Stream of past

It's Gotta Work, Right?

Sasuke watched as Sakura tensed beside him,her chakra spiking slightly before she immediately hid it. He was about to ask what's wrong when she put her head on his shoulder. The sudden contact freezing him.

"We are being watched, play along until I can pinpoint from from where." said Sakura. Sasuke nodded and reluctantly put an arm around her shoulder. If Sakura took note of his reddened ears, she didn't say anything.

After a few minutes of awkwardness, the pinketter spoke again. "He's behind us, just one, roughly 60 meters away."(A\N:60 meters=196.85ft)

"Do you have a plan?" asked Sasuke.

Sakura turned her head towards him and nodded. She would go near the enemy under the pretext of going to the bathroom, while he would wake up Naruto. The ninja would come to attack her and while Sakura distracted him, Naruto and Sasuke would come as backup. Then the three of them would fight him.

At least that what the pinkette told Sasuke. In reality she would hide near the camp and wait for orochimaru to come to them. She knew for a fact that the snake lord wouldn't bother with a little, weak, civilian, girl and go for the big Uchiha prize. Once the snake attacks she would engage him in close combat, and poison him. Simple as that.

It's gotta work, right?

It's an easy plan, It's gotta work, right?

RIGHT?

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Of course it didn't, why the hell did she think it would work. Stupid, stupid, this was a sanin, for fucks sake. Why did she think something as easy as that would work, stupid. Rightnow Sakura found herself fighting orochimaru's summon. The snake was currently towering over her, trying to swallow her whole. For now the only thing she could do was dodge, as the snake swung at her.

Sakura dodged again as the snake lunged for her and jumped up a tree. Then she used her monstrous strength and threw the tree at the summon. The snake caught the tree in his strong jaws and snapped it in 2 like a twig. Sakura 'tsked' as she landed on another tree, this stupid snake was really pissing her off. She kept jumping from tree to tree, helplessly dodging as the snake tried to eat her up.

The snake raised its tail and slammed it down, crating a wave of dirt and broken trees. The sumon, thinking it buried the pinkette alive lowerd its head to the ground when suddenly. Sakura emerged from the ground, punching the snake in its lower jaw and slamming its mouth shut.

While it was distracted she took her poisoned senbon and jabbed its eye with it. While the poison was better suited for a human, is should at least slow it down. The snake reared back in pain, hissing and trashing. She quickly took a few exploding kunais and threw them at its other eye, if she completely blinds him, she might have a chance. She jumped again as the snake lunged and trashed blindly, the eye where she threw the kunai bleeding. Good.

While the snake was blinded she quickly ran around, randomly putting chakra strings on some of the boulders and trees that got ripped out of the ground by the snake. She planned to make a trap that will hold the snake in there.

After a while the snake stopped wriggling in pain and started searching for the pinkette. Using its sense of smell, he located Sakura due to a shoulder wound that has been bleeding. The giant reptile swiftly slithered through the remains of the forest until it found its prey, standing in a clearing. He quickly opened its massive jaws and swallowed it whole.

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And then spit it all out. Because it was a pile of boulders with a bloody cloth. But it was too late as Sakura pulled at the chakra strings and brought down all those trees and boulders onto the snake, effectively trapping him. The reptile twisted inside the trap, desperately trying to free himself, but it was all in vain.

With a final war cry of "SHANNNNAROOO!" the medic brought down a final boulder on the snake's head, killing it.

One snake down, one more to go.

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For the first time since the massacre Sasuke was scared. He was scared and he didn't know what to do. Let's rewind a bit. After Sakura left, he woke up Naruto, told the dobe what happened and left to find Sakura. Except they didn't find Sakura, who they found was the ninja the pinkette warned them about. They were waiting for them in a clearing, a confident smirk playing at his their lips.

At first nothing much happened, Naruto did some stupid declaration about beating him and becoming chunin and then hokage. The ninja, from the grass village he noted, called him foolish and that he should hand over the scroll. Pointless words on Naruto, honestly.

After that, and a few more pointless words exchanged between the 2, the so called battle began, with Naruto making at least 50 clones and Sasuke throwing a massive fire ball towards the nin. Which he dodged, easily, but not before destroying all 50 clones with a massive attack made of snakes that bit the clones in key spots, such as the throat.

Then came the fear, pure, raw, unadulterated fear. Both boys saw images, of themselves get teared apart, of the other dying horrible deaths at the hands of the ninja. The terror they felt was so strong that neither of them could move, just stand there, shaking like leaves.

Sasuke couldn't move, he couldn't think, he was frozen.

But then here remembered something.

"Well then enlighten me, Sasuke, if you collapse in the middle of battle and die, how are you going to get your revenge?"

He remembered Sakura, on that night. He remembered their training. And he remembered what she tought him.

This wasn't genjutsu they were experiencing, it was killer intent. And a lot of it. Luckily he knew exactly how to deal with it.

"When dealing with killer intent, skilled medical ninjas are able to block the fear with their chakra, however, if you are unable to do that, a lit bit of pain just does the the trick." said Sakura while winking.

Sasuke knew exactly what to do, as he reached for his weapons pouch and shakily took out a kunai.

"Dont worry, ill make sure to end this quickly" said the grassnin.

Just as the ninja threw 2 kunais towards them, the Uchiha stabbed himself in the leg and jumped out of the way, saving both himself and Naruto. Then he picked the blonde up and sprang up the trees. He ran and ran until he was sure he far enough from the snake.

Eventually the blonde snapped out of it and yelled at Sasuke to "let me go you stupid teme". So, at his request, Sasuke dropped him. He saw the blonde open his mouth again, and he was ready to tell him to shut up for whatever retort he prepared, when the blonde yelled something different.

"Sakura-chan!"