AN:/ And this is where I beg for you to spend not even two minuets of your life and review.
Gosh school is totally evil…except for lunch. But yeah that is where I have been mostly this past few weeks. Sorry for the lack of updates and all that. I'll try to balance out homework and writing better in the future. Once again so very sorry.
Last chapter! I want to thank everyone who read and reviewed this and stuck through it even though it was so poorly written and crappy and all in all a work of junk. (cause that's what it is) So thank you.
After this there will be another chapter/mostly author note about this story being adopted. But that won't come out for a long time. First, I want to finish it. So without further ado here it is.
(Oh and I don't own Naruto)
Chapter Seventeen
Sad Endings
Recap
Sakura's eyes widened and her pupils shrunk into little slits, hints of cobalt blue began to stream into her emerald green orbs mixing them into a blue green color thanks to her demonic chakra.
"Take that back…" She hissed crouching down lower to the ground.
Her father simply smirked making no moment to do anything of the sort.
"Take it back now!" She cried lunging forward with her fangs bared and her claws extended in an intent to kill.
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Her father was ready for the burst of blind rage and easily pivoted out of the way using the back of his hand to knock her off course and send her straight into the filthy dust with ease. His saffron yellow eyes narrowed and his lips etched upward in an amused smile as he watched her climb back up to her feet and fly at him again only to meet with the same results.
He knew how much she loved her mother and respected he woman she never and would never meet or know. Saying something like that about her threw her into a blind fit and he knew it and used it to his advantage being the malicious man he was.
"Stand still and let me rip out your lungs." Sakura growled boning forward with her clawed hands digging deep into the earth getting ready to help propel her forward in another blind attack.
"So sorry Sakura chan but can't do that, if I did I could get hurt." He taunted evilly watching in glee as she snarled at his words.
"I'll kill you." She snarled viciously.
"I know you will." He coyly replied preparing to side step another one of her attacks.
Inside her mind Sakura was a mess. Not only were her emotions on fire with rage that clouded her vision in shades of red, but Okami had partly possessed Sakura in order to provide her with her outward appearance. When more than one person had to share control of a body it got complicated for anyone. And if that wasn't enough to drive her into madness her body was fighting back compulsions due to withdraw of the tattoo on her back. The one that was now on his arm.
"I'll kill you ad make you take back your words on dying lips." Sakura hissed launching forward this tome a bit slower so that she would be able to recover quicker when her father dodged like she knew he would.
'Good. You're thinking with your head now.' The once gentle, now alert voice of Okami purred gently in a more open part of her mind that Sakura had trouble distinguishing.
Her father anticipated her move and once again twisted out of the way only to grunt in surprise when Sakura did the same almost landing a lethal blow to his chest that would have killed him he hadn't pulled up his tattooed arm to block to attack.
Angered that she was regain control of her movements and actions he moved to kick her but Sakura clawed at his arm with both hands and lifter her small body up off the ground and over his head removing a bit of flesh with her claws as she landed behind him.
He hissed in pain but Sakura cut him off with a kick to the back that sent him flying forward. She had hoped to knock him off balance but her father was no pushover and easily regained his balance landing on his feet and turning quickly to unleash a barrage of sharpened kunai aimed for her unmasked face.
She growled when she saw his arm hel it's self ten times fasten than she and Okami could.
Sakura dropped to her stomach and rolled out of the way letting them sail harmlessly over her head before sprigging up and back into an attacking stance with a kunai draw and ready.
"I don't understand it. What happened to you to make you act this way?" Her father demanded drawing a kunai of his own and readying himself for his weapon to meet the cold metal of her own.
Sakura spread her legs out further widening her stance with agile legs bent forward, ready for action. "The answer to that is simple my dear Sir. The person who brought me to my scenes was my father.
The Azure Dragon of the East
The Black Tortoise of the North
The White Tiger of the West
The Vermillion Bird of the South
All four are necessary to unlock a ancients possessing beast that will take over the body of it's host with false promises of power. Even before the first comes I contact with it's victim he or she will fell propelled to except it's promises of power wealth and prosperity that I reality is only a mass of darkly tainted lies.
Even before my birth he had a hold of you didn't he father?" Sakura asked loosing most of her demonic characterizes and falling out of her offences stance. Her voice seemed sad when she adressed her fahter.
Her father stiffened but relaxed with a coy smile that Sakura knew wasn't his own. "You always were a smart little brat but I doubt you figured that out on your own. Was it that pathetic wolf demon of yours that gave you the answers?"
Sakura's eyes narrowed and her lips twitched in a downward frown before replying. "No."
The man before her who was most defiantly not her father frowned at her answer. "No? Don't lie with me you little bitch. There is no way someone as young as you could know something so ancient without the help of one the ancients him or herself."
"I never said that I was the one who knew about you." The pink haired Kunoichi of leaf replied calmly loosing even more of her wolfish attributes until there was nothing left of them ever being there aside from her fangs that never left her.
Here long furry wolf ears were no longer a top her head but at her side looking completely normal. Her eyes were a dark emerald and no longer held any trance of the icy blue that belonged to Okami.
"Then how did you find out?"
Something in her emerald green eyes flashed a saffron yellow color before her lips moved in the utterance of her answer. "My father told me."
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But through my tears breaks a blinding light
Birthing a dawn to this endless night
Arms outstretched, awaiting me
An open embrace
Her father sat next to his daughter. She was in a garden filled with cherry blossoms. He was waiting for her on the same stone bench he had used before. She could see his face this time and she could not only tell but see he was smiling at her.
She walked over to him and climbed onto the bench beside him. She felt warm and peaceful around him. He smiled down at her and pulled her onto his lap in a hug. She was no longer a little girl but her father was a rather big man so it was no trouble for him.
She remembered this place from her dream oh so many years ago when the no longer mysterious man came to comfort her in one of her lowest moments.
"I've missed you." Sakura mumbled softly not opening her eyes. She knew where she was and she knew who she was with.
"I've missed you too. All the time." He answered with a soft gentle tone nothing like the man she had been fighting used. Her father's voice was so much more calming and loving like a father's voice should.
"I'm so small here." She whispered with a half smile as Sakura petals drifted through the white clean air around the pair before floating down.
"You're so much bigger than I remembered." He spoke to her in comforting words stroking her soft silky pink locks that brushed over her ears as she rested her not so tiny pink haired head against his chest. A small laugh echoed behind his words as he smiled.
"I'm still so small for a girl my age. I don't think I'll grow much more than this." She replied calmly not bothering to move an inch out of her comfort zone.
"You're mother was a very short woman, but she wouldn't let me call her that. She was technically a petite woman." Her father replied with a chuckle at the though of his wife beating him up on the their or forth date after he teasingly called her short.
Sakura stiffened a bit as her shoulders tensed like a drawn bowstring. "I don't want to do it." She almost sobbed thinking about what she would soon have to go through. "I just found you. I don't want to loose-"
"You won't."
Sakura stopped and snapped her neck back so that she could see his calm almond brown eyes that held no trace of malice or evil intentions. Her own eyes pleaded with unshed tears still resting at the coroners of her long dark lashes. "How can you ask something like this of me?"
"I've bee with you all these years and that won't change after you do this. I know you can baby girl."
Rest in me and I'll comfort you
I have lived and I died for you
Abide in me and I vow to you
I will never forsake you
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Gaara and Naruto met up once again with Sasuke jumping down next to them.
"Damn you too?" Naruto asked seeing his dark haired teammate come back empty handed as well.
Sasuke shook his head and growled in annoyance. "Almost everyone has evacuated and Kakashi tried to get me to leave as well. It's too hard to find anything in this chaos but I don't want to leave it up to the older Jonin and chunin.
"It's not fair, Sakura is our teammate we should e the ones to save her." Naruto complained casting a nervous glance over at his battling friend.
Gaara grunted and Naruto laughed nervously. "Well you're her friend so you count too."
The red haired sand man seemed content with that but Sasuke looked anything but.
"Can't we have one exam without idiots trying to take over our village?" He growled glaring darkly at the barrier that would not budge or crack for him or his most powerful attacks. Why was he always so powerless at times like these? He needed more power.
"I think I can see Sakura down there." Naruto called out leaning over the balcony's railing and pointing to the upright figure that was mostly shadowed by the barrier's color so that they could barely make her out.
Gaara and Sasuke both joined him leaning as far over as the barrier would allow to see why they could on the other side.
"Who's that other man?" Gaara asked darkly seeing a kunai in his hands or at least a sharp object that could injure his precious cherry blossom Kunoichi.
"I don't think it's the Mizukage's son. He's way to tall and bulky." Sasuke determined seeing the obvious differences between the two males.
"The who is it?" Gaara all but growled out becoming even more angry than normal.
"How the hell should I know. I want to see as much as you do." Sasuke hissed back with a venomous sneer aimed at the sand loving Shinobi.
"Shut up you two, there're moving!" Naruto all but screamed out pointing to the small of the two shadows as it sprang forward with the larger one doing the same.
'Sakura chan you better come out alive.' Gaara though with his voice trapped in his throat at the idea of his Kunoichi being harmed without him being there to protect her from any and all danger that dared to oppose God's perfect creation.
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Sakura let her Kunai bring against the side of her opponent's other as the two leaned in pushing all their body weight against one another. Sakura being the physically weaker of the two knew she would fall so she recoiled her body and threw her curled up body at his knees.
The man before her jumped out of the way to avoid loosing his balance and let his kunai fly through the air nicking her ribcage as she climbed to her feet.
"I don't care how much you know about me. I have already absorbed the last of The Vermillion Bird of the South completing the requirements for my release. Even if I don't kill you I still win. Either way you loose you little brat."
Sakura huffed grabbing her side and straightening herself. "Not if I kill you I don't."
The red haired man before her threw his head back and laughed with mirth at her words. "Oh as if you could. I'm on par with Okami and the Kitsune. You can't hope to kill me with your minimal amount of power."
"Don't underestimate me." Sakura hissed standing up straight and bringing her palms together with a hard look in her eyes. "Harai Youkai. Demon purification." She shouted letting her hands fly through the seals Okami and her father had taught her together.
"You baka, that won't work on me without an flesh opening." He sneered jumping back and grabbing a handful of shuriken read to fly through the air and attack it's target.
"I told you not to underestimate me." Sakura growled with a sly smile.
"Bitch I've had enough of you and your tricks." He screamed letting his metal ninja stars fly and land in various places over Sakura's body.
He smiled seeing her surprised look as blood jumped from her lips and her body bleed the sticky red substance that used to give her life. His smile however faded when her body fell backwards and dissolved into a funnel of cherry blossom petals.
"What a decoy?" He cried in surprise as his mind when back and looked over had hand signs that did not match up with what she had said.
"I told you not to underestimate me." Sakura sneered appearing from behind him and dragging a kunai across his back not too deep but deep enough to provide a opening for her attack. "Now this time for real, "Harai Youkai. Demon purification." She shouted letting her hands fly through the real seals that were a lot more complex than the original ones."
"You bitch!" The demon possessing her father's body snared falling forward as a light blue light shot out of his back from the cut she had placed there only a moment ago. "You bitch, you damn bitch, I'll haunt you forever and ever. You'll never be free from killing your own father!" He screamed falling to the ground and writhing as his tattoos screamed and burst into flames of holy fire.
"I know. But I would rather kill him than let him live in the agony you forced upon him." Sakura replied calmly watching his body begin to disappear into dust at her feet.
You. His words were never finished as the wind of his barrier disappearing blew what was left of him away.
Sakura's vision blurred as a pair of diamond colored tears tore down her cheeks cleaning away the dirt that was caked on from her earlier fight. She didn't sob or wail or even move. She just stood there as her tears fell. Off from her chin and stained the ground around her feet.
She could hear people rushing into the arena and towards her now that the barrier was gone.
"Okami…I don't feel so well. What have I done?"
'You did the right thing.'
"It doesn't feel like it."
'I rarely dose.'
Sakura's eyes closed and her body quivered pitching forward as blood dribbled down her lips as her form pitched forward falling in exhaustion and pain from her tattoo old and it's withdraw.
Shadows fell around her and voices blurred into one noise as she felt arms pick her up and carry her away as she tipped over the edge of consciousness.
'Don't worry I won't let you die.' Okami cooed as darkness of a deep slumber claimed her.
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There it is and no Sakura chan did not die.! Ha yes woho! I dance for joy….until you come at me wanting to kill me for the crappy chapter and it's ending. (Cower behind a Pocky stand) ((Do they even have Pocky stands, if they don't they should.))
I know it's bad but as I have said before I really don't like this story and couldn't come up with the time to write anything better. And now with School it turned in to a loosing battle so I decided to end it here. There will be another chapter even though it is now counted as completed stating that the story is up for adoption. (Except for the title. I keep the title.) Umm but yeah that will not happen for a few months.
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I need some sleep.
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