Chapter 29: Your Return

A/N: Hey guys I see a lot of reviews nods so here's my promise. Finally, summer classes are over! I feel better already. Please R n R.

As Sayuri together with the Kazekage and the other shinobi of the hidden leaf and the hidden sand marched on, five figures appeared beside the military general, Subaro. Sayuri focused her chakra in her eyes to see further "They are…" she said out loud as she clenched her fist tighter and gritted her teeth.

The five figures look directly at her. "Oh my, is that Sayuri?" "Long time no see," "I haven't tasted you since well… since last time," "I can still feel her warmth when I took her," "She's very entertaining eh?" the five engaged in a mocking conversation.

Upon hearing this, the ninjas of the hidden leaf and the Kazekage looked at her for confirmation. "Sayuri… are they the ones who?" Naruto asked as his voice started to shake in anger. "SUBARO! YOU BASTARD! You even allied yourself with the mortal enemy of the hidden moon just to achieve your goal!" she yelled as her eyes were enveloped with the intent to kill.

Subaro's only reply was a maniacal laughter followed by "Oh haven't you met my sons? I'm sure you already had the pleasure of meeting them once." The sands rose from the ground and started to fill the battle ground.

"Kazekage-sama…please…I'll take care of them." Sayuri requested as she pulled out a scroll. "Do as you wish," was his cold reply but in truth he wanted to crush the bodies of those five men with every pressure he can manage.

Sayuri dashed forward with a speed their eyes cannot follow. "She's fast," Sasuke and the others said to their selves as the battle began. An explosion of techniques resounded throughout the battle field. Three ninjas ran forward and formed fast hand seal "TIME BINDING TECHNIQUE!" the army of the sand froze together with the Kazekage and the hidden leaf ninjas. The hidden moon army was about to murder the defenseless frozen army when…

Sayuri stopped at her tracks and formed fast hand seals as she saw the scene. "DISPELL!" the army that was once frozen began to defend themselves from the impeding attacks. "NANI!" Subaro's temper flared. "What's the matter Subaro? Isn't that why you wanted me in the first place? Because I know every secret technique of our village and the counter technique as well!" Sayuri started to sprint towards them yet again.

"No more mister nice guy!" Naruto exclaimed as his eyes turned yellow his chakra increasing with every moment. In a flash, he started to lash out on every ninja that dared to attack him.

"SHARINGAN!" Sasuke's eyes turned into crimson as he expertly evaded the enemy's offense and counterattacked. "NINPO, MIND CONTOL TECHNIQUE," three of the enemy's started to attack their teammate relentlessly. One enemy sneaked from behind the blond kunoichi. He was about to slash her mercilessly when "NINPO, KAGE NUI!" the shadow strands crept towards the ninja and impale him. Ino hearing the sound of pain turned around only to see the shadow stabbing the enemy. "Arigato, Shika-kun," she winked at her boyfriend.

The Kazekage clapped his hands and soon after formed quick hand seals and touched the sand beneath him. "RYUU SABAKURYUU! (Flowing Desert Dragon)" waves of sand overwhelmed half of the hidden moon army. Gaara then gripped the sand and "SABAKU TAISO! (Desert Requiem)" the pressure underneath increased crushing all it contained.

Sayuri side glanced at the scene to see the sand engulfing half of the army. He's strong; she finally arrived in front of the five men who raped her. "Oh my Sayuri it's been months but I see you haven't lost your beauty," "I sure love to see that body again," "I love to hear your cries of help again," "Calling helplessly for your lover," "Too bad he won't be coming," they added on each other's statement.

With each statement, Sayuri's anger flared and flared until finally it reached its limit. "Don't worry… the one who will be screaming is you," she said calmly as she bit her thumb and pressed it against the scroll to summon her twin saber.

The five men positioned their spears ready to pierce her. "You're becoming to confident woman," Sayuri smiled as she crossed her blades on front of her "Enough small talk," she dashed forward and started to attack. Her attack was blocked as two spears appeared beside her. She jumped backwards to evade it but another came trying to impale her body with accuracy but she blocked each attack.

She retreated in a reasonable distance. Panting, she tried to think of a way to attack without getting killed. She looked at the spears in their hand… their weakness is… she pulled out the string in her pouch and wrapped it around her hand. Forming a short hand seal, she dared to attack yet again making sure that she's contacted with each of their spear. This isn't easy. Their speed and their strength is no joke. Gaining a deep lash wound on her side and left thigh, she retreated again.

"Not so much to brag about eh Sayuri?" Sayuri smiled as she was kneeling and panting. "NINPO, BLADE THREAD TECHNIQUE!" she said as she stood up. Something was shimmering in her hands. As the five followed where the thread was attached, they saw it was on the wooden handle of their spear.

"Useless… just like this thread you're too weak," one said as he tried to cut the string with the blade of his spear but the thread sliced through the blade like a knife on butter. "NANI!" a quick tug was all it took for their weapons to fall apart.

They all looked at Sayuri as if she was some kind of meat. Sayuri glared at each man as she did flashes of haunting memories flooded her senses. "It doesn't matter weapon or none we can claim you just as easily as we claimed you before," those words hit her as her intent to kill rose to the apex. The five men began to jump when strings exploded below her and wrapped around their bodies. "NINPO, THREAD OF DEATH TECHNIQUE," the stands started to be enveloped with a black aura. Each man engaged into an illusion of their greatest nightmare. They screamed for their life. Sayuri held her hand up in the air and closed it forcefully. The threads sliced through their bodies as blood flooded the sand.

She looked back into the battle field and saw that the hidden moon army held no chance in winning. Upon realizing this, she ran to the forest to the village she left. "MY SONS!" Subaro shouted as he saw Sayuri's final move. He followed her through the forest.

The kunoichi ran with all the energy she can muster. Reaching the border stone, she pushed aside one of the stone as it was the key to opening their gate. The huge stone gate rolled aside. Sayuri stepped inside. The smell of burning flesh welcomed her as she walked through the village. There were no bodies, she observed only burned houses.

As she looked around, on the hills caught her attention. Her eyes widened, as she dashed towards the pile of something smoking. Pumping chakra on her soles, she dashed like there was no tomorrow. The stench of both burning flesh and fresh blood plagued her senses.

Her pupils dilated, as she saw her allies' body in a mound of flames. She trudged further to where she saw a body nailed into a pillar as it burned. Seeing the particular forehead protector, "AYAME-SAMA!" she screamed hopelessly though she made no move in extinguishing the flames since she knew no one was left alive.

Then she heard a harsh panting from behind the pillar, she took out her kunai in defense against anything. Sayuri rapidly jumped out of the pillar's shadow with her kunai ready to strike. What she saw made her release her grip on her weapon and made her knees go weak. She sank to the ground as she saw a man chained to the pillar as he wore a mask having no eyeholes.

"KYO!" she weakly made her way towards her fiancé. She knew what they did to him. It was the blinding ritual made to strip a man of his dignity. It was designed to show to the people that this man is a traitor and therefore should be forsaken to die. "What have they done to you?" she said as she touched his cheeks stained with blood.

"Sayuri? Is that you?" he asked with what was left of his strength. "Hai, just wait I'll get you out of there in a moment," she said as she panicked on how to remove the searing chains.

"Did you like what you saw?" a voice she knew too well asked from behind. "Subaro, you're going to pay dearly for what you've done," she picked up her kunai and stood up.

She was losing too much blood from the wounds she received from her previous battle but she held her ground. Subaro was the first to attack as he held his trident proudly. Sayuri could only defend herself from his attacks as her sight started to sway and her muscled growing weak.

She was fighting a losing battle. In an instant, Sayuri was on the ground waiting for her impalement. The general lifted his trident to strike her. As the trident came to a dangerous proximity, Sayuri deflected it with her kunai. The trident plunged into the ground as Sayuri whirled around to face the defenseless enemy. She swung her arm around as threads of chakra materialized and bound around Subaro's neck.

He dropped his weapon as he knelt to the ground. Sayuri bent forward to whisper, "I'm going to let you live for a few moments. There's something you must do for me," she stood up and tugged at the string making the general drop to the ground.

Sayuri knelt in front of her chained fiancé. "Kyo…I'll have your stolen sight back in no time," she gently gripped the mask and quickly removed it. "GUH!" Kyo winced in pain. Sayuri quickly placed her hand over his eyes and her other hand over the general's eyes. "NO! OH GODS PLEASE NO!" the general yelled as she focused her chakra in her hands.

Afterwards the general lay there eyeless, as Sayuri released Kyo from his chains. She was about to leave with Kyo when the general grabbed her foot. "I've changed my mind… I'll let you live. This will be you eternal reward," Sayuri said mercilessly as she did not make any effort to look back at the fallen general.

Gaara and the others frantically searched for Sayuri as the battle ended with only injuries and no casualties. He arrived in a dark cave. He heard someone arriving. Instinctively, his sand rose in defense. They were approaching. He stiffened in reflex.

The sunlight revealed the identity of the incoming stranger. It was Sayuri supporting a man with short orange hair. "Kazekage-sama," she acknowledged as she drew nearer. Naruto and the others appeared beside Gaara. "Sayuri are you alright?" Ino asked as she saw her lash wounds. "Ah, but please help him," she looked at Kyo with love in her eyes.

Gaara had to look away. This was it though he pretended that Sayuri was Sakura this would be the end of his illusion. This was when he would fell the same feeling of longing yet again. "Take him to the medical unit," he ordered coldly as he turned away.

Sayuri sat beside Kyo all the time. When Kyo had the strength to wake up, Sayuri quickly informed him of all the events that had taken place. "Is that so?" was the only thing he can say.

"Gaara…no…the Kazekage… we have to thank him," Sayuri said as she arranged the flowers on his bedside. "Gaara?" he turned his head around. "That's the kazekage's name," Sayuri sat down on the nearest chair.

"Sayuri… I'll be leaving the hospital this day, am I correct?" Kyo asked as he looked at the open window revealing the sight of the barren desert. Sayuri nodded as she started to peel an apple. "Let's go out to see the desert this evening," he requested as he looked at her tenderly. She only smiled.

They left the hospital that day without so much as a word. Kyo and Sayuri stealthily left the hidden sand village and traveled far into desert. The moon illuminating their path.

"Kyo, where are we going?" she inquired as she looked at the full moon. Kyo stopped and looked at her. "This is where I'll be letting you go," he said as he looked at her with despair in his eyes. "What do you mean?" he placed his hand over her eyes "Goodbye…Sayuri," tears stung his eyes as he focused his chakra in his hand. "Kyo…I'm sorry…I couldn't protect you," she whimpered as tears trickled down her cheeks.

Sayuri's body was blasted away from Kyo's hand though no damage was evident. "Sakura… that's your name isn't it? Can you do me a favor and do what I request of you?" he said as he bit his thumb and pressed it against the scroll he pulled out.

The kunoichi gradually opened her eyes and blinked a few times as her dark orbs dissolved revealing shimmering emeralds. "Ah, Kyo-neechan," she said as she got up. Something started to materialize on her neck. "A phoenix?" Kyo said to himself as he saw a necklace with a black phoenix pendant come into sight.

They both jumped into a considerable distance. In a puff of smoke, Kyo summoned his twin sabers. Sakura smiled to herself as she pulled two kunai from her holster.

"What do you mean they disappeared!" Naruto asked the head nurse as the others except for the Kazekage went to visit Sayuri. "They left without a word," she explained. Naruto and the others barged into the Kazekage's office and told him everything. "So… they left?" he asked lamely as he stroked the tiger cub on his lap.

Azrael started to sniff the air as Naruto exclaimed "Is that all you have to say!" "Yoh! What all the ruckus Naruto?" two shinobi with a huge dog walked into the Kazekage's office. "Kiba! Shino! What are you doing here?" the shadow master asked lazily. "We came to fetch Tsunade-sama. Shizune is talking to her right now," the ninja with sunglasses replied.

The tiger cub jumped out of Gaara's lap and ran away. Gaara was puzzled by her actions as Azrael was never the rebellious type. "By the way… where's Sakura?" Kiba asked as he stroked Akamaru's head. "Ssshhh," Ino warned as her eyes looked from Kiba to Gaara.

"She's dead," the Kazekage said without emotion. "That's a good one," the dog ninja laughed by himself as Akamaru sniggered. "If she's dead then who's the one that has the same scent as her?" he said in between his laughs. Gaara's eyes widened in anger.

In a quick instant, sand covered the dog ninja. "Don't play with me!" the sand master warned. "I am not! It's Sakura's scent alright! No two people can have the same scent!" Kiba turned serious as Akamaru barked threateningly.

"NANI! THEN YOU"RE SAYING SAKURA'S HERE!" Naruto asked as the sand around Kiba dissolved. "That's what I've been saying, haven't I?" he said impatiently. "Could you lead me to her?" everyone was shocked by the sudden politeness of the feared sand master. Kiba could only nod in shock.

Sakura and Kyo stared at each other for the longest time. No hate, no anger existed between then. The ninja dashed forward as his crossed blades slashed the wind. Sakura jumped out of the range of the slash upon seeing the force of the slash that was to come. The kunoichi threw few of her shurikens at him as she attacked him. He deflected it with one of his sabers as the other one blocked Sakura's kunai.

Sakura kicked him in the midsection causing him weaken. She was about to render the finishing blow when "NINPO, SNOW SPIKE TECHNIQUE!" the ground shook as spikes of ice emerged from the sand. Sakura gripped one of the spikes to prevent it from impaling her face.

She jumped backwards as blood from her neck and legs trickled down the sand. He planted his sabers into the sand and formed another type of hand seal and "NINPO, DEATH SPIKE TECHNIQUE!" this time no matter what dodging Sakura does the spikes seem to follow her and finally "Gyahh!" one impaled her.

Kyo looked closely. With a puff of smoke, it revealed that only a chunk of wood was in her place. "Kawarimi huh," he said to himself. Feeling her presence he grabbed one of his sabers and defended himself against Sakura's attack.

While Sakura's other hand held her kunai, she clenched her fist and planted it to his side. With her trained strength, she sent Kyo's body away. There was a puff of smoke Sakura narrowed her eyes only t see it was only a wood trunk. "Kawarimi! Then…" she said mentally as she turned around.

Kyo unarmed Sakura of her Kunai and was prepared to plunge his saber when Sakura grabbed her pendant and shouted "Wake up… WHISPERWIND!" something invisible slashed through him.

In an instant, Kyo was a battered heap on the sand. Sakura knelt to heal him then she felt someone's chakra coming her way. She rose to her feet as she knew who this chakra belonged. She looked into the direction in which he was going to appear.

The sand whirled around and revealed the loving form of her sand master. She smiled and at the same time a tear escaped her eyes.

Gaara cannot believe what he was seeing. It was Sayuri but her eyes were clearly Sakura's. As she looked at him tenderly with those loving emerald orbs he knew all too well, no confirmation was needed. She's Sakura! She came back to me! His mind and heart rejoiced though his body cannot move.

The others were surprised on what they saw as well. It was Sayuri… she was wearing Sayuri's clothes and still had the same black hair but her eyes… her eyes were definitely Sakura's. The other thing that caught their attention was the thing she held. This was the first time that Whisperwind was seen by other people. It reflected the moonbeam proudly then it materialized into a small pendant again.

As Sakura and Gaara were still engaged in each other's loving stare, "I guess this is when we say goodbye," Sakura turned around "Kyo…" as she did Kyo punched her hard in the midsection. Sakura weakly dropped to the ground as she did Kyo tore the heart shape pendant from her neck. Gaara saw this and his sand quickly rose around the shinobi but Kyo formed fast hand seals and disappeared.

"Kyo…wait," Sakura verbalized as her sight grew dim until darkness prevailed.

A/N: Okay, now I really need your reviews… it took me a whole day to think of this so please R n R. The more the reviews the faster the updates remember?