That is enough!" said Kakashi forcefully.
Sasuke was able to reduce his impact when he fell to the ground. Kakashi then walked up to Sakura and explained, "Sakura that was dumb and very unlike you to do."
Sakura was paying attention obediently till she saw the look on Sasuke's face. Sasuke rushed to her in an instant and kicked her in her head as hard as he could. Sakura felt like she had just been whacked by hard steel. The impact of hitting the ground hard hadn't felt so good ether. Naruto and Rock Lee were rushing to Sakura's aid, Lee being faster got there first.
Everyone there could see the black marks covering Sasuke skin, which came from the curse seal on his neck. He stared at Sakura on the ground with a sadist smile. He enjoyed having power like this, power to control others fate.
"Doton: Kekkai Doroutoumu no Jutsu" yelled Kakashi as he planted his hands on the ground. The ground next to Sasuke came up and engulfed him in a dome made from pure rock and dirt.
Lee lifted the injured Sakura into his arms. Usually Sakura would Sakura would get extremely mad at him for touching her in such a way but she had exhausted the last of her charka in her last attack and Sasuke's most recent kick left her overwhelmed with pain so being held by lee's protective grasp actually didn't feel so bad.
Kakashi held one hand tightly on the earth prison. "Naruto training is canceled for today. Lee I will explain to Gai why you are late for training."
Lee panicked so much he had almost carelessly dropped Sakura. He was very late indeed. "Kakashi-Sama can't I stay and help Sakura?"
"Yeah me too!" said Ino as she revealed her self from her hiding position.
"No, Naruto can take care of her. I will explain to both Gai and Asuma what happened. Now hurry and go."
"Fine, just give me a second." Ino walked over and starred at the half-conscious Sakura.
"Hey Ino-pig." Said Sakura weakly. Sakura expected Ino to badger her with insults for hurting Sasuke-kun.
Ino winced a little bit at that nickname; she had been eating like a pig lately. "Hey Sakura-chan just wanted to say you did a great job!"
"You used everything I thought you well." Rock Lee said with his nice guy pose.
Sakura smiled. But she also realized none of them knew the reason for why she challenged Sasuke-kun. Ino and Lee quickly bolted for their team trainings. Kakashi was busy keeping Sasuke in his earth prison. He then said, "Naruto get Sakura away from here."
"But what happened to Sasuke?" Asked Naruto curiosity.
"Don't worry about it, just go! Ordered Kakashi.
"Naruto," Sakura called. "You always want me to have a date with you. Its about time I say yes."
"What! Really? When?" cried a very surprised Naruto.
"Right now. Come on lets go." Declared the exhausted Sakura. --------------------------------------------------

"Finally you showed up. We were all afraid that we would need to send Choji to go get you again." Said Asuma.
When Asuma said Ino arrived Choji, the slowest one, was the first to run up to Ino, "Where were you?" exclaimed a worried Choji.
"Don't worry I'm fine just got a little sidetracked that's all," Said Ino laughing at how they all got worried about her. "Asuma, Kakashi said you would talk to you and make sure I'm not in trouble for being late."
Asuma nodded. He had no idea what could have happened. Shikamaru numbered something under his breath about how troublesome women can be but no body herd him. Another thing Shikamaru did was that he toke note of the stare Choji gave Ino, one of many stares as of recently! The usually calm Shikamaru tensed the more he thought about the saturation.

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Naruto had taken Sakura to his favorite Raman store. They ate there, Naruto ate five bowls and Sakura only ate half of her one bowl, which Naruto then offered to finish for her. Naruto was excited beyond belief that he was on a date with someone let alone Sakura-chan. Unfortunately for him he didn't know the first thing about dating. He mostly thought about him self and didn't pay Sakura much heed. Luckily for him Sakura was fine with this since she preferred to be left to her own thoughts too but wanted someone beside her to comfort her. Naruto started wondering what he should do. He had a feeling this date was going bad. He decided that talking would be a good thing to do. "So in that fight with Sasuke you..." "Naruto I'm sorry but I don't want to talk about that right now." Sakura cut him short. Really she did want to discuses it. Measure her ability in every action she took during the fight. But then on the other hand she didn't feel ready to accept everything she did. She was overwhelmed with fatigue and had already thought so much about it that she had a headache. She saw the sadness in Naruto's blue eyes. Her tone was meaner than she intended it to be. She quickly thought of a way to change the topic. "Naruto how come you are so determined to become Hokage?" Sakura saw that the mention of his dream reminded Naruto of many painful memories. Sakura felt like her bad experiences were nothing compared to what seemed like memories of a living hell painted on Naruto's expression. "Naruto I didn't mean to um..." Sakura started to apologies. "I will become Hokage because then people will have to respect me instead of treating for like a nuisance!" Sakura felt the weight of his words. She realized Naruto was always the outcast, why was that. Sakura felt Naruto's pain. She couldn't understand why every one despised him, it seemed so unfair to her that Naruto had to suffer so much. Sakura put her hand on Naruto's and told him in a pure sincere voice, "I know that you will accomplish your goal."
Naruto felt deeply touched by her words but he was more shocked at her hand holding his. Never in all his life had he felt the touch of someone else. It felt kind of good.

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"What that's amazing!" Exclaimed Tenten.
Tenten was listening to Lee's vivid description of Sakura's fight with Sasuke. "Wow, that sounds like it would be very entertaining to watch! Can't believe I missed it."
"Yeah Sakura was incredible!" Rock Lee happily yelled.
Tenten laughed and said, "You have stronger feelings for this girl than I thought, don't you?"
Lee fell silent.

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Kakashi dragged an unconscious Sasuke back to his house. Kakashi's earth prison drains the charka of anyone in side. Kakashi placed Sasuke on his couch. A figure loomed in his opened doorway. "You wanted me to come by."

To Be Continued