Some Things Are Best Unknown.

Chapter 18

A/N- Thanks for the wait! Thanks for reading it as well, it means a lot! Sorry for any confusion, I was never good at fight scenes. Sorry for any grammatical errors or misspellings!

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO

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There was a knot in his throat seeing Sakura in the state that she is in. She looked ill and beaten. Her hair was greasy and matted with a little blood from the impact of the tree.

"Sakura..." Sasuke muttered. Naruto was also in shock, they had both stopped fighting when they heard the collision. There was like some sort of truce happening between the two of them while they were processing what was happening. "That must be his secret Jutsu that Orochimaru wants..." Sasuke thought, "One where you can take someone's kekkai-genkai...'

"Sasuke..." Naruto uttered softly, which is very uncharacteristic of him.

"hm?"

"We need to help her...I don't care who you are working for or with, but Sakura...." He swallowed. " Sakura-"

"I know." Was all Sasuke said. "I know.." He tried to swallow the knot again and it wouldn't go down.

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Naruto did not know how to process the Cherry Blossom being Sakura, but it did make sense once he thought about it. 'They are both med-nin, Super strength, super cool, both of them were some of the first few people to accept me for me...it explained...it explained why she was always so exhausted. ' After the initial reveal, it all started to make sense. 'She was the same person who told me that all I need to do is to Believe it. She was the one who helped me understand that I am not a demon.'

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They were going blow after blow, and Sakura kept trying to insert herself to get him out of there, but they were going to fast and her vision wasn't keeping up with them. 'Sai cannot keep up with Shino for much longer.'

" Sai!!" She tried to focus on her kekka-genkai to remove him from the situation, but the ground was too rugged from her initial punch and they were moving too fast. "Sai!! Get out of here!" They kept going, but his pace was slowing down. "Please! I can't protect you!" It felt like all of her yelling was on deaf ears as he continued. Whenever she shouted his name her head would reverberate in pain and her ears were beginning to fill with a ringing. Tears began to well up in her eyes uncontrollably in her panic. "SAI! PLEASE!" No answer. 'Take a deep breath Sakura! You are not a damsel in Distress! Do Something!" She kept stumbling until a burst of adrenaline came through her, 'You have been training for this!' her purpose reenergizing her, but before she made a move, Sai was hit over the head with the staff. Hard.

WHACK.

"NOOOOOOOOOO" vines and flowers sprung while she screamed in agony and fell to her knees. Tears were streaming down her face harder than before, mixing with the dirt already caked on her. She looked completely helpless and disheveled. "SAIIIIIII!"

Sai's body hit the ground limply. Nature around the area seemed to be angry, trees were thrashing, and vines were whipping aimlessly. The now fully white-haired man turned towards the screaming and petrified girl, dodging the vines as well as he could through the rubble of her last attack.. His eyes were now an electric blue and he seemed to have something else up his sleeve. His staff started to gather a blue glow on the wider end. He was very much struggling with the vicious attacks of nature.