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Gladiators: Chapter 1- First Impressions

The drums sounded: it was time to get up.

About 100 male gladiators all came out of their rooms, which were under the Coliseum. The rooms were small with 5 rooms with 3 men assigned to a it. There were 3 small bedrooms, a small common room and a bathroom. These rooms were under the Coliseum, meaning they were under ground to keep cool in the Italian heat and they were made from stone and mud.

Behind the Coliseum though, was where the training was held. See these men were criminals and instead of going to prison they were sent to a gladiator school where they were taught to fight and put their life on the line for people's entertainment. The training area was an enormous fenced in space with equipment to train with and plenty of space for practicing. Also in this area there was a cooking house where slave women cooked for the men they were assigned to and there was also a laundry house where they washed cloths and polished armor.

Yes these women were criminals also, punished by being sent here to work and to be assigned to men as something like courtesans; they were to be obedient to their male masters and do exactly as they say, whatever it may be.

But this is why now, the men were being called up to the center of the training area at 9 in the morning: to pick women. Some of the men had only been there for a couple of mouths and did not have women yet, and this was their time to pick.

The men walked up and grouped around the 20 or so females who were lined up shoulder to shoulder with a Roman solider behind them, holding onto a rope that ties the girl's wrists together. Every single one of these girls where criminals but carefully picked to come here: if you were pretty you came here, if not you went to prison, that simple. Even though all were pretty, almost all of these girls weren't even over 17 yet. Yeah that was pretty young for something like this.

The leading officer stood in front of the girls, "Alright, today groups 10, 16, 40, and 55 will be picking their slaves," he roared reading numbers off a paper he was holding, "Group 10 your first, then 16, 40, and last 55."

Groups 10 and 16 stepped up and each guy in the group picked a female. Then came group 40. This group consisted of Gaara, Sasuke, and Naruto. They had only been here a couple of mouths, but were all three exceptional gladiators.

Suddenly a roman solider came walking up dragging a girl behind him who was struggling a lot. "Sorry I'm late," he replied coming up and pushing her down in the ground and in the line, "gave me a little trouble, this one. Oh and there's also another one coming, we had some problems with her too."

Once the girl was kneeling on the ground the solider that had her rope, took out a whip that was hanging at his side and hit her back with it once. The girl grabbed hold of the dirt and squeezed as the tool came in contact with her back; her waist length brown hair that had gold and red highlights in it, hanging down at the sides of her head, her blonde bangs handing down too. Her beautiful hazel/green eyes were filled with anger; there was also a red scar above her left eye. Her name was Maria.

"Here we obey the higher existence: the male. Consider that a warning," the solider replied calmly. Maria ignored him.

Naruto stepped up to pick a girl. He scanned through the line of miserable and horrified-faced women that were all looking at the ground, until he came to a pink haired girl that caught his attention. She had a red ribbon in her hair and her eyes were a pretty turquoise green color.

He smiled, "That one," he replied pointing to her.

The girl looked up suddenly, with a horrified look on her face, knowing that she had been picked.

The head solider looked at his paper and read her name, "Sakura Haruno," he replied.

The solider that had a hold of her rope, stepped forward just like the others that had been picked: they would go to their assigned men later.

Suddenly another soldier appeared holding a rope with a girl attached to the ending, slowly walking behind him. He grabbed a hold of her neck tightly and pushed her into a kneeling position.

"This one tried to run away," the solider stated referring to his girl. This girl had waist length, silvery white hair and a couple long bangs that where parted and pushed to the side. She also had a necklace around her neck in the shape of a crystal blue teardrop.

Sasuke saw the look on Naruto's face when the girl was brought in, "I bet it would piss Naruto off if I picked her," he thought to himself smirking.

Sasuke pointed to the girl and the solider stepped up, "Anabella Sinesio," the head solider replied. Naruto glared at Sasuke, jealousy written all over his face. Sasuke smirked, "Loser," he said to him, which made Naruto even madder.

Ana looked up at Sasuke with mesmerizing crystal blue eyes; he didn't see fear in them just determination.

Last to pick was Gaara. He scanned the girls. Like Sasuke, he really didn't care what girl was his but one girl did catch his eye; it was that Maria girl. He didn't know why but for some reason that girl intrigued him.

He pointed to her and the head soldier said her name while the solider behind her stepped up, "Maria Fonseca."

After group 55 picked, then guys went back to their rooms to get ready for the day, while the girls that were picked were led towards the laundry room.

After being spread out facing the laundry room, soldiers behind each girl, the head officer spoke.

"You are hear for two reasons," he spoke with authority but to them as if they were monkeys, "the first and most important reason to why you are here is for the men. The men that picked you are your masters and you are to obey them, the punishment for disobeying them is to be whipped numerous times. You are to do whatever they want, whatever it is and just so you know, raping is not a crime here," he smirked evilly at them, "think of yourselves like courtesans."

Maria and Ana both rolled their eyes in disgust at the same time, while Sakura just looked plain horrified.

"The second reason why you are here," he continued, "is to cook for your men three meals a day, clean cloths, and to polish armor…this is the laundry room, and that over there is the kitchen." He pointed to the building in front of them that had steam coming out of the chimney thing and another building that was to his right off to the side.

No one said anything but Ana who opened her big mouth, "Cook? Are you serious?" she asked. The solider in charge of her smacked her in the face; she turned her head and glared at him. "You are not to speak to men like that," he replied.

The head officer waited patiently until the solider was done disciplining, then he asked,
"Are there any questions?"

No one said anything.

"Good. Now you will be escorted to your rooms where your masters are, then later there will be someone to come pick you up and take you to the kitchen to cook lunch," he replied walking off.

"Escorted, huh? More like dragged…" Maria thought annoyingly, being pushed toward the rooms.

After going down steps and through many dark, stone hallways with a few lights every once and a while, Ana, Maria, and Sakura finally came to a big, heavy wooden door that had the number '40' sloppily painted on it. One of the soldiers untied them and opened the door and the girls were pushed inside so hard that they fell down. The door closed loudly behind them.

The girls looked up. They were in some sort of room that looked a little like a living room. The walls were made of mud and stone and the floor was dirt, there was a worn out couch looking thing off to the side, and a table and chairs on the other side. There was a small worn out straw rug in the middle of this room. There were also four other doors leading somewhere but were all closed; two on the left, one in the middle in front of them, and one on the right.

Sitting in the same room as them was the girl's masters.

There was one with short blonde hair and blue eyes, sitting on one of the wooden chairs facing them; he smiled when they had come in. Sakura was his.

There was another one leaning up against the door directly in front of them; his eyes were closed and his arms were across his chest. This guy had black/dark blue hair and when he opened his eyes; he exposed dark eyes, pretty much black. He had Ana.

The last guy was lounging on the couch, staring intently at the girls with sky blue eyes. He had red/brown. He got Maria.

No one said anything; they just stared at each other.

Naruto suddenly got off his chair and walked over to the girls to inspect them, but he did have this hungry look in his eyes as he started over to them.

Ana's eyes snapped toward him, "Don't get any closer," she hissed seeing the look in his eye. Naruto was surprised; he hadn't expected them to talk back. He stopped in his tracks.

Sasuke half-heartily laughed from his spot against the door. He started walking toward Ana. She looked up at him from her kneeling position.

Without warning, Sasuke grabbed her by the neck and lifted her up. "Do you know why you're here, girl?" he asked looking her straight in the eye.

Ana looked right back with a look of hate and disgust in her eyes. "Yeah for your 'pleasure'," she hissed, the word pleasure dripping with sarcasm.

Sasuke nodded one, "Which means that we can do whatever we want to you, and you can't do anything about it. Your in our world now wrench, so if I say, 'fuck me' you say…"

"'Of course, whatever way you want me too'," Ana answered sarcastically. Gaara from his position on the couch actually smiled.

Sasuke looked like he was going to smack this girl for back talking him like that, but he didn't. Instead he dropped her on her butt and walked away back to his position saying, "Your just lucky we're not like that, I guarantee half the women you saw today have already lost their virginity and you've only been here for an hour. We could care less if we have women or not."

Sakura, Maria, and Ana looked confused for a minute but decided not to push their luck, so they didn't say anything.

Naruto saw the looks on their faces, "Yeah, believe it," he replied.

"Wow did we luck out or what? Guess I don't have to worry about someone making any moves on me now…" Maria thought.

No one said anything for a while: there was tension in the air from that last episode. But Gaara was the one to break the ice, "My room…Sasuke's room…bathroom…Naruto's room," he replied pointing to each closed door that lead to a room, starting with his room which was closest to him on the right side.

"Yeah what he said," Naruto added, "Oh and my names Naruto by the way, and Sakura your mine if ya didn't know. And Mr. Attitude over there is Sasuke and Ana you belong to him. The grouchy one over on the couch is Gaara, Maria he's got you."

"We're aware," grumbled Ana.

"Those are your clothes," Gaara replied pointing to the table were there was a pile of folded clothes waiting for the girls behind Naruto.

The girls went over to them and took them, each girl getting three pairs of clothes to be washed everyday, two for the day and one for sleeping. The two for wearing in the day time were simple, brown, itchy dresses that wrapped around you and tied at your waist with a rope to keep it in place. The sleeping one was brown and came down to their knees and had long sleeves that hung off the shoulders. They went into the bathroom and came out with their new day clothes on 5 minutes later.

For the rest of the 15 minutes the girls were there, waiting for someone to come and take them to the kitchen, everyone just stared at each other; like if you stared at the person you hated the most long enough, they would just drop dead.

Soon three soldiers came in and took the girls by their arms and dragged them down halls and up stairs until they were at the kitchen with the rest of the girls that were picked today.

The soldiers opened the doors reveling to the girls a big kitchen were there were women everywhere, cooking away. These women had been here longer and were the other gladiator's slaves.

"This is the kitchen where you will make three meals a day for your men. Right now it's lunch so get to it," one of their soldiers yelled at them then all of them left, leaving Sakura, Ana, and Maria there and not sure were to start.

The girls just kind of stared at everyone for a second; women were everywhere hurrying around the large kitchen, going from stove to counter to chopping table, trying to quickly get their master's lunch done so they wouldn't be punished.

Soon Sakura decided it would be best for them to start, "Um, maybe we should start…" she suggested.

Maria nodded going toward some of the vegetables to chop some up and to start. Sakura followed suit but Ana stayed put though, "Oh shit I suck at cooking…hope Sasuke won't mind…" she thought hopefully going over to some fruit.

A half an hour later, all three girls were done cooking so they walked back to their rooms with the guys' food and theirs.

They went into the door and put the plates on the table. Naruto and Gaara looked at the food Sakura and Maria had made them. It looked ok…they decided to eat it. Sasuke on the other hand wasn't so sure about his.

"What the hell is this?" he asked Ana looking down at his plate that had fresh fruit on it but in the middle was some brown looking stuff.

Ana shrugged, "How am I suppose to know, it's not my fault I suck at cooking. For all I know mice could be living in that thing," she answered looking at the brown glob.

Sasuke let out an annoyed sigh, "I think your gonna be worse then Naruto," he said.

Naruto glared at him. "Oh stop whining and at least try it," Ana replied, "I'm sure it won't kill ya."

Sasuke stared at the brown stuff like he thought she was crazy for saying that, "Alright fine," he replied sitting back in his chair, "but you first."

Ana stared down at her plate, "But I have my own…" she started to say but after seeing the look Sasuke was giving her she thought differently, "Alright fine…gimme that," she demanded taking the plate and using the spoon to scoop some into her mouth.

Ana about choked, "Eww, ok don't eat that," she warned angrily spitting it back out, "just eat the fucking fruit."

So that's what Sasuke and Ana ate before Gaara, Naruto and Sasuke had to start getting ready for training. Before they could do that though, the same three soldiers as before came barging in.

They took the girls by the arms and dragged them out saying to the guys, "They have to get branded now, boss's orders."

The girls heard this but didn't think they heard it right, "Branded? Are you serious?" Maria asked dumbfounded.

"Yeah isn't that for cows?" Ana added.

"Here your treated like animals, wrench, so get used to it," one solider responded simply like it was the most obvious thing in the word and they were just do stupid to know.

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4 hours later Sasuke, Gaara, and Naruto all came back from training only minutes before the girls came in. But this time they were a little different.

As soon as the girls got into the room, they kneeled down and sat on the back of their legs; they all looked miserable and exhausted. They had just got branded with a hot iron stick like animals, so everyone knew to whom they belonged too. It was on the backs of their necks; a number 40 to show they belonged to the guys in group number 40.

The guys looked the girls up and down: Sakura's eyes were red, Ana's bottom lip had bite marks in it, and Maria had fingernail marks in her palms. All three girls were staring blankly at the ground and much to the boy's relief they were silent.

No one said anything for a really long time.

Suddenly Gaara came over to Maria and pulled her up to her feet by her arm rather roughly. She didn't look at him as he pulled back her brown hair, exposing her neck and looking at the new red, swollen mark she had on the back of her neck that was in the shape of the number 40.

Sasuke also went over to Ana to see her's. She was still sitting on her legs as Sasuke came over and leaned over her, pulling her white/silver hair back to look at the mark; it was in the same condition as Maria's.

Then without warning Gaara dragged Maria over to the bathroom door and roughly undid the rope that was hanging on her side.

Ana and Sakura where now alarmed as was Maria as she said tried to push Gaara off of her, "What are you…hey!" she yelled at him.

After taking off the rope, Gaara opened the bathroom door and pushed Maria inside, "I'd get that in some water before it swells up too much," he replied going to sit on the couch.

Sasuke nodded to Ana and Sakura to go into the bathroom too, to get a bath and to let their necks soak for a while.

As soon as the bathroom door shut behind them, they let out a breath.

"For a minute there I thought you were a goner," Sakura confessed to Maria.

Maria nodded, "Yeah me too."

Ana rushed over to the large wooden tub that was filled with hot water and stuck her head down a bit and pulled back her hair then scooped up water with her hands and put it on the back of her neck.

She let out a sigh; "Even though it's hot it's better then nothing."

Sakura and Maria went over and did it too. Then later they all got undressed and got in to the tub to soak.

Once settled in Sakura said, "I guess we haven't really been introduced so…I'm Sakura," she replied smiling at the other two girls.

"Maria," Mariah said.

"Ana," Ana answered.

"So I guess were gonna be here for a while together," replied Maria.

Ana nodded, "Yeah I guess so," she said, "Can't believe we have to stay here though…this place is disgusting."

Sakura nodded in agreement, "Yes but at least we got guys that can control themselves," she said, "out of all these guys too. Yeah I'd say we lucked out on this one."

The girls talked for a while longer getting to know each other better, then they got out and got into their sleeping cloths.

When they walked out into the main room they came to another problem: the guys were asleep and they didn't know where they were supposed to sleep.

"Typical," Ana replied sighing.

"Well I guess we can just sleep in here…" Maria suggested.

"Sure but…what about blankets and pillows?" Sakura asked.

Ana shrugged, "Guess we go without."

"Actually, I think I'm gonna ask Naruto…" Sakura replied going over to Naruto's bedroom door and opening it quietly. Naruto was lying in his bed asleep, lightly snoring and a little bit drooling.

"Pssst…hey Naruto," Sakura whispered into the room. Naruto slightly stirred. "Naruto…"Sakura said again only in a regular voice but he still didn't wake up.

Maria was tired and didn't fell like dealing with this, she walked up next to Sakura and pushed the door open wider, "Naruto!" she yelled angrily.

The once sleeping boy sat straight up, "What? What is it?" he asked looking franticly around the room.

Maria stood in the doorway with her hand on her hip, "Are you forgetting something?" she asked.

Naruto squinted at then since they where in the only light that was penetrating his dark room, he put his hands in front of his eyes to protect them, "Ah…don't think so why? Is that why you woke me up?"

Ana sighed annoyingly as she walked up next to the other two girls, "You don't give us a place to sleep, but are you at least gonna give us some blankets and pillows so we can make our own beds or what," she replied.

"Oh right, my bad," a sleepy Naruto yawned as he slowly got out of bed and reached under his bed and pulled three blankets and pillows out, "here," he replied before crawling back into bed and falling right back asleep.

The girls took the pillows and blankets and went back into the living room.

"Um, so who gets the couch?" Maria asked.

Ana thought for a minute, "Sakura you're the youngest right? I think you should get the couch first," she suggested. Maria nodded in agreement.

"Alright, thanks guys," Sakura yawned grabbing her blanket and pillow and settling down on the couch.

Ana and Maria set up their beds on the floor. Maria crawled into her homemade bed while Ana got up to blow out the fire that was burning on sticks on the walls. When she got to the last one Sakura stopped her, "Um, can we maybe leave that one burning? I really don't like pitch black…" she confessed a little embarrassed.

Ana smiled, "Of course," she answered then let the last one burn as she crawled into her bed and fell right asleep hoping tomorrow would be a better day.

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Yay, Yay, Yay! Hope you all enjoyed the first chapter and yeah I might have a little too fast…sorry bout that! Next chapter some other characters come in form the show and the girls get a little too much from them, also every kinda gets to know each other more too. So plz review and tell me what you think so far, and now I'm off the update 'Just Wanna Be Me'! Until next time!

---rayluva4

P.S. if anybody has any ideas of how I could fit another character in there please tell me cause I might just do that…