The girl with Pink Hair

Chapter Thirty Five

Sakura stared at him with wide eyes, she wasn't expecting him, Hinata or TenTen maybe sure...but not Kakashi...Sakura's stale heart dropped into the pit of her stomach, the cracks that laced her heart through the years of damage stung sending lighting through her veins.

"Do you like my new toy?" Malachite grinned, "Kakashi of the sharingan makes the perfect body guard, don't you think?"

"Oh." Sakura breathed out with a chuckled. "-I am going to enjoy pulling you apart." She turned looking at Malachite's face.

Sakura could see the blood-soaked stain on Kakashi's stomach where he was stabbed by the reapers fourth in command that day inside the leaf's forest. Damn...to Sakura that day felt like years ago. She felt an urge to reach out and touch him just to see if he was real or if this was another twisted nightmare her brain tormented her with. She missed him so much it hurt her to breathe living without him, life has been one long hellish slap in the face since he died.

As Kakashi stood before her, both his eyes glowing read all she could do was stare. When she buried him, he took pieces with her and she hadn't been the same since. Sakura knew she still wouldn't be able to put back the life she had here before Kakashi was taken away. She could feel Naruto's gaze on her back, looking from her and then to Kakashi.

Sakura remembered everything that had happened when team seven traveled to the waterfall village searching her out when her memory had been stolen by Kaguya. There wasn't any turning back from the things she did to them, she balled her fists up she could still feel her hand punching Naruto until he bled...she truly was a monster that didn't deserve people like Naruto in her life. The only thing she could do that could possibly make up for that was to end this fight and give Naruto back his friends, his girlfriend and his sensei and then leave.

Kakashi wouldn't be as easy to trap as the other three under the Reapers control, he was activated and would see it coming. Sakura felt herself splitting off, creating a clone--just what the world needs, another tainted thing like her.

"Dawn, Diem." Sakura called without pulling her eyes off Malachite,

"Commander!" The two perked up,

"Defend the Leaf Village." Sakura ordered.

"Yes ma'am." Dawn and Diem nodded, Naruto watched Sakura and then looked at Kakashi with his heart slamming against his chest.

"Carver, Raiden." Sakura called sending fearful shocks inside their chests.

"Y-Yes!?" Raiden's voice was unnaturally high.

"Keep him at bay." Sakura nodded towards Kakashi. "I'm giving you a clone to aid you."

"Wh-What?" Carver frowned.

"I don't recall you ever being this organized." Malachite grinned watching Sakura turn her eyes off Kakashi and onto him.

"Only when it comes to killing you." Sakura smiled back, she moved to get closer to Malachite but Kakashi reacted, causing Sakura's clone to get in the way blocking his kunai with the copy of her blade.

"Very clever Reaper." Malachite smiled drawing his sword. "But are you sure you want to do this? You do still have my poison coursing through your blood, and you are injured, are you not?"

"I don't care." Sakura said with a shake of her head. Naruto, Carver and Raiden went to aiding Sakura's clone to keep Kakashi in check. Sakura knew how to free Kakashi and the others, she just knew it was going to cost her a high price to do so.

"This fight could end up killing you." Malachite warned, trying to scare Sakura off from her march towards him. He did not want to fight her today; he wasn't expecting her to show up here and get in the way!