Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ the curse seal ❯ Chapter 1

I opened my eyes and saw her. Bloody and pummeled into a state I could hardly recognize her. Three other genins were there, helping to fight the ninja from the sound. My neck hurt like crazy and there was this crazy rash on my arm and all over half of my face. I almost wanted to go back to sleep and then I saw her hair.

 

The one thing she prided her self about was her pink hair. Strands of the beautiful hair were swaying in the wind and others floated around in the air. I am not quite sure what made me do it, but I think it was the hair that made me snap. She had been so proud of it, growing it out because she thought I liked long hair better. Normally I do but for her I can make an exception, she knelt there on the ground her long bangs in her face. She looked like an angel, and angel from heaven and sent to me. She was staring at me “Sasuke,” she said, quietly.

 

“Sakura point out those who pummeled you into that state.” My mouth said that before I could stop myself. Normally I wouldn't say anything like that, because I am afraid that if I care about a person, then Itachi will find out about them and kill them. I cant put my friends in to that situation. But now I realize that, they are ninja, they will be in trouble any way. I decided that it was time to get rid of my emotionless mask and show the real Uchiha Sasuke, me.

 

My eyes locked onto the ninja from the sound and I went at them full force. I wanted to get back at them for destroying Sakura's bubblegum pink hair. I'm not sure what happened but all of a sudden, they stopped, the girl on their team knocked unconscious, one of the others both arms broken, and here I was ready to go after the last one with the intent to kill.

 

I really was going to kill them, but before I knew it, Sakura had her arms around me and had begged me to stop, to spare them. “They were just following orders,” she said. I stopped, at first I was shocked that she hugged me, and then glad, I wanted to turn around and wrap my arms around her too, but I didn't. Cause I'm a chicken.

 

When I stopped fighting, the strange, painful rash all over my body slowly receded and I was the same old, Uchiha Sasuke, a big chicken, hiding behind a quiet shell and showing off in front of Sakura.

 

I sat down on the ground, breathing heavily, man I was so tired. You would think that I had slept since last night after the attack by Orochimaru that I wouldn't be tired, well think again. Sakura came up close and knelt beside me, a worried look on her pretty face.

 

“Sasuke, are you alright?” she asked in a quiet voice, “what was up with that rash like thing?”

 

“I don't know, but what ever you do, don't say a word about this to Naruto, he'll just worry about me, and won't be able to concentrate on the exam. Thank you for, stopping me, I don't know what came over me but I was going to kill that man.”

Sakura blushed for a moment, “it was nothing really”

 

“Hey Sakura, if you want I can trim the edges of your hair, to make it even for you.” Ino walked over and was talking to Sakura.

 

“Thanks Ino.”

 

“ I think you look very cute with your bangs long” I muttered to myself, just barely loud enough for her to hear, but hoped she would. Her eyebrows twitched a little before she told Ino that she preferred her hair the way it was.

 

Later after the other team left, Sakura turned to me, a scary look on her face.

 

“Did you really mean it when you said that I looked cute with my bangs long?”

 

I blushed “well um . . . well kind of . . . well yeah.”