Itachi and Kisame were definitely nearing the infamous Zombie Combo.
Their chakra could be felt heading closer and closer in uneven waves, meaning the two men were already engaged in a fight.
"Must be another bounty or a sacrifice." Mused Kisame as he continued chewing on a piece of his crunchy apple.
Itachi awkwardly mumbled out another Hn, this time sounding more tense.
"What's the matter Ita-"
The swordsman tried to ask before he was cut off, noticing a body flying right past him then being gracefully avoided by Itachi, who simply stepped to the side without even batting an eye.
"FUCKING SHITFUCK!" cursed the body that turned out to be no other than the almighty Hidan, who was holding his broken nose while spitting out blood.
Kisame couldn't help but want to high-five the whichever person who broke the Jashinist's nose, making the guy look absolutely hilarious.
"What the fuck are you dipshits doing here?" The foul mouthed man suddenly asked, directing his question towards Kisame and Itachi.
"Hn." Calmly replied the Uchiha, his eyes gleaming with hidden amusement as he suppressed the urge to snort.
Whoever was the one who broke Hidan's nose had a good sense of humour.
Punching his nose upwards, gave Hidan a simple piggy nose which looked absolutely and ridiculously funny.
Kisame couldn't hold back any longer and burst out laughing while his partner maintained his cool composure.
"Fuck you.." Huffed Hidan as he snapped his nose back in place, wiping the blood away with a black piece of clothing,
obviously not wanting to let his partner Kakuzu, see his clumsy injury once he went back to join him.
"SHANNAROOO!" was heard before multiple trees started tumbling onto the ground, drawing the attention of the sharingan user and the swordsman.
Suddenly something pink and black was tossed over to the group, landing on its feet, growling.
Before they could manage to get a better look at the female, she ran back towards the place where the trees had previously fallen.
"Who the hell was that?" Asked Kisame, still looking at the place that Sakura had been tossed upon, wiping away his tears of laughter.
"The bitch from the bingo book, she fucking broke my nose!"
The Uchiha automatically activated his sharingan, looking at the same spot his partner was looking at.
"She's the one." Was all he said before disappearing faster than even a trained eye could see.
Hidan sent Kisame a questioning look.
"Leader wants us to fetch that birdie." The swordsman quickly replied before shrugging and going after his partner.
"Well, fuck." Cursed the Jashinist, before also heading towards Kakuzu.
Sakura was starting to become extremely annoyed.
It disturbed her greatly when she realised that Kakuzu was actually trying to body slam her onto the ground just a moment ago, not seeming to even consider the idea of giving up any time soon.
'Stupid stubborn Akatsuki, stupid stitch face and stupid foul mouthed perverted Jashinist!' the pinkette inwardly cursed, kicking herself for not running away earlier.
The current situation she was in and the way is kept going in the wrong direction by the each passing minute, bothered Sakura more than she thought it would as it was preventing her from forming a successful escape plan.
She did not want to fight the Zombie Combo alone, especially when she had to do it to save her own life.
Who the hell in their right mind would want to fight against the two Akatsuki members while being alone, fuck knows where anyway?
Well, that unless you are Orochimaru or something. Wouldn't be surprising if someone as bonkers as that snake sannin would like to fight these two.
No, never mind. Orochimaru would probably have his little bitch Kabuto with him.
Feeling her inner self agree, Sakura snapped out of her thoughts as she received the second blow to her stomach.
Pinkette rolled over, blocking yet another blow Kakuzu was about to deliver, noticing that he was slowly becoming worn out.
'Perfect.'
It really had been a good idea to attack the stitched man while avoiding Hidan's attacks. Why bother with the Jashinist since you can't kill his immortal ass either way, right?
An hour and forty five minutes.
That is how long Sakura had been engaged in a fight with the two Akatsuki members.
According to her calculations,she had about half an hour at most to finish the fight,before she would feel the pain from all of the blows she had taken so far.
Landing once again in a crouching position, Sakura glanced over at Kakuzu, who withdrew his threads, taking a deep breath.
She was so not getting fooled by that.
"I don't think so." She said, bouncing off the ground just before black threads were able to pierce her heart, making their owner groan in frustration.
Once swiftly landing on her feet, pinkette's eyes visibly widened as she suddenly crouched, being lucky enough to avoid being Samehada'd right on the spot.
Quickly standing up and dusting herself off, Sakura turned to glare at the swordsman who in return offered her a cheeky grin.
"Hey there Pinky." He greeted her while putting Samehada away. Giving Kisame the finger as the only greeting he was going to get from her,
pinkette stepped to the right, preventing herself from being knocked out by the Uchiha, who had precisely aimed for the back of her neck.
She could hear the swordsman chuckling somewhere on her left, as she switched her attention over to the Jashinist.
"I'm back bitch!" Announced Hidan, arriving almost right after Itachi had attempted to knock out Sakura.
What the hell was she supposed to do now? She couldn't possibly fend off all four of them at the same time.
Unless they took turns in attacking her. 'Yeah right.'
"Why are the two of you here?" Demanded Kakuzu who secretly started glaring at the Uchiha.
"Orders from the Leader-sama to take Haruno Sakura to our main base as unharmed as possible."
Replied the sharingan user, not in the least feeling intimidated by the heated glare he was receiving from the stitched man.
Sakura raised both of her brows. The hell would their leader want her for?
..Unless he was in need of her medical skills or something.
"The fuck, seriously. What does the dipshit leader want the bitch for?"
'Well said Hickan!'
'Hidan not Hickan..'
'Who gives a sh-'
"Hn." Said the Uchiha, deliberately pissing off the Jashinist.
Kakuzu suppressed the urge to growl, feeling utterly frustrated about the fact that he was not allowed to kill the kunoichi and harvest her bounty.
"Uh, so. Uchiha and the Zombie guy it is." Sakura stated matter-o-factly, cracking her knuckles at this point, acting absolutely suicidal.
"What the fuck are you talking about bitch?"
"She is talking about the ones who are going to fight her, Hidan." Boredly replied Kisame, reaching into his pocket for another juicy apple.
"Why the fuck them? I want to have fun too!" Complained the Jashinist as he once again slicked back his hair.
"Isn't it obvious you dipshit? You would rather sacrifice me meanwhile sharky's sword is meant to shred his opponents to ribbons, leaving the Uchiha and Stitches who can fight, without inflicting too much damage upon me."
Sakura explained while reaching into her pocket, pulling out a blindfold,earning curious looks from her opponents.
"Is that a blindfold I see?"
"Why yes Sharky-san. I cant risk being caught in a genjutsu while fighting against your partner here."
She simply replied, putting on the blindfold, fixing it in place with a few more tugs at the back of it.
'Well, even if I die, at least I will die knowing that I fought back.'
'If we die, you'll know that your stupidity killed you.'
'Shut up already, inner.'
Needless to say, Itachi Uchiha wasn't the only one impressed.
Yet he couldn't help but wonder, was that really the weak Sakura Haruno who had been in his little brother's team?
As far as the Uchiha knew, the girl was a die-hard loyal kunoichi of the leaf village, so what could've happened to make her leave?
She wasn't from a clan nor she was looking for Sasuke. Then why did she leave Konoha and become a missing nin?
Why?
'Who would've ever thought we'd be fighting Sasuke's older brother..'
'Better him than Sasuke..'
Inner Sakura only nodded while the outer one kept running around, dodging sharingan user's attacks.
Only about three minutes ago,the stitched man had decided to comply to Uchiha's request and leave Sakura for him to deal with.
Uchiha had the advantage in this fight, that much was already clear, as it seemed to get harder and harder for Sakura to dodge and lay hits on the sharingan user.
She did feel proud though, she had managed to leave a nice deep cut on Itachi's arm that would definitely leave a lovely scar.
Sakura suddenly felt more than glad about having a blindfold blocking her eyesight, since she could hear the Uchiha prodigy shrugging off and tossing aside his Akatsuki cloak, revealing more of his well built body.
No surprise there, the rising heat in their current location would make anyone sweat.
Sakura herself would've somewhat stripped out of her clothing too, if not one) She was fighting for her life, two) There were four men close to her, three) All of them were from Akatsuki.
'Oh my god outer, I think sharky just took off his shirt along with stitches..'
'Inner I do not need you to distract me with images of sweaty, shirtless and ripped Akatsuki men. Thank you very much!'
Ignoring everything but her opponent, pinkette ran forward, both large kunai in her hands, determined to leave another deep cut on the Uchiha in front of her.
Just as she was about to cut his other arm, she had realised it was a clone, flipping backwards and away from it.
"Shit.." cursing, Sakura turned her head towards the three sitting Akatsuki who were curiously eyeing her.
Her eyes widened beneath the blindfold when she started feeling a spark of pain in her stomach area.
'Inner, how much time left?'
'Oh dear! Oh my god!'
Running in a circle, away from the sharingan user, Sakura started feeling nauseous as her heart threatened to burst out of her chest.
' How Much Time Left, Inner?'
'TWO MINUTES, TWO MINUTES! YOU HAVE TO RU-'
"GODAMMIT!"
Tearing off her blindfold and hissing from the spreading pain in her body, pinkette blindly ran, rolling over to her backpack, grabbing it and slinging it over her shoulders.
Ignoring the confused looks she was getting, Sakura picked up her kunai and simply ran forward, not giving a single damn about where she was going to end up at.
As long it was far enough for the Akatsuki not to hear nor see her.
'Twenty three seconds..'
Pumping more chakra into her feet, the pinkette sped up, running at an even faster speed than she was before.
On the horizon she soon could already see a forest.
"Perfect." Hissed the medic-nin as she headed straight for the tall trees in the distance.
'Oh boy..' Mumbled inner Sakura, cringing at the trees with an apologetic look.
'Five more seconds..' She added, closing her eyes.
"SHA..NA...RHOOOO!" roared Sakura, slinging her chakra laced fists at the first unfortunate tree that was standing in her way.
To anyone who is reading this, I shall also inform you that this fanfic is going to be nice and long.
Updated surely once a month. The only time when the update will be delayed is when I'm too busy to write a new chapter. That said, you probably wont have to wait for over two months for an update.
Sidenote: I direct this to the readers who got confused by Sakura suddenly running away from the Akatsuki along with the whole time thing,
the explanation will be given to you in the next chapter so no worries!