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Been around the world
Wonders to view
Been around the world
Looking for someone like you
Pyramids try, Babylon too
But the beautifullest treasures lie in the deepest blue
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So I never say die
I'm never untrue
I'm never so high
As when I'm with you
And there isn't a fire, that I wouldn't walk through
My army of one, is gonna fight for you.
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As Sakura turned around to face the male, whom was moving towards her with long hurried steps, she failed to notice the shocked looks adoring both Kakashi and Neji's face.
Their sweet, little, innocent and dearest Sakura-chan knew one of the angels of death?
The two angels could only stand passive and watch as the death angel stopped right in front of their Sakura, and looked at her with a confident smirk plastered onto his face.
"Nice to see you again Babe" Hidan said as he flashed her a flirtatious smirk followed by an equally flirtatious wink.
Keeping herself from rolling her eyes, Sakura brushed off Hidan's flirting, and instead sent him an 'oh so scary' glare.
Raising her hand, she poked the male in his chest, hard.
"What are you doing here, Hidan. How did you even find me?" As Sakura raised her hand again to poke him, Hidan grabbed her hand.
"Wow, chill bitch. Being down here, hasn't fucking done anything good for your temper"
True, earth had not improved her temper a single bit; it had actually made it worse, but she blamed Temari for that, oh all the new words she had learned from the blonde woman were countless.
"Hidan" She growled at him.
Why did he have to be so damn troublesome? Couldn't he just answer her? She needed to know if certain other people had found her too. One thing was that Neji and Kakashi had found her, she was happy about that, they had been her friends for a long time, they had been fellow angels, shared a special bond somehow.
But it was a bit different with the demons. Of course she wanted to see the them too, she was even beginning to miss them (not that she would ever admit that to any of them though), but as time passed on earth, she realized that she rather liked learning how to live as a human, fear wasn't keeping her from going with the demons to their world, her curiosity did, and she knew. It was inevitable, if the demons found her, they would take her with them to hell, even if she didn't want to, but technically, it was there she belonged. They all knew it.
Hidan exhaled dramatically.
"Geez, fine. Some red haired bitch gave us all a tip on where you might be. So we all just hurried out to find you. Everyone else is around here somewhere looking for you…. Luckily I found you first" As a smug look spread across Hidan's face, a cold shiver ran down Sakura's spine, there was no more hiding now it seemed, thanks to the so-called "red-haired bitch" she could no longer avoid them. But she had to admit; though she was dreading the point where they all found her, she was kind of looking forward to it too. She really had missed them.
While Sakura was lost in her thoughts, Neji and Kakashi exchanged displeased looks. This was not what they had hoped for would happen.
They had important things to tell Sakura, and if that death angel kept hogging her attention, or worse, if more demons decided to join them in the little dark alley, they would never get a moment alone with her.
Suddenly Kakashi looked at Hidan with a deathly glare, which the other male countered with an equally sharp death glare.
"Don't you have somewhere else to be? Isn't there plenty souls that needs to be reaped?"
"Fuck you, I'll rip yo-" Suddenly Hidan stopped talking, and a sinister grin spread across his lips.
"Don't you have a funeral or two to be at? I heard that you lost two little angels the other day" At his words, Kakashi and Neji's jaws tightened, and they looked angrily at the provoking male, and at the same time, Sakura looked confused at the two angels.
Who was dead?
Was it someone she knew?
Neji turned his head and looked at her before looking away again, but the short glimpse she had gotten of his said it all. It was someone she knew.
Kakashi wouldn't even look at her.
"Who, Neji" She began, dread rising in her chest.
She had a bad feeling about who it was.
And she hoped with every fiber in her being, that she was wrong.
Because if it was them… She didn't know what she would do then.
She looked at Neji with pleading eyes.
She had to know who it was.
…
He couldn't look at her, he just couldn't.
He knew her well enough to know, that it would break her when he told her.
He damned the bastard who brought up the subject in the first place. This was not how or where they had planned on telling her. Not in some ally surrounded by darkness and strangers…
He finally looked her in the eyes. They were as green as he remembered them, like emeralds. She had beautiful, strong eyes, he thought. They were always shining no matter what, every emotion were reflected in them and no matter what kind enemy she fazed, they would never fail to show the fire burning inside her.
Her eyes were truly windows to the soul.
"Please, Neji. I need to know who it is" Her voice was broken. He could see it in her eyes; she already knew who it was, she just needed him to confirm it.
Just as he opened his mouth, ready to deliver the news that surely would break her heart into smithereens, someone beat him to it.
"Ino and Hinata" Came Kakashi's rough and deep voice, and just as Neji expected, a tear slipped from her eyes and soon after that many more followed the same path as the first.
And just like that, they watched her break down in front of them.
And for the first time ever, Neji witnessed as the fire in her eyes was put out.
As she crumbled to the ground, her face buried in her hands, Neji stepped towards her. He had never been good at comforting, emotions had always been strange to him, but for Sakura, he would try to soothe her pain. The least he could do for her would be to lend her a shoulder to cry on.
He placed his arm around her and stroked her back in a comforting manner. His heart began pumping harder than usually, warmth slowly filled his body, and under normal circumstances thoughts not so innocent would try to push their way into his mind, but now was definitely not the time to let his imagination wander. Normally he would give anything to be this close to Sakura, to have her pressed into his side, but right now, romantic touches were not what she needed, no matter how much he wanted it, he would not let his own feelings get control of him.
As Kakashi joined Neji and Sakura on the ground, offering her another shoulder to cry on, Hidan watched stupefied behind them.
"What the hell happened to the bitch?" He muttered.
"They were her best friends, you moron. You should consider thinking just a tiny bit before you speak" A cold voice cut through the silence in the ally like a knife, and had Hidan not been who he was, he would have been scared to death, though to be honest, he might have peed juuust a little bit in his pants.
Turning his head, he watched Shisui and Itachi approach, with some blonde dude, who definitely weren't Deidara, following them.
Hidan's eyes widened slightly as the boy came closer. There was no doubt, the kid was one of those demon-containers, large waves of energy was radiating from the boy.
'This kid's demon must be pretty strong' Hidan thought as he looked at the boy from top to toe. There was something strikingly familiar about his looks. The blue eyes and the blonde hair reminded him a lot of someone, he just couldn't remember who it was.
...
Naruto watched the scene before him, his eyes mainly focusing on the pink-haired girl on the ground with two pairs of arms wrapped around her.
"Sakura-chan" He whispered, just loud enough for her to hear.
At the sound of his voice, her head rose from where it had been buried in Kakashi's chest, and her dull eyes locked with stunning blue orbs, and it instantly reminded her of her best friends one visible sky-blue eye.
As the image of Ino burned in her mind, she let out a pain filled sob, and once again she buried her head in Kakashi's chest.
She felt Neji run his fingers through her hair, and she trembled. Neji's eyes were so similar to Hinata's, even more than Naruto's were to Ino's… How would she be able to look at those moon-like eyes, without constantly being reminded of her other best friend?
Naruto slowly walked towards his best friend, unsure of what he should do or say. He wanted to comfort her somehow, but he barely knew why she was crying, and she already had two people by her sides.
He stopped in front of her and crouched down. He reached out and touched her tear-stained cheek, and slowly, her head lifted from where it had been buried in the older male's neck. She looked at him with red eyes for a moment before throwing her arms around his neck and pulling him towards her with a bone-crushing hug. He could feel her tears hit his bare skin, and instantly, he held her tighter.
While Sakura and Naruto hugged, the two angels stood up once again while the death angel and the two demons moved closer to the hugging pair, clearly unhappy with both the situation in general and the lack of attention they were receiving from the pink-haired female.
Shisui and Itachi stood awkwardly watching the demon-container hug their little fallen angel. It pained them both to see her in such a condition as she was in right now. It was definitely not the reunion they had been hoping for, the one they had hoped for and imagined many times over and over again contained far less people, a total different setting than a dark ally, and a considerably more happy Sakura.
"It was Orochimaru, wasn't it?" Her voice suddenly cut through the silence that had filled the alley for what seemed like an eternity. Her head lay buried in the juncture between the blonde-haired males neck and shoulder, his hands steadily running through her hair.
"We don't know for sure, Sakura, but… it is very likely him" Neji spoke carefully, while it was true that they could not confirm it completely, that it in fact, was Orochimaru who had killed two of their angels, he had to take Sakura's emotional state into consideration. He knew, that with the pure hate for Orochimaru that now filled her heart, she could very likely be stupid enough to seek him out alone – to avenge her friends deaths.
And though Neji had great believe in her powers, he also knew that taking on a fallen angel, who was almost a thousand years older than herself, would be too much, even for her, to handle.
And trying to offer their help in defeating the snake would also, most likely, prove be futile.
Sakura followed her heart, and her heart would without a doubt tell her to go look for him alone, and defeat him alone, seeing as two of her best friends already had suffered a cruel fate, she would not let them be endangered just because she wanted revenge.
She was smart, and he had a long time ago learned not to underestimate her cleverness when it came to escaping and hiding from even heavens sight. So even if they did convince her to let them go with her, she would surely, somehow, escape in the last moment and go on alone.
"It is not just very likely, Neji. He did it, I just know it – I can feel it" There was a short pause, before she continued. "He will not go unpunished this time. I won't allow it. I –I will avenge them" She lifted her head, and stood up as she spoke. The bloodlust in her voice was not to be mistaken of.
Kakashi felt his heart drop to his stomach at her words. Like Neji, he knew that she would view killing Orochimaru as her own personal mission, not that he blamed her for that, and now she was dead set on completing it.
Hidan, Shisui and Itachi however, felt completely different. Each of them felt their heart pick up its pace and their pulse rose.
Maybe it was the promise to kill the man they had hated and hunted for so long, maybe it was the feeling of her bloodlust, or maybe it was a combination of those two, but something had ignited a fire filled of lust, respect, attraction and love for the pink-haired fallen angel. A fire that was much stronger than the one they had felt before.
It was as if everything they had felt for her had been intensified.
They could feel it now more than ever – she was one of them, and she belonged in their world, together with them.
Heaven's loss was their win.
And never had victory tasted this good.
I'm baaack!
I'm really sorry for making you guys wait so long for this little chapter, but a major writing block combined with a lot of homework and work, does not leave much time or opportunities to write, but hopefully, it won't be as hard from now on :D
I feel bad for killing Ino and Hinata, I really do, but I figured that it would not fit Sakura to go after Orochimaru for her own sake.
Hopefully there will be more action and more handsome demons in the next couple of chapters, so stay tuned.
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