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Sasuke vs Sakura

He repeated, now his voice was hoarse, "I am sorry for trying to kill you before Sakura" he then had an evil glimmer in his eyes , Sakura gasped, he started laughing silently, "I guess it was fate that did that," he then looked at her mockingly, " if you were dead, I would be deprived of answers." Sakura looked at him with shock, Sasukekun.. Then her eyes slowly faded, hasn't changed.. he then scraped the edge of the sword roughly on her throat towards her chin. tiny tinge of blood gushed out, she winced in pain. But she tried to control herself,

He smiled mischievously, as he took a tiny drop of blood from near her chin , and rubbed them on her face. She squinted in disgust at the smell of iron. Then he took another and pointed his thumb which had her blood at her, "Lick it!"

Sakura gritted her teeth, she lowered her face, her expression was unreadable. I am a fool, too weak to understand the truth in front of me. She thought angrily. She then looked at Sasuke with a blank expression. "Sasukekun"

He looked at her, trying to anticipate her move.

She forced her knuckles towards his stomach, but he jumped away from her, a bit stunned at her move, but he still held her blood on his thumb. "fine, if that's your answer then," he performed handseals and striked his palm to the ground.

Summoning jutsu! Sakura widened her eyes. Using my own blood? How is that even possible?! I thought only the one in contract would be able to do that!

Sasuke held a cocky smile. "I guess you digged your own grave sakura. Saved me a bit of trouble. So give me the information on the scroll sakura." He was standing above Manda. The snake was so gigantic that it demolished the small lodge in pieces.

The snake who he must be in contract with.. she thought, her face was grim. She ran towards a distance to put herself on guard. She was now full in battle mood. "Give me the information on Uchiha sharingan . Sakura!"

"Not until we both know our strengths! Sasukekun" she replied defiantly, but there was a hint of hesitant in her emerald orbs, Sasuke kun is toying with me. I have to show what I am capable of, up until now, he is not serious on battle with me. She tightened her knuckles. I know I am not his equal, but at least I am better than who I was when I was genin. For some reason She was hoping for him to use his sharingan.

He gnashed his teeth, "Damn it!" I don't need to waste my sharingan abilities on this irritating nin. If I finish her at once .. "fine. If that's how it is"he face was unreadable.

He commanded the snake to attack her, The snake started going after her, slithering its way in a fierce manner, Sakura jumped out of the bits and pieces on the wreck. She managed to escape from the ruined place.

At that moment a substitution of Sasuke appeared behind her, They were now inside the wide thicket. It was dark except for the moon light on top, There was a huge boulder at the far side of where they were. He gathered up chakra which produced a prickling sound. It was chidori. he directed that towards the middle of her back. It was the second time he used that on her, so it hardly shocked her. She gulped, I don't want to fight you Sasukekun. But.. "why is everything so complicated?" She wondered out loud,sad at the reality she was now she vanished at that instant, Leaving a substitution. At that moment, poison smoke burst in the air, which she released when she escaped.

The substitute Sasuke escaped at that instant, but she managed to throw a needle at his arm, which contained a harmful poison which paralyses victims immediately, the fake Sasuke immediately disappeared. Sasuke tied his arms on his chest. He closed his eyes, "you have improved a bit. Sakura" he opened his eyes which activated his Sharingan. He caught her knuckles from behind him with ease. Sakura was taken aback. So fast! He then looked at her with contempt, then he threw her towards several yards at the front. She screamed, as she ended up on a branch of a huge tree. He then jumped towards her direction, she escaped. She went on from branch to branch, but he trailed right behind her, he was too swift for her own good. He caught up with her, and grabbed her by the waist. She tried to escape. She tried to push him with might. But it was hopeless. He was too strong for her, he then threw her towards the boulder, she at once gathered chakra, to avoid being hit too hard.

It gathered friction on her feet and she ended next to the boulder. And within next second, he ended up caging her with his arms on both sides of the boulder, he was looking intently at her, his face above hers. His eyes looked at hers with such intensity that her whole body shivered. But still she held her gaze on his sharingan. Her heart started to beat rapidly. She could not defense herself. I wanted you out…he thought, and yet.. she was the only female besides his mother that he cared about his whole life. His mother died, and he broke his ties with sakura four years ago. He could have ignored her, if it wasn't for his interest on his clan's ability. "I would have kill you now because of what you did." He whispered gravely.

She softened her eyes. "Sasuke kun. I would have done anything for you, even give you the scroll.." she replied, exposing her old softer side to him. Sasuke studied her face, As if trying to search for the answer.

Shizune was assigning work to the assistant nurses when naruto arrived, "you go and try to make more antidotes with the herbs in our storage," she directed one of them, "make it as quick as possible, our casualties need serious treatments" while holding tonton in her arm, she looked panicked, "what's wrong shizunesan?" naruto asked her,

Shizune noticed him at that moment. That must be a clone. He was at his nine tailcloak mode. "oh,its everything. Sakura has disappeared in the middle of the night, and I have no way in finding her, and we are running out of medicine." She went towards a cooler near the cabinet, poured out water in a glass and drank it.

"what?! When did this happen?! Why didn't you tell any of us? Sakurachan might be in danger by now." Naruto was fuming. She is in danger, and they are just sitting here not doing anything about it. He tightened his knuckles. but seeing the way shizune looked right then, he had to believe the truth. Shizune looked expectantly at him, "please find her narutokun."

He nodded, but his expression was troubled. "she is alive. I know" He immediately scurried off. Sakura chan, I am coming for you.

Meanwhile, The original naruto was facing their worst enemy, Madara, maybe the worst one they faced in their generation. He gritted his teeth. He can't look for her now, he just got to place his trust on the bunshin. As he glanced at everyone in the battle with him.

"what? Sakurasan is missing?" Hinata looked skeptic. As she faced the bunshin infront of her, both kiba and Shino was taken aback by the sudden news. Naruto nodded, "hmm. But I am going to do my best to find her. I have sent my other clone for search," he looked at her worried face. He smiled reassuringly at her. "sakurachan would be okay. She is strong enough for a thousand zetsus." He was also told it assure himself. I trust in her abilities. Hinata nodded, although she felt worry towards sakura.

As Sasuke looked deep in her eyes, he remembered the night he left Konoha, It was the night he bade farewell to his past. He gave up his friends, everything for the sake of killing his brother. He remembered her cries, her words, she would have done anything for him, but he didn't need her, he did not want her to follow his path. Because she did not deserve it, she didn't deserve to follow the dark path he chose. He did not want her to. But he felt gratitude for the things she did for him, so as he put the unconscious kunoichi on the bench, his eyes were soft and sad as he glanced at his old teammate's wept face.

His eyes, just for a moment, shone an air of reluctance, he leaned on her. His eyes were full of concern towards as he felt the sorrow and hurt that welled up through her, he stood up, at once pushing his personal feelings away. If I stay, I won't be able to fulfill my revenge. He thought, as he left. Now as he looked at the now stronger female, he realized how naïve his decision was. Killing his brother. It's the konoha elders' fault that he did what he did. They are going to pay. He pulled away from her. But the sword was stuck next to her.

Something nagged at her, "Sasukekun," she told, "why didn't you use Mangekyo on me?"

Mangekyo?! Reality struck him, as if he knew just then, yes, why didn't i? I know that using Mangekyo is the only way on obtaining that information. Sasuke was too shocked to answer her at that moment.

I love the ending on this chapter, (no this story did not finish yet. don't worry.) i am sorry if you guys found this short. i am disappointed in myself too.i actually wanted to write up to 4000 too.:( The thing was i had a massive headache at the time. so i had to give in. and if i waited again. That would mean more delays. i enjoyed writing this chapter.;) yes yes. action and action. did i put too much fighting in this or too less? (don't worry,i did not forget the genre of this story;))

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