Chapter 9:Sakura's Guests

There was a knock on the door of Sakura's home. Today was the Naruto's council meeting and she hoped for the best, more or less it was a trial to see if Naruto betrayed the village, but Naruto would never do that.

She answered the door, staring at a tall man in a red trenchcoat. He was a smiling," Hello Sakura-chan, you may not know me but Naruto-san has told me so much about you."

"You know Naruto ?" asked Sakura, something about this man scared her, but he seemed harmless enough.

He let out a big smile , " We traveled for many years together as brothers, may I come in ?" Secure stepped away from the door and allowed him to enter.

"Who exactly are you, not to be rude ?"

"Oh, I am the one being rude my name is Vash." He seemed likeable enough, but why have I not seen him around Naruto, thought Sakura. She sat Vash at a table in the kitchen and received the tea from the stove.

"Would you lie some tea Vash. So why have I not seen you around Naruto ?" She poured some tea into two cups.

"I separated from Naruto-san, for a while." She handed him a cup of tea and he took a sip from it. Sakura, too took a sip and Vash stared out from his glasses, she saw this and Vash quickly looked back down at his cup.

"You are the most beautiful lady I have ever seen, it seems Naruto was not lying about you." He blushed heavily.

"Thank you so much Vash-san." I still didn't trust him, thought Sakura, there is something strange about him. For instance, how did he get into the village if he separate from Naruto. "Mr.Vash, exactly how did you get into the village, if you separated from Naruto."

"Ms. Sakura, don't worry you don't seem to trust me, but I am harmless enough." He sat looking at Sakura all whilst sipping his tea. Then came a knock at the door of Sakura's house.

"If you would excuse me Mr.Vash." She proceeded to the door and Vash just sat at the table with his tea. She opened the door slowly and there stood Sasuke in plain black clothing.

"Sakura, you wanna go to the council meeting, I have the clearance to get in," said Sasuke.

"I'm sorry, I can't there is a guest inside. Do you want to come inside and meet him, he's a friend of Naruto's ," said Sakura slowly. She hoped Sasuke bought how she intended for him to hear it.

"Of course," replied Sasuke.

Where is she, thought Vash, I hope she didn't go to the local authorities or I could be screwed. And then he saw her approaching, but she wasn't alone. Standing right next to her was a black haired young man, the very same man who through the party several nights ago.

"Hello, I am Uchiha Sasuke." He was holding out his hand and Vash accepted it.

"I am Vash, just Vash." By this time Vash finished his tea, incase anybody was wondering.

"Well Vash, Sakura says you are a friend of Naruto."

"Yes, that can be said, I split away from Naruto some time ago and I heard he returned home from some of my contacts." Sasuke sat down at the chair where Sakura sat.

"How did you get into the village, nobody without permission is allowed in the village."

"Stop interrogating me, I am an honest law abiding citizen."

"I am an Anbu interrogator and assassin, it is my job, besides you don't look to me as law abiding."

" You Sasuke I don't have a problem with you, don't start anything you can't finish."

"Is that a threat, if you are threatening me, I can take you down to headquarters." Sakura just stood there and was in shock in how the man in red transformed to a likeable man to a man that could probably kill you without a second thought.

"If you tried that Sasuke, I will kill you in less than five seconds and I will say it is in self-defense."

"Nobody will believe you." Sasuke was now baring his teeth.

"Trust me, nobody will mind after this village is all but destroyed."

"Are you really Naruto's friend ?"

"What does it matter to you ?"

"If your not I am taking you in."

"Like hell you will." Vash sat with his hand slowly unbuttoning his red trenchcoat.

"Sasuke, he has a gun !!," screamed Sakura. Vash quickly drew his gun and blocked the incoming kunai.

He jumped out of his chair only to back into the reappearing Sasuke. He quickly dodged him and leapt into the air, ready to fire his gun but hesitated because he knew that the ninja would just vanish.

How do I fight him, thought Sasuke, if I use any major chakra-based attacks in here I could total Sakura's house. While Sasuke thought about this problem, Vash hit him over the head and proceeded to fire. However as he was about to pull the trigger, Sakura came up from behind and hit him the back of the head with a chair. Sakura sent him flying into a wall, but he did kick her as she made contact with her, it left her unconscious.

Sasuke recomposed himself and launched himself at the fallen Vash, he took out a kunai and prepared to make contact with Vash, but Vash quickly vanished. He reappeared behind Sasuke, but he anticipated this and Sasuke vanished himself.

He is pretty fast for a gunman, thought Sasuke. He launched himself at the gunman and actually made contact, but only with Vash's yellow lens glasses. Vash landed a kick to Sasuke's stomach and hit him besides the head with his gun. Vash held him by the neck and shot off his kunai holders attached to his waist. Vash threw him at the wall, making sure the famous Uchiha was unconscious.

"That was over pretty quickly," said Vash aloud to himself, after all he knocked out Sakura and Sasuke.

"Don't be so sure about that," Sasuke rose from the cracked wall, blood flowed freely from his nose and his sharingan was shining brightly from his angered eyes.

"You are stronger than I thought," said Vash.

"You are lucky, I only show the people I truly want to kill my sharingan eyes." He walked slowly towards Vash. And yes Sakura's whole entire house is now a battlefield.

"Oh lucky me."

"I showed these to Naruto once." Sasuke, then rushed at Vash with murderous rage. Vash quickly drew his gun and fired, but Sasuke dodged each and every single bullet that was intended to hit him. Vash vanished from sight and proceeded to reload, but Sasuke found him and kicked the gun from Vash's hands and he also knocked the wind out of him.

Vash was on the ground and thought, It is like he knows what I am going to do at this rate I"ll be dead in no time. Due to popular belief many people and shinobis alike think that the sharingan can see into the future but that is just an illusion.

Right as Sasuke was going to land another blow onto Vash quickly blocked the kick and kicked Sasuke in the back causing the ninja to be sent flying into the wall, Sasuke rebounded and was quickly approaching Vash. Vash quickly rushed towards Sasuke and he met Sasuke's attack head on. The two men were sent flying, Vash flew into the kitchen and Sasuke flew into Sakura's bedroom.

Even before Vash could recover Sasuke was on the ceiling, smiling at Vash.

"It is over Vash, all your moves and what you are going to do can't escape my sharingan," Sasuke let out a laugh.

"Never !!!" Vash roared with fury.

"Very well then, I was only going easy on you." Sasuke muttered a few words under his breath and on the ground appeared to men that resembled Sasuke. Vash stood up, but one of them through him into the den.

"How do you like my dopplegangers." Sasuke sat right down near Vash's bloodied up body. Vash spat at Sasuke and weakly stood up. The dopplegangers rushed at Vash and the red gunman dodged their attacks. He found an opening and poked one in the eyes, sending it to the ground disappearing in a puff of smoke. He kept dodging the other's punches and kicks, that was when he kicked the other where it hurts. The other bellowed in pain and that was when he snapped its neck, it too disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Cheap shots." whispered Sasuke.

"I only want to fight you." Vash, then launched himself at Sasuke and began to punch, kick, and dodge Sasuke, the two of them kept landing attacks on one another, but neither of them lightened up their attacks. Vash, soon was pinned to the ground and that was when he saw his gun. Sasuke sat their choking him to death, Vash grabbed at the gun and finally snatched it. Vash hit Sasuke over the head so hard that he fell unconscious and blood poured slowly from his head. He wasn't going to wake up anytime soon.

Vash wiped off the blood that was on his gun onto Sasuke. He ripped off his coat, he had a spare with Okuni, he just liked that coat. Vash went outside to see if the house was okay and it was, luckily the neighbors weren't home today, thought Vash. Vash returned inside and pinned a letter to Sakura's fridge, it was addressed to Naruto.

He reloaded his gun and brought Sakura's body to where Sasuke's was laying. He sat down near the bodies and rested.

Now to hard part, thought Vash, how to get out of here unnoticed. Then he realized something when he was in the kitchen he saw a back door. He wiped the pouring blood from his nose and slowly sat up.

He found some rope and tied it tightly around Sasuke and then used the remaining rope around Sakura. After he finished, he took Sasuke to one shoulder and Sakura to the other.

The inside of the house was a wreck, there was glass everywhere, the furniture was broken, and parts of the walls collapsed. It was quite lucky that outside of the house looked to be rather normal, but what happened inside that house was not normal and now the two people who were once the closest to Naruto have been kidnapped . Nobody will notice their disappearance for several hours. Sasuke was suppose to be on a reconnaissance mission and Sakura rarely leaves her home for she always is researching and is on her way to become a certified level 3 medic ninja.

The fifth was and is still her teacher, she is rising to become the one of the most elite of medical ninjas the village has perhaps ever known