Kay. So yay! Here we go. Alright. This one was...annoying. Rather. Trying to get her to fight but...not fight? -shrugs- I'm not happy with it. But you know. Whatever. Have fun!
Sakura slid backwards against the ground, before shoving chakra into her feet and jumping up to the closest tree. She only had time to land, before she was forced to jump away again to avoid a kunai.
"Give it up little pink bitch. There's more of us then there are of you! And you are in Sound territory. " A voice sounded from within the trees.
Sakura ignore the voice and continued to run away from them, dodging kunai.
"Damnit. I just need to get deeper into Sound." She thought, as she let a kunai chip her shoulder. She felt the warm blood fall down her skin as she continued on. It was dark. Very dark. Nighttime had come hours ago and she was hoping that she could play it to her advantage.
She could feel two moving up on her left side and a third moving up on her right. She was playing her level down, a lot. So far she had allowed four different kunai's to slip farther then they should have, but not far enough where it would hinder her, just enough to bleed. Just enough to let them think that they had the upper hand.
Apparently, it had worked. They were attempting to surround her now, thinking that she had no idea where they were. She knew exactly where they were. After jumping across two more trees, she stopped, noticing that the one on her left started heading straight for her. She let him come, let him bust though the trees, quite like Naruto liked to do. She let him draw his sword and advance. She let him pull back, attempting to strike.
She blocked it.
Her kunai against his sword, and she blocked it. Using a small amount of chakra she held it there, watching as his eyes narrowed in anger. Using a little bit more chakra, and she shoved him away from her, to kick out at the shinobi that was aiming at her from behind. She kicked him away from her and into the nearest tree. He was back on his feet before he landed on the ground, heading for her again.
Sakura's hand tightened around the kunai she had as she blocked another attack from the sword guy, as the one who had attacked her from behind charged again. Neither could have been more then Chunnin. They were cocky, high-strung, and defiantly hadn't seen enough death. Her eyes flicked to the side, finding the third who had decided to hang back a bit. It didn't bother her. Sure, she could take on all three of them if they wanted to. But it didn't hurt her feelings if only two wanted to play right now.
It had turned out to be quite annoying to even get into this predicament. Her first goal when she entered Sound had been to get detected, and followed. To be reported to Orochimaru. Finding Sound shinobi hadn't been hard at all. Finding Sound shinobi who recognized a threat when it wasn't sitting five feet away from them, had been quite annoying. She passed by the same camp site four times, each time getting closer and closer, until finally they realized that she was there.
Also, finding shinobi who knew how to trail had been quite disappointing. When an unknown unit enters your territory, you trail them. Find out why they are here. What do they want, and report them to your leader. Had these guys? Not at all. They had attacked at once, setting her plans back…or up. Depends on how you look at it.
That's how she had gotten to where she was now. Fighting while she continued on her mission. Fighting while she continued to move towards the heart of Sound. She sighed as she mentally followed the chakra signature behind her. He was zigzagging, something a low level ninja did when trying to confuse the opponent of which why they were going to attack while the opponent couldn't see them. It rarely worked.
Sakura shoved chakra into her forearms and hands and shoved the sword guy away from her. With the same momentum, she spun around and slashed her kunai into the zig zagger's arm. It cut deep, deep enough that he screamed and wrapped his other hand around his upper arm. Deep enough that she had felt bone. Oh well.
Sakura jerked around just in time to see the sword man rush at her, his eyes wide, furious. Apparently some of the sound ninja had a sense of team mates, unlike the ones from her first Chunnin exams, who were perfectly willing to kill their own team mate in order to kill Ino, who had planted herself in said team mate's body with a mind transfer justu.
Instead of blocking his attack, Sakura shoved more chakra into her feet and jumped up onto a higher branch, only to start off in the general direction to the center of Sound. She let them follow her, but she maintained a decent speed while doing it.
They were either badly trained, or just bad. How the hell had they made it to Chunnin, assuming that they were even that? They were following her, loudly. The way the were traveling, to a ninja it was like a thunderstorm. They landed heavy, and breathed loudly. It was amazing that the entire Sound village hadn't come to investigate.
"Freaking dumb asses." Sakura thought, as she turned her head enough to look behind her. "Just as I thought." She could see them. Not just feel them, SEE them!
Suddenly she felt them fall back. They slowed down enough that she was expecting them to stop. That's when she felt it. Felt him. They continued to follow her as she continued on, only now, she had a smirk on her face. His voice sounded though the woods.
"Now now, Sakura-chan. We both know that leading these poor ninja on like this, is only going to cause them grief in the end. " He laughed. "We also both know that you can kill them with out breaking a sweat. So do so."
She stopped. She landed on the next tree, and let the three ninja catch up. She hung her head. Yeah, she could kill them, easily, like he said. It didn't mean that she enjoyed it. However, she knew that if she didn't kill them, he would. Or Kabuto would. And everyone knew that Kabuto never made anyone's death painless and easy. No, of course not.
The first one rushed at her, like he had before she had sliced his arm open, from behind. His angry yelled fell into the wind behind him as he drew his kunai up for an attack. Sakura's hand slipped to her shoulder, pulling a senbon out from her hidden pack that was wrapped to her upper arm. His weapon was but a breathe away when she side stepped him, spun around and flicked her wrist in his direction.
It hit him at the base of the skull and he fell. Dead. To the floor of the forest.
And just like that, her decision had been made. She would make it quick for all three of them. No need to make them suffer. She wasn't a sadist.
She felt the other two stop dead in their tracks. She really didn't want to fight them. She really didn't wantto kill them. Her head jerked to the right, seeing a flash of white.
"Kabuto." She thought. If she could find him, and fight him, maybe the others would leave. Maybe. It was useless hope. But it was still hope. She heard him before she saw him emerge from the dark shadows, jerking around to face the sound, she came face to face with his chakra glowing hand. Dropping back off the tree branch, she grabbed it from the bottom and swung herself back up and around the branch, shoving chakra into her foot as she went. She knew it was faster then he had expected when her foot made contact with his back with a loud crunch.
"Damnit." She thought, watching as Kabuto flew off the branch, only to catch himself on the next tree. She hadn't broken anything. Yet.
Kabuto spun around and dashed towards her, all in one movement. He followed her to the ground when she let go of the tree branch to drop down. They hit the ground, Sakura holding onto his left wrist with her right hand, and Kabuto holding onto her left wrist with his right hand. Both trying to keep the chakra glowing hands away from themselves. Sakura's eyes narrowed before she shoved chakra into her foot and kicked out at the male medic, forcing his to let her go, but forcing her to drop his hand as well.
They knew that she was stronger then she was letting on, but she had to get captured. It was her mission. She had to get injured enough to where they would capture her. But getting injured on purpose was never that easy, or that fun for that matter. Sakura pulled another senbon out of her pack and flicked it towards Kabuto, smirking as it landed in his thigh forcing him down on that knee. ''
"Damnit!" He yelled, before ripping the thin needle out of his leg. Ghosting his hand over his thigh, he quickly had it healed and was rushing for her again.
Sakura jumped backwards, dodging his hand by inches. She was doing a pretty good job until she caught the sent of water and turned around, putting her arm in reach of Kabuto's hand. He took the opening and cut his hand across her upper arm, tearing the muscles within. Sakura grimaced but no sound came from her. She was also secretly pleased as she broke though the trees and found a rushing river. It wasn't the river she was pleased about, it was the fact that he was only trying to wound her.
Her arm hung limply at her side, as she skidded across the surface of the river, chakra circling the bottoms of her feet to keep her from falling in. Carefully dodging more of his attacks, she moved her chakra within her body and to her wounded arm. It had taken a long time to learn how to heal her body without the need of making it visible. But it was sure going to come in handy now. It would confuse him, which would be a good thing.
She healed her arm enough that she could move it, but it still hurt. If he was given the chance to examine her, he'd still find the muscles torn, just not as much as he thought they should be. As she blocked his lethal hand, she lifted the wounded arm, forcing chakra into her hand before cutting across the arm she wasn't blocking. He screamed for her, which for some reason, made her happy. She hadn't screamed for him.
The chakra in his hand vanished before he pulled his hand back and punched her square in the face, followed by a sharp kick to her stomach as she shot backwards. She felt her leg tighten up in pain before she fell to one knee on the water. He had cut the muscles in her leg, making it impossible to stand. A kunai flashed before she felt it impaled into her side.
"He's fast." She thought. "Damn he's fast." He must have learned from Sasuke, as Sasuke had learned from Orochimaru. She felt his hand wrap around her uninjured arm, only to have it become another injured limb. The pain crackled up her arm long enough to do damage before she shoved chakra into it, lightening the damage. She was getting fairly low by now.
Sakura quickly stood up, spun around and kicked her foot out at Kabuto. Another smirk graced her lips when she made contact, but fell when his hand wrapped around her ankle. He was going to force her completely immobile. He jerked her forward, causing her to slam into his chest.
"You know. You're pretty hot when you're fighting. You might even be able to pull some emotions out of our Sasuke-kun." He said, before whipping out a thin rope and quickly wrapping it around her hands.
And she fell under water.
"Chakra draining rope. Just great." She thought, as she was pulled back up to the surface. Kabuto easily tossed her away from him, enough to where he could land a kick in her stomach, which sent her further. She landed in the river again, her head making contact with the closest rock possible. Black spots dotted her vision before she was dragged out of the water again. She had been to reckless. She had let him get the upper hand just a little too much, and it had been enough. Now, if he didn't capture her, there was almost no way that she could stop him from killing her.
His hand wrapped around her neck as he dragged her up his body.
"Its been a long time, Sakura-chan. You've grown up quite nicely I must say. Orochimaru will be proud." he said.
While he talked, Sakura circulated chakra into her legs, giving her enough relief to stand instead of being held above the water.
"I'm going to enjoy spending time with you, Sakura-chan. The many experiments we could do together. It will be amazing." he was still talking.
Sakura spat in his face, forcing him to close his eyes, giving her time to spin around and land a forceful kick in his stomach. It sent him back into the forest. She fell to her knees again due to lack of chakra and the wound that was bleeding from her side. Kabuto was at her side again, using the rope that was still wrapped around her hands to drag her across the water. She was very low on chakra and the chakra that was keeping her above the water dropped, causing her to go under. She didn't stay that way for long. Kabuto had her above the water and in his arms before her feet even reached the bottom of the river. He dropped her on the bank and knelt down in front of her. She was breathing rather hard as he unwrapped her hands. She let her thoughts consume her as he took the same rope and wrapped it around her arms and body.
"Get captured. Done. Good." She thought. Her head jerked up at the sound of screams coming from the woods behind her. She had completely forgotten about the other two shinobi.
"Don't worry. Orochimaru killed them for you. I don't blame you. I would have rather of fought someone at my level then those lowly nin." Kabuto said, seeing the surprise in her eyes.
Sakura lowered her head and closed her eyes. Now that he had killed the other ninja, it was only a matter of seconds before he'd come to where they were.
And there he was. She could feel him standing beside her now.
"Ah. Our dear Sakura-chan. How nice to meet up with you." Orochimaru spoke. She hated his voice. It was so…gross. Well, actually, she hated all of him. That wasn't too hard to do right?
She kept her head down, but opened her eyes to see that he had crouched down to get face to face with her.
"I'll let you see your dear Sasuke-kun if you agree to heal my arms." he said, a smile sliding over his ugly mouth.
"Fuck you." She said, glaring at the horrible snake man.
Orochimaru laughed. "That's okay, dear Sakura-chan. I'll let you see Sasuke-kun anyway, because you will heal my arms."
She didn't answer him. Instead she let her eyes watch Kabuto's hands as he tightened the ropes around her body. When he was done, he grabbed her arm and pulled her up on her feet. Her knees almost gave out, but she straighten up and tried to move away from him. She saw his eyes narrow.
"You shouldn't be able to walk." he growled. Great, she had made him angry. Oh well.
She shrugged.
"Perhaps I should just experiment on you instead. You are a very interesting creature, Sakura-chan." he said, pushing his glasses up on his nose.
"Later, Kabuto. For now, we must return to base. I assure you that he is getting rather annoyed." Orochimaru said, turning away from them. He started walking in the same direction that Sakura had been trying to go while being chased.
"Ha. So I was right." she smirked to herself, before receiving a sharp pull in Kabuto's direction.
"Walk." He ordered. So she did.
Done. Its short, I know. Sorry. But hey look! Another chapter! Yay!! Two in one day, just for you becuase it was so late and stuff. And who's that? OMG is that Sasuke! WOOT!