Sakura on the other hand was sweating bullets over what to do. She laid there in the grass, her mind a whirl with what ifs and doubts. Though she had complete and utter faith in Sasuke's ability to handle the situation, on the other side of the spectrum there was her and her debacle.
"Where should I go? What should I do? I don't know?!" the girl thought as she swallowed nervously. "Kakashi-sensei is in the middle of the clearing. He hasn't moved since the start of the exercise and isn't doing anything other than looking around. Is he going to move anytime soon? Is he going to try and look for us?"
Perhaps. Maybe if the Jonin got impatient. Would he get mad if they didn't do anything through until the time ran out and fail them? God… this was so nerve rattling!
"If he's going to move then maybe I should stay… b-but if I do… I won't be able to get a bell and I'll fail. Ohh… this is so hard. If I try to leave this spot he'll see me. If I stay I'll just waste time and fail. I… I need…" She looked around the trees anxiously. "I need to find Sasuke-kun. He'll know what to do!"
After half an hour of nothing but white noise and the sounds of birds singing, Kakashi, who had still yet to move even a single step, was now feeling a little bit concerned. It wasn't that he was bored, it was just that neither one of his students had decided to show themselves or had made any attempts to try and get to him. Perhaps they were smarter than he had earlier anticipated.
That or they were too scared to approach him.
"Hmm… they haven't moved an inch," Kakashi thought, eye shifting from right to left curiously. When several more minutes ticked by and not a sound was made, the Jonin relaxed himself and let out a weary sigh. "Well then, if they won't make the first move then I will." With that said, the masked man then reached into his pouch, an action that caught the attentions of all those watching.
At first Sasuke and Sakura thought he was reaching for a blade or something he would use as a means of tracking them. This immediately had alarm bells ringing inside their heads as they quickly made guesses as to what the man was reaching for.
They then nearly face faulted all at once when they saw their instructor pull an orange book out of his pouch and flip it open; the cover reading Icha Icha Paradise.
"Now… let's see…" Kakashi murmured as he looked down at the page he'd doggy-eared. "Ah yes."
"You've got to be kidding me!" Sakura screeched in her head as she stared across at the instructor with a twitching eyebrow, "Is he that confident that he can read while there's an exam going on?!"
"Cha! Take this seriously you damn Cyclops!" Inner Sakura shouted vehemently. Her more composed counterpart could only shake her head in dismay and continue watching from a distance as the man giggled perversely over his novel.
Sasuke on the other hand, who had managed to recover from the shock, took note of the development and quietly reached into his pouch behind him with both hands. His glare tightened as he watched the man turn his back to him and continue running through the pages. Upon considering the situation, the distance to target and the time it would take for his weapons to reach, the Uchiha smirked.
"An opening!" Drawing the blades, he pulled them back and in one smooth motion, chucked them, "Finally!"
His blades and stars zipped through the air, separating in flight before converging on the Jonin's back. In two seconds flat they reached their target and, much to the Genin's shock, they hit home. His success was accompanied by a surprised gasp from the Jonin and his body being thrown forward by all of the blades burying into his spine. His whole form went limp as it began to fall, blood trailing from the entry wounds.
"H-He got hit!" Sakura thought in alarm.
The Uchiha frowned, watching the body fall for the longest second he'd ever experienced before suddenly seeing it burst into a white cloud of smoke. The struck individual then revealed himself to be nothing more than a log impaled with several throwing knives, a sight that startled all of the teens in the area.
"Damn it!" Sasuke cursed and immediately took off running, bursting out of his hiding place and into the woods. "Kawarimi! So it WAS a trap! He purposefully turned his back to the tree line I was hiding in to create an opening and waited for one of us to attack! Shit! Now he knows where I am!"
Meanwhile, in the forest across the clearing, in a tree overlooking the entire field, a familiar eye could be seen staring out from the shadows in the direction the shuriken had been thrown from. Perched on the branch of a larch, the face of Kakashi Hatake then poked into view as he followed the trail left behind by his target, "So there he is."
Realizing that her sensei had moved, Sakura seized the opportunity presented and quickly made a beeline out from her hiding place. She dashed through the woods towards where the knives had been thrown, wondering whether it had been Sasuke or Naruto that tried to take out their instructor. Whether it was one or the other she didn't care, all she hoped was that Kakashi hadn't gotten to them first.
"I'll bet it was Sasuke-kun!" Sakura thought desperately as she leapt through the trees, "My gut's telling me that it was! I hope sensei hasn't got-no! That would never happen! Not to hi-" The girl's thoughts were then cut off when she suddenly felt something clamp across her mouth and, giving a startled yelp, was forcefully whipped around the tall oak she was just about to pass.
Silenced by the hand over her gob, the pink haired girl tensed up when she felt her body press up against that of another, her eyes widening in horror and mind immediately racing.
Shit! Was it Kakashi? No. It couldn't be! There's no way he could have gotten to her so quickly. He was after whoever threw those knives. Trembling nervously, Sakura felt the arm around her stomach tighten and, still unable to speak, looked over her shoulder to whoever it was that had managed to catch her in mid-jump.
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