Yes, I am updating this before Pages of Ecstasy since my stupid computer has been giving me a flipping hard time about publishing and updating my stories lately. So if this goes well I plan on updating Pages of Ecstasy…tomorrow. That story is like my baby so I'm really nervous about how it will be excepted and liked. So you can have that to look forward to. And since this is up (hopefully) I can update it!
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Recap:
Tonkoro stepped back and let his eyes widen for a number of reasons.
Her voice had changed to a dark malevolent growl filled with bloodlust and a thirst for death. Her body did not shake but instead tensed up like a drawn bowstring ready to strike at any given moment with the swiftness and speed no human should possess. But what frightened the male the most had to be her eyes. If her voice had changed to a dark malevolent growl filled with bloodlust and a thirst for death her eyes had filled with a demonic evil full of savage brutality, completely void of all mercy or remorse. Two slit forest green eyes stared back at him in an animalistic fashion filled with power and rage."It's about time you died…"
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Sakura smiled widely feeling her canines extend outward perturbing into a pair of, wolfishly, savage fangs that begged for fresh flesh to fall pray to their hungry bite. She ran a rough tongue over her brightly gleaming fangs feeling their smooth texture much to her delight.Her mask began to rip around the mouth area reveling her razor sharp canines to her opponent who shock in shock.
Her Psychotically wide smile grew even wider in delight at the obvious fear her appearance sent into her opponent.
Even after staying away from her mountain domino she still had it. The ability to strike fear into her attackers with a simple look. Okay so it was a slightly mutated look but it was a look all the same.
Her bright emerald eyes were now small black slits on a forest green canvas of eye. She blinked once letting her long dark lashes descend over her widely observing eyes. Everything was so much more focused and every small detail that once escaped her notice was not bright and bold in her gleaming wolfish forest green eyes.
"I think it was 'I'm not to fond of killing but it must be done' if I'm not mistaken." Sakura all but growled arching her back and lifting her shoulder up while lowering her neck forward in a very intimidating manner.
"Was that it or did I get it messed up?"
The frightened male stepped back a few steps in fear. The poor guy was frozen stiff in terror, horror, and panic. Sakura could see his chest rising up and down with every rapid heartbeat his body channeled.
"Wh-what the h-hell a-are y-yo-you?" He stuttered out tripping over his words as his tongue grew slack and unreliable with trepidation just like all those who were unfortunate enough to stumble into her mountain.
"…A monster."
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"Damn it Gaara why do you have to always talk in riddles?" The golden haired fox container shouted over his slightly bruised shoulder as he weaved around a group of Leaf observers.
Gaara growled and followed suite at a slightly slower pace. He wasn't used to running so much like this since his sand would take him anywhere he wanted in a thoughts time. Aside from that he did not have Naruto's speed or energy. Heck he didn't think anyone had Naruto's energy.
"I told you it was no riddle! A genin could have red the meaning under my words."
"I am a genin Gaara!" Naruto shouted over his shoulder once again.
"Che." Gaara lamely replied twisting around another corner with Naruto leading the way. He should have known it would have taken his friend a decade to solve his words with the size of his brain.
Naruto ignored the lack of a comeback and huffed in annoyance at scanning another wing with no sigh of Sakura. His mind began thinking up the worse possibilities for his female teammate. "Crap what if Sakura chan is hurt? What if they tried to kill her? What if they tried to ra-"
"Finish that sentence and you will find yourself without a tongue!" Gaara snarled trying to keep her voice from exploding too much. He dread to think that even possible.
"Damn it." Naruto cursed in frustration tightening his fists till his knuckles turned white.
He knew when Gaara made a point of avoiding sensitive conversation it was all very possible. He didn't like the idea of what he was thinking to be possible, with Sakura chan no less.
He knew Sakura was a greatly skilled fighter and a powerful Kunoichi but she was still a genin and that was one rank lower than chunin making her attacker he superior force. Would Sakura have enough skill and chakra to take on a ninja of a higher rank without getting injured too much?
Flashbacks of his pink haired teammate helplessly laying on the ground as the curse mark ravaged her body shot through his mind making him growl once again. What if that thing tried taking over her in a weakened state? It was still an mostly unknown curse so it was possible. If that happened Sakura would be helpless.
"We have to find Sakura chan!" Naruto cried shoving a man twice his size out of his way.
The red haired sand man growled darkly to himself as he pumped more energy into his legs to make him accelerate. "When I find that damn boy no peace treaty will be able to save his sorry ass."
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'I think the shock alone was torture enough Okami, you can let the kid go now.' Sakura though lightly to the wild white mother wolf who was currently in control of her body.
Okami growled out viciously barring her sharp wolfish fangs in anger at the trebling male in front of her who was currently suffering from several minor cuts and bruises. The shock however would scar him for life. You don't look into a demon's eyes and come away unscarred.'For our sins we all should die, that's why there is mercy. Let the kid go, we have a match to win remember. It'll be starting any minuet now.' Sakura replied a little more desperate now.
Okami was, after all a demon and killing was in her blood, her nature her essence. Even though she was a bit more sensible than the rest of her kind there would always be that level of insanity in her make up.
Okami might even be a bit more savage than the rest of the demons when it came to Sakura being injured. There was a reason you didn't come between a mother bear and her cub, there was rarely a wrath like the wrath of a angered mother when her child was threatened.
'Come on we beat him up enough, we should go now.' She offered softly hoping to calm the white wolf demon down a bit. "We have to get back to the arena for out match Okami…'
Okami shuddered and retreated within the complex network of Sakura's subconscious releasing control of her body back to Sakura. '…Yes, you're right. We should go before too many people smell the blood and hear the screams. Thankfully the runt picked a place that was fairly out of the way so no many people will know of this.'
Sakura felt her dark forest green colored eyes fog up and return to their normal pupil size and bright apple green color as her frightening wolf like fangs retreated to normal sized canines.
Her mask was still mostly torn in the mouth area and she had no tie to fix it before her match with the son of the Mizukage. She could hear the cheers of Sasuke delivering the finishing blows to his opponent ending his match.
Huffing she tried patching up her mask as best she could to conceal her face when a throbbing her chest made her cry out in sudden pain and drop her arm limply to her side. Looking down she saw the sticky red liquid fro her wound running down over her breast and down her stomach.
"Great and I just had to wear white today , do you know how badly that will stain? I don't think I'll ever be able to get those stains out." Sakura huffed trying to ignore to pain from her wound.
Her body felt light as a warm nuzzle soothed her wound healing it. From experience The rosette haired female knew it was Okami who was healing her wound. "Thank you Okami." She thanked with a small smile.
"You should know by now you do not need to thank me for such things." Okami replied continuing to gradually and cautiously sew up her bleeding wound centimeter by centimeter.
Sakura squeaked when Okami stopped on a certain spot. "What is it? Is it really bad?"
"…Yeah. This is bad, he hit a major muscle, your left arms will be almost completely useless for at least another hour or so. I'm afraid that cancels out half of your attacks for this match." Okami replied gravely.
"That rules out almost all my ninjusts and genjutsu since it requires two hands, all I have left is a bit of my taijutsu. Okami, that's my weakest area! How am I going to be able to fight this guy?" Sakura cried out in panic at the now hopeless situation.
Sakura looked down at her limp looking arm and grimaced at the way it looked compared to her opposite arm. There was a light purplish blue tint seeping into her skin's color making it's immobility obvious.
There went her hope of bluffing her lack of injuries and scaring her opponent off. Since he hired a assailant to fight dirty for him Sakura guessed that this son of the Mizukage was quite a coward.
"You have your scrolls right?" Okami asked trying to calm the panic in Sakura's voice.
"Yeah…they're all right here? What do you want me to do with them?"
"Pick up the grey one, you're going to use this is to win your fight today."
"What is it?"
"You'll find out soon enough."
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Sasuke stepped into his balcony expecting to see Sakura and Naruto waiting for him there but was surprised to find neither of his two teammates waiting for him.
His hair was a bit ruffled from being trapped in a water prison for a maximum of thirteen seconds. His cloths had dried but were very wrinkled and covered in dust from the end of his battle.
Sasuke scanned the area again and found his lazy sensei reading from his perverted book again.
"Kakashi, where are Sakura and Naruto?" He asked in a gruff voice with a bit of irritation on finding the area empty. The youngest Uchiha brushed a bit of dust off his shoulder while turning around hoping to find one of them coming back from the bathroom or something.
The silver haired copy cat ninja looked up from his little orange book revealing a lone coal colored eye to study the avenger. "Sakura and Naruto are in the Suna balcony as far as I know…"
"What are they doing there?" Sasuke all but spat while putting the pieces of a puzzle together in his mind. No doubt there were hanging out with the read haired badger freak.
"…Gaara invited them." Kakashi lazily replied appearing to miss the distaste in Sasuke's tone.
"Hn." Sasuke grumbled turning on his heel and heading out of the mostly empty box. The rest of the Leaf genin were either in the infirmary or watching the rest of the fights from the stands with family and friends.
"Where are you going Sasuke?" Kakashi asked closing his book and looking up in surprise.
"Where else, I'm going to find the dobe and my teammate."
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"I don't think she came back here, Naruto. We should go back out and search for her some more." Gaara huffed stepping into the Suna balcony behind a madly gasping blond haired fox container.
The addressed Shinobi turned around slightly and frowned. "I don't get it. We searched everywhere for her excluding the Kage box… You don't think they really did take her to see the Mizukage do you?"
"No…" The red haired sand wielder huffed crossing his arms over his chest. "There just wasn't right about the guy that came to fetch Sakura. And by the looks of it Sakura felt it too. There was defiantly foul play."
Naruto sighed deeply and leaned against the wall with a downcast look on his features. "What are we going to do about this then? We can't find Sakura and it's almost her turn to go up."
"I know, I know. Just give me a minuet to think." Gaara replied watching as Naruto got up and leaned over the end of the balcony to get a better look at the battle arena and gasp in surprise.
"We don't have a minuet Gaara. Sasuke's match is already over and Sakura's opponent is already on the field!" The energetic blue eyed boy cried panicking a little bit at the present situation.
Gaara cursed softly to himself before joining Naruto to observe to field. "This is bad, we don't know where she is and her time is almost out."
"Time is almost out for who?" Someone asked in a dark voice behind the two.
Gaara and Naruto turned around to find Sasuke standing with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Sasuke teme!' Naruto exclaimed.
"What are you doing in the Suna box?" Gaara asked suspiciously.
"I came here to see Naruto and Sakura but as I can see only Naruto is here." Sasuke relied coolly scanning the small balcony with his dark coal colored Uchiha eyes before speaking again. "Where is Sakura?"
Neither Naruto nor Gaara dared answer him as the announcer called out behind them.
"Last call, Sakura Hana of the hidden leaf village."
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The board Leaf instructor raised his hand preparing to appoint the son of the Mizukage the win when a gust of wind made him stop. Looking to his right he saw a hunched body that looked as if it just landed.
"Oh no, please don't throw away my match just like that. I wouldn't want to disappoint to Mizukage to be now would I?" Sakura asked in a teasing manner raising to her feet while keeping her head bent so that it was constantly in shadow.
"I'm all fired up and ready for a decent fight after all."
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I know Gaara is a bit OOC in this chapter but it's fan fiction so he can be hugging teaddy bears and licking lollypops if I want so ha! Isn't that scary?
But yeah this story is wrapping up. I hope to have it done well before X-mas since there are only a few more chapters to go. I'm sorry for the crappy-ness of this chapter and the grammer mistakes I know are in there. It's really rushed.
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