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Reunite
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"Ah!" Sakura screamed as her reflexes kicked in sending her upright, shaking her from her disturbed sleep. Her breathing was rapid and harsh, fighting to escaper her parted lips as fast as possible. Her hair was damp with sweet and clung to her face as her mussels rose and fell letting her breath properly.
"Only a dream…" She paned in relief letting her head fall into her dirtied scarred hands.
Lifting her eyes from her palms she let them sweep over her body. Most of her cuts and burns were gone with only a few remaining. She still had a few scars from her father but she didn't expect them to be gone anyway. No. Her scars were memories that would stay with her forever. Not even Okami could heal her scars despite her tremendous demonic power. Snapping out of her thoughts she continued her inspection.
What she was really looking for she was pleased not to find. The damn cursed tattoo that ravaged her body every full moon, sucking her life, chakra, and energy away. Another unpleasant dream of the accused thing that brought her to her knees. She wanted nothing to do with the thing but was sadly bound to the mark that brought her so much grief if she liked it or not. There was no escaping it.
"Ohhh." She moaned falling back onto the soft moss that lined the inside of her hallow log. Her eyes squeezed shut fighting back to pounding headache.
'How late is it, I need to find Naruto and Sasuke and make it to the end of this exam before our five days are up.' She groaned rolling over onto her stomach and crawling out into the blazing noonday sun in all it's blazing red glory. She didn't like the sun. She was more of a moon girl herself.
"Kuso, It's past noon." She cursed pulling her frail looking body upward. "I need to find those two before I run out of time."
Her legs groaned underneath her as she pushed them forward propelling her slender body into the mass of trees ad leaves that lay ahead of her. Her eyes half lidded with a tiredness that refused to let her go.
Stopping after a few minuets of traveling Sakura placed her palm on he bark of a tree and closed her eyes channeling some of her chakra in to the ancient plant. She could almost taste the remnants of Naruto's chakra on the trees north of her current position. It was still fresh too, meaning he at least was still in that area.
"Hm, that's good." She murmured under her breath, drawing herself away from the tree and taking off in the direction of the fiery red chakra that was now Naruto's.
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Naruto let his sharpened claws dig deep into the flesh of an unlucky opponent. The fierce boy growled as his cerulean blue eyes flashed crimson momentarily as more of the dark crimson liquid stained the ground in angered state. His golden blond hair was wild and untamed and his whisker marks were darker and more defined than normal.
"What is it with you guys?!" He growled darkly as the last nin fell dead at his hands. "I mean it as if I'm a human magnet for these losers."
His nails became less defined and his whisker marks became thinner and thinner. His dark choking Chakra faded from it's current fiery red to it's normal vibrant orange.
"Dobe, your chakra levels are going through the roof, who wouldn't want to fight you?" Sasuke sneered leaning calmly against a tree.
"And what are you doing about it teme?" Naruto sneered back.
"Nothing."
"Exactly, you're doing nothing. The least you could do is help look for Sakura chan."
The youngest Uchiha survivor knew better that to voice his option and tell the blond that Sakura was mostly dead. The last time he did that he was at the end of the demon's claws "Whatever."
"Yeah I thought so. You know what teme you-" Naruto's speech was instantly silenced with a hand clamped over his mouth. Sasuke's hand no less. He narrowed his eyes and growled but the dark haired boy shook him to shut him up. Before Naruto could do anything else Sasuke whipped out a few kunai and threw them into the trees.
Metal met metal, ringing shrilly throughout the forest as his thrown weapons clattered limply to the ground. Seeing this Sasuke growled softly in dissatisfaction at what he saw. "Damn." He murdered.
Before either Naruto or Sasuke had time to react an object wrapped around both of their necks drawing them closer to each other.
"Now I know you two might not be all that found of me, but going as far as to try and kill me in broad day light is a bit much isn't it?" Sakura snickered leaning on their shoulders with a wolfish grin still hidden behind her mask.
"Sakura chan!" Naruto cried spinning around and jumping his friend with a big bear hug. "We're so happy we found you!"
Sakura chuckled despite the lack of air Naruto was allowing her and pulled out of his embrace. "Yeah about that, I'm sorry I couldn't catch up with you sooner but I ran in to a few bastards that thought they could take me on just 'cause I was alone."
Her expression instantly changed when she saw the way both boys were looking her up and down in a most ungentlemanly like way. Remembering her lack of clothing thanks to the explosion she instantly squeaked and smacked both boys across the face. "Perverts, can't you ever focus on the important thing here?"
"Itai, Sakura chan." Naruto whined rubbing his sore cheek . "What was that for?"
"Baka. You know very well what that was for you pervert." She hissed in reply.
"But…but, it wasn't our fault it was just 'cause….It was because you were uh…" Naruto stuttered trying to come up with an explanation, turning to Sasuke for help.
"Don't drag me in to this dobe." Sasuke mumbled turning away while nursing his sore cheek.
Sakura simply shook her head sadly looking away. "Men…if they aren't perverts they're gay. I shouldn't be complaining about the way nature chose to distort them."
"Umm Sakura chan, what happened to you anyway? I mean the last time we saw you was right before the bomb went off and you were right on top of it. Shouldn't you be a bit more…um I don't know…" Naruto stuttered not wanting to say the wrong thing and get hit again.
"Dead."
"Eh?" Sakura asking in confusion at Sasuke's remark.
"Shouldn't you be dead. I mean look at you, you hardly have scratch on you after coming out a huge explosion like that I would think you would be a little more banged up or something.
"Oh yeah about that, I don't think I told you but I'm a medic. I simply healed myself after the bomb went off and then rested up a bit from the overuse of chakra."
"That would have been nice to know a while ago." Sasuke murmured under his breath.
"Yeah sorry for not telling you guys that, but you both look okay right?" Sakura smiled seeing both Sasuke and Naruto nod a yes to her question. "Anyway now that we are all together don't you think we should get going. You already have more than enough scrolls to pass from the looks of it…"
Naruto laughed sheepishly holding another three heaven scrolls in his hand while Sasuke held two earth scrolls. "Yeah whatever let's just get going." Sasuke mumbled speeding off into the thicket of trees and branches.
Sakura laughed lightly and pushed herself off with a slight burst of chakra following Sasuke leaving one sunny haired boy with shimmering blue eyes to catch up with the two.
"We need to reach the tower before tonight, do you think we can do it?" Sakura asked keeping a steady pace with her teammates.
"Tonight? Why dose it have to be tonight Sakura chan? We still have plenty of time till our deadline runs out." Naruto whined beside her.
Sakura looked away letting her emerald green eyes harden as an image of her tattoo covered body under a pale lavender moon flashed through her mind briefly. "We just have to okay…So do you think we will make it?"
Sasuke remained silent for a time before jumping up to a higher branch. Sakura quietly waited for him to finish scouting before she asked questions. A few stray leaves fall around her face as Sasuke jumped down avoiding a few branches that would most defiantly give way under his weight.
"So how far off is it? Is it at all possible for us to reach it before night fall?" Sakura asked as her dark eyed teammate landed beside her with silent grace possessed only after a great deal of training.
"Nope, it's too far off, tomorrow night perhaps but not tonight." Sasuke bluntly replied with a hollow even voice that made Sakura flinch.
"Tomorrow? There's no possible way we could reach it tonight?"
"No…You may be all high and up there but Naruto and I are a bit worn out and need some rest and food, that will take time. Plus we had to double back to search for you, killing almost an entire day's worth of traveling. So the answer is no." Sasuke replied coldly turning away and heading off towards the tower.
"Hey Hey Sakura chan…what's so important that we need to reach to tower tonight?" Naruto asked in a low whisper so that Sasuke couldn't hear them.
Sakura looked away coldly speeding off treading deeper into the forest. "You'll find out soon enough Naruto." She replied her voice growing dark to mimic her eyes.
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The golden ball of light suspended among the heavens continued it's decent down the atmosphere. With each phase the worry and anxiousness on one Kunoichi grew and grew.
Sakura landed gracefully behind Sasuke and Naruto with the silence of a shadow, a bead of sweet falling off her chin and landing at between her bent legs. That drop was soon followed by another.
"It's almost nightfall we should make camp here, I'll be back with some food." Sasuke ordered disappearing once again, most likely heading towards the stream to their left.
Naruto started to get to work on the sleeping arrangements while Sakura prepared a fire that was blazing in a matter of seconds. She had to keep herself warms somehow all those winters in the mountains.
Quitting her work she let her head fall back sending her eyes upward to see the last fleeting rays of the sun. 'Soon the soon will be out, soon the moon will be out, soon the soon will be out, soon the moon will be out.' She though as the last ray of sunshine fell behind the earth's surface taking with it her last hope of keeping her secret a secret.
"N…Naruto…" She moaned falling to her shaking knees as the weariness started to take her over. Clenching her eyes tightly shut she bit down o her lower lip ad gabber her opposite shoulder in her hands in a tight self hug.
"Hm, Sakura chan did you call…Sakura cha!" She heard him yell from over her shoulder. He must have seen the tattoo crawling over her shoulder blades like some type of living/moving leach.
Blood jumped from her lips as she gagged at the burning sensation birthing on her back as it spread to oter parts of her body. "Na…Naru…to…."
"Sakura chan…your body! What's happening to your body!" Naruto asked in shock as the tattoo continued to crawl and slither it's way over her shivering pale body
"Something that doesn't concern you boy." A hard voice called out from behind the pair.
Naruto tuned on his heel and growled at what he saw Surrounding them were three identically dressed genin each wearing a knee length gray coat with black pants tucking into their black sandals.
The first one, most likely the leader of the group, had stone cold emotionless face with coal black eyes and short brown colored hair.
'He must have been to one that spoke up just now.' Naruto thought looking over at the other two
The other one was a boy with dark blue eyes and spiky forest green hair. He had a cocky smirk as he eyed Naruto up and down, labeling him as a shrimp most likely. This made the said boy growl in anger.
The last one standing behind her was a girl with shoulder length lavender hair and purple eyes. On their shoulders was a crest like design that looked like an elaborate spider web with a few curl like marking coming out of every other string. Naruto had to do a double take, it looked just like the mark on Sakura's back.
"What do you want with us?" Naruto snarled taking a protective steep in front of Sakura. The said girl was still hunched over in pain.
"Hand the girl over and we'll be on our way." The one in the middle spoke again.
"Not a chance." Naruto snapped back falling into a fighting stance.
"Didn't think so." The only girl of the group sighed smiling a bit. "But that's okay, It will be so much more fun prying her body from your cold lifeless grasp."
Before Naruto knew it senbon needles were thrown at him from every direction causing hi to dodge the aerial strike. Flipping in mid air he created a few clones of himself and in the blink of an eye slipped into the trees letting his clones fill in for him.
"I'll ask you again, what do you want with Sakura?" one of Naruto's clones shouted before being pierced through the heart by a elegantly designed knife.
"I would think it obvious. Did you not see the mark on her back?" The girl asked pulled her knife back before driving in into the head of another clone.
"Damn it tell me!"
Naruto was silenced as the boy with the cocky smile tackled him to the ground. "You might want to shut up now. One of these days that mouth is going to get you killed. And you know what…" He picked up his knife ready to drop it into his chest. "I think today is that day…"
The knife dropped ripping deep into his flesh before…his replacement puffed into a log.
"What the where did he go?" He growled standing up and looking around.
The leader of the group stepped forward and calmly sighed. "Now now, we don't have to always solve this the messy way you know." He whispered before turning away. "Naruto…that' you name isn't it? You want to know what we want with your friend don't you? We'll I'll tell you and maybe when I'm done you'll simply hand her over to us."
Naruto growled and almost fled from his spot hidden in the trees. He would pop out and protect Sakura chan if they got to close, but until then he remained hidden.
"We need to kill her. She has a disease of a sorts, a curse. That mark on her back proves that much. If she is not killed she is left free to kill and rampage wildly with no restraints. In the beginning we and our master tried to restrain her, but soon she broke free and escaped to kill. If you don't believe me look at the facts. How long have you known her? How much do you know about her past? What do you really know about her? Do you even know where she came from?"
The girl from the group saw the nod from the other boy and approached Sakura grabbing her by the hair. She moaned out in protest and pulled out a discarded kunai.
"That won't work on me." the girl sneered happily seeing that the boy with blond hair wasn't coming to her rescue.
"Who…said it was for you…" Sakura coughed despite the pain pumping through her body from the tattoo that now covered her completely and entirely.
With on smooth movement, (a bit too slow for her liking) she brought her weapon clear through her long pink locks. Once free she scrambled away as best she could. Sadly the best she could was five feet before falling over and tumbling to her side as her legs betrayed her.
'No, not here, not now, not here not now, I can't loose to them here today.' She thought as a few stray tears fell from her eyes wetting the earth underneath her head.
"Give it up Sakura, you can't even go five feet before the tattoo drains you." The girl snickered kicking her in the side, hard. "Give up and give in."
Sakura cracked open a single eye lazily despite the weight that made her want to close it. The weight was soon forgotten as her eyes widened at what she saw. Their leader had Naruto by the throat ready to kill.
"Naruto no!" She screamed as she was lifted by the neck by the girl.
"See you're friendship with boy got him killed, what a wonderful friend you are. You should have just stayed up in your mountain and never come down." The girl chuckled raising her other hand to Sakura's neck. The pink haired girl could see her nails tipped with some sort of silver claw like weapon just waiting to drown it's self in the blood of her throat.
'Kill, kill, kill, giv in to it, kill, kill, KILL!' A voice inside Sakura's mind screamed, a voice that did not belong to Okami. 'Kill, kill them all!'
'I don't want to ill, I don't want to kill anyone.' She replied to the voice. But her words were cut short when she saw the pull back plunge their weapons into Naruto.
'Kill them…'
"This is the end for both you and your friend Sakura." The girl cackled pulling back as well.
'Kill them…"
"I don't want to kill anyone!'
"Sakura chan get away from them!"
'KILL THEM!'
Blood was everywhere in a great abundance as the least expected think took place.
Oh my gosh I am so sorry for the loooooooong update. But I and still it the writer's block with this one. I just barely managed to write this. The only reason I'm am still writing this is because so many people like it so much. It it wasn't for you and your reviews I most likely would have deleted this story. So, if you reviewed any part of this story pat yourself on the back, you just saved a Naruto fic from being deleted. Yes ,you all matter that much to me.
As for the pairing I'm just gonna come out and tell you it will most likely not be a Sakura Naruto fic, I just like Gaara too much. I know MangaFanatic will be happy to hear that. Shurikengrl, I was so happy when I saw so many reviews at once so I'm thanking you here. (deep bow)
Ja ne!