She'd heard the occasional piteous scream. She'd seen the bones and muscles moving around under his skin. She'd had freaking nightmares about it ALL BLOODY DAMN NIGHT!
Really, she was doing it for his own good. Whatever was going on was obviously not good, and she'd seen that injury. There was no way Naruto would ever be a ninja again, much less do anything about that ridiculous dream of being a Hokage.
All it would take is one jab. One jab with the kunai and her team-mate wouldn't be suffering any longer.
Cresting the hill, she saw the little pile of heads.
"AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Sakura shut her mouth. She was a ninja of the Leaf, not a little twelve year old girl. Well, technically, she WAS a little twelve year old girl who WAS also a ninja of the Leaf Village. Ninjas of the Leaf Village didn't scream like little girls, right? Right!
Realizing she'd also ran halfway back down the trail, Sakura turned around and began creeping back up. Up the trail, past the creepy creepy severed head pile, past the little pile of weapons, stopping to stare at the spork on top of the weapons pile.
Why a spork?! asked Inner Sakura, not really expecting an answer.
Creep past the weapons pile, past the bloodstains-
whishhhhhhhhhhhhhh
-turn around and notice the heads were now missing?
"AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" ZOOM!
Shaking, clutching the kunai with BOTH hands, Sakura got control over herself and slowly made her way through the brush to the trail, and then back up the trail.
Kyaaaaa! said Inner Sakura, looking in every possible direction. This is like that movie we watched that one time!
"Which movie?" mumbled Sakura as she got back up the trail, then noticed the bloodstains were missing too. Just patches of bare ground. "EEP!"
That slumber party with Ino and the other girls when we were eight, Inner Sakura said. 'Final Mission IV: The Hills Have Mouths' - the one where the hill turned out be a cursed cemetary where things didn't STAY DEAD!
"That was just a movie," said Sakura aloud, shaking now. Forcing herself to move forward and not think about movies where people who died came alive and went around trying to feast on young kunoichi. "Ha. Ha. Ha."
At any moment now, Naruto is going to get up, but it won't be NARUTO! said the panicked Inner Sakura, digging a foxhole in Sakura's subconscious.
"No," said Sakura, stopping before Naruto and raising the kunai up. "I'm going to kill Naruto to spare him."
"You're going to do what?"
"I'm sorry, Naruto," said Sakura, closing her eyes. "This is for your own good. DIE!"
Someone's hand stopped the kunai from moving down. Sakura blinked her eyes open.
A red-eyed kunoichi had a look of disbelief on her face, and Sakura couldn't help but notice that there were several other Leaf shinobi behind the kunoichi. With smudges of dirt on them, leaves in their hair. Like maybe they had just crawled out of a grave?
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" exclaimed Sakura. "ZOMBIES!" ZOOM!
"Huh?" asked Kiba as the girl ran away. "Wasn't that Sakura from the Academy?"
Shino raised an eyebrow as if auditioning for the role of Mister Spock.
Hinata tried to figure out what was going on.
"Is Kakashi around?" asked the jonin kunoichi. "I REALLY want to find out what's going on."
"I'm sure that was that Haruno girl," said Kiba, "big forehead and pink hair. When did she go nuts and start murdering team mates?"
"Well, as I recall, she always WAS rather focussed on the Uchiha heir," rationalized Shino. "Perhaps this is just an outgrowth of that insanity."
"Save the guesses for later," said Kurenai. "Hinata, you stay with Naruto. Use your Byakugan to check his condition. In the meantime we'll get answers from Kakashi about what's been going on here."
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