A/N: Well, technically my second fan fiction, so no need to go easy. This series had been inspired by the artworks of: MuseSilver.

Theme for this one shot is: http://musesilver(dot)deviantart(dot)com/art/Your-Shield-80660279

Enjoy.

:)

+ Your Shield 1. Naruto Saves Sakura +

"Naruto, you baka, move," Sakura screamed from across the battle field.

Still keeping an eye on the blonde with the corner of her eye, she finished the enemy Missing-nin that she had coming from the side with a quick Scalpel to the torso, hitting a sweet spot as blood spurted every where, some of it landing on her already permanently stained and ruined shinobi uniform.

"Baka," she growled under her breath as she charged some of her remaining charkra in to the palm of her hand, before slamming into the ground and creating a tsunami of dirt.

The dirt continued up in the giant wave until it hit its targets: the Missing-nins. The full impact unleashed upon them with a small boom. At first it had made them loose their balance. They were able to get up again, but as the second shock wave rolled in, nearly all of them were either falling forwards or backwards. Giving Naruto a few extra seconds at the most.

Sakura used her Scalpel to finish off the second Missing-nin that had being lurking behind her. Doing some quick mental calculation she figured her kill count to be at least five for the day. Not thinking too much of the number she continued over to Naruto, where he was apparently still fighting the lead ninja.

She was also unaware of rouge that had successful being observing the little battle the whole time, undetected. The same rouge that was now behind her, and about to plunge a kunai through her heart.

Fortunately Naruto was the one to spot that his Sakura-chan was in danger. Wiping the sweat on his brow away and resisting the urge to place a hand over his pumping heart in order to try and bring its beating down. Sucking up the fear and shock the Jinchuuriki managed to create a shadow clone to try and distract the additional rouge. In the span of about just two seconds, the second Naruto came into existence.

The second clone looked around at the blood drenched ground and countless bodies that were either victims of Naruto or Sakura, which littered the battle ground. Not the slightest perturbed by the sight of death, the clone looked back to its originator and awaited instructions.

Naruto, who was back to trying to fend of the lead Missing-nin, had to struggle to huff out his directions to the shadow clone. While trying to narrowly avoid some extra long kunai that the Missing-nins fingers had just transformed in to.

"Go over there and help Sakura-chan!"

Without any indication as where 'over there' was the clone was left to scout out the pink hair kunoichi by itself. Spotting her near a clump of thorny bushes, the clone dashed off to rescue the seemingly unaware damsel in distress.

As the clone ran towards the kunoichi with the intention to help, it instead only ended up making the scenario worse. As it fell to the ground and poof out of existence, it had activated a trap, as it had tumbled over a trip wire.

The one advantage it had held was that the noise had encouraged Sakura to take a peek at the goings on behind her. Pivoting around on her heel she came face to face with the rouge.

At the same time the weapons from the trip wire had been released from the other side of the clearing and were headed exactly in the direction of where Sakura was standing. Naruto was the only one to notice the incoming barrage of weapons headed towards his Sakura-chan and where she was standing.

For a split second he held his breath as he watched the glittering metal fly across the clearing, getting and closer and closer to Sakura.

It wasn't instinct that made him race across the clearing towards the kunoichi. It was out of his own free will that he was racing towards her. Knowing that he was going to run into the weapons.

Everything was in slow motion as he ran. He was actually right in the centre of the horde of weapons. It was like – no he was going at super speed.

How?

An outsider could see the hints of demon charkra that surrounded the Jinchuuriki, how the red, almost flame like, flickers licked the sides of his feet as he propelled through the air. Appearing to be nothing more than a red blur to Sakura.

Naruto didn't look back as he ran towards Sakura, and as he launched towards the startled kunoichi. The position in which he landed was rather awkward. Right in between Sakura's legs, so that their hips met. His entire torso leaned over her body, leaving barley any room in between them. His arms were placed either side of her, supporting him even as the weapons hit their target.

When the weapons did hit his back, Naruto let out a small grunt of pain for each one. Only three kunai managed to hit him, the rest of the weapons lay scattered around him. But the one big kunai that did hit was rather close to his heart, and unknown to Sakura or Naruto, managed to rupture an artery.

Not caring that he was starting to bleed, Naruto turned his head and glared at the rouge. Growling slightly as he did so, bloodlust clouding his mind and vision, as an overwhelming desire to behead the rogue begun to surface in his mind. His fingers practically twitched with keenness.

Meanwhile, Sakura hadn't see any of the weapons headed towards her. She was just staring open mouth with shock at Naruto and his demon eyes. The sheer redness shocked her, and she could have sworn that there was almost a red highlight to his hair as well.

Naruto stayed in place, hovering protectively over his Sakura-chan and continuing to growl at the rouge until Kakashi came bounding into the scene and finished off the rouge with a quick swish his shruiken, which returned to the silver hair ninja like a boomerang.

Naruto rotated his head back around to look into shocked emerald eyes, that were starting to get blurry, maybe due to his lack of blood, or the dizzying relief that Sakura was alright. She was alive.

With that last positive thought, Naruto let go and collapsed into her waiting arms.

"Thank you baka," Sakura whispered gently down into his surprisingly soft blonde hair, before raising a hand with two intentions, to hug and to heal.

"My baka," she unintentionally said out loud – the only person catching the slip was too immersed with their Icha Icha Paradise to think much of it.

As the green light started to emit from her hands, she brought her hand down and stroked the unconscious Jinchuurikislowly, putting all her gratitude into the contact and mentally promising herself to later by her savior an extra large bowl of Beef Miso Ramen.

If he survived…for as she had just realized, her healing wasn't doing anything.

A/N: All I want for Christmas is a review….