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The Orange Flash: Lost Chapters	By : Breath_of_the_Wiz Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 120666 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 16
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"... I've been informed that the Namikaze line has a successor... at 15 years of age. Why would you keep this from us for so long Tsunade-san? Must I find everything on my own?"
Tsunade popped the cork on the sake bottle as if she were a child opening a Christmas present. The Hokage chuckled to herself and gave her newest visitor
a nostalgic smirk.
She was a notably slender and statuesque lady, nearly six feet tall by Tsunade's guess; her raven hair had several streaks of silver in it, denoting her status as an older woman. It was tied up in a bun, but Tsunade could tell that it had to be at least waist length, judging from its volume. She wore a light blue kimono with a familiar symbol emblazoned on the back, a blossoming orange tree. Tsunade hadn't seen it in years.
Tsunade appeared slightly annoyed as she responded.
"It's nice to see you too, Yumi-san. We haven't seen each other since I patched up your daughter after the Chuunin Exams incident and it's already down to business? ... I assume it was her that told you about Naruto."
Yumi nodded. "Yes, Mitsuki is the one who alerted me to Naruto's survival… As I was saying, for what reason would you hide this from me until now? I'm aware that you've only been Hokage for a few years, but after Sarutobi-sama died, I would think that notifying me of a surviving Namikaze would be higher on your list of priorities."
Tsunade replied. "Security reasons really. Minato-kun had a lot of enemies from the war, so we needed to keep a lid on it at least until Naruto was strong enough to dissuade any sort of assassination attempt. In hindsight, maybe we could have told you, but at the time, we wanted this airtight, no possible breach of any kind. Imagine if someone had taken Mitsuki or Kouta hostage in order to obtain such pertinent information. "
Yumi frowned a bit but seemed to take the information in stride. She walked over to the window and stared down at Konoha.
"Perhaps you're right, bygones are bygones… I'll be moving back to Konoha within the week, would it trouble you too much to arrange a place for me?"
Tsunade got a devious smile about her, however, Yumi didn't notice. "Of course not. I have the perfect place for you... Speaking of which, how's Kouta doing? I haven't seen him in years."
Yumi groaned, her sophisticated tone of voice floated through the room like a musical performance. "…He ran off to Ni No Kuni to become one of those brutish Samurai just before you became Hokage. He writes to Mitsuki from time to time, I now find myself checking in with her just to make sure he's still alive."
Tsunade looked genuinely surprised for a moment. "Really now? What's he doing all the way out there?"
Yumi shook her head in disbelief. "Do you remember Captain Mifune from the war?"
Tsunade nodded. "How could I forget?"
"For reasons unbeknownst to me, he's a general now… I'll give you one guess as to who his new attendant is."
Tsunade began to laugh out loud at the Irony of the situation; the heir of a once prominent ninja family running off to become a samurai was a perfect setup for a comedic theatrical production. Tsunade began to laugh even harder after imagining whom she'd cast in the roles… The Hokage would come to regret such an outburst almost immediately. There was a shattering noise, and then, there was the sound of liquid hitting the floor.
Tsunade looked down at her brand new bottle of Red Akai Sake, or what was left of it, which in this case happened to be the neck of the bottle.
Tsunade glowered at the arrow stuck in the far wall. "Yumi, was that really necessary?"
The green-eyed woman slowly lowered her bow and gave Tsunade a haughty smirk before turning back to the window. "... I hear that stains if you let it sit."
A vein on Tsunade's forehead started to pop out, she took a deep breath and held it. After a few seconds passed, the Hokage exhaled and tossed a red towel hanging on her chair onto the equally red spot on the floor.
Tsunade flung the bottleneck into a trashcan across the room and crossed her arms. "I'll let that one slide since admittedly, I had that coming… but you have to admit that it'd make for a great comedy production at the cinema."
Yumi mirrored the Hokage. "Yes, let's continue to discuss the farce otherwise known as my motherhood… I think I'll pass dear."
Tsunade smirked and rocked on her desk slightly. "To be honest, I miss our bitchy conversations. We should make this a weekly thing!"
Kakashi peered down at what was left of Deidara's torso; his lower body appeared to have been cleanly removed. Kakashi's mangekyo slowly spun back to normal and he slung Gaara over his shoulder, he began to leave, but stopped dead in his tracks when he came face to face with Kabuto, who smirked back.
"Thanks for the assist Kakashi. Couldn't have done this without you."
Kakashi stared back in silence, as if gauging Kabuto.
Kabuto stared as well, and after a short interval he raised an eyebrow and prepared to jump away.
"… I'll be leaving then."
Kabuto turned to jump away, and at the last possible moment, he tossed a poison gas grenade at Kakashi and Gaara, in the hopes that he'd prioritize keeping Gaara alive over capturing him. Kakashi jumped away from the cloud immediately, and Kabuto began to jump away, but he young man never even left the ground; a torrent of blood began to leak from a gaping hole in his chest cavity. A Kakashi clone had been tailing them and unceremoniously used the chidori to assassinate the sound jonin, there was a sickening sound as the clone ripped its hand from Kabuto's body.
Kakashi dispelled his helper and turned around to survey the situation, and what he saw startled him… very much so…
After the poison gas cloud was taken away by the wind, it was very apparent that Deidara's corpse was gone; a trail of blood leading into the forest confirmed that. However, he knew for a fact that he'd killed the Akatsuki member, so Deidara couldn't have crawled away. Kakashi then turned to Kabuto's body, he kneeled down and inspected it, upon a closer examination, he could see a thin seam going up the side of Kabuto's face.
The copycat ninja scraped at it and pulled hard, Kabuto's face tore off cleanly, revealing an entirely different man's face. Kakashi very briefly considered hunting Kabuto down with his ninken, but Gaara appeared to be succumbing to her injuries and chakra exhaustion as well. Without any sort of treatment and sustenance, she'd likely die, and Kakashi wasn't one to fall short when he was so close to the finish line. Kakashi groaned in mild annoyance and jumped into the trees to take Gaara back to the outpost.
En route to his destination, Kakashi hailed Naruto on the communicator.
"Naruto? Come in. Naruto. I've got the Kazekage."
Naruto let out a sigh of relief. "… Thank you... Kakashi-sensei."
"Naruto? … You don't sound too good. Need any help?"
"Nah… just… tired. An assist couldn't hurt though... How's Gaara-chan?"
"She's fine, exhausted but fine."
"And that blonde guy?"
"… Dead…"
Naruto coughed up some trace amounts of blood and frowned at the boulder next to him. "You don't sound too sure of that."
"Deidara's dead, but I get the feeling we'll be seeing more of him in the future."
Naruto growled. "… Edo-tensei... You let Kabuto get away with the body? I can understand you giving Sasuke the benefit of the doubt that one time, but Kabuto?"
Kakashi frowned. "I didn't let him do anything, turns out he was using that confusing reanimation technique of his the entire time. In reality, I killed one of those Kabuto body doubles and he slipped away with Deidara's corpse in the confusion."
Naruto struggled to move the boulder out of his way, but to no avail, his body was too weak, not to mention the blood loss made him feel eternally dizzy.
"I'm gonna to personally ensure that jutsu goes extinct, I never wanna see it again."
Kakashi agreed. "Let's take things one step at a time Naruto. Gaara's alive, but she's not going to be like that for long, I know you'd want me to prioritize her first, so I'll be a while."
Naruto winced as he slowly, but surely formed a rasengan with both his hands. "I got it."
Between Sakura's strength and Sasuke's curse seal powered jutsu, Sasori was finding himself unable to withstand the combined assault of Sakura and Sasuke.
The puppet master fired a torrent of liquid nitrogen from one of his mouth nozzles, forcing Sasuke and Sakura to jump to their sides. Sasuke took the opportunity to pepper the area with small fireballs; his plan was to set up another Kirin strike.
Sasori charged Sasuke on his spider legs, attempting to impale him on the sharpened tips. Sasuke, courtesy of his sharingan, was able to weave and spin around the attacks with ease.
Sasori caught the tiny smirk on Sasuke's face and fired his second mouth nozzle at the Uchiha. It fired a senbon needle, which Sasuke managed to deflect with his sword; it stuck in the wall behind him. There was a short pause before the needle exploded; the yield of said explosion was comparable to a firecracker.
Sasuke and Sakura made mental notes to avoid being hit by these explosives and continued to carefully prod Sasori's defenses. The puppet master rapid-fired the needles, alternating between targeting Sasuke and Sakura. Sasuke of course effortlessly dodged the incoming explosives without so much as a change in expression, he almost looked bored to the casual spectator.
Mid flip, Sasuke funneled some lighning chakra into some shuriken and threw them at various weak points on Sasori's body. However, the man, or what was left of him, made it a point to replace all his skin with armored plates, Sasuke's shuriken stuck into the puppet master's body, but failed to pierce any of the armor. AS for the shuriken that hit Sasori's spider legs, they just bounced off.
Sasuke narrowed his eyes at this new bit of information; he'd need a more powerful cutting tool than shuriken to disable those legs. He didn't have much time to process this important information however, since Sasori spun his head and flamethrower armtoward Sakura, while keeping the water cannon trained on Sasuke.
Sakura dodged the initial volley of explosive projectiles and fire, but Sasori led his target correctly, the wall of freezing air approached her. Sasuke had done a long misty flip in order to dodge the high pressure beam of water, he landed on the far wall and pushed off at an incredible speed, he went through some familiar hand seals.
Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!
Sasuke launched a massive fireball at Sakura, which would have killed her if it weren't for the fact that she was being encased in ice. The temperature extremes cancelled each other out, saving Sakura from an icy death at the hands of the abomination that was Sasori.
Sasuke roughly grabbed her and shoved her behind him and readied his sword. "Pay attention Sakura. I'm not doing that for you again… Follow my lead unless you have a death wish…" Sasuke spun his tomoe, closely scanning and evaluating Sasori's mobility.
"… We'll run Pincer Maneuver 2, that's the only one that works without the idiot."
Sakura gave Sasuke a flustered nod while she reflexively healed a few of Sasuke's cuts and scratches; she couldn't bring herself to thank him out loud, as if fearing some sort of rejection. The pinkette was still reeling from the fact that he was close enough to touch, within reach even… well, at least from her perspective.
Despite his lack of human body language, it was obvious that Sasori was having trouble deciding whom to attack. Sakura was less of an immediate threat to him, so it'd be easier to fight Sasuke if he took her out, however, the time it would require would allow the Uchiha boy to land a decisive blow.
Sakura drew two kunai and charged Sasori, he fired a torrent of explosive and poison needles, Sakura juked to the side and continued charging, her eyes shifted to Sasuke, hoping he'd taken the cue to get in an attack on Sasori's blind side.
Sasori raised himself higher into the air with his spider legs and fired his rope dart at Sakura, she deflected it with her left kunai, tossing that same kunai at him soon after. Sasori swatted it away with his palm and tried to retract his rope dart, but that was only the exact thing she's hoped he would do. Sakura stomped on the tip of the dart and anchored herself to the ground with her chakra. The medic recalled the basics of her extremely breif elemental affinity training and flashed through a few hand signs. Sakura slapped the ground; she was launched into the air by a pillar of rock.
Her foot was still on top of Sasori's rope dart, so naturally, he was dragged into the air by this stone pillar. Thinking quickly, Sasori detached the rope dart turret from his stomach cavity, causing him to fall from the sky. The redhead inwardly groaned, he knew what was coming next, he spun his head 180 degrees and saw Sasuke approaching with a chidori in his left hand, and a crackling chokuto in his right.
Sasori fired his mouth nozzles at Sasuke, but the boy was too quick, he twisted in mid air, dodging the freezing liquid and the needles respectively. Sasuke swung his chidori and it met the resistance of Sasori's spider legs, however, they weren't intended to deal with such a threat and were blasted to pieces. Sasuke's left hand had discharged its lightning chakra, but his sword was still loaded, so he swung it, but Sasori had managed to fire another salvo of needles just beforehand, forcing Sasuke to dodge in the middle of his attack. Sasuke intended to vertically bisect the puppet master, but instead, he only managed to cut off Sasori's right arm, the water cannon to be more exact.
Sasuke continued his trajectory upward, landing on the top of the pillar with Sakura. He nodded at her and she dived from the top of the pillar, building as much chakra into her fists as possible. By the time she made it to Sasori, both her fists and her entire body were covered in a thin blue aura of chakra. Sasori, fired a blast of fire at Sakura, but she was falling too quickly for the heat to do any damage, the puppet master brought his legs and left arm inward in hopes of blocking some of the damage.
"SHANNAROOOOOO!"
Sakura's fists connected… solidly.
There was crashing noise, and then, an explosion of rock and dust, the ground splintered and boulders flew everywhere, if the ceiling hadn't already been caved in, it would have done so for sure then. The shockwaves and flying rocks forced Sasuke to use his sword to defend himself. Eventually, the stone pillar gave way when the fissures reached it, Sasuke jumped down and landed next to Sakura with barely a sound to be made.
Sasori's left arm and leg were completely destroyed, while his right leg was twisted at an angle that'd make a normal person howl in agony.
Sasuke sheathed his sword and walked over to Sasori's twitching frame, he stooped down and grabbed Sasori's heart core, pulling it. The core began to slowly come out of the puppet master's chest. Sasori futiley tried to fire his weapons at Sasuke, but his body was far too damaged to be combat-functional. Sasuke slammed his foot on Sasori's chin, making it impossible for him to aim his mouth nozzles at Sasuke. The Uchiha boy ignored Sasori's futile attempts to hold his heart core inside his chest while it was being tugged out.
"Hn. So this is how I die? ... Would you like to hear a tale?"
Sasuke blankly stared down at the puppet. "The idiot was right, you do talk to much."
Sakura started to approach Sasuke.
"Sasuke wait! You don't have to kill him! We can-"
Sakura was cut off by the sickening sound of Sasori's heart core being ripped from his torso. The man's body tensed and twitched for a few seconds and then… it went limp, clattering to the ground like the lifeless puppet it was supposed to be. Despite Sasori being a puppet, Sakura shuddered as she could see the life drain from his eyes, which eventually glazed over.
Sakura stared at Sasuke, bewildered, her thoughts concerning her first love were interrupted when she heard the shuddering of rock. She looked to the crevice she hid Naruto in and the boulder seemed to be shaking and crumbling, it fell into thousands of pieces to reveal a slightly winded, and also slightly bloody Naruto. The rasengan in his hand dispersed into wisps of chakra.
Sakura stomped and the entire cave shook, she yelled at her teammate in hysteria
"WOULD YOU STAY PUT BEFORE YOU KILL YOURSELF?!"
Naruto vomited up some leftover blood, despite the extreme pain he was in, Naruto paid her question no mind, Sakura considered it a miracle he could even stand up on his own at this point, let alone still use chakra after all the damage he'd sustained. Naruto's eyes were focused on Sasuke, who was walking toward him. The blonde yelled at his teammate.
"You think this is over teme? We've got a score to settle!"
Sasuke scoffed at Naruto. "Look at you, you can barely stand on your own… you know, you weren't even supposed to get this far. After what you've been through today, do you really think you're in any shape to fight me right now?"
Naruto began to glow red, but Sasuke's next jab somewhat diffused the increasingly tense situation.
The Uchiha smirked taunted the weakened Uzumaki. "So… you and Gaara? I guess you jincuuriki run in packs."
The blonde took an aggressive step forward, but immediately fell to his knee; Naruto could tell that Sasuke was enjoying his chance to mock him.
"You don't know her like I do, teme! Piss off!"
Sasuke maintained his air of cool superiority and mocked his severely weakened rival. "We had a bet, remember? I called it the day we met her during the Chuunin Exams."
Naruto scoffed rolled his eyes. "Oh, you want food? Eat a foodpill. I'm more inclined to stab you than feed you... I swear, if I had the energy, I'd knock your teeth down your throat."
"Hn, whatever... You're lucky Orochimaru said to leave you alive, dobe." Sasuke turned to leave and froze when Sakura blocked his path.
She stared him dead in the eye, giving him a serious look.
"Sasuke-kun."
The Uchiha in question stood there silently and stared, waiting for her question. Naruto gagged a bit and struggled to his feet.
Naruto's scratchy voice rang out above the silence. "Oh yeah… this is happening right now, I'm gonna go see Gaara-chan before I puke… You two lovebirds have some catching up to do!"
Naruto limped out of the cavern, or so they thought. The Naruto that exited the cavern was, in reality, a shadow clone.
Sakura gave Sasuke a stern glare. "I know you tried to kill Naruto that day… When you left."
Sasuke gave her a dismissive stare. "What of it?"
Sakura gave him a bewildered look. "What of it? What's happened to you, Sasuke? You used to-"
Sasuke continued staring down at her with a blank expression. "Used to what? … What could you possibly know about me? You've never lost anything that truly mattered to you."
Sakura shook her head in disagreement. "I lost you."
Sasuke raised his eyebrow. "Really now? Did my departure from your life truly have such an effect on you at the core level? What if the Idiot didn't return from a dangerous mission? How would that change you?"
Sakura opened her mouth, but shut it immediately, Sasuke was starting to make her question herself.
"You may not feel like it, but I'm just a footnote in your life, you have absolutely no reason to feel this way about me, yet you're still here, holding on to these childish notions of yours."
Sakura fidgeted. "Do I really need a reason to love you, Sasuke? I just want you back in my life."
"In most cases, no... However, given the circumstances of your so called feelings for me, yes, you do need a reason. What made you any different from those other girls that became ninja solely to follow me around and gossip? Your "love" for me is based upon a shallow premise... one, that on principle, I can't accept."
Despite his cold and distant demeanor, Sasuke still had something of a soft spot for the medic, so he offered an olive branch... Well, as much a branch as someone like Sasuke could offer.
"...Yes, I thanked you once, but you didn't get my meaning. Sakura, if I were even remotely interested in finding someone right now, she'd have to understand me as a person, something you never bothered yourself to do."
Sakura began to turn pink in anger and glared as she started to become frustrated.
"Sasuke, YOU MATTERED TO ME, and you made it seem like I mattered to you! All those times you saved me, only to ignore me shortly after? What about our first day as a team? That conversation we had on the bench about my forehead, the Forest of Death? WHAT DID ANY OF THAT MEAN SASUKE?! WAS I HALLUCINATING OR SOMETHING?!"
Sasuke got a strange, unreadable look on his face, perhaps it was his way of expressing confusion. "…Perhaps you were."
Sakura felt deflated, Sasuke didn't even remember what he'd said to her that day. Her astonishment bottomed out when Sasuke's voice interrupted her frantic thoughts.
He had a blank sort of disbelief on his face; he seemed more annoyed/astonished than intrigued. "So… you still 'love' me?"
Sakura grabbed her head in confusion and started pacing in anxiety. "I don't know! Yes? … Maybe?"
Sasuke glared at her. "Well don't. You're wasting your time on someone like me, there's no room in my heart for things like that… Just go and be with Naruto instead, the idiot's hopelessly in love with you. Can you not see that? He's the one that can give you what you're looking for, not me."
Sakura took another step forward.
Sakura's fist was so tight her knuckles cracked, she started to feel like she was about to cry. "And where's that coming from Sasuke? Do you hate me now… is that it?"
Sasuke shook his head in disapproval. "That's not the case, if I hated you, you'd be dead... I just don't have any particularly romantic feelings toward you, and I can't understand why you'd feel so strongly about me."
Sakura was holding back her tears with all her might. "Sasuke-kun… But I-"
The Uchiha boy took a step backward and interrupted the pinkette. "Please… Sakura, have you ever considered the fact that people like me don't get happy endings? My path only has two outcomes, death, or isolation, and I refuse to drag anyone else into it. This is my burden, my story... and if you get in my way, I'll kill you like the rest. That bond we shared as Team 7? Yes, it was real, but at the end of the day, it means nothing in the face of my ambition."
Sasuke's eyes went red and the tomoe began to spin, it was obvious to Sakura that he was becoming annoyed now, she shrunk completely. Naruto, despite his injuries, felt an adrenaline rush and poised himself to intervene if necessary, the blossoming and headstrong girl Sakura was becoming, appeared to revert back to the child he knew all those years ago, a despair-ridden notion of darkness was radiating from Sasuke as he spoke.
"I've moved on, and so should you. I don't need EITHER of you in my life anymore. These bonds you and the dobe speak of are weaknesses, nothing more, that's why I cut my ties with you."
Sakura mustered up some courage and gingerly grabbed Sasuke's hand as he turned to leave. He could have easily snatched his hand out of her grip, but he instead froze, his back was to the medic.
"Sasuke-kun, I love you. I've loved you ever since we started the academy. Why is that so hard for you to understand?"
Sasuke's back was to her, he turned to her with an annoyed expression, and with a single word, he stopped Sakura cold in her tracks.
"… Why?"
Sakura stopped breathing and froze; she slowly loosened her grip on Sasuke's hand, yet remained silent. Sasuke, genuinely wanting an answer from the pinkette, drilled her again.
"Why? Why do you love me Sakura? Give me your reason, not theirs. Those girls were shallow, just like these feelings of yours are. You spent a lot of time around me when we were younger... but did you ever see me for what I truly was? Be honest."
Sakura's mind froze, no matter how she thought about it, she couldn't find a legitimate answer to his question. It had essentially been part of her personality for so long, she couldn't remember the reasoning behind it.
"B-because I… You… We…"
Sasuke glared at her and he subconsciously began releasing small arcs of electricity from his skin. Sakura's finger was stung by one of the arcs and she reflexively yanked her hand back, she cowered beneath the negative emotions emanating from the young Uchiha.
"You don't know the first damned thing about me, what I enjoy, what I dream of at night, my greatest fears, my darkest secrets… You're no different than all those shallow women- no, children, back in Konoha. You just don't get it, do you? What could YOU possibly offer me, that could erode away the pain I still feel to this very day?"
Even more electricity began to arc off of Sasuke's body, he was becoming even more annoyed.
"It's pathetic really, Naruto understands me more than any of you ever will; yet he too knows nothing of the injustices I've suffered. You're just like them, they've sold themselves on this asinine fairy tail that they can fix me with love…"
Sakura, began to lose what little composure she had left when Sasuke interrupted her after his short pause.
"Tell me Sakura. What makes you think you can heal me? Is it because you've learned a bit of medical ninjutsu?"
Sakura wasn't exactly crying, yet, but the tears were rolling down her face. She tried to reply, but her voice only left her mouth in tiny fragments.
"You have nothing. Don't you? Doesn't true love conquer all?" Sasuke spat on the ground to further punctuate his statement. "The entire concept makes me want to vomit."
Sakura was crying now, she shakily grabbed his hand as her tears fell even faster. "S-Sasuke? Please… just hear me ou-"
Sasuke coldly snatched his hand out of hers. "Just leave me alone, this is your only warning Sakura."
Sakura stuttered over her words, her sobbing making it impossible for her to speak. Her voice shrunk with each syllable, becoming more and more distraught as well.
"S-Sasuke-kun… I… I… I…"
"-tch- You're annoying."
With that, he tucked Sasori's heart core beneath his armpit and sprinted away at a speed Sakura could never hope to follow.
'I'm... Annoying.'
Once again, these all too familiar words echoed through Sakura's mind. Her world began to collapse in on itself as Sasuke drew further away. Despite her best efforts, Sakura failed completely to hold herself together after realizing, that in just a few short minutes, everything she worked toward for the past two and a half years came crashing down on her head.
Sakura sniffled and continued sobbing, her mind piecing together what had just happened.
'… I guess I'm just always a step behind the curve… What's worse is… even after all that… I think I still love him.'
The pain and confusion of the last few minutes made Sakura's tears flow even faster. She didn't know what exactly was making her cry. Was it the fact that she still felt so strongly for him after what he said to her? Was it the possibility that Naruto felt like she was stringing him along? Was it the fact that her heart was now being torn in two different directions? Who knows? Women and emotions are kind of a black box; there's the input and output, the in-between part was up to anyone's guess.
Naruto stared intently from a shadowy spot on the wall, he could feel his heart beginning to ache out of sympathy. He looked off in Sasuke's direction and briefly considered going after him, but after seeing his heated exchange with Sakura, he figured that she just wasn't ready to face him even if he managed to capture the bastard and bring him back… and this was assuming Naruto had enough left in him to fight his rival and win.
Such an assumption obviously wasn't the case.
Naruto began to climb down so he could comfort Sakura, but his tenant shot that idea down right away.
'Kit. Don't. You. Dare. If you so much as talk to her right now, I'll flood your chakra coils and pop you like a balloon. I swear, I'll off us both. Let the pink one sort out her issues on her own, now's not the time for you to talk to her.'
Naruto gave Sakura a worried look.
'But she's hurting… she needs me right now…'
'Don't you think you've done enough for the pink female today? Go. Find the Shukaku's container, isn't that what you came here to do in the first place?'
'But I- … Fine, but just this once.'
Naruto gave Sakura one last look of concern before discreetly slipping out of the cavern. The Suna assault team came zooming past Naruto as he walked through the caves toward the exit.
Naruto began to question the validity of his promise to the girl he fell in love with after seeing how Sasuke truly felt about her. Naruto stumbled into a brisk walk as he emerged from the cave's mouth.
'… Is this really what you want, Sakura-chan? Do you really want me to bring him back to you?'
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