Su… sugoi… I only upload it for a few hours the other day and already got… wow… that's so sweet. I hope to be better at uploading (I take too long, but I'm really into this one XD). Thanks for correcting my mistake as well. I love you guys (I changed it immediately when I saw the reviews)!! Wow, "bobble-ganger"… I'm an idiot, ha-ha…
Mood: HAPPY (for once)!! Thanks to my reviewers, alerters, and favoriters!!
Status: Talking to my home-skillet biscuit, Tiny… just got back from play rehearsal… Being a stage manager is so troublesome…
Soundtrack: Suigintou no Yoru – Noriaki Sugiyama (the seiyuu for Sasuke and Uryu Ishida from Bleach, 'cause I just found out they're the same people! Funny 'cause he's known for Sasuke and I was more like "His singing sounds like Ishida" ha-ha…) from Naruto All Stars. That song and 'Kimi Monogatari' are the best!!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, I wish I owned a voice as nice as Noriaki Sugiyama 'cause then I wouldn't have to make Naruto FFs since I would be making millions from my music and could just pay Masashi Kishimoto to change everything so that it would be the way I want it!!
He held Sakura as she was still shaking and cold sweat ran down her face. Sasuke's eyebrows furrowed. This was his teammate, but what was… that… whatever it was, that took over Sakura. It was like the complete opposite of what she was.
Sasuke looked over at Team 10 who came out of a bush near the cave, helping up Lee and waking up Naruto, claiming that they were just minding their business and were passing by and thought that Team 7 needed help.
"ARGGHHH!!" Naruto screamed as he sat up. There was Sakura-chan and Sasuke-teme… Ino and Fuzzy Eyebrows… wait…
Where is he…? Naruto dove on the ground and started looking around cautiously, "Everyone hide!!"
They all turned to him as he continued yelling, "No, get down!!" He stared crawling and then whispered to himself, "Where is he… kuso…?"
Sakura and Sasuke turned around to look at his questionably. Ino was helping Lee up and thought in annoyance, baka… he finally woke up.
Something poked at his head and Shikamaru sighed lazily, "You're pretty dumb, aren't you?"
Naruto turned around to see who was rudely speaking to him. Shikamaru groaned, "Actually, watching you pisses me off."
Choji nodded while Naruto glared at the both of them and then turned to see what was all going on.
Then, his teammates caught his attention. Naruto yelled from all the way over with Choji and Shikamaru jealously, "TEME!! GET YOUR PAWS OFFA SAKURA-CHAN!!!"
They immediately sprung away from each other, both blushing, but Sasuke's blush, with better control of his emotions, was barely noticeable, but there was no mistake that Sakura saw a light pink tint across his face.
Naruto gasped when he saw her pink locks go up to her shoulder instead of down to mid-back like always. He sprinted over to his teammates as fast as he could, yelling at, what was almost the top of his lungs, "Sakura-chan, SAKURA-CHAN!!"
He slid on his knees over to her and stuttered out his question, "Wh-what happened to your hair?! Why are you covered in… blood?!"
She looked down to see that not only her face was splattered with red liquid, but her arms, legs, and some were around the hem of her outfit.
"Are you okay?! Sakura-chan?! What happened?!'
Sakura looked up slightly, only to gaze at the ground again, "It… it's okay. I'm… well I'm fine now. My hair… just, don't worry about it. It'll grow back."
Sasuke stared worriedly at her. She knew Naruto was looking for a better explanation, but how could she give an explanation if she didn't even understand what was going on herself? Her dark-haired companion's eyebrows furrowed as she wiped the dried dark red crust off of her face and picked up the scroll that Dosu left when admitting defeat.
Ino frowned at Sakura's behavior after that little incident. She was… so… dead… It was like she was afraid that the smallest step out of place will awaken whatever happened to her again. Then, Ino gave a small smile. At least one quality of Sakura will never fade away: her care for other people, and that had to be the pink-haired girl's best quality.
Tenten then jumped in front of Ino. Looking up, she said, "I'll take him, now."
"Ah… uh… okay…" Ino gently transferred Lee into Tenten's arms.
"WAKE UP LEE!!" she violently shook him and then threw him down to the ground.
He groaned and looked up a little, "Tenten…? Why are you here?"
She bent down and looked at him seriously, "We came to help you."
Lee looked around, "Huh? Where did those Sound nin go?"
"Sasuke and Sakura drove them off, mainly Sakura," Tenten explained.
He was shocked. Before he was unconscious, the last thing he saw of Sakura was that she was being held by her hair.
"S-Sakura-san?"
Tenten nodded, "You're really lucky that they were there."
"I guess…" he disappointedly sighed, "I didn't have to save her at all…"
Tenten bitterly thought, geez, if Lee didn't try to act like a man and protect her, he wouldn't have lost…
"Baka," she grumbled.
He pulled his knees up to his chin and sighed, "I can't argue with that…"
Tenten looked at his sad expression for a minute, and then sighed, "Well, it can't be helped, we should get you cleaned up, Neji's waiting."
"H-hai," he pulled himself up.
"Lee."
He turned around when he heard Sakura's voice say his name. Sakura was standing behind him, and managed to pull a small smile together for him, "Ah… arigato… you… you protected me when I was down, even though I wasn't on your team."
Lee stared at her in shock for a minute before small sniffling sounds were heard. Sakura looked at his face to see that he was crying a little, "Sakura-san… You truly are a strong and talented kunochi that live up to the reputation to capture the heart of the equally powerful Uchiha. I guess I have to train more… you defeated them so easily while I lost horribly."
Sasuke froze, wh-what? Were those guys really that strong that he even lost? Sasuke looked over at Sakura whose expression looked a bit uncomfortable. What's going on with Sakura? What's going on with me? How was I able to stop her in her massacre stage when she defeated three Sound nin without much effort?!
Sakura spoke so softly that only Sasuke could here her words, "Don't worry about it. Whatever it was, I'll try to control it as best as I can… only if you do the same…"
He turned to her to see that she had her pinky sticking out and a serious expression on her face, which was something that only Sakura could do: talk about something serious while swearing with such childish techniques.
Sasuke looked at her face again after studying her hand to see that she was smiling with the expression that he was so familiar with when it came to Sakura. Sasuke didn't realize how much he missed the old, childish Sakura back. He couldn't help but smile as well. Sasuke slowly raised up his hand to hook his shortest finger with Sakura's.
They both stared at each other, smiling while Naruto was lying on the ground on his stomach, scowling at the pair. Ino's voice erupted from the side
"Hey, Sakura," Ino shouted as she waved her arm, "Over here! I'll fix up your hair!"
Sakura looked over at her former-best-friend and smirked, "Thanks."
"You little cheater," Ino growled as she snipped away some ends of Sakura's hair with her kunai, "Doing something like that in front of people to make it look like you have something together."
She smirked and an evil glint flashed her eye, "All is fair in love and war, Ino-pig."
Neji stood on the branch, glancing from between Sakura and Sasuke.
They really are some team, the Kyuubi vessel, the last Uchiha, and her… they make good rivals…
A hiss was heard and then some chuckling. The sly voice laughed again and then sighed, "Ne, looks like we when for the wrong one, eh? The pink-haired creature would've been a much better body, ne?" He sighed, "Well, it's the Uchiha eyes I really want now. Better not tinker with this unheard demon…"
Yellow eyes could be seen in the darkness along with a flickering tongue, "Hmm… everything just got a little more intresting, ne?"
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So, I hope it wasn't too boring. Nothing really happens, except the growing action to finding out what Sakura is… sorry. I didn't want to add what I was planning on this chapter, but I promise next chapter, I will get better at adding action to every chapter equally!
Hugs and Kisses,
Lilium :X