NaruSaku-
Something About Them
4

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Where was he?
Sakura paced the living room as well as the others. It's been about 2 hours after school, and Sakura had arrived at the house long ago. Naruto, on the other hand, hasn't shown up yet.
"What an asshole." Sasuke muttered by the wall. Sakura shook her head for him to silence. Her stress level was at its highest…what if Naruto had been like…captured?
"What if he was taken away?" Ino asked anxiously, speaking the thoughts of Sakura.
"Shut up!" Sakura cried. She sat on the couch and covered her face with her hands. "I…"
"Should we should look for him…" Temari suggested.
"Have fun with that. You'll be sure to find him out of the million people out there." Shikamaru sighed.
"I'll kill that idiot." Gaara muttered.
Sakura tuned them out immediately. She hated this feeling. The feeling of worrying too much, you think up of bad situations, which makes everything worse. Your heart drops as every minute passes…
Naruto…
Time passed.
"Sakura…" Ino placed her hand on her friend's shoulder, "what can we do for you?"
"Find him!" Sakura yelled, "I don't care what happens! He sh-"
Kankuro interrupted, "Someone's coming!" Sakura jumped up, but before she could even take a step forward, the door bursted open and in a blink of an eye, a panting Naruto appeared in the center of the room.
"You guys! Shit! There's- oh man- they-you cant believe-"
"Uzumaki Naruto!" Sakura shrieked. She charged toward him and grabbed him by the collar, unaware of his protests. "Where the hell have you been!?"
Naruto put his hands straight up, "Sakura, Sakura! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but please-"
She shook him violently, "Do you know how worried I was?!"
Naruto just noticed that their whole group had circled the couple. All eyes strained and filled with malice towards him.
"Please, I know you guys have been angry," He hurriedly said before being interrupted, "but hear me out, I just saw something!"
"I thought we told you the rules of this group, Uzumaki." Gaara said.
"Yeah, yeah-"
"It's been almost three freaking hours! Where were you?" Sakura cried. Naruto saw the tears starting to build up in her eyes.
"Look- the bad guys! They're up to something!" Naruto said. The room fell silent. Sakura loosened her grip on him.
"We're listening." Shikamaru mumbled.
"Look, Sakura, you know that teacher I warned you about?"
Sakura pursed her lips, "Yeah…" She took a deep breath, then another, and finally took a step back. With a quick sweep of her eyes she investigated Naruto. Good, there were no wounds or anything. It was only his face that had a horrified expression.
"Well, I decided to follow him after school. And well, he-"
"You followed him?"
"What teacher?"
Naruto inhaled sharply, "There's this suspicious sub teacher who thought he'd seen me somewhere-"
"What?"
"I thought you said no one recognized you anymore!"
"Just let him talk!" Sakura roared. Naruto thanked her and continued on.
"Well, he's very into religion and stuff, and he's really rude. But out of curiosity I followed him into this warehouse in the back, back of buildings."
Shikamaru furrowed his brows, "What was in there?"
"This tube man!" Naruto threw his arms up in the air.
"Huh?" Everyone questioned.
"When he left, I went in there. And- and I saw this big tube, like the ones you see magicians use for tricks, filled with water. There were tubes going in and out of this body- a man!"
"What?"
"He had an orange mask on, so I couldn't see his face, and- and it seems like he's dead or unconscious cause I tapped the tube." Naruto took a deep breath.
"Okay…what does this have to do with anything?"
"It…it…" Naruto was lost for words. "Its weird though, isn't it?"
Shikamaru considered this, "Indeed. A man in a water tank. What is this substitute teacher planning? Do the police know?"
Ino rolled her eyes, "I don't care. Just don't ever be late again, Naruto." She exited the room.
Gaara continued gazing murderously at Naruto, "Where is this warehouse?"
"Here. The directions." Naruto handed the paper to Temari.
"We'll investigate tomorrow, when you guys are at school." Shikamaru glanced at the paper, "and Naruto, keep an eye out for this substitute teacher."
"Hidan."
"Right."
Sakura looked around. Should she mention the guy named Sai? Maybe she shouldn't, might as well not make a big deal on something she wasn't so sure of. Naruto, on the other hand, felt like he was going pass out. He needed to sit, and he needed food. Yes, food.
As the room cleared out, Naruto's eyes wandered to the kitchen, then suddenly interrupted he was by a figure clinging to his body.
"Sakura."
She dug her fingernails into his jacket and buried her face in the crook of his neck, "Idiot."
He wrapped his arms around her and held her tightly. "Sorry." He mumbled.
Sakura kicked him, "You don't know, do you?"
"Know what?"
"How much you mean to me." Her voice was barely a whisper.
Naruto couldn't quite comprehend why he meant this much to someone. She meant the world to him, and he guessed it was time to get it into his head that she felt the same way.
"Thank you." He replied back.
Sakura pulled his head back, and silenced him with a kiss. When they pulled back, Naruto's stomach growled. He laughed, uneasily, and she shook her head.
"Come on…I'll make you a snack."

Naruto sighed, "Here we go."
Sakura nodded, "See you later." She paused, "And don't be late, or I'll seriously hurt you this time."
He chuckled, "I know. Bye." He disappeared in a flash, headed toward Leaf High. Sakura rolled her eyes and made her way to school.
Upon arrival, she met up with some girls she had come to friendly grounds with. They weren't so interesting, always kept on talking about class. Sakura, herself, was really smart, and mostly the one ahead in class, but she really didn't care much about school after all she had been through.
"What kind of questions does your teacher…?"
Something caught her eye. He was paler that mostly all the students at the school.
"Sai…!"
Sakura excused herself from the group and wandered towards Sai. She then noticed that he was headed somewhere, and fast. After a minute of pursuing, she found out that he was just headed for the bathroom.
Sakura inwardly groaned and slumped against the wall. She needed to stop. This was getting annoying.
Just when she decided to head for her first period class, the door to the men's bathroom slammed open, revealing a freaked out jock.
"! SPIDERS! SPIDERS!" As Sakura looked down, she blushed. The guy's pants were down revealing a bit too much. He ran in circles, jumping up and down. Tiny little insects were crawling up his hairy leg. Sakura shrieked and backed away.
Was it weird that they seemed exactly like the spider in that one classroom?
A crowd crowded around the bathroom, laughing at the guy who was rolling on the ground, who was more aware of his 'spider problem', then his 'exposure problem'. But Sakura was paying more attention to the figure under the doorway.
Despite the noise, she could make out exactly what Sai said.
"You deserved it."

"So…this is it?" Temari muttered gazing up at the warehouse.
"It's the inside that counts." Shikamaru replied, picking up the key. "What a stupid place to hide this. Come on."
Shikamaru, Temari, Gaara and Sasuke entered the dark room. With a flick of a finger, the lights turned on, one by one.
Temari whistled. "What the hell is that?"
"Tobi…" Gaara muttered slowly, reading the paint on the tube.
The water tank was in the middle of the room. Just like Naruto had said, there was a man floating in it, wires coming in and out.
"Is he…dead?" Temari wasn't bold enough to check herself. Sasuke knocked on the glass and shook his head.
"Dunno."
"But this is a really interesting place." Shikamaru said. "Do you think it's related to Akatsuki?"
Everyone in the room flinched. Akatsuki was the name for the organization that was after them. Pein, Konan, and Orochimaru were all the leaders of this group. They were 'human experiments', usually experimenting on the special ones like Shikamaru, and creating a being far more invincible, and much greater, thus 'human experiments'. They led a secret army, the ones with the guns people normally mistake for as 'police', and these guys were regular humans. According to Gaara, this was all behind America's back.
"Well…maybe. We can't be sure." Temari answered.
"But we must look into this." Gaara said in his dark voice, "We can't let them get away this time."
Temari continued gazing at the Tobi man. His mask was the color of orange and black, "He's really funny looking."
"Yeah, yeah, can we go home?" Sasuke muttered.
"We should come again sometime."
Shikamaru rolled his eyes, "How troublesome." As they walked out of the warehouse, Temari looked over her shoulder,
"Bye Tobi."

Her hand reached for his in a swift movement, and pulled so that he was forced to turn to her.
"I know what you did, and what you are."
Sai raised his eyebrows, and looked around at those passing them. "Okay. But is this the greatest place to be talking about it?"
Sakura scoffed, "There is nothing to talk about. You are like us."
"Us? There's more?"
"Don't play dumb!"
"Alrighty then, whore."
"Stop calling me that!"
He smirked and adjusted the notebook in his hand, "I'll meet you there, after school."
Sakura gave him a death glare, "Fine."

After explaining to Naruto something-secretly, Sakura walked up to Sai.
"Do you have a car?"
She was taken aback, "N-no. I walk."
"Then ill drive you home."
"No!" She shouted. "I mean…I'm headed somewhere else today."
Sai shrugged and looked passed her.
"Er…you can drop me off there." She suggested.
"Okay."

Sakura was headed to the warehouse. Just to get a look at it herself. When they were silent in the car, Sakura pondered on whether she should trust this guy completely.
Adjusting the radio station, Sakura asked, "So you draw stuff and they come to life?"
"Pretty much - as long as I have ink, which I always carry in my bag."
"How do you know me?"
He sighed, "I also came from the East a while back- turn here?"
"Yeah. But wait, you were being chased to?"
"I still am. And I came from the Akatsuki headquarters after that explosion from the guy name Shino."
She gasped. Yes! She has heard of Shino. Was it Kiba and Hinata who told her? And Sai knew about Akatsuki already? "How did you survive?"
Sai smiled, "Lions."
She didn't question him further on that topic, "So you came here…I think you stop here."
Sakura pointed to a building. She opened the car door and looked back at Sai. Should she trust him…He seems nice and all…
"Hey, why don't you come with me?" Sakura asked.
He seemed surprised, "Uh. What is this place?"
"I have no idea. Just come."

Sakura switched on the light. And just like with the others, she experienced the same shock. Sai, on the other hand, was not affected.
"Is this supposed to be a joke?"
"I…don't know." Sakura replied truthfully. "My boyfriend-"
"Naruto?"
"Yes." Her voice was irritated, "Thinks this has to do with Akatsuki or something."
"Well, what ever." Sai went down on knees to the ground, and got out a scroll of paper. He also came out with an ink pen. Sakura curiously studied him as he drew random animals that popped out.
"My brother was killed by the explosion." Sai murmured. His face betrayed no emotion. While he drew it seemed like he wasn't even paying attention to the figures.
Sakura respectfully bowed her head, "I'm sorry."
"It doesn't matter." He placed his two hands together and muttered some words Sakura couldn't make out. The drawing on the paper emerged from their flat forms. Sakura watched as a rabbit bounced over to the water tube. Her eyes met the mask of the man named Tobi.
Creepy.
"Sai?"
"Hmm?"
"Do you want to be friends?"
Sai glanced up, questionably.
"Friends?"
"Yeah…" She held out a hand.
He went back to his drawings, "I heard of that one before. I've actually never had a friend."
No surprise. "You're really clueless aren't you?"
"It ran in my family."
"Come. It's a quite unique feeling. Having friends." She extended her hand.
It took a moment for Sai to respond.
Finally, Sai shook it.
"You're still a whore."