Captured!
Naruto wakes up to find himself missing! He's been captured by the Akatsuki, and from the look of it, so has Gaara! What they do to escape?
Timeline: I didn't know if it would be better to put this in Shippuden or not but the way I pictured it works better post-Shippuden, so this is set about eight months after the Chuunin Exams.
Disclaimer: If I owned, Sasuke would be un-evil and hotter, does Sasuke look un-evil and hotter? No, no he doesn't, so I do not own.
Naruto groggily opened his eyes, he felt pain in the back of his head, what the hell had happened?
He had been training…and attacked…there were too many of them…now where was he?
Naruto couldn't see anything, it was too dark, but he was pretty sure he was in a cavern of some sort.
The room he was in was very small, and he tried to work up his chakra, but something was preventing him from charging it.
He growled in irritation, deciding instead to throw himself at the walls, trying to break free.
He cut his chin on a sharp rock in the attempt and punched the wall, but it wouldn't break.
"Don't bother, I already tried that." Came a voice behind him.
Naruto turned and blinked several times, trying to make out the huddled figure by the corner.
His eyes adjusted to the dark and he saw shocking red hair and piercing green eyes outlined in black.
It was the guy from the Chuunin Exams, the jinchuriki from the Sand Village.
"Gaara…that you?" he asked.
The boy's glare became a little more intense.
"W…What's that look for?" Naruto asked worriedly.
"That." Gaara said pointing to the small cut on Naruto's chin. "It's driving Shukaku insane."
Naruto blinked, realising the danger he was in. He scrambled back, not wanting Gaara's demon to come out.
Gaara closed his eyes, looking in pain. Naruto had seen that look before when he tried to kill his friends.
"I can fight it. But it's difficult," he said after a while.
Naruto relaxed a little. "Where are we?" he asked.
"At the moment, the Akatsuki hideout," Gaara replied opening his eyes.
"Akatsuki? Those bastards after the jinchurikis? Argh I can't believe I let myself get caught by those jerks!" Naruto fumed.
"Calm down, I was caught too." Gaara said.
"Oh. And you're like…way stronger than me, so I guess I can't really talk can I?"
Gaara tilted his head to one slightly.
Naruto sighed and turned away from Gaara's staring. Glaring hard at the wall he wondered what the Akatsuki would do to them.
"Can't you bust us out of here?" he asked irritably.
Gaara looked away. "They took my sand," he said in a small voice.
Naruto's eyes narrowed. He knew the sand was Gaara's only means of defence and attack.
"But can't you make sand out of earth?" he asked.
"I can, but this place…whatever it is it's not earth. I think it's metal," Gaara replied.
"Huh. And there must be something blocking our chakra too," Naruto said.
"Add to that we're surrounded by water, so even if we did escape it would be pointless, I can't swim." Gaara sighed.
Naruto looked at him. "You can't swim?" he asked.
Gaara raised an invisible eyebrow at him. "I live in a desert and you expect me to be able to swim?" he asked dryly.
"Oh." Naruto laughed nervously, realising how stupid he must have sounded.
"Well what are we going to do?"
Gaara shrugged. "The same thing I've been doing I guess. We wait."
"Wait for what?"
Gaara didn't answer.
Naruto shivered.
"I don't suppose anyone would find us, even if they were looking," Naruto said thinking about his team mates and how happy they'd be without him getting in the way all the time.
"Mmm." Gaara agreed thinking of his siblings.
Naruto blew into his hands to warm them up, it was getting colder and colder the more the minutes ticked by.
Naruto wondered if they'd survive.
