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Note: This story is being edited.
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The sun rises, leaking yellow light over the peaceful village of Konoha. She leaves in a haste.
No one can stop her.
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The blistering sun rises to sit in the center of the blue sky, taking its time to set. He can't complete his goal. His target is dead. Gone.
There's nothing left.
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The sun is finally disappeared over the horizon. It's dark. So dark.
Silver metal clashes in the dark and the earth stained red. Silver like the headbands engraved with the leaf symbol. Red, like the clouds on their cloaks.
They escape to find their fortunes together.
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Look over the pieces once. They don't fit, do they?
Twice, three times.
Nothing?
That's not the case. You'll find out sooner or later that they do fit. They do end up...
Connecting.
Connections:
Part One: Morning
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"There's nothing any of them can say or do to make me stay."
The moon hung high in the sky, illuminating her path and theirs in the dense wooded area of the Fire Country. The air was cool; it was spring time, but ominous, dark clouds loomed overhead. But it was quiet, save for the occasion rustling of the leaves in the forest. A rabbit bound across a clearing, dug at the ground, until—
Snap
"Damn it."
The rabbit fled the scene as a flying star flew across the clearing. The single weapon was soon followed by an entire barrage of shuriken. Her green eyes flashed. His blue eyes widened as he witnessed her kunai with paper tied to the end cut through the air.
BOOM
Blood splattered everywhere. Onto the trees. Onto ground. Onto her. She stood, relaxing her fighting stand. The wind caught up again. Pink hair flew. She turned to leave. The carcasses that littered the ground bled and bled. But she didn't care. She made a move to jump, to continue her journey. To leave the place that she called home.
"Sakura-chan! SAKURA-CHAN!"
"I'm not going with you, Naruto." She said as she watched her team mate emerge from behind the trees. Shaking his head, Naruto cried, "He didn't mean any of that. Sakura-chan, you know teme. He's a fucking retard. He doesn't know."
"I'm not going with you," She repeated and turned to leave. "I'm sorry. I... I need to leave."
"NO!" Naruto screamed as he ran towards her. She was making hand signs at an alarming pace. "You can't go! Sakura!!"
"I promise to see you become Rokudaime." Sakura smiled sadly as her last hand seal was finished. Naruto was just about an arms length away from her when the girl disappeared in a plume of smoke.
Naruto's cerulean eyes widened at the nothing before him.
He clenched his fists until his knuckles went white before shouting into the darkness.
"SAKURA-CHAN!"
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The Gods were not on her side. Minutes after she escaped the bloody scene with Naruto, the heavens began to pour down on her. She kept on walking, despite how much her body screamed for rest. Her feet were on the verge of bleeding and her lungs were on fire. She went forward for another half hour before relenting to the need for rest. She looked up at the sky and shuddered when she saw a bolt of lightning crack in the sky. Sakura looked around for a small tree, and thankfully, she was granted one in a young oak that was easily dwarfed by the ancient trees. She approached the tree, and leaned on the bark for a moment before proceeding up the tree into the branches. That is where she lost all feeling in her body; it went numb.
The kunoichi closed her eyes and thought about her decision. Moreover, she thought about exactly why she left. It was several days before she left, she remembered it clearly.
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"Morning, Sasuke." Sakura greeted as she walked up the old bridge that Team 7 waited every day for their perpetually late but dear and darling sensei. The team had gotten older, matured vastly, and gotten stronger. The said boy noticed the missing suffix that Sakura usually added to his name.
"Hn." He replied as he looked over the edge of the bridge to the water below as he lazily peeled off a layer of fading red paint and dropped it into the water. The youngest Uchiha watched as it drifted off.
"How long are you on probation?" Sakura asked, bringing up the memory of the day she and Naruto had brought their friend back to Konoha. She and Naruto both cried that day; they were all together again. Yet, Sasuke remained indifferent, and he never told a soul why. That was a little around 3 months ago, and Sasuke was still under house arrest. Even now, there were Black Ops ANBU monitoring Sasuke's every move. He was under such close surveillance that every action he made was written down on a scroll to be recorded.
"2 months." He answered. She smiled gently as she leaned over the rail next to him. She was tiny compared to him, she noticed. The dark haired man stood a good head taller than her. He caught her staring and furrowed his brow.
"Hn."
"Hey, Sasuke?"
"What?"
"Um," The girl began as a blush crept over her cheeks. She hadn't done anything this bold in a very long time. "Do you want to go out to get a bite to eat later?"
"No."
Sakura closed her eyes as her heart sank.
Did he still think that she was a weakling, especially after all of these years?
"Why not?"
Sasuke glared at her as he replied, "You know that's unnecessary. Instead of asking me out on a date, why don't you go make yourself actually useful for once and train?"
"I could break your skull if I wanted to, Uchiha!" Sakura growled as her eyes flashed dangerously as she followed him off the bridge. She glared at his back until they stopped at a clearing.
"I'd like to see you try."
Sakura cracked her knuckles. "Alright, but don't say I didn't warn you."
"Hn."
Sakura focused chakra into her hand before throwing it at Sasuke's head. Sasuke quickly dodged it, her fist plunged into the ground. She crumbled the ground beneath her as easily as a child would crumble a cookie. The Uchiha raised an eyebrow at this. Sakura smirked and pulled her fist from the ground. She dusted off the offending hand and placed it on her hip.
"Am I still weak, Sasuke?" Sakura asked, confident in her abilities. The skills she had acquired from 6 years of hard work under the tutelage of the Godaime Hokage. The talents that had brought him back home. Sasuke looked at her with cold eyes, however.
"You're the weakest Shinobi I've seen in my life to date."
That hit a nerve.
"You...Self-centered revenge crazed idiot..." Sakura growled. "Do you have any idea how long I have trained while you fucked around with Orochimaru and—"
"Do I look like I care?" Sasuke interrupted coldly. Sakura glared as he continued. "You and Naruto took me back to this damn place when I was soclose to killing Itachi. You and Naruto are both useless to me. You're just another fangirl. So why don't you do use both a favor and leave? You're useless to me, your team, and this damn village, making your way around with freebies and shit."
He pointed towards the tall red building in the distance that was Hokage Tower.
"The elders wouldn't give you a second glance for missions if you weren't Tsunade's apprentice."
She wanted so badly to punch his face in. How dare he insult her. Her fist twitched, but she quelled her fiery temper and simply walked away.
"Where are you going?" Sasuke asked.
Sakura didn't answer. She made several hand signs before disappearing.
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Sakura soon fell into a light sleep against the tree with her dark coat on her head to shield her from the downpour. She heard the nocturnal birds start chirping around her as she listened to them fly off. A moment later, she heard the flapping of what she guessed was a large bird flying against the roaring wind and rain. She didn't bother to wake up until—
"Is this the girl that we're looking for?" A middle pitched but masculine voice asked.
"I don't know, but I think that she looks like it." Another voice squeaked.
Sakura's eyes snapped open to see two men approaching her, each wearing a black cloak with a familiar pattern printed on it. Clouds the color of blood. She quickly analyzed them, rubbing her eyes to adjust to the darkness. She could only observe that one had long blonde hair while the other had short, spiked hair.
"Nighty night girl, un." The blonde sneered as Sakura watched him kneel down in front of her. She weakly pushed him away; she hadn't anymore chakra left over for her to use. She didn't stand a chance, especially when he pressed a pressure point on her neck. She groaned as one last thought came across her mind before her eyes closed.
Not again...
The kunoichi slumped over, out cold. Picking up Sakura bridal style, the man with the short hair looked over to the blonde. Her face was obscured by her wet pink tresses and the cover of night.
"Deidara-Sempai, can we go now?" He asked as he adjusted her a little bit so that he was a bit more comfortable.
"Hurry up you idiot, or I'll leave you here, un." Deidara snarled as he jumped onto the giant clay falcon.
"Ok!" Tobi chirped as he hopped onto the bird as well. Deidara quickly commanded the bird to take off into the sky, keeping safe that he stood low to the trees. He didn't want to get electrocuted by a bolt of lightning, so staying lower than the highest point from the ground was necessary. He looked back at Tobi and the girl and shook his head.
"Kami," He sighed as he pulled off his cloak and handed it to Tobi. "Put this on her. She's gonna catch something at this rate, un." He said as his drenched blonde hair whipped around his face. Tobi put the cloak over Sakura's shoulders and looked at Deidara.
"Ne, Sempai, you're such a gentleman!" He giggled. Deidara twitched and glared.
"Leader said 'Bring the girl back, alive', un. I don't want to have to explain myself if we end up hauling around a dead body, dumbass," He explained and crossed his arms as he turned away. Tobi smiled underneath his orange mask as they flew off towards the Akatsuki compound.