𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 | 𝐒𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐫𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐨

four lean hounds

"Itachi?" Sakura repeated, testing the unfamiliar name on her tongue. It sounded almost familiar, and translated to weasel. She wondered if that was something important about him. But shoving that thought aside for later, she flashed her teeth at her rescuer, and bowed her head.

"I'm Sakura Haruno," she introduced herself. Now, later thinking about this, she probably shouldn't have told her name to a random stranger, despite the fact that he told her his own name, if it was even real. But that thought didn't even cross her mind at the time.

Then she straightened herself up and listened in on the sound of quickly approaching footsteps. Someone was coming.

  Frowning now, she quickly hissed a "Prepare yourself," to Itachi, and hurried over to Gekkou to stand protectively in front of him, because she was too weak to carry him somewhere safe. At least she wasn't alone now.

Almost like the strange man had read her mind, he suddenly appeared beside her. She could feel the weight of whatever cloak he was wearing on her skin. She vaguely thought about asking where he got it from because it was an extremely nice material. But she had the decency to at least hold her tongue. Itachi then stepped away from her side and instead stood in front of her.

The footsteps got closer and closer until they were directly in front of the little group. Sakura heard a barely audible gasp, and she knew that they were gazing around at the destruction that she had caused. She was only filled with a little regret, and that was only for the pain she had caused Itachi.

"Konoha-nin-san's, we apologize for not making it here sooner to assist you in the journey. We are from Otogakure," a males voice said, and he followed that with a click of his tongue. At the sharp noise, a person from his group of four separated themselves from them and cautiously walked forward.

The same man then spoke again in a reassuring tone, "Don't worry. It's just our medic."

The pinkette was suspicious now, but let the person get to Gekkou. How would they had known to have brought a medic? But her question was (unfortunately) answered when it was followed by, "There have been lots of rogue nin in the area recently. We figured that something had happened when we realized you were a little bit late."

A small seed of frustration boiled up within Sakura at his tone, because she felt clumsy and useless. The loss of her eyes was inhibiting her from gathering certain sorts of important information, such as what the rogue nin and these new nin looked like. Maybe if she had her eyes, then she would be able to compare them and possibly find some connections.

But the pinky pushed down that wallowing emotion and bowed her head. "Our thanks for helping us. We are-" she suddenly paused, a headache suddenly splitting at her skull. She grit her teeth and wobbled as her mind started to become distorted. Seems like all the screaming, bleeding, and genjutsu look a lot out of her.

An arm wrapped around her waist before she could tumble forward, and she was pressed against something soft. It took her a few moments for her to realize that Itachi had caught her before she face planted into the ground.

Just before she completely passed out, she caught the tail-end of a conversation.

"I thought only two Konoha nin were coming?"

"I asked to tag along, because I was curious about this new village myself."

Suspicion and confusion pulsed through her, but before she could even attempt to inquire as to what Itachi and the man were talking about, she promptly passed out in the formers arms.

Itachi shifted the unconscious girl in his arms so he was carrying her bridal style, with her head resting against the chest of the henge he had transformed into; a man with shoulder length brown hair (because he never really liked short hair), average brown eyes, and the typical Konoha jōnin uniform.