Music: no One Mourns The Wicked, What Is This Feeling?, Defying Gravity
Weather: Clear skies, Slight breeze, perfect biking weather.
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She turned back to the pool to cool herself off and saw a pink blur reflected in the water coming closer and closer until--
Whump! Sploosh!
Sakura came down on the red-haired kunoichi feet first, knocking Tayuya into the water and flipping back to land lightly on her feet, ready to attack again as soon as Tayuya resurfaced.
Silence.
She waited.
Still nothing.
Sakura crept toward the edge of the pool and peered into the water.
Wow. The pool sure was deep; she couldn't even see the bottom.
Maybe Tayuya had drowned.
Nah. That was too much to ask for. Tayuya wouldn't have gone down that easily. Sakura was about to dive in and drag her foe out of the water when--
Fwham!
Tayuya leapt from the depths and grabbed Sakura's throat in both hands, pushing her to the ground!
Fighting for air, Sakura thrust her knee into Tayuya's stomach and kicked upward.
The older konoichi's grasp loosened as she flew over Sakura's head and landed with a thump on her back. Sakura could hear the air being forced from Tayuya's lungs. in a flash, Sakura was on her; knees on her (Tayuya's) arms pinning her down, one hand around Tayuya's throat, the other holding a kunai aimed at her heart.
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Glaring up at the livid ninja above her, Tayuya knew this was one battle that she was not going to win.
"b***h! What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be back in your own village burying that b*****d Orochimaru?"
In answer Tayuya spat in her face. The girl put more pressure on her injured arm.
"AAAAIIII!" Tayuya let out a blood-chilling scream at the intense pain eanating from her arm. A cold sweat broke out on her forehaed and it became hard for her to breath.
"Kill me. *huff* Go on, kill me. *huff*" Her breath was coming shallower now. She was nearly gasping like a fish out of water. "Well? *huff* You gonna kill me? *huff* it would *huff* be a *huff* mercy."
"Oh? and why's that?"
"Aaah! God, just kill me now! Please...*huff*...I'm begging you...Just kill me." Tayuya had started shivering; and no, she wasn't cold. The poison in her wound was spreading--choking away her breath and life.
"Hm, you don't look to good, Tayuya," the girl said sarcastically, "maybe I should get this over with quickly." The hand around her throat visibly glowed with chakra. Tayuya felt a cold, tingling sensation flow up through her arm and into her chest, eliminating the peircing pain from her earlier stab wound. The sweat on her brow dried and she stopped shivering.
"What--what'd you do? Did you heal me? That seems way too merciful for--"
"No, I didn't heal you. I just temporarily stopped the effects of the poison."
"How did you know it was--?"
"I'm a medical specialist. Duh. Besides, I want to kill you. I don't want a previous wound to do my job for me."
"Well then...if I'm temporarily okay...maybe I can do this!" She kicked out--trying to push the younger konoichi from her chest--but her strength failed her.
"Boy, was that pathetic. Now DIE!" The girl's kunai arced through the air and Tayuya knew only eternal darkness.
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Blood spurted as Sakura thrust her kunai into Tayuya's throat (yes it was aimed at her heart earlier. She switched targets). It spattered on her face, arms, and dress. Standing, she used a secret jutsu to turn the corpse into a patch of sand slightly higher than the rest of the sand at the edge of the waterfall. Then Sakura dove into the spray and swam around underneath the surface for a while.
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Sasuke saw Tayuya's carcass diappear and Sakura dive into the waterfall. After what seemed like hours, Sakura resurfaced. Sasuke ran over to her. Once he was about two arm's lengths away he could see that, quite queerly to be frank, Sakura's clothes weren't wet. Neither was her hair. Or any other part of her body for that matter. There wasn't even a puddle on the ground to mark that she had been underwater.
"Whoa! What was that, Sakura?"
"Oh, that? Just a cleansing jutsu. Nothing special. Why?"
"I wasn't talking about that. Though that was pretty cool. I meant that battle. You were so much more of a ninja than when I left. Actually, not a ninja. You looked like a freakin' amazon!"
"Oh, well, *blush* thank you, Sasuke-kun. Oh! it's getting dark. Let's go home." Hand-in-hand, their fingers entwining, Sasuke and Sakura strolled slowly home.
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Aww. such a sweet ending to the chapter. Oh, don't stop reading yet. There's still one more chapter, just like there's one more verse in the song. I wonder what's going to happen. If you wanna find out, just keep reading. Oh look, here come's Tayuya.
Tayuya: What the hell did you do that for?!
Me: Huh? Do what?
Tayuya: Kill me! why did you kill me off?!
Me: Well, you see...technically, I killed myself 'cuz my personality matches yours, and I wanted to pay back one of my friends for having you almost kill Sasuke earlier in the story...
Tayuya: uh huh...
Me:I'm just the messenger, don't shoot the messenger.
Tayuya: *takes out a dart gun*
Me: Ow! I told you not...to shoot the...messenger... *dies*
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