Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Re-learning ❯ chapter 7 ( Chapter 7 )

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Sasuke would not show it but he was impressed with Sakura. She just destroyed a large section of earth right after coming out of tsukuyomi. He glanced at her but she gave him such a hate filled look and turned away. Though he knew he deserved it he did not expect it to come from her. She had always been loving and forgiving. Apparently she had toughened up considerably. He cleared his head of those thoughts and focused on Kabuto. That bastard had brought his brother out of his rest. For what purpose? Once again there were too many questions and not enough answers. Kabuto formed his hand seals again and there was a rumble then a coffin came up in front of him. The lid fell off and another Akatsuki member came forward.

"Kakuzu. Kill them" Kabuto ordered.

Kakuzu raised his hand and hundreds of the thick grey threads that composed his body shot out at the group they all scattered. He wasted no time in preforming hand signs and unleashing a barrage of fireballs apon them.

Sakura managed to avoid all of the fireballs and now she was weaving through the threads Kakuzu had unleashed. He was fast. He kept trying to stab her but her training with Tsunade-sama had made her highly observant during a battle. She jumped out of the path of one headed right for and backed out of his reach. Too bad she was now within Kabutos.

Kakashi was still feeling the drain after having used his kaumi. His leg wound was hampering his abilities and he could not move fast enough to totally avoid the fireballs Kakuzu sent his way. Now he had a bad burn over his back. As he was about to go down Yamato caught him and headed for cover in the forest.

"Sempai as much as I don't want to say it we might want to sit this one out for a while."

Kakashi looked back to the battle. Sasuke and Naruto were fighting Kakuzu and Sakura found herself locked in battle with Kabuto. Regardless of his new found strength she was holding her own. Actually she was doing better than that. She did not have a scratch on her and she had managed to land a couple of hits on him. "Your right. I guess it is time for their generation to take over."

"It still may be a little early to say that sempai. Those three are different. Each of them was trained by one of the sanins. They are in a class by themselves." Yamato stated as he watched Sakura gather the chakra to her hands forming chakra scaples and attacking Kabuto again. Naruto had the fox cloak surrounding him and Sasuke had charged his sword with his chidori.

Itachi watched from far behind them. He was desperately trying to make his body listen but it would not. He found himself walking towards the battle. He did not want to fight Sasuke again. He did not want to fight period; but that was not an option for him.

Sasuke saw him approach. "Naruto." He glanced over to Sasuke and found him staring into the distance. Itachi was approaching.

"Go ahead Sasuke. I've got this one."

Sasuke gave a final glance to him and with a barely preceptible nod he took off.

"Now didn't I already kill your ugly ass one time. Let's do so again." with that said Naruto rushed Kakuzu.

"Itachi."

"Sasuke"

"What did I do to cause you so much pain?" Sasuke's question was barely audiable.

"Have you not set your heart to destroy Konoha?"

"Yes but it has to be done Itachi. They ordered you to kill our family! Those old bastards deserve to die for what they've done." Sasuke was clenching his sword so tightly his knuckles were turning white.

"That saddens me greatly Sasuke. Did I not give up my life for that village? Sacrificed my honor to keep its people safe? You know this yet you are trying to destroy the thing I gave everything to protect. Our family was to blame. They were going to start a war that would've have killed thousands."

"So what? You want me to ignore the fact that the elders of Konoha gave us all a death sentence? Not gonna happen. My life.....our lives were ruined because of those people."

Itachi sighed. "I hope you can change your mind ototo. Forgive me but I can not ignore my body. I have been given orders to kill you and I can not stop myself from doing so. I hope that you win this fight as well Sasuke." Itachi threw shurikens at Sasuke at ran towards him.


Sakura's mind was completely focused on her opponant. She had no time to worry about Naruto or Kakashi-sensei. Kabuto's power and skill was immense. She knew one mistake would wind up with her death.

"So serious Sakura-chan. Keep that up and I might think you actually mean to kill me." Kabuto said as he released another waves of snakes at her from his arms.

Sakura doged them all. "Good that's the impression I was trying to give." She ripped the nearest tree out of the ground and threw it at Kabuto. As he avoided it,it gave her the chance she had been looking for. She ran at him with her chakra scaples activated. She hit him in several points. Severing many of his major arteries as well as damagin his liver and right kidney. Kabuto punched her and jumped back. He began coughing up blood as he grabbed his stomach.

"Bitch. Don't think this will be fatal to me. You forget I am a med-nin myself but I also can activate my cells to repair faster."

"Don't worry I didn't forget." She landed a chakra filled punch to his abdomen that caused his side to erupt. Kabuto's screams could be heard across the valley. Sakura slowly approached him waiting to see if he would rise again. When he did not she charged her chakra again preparing for the final blow. She raised her fist but before she could deliver it she was lifted into the air and thrown forcefully into a tree. Her fist that had been meant to deliver a killing blow to Kabuto caused the tree to splinter and slice her back in numerous places. She struggled to her knees. Her vision was hazy but she could just make out the shape of Madara as he stood next to Kabuto's fallen form.

"Order them to return to you." he told Kabuto in a low, hate filled voice.

"Stop. Re...return to me." his voice was low and laced with pain.



Naruto stared at the spot where he had just been locked with Kakuzu. He had blood dripping from his entire body it seemed. Though the kuuybi's chakra was healing him at a fast rate as always. He was confused. One moment he had been fighting Kakuzu and the next he had disappeared. He searched around him and saw Sakura on her knees. He could see the back of her shirt was torn and she was bleeding. He rushed to her side.

Sasuke was badly injured. He didn't know how much longer he could fight. He had already been injured from his battle with Naruto and he didn't have a demon inside him to aide his healing. Now after fighting with Itachi for so long his chakra was at minimal levels, his eyes were tired, and his entire body was in pain. Though he had injured Itachi severly as well.

"I wish we could finish this right now little brother but I am being summond back." Itachi spoke then took off to where Kabuto was laying. The most surprising thing was that Madara was standing bedside him. Sasuke clenched his teeth and ran his chidori along his blade again. He went to stand beside Naruto.

"Madara.....what is the meaning of this?" Sasuke asked when he reached his old team mate.

"A fool making a grave mistake." Madara said as he looked down to Kabuto. "Our deal was for you to wait until after the war!"

"I did not come after him." Kabuto rasped. "I came here for the girl. To use her as bait for Naruto-kun."

"Well it most certainely did not work out that way. Are you dying?" he asked the question but his voice was uncaring.

"No. I will heal. Though it will take some time. It seems I greatly underestimated her abilities."

"Good because if I lose another fighter I am going to be extremely pissed. Sasori is near death, again and these two do not look much better." Madara pointed to Itachi and Kakuzu.

Sasuke just stood there and listened to all of this. Madara had conspired behind his back with Kabuto. Apparently he had agreed to hand him over after Sasuke finished playing his part in Madara's war. Itachi had been right. Madara could not be trusted and his plans were elaborate. He closed his eyes and began forming his chakra for amaterasu.

"Not gonna happen Sasuke. I'll admit that losing you is a bit of a setback but do not think you are irreplaceable. And don't think you can harm me. See you around kiddies." with that said madara grabbed Kabuto and used his teleport jutsu to leave. Itachi and Kakuzu sprinted off into the forest.


Everyone sat there in silence for a moment trying to process what just happened. Well, almost everyone.

"Okay I'm confused. Just what the hell happened!" Naruto screamed.

Sasuke simply cut his eyes to Naruto. "Dobe".

Yamato came up to the group supporting Kakashi. "Sakura are you okay." Everyone looked down at her back. Her shirt had been shredded as had her back. She was bleeding heavily from it.

"It'll be okay" she whispered.

"Sakura-chan you are hurt bad. Oh crap what should we do? There isn't a town around here for miles." Naruto began pacing back and forth. The rest of the group simply watched Sakura. She closed her eyes and focused her healing chakra to her back. Immediatley the wound began closing. Naruto stopped talking and watched her as well. She continued working until all the wounds were closed. She did not want to use too much chakra so she left long red marks along her back. After she treated everyone else's wounds she would finish the healing. She stood up carefully testing her body for any other serious injuries.

"See Naruto I told you I'd be fine. Now I need to check yours and Kakashi-sensei's wounds."

"Your amazing Sakura-chan. I'm fine you know the kuuybi will heal me soon anyway. You can check sensei's wounds. Oh crap I forgot Sai. I'll go get him now." with that said he took off into the forest.

"Help him sit here please Yamato-taicho. Baka...I wonder if Naruto will ever calm down. What's wrong with Sai?" She removed the make-shift bandage Kakashi had place around his thigh and began to stop the bleeding. His burns were bad too but she need to handle the bleeding first.

Kakashi's breath hissed through his teeth as she began the healing. "sorry." she said in a small voice. He then felt the cool pain releiving chakra she used. It made the procedure much more bearable. "His leg is broken and he has various other injuries; but Sasuke's team mate is hurt much worse. He has been posioned by Sasori."

She knew Sasuke was there. He had been there the whole time just watching her. She decided to ignore him for now. On top of everything else she wanted to beat him for now she had to add Itachi's sadness to the list. Well I guess I'll just add that to the list of things Sasuke is perfect at doing.....pissing me off. "Was the posion injected or inhaled?"

"Inhaled. It was a purple cloud he blew out of his mouth." Yamato answered.

"Hopefully it was the same one he used before. Though it is still going to be difficult becuase I do not have the supplies I would normally use." Sakura began thinking about what she did have and how she could adapt everything to work. She blocked everything else out as her mind searched for answers. She continued to heal Kakashi-sensei almost as an after thought.

Sasuke saw her eyes stare off into nothingness and he knew she was lost in thought. He took this opportunity to study her. She had most certainly changed, even from when he saw her a few months ago after killing Danzo. His mind had been lost in rage then and he had only glanced at her to comfirm who she was. He had not seen any of her abilities. He did not know she had become a med-nin and apparently and excellant one at that. The way she had healed her back still had him speechless. He never saw Kabuto do anything that precise when he was still with Orochimaru. Her chakra control was perfect though it had always been. The rumors that Tsunade had taken an apprentice must have been true. He just would have not imagined it to be Sakura. She had been fearless as she stared down Kabuto and engaged him in combat. This just seemed like too much of a contradiction to Sasuke. He would have never believed she would become as stong as she was. Her appearance had changed as well. She still had that vibrant pink hair but she had kept it short, reaching only to her shoulders. Her eyes were still bright green but now they held knowledge and confidence. She wore tight black shorts with a light pink skirt over them but split to her hips on both sides. Her form-fitting red top was sleeveless showing toned arms. Her chest was not large like her shishou's but rather the perfect size to fit in man's hands. Sasuke stopped his train of thought there. Though he had displayed no interest in women he was still a normal male. Revenge and power had driven him throughout life and he had no time to waste on women. That did not mean he did not appreciate gazing at a beautful woman every now and then; and Haruno Sakura had indeed became a beautiful woman. Sasuke turned his gaze to the forest trying to will Naruto be quicker retreiving his team mate. It wasn't long before Jugo and Naruto came running to them carrying their injured companions.

Sakura ran over to where the white haired man was placed on the ground. She began examing him as she spoke with Sai. "Sai, how are your wounds?" She opened her medic pack and got her light out to inspect the mans eyes.

"My injuries are not life threatening only painful. His however are." Sai stated.

Sakura had to agree with him. It seemed to be the same poision Sasori had used before. She removed the anitdote she kept with her. After making it the first time she had made another batch as soon as they arrived at Konoha. She kept one vial in her office and one in her medic pack. She always liked to keep antidotes with her. They were light and small so it took up hardly no room in her bag. She was thankful for her odd quirk. She administered the anti-dote to the man and began pushing chakra into his system to circulate it faster. "What is his name?"

"Suigetsu." it was the first word Sasuke had spoken to her.

"Sai I hate to ask you to do this when you are injured but we have to move from here. Can you draw us two large birds so we can travel? We have to find a clearing near a body of water."

"I have enough chakra for that but why the body of water?' he asked as he pulled out his parchment.

"His body needs to be submerged to heal properly." Sasuke and Jugo looked at each other. "From what I can tell he must be able to convert his form into water at will. In order for him to heal he is going to have to be under water. Even with me healing him it won't be enough if we don't get him wet and soon.

Jugo was stunned. He knew she did not know Suigetsu nor any of his abilities but she was able to discern all that from her quick examination. She was a highly skilled medic. It made him wonder if there could possibly hope for him.

Yamato and Jugo helped everyone onto the two large birds Sai had created. Sakura kept Suigetsu beside her as she focused her chakra to help hold the posion off. Regardless if he was a potential enemy or not she hoped they would find a lake or river soon or he was going to die.



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