Fluffystwin: Hey everybody, here's chapter 2 of Request. I told Danax I'd get it up sometime today and I have achieved this goal! Yay! I hope you all like chapter two!
Sakura bit her lip and looked at the ground, she wasn't allowed to tell him, "Please Kakashi, just don't follow me."
"I'm going to follow you no matter how far you run! I am not losing anyone else!"
Sakura's lip quivered as she looked at him. She could see the emotions in his eyes, her heart clenched tightly. She recognized those emotions, the idea of leaving him made her sick to her stomach. She could never willingly leave him but she had to, she needed to save her shishou. She spun around on her heel to leave him tied to the tree.
"You can't leave me! You're the only person I have left!" he yelled at her. Sakura squeezed her eyes shut tightly to refrain from letting the tears create trails down her cheeks. "I will never forgive you." Sakura spun around and pointed a finger at him.
"You cannot do this to my already fragile heart Kakashi. I have to do this, please forgive me," she placed a hand on his clothed cheek. Her lips tugged upwards in to a weak smile as her body leaned forward. Kakashi wished she had pulled his mask down as she placed a warm kiss across his clothed lips. How he utterly detested the mask now. Sakura gave him a watery eyed smile before spinning around and launching herself in to the treetops. She had to stop herself from turning back around when he screamed her name. She clenched her fist and set her determined eyes on the path ahead of her. She would fulfill this mission and come back to him in one piece.
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Her weak fingers brushed across the cool surface of the water the stand owner sat in front of her. He gave her a smile and turned back to the rest of his customers. She couldn't even manage a smile as she slowly sipped the water, willing the ache in her parched throat to die down. It had taken another day to track down exactly where the hideout for this organization was. Another day of grueling travel in a forest while evading the howls of Kakashi's ninken. A day of ducking in to random houses to listen for information pertaining to this organization. From what she had gathered it was more of an elaborate crime syndicate than anything else. The villagers she had slyly asked refused to talk about the people behind the scenes. Sakura cursed as she set the now empty glass on the table, she was getting no where. This was becoming more of a pain than she had bargained for. She needed to get in to the inner workings of the group now, her shishou's time was still counting down. Her eyes widened as she felt the familiar sharp point of a kunai be pressed in to her lower back.
"Well looks like we found our little chicky-la-la that's been asking about us. Follow us, and don't make a scene or we will finish it for you."
Sakura smiled at the owner and thanked him for the water as she slid off the stool. She glanced at the owner to see him trying not to look at whoever was behind her. She didn't know who had her but she knew this would be her only chance at getting in. How the hell they had managed to sneak up behind her she would never understand. A woman with long blue hair swept up in to a high ponytail shoved past her. Sakura recognized the hang signal the woman flashed before crossing the street with Sakura and whoever was forcing her forward. The blue hair was familiar to Sakura, she had seen it before. She began going through every ninja that was in the bingo book, it didn't take her long to remember the hair. The woman turning to look at her helped to. Sakura gulped, she was in deep now. What she assumed were Two S-Class missing nin were escorting her to a situation she now had to reevalutate. The kunai from her back vanished as a blond haired beauty stepped around her to pull out a set of keys to an immaculate looking two story house. The blue haired once shoved her inside as soon as the door opened. The women closed the door behind her and watched as the blonde opened a hatch in the floor.
"In you go princess."
Sakura followed the two women down in to a stone tunnel, with the hatch slamming shut above her. She was beginning to not like her odds at escaping with Tsunade and Shizune now. The two women were apparently not worried about her fleeing as they walked side by side ahead of her. It gave Sakura the opportunity to study the two better. The blue haired beauty was a couple of inches taller than the blond; her gait was one of pure confidence. There was no hesitation in her steps, Sakura could see this woman was entirely comfortable in her own skin and had no issues with throwing her weight around to intimidate. The blonde was a different story; she had a more elegant appearance and appeared to have more restraint than her partner. Sakura snapped her gaze away from the two women as they reached the end of the hall. They opened the double doors and Sakura had to refrain from taking a step back. Apparently she had to meet the man she would soon have to trick now. She grimaced as she took in his appearance, he wasn't what she was expecting at all. He was tall, probably not that much taller than the blue haired beauty, and appeared to have been doing heavy labor most of his life. His skin was tanned and weathered looking with bulk showing through his thin clothes. Sakura began calculating different ways to end this man's life. Every scenario she was coming up with was not turning out very well especially when she added in the two women behind her.
"Well if it isn't the most famous pink haired medic," the man said with a chuckle. "What brings you to my neck of the woods?"
Sakura narrowed her eyes as her fingers twitched, begging to wrap around the man's thick neck. "What does it matter to you?"
The man chuckled at her act, "We could have use of you here but only if you tell me why you are here."
Sakura smirked, "I was told that I had to be married off to someone I didn't want to be so as to secure a political alliance. My skills are not of the domestic sort, as I'm sure you already know Mr?"
"You can call me Keiho, I'm your new boss. Rei, Zeherah, take her to one of the available rooms we have. Make sure she's welcome, I'll stop by and collect you at dinner time my lovely." Sakura tried not to stick her tongue out in disgust at his tone. The blue haired beauty, Rei, roughly grabbed Sakura's elbow and wheeled her around to take her down a side hallway. Sakura counted the steps from one hallway to another. She wanted to be able to find her way out, though she probably would have issues with that with as many guards as there were posted around the place. All the guards were male, muscular and had little to no apparent chakra abilities. She knew that the two strongest people standing in her way were her personal guards. She cursed her luck, of course they would assign the toughest most badass bitches to her. Rei pulled a set of keys out from her back pocket and slipped the key in to a heavy wooden door off to the side of the hall. She walked in and held the door open for the two. Sakura stepped inside and eyed the two women. Shock went through her as Zeherah quickly closed and locked the door and Rei tossed the keys on the bed. Rei pointed a finger at the opposing wall where a window sat at the top of the wall. The window was barely big enough for sunlight to filter through at the right angle. Sakura spent ten minutes watching them carefully sweep the room, looking for anything that might give them away. Zeherah nodded, her blonde curls bouncing across her cheeks. Rei sighed and turned back to Sakura.
"You're here to save them correct?" she bluntly asked in a hushed tone.
"Who are you exactly?" Sakura asked as she looked between the two women.
"Right now your only hope of escaping this place if you are here to rescue them."
Sakura nodded, "Why does he have them?"
Zeherah shrugged, "We don't know, he doesn't tell us these things. We are only hired shinobi, we aren't involved in the politics of his organization. The major question is do you have reinforcements coming for you?"
Sakura shook her head as her eyes closed, trying to fight away the tears that threatened to fall. "No, this is an off the books mission."
Rei rolled her eyes and Zeherah chuckled at the ignorant pink haired beauty, "How many hunter-nin to you have tracking you?"
Sakura's eyes widened as the question sank in, "You've got to be shitting me," Sakura let out a laugh as she smirked, "I have three following after me. Three of the best in the village."
"Good, you'll need them," Rei said as she walked across the room back towards the door to listen for people.
Zeherah smiled at her, "We can help you get your friends out of here and hold of Keiho's men for as long as we can. How far behind you are they?"
Sakura bit her lip as she mentally calculated the distance, "Maybe a day."
Rei nodded, "Good, they're moving fast enough that we can strike by tonight. Keiho intends to take you to your friends and have you heal them tonight. We will be in the room as well. While we take care of Keiho and his men you will have to heal them enough so that way they can at least walk as fast as they can away from here. We can help you leave, but we would prefer not to. We are missing-nin and would like to stay that way, I'm not very fond of the idea of rotting in a cell in the basement of the ANBU headquarters. Sorry, but at the first sight of your team, we are gone."
"Where are you guys from? I'm well respected and I'm the Hokage's best friend, I can make sure you won't be arrested," Sakura urged.
Zeherah smiled and patted her shoulder, "You're still naïve, we have committed more crimes in our lives than the records can keep straight. We would like to stay hidden if you don't mind."
Rei leaned away from the door, "We need to go there's another guard coming down the hall." Zeherah tossed her the keys and headed towards the door. "We will come back at dinner with food for you and finish laying out the plan. Don't try anything stupid at the moment. Just wait for us," Rei said harshly before she slipped out the door. Zeherah gave a curt nod before slipping out the door as well. Sakura flinched when the door slammed shut and the lock click in to place. She sighed heavily and plopped on the mattress behind her. She leaned forward on her knees and put her head in her hands, this was going to be a bigger pain in the ass than she originally thought.
Kakashi let his right leg dangle off the large branch they had stopped to rest on as he continued to flip through the well worn black book he had in his hands. He knew something was off about this entire thing, it didn't sit well with him. Sakura fleeing would never happen, he knew her too well. He tensed as he sensed another presence nearby but relaxed when Neji landed on the branch in front of him. Neji pushed his mask up to look at his team leader. He quirked an eyebrow as he saw the black book open on Kakashi's knee. Shikamaru landed on the branch next to him, without making a sound.
"Kakashi, we've been able to find out some information," he said calmly.
Neji nodded in agreement, "Apparently Sakura has been in the village, a vendor remembered her pink hair."
"The only problem is that two women came and promptly took her away. The vendor was rather reluctant to tell us anything besides a basic description of them. One was a curly blonde with chocolate brown eyes and the other was a blue haired woman with sharp blue eyes and a scar going down the right side of her neck," Shikamaru said finally as he sat down on the branch. He was itching for a cigarette but knew he shouldn't.
Kakashi didn't acknowledge the comment as he began to flip towards the back of the book. He knew the woman with blue haired but was desperately hoping that it wasn't who he thought it was. He cursed his luck when he came up to the updated picture of her. A large angry looking scar ran down the right side of her tanned neck, beginning by her ear and continuing to her collar bone. He held the book up as both the women were side by side in the book. Neji crossed his legs as he sat down across from Kakashi. His long fingers grasped the book and pulled it closer to look at the images. There was very little data about the women to help them. Shikamaru looked at their leader and could see the wheels cranking beneath the silver hair.
"Is there something we should know about them?"
"Rei Narimuko and Zeherah Narino are two S-Class missing-nin from Kumogakure. I've run across Rei once before, we ended our fight in a draw. Her partner I don't know much about. She came to get Rei during our fight but didn't fight me. She probably thought I was too weak to fight anymore. Those two are a powerful duo from what I've heard, they've been able to amass quite a fortune from off the books missions. Are they the hired guns this time around?"
"Yes, they work for a man named Keiho who is the leader of a crime syndicate based in the village. His reach stretches from Konoha to Ame, but it appears as if he is too confident in his abilities as those two women as his only suitable defense," Neji stated.
"Don't underestimate these women Neji, they can make this even more difficult for us. Now why does this Keiho guy have Sakura?"
Sakura grasped the kunai underneath the plush pillow as she heard voices outside the room. Her body tensed as a key slid in to the lock. Her posture relaxed as blue hair was the first thing she saw, but she didn't release the kunai in her hand. She may be willing to work with them but that didn't mean she trusted them. Rei and Zeherah promptly entered the room and slammed it shut behind them. Zeherah stood near the door as Rei lifted her shirt to adjust a ninjato strapped to her back. Sakura sat up and slipped the kunai back in to it's pouch.
"What's going on?" she asked.
Rei sent Sakura a scathing look, "Your team wasn't stealthy enough. Keiho knows and it summoning you know to heal your friends so he can move them. You better pray to whatever gods you worship for your friends to get here fast, or you won't be able to escape."
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Fluffystwin: And yes I left it at a cliffhanger, everyone can handle the suspense for a little bit longer. So what is everybody's thoughts on it?
