I want to thank all those who favorited my story, after all I am a newb author. Special thanks to animegurl1298 for submitting my first review xD!!! Also I'd like to thank Empty-Angel for submitting my second review. I don't know if anyone actually reads these A/N.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, so own with the next chapter.
Chapter 2:
Sakura bounded through the forest followed by Naruto and Yamato. "Are you both aware that we just left Sai? Poor guy." Sakura cringed at the lose of her teammate.
"He'll be fine, Sakura, he's chuunin level, Sasuke doesn't know much about him, and Sai couldn't possibly give as much information as you could if they decide to interrogate him." Yamato nodded to Sakura. The trio stopped in a clearing. "We are seven miles from their base, we'll keep lookout here. I need to think of another approach."
"Yamato," Naruto questioned his sensei. "We are near the Land of Wind. What if we continued to Sunagakure, to find Gaara, and his family? They would be able to provide us with back-up."
"I see your point Naruto, but we cannot risk Sai's safety. The Akatsuki base is also near the Land of Wind. That may be a problem."
"Then, sensei, we will go to our next plan of action. Two people continue to Suna, and one will stay." Sakura's gaze drifted over to her two teammates. "Whoever has the largest chakra source and stamina, will go ahead, meaning Naruto. He will be affective if we run into any Akatsuki."
"It is true that the power of the demon inside him will be beneficial. So…between you and me, who's going to stay Sakura? I need to be here to protect Sai. I also need to aide Naruto. If you choose to stay, there is a high possibility that you and Sai both…will die."
"Not if we can hold our own until you get back with Gaara. I'll stay. Go on ahead with Naruto. While it is true that Sasuke is a threat, the Akatsuki pose as an even greater one."
Yamato nodded in agreement. "Very well. Be careful, both of you," with that last statement Naruto and Yamato bounded into the forest. It would be at least a week before they would return. Sakura sighed. A shinobi's life is hard indeed. Whoever said life was cruel…was right.
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"Suigetsu. Bring him inside." Sasuke turned and went back into his base. He smirked as he watched Suigetsu drag the boy, or Sai, as Karin had said Sakura called him, into the recesses of his lair. Poor kid had no clue what he got himself into. (A/N: Nooo Sai!! T.T)
He knew Juugo would be back soon. Simply put, he was on a hunt. A hunt…for a pink-haired kunoichi. In fact, it was the same kunoichi that confessed her undying love for him, and he left on a park bench. He recalled the words he said to her on that evening, they were plastered clear as day in his mind now. (A/N: Uh oh a flashback xD! Umm bacon.)
"Sasuke…don't go. I'll do anything. Please just stay here…with me. I love you with all my heart. If you can't stay…take me with you."
"Sakura, you're annoying." Sasuke turned to her with a smirk on his face.
"If you go, I'll scream…"
Within an instant he was behind her. "Sakura," tears weld up in her eyes, she was almost afraid to let them drop. "Thank you." That was it. That's all she heard before she lost herself to darkness.
Sasuke cringed at the memory. She was so naïve, such a weak and pathetic girl. He admitted, it did shock him when he found what little was left of the ground outside the base, after one of her swift punches. She had gotten stronger physically, but not emotionally. No, emotionally, she was a total mess, which would accent to her downfall.
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Sakura wormed her way threw bushes and trees, that were surrounding Sasuke's base, without a sound, in a way, she knew, Tsunade would be proud of her. She peered out from behind the tree she was currently hidden behind to see… no Sai. "Where did they take him?" She quietly asked herself. She heard a sound, not like a bird chirping, or any other sound emitting from nature, no, it was more like a blade. Sakura turned in time to dodge a sharp blade swinging in her direction. "Damn…" she mumbled as she dodged more of the large man's attacks.
"You must die…" The man said, as he aimed for Sakura again. Sakura stared in disbelief. Who the hell was this guy? His bloodlust was out of control. He then collapsed, clinging to his neck. Okay, one second he was trying to kill her, the next he lets his guard down completely. "It burns…"
"Are you okay?" Sakura asked, her medic side taking over. She peered at him, what she saw there made her mind drift back to Sasuke once again. "A curse mark." She felt bad for the man. He had to endure being an experiment of Orochimaru's, one of the Snake Sanin's little pawns. "Would you like me to heal it?"
The man looked up at her confused. "W-What?"
"I said, I can heal it, but it'll be only temporarily," Sakura replied as if it was the obvious thing in the world. She rubbed the back of her neck sighing. "I don't hold grudges, from that curse mark, I'd say you're with Sasuke. You attacked me on his orders, right?"
"Sasuke, saved us all, from Orochimaru, I will follow him until the day I die."
"That's stupid…you aren't a tool, to be used at Sasuke's bidding." Sakura knelt down and placed her hands over the man's curse mark, who watched her in anticipation, as they began glowing green. "Your name?"
"What?"
"Your name…what is it?"
Never before has anyone other than Sasuke asked his name, no one really cared. "Juugo." He felt the pain from the curse ease, and Sakura's chakra flow idly through his body. "You're a medic?"
"Yes. I was trained by Tsunade."
"I see." Sakura finished her job of easing his pain. "Run,"
"What?"
"I said, run. I won't harm you. You helped me, I cannot harm those that care for me."
"But…won't you get in trouble with Sasuke? And what about Sai."
"Sasuke, will be angry, yes. He does not wish to kill me though. I will also watch over your friend."
"Take me to your base. Pretend to catch me. Once I'm there I'll break Sai out, we'll escape, that way Sasuke won't be mad."
"What if you fail to escape?"
"I hadn't really though about it…"
My fingers hurt so I'm going to stop there for now. Okay, relationships are hard, don't expect much until like the 4th or 5th chap. Anyway just for the hell of it here's a conversation between me and Itachi.
Itachi: When's the next chapter coming
Me: Soon.
Itachi: How soon?
Me: …Very soon.
Itachi: But what about the yaoi? The fan girls love the yaoi.
Me: I realize that Itachi but this is a SASU/SAKU fic, yaoi coming up in another story later, I promise.
Itachi: We'll see what the fan girls have to say to that…
Me: O.o okay, plan of action number 1: I'll stab you, while you're slowly dying you shoot me…there fan girl free xD!
A/N: No Itachi's we're harmed in the making of this chapter. Thank you.
