ok, yes i know, i'm like extremely close to finishing my 2nd Chapter to Rushing Black. sorry it's taking so long, writers block i guess. o.0 well, this is the first chapter to my seconed fanfic. Let the Flames Begin. I hope you like it.

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"Sakura!!" screamed a surprised Naruto as he watched his half unconscious team mate being carried out of the fighting area by an enemy ninja.

"N-Naruto," Sakura whispered, being juggled by the enemy harshly and roughly, through the underbrush.

"I—I'm s-orry."

"Shut up you wench!" yelled the Rain-ninja, as he shoved her hard against the nearest tree, and leapt through the fogged air.

Sakura's head bobbed back and forth, and her eyes started to roll into the back of her head. Her pink hair covered in mud, and blood.

NO! Screamed her inner self, NOT NOW! Don't give in Sakura!

But it was all in vain. Just as Inner Sakura said those last words, Sakura received a sharp prod on one of her pressure points on her neck. And the world suddenly fell black.

And all through the forest could be heard the screaming and yelling of a certain, yellow haired, teenaged boy, and the shouting of her sensei.

NARUTO'S P.O.V.


"Sakura!!" Naruto yelled as he ran from branch to branch in pursuit of his missing teammate. Rain was pouring down now upon him, as his hands clenched into tight balled fists.

NO! He yelled in his mind. How had this happened?! He hardly remembered a thing during the time period that Grandma Tsunade had sent them on this mission.

They were supposed to gather info on the Akatsuki, and in the event, they were stopped by some jounin level Rain Ninja. And Sakura was badly injured and taken captive.

"DAMN IT!" Naruto cursed.

"Naruto, wait up!" Kakashi sensei said as he caught up with his student.

"NO! We've gotta save Sakura-chan! If those Rain Ninja lay ONE hand on her—"

"Naruto!" Kakashi replied again. "As much as I'd like to go and help Sakura, we need to take care of our injured first. Plus in this rain it will be impossible to find her!" taking a deep breath Kakashi reached out and grabbed Naruto by his sleeve.

"Let go!" Naruto yelled at him, eyes growing to an intense red.

Kakashi didn't loosen his grip.

"Look Naruto, Sai is badly injured. He might bleed to death if we leave him alone for too long. Since Sakura isn't going to be here to heal Sai, we need to hurry back to Konoha NOW, so that Sai can get his proper treatment!"

Naruto closed his eyes in a painful silence.

Then said in a troubled voice, "But—what about Sakura? We can't leave her alone to defend herself against those bastards. I'm NOT going to lose another one of my teammates!"

"I know Naruto, I know." Kakashi sensei said with regret in his voice.

"Right now though, we need to get Sai to the infirmary. We're not that far from Sunagakure. We'll go there and then when Sai has been healed, we will make a plan to get Sakura back."

A long, pregnant silence followed afterward. They could distinctly see their breath fogging up in the rain, as it pored down hard.

"Sakura-chan…… Hold on" Naruto whispered as he and Kakashi sensei turned around, and ran back to their injured team mate.

Sakura's P.O.V


The rushing of trees brushing against Sakura's ear, whispering words unknown to her,

SWISH……swish….

The injured Konoichi sighed.

Where am I? Sakura thought. What happened?

Drops of water clung to her cheeks, slowly dripping downward and curving over her chin.

Slowly, Sakura opened her eyes, and felt her captor grip her even tighter. The Rain Ninja was going at an alarming pace through the tree tops. Sakura gasped.

NARUTO! How could she have forgotten? The way his face twisted in shock when she was helplessly carried away by the enemy. She couldn't get it out of her throbbing mind.

There were cuts and bruises all over Sakura's body. Blood dripping from her oozing wounds and onto the trees below, she hoped that someone would notice it, and might find her.

Suddenly, the Rain ninja slowed down more, and eventually stopped in a small clearing. Throwing her down roughly onto the muddied ground, mixing blood with mud.

"AAHH!" Sakura cried in agony, grinding her hand into the mud, as she started to fall face first down. She could taste her own blood as some of it leaked out from a head wound, and down into her mouth. Her clothes were torn, with rips; she suspected that her hand had also been fractured from the intense pain that she felt.

The Rain Ninja stood silently infront of Sakura, watching her twitch in the mud.

"Speak up!" the Ninja commanded after a long deep silence.

Sakura raised her head, almost looking like she was drunk. Her eyes lids hazily lifted up as her emerald eyes stared the ninja down.

"And if I don't?" she replied menacingly, barely feeling the pain as she glared at the enemy.

The Jounin stepped up to Sakura never taking his eyes off of her as he walked up, and placed his foot on Sakura's leg.

"Then I will make this ever the more painful." He stated simply, waiting for her response.

The rosette haired girl never grimaced as she raised her eyes to face him once again.

"N-Never"

The Rain ninja raised his eyebrows slightly. Oh really? He thought.

"Fine then, have it your way." Then he raised his foot that had been resting on the injured girl's leg, and, gathering as much chakra as he could keep in his foot, stomped hard onto her leg. A sickening crack filled the area, but he was surprised to get a little less than a whimper from her. Blood ran down her lips.

She's biting herself? The Rain ninja thought impressed.

She's tougher than I thought.

Sakura then closed her eyes. Afraid of talking because she knew she would scream then.

The Rain Ninja glared at her.

"Give me info on Konoha. Now." He said. "I know that you're the Hokage's apprentance, so tell me."

Sakura gathered up the courage to speak.

"w-w-hy d-do y-ou wan-nt t-to k-know?" she stuttered obviously in pain.

"That's none of your concern little girl!" he shot back.

"Hisao!!" yelled a feminine voice farther back in the clearing.

Sakura turned to look behind the man, seeing a female Rain Ninja come stomping out of the clearing, her face covered in a mask, just like Hisao.

The Rain Nin turned around to face the woman, and then called out,

"What are you doing here Kaori?"

"I would ask you the same thing. I would also ask who this Leaf Village brat is too."

Gesturing towards Sakura, Kaori gave a questioning look to Hisao.

"She's the Hokage's apprentice; I took her hostage to see if I could get some information out of her."

The Masked female ninja smirked at the pink haired-injured girl.

"Kinda pathetic girl, to be taken hostage when you're the Hokage's apprentice huh?"

Sakura's eyes fell down.

Shannarro! Inner Sakura fumed, show them they're wrong, they have no idea!

Sakura, raising her eyes defiantly, glared at Kaori.

"Shut up!" she spat through her teeth.

Kaori ignored this.

"Has she told you anything yet Hisao?" Kaori asked expectantly.

Hisao glared down at Sakura.

"Not a thing. I even broke her leg and still said nothing."

Well, Kaori did look impressed.

"Well, if you aren't getting anything out of her now, I don't think you'll get anything else out of her in this condition. Take her with us, when she heals, we might be able to get more out of her."

Hisao nodded turning around to gather up the Konoichi.

"Where the hell did she go?!" he shouted at the empty spot where the girl was supposed to be laying in.

Kaori looked frantic.

"She can't have gone far. LOOK! Over there by the trees, it looks like she dragged herself off into the forest while we were talking. We'll find her!"


Pain seized Sakura, as she tried to drag herself farther into the trees. Earning herself more cuts and bruises from the sticks and rocks she dragged herself over. She froze.

Hearing voices ahead of her. They were different voices though. Sakura was sure that they weren't those Rain Ninja from before.

Sakura kept on dragging herself forward, a little more to her right, since she didn't know if they were enemy ninja or not. The voices were getting closer. She could tell sort of what they were saying. She heard a female yell.

"Suigetsu, UGH, SHUT UP!" she screeched.

A chuckle was heard throughout the forest.

"I'll shut up when you're dead Karin."

Who are these people? Sakura thought, wincing as she hit her bleeding head against a rock.

"I can't believe that Sasuke-kun made us go out here to gather up firewood!"

Sakura froze, her body now shaking violently. SASUKE? Where!? Sakura looked around her. Suddenly, this Suigetsu, and Karin stopped.

"Don't move Suigetsu" Karin whispered.

"What?" Suigetsu whispered back, "do you sense someone's chakra?"

Damn it, Sakura cursed a million times over in her head.

Everything became quiet.

"Should we go tell Sasuke, Karin?"

"Let's find out who it is first, ok?"

Silence followed afterward. Sakura suspected that this Suigetsu person nodded.

"Who are you?! Show yourself!!" the woman shouted.

Silence

"We know you're here, if you don't show yourself right now, we'll find you!"

Silence

"HISAO! Come on hurry up!" shouted a voice that Sakura dreaded to hear. "The Konoha brat is over here somewhere, I can see her blood all over the place!"

Oh, Kami-sama, oh Kami-sama, HELP ME!

"I know, I know Kaori!" Hisao replied gruffly.

Oh well, Sakura thought, I guess I'd rather be caught by those guys than by the enemy.

And with that Sakura started to struggle and drag herself further, rustling in the bushes and trees.

"Suigetsu!" Karin yelled "Over there!" she said pointing over in the direction of Sakura.

"Hisao!" Kaori yelled, pointing to where Sakura was.

"Right!" he yelled, running in the direction of Sakura.

"HELP ME!" Sakura screamed, as the Rain Ninja threw her over his shoulder, Suigetsu and Karin staring at the scene.

Sakura was bleeding heavily, punching Hisao's back.

"What the—"the man named Suigetsu said staring at Sakura.

Sakura yelled out in pain as Hisao slammed her broken leg against a tree trunk.

Suddenly, and out of what seemed to be in the blink of an eye, a figure that Sakura had seen so many times in her childhood came up and punched the Rain ninja in the stomach and sent him flying backward, while catching Sakura in his arms.

Sakura stared up, to see, her once, teammate, her crush, the one who had betrayed Konoha. Who she saw right infront of her eyes, was none other than……. Sasuke.

hahaha! sorry i had to finnish this in a cliffhanger. ;) right now i'm working on finishing my 2nd chapter to my other story, but i'll get both of them up in no time. please Review!

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