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On with chapter…what is this? 4?
Sakura pushed back a branch as she walked through the forest. The birds chirped loudly in her ears and the wind whistled and tousled to branches leaves causing them to rustle, all adding into the forest symphony.
Sakura smiled to herself as she raised her left foot a little bit higher then her causal steps to avoid tripping over a protruding root. First she hummed a small tune to herself as she walked, but soon found herself lending her voice to the forests music.
Her voice was that of a harpy's, so lovely that it could sink thousand ships and could hold even the coldest mans heart capture. It rung out through the forest, the wind carrying it out to the small critters who seemed to stop all their noise making just to listen. The words came to her so naturally that it would have surprised a person to know that they were only coming to her at that very moment.
If someone had been watching her she would have felt very silly, as she would have looked like one of those crazy Disney girls who always sang about their lives. When Sakura was younger, she and Tayuya would always ask their mother why the villagers never tired of hearing the girl sing every morning…it was just too early to be so darn chipper!
But still she pushed those thoughts aside as she belted out a chorus, her voice soft and alluring. As sweet as a bell chime.
The piano's keys were struck as fingers danced across them, their sweet music filling the air. An orange haired girl sat in front of the grand object as her twin sister sat beside her singing softly to accompany the music.
Their mother and father stood at the kitchen's door frame, their father's arm wrapped around their mother's waist as they stood there, with proud smiles on their faces as they listened to their girls work together to create a wonderful sound.
The two were the bells of the village…everyone envied the Haruno parents for having such skilled daughters. That's why it was such a surprise that the two elegant and graceful twins decided that they wanted to be ninja's.
Their parents had objected at first, but the two were always stubborn so they had eventually gave in, and instead opted for worrying over the two whenever they went on missions. But it was moments like this, when Tayuya played the piano, and Sakura sung that they could forget their worries and pretend that everything would be alright.
Sakura's voice rang out as she closed her eyes in bliss and her sister smiled, shrugging off some of her orange hair off her shoulder before lending her voice in with her sisters, their harmony going unmatched in the village.
Soon the song was over however, and Sakura opened her eyes to grin at her sister, who grinned in return. Tayuya slowly closed the piano and reached out for the top pulling down her flute case and opening it. Clasping together the three parts of her favorite instrument she began to strain out the first few notes of another song.
Again Sakura's eyes drifted closed as again she sung to her sister's music. It was always this way. Tayuya would play and Sakura would sing. But the song was cut short as Tayuya stopped abruptly and looked at her sister solemnly.
"Nani…Tayuya chan what's the matter?" Sakura asked, as she to, stopped her song.
"Remember this moment Onee san" The orange haired girl spoke before giving her sister another affectionate smile and again resumed the song. Sakura gave her sister an odd look but shrugged off the uneasy feeling as she again let the lyrics to their song take over her voice. Tayuya was just being weird again was all.
Sakura sighed sadly at the memory but continued on her path, still lending her voice to the music that surrounded her. She sung of lost love, and of childhood reveries. She sung of the stars above, and she sung a song of her way of the ninja. She kept on singing and singing to fill her hearts content, when a bush rustled behind her. Turning around cautiously she pulled out a kunai and posed for an attack.
The bushes rustled once more but nothing came out. Sakura glared at the bush, her heart picking up speed and she gulped down the salvia building up in her mouth. She never let her gaze wavier from the bush as she pushed back her feeling of fear.
Here we go… Inner Sakura stated to her other self as she to posed as if she were going into battle.
Then it happened. A body rushed out of the bushes at an alarming rate. A squeak of surprise exited Sakura's lips as she attempted to keep an eye on the moving target. But it was a futile attempt as the moment she lost sight of the body she was struck from behind.
Her body flew into the ground and she slammed into the dirt. Immediately she pushed herself up and looked around.
Gone.
Her heart beat quickened even more as a twig snapped behind her, and she quickly whirled around to see nothing but a passing blur. What! Her mind raced feverly as she looked around for her foe.
BEHIND YOU! Inner Sakura screeched and Sakura turned around to find nothing. Fear dripped into her system. Where did they go!
"ABOVE YOU!" Came the cry and as Sakura looked up she felt a kunai whiz by her cheek causing a small cut to run down the length of her face, blood trickling down her chin before dripping onto the ground. And then the figure was gone again.
Sakura took in a shaky breath as she tried to calm herself, if she panicked she would die here. So she held her breath and looked around with her eyes. Silence…and calmness greeted her senses, which only proved to increase her apprehension of the situation.
Then she heard it.
A crack from a twig behind her.
Whirling around she held the kunai in front of her, her other arm guarding her stomach, and successfully managed to block the Kunai that was going to be her backs new best friend, had she not turned around in time. Kunai against kunai, Sakura pressed back with her arms with all her might as she attempted to fend off the on comer.
"Pathetic" The voice rang out and Sakura looked her, her green orbs coming in contact with violet ones.
"Who are you?" She asked through gritted teeth as she finally succeeded in pushing the foe back with the kunai.
"Sada" the voice spoke and was gone again in a flash.
Sakura hitched her breath in her throat as she listened to the noises of the forest in an attempt to find her enemy. When no sound entered her ears she turned around and flung her kunai into a near by bush, receiving a grunt in return and seeing her enemy fly out of the bush.
It was then that Sakura saw noticed the deep and long blue hair of her foe -Sada- and realized it was indeed a female attacking her, and one she didn't know of for that. Well at least she knew she hadn't pissed someone off and they were after her. Nope. Just some random stranger wanting to kill her.
Damn. Some times her life sucked.
The woman struck again, reaching into her pouch she pulled out three shuriken and flung them at Sakura.
The pink haired kunoichi quickly darted to her left to avoid the oncoming weapons only to have a lock of her pink tresses sliced in the process.
Damn her! Inner Sakura seethed, but Sakura just hushed her saying now was not the moment to worry about hair.
Next came a brigade of kicks from the blue haired woman which Sakura was barely able to defend herself against. And when she thought the onslaught of kicks were through a surprise punch came swiftly to her stomach causing her to double over in pain.
Her eyes grew wide as she clutched her stomach in pain and coughs escaped her lips, blood coming out at the same time. Then a swift kick to her ribs came sending her flying to the other side of the area she was fighting in, a tree being the only thing that had stopped her from flying further.
Sada laughed with sadistic joy as she walked nearer to the injured ninja. Sakura knew she had to do something, and fast! She quickly tried to scramble back up but found she could only collapse back onto the ground.
No! Her mind screamed No no no no no! I can't loose already!
Sada was drawing nearer and nearer to the girl and Sakura's mind quickly raced with possible options left to her and nothing physically possible seemed opened to her. Closer and closer came the blue haired woman, whom Sakura had no idea why she was attacking her, and Sakura closed her eyes waiting for another blow.
Sada seemed to have the same idea as Sakura as she drew back her leg to kick her again, but was met with a nasty surprise as when she was about to connect her foot with Sakura's rib she found a kunai dug into her leg.
She jumped back in pain and growled as she looked at the smirking Sakura who again coughed up blood, but merely wiped it away with her arm as she groggily stood up and took a wavering step forward, the blood from her cheek long since forgotten.
"Why are you attacking me?" Sakura questioned taking another step towards the seething woman, her voice laced with malice. Sada didn't answer as she quickly pulled out the kunai and rushed towards Sakura with it.
Caught off guard by the girls seemingly painless wound Sakura didn't move as the kunai drove itself into her arm. A shrill scream escaped her lips as she felt the blue haired girl attempt to drive the knife deeper into her arm.
Thinking as best as she could in this situation she kicked Sada away and turned to run. When she felt she was a safe enough distance she quickly stomped on the ground causing a deep chasm to form ahead of her. Hoping it was enough to temporarily stop any oncoming attacks Sakura quickly pulled the kunai out of her arm, another scream leaking from her lips as she set out to heal the wound.
Sada looked at the hole and grinned. "Not nearly enough to stop me…Sakura chan" she spoke as she leapt into the air, spinning as she did so. Sakura stared up at the girl as she span and thoughts raced through her head.
"Sada…san…"
"Onee san! Onee san! Come look at my friend!" Tayuya's voice rang out through the house and Sakura peeked around the corner to see a blue haired woman laughing lightly as her twin sister tugged her along by the hand.
"Tayuya chan! Who is she?" Sakura asked curiously as she left the safety of the corner to meet the girl.
"Her name is Sada san! She came to Konoha to greet the 3rd! Isn't she pretty?"
Sakura scrunched her nose somewhat as she looked the woman over. She was clearly at LEAST 5 years older then they…and she wore a sound headband. "Sada…san?" She asked suspicion laced her voice as she watched the woman before her carefully.
"Aa." She replied sound much like Sasuke kun for a moment. "You must be Sakura chan…Tayuya's told me so much about you" A twisted smile seemed to find its way to the older woman's lips as she looked over Sakura, a smile that made the young pink haired girl shiver involuntarily.
"Tayuya chan…why is she here?" she whispered to her twin who merely smiled.
"She's looking for a few ninja's to take to sound! Isn't it cool onee? She says sound can make you soooo much stronger!"
"Is that so?" Sakura asked eyeing the woman weirdly, her skeptical ness of the situation evident in her tone.
"Aa." Again the blue haired woman replied, crouching down to be Sakura's level. "Would you be interested?"
"Not a chance!" Sakura growled angrily. "I'm a Konoha, a leaf ninja the whole way! I don't need your icky village to make me stronger!" She held back the urge to spit at the woman's face, though it was highly tempting. If she joined sound she would no longer be on the same team as Sasuke kun! Like hell she'd let that happen!
"But your sister tells me you both have lovely musical skills!" The woman persisted still yet.
Sakura snapped "Go screw yourself!" She cursed and quickly covered her mouth as she realized she had let inner Sakura out.
THAT A GIRL! Her inner self screamed out in joy and pumped her fist in her air while doing a victory dance around in the young 12 year olds head.
Something flashed by in Sada san's eyes but quickly disappeared as she tried once more. "But if you can sing and your sister can play then you two could be a team from sound village and your voice could be used as a weapon!"
Sakura growled. She didn't want her gift to be a weapon! She looked over to see her sister giggling happily and looking at Sada san with great admiration. Weren't Konoha and Otoga on the brinks of war?
"No way" She seethed to the elder woman and her sister looked crestfallen. "Never in your DREAMS will I join your side, and let me tell you this…if you EVER try to wage war against Konoha we will kick your butts!"
"Why you little!" Sada san growled and was about to pick up Sakura by the neck when the Haruno parents came in. Instead she opted for glaring at the girl and leaving in a huffy state.
Sakura glared at the woman's back in defiance until she heard Tayuya's cries "What was that for Sakura!"
Sakura looked over at her sister confused. What had she done wrong? "She was my FRIEND and you chased her away!" And with that Sakura watched as her twin sister ran off in search of Sada san.
What happened to her courage since then? She had up and yelled in the woman's face and then a few months after that she couldn't even bear the site of blood. Oh how the mighty had fallen.
However, being lost in your memories when in the midst of a battle is not exactly the best thing, for before Sakura knew it a screeching sound was heard, and Sakura could quite literally see sound waves flying towards her.
Leaping in the air, she spotted the blue haired woman in a tree, two of her fingers placed firmly in her mouth as she blew hard causing her whistles to create a deadly weapon. Still in mid air Sakura reached into her pouch and pulled out two kunai and flung it towards the woman.
She must have heard the noise though, as she leapt away in time and Sakura watched as two more of her weapons dug themselves deep into the tree.
"Kuso!" She cursed as she landed gracefully on the branch Sada once stood on. Quickly her eyes darted around the area that now easily showed marks of a battle. Sada was no where to be found though.
Where did she go! Inner Sakura asked frantically as she tossed her head to and fro looking for the enemy as well.
"Oooh Sakura chan!" Came a sickingly sweet call. Sakura turned around in time to be met by Sada's hand gripping around her neck.
The two flew fast into a near by tree and Sakura's head bashed against the trunk and together the two slid down the length of the tree till Sada's feet touched the ground and she held Sakura up, so her fee just barely couldn't touch the ground.
Sakura struggled in the older woman's grip but found she could not free herself no matter how hard she tried. Her finger tips just barely grazed the top of her pouch and was no where near being able to grip a weapon. She attempted to move her legs but found she could not for some odd reason. Upon looking down she saw Sada had her own legs pressed against her own so that she could not move them for an attack.
"Now Sakura chan…" the blue haired sound nin spoke with malice as she pulled out a kunai. "…say good night!"
Review me damn it! You must! I was reading a fic today, and it wasn't bad, but it wasn't the best I had read either…it was still pretty good though, and I read the authors note and she said "15 reviews or no new update!" I quite literally could feel my mouth drop open! 15! I cant even get 3 out of this damn story for a chapter! I looked up and she was on chapter 5 and already had 205 reviews!
I thought I was going to pass out! Here I am on what chapter 4 (5 if you count the intro) and have only 4 reviews! I was like "HOLY SHIT!" I want to be like that:eyes glitter: My goal now is to be able to one say say "15 reviews or no update!" But I know I'll never be that good…Maybe for my birthday you guys will review and ask your friends to, to? So that I can feel loved?
But yes, so anyways that is my goal to one day be able to say "15 reviews!" But for now I cant even say "1 review!" Because I know chances of me getting it are slim to none :sobs: Well anyways that was the end of the chapter…please review…:eyes glisten and gives everyone the puppy dog pout: pwease!
Oh yeah…and watch out for next weeks update - Sayonara till then!
Correct me if im wrong but I do beleive Otogakure is the village of sound :shifty eyes: I hope.