Title: The Battle Begins
Author: Wakyanimefreak
Kakashi looked at Sakura with a surprised look. As well as Gai and Lee who was standing next to him. Ino and Chouji who were sitting next Sakura were shocked as well. Naruto and Shikamaru were too busy watching Sasuke and Gaara.
Sakura realized that she just said what was in her mind. "Oh my god, I'm so sorry.. I didn't me"
"It's alright, you are right… truly you are… thank you for pointing that out for me. I needed to know that straight forward. What's your name?"
"Sakura…Haruno Sakura.. I'm really sor.." Rikku put her index finger over her lips and responded, " There's no need, really. Thank you Sakura-san.." Rikku smiled and looked down to where Sasuke was. As Sasuke raised his chakra into the chidori and bled Gaara, Rikku gasped and jumped down towards Sasuke and grabbed him down as Gaara was uncontrollable. Gaara's siblings came down and took him away as their leader came down and threw a kunai straight at Rikku and Sasuke. But Genma stopped it with his toothpick. Rikku looked down at Sasuke and said, " I'm sorry Sasuke for leaving you, I'll explain everything later… but you have to go stop Gaara right now." Sasuke was so surprised that she was back.. It was so unbelievable to him. "Rikku…"
"Sasuke go stop Gaara I'll talk to you later" Sasuke just starred at her unbelievably.
"SASUKE GO!" She threw kunais at him and as he dodged it, he ran following Gaara.
Everything.. everyone was silent. You could only hear yourself breathing. The audiences were asleep by a jutsu caused by Kabuto. Why is this happening?
Rikku stood up and pulled off her bandana that were over her eyes and tied it around her left upper arm and pulled her mask over her nose, she looked towards the ground as Genma starred at her with no expression whatsoever on his face.
She looked straight into Genma's eyes, "So… the battle begins here and now… ne Genma-san?"
Genma laughed silently to himself and responded, "Welcome back Akatsuki-kun."
Rikku smiled, and ran toward where Kakashi were fighting.
Kakashi and Gai were fighting ninjas all over the area. Sakura was starring over the places as a ninja runs toward her with a kunai aiming straight for her head. Kakashi blocked the kunai and killed him right away, "Sakura stay in that position for a while, and I need you to do a mission." Sakura had a worried expression over her face and looked at Kakashi's back.
"Eh? What mission?"
"An A-rank mission, go wake up Naruto and Shikamaru, and go assist Sasuke."
Kakashi placed his hand on a sleeping body's back and placed a jutsu of summoning Paku.
"He'll lead you to Sasuke."
"This little doggy?" The dog looked up at her.
"Who ever said that I'm just a cute little doggy?" Sakura looked at Paku oddly, I never said cute..
Kakashi broke the silence between the two saying, "Paku, lead Sakura, Naruto, and Shikamaru to Sasuke"
With that, Sakura bent down with Paku and went towards where Naruto and Shikamaru were sleeping. She woke up Naruto and as she was about to wake up Shikamaru, she noticed that he was already awake. And Paku bit him really hard to wake him up.. he stood up straight and yelled how badly it hurt… a/n: yes yes you probably remember this part yeah but I wasn't too sure if Kakashi said to assist Sasuke or to stop Sasuke..well anyways back to the story
As Naruto woke up he was shocked of what was happening, he looked towards Sakura, "What the hell is happening?"
"I'm not too sure, but we just got assigned to an A-rank mission, I'll tell you everything else but right now we gotta..NARUTO BEHIND YOU" A ninja stood behind Naruto and as he was about to strike his kunai through Naruto's head..
Blood dripped down her hand… down the floor..forming a small puddle of blood..
Naruto looked up, "who are you?"
It was Rikku; she kicked the ninja to the wall creating a big hole in the wall for Naruto and them to exit from. Then she pulled down her mask .
"It's me." Naruto looked straight into her eyes as she smiled toward him; he looked down to her hand as the kunai was still stabbed through and dripping down with blood…
"Your hand.."
"oh this.." she reached to the end of the kunai and took it out, "you guys better leave now, Paku I suppose Hatake-san already told you what to do, so please move on before any of you gets hurt here."
Sakura grabbed Naruto and left as Shikamaru left next to her and Paku leading them. As Sakura looked behind her, she saw Rikku waving with a graceful smile. Sakura just smiled back and moved on.
As soon as Rikku lost seeing them through the woods she turned around and starred at the area, she pulled up her mask and pulled down her bandana once again. She mumbled words to herself. "Jibun no chikara wo dase, shinjiru, honnto no tsubasa wo dase, nanimono wo taose" within those words she formed hand seals of her own creation. A pair of wings grew on her back, as well as blood.. she once again formed few hand seals and closing her eyes, once again mumbled words to herself, "tsubasa no kiseki, kokoro wo toru killua no chikara, korosu towa naka no mono wo shinasu" as she opened her eyes, the red eyes were glowing with strength. She go her to arms and crossed them over as she got feathers between her fingers and threw the feathers to the enemy…they laughed… but once it went through their heart …they were killed in one shot…Kurenai and Asuma for the first time saw that jutsu, Kurenai was so surprised how much Rikku could control her powers now
"What is that jutsu?" Kakashi looked over to them and responded,
"I'm sure it's a jutsu that she created, that's probably why she left Konoha for 4 years… to be able to create her own jutsu and control her strength."
"Kakashi…she'll find out sooner or later"
"Find out what?" Rikku popped behind Kakashi and looked at both Kurenai and Asuma.
"Asuma-san! You're still smoking? I thought I stopped you!" Asuma put his cigarette down and stomped on it, "We were talking about nothing you need to know about."
"oh… okay then" Rikku looked over at Kakashi who was still ignoring her, "I think this area is done so I'm just going to go down to Genma-san to tell him that…" it hurt, it hurt that someone she wanted to become friends with would ignore her from the beginning she met him. She looked up at Kakashi, Kurenai, and Asuma. She fought back the tears and smiled and went down the balcony.
"Nice going Kakashi"
"……."
"You know you don't have to ignore her. You never did from the beginning but if this is what you choose then I won't stop you"
"I think Asuma is right too" Kakashi looked up at the two and looked to the ground again.
"I don't want anything happening between us. I don't want to start over when she doesn't remember a thing"
It was silent between the three, but someone broke the silence. Yes, it was Rikku as she pushed down Kakashi and a sword went through the left side of the stomach. Blood dripped down to Kakashi shirt as she was on top of him. Kurenai killed the ninja who attacked Kakashi from behind, but Rikku who protected him.
Rikku clutched her stomach, "Uuh…. are you okay Hatake-san?" Kakashi couldn't say a thing… he didn't know what to do, but then where the Hokage was fighting they heard an explosion. Rikku looked up and ran over there as blood dripped on the way. Kurenai yelled toward where she was, "RIKKU! YOU CAN'T GO IN THAT CONDITION!" Rikku stopped in front of the wall surrounded around the battle. As Rikku was about to step through the wall the ANBU stopped her, "you can't go in there unless you're willing to kill yourself" Rikku looked up at them and responded, "I am."
She pushed away the ANBU members and she formed a jutsu and ran through the wall. The ANBU were surprised to see that she didn't burn like the rest of the ANBU, "Who is she?"
