All characters belong to Masashi Kishimoto, I do not claim to own them.
Protector
The blonde woman smirked confidently. She coughed multiple times, each time gasping for more and more air as blood began to drip from her mouth down to the bottom of her chin. The man's grip on her shirt tightened as he raised her to face level.
"Go ahead, finish me off." She met eyes with her attacker, "I won't ever help you with this." Her arms lay limp by her sides, blood practically pouring out of each shoulder.
Her attacker's face remained completely apathetic. His red eyes swirled with a black symbol at its center, "I could waste my time torturing you into helping me," a small twitch at the edge of his lips indicated a sick, cruel smile, "However, I hear you have quite a talented apprentice." His voice was flat, yet menacing enough to strike fear in any person with confidence.
The woman's aqua eyes widened as the thought had struck her, "St-Stay away from her!" She struggled against the grip he had on her shirt, finding it impossible to escape his grasp with her arms as useless as they are.
"Come now, Tsunade." His eyes focused more on hers, "I hear she has surpassed even you with her medical jutsus. A true prodigy for helping others," his smirk had faded into the emotionless appearance it had before, "Konoha would know all about prodigies, wouldn't it?"
He pulled a kunai from his long sleeve and jabbed it between two of her ribs on the right side. Tsunade gasped as the blade entered her body. She bit her lip to try and nullify some of the pain.
She lifted her left foot and, while condensing chakra to her heel, impacted the ground. The ground beneath both of the ninjas crumbled apart. Tsunade landed on her knees while the attacker darted away at an alarming speed. He stood about twenty feet away from her, brushing his long, black hair from his face and holding his bloody kunai in his other hand. The godaime struggled to move her arms, managing to place her hands together to form a single seal.
The small diamond on her forehead glowed as it began to trek the angles and curves of her face. Each wound the man created began to instantly heal with small puffs of steam coming from the openings.
The man in the black and red coat slid the kunai back into his sleeve, formed an intricate set of hand signs and held his left hand to his mouth, "Katon, goukakyuu no jutsu,"
An overwhelmingly large fireball emerged from his mouth, moving in the direction of the blonde woman.
She dodged to the side and formed more hand seals while running toward her enemy. Two other versions of herself appeared beside her, running at full speed. She condensed more chakra to her hand and hit the ground in front of her. The shockwave turned the solid dirt and stone to rubble and moved toward her enemy at a speed that was breathtaking.
The man jumped to avoid the ground breaking from beneath him. The two clone Tsunades dashed to meet him in hand-to-hand combat. He dismissed one immediately as the other landed a bone-shattering blow directly to his jaw. As he flew backwards into a nearby tree the second Tsunade vanished and was replaced with the original hokage.
"UCHIHA!" She dashed at him again, pummeling him more and more into the ground with the unspeakable strength that only she could muster at the time.
His face was the last thing she saw of him after she stopped. His disgustingly malicious grin remained on his face as it melded into another man's face.
No! She stared at the former Konoha nin that she knelt over. Without warning, Tsunade began coughing in an uncontrollable manner; her body contorting as she gasped for more and more air. Damn. She grasped at her chest as blood began to spray with each cough she had.
She rolled and lay beside the nameless nin that she had killed, smiling when she stopped convulsing, "I guess I overdid it a little." Her healing jutsu that she had used was draining the last of the life she had left, her years had been cut down to this moment. Her body lay limp as the glowing symbol on her face faded and her eyes closed, slowly, "Sakura…please…be……safe."
YAY! First Chapter to my ItaSaku fic! I know it's a small chapter, but I was hoping it would be a small enough taste to get some people interested. Curiosity my friends that's how I'm hoping to pull you in! Thank you for reading !
Sephy