[SasuXSaku] Tightrope

Chapter 05

Chapter 5

Uchiha Sasuke, the most wanted man in the shinobi world was in Ame.

He's not in the south. Nope. No one knew where he really was. He was in the Ame for weeks. The sighting on the southern border was a decoy...a lie. It's a perfect plan. He had sent Seiryuu and Byaku1 to the south...to do his bidding. They were his new team, together with Suzaku and Genbu2. They were four of the excellent ninja, locked down in the deepest penitentiary in the Grass. These four were that dangerous. And they have decided to join Sasuke... for an odd reason. To kill boredom.

He penetrated Ame, and now he was being chased.

He smirked. He knew that they were following him. He didn't care, he had what he wants. Is he scared? No. Sasuke didn't know fear for he is fear himself. Ame has one of the forbidden scrolls he needs. And he got it by himself. Now, ame-nins were determined to get it back and kill him.

He was chased by strong nins. He smirked again as he pumped chakra into his feet and gained more speed, leaping from one tree to another. He can outrun them. He won't waste his strength fighting them. Though he's confident he can defeat them if he wants to. Yes, that confident. He's invincible.

He was wrong. Because one had been hidden so well, he didn't notice the shadow emerged behind him. And it was too late. He was hit, straight to his face.

He fought. He brawled and struggled. And he had used his power...his doujutsu.

And the ame-nin, lifeless before him, burning with black flames. He snorted...victorious smirk, mocking them, looking down upon them. He felt good. Yes, he felt so good about himself. Then he winced.

Nah, it must have been his imagination. There's no way he could feel pain. Something was wet, on his left abdomen. He felt it. It's warm.

Its blood.

What?

And there it was, lodged from behind him, was a sword. He was injured.

Shit! How did-

And he could feel the pain, more intense now. He winced as a series of curses came out from his mouth. How come he didn't notice this? He slowly pulled the sword from behind him. The blade was wider than his Kusanagi, but a bit shorter in length, a short sword. He pulled it from his body, grimacing and wincing at the same time. Then he threw it angrily on the ground and huffed. He was losing blood. He had to stop the gash, but he needs to get out of here as soon as possible. Erasing his chakra remains by using a series of seals, which he had learned from Orochimaru, could conceal him from anyone who might follow him. He'll think about his wound later.

He jumped and leaped from tree to tree. He was a good mile away when he felt the world turn upside down. He felt dizzy.

Poison? The sword that gashed him was poisoned? It might have spread already on his body. So he had to stop on a large tree branch, still masking his chakra away. He checked his wound and it doesn't look good. He looked around, and he remembered there was a small village nearby. He could rest there. The weather didn't look good either. Huffing and feeling the draining of his consciousness, he proceed and went towards the direction of that village.

He had been careless. He was too engrossed with feeling the euphoria himself, underestimating the enemies. He knows the ame-nin were a rowdy bunch of nin. Haven't they experienced it in the Genin exams before? He cursed himself.

So he decided, to head in that village's direction. He'll hide there and recuperate.

~SxS~

Sakura had just arrived in the facility located in the mountain. It's just a fairly large two-story cabin with a porch at the entrance and at the second floor. Everything was made with wood and timber. She saw, not far from behind the cabin, on the right side, a house covered with milky glass as its roof. Probably the greenhouse, she thought. They entered the house.