EDITED: Jan 27th, 2008
Disclaimer: Me no own Naruto.
OOCness? Ugh.
There's also a video for this chapter. Just read, and you'll see x)
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Not so Weak Anymore
Chapter Nine
Here Without You
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After putting some chakra into their feet, Naruto, Shikamaru and Neji all caught up to Sasuke. Together, the group of four began searching for their friends.
After a good while, the group came across a huge creator. Jumping down into it, the boys began looking around.
Rain poured heavily, as lightning flashed in the sky. During one flash, something caught Naruto's eye. He turned around, and froze.
"H-Hinata…"
The other three boys turned around, and saw Naruto run to the body of Hinata, which was face down, in the ground. Also within that area, laid Tenten and Ino. Shikamaru ran up to Ino checking her pulse, while Neji did the same to Tenten.
Shikamaru froze, "No pulse."
Neji came to the same conclusion. The sound of a growl echoed from Naruto, as everyone turned to the blonde.
"W-What the hell happened!?"
Looking around, Sasuke noticed Sakura's body was no where in sight. Naruto noticed the same thing, still holding Hinata.
"Where's Sakura-chan?"
"I'll go find her."
Sasuke jumped off, and began his search. Naruto watched as his teammate went off. Naruto clutched Hinata's body tightly to his own.
"Hinata…how?"
A few moments later, Kakashi appeared with Pakkun, his tracking dog. Gazing out at the scene of three dead bodies, with Neji, Shikamaru standing there, motionless staring at the dead bodies in front of them, while Naruto holding Hinata's body, weeping. Kakashi showed no emotion in his face.
"We're too late…" Naruto said, chocking back tears. Shikamaru stepped on a rock, shattering it into little pieces.
"Who could have done this?!" he said angered. Neji shivered with anger, "Whoever did it, they're dead."
Kakashi looked around for Sasuke. Naruto noticing this, pointed east, "He went looking for Sakura-chan."
Kakashi looked at Pakkun. The two nodded and headed into the direction, hoping to find the Uchiha.
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Sasuke could smell blood,
It smelt sickening. Trails of two footprints headed onto a cliff. Sasuke tracked it down, coming into a clearing.
Once in the clearing, a body laid motionless in the middle. Sasuke's eyes widened, seeing pink hair. Walking over to the body, his assumptions of it being his teammate were true.
It was Haruno Sakura, his teammate.
The same teammate he called annoying.
The same teammate he would shot down every time she wanted to go on a date.
The same teammate he went into the chunnin exams with.
The same teammate that took care of him when he got the curse mark.
The same teammate he treated like garbage.
The same teammate that tried to stop him when he was leaving.
The same teammate that confessed she loved him.
The same teammate that fought only a week ago.
The same teammate he regretted ignoring.
She was gone. She has a huge gash in her stomach. There was no way she was still alive.
There was a flash of thunder, as the rain began to fall down even harder. Sasuke looked to the sky. Video under profile. Just watch it. Sasuke x Sakura: A lost love story)
"Sakura…"
"I guess we're all too late." A new voice joined in. Sasuke didn't bother turning around, knowing it was Kakashi. Pakkun went up to Sakura's body and sniffed it.
"I can't pick up a scent on who may have killed her. The rain extinguished the scent."
Kakashi nodded and came up beside Sasuke, "Sakura was quite the Kunoichi. Too bad you weren't around enough to notice her growth."
Kakashi bent down and picked up Sakura's body. She laid motionless in Kakashi's arms. Sasuke cursed himself.
"lets go back home."
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They Once they reached the gates of Konoha, they found Kiba, Lee, Chouji, Shino, Moegi, Konohamaru, Tsunade and a few medical ninja's waiting. There faces dropped as they saw the boys carrying the girls limp bodies.
"What happened!?" Tsunade said wanting an immediate answer. No one felt like answering,
Except for Sasuke.
"They died. Isn't it obvious?"
Placing the bodies on the ground, Tsunade, and the other medical ninja's attempted to revive the girls,
They were unsuccessful. Tsunade had a somber look on her face.
"Take them to the hospital. We need to make sure its their bodies, and possibly what could may have killed them."
The medical ninja's picked up the four girls and headed to the hospital. As they were walking, many people in the streets froze seeing the dead bodies of these four Kunoichi.
They had reached the hospital and the medical nin's went inside. Tsunade turned to face the shinobi in front of her.
"Lee, Shino, Kiba, Konohamaru and Moegi, please go home. Kakashi, Naruto, Neji, Shikamaru and Sasuke, I would like you all in my office."
Once at the Godaime's office, the Hokage took a seat, with Shizune on her left side, with Kakashi on her right side. The boys stood in front of her desk, with her hands folded together.
"Despite this horrific even happening, I'm putting you four on an investigation mission."
Tsunade took a deep breath, and then looked up at the four shinobi in front of her, "Find out who did this."
Shizune had a panicked look on her face, "But Tsunade-sama, shouldn't we send a proper investigation team in?! Plus, Sasuke's still on his–"
"That's enough Shizune. Boys, report back here tomorrow morning, and I'll debrief you on this assignment.
"The boys nodded and left the room.
Shizune had a confused look on her face.
"But, why them Tsunade-sama!?"
Instead of Tsunade answering, Kakashi spoke up,
"They want this mission then any investigation team does. They want revenge."
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Walking down the dull streets of Konoha on this cold, rainy night, Sasuke made his way back to Kakashi's, who's place he'd be staying at till he was off probation. So deep in thought, Sasuke wound up walking through the training grounds,
Questions filled his mind,
What was Sakura to him?
A teammate, a friend… someone important to him?
Yes.
He always thought of Sakura as someone he–no, he would never go that far to admit that.
Why couldn't he admit it?
Sasuke stayed so deep in thought, he didn't realize he was being followed.
"Mourning, are we?"
"What the hell do you want Rei?"
Rei was perched up on a tree branch, with a satisfying smirk on his face.
"Sorry to disturb you, but I heard about your loss. I'm truly sorry."
"Hn, whatever." Sasuke replied, walking away. Rei stared at Sasuke's back.
"Aren't you mad?" Rei said. Sasuke stopped, turned to Rei and raised an eyebrow.
"Why would I be mad?" Rei smirked and jumped off his tree branch. He began circling Sasuke.
"Mad at Konoha. Because of them, she's dead." Rei said.
"…"
"Well for one thing, if she didn't go on the mission, she'd still be here. Second, those genin, If they weren't so weak, they could have helped her. She probably was only fighting to save those genin's asses. Thirdly, this village is so weak. They couldn't teach her how to be strong enough. I'm pretty sure she had a lot of potential, but they just couldn't teach her enough. What a waste of a perfectly good Kunoichi." Rei said continuing to circle the Uchiha
Sasuke's bangs were covering his eyes. What Rei was saying was beginning to sink into him
"Also, by just BEING a Konoha nin, people want to kill you. You do understand Sasuke that Konoha has to fall. Because of this dump, everyone important to you dies! Itachi killed everyone because he KNEW he was better then all of Konoha. Whoever killed Sakura knew she was a Konoha ninja, and killed her FOR that reason. They all deserve to die."
Sasuke clenched his fists, angered.
Rei came up behind Sasuke and patted him on the back, "Just think about it. I'll be back in a week's time."
And with that, he disappeared. Sasuke, still stood there, angered.
'Is he right?'
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Off in wave, Old man Yugi, Akira and Daisuke were waiting at the entrance to wave. It was still raining, so they were staying under the main entrance's roof with all their belongings. They were waiting for the girls to come back.
"Are you sure they're coming back?" Akira asked with worry. Yugi smiled.
"Those girls have powers way beyond what any normal ANBU has. They'll come. I will promise you that."
"Yeah well, they better get here soon. Its been raining for the past few hour, we were suppose to leave three hours ago." Daisuke said beginning to doubt their return. Akira leaned her head on Daisuke's shoulder,
"I agree with Daisuke. It's been awhile." Akira agreed.
"Just have faith."
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After another hour of waiting, the two Uchiha kids were getting restless.
"They're not coming, are they?" Akira said on the verge of tears. Daisuke patted her on the back.
Daisuke turned to Yugi. "Can we go back to the shop now?"
He kept staring at Yugi. Yugi had his eyes plastered to the road. He turned back to Daisuke.
"What's the sense in that? Were about to go, aren't we?" Yugi said with a smile.
Daisuke and Akira were confused. They looked to the road. Akira had the biggest surprise look on her face. Daisuke couldn't help but crack a smile.
"We'd though you'd never show."
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I pretty much changed the majority of this chapter… or tried too. x)
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