Live For Life
' I've been roaming around always looking down at all I see
Painted faces fill the places I can't reach.'- Kings of Leon
Her face met with the cold stone floor, making her wince in pain from an earlier attack that was located on her slender neck. Immediately she fluttered her eyes open, absorbing the surroundings—noticing that few candles dimly lit the small damp room—which was surprising to her, she thought she was going to open her eyes to complete darkness. There was a faint dripping noise coming from the darkest corner of the room which started to grate on her nerves, it wasn't a constant drip thankfully, but seeing as she's in a dark room with only herself in it, it's hard not to notice.
She snapped her head up when a piercing scream was heard next door. "Where the fuck am I?" she hissed to herself.
The screaming continued—to her discomfort—till she heard a faint thump. 'Dead' she thought grimly.
Sakura nervously rubbed her aching neck when she thought about what those monsters were doing to the defenceless people. Well pacifically what those monsters would do to her or her boy, if they ever get a hold of them.
'Satoshi!'
The ex-kunoichi stumbled to her feet and ran for the door, but she was only able to run a couple of metres before mind-blowing pain erupted from her chest, forcing her to her knees as she clutched her chest in agony. Her emerald eyes widened and darted to the corner of the room, when a sadistic chuckle came from the darkness.
She bit her lip in order to suppress the scream that was aching at the back of her throat. The man chuckled again and emerged out of the shadows, making her slowly back away to the far wall when she recognised who it was.
"Why, Sakura-chan, you're in sound of course."
'Orochimaru!'
Her body froze when he said her name, he actually remembers her? Or did he have to google someone with pink hair and green eyes?
She did not know.
"H-How did you know my name?" she convinced herself that she stuttered because of the cold and not that she was scared shitless of this man. Her answer was met with another sinister chuckle.
Green eyes slammed shut when his tongue darted out of his mouth to slightly stoke her smooth skin. She cringed at the sensation and felt utterly disgusted by it. The man was as old as Tsunade-shisou, maybe even older than the great Hokage, this freaked her out immensely, now even though Sakura had her own child she still had a virgin mind and him doing this made her squirm at his vulgarity.
"How could I forget the final member of team 7 hmm?" he finally returned his tongue into his own mouth and came close to her. "It seems that you're the only normal one in the group."
She inwardly seethed at the insult.
His laugh echoed the walls when her eyes flickered in anger when he grabbed her chin, his cold hands roughly lifted her head so that his snake-like orbs locked onto her innocent ones. The temperature felt like it dropped a couple of degrees when their eyes met, complete opposites staring back at each other and this thought alone amused him to no end.
She was the first one to look away—eyes wondering to the floor—her next question made her insides turn in a mixture of fear and pure curiosity, their close proximity made her breath slightly fan his face as she whispered.
"Why am I here? Where is the boy I was taking care of?"
The answer of the latter question was the one she was desperately trying to find out.
"No need to worry, the boy is in safe hands," the snake man's smirk slightly made the statement less believable "But, you on the other hand, may not be so safe." He paused to look at her. "You seek freedom, do you not?"
Her silence gave him the answer, his hand left her chin.
"Then join my family Haruno."
Her answer was immediate. "I will never betray Konoha!" she spat aggressively.
The sound leader shook his head and smirked, making his way to the steel door. His back faced her when he called out to her. "I knew you were going to say that, how about I give you some time to think about it? For now I will leave you a parting gift, which I'm sure, will sway your decision."
Orochimaru exited the room and as soon as the door slammed shut, pain exploded in her chest for the second time that day. She bit her lip so hard that it split open, pain shot through her veins when the constricting sensation increased ten fold, her eyes watered, on the verge of crying. She slumped to the floor, shaking, clutching her chest, pleading for the pain to go away.
After only a minute of torture she cried, loud sobs escaping her lips, tears pouring out of her eyes, making the cut on her lip sting. Another wave of pain rattled her system, it was like it was simulating a heart attack over and over again, but this time it was turned to its highest notch, and she finally couldn't hold it in anymore.
A blood curdling scream erupted from her lips.
Team Hebi's actions stopped immediately—except for Satoshi who was gingerly playing with Sasuke's katana, awed by the weapon—Karin was the first one to speak up, startling the others at the sound of someone breaking the silence.
"Who the hell was that?" She was astonished that someone could scream that loud.
Suigetsu eyed the red head at her stupidity. "Isn't it obvious? It's a prisoner, dummy."
Karin glared at the shark man and used her index finger to push her glasses to the bridge of her nose. "I know that! If you actually listened I was asking who—"
Juugo quietly interrupted her. "It was the girl we captured earlier."
All members looked at him silently—even Sasuke. Their eyes asking him the same question.
How did you know that?
A small bird perched onto his large shoulder, fluttering its wings to steady itself. Juugo gently petted the small creature with a small smile and spoke to the group. "The animals tell me everything."
Satoshi looked at Juugo in amazement and grinned, no, more like beamed up at the large man, clapping his hands—which gained the groups attention—and pointed at the pretty bird. His bangs got in the way of his sight, so he puffed his cheeks and blew them away from his dark orbs, which involuntary made Karin melt to the floor with his cuteness.
The little man drew his eyebrows together in worry for the lady, so he carefully waddled towards her, avoiding the many legs that got in his way and clumsily stood infront of her, he gently cupped her face in his tiny hands and made a loud noise in his throat, as if he were asking if she was okay.
Suigetsu blinked in bewilderment at the kid and reassured him. "Hey little man, she's gonna be okay, she always does these kind of things." Satoshi glanced at Suigetsu with big eyes and grinned in relief; he removed his hands from Karin and made his way to back Sasuke's shiny katana.
Unfortunately he didn't make it very far, because slim arms wrapped round his small body, pulling him in to a moderately big chest. He made a small noise of protest when he was finding it hard to breathe when Karin bear hugged him.
"He is just so adorable!" she squealed in excitement.
Tears prickled the small boy's eyes when hardly any air was reaching his lungs, he now made a big protest and tried to squirm away from her, thankfully a voice stopped her actions.
"Karin, release him, he can't breathe." Sasuke ordered.
"Oops, sorry Sasuke-kun." She let go of him as he blinked his tears away, thankful that he could breathe again.
Once he regained his composure he turned around to face Sasuke, who was looking sceptically at him. The small man beamed up at him—which made the Uchiha raise a fine eyebrow—and waddled towards him, smiling appreciatively.
"A-awigatou." Satoshi said, looking up at Sasuke because he was sitting on a big chair.
Karin melted to the floor again when she heard the way he spoke.
To seal the deal he reached into his minute pocket and picked out a perfectly wrapped truffle, extending his arm so that Sasuke could accept the small gift. The sharingan wielder eyed the truffle warily and looked at the child, not wanting to upset the boy he accepted and stuck his arm out to take the gift.
"Arigatou." He grunted.
Satoshi grinned widely and attempted to climb on Sasuke's lap, which failed miserably because of how small he was. Tears threatened to fall when he made a noise of frustration, why is he so small? It's not fair! He tried to lift his leg to find the grove of the chair so he could climb up, but it was no use.
The Uchiha rolled his eyes at the boy's feeble attempts and mumbled "Come 'ere" he grabbed Satoshi and lifted him onto his lap, making him smile with glee. The child's raven hair flopped infront of his eyes again so he puffed out his cheeks to blow the annoying hair out of his sight; he looked at Sasuke and sent him a cat-like grin, showing him that he was okay.
He got himself comfortable and nuzzled his face into Sasuke's chest; his small hands gripped his shirt and yawned sleepily, dark green eyes drooping till they finally closed. His even breathing signalled that he was asleep.
And the rest of team Hebi could only look on, with mouths agape.
Her heavy breathing was the only noise coming from her cell, the pain subsided and her brain screamed for rest, her muscles and joints locking painfully. She rolled over slowly to face the door and blew her pink tresses away from her glowing green orbs, her teeth gritted in annoyance at how weak she looked at this moment.
She couldn't even move properly and her chakra was next to nothing.
However she wasn't one to give up and the chakra she had at the moment was enough to get rid of what's fucking up her system. The pain always emerges from her chest so she guessed that her best bet was to start on her chest. She closed her eyes to focus her chakra to her chest area and the muscle and tissue around it, her eyes opened when she gave a vague idea on what the problem was.
A chakra based poison.
She now wished that Shizune was here, the poison expert would have been a great help to her in ridding this monstrosity. Sakura was no expert in poisons but she knew that she'd need an antidote to get rid of it, she guessed that the chakra that was mixed with the poison was some kind of activation device that could turn on and off the effects of it like a button.
Right now she could get rid of the foreign chakra so that the poison would become less harmful to her. She'd deal with the poison later.
Green chakra was pumped into Sakura's muscles so that she could sit up carefully; she placed a slightly shaken hand to her chest and located all the abnormal chakra. Her eyes squeezed shut as pain soared through her body as she took the evil essence out of her system.
As the last of it was removed, she sunk to floor, her chakra now down to zero. Her eyes settled to the steel door that seemed to be her only escape of this hell hole, she dully noted that the dripping noise came back, making her roll her eyes in annoyance. But right now all she wanted to do was rest, so ignoring the dripping sound, she let her eyes close before she was engulfed in darkness.
Her next mission, to see her boy.
end of chap 2, hope y'all liked it. The update for this story will be slow because my laptop is not fixed, so I will have to be using library computers and my sisters laptop till early February till I get a new one T^T
This effects my other stories aswell :(
Read and review please :)