Just in Time

The Fall

They had come back, the aliens that called themselves the Ōtsutsuki. Seemingly they had learnt from their mistakes because this time they had sent someone who actually knew how to fight.

"You sure do have guts, little girl," the alien taunted. It had her in a chokehold but Sarada did not have the strength to free herself.

"Are you going to talk me to death?" She said as sarcastically as possible. The wound on her side did not hurt anymore, which was really bad. She had lost a lot of blood already, soon she would pass out.

"Kill you?" The voice asked in mock surprise. "Where would be the fun in that?"

The hand let go of her neck and she fell.

The fall had felt like thirty seconds but the impact was too soft for the time she had fallen.

Her ears rang and she felt disoriented, nauseated. Sarada closed her eyes as she felt too dizzy to even see her surroundings.

"Uchiha scum," she heard man's voice say through the ringing in her ears. She turned and saw a man in full armour. It was old-fashioned too, like the kind she had seen in museums.

He had lifted his sword to strike her, and she saw the blade move towards her but it was too late.

Too late for the man that is. The impact sent him flying over the heads of some other men who were fighting each other. She was vaguely aware that they now looked in her direction but all worry was blown away by the pain. Her world shrank to only the piercing heat on her side. It felt like she had a metal ring around her chest that contracted, making it harder and harder to breath.

"Hey," she heard but barely registered. She was still standing but not for long. All strength left her legs and she fell to her knees. The ringing was louder than ever.

She heard words but their meaning was lost to her. She looked in the direction of the voice.

"Dad?" Sarada asked weakly.

Then she did not see anything anymore, could not feel her body any more, not even the pain. Her consciousness faded to nothingness.