A/N Chapter 9 finally done! And chapter 10 is finished as well! Except the grammar and spelling is getting fixed up! All thanks to Soka! Who offered months ago…I forgot. SORRY!
Anyway this is my attempt of fight scenes! I haven't really ever written fights before so tell me what you think!
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Chapter 9: Death
The priest turned to Sakura, everyone's eyes on her as she gulped before looking to Sasuke. He was the only person who wasn't looking at her, he then slowly raised his eyes to meet hers, his onyx eyes gave nothing away, they never did.
"Sakura?"
"Huh?" Sakura turned to the priest, oh she was day dreaming.
"Do you take this man as your lawful wedded husband, in sickness and health, for richer or for poor, till death do you part?" When the priest said the line, was it Sakura or did the words sound fake?
Sakura paused, everyone watched her expecting her to say 'I do' so simple just to say those two words that would sign everything away, to be with her dream man for the rest of her life. Yet why was it so hard?
Sakura looked to Sasuke. She grabbed his hands seeing the shock clearly in his eyes, at last she got a reaction, letting go of his hands she then moves them to cup the sides of his face, everyone in the crowd was quiet, deathly quiet.
"Sasuke…" Sakura started looking into his eyes, "I love you, I really do. I always have but I don't want to be with you like this… I have ruined everything for you, I have taken every ounce of happiness you had and ruined it. I…"
Sasuke grasped her hands, warming them with his own, "Sakura, what are you doing? What's the meaning of this?"
Sakura gulped as she felt tears welling in her eyes, "It's ok Sasuke, please stop this act, I just want the truth…this marriage would be one under false promises, under false feelings."
"But I do love you, we could make this work…" Sasuke tried to stop Sakura from crying.
"No Sasuke!" She pressed a finger to his lips silencing him, "You love Naruto, I know you do. I have watched you when you sit there in the morning and gaze out the window…like your trapped…I would marry you, I would if this would be a happy marriage. But it won't be, you will always feel for him more then you feel for me, I know this. Sasuke I love you but I'm setting you free, because you love Naruto."
Sasuke fell silent looking at Sakura with a stunned expression, who would think that Sakura could feel for him that deeply for him to give up her dreams, so he can be with Naruto. Sasuke opened his mouth then closed it no idea as what to say.
A clapping started up the back of the silent temple, the crowd all turned around abruptly as to see where the sound was coming from.
"Awww so sweet yeah, such a touching moment, yes speaking of Naruto, where is he Hokage yeah?" The blonde haired, Akatsuki said, shifting his head to the side.
Sasuke turned his gaze to Tsunade glaring, she knew something about Naruto whereabouts? And didn't tell him.
Tsunade rose from her seat, everyone around her seemed to be frozen. "I don't know what you're talking about, Naruto ran away!"
"You sure about that?" Sasori said, walking lazily into the temple, his puppet bug perched on his shoulder. "Just tell us what we want to know and no one will get hurt." Sasori lied.
Tsunade kept calm before turning to Kakashi, "Get everyone out of here now, these are S-class criminals. Everyone is in danger."
Sakura turned to Sasuke, who was glaring at the Akatsuki members. How dare they come after his Naruto. Sakura grasped Sasuke's hand, "Lets get out of here!" Sasuke shook her off.
"No, Itachi could be near by, I'm going to stay and help, get out of here Sakura!" Sasuke said urgently, he already saw some ninja surrounding around Tsunade, Gaara, Neji, Iruka and Kakashi.
Deidara smirked, "Just look Sasori, they think they can fight us yeah," Deidara was already creating a clay dove in his hand, "Well too bad for them yeah," The dove then took flight.
Sasori laughed as his bug took flight along with Deidara's dove. Rising to the rafters, the dove went while the big flew over the ninja who were trying to get up and escape for the door.
Sleeping gas floated in the air settling on the crowd, one by one man, woman and child fell to the ground asleep. Tsunade looked around desperately before a loud explosion from the rafters above where the small clay dove has flown , planks of wood and concrete began to fall. Gaara ran toward to the clump of sleeping people, moving his sand to cover himself and the pile of bodies, debris covering them, trapping them.
Deidara smiled at Sasori, admiring their teamwork before turning back to Tsunade, with a smirk on his face. "Don't you think you're missing someone?...such as your little assistant yeah? My, my she put up a fight."
"Shizune…" Tsunade uttered looking around her, before turning back to Deidara and Sasori, "You're making a big mistake! "
"No, I think you will be the one making the mistake, if you don't give us what we need to know about Naruto," a deep, cool voice echoed throughout the temple. Entering from one of the side rooms, Kisame appeared with his Samehada pressed against the throat of Shizune, who was stuck in his grasp.
Kisame grinned, "You know the Samehada can cut through chakra, just imagine how much longer this girl can last? Or lets wonder how much it would hurt to have your throat ripped out instead of cut?"
Tsunade kept her back straight, trying to keep herself together there must be some way of dealing with this, "Shizune…" she said quietly.
Shizune raised her eyes to Tsunade, "Tsunade please…don't fall for their tricks!" she gasped, before yelping as Kisame's sword dug deeper into her throat.
Tsunade froze, she couldn't decide…her best friend or Naruto?
Iruka looked from Tsunade to Shizune building up his courage before jumping up, pulling out ten shurikens and throwing them with deadly accuracy. Sadly, Deidara saw this coming and deflected it with clay bullets, destroying the shurikens. A clay bullet flew right into Iruka's chest, exploding, pushing him back .
Kisame's expression didn't change, "Well if you won't choose, then we have no choice," Shizune's last yelp was heard before she fell to the ground, Kisame's Samehada covered in blood.
Tsunade clenched her fist tears welling in her eyes, but she was Hokage, She had to fight back, "You have just made your last mistake."
"No I think you did," Cut in Sasori, opening the door of the temple. In came half a dozen puppets with red glowing eyes .
Neji, Sasuke and Lee nodded to each other, before making their way towards the puppets, whilst Sakura and Kakashi went to Tsunade, "You ok?" Kakashi asked Tsunade keeping his eyes on the Akatsuki members.
Tsunade wiped her tears away, "…yes." She said through gritted teeth.
Kakashi pushed up his headband, activating Sharingan, "Then lets go!"
Jumping forward Sakura and Kakashi used a combination of taijutsu techniques, Sakura attacking Deidara while Kakashi attacked Sasori.
Tsunade turned to Kisame, "Shosen no jutsu." Her mystical palm technique getting activated, chakra forming in her hands, she gave Kisame a sadistic smile, "You do know that I can cut your chakra as well right?" Jumping up and coming down towards Kisame, dodging the heavy sword that was covered in her best friends blood and getting him right in the gut, Kisame flew back before rising, his endurance was amazing.
"Is that the best you can do?" Kisame jeered, before forming a seal.
Sakura panted as she kept moving, kept kicking kept punching. Twisting her body trying to hit Deidara, every time missing or getting blocked, he was good, too damn good. If she looked to his face he would just smile at her before planting a punch in her face.
Sakura flew across the room landing in Lee's arms, "Sakura!!" he exclaimed, as she fell unconscious.
Neji and Sasuke finished up the puppets, Neji looking to Sasuke grinning and nodding his head.
Before Sasuke looked around concerned, "Where did Lee go?"
Neji and Sasuke's view turned towards the Akatsuki members as they heard Lee's battle cry, as he flew towards Deidara.
Deidara smirked, "Stupid punk," he muttered, holding his hand up shooting out a large ball of clay and exploding on Lee's chest pushing him back into the rafters.
Tsunade pushed herself up from the ground. She had to admit that Kisame was damn strong, but just seeing the blood dripping from his sword and Shizune's body slumped on the ground, she had to kill him.
Closing her eyes, she cut her thumb pressing it onto the wooden floor, "I need you Katsuya," the giant slug appeared, the temple walls getting blasted away from the effect.
"What is it you need me to do Tsunade?" Katsuya's sweet voice asked.
"To kill that fucker," Tsunade growled looking at Kisame.
Kakashi grasped his chest, and summoned chidori in his hands. He smiled to Sasori, "Its been fun really, but this is the end!"
Sasori looked confused before he heard the sound of a thousand birds, looking around for some sort of escape and realising there was none. So this is what the sharingan user had been planning the whole fight, to corner him. He looked to Deidara who was coming towards him sensing the danger, Sasori held up his hand signalling Deidara to stop, "Don't! Don't you idiot!" he then turned to the grey haired man coming towards him, there was no way his wooden body could survive a chidori.
Kakashi let the broken body fall to the floor before looking up at a shocked Deidara. Kakashi tried to rise but his chakra was gone, before he blacked out he felt something explode against the back of his head.
Deidara stood over the remains of his puppet lover, clenching his fists before turning to Tsunade, he still had to complete the mission.
Kisame jumped to the slug again, grazing his sword along the large slimy body but he got the same result as the last few times he had attempted happened, the grazed skin appeared to be a whole cluster of smaller slugs, it appeared that every attack he did wasn't working.
He grunted as he raised his sword up again, Tsunade smirked before saying to Katsuya, "I think that sword is getting annoying don't you agree?"
Katsuya understood her master's command a string of acid shooting from her mouth, directed straight at Kisame's sword. Kisame yelped as some acid hit his arm, making him drop the sword, as his skin shrivelling away.
But what distressed him the most was the fact that his sword was getting eaten away by the acid. There was no possible way his sword could be destroyed by chakra and there was no one else that could command his sword…but this way of destroying his sword was the only downfall, Kisame looked up to Tsunade…she was a smart woman.
Her flying form came down upon his, as her shosen no jutsu cut into his chakra stings cutting off all the ones to his heart, he then fell to the ground, dead.
Sasuke and Neji ran up to Tsunade, who was panting from the heavy chakra use, her slug summon was already gone. "Are you ok Tsunade?" Neji asked.
"Well, well it seems like I'm the only one left, I guess I'll have to clean up this mess yeah," Deidara said smiling forming a large clay bird.
Neji and Sasuke stood in front of Tsunade, in defence stance. "No, I'll do this." Tsunade said. Sasuke and Neji backed away and saw her forming the seal of shadow soul release. She stood up, her tattoo growing across her face, she smile. "Lets just see if you can effect me now."
Deidara finished forming his bird, "This is a gift for you yeah, seems like both of us have lost something we love yeah."
Tsunade raised an eyebrow, but ignored the comment and started to run forward, strength building in her arms as she went to punch Deidara with her super strength, the bird darted in front of Deidara, Tsunade's punch landing in the bird, setting off a reaction causing the clay bird exploded. Sasuke and Neji left with no choice but to jump back from the bomb.
The smoke cleared revealing Tsunade breathing heavily, horrible burns covering her body, her arm disintegrated, and blood covering half of her face. She cringed looking at her missing arm.
Breathing deep and groaning as she felt a new arm grow. She smiled. "Sorry, but you wont kill me, that easily."
The fight went on, Deidara continued with the exploding clay objects, whilst Tsunade got a few punches in, Tsunade stood panting, her chakra was running slim and she couldn't keep up for much longer. Already she had used the shadow seal to its limit. It was now taking years off her life.
"Shosen on jutsu." Tsunade said holding up both of her hands. She would get him this time. Running forward she watched as Deidara created more things to throw at her, the clay bullets shot out but she was ready for this. She leaped up in the air, high above looking down, flipping till she was right above him her fist held high, the punch coming down pounding into the pretty mans face. The shosen no jutsu cutting into his chakra, cutting the chakra points to his brain, leaving the blonde dead.
Tsunade stood up straightening her back, "Its over," she said turning back to Neji and Sasuke, "We need to heal everyone now!" Tsunade said making her way over to Shizune.
"Hmmm seems like you really are worthy of Hokage." A menacing voice said. A shadowed form slowly made its way into the now ruined hall, "You killed all three of them."
Sasuke knew that voice, as the form became evident, it was Itachi. Sasuke gritted his teeth, taking a step forward but was stopped by Neji grabbing his arm holding him back. "Don't."
Tsunade rose turning to Itachi, "Well seems like I have one more to kill."
Itachi only smiled removing his hat and throwing to the side, letting his long black hair hang lazily around him. "Seems like you have already overdone your limit, Hokage."
Tsunade didn't't let fear cross her face, but she knew he was right, anymore and she would never survive. She looked to Neji and Sasuke, she knew they wouldn't be able to take on Itachi. Her job and duty of being Hokage was to protect the village. Even if it meant risking her life, she would do it. "I think you underestimate me Itachi."
She then sprang towards him, punching and kicking, the ground below them eroding away, Itachi blocked a few before getting punched across the room, landing hard on the ground. He pushed himself up snarling.
Forming a fire seal, "Kanton no Jutsu." A blast of fire came from his mouth, burning away Tsunade's flesh. She screamed out in agony, the fire disappeared and her skin started to grow back again.
"How long can you continue to keep this up Tsunade?" Itachi jeered.
"As long as it takes."
Tsunade continued to hit Itachi again and again. It was evident that what she was doing, was having a rather large effect on his body. He was getting increasingly slower from the broken bones Tsunade had inflicted.
Another blast of fire consumed Tsunade, more screams filling the destroyed temple.
Neji flinched the screams getting to him, "We have to do something! She's going to die if we don't!" Neji yelled to Sasuke before running towards Itachi. "No Neji!"
"Hakke Rokujuyon Sho no jutsu!" Neji cried out starting to perform the eight trigrams sixty-four palms, attempting to hit all of Itachi's chakra points.
Neji's palms went as fast as lightening across Itachi's body, when Neji finished Itachi was curled over on the ground panting, Itachi started to raise his head up to Neji.
"NEJI DON'T LOOK!" Sasuke screamed, running forward, but it was to late. Neji's eyes met those of Itachi's. He was drawn to Itachi's Mangekyu sharingan,and all you could hear was the scream emitting from Neji as he fell to the ground. Itachi then struggled back to his feet.
Tsunade had recovered from the burns, limping forward her body still weak. Itachi and Tsunade stood across from each other, this was the last show down. Tsunade braced herself running forward about to commence another attack of taijutsu.
Itachi knew he was at the very end of his chakra. He had to end this now, she was close to him now about to swing a punch which he dodges. Another one comes and he blocks by gripping her fist then hissing at her, "What's it like to lose everyone you ever loved?" Tsunade looked up…