Stream of past

The Snake

After yelling, Naruto jumped down the very broken, barley not collapsing tree that they were standing on and ran towards a clearing. Sasuke widened his eyes before he looked in the direction that Naruto ran. Sure enough, there was Sakura, standing on her knees, with her back towards them. Sasuke jumped down the three and ran towards her as well. At the second yell of "Sakura-chan!", the pinkette turned towards her teammates, and that's when Sasuke got a good look at her state. Her hair was messy with one leaf sticking grass, she was dirty like she had been buried underground and her left shoulder was bleeding.

The boys were about to approach her when she threw a kunai at their feet. Then she reached for another one and pointed with it at them. "Stay back. Password "When does a ninja strike?", Naruto goes first."

Both boys widened their eyes, before Sasuke glanged at Naruto. The blonde started panicking and was sweating bullets before he shakingly said: "Th-the password is, um...a ninja waits um, until night and has no weapons, no wait, until the enemy has no weapons and umm, sleeps? Maybe? Damn it teme why did you have to give us such a long password!" yelled Naruto and glared at the Uchiha.

Sakura snorted before she turned her kunai and eyes on Sasuke. "And you?"

The raven haired male looked at Sakura before saying the password without breaking eye contact. "A ninja waits until the time is right, when the enemy sleeps and drops his guard, when his weapons lie forgotten in the stillness of the night, that is the moment for a ninja to strike."

Sakura eyed him suspiciously "Naruto, was Sasuke with you the entire time?" asked the pinkette.

"Yeah, he was the one that woke me up, actually." said Naruto.

The medic sighed before she put her kunai back. "Alright, it really is you."

"W-wait but I didn't say the password right." said Naruto confused.

"We know Naruto, that was the whole point." said Sakura.

Naruto looked even more confused as he looked at his teammates. "We knew you don't have the brain capacity to remember it, so incase someone was listening on us, and transformed into you, only the one with the wrong answer was the real you." said Sasuke.

"Though we should have gone with something that only the 3 of us know, because I know Sasuke and I can remember it but so can someone else. Next time let's just go with what book Kakashi-sensei reads or something." said Sakura.

" You guys are so mean!" yelled Naruto.

Sakura chuckled before she saw Sasuke's bleeding leg. "You're hurt." exclaimed the medic.

"I'm fine don't worry about it, besides you're the one with a bleeding shoulder." said the Uchiha.

"Which is healing as we speak, thanks for the concern. Now sit." said the pinkette. Sasuke opened his mouth to protest more but Sakura leveled him with a look. So the Uchiha sat on the ground, while Sakura healed his leg.

"The killer intent trick you told me about worked." said Sasuke.

"Oh yeah? I'm glad." said Sakura.

"What were you doing here Sakura-chan?" asked Naruto.

The medic shrugged. "Oh you know, just fighting that giant snake over there, trying not to get eaten, the usual." And surely both boys turned to look at the giant dead snake buried beneath a lot of threes and boulders.

Naruto looked back at Sakura with a horrified look. "Sakura-chan, what the fuck?"

The medic laughed as she finished healing both Sasuke's leg and her shoulder. She was gonna ask them what happened to themselves but before she could say anything another snake entered the clearing.