Saving Me
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO. I also do not own the song that this story is named after, no that belongs to my favorite rockers eva, NICKLEBACK!!
Intro: Here is Chapter 4! Okay, so I just realized while reading over the last chapter that I'd left out the part where Zabuza attacked them. I didn't do it on purpose and that really did happen so just pretend like I wrote it, besides you should all know what happened.
Summary: When the stress of the village's taunting and scorn finally gets to Naruto, he turns emo and the only thing that can save him are three words from a special someone. Warning:Characters will be OOC.
Pairings will be
Main: Naruto/Sakura
Secondary: Hinata/Sasuke
TenTen/Neji
Shikamaru/Ino
Chapter 4, Do You Still Hate Me?
It was about a week after that day when things got interesting again. Because ninjas were after Tazuna, we would have to stay while he completed the bridge to make sure that no harm came to him.
One morning, when we were out on the bridge, those two ninja from before appeared. Zabuza and Haku had come back to take care of Tazuna for good. Zabuza decided to take Kakashi while Haku went after us. Sakura stood behind and protected Tazuna while Sasuke and I did all the fighting.
Sasuke threw a swarm of shuriken at the boy while I threw two kunai. He dodged them expertly, but what he didn't know is that we'd planned on that. Sasuke and I had been training together for a while before getting out of the Academy and had concocted some pretty good plans.
I looked over at him and he smirked before nodding to me. With both of us on the same page, we pulled our arms back simultaneously and our weapons, connected to our hands by thin chakra fibers came flying back at the unsuspecting Haku. They all stabbed him in the back at an amazing speed, but only for his body to turn into water and the weapons fell to the ground.
"Haha, that was a very good plan. Too bad I outsmarted you both," he said from somewhere to our right. We couldn't see him very clearly in this thick mist. We could see movement and knew he was about to perform a jutsu. Suddenly we were trapped in an almost "room" made of ice mirrors.
"What the hell?.." I said as I looked around.
Suddenly a barrage of senbon needles came flying towards us. Thinking fast, I jumped as high as I could go and managed to dodge most of them. Sasuke had tried to dodge them from the ground. Now they were sticking out of his back in all directions.
"Sasuke…are you okay?" I said in a somewhat caring but still strong voice. When I didn't get a response I looked for Haku. Suddenly I saw his face in one of the mirrors. I ran at it and punched it but only to find that he was no longer there. Turning around, I saw that he'd moved to another mirror.
Then it clicked. He was moving from one mirror to another and he could move faster than me. So the only way to find him…was to attack them all at once. I began forming the seals with my hands and then shouted, "Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Hundreds more of me appeared and then I sent them all out to a different mirror to attack while I waited to see the result. Just as I'd thought, a shocked Haku soon appeared outside of the mirrors on his hands and knees. Soon they disappeared all together as the jutsu was broken. Only ten of my clones had survived that onslaught. I could feel a strong prescence building in me as my rage increased.
My eyes flashed red at my opponent and so did my other clones. Before the stunned Haku could react, my clones were upon him. After they'd thoroughly beaten him to a pulp, they picked him up. His mask cracked and fell off of his face. "Kill me," he said to me. "Just kill me. Do, it Naruto!" he exclaimed looking at me with an angry expression. I was about to take him up on that offer when he suddenly looked over to where Kakashi and Zabuza were fighting. "I'm sorry, but my work is not finished yet," he said before disappearing.
Crackling noises could be heard as Kakashi's Lightning Blade made contact with the enemy. I could barely tell what had happened because of the mist. But I could tell that Haku had just risked his life for Zabuza; actually sacrificed himself would be the better phrase for it.
But just as I was focusing on that I heard a scream of terror. It was Sakura, I could tell. Suddenly my heart began pounding as I realized that this is what had happened in my dream. "Sakura!" I exclaimed into the thick mist but my words were drowned out.
I had to save her. Kakashi was still in the same position as if he was in shock and Sasuke was still immobilized and dead to the world. I was the only one who could help Sakura. I ran in the direction of the scream only to find a stunned Tazuna. "Which way did they go?" I asked him with my kunai drawn and ready.
He pointed with his finger while still looking somewhat shocked. I ran in the direction that he'd indicated. Soon I heard another scream but it was quickly muffled. I decided that it would be better for me not to reply as that would tell Zabuza where I was. I was closer this time however and so I charged forward at an even faster pace. Soon two figures could be seen through the mist and I stopped for a second to check it out.
One was tall and standing up with a giant bastard sword rested on his shoulders. The other was almost not recognizable as a person at first. It was rested at the feet of the other figure. I started to run towards Sakura when all of a sudden, the ground disappeared under my foot. I managed to stop myself from falling. There was a huge gap in the bridge here where it wasn't finished yet.
I could see the other side almost clearly. Sakura could obviously see me because she tried to get my attention. "Hmelp me Mamuto!" she exclaimed. He must have gagged her because she couldn't talk. Also, by the way she was trying to hop up and down in order to make me see her; he must've tied her hands and feet together.
I have to get over there now. But how? I thought, looking at the huge gap in the bridge. Then I remembered the chakra control exercises that we'd done. If it can help me walk up trees, it should help me jump over this gap. Running back a distance from the gap, I took a deep breath and then focused my chakra into my feet. I began running fast toward the gap and then I felt it.
Another chakra presence rushed into my legs making me go faster and when I jumped it was like a godly hand had picked me up and was carrying me through the air and to the other side. I landed with one foot flat on the ground, my other leg resting on my knee.
When I looked up to Sakura's captor, my eyes were red and had slit pupils. I could feel my fingernails elongating and turning into claws. When they saw this, Sakura gasped but Zabuza just chuckled evilly. "An eye for an eye, young ninja. Your sensei killed Haku so now, I'm going to kill her," he said motioning to Sakura who had fear written all over her face, along with the words "helpless" and "weak." But I disregarded the last two because of the situation where any other time I would've just rolled my eyes and walked away from her.
"I don't think so," I said before realizing how deadly my voice sounded. That's it, get angry. We can take him, a deep demonic voice said as it laughed inside my head.
I ran at Zabuza in response to the unspoken command and was about to slash at him with my kunai when his sword came down on me. But I moved out of the way just in time and slashed him in the side with the sharp blade. Using the Shadow Clone Jutsu again while I was behind him, I attacked again but from every angle. Each clone slashed at him with kunai, while I managed to get in and drag Sakura away unharmed.
Untying the cloth that had prevented her from talking, I told her, "Just wait here and I'll take care of him." She gave me an uneasy glance. "I'll be back," I said and she nodded in response.
Zabuza was swiping at my clones with his sword. Since he was preoccupied, I pulled out four kunai from their holster. Jumping into the air using chakra, I threw them down towards his current axis. (a/n I'm referring to the center of his body in other words. He's turning on it so it's an axis.) He didn't see them until it was too late and they all stabbed into his back. Just as I was about to come down on him with the final blow, a multitude of figures appeared to my right, stopping me in my tracks. All of my clones disappeared as I released the jutsu.
It was that man Gato and his crones. Kakashi soon appeared beside me and Tazuna watched from the other side as the mist began to clear up. Sasuke was still lying where I'd left him. "What took you so long?" I asked Kakashi bitterly. He looked down at me while Zabuza gave him a strange glance and then I noticed it. He had a tear running down his cheek, but just one. I didn't understand it. Why was he crying?
And then he turned to face Gato and his men, pulling his sword up higher. He ran at them full speed and cut through their ranks with ease. Unable to take my eyes off of the sight before me, I was taken by surprise when Sakura said, "Naruto…could you please untie me?"
I turned to her and then remembered that she was still tied up. I walked over to her and cut the ropes with my kunai and then helped her to her feet. "Kakashi-sensei, what happened? I mean one minute he's threatening to kill me and the next he's attacking those guys. I thought he was working for them," Sakura said and I nodded my agreement.
"I talked to him, well, his clone. I didn't find out in time though. He'd already gotten a hold of you before I realized it. I'm sorry Sakura, I should've seen that coming," Kakashi answered before looking down at his student.
"It's okay Kakashi-sensei…Naruto saved me," she said looking down at the ground. I looked at her with curiosity. What was wrong with her now? Kakashi was also looking at her and then he looked at me. I gave him a look that said, "Don't ask me, I'm not a mind reader."
When we turned our attention back to Zabuza, we saw that Gato's men had stabbed their weapons into his back and he was close to dying now. With one last burst of energy, he pulled one of the spears from his back and stabbed Gato in the chest before falling over dead himself. As this was happening, our faces began to get wet as drops of rain poured down from the sky as if…it was crying.
I stood leaned against a tree, my arms crossed, while wind blew my blonde locks around my face frantically. We were on the edge of a hill that had a steep drop-off overlooking the water. In front of Sakura, Sasuke and I there were two crosses in the ground and Zabuza's sword stuck in the ground between them.
Sakura was standing right beside me and Sasuke was standing behind us. I felt someone touch my arm lightly and I spun around to face her with an angry expression on my face. I didn't mean to direct it to her but she immediately looked down. "C-could you come her for a second Naruto?" she asked in a shy and tender voice while still looking down at the ground.
I just stood up straight to answer her and then followed her past Sasuke and Kakashi who were staring off into space for all anyone knew. Once we were far away from them, she stopped walking. "I-I wanted to ask you something..," Sakura started uncertain of how I would react.
"Ask me," I said firmly but with enough of a softness that she wouldn't feel threatened.
"Well, I was wondering…Whenever I screamed for you, you came to save me and..," she started off while blushing.
Knowing what she was implying, I interrupted her coldly, "It was pure instinct. Nothing more, nothing less."
The look she gave me then was one that I hadn't even seen her use when she got rejected by Sasuke. It was much…deeper. Fighting back tears, she asked, "D-do you still h-hate me?"
"That's what I'm trying to figure out," I said before walking off, leaving her to cry to herself.
End: I hoped you guys liked the chapter, and I know Naruto was really mean and Sasuke-ish at the end but it's supposed to be like that. Besides, I told you he'd be OOC in this story so…no complaining! Read and Review newayz!!