I Do Not Own Naruto
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Tossing in the Winds
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It was Sakura's first taste of war, three days of travels with Tazuna had enlightened her to just what Kakashi had found her in as a child. Sakura didn't know how to feel about that but as they continued their journey through the islands of the Wave. Navigating the channels had led to them here and walking through the forest today.
Naruto was being a knucklehead again as he tried to be their look out and she didn't like it. Sasuke was scowling at the group; well, Naruto's antics in particular. Tazuna yelled at Naruto for scaring him all the time but this time Naruto was right, they were being followed.
By a cute, little, white rabbit!
"Naruto!" she snapped as she spun on him. "Stop it! Three days of paranoia! You're going to get us killed if you don't calm down!" she roared as she thwacked his head again.
"Get down!" Kakashi ordered, she gasped when she turned to see a huge sword flying at her head, she slammed into the ground on her own then as the sword flew into the tree. A heavy mist was forming as she rolled to her feet with her kunai in her hands as she looked up to a man who seemed to materialize on the hilt of his lodged sword.
"Well, well, if it isn't Momochi Zabuza, one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist," Kakashi said darkly. She stiffened, knowing that name from Kakashi's bingo books.
"I'm impressed, but I'd expect nothing less from Kakashi of the Sharingan," Zabuza chuckled.
"Whatever! I can take him! Lemme at him!" Naruto shouted as he started charging Zabuza when Kakashi stepped around Naruto.
"You're in the way," Kakashi informed Naruto who just looked confused. She was trembling though, she knew about Zabuza, she knew what he had done also.
"Naruto, don't, let Kakashi handle this!" Sakura hissed as she grabbed Naruto's wrist then.
"Huh?"
"He's not a normal ninja, he's in a whole other league," Sakura explained.
"Correct Sakura, now, it's time for you three to be a team; monji formation; protect Tazuna and stay out of this fight," Kakashi ordered as he stepped towards Zabuza. They did as they were ordered, Sakura's green eyes never left Kakashi's back as she stood before the bridge builder.
"For this battle, I'll need this," Kakashi said blandly as the mist materialized around them.
"The Sharingan, this is an honor," Zabuza chuckled, his gruff voice seemed pleased with this and she knew they were in trouble. Sakura's hands trembled as she held the kunai and she held her position as she watched Zabuza.
"No matter, I have to eliminate the bridge builder," Zabuza chuckled. "And you Kakashi, we in the Assassination Unit have standing kill orders for Kakashi, the Copy Ninja," and with that he disappeared with that huge sword of his into the mist.
"Zabuza is an expert in the silent killing technique, be on alert," Kakashi ordered as the mist became so thick and heavy that everything was white, she couldn't even see her own kunai in her arm. "If we fail, we only lose our lives," Kakashi said with grim humor.
"Don't say that!" she shrieked as she tried to look for Kakashi.
"Eight Points," she heard Zabuza speak then and she stiffened as she looked around for him and tried to remain calm and silent. "Larynx, spine, lungs, liver, jugular, subclavian artery, kidneys, and heart; now which will be my attack point?" she stiffened hearing that beside her ear. A small hand grasped her hand and she tried to scream as she found herself grabbed, she struggled but it was in vain as she felt herself pulled into the mist then. None of the boys were any the wiser as she tried to struggle.
Her headband was knocked from her hair as she was carried off in the arms of a boy a bit older than her. Sakura reacted as she bit his hand then and bit to draw blood. It didn't seem to stop the boy as he released her mouth, she drew a breath to scream but a stab in her neck had her world disappearing into blackness as she went lax against her will.
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Itachi couldn't shake the bad feeling that was clenching his gut as he stared at the cloudy sky in the gardens of the Uchiha compound with Izumi sitting beside him.
"What is it?" she asked.
"I don't know, but I've had a bad feeling since Sasuke left," he admitted as he stared at the skies.
"Then go to him," Izumi murmured.
"Huh?" he looked down at her.
"Go to him if you're worried about him, he's your little brother and I'll be here when you get back; just be safe Itachi," she murmured and he nodded. He gave her a soft kiss as he went to the ANBU station and grabbed his uniform. He knew exactly where his brother's team had gone and exactly what they were doing. He'd just go check on them, he'd check to see that they were alright, and if they were he'd leave them be.
"So where are we going?" he looked over to locker room door and found himself looking at his usual partner.
"We are not going anywhere," Itachi answered.
"Well, you aren't leaving alone, and I'm just dying for a fight," Kisame said in as his lips turned into a cruel smile and Itachi glanced at his normal partner. The defector, the one no one trusted assigned to work with the Uchiha who no one off of Kakashi's squad trusted.
"I'm not going for a fight," Itachi stated indifferently as he pulled his mask into place. Kisame did the same then; his mask looked like a shark's mask while Itachi had a wolf's mask.
"No matter, I'm certain that you'll need a partner," Kisame said smoothly as his blade, Samehada purred in delight as they left the village with no authorization.
"I doubt that, but do not interfere unless I say," Itachi said in defeat as they raced towards the Land of Waves.
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Kakashi came too with a gaping wound in his side and stared into the two sets of concerned eyes of genin.
"Where's Sakura?" he groaned, his side pulsed in pain.
"We don't know," Naruto admitted. Kakashi rolled to his side then as he used his minimal chakra to summon all of his hounds then. He looked at his leader then and with a snarl he gave his order; it felt like his dying order so by all that was holy the dogs were going to act on it.
"Yes boss?"
"Find Sakura, and get her back; no matter the cost," he ordered, his voice felt rough as if it hadn't even been used for days rather than the few hours he knew he had been out.
"Yes boss," Pakkun nodded and then the hounds scattered.
"I'll help them," Naruto said, Sasuke just gave Kakasih a baleful look then.
"No, your mission is to guard that bridge builder, when Pakkun has an idea as to where she is we'll be notified and then I'll be going for her," Kakashi said through gritted teeth as he fell back on the futon he was on then and stared at the ceiling.
He didn't use his eye from Obito all that often, he tried not to use it truthfully, but he would admit the Sharingan was a very useful tool. But today, today it hadn't really helped him at all.
Zabuza had gotten the upper hand on him when Sasuke had shouted Sakura was missing, and though the boys had saved Tazuna on their own they were badly out of their depth when Zabuza had attacked. Thank Kami for that hunter-nin from the Mist, but something about that was bothering Kakashi as he lay there staring at the ceiling.
Something about this entire situation was off but he couldn't put his finger on just what about this was bothering him as he lay there worrying for his kid. Where was Sakura?
Sasuke announcing Sakura was missing had had the Kubikiribōchō lodging in his side then. But a chidori on Zabuza had prevented him from being severed in half or wounded to badly. Zabuza on the other hand had received a fist full of chidori and was drowning when that hunter-nin appeared, dragged his body and Zabuza's out of the lake and pronounced Zabuza dead before taking his body away.
Rin's little medical kit had helped him a lot as he patched himself up, but he couldn't really do much as he was heavily chakra depleted and badly wounded. Tazuna and the boys had dragged him here and Tazuna's daughter, Tsunami; had finished patching him up. He had then summoned his hounds to find Sakura.
Kakashi's only worry though, as Rin's med-kit rest under his fingers, was losing the one good thing in his life since he had killed Rin and lost Obito. No one could understand this, not even Minato, but that pinkette girl, she had saved him and kept him from losing himself to the despair he had felt at killing Rin unintentionally.
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"This is her?" Ao asked as he tilted her head back, the girl's green eyes narrowed as she gnashed her teeth at the hand holding her chin.
"The pinkette was the one you said you wanted," the minion of Zabuza said and Ao grabbed the long pink hair as he yanked the girl's head up, she fought off her cry of pain to his disappointment. He smiled at her then.
"Yes, the pinkette, now, you and Zabuza keep your end of the bargain and destroy Kakashi," Ao ordered.
"And the brats?" Haku asked him.
"Slaughter them, they are nothing but brats of the Leaf who will join the war in time. They're nothing but an enemy to be discarded," he shrugged and then he hoisted the bound girl to him and she snarled as she slammed her foot into his. He watched in fascination as the girl manipulated her chakra despite her chakra bindings and released her minimal chakra on his foot then. Ao bit back his snarl, that had hurt more than he had expect and the girl smiled maliciously.
"Take her to the ruins!" he snapped as he shoved the girl to his companion. The girl slammed her knee up into his stomach with her enhanced chakra and then she straightened herself up as her head was heal high and that annoying pink hair shimmered down her back.
"Don't touch me," she hissed.
"Well, Leaf Princess, we're going to do far worse than touch you," Ao informed her and he limped up to yank her head back again. Those green eyes stared at him with a familiar defiance. "Far worse, Hatake princess."
There was no fear in her eyes.
Only a dangerous temper as she glared back into his eye.
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Sasuke's eyes were whirling with life as he scanned everywhere for her.
Just a trace, something, a glance, anything! He'd honestly take seeing her annoyingly bright chakra and her precise control at this moment just to know that she was alive. But there was nothing, there had been no blood from her when she had disappeared, and not a trace of her annoying pink hair anywhere. Where the hell had she gone!? Not even Sakura was this good at concealing her chakra, and because he knew that he knew she had been taken rather than concealing her chakra.
"Anything, teme?" Naruto asked as he scrambled gracelessly into the tree beside him.
"No," Sasuke answered. His eyes were still whirling around as he looked the area over for a trace of her chakra.
"Do you think they took her?" Naruto asked.
He shrugged.
He didn't know who had taken her, he hadn't really been using his Sharingan when the mist had rolled in, he didn't want to waste his chakra. Sasuke was seeing the error of his thinking now as he looked around for Sakura.
I am not a nurse, however, for some reason I always get to be the designated 'nurse' in my family. Well, I Quit! Today, my golden retriever Shaggy has gotten a puncture on his tail from gnawing on it (he's neurotic beyond belief and his fur is always falling out and he develops tons of hot spots); anyway, he's been gnawing relentlessly on his tail and today I finally caught him, to see just what was going on with his tail. Well, he's got a big old sore that's slowly developing into a puncture like wound.
So, I go about cleaning it; I had to wrestle the dog to the ground just to see the wound, and this dog is the biggest baby ever...
But the funny thing is I'm standing a few steps away from him and I have just collected the wrap, the guase, and the cleaning gunk for the wound and he's screaming like I'm pouring alcohol in that wound or something. I am not even touching the dog or near the wound at the time and he was screaming like it was the end of the world.
That was horribly priceless...
No matter, eight bruises, numerous scratches, and two shattered ear drums later I had his tail wrapped up so he could stop eating it. I quit being the family nurse!
That's all for now folks!
I'm going to go relax for a minute while Shaggy acts like nothing happened as he sleeps on the floor contently with a wrapped tail.
Enjoy Blooming in Darkness! =)
