Anything, But Ordinary

Chapter Twenty-two: Why Is It Always Me?

Sakura landed roughly before slamming her back to the bark of the tree. She instantly bit down on her lip to keep from making any noise. Pak-kun sat in between her legs. Behind her on the ground level was were she found the remainder of her team along with Gaara, who was partly transformed, and his sister Temari. Her heart hammered in her chest and she was sure that she had already been seen and if not how could they not hear the deafening sound of her drumming heart. She tried her hardest to calm her breathing but found it harder and harder. Sakura slowed her breath so she could evaluate the situation.

"Gaara..." she could hear Temari whisper. She sounded terrified. Horrified even.

"Sasuke?" She moved slightly to look down at the people. Gaara was slowly transforming further and further into his demon state. Her eyes drifted to where Naruto stood. Sasuke sat on the floor holding onto his arm and breathing heavily. He's over done it already... Sakura thought to herself before her eyes wondering to Naruto who stood in between the two. She breathed a sigh of relief. It looked as though Naruto had arrived just in time. Her eyes widened in fear as Gaara let out a loud scream. A wave of chakra hit her and immobilized her for a split second. There was no way Naruto could do this on his own. He had already exhausted most of his chakra in his fight with Neji.

She wasn't sure if she was thinking, maybe she was, maybe she wasn't. All she knew was that her body was moving. She was moving and there was no stopping it now. There was no taking back the movements that she had already done. Why was she even going out of her way to protect these people. She should just be concerned with herself. Too late now. She landed on the hard ground bringing her arms up she caught an attack from Gaara and found herself thrown back landing on Naruto the two landed a few feet away.

"Saku-?" Naruto wasn't able to complete his sentence as Sakura pushed his body out of the way before rolling away from Gaara's next attack. Sakura spun around before sending a few kunia with exploding tags at Gaara. It delayed him momentary before he ran at Sakura again. "Sakura-chan!" Sakura could hear Naruto screaming for her, but he sounded so far away.

Looking up it seemed almost as if time had slowed down. Her brilliant green eyes met Gaara's one sea foam green eye and yellow and black one. Her eyes slowly drifted away from his face and to Temari's horror shaken features. Her eyes drifted to Naruto's who's were wide and blue. He looked as if he was screaming for her as he moved towards her. And last her eyes landed on Sasuke. Uchiha Sasuke. The boy who had unknowingly started this when they were five years old. She smiled slightly. She wondered if he ever remembered pushing her off the swing causing his older brother to yell at him.

She closed her eyes and took in a deep breath. This was it. It was over. There was no way she would be able to get out of this situation. She slowly moved her eyes back to where Gaara's face was. Taking in one last breath she closed her eyes and waited...

And what happened next wasn't at all what she had expected. There was no pain. There was no lose of breath. There were no tears. Just a light feeling. Like maybe she was floating. She slowly opened her eyes and found that she was no longer in the forest about to be attacked. Instead she found herself standing alone at the memorial stone. Where she had first really become teammates with Naruto and Sasuke. In fact if she remembered correctly... this was where she was thinking of right before Gaara had attacked her. She closed her eyes. What had happened? Had she unknowingly transported herself?

A loud scream erupted through the surrounded forest that sounded distinctly like Gaara. She much have. "I see you're safe Sakura-chan," she turned around quickly to meet the chest of the silver haired man who she had met at the beginning of the exams: Kabuto.

"Uh yeah... do you know where everyone is?" she asked, he was close. A little too close for comfort. In fact he took another step towards her which caused her to step back since they were almost nose to nose. She gasped as her foot hit the memorial stone causing her to fall backwards but was caught by Kabuto before he pulled her closer to his chest. Sakura's face instantly turned red. It was odd for her to be so close to a man. "Kabuto-san?" she questioned. His dark eyes stared down at her as a smile slowly formed on his face.

"Let her go," Kabuto turned around, a smug smirk on his face. Sakura turned with him getting a glimpse of who it was that had called for him to let her go. Her eyes widened when she saw Itachi, glaring at the silver haired man. Kabuto chuckled before pushing his glasses up his nose.

"Well, it looks like my mission won't be as easy as I had planned," Kabuto said.

"What?" Sakura questioned, completely not understanding what was going. Her eyes finally landed on Kabuto's head band that held the sign for Sound. The symbol that belonged to Orochimaru. "Itac-" Sakura felt her voice leave her as well as any control of her body. She slumped forward, Kabuto's arm caught her before laying her on the ground. Her green eyes slowly started to shut as she stared into Itachi's eyes. Why did everything have to be against her?

A/N

Okay... I know still not a long chapter but I like leaving chapters off at cliff hangers... well especially this fic lol I hope you guys liked the chapter! I promised I would update again soon right? I wanted you guys to know that I was back for good not just for one chapter for me to wait another five months. :D So leave me a review. Also one of my readers and friends asked me to make a facebook page for myself so that way it would be easier for everyone to see when I update of why I'm not updateing since everyone uses facebook so I made one :D The link is on my profile if you guys want to go like it. You can also ask me questions on it or what ever you want. I'm really sociable so feel free :D Thanks again for reading!