Decisions of Love.
Chapter Three. Disappearances.
DON'T OWN NARUTO, OR ANY MUSIC I USE THROUGHOUT THIS FANFICTION!
"There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch Me." -Unknown 3.
I woke up with the right side of my face throbbing, her punch hadn't effected me much last night but now... Oh now it hurt, I could feel it swell. I looked around for the girl that caused this, she was no where in sight, the side of the bed she and slept on was nicely made, there was no clear evidence she had even been here.
"Shit..." I cursed and through the covers off my body, losing all of the heat I had built up the night before. I jumped out of bed and checked the bathroom, she wasn't in there. I looked down the hall way and noticed everyone's doors shut. She wouldn't have gone to socialize at two a.m.
I woke my team mates up, informing them of the recent event. "So what... We were going to leave her anyway... Why's it matter now?" Karin questioned the obvious.
"She's joining the team." Sasuke stated while he grinded his teeth together, thinking of where she would have gone to, One in the middle of the night.
"Sasuke-San... Don't take offense but... You don't normally have to chase a 'team mate' down... I think her leaving made it clear... She doesn't want anything to do with us... Or are team.." Juugo half said half asked politely.
"Hey... The big guys got a point... But if she doesn't join us... Then she can be a captive or a prisoner..." Suigutsu thought out loud.
"What's the point?... She would only be more of a hindrance than a help." Juugo asked curiously.
"She's a Medical Ninja... We need a proper medic... She has some fighting skills... That would prove useful... and she knows information about the Akatsuki." Sasuke stated.
"I didn't ask what she could do... I asked what's the point? All of that proves useless, unless she is willing to betray her village and help us." Juugo stated yet again... The normally calm and business-minding man was starting to irritate the Uchiha.
"The point is..." What is the point? Sasuke questioned himself while he trailed off his sentence... Was he really interested in her skill... Yes she would be useful but was that really all... Juugo was right she proved useless if she didn't help or give them information... Why did he want her on his team?
Sasuke shook his head before continuing. "The point is.. If we... Convince(?) her she would prove very useful in battle and afterwards." Sasuke restated his shorter answer from earlier.
Juugo still had many doubts, but decided to let the Uchiha have his way, he may figure out the hard way, what he already knows... Rejection might do the Uchiha some good. Juugo turned to pack his things already knowing what the Uchiha was thinking.
"I'll meet up with you outside the hotel in twenty." Juugo stated while walking into his room.
"Me too... Maybe... I might be an hour or two late... Just because I don't like her... Or care for her.. Or" Karin babbled on about something no one cared about before Suigutsu interrupted her.
"No one cares Karin... Your opinion doesn't matter... "You'll be there or you'll be left." Suigutsu was cut off by the Uchiha himself... Which shut the bitch up in seconds, she ran to her room and started her shower. Only Suigutsu and Sasuke stood in the empty corridors.
"What if she doesn't join the team?" Suigutsu asked while staring out the open window.
"We'll make her..." Sasuke stated smiply and Suigutsu felt like he shouldn't question the Uchiha over the matter any longer, and he headed off towards his and Karin's room.
Sasuke walked back into his own room, and shut the door, he jumped and held a kunai to a delicate pale throat when he felt her presence. "Nice conversation..." Sakura said while holding a cup of coffee.
Sasuke kept the kunai pressed to her throat, but stood up straighter and took a step back. "Where'd you go?" Sasuke questioned angrily.
Sakura completely ignored his question. "You know my favorite part of the conversation was my choices I have..." Sakura said in a obviously fake cherry tone.
"Hn... Pick?" Sasuke more so demanded than asked.
"Option number ones pretty good... Captive... Don't have to do anything... Possibly be tortured or killed... But then again option number two does spark a interest in me... Joining my ex team mate... Betraying my village... Betraying my friends and family... All for a stubborn asshole who thinks he's all that?" Sakura said pretending to be thinking hard while she tapped her foot, and put a index finger to her chin while looking up in frustration and thought.
"But personally I like option number three..." Sakura said with a devious smirk sent in Sasuke's direction, he looked like he wasn't paying attention but she knew he was hanging onto every word that slipped off her tongue and spewed from her lips. Sasuke raised an eyebrow in my direction.
"I leave your team... We go are seperate ways... I don't tell Konoha I met up with you... I don't tell Naruto I helped you... I keep quiet, you keep out of trouble... At least keep yourself out of Konoha's trouble... And we can officially cut those silly bonds that weren't really even there, once. and. for. all?" Sakura snarled the purpose right in his face.
Sasuke opened his mouth to say something before she cut him off. "You look like your doing fine with your team... I think you can Handle yourself... Unless?" Sakura started to ponder into something she knew she shouldn't have.
"Unless what?" Sasuke sneered back at her, his grip had become incredibly tight around the kunai, you could see the whites of his nuckles.
"Unless... Your regretting leaving... Regretting your friends you ONCE had... And you think I may be a way to get you back into the village without being executed..." Sakura thought out loud and ended with a dry laugh, it was humorless... "Wait your emotionless... So that's not even a option." Sakura shot at him while she grabbed her back from the closet, and stomped towards the door.
"Bye Uchiha...Good luck on your revenge." Sakura said dryly with no emotion in her voice, the only small hint of emotion inward in her eyes and it showed... Happiness... Freedom... Freedom from leaving the depressing Uchiha and his idiot team.
Sasuke realized he was letting her leave... Letting her win, in a sort... He couldn't do that... He ran after her and caught her back packs handle like he had done the night before. He roughly pulled her backwards, she fought him for a moment before huffing and giving in.
"Why... Are you trying so damn hard... For me to be a part of your team? I'm weak... Pathetic... Annoying... Stupid...remember? They came directly from your mouth!" Sakra spat at him while she spun on him, efficiently making him remove his hold in her.
Sasuke didn't think much of what he did next, but he had effectively made her quiet, without pain, tears, screams, or killing being involved. He had done the same thing he had done to her The night he left for Oto. He had knocked her out, using the pressure point in the back of her neck.
Sasuke had her limp body in his arms and he picked her up carefully, before carrying her back to their shared room, and placing her on top of the bed. She'd be up within the hour, he guessed. He went into the bathroom and undressed himself before jumping into the hot liquids merciful heaven. He washed his body and hair, in a matter of minutes but stayed in the shower far longer than he needed to.
Sakura had woken up a few minutes prior to Sasuke's bathroom entry, she had quickly and quietly grabbed her bag, coffee, and a pen and some paper before scribbling down a quick note.
Team Hebi and the Arrogant Son Of A Bitch. (Uchiha)
It was great meeting everyone, but are meeting has to come short due to the fact that I DON'T want to stay, I DON'T want to betray my village and I sure as hell DON'T want to adventure around the country for a year with you people, don't take it personally it's not you team Hebi it's Uchiha. -XOXO, love always Sakura Haruno.
She scribbled down the offensive letter, and left it on the table by the coffee machine. Sakura grabbed her bag and made a few hand signs before a circle of green Chakra flashed up around her, moving up and down (Kind of like the northern lights, just green, and in a small circle.). Sakura disappeared into thin air, as Sasuke was just turning the shower off.
I walked out of the bathroom, and glanced at the girl that was suppose to be laying on the bed... Key word SUPPOSE. She was no where to be seen again, he saw a light pink scroll and walked over to it, he opened it roughly and read, the farther he read the farther his grin grew.
This was now a Hunt. A women hunt.
I smiled as my feet hit soft ground, the teleportation jutsu had been a success. I was concerned that the jutsu might not teleport me far, I only had a fourth of the Chakra I normally had, and in this alone I was going to have to get to Konoha which was a whole fire country away.
It was going to be difficult but worth it. Defiantly worth it.
I was in lead jumping from the tress, she had to have used a teleportation jutsu and be concealing her Chakra, for Karin are tracking ninja could not find her. You had to be a strong ninja to hide your chakra from a tracker ninja. I had underestimated the girl. She was turning out to be very interesting, Suigutsu was still laughing from her message.
"So Uchiha...(Mock of Sakura's nickname) what are you going to do when you find her? Kill her for calling you a arrogant son of a bitch or... ?" Suigutsu asked with a evident smile on his face, he didn't even bother to hid his amusement.
"Both." I said while he growled at the little tease.
"So what's the second?" Juugo asked.
"The same plan as Before... Find... Capture... Interrogate." I said in a calm voice.
The team and I jumped from branch to branch, all of us had to admit the hunt was exciting we all had something in this we wanted, rather we wanted to admit it are selves or not... This girl put all of us on edge... It was hard to trust her but even harder to let her go.
I flipped through a few trees, I didn't want to waste all of my chakra, and then get into a fight and have to rely on tiajutsu, even though I was quiet good at it. Lee and I trained together once a week, he developed a bigger crush on me if that's even possible, *sigh* I felt bad for the guy, his hopes for me were helpless.
I hated to be that bitchy, stuck up girl but with lee... Well we were to close to ever... Date... He was helplessly Inlove with me... He vowed to protect me with his life... Like most of Konoha's men... I didn't have much of an interest... Sometimes just two heart breaks can be enough to make you hate men.
Lee would find someone he really loved one day... I wasn't that girl... Just like Naruto he'd find someone too... The situation between the two boys was the same... I wouldn't date either... And I'd never love either, besides a best friend love... But that wasn't what either of the boys were looking for.. Both of the boys had larger than life crushes on her in grade school, as she grew up she did grow very close to Naruto... Just he grew on her in a brotherly way... And only brotherly.
She missed her crazy friends greatly... She missed sleep overs at Naruto's or one of her girlfriends ... Oh god how she missed girl talk... And her Shisou... She missed harsh training sessions, and stupid paper work... Studding in tell dawn..l Naruto carrying her home... Always scolding her and swearing "she did more paper work than the Hokage herself."
Memories brought tears to her eyes, she was happy she would be returning to her friends very soon. Sakura smiled as she jumped on the next tree, determination sparkling from her forest green eyes. She pushed off with excessive Chakra and flew forward.
We'd been traveling for most of the morning and stopped around lunch time, we grabbed some bentos at a local food store and ate quickly before leaving again. When I went in to purchase the Food I asked the clerk of he'd seen a pink haired girl stop by here. His eyes went distant for a moment as if remembering a memory...or secret.
He looked back at me and stammered "U-Ummm pink hair... Who has pink hair?" He avoided the original question and flipped it around.
"This girl. I need to know where she is... It would help if you cooperated." I stated in a threatening way... One things about civilians they would give up anyone's information if it met saving something precious to them... Not someone, something a possession... Or their own life.
The man stuttered nervously under my intense glare. Before covering yet again. " Uh no.. No I haven't seen a pink haired girl around here... Nope sorry." The man said as he handed me the four Bentos. I looked him in the eye for the briefest moment before my Sharingan activated and I invaded his mind, not in a painful way but In a easy... Let me in... You have no choice... Head ache deal.
It wasn't hard to fing the memory...actually it was quiet easy... He didn't keep it protected... Then again it wasn't important to him... Like his wife and kids. He saw Sakura with a sweet smile on her face... A real smile?
She was checking out a bento box herself and chatting with the clerk, he gave her a friendly smile and a whole hearted laugh at her small talk and cute jokes. She said goodbye and walked out of the small store, the man sighed and said something About "hope may still be there for their generation." I left his mind and came back go reality.
I grabbed the boxes whispered a thanks to the unconscious man And met my team outside, telling them about my small discovery. "She came by here." I stated.
"Yeah... We figured..." Suigutsu said with a amused smirk on his face. I turned to look at what my team seemed dumbfounded by and found the words "PISS OFF!" Carved into the tree with a heart around it, and the initials S.H.
"She's clever." Juugo commented.
"Please... She's a bitch... And can't even cover her own trail..." Karin snapped.
"If she's so bad then why can't you sense her Chakra?" Suigutsu questioned the jealous girl.
"I don't think she wants her trail covered... In a way she expected us to follow... Or wants us to anyway..." Juugo said thinking things over. I remaind silent and stared at the carving... She really had changed.
I ran through the thick forest, I tripped over tree stumps and roots, vines, branches, fallen trees. Whoever up there that was suppose to be watching me... Was doing a awful job. I nearly fell into a forty foot deep trench when I reached the edge of a cliff, I had been so lost in memories to realize I was approaching a dead end of sorts.
I knew they were getting closer, I didn't really care anymore... I also knew one Akatsuki memeber wasn't to far in front of me, and a Akatsuki base wasn't to far away to my right, my left was a safe route but adventually they'd catch up to me... Either Sasuke or the Akatsuki, and if I went to my left I would only be going farther away from Konoha. I was dead panned... Maybe I should have stayed with the Uchiha... Just a few nights built up my Chakra and then teleport away? I could have been in Konoha in a week max.
Now I was running from two enemies, one out for my hand in marriage, and the other... Well I didn't completely know the others reason... Maybe to be used as a tool in his overall plan to kill his brother... Again a Akatsuki memeber.
Either way I was stuck and in twenty-four hours or less I would have to make a decision... One that could change a lot... Either way I would be betraying the leaf... Betraying my friends...
"Funny... Isent it? That's the reason I left Hebi... So I wouldn't be betraying the leaf, Naruto, my friends, family, teachers." I whispered out loud to myself, and had a small dry laugh in the beginning. "I'm. So. Screwed!" I mumbled while I walked backwards to a nice clearing I had seen half an hour ago.
I was running through the forest and I turned my head forward and focused, I saw a Akatsuki memeber walked towards me Proabbaly 50,000 miles away, he would be here soon, I couldn't see his face or hands to reconigze who he... Or she was... But somehow I didn't think it was a newbie, one I could easily beat.
I turned around on my thick branch and zoomed my eyesight in and saw Sasuke and his team approaching me they might get here sooner but it was hard to tell, both were around the sae distance away, I was cornered. I already knew to my right was one of the infamous Akatsuki hide outs it was about 100,000 miles away, there was no point in going that way. I turned to my left and saw that the tree branches lessened.
Curiosity got the best of me, I jumped a few branches forward while I observed the thinning of the forest, and saw a small clearing, with a waterfall and beautiful flowers. The clearing wasn't large, nor was it small, it was perfect to kill time for a day. I knew there was no point in running, I mise well enjoy my last day of sunlight? Right?
Most likley the Akatsuki memeber would kidnap me, and I would be married off to Pein. He'd always had this obsession with me... He thought I was beautiful... I'm not saying he's wrong but I have a problem with domestic men... They piss me off the most. He also knew of my higher rank... Of my surpassing the fifth Hokage... He knew of my temper and of my intelligence. He's not bad looking... But he's Naruto's arch enemy, therefore my arch enemy.
I laid down on the grass and starred up at the sun, for a few minutes wondering. What if they came at the same time...or the other follows... Then what I fight breaks out?
Inner: Maybe that's what we need... A fight to break out between the Uchiha and the Akastuki member.
What do you mean?
Inner: if a fight takes place we can escape... We might not get to far but it's worth a try...
Okay! So what do I have to do?
Inner: umm rest for a few hours... Gain as much Chakra as possible and then slowly walk towards the Uchiha and his team... I think he'll put up more of a fight if he has you and someone else tries to take you, then if the Akatsuki memeber already had you.
Okay... I'm so going to hate this aren't I?
Inner: Pretty much... It's domestic...and stupid but it might just save us... I would write to Tusuanda. Tell her what's up.
I stopped my fight with my inner and wrote a short and sweet letter to the Hokage this might be the last time I have free will to write to the Hokage and explain what's going on.
"Hokage and friends. "
"It really sucks to inform you of this, but I have been tracked and sought out by a Akatsuki memeber and Team Hebi and the infamous Uchiha. I helped them escape... I'm sure Naruto told you. Well now they want me on their team, I 'politely' declined and left without their knowing.
Now their following me while an Akastuki member is ahead of me... I have a day, twenty-four hours before a fight will break out, either between me and team hebi, me and a Akatsuki memeber or team Hebi and the Akastuki member. I'm hoping it could be the later, but I hardly doubt I'll be able to get away, I'm uninjured but my chakra is low, I won't make it far by teleportation or foot.
I'd rather join the Uchiha and his team instead of the Akatsuki memeber, it would be easier to escape from them aside the Akastuki." -XOXO Haruno Sakura.
Sakura bit her thumb and signed the emergency message with her blood before sealing the scroll and sending it via teleportation, to the Hokage. Now all she had to do was wait.
"Determination is the wake-up call to the human will."-Anthony Robbins.
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