Chapter 1: Power
I do not own Naruto.
Sakura P.O.V.
It was suffocating.
The darkness engulfed my every being, day and night. This cell corrupted my goodness and left nothing. Alone, surrounded by four walls was not where I expected to be at this very moment, but that was the price I paid for being on the right side.
She was dead.
He told me when they first brought me to this place. Lord Danzo himself approached me.
"Tsunade is dead. I am the Hokage and you will obey me or I will wipe your existence from this earth."
I refused, and he beat me and left. I suppose by 'wiping my existence' he would have listed me as dead, after the attack.
He had to be lying. Shishou would never go down without a fight. She wouldn't let her people be controlled by a mad man. She wouldn't die.
Control, that was how he did it. A coup could never have succeeded without control and precision at the right time. It happened over two weeks ago. Well, from what I can say, it was two weeks ago. With no natural lighting it's hard to keep track of time. I was reporting back from a mission to Tsunade at the time when the explosions happened. There was a bang, and the top floor of the tower exploded. I was stunned by the blast and incapacitated by ROOT. I didn't see what happened to Shishou, there was too much debris.
'I hope no one died.'
Ah, the voice. Two weeks in a solitary cell with no human contact and all I here is a voice inside my head. A voice that's help was no longer needed. Inner Sakura died years ago. At least I thought she disappeared from my mind, years ago.
'You should be more appreciative. You'd be insane by now if it wasn't for me.'
"I'd rather be insane than have to listen to you constantly."
'Aw, that's harsh. You being emotionless is one thing but having to listen to you brood and do nothing about your situation is aggravating.'
"How do you suppose I get out of my situation then?"
Silence was the only response. I suppose it really was all in my head. I could barely move as it was, let alone stand. There was no way I was getting out of here. I wasn't fed enough to keep my energy up and I was locked in a cell meant to drain chakra. So attacking was out of the question. And the door only opened when I was fed or if I was going to be dragged to an interrogation room.
Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap.
Someone was approaching my cell. Light steps meaning a trained ninja. Probably a ROOT agent.
Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Fwmp.
They stopped right outside my cell. I could hear whoever it was fiddling with the lock. As far as I know, these types of cells were nothing to mess with, they were almost impossible to break out of. Chakra circulated throughout the walls at a constant flow and sucked out anything with chakra near it. It was the perfect prison for a shinobi. And I had already failed at escaping.
The door made a clunking sound and creaked open. The light poured in, blinding me in the process. As my eyes adjusted a voice spoke.
"Get up, kunoichi," said the silhouette standing in the door way.
'Are you kidding me? What an ass. Maybe he should come in here and make us!'
"I can't. My body is too weak to support itself," I replied in a raspy dehydrated voice, a plan formulating in my head from Inner's words.
"Fine," said the ROOT agent. He walked toward me and bent down to; well I suppose his plan was to carry me.
As he reached down, I prepared my attack and paralysed him from the neck down. Oh medical knowledge, I owe you so much. I leaned over him and opened his tool pouch. I found what I was searching for.
'Of course they carry soldier pills. Robots need some type of fuel to keep operating.'
I swallowed one of the pills and pocketed the rest. After a minute I felt my strength return. This cell was still draining my chakra however.
I stood up and dragged the ROOT agents' paralysed body from the room. Outside my cell was a dim lit hall, lined with more cells like mine. I leaned the man's body against the cold stone wall.
I bent down and asked, "What were you retrieving me for? Interrogation?"
He just stared at me with a blank expression. It was useless to ask initially. ROOT is trained to not divulge secrets.
'Throw him in your cell and see how he feels.'
That wasn't a bad idea, and it might give me a head a start on escaping. So I threw his stiff body into the cell and closed the door.
I made my way down the dark hall and came to set of stairs leading up. Listening to make sure there weren't any more guards, I crept up the stairs. When I reached the top, it appeared that I had reached the base of the prison.
With my chakra slowing returning, I could sense there were no other guards around, which was odd. Usually you would think there would be more than one on patrol.
'Something's up Sakura be on the alert.'
I noticed a steel door across the room, and ran towards it. Grabbing the handle I slowly twisted the knob, and pushed open the door. On the other side there was another hall filled with prison cells, but at the end another door. Again, no guards.
'Why aren't there any other prisoners? We can't be the only one…'
It was extremely odd, I couldn't sense anyone else in the building and I was getting more worried by the minute.
I ran down the next hall and quickly opened the metal door. My vision filled with white light and it took me a few moments to adjust to the brightness and take in my surroundings.
Forest, trees, road, cliff. I was at the Leaf's North Prison. Not surprising considering it was the only prison that could hold someone of my strength.
'Don't be egotistical and do you hear that Sakura? It sounds like people.'
The sound my mind seemed to have heard was coming from below the cliff. I ran to the edge and bent down to get a better look.
"Oh Kami…" I said to myself.
At the bottom of the cliff, a mass of people were gathered. It could nearly be half the village's population. They were all gathered around a platform shouting angrily or cheering at the person standing on it.
As I narrowed my vision I saw the culprit, in the middle of the ruckus. Danzo, the bastard, what on earth are you up to?
A pile of bodies lay behind the platform and blood splattered the flooring. It suddenly all made sense. Why there was only one guard at the prison, and why there were no prisoners in their cells.
'Holy shit, Danzo's executing prisoners!'
And I was supposed to be next.
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