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The New Annoyance
Sasuke, Temari, Kiba, and Ino flinched. Not good!
Keitorin ran her hand through her hair out of habit (she always pulled her hair out of its ponytail whenever she was preparing for a real battle) and stood ready with shuriken in her hand.
Sakura did a few hand seals and then there was nothing.
There was blackness. Keitorin looked up. There was just a black void. "What?" She felt faint, weak even.
Horrifying images came flying at her, like in a nightmare. Things that she never even imagined.
At first she saw Sasuke come up. He looked at her cruelly and began delivering a few kicks to her stomach. It didn't really hurt, but it did. Keitorin noticed that on contact it didn't hurt, but it hurt her… emotionally, really. The more she noticed that it hurt her but it didn't the more she felt a sharp pain coming up in her stomach.
Next she saw Temari come up and do more damage, and it was the same as Sasuke. She really wasn't scared anymore. She was more confused and thoughtful. By the time Hinata had appeared, she realized something very crucial.
She concentrated hard and her hands landed on the sign of the ram. "Dispell!"
Keitorin's eyes fluttered open. She was on the ground on her side with her cheek resting on the dirt. Sakura was getting thrown back from the skill that she just used. Keitorin took note on her pounding head, aching stomach, and bruised chin from a kick from 'Temari'.
Keitorin smirked. "Well, aren't we smart? Making up our own Genjutsus, we've moved on haven't we?"
Sakura didn't answer, she was too upset. All she wanted to do was get to rip Keitorin to pieces, but her Genjutsu didn't work as she hoped it would. It didn't even work. Keitorin was not very beaten and she was not even fatigued. Although Sakura was pleased that she had forced Keitorin to, temporarily anyway, force Keitorin's cursed Sharingan, she was not happy that Keitorin was able to withstand it.
"Ah, tired, are we? You see, Sakura-chan, that's the problem with self taught jutsus. You often use too much chakra or even make something up that needs too much chakra. I, you see made the same mistake, but there is one difference between my mistake and yours," Keitorin's voice, which had, up till now, been cheery, became very dark and intimidating. "I have perfected mine."
Sasuke's heart leapt into his throat. That Jutsu, the one that turned her into a tiger that she had once told him she made up, was a killing jutsu. This could turn out to be, uh… bad. But the last time she used it she could only stay in it for a second, but Sasuke got a bit frightened when she talked about how she perfected it.
Keitorin's hands landed on the seal of the tiger. A huge White Bengal Tiger appeared in front of Sakura and it growled ferociously. Sakura screamed.
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Kakashi was walking back from errands he had to do, random boring things, shopping that he waited until he had nothing but crackers and crumbs in the drawers and cupboards of his kitchen. He stopped when he heard a scream. A Sakura scream. But it wasn't like many other Sakura screams that he heard.
He jumped up into the trees, dropping his grocery bags and other various… BOOKS he had been carrying.
He landed right next to Temari, who was white as a sheet. He followed her gaze and his eyes grew wide. He jumped in front of the oncoming tiger Keitorin.
Keitorin's eyes widened. In order not to kill Kakashi she undid the jutsu and landed into his outstretched arms. Keitorin began thrashing in his arms. "Let me go, let me go, Sensei, I have unfinished work to do on that ikeikeSakura!"
"Keitorin stop it! Stop it or I-" Kakashi sighed. Seeing no other choice he quickly knocked her out. He put Keitorin gently on the ground and turned to Sakura. "I would like my students to get along to save me the trouble," Kakashi said in a bored monotone. "Do you know what happens when things like this go on?"
Everyone shook their head.
"Teams get reassigned," Kakashi said.
Everyone (except Temari) gasped.
"So save yourself- and me- the trouble," Kakashi said. He sighed and gently placed Keitorin on the ground. "I will be talking to your parents, Sakura, and I will see to it that you get some kind of punishment as they see fit."
"What? Me? Why!" Sakura asked indignantly. "I didn't almost kill anyone!"
Kakashi sighed. "I don't suppose Keitorin randomly attacked you without reason. Starting fights are just as bad as winning them."
"Oh, and Keitorin gets away with nothing?"
"Of course not. I will punish her as I see fit," Kakashi answered. Without another word, he left.
A tear rolled down Sakura's cheek.
"Why are you crying?" Kiba asked.
Sakura didn't answer.
"Just because you got yelled at? Oh please, what are you, four? Stop it!" Kiba yelled a bit more harshly than he should have. "You can't be perfect all the time, if you put this much pressure on yourself because you screwed up bad, what are you going to do when you screw up worse?" Kiba said much more softly.
Sakura turned and left.
"You know this is really getting old," Sasuke said.
Ino blushed a bit. "Sorry. I uh, didn't realize then'" Ino murmured.
Sasuke turned to Temari. "Are you going to help me bring her back, or are you-?"
"Yeah, I'll come. Bye, Kiba!" Temari said.
When Temari and Sasuke were a bit closer to Keitorin's house, Sasuke said, "Why'd you come? I thought that you would want to stay with Kiba."
"Sasuke, you need to help me," Temari said desperately. "I just remembered. I knew a boy in Suna, and I liked him a lot, and now I don't like him as much anymore, and if he writes to me and Kiba finds out, I-" Temari explained in one breath.
"Whoa, Temari calm down! Now, run that by me again?" Sasuke stopped her from hyperventilating.
Temari explained the whole thing to him again and asked, "What you do if you were Kiba and you found a love letter?"
"He's gonna get mad," Sasuke said, pausing as Temari opened the door for him. He set Keitorin on her bed. "You have to let him be mad, and hope he does nothing stupid."
"Thanks, Sasuke. And just a rule of thumb, don't ever make Keitorin mad, or you could just kiss your relationship good-bye," Temari advised him.
"Uh, right, I'll remember that…" Sasuke said as he walked out of the room.
Okay, so that's the chapter, review, make me happy, I'll make you happy. Same bat-day on the same bat-channel.