"gen-jutsu" She spat angrily.
It didn't take long for the both of them to release the gen-jutsu nor did it take long to decide it would be better to reunite then so split up especially since now they knew they had company. Sasuke made took out his weapon almost off impulse but sakura just walked behind Sasuke. Her hand was on her kunai pouch. She gave a worried look.
"this mean…that Naruto could be" she whispered.
"shhh…" Sasuke hissed.
Sakura nodded and kept her eyes out. Her hand continued its squirming next to the kunai pouch on her thigh as the two walked slowly through the woods. Silence seemed to stay all around them for a long time. The area was thick with a looming, and eerie atmosphere. Sakura's nerves where on edge as Sasuke sat there waiting for everything and anything. His eyes glancing the thick fog in hurried glances. Sakura however kept her self somewhat hidden. If they where attacked it was her duty to hide. She was only a medic after all. Sasuke suddenly whipped around and shoved sakura to the side.
KA-BOOM!!!
Things crashed around them everywhere. Boulder smashed dangerously in the heavy smoke from the explosion. Birds flew off and splinters and lumber trashed about in the huge cloud of smoke. Sakura had been thrust a few hundred yards just in time to miss the more violent pressure from the blast yet she couldn't see Sasuke.
Infact she couldn't see at all. The area around her was filled with a black miasma. The bomb had been filled with poison gas and Sakura shot up covering her mouth and quickly pulling her hand over her eyes to pull out the small drops of poison that may have entered them. She opened them again and got to her feet and running from the miasma. But she couldn't escape it. The blast was so large it had covered about a 400 yard radius around.
Sakura struggled for breath as she continued to run from it. She needed to get out but she kept finding herself trapped. Her head began to spin. All she could think was damn. Her mind became panicked as she began to run in a direction only to hit a large wall of boulders. It wasn't till her legs could barely move and her arms where frozen at her sides that she realized the blast had blocked her inside a huge cave holding the smoke inside.
Sakura was loosing consciousness in a gas chamber.
Sasuke jumped into a tree. He slammed into the trunk more then landed as the blast threw him further. With the crashing of trees he covered his head slightly then getting to his feet he looked back and with a panic frenzy his eye scaled for sakura. He could only hope she would catch up, or that she would appear at a tree somewhere on the other side of the mushroom cloud of poison. He glared and jumped around searching eagerly.
Unfortunately his search was interrupted when a two shinobi in black coats showed up. Sasuke knew from the moment he saw them they where not Akatsuki members. But Sasuke also knew they where strong and even though there intentions where the same as the Akatsuki they where not just some cheep imitation.
They both hunched over and began to walk towards him. Sasuke drew his sword and immediately found himself at there faces. Yet they vanished and smoke began to sizzle from the ground where their cheep clones had stood. Sasuke looked around as more clones began to pop up. He knew he was surrounded and would become a pawn if he wasn't careful.
He had to find a way to change the status quo and get back to finding sakura and Naruto. He had to complete this mission and get team seven back together. Guilt began to find its way inside him as he knew it was his fault for their separation so it should be him and only him to bring it back. He wasn't going to let these gen-jutsu masters take that chance to rebuild away from him.
Sasuke knew darn well he was going to have to try as hard as he could to kill these jerks yet without the help or Naruto's clone skills, or Sakuras brilliant eyes. He knew he could, it would just go so much smoother with even one of them here. Suddenly he found himself being snagged to much into his thoughts for one of the shinobi was behind him and holding a sword to his throat. He glared as his sharingan began to glow slightly from the humiliating throat of being stranded.
Suddenly there was a clash and Sasuke clone appeared behind the man crushing his rib with his knee. The clone of the man vanished in a cloud of poison smoke as well and Sasuke glared. They where playing a master of clones war here. Sasuke had his sharingan ad his cheat card yet they had the field and two of his friends at their disposal.
Sasuke continued the battle with them for at least two hours. Moving about the forest in massive strokes of hand to hand combat. The ninjas wielded him slowly, however, into a massive genjutsu which he Sasuke did not know of yet. They knew the one called Uchiha and how his eyes could conquer any jutsu set in front of him yet they knew his weakness. He after all had defeated Itachi Uchiha and now finally they where going to get what the rest of the Akatsuki was trying to get.
They would have the fox and with that the power to destroy and capture the other tailed demons. The two shinobi smirked from under their cloaks watching the Uchiha battle their clones and weave his own sad tangle web. His fighting was good yes and the two found that it would not be easy defeating one who knew the way of the Chidori better then anyone else. Sasuke glared at the numerous clones knowing he was at least giving them a hard time. Finally with a smirk Sasuke looked over his shoulder into the tree where the two "real" shinobi sat watching and controlling him.
"found you" he mused as suddenly blood spat on the ground.
Sakura groaned as the poison took hold of her faster. She continued to struggle against it. It wasn't too hard to fight it and it certainly wasn't hard to counter it but there was so much of it. This factor alone made it very difficult to counter it with her medicine which seemed to have been separated from her in the explosion. She leaned against the wall of boulders.
"Neji" she called softly.
She looked to the smog and saw the figure walking towards her….closer…closer…
"Neji" she breathed.
----Flashback-----
"Neji…why are we all the way over here, the festival is down there!" sakura shouted pointing downward towards the village.
"I know that silly" he called pointing to the sky. "but you can see the sky better."
"look I don't care about the sky…" Sakura whined her kimono shifting around her body as she climbed the hill and sat next to Neji.
"hm you will" he said as he too sat down. They sat in silence. Suddenly fire works erupts in the sky.
"wow" sakura gasped.
"hm" Neji smiled and quickly wrapped her in a kiss. Sakura blushed and held it. He parted and titled her head up.
"will you be my bride sakura…" he asked.
---------End----------
"Neji-kun…" she breathed harder tears flowing down her face. The memories began to flood like a mad river. She breathed heavily as he gasped turning her head trying to deny it. Trying to deny his presence there. She told herself he was dead, she told herself he was gone. She loved Sasuke now…again. She had no room for him. She had to have no room for him.
"Neji-kun…" she whimpered.
-----Flash back-----
Neji was looming over sakura smirking. Sakura blushed upwards. Their lips met.
---End---
"Neji-…"
---Flash back---
Neji sat in the hospital bed. He scoffed at sakura yelling at him. He defiantly sat in the bed ordering her around. He continued to smirk. Boy that made sakura ticked.
---end—
"Neji.."
The flash backs came back faster now. Some lasted two minutes others two seconds. Sakura's head began to spin widely. She began to shake her head. Here eyes fluttered open and closed. She struggled and squirmed under the non-existent weight of some heavy memory.
---flash back---
"I love you sakura" he whispered.
---end---
The violent haze of flash back whipped in her head faster now. The sad reoccurring memories continued. She cried her tears streamed. Blood mixed with salt in a horrifying sent. The visions, the memories. The figure walking closer to her. The figure limping towards her. She watched it scared to see its face. Her eyes rolled back in her head then forward again only to see the figure two feet closer. She struggled scrapping away at the rock behind her. The memories continued in shorter faster flashes. Like a hurricane whirling around every picture in your house in front of you…like a slide of all the photographs you've ever taken. That's what it was like.
It seemed to last forever. Suddenly is stopped in final combined flashback. A small flashback, yet that opened Sakuras eyes...and opened her heart. Sakura began to scream as the flashback hit her.
---flashback---
"sakura…will you stay with me…?" Sasuke uttered breathlessly.
"I mean to say…" he stuttered his trembling body holding itself up with barely any strength. "will you…marry me?"
---end---
Sakuras eyes shot open as she stared ahead. Suddenly the whirlwind around her had stopped. Everything was gone except the echoing foot steps drawing ever closer to her. She blinked and watched it in silence. Everything around her was silent. Everything around her was still, as the foot steps got close and stopped. Bending down the face looked at her.
"sakura" it said.
"I want you to be happy, just know that…and that alone." The voice said clearly. Sakura had heard that line before and with a soft choke of a sob she bit her lip to stare into the face of Neji Hyuuga.
Well im just going to keep writing to there is no reason for a preview or anything. Here is this chapter. Hope you like it. Again sorry for it being short.