Hey Guys!
yeah I know, it's been a long time since I've last updated, but since I only got 3 reviews idk if you guys are reading or not!
Anyway, not that I'm complaining, I love you guys to death!
I thought I'd have more time to write this during the summer, but my parents signed me up for this writing camp thing...
and you would think, oh, that's great, you could keep writing your story!
Unfortunately, it doesn't work out like that.
Well, enjoy!
Sakura struggled to stay awake. As a medic-nin, she knew that the more you slept, the sooner the chakra-ropes would drain you of all your chakra, and she only had a little left.
"Please let this work...," she muttered silently, tiredly forming the hand signals. A tiny slug appeared.
"Oh, thank god. Now, would you please go find Naruto for me?" The tiny slug nodded and disappeared. Sakura finally gave in and nodded off, head leaning against the right corner wall.
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"We're here!" Naruto whispered loudly, glaring up at the Akatsuki hideout. The huge boulder Sakura had broken years earlier still lay shattered on the ground, and the entrance glowed eerily. A tiny slug suddenly popped up next to him and he jumped.
"What does Baa-chan want now?" he asked the slug.
"Sakura wants to tell you she's inside the cell to the bottom right of the cave, bounded by chakra ropes. She needs help!" the slug squeaked.
"Gotcha! Thanks!" He slithered back to where the other 4 were.
"Shikamaru, Sakura is in the bottom right cell. Do you know anything about that?"
Shikamaru grinned happily.
"WHY ARE YOU GRINNING SO STUPIDLY?" Naruto all but screamed at him.
"Dude, calm down! Sakura's in the cave with a secret passageway at the bottom right corner of the wall! We can get in from under. Ino, lead the way and take over the guard at the entrance. Neji, use your Byakugan to check to make sure Sakura is where the slug said she was. Sasuke, you and Naruto come with me and Neji follow!"
They crept over to the bottom of the hill as Ino knocked the guard out silently. Shikamaru shifted the rock in front of the secret entrance silently and motioned Naruto in first.
"Are you sure?" Naruto whispered, looking at Shikamaru.
"You'll do anything for her, won't you?" he whispered back, pushing him through to the tunnel. Naruto grunted as he hit the dirt packed ground and started crawling immediately. After half an hour, they reached her cell.
"Sakura?" Naruto asked. Shikamaru pushed on the stone that was supposed to open, but it wouldn't open.
"Oh no. I think it's stuck! Or there's some kind of weight against it, we can't get through!"
"Shove harder then! Do something!" Naruto, Shikamaru, and Sasuke braced themselves against the rock and shoved with all their might. It fell away under their weight, and the sight that greeted them horrified them.
"What have we done?!"
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Marashi/Itachi grinned as he swept along to Sakura's cell. Tobi had finally been disposed of, and Sakura would soon bring Konoha and Suna to their knees. Who knows, she was so loved that maybe the other countries would be willing to give more for her too!
And then he would take all their sacrifices to build up a huge army...TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
Does any villain have a different plan?
Of course...all the -tails would be an added bonus...and Sakura's love was none other than the 9-tails!
What luck.
Entering her cell, he came upon an unexpected sight, and laughed.
How stupid of him to forget she had friends, so they would come to rescue her.
But look! His precious prize was on the fllor, bleeding from her head, while the Kyuubi was bending over her ripping the ropes off.
NO!
Marashi charged.
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Naruto heard the footsteps approaching and knew there was little time. Ripping the ropes off, he turned slowly to face Marashi, eyes blood red.
"HOW DARE YOU DO THIS TO SAKURA!" He roared, meeting him in a headlong charge. Marashi smirked.
Naruto was always too eager.
"Why why, Naruto-kun, you don't like what you see? Don't worry, she can't die yet...I have to use her as my bargaining chip!"
"You...," Naruto's hand filled with the Rasengan. But it wasn't just the Rasengan, somehow it was infused with a red glow as he thrust it at Marashi.
"Pathetic," Marashi said, and dodged.
He couldn't move.
"Hurry Naruto! I can't hold him much longer!" Shikamaru grunted, straining to keep Marashi in the advanced shadow possession jutsu.
As Naruto struck Marashi, the chidori flashed through and hit Marashi square in the face. Ino and Neji stood back, watching what was not their fight.
Marashi fell to the ground, almost dead. He beckoned Sasuke closer.
"Foolish little brother...but I see you have now surpassed me. You emotions...how odd. You don't have enough hate...but you don't need it. I suppose this lesson in love is something I never could have learned...treasure your friends. With them, you can overcome anything."
Finally, once and for all, Marashi died. Sasuke looked at him impassively, but knew he would treasure his advice for as long as he lived.
"Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Fire Release: Grand Fireball Technique)!" Sasuke blew fire through his fingers and burned his older brother's body.
"Finally. That's the last of him," he said, wiping his hands and turning to Naruto, expecting some huge exclamation of how Sasuke wasn't making a huge deal of finally killing his brother (well, again). Then again, Sakura and Kamari had changed him, for the better.
SAKURA!
Sasuke ran to where the others were already gathered. Naruto was closest, holding Sakura's hand and trying to stop the bleeding. Ino pumped chakra into Sakura furiously, while Neji was scanning her chakra frantically, trying to find the chakra running through her veins.
Naruto had tears running down his face as he made himself think positively.
"She can't die, she can't die, she can't die," he screamed at the top of his lungs, his voice already taking on the sound, keening of mourning.
Ino glanced at him sympathetically, and glanced at Neji, hoping for good news.
Neji shook his head the barest bit, a single tear running down his cheek. Everyone loved the pink-haired kunoichi.
Ino gritted her teeth and pumped even more chakra into her.
"COME ON SAKURA! HANG IN THERE! WE ALL NEED YOU! WHO AM I GOING TO GO SHOPPING WITH? WHO IS SASUKE GOING TO BRUSH OFF WITH ME? WHO ARE ALL OF US GOING TO GO TO WHEN WE NEED A HELPING HAND? WHAT WOULD NARUTO DO WITHOUT YOU? HE'LL DIE OF RAMEN POISONING WITHOUT YOU! AND SHOPPING WON'T BE AS FUN! I WON'T HAVE YOUR SENSE OF FASHION TO BALANCE MINE OUT! WHO'S GOING TO TEACH PEOPLE TO HEAL FISH?"
Ino screamed in her cheerleader voice. Everyone else sweatdropped.
Naruto simply cried over her.
"Don't die, please," he said. The three words cut straight to everyone's heart, as Neji thought of Tenten, Ino of Choji, Shikamaru of Temari, Sasuke of Kamari.
And Naruto thought only of Sakura.
Sakura:
live
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