Chapter 3: Hello Everybody
"Why do we always get the potentially dangerous missions?" whined Kisame, "Now my arm is broken, your eyes are almost blind, and we're both battered and bruised."
"Hn. Stop talking and focus on getting to the base in one piece," Itachi grunted.
After about an hour of traveling, Itachi and Kisame started to feel a chakra pattern coming from in front of them.
"It's only a sleeping kunoichi," Kisame said.
"We do need supplies," mused Itachi, "but we're in no shape to get into another fight." All of a sudden, they felt the chakras of 10 ninjas in the distance.
Saku-chan! You need to get up! There are two powerful but tired ninjas behind us and there are 10 weaker ones in front of us. Kay, Inner. I'm on it.
Sakura's emerald eyes snapped open as she pinpointed the chakras around her. 12 potential friends, or 12 potential foes.
"Well, well. A Konoha kunoichi. Just as we were going to raid Konoha as well. It's too bad you won't see your friends again girlie," smirked a Sound ninja as his 9 comrades surrounded her.
Okay Sakura. Don't panic. You can panic when the two behind you start to attack. I wonder why one of them seems familiar.
As two of the ninjas charged her, Sakura jumped and caught both by the collar. Before the two ninjas could register that she had caught them, she banged their heads together. As hard as she could, she threw them in the direction away from Konoha. She smirked as she was engaged in a taijutsu fight with another ninja. She had memorized all the tenketsus and was forcing her chakra into them.
Flashback
"Neji? Can you do me a favor?"
"What is it Sakura?" She had never asked him a favor before.
"Can you use your Byakugan to find my tenketsus and mark them with this green paint?"
"Okay… why do you want me to do that?"
"It might help me in a fight if I can close some of their chakra flow."
"Okay. Byakugan!"
She had studied and memorized them and now that hard, useless-seeming work was paying off. Another ninja flew towards Itachi and Kisame's hiding spot. The two ducked and marveled at the speed at which he was hurtling through the air.
3 down, 7 to go. Shuriken and kunai flew through the air toward her. Sakura smirked when she saw the thirty-odd weapons coming at her. After dodging Sasori's million senbons, this is a breeze.
Dodging the projectiles, Sakura ran foreward and forced her chakra into the pressure points of as many ninjas as possible. Soon only one was left.
Itachi was finding it hard to mask his chakra. For a moment, he let it slip.
Sakura's eyes widened as she recognized Itachi's chakra pattern. The other ninja must be his partner. What was his name? Naruto said it was a blue fish-man. Ki-Kisame. Yeah. I'll have to deal with them later. At least Inner said they're tired. I might have a chance of surviving.
With these thoughts, Sakura ran towards the remaining Sound ninja, fist ready to smash his face. A stroke of brilliance hit her and she filled her fist with chakra. It's worth a try.
Sakura punched him in the heart instead of his face, and he fell back slowly. He had died on impact, her chakra had successfully stopped his heart.
"Konnichiwa, Uchiha-sama, Kisame-sama. You can come out now."