Trapped in the arms of a killer | SasuSaku [Completed]

IV.

IV. Nowhere

This is the end for her, and to think she's been waiting for this day to happen, for her to pass and get her license and finally had the opportunity to make a difference. Not knowing it would be the same day she would die.

Sakura, she heard, Sakura, her mom said in a fainted echoed voice.

"Mom?" Sakura bolted and widened her eyes, this couldn't be real. She must've died. She tripped on the edge of the river. With the raging streams, there was no way she would've survived.

But there she was, alive and breathing, lying on the green grass with the river streaming gently on her side and the smell of dirt beneath her.

It was a bright morning, and she was in a place full of trees and plants, no roads, no sounds of car engines, no sound of a person's presence. The pinkette was confused. She must've been swept away from a completely different place and had been unconscious for hours, considering it was evening by the time she had the accident.

She felt tired, she didn't want to stand at all, until a sudden sound of a croak had filled her ears and a gasp escaped her mouth. Bolting up on the ground, she quickly scanned the floor. She didn't like frogs at all.

Another croak startled her and she began looking panickly on the ground she stepped on. There must be a frog somewhere.

There goes another croak again.

Sakura wouldn't have noticed it if it didn't jump at all, its color was blending over the grass and plants closely to the ground she had been lying earlier, taking sight of it, Sakura had chilled and goosebumps all over her skin. The frog looked normal. Although the size of it wasn't.

Bull frog? No. It was 4 or 5 times bigger. Sakura had a chilly feeling that it was looking back at her. Carefully scanning it and making no sudden movements, Sakura bit her lip, shivering.

A croak escaped from its mouth making Sakura jump for her life and ran to the beat of her heart.

Making a cautious distance that she felt she won't be followed, Sakura stopped on her tracks, panting as she chased her breath and held her knees.

"Oh goodness what was that" Sakura breathed. Checking carefully the surroundings in case of the scary weird frog again, a different thing had caught her attention. Sakura leaned her head sideways, making out the pictures of what could've been this thing.

It was a white ball of fur.

Sakura reached to touch it gently, yet nothing had happened. She took it and held it on her hand. Another gasp had escaped her mouth when a sudden two black pearl of eyes had appeared the fur of ball she held.

It was a baby fox, she thought.

"Nya" it said, Sakura stared at it with awe, it was cute, it seemed like a new born left out in the wild. She always wanted a pet, but considering a fox would be crazy. What was weird about this fox were its tail too, or you should say, tails.

Sakura held out the fox near her face, studying how beautiful it is and probably imagining how could a cute ball of fur like this would be much of a harm if she did consider this as a pet. Sakura giggled as the baby fox licked the tip of her nose.

"Aww, I wanna keep you." Sakura hugged the white baby fox on her arms gently as it snuggled onto her.
"I'm gonna name you Snow!" The pink haired Sakura claimed happily as the white baby fox she named snow wagged its tails.

The rustle of the bush had startled them both, much more when Sakura noticed that Snow's hair on its back started to stand as it growled in the direction of the sound. Sakura glanced over the place, it was dark on that part, trees were so closely at each other, giving access for only little rays of sunshine beneath it, thus limited vision of what's in it.

"I don't see anything, Snow. Don't worry." Sakura patted her new found pet on her arms reassuringly. "There, there. Now let's find the way out here." Sakura's illuminating cotton colored hair swayed beautifully as she turned around to take another path.

Sakura stopped dead on her tracks as she stared to the yellow eyes looking dangerously at her. Now she knew what her snow white fox was growling about. Her hear beat started to beat crazily.

A black vicious animal stood before her with only distance and silence coming inbetween. Its eyes were yellow, its fur was black, its claws were long and sharp and its fangs showed great danger alone. It looked like a lone wolf, traveling on its own in search for food, but the size of this vicious animal was much bigger than normal. It looked as big as a buffalo.

What should I do? Sakura asked her mind desperately. Run? That's impossible. What do people do at times like this? Stay still? Her thoughts were filled of desperate ways to escape yet not one of them was close in keeping her alive.

Sakura felt Snow growl back, unafraid like she was. But she wasn't an animal like them, she was a human with no special abilities to run faster than they can, nor any powers to help them escape.

If she stood still, would the predator turn around and leave? Was that the best option? What if it pounced now?

Is this really the end for her? To be killed by an oversized wolf and be its dinner for just one day?

She could have had at least a silent and painless death, not some death where she had to feel the pain of being bitten and eaten alive. Sakura swallowed on her throat that had gone dry, she was almost losing all the hope. At least she should let Snow free from her grasp and let her escape.

"Don't move," A silent deep voice had whispered behind, sending shivers and chills across the spine of the astonished woman. Sakura's eyes widened as a man who wore a black cloak and mask appeared suddenly out of thin air beside the black vicious beast.

The man crossed his arms over the lone black wolf and started strangling it while the beast raged madly trying to remove the man's grip around its head. The wolf's head turned to the direction of the man, almost biting him to death, the man's body jumped to the wolf's back and continued tightening its arm's grip on the black beast's head.

Soon the wolf started to slow down and wobble, growing tired of letting the man loose.

And by just mere seconds, its body dropped violently and its eyes stayed open, yet it didn't move no longer.

Showing no sign of life.

The man in the mysterious cloak stood and cracked his head sideways. He looked at the weirdly dressed woman who stood frozen in the middle of the battle, though he only meant to not move while he attack the beast, he did not specifically mean to stay at the same place while he was already in the process of killing it.

An obedient one, the man thought.

"How could I ever thank you," The woman said as she panted with the sign of relief in her eyes.

"Preys do not thank their predators."