Blitz: NANDA!

Naruto: What, what?

Kitai: Someone stole all her ramen. Waiii! We're going to die!

Sasuke: Nuoooooo!

Sakura & Kakashi: …Yeah…

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Sasuke and Kitai started to charge at each other at mass speed. Punches and kicks deflecting each other, no use of hitting something. Sasuke took out a kunai at the right time and threw it at Kitai. She was too late. Her body disappeared with smoke. A little tag with the word "fake" on it fell to the ground. He started to look all over for her. Kitai had her chance now. Again behind Sasuke but this time she slid low and appeared right in front of him. His eyes widened knowing he was going to experience pain. She punched him in the stomach hard with an additional kick that brushed him away.

She flinched. Something painful churned in her stomach. She gasped with her eyes wide open; she coughed out blood once more. She fell to the ground, weak all over, thoughtless, eyes half open, mouth covered in blood.

She walked over to Sasuke whose body was lying motionless. She was shaking, afraid to stare at him, what she had done to him. She fell to the ground shaking and leaned over his chest to heart at least a pulse. Shaking all over, she heard a beat, then more. She swallowed deeply. Sasuke soon regained consciousness and was going to attack with the amazing bloodlust he had. Kitai got up weakly; Sasuke did the same and swung his foot to her stomach. Soon, he kicked her into the air. Kitai had been hanging on to the last thread of life the gods provided her with. "Lion Combo!" Sasuke shouted.

In the air, Kitai couldn't move her arms or legs to block Sasuke's kicks. As Kitai fell to the ground, Sasuke added a punch in the stomach. Her eyes went brown again and coughed out more blood. She fell to the ground, slowly, the pain crawling up her like a ghost consuming its prey. "Game over."

Naruto and Sakura

"Naruto…" she said quietly.

"Hm…? Something wrong Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked curiously.

"Do you think Sasuke-kun doesn't like me? I think he likes Kitai-chan more than he likes me…" she said looking away in disappointment.

"Oi! Oi! What's there not to like Sakura-chan? We've all been on the team for a long time. Sasuke only knew Kitai-chan for two days!" Naruto told Sakura.

She lightened up, but then was in a slump of disappointment once more. "I-It… can happen…" Sakura whispered.

"Sakura-chan! Kitai and Sasuke have spent almost no time together. Haven't you noticed Kitai-chan's and Sasuke's eyes when they fought for the first time!" Naruto shouted.

Sakura remembered. Sasuke looked so angry and Kitai was the same. Nothing will come between them to prevent that hatred burning in their eyes. Nothing. She closed her eyes.

"Plus I even bet they're fighting right no-" Naruto's eyes widened.

Sakura was in shock as Naruto's eyes widened. "We have to find them!"

They ran out of the trees until they spotted Sasuke and Kitai. "SASUKE! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO KITAI-CHAN!" Naruto shouted at the top of his lungs.

Sakura looked away ignoring the motionless body around Sasuke. Sasuke felt weak and fell off his feet onto the ground. Kakashi appeared out of nowhere, leavings swirling around him. "Again…" he thought. "This will not be settled if they continue fighting."

He picked up the two bodies, "Sakura, Naruto. Come to the hospital later to check on these two for me. That's and order."

"Hai, Kakashi-sensei.", they said in unison.

The leaves swirled once more and he disappeared. Immediately, Sakura ran out of the field. "Na… Sakura-chan! Where are you going?" Naruto asked.

"To the hospital, come one Naruto!" Sakura shouted while running.

He ran after her in a hurry. "Sasuke… what have you done now…" Naruto wondered.

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They finally reached the Konoha Hospital. They walked in and asked for the room where Sasuke and Kitai were in. They walked in seeing Kitai bandaged up on the head and arms and Sasuke with a band aid on his face with his abdomen bandaged up. "What did you do Sasuke. Answer me now!" Naruto shouted.

He looked away looking down at his legs. Sakura walked up to him, "Sasuke-kun… D-Daijobou?" She cried out finally with tears falling from her eyes.

She ran her arms around Sasuke in a tight embrace hoping he would never go. Kitai got up and walked over to the window. Sakura was still whimpering and crying while Naruto joined Kitai, curious to know what happened at the field.

Her lips were still covered in blood, she coughed harshly. Kakashi soon came in as soon as Naruto was about to open his mouth and talk to Kitai. "Sakura, Naruto, it's late, you should get yourselves to bed right now, Sasuke and Kitai will rest overnight at the hospital, please visit again tomorrow."

They walked out quietly, closing the door behind them and listened to Kakashi-sensei talk to the two. "Sasuke, why did you fight Kitai again?"

"Our fight wasn't exactly finished." Sasuke replied.

"And you still don't know how you could have killed each other?" Kakashi said still calm.

Kitai's stomach churned more violently and squinted. "Hai, a fight once made, must be finished." Sasuke said.

"I see, I must be going now. Please, get some rest. Do not push yourselves." Kakashi said leaving the room.

The lights went out leaving the two in the room alone. Kitai walked to Sasuke's bed and sat down. They looked away from each other their eyelids half down, afraid to speak. "I'm sure a midnight walk wouldn't kill us, would it?" Kitai said flinching afraid of what Sasuke might do.

"Sure, why not." Sasuke said.

They both managed to go outside into the night. Walking in the streets of Konoha with a fresh breeze with Sasuke almost didn't sound that bad to Kitai either. "Sasuke-kun, did you really mean what you said back in the hospital? About finishing our fight…"Kitai asked.

Sasuke thought for a second and said, "Not really."

Kitai looked a little surprised when Sasuke said that. "If you think about it… We won't be able to finish it. The only way to finish the fight is for one of us to die."

Kitai and Sasuke stopped walking and looked at each other. Could there ever be a day. Where we turn against each other in desperation because of our wild blood lust?

They walked on into the night, not having much of a talkative stroll. They came upon a bench and sat down, not close but a little far away from each other. Kitai put her arms around he knees and look at the ground. "Sasuke-kun… I was wondering… what makes you get that look in your eyes when you fight me?"

"I think about my parents and my aniki. Tragedies and such. Although many have heard this, all the girls swoon over me for telling such a "sad" story."

Kitai smiled a sad smile. "Attention is good for you, that is. You need it to at least find guidance. Being alone doesn't make your spirit any stronger than you are."

He looked at her kindly, Kitai still looking down at the ground. "It's been a long time my family died."

Sasuke looked at her with his expression somewhat shocked. "I lived with the truth and the truth never really hurt me. Not very tragic and sad to me. Most people know but don't talk about it. Although it's painful, I've learned how to live with it, because I've only have a shard of family left, and that's my aniki."

The wind blew and Kitai's hair was moving like the waves in the ocean, coolly and softly. She looked at Sasuke with no expression and in an instant she smiled. Sasuke got up, "We should head back to the hospital, we might catch a cold."

They walked back in the mystifying night. The moon was the essence of serenity looking down at Sasuke and Kitai, planning something. They soon heard footsteps. Disappearing behind a bush they heard talking nothing but a pause. The figure walked away. Sasuke and Kitai let out a breath of relief. "A midnight stroll, eh?" Kakashi soon said surprisingly.

The two were terrified and backed away. "I see." Kakashi chuckled. "Back to the hospital now, it's late."

"Kakashi-sensei, what are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be asleep?" Kitai whispered.

"Shouldn't I be asking you the same thing? I need not any questions answered and asked, just jury up and get to the hospital before you get into trouble!" Kakashi said worried.

Kitai paced herself back to the hospital long enough to be far away to hear the conversation with Kakashi and Sasuke. "So, was Naruto right? Are you love struck?"

Sasuke stopped in his tracks closing his eyes. "Friends. Could words explain no more."

"Well, I see. I understand, hopefully you and Kitai will be able to come out and go on a mission tomorrow." Kakashi said. "Good night, sleep well."

Kitai ran back following the sound of footsteps of Sasuke so no one would know she stayed back. Friends? She smiled. I guess we'll have to finish our fight, someday.

Morning had come and there was sunshine everywhere. Light was sparkling through the windows of the Konoha Hospital. Sasuke and Kitai got up and got dressed. They put on their back packs as Kakashi, Naruto and Sakura came through the door.

"Let's gooooo! It's mission day with Kitai-chan!" Naruto shouted in joy.

"So… what exactly is the mission…?" Kitai asked.

"We're going to help some of the chuunin at the village of the mist. Or something like that, it'll be dangerous but we'll be taken under good hands." Kakashi said.

They all came out of the hospital and out of the gates of Konoha to the village of the mist. "First of all, we must devise team tactics." Kakashi soon said out of nowhere.

"Sasuke and Sakura will be on one team and Kitai and Naruto on the other. As for me, I'll join the other chuunins and jounin fighting the ninja." Kakashi said.

Sakura was overwhelmed with joy. YES YES YESSS! I GET TO BE WITH SASUKE-KUNNN! Love conquers all! Her Inner Sakura shouted in her head. She smiled with joy.

Kitai and Naruto smiled and high fived. The team continued to walk and soon came upon a forest with no path. They jumped and jumped through the forest on branches. At last, they finally arrived at the village. But as soon as they arrived, they saw a team of 5 ninja, "We are ordered to stop any intruders into this village."

"Well, I guess we have no choice but to fight." Kakashi said shrugging.

Thee mist nin came charging at the team and Kitai was already doing handsigns. "Earth style! Prison of the Golem no jutsu!"

The mist nin were clueless and were trapped. The prison was a spiral and at the top, kunais, shuriken, and scrolls. "Spiral, to take all equipment away. Bar-like wall and a barrier of chakra. And a little something I always wanted to add. If you stay in there too long, your chakra will be sucked away and you'll die." She said quietly. "But why not wait, I could just take it all away by closing my hand."

Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto were terrified of her jutsu and how powerful it could be. Kitai closed her hand leaving a little hole. The ninja fell down to the ground. "A-are they dead?" Sakura asked terrified.

"They aren't dead, just temporarily knocked out. If you noticed she closed her hand just slightly to leave enough chakra in them to live." Kakashi said.

Kitai looked at Kakashi dully, "You never told me we had to fight. Usually, help is doing something menial."

Kakashi sweat dropped, "Fighting is menial."

The team walked through the village and finally found some of the chuunins that were sent here. It was lunch time and they offered to give lunch. Sasuke and Sakura ate outside along with Naruto and Kitai but ate in different places to cover more land.

Kitai ate a rice ball with some soy sauce in the middle. "What's with you and Sasuke, do you guys like each other or something?" Naruto asked.

Kitai spit out her rice ball, coughing. "Naruto, I like him as a friend but like each other! Like love! No way, if trying to kill each other is a sign of love, then I think the world has gone crazy."

Naruto started to laugh while eating his ramen and choked. "Ah! Baka!" Kitai said patting him on the back.

Meanwhile, Sasuke and Sakura were eating rice balls. Sakura got nervous and asked, "S-Sasuke, do y-you like K-Kitai-chan?"

Sasuke kept eating and just looked at her. "As a friend. Yeah."

Sakura took another bite of her rice ball, "Oh… what happened that night when we left the hospital?"

He sipped his tea calmly, "We talked, is something worrying you Sakura-chan?"

"N-nothing! Eh heh heh… Oh…." Sakura was looking at the ground disappointed.

Sasuke looked at her curiously. "Sakura-chan, you worry too much, relax for once."

Sakura was happy once more. Maybe he'll like me more if we spend more time here together. Or something like that will happen.

After lunch, it started to rain; Naruto and Kitai ran back to the village. Sakura and Sasuke came back sharing an umbrella. "Tomorrow, I'll change teams after we clear out some mist ninja." Kakashi said back at the house. "For now just relax here. If you're going outside, be careful."

Kakashi left the house and left the four alone. "There isn't much to do inside." Kitai said dully.

"Target practice?" Naruto suggested.

"That's a great idea!" Sakura said agreeing.

"Let's make Kitai the target, let's see how well she can dodge." Sasuke smirked.

They walked outside, the rain had stopped but it was still drizzling. They used a wall not being used by anyone and practiced there. Kitai stood there and her eyes turned white. "Ready."

Naruto threw a barrage of kunais at Kitai and simply moved out of the way. Sakura threw kunai and shuriken at her in the directions she could have ducked dodged and ran to. Kitai merely stood there as the shurikens and kunai hit other targets. Sasuke did the same thing as the two but added in by throwing shuriken all around her. She moved but was stuck. Her glove was pinned to the wall. It was too late for her to move; instead she took out of kunai and hit all the shuriken coming her way. Deflect, deflect, deflect, defle-

Her arm was hit only slightly but blood started to appear. She dropped the kunai to the ground and took the shuriken off of her glove. She threw it at Sasuke. Sasuke took out his kunai about to deflect it and missed him; the three that were standing heard a hiss that echoed in their minds. She hit a snake that was about to bite him in the neck. They're onto us; it won't be even safe to sleep tonight. Kitai thought. Her forehead wrinkled, she picked up her kunai and struck it violently into the wall behind her. It went through halfway and the wall around the kunai cracked slightly.

She sighed disappointedly back at the house. Naruto walked over, "So… what's with you? You get hit was that bad! It was just a little mark."

"Naruto, how could you not notice? I don't care about the cut! It was that snake." Kitai said sternly.

"But the snake was killed, how could you possibly worry?" Sakura said.

"No, it's not that the snake was killed, it was the kind we have to worry about." Sasuke explained.

"If you looked closely at it, it was extremely poisonous. These snakes wouldn't normally dwell around the village of the mist. The only way it could be there in that tree, is by catching the snake and setting it in the tree. Lured to kill only one person or many more in the process of spreading poison throughout one of our bodies." Kitai explained.

Sakura continued the explanation, "And that person was… Sasuke-kun…"

Sasuke just stood up, "Tomorrow it gets tougher. It's either we all live, or one of us goes down."

Sakura, Naruto, and Kitai swallowed hard. One of us, going down, or going to live. One target down, but managed to live, they all thought.

Night had come and Kitai woke up suddenly and looked out the window. She was alone in her room. She stood up, and slid the door open. Naruto was snoring while Sakura was holding onto her stuffed bear, mumbling, "Sasuke-kun…" Sasuke's room was quiet.

Three to die or three to survive. What they do can get us killed. Kitai went back to sleep nervous about the trials that lay ahead for her and the rest of the team.

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Blitz: More to come!

Sakura: Can we have SasuxSaku?

Sasuke & Blitz: NO!

Blitz: Yeah… more to come!