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Oh the hectic life in Konoha!
The Battle!
Normal POV
Sasuke tried desperately to get a good look at the girl pinning him to the tree. This was a very awkward situation for said Uchiha. Never in 3 years had anyone beaten him…. much less a girl. Sasuke slowly felt his pride deplete. ‘Great, I’m being pinned to the tree by a girl! I’m losing my touch!’the prodigy thought, his self pity momentarily flickering across his face. (1) What he failed to realize was the majorly pissed off kunoichi in front of him, who did not miss the wave of self pity.
End Normal POV
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Sakura’s POV
‘Oh that man has some serious nerve! I ought to show that sexist bastard just what I can do!’Inner Sakura cheered, wanting some violence. ‘Hmm, I know I have to carry him back to Konoha, but who says he has to be in good condition? Mwa ha ha ha …. Okay, I do need therapy!’
I lodged Sasuke to the tree with four kunai. He eyed me warily, probably wondering what I was going to do to him now. In reply, I gave him a sadistic smirk.
‘Oh yeah! You in for it now jerk!’ Inner Saku screamed. ‘Shut up and let me beat his ass already!!’ I screamed back.
Sasuke’s eyes widened in awe as both my hands, moving separately, formed different seals with a speed that even Kakashi-sensei envied. Smirking once more, I whispered “Tatsumaki hakai no jutsu.” (2)
Sasuke just barely managed to dodge my jutsu and broke away from the kunai with sheer force. Of course I was expecting this; I mean it’s Sasuke we’re talking about. I had already formed the seals and was sending another one his way. This one hit him, though not quite as hard as I would have liked.
My eyes widened as he smirked smugly and with a barely audible whisper cast his next technique. “Shindai moeagaru no jutsu.” His body engulfed in flames and something like a fire covered bed eased his landing. He got up and dusted himself off, not a scratch on his body. (3)
‘Oh yeah! This is gonna be good!’ I thought and got myself into serious battle mode.
End Sakura’s POV
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Normal POV
Sasuke smirked again seeing the awe on said kunoichi’s face. ‘Damn, she’s good, but not good enough. I guess I should activate it now.’
“Sharingan!” The Uchiha bloodline activated. His eyes turned red and instead of 3, 4 tiny commas surrounded his retina.
“Humph, so you’re finally taking me seriously.” Sakura said, secretly shocked at the additional comma. ‘So he’s improved’she thought. “I guess I’ll make this worth your while. Mizu: Gokaku no jutsu!” she cried. A large ball of water erupted from her mouth. Half a second later, she was forming seals. “Tatsumaki hakai no jutsu!” Gushes of wind came out of her mouth, heading towards the water ball.
Sasuke’s eyes widened, as realization of her technique sank in. ‘Damn, she’s combining the water and wind jutsus! I can’t get hit with that or I’m dead!' He evaded all the slices of water, sharpened with wind, with the help of his Sharingan. ‘My turn’
“Rai senbon!” Sasuke’s deep voice rumbled out. (4)Sakura’s eyes widened as needles of lightning came at her from all directions.
“Kaze tate no jutsu!” Sakura cried. (5) A waver in the air was the only evidence of a jutsu being used. That and of course the fact that all the rai senbon seemingly disappeared into thin air. Sakura smirked at Sasuke’s shocked expression. “Wind is the only thing that can conquer lightning, ne Sasuke-san.”
Composing himself and panting hard, a new realization hit Sasuke. ‘Damn, she has all the appropriate elements to beat mine! I’m running low on chakra; I need to end this now! I guess I go to hand to hand combat. Let’s see how good this woman is in a real battle!’ Sasuke smirked, pulling out his katana. “Let’s get serious. I’m wasting my time fighting you.” He said, in a monotonous voice. His usual stoic face was back and he seemed to have a plan.
“Good! I was starting to get bored going easy on you!” Sakura replied, her voice cold and void of any emotion. ‘He still thinks I’m a waste of time! Okay he is really pissing me off! I’m not gonna go easy on him.’
Sasuke narrowed his eyes as she pulled out her own katana, though it was oddly shaped. Who the hell was she? She was actually wearing down the Uchiha Sasuke! However, he didn’t miss the new fire in her eyes, and he felt something that may have been a titch of fear. Not wanting to linger on that feeling, Sasuke wasted no time and rushed in, katana raised to strike, at Sakura. She raised her own katana, blocking his attack and kneed him in the gut.
Sasuke flew back, only coming to a stop when he smashed into a boulder. He stood up and inspected the wound on his left hand. He had used his shoulder to brace his fall and it resulted in a long, fairly deep, gash on his left hand from his shoulder to his elbow. After his inspection of the wound as complete, he once more focused his attention on the battle. ‘Where is she vulnerable?’ He quickly found her weak spot and set out to attack, using his infamous speed.
‘Yes! I actually injured him! Crap! Where’d he go?’Sakura thought, unable to locate the Uchiha. “Midori me sagusu!” she whispered, once again activating her bloodline jutsu. (6)‘Shit! He’s right behind me!’Spinning quickly, she jumped away from the attack. Sasuke, anticipating this, came in for another strike with his katana. The attack hit home, as Sakura staggered backwards, clutching her bleeding right side. Sakura retreated further, only stopping when she was about 20 meters from Sasuke. She closed her eyes, and a green glow surrounded her hand where she held her wound.
‘Impossible. She knows medical ninjutsu too. Hn, a worthy opponent.’Sasuke thought, eyes acknowledging her as powerful.
Sakura looked up after a minute of healing herself and removed her hand to show the wound partially healed. ‘I can’t heal it fully, I don’t have the time. Sasuke still has to learn not to underestimate the enemy!’
Sasuke recovered from his shock and dove in with his katana, swiveling at the last moment to catch her off guard in her back. The slash made across her back wasn’t deep or long. He had barely nicked her! ‘I can’t win the fight if I’m fooling around! I have to stop sparing this woman! I could have pushed my katana straight through her back.’Realizing he needed the extra chakra boost, he activated the cursed seal. Black marks spread across his body and wing grew from his back. He had gone straight into stage two of the cursed seal!
Sakura smirked her gratitude. She was finally being taken seriously! Now was the time to show the hidden power of her katana. She made a full 360 spin and came to a halt, swinging the katana around her body. Her forehead creased in concentration as she abruptly brought the katana up. Grasping the handle with her both hands, she pulled it in both directions. The katana split to form two blades. Engraved on both blades, was a symbol that caught Sasuke’s eye. It was a tiger, carved with full detail and in the background was a cherry blossom. (7)
‘Most likely a clan symbol’ he thought. ‘Yet why does it seem so important?’ Shaking his head, he focused on the battle, only to realize the kunoichi was missing. ‘Shit! You’ve gotta stop spacing out if you want to win!’ A shadow fell on top of him, and only then was the location of the kunoichi revealed. She was above him!
“Kaze yaiba.” The deathly low of her voice was enough to run shivers down his spine. (8)
Sasuke closed his eyes, as agony rippled its way throughout his body. A bright, white light burned behind his closed eyelids. He felt blood dribble down from his open wound to his exposed chest. He immediately jumped backwards and an involuntary wince escaped his chapped lips. The wound was deep. Very deep. If it hadn’t touched bone he would be a very lucky man indeed. He took a deep shuddering breath. ‘I only have enough chakra for this one jutsu. But it’s sure to do some damage on her!’ “Chido… ” Somehow he couldn’t complete his jutsu. He gazed into her captivating green eyes, and found himself thinking of a certain pink haired kunoichi. This woman was like her in so many ways, yet she was not. He knew for sure that Sakura would never attack him to this extent. He felt sure that the woman he knew would do anything to prevent him from coming to harm... yet this woman put him near death. The thought of death reminded him of the fatal wound on his chest. Shaking is head to regain control of his emotions, he made a decision. He would have to attack her if he was to make it out of here alive.
Sakura didn’t mean to take things this far, but the goddamned man was so infuriating! She would be sure to take him back alive, but not until her anger was fully non-existent. And unfortunately for Sasuke, that was long away. She sensed his presence only a millisecond before he reached her, ‘Jeez, he fast!’ She couldn’t escape this time. He had her trapped between him and a wall of fire he had oh so discreetly put behind her at the last possible second so she wouldn’t notice. ‘Crap,crap,crap,crap! I’m screwed!’ He latched onto her hand and the wind carried his whispered words to her ears.
“Why do you remind me of her?” He shook his head, visibly gathering his emotions and stuffing them back into a box. “Chidori nagashi!” (9) This time, his voice was steadier and back to its usual coldness. Sakura slammed into the ground, as lightning jolted throughout her body. He was electrocuting her! Her eyes filled with tears of pain. She closed her heavily drooping eyelids, and took a deep, shuddering breath.
“Kaze tate.” (10) She whispered, her voice so soft, it was barely heard. All at once, the feeling of being pierced throughout her body stopped, only to be replaced by a low, dull ache. She glanced down at her body to check the damage. A gasp escaped her wounded mouth. Her clothes were in tatters and soaked with blood coming from the numerous wounds covering her body. She felt like a rag doll, a torn and dreadfully abused rag doll. A thud was heard nearby and she managed to lift her badly throbbing head in time to see Sasuke drop to his knees. ‘Must be out of chakra. I would have been in way better condition if I didn’t hold back majorly on him! I guess I have to at least knock him out!’ She thought, ignoring the pain as she slowly got to her knees, then her feet. She quietly moved over to heavily panting Sasuke and raised a kunai to the back of his neck.
He raised his head, ignoring the prick of the kunai as it broke skin; he hurt to much all over his body to care about one more simple cut. “Who are you?” he asked, his voice flat with the defeat. Sakura noted that even though his voice held defeat, the way he held himself looked like he had claimed victory.
‘I guess some things never change, Sasuke’s arrogance for one.’ She thought, inwardly sighing as she lost the bit of hope in her that he might have changed for the better. “I’m… someone who has many lessons to teach you. And lesson number 1 Sasuke-san, is don’t ever underestimate the enemy.” With that, she removed the kunai from his neck and, much in the same manner that he did years ago when he left, hit the pressure point in his neck, effectively knocking him out. Sasuke thought he might have seen a strand of pink hair before his world turned black.
Sakura sighed as a new thought approached her. Like a little child, she stamped her foot in the ground and groaned. “Ugh! Now I have to carry him back the whole goddamned way!!!!” She sighed again and dropped squarely on her butt. She looked around, and for the first time, noticed the damage they had done during their fight.
Half of the forest trees were destroyed and the ground had numerous large holes in it. She grinned, as she thought of what her best friend Tenten, more affectionately called Tennie, would say. She would most likely be scolded about loosing her temper on the poor environment. Her smile quickly became a frown as she noticed some animals lying on the ground, dead or wounded from being hit with their jutsus.
She glanced over at the ninja unconscious beside her, leting out a sigh of defeat. ‘He looks so adorable when he’s asleep. Wait! No Saku! Don’t let that look fool you! You do not love him! You cannot love him! Not after all that he’s put you through.’
‘Yeah right! You have to admit it to yourself. You loved him, still love him and no matter what shit he does you will always love him!’Inner Saku said, her voice serious. Sakura once more sighed.
“My life is complicated enough without him barging in and making everything worse! And I’m pretty certain that I’ve gotten over Uchiha Sasuke.” Lying flat on her back she gazed skywards pondering hard on her inner dilemma about if she loved Sasuke or not.
Those thoughts were put on hold, as Sakura noticed an unusual white bird in the sky drawing nearer to her with each passing second. ‘It's like a piece of art. As if it jumped off of pape…SAI!’Sakura immediately jumped up waving her arms around like a madwoman “Oi! SAI! Down here!”
“Well if it isn’t ugly, I mean Sakura-sama.” Sai said, fixing his mistake when he saw Sakura twitch at the nickname. “What’s going on? Aren’t you supposed to be heading to Suna as quickly as you could?” Only then, did he seem to notice the unconscious ninja on the ground and Sakura’s tattered appearance. “What the hell is going on?” Sai asked, his voice laced with confusion and worry.
Sakura grinned at his display of emotions. Only a few years earlier, when he had been placed on Team Kakashi as Sasuke’s replacement, he had been clueless to what an emotion was. Slowly, but surely, Sakura and Naruto had been able to install feelings back into the man. The first feeling Sai had learnt of was pain. When Sakura had, oh so often, lost her temper with him. He swore his left cheek would never again be the same.
She was brought back to the present, however, when the ache in her head began to form into a migraine. She groaned out loud, causing Sai to become more worried. “Damn! This is worse than a freakin hangover!”
This brought a laugh from Sai, his worry disappearing momentarily. ‘No matter the situation,’he thought, ‘Sakura will be Sakura!’ He stopped immediately because of the death glare she was giving out. Yes, when Sakura was pissed she was very scary!!!
“You still haven’t explained what’s going on.” He pointed out, eager to hear the story. The figure on the ground, he recognized to be that of the traitor ,Uchiha Sasuke, the one person that Sakura utterly despised! This would indeed be an interesting story.
“Okay, hear what Sai. How about you give me and Mr. Unconscious a ride back to the village and when I’m full rested and not completely pissed I’ll give you an explanation. OK!?” Sakura said, giving him a ‘sweet smile’.
Sai immediately trembled and did as she asked. He learnt never to question Sakura when she was pissed, and that ‘sweet smile’ ,had gotten him a broken jaw once before.
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In Konoha
Sai sighed in relief, as he dropped Sakura off at Konoha’s gates. He considered himself very lucky that he managed to reach back in Konoha in one piece with the mood Sakura was in! ‘Good luck Tsunade’, he thought, taking off, and going in the farthest direction possible of the pink haired kunoichi.
Sakura watched Sai depart, hiding a grin as she saw the relief of making it to Konoha alive etched on his face. ‘Yes the wrath of Haruno Sakura is one to dread So cower, you miserable, pathetic cowards! Or meet your doom! Mwa ha ha!… Okay seriously! Anyone know a good therapist??’ Sighing at her insanity, she made her way to the Hokage tower. ‘What will Tsunade do with you…Sasuke-kun?’Knowing that she couldn’t do anything to affect the oncoming events, she carried Sasuke over one shoulder, to either his freedom, conviction or death. ‘Well Sasuke-kun, here goes!’And with that, she stepped into the Hokage tower.
End Normal POV
Sasuke tried desperately to get a good look at the girl pinning him to the tree. This was a very awkward situation for said Uchiha. Never in 3 years had anyone beaten him…. much less a girl. Sasuke slowly felt his pride deplete. ‘Great, I’m being pinned to the tree by a girl! I’m losing my touch!’the prodigy thought, his self pity momentarily flickering across his face. (1) What he failed to realize was the majorly pissed off kunoichi in front of him, who did not miss the wave of self pity.
End Normal POV
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Sakura’s POV
‘Oh that man has some serious nerve! I ought to show that sexist bastard just what I can do!’Inner Sakura cheered, wanting some violence. ‘Hmm, I know I have to carry him back to Konoha, but who says he has to be in good condition? Mwa ha ha ha …. Okay, I do need therapy!’
I lodged Sasuke to the tree with four kunai. He eyed me warily, probably wondering what I was going to do to him now. In reply, I gave him a sadistic smirk.
‘Oh yeah! You in for it now jerk!’ Inner Saku screamed. ‘Shut up and let me beat his ass already!!’ I screamed back.
Sasuke’s eyes widened in awe as both my hands, moving separately, formed different seals with a speed that even Kakashi-sensei envied. Smirking once more, I whispered “Tatsumaki hakai no jutsu.” (2)
Sasuke just barely managed to dodge my jutsu and broke away from the kunai with sheer force. Of course I was expecting this; I mean it’s Sasuke we’re talking about. I had already formed the seals and was sending another one his way. This one hit him, though not quite as hard as I would have liked.
My eyes widened as he smirked smugly and with a barely audible whisper cast his next technique. “Shindai moeagaru no jutsu.” His body engulfed in flames and something like a fire covered bed eased his landing. He got up and dusted himself off, not a scratch on his body. (3)
‘Oh yeah! This is gonna be good!’ I thought and got myself into serious battle mode.
End Sakura’s POV
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Normal POV
Sasuke smirked again seeing the awe on said kunoichi’s face. ‘Damn, she’s good, but not good enough. I guess I should activate it now.’
“Sharingan!” The Uchiha bloodline activated. His eyes turned red and instead of 3, 4 tiny commas surrounded his retina.
“Humph, so you’re finally taking me seriously.” Sakura said, secretly shocked at the additional comma. ‘So he’s improved’she thought. “I guess I’ll make this worth your while. Mizu: Gokaku no jutsu!” she cried. A large ball of water erupted from her mouth. Half a second later, she was forming seals. “Tatsumaki hakai no jutsu!” Gushes of wind came out of her mouth, heading towards the water ball.
Sasuke’s eyes widened, as realization of her technique sank in. ‘Damn, she’s combining the water and wind jutsus! I can’t get hit with that or I’m dead!' He evaded all the slices of water, sharpened with wind, with the help of his Sharingan. ‘My turn’
“Rai senbon!” Sasuke’s deep voice rumbled out. (4)Sakura’s eyes widened as needles of lightning came at her from all directions.
“Kaze tate no jutsu!” Sakura cried. (5) A waver in the air was the only evidence of a jutsu being used. That and of course the fact that all the rai senbon seemingly disappeared into thin air. Sakura smirked at Sasuke’s shocked expression. “Wind is the only thing that can conquer lightning, ne Sasuke-san.”
Composing himself and panting hard, a new realization hit Sasuke. ‘Damn, she has all the appropriate elements to beat mine! I’m running low on chakra; I need to end this now! I guess I go to hand to hand combat. Let’s see how good this woman is in a real battle!’ Sasuke smirked, pulling out his katana. “Let’s get serious. I’m wasting my time fighting you.” He said, in a monotonous voice. His usual stoic face was back and he seemed to have a plan.
“Good! I was starting to get bored going easy on you!” Sakura replied, her voice cold and void of any emotion. ‘He still thinks I’m a waste of time! Okay he is really pissing me off! I’m not gonna go easy on him.’
Sasuke narrowed his eyes as she pulled out her own katana, though it was oddly shaped. Who the hell was she? She was actually wearing down the Uchiha Sasuke! However, he didn’t miss the new fire in her eyes, and he felt something that may have been a titch of fear. Not wanting to linger on that feeling, Sasuke wasted no time and rushed in, katana raised to strike, at Sakura. She raised her own katana, blocking his attack and kneed him in the gut.
Sasuke flew back, only coming to a stop when he smashed into a boulder. He stood up and inspected the wound on his left hand. He had used his shoulder to brace his fall and it resulted in a long, fairly deep, gash on his left hand from his shoulder to his elbow. After his inspection of the wound as complete, he once more focused his attention on the battle. ‘Where is she vulnerable?’ He quickly found her weak spot and set out to attack, using his infamous speed.
‘Yes! I actually injured him! Crap! Where’d he go?’Sakura thought, unable to locate the Uchiha. “Midori me sagusu!” she whispered, once again activating her bloodline jutsu. (6)‘Shit! He’s right behind me!’Spinning quickly, she jumped away from the attack. Sasuke, anticipating this, came in for another strike with his katana. The attack hit home, as Sakura staggered backwards, clutching her bleeding right side. Sakura retreated further, only stopping when she was about 20 meters from Sasuke. She closed her eyes, and a green glow surrounded her hand where she held her wound.
‘Impossible. She knows medical ninjutsu too. Hn, a worthy opponent.’Sasuke thought, eyes acknowledging her as powerful.
Sakura looked up after a minute of healing herself and removed her hand to show the wound partially healed. ‘I can’t heal it fully, I don’t have the time. Sasuke still has to learn not to underestimate the enemy!’
Sasuke recovered from his shock and dove in with his katana, swiveling at the last moment to catch her off guard in her back. The slash made across her back wasn’t deep or long. He had barely nicked her! ‘I can’t win the fight if I’m fooling around! I have to stop sparing this woman! I could have pushed my katana straight through her back.’Realizing he needed the extra chakra boost, he activated the cursed seal. Black marks spread across his body and wing grew from his back. He had gone straight into stage two of the cursed seal!
Sakura smirked her gratitude. She was finally being taken seriously! Now was the time to show the hidden power of her katana. She made a full 360 spin and came to a halt, swinging the katana around her body. Her forehead creased in concentration as she abruptly brought the katana up. Grasping the handle with her both hands, she pulled it in both directions. The katana split to form two blades. Engraved on both blades, was a symbol that caught Sasuke’s eye. It was a tiger, carved with full detail and in the background was a cherry blossom. (7)
‘Most likely a clan symbol’ he thought. ‘Yet why does it seem so important?’ Shaking his head, he focused on the battle, only to realize the kunoichi was missing. ‘Shit! You’ve gotta stop spacing out if you want to win!’ A shadow fell on top of him, and only then was the location of the kunoichi revealed. She was above him!
“Kaze yaiba.” The deathly low of her voice was enough to run shivers down his spine. (8)
Sasuke closed his eyes, as agony rippled its way throughout his body. A bright, white light burned behind his closed eyelids. He felt blood dribble down from his open wound to his exposed chest. He immediately jumped backwards and an involuntary wince escaped his chapped lips. The wound was deep. Very deep. If it hadn’t touched bone he would be a very lucky man indeed. He took a deep shuddering breath. ‘I only have enough chakra for this one jutsu. But it’s sure to do some damage on her!’ “Chido… ” Somehow he couldn’t complete his jutsu. He gazed into her captivating green eyes, and found himself thinking of a certain pink haired kunoichi. This woman was like her in so many ways, yet she was not. He knew for sure that Sakura would never attack him to this extent. He felt sure that the woman he knew would do anything to prevent him from coming to harm... yet this woman put him near death. The thought of death reminded him of the fatal wound on his chest. Shaking is head to regain control of his emotions, he made a decision. He would have to attack her if he was to make it out of here alive.
Sakura didn’t mean to take things this far, but the goddamned man was so infuriating! She would be sure to take him back alive, but not until her anger was fully non-existent. And unfortunately for Sasuke, that was long away. She sensed his presence only a millisecond before he reached her, ‘Jeez, he fast!’ She couldn’t escape this time. He had her trapped between him and a wall of fire he had oh so discreetly put behind her at the last possible second so she wouldn’t notice. ‘Crap,crap,crap,crap! I’m screwed!’ He latched onto her hand and the wind carried his whispered words to her ears.
“Why do you remind me of her?” He shook his head, visibly gathering his emotions and stuffing them back into a box. “Chidori nagashi!” (9) This time, his voice was steadier and back to its usual coldness. Sakura slammed into the ground, as lightning jolted throughout her body. He was electrocuting her! Her eyes filled with tears of pain. She closed her heavily drooping eyelids, and took a deep, shuddering breath.
“Kaze tate.” (10) She whispered, her voice so soft, it was barely heard. All at once, the feeling of being pierced throughout her body stopped, only to be replaced by a low, dull ache. She glanced down at her body to check the damage. A gasp escaped her wounded mouth. Her clothes were in tatters and soaked with blood coming from the numerous wounds covering her body. She felt like a rag doll, a torn and dreadfully abused rag doll. A thud was heard nearby and she managed to lift her badly throbbing head in time to see Sasuke drop to his knees. ‘Must be out of chakra. I would have been in way better condition if I didn’t hold back majorly on him! I guess I have to at least knock him out!’ She thought, ignoring the pain as she slowly got to her knees, then her feet. She quietly moved over to heavily panting Sasuke and raised a kunai to the back of his neck.
He raised his head, ignoring the prick of the kunai as it broke skin; he hurt to much all over his body to care about one more simple cut. “Who are you?” he asked, his voice flat with the defeat. Sakura noted that even though his voice held defeat, the way he held himself looked like he had claimed victory.
‘I guess some things never change, Sasuke’s arrogance for one.’ She thought, inwardly sighing as she lost the bit of hope in her that he might have changed for the better. “I’m… someone who has many lessons to teach you. And lesson number 1 Sasuke-san, is don’t ever underestimate the enemy.” With that, she removed the kunai from his neck and, much in the same manner that he did years ago when he left, hit the pressure point in his neck, effectively knocking him out. Sasuke thought he might have seen a strand of pink hair before his world turned black.
Sakura sighed as a new thought approached her. Like a little child, she stamped her foot in the ground and groaned. “Ugh! Now I have to carry him back the whole goddamned way!!!!” She sighed again and dropped squarely on her butt. She looked around, and for the first time, noticed the damage they had done during their fight.
Half of the forest trees were destroyed and the ground had numerous large holes in it. She grinned, as she thought of what her best friend Tenten, more affectionately called Tennie, would say. She would most likely be scolded about loosing her temper on the poor environment. Her smile quickly became a frown as she noticed some animals lying on the ground, dead or wounded from being hit with their jutsus.
She glanced over at the ninja unconscious beside her, leting out a sigh of defeat. ‘He looks so adorable when he’s asleep. Wait! No Saku! Don’t let that look fool you! You do not love him! You cannot love him! Not after all that he’s put you through.’
‘Yeah right! You have to admit it to yourself. You loved him, still love him and no matter what shit he does you will always love him!’Inner Saku said, her voice serious. Sakura once more sighed.
“My life is complicated enough without him barging in and making everything worse! And I’m pretty certain that I’ve gotten over Uchiha Sasuke.” Lying flat on her back she gazed skywards pondering hard on her inner dilemma about if she loved Sasuke or not.
Those thoughts were put on hold, as Sakura noticed an unusual white bird in the sky drawing nearer to her with each passing second. ‘It's like a piece of art. As if it jumped off of pape…SAI!’Sakura immediately jumped up waving her arms around like a madwoman “Oi! SAI! Down here!”
“Well if it isn’t ugly, I mean Sakura-sama.” Sai said, fixing his mistake when he saw Sakura twitch at the nickname. “What’s going on? Aren’t you supposed to be heading to Suna as quickly as you could?” Only then, did he seem to notice the unconscious ninja on the ground and Sakura’s tattered appearance. “What the hell is going on?” Sai asked, his voice laced with confusion and worry.
Sakura grinned at his display of emotions. Only a few years earlier, when he had been placed on Team Kakashi as Sasuke’s replacement, he had been clueless to what an emotion was. Slowly, but surely, Sakura and Naruto had been able to install feelings back into the man. The first feeling Sai had learnt of was pain. When Sakura had, oh so often, lost her temper with him. He swore his left cheek would never again be the same.
She was brought back to the present, however, when the ache in her head began to form into a migraine. She groaned out loud, causing Sai to become more worried. “Damn! This is worse than a freakin hangover!”
This brought a laugh from Sai, his worry disappearing momentarily. ‘No matter the situation,’he thought, ‘Sakura will be Sakura!’ He stopped immediately because of the death glare she was giving out. Yes, when Sakura was pissed she was very scary!!!
“You still haven’t explained what’s going on.” He pointed out, eager to hear the story. The figure on the ground, he recognized to be that of the traitor ,Uchiha Sasuke, the one person that Sakura utterly despised! This would indeed be an interesting story.
“Okay, hear what Sai. How about you give me and Mr. Unconscious a ride back to the village and when I’m full rested and not completely pissed I’ll give you an explanation. OK!?” Sakura said, giving him a ‘sweet smile’.
Sai immediately trembled and did as she asked. He learnt never to question Sakura when she was pissed, and that ‘sweet smile’ ,had gotten him a broken jaw once before.
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In Konoha
Sai sighed in relief, as he dropped Sakura off at Konoha’s gates. He considered himself very lucky that he managed to reach back in Konoha in one piece with the mood Sakura was in! ‘Good luck Tsunade’, he thought, taking off, and going in the farthest direction possible of the pink haired kunoichi.
Sakura watched Sai depart, hiding a grin as she saw the relief of making it to Konoha alive etched on his face. ‘Yes the wrath of Haruno Sakura is one to dread So cower, you miserable, pathetic cowards! Or meet your doom! Mwa ha ha!… Okay seriously! Anyone know a good therapist??’ Sighing at her insanity, she made her way to the Hokage tower. ‘What will Tsunade do with you…Sasuke-kun?’Knowing that she couldn’t do anything to affect the oncoming events, she carried Sasuke over one shoulder, to either his freedom, conviction or death. ‘Well Sasuke-kun, here goes!’And with that, she stepped into the Hokage tower.
End Normal POV
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1)Tch..sexist bastard!2) Translation: Raging Tornado
3) Translation: Bed of flames
4) Translation : Lightening needles
5) Translation: Wind armour
6) Translation: Green eyed search
7) This symbol is rather important in later chapters.
8) Translation : Wind blade!
9) Translation : Full body chidori
10) Wind armour
So those are the translations! Tell me if there is a better way to put them! Comment plz!! I'l give yew cookies!! =D