The Wilting Moon Flower || Naruto Shippuden Fanfiction

Chapter 4: The Puppet's End and Two Arms Missing

Fan art of Sakura and Sasori's fight scene. I don't own it, I found it on Google.

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Chapter 4: The Puppet's End and Two Arms Missing

Third POV
Tsuki thrusted her large fan forwards, creating a sequence of thin and sharp winded chakra blades. Team Kakashi along with Lady Chiyo dodge her attack by jumping to the sides of the cave. Landing by the entrance, her old comrades stare at her with shock, seeing that the pink haired girl just attacked them. Kakashi already accepted the fact that she's no longer on their side, but she's with the Akatsuki. Naruto on the other hand thinks that she's being manipulated, forced to attack her friends, but he's dead wrong. Sakura struggles to believe that she's now a part of an S-ranked criminal organization, that she's no longer the sister she knew, that it's too late to save her sister.

Tsuki brings her fan back down to her side as she glares at her new enemies. She'll show no remorse, no guilt as she attacks her former comrades. No, she'll smile at their pain, she'll show them that betraying her was the wrong move.

Deidara watches in amusement as Tsuki attacks her old team, seeing as she defends him and Sasori, her new team. Sasori, he ignores them all, only paying attention to his fossil like grandmother, glaring intently at her as she glares back.

"Tsuki, stop letting them control you! You could come back to Konoha, with us," Naruto pleads to his old friend.

Tsuki laughs at his stupid attempt to bring her back, she laughs at him, thinking that he still believes there's good in her.

"Oh, are you stupid," she insults making him step back in shock, "to think that I'd leave with you to a village that means nothing to me. You're pathetic."

"Tsu-" the younger of the twins attempts to speak, only to be cut off.

"Don't even try talking to me, you're one of the main reasons to why I left. Your selfishness, your patronizing, everything you've done to me, ruined my life. So add this to your big list of insecurities, you're the worst sister anyone could have, so bad that you don't deserve the title, you piece of shit," Tsuki informs the girl.

Sakura stands back listening to the insults as her heart falls to a pit of guilt. She bites her lip trying her hardest not to cry as her body shakes with involuntary sobs. Tsuki stands tall with a smirk adorning her pale face, watching as her insults hit them hard.

Strapping her fan onto her back, she kicks the lifeless body on the floor.

"So why did you come here? To rescue a dead person," the girl says to her former comrades.

"How dare you," Naruto seethes as his whiskers become darker, fiercer.

His usual blue hues turn to blood red as his pupil turns into a slit, indicating that the beast inside him is getting riled up.

"The one to bark first," Deidara says repeating Itachi's earlier words.

Tsuki POV
I ignore Deidara as he and Sasori get into a heated argument about true art. I cross my hands over my chest and just glare at my former comrades. Who do they think they are, trying to convince me out of my ways. I no longer belong to the Leaf Village, I'm now a part of the Akatsuki. Yes, I'm not close to them, but I won't betray them.

Suddenly, Deidara makes a clay bird which swallows Gaara's body. Weird. I watch as the blond jumps onto his art as he dodges Sasori's tail.

"I'll be taking the jinchuriki," Deidara says to both me and the puppet.

"Just don't get too explosive, because we all know how that turns out," I mock the terrorist bomber.