Kapitola 4:

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Frankly, I couldn't feel worse when I was opening my front door. I could hear the weird group of ninjas silently talking among themselves behind my back and it even occured to me for a moment I heard a woman's voice. nah, I'm just scared shitless and am imagining things.

My doors finally opened and I took my shoes off before stepping in. Of course, ninjas were obviously too classy for stuff like that, so thir shoes stayed on. But I kept my mouth shut - it's not like I'm suicidal.

"Joy!"I groaned when sakura's happy voice reached my ears and only seconds before she appeared I managed to shoot something between pleading and warning look to the cloak claded group. In next moment, Sakura was in the hall.

Everything happened so quickly. Sakura's cheerful smile turned into frightened look when she spotted the group behind me and shouted: "Joy! Get awy from them, quickly!" My instincts kicked in and I started running towards her but someone grabbed me from behind and twisted my hands behind my back while his forearm pressed at my neck. When I tried to scream the hand raised so now it was covering my mouth.

Sakura growled and ran in my direction to help me but was tackled to the ground with some weird tentacles which started tying her arms and legs soon after she collided with my floor. "Sakura-chan!"everyone turned their attention to Naruto who appeared in the doorway along with kakashi, whose eyes widdened at the situation.

Before I could blink, he and the silver-haired man from the other group began running at each other with those sharp things in hands . Arms that held me disappeared. And me being the motherly figure I am, I did the stupidiest thing ever. I jumped between them and shouted "Stop this shit right now!"

Now I don't want to brag here, because usually I'm a very modest person, but Kakashi stopped. Unfortunately, the silver-haired rude guy didn't.

At firs I didn't feel anything. Pain, I mean. I just saw shocked face of Kakashi and Naruto, Sakura's scream and then a line of cursing from the meanie (my talent for nicknames strikes again). but when I looked down at my gut and saw all the blood spreading quickly over my light grey shirt, it started hurting like hell. No, it hurt like a lot of small hell's departments in the darkest depths of the deepest seventh hell.

Never once in my life have I seriously injured myself or broke something. No car accidents, no falls from high places - grandma's apple tree doesn't count - no dislocated shoulders... nothing. hell, I wasn't even ill for such a long time! Just my luck.

I winced in pain when the wound started pulsing and i was getting more and more lightheaded. Random biological facts started occuring in my head and I knew my consciousness will soon slip away, because my brain is not getting enough oxygen. And soon enough, black dots appeared in my vision and I sunk to my knees, still clutching my stomach, only not with so much force anymore. Noises around me faded away.

Then there was only darkness and silence. I was sill there and my brain still was functioning enough to notice how lonely I suddenly felt. That's it? Am I dying? Like this? Like that?  Dozens of questions ran through my head and I ignored them. It's not like I knew an answer for any of them.

The only things I could think of were my mistakes. Wors I said to someone which I regretted after. I regretted the relationship with my parents. I regretted canceling a reunion meeting with my friends from high school. I regretted studying this whole time. The time I could enjoy my life and hang out with my friens. Wait, do I even have any friends? Was I too caught up with my grades and chasing after my dreams that I forgot to treasure my friends? Something what was so precious back in high school?

The only ones I had was my best friend Alice and her younger brother Jeremy. They were even closer than my family to me since that divorce of my parents... who is going to tell them about my death? Will someone even know about my death? These people are ninjas, I bet thy'll just burn my body and sed my ashes to the wind!

My consciousness started slipping away. Maybe I scared it away with that huge amount of regrets. Are you leaving me too? Was my last thought directed at my own mind. Ironic, isn't it? And then I let the darkness absorb me.

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Third person POV:

When Joy hit the grounf panic broke loose. naruto screamed insults at Hidan who gladly returned the gesture. Deidara was also scolding Hidan for being a 'reckless ass' while Tobi ran around clutching his head and would suddenly burs out into fits of crying. None of them actually cared about the fallen girl, until Sakura shouted. "Shut your damn mouths already!"

Somehow she freed herself and was now bent over Joy, already apllying her green colored medical chakra to the cut on her side. Few tears were sliding down her face as she was pumping more and more energy to the wound. But nothing seemed to work. She remembered that recent moment when it was her who was lying bleeding on a cave's floor while elder Chiyo was fighting for her life, nearly scrificing her own in the process.

Sakura felt her chakra die out, leaving her with only a little so she didn't die of chakra exhaustion. But Joy's wound was still in there, although the bleeding stopped. There was a complete silence when sakura was trying to heal her and even now none talked. Akatsuki and even Konoha ninja were just staring at the pinkette and none of them knew what to think.

Kakashi finally talked. "Sakura, you can't do anything else for her. The wound was too deep and pierced most of her vital organs. She can't survive this."

"She will." retorted Sakura, teeth clenched with sheer determination as she placed her hands on Joy's broken body.

"She must." she closed her eyes and concntrated. The moment when elder Chiyo used her forbidden technique playing over and over in her head. When she remembered every last handseal and the usage of chakra, she took a deep breath and started forming the jutsu.

The Akatsuki stared with suspicion in their eyes when that medic girl started forming handseals. Hidan made a really stupid face. "I thought the bitch already used the fuck out of her chakra. She shouldn't be fucking forming a handseals in her fucked up state!"

But no one answered him, because Sakura's hands started glowing blue. "What is with that chakra, hm? I thought medics have green chakra, yeah." voiced the terrorist and observed the pinkette through narrowed eyes. He knew she was the one to kill Sasori and although he hated him and his view of art, he was still a fellow Akatsuki member and a fellow artist, no mutter how much he didn't like it.

Itachi responded him with his sharingan spinning, sounding slightly interested. "It's not chakra. It's Haruno's lifespan." Everyone turned to him with shocked expressions and Naruto voiced what everyone thought. "You can't mean she's giving her her life!"

"Hn."

Naruto paled. "S-Sakura-chan..." he whispered and his eyes fell on Sakura's trembling form. His eyes widdened. The wound on Joy's gut has completely vanished, leaving behind only a jagged scar and a shaked Sakura. She carefuly stood up and leaned against a wall for support before falling on her knees once again.

Naruto hurried to her side and picked her up gently, carrying her to the living room. "Kakashi, take care of Joy, please." she managed to mutter before her eyes closed and she fell to a deep and dreamless sleep.

Kakshi picked up the other unconscious girl from the floor and carried her to her room, placing her on the bed. When he returned to the living room, he saw Sakura lying on the couch with Naruto in protective state above her. Some Akatsuki memeber still looked at the pinkette with a slight interest but most of them concentrated on him.

"Akatsuki." he hissed. The one with piercings he recognised as Pein from Amgakure raised an eyebrow. "Yes, mr. Copycat?" Kakashi just glared but continued in the not-so-pleasant conversation.

"I think we should refrain from attacking one another while we are staying here. I don't know for what reason Joy brought you here but killing each other won't solve anything." Akatsuki memebers were once again silent, except fo, once again, Hidan.

"Fuck you, old man! I WILL sacrifice you to Jashin-sama when I get the chance!"

"Silent, Hidan. I take it the girl's name is Joy." Pein motioned to her bedroom and looked back at Kakashi. "We accept your offer of temporary peace, although we have some conditions." Hidan glared at his leader after this, clearly unhappy about his decision, as well as the rest of the organisation.

"And what are these conditions?" asked Kakashi.

"You will let us stay here with you so we will know about each other's location, we will share the information about our appearance here and we will try to find our way back together."

naruto opened his mouth to complain but his sensei stopped him before he could actually say something. "We agree with these conditions, but this is Joy's house and she will have to agree eith this. Although I think it won't be a problem."

And so the peace had been formed betweem Konoha's team seven and the feared organisation called the Akatsuki.

Urgh. I'm slowly but surely getting annoyed by typing. My head spins right now and I still have a lot of things to do. Like, study. Remember the exam I ranted about yesterday? I sooooooooooooo didn't pass. I have to repeat. Just great.

So, thiswas the last chapter I had got written - that's also the only reason why my updating had been so quick. it will all go to hell from here. I am leaving on school trip on friday and won't be back until sunday. I also have three other exams left plus I have to take the meth again. the there are some flute concerts i have to play at... and at the beggining of June I'm going to Germany for four days on a Model united nation conference.

So many things to do and I'm still writing fanfictions, I must be insane...
Yeah. I'm a lost case.

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