N.Y.D.K. Ch. 3
Sakura was wondering around the village aimlessly. With all the construction going on to fix the Hokage tower and the surrounding area, not even Shinobi paid any mind to the pink-haired medic. She was in a daze and was beginning to understand why Sasuke choose to train so much.
"Can't think when your whole body's in pain huh?"
Sakura made a face as she realized that in all actuality Naruto probably worked hardest out of all of them. Lee being a close 2nd.
"I guess I really don't know." Sakura said glumly as she went over what Naruto had told her for the millionth time that day. Sakura couldn't help but smirk; a renowned student of one of the three legendary Sannin and here she was on her ass after having ran headfirst into someone in the middle of a mostly deserted road. Her smirk died when she saw the death glare the Hyuuga was shooting her. It turned into a growl when she was roughly pulled up.
"You! Pinky! I know you were with Menma the night of the the attack and you even dragged him to your home after the mission you little slut!" Hinata said, byakugan enhancing her already menacing face.
"I didn't! It's not li…Actually. Yeah. I did. What are you going to do about it?" Sakura said, now giving Hinata a smirk that Guy would surely claim she learned from her hip sensei.
"You little tramp! I'm going to destroy you!" Hinata said before Sakura kicked out of Hinata's grasp.
"Big talk. Little to show for it. If you're serious, let's spar. Take me to the closest training grounds." Sakura said elatedly, glad that Hinata had come along. A spar against her gentle fist always proved to be a fun, if not slightly challenging, act. And right now, Sakura really needed a pick me up.
"They'll need a mop to clean up what's left of you! Alright pinkie, keep up!" Hinata said with a smirk as she shunshined away. Sakura's grin died down a bit but she followed after the lavender haired girl, deciding to not give it too much thought.
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"Wh-what did you say?"
"You don't need the sharingan to read my lips Naruto. I think you heard me." Minato said with a small smile on his face.
"Kushina-kun…wants…me?"
"How about she tells you herself?" Minato said as he stood to a crouch and touched the stone head, brow furrowed in concentration. Before Naruto could ask what he was doing, Minato looked up and smiled before grabbing Naruto's shoulder.
"Wh-." Naruto tried to say before realizing he was in the middle of a road back in the village.
"Me-Naruto…" A timid voice called out from behind him. Naruto turned around to see Kushina. The sight before him terrified him as Kushina glared at him before smacking him down on the head, sending him towards the floor before she scooped him up in his arms.
"Minato-kun, do you mind?" Kushina said as she glanced around at the various villagers and shinobi watching on in morbid curiosity.
"Of course." Minato said as he walked up to Kushina and laid his hand on hers.
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Sakura slammed against a tree, already healing her shoulder mid-air as she landed roughly in a crouch.
"What the hell happened to the Gentle Lion Fist?!" She screamed out in a mixture of fury and terror. Most of the fury was directed towards the cosmos in general for letting her believe a fight against Hinata would've made her day.
"That bullshit excuse of a fighting style my "clan" use? Sure it's effective, but it doesn't quite reach the levels of…pain I prefer to inflict on people." Hinata said as she cracked her knuckles, already sprinting towards Sakura.
Sakura deadpanned before she slammed her fist into the ground, destroying the ground in front of Hinata who jumped into the air, relentless to rip Sakura a new one. Sakura kicked the loose ground around her and began to flick the chunks of rocks at the air-borne Hyuuga. Choosing to crush the rocks that she couldn't deflect, Hinata sailed through the air to deliver a crushing a blow to Sakura's head. Raising her arms to feign blocking, Sakura grabbed Hinata's wrist and slammed her into the ground, harshly.
"Hi-hinata-kun." Sakura said worriedly
She received a response as a fist slammed into her chin hard enough to make her pain-numbed mind compare the spar to Tsunade's training.
"You bitch. I told you I'd kill you if you touched my Menma!"
Glowing green chakra as Sakura grabbed her unnaturally low hanging jaw. After fixing her dislocated jaw, she noticed Hinata less than a foot away before spinning around delivering a kick to Hinata's fist, followed by two vicious punches to Hinata's right kidney, with a kick to the chest to finish her off. Sakura walked up to Hinata's body, judging just how close to death she may have left the Hyuuga before she knelt down and began to heal her.
"First of all, I didn't sleep with N-, Menma."
Hinata found that the blood in her lungs wouldn't let her talk so she did the next best things and spat a mouthful of blood onto Sakura.
"Second of all," Sakura said with a grimace, "Menma's in some medical tent, being treated for his injuries. Third, how can you still care for him? Don't you know he's the one that-…" Sakura didn't get to finish as she felt a stern grip on her shoulder.
"That's enough for now Ms. Haruno. I suggest you return to your home, I shall make sure Ms. Hyuuga receives the proper medical attention she'll require." An ANBU with a fox's face for a mask said.
With a reluctant nod, Sakura got up and walked away from the ANBU, oblivious to the soul-searing glare Hinata was shooting at the back of Sakura's head, but if she had noticed the glare, there's no doubt she would've seen the burning curiosity in her pupiless eyes.
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Ok guys! Super sorry for the long ass wait, this chapter has been sitting nearly completed forever now! After having loss my glasses at a water park this weekend, even though all of my other stuff was exactly where I left them… I'm having a bit of trouble reading and writing for more than an hour at a time. I have a heavy prescription and the new glasses won't be here for another week. $50, actually a lot cheaper than what I expected my new glasses to cost, so I can't stay too mad. Well, onto the part that actually pertains to the story, Naruto and Sakura's very existence, is pretty much a S-ranked secret. While Sakura is fine, Naruto does have an exact duplicate of himself that'll need to be explained, and telling the entire shinobi world that they're all a lie and Naruto's the only real person there is bound to get him stuck in some insane ninja asylum, which, in all honesy, is probably the end of some ANBU's tanto or something.