Chapter 2: Her cries
Sakura woke up because of the hard surface that was grinding on her back. She slowly managed to open her eyes despite the refusal she got from her heavy eye lids. She looked around the room she was in but could barely see anything due to the darkness that surrounded her. The only light came from the candle that was lit in the wall across from her room. But she quickly sat up as she realized her room was actually a cell.
The head rush she experienced with her quick action was mind numbing. She blinked a few times finally remembering what had happened.
She was just returning from the sand village after treating a patient with a highly dangerous poison in his system. She was almost out of chakra which is why they had captured her so easily.
She now regretted refusing Gaara's offer to giver her a room for the night.
She knew that this was Orochimaru's hideout because Kabuto had been the one who attacked her in the forest. What she wasn't sure of, however, was whether Sasuke still resided here and she couldn't figure out what she wanted the answer to that question is. She didn't have time to ponder the thought for very long before a shadow stood in front of the candle forcing her to look at the shadow.
She couldn't see the face of the stranger that had interrupted her complicated train of thought because they were covering the light. But to her utter horror, she managed to make out the body outline of the person.
She gulped seeing the massive person outside her cell. He was at least 5 times her size. His muscles bulged at his sides and Sakura swallowed again to wet her dry throat. She stared in disbelief as the shadow moved to unlock her cell and she watched in horror when he entered her cell as each step he took sent a thud on the ground and Sakura could've sworn the ground moved under his step. He entered the cell and locked it behind him and Sakura knew this wasn't going to end well.
She contemplated what she could do to defend herself against him if need be and she was sure need will be. But there was nothing she could do. She had no weapons and she barely has any chakra to throw in a couple of her signature punches and she was still hazy from whatever the hell it was that Kabuto had injected into her system.
Sasuke shot up from his, well needed sleep due to the deafening high pitched scream that shook the very ground his bed stood on. It didn't take his long though to figure out who the voice belonged to.
'I should've known he would use someone else for the job.' he thought throwing the covers from his body and sitting up on his bed with his feet firmly on the ground.
It wasn't long before he heard another earsplitting scream and he grasped his bed sheets on either side of him, gripping it tightly to prevent himself from storming in there and butchering whoever is making her scream.
As her piercing third scream echoed throughout the hideout he stood up and threw his bed across the room making it hit the wall opposite him, hoping at least for a brief moment her scream will be overshadowed by the noise of his bed breaking into pieces.
It didn't, as he soon came to realize.
He fell in his knees unable to hold on to the weight of his body any longer and completely unused to the rapid beating of his heart as it pounded against his chest. He closed his eyes shut as tightly as he possibly could and covered his ears with his hands hoping it would stop, hoping they would stop torturing her because it was torturing him.
Her screams didn't stop, not for even a second.
It continued for another couple of minutes and he could tell she was getting weaker as her voice wavered with each passing scream.
He snapped his eyes open suddenly and stood up without being able to think about what he was going to do. As her screams continued he began to run. Even though he was getting farther and farther away from her painful screams, he still heard it. He ran and ran until he stood in front of Orochimaru's big metal doors.
He stopped in front on the door trying to collect himself although he was having a uncharacteristically hard time doing it. But her next scream made him push the heavy doors open and stare at the surprised face of his master.
"I will do it." Sasuke said breathing heavily yet trying to not make it obvious to Orochiamru that he is in a hurry, though he was sure he wasn't doing a very good job of it.
"Oh that's quiet alright Sasuke-kun," Orochimaru said smiling. "As you can...hear, I have already gotten someone for the job."He finished waving his hands around gesturing for her screams.
Sasuke gritted his teeth both out of anger and also holding back his tongue from saying something he really shouldn't.
"You know I can get the information faster than anyone else could." Sasuke said clenching his fists together hoping for this to end soon so he could go get her, so her screams would finally stop.
Sasuke held his stare at Orochimaru making sure his eyes didn't betray him.
"Ah...Osoroshi won't be too happy about this." Orochimaru said sighing in disappointment loudly, although Sasuke saw the slight smirk playing in his master's lips . " Most likely, he didn't use his most effective technique on her. He usually leaves that for the last. And he was so happy too about her being such a pretty little thing. He was happiest when I told him she may be a virgin." Orochimaru said looking at Sasuke from under his eyes.
Sasuke's eyes widened an impossible amount for a brief moment and his heart dropped to his stomach, he was sure he would fall to his knees again but he stood on his shaking feet nonetheless, determined to not show any weakness in front of Orochimaru.
"But...since you insist..." Orochimaru began but Sasuke has already received the answer he needed from the sannin, so he immediately swirled around and walked out the door and closed the it behind him calmly.
As soon as the door clicked shut, his feet began to move in the direction of her continuing screams that has yet to stop. He ran at a speed he did not think was humanly possible wanting to reach her as fast as he can.
The large shadow whose face remained a mystery to Sakura's veridian eyes dropped her to the ground again earning another blood curdling scream from her dry throat.
She knew she was going to die. It would be a long and painful death but she would die eventually became she wasn't about to give them any information she had on either Tsunade or the village. So her mind wondered to the one thing she craved for on her moment of death...
'Sasuke...please.' she thought as the image of a young Sasuke Uchiha appeared in her mind.
"Sas...ke..." she managed to whimper closing her eyes for the next blow that was coming her way.
Tears rolled down her eyes and she felt the darkness already taking over her senses.
But the awaited blow didn't reach her. Except she heard a loud crash. She wanted to open her eyes and see if she actually was dead, but she was so tired. She was dying, Sakura was sure of it.
"Sa...su...ke" she whimpered again knowing she was dying, knowing she will never see him again. She managed to open her eyes slightly as cold hands wrapped themselves around her body broken body.
As if her words had come to life, she saw him. She saw Sasuke, his dark hair, his dark eyes and his dark self. She saw Sasuke's face, that when she knew...she had definitely died.
I wanted to let you guys know that when Sasuke said 5 years in the last chapter, he meant since he last saw her. So he saw her in shippuden when they were 15 years old and then he saw her here 5 years after that. So they are 19-20 years old. Alright! That's it. Bye. Have a great day you guys :D
