Sorry for the long wait. Here's chapter 8, I think it's one of my greates masterpiece. The winner of the Chapter 7 contest was Sasusaku0129, for being the
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Chapter 8: Spiders and Screeches
Titled by Sasusaku0129
Recap:
Sasuke and the girls walked out the school grounds peacefully, until Sasuke sensed something coming towards Sakura. Sasuke quickly pushed Sakura out of the way causing the thing coming towards Sakura to miss her, but instead it hit Sasuke. Now Sasuke was on the ground face to face with a 2 foot tall spider. It's fangs were about to hit Sasuke, but luckily Sasuke was holding on to it, and pushing it upwards.
"SASUKE!" yelled the girls.
"Well, well, well look who we have here," said a voice from a distance, "looks like my pet spider has found lunch."
"WHAT! WHO ARE YOU SHOW YOURSELF YOU COWARD!" yelled Sakura.
"I'm no coward. I'm right here," said the voice.
"No, not you." said Hiruka.
From behind the tree near the school, stepped out Tsuiji with a giant smirk. Sakura and Hiruka glared at Tsuiji angrily. Sasuke was only look at Tsuiji for one second, for he was busy trying to get the spider off of him. It was impossible for him to use his legs to get the spider off because the spider was sitting on top of them. Sasuke knew that if he didn't get the spider off of him soon, he'll died because he was his grip on the spider's fangs were slipping.
"What are you doing here!?" growled Sakura, taking small steps towards Tsuiji. But Tsuiji ignored her and walked towards his spider. The spider was black, but its legs were orange and black. Tsuiji patted his spider, and looked at Sasuke with a giant, evil grin.
"ANSWER ME!"
Tsuiji sighed, "I see you're enjoying playing with my spider, Uchiha." Sasuke said nothing, but Hiruka walked up towards Tsuiji, she held him by his shirt collar, than she carried him to a near by tree, and pushing him against it.
"TELL ME, what kind of SPIDER is that?" asked Hiruka, looking directly at Tsuiji's brown eyes. Tsuiji said nothing, but Hiruka slapped him, leaving a big, red mark on his left cheek.
"Al right, fine," said Tsuiji calmly, as if nothing happened, "it's a Mexican redknee, and it's a tarantula not a spider, FYI. If you want to save your friend, than you better hurry while he still has his grip on his fangs, otherwise he's as good as dead." Tsuiji snickered, while Hiruka let him go, but Hiruka stayed near Tsuiji just in case he tried to do something. Sakura was still looking at the giant spider, thinking that it was her fault that Sasuke might die. She closed her eyes to keep herself from crying, but it was no use, tiny drops of tears began sliding down her cheek.
"You know, since my spider is venomous," began Tsuiji, "if he gets a giant scratch, from that fang, he'll die in a matter of seconds, but on the bright side, if he gets a small scratch, you'll still have a couple of hours to save him."
Hiruka didn't pay attention to what Tsuiji was saying, but instead trying to figure out how to get Tsuiji, to get his ugly looking spider off of Sasuke. Sakura on the other hand, stopped crying because the minute Tsuiji finished his sentence, Sakura found out how to get the spider off of Sasuke.
"If I punch that spider in the eye, than I can get that spider off of Sasuke," mumbled Sakura to herself.
Sasuke was losing his grip, every time he tried to make his grip stronger, the spider's fang kept coming closer. Sasuke's hands were becoming tired, he knew he only had a few seconds before his hands would let go of the fangs from lack of energy. Since he was tired from fighting the enormous spider's strength for over fifteen minutes, and he was also hungry because he hasn't eaten breakfast.
"This is it," said Sakura, wiping off the tears from her eyes, "this is the only way I can save Sasuke." Sakura ran towards the spider, catching both Hiruka's and Tsuiji's attention. Once Sakura got closer to the spider she jumped as high as she can, with her right armed pulled back, getting ready to punch. She saw Sasuke was also watching her, but he was still holding on to the spider's fangs, than all of a sudden Sasuke's arms gave out and he let go of the fangs. The fangs were coming down on Sasuke really fast, but before it could touch Sasuke, Sakura punched the spider in one of its eyes. The spider retreated and got off of Sasuke, while screeching eerie sounds. Sakura landed safely on the ground safely, with a giant smirked on her face. Feeling proud of herself Sakura jumped in the air, than walk towards Sasuke, followed by Hiruka. Little did they know(a/n: everyone doesn't know except for Sasuke) something happened when the spider retreated.
Flashback
Sakura punched the spider, causing it to retreat. When the spider got hit it got off Sasuke, it lifted its head to left, but its fangs were so close to Sasuke, that when it lifted its head, its fangs scratch Sasuke's left shoulder, inserting a tiny drop of venom. Sasuke winced at the pain and grabbed his left shoulder.
-End of Flashback-
"Sasuke are you okay?" asked Sakura, as the two girls reached Sasuke. What they saw shocked them, and remove the smiles they had off of their faces. Sasuke was on the ground in a fatal position, with his right arm covering his left shoulder, where his wound was now a giant, black bruise.
"S-Sasuke, w-what happened?" asked Hiruka, examining Sasuke's bruise. Sasuke didn't say anything. Sasuke was biting is lower lip, to keep himself from yelling, or crying because of the pain.
"W-hat are we suppose to do?" asked Hiruka, looking at Sakura. Sakura was too shocked to talk back, she was just staring at Sasuke's bruise. Hiruka turned back to Sasuke, since Sakura was no help, she had to do everything by herself. She hoisted Sasuke up, and put his right arm around her head, than she put her left arm around Sasuke's waist. She started walking slowly at first to see, if Sasuke could walk while bearing the pain. After about thirty steps, she started walking faster. Since the wound was only a scratch, they have a couple hours to get a doctor, for anti -venom.
Sakura was left at the school with Tsuiji and his injured spider, Sasuke's skateboard, the three uniforms, and the schedules. She stood at the same spot, still staring at the spot where Sasuke was laying down. Tsuiji walked towards his spider, and examined the eye, that Sakura punched.
"You know it's all your fault that you friend died," said Tsuiji, looking closely at the spider's red eye, "c'mon Raijin we need to get you to a vet." Tsuiji climbed up on his spider's back and the both Raijin and Tsuiji left, leaving Sakura alone with her belongings.
"He's right its...it's all my fault. I should've looked at how close the stupid's spiders fangs were before punching it," mumbled Sakura to herself, letting a single tear fall, "I'm just a burden to Sasuke, if he didn't pushed me, I would've been the one to suffer. If I've just sensed that something was coming at me, none of this would have ever happened." Sakura picked up their uniforms, schedules, and skateboard, than started walking slowly towards Koji's house.
When Sakura got to Koji's house, it was quiet, she dropped the items she was holding in the living room, and sat down on the couch. She saw a note was on the table, and read it:
Sakura,
Koji, Naruto, and I left to go to buy food, school supplies, and medicines. Take care of Sasuke while were gone, he's in Koji's room. Give him his medicines after an hour, and change his bandages every time it gets too red.. Oh, and don't let him out of bed., no matter what. Be back at 5.
Hiruka
Sakura looked at the clock it was only 3pm. Sakura decided to check on Sasuke, she walked up the stairs, walked to the last room, thinking it would be Koji's room, and it was. She opened the door and saw Sasuke sleeping on bed, his left shoulder was bandaged heavily. Sasuke's face was still scrunched from the pain. Than she walked over to the drawer, were there was three different kinds of medicine: pain killers, antibiotics, and for sores. While Sakura was looking at the medicines, Sasuke woke up from his slumber, and saw Sakura.
"You can have some of the medicines if you want," joked Sasuke, "I don't really want to take any of those. There gross." The sound of the voice, shocked Sakura, that she dropped the medicine she was holding. Sasuke snickered at Sakura's clumsiness. Sakura picked up the medicine, and put it back on the top of the drawer.
"Aren't you suppose to be sleeping?" asked Sakura in a sad tone.
"Yes"
"Than why aren't you sleeping?"
"Hn"
Sakura stopped, she knew arguing with him would be pointless. She looked at Sasuke's bandages and saw it was turning red. She opened the drawer and saw a roll of bandages, luckily she knew how to put bandages on, from training with Tsunade.
"Sasuke can you sit down. I have to change your bandages." ordered Sakura. Sasuke followed her order, and sat down. Sasuke was still wearing the same shirt, but the left sleeve was cut off. Sakura remove Sasuke's bandages, and saw the wound that she caused. The wound wasn't black anymore, instead it was a pool of blood the size of a small rubber band.
"They had to cut off the black bruise," explained Sasuke. Sakura slowly put the new bandage on, while wiping off the blood that was sliding Sasuke's arm. After Sakura finish bandaging the wound, she continued staring at it, than tears started sliding down her cheek.
"I-I"m sorry Sasuke," said Sakura, as she began crying.
"Sorry for what?" asked Sasuke, staring at the wall. He already knew what she was sorry for, but he decided to asked anyway.
"F-for g-getting you bitten by T-Tsuiji's stupid spider," answered Sakura, she tried to wipe off her tears, but tears kept forming, that it was hard to wipe them off, so Sakura stopped trying.
"It wasn't your fault," said Sasuke, "It was mine. I just wanted to save a com–." Sasuke stopped to think of a word he needed to say. "a friend." When Sasuke said friend he looked at Sakura's face. Sakura was glad he called her a friend, instead of comrade. Sakura was now crying tears of join, but tricked Sasuke, that it was sad tears. She sat down next to Sasuke, and cried on his left shoulder. Sasuke knew she was actually happy because he sw her smile for a moment, but decided to play along. So Sasuke put his right hand on Sakura's back, patting it gently, comforting her. Even though she was crying on his wound, he ignored the pain because he was also happy, but didn't show it. Instead he just smirk. After half an hour Sakura fell asleep on Sasuke's shoulder, but Sasuke didn't mind.
Naruto: Why am I never in the stories anymore!?
Sakura: Because your not the main character
Naruto: Why not! The show is called NARUTO. So this story should be about ME
Sakura: Actualy Naruto, this isn't the show, this is a story about our squad's adventure in the land of beast.
Naruto: I know that! But it says team 7, and last time I check I was in team 7!
Sakura: If your so desperate, why don't you ask the author to give you a part
Naruto: That's a brilliant idea Sakura!
Sakura: -mumbles- Anyone could've figured that out, idiot.
Naruto: Hey, author person, can I be on the next chapter?
Me: Well obviously you'll be in the next chapter because you can't be in the grocery store for the entire story.
Naruto: Oh Yeah! -jumps in the air happily-
Sasuke: DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW!
Sakura: AND OUR NEXT CONTEST WILL BE IN CHAPTER 10, GET READY! CHA!
Naruto: FIRST REVIEWER IN CHAPTER 10, GETS TO CREATE A SKIT FOR US TO DO AFTER THE STORY.
Sakura: THE SKIT'S ARE LIKE WHAT WERE DOING RIGHT NOW
Sasuke: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PM THE AUTHOR
TEAM 7: SEE YA ON THE NEXT CHAPTER