The Growth of the Second Cherry Blossom: Sakura's Twin Sister

Chapter 7

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I only own my OC Sakiya. All rights go to Masashi Kishimoto.

Team 7 and Tazuna walked to the end of the Land of Fire to get into a boat to take them to the Land of Waves. Each person got into the boat and sat down. Because there were so many of them, it was slightly packed. Naruto sat at the front of the boat, Sakura sat next to him and Kakashi sat next to Sakura. Tazuna sat at the back of the boat and Sasuke and Sakiya sat next to each other on the other side.

"So, Tazuna. When we get to the Land of Waves where do we need to go?" Kakashi asked.

"When we get there I will show you. I won't be going to the bridge for a couple days. That way we can settle and rest from our journey." Tazuna explained. As they sat in the boat, the fog around them got thicker and thicker making visibility low. Sakiya looked in the water and saw herself. She had her hair pulled back in a tight ponytail and saw all her features. Her eyes were a dark forest green, where Sakura's was bright green. She wondered how they could be so similar, yet so different.

The driver cut the engine and rowed the rest of the way to the village. They sat in silence the rest of the way, making sure that no one could hear them. As the driver rowed, the fog suddenly lifted and there was a village. They had made it to the Land of Waves.

"Woah! That's so cool!" Naruto yelled gawking at everything. The driver shushed him.

"Hey, why do you think we cut the engine and rowed the rest of the way here?" He said harshly. Naruto put his hands over his mouth and said a muffled sorry. They pulled up to the edge of the village and got out. Naruto had a sudden burst of energy cause he started throwing kunai everywhere.

"No no he's over there!" He said and threw a kunai. Sakura and Naruto walked up behind the bush and saw a white rabbit.

"Wait, it's a white rabbit in the summer?" Sakiya asked Kakashi. He narrowed his eyes.

"Everyone! Get down now!" Kakashi yelled, pulling Sakiya down to the ground with him. A huge sword came flying out of the air and hit a tree. A guy wearing cow print pants appeared on the hilt of the sword.

"Who is that?" Sakiya asked.

"Zabuza Momochi. Demon of the Hidden Mist." Kakashi said.

"Everyone, get into Manji formation. Protect the bridge- builder." Kakashi said. Team 7 circled around Tazuna trying to protect him.

"Ah, Kakashi Hatake. The copy cat ninja. Owner of the Sharingan eye." Zabuza said. Sasuke gasped at what Zabuza said about Kakashi.

"What is the Sharingan?" Naruto asked. Sasuke explained that the Sharingan was a Kekkei Genkai to the Uchiha clan and that it holds powerful genjutsu and prowess.

"Wait, so if the Sharingan is the Kekkei Genkai for the Uchiha. Then how does Kakashi- sensei have it?" Sakiya thought to herself. She shook herself out of it. She needed to focus on the bridge-builder.

A thick mist formed around everyone, making visibility go from clear to nothing. Sakiya felt Sasuke shake. She looked over to see that he was freaking out.

"Sasuke, snap out of it." She said. He looked at her with frightened eyes.

"Sasuke, keep your cool. I won't let anything happen to my comrades." Kakashi said, looking back at them. Zabuza started listing off vital points. Sakiya felt chakra behind her. She turned around to see that Zabuza was in the middle of all of them. She swung her leg out to hit him. He dodged it, grabbed her leg, and threw her. She landed on the ground rolling backward.

"Sakiya!" Naruto yelled. Zabuza hit everyone away from the bridge-builder, except Kakashi got in the middle of it. Hitting him away. Sakura ran up to Sakiya who was starting to stand up.

"Sakiya, are you okay?" She asked. Sakiya nodded at her. She needed to think of something. She wished she had trained with her jutsu more. She could have been more effective to her team.

"Listen, we need to come up with a plan. He uses water style." Sakiya explained. She thought about it for a moment. At that time, Zabuza had kicked Kakashi into the water, imprisoning him in a water jutsu.

"Everyone! Retreat!" Kakashi yelled. Except none of team 7 wanted to leave their sensei.

"Listen, the battle was over the moment I got caught." Kakashi tried to tell them.

"Look, I'm going to try and do something. I don't know how it will work." Sakiya said. Sakura looked at her.

"What does that mean?" She asked. Sakiya knelt down on the ground.

"Naruto, Sasuke, try and distract him while I do this. Sakura, you protect Tazuna." She said. Everyone nodded at her. Sakiya put her hands to the ground.

"It's a pond, so if there's water. There must be earth." She thought to herself. She fed chakra into the ground. She could feel it going in. She just had to try and get it to where it was under Zabuza and to think about what she wanted it to do. She tried thinking back to what she read.

As Naruto and Sasuke fought Zabuza, she did her thing. It was a lot of chakra and she could feel it. She felt beads of sweat forming on her forehead. Finally, she felt it was under Zabuza. She wanted the earth to shoot up underneath him. She thrust her hands onto the ground and the earth shot up, encasing Zabuza. Sakiya's eyes widened, but she didn't lose her focus. Zabuza let go of the water prism, letting Kakashi lose. He held on, holding the earth back from encasing him in it. Sakiya couldn't hold it any longer and released the jutsu. She fell forward onto her hands out of breath.

"Woah! Sakiya, that was so cool!" Naruto yelled. Sasuke ran over to her, holding her up.

"Hey, you're getting better. You just need to work on holding the jutsu and making it stronger." He said to her. Sakiya smiled up at him. Team 7 watched as Kakashi finished the fight. He used his Sharingan to defeat Zabuza. When Kakashi walked up to Zabuza to kill him, Senbon flew out of nowhere hitting Zabuza in the neck. A boy around the team's age appeared next to him.

"Thank you, this was his last battle." The boy said. He had a tracker mask on and it was from the Hidden Mist village. Sasuke lifted Sakiya up, holding her arm and around her waist. They walked up to the boy.

"You're a tracker ninja from the Hidden Mist village?" Kakashi asked him.

"Yes, my name is Haku. I have been tracking Zabuza for a while now. Now, I must take care of his body. Again, I thank you." He said and disappeared with Zabuza. Naruto threw a fit.

"What? How could he defeat Zabuza so easily? What are we even doing?" Naruto said, punching the ground. Kakashi held his hand back.

"Listen, Naruto. There are kids younger than you but stronger than me. Not everyone is the same." Kakashi said and let Naruto's hand go. Before they could go anywhere, Kakashi fainted.

"Kakashi- sensei!" Sakura yelled and ran up to him. She checked his pulse to see that he was, in fact, still alive. Tazuna lifted Kakashi up and they went to his house. As they got there, they took Kakashi up to a room and made sure that he wasn't injured physically. After realizing he was just tired from using the Sharingan, they left his room. Sakura and Sakiya shared a room, while the boys had their own. As the girls got settled, Sakura started the conversation.

"Saki... How did you do that?" She asked. Sakiya turned to her.

"I just focused on what I wanted my chakra to do." She said. She noticed that Sakura looked upset.

"Sakura, what's wrong?" She asked.

"Oh, um, nothing!" She said quickly, forcing a smile. Sakiya didn't want to push it so she didn't say anything. Today was an interesting day. They met Zabuza, Sakiya used a new jutsu, and now their sensei was down. Sakiya was proud of herself, but she needed to train. She would get up in the morning and do that.