Title: A Reason To Love You Arc Two
Disclaimer: I Don't Own Naruto, I own the bastard though. (Koichi Sumita)
Notes: None for now :D
Ages:
Sakura, Sasuke, Naruto: 18
Kakashi: 21 (His birthday's on Sept 9th, he got turned into a twenty-year old months before that, so he's technically twenty-one now :P)
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Arc Two- Chapter 2
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Three months have passed since The Fifth had ordered our three favorite ninjas to retrieve Sakura and infiltrate the Sound. During the time, Sasuke had explained to Kakashi and Naruto about his role in Sakura's plan that had oh-so conveniently backfired. Needless too say; both were pissed. Their choice of backup was satisfying though; Hyuuga Neji, and Inuzuka Kiba. They could use the Byakugan and Kiba's heightened senses to seek out Sakura.
But no such luck.
" Kakashi! Can we stop now? We've been traveling non-stop for three days! My legs are gonna fall off, shrivel up and rot away…" The loud-mouth blond whined, before collapsing face-first into the dirt. Said silver haired man turned his head slightly to face his team, raising an eyebrow. The Uchiha looked slightly worn, a bit pissed, while Neji's eyes drooped slightly, and Kiba was panting quietly.
" Alright, we'll stop here."
Kakashi's squad members gave him a thankful glance before settling down to set up their camp. After they finished setting up the tents, Naruto stopped fishing something from his pack. His turquoise blue eyes narrowed slightly, his expression turned to an uncharacteristic serious one.
" Idiot, rope, now-" Sasuke gave an exasperated sigh, turning to the blond, mouth opening to say something before he stopped. He saw the serious blaze in the blond's eyes.
" Dobe?"
By then, Neji and the others had noticed Naruto's strangeness. His eyes were narrowed to the bushes, " There's someone there."
Neji held up his hands to do a hand seal, and murmured, " Byakugan!" The veins pulsed, pale eyes scanned the area where Naruto was pointing at. His eyes narrowed slightly, when he saw two chakra signatures.
" There're two signatures out there, one's dying. The other…" Neji glanced at Kakashi, " Seems to be a mixture of two."
Eyebrows rose slightly, as Kakashi nodded to Naruto and Neji, " Naruto, Neji, come with me." He glanced at the other two, " Watch the camp." The three leapt into the bushes.
Kakashi's heart was beating wildly against his ribcage; something nagged at him, telling him that something out there was going to change his life.
They heard sounds of painful choking and spluttering, some feet away in the bushes. The three quickly made their way to the sound, and found themselves staring at a half-dead, bloodied Sound Nin holding a bundle of blankets to his chest.
The man weakly opened his bruised eyes, managing to wheeze out before he spluttered more blood. Neji activated his Byakugan, peering at the man's body.
" Internal damage, he's not going to live if he doesn't receive any medical attention-now."
That sentence stabbed at something in the silver haired man's heart, and it occurred to him that Naruto seemed to be thinking the same, judging from the pained emotion that came and went in his eyes. They were both thinking if a certain medic-nin was still here…then maybe this man's life could be saved….
Sakura…
Kakashi bent down and gently pried the bundle from the dying man's grasp, and he raised a pale eyebrow when he felt the bundle stir slightly. He stepped back a few steps, blocking away the sounds of choking, Neji and Naruto speaking…The Sound Nin seemed to be trying to speak, but the blood kept oozing out of his mouth. He prodded a finger into the blood surrounding him, and tried to write out what he wanted-no, needed to say.
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Naruto vaguely noticed their squad leader backing away, with the bundle in his arms, as he stared down at the dying man. Both the Hyuuga and himself had no skills in the medical area, and they knew, even if Sasuke and Kiba had accompanied them, they wouldn't be much help either.
Just then, the Hyuuga beside him nudged his side, he motioned to the dying man on the ground, using his own blood to try and communicate with them.
Two pairs of eyes widened considerably when they saw the entire message.
Message is wrapped with the infant in that bundle.
Infant? What in the world?
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Everything seemed so still, as if time had been stopped. Kakashi had no idea why he was nervous all of a sudden; he had no reason to. Trembling fingers slowly pushed the hood of the bundle upwards, and he breathed in a sharp-intake of breath.
A small, chubby hand was rubbing at closed eyes, but it wasn't this that surprised the Copy-Nin. It was what he saw when those eyes opened.
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" You bitch! Where's the goddamned baby! He's gone!" Sakura found herself staggering back from the abusive slap on her face. A seething Koichi Sumita, the traitor, glared down at her.
Despite the state she was in, Sakura gave a ghost of a smile, " No shit, Sherlock."
Growling menacingly, the Sound Nin punched her rather than slapping. " You got that guard to take that god-damnable baby away!"
The petal-haired woman stifled a gasp of pain, as she felt her head collide painfully against the cold, hard walls of her so-called prison. For three months, maybe more, maybe less, she had been trapped here, bound up by the chakra-absorbing cuffs.
" We needed him for our plans! You bitch ruined it!"
Sakura rolled her eyes slightly, inwards, she was secretly celebrating that she managed to foil Orochimaru's plans. The woman knew she would get a hell of a beating, but who cared? Now, all Sakura hoped for was…
That Sound Nin could manage to find Kakashi before he was caught, brought back, beaten and killed. Then her plan of getting out of here would be…
Backfired.
Like the last. The kunoichi settled into her mind, blissfully ignoring the physical pain the bastard was inflicting on her. She had been found out, tracked down by the top elites of Orochimaru's troops, they burned down the village she had been residing in…
And killed the last remaining relative who she thought had died so many years ago. Life wasn't fair, Sakura knew that. But fate couldn't be so twisted…
Then again, when had fate been fair to her?
Sakura sighed mentally, bracing herself as she felt one of her ribs crack. This was a regular routine, Koichi pleasuring himself by beating Sakura, as his way of avenging his parents (1), after the session, a medic-nin would come in and heal her. The next day, it would start all over.
The woman seriously pitied the man for the lack of better things to do.
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A pair of enthralling emerald orbs peaked out from the heavy-eye lids. Kakashi was at loss, those eyes reminded him so much of Sakura, he wanted to believe that this infant, was their child. But he just couldn't grasp onto the idea, that out of all the chances, they just happened to stumble upon them.
He heard Naruto gasp, Kakashi glanced to his right side, and saw Naruto staring at the baby.
" He's…"
Naruto didn't finish what he wanted to say, the next moment, Kakashi pushed the hood up higher, and both of their eyes nearly bulged out.
The infant, had soft….
Silvery hair.
They noticed a small, dirty card tucked in the folds of the blanket, scribbled in the handwriting the two men knew so well was…
" Hatake Takeru." Naruto whispered, reading the card.
No doubt about it, fate decided to toy with them yet again.
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A/N: I'm being very mean and ending it there. I can't decide on what do to, continue from there or end it. I decided on the latter, judging on the fact that I'll be away on my school's Ninth Grade Graduation Trip for three days, and after that, I'll be busy with school, tests and stuff. Think this as a parting gift :P It's short, I know, but I can't help it. I've been brain dead for the past few weeks, and wearing a skirt to school didn't help to lighten my mood today. (grumble) Somebody should stab the person who invented skirts with a spork.
So! Sorry to disappoint you all, you can still check out my other fics (Which are basically stuck at the starting point), especially Twin Swords, lack of reviews there, I need some suggestions. I love writing fantasy stories, but I haven't posted any on so I'm a bit nervous about it. I'm more of a romance geek (Dies). If you have any suggestions, or things you'd like to point out (basically grammar mistakes), pm me!
Update: OOOH, ARTLY's in two C2's o.O;;; Thanks a lot!