The Breaking Point (SasukeXOC)

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The wind was so strong it felt like little knives slicing through every inch of my skin. I held my arms up in a mediocre block but my bodyweight was no match for the gust and I was quickly, literally, blown away.

I landed a few feet away on my butt and quickly scrambled to my feet. I rushed to rejoin my team. It seemed I was the only one who was blown away, even Sakura held her ground.

"You guys can go play around, I'll take care of them." A woman spoke. I glanced up to notice that it was the same woman who was acting all weird with Anko earlier today. Her scent still burnt my nose. Another gust of wind hit us; this time it sent us all flying into the nearby bushes.

I lay in my bush for a few seconds. That's the second time a stupid breeze sent me off my feet. Maybe if I gained some weight I wouldn't be so easy to push around.

With a sigh I stood and ignored the stinging from the few scratches I obtained in my ungraceful landing. I grumbled under my breath as I made my way towards Sasuke and Sakura, pulling random sticks out of my hair all the while.

"Hold on, what's the code word?" Sasuke asked me. I blinked at him for a few moments and put a hand to my forehead hoping that would bring back the memory.

"We decided not to go with 'eggplant'," I muttered to myself causing Sasuke to sigh at me, "the ninja strikes at night because his enemies are asleep, so he strikes. No, wait, that's not it. The ninja strikes in the dead night because his enemies are dead too. Wait, hold on, I know this, the ninja strikes in the dead of night, when his enemies are..." Sasuke cut me off with another sigh.

"Shut up, Miyu. We know it's you." I pouted.

"I was just about to get it!" I protested just as Naruto came stumbling out of the bushes.

"What's the code word?" Sasuke asked him. Naruto smiled back.

"A ninja must strike in the dead of night, when the enemy is off guard and weakened, that is the moment a ninja must strike." Naruto recited much to my wide-eyed surprise.

"I was totally going to say that." I muttered under my breath. Sasuke sighed almost tiredly before he launched a kunai at Naruto. I widened my eyes.

"Sasuke, why? Naruto got the code word right!" Sakura protested.

"So this time its someone good enough to dodge my attacks." Sasuke murmured to himself.

"But... isn't that Naruto?" I asked myself aloud.

Wait, when have I ever seen Naruto dodge one of Sasuke's attacks fluidly like that? Whenever Naruto dodges an attack he basically flails and is lucky enough to not get hit. So when did Naruto suddenly get so good? Unless that's not Naruto... but then how did he know the code word?

In 'Naruto's dodge, his scent wafted to me and the familiar chemical burn reached my nose. My eyes watered from the harshness and I instantly confirmed Sasuke's suspicion to be true. That really wasn't Naruto.

"Impressive that you figured it out." The fake Naruto then transformed into their true form revealing the black haired woman from before. "How did you know?"

"I knew you were listening to us from underground. That's why I made the code word like that. The real Naruto never would've memorized that in a million years. Honestly, we would've had better luck teaching it to a dog." Sasuke explained.

Sakura and the black haired woman both glanced at me at his last sentence causing Sasuke to smirk. I narrowed my eyes in annoyance.

"I see," the woman chuckled sending cold shivers down my spine, "looks like this will be more fun than I first imagined." Then the woman ran at Sakura and I.