I am so so so so so so so so so so soooooooooo sorry you guys!! My computer completely died, then by the time we got it fixed they couldn't..or wouldn't, not sure which. Save my files. So I had to start all over. But here it is. Chapter four of Broken! Enjoy!

Sakura: WAIT!

Jayde: What?

Sakura: You forgot the disclaimer.

Jayde: Growls Fine. I do not, will not, have not, (all of this unfortunately) own naruto. :(

Her team dropped their packs as soon as their feet hit the ground. They had been traveling hard all day. It was the last night they would be spending outside until the return trip, and Sakura had pushed them to their limits. It was already pitch black around them as Neji and Shino started putting up camp. Kiba started a fire while Sasuke vanished in to the forest to find food. Shikamaru had dropped his pack and flew back up into the trees to set up a perimeter.

Sakura looked over her shoulder at Tori, who was talking frantically with Hinata, who kept shaking her head at the younger Hyuuga. Sakura chose to ignore them for the time being and moved over to Neji. He had just finished Tori and Hinata's tent, and was moving over to the next tent. Shino was moving around, sending little bugs out to follow Shikamaru. Sakura stepped in front of Neji, stopping his action of bending over to pick up the tent in front of him.

"The girls and I are going to take turns bathing in the river down where it pools under the water fall. We'll keep watch for each other, but I need you to keep watch over the watchers. I want everyone on alert while we're split up like that. Then we'll work out a rotation for the guys who want to do the same." She said, gaining a nod from the quite Hyuuga. She had whispered. The only one who might have heard her had been Shino, and she wasn't the one she was worried about keeping it from.

Sakura flicked her eyes back over to Tori and Hinata. "Hinata, Tori." Both girls heads snapped up to their captain, giving her their full attention. "Fight over who takes the first bath and gather your things. You know the drill." Both women nodded before turning away from her. They knew the drill. She always took her bath last. Never first. And when it is her turn, she has Shikamaru join her female companion or companions, depending on how big the team is, on the look out. Its not that she doesn't trust anyone else….

Its just that she doesn't trust anyone else.

Sakura hopped up into the trees, heading to the waterfall, that had a pool of water under it, that wasn't far from their camp. She landed on a particularly large branch that was only several trees into the forest, but far enough back that she couldn't be seen from any direction, unless of course they were looking for a pink haired Ninja who happened to be watching her female companions bathe.

Hinata ended up taking the first bath. And Sakura watched her. Of course, it wasn't the "Oh look, naked Hinata" kind of watch. She watched Hinata like she watched the rest of the surrounding forest. She watched her for any sign of intruders or enemies. Hinata kept her Byakugan on the entire time, as did Tori, who was sitting opposite of Sakura, completely on the other side of the clearing. Sakura had the waterfall to her right, while Tori had it to her left.

Hinata didn't take too long, and was quickly out before Tori changed places with her. Sakura watched Tori the same way she had watched Hinata, noting how one of Tori's kunai pouches could be seen just under the water. They always kept weapons on themselves. Even when bathing. She'd end up having to toughly clean the kunai pouch later though.

Sakura leaned back and relaxed on the tree trunk while she kept her eyes on Tori and the surrounding area. Tori faced the waterfall, leaving Sakura and Hinata on both of her sides. Sakura would be able to deflect anything that aimed for her. After a few more minutes Tori finally gave the single that she was getting out, which was a dive below the water. Sakura sat up straighter and slipped a hand up to her ear.

"Shika." She stated, into the headset.

"Sakura." Was the reply.

"I'm going in now. I need you up here." Sakura replied back, dropping down from the trees as soon as Tori had gotten completely dressed.

"How come Shikamaru's the only one that gets to watch you while you bathe?" A different voice questioned though the microphone. Kiba needed to stop being so damn curious. And if Sasuke was listening in then it might not end out pretty.

"Because I don't trust someone like you to not hop down and try to join me." Sakura replied.

"You've got Hinata and Tori, why do you need the Nara?" Sasuke.

"Thanks Kiba." Sakura thought inwardly.

"Because they don't have the reaction time that Shika does. Look. I'm not explaining this to anyone else. Shika, hurry up please." Sakura said, before ripping the headset out of her ear. It was either that, or listen to the smart remarks. Its not like Shika wouldn't tell her what was said anyway. And if something important was said, either he or Tori would make sure she knew about it ASAP.

She waited for Tori to hop up in the tree she had been sitting in, before pulling chakra to her feet and moving across the pool of water, heading to the waterfall. Unlike the other two, she preferred showers. And the small waterfall was good enough to tempt her. Before slipping to the other side, she waited until she knew Shikamaru was in the vicinity. When she heard a low whistle, his signal, she walked though the falling water to the other side, coming up to a rocklike shore, where she proceeded to strip off her clothes.

She left the kunai pouch on her leg like Tori had done, and pulled the hidden senbon pouch off of her arm and wrapped it around her leg, not far below the kunai pouch itself. Sighing she turned around and let the chakra in her feet go, making her fall into the water. Here it was shallower making the water come up to about her waist. Stepping forward, she turned around one more time, until her bare back was to the forest, while she faced the slick rock in front of her. The cool water slammed down on her, hard enough that it would end up working out the tension in her shoulders. It had been a hot day, now that it had cooled off, the water was warm, having soaked up the heat from the sun all day. It felt good around her legs as she started to bathe herself. Her eyes closed and she let her head fall back. Her fingers glazed over his skin as she washed the dirt and sweat from her body. It had indeed been a long, hot day.

Her sense were alert, sharp. She could hear everything around her, even over the roaring water. She could feel the slight chakra signatures that her team mates were giving off. Tori to the right, Hinata to the left, Shikamaru behind her. She could also feel someone watching her. Or…well…some ones. More than one. She started searching for specific members of her team. The pool of water was close enough to their camp that she could already tell that Kiba, Shino and Neji were all still at camp. She almost rolled her eyes, groaning to herself.

"Not what I need." She thought. She could feel Sasuke closer than he should have been. Apparently Shikamaru hadn't sensed him yet, or he wouldn't have been as close as he was. He couldn't see anything, thank kami. It was the main reason they kept their backs to the camp. Her male team mates always got curious.

She was too busy focusing on Sasuke that she didn't notice when Tori and Hinata's chakra signatures fade off. She also didn't catch the fact that Shikamaru's had gotten closer until she felt to hands wrap around her upper arms. Apparently she wasn'tkeeping her senses sharp enough.

Sakura jumped, flipping a kunai out of her pouch and had it threateningly close to the attackers liver. The hands quickly left her arms, only to slowly slide around her bare and wet waist with much caution. She shifted the kunai enough that it should have gone though skin and hit a vital point, but she couldn't get any farter then the first twitch. She couldn't move. She stiffened when she felt hot breath near her ear. The fingers around her waist moved in slow circles, almost as if they were afraid of touching her. Well, they should have been. But for some reason she didn't feel threatened.

"Sakura…" Came a whisper.

Every muscle in her body relaxed, and she even went as far as trying to lean back on the hard chest behind her. She hadn't even been searching for his signature as soon as she was "attacked". Always thinking that she could take care of herself.

"Dear Kami, Shika." She whispered, as she felt one of his shadow jutsus fade away from her body allowing her previous attempt to follow though. She could feel his skin though his mesh shirt. He started pulling her backwards, out of the waterfall. Moving her slowly. Something had to be wrong if he was near her like this. He knew she hated anyone getting within touching range.

Shikamaru slid closer to her, letting his hands fall from her waist and down to the water around it, cupping a handful, before tilting it to the left. That explained the "others" she had felt watching her.

"Damn. Cloud ninja." She cursed inwardly. How had she missed them? Quickly she searched for more, finding that she couldn't even sense then two that were watching them, and she knew where they were!

She watched as Shikamaru let the water fall down her body, before she felt his mouth cover her shoulder. She had to resist the urge to stiffen. She knew why he was doing it. She had her chakra concealed enough that she only wondered what it looked like for the Cloud ninja. They probably thought that she was just a normal girl, spending time with her ninja lover, who wasn't at all concerned that there were other ninja around. Perhaps he didn't even know? She hoped that's what they were thinking anyway. If not, they should have been dead by now, or at least in a very interesting fight where she was fighting naked. Not something she wanted to do.

She closed her eyes, letting her head fall back on his shoulder as his own hands dipped below the water again, this time, running over her legs. He kept them as civil as possible, but of course, to someone far away, it looked like so much more.

"And just how horrible would it be if he touched us like that?" Inner Sakura asked. It startled her enough that she stood straight up, letting her hands fall over Shikamaru's wrists. It had been years since she had heard from her notorious inner self.

Shikamaru cupped up another handful of water, this time tilting it to the right. Sasuke was standing on a tree branch. Not even bothering to hide his chakra enough that the enemy shinobi couldn't sense him. His eyes were locked on her, narrowed dangerously.

Sakura felt Shikamaru's hand slid across her ear, before she felt the ear piece get placed snuggly into her ear canal. His fingers continued to trail though her now down and wet hair. To anyone else it would look like he had been pulling a strand behind her ear. She mimicked the movement, while turning her head to look up at Shikamaru, making sure that her hair was safely behind her ear of course. She let a radiant smile cross her face.

"Get your ass back to camp, Sasuke, and cover it." She said, keeping her eyes locked on Shikamaru's face. He was far enough to her left that he was blocking her exact lip movements, but she knew that they could see enough to decide that she was talking to him. It was a…convenient position. Hopefully they wouldn't decide that it was too convenient.

They were now, officially, under cover from the two Cloud nin sitting just beyond the trees. Her hope was not put to waste. As soon as Shikamaru's mouth covered her's, both the Cloud nin and Sasuke had vanished into the forest.

She vaguely noticed him guiding her back to the inside of the waterfall, back to her clothes. She quickly pulled away from him and turned back around, a blush creeping up on her cheeks. No way in hell was she about to let him see that.

Shikamaru sighed. "I wish you hadn't of taken off that headset. " he said, as he kept an arm around her waist while he picked up her clothing. "We have a problem." he finished, while handing her clothing over to her.

"Obviously." Sakura said, while she quickly started getting dressed, noticing how Shikamaru turned just enough where he couldn't see her.

"You didn't have a problem looking at me earlier." She whispered, as she finished pulling her vest around her. She had learned to make amazing time while dressing for emergencies. She saw the Nara boy stiffen.

"I… Sakura…" He was looking at her now, confusion in his eyes. "It was just your back. " he said, his eyes narrowing at her.

"Not the entire time it wasn't." Sakura retorted back. Shikamaru seemingly decided to ignore her statement, as he jumped up above the water, before landing back on its disturbed surface.

Sakura followed suit after picking up her long, thin, katana and flipping it over her back. She moved her senbon pouch back to her arm, where it was again hidden by the sleeves of her shirt. While she followed Shikamaru out from under the waterfall, she tightened the grip she still had on the kunai in her hand, before slipping her hand over her shoulder to take hold of her katana. They were running across the water now, headed straight for the camp.

"What happened, Sakura? You let your guard down. You didn't even see them. Let alone notice when your own team mates vanished." Shikamaru said, turning his head enough to look at her.

Sakura's eyes narrowed. "I could say the same about you. You didn't even notice that Sasuke had crept away from camp and was watching me." she said, slipping the kunai back into her pouch. She needed at least one hand free.

A hurt look flashed thought Shikamaru's eyes, but only for a second. It was gone so fast that she wasn't even sure that she saw it. She ignored his feelings, and got straight to the point. Now was not the time for bullshit.

"You've never done this before, Shika." He voice was low, quite. Almost a whisper, if not already.

"I..I couldn't…" he was stammering. Great. "I couldn't take my eyes off of you." He was whispering. At least he was being honest with her.

Sakura looked away from him, frowning. She pulled her lower lip between her teeth before taking a deep breath. "You need to snap out of it. Stop it before it gets even farther. Don't get attached like that." There, she'd said it, and they were at the camp now.

"Stop being such a bitch. You know you fully enjoyed the fact that he was touching you." She pushed her inner self to the back of her head. She really didn't need help from someone who was also her right now.

They had kept their chakra signatures low as they approached. Their camp was a mess, and there were twelve cloud nin rushing about.

Hinata's back was to a tree, a cloud nin advancing towards her. Her chakra reserves were already lower then they should have been, and Sakura reminded herself to make sure that she only had Hinata use her Byakugan when she really needed to. Hinata didn't have the reserves that Neji or Tori did.

Sakura quickly noticed that Hinata's arms hung limp at her side, before pinpointing the reason. Two senbon, one in each arm, had punctured the specific muscles that gave her the access to use them.

"Shit." Sakura whispered, they had to have a medic nin with them. If not that, then a ninja that was highly trained in the body to know of such things. Not to mention, to be able to get them past Hinata's Byakugan in the first place.

Hinata's eyes were wide. She couldn't lift her arms to form seals, let alone attack or defend. Sakura watched as she closed her eyes and opened her mouth.

"Neji-nii-san!!" was the scream that was heard though the forest.

As soon as the words left her mouth, the Cloud ninja before her fell to the ground. Dead. Neji had instantly appeared in front of Hinata. He quickly spun around to face Hinata, his hands ripping the senbon out of her arms.

Neji Hyuuga's feelings on his cousin had changed drastically over the years, and Sakura wasn't the only one who had seen it. The worry etched across his face right now was enough to douse anyone's doubts. He protected her, like his father had once told him to do. He no longer loathed his beautiful cousin.

Sakura ripped her eyes away from the two to look for the rest of her team.

Kiba and Akamaru were taking on two of the cloud ninja, while Shino and Sasuke each had two of their own. Tori was hopping around the other battles, fending off anyone who came after her, trying to get to Hinata and Neji. She was in full medic state of mind at the moment. Sakura quickly pulled the katana off her back and jump off the branch, to intervene two cloud nin that were now chasing after her younger apprentice. She landed on the branch that Tori had just vacated, getting in between the cloud ninja and their target.

Both ninja skidded to a halt in front of her, dropping down into defensive stances. Both men glared at her for getting in their way. One of them had red hair, the other had blue.

"Move bitch! We want the Hyuuga!" The red haired yelled, pulling a kunai out from behind him. Good, now she knew where his pack was. She pointingly ignore his statement.

They had landed on the same branch that she was standing on, which was duly noted on her part. She lifted her hand above her head and placed it palm side up on the underside of the branch above her, before pulling chakra into her heel and tapping the branch, shattering the inside. A smirk crossed her features as she watched them fall to the forest floor, while she was still connected via hand to the tree. Using chakra, she pushed her self down from the tree, landing on the ground before they did. She landed a chakra infused kick to the blue haired man that reached her first, sending him back up into the trees. He never touched the ground. Her hand reached up and grabbed a hold of the red haired man, using enough chakra to slam him into the tree they had just vacated.

"Hm. He'll be out long enough." She thought to herself, as she pushed off the ground, following Blue into the trees. He had landed, upside down, on a branch. He looked dazed as she rushed at him, using other branches as more momentum. Her katana was laid out behind her, cutting though the wind she was creating around it. With an uppercut, she sliced though the trunk of the tree, causing him and the tree to start pummeling to the ground once again. Naruto had taught her just enough about wind justsu, right after she learned her element, the rest, well, she figured that out on her own of course.

Flicking her wrist, she cut though Blue's shirt, forcing him to lunge backwards in mid air. He didn't get far enough, when she slashed against him again, this time, hitting skin. He whipped his kunai around to block her next attack, but it wasn't enough as it cut thought the metal and landed in his shoulder, cutting bone. It wasn't numbing like Sasuke's chidori infused blade was. It was pure pain, and it pleased her when his curdling scream echoed though the forest. Her smirk deepened.

"Should have thought before you tried to get to my team." she said, as she increased the wind chakra pulsing though her katana, as she used chakra to force it down into his shoulder even more.

It cut clean. Another curdling scream pierced the air as his arm fell to the ground below. They were still falling.

"Lovely." Sakura stated, letting her foot connect with his chest, shoving him into the tree behind him. He was too busy trying to focus on the bleeding hole on his shoulder to notice that the bark was ripping though his back, until it too hit bone. Sakura's chakra was shoving him farther and farther into the tree. He wasn't fighting back, and it was starting to piss her off.

She pulled her arm back, only to shove it forward again, shoving her blade into his stomach, hilt deep, making it break into the tree behind her target.

That's when she sensed him. Red was pushed up though the trees, headed in her direction. Blue was too busy bleeding in front of her to bother trying to fend her off. Sakura ripped her blade out of him, before sending more chakra to her foot and shoving him down to the forest floor. Instead of watching him fall, she spun around to block Red's windmill shuriken. It was closed, and landed on her blade, inches form her face. Sure. She could have made it easy and sliced though the weapon. Its what her element was for. But windmill shuriken fascinated her. She wanted it.

She pushed him back, away from her as she flipped back to land on the tree behind her. That's when she saw Sasuke flash in front of her, then Red fall to the ground with his buddy, dead. An almost primitive growl escaped her lips before Sasuke turned to look at her, while he landed on the branch of the tree opposite her.

"Are you okay?" He asked, actual worry flashing across his face.

Sakura didn't answer him. Instead she started running down the tree, to Red's body. She felt Sasuke following her as she landed on the forest floor. She ignore his presence as she ran past the two bodies of the cloud nin, who were now missing a kunai pouch and a windmill shuriken.

Suddenly, her name rang though the headset.

"Sakura-sensei!"

"Sakura-san!"

"Sakura!"

She answered Tori first. "What's happening, Tori?" She questioned.

"We've got a medic nin here." A pause. Was she fighting? Tori came back on the headset, breathing heavly. "He's better then me. Shit!" Another pause.

"Where are you Tori?" Sakura asked, vaguely aware that Sasuke was next to her, keeping pace.

"East side of camp." Again, she was breathless. "Hurry." She pleaded.

Over to Shino.

"What is it Shino?" She asked.

"Same thing as Tori. I cant get in there to help. He seems set on fighting either a medic nin or a Hyuuga. Don't know which, since Tori's both." Shino answered.

Neji cut in. He had been the last one to call for her. "Not a Hyuuga. He wont let me in there either. He wants a medic nin, and Tori just isn't strong enough. He's going to kill her." He wasn't being an ass, he was just telling the truth.

"I'm on my way." Sakura said, picking up her speed.

"What can you do, Sakura?" Sasuke questioned, in his 'You can't do shit' voice.

Sakura resisted the urge to roll her eyes as she leapt to the next branch. "A whole lot more then you can, Uchiha."

"I learned quite a bit in the fighting of medic nin's from Kabuto." he stated proudly.

Sakura shook her head. "I really don't care, Sasuke. I don't want to talk about how great you are, right now. I have other priorities." And she took off, leaving Sasuke to dwell in his own ego.

WOOT! Okay. So its done. Yay! Now to start working on Chapter 5. Which I have like..half a page of already. Yay. :D So. Now Review if you can! If not, um..wait for chapter 5.

Growls And this always seems SO much longer on my word processor.