MNAFx100: Hi all, short and sweet, i've had a rough time, so here is your #4

Everyone held their breath as the flame ball was being launched. There was no sound, except for the sound of wind and twigs breaking as someone was running closer.

" SASUKE! " Tsubaki yelled...

Chapter 4: Fight no more

" Sheild Jutsu!" Tsubaki yelled as she ran in front of Sasuke. A blue sheet of chakra flew from her hand in front of both Sasuke and herself. Tsubaki noticed through the fire that Itatchi wasn't where he was supposed to be. She got a shuriken out and blindly, threw it behind her and Sasuke.

" Damn it..." Itatchi swore, loud and clear. Tsubaki's shuriken had just grazed his arm. " How'd you know where I was?" he asked

" I sensed you move. Your too loud for your own good." She replied and attacked. Itatchi dodged, but just barely. He tried to attack with a katana, but he missed, due to Tsubaki transporting behind him.

" Like I said, " Tsubaki said, " your too slow." She tried to stab him in the back, but he jumped out of the way.

' Who the hell is this woman? Why does she seem familiar...' Itatchi thought to himself. That's when he noticed her eyes. Her eyes had the same design as the sharigan, but they were green. " Tsubaki..." He whispered

" Ha! You just figured out? Geez! You really are slow! It took you a while!" Tsubaki yelled triumphantly

Itatchi growled and prepared to attack to his fullest.

At the sight

Everyone was just waking up. Naruto was the one who discovered both Tsubaki and Sasuke were gone.

" AHHHH! Great! We loose the person were supposed to be protecting and a member of our team! HOW CAN IT GET ANY WORSE!" Naruto yelled. At that moment, it started to rain.

" NARUTO, KEEP YOUR BIG MOUTH SHUT!" Sakura yelled Inner Sakura: I'm just surprised it wasn't me this time...

" Well, rain or not, we do have to find them..." Kakashi said. Just after he said that, there was a huge explosion of fire in the west.

" I think we found them..." Sakura said.

The explosion was actually one of Tsubaki's attacks. Both Tsubaki and Itatchi were tired, but Itatchi had more injuries. He made the sign for the Mythical Fire Flower Jutsu, and sent 100 flaming shuriken at Tsubaki.

" Try to take those!" He yelled.

Tsubaki just smirked. " No problem. " she said. She put her hand on the ground, eyes closed. She started chanting a foreign language that was barely audioble. All of a sudden, a giant wall of earth came between the two fighters. Some of the shuriken made it past the wall, but all Tsubaki did was form water around her hand and caught all of the shuriken that came close to her. She turned around and noticed that Sasuke was out cold.

" Heh, " she laughed, " It seems that even you can tire Sasuke out."

" It wasn't hard." Itatchi whispered in her ear. He got a shuriken and tried to stab her in the shoulder, but she turned around too quick and ended up tripping. Both of them fell into the water, but as they did, Kakashi and the others showed up in between the trees. Kisame noticed them and attacked. ( He was still pissed off about not stopping Tsubaki. There was no way that these guys were gonna get away) Kakashi pushed Sakura and Naruto out of the way and blocked Kisame's attack.

" Go get Sasuke. When Yukima comes out, shes not gonna be happy." Kakashi ordered. Sakura and Naruto just nodded their heads in agreement and went to fetch Sasuke.

In The Water

Itatchi and Tsubaki struggled to both hold their breathes while fighting in the cold, salty water. Their cuts started to sting. You could see in Itatchi's face that he was in pain from his cuts and lungs burning. Tsubaki just smirked. If she was in pain, she was masking it perfectly. She attacked with great speed like a fish swimming downstream. The shuriken plunged into the flesh of his shoulder, blood splurting from the open wound. His eyes grew wide and he opened his mouth to scream, but all that came out was bubbles. He couldn't fight anymore. He gave Tsubaki a look that said, I'll come back for you.

With that feeling across, he transported far away from the field. Tsubaki looked around to make sure he wasn't behind her before going up for air.

Kisame and Kakashi's battle was heating up. Kakashi was injured, but not severely. Kisame was about to attack again, but was frozen in place.

" Wh-what the h-hell?" He stuttered.

" Boo." Tsubaki whispered in his ear

" ah.." He tried to say, but the words didn't come out fast enough because Tsubaki had a headlock on him. While gasping for air, he transported to where ever Itatchi was.

" Are you ok?" Tsubaki asked Kakashi, as she knelt down beside him.

" Yeah, it isn't too bad, It..." He tried to finish but stopped when he noticed Tsubaki ripping off a bit of her hair ribbon and wrapped up his cut ( it was on his arm)

" Thanks..." He said.

" Your welcome," she smiled " now, I have to go heal Sasuke, that shouldn't take too long." She got up and walked over to Sasuke. Blushing a little, Kakashi followed.

Sakura and Naruto had already pulled the shuriken from Sasuke's body, but Sakura was crying on his chest. " He can't survive these wounds... they're too deep, he's gonna die!" She sobbed Inner Sakura: NOOOOOOOO! I HAVEN'T EVEN HAD A CHANCE TO SEDUCE HIM YET!

" Ah, don't worry, I can heal him, he will be fine." Tsubaki said, trying to comfort Sakura. Tsubaki had always hated to see people cry. She turned away from Sakura and let her hands hover only a few inches from Sasuke's chest. She started chanting in the same language as before, and her hands began to glow a golden color. As she was chanting, Sasuke's whole body began to glow the same color as Tsubaki's hands. Every one gasped, except for Kakashi and Tsubaki. Sasuke's wounds were healing right before their eyes.

Sasuke started to open his eyes slowly. Tsubaki and Sasuke stopped glowing and Sakura squealed with joy. When Sasuke sat up, she hugged him really tight.

" I'm so happy! You had me so worried, I thought you were dead!" Sakura sobbed. Inner Sakura: W00t! NOW I CAN HAVE MY CHANCE!

" Uh, Sakura... can you let go of me now? Your killing my ribs..." He said, his face slightly pink.

" Ehehehe, I can't quite heal bruises yet." Tsubaki said, embarrased.

" ... I want to be stronger than you." Naruto said.

" Exscuse me?" Tsubaki asked

" I said, I want to be stronger than you." He said again. Tsubaki just snorted, "Yeah, okay dunce."

The others couldn't help but laugh, except for Sasuke, that is. He was feeling uneasy about Tsubaki.

Just before he passed out, he heard his brother whisper his sister's name, and he heard Yumika claim to be her.

Please R+R, I'll have chapter 5 up as soon as i'm done, thanks for reading.