I got the idea for this story when in chapter 365 the members of Hebi discuss whether they should ambush the Leaf in order to get some information. They decide not to, but I began to wonder what would have happened if they had decided differently.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto and I wrote this story only to my own amusement and hopefully yours as well. I don't make any profit with it.
Ambushing the Leaf
We had put up our camp on the banks of a river, and I had thought that it was safe to allow the girls to take a bath some hundred meters upstream, but when an hour had passed and Sakura and Hinata still had not returned, I began to become worried. There was still hope that they were just taking their time, enjoying to be among themselves, enjoying to be finally able to get clean – but I started to think about whom I might send to look for them. None of the boys, obviously, who were now themselves taking a bath a bit downstream, though not so far away that I could not oversee them, nor myself, as my reputation was bad enough as it was, even though, unlike Jiraya, I never spied on naked women. Yamato would do, I thought, and I was just on the point of asking him to go when I heard a commotion in the bushes behind me, and Hinata appeared, yet with her was not Sakura, but a stranger, carrying with him one of the broadswords of the Seven Swordsmen of the mist.
„Kakashi!" Hinata cried. „They have captured Sakura!"
„What?"
„They have captured Sakura, and they want to exchange her for Naruto!"
„What? Who? Akatsuki?"
„No! Sasuke!"
„So you found him...!"
„No. They found us! And they want Naruto as a bait! For Itachi! Don't give him to them!"
I was angry, though not so much at the kidnappers, but at the girls, that they had allowed themselves to be captured, and at myself for allowing them to go so far on their own. I looked at the stranger.
„It is not what you are thinking", he said. „We only captured them when they were fully dressed. And we did not hurt them, nor do we intend to hurt Sakura."
„They want Naruto!" Hinata interrupted him. „Don't let them get him!"
I was trying to concentrate and get through to the heart of the message. Sakura was taken prisoner, yet not by Akatsuki, but by Sasuke, and I thought it unlikely that he would hurt her, so I did not worry too much. Secretly I assumed that she was happy to be with him: finally she had found him – our search was over.
„Be comforted", I said to Hinata. „We won't give Naruto over. We will find a way to get Sakura back."
„There seem to be some misunderstandings", the stranger said.
„There are no misunderstandings! Suddenly they were all around us and then they said that they wanted Naruto..."
„And you did not notice them in time and did not manage to break free?"
If Sasuke had become as strong as they had told me when they had returned from their mission to Orochimaru, it might have been difficult to break free, I admitted to myself.
„It was not as she says", the stranger tried to interrupt her again.
Slowly I managed to find out what had happened.