CHAPTER 7:
"APART"
by: SONAMY ANGELWhen the sunrays glimpsed in his face, running through the trees, he was still asleep. As he lazily opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was some bright pinkness next to him. She was still sleeping and her breathing was soft and slow.
"Hn" at this point he had just remembered the situation he was in, well, they both were in. He moved himself upwards, and purposely moved her as well. Bad move.
'Hn. Wake up!! Damn gi-whoa!!' with a sudden move, she grunted and wrapped her arms around his neck. He flushed and frowned.
"Sakura" he said through gritted teeth.
No answer.
"Sakura" he repeated. He hated repeating things, but this girl who had her arms wrapped around his neck was irritating the crap outta him. But fortunately this time she was now awaken. Slowly opening her eyes, she found his face inches from her face, and for her surprise her arms were wrapped around his neck. If it weren't for his hand that was supporting him, he would be on top of her.
She felt her insides burn and the color of her face turning a crimson red.
"Sasuke…I'm…I…" she mumbled removing her arms from his neck as quick as she could.
He didn't say anything; he just got up, and left her on the ground. She was so embarrassed. She didn't know how her arms ended there. She had awoken sometimes in the night and her arms were in the middle of them. She finally got up from the ground. 'Maybe I should apologize' she thought, blushing madly at the memory of having him so close to her.
Sasuke was leaning towards the river, filling his term of water. She approached to him, and again the memory of their closeness and the wonder of how his lips would taste like, made her turn on her heels and walk away, claiming she was going to look for some fruit in the forest.
'Hn. She is strange' he thought. He turned his head to where she took off and got up, watching her disappear on the forest. 'I wonder if she can handle being by herself. Hn, maybe she will get lost… but No. She is a shinobi, or that's what she says…Hn.'
Sakura found herself at a good 50 yards of deep forest away from Sasuke and the river. "I'm so embarrassed!! What is he going to think of me!!" she sighed. "Oh well, lamenting won't do any good" she said firmly to herself. As she was walking further away through trees and fauna, she found an apple tree. "Good." She said smiling to herself.
The morning dew was still present, resting softly on the leaves of those huge trees and in small pools on the ground. She closed her eyes and concentrated her chakra in her surroundings. She made a few hand signs and in seconds all the morning dew that was left levitated for a second, then formed a wall behind her. Sensing and listening to the water she opened her eyes and trusted her hands forward. In a coordinated motion the water wall behind her turned into tenths of sharp needles made of ice, and like her movement, they rushed towards the trees, cutting every apple that was on their way. Sakura smiled to herself.
"I didn't know you could master water jutsu, that supposedly just ninjas from the village hidden in the mist should know"
Turning around she saw Sasuke. He was standing on a near three. Fear was filling her insides. She hadn't heard him and now she couldn't explain what she just did.
'Think, Sakura, think!!' she begged herself.
" Um..Well…I really…"
" Don't try to fool me, Sakura, I am not stupid," He said. The tone of his voice was dangerous, but yet it was calm.
She hesitated. "No, Sasuke, I…"
Sasuke had had enough. 'I'm not Naruto to fall for that bullshit'. He positioned himself before her in a very fast move. " Just who are you and what do you want with us? Are you a spy? Answer me!! Damn it!!" he spat at her, losing all control, not that he cared anymore.
Sakura was scared. He looked fierce. She trembled. He seized her arm and she flinched, apparently he hadn't remember her wound, or he just didn't care any more.
"Answer me!! Now!!" he yelled right in her face.
"I can't, Sasuke!! You don't understand!! I'm not-" she hadn't even finished her sentence when she found herself being carried away at an amazing speed in Sasuke's arms. Confused, she looked at the spot where they had been two seconds before. Sakura's eyes widened at the sight of two kunais and a shurinken resting in there.
Sasuke had heard the soft whisper the air had emitted when the kunais and shurinken had been thrown at them and grabbed the girl in his arms in bridal style, not listening at her at all. What mattered to him at that moment was to protect her.
He landed on a three near there. Once he had put the girl on safety he instantly gripped his tools, from his ninja bag and stood before her.
"Well, well, look what we have here, the Uchiha boy and the princess together, Lord Orochimaru will be very pleased."
Sasuke turned to look at the source of the voice and found four ninjas standing, all in a near tree.
"Who are you?!" demanded the Uchiha.
"we are the sound four" Said a white haired guy with two heads.
"What do you want here!!" Sasuke shouted.
"You and the princess, of course" said a guy with four arms
"Hn" Sasuke grinned "Let me just warn you. I'm in a very bad mood"
And the battle started. The sound four charged at Sasuke and Sakura.
"Sakura can you—argh!"
Blood was running down Sasuke's shoulder. He closed his eyes and fought back. throwing punches and kicks to the three men while Tayuya approached calmly to Sakura. Sasuke frowned.
"No, you won't…" he threatened, and as he tried to turn around and go help Sakura, Jirubo jumped on his way.
"I don't so! Your fight is with us" He said.
"Hn." Sasuke frowned and stole a glance to Sakura, who to his surprise, was smirking.
'I'm not afraid of you, bitch!! I'm going to kick your ass!! KYA!!' Inner Sakura yelled.
Tayuya chuckled confidently. "So…are you coming quietly or do I have to grab you by that fancy and beautiful hair?"
"Don't get so cocky…"Sakura said smiling and Tayuya laughed loudly.
"You think you can stand up to me?" she taunted.
"Let's see" Sakura said, and stood on a calm fighting position, and waited for the red haired girl to attack.
Tayuya pulled out her flute and started playing a wicked song.
Sakura was speechless. 'She is up to something I must be careful' she thought. A second after she felt the ground tremble. 'what the-!?'
"Say hi to my friends, princess" Tayuya said, emphasizing the last word in a taunting tone.
Sakura looked around and found herself being surrounded by demons. 'No!!, demons!!, they will sense my angelical presence, I can't let that happen!!' she thought desperately.
She tried to increment her aura (A/N: a.k.a. chakra but since she is not a ninja… ''U) , but she couldn't get it very high, though.
The demons approached her and suddenly and suddenly got very excited and charged at her anxiously.
'huh? What do we have here? why are they so excited? Is it her? This is weird, they never act like this' thought Tayuya, as she continued to stare at the rare behavior for her demons.
Sakura felt uneasy. 'I have to be very careful to not to put myself in evidence y using unknown techniques. But again, I can just say they are my own if they don't know them, yeah! That's what I'm going to do'. She grinned maliciously as she saw the demons charging at her. 'Too bad for you, that means no holding back!!' she thought while looking at Tayuya.
When Sakura closed her eyes, two demons surrounded her at once, both of them attempting to punch her. But at the exact moment their fists were going to collide with her face, she doubled, with one knee on the ground. It took her one second to open her eyes and thrust her arms outwards, which were flowing with chakra.
Her hands collided noisily on the demons' stomach. They were sent violently through the air and then hitting hard two trees, ripping them apart. They groaned. Sakura fell to her knees, her hands smoking. The pain was overwhelming her. 'I should have known!!' she groaned.
Her hands were very burned, because she had touched the demons. She was an angel, and her blessed hands shouldn't touch such a disgusting thing as a demon. They got really injured, but the angel did as well, because they are not made to fight and because of that they were both very harmed.
Sasuke growled as he watched the scene. 'I gotta help her' he thought, not letting her out of his sight. Meanwhile, Jirubo approached the opening of a second to throw Sasuke a punch in the jaw, sending him to the air. He reappeared above Sasuke and punched him on the guts, sending him towards the ground at top speed. Sasuke groaned and landed heavily on the ground. He was heavily beaten up by now.
"Sasuke!!" Sakura shouted. She was trembling and the pain was too much, but at that time it seemed it had gone away. She stood up and started to run over to him. Nevertheless, Tayuya appeared before her when she was about 3 feet away from him.
Sasuke tried to open his eyes but only managed to open one. He saw Sakura struggling in Tayuya's arms as the demons got closer to her.
"Sa…Saku..ra...watch…ou…out!!" He managed say but apparently Sakura had not heard him. She was looking fearfully over to him and then he saw why. Jirubo and Sakon and Ukon were approaching slowly to where he laid on the ground, both of them with a malicious smirk on their faces. They nodded to each other and drew their fists back.
"Let me go!!" Sakura yelled at Tayuya.
'I can't… die here, I must… survive…I can' Sasuke thought and he sighed. He looked over to Sakura. Tears were falling down her face. He was waiting for the final blow when he saw her…
"Sasuke!!" she yelled. She couldn't contain herself anymore. Her chakra was low and her hands were burn, but nothing mattered. She had lost control.
At the sound of her desperate scream echoed, the light overcame her, and in a second her human form was gone.
As Sasuke saw her before him, he thought he was dying or probably already dead. The explosion of light destroyed the demons and threw the sound four backwards through the sky. Apparently the light was chakra.
She flew to Sasuke, her angelical form banding over to him. She felt his pulse and noticed it was barely there. 'oh no!!' she gasped, she didn't want to loose him. One of her tears slowly ran down her cheek.
"Don't worry, Sasuke, everything is going to be alright" she said softly. Her tear fell on Sasuke's face, making him close his eyes. Sakura knew he was hardly alive.
'An angel?' he thought. He could hear her sobbing and one second after he
could feel his chakra flowing again.
She had to hurry, her angelical form wouldn't stand much longer. She needed to heal him and fast. Suddenly, she felt his pulse recovering. She closed her eyes and concentrated hard, giving Sasuke all the chakra she had left; as the last bit of chakra remaining in her body was sucked by Sasuke's, her angelical form faded away.
Sasuke opened his eyes just in time to see Sakura fall to her hands and knees; her normal self now. He tried to move, but his muscles were so sore, that he knew he wouldn't move if he wanted to. She was breathing slowly and he tried to speak but his throat felt dry. He mentally cursed and resigned to just look at her, not fully understanding what was going on.
'She is an angel?, but how…no… that's just not possible…it can't be' his thoughts were interrupted by the sound four, who reappeared suddenly behind her. His eyes widened. Even if he had tried before, he did move this time, slowly and clumsy, but he tried to reach her anyways. Jirubo took her in his arms and Sasuke could tell that she was so weak, because she didn't do anything to stop him from doing so.
"Sakura!!" he yelled, but the spider guy locked him in a spider web, so he couldn't move and be on their way. Sasuke was frustrated. He couldn't fight anymore. Even if he did what he could against the four jonin, he still felt guilty, because he wasn't able to protect her and the last thing he saw was her smiling at him, her voice echoing in his mind saying, 'don't worry, Sasuke, everything is going to be alright'. He let his head down and stared at the ground in defeat. 'I should have been stronger. I'm weak. I won't be able to kill Itachi if I'm this weak. I need to get stronger!!'. And with that, his sharingan reappeared, suddenly giving him the power to destroy the threads.
Sasuke attempted to follow the sound four, but had no idea of how to do it. Suddenly he thought about going back with Kakashi and Naruto, to ask for their help.
'No. I can't let them think I can't do this by myself, and mostly let that baka think I can't handle this. Hn, No. I will solve it myself.' He was running when he suddenly felt he should turn right through the maze of deep forest, 'instincts, maybe' he thought. Later, he felt he should turn left, right and then straight. 'hn, I wonder if ti is her chakra that is still inside me.', he smirked, 'now I'm able to follow!!'.
As he ran at top speed, the thought of her angelical form came to him again. 'Hn. I knew she was hiding something, but if I hadn't seen her wings, I would never have thought it possible. It's…strange... Anyways, I can feel you nearer now, Sakura, I will return the favor, just stay alive while I reach you' and with that he took off faster.