For The Scroll Chapter 1, a naruto fanfic

"Don't be afraid," I whispered, "We'll always be together…" She nodded, hypnotized by my blue eye. I held onto her hand tightly as we walked closer to the edge. With one giant breath, we jumped. "I love you."

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"What do you mean you don't know where we are?!" She shouted at me, her blonde hair blowing in the wind, green eyes burning with anger.

"I was just saying, yeah! I've never seen this tree before! We could just be on the wrong path, hmm!" I said smoothly. Temperamental, as always; but that doesn't stop me from loving her…

"If we are on the wrong path….then that means we're lost!!! The Tsuchikage is going to be mad if we're not back in time!" She sighed, grabbing the bag she set on the ground.

"We're going to make it on time, geeze. Chill, yeah."

"You're hopeless. Let's go." She murmured, walked down the path.

I sighed, "Nice going, man." I walked behind her quietly, trying to not aggravate her any more than I did.

"Watch out!!!" I shouted, taking out the sand nin that was attacking me, and running towards her.

"Huh?" She whipped around in time to see a dozen kunai being thrown at her. She gasped, took out her own kunai and blocked all she could; but one she missed sliced her arm. "Ah!" She gasped, grabbing her arm, "Ugh…" She glared at the enemy ninja and did the hand signals for her infamous jutsu. "Mind control jutsu!" She shouted, falling out of her body and into the opponent's.

With a kunai, the ninja attacked his teammate repeatedly; and making his teammate fight him back. The blonde girl transferred back to her body, and smirked as the two enemy ninja attacked each other.

"Smart girl…" I whispered, going to her side and grabbing her arm. "Let's go, yeah." I said, running into the forest, her on my trail.

"They're not going to stop tracking us until they get what they want! We cannot give the enemy these scrolls!" She shouted, her beautiful eyes scanning the area.

"Well, what do you want to do, un?"

She sighed, "I don't know! We need to get to Iwa! They'll send reinforcements; these suna nin will destroy us! We aren't powerful enough, we're only genin!"

I nodded; but there was no way to get back to Iwagakure in time, the sand ninja are hot on our trail and my other team member and sensei are missing. "We're going to have to fight back as best as we can, yeah. I've been working on a jutsu…with my hands; and I can try to use it. But, we can't just run, un! We have to protect these scrolls and ourselves as ninja, hmm." She hesitated, but then nodded. There is no other way…

So this is how it ends; 13 or so chuunin ninja surrounding two genin ninja. We can't give up. "Before anything happens, I want to tell you something, yeah." I whispered.

"What?" She whispered back, tears falling out of her eyes.

"I lo-WATCH OUT!" I shouted, pushing her to the ground and taking the blow of enemy kunai. I gasped, a bit of blood coming out of my mouth.

"No!" My partner shouted, running to my side.

"I'm fine, yeah! Watch yourself; you're more important than I am, hmm!" I said, looking into her eyes.

"What?" She asked shocked.

"I love you." I whispered, getting up from the ground and wincing. "But don't let that cloud your mind, yeah. We need to defeat these ninja, hmm." Still shocked, the girl rose from the ground. "Keep your ground, hmm." I said, pulling out a handful of clay from my pocket.

"This will be explosive." She nodded, and I took off my gloves, allowing the mouths on my hands to eat the clay. "Only a C3, please." I whispered to my hands, acting as though they could listen. When they finished, a fairly large clay bird was on my hand, and I readied myself for the blow. I'm only a genin, and not controlling of my art…yet.

I threw the bird at the ninja closest to me, said the words for my jutsu and smirked. BOOM! A few screams were heard; smoke everywhere, and a presence missing from my side. Oh no…where is she? The smoke cleared, 8 of the 13 nin destroyed, and a blonde partner missing.

I looked around frantically, and then gasped when I saw it. There, by the tree, 20 feet away, covered in blood. No… "NO!" I yelled, running to her side. "Oh no, are you okay, please be okay, yeah!?" I wiped off the blood from her face. "Can you hear me, love?" I whispered, tears forming in my eye.

My partner moaned, opened her luscious green eyes and whispered, "Huh? What happened?"

I shook my head, "Love, you'll be alright. There are 5 ninja left, we can take them, I don't have the chakra to use anymore bombs, and I can't stand hurting you again, hmm. Are you okay, yeah?" She nodded, closing her eyes again.

"Yeah, I'm fine, don't worry about me, heh. We can defeat them, right?" I nodded and helped her up.

We faced the ninja, my blonde companion slowly regaining her strength, and smirked. "Three of them are hurt. Only two good ninja, and I can take those easily…then I'll go back and help you, okay, hmm?"

She nodded and smirked, "Sounds goo-." She gaped. I looked at her and then looked to wear the ninja were. They multiplied; there are now 16 ninja. Two more then appeared from the left, 18. Three from the north, 21. Five from the right, 26. 26 ninja now crowded us.

"Oh…" I whispered.

"Why is this happening?!" She said, tears falling down her eyes.

"I don't know, love." I said, grabbing her hand, "We can't fight them, our chakra is too low; we have to run. Can you do it, yeah?" She nodded, her blonde hair almost completely down from her ponytail.

We've ran for too long. I'm guessing 20 or so miles…my partner can't make it anymore. A cliff is coming up, leading about 300 feet to the ground, I'm guessing. Sharp rocks at the end, meaning Iwa is close; but not close enough. We can't go any further. Gasping for air, bleeding, enemy ninja really close. I know what we're going to have to do.

"There's no choice. We can't fight, yeah." I said, pulling my true love to my body.

"I'm scared…" She said back, grabbing onto me. I looked in her eyes, taking a well needed breath, and kissed her passionately for the first time. I pulled away; the only thing connecting us is my hand holding hers.