The Demons We Share. (Naruto Fanfiction)

#16

~Sakura P.O.V~

I was in the hospital helping the injured. I wanted to be useful for once since I was always getting in the way of battles. So a hospital seems to be a better place for me. Then I hear someone running and yelling my name. "Natsuna?!" I yelled as I saw it was her, "Oh my god!! Is that Sasuke?!" I now said with a shriek. "Yeah, it's him," she says as we both lay him down on a mattress, "he's been losing a bit of blood on the way here." As I was much closer to her, I noticed her arms, hands, back are soaked in blood. I thought I was going to collapse, I felt like I was losing air.

Natsuna then slapped my head. "Get a grip dude! The more you just stare the less likely he's going to survive!" She's right, I need to get a grip. "Alright!" I said with more confidence "I'm going to save him!" Natsuna smiled and disappeared in an instant. That was a shadow clone? I stared at nothing very confused briefly before focusing my attention back on Sasuke.

~Natsuna P.O.V~

I felt my clone disappear, they must have made it safely. I run back into the arena since I heard that Hiruzen is still here. I skidded to a halt when I saw a purple cube appear on a roof. My heart raced faster and faster as I started to run up the wall. I took out four kunais with paper bombs at the end and jumped high in the air. I threw one at each corner, I landed a few feet away from the cube. Before I ran towards it, I wondered why is it still up?

I then felt a strong impact on my right arm, it sent me flying a few feet away. I held my arm in pain as I landed back on my feet. As the dust cleared, there were four kids, almost about my age. They stared at me with a smirk on their faces. "Look Tayuya, it's another girl." Said a boy with two heads. Tayuya gave a 'tch' sound. "Whatever, with an arm that injured, her ass won't be much trouble." The chubbier one stood next to her, "Tayuya, girls shouldn't be swearing." This made Tayuya give a glare towards him, "Shut up fatso!" She then looked at the remaining two boys. "Kidomaru, Sakon, which of you two wants to land the first punch?

"The boy with four arms lifted one hand in the air. "This would be a good way to kill some time. She'll be a nice target." This was just getting on my nerves. I gripped my still injured arm tighter, "Hey! Dumbasses!" They all looked at me, clearly still angry. I held my breath and forcefully re-located my arm back in place. It caused a loud 'snap' sound to echo through the whole arena. I pointed at them with my 'fixed' arm, "Don't get so damn cocky before you regret it!"

All four of them just stared at me with their eyes slightly wider after working on my arm. Kidomaru then started to laugh, "Damn girl! You might be some trouble for us!" He started to walk towards me with a grin still on his face. "Too bad it's all just talk and no action." I grit my teeth as he started to run. My arm was still in a lot of pain, but I gotta suck it up. As he got closer, I balanced my stance waiting for the right time to attack.

When he was about two feet away, I bent back so far to dodge his attack, that my head touched the roof. I then balanced myself on both hands, twisted myself and kicked him across the face. He nearly flew off the roof until the clone disappeared. I knew it, they were all clones. But where are the real ones? Before I knew it, the rest of them jumped towards me at once! I quickly made some hand signs and made an earth dragon wrap itself around them so tightly that they disappeared. I wasted no time looking for the original four are.

~Later~

After running for twenty minutes straight I finally saw a glowing purple light reflect off the walls. I grabbed multiple kunai and attached a paper bomb at the end of them. Once I could see one of four, even just a little bit, I threw half of the kunai towards one side. It seems kinda stupid that I did that, but I rather have it hit one of them directly, considering just how strong they are.

As one of the corners of the shield started to get weaker, I dashed towards it as I used the smoke as a shield. Something then wraps around both my ankles and drags me out the smoke. I quickly dug a kunai on the ground and used it as a pillar for support. Then the kunai started to move and cut the ground when I was being pulled backward. I then reach into my pocket with my free hand and I shove a new kunai into the thing pulling me back. I must have shoved it too hard that I felt a sharp pain shoot up my leg.

The dust suddenly clears away and I see Jirobo in mid-air about to body slam me. I quickly stick a paper bomb on the kunai and shoot it up towards him, as soon as I let go of the kunai I was dragged to Ukon. The whole place shook so bad from the explosion that a huge piece of the floor fell off. And I just happen to have the luck of being on the falling side.

I managed to keep my balance on the falling ground pretty well surprisingly, considering one of my ankles is stabbed. Looking down I see the last three falling still under me. I quickly made some hand signs and pressed my palm on the ground. "Earth Style: Heaven Shower Spikes!" I lunged myself to a different piece of rock and kept doing it until I finally jumped up and gripped the edge of the floor and lifted myself up. The wall was down. I didn't want to look down or up, I don't feel like throwing up just yet. At least the smoke covers what I think I smell is blood.

"Impressive work indeed Natsuna," Said a voice I was not familiar with, "for still being a genin you have the skills and intellect of a Jonin." I quickly "activated" my arm blades. "Just shut the hell up and show yourself!" The dust started to vanish like I just said the magic words. There stood a tall, slender, pale man. His hair was as black as night and he has some purple at the sides of his eyes.

He then held up Hiruzen by the back of his shirt like a hunter showing off his hunt. My blood started to boil. "Let him go you damn bastard!" I practically growled. He must have seen my foot slightly twitch to lunge at him, but he put a kunai on Hiruzen's back. "Why don't you put that brain of yours to work?" He said with a smirk.

I grit my teeth and reluctantly stood up straight. "A wise decision, now, if you let me and the others go, Hiruzen here can live." I felt my eye twitch. "And if you don't, well, I'll just kill you both." He then smiled more. "And from your current condition it looks like you are barely keeping yourself up. Very impressive indeed."

I clenched my fists more but made the blades disappear. Before I could even open my mouth Hiruzen stabbed himself in the chest. "I refuse to be killed by you Orochimaru!" He yelled. Orochimaru quickly dropped him to the ground and I could see he had some shock in his eyes. I unknowingly dashed at Orochimaru and punched him straight in the gut with the remaining strength I had left.

I look up and see his neck extending upwards and like a snake, he opened his mouth and he now had fangs, he quickly plunged his head down towards my direction. I took the kunai from his hand and sliced his mouth, from what I could tell the blade cut more than half his cheeks.

Like a wild animal, he shrieked and fell backward. The vibrations made the ground and wall tremble at the same time that I stumbled and fell backward. I was losing strength and my body wanted to give up from not resting. Looking back at where Orochimaru was, he escaped. I could see the trail of blood he left behind.

I forced myself to stand with the last ounce of strength and I walked towards Hiruzen. He was on the ground bleeding still. I was about to apply pressure on his wound when I see his hand grab my wrist. "..Save your strength...remember to.. never lose your light...I'll see you..again..one..day.." His hand suddenly went cold.

And not long after, so did I.