D/C: Naruto doesn't belong to me or most likely any of you x)
Fury
Naoko tossed her hair in the light with a light "hmf."
"I've seen that girl somewhere…" Kirari said slowly.
"Hidden Light." Yuzuru snarled. "She's a traitor."
"Perhaps I was never part of Hidden Light, but I just happened to live there?" Naoko sneered.
"You're disgusting, and in more than one way now." Sakura's eyes were slits.
"Don't get jealous, now. Sasuke already sealed everyone's fate!" Naoko laughed. "I'm prominent enough in Hidden Dark to be able to get whatever I want. The Hidden Dark was already planning your downfall, you know. I was planning to only take you guys as prisoners at first, but then Sasuke had to humiliate me and reject me. So now I'll just kill you all. Then the Dark's plans can continue. Hmm…maybe I should keep Uchiha-kun as a pet, eh?"
The three adults looked at Sasuke, but he didn't notice. He was busy getting mad.
"That's ridiculous! How could I leave Sakura for someone like you, the kind of person who judges consequences by if a boy likes her or not! That's an impossible situation!" He said in his quiet but angry way.
"Hey," Naoko winked playfully, "I'm that kind of girl."
A swishing noise.
"Ah!" Yuzuru gasped and then let out his breath in a long hiss. Tsunade jerked. Kirari clapped her hand to her arm, while Sasuke and Sakura both cried out "ouch!"
Each one of the five Konoha ninjas had a bamboo needle sticking out of their leg or arm somewhere.
"Drugs!" Kirari cried out, vainly trying to pull out the needle.
"You bastard." Sakura snarled, her hand finding Sasuke's.
"I'd prefer bitch." Naoko returned with a smile. Then, as if to add to the pile, the genjutsu was again performed upon the group, and before anyone could get out of it, swift hands had hit some nerves and knocked them out.
As the Hokage, the tall man and woman, and the two teenagers fell to the ground, Naoko gave a giggle. This was so fun.
"Separate them. Keep the three adults in a containment cell. The two younger ones will determine what happens. It'll be fun for me."
Tsunade woke up suddenly, her teeth gritting and her eyes narrowing, ready for battle. She had only been out for a couple of minutes. But nothing came. She looked around; it wasn't dark but it was dim. Kirari and Yuzuru were next to her. They were in… a dome? Yes. It was a dome, a dark grey dome. She could see outside! They were on the ground now, deep in shadow, but in the middle of the clearing that the dome was on the edge of, there was a single pool of golden light that illuminated most of the clearing. Tsunade stood up, it was a big dome, and with searching eyes she analyzed their cage. There were Dark ninjas with their hands on the dome. They were the cagekeepers. None were looking at her. She inspected the wall, and prodded at it. It was rock hard.
Behind her, Kirari stirred, then got up. Tsunade heard her wake Yuzuru. A moment later, both came up next to her. Yuzuru looked furious, Kirari worried.
"Where are the two little ones?" Kirari said.
"We have to get out! Sasuke and Sakura are out there! If we're all taken prisoner, the Hidden Dark is gonna do something bad. Probably send false messages to the other countries and start a giant war. How crazy. They're probably pissed off at Day for favoring Light." Yuzuru shouted. "Have you tried breaking this thing yet?"
"Do you really think this is going to be broken so easily? The Dark is relatively new, but they're not relatively stupid. But no, I haven't. Step back." Tsunade snapped. With ease, she let her super strength flow through her body. Then, in rapid succession, she kicked, punched, and tried to smash the cage's walls. They didn't change at all. A giggle from behind them, and they turned around to see Naoko looking at them from outside.
"Having a hard time?" she asked. Kirari left the three and sat down crosslegged with her back to Naoko. "Now, now, Kirari-san, don't get mad. Please?" Naoko pleaded, with a hint of sarcasm in her voice. "Anyways," she continued, "Hokage-sama, don't injure yourself in trying to break it down, because it won't break. I want to have the pleasure of killing you later, so don't overwork yourself. But first, I have to kill Sasuke-san and Sakura-chan, don't I?" She vanished before Tsunade could reply. Then a strangled cry came from one of the cage keepers. Tsunade whipped around to see the half of the dome where Kirari was sitting doused in a bright blue light, a glow. It ended where a dying man was lying beside the dome. But quickly, another Dark ninja appeared to take it's place, and suddenly Kirari was thrown backwards as the ninja performed some kind of electrocution that was used through the dome. Yuzuru quickly knelt and grunted as he caught Kirari. Her hands still had a blue glow. She had used Jyuuken, and had used the dome as a medium to reach one of the cage keepers.
The replacement turned to the three and said, "The bitch stays in the middle of the dome, away from the walls. Actually, all three of you, keep back."
Yuzuru twitched, then turned to roar at the man, "DON'T YOU DARE CALL HER A BITCH!" The ninja gave a grim smile and simply turned around.
Sasuke's vision swam.
"Wake up, Sasuke-kun, I'm tired of waiting." Came a high, smooth voice. He jerked himself upright and jumped to his feet. He nudged Sakura with his foot, not taking his eyes off of Naoko. She too, stood up, her eyes black with anger.
"Where's Tsunade-sama! Yuzuru-kun! Kirari-san!" she screamed at Naoko. Then she saw the great gray cage and saw the three adults' pale faces. She screamed again.
Naoko ignored her. "Congratulations, you two get to represent whether you die or just get taken prisoner. Actually, I forgot that I changed my mind. You die either way; it's convenient for the Dark, anyways. Now hurry up and at least try to defend yourself. Me against the two of you." Naoko said, and she vanished. Sakura cursed, she was still feeling sluggish.
However, Sasuke had recovered. "Behind us!" he cried out, and with blazing red eyes he flung himself against Sakura, knocking both of them to the floor as a black disc collided and exploded with the ground behind them. Naoko landed lightly behind them, and Sasuke was sent sprawling as she swung her leg at his unprotected back. Sakura rolled away from the kunais that pierced the ground as Sasuke was ripped away, and jumped back up, producing a kunai to clash with Naoko's. Naoko threw him off and Sasuke skidded back. Then he recovered and both he and Sakura flung several knuckles of shurikens at her, sending some straight, some spinning and some everywhere. Naoko dodged them all with skillful ease, her face twisted in a constant smirk of superiority.
Blackness suddenly engulfed Sasuke's vision. It was a strong genjutsu, his Sharingan told him. Blind, he froze. He was vulnerable but if he moved, would things get any better? Suddenly a blow hit him. He knew it was fake, it was all in his mind, but oh how it hurt! Then another, and another.
Sakura saw Sasuke suddenly stop moving, a look of bewildered anger on his face, then a look of pain. Naoko. Sakura sprang at the girl, her battle-black eyes turning pink as a petal shot out of her palm. She swung her arm with the petal at Naoko, but she merely stepped aside. Naoko had already seen their specialty moves! Sakura cursed.
Fireball Hand! She hissed to herself, as her quick hands formed the seals, the petal collapsing back into her palm as she did. This was a little favorite of hers, it was a tricky one but she had persuaded Kakashi to teach the three of them the jutsu. A tiny spark appeared out of nowhere above her left palm, and as she lowered her hands, the petal again popped out of her right palm. The spark grew into a tiny flame, which then quickly grew to a flame with a dark ball of red in the middle, seeming to be the fireball's fuel source.
She shouted into Sasuke's ear, hoping he could hear through the genjutsu, "CHIDORI!" and then launched herself at Naoko again, flame and flower petal in her hands. She could feel her energy begin to leak, the two jutsus were taking their toll. But then she grimaced and she reached Naoko. Immediately, she sliced her hands out in an X- style, and startled by the fire, Naoko jumped back, losing her concentration.
Sasuke was still being continually beaten by invisible hands in the surrounding darkness. He winced. Suddenly, out of the blackness, Sakura's voice strained through, "Chidori." It seemed to say. Sasuke flinched again as a punch hit his shoulder, but began the process to developing that ball of blue electricity, pouring all his mind into that hand and the crackling sound of Chidori. Just as he finished it, the blackness vanished, darkness shrinking back to the clearing's shadows. He saw Sakura with a blur of pink and red in her hands, landing on the other side of the vast clearing as Naoko jumped back, a look of surprise and annoyance on her face. He didn't see anymore, he only saw Naoko, his target. His eyes were narrow and he jumped into the air, plunging his hand down towards her heart. Her face was illuminated by the blue light, and fear, but also a disgusting pride. His hand met her skin, and the Chidori vanished into her, spreading its fearful energy all over her body. She twitched, and then fell to the ground. Nakamura Naoko was dead. He straightened, his eyes returning to its solid deep black, and he heard Sakura come up next to him, then leaning her head on his shoulder. She wasn't dead tired, but she wasn't feeling exactly fresh either. Then she jerked back with a start, as the body of Naoko disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"No!" Sasuke hissed, but then blackness consumed his vision as his mind went blank and he fell to the ground. Sakura screamed and whipped around.
"Naoko!" she shrieked. "What the hell have you done?"
"Calm down, Flower, don't make me pluck off all your petals before I have to." Naoko smirked again. "He's not dead or anything, but he's out cold for a while. I just wanted to fight you alone because you stole his heart, can't you imagine a poor heart-broken girl like me suffering from that?"
Sakura bristled, "You're horrible. How dare you. Sasuke would never love a person like you, if I were there or not." She smiled grimly as Naoko's face twisted indignantly.
"You'd better be in for the beating of your life." Naoko whispered, her eyes a narrow threat. Then she was gone. Sakura's eyes immediately darted to the left, then the right. She could be anywhere. The chakra petal blazed from her sweaty palm, an angry pink.
There! Sakura heard a swish and her arm swung around. It was rewarded by a muffled gasp of pain as it left a small cut in Naoko's arm. She landed heavily and charged at Sakura, her fingers full of shurikens. Sakura dropped low, preparing to swing her leg back and then forward to trip Naoko when pain erupted in her leg. She looked back. The Naoko in front of her gave a puff of white smoke and vanished.
"Too stupid." Naoko chirped, dripping with malice. Sakura's pink eyes flickered and she made a sound, then twisted and jabbed her Full Bloom at Naoko's shoulder, piercing it.
"Ah!" Naoko cried out, her pain digging the kunai even deeper into Sakura's leg before she leapt away.
The hit-and-run attacks continued, Sakura managing to strike back or dodge Naoko almost every time Naoko attacked. The times she didn't though, were taking their toll on her body. The fiercely skilled Sakura was still no match for the older and stronger Naoko. She was a prodigy, for sure. Would Sasuke have been able to beat her? Then she realized her mistake. She was standing still, an open target.
Move yourself! Sakura snarled, and she too, vanished from the clearing. Concentrate, she told herself, and pulled out a second petal while hiding in the green foliage of a tree. The two petals flattened, a deadly two-point spear in her hands.
Naoko was back in the clearing. "Ahh, little Flower, you're not old enough to be a proper ninja. You've forgotten your task." She was standing over Sasuke's still body. Sakura's eyes widened. She had forgotten Sasuke! She hurriedly composed herself, and called out, constantly changing positions around the arena to hide her location.
"Nah, Naoko-san, you understand it wrong yourself. Sasuke isn't my task. My task is to serve Konoha, and therefore the Hokage. Sasuke is my friend, and ninja must place their duties before the others." Sakura said, dripping with poisonous disdain. It didn't work on the crafty Dark girl.
"Don't lie, Sakura. You're not near old enough to even get a hint of being able to do that. Sasuke's still more valuable to you, no matter what you say to yourself." Naoko grinned, her head cocked. Then, to Sakura's horror, Naoko's hand reached into her holster and pulled out a lethal sharp kunai. With an air of carelessness, she held it out at arm's length and dropped it. Her arm was over Sasuke.
"NO!" Sakura screamed and leapt through the greenery that hid her, straight at Naoko, only to have two replicas catch her fast at the wrists and ankles. "NO!" again.
The kunai sliced Sasuke's shoulder, a narrow cut, and he twitched, but didn't wake up. Then, Naoko, with a cruel smile on her face as she looked at Sakura provokingly, dropped yet another. This time, it cut his leg. Then another to his arm, then one to his side, then another, and another and another. Soon, Sasuke's outline was dotted with kunais that hadn't stabbed him but had sliced the side of his skin. It made Sakura sick. The hair on the back of her head was standing on end, and she was crying with fury and anger.
Her eyes turned soft pink. It wasn't hot pink, it never turned hot pink. It was always a faded soft pink. But, this one was an angry pink, somehow. They burned. With unreleased fury.
Kill Naoko. Was her only thought.