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Sorry Im so late in updating. I just haven't been able to find a path I like yet. I have probably written about nine chapters and scrapped them. SO I am still working out the kinks of what I like. But this is a start. I'm just gonna try to keep going from here. Thanks you guys for sticking around. Im gonna try and keep this going!


Chapter 14:

"Sakura!"

Sasuke yelled across the clearing. He was locked in battle with four ninjas. Naruto had take out a bunch of the soldiers and lead more into the woods where he was picking them off. Kakashi was dealing with a couple other earth-nin. Sakura however, had taken out more of the enemy than all three of them. She had taken on most of the ninja and a few hundred of the soldiers. But she was trapped in a rock jutsu now.

The moment they got to the forest it had been a battle. Sakura had smelled it first. It had been a trap. The rebels were waiting for them when they arrived. Someone let it slip that ninja were coming and they would be coming from the east or that they specifically a group from Hidden Leaf. Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura were far superior in skill but the numbers weren't in their favor. They had been fighting for more than five hours and there still seemed to be so many of them left.

Kakashi tried to break away from the ninja blocking his path but he was distracted by Sasuke's yell and one of the other ninja slipped under Kakashi's defense, sticking a kunai in his side. He quickly dispatched the ninja but his path was now blocked by two more.

"You should enjoy watching your friend die!" One of the commanders of the rebels, a skilled earth-nin, was the one who had Sakura caught in a jutsu.

Sasuke was trying to get through all the soldiers but there were too many. He had already used chidori multiple times. Kakashi knew that the Uchiha didn't have the amount of chakra Naruto had and wouldn't be able to summon up another one. Naruto was still nowhere to be seen but you could hear the explosions in the forest from him. At this moment, Sakura was on her own. He looked over, expecting to see a grimace on her face.

"Run."

It was barely audible over the clashing and fighting but Sakura rolled her head in the direction of Kakashi and Sasuke who glanced at each other. She had a smirk on her face. Jumping back, Kakashi sent a kunai through the ninja who was behind him and worked his way over to Sasuke.

"Grab Naruto. Run towards the mountains. Go through one of the mountain passes and don't stop for anything. Run like hell. Get back to Konoha." Kakashi helped Sasuke kill three other soldiers.

"What about you?"

"I don't know what shape she will be in after she does this. The last time she was almost dead. But if she is doing the same technique as she did before, she might take down the whole damn mountain. Just go!" Kakashi paused for a moment to make sure Sasuke made it into the other side of the forest and grab Naruto before he ran the other way.

Taking off as fast as he could, he made sure he put a good distance between him and Sakura but just close enough to see her through the trees. There was a huge spike in chakra and he watched as the jutsu that had entangled her melted away. Another huge blast of chakra and Kakashi put his hand on the tree limb to balance him. The level of chakra she was summoning surpassed even Naruto's well of chakra. If he hadn't already been crouched, Kakashi would have been driven to his knees. Sakura hadn't ceased to amaze him. He flipped up his hitai and activated Sharingan.

It looked like she was summoning chakra from her feet, channeling it through her body, and then amassing it into her right fist. But the amount of chakra he was seeing was far more than he could have ever expected, not even from an elite. He watched as she slammed her fist into the ground. Everything around her burst into powder. The buildings, ground, trees, and the men in the vicinity all turned into a powdery dust. Suddenly, Sakura's hair and clothes started to whip around violently and the ground below her opened up and exploded but not before Kakashi caught a glimpse of the huge smile on her face. She disappeared within the dust and powder now exploding from the ground. The sound made Kakashi's ears ring and he realized he wasn't far enough.

Running through the tree, he pushed himself to go faster but the force caught up to him first. It knocked him out of the trees and as he fell he cracked off a clone, having it throw him up into the air. Below, the clone was swallowed by the wave of crumbling force rippling through the ground. He leaned back looking at the wave of decimation that was now taking over the forest. A loud crack brought Kakashi's attention to the mountainside. It had a huge crack running through it and was now crumbling in on itself. He hoped Naruto and Sasuke had run fast enough to get on the other side before the force had hit the mountain.

Kakashi landed on the now sandy ground. The landscape looked like the desert. The trees had sunk into the ground and only a few still poked up out of the ground looking like bushes. This had been far worse than what he had seen from the aftermath when he first found Sakura. There had been pieces and bodies. But she had pulverized everything that was a building or human. The mass destruction followed, in case anyone was left alive.

Jumping from treetop to treetop, Kakashi made his way back to the encampment. Judging only by the epicenter, he looked around but there was nothing left. It was a wasteland. Sakura was nowhere to be seen. Kakashi wondered if maybe she was engulfed in the ground. He looked around once more and he caught the sight of something pink in a tree about thirty yards away.

Sakura was tangled in the tree, her hair was swaying in the light breeze but she wasn't moving.

"Sakura?"

Kakashi touched her neck. There was a faint pulse and her body was unharmed, not a scratch on her. But she wasn't conscious. He didn't know if she hit her head or if he should move her at all. A moment later there was another loud crack and he watched as more of the mountain fell down. There was a slight rumble and a large amount of debris falling down the mountain in a rocky avalanche. Without another thought, Kakashi picked up Sakura and once she was secured in a piggyback position, he ran towards the town they had stopped in before.

It was night by the time he reached the inn they had stayed in the last time they were in this part of town. The woman smiled at him.

"She fell asleep part of the way back." He gave her an eye crinkle.

Before he had taken the road, Kakashi switched his hitai for the eye patch he kept in his pocket of his jacket just in case. He had Sakura's bag tucked into the back zipper of his jacket. The only reason he had it was because he had forgotten he was carrying it. All their supplies were long gone. They had been in the opposite direction of Naruto and Sasuke but they were close enough to be swallowed by Sakura's massive destruction.

The woman had Kakashi follow her and she opened the room for him. He asked if they had any food still available to bring up to the room. She replied that the kitchen was still open. She also said she would bring it up with a couple of extra towels as well.

Kakashi was about to ask her for extra blankets as well but she had already shut the door. Sighing, he gently laid down Sakura on the bed. She was covered in dirt, dust and even had some leaves caught in her hair. He looked down at himself and realized he didn't look much better.

"Sakura, what am I going to do with you?"