Before you continue, this story is written in three different POV's. H for Sakura; U for Sasuke; and N for Normal.
I don't own Naruto *weep*
Unplanned Circumstances
-X-
-H-
I was on my way home from my meeting with Naruto when I felt weird. I felt as if something was off balance and I immediately thought of Sasuke. The boy was so unstable the days before; I just knew something was wrong. I had to see him. I diverged from my original path home to Sasuke's house. It was a ways away but I had to see.
I reached the house and found that it was unlocked. Stepping inside ever cautiously I saw all of his belongings missing. By the window, atop of the dresser, was a picture flipped down. I picked it up and saw how happy we were before all of this trouble began. I started to get anxious…what did this mean? Where was he? If he wasn't here and neither were his stuff, then was he planning on leaving? I had to find out.
I ran through the dark and silent streets of Konoha. My hair whipped behind as the cool wind blew by. I did not stop to catch my breath. I couldn't waste what time I already did. A shadowed figure stopped in front of me. I could tell something was amiss. I slowed down to a stop. "What?"
"What's a girl like you doing out at a time like this?" said the figure.
"None of your business."
"Well, I don't really think that's true. My friends and I seem to think otherwise."
I sensed more people starting to surround me and I saw the evil grin on their faces. "You better back off. I have someplace I need to be." The man walked into the light and I saw him. He was about middle-age and he had really deep-set eyes. But what I noticed at first sight was the color of his eyes; they were blue (like Naruto's) but they were beasts' eyes. He cupped my chin and pulled me close. His breath was hot on my skin.
"Why don't you come over quietly?"
"Leave me alone." My hands curled into a fist and swung into the air. He caught it easily. He looked at me and it seemed he grew more ecstatic from my stubbornness. "Let go!"
"Hold her down. I might as well finish with her here." The four of them laughed as they came and held down each of my arms and legs. I felt their course hands start feeling me up and I started to cry; I was going to be raped. Naruto did warn me to be careful, but I was too preoccupied with finding Sasuke. My pink dress was pulled up as I thrashed harder. It would be pointless, but I wasn't going to give up.
"Let me go. Sasuke!" I screamed. I don't know why I did it, I just did.
"Shut up." The man put his lips on mine roughly and I cried more. I could do nothing; exactly how can I be of use to someone bent on power. I stopped trying to resist and tuned out all they started doing to me. I tuned out the feel of my dress getting ripped off; the feel of their hand's touching me… the sound of his zipper coming down.
-U-
I remember on the hospital rooftop we were about to battle, both of our toughest moves out and ready to hit, when she came and ran in front of us. I know that Naruto tried to stop, but what went through my mind I was afraid of. I had half a mind to just go right through her and then through Naruto, but I, in the end, tried to stop too. If Kakashi hadn't come when he did, she would've been dead.
I started thinking, not about Sakura, (she wasn't important as of now) but about Naruto. I saw the hole that Naruto made compared to mine on the water towers. I grew so mad; when did he surpass me! I train and train nonstop and I can never beat him, never catch up to him. If I can't beat him, how can I expect to take out Itachi? Kakashi came and talked to me about things like teamwork and how power isn't everything…well I chose the path I would take already and I wasn't changing my mind.
My house already gave the feel of loneliness and darkness. I was surprised to find that I actually would miss them—my friends. I packed what I needed. I stopped in front of the picture that we were tricked to take. We were rivals then and rivals now, the only difference was that I always beat him. Without so much of a glance, I flipped the picture down and headed out. I already got an offer by the Sound ninja to meet up with them if I wanted to, and I wanted to.
Walking down the noiseless road, I passed by a couple of guys that of course paid me no mind. I would've wished they started something; I still had some steam. Regardless of what I wanted, I passed by and I was off. About ten minutes after though, I heard something. I heard a scream. The voice was all too familiar, the girl that I've insulted endlessly. I grew worried…and I started to run back. "Sasuke!" When I heard my name, I ran even faster.
My jutsu appeared after I made the hands signs. The fire spread through and hit the others surrounding what looked to be their boss. Screams were heard as they were knocked down and that's when I saw, what made me go off the edge. Sakura's dress was in a heap on the floor, breasts fully exposed in the fish-net tee. Her pants…they were at her ankles and the four men, were all feeling her up. The leader's hands reached for his zipper and I heard it get pulled down. Sakura's sobs were increasing and I went savage.
I decided on close combat, of course taking out the man getting ready to enter the girl. I went up to him. He already had his hands up to block his face, but who said I was aiming there. I quickly kneed him as he bowled over and slammed his back. The four goons reached out for me and I finished them off one by one, quickly.
-H-
My arms felt looser, as did my legs. I found that I could move again. I opened my eyes and surveyed the damage. The man and his gang were on the floor, close to death, but not dead. I saw someone, someone I knew and cried out. "Sasuke." He looked at me and walked up, not looking me in the eye. He handed me a shirt from his backpack; I looked down and remembered I was about to be raped. "Did you save me?" He said nothing. He started walking away. "Wait…please. Thank you… please don't leave."
"I have to…"
-U-
Sakura fell as I was in the middle of my sentence and to me it looked like either exhaustion or shock…it could've been both. I looked around. There was a bench and I could've just left her there, but I picked her up bridal style (after putting the shirt on her) and took her with me to meet the Sound.
"So you came. What's with the girl?" Tayuya spoke.
"Come on lets go." We continued into the forest and they told me I had to go into a coffin. "What?"
"Yes, this is what you came to Orochimaru for isn't it?" They were right. I advanced forward and looked at the pink-haired girl in my arms.
"Make sure she is safe. Protect her with your life; if I find out otherwise, you'll see what'll happen." After eyeing each and every one of them, I handed Sakura over to Tayuya, and entered the box.
The battle with Naruto took more out of me than I thought. I knew that he was a good fighter, but to make me use my full potential, the path I chose was well worth it. I sat with Sakura, watching over her for some reason. It's not like the people around here were going to touch her because if they did they would be dead before they know it.
I walked out, glaring at the other experiments, before I left to Orochimaru. "What is it?"
"We are going to another one of my labs…lets go."
"I'm not leaving Sakura here." Orochimaru looked at me and I back at him.
"You seem to like her…I wonder how the seal would work with someone like her." I glowered at him at the sound of those words. I very well knew the harm of having the curse seal; Sakura on the other hand, had nothing to do with this. My hand went up and I grabbed Orochimaru's wrist.
"Touch her and I'll kill you faster than you know…and I mean it."
"There, there, Sasuke. As long as you follow what I say, nothing will happen to her."
"I'm still taking her along."
-H-
I woke up to a small white room. My eyes adjusted to the bright light and I caught my bearings. I was about to get raped, but Sasuke saved me. I yelled out his name remembering he was going to leave. That's when everything went blank. My body felt as though it hadn't been used in days as I struggled to sit up-right. I walked to the wooden door and touched the cold brass doorknob. My eyes grew wide as I saw the bars lining the hallway. I was in a penitentiary.
The prisoners' voices echoed as I walked in front of the cells. Many tried hard to grab me but I wouldn't give them that satisfaction. "Sasuke!" I cried out some more, as their voices grew too. I turned the corner and a hand shot out in front of me, forcing me to stop.
"Hey, you don't need Sasuke. You could do with me just fine." The rancid smell of decaying teeth and a little something else made me cringe. I ran…to another room like what I came from.
Inside the room, was none other than Sasuke, I ran to him, hugging and crying, not even seeing the others there with him.
-N-
Sakura was hugging the raven-haired boy. Her salty tears running down her face onto the other's shirt. "Sasuke….I found you." He did nothing as she continued to cry. From behind, a woman pushed her off of him onto the floor.
"Hey, who the hell are you?" The woman sported many piercings and her small eyes grew wide at what she saw. "Why, are you wearing Sasuke's shirt."
"Sasuke's shirt….?" Haruno's emerald eyes trailed down and she blushed. "Why am I… wearing?" They both looked at the Uchiha. His eyes were slits but said nothing.
"You, I asked you a question." The woman repeated.
"Sasuke, who is this?" The woman came closer and closer to Sakura and then her view was blocked. Sasuke stepped in front of the floor-ridden girl, stopping the woman from advancing any further.
"Back off Karin." It was then that Sakura noticed Orochimaru and Kabuto. She stood up and backed up as much as she could to the door. "Sakura…."
"What are you…you really did leave. Why did you bring me with you?" The pink haired kunoichi started yelling and all stood watching.
Sasuke was getting tired. He had to deal with Karin flirting with him and even listening to Orochimaru; he wasn't about to take it from her too. He grabbed her hand and pulled her out into the hallway, away from any prisoners. He spoke. "I'm not keeping you here. You can leave now that you're awake." He started walking away.
"Wait, why did you save me? Why did you bring me here?"
"…I really don't know."
"Let's go back. They'll accept us, as long as we go back."
"No Sakura. I've chosen my path and I didn't bring you to change my mind. I saw you were getting hurt and I stopped them. It means nothing okay?" Sakura was in a dilemma. She wanted to go back, yet she would rather her stay around him, no telling what that woman's relationship was to him. Plus, she might be the only one who can change his mind.
"Okay," she said head hanging low. "I'll stay…I won't stop trying to bring you home though."
"Do whatever you want." Sasuke said as he entered the room once again.
"I believe you know the drill Sasuke." The snake man's smile grew as the Uchiha's smile faded. He turned to Sakura and pushed her toward Kabuto. She landed with a thud into his chest. The male medic searched in his pockets and pulled out a small tar brown pill. He held the squirming girl down and his rough hands wrapped around her jaw, holding it open. The pill was placed into her mouth and she was forced to swallow it. Sasuke was faced in the other direction as the girl went through this.
"This is to make sure nothing goes wrong. Here Sasuke, I'm done with her." Kabuto pushed her back to him.
"Why…"
Finally, entered what they came here for. Two people entered into the room and Orochimaru's eyes glowed. "Lord Orochimaru here she is." The man ushered the little girl inside. The girl was no older than seven and here she was…another one of Orochimaru's experiments.
-U-
In my room, Sakura was asking questions. "Who was that girl Sasuke?"
"I don't know." I really didn't know. I only came here for power and Orochimaru probably knows not to trust me fully. Come to think of it, I knew nothing about anything here. "I'm going to go train." I started to leave.
"Can I come with you? I don't want to be here by myself…" I knew she really didn't want to stay alone, but I needed to be alone.
"Sakura, you're annoying." I walked off not even looking back to see the damage that I caused her.
The room was designed to give off the real feeling of the forest, without having to leave the premises. I walked over to a tree and started throwing kunai and stars. Just a little warm-up. I started throwing punches and kicks, my mind thinking over the problems I had. I had a girl with me who could and possibly would betray me to get me to the village, and a man that I need to keep my guard over for mine and Sakura's sake. My blows broke the trees and I kept on the path until I got to the end of the door. As I was nearing the exit, I noticed the little girl with her back to me. I tried to stop.
I moved and grabbed a branch and swung full circle to avoid her. She still didn't turn around. "Hey, what are you doing here?" Her small body swerved and her grey eyes were watching me. I couldn't move. What's going on? I asked myself, obviously not able to speak. In front of me, she still stared at me…I didn't know what was going on. My soul felt as if it was getting pulled from my body, my thoughts getting fainter and fainter. I could no longer see, but I heard someone come in.
"That's enough. Let him go." I fell to the ground, gasping for breath, eyes in slits. I was glaring at a little girl!
"What was that?" I asked.
"Oh you liked? It was something we decided to test out. We'll see how it plays out soon." Kabuto walked away with the little girl following. I have to watch out for her…she almost killed me with a stare. What was that?
-N-
Sakura was sitting, waiting for Sasuke to be finished with his training when he walked into the room, looking worse than ever. She knew something was wrong. "Sasuke…what's wrong?"
"Nothing." Sakura continued to pry and pry as Sasuke was growing more and more annoyed. He went off; punching the table beside him. How could he possibly tell her (though it was one of Orochimaru's experiments) that he was almost killed by a seven year old girl?
"Sakura…just leave me the hell alone," he said as he entered the bathroom. Not wanting to cause him any more trouble, she went to the bed and went to sleep.
Sasuke woke up from the couch that he was sleeping on to meet the others for their daily meetings. He had always had to help Karin with checking the prisoners and he hated it. He never thought it was possible, but he actually did find someone more annoying than Sakura. Sasuke looked back once more to the sleeping girl on the bed and left.
"Tee hee." From inside the room, Sakura awoke after having heard a series of laughter. She quickly got off the bed, pulled out her kunai, and looked around the ever quiet quarters. She looked behind her and the same thing once again… Sasuke had specifically told her not to leave the room but she felt something was in there with her; she heard but saw nothing every time she looked around. Finally as the last laugh was heard she jumped out into the hallway.
After about a couple of seconds, two men came walking up the aisle to where she was. She backed up more into the hallway just trying to keep away from them, but they weren't having that; they were going straight for her. Their beady black eyes followed her body until each of their eyes met one another. The men stretched out their arms and let out a menacing howl as they bolted for the girl.
Sakura dodged the oncoming attack and only barely managed to escape from the attackers. Her kunai that she swung relentlessly did not do what she wanted it to; it seemed their skin was made of something. She could only run because she wasn't strong enough, because she just wasn't fit to be by Sasuke's side.
-H-
I ran and ran. I saw the prisoners trying to pull me into the cell bars and I paid it no mind; if I stay here I have to get used to at least that. Looking behind me I saw no one, no one running at all. I continued walking in a trance, not really knowing where I was headed as I thought of all the possible ways to get stronger. I could take Orochimaru's way, but I myself would never sink so low. The other option was to train and if I was to do that, I would have to be with Sasuke twenty-four/seven. Just like the time before, I came across a room that was left open. I had no intention of looking in it but as I passed by, I saw Sasuke…and Karin. They were in a room alone together and it hurt me inside. I ran away from the two of them tears stinging my eyes.
-N-
Sasuke looked over at the door and stood up, feeling a presence before him. "What's wrong Sasuke," asked Karin.
"Nothing," he spoke as he exited the door.
Sakura scurried over the linoleum tiles and passed the hallway to anywhere. She let her feet guide her to an empty corridor and when she looked up, she finally saw the little girl. Sakura stopped dead in her tracks and stared, not moving an inch. The little girl's grey eyes looked into Sakura's. Sakura tried to make it a point to escape from her view, but she realized it wasn't her fault. It wasn't her fault she was made into an experiment.
Gathering all her courage Sakura went and introduced herself. "My name is Sakura Haruno. What's your name?" The blonde said nothing. Sakura looked around and felt the danger in the air, but she didn't know why. 'Is this little girl giving off this menacing aura? It's not impossible.' Feeling that she should leave, the older girl turned and started to leave. She stopped when she heard the girl say something. "Excuse me?"
"I don't have a name." Sakura was surprised; she went back and kneeled in front of her.
"Would you like me to give you one?" Again she said nothing. "Alrighty then, how about Hagu?" Looking up into her eyes, Sakura saw a glint. She instantly felt like she was rejuvenated by the girl's expression; she laughed. "Nice to meet you Hagu. I would love to stay longer but I can't."
Just like last time, as Sakura neared leaving Hagu spoke, "You're different than the others," and she walked away into the darkness of the hallway.
"Where were you?" Sakura entered the room and found an angry Sasuke glowering at her. "Answer me? I told you not to leave."
"I'm sorry Sasuke, but…" she grew silent.
"But what? I want to know why you left the room."
"I heard voices and I thought that they were coming from inside the room and when I got out, I saw the two monsters and I ran. Then I saw you and that woman, and I ran even more." Sasuke sighed and lied himself on the couch.
"I'm going to sleep." His eyelids closed over his mysterious orbs and Sakura sat next to him.
"Hey Sasuke…" No response. "That girl, do you know anything about her?"
"…"
"She said that I was different than the others. There's something about her, something…"
"Sakura." When Sasuke called out her name, she felt it carried something more. "Don't go outside without me anymore, and stay away from that girl."
"Why Sasuke? Hagu seems nice."
"Hagu?"
"Yea, she wanted me to give her a name. Isn't it cute?"
"Sakura, listen. Just stay away from her." His eyes were sharp staring at her and although she didn't want to, she relented.
"Alright Sasuke." And then he went to sleep, just like that.
Sasuke looked around the room and saw the girl. His thoughts instantly went to the other night when he had specifically told her not to go outside without him. He knew that because he had a job to do, he would put her in more danger. He got up and shook her awake. "Get up Sakura, and follow me." The young kunoichi opened her heavy eyes and questioned him. He repeated. "Get up." So she did and they went training.
"Since I can't be with you all the time, I'll help you train. Now try to attack me." Sakura gathered her bearings and in a flash, Sasuke was gone. Her kunai was out and she readied herself to assail the boy. Her eyes followed the movements of her target; she was a sitting duck out here. As she slowly took a step on the grass, a kunai soared passed her face. She dodged it and while this was happening the boy's right hand came and flew into the air. She stepped back once, stepped back a second time. "Come on, hit me!"
His voice rang through the forest and she slashed her weapon in front of him. He smirked as he effortlessly dodged the iron weapon and brought his jab right in front of her face. She cowered behind her arms. All this time, as she was receding backwards, her back came in contact with a tree. Sasuke walked to her.
"What are you doing?"
"I…don't want to hit you…"
"Sakura, this is training. I thought you wanted to bring me back to Konoha. How do you expect to if you can't even beat me?"
"Sasuke…"
"I guess its talk; I guess Naruto's the only one who really wants me back." He walked a few steps away and watched her from the corner of his eye. She had her head down and her fists were clenched in deep thought.
"I will…bring you back; you can't count on it." Sasuke turned around.
"Then prove it. Prove to me you can bring me back."
Sakura ran with a shrill yell and brought her kunai down onto him. He stopped the barrage with his own kunai and she jumped back. Her clones ran after her and punched him in every direction. The Uchiha quickly ran up a tree, flipped in the air and with his fire-ball jutsu, burned them all into smoke. Sakura clearly out of ideas, continued with just plain tai-jutsu. She punched. He dodged. When he was backing up, he almost slipped and that's when one of her punches connected with his face—hard.
Sakura gasped. Sasuke wiped his hands across his mouth and saw the blood. He spit on the ground. His eyes were covered as he slowly walked toward the pink haired girl who herself was backing away from him. "Sasuke…I'm sorry…" She had lost any additional space when she hit the tree behind her. Once he was a step away, she turned to run but he grabbed her shoulders and roughly pushed her back in place. "Sasuke…" With her eyes closed, afraid just what the Uchiha was capable of, she surrendered. Sasuke's face moved closer to the unknowing girl's lips and Sakura eye's grew wide when she felt something warm upon her skin.
When she opened her eyes, the Uchiha was kissing her! But just as she was just about to kiss him back, or rather enjoy the kiss, he pulled back. "What…?"
He smirked again. "If you can get a hit on me again…" She looked at him.
"For real…?"
-H-
I was shocked. I was stunned. Sasuke, he just kissed me and now…every time I get a hit in, I get another! Cha! I will get those kisses! I will show him! My eyes lit up and I followed after the boy. "You're going to regret that decision." With more initiative than before, I pulled out my kunai again. I ran into the trees and threw quite a number down at the Uchiha. Quickly coming down, I threw some stars and with my chakra concentrated in my fists, I swung. When he dodged, I missed and hit the tree. The splinters flew in every which way.
"You're serious."
"There's too much at stake here." My hands instinctively followed his movements but for some reason, I was always a step behind him. When I swung left, he went right. When I swung right, he swung left. But that's when…I punched him going left. I created two clones, both swinging in a direction opposite each other. As that was happening, I threw some kunai and jumped from above. Sasuke was much to busy with the clones to worry about me and when I was almost on top of him he laughed.
"Nice try Sakura." He quickly spun around and punched and kicked each of them. I tried my hardest to change my trajectory, but he grabbed my ankle and roughly pulled me down to the ground. I was on my back and he was on top of me. He probably didn't realize it, but we were in an…awkward position. I blushed and looked away from him.
-N-
Sakura trembled under Sasuke's body as he continued sitting on top of her. "Nice Sakura. Looks like all you needed was motivation." Sasuke slowly lowered his head and with his face close to Sakura's, he kissed her again. This time Sakura went into it to, moaning into the boy's mouth. He went from a sitting position to lying over her. The kiss grew more passionate as they continued.
The door to the room was opened and neither of them noticed; they were too lost in each other to detect it. Standing a foot from them was Orochimaru, Kabuto, and Hagu.
"Well, well. What do we have here?" Sasuke opened his eyes and saw the three. He quickly got up, leaving a dazed Sakura still on the floor, trying to stand.
"If I didn't know better," started Kabuto, "I'd say you…"
"Shut up!" The Uchiha grabbed Sakura's hand and he eyed Hagu when he passed her. Before that happened, he felt the breath being pulled out of him. He collapsed, breathing in deeply, trying to keep what he could inside of him. Sakura screamed. She crouched next to the boy and when Hagu looked at her, she knew.
"Hagu? Are you doing this?" No response.
"Hagu?" asked Orochimaru to Kabuto who did a shrug.
"He was hurting you. So I stopped him."
"No Hagu. Stop this…he wasn't hurting me. He's my friend."
"…"
"Hagu," cried Sakura, "please, don't take him away from me." Sakura lowered her head and was weeping onto Sasuke before she heard him cough. His eyes that were so lifeless slowly returned back to their original hue. Sakura cried some more. "Thank you Hagu."
"Who is this Hagu?" asked Kabuto, 'Why does she listen to Haruno?'
"I am. That's my…name." Sasuke, after receiving even just an infinitesimal amount of energy back, grabbed Sakura and left but not before Orochimaru warned him.
"You're being careless, Uchiha."
"Kabuto..." Said Orichimaru.
"I know sir. I was thinking the same thing. "Why does she listen to Haruno… if this goes on then the plan might be ruined." Kabuto looked to the Snake sanin. "What are we going to do?"
"We have many options Kabuto. We just need to see how everything works out. We'll go for a trial run later today. If anything goes wrong with Hagu, you know what to do…"
"Sasuke's going to be mad…"
Kabuto followed after Orochimaru and the little girl as they exited the forest. Sasuke was reluctant to go, but he had to so here he was, following the others. The small village laid before them as Kabuto relayed the instructions to the little girl.
"Okay this is what you're going to do. Kill everybody in this village…and do it quick." Hagu looked around and asked.
"Where's Sakura?" Nobody answered.
"Go, do your job."
Hagu walked into the small village. Her small figure, her innocent looks, and the timid aura she gave off, attracted a couple to her.
"Oh my goodness," said the woman. "Look at this girl," to Hagu, "Are you alright?"
"Where did you come from?" The man had knelt in front of the girl and as their eyes met, he felt he couldn't breathe. He grabbed at his throat and made gurgling sounds. The man's girlfriend stood wide-eyed at the scene, before she went to help him.
"Are you okay honey? What's wrong?" When she brought his head to hers, she saw his dying eyes. His russet eyes she had so fallen in love with were gone, replaced with inert orbs, and not soon after she felt her soul being pulled out of her. Her body fell onto his as their souls left and made their way into the blonde's mouth.
Hagu continued into the centre of the village, where she saw the most people gathered around. In the middle, in the midst of all the citizens, Hagu stood. Her head lifted enough so that her eyes were visible, and then she let out an awesome scream. The people looked at her, and they covered their ears. Screams were heard from men, and women, children and adults alike.
Hagu's mouth was open as white wisps of smoke absconded from the peoples' mouths and into her own. They fell with a thump onto the ground, eyes wide, spittle flowing down their chins. As the last soul made it into her orifice, she grew bigger. Her gray eyes grew sharper and her dress, into tatters, as it could no longer to contain the petite body it was supposed to. Her white-blonde hair grew wild and expanded over her body as she rampaged throughout the rest of the village.
Sasuke was watching with a petrified expression. He watched as she got bigger and bigger, with every soul, how much meaner and dangerous she actually became. Orochimaru and Kabuto smiled. Their plan was going smoothly.
-U-
"Sasuke… don't mention anything that you saw to anyone." Of course I wouldn't, I don't want Sakura to worry. "Because if you do…" Kabuto, as if on cue, produced the tar brown pill that Sakura was forced to take when she decided to stay. That pill had killed many when they were perfecting it. It kept people close, because if they tried to leave, they would instantly turn into a pile of dust, unless another pill was administered. I scowled, remembering that it was inside of her as of this moment.
Sakura was waiting for me when I returned from the mission. I couldn't tell her because Orochimaru watched everything, and I mean everything. With the rest of the day ruined, I went to train, and then went to sleep on the couch thinking exactly what I could do to solve this problem. As I lay thinking, I realized that I wanted Sakura's safety more than anything else…and this surprised me.
-N-
Lady Tsunade sat at her desk, looking at the scroll in front of her. It arrived just moments ago by bird, and she knew something was wrong. The scroll read:
We need the Leaf's help. We were attacked; our people, they are lifeless and out village destroyed. Nobody who was there is alive and some of had gone on missions, just hours before, and when we came back… Please, Hokage, please help us. We don't even know what did this terrible thing…
Lady Tsunade sighed and put her hands in her face. How was she to deal with this? If they were hit by an unknown source, what are the chances that they were going to get hit too?
-H-
I woke up alone once again and as I made my way to the bathroom, there was a knocking and I opened it.
"Hello Haruno."
"Kabuto," I said surprised and then angered. "I don't need to associate myself with you, so just leave."
"Well that's not entirely true Sakura. I wanted to tell you something." I made no attempt to leave so he continued. "You don't need to stay here. Let me rephrase that, you shouldn't stay here."
"What, what are you talking about?"
"Well, just that, Orochimaru thinks you're getting in the way of Sasuke's progress."
"…getting in the way…"
"Yes. And I just thought I'd tell you before he makes Sasuke pay for it."
"Pay for it? How?" I looked at the man before me. Something told me that he was lying but the other thing about getting in Sasuke's way, it felt true. He had told me himself that I was in his way… was I that much of a burden to him even now? I turned away from Kabuto as my eyes started to water. "What can I do?"
"You can leave." Leave? Can I really do that?
"But that thing you put in me? That was so I couldn't leave wasn't it?"
"Oh that? All you have to do is take this pill. This is sort of an antidote…"
"How can I trust you?"
"Why would I do anything to harm you? Sasuke would kill me, and that will mess with Orochimaru whom I do not want to mess with." I thought about and realized that he maybe right. I want to take Sasuke back, but that is going to have to wait…I can get Naruto to come here with me and then we can bring Sasuke back ourselves.
I took the blue pill from the male medic's hands and swallowed it. For some reason, I did feel better. Then I looked at Kabuto and told him my plan. "I'm going to leave tomorrow."
"Why not leave tonight…"
"I have my reasons…"
"Okay, you know where the exit is…"
Sasuke came back relatively late that night. I knew I had to keep my emotions under control, I mean I have been doing it for so many years now. "What are you still doing up?" I walked up to him and kissed him. All the emotions of my life in that kiss came loose and it took him a while before he pulled away. "What are you doing?"
"I'm sorry…" I slipped into the covers of my bed and fell asleep weeping silently.
-U-
When I entered the room, Sakura was still up, which was weird. I wondered what she was doing awake, but when I asked that, she didn't answer. She walked up to me and kissed me. I, for some reason, noticed this kiss was different than the first one we had. This one felt like longing and sadness… Before I got any involved in the kiss, I pushed her off. And what's even stranger, was that after the kiss, she went straight to the bed and went to sleep. On my way to the bathroom, I thought I heard sniffling, like she was crying, but that was quickly dismissed when the cold water touched my burning skin, drowning out anything beyond the bathroom walls.
-N-
Sakura, for the last time, woke up alone. She took a bath and made her way to the exit of the hideout. In the halls, the prisoners still looked out at her, trying to pull at her. She walked quickly to the door and as she reached the last side hall before the exit, she saw a familiar face.
Hagu stood at the edge of that hall and looked to the floor. Sakura walked over to her. "What's wrong Hagu?"
"…" Sakura felt bad that this little girl had to grow up in this dreary place. She thought about it, and even though she knew that she was dangerous, Sakura still decided to take her along.
"Come on Hagu… you're coming with me…if you want." Hagu looked into her eyes and that feeling again of fullness, of rejuvenation, overcame her. Sakura grabbed her hands and together they went out into the real forest to the village hidden in the leaves, bathed in the glow of the rising sun.
"Now we don't need to worry about infiltrating the Leaf. With Hagu already present, and her instructions already known, we will destroy that village."
"What about Sasuke?" asked Kabuto.
"I'll deal with him. As long as he can gain power, that boy will not do anything to contradict that."
-X-
A/N: Yes, I'm sorry it's so confusing going back and forth in POV's but it was a good write and if you enjoyed it, you completely forgot about being confused. Hope you enjoyed!