Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Sand Blossom ❯ Drunken Interference ( Chapter 2 )

The scent of gin and vodka filled the air almost immediately, obviously radiating off the man's clothes. He got up, sliding his back against the tree and wobbled towards Sakura a few steps, “Heeeyy thereee. You must be that hot nin who's handing out vaccines to the currr-sed people.”

 

Sakura took some precautionary steps away from the drunk and zipped up the rest of her medic suit. “Hey listen here girly… my pallys and I have been real miserable lately. Too many pretty girls with the virus nowadays so there is no fun to be had anywhere.” As he spoke in his slurry speech, three other drunks came from around the perimeter of the tree, two wobbling forward while the third one circled behind Sakura. The drunk slowly slid a kunai out of his pocket and placed it in his hand to hold it firmly, “Right, so you're coming with us.”

 

Sakura rolled her eyes and sucked her teeth as she turned around to leave, “Sorry drunk guy, but I've got plenty of people to take care of. Too many cases to cure to go anywhere. So if you'll excuse me.” Sakura took two steps forward and then the drunk with the kunai was already next to her holding the kunai to her neck. “Come on Pink Hair, don't be stubborn.” His eyes trailed from the kunai down Sakura's body and to her shoes. He then leaned his head to the side and took a long deep breath as he smelled Sakura's hair.

 

Sakura's eyes blinked and her gaze fixed itself on the drunk. “Heard of something called elbow room?” Before the drunk could answer, Sakura's elbow suddenly flew out and crashed against the side of his face. SNAP CRACLE AND POP were only three of the distinguishable sounds that the drunks face made as his body flew into the nearby tree with such force that the tree was uprooted and fell over. The other drunks followed basic instincts and ran away in wobbling steps and trips as they ran into the bushes and into the village. “Annoying drunk.” Sakura stretched out her shoulders and headed to the next house to check for more victims of the virus.

 

In the shadows of the fallen tree and the disfigured drunk, there was a dark figure watching… waiting. He kept his eyes closed as his third eye looked around and saw the carnage left by the medical nin. A smile curled up on his face showing small fang like canines and an almost evil grin of either amusement or interest in the subject at hand.

 

Sunset was coming and it was getting harder to see for Sakura to finish up her vaccination rounds. A hand held flare could only last for so long, but she was almost done, “I only have two vaccinations left, better find two lucky people and go back home to get more.” Her last two patients were a Sand ninja and a field worker she found working in the mill. “At this time of day?” Sakura had asked. The worker answered, “My life is to end soon because of this virus, I might as well work off my debt to society in my final days.” Sakura smiled at the poor man and was proud to give him a vaccination and send him home. It does my heart good to find good people like him. It makes it all worthwhile.

 

Sakura cleaned herself up and ate another bento box for the night journey home. There was a safe village outside of the Wind Country where she would sleep the night until morning when she'd head back to Konoha. Some of the villagers bid her farewell as she left the village; she was too tired now to jump into the trees and speed away, so she just kept walking at a calm pace.

 

Along the road she noticed something odd. She looked around a bit and found a tree with a whole in it. She recognized that tree…… from the last two times she had passed it! A genjutsu?! Sakura clapped her hands together and made a Tiger seal, “Release!” The tree disappeared along with the entire landscape, at least the one she had been following. Now there were a new set of trees and bushes all around her. “Now who performed that jutsu?” There was a rumbling from the ground bellow her and suddenly, a set of hands pulled her knee deep into the ground keeping their grasp on her even though she struggled. “What the?” she looked down and tried to pull her legs out but no use. She looked up and a sappy liquid wrapped itself around her fists and arms incapacitating her movement except for her head and upper body. “Oh no! I—can't—move!”

 

“Of course you can't. It's my Syrup Capture Field jutsu.” An annoyingly familiar voice like that cannot be forgotten. Sakura looked up in dismay to find that the drunk guy from earlier was still alive. Her eyes bulged, “You're a ninja?” The drunk's friends soon joined him as he started slurring again, “Of course! I'm just off duty most of the time so I can find pretty girls like you and take advantage of them.” His face was terribly swollen, a couple of teeth were missing, and his eye looked lopsided, all the more horrible to look at now. Sakura struggled to move inside the sappy syrup, “You—are—sick! Seriously! Get some help!” The drunken ninja staggered towards her and leaned down close to her face and lifted her chin up, “Don't worry Pink Hair, you are a medical nin, you are going to help me. Heh heh heh.”

 

 

To be continued…