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Fear struck her hard the kunais he threw stumbled below her feet and landed onto the dirt. She didn't have anything else to do, all the tricks up her sleeves were gone. All knowledge was useless, her was chakra 3/4 well spent since pulling him down like that. Stamina had never been her thing..

Maybe it was time to accept fate.
Standing and facing the Clone, she made no attempt to run away. She wasn't sure if it was because she couldn't move.. or if she really was ready to take the final blow. She shut her eyes, fearful and bracing her self for what he was going to pull. If she was going to make out of this alive.. it would be by a hair.

'Not even worth killing..'
The words echoed within the walls of her mind and stayed there as a haunting ghost. She collapsed onto her knees in exhaustion as what Zolo said lingered. He was gone for now. She was safe. The heavy tension and sense of doom that had once weighed her down vanished from her shoulders. But such a drastic change sent her mind into a state of shock.

She had been at death's point.
And suddenly it had vanished.
What kind of torture was this? To face death twice?

She wasn't sure to feel relieved to have escaped again.. or feel regretful that she had.

The doppelganger, now where the angle of attack was 45 degrees made it a perfect time to stop Kakashi for a while. Throing more needle the doppelganger comboed it with a few hand seals to use the jutsu, " ken Iseens no jutsu!!" each needle turned into a thousand, making it a three thousand needle barrage....

(( poor trees are gonna look like cacti....))

I can't escape that! Kakashi threw his arms up to block his vital organs as the shower of needles struck him and smashed him into a nearby tree. As his body bounced off the tree, it turned into a puff of white smoke, and there was a log in his place, full of needles. Kakashi was still running after Zolo and Sasuke. That was cloes. He thought.

((Yeah. XD Lol.))

Kakashi dodged the attack. He turned, without slowing, and threw three kunai in the doppelganger's dierction. He needed go tain more speed and close the gap between him and Sasuke. He lowered his posture inorder to be more streamline and forced his legs go move faster. He was getting dangerously close to a speed where he would tear his muscles.

The doppelganger had to do something to catch some speed. throwing needles more and more. It made another doppelganger and used it as a catapult like last time. At the last minut haveing the Catapulter turn into a kunai, the doppelganger rocketed forward to catch up to Kakashi. After doing this a few times where it felt like they were on his heels, The doppelganger threw the kunai( the catapulter doppelganger) at Kakashi along with two more kunai....

Shaken and still trembling after the close call with Zolo's clone, Sakura staggered weakly onto her feet, trying to pull herself together. Sitting there in her own sympathy wasn't going to fix anything. But neither was she with 3/4 of her chakra spent.

Still, she wanted to try to save Sasuke. There had to be some way she could be of help.

Looking ahead with weary eyes, still feeling tired, Sakura ran in the direction of which her Sensei and enemy took off. Not caring about her current state as she followed their very obvious trail of broken branches, needles, and foot steps.

"Sasuke-kun.. please be okay.. " she silently prayed.