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The Butterfly	By : tealeaf Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 1742 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Disclaimer: Nope, I don�t own Naruto. Please don�t sue.

A/N: Sorry for a slight delay folks, yesterday had to be
taken off so I could study for my English lit exam that I wrote this morning.
On a plus note though, the time off has helped me set out and organize my ideas
so I actually have a vague but clear idea of the plot. A huge hug and thanks go
out to dragonflyelj, her help and advice have been absolutely essential in the
creation of the actual plot of the story. So thank you drogonflyelj, and thank you
to everyone who had reviewed my story, you really make me feel like my
writing is worthwhile. So, I hope you all enjoy this new chapter and please
remember to let me know what you think. I guarantee the next chapter will be up
by tomorrow night at the latest.

~~~

The Butterfly: Chapter 5
By: Tea Leaf / Banana Soap

~~~

The sky was that
inky blue black of midnight. A small spattering of cold stars peeked out from
behind the dissipating storm clouds.

It had been raining again.

The moon was missing from the sky; she guessed it was
renewing itself.

Alone, she sat outside of the lingering light of the
campfire and the noise of the tribe. A thin piece of charcoal was in her hand,
a faded sheet of thick paper rested on her knees. Her eyes were numb as the
words flowed to the page.

//Step out the front door like a ghost
Into a fog where no one notices

The contrast of white on white//

She couldn�t tell if the words were hers or if they were
from something long forgotten. All she knew was that she felt relieved to write
them.

//And in between the moon and you
Angels get a better view
Of the crumbling difference
Between wrong and right//

Her inner self sneered slightly now, too cynical for the
imagery of angels.

//And I walk in the air
Between the rain
Through myself and back again
Where? I don�t know.//

She looked up to where the moon should be. There was only
darkness but it was a quiet darkness. She felt calm.

She folded the paper, stashing it back into her pack with
the charcoal. She then leaned back, untroubled green eyes watching the sky.

There were steps coming from her left. She didn�t look; she
didn�t want to talk to anyone right now.

�Ah, newl!� l!� Came a slightly slurred voice.

She didn�t react.

�You�re quite the pretty little thing you know. A little
scrawny but you�ll do.� The voice continued as a hand reached out towards her.

She caught it and pushed it back until there was an audible
snap.

The man cried out in sudden pain.

�You bitch! You�ll pay for that!� He roared as he tried to
lunge at her.

He passed right through her shadow clone, reducing it to
mere wisps of smoke. The real her sat undisturbed in the tree, simply waiting
for him to leave.

She didn�t like fighting the gypsies.

The man looked around in a rage and then sudden fear, as he
believed she had disappeared.

She sighed.

{Well, at least the men won�t harass me of they think I�m
a witch�}her inner self commented.

Her outer self simply watched as the man with the broken
wrist ran back to the camp then she turned her eyes back to the sky.

~~~

Gaara walked slowly down the trail. He always walked slowly;
he didn�t believe in haste. He was a young man with all the time in the world
on his hands and so he used it.

He was heading to the leaf village, he had a feeling that
Sakura could use some support around now.

Last week had been the anniversary of her parents� deaths.
Next week would be the anniversary of Kakashi�s disappearance.

She tended to get a little desperate around this time.

~~~

He glared at Hinata as she apologetically force-fed him some
ramen. Naruto had him in a body-lock hold and was plugging his nose so that he
had to open his mouth to breath.

�Well, if you could just be bothered to eat on your own we
wouldn�t have been brought to such drastic measures.� Ino said tartly from the
door.

He simply glared. He didn�t want food.

�Man, this is such a pain. I should be training not
baby-sitting Uchiha.� Shikamaru muttered under his breath.

Ino gave him a swift kick in the shins and a �smarten up�
glare. Shikamaru kept his muttering to himself.

�So Sasuke-kun, you you heard anything from Sakura?� Ino
asked brightly.

Sasuke�s glare deepened and he clamped his mouth shut before
Hinata could shove the next bite in his mouth.

�Heh, I swear Ino, sometimes you�re such a blonde.�
Shikamaru said snidely with a smirk.

Flames flared in her eyes and this time she gave him a swift
kick somewhere a little more painful.

Hinata tried her best to keep a straight face, Naruto looked
traumatized and Sa was was turning blue.

�Ah, Sasuke! Open
your mouth, you�ll suffocate!� Hinata exclaimed, her voice slightly louder than
usual.

Sasuke simply glared.

�Open your mouth you moron!� Naruto piped in.

Sasuke continued to glare, turning bluer and bluer.

�Oh Naruto, just let go!� Ino said crossly, still stinging
from Shikamaru�s comment.

Naruto held on for another second before finally relenting
and letting go.

Sasuke�s color returned to normal as he took deep breaths
from his nose.

Hinata sighed; they wouldn�t be able to get any more food in
him now.

�Well, I guess that�s enough for today. But we�ll be back
tomorrow to check on you!� Hinata told Sasuke sternly.

He rolled his eyes and looked away.

Naruto glared at him and punched him in the arm. No one
rolled their eyes at his girlfriend, not even Uchiha Sasuke. Hell, ESPECIALLY
not Uchiha Sasuke!

Sasuke bit his lip to stop from reacting, the bastard had
charlie-horsed him.

Finally Naruto let go of him and he apseapsed on his bed
again, easily finding the deep groove his body had formed after days and days
of immobility.

The group sighed collectively. At least Sakura had put some
effort into living, Sasuke was just wasting away.

Hinata stood and cleared up the dishes from the food they�d
been forcing on Sasuke. Naruto went over to Shikamaru to help him up now that
he was recovering from Ino�s kick.

�Remind me not to crack blonde jokes about Ino again.� He
muttered.

Naruto chuckled �With the amount of pain she�s put you
through because of them, it should be conditioned into your brain by now.�

Shikamaru grinned �Well you know me, I like to live
dangerously.� He commented sarcastically.

Hinata laughed softly, Ino rolled her eyes. Sasuke ignored
them.

�See you tomorrow Sasuke-kun� Ino ca as as they left.

{Finally, some peace and quiet.}

~~~

Rafael bit his lip. He was torn. The fellow members of his
tribe had come to him with very legitimate complaints against Sakura. She
didn�t do any of the women�s work, she�d injured several of the men who had
tried to make her comply and they seemed to believe she used witchcraft.

But the fact of the matter was, the only women�s chore she
wasn�t helping out in was something women like her weren�t expected to do. She
was from a society where women were people, not items as they were in this
tribe. In her world, she was perfectly justified in defending herself against
the male tribe members� advances.

But this wasn�t her world, it was his tribe. She�d joined it
and she should have to abide to the samde ode of conduct as everyone else.

He sighed and looked over to where she was helping with the
laundry. Her hair was pulled back into a braid; there were a few stray soapsuds
on her cheek. Her skin had started to gain some color from being outside and
she was starting to get back to a healthier weight. She looked content
participating in the menial chore.

He sighed again and turned back to the men he was conferring
with, the most adamant faced him directly, his wrist in a split and a vicious
gleam in his eyes.

As much as he didn�t want to have to sacrifice her like
this, if he didn�t there�d be anarchy in the tribe and probably a violent
revolt. It was the physical well being of one versus the physical well being of
many.

With a pained expression he nodded.

The men grinned evilly and he already regretted having made
the decision.

~~~

A/N: Well, that�s all for this chapter, I�m sorry it�s a
little shorter but the next one should be fairly long to compensate.

A few notes on this chapter:
The words Sakura is writing at the beginning are lyrics from
the song �Round Here� by the Counting Crows and are of course copyrighted to
them.

For those who don�t know (I�m not sure if the expression is
used anywhere other then Canada which is where I�m from) a charlie-horse is a really
strong punch to a pressure point in the upper arm or thigh and damn, do they
ever hurt!

Aside from that, I�ve been getting a lot of questions in
reviews lately so I�m going to make up for chapter shortness with a Q/A
session. I�m not going to go to specific questions but rather generic ones that
should answer the specific ones in the process.

So, where is this fic hosted?

This fic is currently on 3 web-sites and will soon be on a
fourth as well.

On Fanfiction.net, my author name is Tea Leaf and the story
can be found here: http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1825522

Also on my fanfic.net account are some older fics that I�ve
written, two Gundam Wing ones and one Fushigi Yuugi, but I only ever finished
one of them. There wasn�t really much response so the inspiration left. But if
you want to read them anyway, feel free and let me know if you think they�re
worth reviving.

There is one problem with the version on FF.net though,
every time I upload a chapter, it seems to disregard any italics I make and I
don�t know how to fix it. So there are some thoughts, that would normally be in
italic so as to show the difference, that don�t show up in the previous
chapters. This chapter has been edited just in case the italics still don�t
appear so thoughts are now between {} �those brackets.

Also, it appears that the site addresses get erased every time
I upload it here so I�ll put them in my author profile if you want to see them
on the other sites.
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On MediaMiner.org, my author name is Banana Soap. Banana
Soap is actually my online artist name and my account at MediaMiner was
originally solely for art gallery purposes so if you go there you can find some
of my artwork. Be sure to review it if you do ^_^

http://www.mediaminer.org/fanfic/view_st.php/59698/

Soon, you will be able to find it on Rokudaime, a non-yaoi
Naruto fanfic collective which can be found here http://aksarah.com/naruto/fanfic.htm
, while there be sure to read �Wasted Years� by Mizerable, its increadible and
helped inspire me to write Naruto fiction and brought about this fic.

Finally, it can also be found on AdultFanFiction.net at this
address http://adultfan.nexcess.net/aff/story.php?no=25170

Now I�ve also been asked why it�s on AFF when there
are no lemons in my story. Well, the short answer to that is that I really am
not sure yet. Sce tce to say I�m an exposure addict and will put anything up
anywhere I can. I�m really glad I put it there though because my first review
came from that site and that�s also where I met dragonflyelj who�s help has
been indispensable. Also, The fic does contain some heavy adult situations and
I�m thinking that as the story evolves it will become appropriate for it to be
on AFF. I�ll be sure to keep the FF.net version clean though.

Pairings: Unsure, looking kinda SakuSasu, I may play on some
SakuKaka in the past or maybe in the future if he�s not dead, and then there�s
always the Sakura/Gaara option which hasn�t been done often so might be more
appealing to me while writing�So you�ll all just have to keep reading to find
out.

About Kakashi: What happened to him? Is he dead? Is he
alive? Where is he if he�s not? Will he come back into the story?

I can�t tell you! It�ll give too much away! So you�ll just
have to wait in suspense with me as we see what happens as the chapters come
out. I don�t have it all planned out, just a few general ideas after all.

I got a really good question about Sakura�s fighting
abilities, why is she not being given any missions? Why do people still think
of her as weak if she has the butterflies?

Well, people don�t think she�s weak, she thinks she�s
weak. Most people are actually really afraid of her and the reasons for that
will become clear in, well, the next few chapters.
As for the missions, it�s not that she�s not receiving them
because she�s incompetent, it�s because she�s mentally unstable. Tsunade can�t
trust Sakura�s nerves and mentality enough to give her the responsibility of a
B or A rank mission. She�s not sure Sakura can handle it and at this level of
mission, it�s crucial that she can.

As for the nature of the butterflies poison and such, that
will become clearer in the next few chapters as well.

And I think that�s all for now, thanks for bearing with me
through these long explanations ^_^

If you have any questions or if there�s anything else that�s
ambiguous to you, please don�t hesitate to ask your questions or ask for
clarification.

See you next chapter!
~ Tea Leaf / Banana Soap
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