AN- Dang, this has got to be one of my quickest updates since I wrote my first story. Thanks to Kairi and Cloud for reviewing (or should I just be thanking Cloud?). And now for the crazy battle scene. It seems a little odd to me but I tried. I think I can write gunfights a little better, though. Now originally there was a part where Kisame does some pretty nasty stuff to kill some guys, but i had to take it out just so that I wouldn't have to have this rated M or anything.

Chapter 3: Battle Royale

"Oh what the fuck is this? More ninjas? FUCKING KILL THEM ALL!"

At the sound of these words, chaos erupted. Whoops and hollers rang out, metal clashed against metal, and the smoke of kage bunshins filled the air. Smoke emitted from the odd, new weapons filled the room with a thick haze, thus limiting view to what was directly in front. Slowly, but surely, the haze cleared, revealing the crimson painted floor and the bodies that littered it. Those still alive had but a moments rest before part two of the murderous tango began.

Sakura's eyes widened as the man nearest to her leveled an odd pipe-shaped thing at her face. Already sensing the danger, she ducked to the floor and, using her falling momentum, took out his legs, just as the sound of thunder erupted over her head. She quickly leapt to her feet, just as another thug charged her, a sword in hand. Just before the man got to her, Kakashi (or perhaps a clone) jumped in the way, lunging underneath the blade and coming up with a kunai in hand. The man did a somewhat graceful back flip –pretty good for a corpse –before landing solidly on the hardwood.

Sakura turned, quickly picking up another target. This one, unlike her first two attackers, was a fairly large, solid man. All it meant to her was slow and uncoordinated. He grinned as he lifted a heavy axe above his head, only to spit out blood as she pounded his gut with one chakra infused fist, and then falling to the ground as Sakura shattered his left knee with a swift kick.

Sakura took this moment to really look at her surroundings. They were surrounded by a number of quite formidable thugs, wielding swords, axes, chains, and some odd looking pipe-club, the emitted smoke and thunder. On the opposite side of the room two other figures, had to be ninjas by the way they moved. She also decided that perhaps nin-jutsu would be a pretty bad idea, considering that they weren't outside, but inside a rather nicely decorated box with windows (because what is a room besides). But despite those around her, the only person she worried about was the blonde who lay no more than a few feet away –Naruto!

"Sakura!" Her former sensei called through the chaos. She turned toward the voice, just to see Kakashi actually dismember a man with two kunai (1). She had no time to gape, as another decided to jump her from nowhere, earning him punch to his chin. The man actually flew across the room, landing on top of someone else. Quickly, she turned back to Kakashi. "GET NARUTO AND GET OUT OF HERE!" he ordered, wiping blood away from his exposed eye. She nodded, and took off toward the wounded blonde.

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Bang! The ninja with the red eyes went down, and to the killer, he'd thought he pulled off some kind of miracle. His celebration was cut short however when the body of the ninja poofed! in a cloud of smoke, revealing the body of a fellow thug. He then began to panic, trading his spent weapon for a sword, only to have his throat slit from behind. Gasping for breath and futilely trying to stop the blood flow, the man fell, turning as he did so, and gasped (or would have) in seeing the ninja with the crazy red eyes.

Itachi, not wanting to deteriorate his eyes anymore then it was, had never used more than regular Sharingan since the fight began. He would not lose his vision to kill such a worthless opponent. Still, it would make the whole affair much easier.

Not wanting to see the pitiful sight for much longer, Itachi took his eyes off the man on the floor, and turned toward Kisame. He's probably enjoying himself Itachi thought. Sure enough, Kisame stood on a pile of adversaries, surrounded by a few more, him and his blade covered in gore, and a smile stretched across his face. He turned to his nearest adversary and brought Samehada down, stopping right above the man's head. The man screamed and almost fainted, just as Kisame grabbed him…only to throw him at someone else.

"Itachi-san!" Kisame called out to him. Itachi looked, despite having engaged another. "Did you see that? That man actually shit himself!"

Itachi shook his head, and jumped just as the blade of sword came into view. The man he fought was actually well better off then the others Itachi had slain; upon quick inspection, he realized the man had actually cut into his cloak. "You're good," Itachi began, causing the man to hesitate. Itachi used this to land a punch to the man's lower jaw, stunning him, and then kicking in his now locked-out leg, tearing every ligament holding his knee together and making it bend inward, instead of out. The man fell, a look of pure horror as he clutched his leg, dropping his sword in the process. Itachi retrieved the sword, positioning himself above the man in a way that was all too familiar. "But I'm better." He drew the sword across his body, and with one swing, ended it. The headless body fell to the side, the head popping up and rolling to some part of the room.

He was about to turn toward another when he noticed one of those odd weapons –a pistol from what he'd heard –protruding from the back of his pants. Curious, he grabbed it, and shifted it around in his hand. Just as he'd thought; odd to the eye, odd to the hand. But obviously it was a dangerous weapon –why would these thugs be carrying it if they knew otherwise? Still curious, he did what he'd seen the others do; he pulled back on the little protrusion on the back, granting him a nice metallic click! He then pointed it at the nearest enemy, and pulled the little lever underneath. He expected the bang, but he didn't expect the recoil. It would've flown out of his hand had he not had such a strong grip on it.

"Itachi-san!" he heard Kisame shout. It was odd though; it sounded like he was pissed. "Itachi-san, did you just kill that man?" Kisame asked in an accusatory tone. Itachi only nodded. Kisame frowned. "Itachi-san, I respect you as a partner. But if you ever do that again –take one of my kills for your own –I will hurt you," Kisame threatened.

"Fair enough," Itachi replied, not really paying attention. He looked up again, noting the condition of Nauto. I'll just leave Kisame to satisfy his blood lust; I've some business to attend to.

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Surrounding Naruto stood another three thugs, laughing and pointing their boomsticks, as Sakura had appropriately named, at the various clones running around. Unfortunately for them, between their laughter and the shots they fired, they didn't even sense Sakura coming up behind them. She wound up, and struck the closest one at the base of the head, causing the top vertebrae to lodge into his medulla oblongata. He crumpled to the floor. The second man was luckier. Having seen his buddy fall he turned, and shoved the boom stick at her chest. Sakura moved to the side, grabbed his arm and twisted it behind him until she heard the bones crack, resulting in a shrill scream. She kicked the back of his knee, sending him falling to the ground, and pounded the soft spot located toward the back of the skull, rendering him unconscious.

The last thug, now fully aware of the situation, dropped his boomstick, and removed a hatchet from his pants. He then charged at her, slicing down, and across, before kicking her. She slid back, and was about to counter attack when she noticed that a bit of her bangs on her right side seemed shorter then the other. "Hey!" she shouted at the man, who smirked at her with ugly, yellow teeth. This time she ran to him, catching his arm as he brought it down, and drove her knee through his legs. He instantly dropped the miniature axe, and doubled over, literally squealing in pain. Sakura merely give him a slight push, sending him to the floor. Finally, she could focus on Naruto.

Now crouched before him, she gasped. He was terribly pale, and his breaths had become shallow and ragged. She also noted the large pool of blood he lay in. "Hang in there Naruto," she whispered, noting the weary eye that looked up her. She carefully slung him over her shoulder and turned back, only to see a boomstick shoved in her face.

"Going somewhere?" Ask the holder, a brown man in black clothes sneered.

"Yeah! Through you!" Sakura shouted, moving so fast the man didn't have time to react. Chakra gathered, she smashed her fist into his chest, satisfied when she heard ribs shattering. Like the other man, he too flew across the room, his flight and his life ending when he smashed through the opposite wall.

With that, she took off toward the way she came, dodging various attacks and almost stumbling over various bodies. She was almost out when she was stopped by a pair of red eyes. She frowned, slightly, looking straight in them. …Sasuke-kun? No… And then she saw the headband –the Konohagakure symbol etched in with a line deeply carved over it. Wait…could this be him? The man that ruined Sasuke-kun's life? The man that has been chasing after Naruto?

"I need you to hand over Naruto. Now." The man demanded in an icy cold tone. Uchiha Itachi…

"Sakura!" the sound of Kakashi's voice range in her ears. "Don't look in his eyes!" The silvered haired ninja jumped in the way, his concealed eye now exposed. "Sakura, out the window!" he ordered.

"But…Kakas-"

"GO NOW!"

Sakura turned toward the nearest window, which had been broken sometime ago earlier in the fight. The fall wouldn't be too bad for her –but would it be safe for Naruto? She checked his pulse. When she couldn't find one she began to panic. No! Naruto…you can't be-

"What are you waiting for!?" Kasashi shouted as he took on Itachi. Right. She still had to get Naruto out regardless. Throwing all caution into the window she leapt through the open window, and fell. She positioned herself so that Naruto might fall on her –he better thank me after this –and braced for impact (2).

She hit the ground –hard –and Naruto hit her even harder. Quickly recovering she looked up, and noticed how the restaurant was almost completely empty –everyone was standing in the street looking up at the room she'd just jumped out of. A came over to see her and, now that they were out side, helped her work on Naruto.

She ordered the people around as if she was Tsunade-sama herself. She called out for towels, and antiseptics, tying her hair back as she did so. Quickly finding the source of the blood, she tore open his pant leg, earning gasps from the crowd. There was a hole almost half an inch wide on the top of his leg that obviously went through. Turning him over earned more gasps as the hole on the back side seemed a great deal larger –almost five inches in diameter (3). She was amazed that he was still alive –not that she wanted him dead, but it still seemed impossible.

"Sa…kura…chan..." She looked up from his wound, and saw the weak smile on his face.

"Don't worry, Naruto…your going to be fine," Sakura said, trying to sound as kind as possible. Actually, in all her years of knowing the baka, this was probably the kindest she'd ever been to him. He just nodded slightly, and closed his eyes. She was about to go back to work when an explosion rocked the ground, causing most to panic and flee. She turned to see her former sensei diving out a window.

She watched him stand, take good look back at the room before making his way toward her. She noted that he was wounded in various places and was about to try and heal him until he declined.

"No, I'm fine Sakura. Focus on Naruto," Kakashi spoke. He then added, "How is he anyway?"

"Amazingly, he's stable," she said, taking a bottle of antiseptic and pouring it over the wound. She noted how Naruto's face scrunched up. At least he's responsive.

"Can we move him?" Kakashi asked.

"I think so. We just need to be careful with him."

"Good. Do what you can for now, and get him ready; we don't have much time before those two come down here looking for us."

She nodded her approval, and quickly set to work.

AN- Alright, it wasn't that geat of an ending. Ah well. I should be back with Sasuke for the next chapter but I'm not guaranteeing anything. Also, I don't believe my update time will be anything like this for awhile so, sorry.

(1) Wouldn't that be crazy to see Kakashi using to two kunai and going crazy on some guy? That would be so sick. Besides, he's ex-anbu anyway, I'd think he'd be able to do something like chopping all the limbs off somebody.

(2) I'd think that jumping out a window, even if one was a ninja like that, with an unconcious body would be somewhat difficult. Plus, she's doesn't want him to get hurt anymore than he already is so she tries to break his fall. It's the mind of a medic, I'd say -the wounded come first before you.

(3) I gotta tell you, when someone gets shot, it's nothing like in the movies. The reason why the hole would be that big is becuase of some bullet dynamics that I learned from my highschool bio teacher. The big reason is that you cannot compress a liquid, and the body is full of liquid. When a bullet enters the body, it pushes all the liquid infront of it toward it's exit, thus compressing the liquid -except you can't compress a liquid. So you get this pocket of liquid that ends up popping like a balloon when the bullet leaves through the exit wound. I've even seen it; I saw a guy that was shot by a .22 long rifle (and if you know anything about guns, you'll know that .22 LR is one of the smaller calibers out there). The entrance wound was probably the size of the tip of my pinky, but the exit wound was the size of any average sized palm. Hell, the hole in Naruto's leg might be bigger, considering that the lead ball used in those pistols was .30 caliber, and that it was actually a ball and not a bullet, which would have compressed more since the surface area is bigger.

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