Okay, so this chapter is definetly longer! It's your prize for being so patient while I was away. My updates may be a little later than usual because of this stuff I gotta deal with, so hope you guys don't mind. Anyway here's the big update!
"Talking"
'Thoughts'
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto!
On with the story!
He couldn't believe it. The girl he spent so much time and effort on finding stood before him. Taking the hit meant for his psychopathic brother that murdered his whole clan.
She was on one knee with the robe draping over her whole body. Her head was bowed and pink hair curtained her face. The leaf symbol glinted with a line running through it. An Akatsuki ring on her hand seemed to mock him. His brother on the other hand was behind her perfectly still as Kage Mane slowly retracted.
"Well well Kunoichi. Decide to show your face?" Itachi asked boredly as he stepped next to Sakura
Squadron 7 immiedietly appeared behind Sasuke with shocked looks on their face. The sword implanted in her right shoulder still sparked with electricity. Sasuke quickly stopped his jutsu.
"Sakura-chan" Naruto said carefully
Sakura stood to her feet and roughly pulled out the sword deep in her shoulder out without a flinch or so much as a grunt. Her head slowly lifted to reveal the hitae-ate over her eyes. That dark smile on her lips, what happened to the girl they used to know?
"What happened to you, Sakura?" Ino said in surprise
This girl was nothing like the bright pink haired Konoha kunoichi they knew for so long.
"Sasuke, Naruto, Ino. Not happy to see me? I thought you'd be ecstatic" Sakura chuckled sardonically
She swiped her hand over the wound and it healed completely in seconds. Itachi's wounds were gone, he hadn't used his full power… yet. Shaking her head Sakura took a step towards the Konoha nin before her.
"Itachi, the Uchiha brat is yours" Sakura said
Itachi didn't like taking orders but he found this situation interesting and so he complied with a nod. The Shinobi behind Sasuke readied for battle. Sasuke however took a step towards Sakura with fierce determination.
"No, Sakura. I'm fighting you." Sasuke said with an unreadable tone
Sakura sneered at him, "What? Isn't facing your brother your goal? What happened to your revenge? I'm practically handing him over to you gift wrapped and everything but here you are rejecting the chance"
Sakura sighed and Itachi watched the scene before him.
Sasuke nearly growled his answer through gritted teeth, "My important people come first before any revenge I wish to settle"
Sakura's expression darkened severely, "It's too late for that"
Naruto stepped up tired of standing on the side lines and watching his best friend do the work.
"Sakura-chan! We never gave up on Sasuke, we chased him for years and here he is! Don't think we won't do the same to you!" Naruto shouted "We'll bring you back even if we have to break every bone in your body!!!"
"Try me Naruto" Sakura chuckled and sank into fighting stance. "Come. Naruto, Sasuke"
She disappeared with her two former teammates following suit. The others aside from Itachi looked panicked.
"Sakura!" They shouted
They began to make a move but Itachi appeared before them with his katana and they halted their actions.
"Itachi" Neji growled
Itachi said nothing but made hand signs.
'Amtearasu'
Black flames scorched and the sound of metal on metal resounded in the forest.
They stood opposing each other in a triangle. Naruto and Sasuke looking at Sakura who returned their gaze behind her headband.
'How can she see behind that?' Naruto thought
"Sakura-chan, come back with us" Naruto said softly "There was no reason to leave"
"There was no reason to stay" She countered
"What do you mean?" Sasuke asked angrily "You have your parents, your ANBU brother, your friends, you're the strongest kunoichi in the village, everyone loves you! You have a perfect life! Don't you dare say you have nothing in Konoha!!"
"He's right Sakura-chan! Why would you leave?!" Naruto growled out
Sakura shook her head.
"Pein was right. You don't understand me." She said more to herself them to them
Naruto and Sasuke raged at hat she said. They were her teammates and knew each other for years. They knew everything about her, or so they thought.
'She talked to the leader?' Naruto and Sasuke both thought
"Sakura-chan what are you saying? Forget the leader! We do understand you – "
"Don't even say that!" She shouted angrily "YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ME!!!"
As Sakura began making signs for her jutsu Sasuke found he couldn't copy them with his advanced Sharingan.
'What is this?' he thought as he watched her
"Nentou: Akki Boushi!"
Naruto and Sasuke charged at Sakura at lightning speed, going in for taijutsu. Each of them on either side of her while she fought them simultaneously.
'Whatever we do she's a step ahead. It's like she can see the attacks coming before we can land a hit' he thought
Naruto punched Sakura but she grabbed his wrist. Sasuke aimed a kick but she caught his ankle, he leaned a hand on the ground and spun out of her grip. As he spun his heel aimed for Sakura's head, she leaned back and the attack barely scathed her. She threw Sasuke into the nearest tree with her amazing strength. She turned to face Naruto just as he aimed a punch to her stomach making her double over. Naruto elbow strike her back which would have broken her spine if a log hadn't replaced her in a puff of smoke.
She reappeared in the middle of the clearing. Sasuke and Naruto a good distance from her.
"Katon: Hosenka no Jutsu!!!"
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!!!"
As fire hailed, Sakura carefully dodged each ball of flame while fighting the many clones Naruto made. She glided backwards, side stepping a fireball, and blocked a clone's kunai with her own. She quickly slit his neck.
'Damn it. I was hoping he wouldn't use those clones' Sakura thought as she fought off four clones
She dodged one punch to her side and grabbed his wrist, flipping him over her body and smashing harshly into the ground. A crater formed on impact.
She ducked a kick and rolled back several feet just in time to dodge a flurry of fire balls with shuriken hidden in the flames which hit the Narutos that surrounded her. She quickly scanned the area with a burst of chakra and grit her teeth at the results. The Narutos made finding the original nearly impossible while finding Sasuke was still a distance away from her current position. And the paper bombs attached to the shuriken didn't make things any better.
Quickly getting to her feet Sakura bolted for Sasuke's direction, hopping from tree to tree. A huge explosion thundered and chased behind Sakura dangerously, threatening to kill. Sakura halted and turned to face the ball of flame, making hand signs hastily.
"Suiton! Kaihodon no Jutsu!"
A blast of water formed from thin air. Both elements collided, the fire extinguished from water and creating fog.
She jumped into a clearing, knowing Sasuke stood before her wielding a katana. She unsheathed her own and jumped to attack when she stopped and turned to block Naruto's Fuuma. The blonde weld it in his right hand and fiercely fought against her strength and tried to force the katana out of her hands.
Having enough Sakura jumped back only to be scraped by shuriken striking against her back. A hand twisted her arm behind her back and another arm head locked her.
"Let's go home peacefully Sakura. Go back to your family and friends" The deep voice said "You can't fight the both of us"
"My friends are holding me back. They prevent me from having what I want." Sakura said roughly
She smashed her fist into the ground, exploding the earth below her. Sasuke was forced to let go and jump next to Naruto in a high tree, both panting for air. They over looked the clearing as dust erupted and the earth cracked and jagged up in different directions. The huge dusts clouds made it hard to see Sakura until they spotted her walking into view. Her expression showed fierce determination as she looked up at them panting lightly (behind her headband). She gripped the shoulder part of her robe and nearly tore it off her body, revealing her training outfit.
The robe fell to the ground. She bit her thumb and whipped out a scroll from her side. Naruto's and Sasuke's eyes widened slightly when they realized her next move. Both kicked off the tree and landed a good 20 yards away from her on stable ground. Naruto skidded across the ground as he landed on all fours, crouching he bit his thumb and pounded his palm into the ground, characters formed in black marking.
Sasuke thrust out his hand. He quickly bit his thumb and ran it down the kanji symbols on his forearm, blood followed his thumb. Sakura, in one swipe, marked her bleeding thumb across the scroll. All three mumbled incoherent words and three giant clouds of smoke erupted.
A giant purple snake emerged from Sasuke's side.
A huge orange-red frog from Naruto's side.
An enormous white-blue slug from Sakura's side. Unlike the snake and frog it glowed with dark power, threatening to destroy all in its way.
'The slug sannin's summon. It's tainted… that only happens when its user…' Sasuke's thoughts trailed as his gaze moved to Sakura.
She stood on the head of the slug. Her gaze don and her body radiated in hate, anguish, and power. A purplish chakra visibly whipped around her. Naruto and Sasuke stared at her with piercing gazes.
'What have they done to you?'
Naruto was crouched on top of the large frog. A palm on top of the frog's head and his other hand leaned on his knee. Determination glinted in his cerulean orbs from behind his ANBU mask.
Sasuke stood atop of the snakes head with one hand on his katana. The other hand clenched to his side.
"Sakura-sama," the slug said after taking in her surroundings once the smoke cleared "Is it feeing time already?" it asked darkly
"Katsuya, it would be wise not to underestimate them." Sakura replied with a hard tone
"Sasuke-sama, it's been a while. You never needed me for so long" The snake hissed
"It's different this time, Manda" he answered stoically
"Naruto?! What am I doing here?" The giant frog asked outraged
Naruto remained quiet. The frog spotted Manda and the dark Katsuya. He turned his gaze to Sakura.
"What happened?" he asked
"Gamabunta… we're getting her back" Naruto said with a serious edge
'This girl' thought Gamabunta 'her chakra is so dark and powerful it's visible'
"Enough" Sasuke spoke up "we're getting you back, Sakura. Whether you like it or not."
Manda and Gamabunta made a move to attack. Sakura crouched down low on top of the slugs head, twin katanas appeared in her hands at a puff of smoke.
"Try me." She growled
Itachi stood before the five of them with a stoic expression, three of them. The Konoha ANBU crouched lowly for attack. Ten-Ten reached her hands behind her back to retrieve several shuriken.
She growled and ran at the Itachi before her with Ino at her tail. Both Kunoichi charged at him. Ten-Ten threw the shuriken cross hand style and they successfully hit their target, Ino ran up from behind and jumped over Ten-Ten. She dug the kunai she had in both hands into his lower stomach.
Shikamaru appeared behind the Itachi to the right and hit him hard with a side kick then spun swiftly with his heel aimed to Itachi's head.
Hinata and Neji ran at the Itachi to the left with their Byakugan activated and chakra in their hands.
'Juken!'
Both Hyuugas landed several hits. At the same time all three Itachis soar back in slow motion from impact of the blows. They slowly tore apart, forming small black birds. Thousands of them soared in the air and around the five like a hurricane. The chirping and flaps of the birds filled in the silence.
Hinata and Neji eyed each bird with their Byakugan, chakra ran through each one. The birds halted their actions and charged at all five and slowly transformed into shuriken. Thousands of shuriken pelted on them, imbedded deep in their skin. Dust clouded their view of each other and soon only Hinata stood, her comrades lay on the ground and struggled to get up.
'Where's Itachi?' thought Hinata but pushed that aside for now
"Neji-nee-san! Ten-Ten-chan! Ino-chan!" she called ignoring the pain.
She kneeled next to them knowing the others were just behind her on the ground as well. Hinata removed her shuriken and placed a hand on Neji's shoulder.
"are you alright?" she asked
Neji was now kneeling with his head bowed. Ino was on her knees with her hands pressed to the ground, slowly getting up. Ten-Ten steadily got up just as slowly.
"Nii-san?" she asked once Neji wouldn't answer.
His body began to tremble as did Ten-Ten and Ino. Hinata gasped and took several steps back. All three slowly transformed into black blurs and started forming someone…. Else.
"Itachi!"
The three Uchihas look up at her with red eyes she stilled. Her eyes wide as her hand began to shake and move to its own accord. It went up to just above her right eye and tore off the right side of her face revealing the other half of her father's face.
"Hinata, I expected so much more from you. You've dishonored the Hyuuga clan."
"O-Otou-sama" Hinata said shakily
'It's genjutsu. I have to find a way out' she thought with tears beginning to form
"Hinata-chan" said a male voice
Hinata looked to her right hand to see Naruto's right eye looking at her.
"Hinata-chan, why couldn't you stop her from leaving?" he asked
"N-Naruto-kun" She whispered
"You couldn't save her… Why couldn't you save her, HInata!! YOU SAW THE SIGNS! YOU'RE HER FRIEND!! WHY COULDN'T YOU SAVE HER?!!"
"I- I, I'm s-sorry" She trembled
"Hina-chan" a softer voice called to her
Hinata's father reformed slowly into a pink blur. Sakura's other half of her face slowly took shape.
"Why, Hina-chan?" she whispered softly
"S-Sakura" Hinata said slowly "I'm sorry, I couldn't stop you"
"Why, Hina-chan?" Sakura cried
Blood leaked down the side or Sakura's mouth. Sakura's eye cried the metallic red liquid.
"Hina-chan!"
"Hinata-chan, save her!"
Hinata's hand gripped a kunai from her bag. Her hand slowly went up to her throat and drew a small line of blood.
"G-gomen, Sakura-chan" Hinata whispered
The kunai glinted before descending for a fatal blow.
"Hinata!!!"
"Katsuya!"
Manda coiled around the giant slug before she burst into thousands of miniature versions of herself. Sakura had already jumped and landed on Manda's head in a crouching position before Sasuke.
Her eyes glinted as she charged at him. He brought up his kusanagi and he blocked with a Fuuma. Sakura clenched her fists and aimed a punch which he caught. She lifted her leg and was about to smash down on him but he let go f her and side-stepped the kick.
Sakura smirked.
Sasuke's eyes slightly widened.
The kick wasn't aimed for him.
CRACCKK
The sound of bones breaking resounded as her heel dug through the base of Manda's head and crushed into his skull. Manda gave a pained hiss before landing to the ground. Before Sasuke could do anything Sakura quickly brought up her Fuuma and thrust it into the snakes head with her monster strength.
Manda gave another hiss and disappeared in a large cloud of smoke. Sasuke frowned.
Katsuya reformed into its original form just in time for Sakura to land on her head.
"Shame Sasuke. Your pet couldn't last for more than an hour" Sakura tsked tauntingly
They're already been going at it for that long. All three are panting and Gamabunta looks worn out. Katsuya however looked ready to go on for much longer.
"Sasuke!!" Naruto called
As the Uchiha fell from the lack of his summon Gamabunta moved into his range so he could land on the giant frog. Sprays of Acid shot out and disintegrated anything in its path. The large orange frog made sure to dodge those.
"Naruto, we have to get close to attack" Sasuke said as he watched Katsuya and Sakura who were 50 yards away no less. "Her jutsu helps her see through chakra" Sasuke said remembering the tremor of chakra that shook the ground when Sakura scanned the area.
"Yeah" Naruto agreed, noticing "It has to have a weak point"
"There is." Sasuke said and Naruto turned to look at him
"Just use your specialty when I give the word."
"Right. Gamabunta." Naruto said looking to the frog
"I know."
The large frog charged at the slug and drove his sword into Katsuya's stomach. At the same time acid sprayed onto him and he growled in pain. Naruto and Sasuke jumped off of Gamabunta and charged down at Sakura.
"Odama Rasengan!!!"
"Chidori Nagashi!!!"
Sakura lunged down and when they got close she kicked off of Katsuya just as both the slug and frog collapsed to the ground and disappeared in a huge cloud of smoke. The hits got the slug instead of the pink haired kunoichi.
All three landed to the 5 yards from each other, breathing hard. Sakura made the first move and bolted at the closest.
Sasuke.
Her fist smashed into his face and cracked his mask in half and made him crash into a tree harshly, snapping the trunk in half. The broken half slid to the grand with a thump and Sasuke removed the other half seeing as the mask no longer held a purpose if it couldn't keep his identity.
"Naruto! NOW!" He yelled
Sakura whipped her head around to the Naruto near Sasuke only to notice the chakra disappeared as he disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
Sakura's eyes widened.
'Kage Bunshi!'
Two hands gripped her own and twisted them behind her back. A needle pierced her skin and she felt her chakra slip away due to the injection.
"Sakura-chan" Naruto's voice said from behind her as footsteps approaching were heard.
She felt the headband over her eyes being removed and a hand tilt her head up.
"Open your eyes."
Battle was short, yea but it don't end here! Expect more in the next chapter and a little someone coming to Naruto and Sasuke's aid, wanna guess who he is? If in between 7 to 10 of you or more get it right you the next chapter I make will be a longer chapter, deal?
Alright so guess and review!
Latahz till next time!!!