destiny calls | *. naruto fanfic

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    Creepy girl pulled out an earth scroll, what we needed, licking her hat as she took it off. "Since you have the heaven scroll..." Smiling, she took the whole dang scroll and swallowed it. The hell?! I can't watch that. That's disgusting. I turned away as she shoved the thing inside her mouth, gagging at the sight. "Well, let's begin..." She just... swallowed an entire scroll whole... "The battle of the scrolls."

    I was about to turn back, when I felt Sasuke stiffen beside me and start trembling. There was an overwhelming sense of danger in the air. That girl did something to Sasuke. Wait, not just Sasuke but Sakura to. What the hell?! Holding my breath, I cast a quick glance at our opponent, and immediately regretted it.

    She held a dark aura around her, a dangerous one. She didn't just want the scrolls. She was out to kill. And we were her targets. Sasuke and Sakura fell to the ground. What was going on?! Two of my teammates are down without the opponent moving a muscle and one was missing! Oh man... I so should of stayed home... I regret everything.

    Sasuke fell to the ground as he tried to stand, trembling violently. Sakura was crying, and I could barely stand the suffocating intent to kill this woman produced. Our only choice... was to retreat! But... I can't carry both of them. Not at once. Sasuke is going to have to pick himself up. 

    There was a spray of blood beside me and at first I thought she had finished Sasuke off, but instead, he had jabbed a kunai into his own leg. That idiot... but at least he was moving now. "Retreat!" I hissed at him, grabbing Sakura and racing off. Praying Sasuke was close behind. Luckily, when I stopped, Sasuke was still with us. 

"Sasuke!" Sakura watched Sasuke with a worried expression spread across her face. Well, at least Sakura was all right now. Sighing softly, I reached into my bag and tossed my teammate a bandage as he pulled out the kunai. I'm very glad I decided to bring these. "Sasuke. Are you okay?" Sasuke didn't take my bandage, but instead put a hand over Sakura's mouth. I'd never seen Sasuke like this before. Not even with Zabuza. It was unnerving to be honest. 

    And then, that murderous presence was back, and I whipped my head around to find a very, very large snake. Shoot. "Snake!" I called, as Sasuke clearly wasn't paying attention, and pushed Sakura out of the way as I leaped away as well. Luckily, Sasuke leaped away in time and threw shuriken, effectively killing the dang thing. But, to my surprise, that lady we just ran away from appeared out of the snake. She then proceeded to... slither...? Her way up the tree towards Sasuke. Why only Sasuke? 

    Just as I was about to throw something at her to stop her, I heard loud footsteps behind me and turned just in time to see Naruto throwing kunai and shuriken at our opponent. Oh thank god. I thought I'd never see the day when I was grateful Naruto was here. 

"The password... I forgot it!" Naruto declared. Yup, that's Naruto. 

"Naruto! I know your trying to be cool and rescue us and all... But just run! She's... she's on a whole different level!" Sasuke looked, and sounded terrified. But yes, I understand where he's coming from. I too, had felt her intent to kill. Her power. But, running away never really solves anything. Not that I'm one to talk about running away... that's all I've ever done. 

"Hey, hey, hey! Evidently you've been bullying the weakling!" Naruto shouted accusionly. "Now that I, Naruto Uzumaki is here! I'm going to wipe the floor with you!"

    A moment of silence followed. And after a moment, I noticed a shift in Sasuke's intentions. "Wait." I watched as his sharingan faded from his eyes and his terrified expression turn to that of a defeated one. My eyes widened in horror as he reached into his pouch and pulled out the scroll that I had reluctantly given him beforehand. "If it's the scroll you want, you can have it." Sasuke held it up and I groaned at his ignorance. "I'm asking you. Just take this and go."