Sorry it took so long to post this chapter, but i'm really busy these days and I hope you guys don't hate me! Well here's the story, hope you like and please review!
"Talking"
'thought'
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Clang!
Kunai reflected off each other, some incrusted the ground while others were imbedded in the trees.
"ARGH!!!"
A fist flew only to be blocked by the back of someone's forearm. The masked Mizu nin sneered at his opponent that he just blocked.
Blonde spikes flew against the wind as the 17 year old jumped up into the air. He took his shuriken, four in each hand, and threw it swiftly at the Mizu nin who dropped dead to the ground from the impact of two shuriken to his head.
The blonde nin wore a fox ANBU mask. His swirl tattoo that signified him as ANBU gleamed in the sunlight.
The blonde nin formed rapid hand seals. He yelled out a technique and several clones appeared around him, each lunged at another Mizu nin.
The blondes blood from various wounds stained the grass red. The blonde had swiftly taken down his opponent after one of the clones got behind him and swiftly slit the Mizu nin's neck. Cerulean eyes scanned the area to look at his teammates.
A raven haired nin drove his Katana into a Mizu nin, his wolf mask sneering down at the dead body with a bored expression.
A silver haired nin with a hawk mask was in the middle of a Taijutsut showdown. The silver haired nin threw a barrage of swift punches and the Mizu nin evaded them all swiftly. Just as he leaned to duck the Mizu was kicked down, and then upper cut into the air. As his body soared a typhoon of fire from the raven haired nin engulfed the half dead man.
Once the flaming body dropped to the ground dead, the shuriken implanted on his body was visible.
The blonde turned to look behind himself and spotted his pink haired teammate who wore a cat like mask. She pounded her fist into the ground which split under her will.
The ground shot upwards and engulfed a large number of Mizu nin. Finishing the job, she threw a barrage of kunai, each deadly as they held a paper bomb.
The pink haired medic along with her team dashed away as a blast of inferno burned trees and left craters in the ground. Flames hailed the now red skies.
As the team flew through the dense woods Mizu chased after them. The raven haired man abruptly swiveled to a stop and turned to face the incoming nin.
He made various hand signs and cupped his mouth, taking in a great amount of oxygen before releasing an enormous fireball.
Half the great number of nins were scorched and dropped a 50 yard plunge to the ground.
"Odama Rasengan!!!"
His teammate rushed passed him with clones at his side. He attacked half of the remaining, knocking them into trees and some into the ground and air.
"Chidori!!"
From overhead the Dark haired nin watched his silver haired teammate jump over himself. A pink haired nin in tow. The kunoichi blitz forward and slammed her fist into one mizu, making him fly back several meters before crashing into 4 more ninja.
The silver haired man lifted his right hand, which held a storm of electricity that emitted a sound of birds chirping. He thrusted his hand into nin and lifted his hand (which was still in the nin) also lifting the nin and slammed the nin harshly into the ground, creating crater from impact.
So far there were no ninja, the silver haired man observed with his one red eye. All four stood on separate trees.
The area was burned as some flames were still searing strong, burning anything in it's path. Craters were everywhere, some large and some small. Kunai and shuriken embedded the fertile ground below them. Branches and trees are snapped and smoke came from extinguished flames.
The silver haired man eyed the remaining flames and made rapid seals.
"Suiton: Suikodan no Jutsu!" he shouted
Water bullets extinguished the fire that was bound to spread if it was given another moment. After making sure there were no other fires to put out He nodded to his other teammates, they nodded in return.
The kunoichi of the group stepped forward and crouched next to a large dead enemy nin, he seemed to be the leader judging by the advanced armor he wore. She stuck her hand into his jacket pocket and fished out a scroll.
She analyzed it before nodding professionally. Her teammates watched her give them a nod affirmatively. She stood and was about to walk over when she suddenly stopped.
Thump.
A kunai had flown an inch away from her face and bolted right past her. She looked at it from the corner of her eye.
It had buried itself into a tree not far from the girl.
The raven, blonde, and silver haired nin immediately got into their fighting stances. Each whipped out a weapon a katana, kunai, and a fuuma shuriken.
10 more nin jumped in to attack.
"I'm getting tired of this" spoke the fox with an arrogant yawn
"hn, they'll be gone in no time" said the wolf
"do not under estimate your opponents" the hawk said wisely
"hai, sensei" the cat grinned as the hawk frowned at the name
"enough!" a mizu nin, the leader hollered as he charged at the hawk
The nine followed his example and charged at an opponent. 3 to each of the ANBU.
The blonde was forced in a kunai battle. He rapidly charged like a blur and the three opponents also sped up, becoming blurs to the human eye.
All that was heard was the sound of metal on metal.
Shuriken flew and blood splattered. The blonde used his specialty and several clones appeared in a spit second. A fuuma shuriken was held in his hand as he thrust it into two shinobi.
A sphere of vicious winds formed in his other hand. The blonde dropped his fuuma to the ground and plunged the ball into the remaining nin.
The Mizu nin flew back and crashed harshly into several trees as the blonde landed expertly on a branch.
The onyx eyed man let his eyes bleed to red as he engaged three shinobi into a ninjutsut battle. Flames erupted from his mouth, a Mizu nin countered with Ice bullets.
As the two attacks collide, water erupted from impact
The red eyed man charged doing hand seals. Fire hailed against his enemies, two burned while a skilled one remained.
"and then there's one" smirked the wolf
His opponent was angered and formed several hand seals. An ice dragon emerged from thin air, it let out a menacing cry before lunging at the raven haired man who frowned before summoning a fire dragon.
Both elements clashed and evaporated into water.
"Chidori Nagashi!!!"
Electricity engulfed the wolf masked man and his katana. He charged at the tired shinobi. Blood splattered the ANBU's uniform as the enemy dropped dead with a gaping whole in his chest.
The raven haired man flipped backwards and onto a huge branch.
He watched his silver haired teammate fight Fuuma on Fuuma with the group leader. They clashed weapons swiftly before grappling with strength.
The Mizu sneered as he tried to outdo the ANBU, but his eyes widened when he was overpowered. His Fuuma soared into the air before imbedding into the ground meters away.
The hawk masked man took this chance to thrust his weapon into the enemy. He twisted it inside the mans body, and after hearing a satisfying crack he pulled his weapon out of the now dead nin.
Jumping onto a branch he scanned the area.
Pink hair flew gracefully in the wind as the kunoichi fought hand to hand with three Mizu nin. She blocked a punch using a knife hand block and used a crescent kick on the offender, knocking him to the ground and creating a large crater. Blood spurted from the ferocious strength of the kunoichi as she looked at the dead body before blocking with both arms.
She flipped the man who attacked her over her shoulder and smashed him harshly into the ground, creating another crater with her inhuman strength.
Panting, she watched the partially alive nin in the crater slowly get up. He coughed up blood and glared menacingly at the kunoichi before him.
He kicked him into a tree as he bolted at her with fearful speed. The impact caused him to fly into at least five trees before him stopping at a tree half snapped, dead.
She hunched over onto her knees, tired as she felt her chakra almost gone from healing her teammates early after they escaped the Mizu village.
The shadow of the third nin rose behind her. Her eyes widened as she saw the shadow directly behind her. The Mizu held a katana, about to slice her head off.
As he brought down the blade…
Clang!
It was intercepted by another katana. The pink haired nin looked to her right to see her raven haired teammate glowering down at her.
He slit the Mizu's neck with ease then turned to face the kunoichi.
"hn. You still need to be protected… annoying" he grunted
The kunoichi flinched as he glared down at her… and once again she had to be protected, she is still weak…
The fox and hawk exchanged looks as they looked at their two teammates from a higher branch above the wolf's and cat's branch.
The blonde hokage read through each document and slammed them all down with a little too much force that would've broken the table.
She sighed at the pile of work on her desk and glared at it as if they'd run away scared of the woman's wrath.
…
Sigh.
She wished her assistant hadn't taken away her 'energy drinks' (cough-sake-cough)
Just as she was about to pick up another piece of paper…
"Tsunadae-sama"
The hokage looked up to see a bloody, beaten, and tired ANBU squad. She had a bored look on, the hokage sees this everyday, it's no big surprise.
"Ah, is your mission done?" inquired the leader of Konoha
"hai" answered the pink headed kunoichi
She stepped forth and handed the hokage the scroll which was covered in debris, dirt, and blood.
"good work Team 7" Tsunadae nodded with a bright smile, yes team 7 is finally together right after Sasuke's probation which was just 3 days ago. Sai went back to ANBU while Yamato has his own genin squad.
Now that the team had been revealed they are allowed to take off their masks. The hawk removed his to reveal Kakashi WITH O.o his mask on.
The wolf revealed to be Sasuke while the fox being Naruto.
The cat tipped her mask to the side to only reveal one gorgeous emerald eye and half of her smile.
"Tsunadae-sama, I'm going to train before our daily training" Sakura bowed and re-covered her face.
Tsunadae's face fell. That smile it had a sad feeling to it while her eyes (or eye) was empty and without energetic feeling.
"… alright Sakura"
"I'll leave it to you guys for the mission report" Sakura said monotone as she began to walk out
"tch. Slacker, leaving the work to us now?" Sasuke asked harshly
Sakura paused when she heard the word 'slacker' there was a moment of silence. Though they could not see it, there was a pained and livid expression on Sakura's face.
'he still thinks I'm weak and this is the first time he actually saw me. Was he not paying attention to those CRATERS I made in the ground? Or how many trees broke because I punched an enemy nin into it? He may have been unconscious when I healed him, but didn't he know someone healed him? He probably thought it was Kakashi…' Sakura thought bitterly
Her body trembled in anger, but everyone took it for something else because Sakura wouldn't usually get angry because of words and when she did it was just playful anger (like with Naruto).
"gonna cry? I guess you're weak emotionally as well. You still can't control your emotions" Sasuke sneered
Naruto elbowed him hard which earned a grunt and a glare. Sasuke rolled his eyes. He was tired of having to save her ass. Apparently the Uchiha thinks she always has to be protected.
Sakura shook harder, she repressed the murderous aura that was bound to spill and dashed out of the room. She was gone in a blur.
"god, this is the first time we get to actually see each other and have a mission as team 7, but you HAVE to ruin it!" Naruto yelled angrily, he was protective of Sakura she is like his little sister.
"I'm stating facts dobe" Sasuke shrugged carelessly
"Bastard! She hates it when people call her – "
"Naruto enough!" Kakashi stepping in between the two and holding them back by the shoulders
Naruto looked like he was ready to lunge at Sasuke who looked apathetic, but ready to counter.
"Sasuke, go apologize" Kakashi ordered in a serious tone
"tch"
"now." Kakashi said curtly
With a grunt Sasuke turned away from the both and wlaked out, slamming the door behind him. Naruto growled at his best friend's behavior and punched the wall next to him, leaving a dent.
Tsunadae was worried for Sakura.
'Sakura. I hope you don't overdo it' she thought sadly as thunder crackled
The three left in the room turned to the window. It was pouring hard, in fact too dangerous to be training outside.
In the outskirts of Konoha…
It's been a full 4 hour since she had left the hokage's tower and she's been training out there nonstop. The weather hasn't lightened up, in fact it just got worse. Water flooded the grounds by 4 inches already and despite that the pink haired Shinobi trained viciously.
Sakura stood in front of a badly beaten tree. Her hands and legs bled flowingly, but she hasn't healed it.
"no pain, no gain" she panted bitterly
She was drenched head to toe in blood, sweat, rain, and tears? Of anger or sadness?
She clenched her bleeding fists and pounded the tree with all her might and without chakra. Each hit, she used all the strength she had left from the mission.
"Punch, Elbow strike, Jab, Kick" she recited with every hit she did
She panted heavily to the point where she would cough blood. She had no chakra left to heal herself after the nonstop fighting mission and ninjutsut she practiced.
She didn't care if she passed out from lack of chakra or energy.
"I'll prove you wrong" she growled
She was becoming delusional and the tree looked like Sasuke to her. She snarled and angrily punched the tree, each blow landing indents and sprouting blood. She was covered with both dry and new blood, but the rain helped clean her a bit.
Sakura panted. It's midnight and her body screamed for her to stop, the mission had taken up 4/5 of her strength and she can't do much with the little she had left.
Her vision became hazy and she thought she spotted a figure in the distance, but she thought of it as a hallucination.
"damn Uchiha Sasuke. I'm nothing like your pathetic fangirl all those years ago!!" She shouted
Her body shook, she knew it. Sasuke would underestimate her in the mission and she was right.
FLASHBACK
Sakura stood at the gates, first as always. She watched the horizon, she was proud of how far she had gone with her training. She'd train so hard everyday and she deserved the new strength she has now.
"Sakura"
Of course her pink hair would be a blow to her cover, only for those in this country. She turned to face a wolf masked ANBU, his chakra concealed, but that didn't stop Sakura.
"Sasuke" she nodded to him
He looked taken aback like he didn't expect her to know who he was. Then he shrugged it off with an apathetic look.
"you're an ANBU?" he snorted
Sakura could always retort, she was known for being a bitch to those who pissed her off. She held her tongue though.
"Konoha must have lowered its standards" he sneered
She tried to keep the smile she had on her face. He looked away from her and to the road where Naruto was running up to them.
"listen carefully. Don't screw this mission up, and I better not have to protect you. Then again…" he said and turned to her "I bet you haven't changed a bit… pathetic" he sneered down at her
He noticed her clenched fists and smirked almost spitefully.
"I won't be surprised if you're at the edge of death by the end of this mission"
"Sakura-chyan!" Naruto called happily as he reached them
Sakura swiftly turned away from them. Her fists shook. After all this time… he still thinks so low of her.
END FLASHBACK
Sakura clutched her kunai in her fist making her hand bleed.
"I'll show you." She said painfully as she looked down at her headband "I will no longer wear my hitai-ate. No, not until I prove you wrong Uchiha Sasuke"
She pulled up her sleeve and looked at her arm.
"I SWEAR IT ON MY BLOOD!" she cried as she slashed down her arm
She brought down the kunai against her skin, cutting it open and letting herself bleed. The kunai glinted in the moonlight, blood at its edges. She threw it at the tree. A mark of promise. The blood dripped off of the kunai, drop by drop it leaked. The blood traveled down the tree.
Sakura brought her hitai-ate to her eyes and tied them around the emerald orbs that held determination. She'd prove him wrong. Whether she loves him or not…
Thump.
Her body lay against the dirt, a figure watching over her with blood red eyes…
I didn't mean for it to be angsty or dramaish b the way... -.-' it turned out that way... i think, but it has to be like this for the story to go as planned. heh heh. I'll squeeze in humor too!
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