WARNING: SOME THINGS ARE REPEATED FROM THE SHOW! I DON'T OWN THOSE SPECIFIC LINES! I DON'T WANT ANYONE YELLING AT ME BECAUSE OF IT! IF YOU ARE MAD THEN YOU TRY WRITING A TIME TRAVEL FANFICTION STORY WHILE TRYING TO KEEP TRUE TO THE TIMELINE!
Me: Hello everyone! I am so glad you liked the last chapter. There was over 120 views not even before the 24 hour mark. This is the longest chapter I have ever wrote so please don't mind any mistakes. I wanted to write the process of the Chunin Exams so there is going to be some a lot of short scenes cause I really did not want to write that much crap you heard before. There are lines from the show but hopefully you'll be cool with it because I tried changing stuff as much as possible. For instance Sakura isn't sitting idly by during the fight scenes. She actually does shit. Anyway I don't own Naruto.
"Seriously Naruto, you need to learn how to control yourself." I stated dragging Naruto back into the village after he almost fell off of a waterfall only to be saved by Captain Emo himself.
"You are such a loser." Sasuke said helping me out by dragging Naruto by the other side. Just like last time, the two boys are fighting more than ever due to their inflated egos. Seriously, how did I stay sane when I was a genin? At least I know they turn out decently in the future. I thought to myself sighing a little too loud. I got some weird looks from my teammates but I ignored all of Naruto's questions.
"They are right Naruto." Kakashi stated out of the blue. "You need to learn how to restrain yourself when your ego gets hit." I held in a giggle knowing that he said exactly what I was just thinking not two seconds ago. Naruto jumped out of my arms and started another glare down with Sasuke. Kakashi looked over at me confused. "Are you going to stop them?"
"Sometimes they just got to let it out." I stated right before I heard a bird call above me. I looked up seeing a black bird circling around us, the two idiots were too busy fighting they hadn't noticed yet. I glanced over to Kakashi who was looking up to the bird in thought. So that's how they contacted him.
"Well I need to file my report for this mission," Kakashi lied acting like nothing happened. He looked over at me with a smile hidden under that mask of his. "Make sure they don't kill each other."
"No promises." He nodded before disappearing in a puff of smoke leaving me with Dumb and Dumber who are (you can decide which one's which) still locked in a staring contest. "If you keep that up then I will make you guys have your second kiss with each other." Naruto broke contact first as he slid towards me with fake tears flowing out of his eyes.
"Please don't do it Sakura. It's bad enough he was my first kiss."
"Then shut up!" I yelled punching his head making him cry real tears. I looked up in order to see Sasuke had already left probably to go training or not wanting to get a punch as well. I started walking away from Naruto to head home when the said blond rushed past me and turned around doing the same thing with a square rock disguise not far behind him. This kept going on for about a minute before Naruto told the kids to come out. My eyes widened at the memory of this. Dammit, of course the one thing I forgot to take in perspective is Gaara. He's one of the most observant people in the world, especially at this age! If I do something wrong then I'll be trapped in his sand burial!
"Is she your…...girlfriend?" Konohamaru asked giddily snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Yeah you could say that!" Naruto said earning him another punch on the head.
"I am not!" I yelled holding up my fist. Konohamaru glared at me obviously believing in Naruto's story.
"What kind of girlfriend are you?" That earned him a punch in the head as well. I sighed walking away when I heard the question I always despised. "Why would you want to go out with a girl with a huge forehead anyway?" I stopped in my tracks which grabbed their attention once again. Naruto has seen me beat up people for saying the 'big forehead' comments before so when I turned away they were already running with Konohamaru's two teammates behind them.
"The only person who can say I have a big forehead is Pig!" Konohamaru looked at Naruto not noticing that Kankuro is right in front of him. It was a split second after my comment that he ran straight into the puppetmaster.
"Watch it kid," Kankuro snarled.
"Leave him alone Kankuro. You know he'll be mad if you cause any trouble." Temari said stepping from behind her brother.
"He's not coming for a few minutes so I should have some fun." Kankuro picked Konohamaru by the scarf, hung him up in the air, and choked him. I tried to hold in my need to punch Kankuro in the face for hurting Konohamaru. Some things need to stay the same no matter how much I want to change it. I couldn't take my eyes off of the poor boy trying to pry the muscular hand off and failing. I bit my lip so hard it started to bleed in my mouth as the urge to help continued to grow. Luckily Naruto is always there to the rescue.
"Let him go! It was an accident." Naruto demanded glaring at the puppetmaster who only scoffed at his demand.
"It's true," I butted in "I was chasing them."
"These are the Leaf Villages genin? What a bunch of wimps."
"What did you say?" Naruto yelled curling his fingers into fists. Temari sighed in annoyance taking a step away from the commotion. She didn't blink at her brother's actions which I find odd to this day. I don't remember hearing what the older siblings lives were like growing up besides living in terror of their little brother.
"Do what you want. I'm not going to get involved in any of this." Kankuro smiled while tightening his hold on Konohamaru's neck. Naruto suddenly burst as he darted over to the pair with his fist raised up. Just like last time everything stopped when a rock was thrown and hit Kankuro in the hand holding the boy so hard it made him bleed. Konohamaru fell to the ground gasping for breath. Everyone turned to see Sasuke sitting on a tree tossing up a small rock similar to the one he had just thrown minutes before.
"You guys are far away from home. Messing with people from my village is a very dangerous thing." Sasuke said trying to act cool.
"It also doesn't help that he was attacking the Hokage's grandson." I butted in. The sand siblings' head snapped to me with wide eyes. I can tell they were a little relieved to know that Kankuro didn't do any permanent harm to the boy but they will be punished severely if their brother found out they were close to being kicked out of the village. They looked back down at Konohamaru who was now puffing out his chest. He knew that he could abuse his power if he wanted to, he tried with Naruto when they first met. "So Konohamaru, it's your choice on what you want to do with them. Let them off with a warning or tell your grandfather what happened and get them kicked out of the Leaf."
"Decisions, decisions." Konohamaru said playfully. Temari and Kankuro were sweating furiously at the thought of their fates being held in a seven year old's hand. While he was playing it out, I walked over to where the pebble Sasuke threw landed, picked it up, and held it in between two fingers.
"Why don't we ask the redhead his thoughts on this?" I asked throwing the pebble over to where I sensed Gaara's chakra knowing for a fact it was never going to hit him. Sasuke looked over to the other branch shocked at the fact he didn't sense Gaara's chakra.
"Very perceptive of you." Gaara stated looking directly at me. I forgot how rough his voice sounded when he was a kid. "Not many people can find me when I don't want to be found."
"That's because they usually aren't looking." His teal eyes narrowed now turning into a full-on glare before turning to his older siblings and started to scold them. Every now and then I caught him looking at me, like some of the words he says were a test to frighten me.
Needless to say when everything was finally done he was unsuccessful and frustrated (which could also have been caused by not knowing who snuck the cookies into their lodging before they arrived. Gaara ate them after testing them on Kankuro).
A Few Days Later…
The preliminary exam. Last time they tried to trick me with Sasuke, but what will they do this time? Will they try to pull the same thing only with Kabuto? No. They are going to try to play at my utter weakness. I thought as I looked out my window pretending to watch the passerbyers. I narrowed my eyes as my mind tried to come up with what Lord Third was going to come up with for me this time.
"What are you glaring at?"
My head snapped towards the voice almost automatically. Not because there was a person in my room and I didn't even sense them. But I can recognize that voice anywhere. Looking at him now, my breath got stuck in my throat. No way! What the hell is he doing here? How did he get here?
"S-Sasuke?" There he was, leaning on my door with his arms crossed in front of his chest. He looks exactly like he did a few days before the battle that took his life. Red button up shirt (unbuttoned) with a black tee shirt underneath it, black torn up jeans, and some sandals. Next to him was the blond knucklehead I left in the forest almost six months ago with a cheeky grin on his face. "N-Naruto? What is going on?"
"We came to take you back home, duh!" The twenty one year old Naruto said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "You could be a little happy since it took us so long to find you."
"This isn't real." I pointed to the twenty one year old Sasuke. "I saw you die! I felt your heartbeat stop. There's no way you could be here."
"Madara did some jutsu to bring me back here." Sasuke said. "Naruto found me a few days ago." I shook my head furiously trying to push them out. They are illusions. They have to be even though I really don't want to be illusions. I grabbed my hair and curled myself into a ball repeating the same thing.
"This isn't real."
"Yes it is. We're here." Naruto said.
"This isn't real."
"We want to bring you home."
"This isn't real."
"We can be a team again, just like you wanted. All you have to do is take our hands." I looked up seeing my Sasuke and Naruto holding out their hands. I gave them a smile before collecting chakra in my hands.
"I love you guys, and I promise I'll see you again soon." They looked confused before I held up two fingers. "KAI!" The chakra burst breaking the genjutsu leaving me utterly alone once again. I took a kunai from my holder that has a pre written note on it and tossed it out of my window to the alley across the street where Kurenai was hiding.
Admirable effort but it's going to take a lot more than that to convince me not to take the exams. -Sakura
I chuckled reading the note as I saw the pink haired girl disappear from her window. Kakashi sure had one hell of a team if they already knew this test was coming. I put the note into my pocket and started to make my way to Asuma's place. I'm sure he would love to hear about this.
"Let me through." Sasuke ordered the two disguised jounin. "And while you're at it reverse the genjutsu. We are heading up to the third floor."
"Aren't we on the third floor?" Someone asked. I turned to them with a soft smile.
"No we are only on the second floor right now. They used a genjutsu to make it seem like this was the room we were supposed to go to." Everyone nodded understanding as the jutsu went off. Just like before Sasuke almost got into a fight but Lee stopped it right on time. It was only a matter of seconds before Lee walked over to me confidently, I cringe at knowing what is coming next.
"My name is Rock Lee. You are Sakura right?" He asked.
"Yep that's me!" I said trying not to sound too cheerful.
"Would you please consider being my girlfriend? I vow to protect you with my life!" I swear Sasuke looked like this was his worst nightmare coming to life while Naruto looked utterly confused about what was going on. I sighed mentally at this. I was finally able to get Lee off my back about dating me last year. Now here I am having to turn him down once again. I always hated turning anyone down.
"Lee, you look like a wonderful guy and I'm honored you asked me. I, unfortunately, have to decline because I am already in a relationship."
"I see." He said with his head hanging down low and leaning against the wall. Neji called Sasuke over making Naruto go to the same position as Lee.
"Come on guys, let's head over to the classroom!" I said. Naruto and Sasuke nodded following me over to the place where our first test would begin. I could tell that they are both in their own thoughts, probably trying to figure out what the test is going to be like. Somewhere walking up the stairs I got lost in my thoughts as well. These two, even though they have already seen more than enough hatred and death than anyone should in their lifetime, are still twelve year old boys. This exam ruined everything we worked so hard for. I know it's too late to back out now. If we don't get into the second exam there is a pretty good chance of Orochimaru going after someone else. Even though backing out of the Chunin Exams seems to be the easiest route to take it is far too risky. The only other person I could think of him wanting is Hinata, but she is too gentle for someone like him to want at this age.
On the other hand if things don't work out the way they should then everything was a waste of time. I only have one shot at saving my team. I'll be damned if I don't succeed. Something else has been bothering me for a couple of days now. When I complete my mission, what will happen to me? Will I just forget my past life? Will I always remember? Is there a price for saving someone's life like this? So many questions that I cannot answer.
And I think it might just kill me.
"Sakura-chan, you okay?" Naruto asked bringing me out of my thoughts. I nodded giggling nervously.
"Y-yeah. Just a little nervous about the exam." I lied. He seemed to buy it but I saw Sasuke scoff from the corner of my eye. Naruto went on about protecting me throughout the experience until we reached the classroom where we found Kakashi leaning against the door. He gave us the same speech he did last time before wishing us well and disappearing in a puff of smoke. I rolled my eyes at how the seemingly cool jounin is also very dramatic. I opened up the doors to find hundreds of genin scattered across the huge classroom. I saw Ino hanging out with her team in the very front. Something must have ticked her off because I saw her scolding Shikamaru for something. Probably because he's not really interested in becoming a chunin. I held in my giggle as I scanned the rest of the crowd who were looking back at us because Naruto basically told them that we will kick their asses.
"Sakura, there you are!" I turned around putting on my best fake smile (dear god, I am turning into Sai).
"Kabuto!" I cheered giving him a quick hug. "I'm happy your team didn't chicken out at the last minute." He chuckled scratching the back of his silver head.
"Yeah I was pretty worried about that. It was a relief when I saw both of them here. So this must be your team." He said looking over my head. I nodded turning over to the two boys who looked like they were about to blow their top off. Ever since I started 'dating' Kabuto I've been doing my best for them not to meet till this very moment. That was easier said than done when you have a team that wants to protect you from everything. Even though it succeeded I knew that it bothered them to no end.
"Kabuto these are my teammates: Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha. Boys, this is my boyfriend Kabuto." Naruto nodded not wanting to blurt anything out that could result in another beating while Sasuke's eyes studied Kabuto for a good couple of seconds before speaking.
"Hi." Sasuke said coldly.
"It's nice to meet you. I wish I could say I heard a lot about you but Saku wouldn't tell me much for some reason." I rolled my eyes and leaned against the wall.
"Safety precaution. It is the Chunin Exams after all. The more you know about us then the more you know how to beat us. I want those cards of yours as out of date as possible." Kabuto chuckled shaking his head. Just as it was irritating for Sasuke and Naruto not to know anything about him, I made sure not to say one thing to Kabuto about my team. He tried numerous times to try to get anything from me. It was amusing to say the least. There was one date that he showed me the cards he used with his information gathering. I cringed when I saw my old stats .
"What do you mean Saku?" Sasuke asked with the same coldness he gave to Kabuto. I turned over to the silver haired man who was already looking for his now infamous cards. He put one on the ground pushing his chakra into his index finger. Two seconds later the once blank card had a map on it.
"This is what she means. I've been collecting information for the four years I've tried to take this exam. I have information on most of the people here including you. This one is a map of the geographic location and number of the participants from the other villages."
"As you can see, this is why I didn't tell him anything about you two." I explained. "The more updated his cards are then the more vulnerable we are. It has the stats of everything from speed to how well you are in jutsus along with some interesting facts. Just meeting you can give him info with how you walk or your personality."
"You guys have a smart teammate." Kabuto said to the boys. "I recommend keeping her around."
"Of course we will!" Naruto cheered putting his arm around my shoulder. "Sakura-chan is the best teammate we could've asked for! Believe it!"
"Everyone shut up!" A vicious voice echoed throughout the room. Everyone turned around to see Ibiki standing in front of the room looking as stern as always. "The first test is about to being."
Here I go.
"I thought for sure I was going to fail that test!" Naruto cried as we left the academy stretching his arms over his head. This test was a lot easier than the last time. It took me less than twenty five minutes to write down all the answers, even though I knew it was pointless for me to write down the answers in the first place. I knew if I didn't do anything then more than one of my classmates would've been suspicious. The rest of the time I spent trying to figure out what to do for the second exam.
I knew Orochimaru's disguise and how he was going to attack. The only problem is I don't know how to stop him. I could kill Orochimaru, but he's still a lot stronger than I am. If I was able to kill him than I am sure I will be close to dying as well. Capture? Nope, he's way too slick for me to do anything close to taking him prisoner. If I did capture him then I'm sure one of the other teams could somehow stumble upon him and release him. Hiding a scroll in a forest is easy. Hiding a body? Tougher than one could imagine with a bunch of trained ninja roaming around. If I do anything too hasty than it's more than likely that Kabuto will realize I'm on to them. Even though I cannot stand being near that creep he still has valuable information that I can use.
What am I going to do?
"Sakura-chan, want to go on a date?" Naruto asked bringing me out of my thoughts right on time. When my eyes focused I saw a shadow move behind a tree. I looked at Naruto giving him a soft smile.
"Not this time, sorry. I promised my mom that once the first test was done I would let her know." I lied. Naruto understood and darted off waving leaving me with Lord Duck Butt. "So what are your plans for tonight?" Sasuke huffed and glared at me.
"I'm not going on a date with you."
"I'm not asking you too. It's mere curiosity."
"Bull shit."
"Language."
"I still don't believe you don't have a thing for me." I sighed rubbing my temples. Was he always this infuriating? I mean come on!
"Look," I said poking his idiotically high collared blue shirt. "I don't know what I did to cause all this suspicion on me but it has got to stop. Ever since you found out that I'm not into you anymore you have been nothing but rude, condescending, and an overall jackass. I will admit I have done some weird things over the past few months but that doesn't mean that you should act like this towards me. One day it's going to affect how we work as a team. I rather not have anyone killed because your ego took a hit. I have kept my mouth shut about it for a while now but enough is enough. Now you start treating me with a little bit of respect before you get one of us killed or hurt during a mission. Now that I've said my peace I'm heading out. Don't forget where to meet tomorrow."
With that I left not letting him put a word in, not like he would anyway. Instead of walking to my house I decided to walk towards the most deserted place in the whole village. It was more than a little creepy to walk through the once vibrant compound. I remember when I first heard about it I was seven. It was the main topic in school for about a week after it happened yet looking back at it now the story that was given was not even close to how terrible it actually was. Even now everywhere I look I just see bodies even though there were actually none. I reached the biggest house which somehow was still intact after all these years. Knowing the door would be unlocked I let myself in. The whole house was covered in multiple layers of dust, old pictures hang on the wall of a family of four, shoes were left by the door as if there were people here, the sunlight lit up the hallway almost blindingly, and the wind was the only noise throughout the house. I took off my shoes laying them next to the ones already there before I walked through the dirty hallway.
I walked until I reached one room in particular and opened up the door.
"I thought I would find you here." I said to what looked like a empty room. I heard footsteps till I saw a pair of ninja sandals found the sunlight. "It's a good thing no one ever comes here or we will both be in trouble."
"How did you know?" I shrugged.
"Take a look around. It was a gorgeous place before, I remember walking by this place when I was little and thinking how amazing it was. I still think it's amazing even though it's abandoned." We stood there in silence for a good minute before they decided to speak again.
"I visit here even now and again to pay my respects."
"That's nice."
"I know you didn't just come here to have small talk. What do you want?"
"Straight to the point? I should've known better after knowing you for as long as I have. I need your help with something and before you decline I should tell you that there's a good reason why you should say yes."
The Next Day in The Forest of Death
He was so close. I could've kill him right there. My inner screamed remembering what happened when we were outside of the gates. Naruto was still rubbing his cheek from where Anko cut him when she threw the kunai. I looked at my hands for a moment before clutching them and my eyes as I try to control my anger. That damn snake. When he comes back I swear I'm going to kill him!
"Alright maggots! The second part of the test has begun!" Anko's voice cried out as the gates swung open. I followed Naruto in as I surveyed the terrain. It was no wonder why it was called the Forest of Death. The trees looked half dead, there were humongous bugs crawling around, and somehow the smell of blood was more prominent inside of the gates. We decided to find a place to hide out for a while before we planned anything. On our way Naruto had to use the bathroom. Just like last time I sent him off deeper into the forest knowing who was really the one who came out.
"Man, that really was a long one. I was able to write my whole name." 'Naruto' said with a cheeky grin.
"That's disgusting." I replied trying to be oblivious. 'Naruto' laughed and a second later was sent flying by Sasuke's kick.
"What the hell was that about Teme?" 'Naruto' asked before dodging another kick. 'Naruto' hopped up onto a tree with Sasuke in toe but then tripped and crashed into the ground hard when the Uchiha threw a punch. "Better watch out Sakura-chan! Teme's gone crazy!"
"If he's beating you up there is a good reason. I have to say it's an excellent reason considering the huge mistake you made when you transformed yourself into our teammate." The blond's eyes darted to me in shock.
"What?!"
"Taking your eyes off me is a big mistake!" Sasuke cried pulling out a kunai and rushing towards the boy. 'Naruto' took a kunai out as well in time to block Sasuke's attack. It happened like that for a few more seconds before the fake teammate backed away.
"I am Naruto! What are you talking about?"
"Naruto got a cut on his cheek before the test and your weapon holster is on your left leg instead of your right. Naruto is right handed. You are worse than Naruto. Who are you?" 'Naruto' gave an evil smirk before there was a big poff revealing a Rain ninja.
"You got me but I'm still going to-" The Rain ninja said before a kunai lodged into his stomach. Sasuke looked at me with wide eyes.
"Blah blah blah, enough with the melodramatic crap. Come up with something original would ya?" I asked before rushing to him with a new kunai in my hand. He dodged easily by hopping above me.
"Fire style: phoenix flower jutsu!" Sasuke cried puffing out small balls of fire. The Rain ninja dodged each one only to be in a kunai battle with me once again. Swiping left and right but to no avail. This is the part where I hate not being able to use my full strength. If I was able to then this battle would've been over in a matter of five seconds.
"Get me out of here!" Naruto's voice cried. I heard Sasuke mumble about how Naruto was an idiot and something being thrown. "Thank you!" The Rain ninja started to get sloppy in his movements with every strike I did. I was about to hit him when he disappeared leaving a paper bomb in his place.
"Shit!" I jumped up right as it exploded landing a good fifteen feet away seeing Sasuke being threatened by the Rain ninja. He smirked right as Naruto hopped over the tree sending Sasuke's kunai towards the mysterious man who dodged it completely. I smirked hopping up behind the man and stabbed him in his right lung before kicking him in the back and sending him to the ground. I landed right next to him.
"He might not be alone." Sasuke said.
"No he is. Or else we would've been fighting with them too." I kneeled down to the now passed out man and put my hand on the wound to his lung.
"What are you doing? He's our enemy." I glared at the raven haired boy.
"Yes he is, but I am not going to kill him just for the sake of passing a test. Besides if we were on the battlefield and this were to happen we could heal someone in order to get information. So don't you give me crap about that." I pushed a little chakra into his body fixing the worst parts but not healing him completely. I stood up after I was done looking at my boys. "We should head out before his teammates wonder where he is." They nodded and we headed off once again. About a mile and a half later we stopped once again.
"We need a code."
"Why?" Naruto asked resulting in a head punch.
"Stop asking stupid questions. Besides I rather us not discuss what the code is right now." I stated resulting in a glare and a confused look. "I rather say hello to Anko's Grass ninja friend." I took a kunai out from my pouch tossing it in the direction I knew Orochimaru was hiding. I couldn't feel his chakra, I only knew because the hairs on my skin stood up and I felt like I was going to puke. Sometimes I love that my body had created what I call: a creep detector. Orochimaru jumped from out of his hiding spot only landing three feet in front of it.
"Smart girl." The snake said with a smile on his face. I started to take out another kunai waiting for him to make another step towards us. He only stood there unraveling his tongue which held the kunai I had only just thrown. "I believe this belongs to you."
"Keep it." I growled. Control your temper Sakura. You can't kill him just yet. I took a deep breath not taking my eyes off of my target. Out of the corner of my eye I saw that the boys had taken out their own kunai/shuriken. "I'm sure that if we fell into the trap of yours then someone would be eaten by a snake by now."
"How did you know?"
"I would call it a gut feeling. Just like that gut feeling is telling me you have an Earth scroll in your possession." He took off his hat, tossed it aside, and reached into his pocket pulling out the scroll showing I was correct.
"My, my. That gut of yours sure is good. I bet you would love to take this for your Heaven scroll but it won't be quite easy." I shivered as I watch him force his scroll down his throat and swallow it whole. I will never understand how my Sasuke lived with this creep for as long as he did. Once Orochimaru was done swallowing the scroll he opened his eye lid a little more. "Tell me darling, what is your gut telling you now?"
"Don't look in his-AHHHHHHHHHH" I couldn't finish my sentence as I was dragged into his genjutsu.
"How many of these guys are there?!" I yelled pulling my kunai out of another Sound ninja. I looked around seeing my friends all in their own battle. The Fourth Great Shinobi War after two years seems to be calming down. Yet the fighting still never seems to end. I felt a foreign chakra rush towards me from behind so I turned around with my already blood stained weapon and slit the throat of another ninja in one swoop.
"Sakura!"Kiba yelled. I look over seeing him ride Akamaru with someone laying down sideways on the back. He skidded towards a stop, jumped off, and grabbed the other person as carefully as possible. "She's pretty messed up." He put the person on the ground very gently.
"Dammit Pig." I kneeled down putting my chakra infused hands on her stomach. A deep cut on her right shoulder, broken left arm and leg, a good amount of hearing damage, a broken nose (I'm going to hear a lot about that one later), and something in her….motherfucking shit! "Kiba. Can you fight without Akamaru for a few minutes?"
"Yeah. Whatever you need." He patted his dog's head before rushing off to help someone else. I put Ino back onto Akamaru in a more comfortable position before leading him towards the medical wing. Bodies littered the ground. No matter how hard I tried I always ended up stepping on someone. Unfortunately one of the 'someone's made themselves into a bomb. Right as it exploded strong arms grabbed and pulled me away before I could get hurt. When we landed I saw Akamaru had dodged it as well meaning that Ino was safe.
"You good?" I looked up seeing my former teammate now standing over.
"Yeah. Thanks Uchiha."
"Be careful next time."
"Shut up."
"Having a lovers spat?" I turned around throwing shuriken where the voice came from but found nothing."Too slow." A hand grabbed my hair flinging me with incredible strength making my whole backside crash into a brick wall. My vision was too hazy for me to see anything. All I heard was clashing of metal and Akamaru's whimpering.
"Akamaru! Bring Ino to the medical center! Don't stop for anything!" I heard him back in response. I sent chakra to my eyes which helped clear my vision considerably. I cursed seeing that Madara was winning the battle as he slashed at Sasuke's stomach. I tried pushing myself up with no avail. My body was too weak from fighting almost nonstop for two weeks in a row. Once Madara had the chance to get away from his current opponent he turned towards me seeing that I'm completely useless. He raced towards me with incredible speed holding up a paper bomb. Once he deemed close enough he stopped and threw it in my direction. I was sure I was going to die.
Until Sasuke Uchiha stepped in front of the paper bomb. He turned looking straight into my eyes as he said something I couldn't hear. Somehow I knew exactly what he was saying.
"No!"
Then everything went dark. I didn't know how long I was passed out, but the next thing I knew I heard Kakashi saying my name over and over again. I opened my eyes to see the copy ninja looking relieved.
"Where is he? Sasuke?" Kakashi didn't say anything. He picked me up bridal style and carried me over to where Naruto and Sai sat surrounding a burnt body. Kakashi put me down next to my tearful best friend. I finally got a good view of my old crush. He had third degree burns covering his whole body, cuts from previous fights, and a large piece of wood piercing deep into his lung. It was clear that he was a goner. "Dammit, you are not dying on me!" I mustered up all the chakra I had left into my hands slamming it onto the part of his chest that was clear. I could feel his heartbeat. I felt it stop. I knew better than anyone that he couldn't be saved. So why? Why am I killing myself trying to save someone who can't be saved?
"Sakura stop." Naruto said calmly.
"No."
"Please."
"You can't make me."
"Sak-"
"You would do the same thing if you were me so stop being a damn hypocrite! If I can't save his life than what was all that training for?!" The tears started to overflow. I couldn't hold them in any longer so I cried harder than when he left, harder than when we had to bury Lady Chiyo, harder than when we had to bury my own father when I was ten. It was at that time I decided I was going to try to do what Lady Chiyo did with Gaara. Kakashi must've realized what I was trying to do.
"Sai get her out of here!"
"No!"
"Sai!" The other black haired male grabbed me by the stomach. No matter how hard I tried my body was too weak to fight back. He pulled me off my fallen comrade and onto one of his life bird drawings.
"Bring me back! Please! Bring me back!" I begged as we flew higher. We never did go back. The new father-to-be was pulling me away from my friends.
Cold water hit my face bringing me back to reality. Naruto and Sasuke leaned against the trunk of a huge tree, Naruto being the one that is holding up the now empty flask. Great, one more thing we have to take care of. I looked over at the raven haired boy seeing that his leg, yet again, is bleeding.
"Let me take a look at your leg." I whispered. He nodded allowing me to reach over and heal him enough to stop the bleeding. Wait! If I remember correctly then that means- "Disperse!" Everyone jumped in different directions as a huge snake's head landed where we were just sitting. The snake charged for Sasuke who sent eight shuriken his way killing the beast instantly. I drew shuriken of my own waiting for the monster himself to show up. Slowly the snake skin cracked as Orochimaru rose up. He started to sliver his way to the very shaken up boy when I threw my weapons inches from his face. I wasn't the only one who had that idea as Naruto's weapons helped make a larger barrier. There's only one way we can beat this guy right now. "Naruto! I need you to leave!"
"What?! I'm not leaving you guys! Are you crazy?" Naruto yelled.
"Do you trust me?"
"Yeah. Of course I do."
"Then trust me on this. We are going to need back up, go find Ino and tell her Code Black. She'll know what it'll mean. When you come back tell me 'komorebi'. Understand?" He nodded before taking off. There's one problem out of the way.
"You can have the scroll if you leave us in peace." Sasuke said taking the scroll out of his pouch.
"It's not the scroll I want boy." Damn! This is the most crucial moment to save him and I still don't have a plan. I could try attacking him from behind, but he'll most likely see it coming. Back up is on the way but I doubt that it will be here by the time I need it to. "But I will take it from you once you're dead." I said something last time to get him motivated. To do something besides give up.
"You'll never be able to kill whoever it is you want to kill if you freeze up now!" I screamed finally getting his attention. Orochimaru snapped his head towards me.
"Shut up little girl. Why don't you play with my other friend? Be careful. He likes to play with his dinner." What? I turned around to see the other snake that was meant for earlier with his mouth opened wide coming towards me. I jumped out of the way landing on the side of a tree ten feet away. The snake rose up looking at me with it's tongue tasting the air. Fuck! I should've taken care of this a long time ago. If I get close enough to it then I can probably use some medical ninjutsu. I looked over seeing Sasuke and Orochimaru starting to fight. Apparently I looked too long because the snake rushed towards me again and I barely dodged it. I threw some shuriken which only hit the side of it's mouth. He darted towards me again. I dodged but stayed relatively close to where it landed. I hopped over to the snake before it got the chance to get up again. I put my hand on the side of the mouth and forced my chakra to cut the vital points of the creature. It died instantly. I tried looking for Sasuke but they had disappeared.
Then I heard a scream. Thankfully it's not from him. I hopped over to where I heard the scream coming from to see Sasuke standing across from a tree that had Orochimaru tied to it and was covered in burns. Sasuke crumbled from chakra exhaustion but didn't pass out. I stayed a decent amount away from him as the snake started to move again removing his fake skin.
"You've mastered the sharingan well for such young age. You are a true Uchiha after all." This is it! "You'll do nicely. Especially since your eyes are keener than Itachi's."
"Who are you?"
"I haven't introduced myself yet, have I? My name is Orochimaru. We will meet again soon, Sasuke. After you pass the test of course as well as defeat the Sound ninja who work for me. That's a promise." He made a hand signal before his head stretched from his body darting towards Sasuke. This is it. What am I going to do? He was so close to Sasuke.
I did the only thing I could do.
Right before Orochimaru could bite Sasuke…
I jumped between them and got bitten instead.
Sasuke's P.O.V
Everything froze when Sakura jumped in front of me. Her silent scream when the demon bit her will probably never leave my mind. Orochimaru's fangs finally left Sakura's neck but they didn't get far. Sakura grabbed their neck and her hands glowed green. Something must've happened because Orochimaru let out a terrible scream. Their body reached their head and they pushed off Sakura attempting to get as far away as possible.
In a moment he was gone.
And in the next so was Sakura.
All I saw was her falling off the branch and a black blur take her away.
Now both of my teammates are missing. If I know one thing for sure, a certain blond knucklehead is going to be super pissed when he finds out.
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Me: Damn. And I mean DAMN! I've been writing for over twelve hours and I'm finally done with this fucking chapter. I hope you guys liked it or else I'm going to be pissed cause this thing took FOREVER! I know some things were repeated from the show but I hoped I didn't make you hate me for it. I had to rewatch the show in order to figure this shit out cause I wanted it to be in the exact order it was in before. I hope the plot twist wasn't too predictable or any others I already have planned. If they are then, oh well. I already know what I'm going to do for the next few chapters. You won't have to wait forever I promise. Also if you are wondering what 'komorebi' means, it means sunlight shining through the leaves of trees. Anyways! I'm going to head out so I will talk to you guys soon! NO FLAMES OR I WILL FLAME YOU SO HARD ITACHI'S FIREBALL JUTSU WILL LOOK LIKE CHILD'S PLAY! I LOVE YOU GUYS! PLEASE REVIEW!