"How am I supposed to get over that?" You ask her quietly, looking around for a stick to throw at the fence to make sure it's not electric.
"It's not electric, just climb it you big baby," she snaps. You have a little stare off before you grab onto the fence and start making your way up. "Hurry up, need I remind you that you don't have all day?"
"I am working on it, need I remind you that I can't float around?" She narrows her eyes at you, reaching her arms under yours and grabbing her wrists in the front. Nothing happens at first but she does manage to start lifting you up, slowly dragging you to the top of the fence. "Don't drop me."
"You have no idea how tempted I am." She tells you, focusing very hard on this task. "Why are you so damn heavy?"
"It's your body!" You defend yourself and you finally clear the fence. "I could've been on the ground again by now-" You don't even get to finish your sentence before you feel gravity pull you down, she had dropped you. "What the heck?"
"You complain a lot, you know that right?"
"So do you, let's just go." You climb to your feet and shake your legs a little to make sure they're alright. Once you look up you finally notice the person who has been watching the whole exchange between you and Sakura. Although they can't see Sakura so it was really just you talking to the air, speaking of Sakura, she went quiet once she noticed him.
"That was.... interesting."
"Yeah well...." You can't think of a good comeback. "Don't forget it because you'll never see it again." You snap your fingers and point finger guns at him.
"Don't worry, I won't forget it." With that said he disappears.
'Thanks for leaving me Sakura,' you think and start walking. She doesn't say anything at first, doesn't even move. 'You coming?' She floats over to you, taking the lead by a couple inches.
"Do you know who that was?"
'No, is he famous or something?'
"He's Orochimaru," she says the name like it's supposed to mean something.
'Who?'
"Oh my- he's the one who bites Sasuke. He's the snake guy!"
'Why didn't you tell me that!'
"How was I supposed to know you were going to flirt with him?"
'I did not flirt,' you scowl as you run through the forest. 'Where are we?'
"The Forty-fourth training ground, the Forest of Death." You run past a destroyed area, "we're getting close. This is where Sasuke got bit." The sounds of an intense fight led you right to your team.
"Sakura! What are you doing here?" Haku demands to know, blocking an attack and kicking one of the sound ninja away.
"I thought you weren't apart of the exams?" The female sound ninja said, you're confused as to why she's talking to you until you spot Ino's body nearby. You take a moment to look at everything, Team 10 was helping Haku fight against the sound nin, though it didn't really look like he needed the help.
"I'm not, I just got bored so I thought I'd come watch." You say, looking around once more. "Where's Naruto and Sasuke?"
"They're fine, I promised I'd take care of them Sakura."
"I know but I'm psychic and something doesn't feel right. Did Sasuke happen to be bitten by an Oreo Mario?"
"I don't think that's his name but yes," Haku said, one of the sound ninja looks like he's about to speak.
"His name is Dosu (Y/n)."
'Okay, I'll remember that.'
"Bitten by Orochimaru?" Dosu asks, fidgeting.
"Yes, that is how you pronounce his name," Haku responds.
"No, he told me personally it was pronounced Oreo Mario." He sighs and shakes his head.
"You sound annoying." Dosu directs his statement at you.
"You sound like a lot of fun at parties." You respond, surprisingly his teammate nods.
"He's actually a party animal."
"Well that's too bad, I throw great parties and you're not invited to any of them." They wave off what you say and Ino walks over to you in the other ladies body. "Hey Ino."
"Her name's Kin." Sakura informs you.
'Noted.'
"Sakura, I'm not in that body anymore!"
"What?" You look at Ino's body which was moving again and back at the other one, "oh." You don't quite understand what happened but the next thing you know is a pain in both your face and stomach, you're on the ground, and there's a foot on your back. "Someone explain what just happened, I think I died." Haku rushed to help you, forcing Kin to get away from you. Dosu took this chance to try and grab Sasuke, Team 10 moved to stop him as you stood up. Zaku made a dash for you while everyone was busy, which no one else seemed to notice.
"Use a weapon or something!" Sakura yells in a panic.
'That's a good idea,' you reach towards the pouch on your leg. When you can't find it you suddenly remember leaving all your equipment on the training field yesterday. 'Whoops.'
"You've got to be kidding me." Sakura said as you're grabbed by Zaku, you feel something sharp and cold at your neck. He whistles and catches everyone's attention. His teammates seem almost surprised with him.
"Listen, it'd be really anti-climatic if you killed me now."
"I don't want to kill you, we just need Sasuke."
"What do you want me to do Sakura?" Haku asks, looking directly at you.
"Protect Sasuke and Naruto, nothing is more important than that right now." He nods hesitantly and moves in front of them. 'You, Sakura, could help a bit.'
"Oh, right." She reaches for his hand, prying the kunai away from his hand. A small feeling of helplessness grows inside you as everything happens, you try to ignore it.
"What?" He stares at the kunai on the ground by your feet, you kick it away a little more. "How did you-" The conversation is cut off completely by Sasuke's presence.
"Hey Sasuke, what's on your face?" Weird markings cover the left of his body, he looks around the area before looking at you.
"What's going on?"
"A hug fest, wanna join?" He doesn't answer, instead, walking forward. You'd have made a joke but the deadly look in his eyes actually scared you, especially since they were possibly looking at you. You close your eyes and try to shrink away from his outreached hand, Zuka's arms tighten for a moment before he lets go and tries to make a run for it. You open one eye first, then the other once you notice Sasuke walking past you and towards Zuka. You breathe an audible sigh of relief, Sasuke started fighting against Zuka. Haku, not having to worry about you being a hostage anymore, become more active in defending the still unconscious Naruto alongside Team 10.
"You know, you didn't do so bad."
'I didn't do anything,' you point out mentally. You still don't know what to do, everyone seemed to have it covered.
"Yeah, but you could be doing something. Maybe saving Sasuke from the curse mark?" She pointed out, you glanced at him over your shoulder. He looked like he was about to take off the poor dude's arm.
"Uhh, Sasuke? Maybe don't do that?" You say, walking over to him. You cringe at the loud popping sound that you can barely hear over his screams. You place a hand on the Uchiha's shoulder, he turns around to face you and Zuka moves away while he's distracted. Though he doesn't attack you the look in his eyes doesn't go away, 'what do I do Sakura?'
"Hug him?"
'It really is a hug fest huh?' You think, wrapping your arms around him without a word. He doesn't react for the longest time.
"You could try crying."
'Heck no.' You think, looking up at him. When he sees you staring he returns the hug, the marks disappearing and his legs giving out on him after what seems like years. You both end up on the ground, sitting in front of each other as the short hugging session comes to an end. Though you only hugged him to get rid of the curse mark, you felt a bit of comfort when he hugged you back. He actually gave really nice hugs, will he ever stop surprising you? The sound ninja seemed to have disappeared while you were hugging, leaving a scroll behind with Haku before they fled.
"I should probably go...."
"You shouldn't wander around this forest alone, it's too dangerous." Haku says, Choji agrees with him.
"I'll be fine, I got here in one piece. Plus if anyone finds out I was here all of you might get disqualified or something." They're all hesitant but they know you're right.
"Just be safe on your way out, don't let anyone see you." Haku advices
"Will do, see you guys. Good luck to all of you!" You say before running back the way you came in.
"I gotta wake up now (Y/n), see you tonight maybe?"
'Yeah, I'll try to get there if I can.' You respond, it's almost terrifying running through the forest by yourself. You make it out just fine, climbing the fence slowly before dropping to the ground on the other side. Once again you don't notice the person watching you until you look up, Kakashi stood in front of you. His arms were crossed and his feet were tapping like an impatient parent. "Hey Kakashi...."
"What were you thinking?" He whisper yells, "your team could be disqualified! You could have been killed, there are so many ways that could have went bad."
"I know but it didn't."
"I have to report this to the Hokage, you can come with me to explain your case but I doubt anything you say can help you." He started to walk away, you were right on his heels.
"What if I told you Haku would have died." Your sensei shook his head, "what if you knew that Sasuke went insane."
"Why would he do that?"
"Oreo Mario-"
"Oreo Mario? Are you sure that's right?"
"That's what Sakura said, snake guy is also what she called him."
"Snake guy, Oreo Mario.... Orochimaru?"
"Hmm.... I'm pretty sure I'm right but sure."
"This is bad...." He mutters and picks up the pace. You jog to keep up with him, eventually having to ninja run after him and even then he was getting away from you.
"I give up!" You stop running, "he's probably heading to the Hokage's office anyways. I can just crash the meeting thing."
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