Both Naruto and Sakura quickly reacted and jumped into the air, dodging the earthquake. Kakashi was nowhere to be found.
A fire ball came flying towards Sakura, who didn't see it. Naruto grabbed her hand and moved her out of the way.
'' Sakura-chan! Be careful! Where is Kakashi-sensei? '' , Naruto yelled out as he landed on the ground.
'' T-Thank you, Naruto. I don't know! Damn it! We have to stop whoever is attacking us, before we go searching for Kakashi-sensei! '', Sakura replied.
2 men walked up to them. Both tall, both with black hair, and long red capes.
'' You have something we need. '' , said the first one, with a very deep voice.
'' And we want it, now! '' , added the second one, pulling out shurikens.
'' Then come and get it! '' , Naruto said and fliped out his kunai.
The men looked at each other and nodded. The first one disappeared, and reappeared behind Naruto, hitting his back with his leg, which caused Naruto to fly into a tree. Naruto fliped in air, and focused chakra into his feet, and was standing on the tree. He quickly started running towards his opponent. His opponent made hand-signs, and 7 fire balls came out, flying towards Naruto. Naruto dodged all of them easily, and was not a few feet away from his opponent. Naruto stabbed him in the chest, but he realized the only thing that he stabbed was wood.
'' Substitution Jutsu '' , Naruto mumbled out.
He felt the ground shaking and was punched on the chin 2 seconds later, as the man jumped out of the ground. Naruto fell down, bleeding from his mouth.
'' Naruto! '' , screamed out Sakura, as she started to run towards him. She got cut off by the second man, who punched her stomach. Sakura bent down a bit, but was soon knocked into a tree by the second punch. Sakura coughed and slowly got up. Her opponent was already making his way towards her doing with his sword. Sakura's eyes widen as he swinged his sword, but he moved just in time to dodge it. She tightend her fist and punched him, knocking him down, but he quickly got up.
Naruto got up as well, and was fighting his opponent hand to hand. Both were good. When one attacked, the other one blocked. Naruto fliped back, moving away from him, and decided it was time to end this.
'' Rasengan! '' , he yelled out as a ball of spinning chakra appeared in his hand. He started running towards his opponent fast. The eyes of his opponent widen seeing that jutsu. He knew he had to dodge it. And he did. He pushed Naruto of the way, causing Naruto to miss. He then pulled out his kunai and started running towards Naruto. Naruto turned around facing him, and dodged the attack, moving to the left side quickly. But, a second later, he got punched in the stomach with a big amount of chakra. Naruto rolled on the ground, and was laying there.
Sakura was fighting her opponent using her kunai against his sword.
'' This isn't going anywhere! '' , thought Sakura.
She moved out of the way, cutting her opponents arm and the focused chakra into her fist. Before her opponent realized it, she had punched his head hard, and broke his scull. He was laying down, dead.
Sakura smirked slightly and started healing herself.
Narutos opponent saw that his comrad was killed, and he wanted revenge. He pulled out a massive number of kunais and shurikens, holding them on a chakra string. He jumped into air, and threw all of them at Naruto, who was laying there unconceus. He smirked as his weapons got closer to Naruto.
Sakura saw that, and quickly ran towards Naruto, screaming out ' Nooooooooo! '
Blood splashed, everywhere.
Naruto opened his eyes feeling something dripping on his face. His eyes widen when he saw Sakuras face above him. He then realied what happened. Sakura protected him. Her body was covered in kunais and shurikens. The cuts were both deep and shallow. Blood was flowing out of the wounds, but she was smiling.
'' S-Sakura-chan . . ? '' , Naruto managed to mumble out looking at her with shock and disbelief.
'' G-Glad you are a-alright . . '' , she said still smiling.
'' W-Why . . ? Why did you do this? Why did you save me? You got so hurt! Tell me Sakura-chan! Why did you do something this reckless? '' , Naruto yelled out.
'' Naruto . . '' , Sakura said as tears started running down her cheeks.
Naruto looked at Sakura and kept quiet.
'' It's because . . I protected you because . . I love you . . '' , Sakura said as she colapsed on top of Naruto.