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Warning: This is rated M for blood, language and possible a lemon but who knows?
Author's Note: Hello... welcome to the third chapter! I always seem to say the same thing in all of my Author's Notes so I decided that I'm going to tell you something completely random that happened to me today! Okay so I had to present a project today for my Cultural Literacy class, and I wasn't even in front of the room for half a minute, and I got a hundred! Go me!
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So far we have established this:
One, Sakura is now immortal.
Two, Sakura had basically agreed to an immortal life of servitude so that Naruto's spirit would not decay... but in the end she was going to see him die anyway so there really was no point!
" Damn!" Sakura cursed to herself as she stood up from her position on her bed.
He was calling her, telling her that she had to sacrifice to him again.
Well, at least she didn't have to kill people... no she had to do something far worse.
She had to hurt herself, to the point where she couldn't stand it anymore because the pain was too intense. That was how she had ended up in the hospital in the first place, she had injured herself to where she had passed out.
She would have been completely fine by morning but Tsunade had sent someone for her and they had discovered the mess that she was.
Luckily the sacrificial circle had disappeared into the earth once she had finished.
This time she was going to go far out of the boundaries of Konoha, so that no one would find her. And even if she did run into rogue ninja it wasn't as if she they could kill her, she was immortal.
She was actually beginning to like the being immortal thing...
Soon Sakura came upon a clearing, smiling a little to herself she stepped into the middle of it.
Taking out a kunai she slit her wrist, for a split second the skin turned a shocking white before the crimson came through in rivulets, staining her porcelain skin a dirty red.
Taking a shaky breath she began to draw his symbol, the upside down triangle in a circle. The cut on her wrist was bleeding freely now, her hand that was stemming the flow had moved to touch the center of the circle, she had to seal it with chakra.
The symbol on the ground glowed a deep red before dimming. Stepping inside the circle, the pink haired ninja sighed to herself.
She was going to have to become accustomed to the pain, for she would be doing this for the rest of eternity.
Taking the kunai, Sakura took deep a breath, and stabbed herself with it in the chest.
" A-ah..ah... shit that... hurts." Sakura said to herself. She noticed that she could breath freely, even though blood was pooling in her lungs at a rapid pace.
Taking the kunai out forcefully, she stabbed herself with it again, twisting it violently this time. She gave out a cry of pain as the tears began to fall from her eyes, which were screwed shut.
The smell of blood was strong, and as each drop fell onto the circle it glowed a contented red.
Three cuts on the left thigh, eight on the right arm, seven on the back of her left leg. The blood was streaking on her skin, drying and turning her a rusty red.
The pain was intense but nothing that she couldn't handle. Picking another kunai this time, one that was clean, and began to make the finishing wounds on herself.
Tracing the symbols that were branded on her wrist, bright blood flowed from the fresh wounds. Sakura made sure to get a few drops on the circle, and soon it disappeared.
She was now done with her ritual.
Her god was happy now.
" Damn." And right before her eyes, she began to heal, the blood stopped flowing, and began to scab over.
Grinning a little, the kunoichi coughed up several mouthfuls of blood.
Judging by how much blood she was coated in, Sakura guessed that she lost about two quarts of the red stuff... and here she was not even dizzy.
Well being immortal certainly did have its perks.
Looking on the ground the kunoichi noticed that her symbol was gone, and that she was glad for. She didn't want to have to clean it up. No now the clearing just looked as if two shinobi had been training with weapons... big weapons...really really big weapons.
Plopping down onto the ground, Sakura sighed. She was tired, bleeding profusely from a wound that she had just accidentally reopened and hungry.
Deciding that a cup of ramen was in order Sakura healed most of her wounds. Now she only looked as if she were sparring with someone.
Instead of going home to change the pink haired ninja decided to get a cup to go. She would probably end up running into Naruto anyway.
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" One bowl of beef ramen please. To go." Sakura ordered politely. She was smiling at the guy doing the serving.
" Coming right up." He said, smiling back at the pink haired ninja. She nodded and sat down waiting for her order to get ready when she heard a familiar annoying voice.
" Sakura-chan!" Guess who it was?
" Hello Naruto." Sakura said yawning a little, she was deathly tired and really just wanted a hot bath and to go to sleep. She had important things to do tomorrow.
" Sakura-chan you want to train with me tomorrow? Pervy sage wants to see how I fight with against you, to see what I need to improve on!" Naruto said, his cerulean eye shining.
" Uh... sure I guess Naruto. What time?" Sakura answered, thinking about what could happen if they found out about her little immortality problem.
" Meet me tomorrow at the gates around ten okay?" Naruto replied with smile. She nodded and smiled, watching him finish his new bowl of ramen in a few seconds.
" Here you go ma'am." The serving guy said, holding out to Sakura a brown paper bag with her steaming cup of ramen inside.
" Bye Naruto." Sakura said once she had paid, waving goodbye to her blond friend, he waved back and soon she was in the darkness of the deserted streets.
Most of the villagers had learned to stay inside once the sun set, for there were patrolling shinobi everywhere and that sometimes they would mistake civilians for enemy shinobi.
The faint moonlight flickered through the breaks in the few trees that surrounded her, giving the entire place an ethereal feel to it.
But something was wrong.
She could sense it in the air.
Pretending as if she didn't notice the disturbance the pink haired kunoichi walked on, her jade eyes darting back and forth.
She was completely alone, the city had gone to sleep, and she seemed to be the only one awake.
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Author's Note: Well? Whatcha think? I thought it came out pretty good... but then again, your feedback is welcome! I will probably start to update once a week, but it really depends on my Internet situation!
Until next time,
Tragic