Hello all Haku-hating fans!! (Just joking!)
My god that last chapter was long! I blame school for how long it took to write! (But I'm happy with it.)
Just as a little out-of-the-blue-fact, the 'Bad guys' names are actually Japanese words I found in my dictionary.
Suzume-gin means "Silver sparrow" (hence his silver hair), Yakima-su means "broil it" or "riot" (hence his bulk and immense figure) and Ryoko-sha means "Traveler" (…I like the way it sounded ).
Our time has run short! Chapter 4 is officially my last one!! (I think I'll start crying soon…)
Well I hope you all enjoyed reading this fan fiction as much as I enjoyed writing it!
I'll just warn you now… I suck at battle scenes… so… don't be disappointed! I'm sorry!!
Well, I hope you enjoy the last chapter of True confessions… I thank you for reading this far!
Well here it is; True confessions chapter 4: Incitement to the grave (I think I enjoy making up the chapter titles more than the story…!).
Tsukiai Ujigami.
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-True confessions -
Chapter 4: Incitement to the grave.
Sasuke laid Sakura's body on the ground, standing up and slowly facing Suzume-gin. "Unforgivable." he voiced, venom dripping from each riled word.
Suzume-gin's eyebrows raised in amusement. "Its too bad… she could have spared her life if she'd not jumped in the way."
Naruto quaked with rage as Suzume-gin began to laugh; "Your attachment to the girl is futile; a mere weakness."
Sasuke and Naruto both growled savagely, running at the murder.
Naruto was cut off by Yakima-su and Ryoko-sha who both now had the intentions to kill him; playtime was over. Yakima-su went head on at the fox, who forcefully threw a punch to his jaw that missed only just. Yakima-su dashed back to his companion, handing him a kunai covered in the boy's blood; Naruto hadn't even noticed the blade had touched him… his body was beyond pain.
Ryoko-sha pulled out a scroll, pointing the kunai down and allowing a drop of crimson blood to drench the parchment. Dropping the kunai, the scroll was rolled up and place between Ryoko-sha's hands; "Ninja art; PHANTOM FLAME JUTSU!!"
Naruto stopped dead in his tracks as if someone were holding him back. He looked down and saw a pair of sinister violet hands, with dark black outline of overflowing chakra; grasping his feet from beneath the ground. The hands pulled themselves up, a body with no legs came floating out of the ground and floated in front of the fox. Though the hands were now removed from his feet, Naruto still remained immobile. The creature had chakra flowing over its body like deep-purple flames licking hungrily at wood.
The creature moved forward, searing hot pain coming over Naruto's skin as the creature entered his body. He screamed as his skin seemed to burn all over.
"My Phantom Flame Jutsu." Ryoko-sha smiled, watching as the paralysation wore off and Naruto fell to his knees in agony. "A spirit of fire is called from the depths of hell and possesses the body of the subject in question… in this case… you."
Naruto groaned as began to loose feeling in his legs that refused to follow his demands…
Sasuke rushed forward, his sharringan blazing up to full power.
"Ah, I see we have a little Uchiha here!" Suzume-gin mocked. "I believed they'd all been slaughtered. But, can't always trust what you hear on the streets, huh?"
Sasuke threw a kunai, which Suzume-gin dodged. Sasuke threw another kunai, which Suzume-gin dodged again.
"Are you even trying?" he smirked, dodging another kunai.
Sasuke reached into his backpack, pulling out 3 demon wind shuriken. He threw the blades forward with great force, Suzume-gin dodging them only just.
"My condolences" Suzume-gin sighed, disappointed.
Sasuke smirked as strings of chakra became visible in the trail of the windmill shuriken; the ends held firmly by his hands and in between his teeth.
He pulled his head back and lifted his left hand, sending the shuriken in his desired direction around the trees in a tangle of thread.
Suzume-gin grunted as the strings were pulled tight, pinning his form to a tree behind. Sasuke flashed hand signs at the bound male, yelling furiously; "Fire style; DRAGON FLAME JUTSU!"
A red hot blaze of fire screamed its way alone the lines of Chakra, engulfing Suzume-gin's body with flames of hate. The foe screamed out in pain as the flames ate away at his flesh.
Sasuke did not smile, but felt an overwhelming flush of inclusive revenge rolling off his heart as he watched this demon burn to death.
"Heaven has no place for you…" Sasuke said darkly. "… and neither does Hell."
"Is that right..?"
Sasuke gasped as the creature in the flames substituted with a log.
"You're weak… Sasuke Uchiha." Suzume-gin glowered, roughly pushing the boy against a tree behind, clasping his throat tight. "…and you have lost."
Suzume-gins pointer and middle fingers were placed upon Sasuke's forehead, cold chakra seeping through into the boy's very skull. The villain laughed as he pulled his fingers away, Sasuke's hands clutching his head as he fell to his knees, shrieking in pain; something seemed to be squeezing at his brains and pulsing throughout his cranium.
Suzume-gin began to laugh as he saw Naruto, kneeling on the ground at Ryoko-sha's feet. "This squad is pathetic." he humored, pulling out a kunai.
He continued to smile as Kakashi lunged at him from behind, dodging him and motioning out to Ryoko-sha, who caught the kunai now stained with the Jonin's blood; "PHANTOM FLAME JUTSU!"
Suzume-gin looked around at Sasuke, Naruto and Kakashi, walking over to the lifeless body that was Sakura. "Does she not mean anything to you?" he teased, standing over the corpse.
Kakashi frowned at his immobile state, a pin-prick sensation running all over his form.
Suzume-gin leaned over Sakura's frame, reaching to her chest.
"Don't touch her!" Naruto yelled from his place at the back, his body still fighting off the jutsu.
Suzume-gin traced his fingers down Sakura's cheek, stopping at the meeting point of her collar, just above her chest. His hand griped something, tugged and pulled away from the cadaver. "Ah, a prosperity charm." he humored, turning the pendant over in his hand. "Had she spent more time practicing and not spending… she mightn't have been killed."
"HOW DARE YOU!" Naruto yelled, eyes burning with fury. "How can you talk like you know her?! Sakura was a hard worker; never gave up! WHO ARE YOU TO CRITICIZE HER…?! TO EVEN TOUCH HER?!"
Ryoko-sha took a step back as Naruto's left arm began to move, slowly but surely. Sweat poured down his face as he demanded control over his body again.
Kakashi did the same, his movements more precise and under control.
Sasuke slowly lifted his head, though the pounding did not stop.
The Fiery Phantoms were pushed out of Kakashi and Naruto's figures, fizzling as if put out with water.
Kakashi, Naruto and Sasuke all stood in a line, facing Suzume-gin who still stood over Sakura's lifeless body, each pair of eyes burning with rage.
"You've crossed the line Suzume-gin." Kakashi growled. "And now you're gonna pay for it."
"Believe it!" Naruto yelled angrily.
Sasuke growled, strengthening his stance. "You're dead."
"What's going on…? Where am…I…?"
Black faded into a misty white field, beyond 1 meter disappearing into the cloud of white.
Sakura was standing amongst the fallen clouds, a light breeze playing with her hair.
"Sasuke…? Naruto… Kakashi…?" she called lightly, walking forward cautiously.
She shrieked as her foot fell through the air, her figure falling forward to on her hands and knees, leaning on what looked to be a sheet of glass. The fog thinned out and revealed behind the glass, a picture… a memory: Sasuke, Naruto, Kakashi and her, all together, at the ramen shop... happily eating together. Naruto sat stuffing his face like usual, Sasuke giving him a glare and eating his own with proper manners. And Kakashi… ha, already finished his… reading his book quite happily. And Sakura herself… smiling… laughing with (or at) Naruto, Sasuke even smiles slightly, and Kakashi peeps over his book, also smiling.
Sakura looked down on this scene, knowing perfectly well where she was… what had happened; she was dead. A tear fell upon the glass sheet on which she leaned on… she was not ready to die. The scene before her… reminded her of all the good times she had spent with her team. Who cares if she was useless during a fight? So what, she made up for it in the end… pushing the others along… keeping the peace among the squad… always there to listen…
Another tear fell to the glass as her form began to shake. "I'm not ready to die…" she wailed, her voice sounding distant and weak. "I am not ready to give up..! I… have friends… who need me… and I need them."
The scene below her hands fogged up again, the sheet of glass dispersing into thick blades of grass. Sakura's body fell onto the grass, rolling onto her back; her hair tangling with the green of the pasture. She was not going to give up… there was still plenty of time to improve… and there were too many things to leave behind.
Slowly, Sakura's body sunk into the grass, like a foot in quick- sand. The grass swallowed her up, jet black replacing the misty white of the field before.
Within the darkness, she heard something… a distressed voice…
She felt a warm presence upon her, around her neck and all down to the pit of her stomach; the side of her face the warmest point.
With all of her might, she lifted her eyelids to a bright world orange; both warm and southing.
Her aqua green eyes searched about soon recognizing the orange that surrounded her sight. "Naruto…?"
Naruto gasped as he saw that Sakura, who lay in his arms and upon his lap, had her eyes open weakly…
"Sakura!"
Kakashi and Sasuke looked over from their place among the shrubs, the evidence concealed within...
"Sakura's alive! Sakura's alive!!" Naruto exclaimed excitedly.
Sakura blinked weakly, her neck stiff and her body bruised up good…
She felt safe… next to Naruto. Normally she would have jumped up in fright, punching Naruto out in one second flat, but just this once… she didn't mind being so close to him… having the comforting awareness of his arms holding her tight.
Kakashi came over, bending down next to the kunoichi and smiling. "Welcome back."
Sasuke, oblivious to all but Sakura who quickly glanced over to claim him alive, smiled and hunched over slightly… almost like he was sighing in relief.
"What… happened to Kanashii…?" Sakura asked weakly, wincing at how much it hurt to talk right now.
"He's fine, he's just sleeping." Kakashi smiled.
"…and the… enemy…?"
The smile faded slightly from Kakashi's face, but not enough for Sakura to notice. "They're all… 'taken care of'. You don't need to worry about them, they can't harm you any longer." Kakashi reassured.
Sakura had a sneaking suspicion that they didn't just kill these imposters; they destroyed them, but she didn't question, as for Sasuke had come over.
Sasuke bent down next to her figure, a tinge of pink across his cheeks. "Hey… this is yours." He held up her necklace, the one she had bought before this mission… the one Suzume-gin had obliviously to her, taken from her lifeless neck.
She smiled weakly as Naruto took it and placed it around her neck for her (since Sasuke would not).
"Kakashi sensei, how did Sakura survive?" Naruto asked, looking up with the innocent face that so often explained his stupidity.
"Senbon needles." Kakashi replied simply, standing up and looking to the needles that Sasuke had pulled out earlier. "If used correctly can simulate death; stop the heartbeat for an amount of time." he looked to Sakura. "Though leaves the body sore and useless for at least a week or two."
Sakura smiled; it didn't matter. The fact was that she was alive… and she was willing to give life another go.
- 3 weeks later-
Kanashii was safely taken to Iruka, where the boy began his training as a young academy student of Konoha under his watchful eye.
Sakura was taken to hospital for proper treatment, with many visits from her parents, Naruto and Kakashi and rarely ever Sasuke.
As a promise from Kakashi; as soon as Sakura was free from the hospital and fully recovered, he would take her and the boys out to ramen; his buy.
Naruto attacked his 4th helping of the night to Sakura's left, Sasuke eying him from the next chair over with deep disapproving annoyance as he gallantly ate his first bowl quietly, and Kakashi, finished his first and second helping already, sat concealed behind 'Make out paradise' next to Sakura on her right.
Kakashi suddenly raised his glass. "To Sakura and her safe recovery; we could have never have finished that last mission without you."
"Without her, we just wouldn't be squad 7!" Naruto cheered, raising his glass too. Sasuke smirked, raising his glass slightly but not joining as Kakashi, Sakura and Naruto all clinked glasses.
Sakura couldn't help but smile as Naruto and Sasuke began bickering like they always did on occasions like this, this time Naruto claiming that Sasuke 'Did not agree' because he hadn't taken a drink before he had placed down his cup. She simply looked up to the sky behind her; full of the 7:00 stars and the silver crescent moon; she would have life no other way, than to be sitting here with her team mates.
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True confessions
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