Bundyangel: Umm… Hi? OH CRAP-NUGGETS!! –Dodges sharp objects thrown- I'm SORRY! Okay?! Really! I have no real excuse! I've been focusing on my art, and my friends. Plus I got a boyfriend. Leave me alone. –Emo's-
Okay more details. I've been trying to "build up a following" on Deviantart. I'm starting to draw a doujin; I've been focusing on my drawings. I also put out another story (for those of you that watch me you already know that). Things have not been altogether good lately. One of my best friends moved away and things at school started self-combusting so I was skipping a lot. Then my grades started slipping and I've got my mom and teachers breathing down my back. Okay? I'm busy.
Some good things though, I got a locker (I've been lugging around 50 pounds in two bags for the past 5 months. Textbooks SUCK) I'm going to sign up for my student council. And I've got a choir concert coming up (2 solo's hell yes. It's a different one from my other chapter) so I'm really very sorry okay? School gets out on the 15th and I've got two days of finals before that.
Enough of my jabbering. Here are the reviewers since my last update:
emo uzumaki
Chronos Spirit
Confuzzled239
ninja-kyoko
larsha
Acentha1022
-my-name-is-V-
seguha
my lil' cherry blossom
Mrs Weasel-Fan
Lady Hasumi Takarabe
Kist
Bee-Leaf86
Propertyoftheuchiha
divine lies x3
southernthang
SerenityXFantasy
HOSHIT can we say ohmigod? 17 reviews… 17.
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-Dies, just dies. –
Okay before we get any further into the story there's something id like to address. I got a review from Kist. Kist gave me a lengthy review that gave me some questions I really had to ask myself. Here's the review:
You really have to be careful that you judge Sakura's character correctly. Do you honestly believe she is the type of person to let this "curse" hold her back and make an irrational dicison which could ruin her life? What about Naruto and thier promise to bring Sasuke back? How could she betray everything she has ever worked for and all the people she loves just for a childhood fantasy and a death wish? She is not stupid. Yes, she wants control, but she doesn't want someone to control her. Maybe she'll be able to convinve Sasuke, or not. Is Sakura living from day to day or is she seeking more, a home, a place to relax and be herself, friends, a family, even love (NOT lust).
In the end we all choose our own fate. The world doesn't wait for us. We make it happen.
(NejixSakura all the way! - seems for this fic as a more meaningful and permantent relationship)
keep in mind that you do have readers and the outcome has the potential to make an impact.
Best of luck whatever you do!
I don't think the response to that warranted a simple "Review reply" Because this is something I want to address and explain. Maybe clear this up for not only Kist but also anyone else who questions my writings but doesn't review.
Kist, this is kind of a "is the cup half empty or half full?" scenario. I may or may not be putting Sakura's personality and actions out of character for her. You have to look at it differently then just an observer. This yes is her life but its been drastically changed. She has a curse seal dearest. A very powerful one. One she can't control. I know she isn't the type of person to let this curse seal hold her back but lots of things are happening at this point in time. She meets Sasuke again, she gets offered a place in sound, and she's also feeling left out by all the couples in Konoha. Sakura has never been one to control her emotions very well and this seal isn't helping any.
Naruto and their promise? What about it? It becomes irrelevant if Sakura decides to go with Sasuke. That would simply be a promise to allow Naruto to take Sasuke away from her. I don't think Sakura's love is a "childhood fantasy" If you do so much for one person then you most likely have more then a delusional dream running through your head.
Even if she goes to Orochimaru, she is going of her own free will. Sakura isn't the type of person to allow anyone to control her, especially Orochimaru. If she goes, she goes to learn. Not to become a puppet. Right now Sakura is living day to day. That is the way of a shinobi's life. Even if Sakura truly wanted a home and a family, there's a good chance in her line of work that she wont get it.
I completely agree. That's why Sakura will make this choice herself. She may choose to stay in Konoha and possibly become a civilian or she could go to Orochimaru and risk being betrayed again. No one knows ('cept me P).
I'm most likely going to write a NejiSaku story. I seem to have a knack at it apparently.
I keep in mind I have readers all the time. I write this for all of the SasuSaku shippers. I write this to have an impact. I want readers to read and go all 'wha… ?! Is she crazy? What is going on with them?!' And wonder what goes on in my brain. I live for responses like that. But thanks for such an awesome review!
'Kay I'm done. XD
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Disclaimer: I've chatted enough for one chapter. I don't own anything. I'm doing this because I'm a Narutard okay? Don't friggen sue me.
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"Baaaka"- regular speech
'Baaaka'-thoughts, flashbacks, and italics
'Baaaka!'- Inner self's
The Ancient Curse of Love PART I OF III
Part 1 - Running from the pain
Chapter 10: Control isn't all it's cracked up to be.
By Bundyangel
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Sakura ran as fast as she possibly could toward the center of Konoha, her mind blocking out the startled screams and crackling of fire as she focused on her path and the sound of clashing metal and voices calling our several different jutsu. One thing though burrowed its way through her mind, past the adrenalin and whirling emotions to settle deep and make its self know. A scream by a random villager running away from the battles,
"Cloud! It's Cloud! They've attacked! This could be the end!"
Sakura growled and took to jumping to the roofs, ignoring the probation Tsunade put on her. They would need all the shinobi they could get their hands on,
'You think we can do this right now Inner?'
'Hells yeah.'
'What about the seal?'
'Don't worry about it. I'll watch it. I'll warn you if you're pushing it too much. Last thing I want is for you to go funny again.'
'Thanks Inner.'
'No prob.'
Reassured with the boundary of Inner Sakura's watchful eye, Sakura observed her surroundings as she entered the inner city of Konoha.
There were fires roaring over buildings and loud clang of kunai on kunai and kunai to other metals. Every now and again there would be a stream of fire, or a loop of a water dragon as shinobi battle each other ruthlessly. Sakura channeled chakra and crouched down to propel herself high into the air to reach the top of a nearby building.
Springing upward she was soon soaring through the air when some sort of jutsu was roared and cutting winds shoved Sakura to the side and slammed her roughly into the side of the building. Grunting with pain she pulled out four kunai and threw them out at the cloud shinobi attacking her. Doing a flip as she fell, Sakura landed on the ground and quickly pulled on her black gloves. The cloud ninja jumped down to stand in front of her about twenty feet away.
Clenching her fists Sakura channeled chakra to her legs and fists and ran at the shinobi, her fist pulled back evenly with her shoulder. The man smirked,
"Silly little girl. You think you can beat me with a fist?" Sakura smirked and called out,
"Of course not. But a chakra infused one will work just fine!" Sakura slid to a stop a few feet away from the man and slammed her fist to the ground, effectively breaking it into a huge crater and shaking the foundations of nearby buildings.
The surprised shinobi jumped back and made fast hand signs calling out, 'Wind style: billowing slash!' He lifted his right arm across to his opposite shoulder and jerked it down to his right hip in a diagonal line.
Sakura crossed her arms in front of her and braced hard and the rippling winds cut at her body and pushed her backward. Growling Sakura pulled out a kunai and held it in her left hand, running at the cloud shinobi yelling loudly,
"I don't have time for this or you!!!" Sakura punched the ground again with her right fist and leaped after the cloud shinobi as he leapt up.
Her lips thinned as she grabbed the front of his shirt and tugged him down. Slamming an elbow to the back of his head, she sent him sailing to the ground and threw the kunai after him. She heard the loud squelch of kunai hitting flesh and knowing that if he wasn't dead he was unconscious, Sakura turned and jumped off again looking for her friends.
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Sakura saw Kakashi fighting fiercely with a cloud shinobi and headed for them, determined to help in any way. Sakura gasped when Kakashi appeared in front of her, facing away and made fast hand seals, while speaking to her,
"Sakura. I'll be fine. Go help the others, they can use it." Sakura nodded a quick fine before turning and jumping off again.
Behind her she heard the faint call of a water technique and felt the water molecules move through the air as she scanned the area for her friends once more. After a minute she heard faint barking and followed the sound. She came across Kiba and Ino fighting back to back with Akamaru running around and destroying shinobi clones as they fought. Seeing as they were both already wounded Sakura did the only thing she could think of. Clenching her right fist she raised it and started running forward. As she neared them she yelled out loudly,
"JUMP!!!" Ino, and Kiba turned quickly and looked at her, they then, along with Akamaru, jumped high into the air.
Sakura grinned and gave a low roar before smashing her fist into the ground cracking it widely and making a big deep crater. There were several puffs of smoke and three blurs as the originals jumped out of the crater and landed, pulling out katana's. Kiba and Ino landed on either side of her and Akamaru skidded to stand and growl lowly in front of them. Ino laughed quietly,
"Nice timing forehead." Sakura laughed back,
"Of course, Pig. I'm going to be the one to beat you. Not some random shinobi." Kiba gave harsh bark like laugh and shifted down cracking his fingers,
"This is starting to piss me off, lets finish it. " Both girls' murmured quick agreements and pulling out weapons they ran at the cloud shinobi.
Ino took the one to the left and they jumped off clashing kunai, and Kiba took the center one, they immediately started in a physical blows match and so Sakura swerved and head for the smirking one on the right. The strange man laughed at her as they began their taijutsu match,
"So you're it huh?" Sakura frowned and attempted to rip out his throat with her kunai before responding,
"I'm what?!" The guy laughed and punched at her before dropping down to sweep her legs out from under her. Sakura rolled away and got to her feet as he stabbed the ground with a kunai she had been not a moment before,
"You're the infamous weakling of team 7. The so-called apprentice to the female Hokage, the legendary sucker, Tsunade." Sakura became engulfed in fury and punched a chakra fist at the rambling cloud invader,
"Shut up! You don't know what you're talking about!" The guy simply laughed and evaded the punch,
"Oh sweetheart, but I do. Do you think we cloud shinobi, simply ran in without any information? You'd be sadly mistaken then. We were briefed for all the possible shinobi that could cause problems. Cloud has been collecting information on all of you for years." Sakura ignored him and reaching into her kunai pouch threw a volley of shuriken and kunai at him,
"You've been misinformed then! I'm the infamous medic-nin of team 7! The only member to become Chuunin and full apprentice of the Goudaime Hokage, the legendary sannin, Tsunade! And the kunoichi about to kick your ass!" Sakura channeled chakra and shot at him forming hand seals,
"Shōsen Jutsu!" Sakura struck her arm out trying to cause the ninja physical damage with the chakra scalpel now encasing her hand,
"Shit!" The shinobi jumped back and grasped at one of his forearms,
"Stupid bitch! You'll pay for that!" Sakura rushed at him again,
"Pompous ass! I'd love to see you try!" Sakura shoved her chakra scalpel forward and stared when she hit wood, a replacement.
"Damn." Sakura froze when she felt the cold metal of a kunai at her throat,
"Yeah, so much for your titles huh? I guess my description was more accurate. Seeya babe." Sakura ran through her thoughts trying to think of a plan when a loud bark and growling was heard,
"What the fuck?!"
'Akamaru! Thank god.' The kunai was pulled from her throat and Sakura jumped away and took a breath to gather herself.
She didn't have long when the shinobi was on her again battling with a kunai in each hand. Sakura gritted her teeth and summoned her chakra scalpels again and set to work trying to defeat this enemy,
"You got lucky, girl. But that mutt wont save you a second time, cause next time he does he's dead!" Sakura helt her arms start to shake with surpressed fury,
"There wont be a nexttime! Because this is over now!!!" Sakura rushed full speed at him with her fists. He smirked and took a stance,
"Weve don't this before little girl! Your fists alone wont work against me!" Sakura roared and jumped into the air. Her body arched back and she dimly heard Inner Sakura in her mind,
'Stupid seal, Shannaro! Check yourself Sakura! It's good for now, but watch your emotions. Don't let the fucking bastard get to you.' Sakura gritted her teeth and swung her fist down at his face, the normal blue chakra now a darker vague indigo, hinting at the chakra she could have unleashed,
The shinobi jumped back and Sakura landed on the ground and ran lowly at him. He took a step back and gasped as his eyes widened. There was a gasp and a loud wet sound as he stumbeled forward and grasped his lower back. He pulled his hand forward and saw it covered in crimson blood. He half stumbeled, turning around with his eys wide. He stared into the viridian gaze of Sakura and a a bloody kunai in her right hand,
"W-What? How!?" Sakura dropped the kunai a her feet and took a few steps forward,
"Turn around." Theres was a loud pop and the cloud ninja turned to see a cloud of smoke dissapaiting. He coughed and looked at the real Sakura,
"How?! W-When did you make a clone? How did I not sense you?!" Sakura kept walking forward as the shinobi stumbeled backward,
"When I did my Shōsen Jutsu, You've never seen the hand seals for that before. You didn't know only about half of those were for my chakra scalpel and the others were for a clone. As for not sensing it?" Sakura shrugged,
"I'm a medic ninja. I have the most perfect control of chakra around. You couldn't sense it if you were told to." His gaze widened even more and Sakura reached down pulling up his fallen katana,
"Good bye." Sakura threw the katana forward and it peirced his chest. Sakura turned as he fell and saw Ino staring at her mouth agap, as Kiba tried to tend to one of Akamarus deeper wounds.
Without a word, Sakura walked forward and kneeled next to Akamaru. Holding her hands over him, they became encased in a vibrant green chakra, and the wounds started to heal.
Ino stood off to the side and looked from Sakura to the dead ninja to Kiba to Sakura and then back again. Finally she gave a frustrated roar and pulled at her ponytail,
"What the hell was that Haruno?!" Sakura looked up surprised and then realization dawned on her,
"Oh."
"Oh? OH?! Don't give me that Sakura what was up with you?! You've never just shoved a katana through someones chest and then gone and acted like nothings happened! What was that?" Sakura bowed her head and pulled her hands back as Akamaru finished healing,
"That was me being the shinobi I am Ino. He threatened to kill Akamaru, and I made sure he wont be able to." Kiba kneeled down next to Sakura and scratched the back of his head,
"As much as both Akamaru and I appreciate that Sakura, that was just a little too cold hearted for you." Sakura stood up sighing harshly and brushed her palms against her skirt,
"I guess I'm just taking my job seriously now. Come on. The battle isnt done and others need us." Sakura jumped onto a roof and headed out to look for more friends as she argued with Inner Sakura in her mind,
'That was too close Sakura! Don't let some ass get to you like that. Especially not now. We need to focus on saving Konoha, not on the seal.'
'You were watching it, so its fine. It didn't get out of hand so theres no problem.'
'It is a problem Sakura! What if I cant contain it? What will you do then?'
'I'll just deal with it okay?! He was going to hurt Akamaru! Are y7ou saying I shouldn't stan up for my friends and protect them?'
'That's not what I said! I am saying just be careful. I cant talk to you when it activates and that scares me.'
'What do you mean?'
'When it was activating earlier you could barely hear me. Once it fully activates, I cant help you. Its like a barrier between me and your outer concious.'
'Wow. I'm sorry Inner.'
'Yeah me too.' Sakura didn't say another word but continued on in the search for her friends.
Before long Sakura reached the Hokage tower, and most of the action. Sakura wove her way through the debris and made it to the balcony on top of the tower. Tsunade was fine. ANBU wasn't letting any shinobi near her. She was under heavy guard on top of the tower worried, and stressing over not being able to fight. After a quick identification with the ANBU Sakura made her way in, and ran to her teacher,
"Tsunade-Shinshou!" Sakura stopped next to Tsunade and bowed. Tsunade turned and gasping enveloped Sakura in a hug,
"Sakura! You're all right. Thank god." She drew back and observed the scuffs marks, the dirt and the small cuts adorning Sakura's body,
"You were fighting. Damn it Sakura! I put you on probation! That's directly going against my orders." Sakura looked down,
"But, we're being attacked. We need all the able bodied fighters we have. I've already taken down two shinobi with no incident as well as healing Akamaru." Tsunade sighed and walking a small distance away pinched the bridge of her nose,
"As much as I appreciate your concern for this village you should have thought more carefully before you reacted. Sakura, what if something had happened? What if the seal had activated? What if you had become blind from the power? You could have hurt someone and not realized it or had any control over it. Probation isn't just to punish you for the seal or whatever you seem to think it is. Its for both your safety and the villages." DO you understand now Sakura?" Tsunade took a step back toward her, and Sakura nodded,
"Yes Tsunade-Shinshou. However, I think you underestimate my control. I'm sorry but ill have to disobey your orders again." Sakura bowed lightly and turning jogged to the end of the railing before stepping up on it and taking a deep breath, Tsunade choked on a breath at the same time.
"Sakura?! What are you doing?!" Sakura just smiled over her shoulder before crouching lower on the railing and springing off it like a cat. She called up loudly as she plummeted to the ground,
"I'm going to go save my city and my friends! Don't worry Shinshou I'll be careful!" Whatever response Tsunade made, Sakura didn't hear it as she turned and focused on the ground, Inner Sakura going crazy,
'ARE YOU FUCKING MENTAL?! How the hell do you plan to survive this?!!?!?? You're going to fucking kill us all!!! OH MY GOD!!'
'You'll see.' Sakura grinned as she neared the ground and she forced chakra beneath her to slow down.
As she sped toward the ground she was suddenly slammed into by a hard body and arms wrapped around her,
"Tch. Annoying. Are you trying to die?" Sakura grinned internally at Sasuke's deep voice faintly lined with worry and she shrugged as they soared through the air towards a clump of trees,
"But you like me that way Sasuke. So it's okay." He expelled a small breath,
"Hn. I said to be careful, not kill yourself at the first opportunity." Sakura laughed,
"Well… I'm fine now aren't I?" Sasuke landed in a tall tree and set Sakura on her feet before staring at her,
"Hn. Don't do it again." Before Sakura could reply he was gone.
Shrugging Sakura pulled out a kunai and jumped out of the tree and ran again. Racing down a few streets she heard words oh so familiar,
"Dattebayo!" Relieved Sakura ran for the voice and skidded to a top in time to see one of her worst fears.
A cloud shinobi stood with a katana at chest height, but the tip was pierced through the chest of the blonde loudmouth. Sakura felt tears well in her eyes as the katana twisted and pulled out and he fell to his knees and then landed face first on the ground. Sakura felt frozen and couldn't seem to move or breath. She came to her consciousness once the shinobi spun the katana around and brought it downward at Naruto's back. Two kunoichi screamed out at the same time,
"NARUTO!!!"
The silver gazed one ran the shinobi and incinerated the inner organs of the shinobi before the katana made contact. The viridian gazed one clutched her stomach with one hand and her mark with the other as marks burst from her shoulder and covered her neck and left arm. Dark pink chakra began licking the air around the pink kunoichi and she fell to her knees staring at the pool of blood growing around her best male friend.
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Bundyangel: Well there you have chapter 10. Once again I'm really sorry for the long update and the long introduction to this chapter.
I've had such bad writers block its not even funny. I've worked on this chapter wince 6 this morning and its 8:37 now. Okay? I've tried really hard.
I also apologize for any spelling or grammatical mistakes. I also apologize if the fight scenes sucked. I'm good at them I'm just bad at getting them out.
So yeah. I love reviews! See ya in the next chapter. Part one will prolly only have 2 more chapters!