Hey I'm Jennifer (a.k.a. avlache1). I did not right blossom of konaha, my fav. author uchihakiriko lost her talent and she asked me to write the sequal for her. I'm working on it but to give you something to do to pass the time and so you won't get confussed, I asked her if I could copy all of the chapter and publish them with her name on them . I hope you like it and for my other readers that are waiting for typical love story I'm working on it OK! Well enjoy!
Blossom of Konoha
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Like always, five reviews.
Thx SO much to ALL of you who reviewed. Especially avalanche1! You made me feel special! As a reward, you get sneak peek for the next chapter before it's up! HOORAY FOR AVALANCHE1!! CHA! (Unless he/she doesn't want spoilers… Then you can tell me…) Again, my translations may be in different forms of Japanese. Also, thanks to Elektra for telling me the summoning jutsu again. (Hugs) heheh.
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Forget that.
Let's just get on with the story and ignore me on a sugar high.
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" Orochimaru!" Naruto's fist clenched in anger. "Why are you here?" He held up a shuriken. Orochimaru chuckled.
" It's that scroll Tsunade sent you to give to me. It contains a healing technique that can be used to heal my arms…" He smiled. Sakura stepped in front of Sasuke.
" Well, that's too bad." She drew out a kunai and held it threateningly. Kabuto laughed at this.
" Well, well! That's quite a sight! A useless, weak, wanna-be kunoichi that focuses on only her looks. You're a disgrace." He smirked. Sakura remembered… That was exactly what Kin had said! She clenched her kunai tighter.
" Sh-shut up!" Kabuto sighed.
" You really should be more fight and less talk. Instead, it's the opposite." Kabuto smirked. (Um… not all of you may know this, but Kabuto is supposed to be dead because Orochimaru ate him… But that's in the actual story and this is a fanfiction so I shouldn't tell you that…) Sasuke glared at his former sensei from behind Sakura.
" Orochimaru-sama, it's kind of tight in here. May I bring this fight elsewhere?" Orochimaru nodded. Kabuto threw the kunai Naruto had thrown at him, and shattered the window, jumping out.
" Is this a retreat? Wait, no… this is an invitation to fight…" She made sure she still had the scroll and was about to jump out with Naruto when she realized something.
" Wait! Naruto, If only I could just memorize this scroll then Sasuke could burn it up, then we would be rid of Orochimaru!" Naruto thought for a second and nodded.
" Fine, but I really wanted to fight that… pale blob!" He made a face, causing Sakura to laugh dryly. She opened the scroll, motioning Naruto to stay away, remembering the genjutsu cast on the scroll. Opening it, her eyes widened at what she saw.
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" Orochimaru-sama… I think they believe we made a retreat…" Kabuto stated. Orochimaru's face turned red from anger. (HIS FACE IS WHITE! Just… imagine it red, I guess…)
" Then get it back!" He hissed. Kabuto nodded, jumping back into the window.
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Sakura panicked at the amazingly complex diagram of the jutsu.
" Denkiteki Saisei no jutsu." She read aloud. (Legendary Regeneration technique… Me lacking imagination) "Um… you start with this, then you do this… umm…" She stared at the thing. Never had she seen something so complex. Not even while training with Tsunade had she ever seen anything like this. When she memorized the first three steps, she signaled to Naruto and Sasuke to try to protect her. Sasuke struggled to get up and rose to do battle. Sakura sat in a small, dark corner of the room while her teammates defended her.
" Kage bunshin no jutsu!" Naruto created multiple clones as Kabuto climbed into the room. Seeing that the two were prepared for battle, he flung up his arms hastily.
" Now now, no need to get angry or anything. I'll just take the scroll and leave." Kabuto smirked, inching towards Sakura, who just memorized the fifth step. (OUT OF TWENTY! OMG!)
" I don't think so!" Sasuke snarled. Naruto and his clones completely surrounded Sakura, who was so absorbed in what she was doing, she didn't even realize that her teammates were in a fight, much less against Kabuto.
" Danshingu enkou no jutsu!" Sasuke shouted. (Dancing flames technique) Flames shot out of his mouth, creating a rather fiery battlefield A.K.A the Kazekage's office. But let's put that aside, shall we? Kabuto easily dodged each oncoming flame, creating a fire border between the two of them.
" Getting cocky, aren't we?" Kabuto smirked. Now Sakura was on the seventh step.
" Speak for yourself!" Naruto growled. He threw dozens and dozens of shuriken, yelling at the top of his lungs. Kabuto dodged all but one stray shuriken, which nailed him on the side of his chest. (Umm… let's just say his weak spot) He winced and had no time to recover in time for another shuriken, which hit him on the shoulder. This time, he had enough time to dodge into… Sasuke's attack.
" Fenikkusu enkou no jutsu!" (Phoenix flames technique) Kabuto groaned as flames scorched his shirt. He growled, and ran forward towards Naruto. Naruto threw a kunai, which Kabuto caught and threw away with a chakra charged hand that disabled Naruto's chakra. Naruto collapsed and moaned, now helpless. (NOOOOOO!! DIE, KABUTO!) Kabuto laughed harshly.
" That's always the way it is, isn't it? You lose, evil wins. Too bad. I would kill you now, but I have business to attend to. Consider yourself lucky." Kabuto turned towards Sasuke.
" You won't lay a single hand on Sakura." He glared. Now the pink haired kunoichi was on the twelfth step. (EIGHT MORE! WHOO! … Sorry)
" Oh, is that so? Looks like you want to 'protect' your teammate, eh? The one you left on a bench with the words, 'thank you,' when she told you she loved you. You don't care, do you? You just want to prove yourself to Tsunade so you can be free, isn't that right?" Kabuto smirked. Sasuke and Sakura flinched.
" Don't listen to that bastard!" Naruto shouted. " He's just getting on your nerves!" The blonde was furious, but remained helpless. Then, he remembered the fox. (NOW he remembers! Go Naruto! You have a super quick mind! Sarcasm…) Concentrating, he got the fox's help, but… the ever so helpful Kabuto blocked off the fox's chakra… leaving and opening for the Uchiha heir.
" Kuchiyose No Jutsu!" Sasuke swallowed a giant snake that swallowed Kabuto whole. (O.O Hmm… Looks like Orochimaru will never get a chance to swallow his faithful assistant: The snake did that for him just now)
" This seems too easy…" Sasuke muttered. Suddenly a kunai came out of the shadows of the room. It hit Sasuke on the arm, and it made him groan in pain. Kabuto came out from the shadows. (Hmm… I take that back)
" I'm not that easy to defeat. I'm sure you know that, as now I've gotten some new techniques." Sasuke frowned.
" Like what? ' Retreat because Kabuto's a coward technique'?" Even in pain, Naruto could still crack a joke. Kabuto twitched. Sakura was now on the nineteenth step… one more to go. Kabuto finally realized what the girl was up to.
" Mizu Funsha!" (Water jet…me lacking creativity again.) He extinguished the flames and extended a kunai to kill Sakura… The rest happened in the spur of the moment.
Kabuto lifted the kunai…
Sasuke jumped in front of the girl…
Sakura finished the last step and realized there was…blood… and she looked up.
Sasuke fell to the ground.
Kabuto stood there in shock.
Naruto's eyes widened.
And Sakura turned pale.
So much can happen in less than a minute.
" Sasuke!" Sakura yelled as the raven-haired boy fell to the ground, a kunai stuck on his chest… dangerously close to the heart.
" Enkou…" Sasuke set the scroll on fire before he fainted. Kabuto scowled.
" Now's there's nothing." He left.
" No! Sasuke!" She glared at the leaving Kabuto before turning her attention to the boy. She took out the kunai, and then she gathered up chakra, began healing him. Naruto inched over using his feet to wait for his turn. Sasuke's look of pain turned into a look of rest. "Now your turn." Sakura turned to Naruto and healed him. During that moment exactly, the rest of the group entered the room.
" Sasuke-kun!" Ino ran over to the boy, but was stopped by Sakura.
" Stop it, he needs his rest."
" N-Naruto-kun! Are you alright?" She ran over to him. Naruto let out a rather painful, but happy smile.
" I'll be fine with some rest! You know me! Uzumaki Naruto, Number one ninja, soon-to-be-Hokage!" He smiled. Sakura rolled her eyes.
" You mean number one, hyper-active-loudmouthed ninja." They all laughed.
" Hey! What's so funny about that?" He whined.
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" What do you mean they burned it up?" Orochimaru nearly yelled. Kabuto bowed his head.
" I am sorry, Orochimaru-sama, but it seems that Sakura memorized it and let her teammate, the Uchiha, burn it up." Kabuto stated sourly. Orochimaru scowled, but then sighed,
" All right. Since we now have nothing to do here now, we can tell the remaining ninja to leave. I must prepare to extract that jutsu from the girl." They teleported away.
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" We, the sand, owe much to the leaf." The Kazekage's assistant bowed. (I don't feel like naming him) Sakura had delivered the message, and showed them an example of the technique to some medics. After much debating, they had decided that it was too risky writing it down.
" No problem. I just want to go home and rest now!" Naruto sighed. "Oh, and eat Ramen." Shikamaru sighed.
" Where IS Gaara?" He asked, lazily. (Wait, he's always like that! Me: DOH!)
" He has some business to take care of in the village hidden in the mist. I do not know of what it might be, I just know that much. Thank you for delivering the message. Here is the scroll Tsunade requested. Many thanks to you. Journey safely back!"
" Bye!" The girls all waved, except for Hinata, who was telling Naruto not to go on an eating rampage when he got back. The boys just nodded and the twelve headed back to the village hidden in the leaves.
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" You're telling me that Orochimaru was the one that was aiming for the destruction of the sand?" Tsunade asked. Well, more like stated, as if she expected this all along.
" Yes, Tusnade-sama." Sakura nodded.
" I figured as much." The Hokage sighed. " He would do anything for his power back. She sighed. "You did good work, the lot of you. Now go, leave me with my sake."
" Yeah, sure, whatever, you old lady." Naruto grumbled. Tsunade twitched.
" What…did…you…SAY?!" She thundered. Shizune, ever quiet and standing behind the Hokage, sweat-dropped.
" When will Naruto ever learn…?" She sighed as she watched Tsunade grow red in the face and jumped from behind her desk to hurt Naruto. The rest of the group had left the moment they had seen Tsunade's face.
" AHHH!!!! I'M SORRY! I REALLY AM!" Naruto ran out of the doors, screaming his apologies. Tsunade ran after him. Shizune sighed.
" I guess we better go after her, huh, Tonton?" The pig looked up at her and nodded. The Hokage's faithful assistant followed after the Hokage.
And so:
Naruto was running and screaming for his life…
Tsunade, who was behind him was running and screaming to take Naruto's life.
And Shizune, the last of the three, was running and screaming to try to prevent Tsunade from taking Naruto's life…
I'm confused…
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" Sasuke-kun, will you go out with me?" A girl from the sidelines screamed out.
" Sasuke-kun, will you be my boyfriend?" Another girl screamed.
" Sasuke-kun, will you give me a kiss?" A pretty blonde girl yelled.
" Sasuke-kun, marry me!" Sasuke glared at this girl, and she fainted, thinking it was a look of affection.
" Let's hurry up already!" Sakura whined, dragging Sasuke towards his house.
" Trust me, I want to go home as much as you do, but," He gestured around. "Naruto is probably getting killed by the leader of the village, A.K.A your sensei." Sakura sighed. "It's obvious where he is. He's at the ramen stand. Now can we leave?" Before Sasuke could object, the kunoichi had dragged him back towards the Uchiha's house.
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' I must extract the technique from Sakura. To do that, I must make a machine that takes people's memories and gives and displays them to me. But that is virtually impossible.' Orochimaru thought. He then remembered all his previous experiments and grinned, licking his mouth.
' Then again, nothing is impossible.'
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Um… Sorry this Chapter was a little short. And sorry I said the battle was going to last longer. I changed my mind at the last second. R&R!
I left all of uchihakiriko original things on I didn't change a thing I just copied and pasted things to a document and if you want proof you can come over and see all the grammar errors, Uchihakiriko I'm not saying anything about your grammar cause mines even worse. I hope you liked it as much as I do. No flames are allowed.