Summary: Neji, Sasuke, and Naruto have been slaves ever since they can remember. They live in a slave house in China and are beaten, starved and abused daily, as well as being forbidden to speak under any circumstance.
Sakura, Tenten, and Hinata are three best friends who live in Japan. During a trip to China, they get lost and, through unexpected twists and turns, wind up at the slave house. After witnessing the terrible mistreatment of the boys, the girls do the only thing they can to rescue the boys from the terrible place in which they have been forced to live; they buy them!
But have the boys been slaves for too long, or is there still a chance that the girls might be able to unlock their hearts, and their voices?
"Wow! That palace was absolutely magnificent!" A sixteen-year-old girl with dark brown eyes and chocolate colored hair tied up into twin buns exclaimed.
"Wasn't it? The Chinese style of Architecture is stunning!" A second girl about the same age with pink hair and jade colored eyes responded enthusiastically.
The other member of the trio, a petite, sixteen-year-old with chin length, sapphire colored hair and unusual whitish eyes, nodded and said, "It certainly was beautiful."
The three girls were best friends from Japan by the name of Tenten, Sakura, and Hinata. They were on weeklong sightseeing trip to China.
"Sakura, I'm starved." Tenten complained.
As the only one of the trio ever to have previously visited China, Sakura had become the groups' unofficial guide. "Okay follow me, I know a great little restaurant."
The other two turned and followed her' down the street, laughing and talking all the way…
(Meanwhile, in a large, gray building, located in a poor section of town, several blocks away…)
A boy grunted in pain as the guard's solid fist struck him square in the stomach. He had blond hair, blue eyes, and whisker marks on his' cheeks. Before he even had enough time to blink another fist crashed into his head sending him sprawling. His' chains clanked as he hit the floor.
Not two feet away another boy was being beaten over the head with a metal pipe by a second guard. He was the absolute opposite of the first boy in the looks department. Spiky, raven hair, pale skin, and onyx eyes made for a completely different appearance.
Another guard held a third boy by his long black hair. The boy's lavender eyes squeezed shut in pain as the guard's knife slashed him, first across one shoulder blade, and then across the other.
The three boys were slaves. They had been for as long as they could remember. Many years of abusive treatment and torture had broken them. Day after day, they toiled, completing their chores with exactness and meticulously obeying orders without question. Yet day after day they were continually ill treated and abused.
The guards had been beating them for the last three and a half hours. By now the boys were barely able to move, much less defend themselves, still the guards did not relent.
Throughout all the torment the boys never so much as uttered a single word, knowing that even the slightest noise would only serve as yet another excuse for the guards to inflict severe punishments on them.
Suddenly the door clanged open and the boys fell limply to the cold cement floor as the guards dropped them and stood at attention.
Two people stepped inside the room. The first was a teenage boy with white hair and glasses. A tall man with long, black hair, yellow eyes, and a face as pale as a dead mans followed him.
"Good day Lord Orochimaru." One of the guards greeted the second man.
Orochimaru gave a barely visible nod. He walked over to the slaves who lay, unmoving, on the ground, watching him tensely.
The man's face twisted into a malicious smile. "Have these three been acting difficult captain?" He asked the head guard.
"Not especially sir." The captain replied.
Orochimaru's eyes narrowed as his' smile grew. "Goooood…" He purred. He looked the boys over calculatingly, then ordered, "Give them seventy-five lashes each and return them to their' cells." He walked up and delivered a hard kick into the onyx-eyed boy's side.
The boy grunted in pain but did not cry out. He knew, as did the others, that the more you allowed the pain to show, the more you were made to suffer.
The guard nodded. "It shall be done as you have commanded my' lord."
Orochimaru nodded and left the room motioning for the white haired boy to follow.
"Sakura, I thought you said that this restaurant was only a few minutes walk from the palace we visited." Tenten said. "We've been walking for over a half hour and we're still not there." She shivered slightly. "Besides, this doesn't strike me as the type of place you'd find a high class restaurant."
Hinata nodded. "Yes, this place is kind of… creepy."
Sakura shook her' head in confusion. "I don't get it." She muttered. "I'm sure that it was this way, and yet I don't recall this area at all!"
"Well, we need to be getting back so I guess we can just eat at restaurant in the hotel." Tenten said.
Sakura glanced about rather nervously. "Yeah…uh… do either of you, by any chance remember the way we came to get here?"
"What?!" Tenten exclaimed. "Don't tell me you don't know the way out of here!"
"Umm… okay, I won't tell you." Sakura replied.
Hinata's eyes grew wide.
"Great!" Tenten exclaimed. "We're lost! And in what appears to be the worst area in the entire country of China!"
Hinata bit her' lip nervously. "Oh… I'm sure we'll be able to figure out the way back." She said.
Sakura sighed, and Tenten just shook her' head. "Well, maybe if we found a decent looking place, we could knock on the door and ask for directions back to the main square."
Tenten glanced around. "That would be a good idea except that I'm not seeing anything that looks even remotely decent."
"Uh… you guys… what about that building over there?" Hinata pointed to a large gray building down the street.
Tenten cocked her' head to the side. "Well, I've seen better places that's for certain!"
Sakura shook her' head again. "I don't like the looks of that place."
Tenten rolled her' eyes. "Come on! Don't tell me you're scared! You got us into this mess and now you are going to have to buck up and help us get out!" She grabbed Sakura by the arm. "Let's go!" Then Tenten proceeded to drag Sakura towards the building followed closely by a timid Hinata.