Anything But Ordinary
Chapter 15: Sakura Blossoms
Green eyes fluttered opened from the small amount of sun that reflected on her face. She sat up quickly looking around. Next to her laid her two teammate completely passed out. Naruto looked like he was calmly asleep while Sasuke was sweating profusely. Looking around the area they were in she found all of their bags safely next to them. A pot that she kept in her bag filled with fresh water along with all of their canteens filled.
She smiled lightly. "Great. Now Itachi thinks I'm weak," she groaned. She reached for her bag to find a paper pinned to her bag. Grabbing it she opened the small paper.
You are not weak. We'll be watching you from now on. We didn't expect Orochimaru to come at you in the open like that. Stay safe.
I
She blushed. Sighing she held the paper out in her hand. She focused one the small piece of paper. Shutting her eyes the paper disbursed into millions of tiny pieces and went back to the earth.
That was her ninja art. She wasn't sure if it was considered earth style but whatever it was she knew that neither Naruto nor Sasuke were able to do what she could do. She grabbed her backpack and unzipped in. Her mouth hung open. Inside were the two scrolls that the team needed to pass to the next exam. Heaven and Earth. She glared at the scrolls.
She wanted to take them out and chuck them into the wilderness. She was strong enough to get her own damn scrolls. She didn't need the help of Itachi. She pouted for a moments before quickly standing up and throwing a kunai it clashed with metal.
"So I see you finally noticed us." She watched as the three sound nin from the first exam walked out from the brush that surrounded the large tree roots that her and her team sat behind her. Walking out from it she glared at the group.
"Pinky looks angry that we disrupted her beauty sleep." The dark haired girl said, a smirk on her face. Sakura glared at the woman who's smirk still refused to leave. Sakura looked down slightly reaching for her weapons pouch to find it gone. Her pink hair which had fallen from her bun covered her face. "Aww, she's so concerned with her hair she's forgotten all about her weapons."
Sakura growled in annoyance. She looked back slightly. "Don't even think about it." She turned back around as a large gust of wind blew at her. Instinctively she through her hands up in front of her face. Once the wind stopped she looked up just in time as the dark haired girl ran at her full force. Her eyes widened once the senbon that were in the girls hand stabbed into her body.
Kin smirked thinking she had hit Sakura. Sakura looked down at Kin a smirked. "I think you've underestimate me," Sakura whispered, her body dispersed into thousands of pink petals.
"Looks like pinky has something up her sleeve." Zaku said, eagerly looking around.
"Don't be to rash Zaku." Dosu said, "Kin, move now." Kin nodded before moving back to the group. The pink petals continued to fill the area.
"Where is she?" Kin asked looking around her back to her two teammates.
"I'm not sure." Dosu said.
"How about behind you," the three turned around quickly Sakura jumped up and kicked both Dosu and Zaku in the chest sending them flying backwards. The kunai she once had in her hand was now sticking out of Kin's abdomen.
"How did she," Zaku quickly sent a wave of wind where Sakura was only to blow Dosu backwards instead.
"Pay attention!" Dosu yelled. Dosu quickly raised his arm to block the three kunai that were thrown at him. "How did she get her weapon pouch?"
"Easy I'm a good ninja." She said appearing behind Dosu, kicking him in the back he was sent flying forward into Zaku.
"Get off of me!" Zaku yelled pushing Dosu off of him. Kin ran at Sakura who quickly dodged all of her punches.
"You should really—" Sakura leaned forward a loud ringing rang in her head causing it to rattle. Her eyes unfocused as a punch sent her flying backward. She grunted in pain as she skidded across the dirt. She sat up on her knees breathing heavily. She brought her hand up slight to find that her nose was bleeding. She shook slightly before reaching up to touch her right ear. It was bleeding as well.
"Hmp." She winched as her hair was pulled back. Looking up she found Kin behind her.
"Come on Kin, hurry it up so we can do our job and kill Sasuke." Sakura's eyes widened. They weren't even after the scrolls. They had another mission all along.
"What do you want with Sasuke!" Sakura winched as her hair was yanked back.
"Stop talking! Your voice is giving me a head ache." Kin said pushing Sakura into the dirt. Sakura winched again. What was with these kids. Looking at their headbands she realized just exactly what was going on.
"You work for Orochimaru." Sakura spoke out loud. Looking up she saw that the three nin's eyes were wide as saucers.
"What did you just say?" Zaku asked moving towards her.
"Back off!" Kin yelled. "She's mine!"
"Then hurry it up!" Zaku yelled.
"Enough. Finish it Kin. We need to move forward." Dosu said.
In the bushes opisit of them sat team ten. Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji sat silent as they watched what was going on. "Ino?" Shikamaru asked touching her arm lightly. "What do you want to do?"
"What do you mean? She's got to fight her own battle. We're not stepping in," Ino hissed side glancing at Shikamaru. Looking back at the fight the blonde watched in utter shock as Sakura ran a kunai straight through her pink hair.
Pink hair fell from Sakura's shoulders. Kicking backwards Sakura knocked the female sound ninja prone. Sakura moved quickly before Zaku's wind attack could hit her. "Dosu! Dosu! Where are you!" Zaku yelled looking around him as Sakura ran at him.
"It's over." Sakura yelled, slamming a kunai in his chest. She started in horror when Zaku was replaced by a log. Turning quickly she tried to move but was struck in the face. She clinched her eyes shut waiting for the impact of the hard ground but found she landed in soft arms. Opening her eyes she looked behind her finding Choji.
Looking in front of her she found a shaking Ino. "Ino?" Sakura questioned, tears in her eyes.
"Yeah yeah yeah, I couldn't let some forehead girl show me up." Ino said, she slightly looked behind her a smile on her lips as she looked at Sakura. Sakura smiled.
"Ino…"
Ino and Shikamaru turned around and faced the enemy. "Look more leaf brats." Zaku laughed. "Look that one's even shaking!" Ino quickly tightened her legs in hopes that she wouldn't come off as weak.
Choji helped lean Sakura against the tree root. She smiled up at him. "Thanks Choji."
"You're welcome Sakura," he went to stand with the rest of his team. Sakura sighed in relief but instant tensed up. A large peak in chakra made her shiver. She started wide eyed at the group of people who all turned and looked at her. They left it as well. It came from behind her. Turning slightly her mouth hung opened when she saw Sasuke. Standing right next to her. An angry look on his face, red markings covered half of his face.
His sharingan eyes looked down at her. She shivered. "Who did this to you?" She just started at him. "Sakura. Who did this to you?" he asked again.
"I did! What are you gonna do about!" Zaku yelled. Sasuke turned and glared at the man. Sakura watched in horror as one moment Sasuke had been standing next to her and was now behind Zaku. A hit from Sasuke set Zaku into the air. Sasuke instantly hit him until he was in a crater in the ground.
Sakura started wide eyed as Sauske now held the boy with his arms stretched behind him. A sick and twisted smile was on Sasuke's face. Sakura turned and looked at Ino who watched in horror as well did her teammates. "No," Sakura whispered turning to look at Sasuke. "No." she tried to say loud. Sakura got to her knees as a loud sicking pop echoed through the clearing.
"Sasuke! STOP!" Sakura yelled moving to her feet she ran as fast as her weak legs could carry her to the younger Uchiha. Her arms wrapped around his mid-section. Tears streamed down her face. She watched as his smile left his face as did the black markings. Sakura breathed in a sigh of relief.
Sasuke pushed Zaku away. "Leave now," Sasuke glared the group quickly scurried away. Sasuke turned around and grabbed Sakura before her knees could hit the cold dirt. "Are you okay?" Sasuke asked. Sakura's face turned a slight shade of pink.
"Yeah I'm fine," she said quickly pulling away from him. She walked over to where Ino was. "Thanks you guys. I know you didn't—"
"It's not a big deal. We couldn't let you get beaten up. Now shut up so I can fix your hair. It looks awful." Ino said. Sakura smiled before reaching up and touching her hair. She couldn't believe that she had cut it off. She followed Ino to a side section of the clearing. Sakura smiled as she sat in front of Ino who was busy making sure that her hair was even.
"Hey Ino," Ino looked up. "Thank you." Ino smiled.
"Don't mention it okay Billboard brow."
"Okay Ino-pig." Sakura teased.
"You do know I'm cutting your hair right?" Ino joked back causing the two to laugh.
"Girls are weird." Choji mumbled to Shikamaru who nodded.
A/N
Okay… I'm sorry I took so long to update this. I don't even know why I did cause when I sat down to write this today it flowed out so easily! For serious I had this chapter written with just the title and chapter name fore like ever. I think one of my main problems is I'm trying to keep it like the original. And I final decided to not…. Lol Anyway hope you guys liked the chapter. Thanks for all the awesome reviews! You guys are the best! You're one of the reasons I update!
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