A Daring Desicion

[Mangaluver]

Sakura Haruno scowled at the letter she had just recieved in the mail. Apparently, the mission to the Hidden Mist Village, the mission she had been looking forward to for weeks, no months, had been cancelled. The other members of team 7 had "more important" things to do. The reason Sakura was angry was because she hadn't left the leaf village in a very long time, and really was aching to go to the Mist Village, even though the mission was just to deliever a package, the idea of getting away excited her.

Sakura sighed, about to give up on leaving the village for a long while, but then a thought crossed her mind, What if I just..go?Sakura shook her head to get the idea out. No, Tsunade-Sama said it was cancelled, and so it is cancelled. It would be against the rules to leave with no official mission....although.., Sakura looked around at the vacant street in front of her house, if she left, who would notice? So Sakura ran upstairs and packed any emergency medical supplies, weapons, and of course her fighting gloves, and set off.

Just as the rebellious kunochi was about to step out of the village gates she stopped, "What am I doing?" She whispered to herself, "Im supposed to be the sensible one...the one who always follows the rules..."A bit of a harsh reality came into her mind, I am ALWAYS the one who follows the rules, plays it safe. I have never done anything daring...she thought as she made up her mind, " And now I am!"She said slightly too loud. A guard moved from his station to check what the noise was and Sakura bolted away from the village.

After hours and hours of walking Sakura made it to the water's edge. After she crossed this she could make it to the Mist village. So Sakura stepped onto the water, carefully focusing her chalkra on the moving surface. But the waves were too big and she lost balance, falling face first into the icy water. Sakura groaned as she turned on her back and began to do a backstoke. She had been swimming in this poition for a long, slow time and her whole body was aching. She closed her eyes and listened as thunder and lighting clashed from not far away."Great.." She muttered appathetically. Being depressed was out of Sakura's nature, so she was obviously tired. So tired that she payed no attention to the fact it was pouring rain overhead. No attention that is, until lightning struck on a few metres away from her. The bolt sent a huge wave crashing into the pink-haired girl and sent her underwater. It crashed her down to the ocean floor. Sakura jolted awake, opening her eyes and thinking fast. The wave pushed her sliding with great pressure across the floor as she punched her way through on-coming rocks. But unfourtunatly she missed just one, and it hit her head, leaving her unconcious..breathless....barley clinging to life..

[Kirby]

Tatsuya was just out for a walk along the waters edge, trying to find himself something to do. In the distance he could hear thunder and lightning crashing. He stopped looking up at the sky, he knew the storm wasn't far away. He began walking farther up the waters edge, heding back to the mist village. The storm soon came, the water getting rough. Tatsuya began walking again, but stopped immidiately in his tracks as he saw lightning hit the water in the distance, watching as it created a huge wave. He looked down at the water as something caught his eye just barely. It washed up onto the waters edge in front of him. It was a small medical kit that someone would carry. He soon relized that someone was in the water, someone could be dying.

Tatsuya thought quick, not wasting another moment. He dove into the water, his eyes open, looking to see if he could see anyone. He was only just below the surface until he spotted a figure. Tatsuya quickly brought his head above water taking a deep breath, diving and swimming down to the bottom. When he finally reached the pink-haired girl, he grabbed her arm, making his way back up. He was just below the surface when the lightning struck the water again, creating another huge wave, pushing them back down.

This was like a replay of his past, but only this time he hadn't fainted... yet. He refused to let the pink-haired girl go, not risking to let someone else to lose their life when he was trying to save them. Tatsuya wouldn't let his past replay again. Tatsuya, now determined to get to solid land, would do his best to save this girls life, the only problem was that it had gotten deeper than before because of the current pulling them, and he didn't have enough breathe to make it to the top in time. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a small hole on the side of one of the walls underwater. He began swimming toward it. When he reached it, the current had suddenly stopped, thanks to the walls of the small underwater cave. He soon came to where he could now swim upwards, coming to a medium sized cave.

Tatsuya climbed up onto the solid ground, pulling the girl up, placing her down on a flat surface of ground. All he could do now was wait and hope that she was ok.

[Mangaluver]

Sakura moaned as she slowly sprang into conciouncessness. Sakura began to open her eyes but was cut of from this action by a very sharp pain in her head, the area where she had hit the rock, though she didn't know it. Sakura's eyes were closed, but quite sub-conciously she could see a blurred vision of herself...leaving her house to go somewhere, but where? This image took place hours, maybe days ago, when Sakura left her house for this mission. But Sakura didn't know it, the last thing she could remember was leaving....

Sakura's forced her eyes open as she breathed the desired oxygen in heavily, her head was in no condition to set up, so her eyes did the moving. What the!? Sakura thought as she saw a boy very near to her. "Move away or I'll attack!" Screamed the pink-haired ninja. Sakura had an idea that this strange boy had somehow knocked her out, thats why she couldn't remember. Sakura sputtered and coughed from straining her head as she reached for a kunai in- My medical pouch!Sakura thought loudly making the words echo in her head.Ouch.

Sakura had no weapons, and was in no shape to fight. Her drastic idea was her last resort if she wanted to live to see sunlight again. Sakura closed her eyes and layed her head to the side as she made the sound she had heard at least fifty times as a ninja, the sound people make before they die. Hearing it so much made it easy for Sakura to replicate it. Playing dead... Sakura thought silently, as though the 'boy who knocked her out' could hear. Maybe now he would leave.

[Kirby]

Tatsuya sighed in reliefe lightly as he saw the pink-haired girl open her eyes, thankful to know she was okay. He looked down waiting for her to see him, not wanting to completly startle her. When he heard her say she would attack, he just stared at her calmly, knowing she couldn't beacuse he had found her Medical Pouch where she had her weapons. Tatsuya stood as he heard her begin to make the sound that a ninja would make before they die. Inside, he felt that his demon was trying to tell him she was faking, but he didn't know what to believe, if she was just faking, it sounded very real, which made him think that she wasn't faking.

Tatsuya waited for a few moments because of his demon, it had taken control of his body slightly, causing him to not move, to not let him walk. After a few minutes, his demon released him, letting him move again. Tatsuya thought for a moment, If she really was dying, wouldn't she be dead by now? He questioned himself. Tatsuya stood still once again, fianlly speaking. 'If you really want me gone that much... I'll leave... Good luck taking care of yourself in the condition you're in...' He said looking down to the side, away from her, then walking forward, but stopping a few feet away from where they had entered. Tatsuya then turned to her, taking out her medical pouch out from a pocket inside his jacket that he had put it in before.

He turned again to face the narrow hole filled with water, but turning his head to the side, looking down, then beginning to speak again. 'And by the way... It wasn't me that had done that to you, you were fainted when I found you underwater, I don't know how you got yourself knocked out, but you must have hit your head at some point while you were under.' He said calmly. Tatsuya through her medical pouch on the ground towards her, it sliding along the ground, stopping beside her arm. He knew he was risking his own life by taking the chance of swimming back out, but it was something he was willing to make, it's not like he had anyone he cared for or cared about him that was waiting for him. He sat down putting his legs in the water. 'And one more thing, your in an under water cave, so again, good luck getting out.' He said calmly, ready to go now.

[Mangaluver]

Sakura could tell by the boy's words that he was not harmful, also, she now had a smidge of trust for him because he told her the real story. She opened her eye just a crack as he said she was in a underwater cave and he began to leave. Sakura opened her eyes and sighed loudly so the boy could hear she had stopped playing dead. "If this really is an underwater cave,"She began,catching her breath from the exertion it took to talk, "You'll be killed in about ten seconds if you leave this cave now. The underwater currents will drag you down. You need to wait a couple days until the tide dies down.." She said, her voice trailing away at the end. No way she would make it out in this condition, at least she could help this boy who saved her life get free.
After catching her strength again she continued, "I won't harm you...not that I could in this condition...there is some food in my medical pouch, probably wet, but still good. Save it for yourself because if unless by a miracle I can lift my head tommorow, I will die anyways..."Sakura didn't love this ending. She had always wanted to die at her teammates sides fighting a truely well fought battle. Not in a cave with this boy she didn't know.

[Kirby]

When Sakura told him that if he left, he would die, he nodded and let out a soft 'I know...' But he didn't really mind, his life didn't have much meaning to it anyways, and it wasn't lke he had someone he could care for, or cared for him... Tatsuya stood up walking back over to the ppink-haired girl, sitting down at her side. 'Even if it needs a miracle for you to get better, I may as well help.' He spoke quietly, he never liked to see people in pain. 'Since we will be stuck in this cave for awhile, you may aswell know my name... it's Tatsuya.' Tatsuya softly spoke.

[Mangaluver]

Sakura gave it a once-over thought when he said ' I know' . "But- Sakura cut her self off with a thought, This boy...Strange...She thought. And she knew he reminded her of someone she knew.But who? Sakura was in a bit of a shock when he said he would stay with her, and when he told her his name. "Sakura Haruno," She replied, trying her very best to smile. "Thank-" But this time her words were not cut short by thought, but by pain. A sharp pounding pain arose in her head making everything spin, Sakura let out a sudden yell and grasped her head with her hands( And it hurt terribly to move her hands). She couldn't do anything in this state. She was helpless.

[Kirby]

Tatsuya nodded when Sakura had said her name, closing his eyes. When he heard Sakura yell in pain, his eyes shot open. He then knelt next to her, trying to think of what he could do, he had never been in a situation like this before. Tatsuya grabbed Sakura's medical puoch, lying every item in the bag out on the ground. He looked at every item, trying to fingure out which one would help, but he had no clue which item it was. He looked at her, he hated to see people in pain like this. All he was good for was nothing at all, he was hopeless, all he could do was sit there and hope that she could pull through.

[Mangaluver]

After a couple minutes of what felt like a ultra brain freeze, the nerves in Sakura's head settled down. She knew if she kept lying down like this the blood would rush to her head. So, she looked around for something to hold on to, the only thing was Tatsuya. So, she put her hand on his shoulder without saying anything and pulled herself up. She gritted her teeth and tears ran from her eyes at the pain this was causing her. Finally, she made it upright and took her hand off Tatsuya's shoulder. "Sorry," She said quietly looking away. Sakura looked beside her where she saw her medical puch was laid out. So he did try to help.. She thought as she wipped some tears from her eyes and grabbed some medical equipment and fixed up an area at the back of her head. When she was done she smiled and look to the boy. "I guess this means you'll haver to share food with me." She said. As Sakura was putting away some medical instruments she said aloud without looking up, "Are you injured anywhere Tatsuya?"

[Kirby]

Tatsuya sat still as she began to pull herself up using his shoulder. When she was up and said sorry, he just closed his eyes, 'Don't be' He said opening his eyes again, a soft smile on his face. Tatsuya nodded slightly and calmly as she said that they'd have to share the food, he didn't mind, as long as she would live. 'No, I'm fine.' Tatsuya replied to her when she asked if he was hurt. 'Is there anything I can do to help?' He asked Sakura, waiting for a reply from her.

[Mangaluver]

Sakura smiled again when he said he was fine. They didn't need another injured person. When he asked if there was anything to do she sarcastically said, "Can you find me a submarine?" She laughed at her own little joke. Okay, enough jokes Sakura. What must we do?" She thought seriously looking around. In the corner of the cave was a small puddle. She quickly examined it: It was marshey, but three sticks were sticking out of it, wet, so unless they had fire it was potentially useless. "Unless..." Sakura said walking slowly over to the puddle, she walked slowly because of her head, and grabbing the sticks. She brought them back to where Tatsuya was and laid them down in front of them. " Do you have any fire jutsus Tatsuya?" She said..Well first of are you even a ninja? She thought practically.

[Kirby]

Tatsuya watched calmly as Sakura got up and slowly walked over to the puddle with the tree sticks in it,readyto get up and help her if se needed it. When she asked if he had known any Fire jutsus, he nodded lightly, 'Yes, I do.' He calmly spoke. He knew he was to lig a fireorthem, ve themwarth in the cave. He bending over to the sticks, doing some hand signs then blowing out a small fire dragon, he was using the Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Missile but only in a mini version. He bent back up straight once the fire was lit. 'There, is there anything else that we'll need tha I can do?' He asked her, looking at her, waiting for a reply from her again.

[Mangaluver]

Sakura's smile gleemed when Tatsuya said he had a fire jutsu. "Impressive," She said good naturedly as he used the fire jutsu and lit the fire. Sakura thought when he asked if there was anything they needed that he could do. "Well, since the fire will need a bit to mature....Tell me a little about yourself. I mean we're going to be here for a while," Sakura said as she waved her hands to bigger the flame. He's kind of cute.... Sakura thought examining Tatsuya, as she did with most new people she met. Kind of misteriuos...cool-like. Sort of like Sasuke-Kun... She thought to herself smiling secretly at her observation. But as Sakura thought, she didn't realize her hands were getting dangeroulsy close to the flames. It wouldn't be long before she badly burned them un-suspectingly.

[Kirby]

Tatsuya nodded in a thank-you as he heard Sakura tell him impressive. In his opinion, Sakura was a very nice girl, and had a good personality, easy to get along with. Knowing this made it easy to be around her, so he didn't mind the thought of being stuck in this cave with her for a few days. When she asked him to tell her a bit about himself he nodded lightly, then began to speak, closing his eyes lightly.. 'Well, I guess you could say I was never a normal child, who had friends to play with. They always avoided me, no matter what I did. All I wanted was to be normal, but the fact I couldn't just be normal, I was just going to have to accept that. And eventually I did. The reason they all avoided me was a good reason, and I don't blame them for that reason... He stopped, opening his eyes. When he opened his eyes, he saw how close Sakura's hand was to the fire, acting immidiately, he swiped her hand away from the flames, before her hand would burn.

Tatsuya slowly let go of her hand looking up to her, 'You should be more carefu, you could have burned yourself.' He said retreating his hand back to his side. 'It wouldn't be good if you had more to add to your pain, I mean, you must alrady be in enough agony.' He said, a slight smile appearing then disappearing from his face.