Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Kishimoto-san
Rekindling the relationship
Chapter 2
Another day in Konoha
She sped around the obstruction of trees ahead of her, her step slightly faltering on the leaves that had fallen to the ground. If she didn't get her act together, Sakura would most definitely pay for it. The two shadows behind her were converging in and out of her peripheral vision as she darted with excellent speed between the tree trunks, leaving a clutter of leaves to fall softly in her wake.
Jumping up to the tree branches, she began zigzagging in hope to try and confuse the two Nin that were currently honing in on her. The thuds of their feet hitting the bark were getting louder, their breathing becoming clearer. It was obvious they were very near and if she did not up her game, they would quickly close in on her.
Grabbing two kunai attached with bomb seals from her pouch she swiftly attached small packets to each before throwing them a mere ten feet ahead of her. Gathering chakra to her feet she surged upwards onto the second level of tree branches before doubling back on herself as quick as possible and producing the hand seal for the bombs to explode.
The explosions took down half the tree that they were implanted on, as well as one of the Nin. That didn't mean she could stop though as the other Nin was quickly on her tail, dodging the shuriken that had ricocheted out of the packets once the explosion took place.
Her muscles began to tire and her lungs started to burn, she wouldn't be able to outrun these shinobi for much longer, not to mention that her chakra was running low, and to cut into her chakra reserves at this point would leave her at a disadvantage if they were to engage in a battle.
Hastily she caught hold of the tree trunk that she had just landed on and yet again sent a burst of chakra to her feet before pouncing to the ground. Looking back as she dashed towards the open field she caught sight that the shinobi that had been caught in the blast had finally caught up with them.
Picking up her pace, she shot outwards, before coming to a halt in the middle of the field and turned towards them, her kunai ready in hand. The two shinobi that had been chasing after her for nearly an hour and a half sped out from the dimly lit trees before coming to a standstill, awaiting her next move.
Wasting no time she threw down two smoke bombs and began to produce a range of hand seals. As the smoke began to clear, Sakura and a clone burst forth with kunais present in both of their hands. As the Nin made there way to dodge the on coming attacks, hands came from within the ground and latched on to both of their ankles. Now immobilised, the shinobis took out kunais and threw them at the oncoming attackers.
Unable to deflect at the last minute, both clones were struck at the heart, slumping to the ground and bursting into smoke. As both shinobi tried to free themselves from the grasps of the hands, two Sakuras burst out from underneath one Nin, one restraining his arms, the other performing a series of hand seals before shouting.
"Sendai Mugon no jutsu!"
The Nin fell towards her and, with a shift of her shoulder, ended up a heap upon the floor. Looking down at him she noted that he was trapped in her genjutsu, with that she looked upon the remaining nin that was still trapped by her clones hands.
"I guess that makes this fight finally fair, one of my teammates for one of yours…"
Sakura began as she performed the seals for her genjutsu again. However when she opened her mouth to say the technique she was quickly cut short as a kunai was pressed perilously against her throat.
"I don't think so, see, you'll have to come up with a bit more than just a few clones to restrain me." Her attacker remarked, leaning in dangerously close to her ear enough to make her entire body shiver. Sakura's eyes darted towards the restrained nin that had suddenly burst into a cloud of smoke.
"I can see right through you're technique." He stated "Now, release him" Nodding towards his sleeping teammate. Sakura sighed. She had still been defeated after all the plans that she had came up with. Pulling her hands up, she executed the genjutsu, causing the knocked out nin to wake up. Rubbing his eyes, the Nin looked up at his enemy and teammate and smiled at his victory.
"Nice work teme! Better luck next time Sakura-Chan" Naruto said, as he stood up, brushing off his clothes while Sasuke lowered his weapon from Sakura's throat.
"Pssh! You can talk Naruto, if it wasn't for Sasuke you would have lost." Sakura stated, returning her kunais to her pouch.
"Hey! How was I supposed to know you'd drop that technique on me!?" Naruto whined.
"Well you 're the one that said you wanted us going all out for this spar idiot! Surely you would have known I'd use something on the lines of genjutsu!" She exclaimed
"She's right dobe, you know she outdoes us both in that field, you should have kept your eyes open." Sasuke commented.
"Ah shut it teme." Naruto grumbled.
Sai emerged from the forest and proceeded towards the group whilst rubbing his badly bruised arm.
"So, who won?" he questioned. Naruto's smile became visible again.
"That would be our team of course" he boasted happily
"No thanks to you, dobe." Sasuke muttered. Naruto scowled in his direction before receiving a thump to his right arm by Sakura.
"Will you cut it out?" She ordered.
"But…! He started it!" Naruto whinged, earning him another thump from her yet again.
"Stop being such a baby…" She sighed before turning to Sai, "Let me take a look at that" She said, walking over to the artist and placing a hand over his arm and healing it.
"Oh, its ok you don-. Its nothing" Sai pointed out, quickly glancing over to Sasuke who was looking at the bruise that he had gave him with a slight smirk on his face
"Its alright, it's only a minor injury anyway, ill only be a sec." Sakura replied, finishing off the job. "There all set" She proclaimed, dusting her hands and turning back to the group.
"Can we go now?" Naruto started, "I'm starving!" he groaned, clutching his stomach.
"Naruto you're always starving" Sakura chimed in rolling her eyes, earning a whine from said person. Sakura sighed.
"Fine, But you're paying" She announced, earning a whoop from the kyuubi container and shortly after a moan.
The four 18 year olds began moving off the field. Naruto ran up ahead to try and coax Sai into competing in a Ramen-eating contest with him, The artist however, did not seem the least bit interested and politely refused, leading to Naruto pestering him with ways of trying to tempt him, firstly by accusing him of being a chicken. Sakura sighed at Naruto's immaturity, whilst turning her attention to the Sharingan user that was currently shifting closer to her as they walked.
"You ok?" he asked, taking in her appearance.
"Of course I am, why wouldn't I be" Sakura questioned with an inquisitive look, noting that he was examining her which caused her to fold her arms protectively
"Well you ran for nearly an hour and a half before trying to take us on, I'm amazed you held out for that long" He explained. Her eyebrows rose
'Amazed?' she thought. 'I was happy with the amount of time I had held out for but still; hearing those words coming from Sasuke is a huge compliment." She inwardly laughed. Regardless if he was a little more social these days, anything referring to a compliment from Sasuke usually ended up along the line of, 'That was good' or 'You did well' but for him to say that he was amazed was on an entirely different level. She chuckled before turning back to him
"Wow, that's the best compliment I've seen you give to anyone. Keep that up and people will start thinking you fancy me or something." She grinned before walking on ahead. Sasuke slowed his pace.
"Oh... You have no idea..." He uttered whilst smirking before he caught up to her pace and continued to ichiraku with her silently.
Things you'll need to know!
So, i think i have an outline for the story. Its a little hazy.. but im getting there ;D This chapter? ermm..... I really cant sum up the chapter tbh, it just kind of sets the ball rolling for the story, it helped me kinda map out the plot for the fic so .. yeah i've added it. Bleh.
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Sendai Mugon no Jutsu (Thousand year silence technique)
If hit with the genjutsu, the victim will be trapped in dimension (of the mind?) where he is unable to awake from. The dimension itself is black and the victim is unable to hear or speak.
(Own creation)
REVIEW! plez. ;3
Mishe-Chan~