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Chapter Title: Rest of me

"Kill…me", he repeated again, each word throbbing at his heart.

She stood ready, limping to one side most likely from an injury. She gripped the kunai firmly unsure of what this new threat would do.

She was a mess. Her clothes were tattered; holes ensued along the hems that held it all together. Her exposed skin had numerous minuscule cuts along with deep bruise marks up and down her body.

Her lovable face, replaced with black bags under her eyes and discoloration of her unhealthy treated skin. Dried blood was smeared on her hands, and legs, even in her once soft pink hair. She was shaking, kunai still in hand.

Her legs shook in a violent manner wanting to buckle, but the look of determination to fight still present on her exhausted face.

"You don't kill, it is not in your nature", Naruto responded.

Sakura eyes widen, "Who do you think you are… if it is not my nature why is he dead."

Naruto stood dumbfounded; she really did not remember who he was. He took a step forward causing her to become alarmed, and her posture changed to attack.

She pulled out another kunai and threw it.

THUD!

The kunai flew past Naruto's head and hit the wall. A few pieces of his blond hair stuck out of the sharp end of the kunai. With years of experience, Naruto knew that kunai was meant to kill, but due to Sakura's poor condition it was not fully on track of its target.

Naruto put his hands in the air, and tried to calm her down. He could see one of her eyes closing and he knew she wouldn't last long at this rate.

"How… can you not remember…me. I am your best friend, we grew up together. We..", he cut himself short, when the Sasuke and Kakashi made their entrance.

"Don't scare her", he stated promptly as he turned to them.

All three men stood quiet for a moment. Sasuke and Kakashi analyzed the situation quickly, and swiftly knew something was wrong.

"Sakura-chan…you are alive", Sasuke stated out loud a mix of relief and joy across his face.

Sakura's face still full of fear and anger lowered her weapon slightly. She would have killed the blonde in an instant if she could, but this was the second person to call her…Sakura. She had to know, she had to know what was going on.



"Is that my name…Sakura?"

She was met with wide eyes from all three.

'Wait what if this is a trick to torture me…to hurt me…' she let herself get lost in her thoughts as the men began to discuss the perplex problem at hand. .

Kakashi took note of her injuries and noticed a large gash on her head. He informed Naruto and Sasuke to look deeper at Sakura's head injury. Both Naruto and Sasuke turned their eyes to Sakura's head injury. Most of the blood was clumped in one area. They quickly deduced that she must have suffered from a blow to the head that was causing some kind of memory block.

"We need to get her home…or at least get the medic to check her out. We need to get a better understanding of her condition. We don't know how serious her condition is until we understand what is going on." stated Kakashi.

Sasuke and Naruto nodded in agreement, but both knew it would was easier said than done. They didn't know If Sakura remembered how much strength she really had in her. Sakura would not let them just take her especially since she didn't not know who they were. They were more afraid that she would end up hurting herself.

So it was a stand still between the former team 7.

Sakura looked back and forth between the three men. One was tall and had a thin build; he had a mask that covered his face. His silver hair shined in the dim light. She could tell he was older than the other two. She noticed the scar that was present above his eye.

The other man was also very muscular; he showed no facial emotion he had dark black raven hair. His deep onyx eyes looked like a deep black hole, and behind him was a long sword.

The last man, the blonde who had found her had a pain stricken look across his face, as if it hurt him to see her. His eyes were like an ocean a surreal deep blue. He had slight marks on his face, unlike scars they were lined up in patterns. The bright orange he wore was hard to miss, but was offset by the black. He had a headband across his head. She did not recognize what village he was from…she than realized she didn't even know what village she was from.

"If Sakura is my real name…and you know me…how could…how could you let this happen to me. How could you just leave me here…to riot", she screamed kunai clutched tightly in hand.

Sasuke winched as she screamed, each word bearing the truth. He had let this happen to her, he had let her down.

"It is not your fault Sasuke, you did everything you could", Naruto replied.

Sakura's breathing became faced paced, and everyone took notice.

"Sakura, you need to calm yourself, your having an anxiety attack. Your flow of chakra is uneven; it can kill you if you don't stop." Kakashi screamed to her.

Kakashi knew he had to act fast, "Naruto you are the fastest, you need to knock her out."

Naruto threw a look at Kakashi… "I can't do that, she doesn't trust us as it is."

"If you don't do it, she will die standing there."

Naruto didn't have to think twice after he heard what Kakashi had said.

'I'm sorry Sakura' he thought as he flashed in front of her

Sakura's eyes widened. She was losing conscious and fell backward; Naruto reached out and grabbed her in time, leaning her back gently.

"Please…please just kill me…no more torture…I don't know anything.", was all Naruto could make out as her eyes shut.

Sakura shifted silently in his arms. He held her tight as he swiftly jumped from the tree branches. They were moving out of the eerie compound, toward their campsite they had set up. Sakura lay motionless in his arms.

Sakura knew she didn't have an ounce of strength in her, but could feel the cold air rushing to her face. She was being moved, which frightened her, she barely opened her eyes to see the blonde man was carrying her in his arms. He was speaking softly to her.

"Hold on Sakura, I won't let anything happen to you, you just have to hold on….till we get home."

"Home…do I have a home" thought Sakura.

She fainted out of conscious as Naruto continued to leap forward. Even caring Sakura, Naruto was moving at an incredibly speed. Kakashi knew he was eager to get her home so they could figure out what to do about her memory loss. Kakashi pushed himself to catch Naruto.

"We need to stop and rest at the campsite; she won't make it home unless we clean her wounds. Some of them are already infected."

Naruto nodded in agreement, his former sensei knew him so well, he wanted to rush home to Konoha but he had to be rational about what he did for Sakura's sake.

Upon reaching the campsite, Naruto placed Sakura on a makeshift bed near the fire.

"Get the medic", he ordered.

Sasuke stood above him looking down at Sakura. She looked pale as the glow of the fire bounced off her skin. He walked away from the campsite clearly upset with something as the medic took a seat near Sakura.



The medic quickly began to clean the obvious dangerous wounds and those that were infected. Naruto lingered over her shoulder, carefully watching. He took a closer look at Sakura's injury on her head and noticed the cut was much deeper than expected. It took nearly two hours to take care of all her dangerous wounds. The group reconvened about what they should do. Kakashi agreed that he would send one unit out to scan the area ahead, while Naruto, Sasuke and himself would remain through the night and head out with Sakura in the morning.

"What should we do if she wakes up", Naruto asked looking out at the sky.

Kakashi sighed heavily, "The medic gave me this."

He held out a small bottle with a tiny needle.

"We will have to sedate her."

Naruto didn't move from his spot, he understood that Kakashi had to do what was necessary to keep her alive, until baa-chan could cure her. Naruto simply nodded his head in exhaustion.

"We don't need her to have another attack like that. It is the only way to get her home safe." Sasuke responded from behind a tree.

He sat in solitude and watched Sakura sleep from afar. He was worried about her losing her memory even though his expression on his face did not display it.

Naruto as well looked from the starry sky to Sakura, who was sleeping in silence. He never expected to find her like that. He thought he would save her, and she would hug him and hit him for hugging her first, and she would tell him about all the pain she had gone through, but how she never gave up believing they would come for her.

He never dreamed that she wouldn't remember who he was, who Sasuke or Kakashi were. He never dreamed that he would find her, and she wouldn't be herself anymore.

Kakashi's hand rested on Naruto shoulder, "We found her alive Naruto, that is a good place to start don't you think? I am sure when we get her home, everything will be fine."

Naruto gave a silent nod and decided he would keep first watch. He turned and walked toward Sakura where he took a seat in front of her.

Kakashi smiled as Naruto walked away, but when Naruto was out of sight he gazed up at the moon. "He knew…everything might not be okay, but he couldn't tell Naruto that at this moment. The injury to Sakura's head was by far the worst he had seen, and he didn't know how much damage had been done.

"Please…I don't…know…don't hurt me…please." Sakura shifted from position to position. She was whispering words in her sleep.

Naruto stood above her. He quickly sat down and stroked her hair gently.



"It's okay Sakura-chan, I'm here, and nothing is going to happen to you. I will protect you I promise. I promise."

Sakura eased, and the faint whisper began to die down. She began to breathe in a calm state again and fell back into a deep sleep.

Naruto sat by her side the whole night, unwilling to move. When Kakashi and Sasuke woke up he was slouched over near Sakura sleeping peacefully.

"What wouldn't he do for Sakura?", Kakashi asked turning to Sasuke.

Sasuke just looked at him a small smile set upon his face.

It came time to move out, and Kakashi pulled out the small vial that the medic had gave him.

"We need to give this to her now. If she woke up while we are moving her it may lead to troubles."

Both Naruto and Sasuke as painful as it was to agree nodded their heads.

Kakashi bent down and injected the vial into her arm.

"That should keep her asleep until we reach Konoha", he motioned to pick Sakura up, when he saw Naruto bend down instead.

"Kakashi-sensei, I would like to carry her home please."

"Will you be alright Naruto, you have not slept well since the start of this mission."

"I will be okay, I just need to get her home and then I can worry about rest."

Kakashi nodded in agreement, all three men jumped up onto a branch and headed off into the distance. The sun was yet to rise. They would be home by nightfall. Hopefully than they would get some answers on what would happen to Sakura.