A/N: Finally, another's up :P

I don't know if they'll be another after this haha, if if there is, it'll have Motochika in it ^-^

Why? Because Motochika is cool and should have a spot in this story no matter how random

3 chu!

Also, things jump around a little bit here between scenes. I hope it's not too confusing...

Warning: Not really anything but language this time :)


Yukimura stared down at the paper in his hand, disbelief all over his features. "N-No way. This can't be. Sasuke is-" He threw the paper to the ground, racing out his bedroom door and leaving the blonde ninja in his room. "OYAKATTA-SAMA!"

"Y-Yukimura-san, wait a minute-" Kasuga held a hand out in front of her, but it was too late. The brunette had already disappeared out the door. She sighed and placed a hand on her hip. Honestly. This was all that monkey's fault. Now he had to go and get the red warrior all worked up.

Kasuga silently vanished, taking the shorter way to the Tiger of Kai's chambers.


"-the food here was specially made for Masamune-sama by me-"

Sasuke sat with his eye twitching, legs folded criss-cross with a bento in his lap. Why they were eating bentos in the middle of the night, he didn't know. All he knew was that Masamune was crazy and he was never going to escape alive.

"-I hope you treasure this food with your life-"

The shinobi briefly wondered if Kasuga had received the message he had sent via pet hawk, but it was quickly drowned out as the person in front of him went through the contents of the bento.

"This is rice picked from my fields that I am no longer allowed to work in while I am here-"

Sasuke's eye twitched again, fingers clenching around the edges of the box he was holding. Did the man ever stop talking?

"-pull the egg from the chicken's anus and then proceed to-"

He looked down, appetite gone. Although he was safe from the crazed dragon, his right eye was even worse. His entire body was twitching now. I knew it was wrong to become allies with these guys. Everyone knows Oshu's famous for its quirks. But I never imagined-

"-caused our sacred tree to be cut down as I reminded you seven minutes ago-"

I never imagined the source of these quirks was the dragon and his eye. The shinobi thoughtfully hummed to himself, looking around the cell uninterestedly. Even though it was dark outside, this tiny area remained lit by a small candle that had been burning for the last thirteen hours.

Quite the miracle really.

The monkey made the mistake of tuning back into what Kojuuro was saying a second later.

"-slave for the pleasure of my lord-"

"My God!" Sasuke shouted, eyes wide as he jumped to his feet in exasperation and threw his bento to the floor. "Do you ever stop talking?"

Kojuuro froze.

"..."

Sasuke froze.

"..."

"Takeda's shinobi…" Kojuuro darkly said, eyes glued to the contents of the bento now scattered across him and the cell floor. "Do you know…what you've just done?"

"Er-" Sasuke nervously chuckled, raising a finger to his cheek. "It was…an accident?"

"My bento!" Kojuuro leapt to his feet, lunging for suddenly frightened shinobi.

This is crazy! Sasuke dived to the side as the man drew his sword and made a made jab for his head. First danna, then that dragon, and now this! He flipped backwards and avoided a series of hits to his torso as Kojuuro charged ahead. "W-Wait a minute! It's dangerous to play with a sword in such a small place!" he shouted, feet lightly moving back with every motion he made. "Someone could get hurt!"

Kojuuro paused, his blade halfway in the motion of slicing the monkey in half. "Play?" A sudden explosion of flames rose from behind the loyal retainer. "You think this is a toy? I'll show you who's playing- Takeda's shinobi!"

Sasuke sweatdropped and shot up, clinging to the ceiling where he knew the man couldn't reach him. As usual, what he wanted to say hadn't come out right. And it definitely had an effect on the slightly deranged brunette frothing at him from below. It can't be he's crazy from lack of food or sleep. It's not like he was out in the woods for a week like danna and I. Masamune's naturally a psycho so it can't be that either…

He didn't have much time to think of anything else, seeing as Kojuuro had sprung off the floor with a burst of passionate energy and was zooming straight at him.

"Don't aim the sword there!" Sasuke crashed to the ground less gracefully than he would've liked. All the lack of time from training must have dulled his senses. And that candle! Being exposed to it's scent for more than half a day must've done something as well!

Kojuuro's eyes gleamed in the candlelight. "You are trapped. Takeda's shinobi."

A candle and lack of training?

"Are you listening?"

Sasuke was ignoring him in favor of arguing with himself. Pshh. Who was he kidding? Those excuses were hardly logical. He trained every day- a candle was hardly enough to make him fail. If so- well…then he had some serious issues that needed to be taken care of.

"You're ignoring me? Purification!" Kojuuro shouted, his blade charging with electricity.

And it looked like Kojuuro was already on his way of taking care of those problems.

Sasuke pivoted, stumbled, and tripped almost immediately after, causing a charging Kojuuro to fly over his body and crash into the back corner of the cell wall.

There was a loud explosion as the powered sword rammed into the cement and wood, dust flying everywhere and blocking both their sight for the slightest seconds. But then it had cleared, and as Sasuke looked up from where he lay, he saw that the bomb-in-a-sword had done absolutely nothing to the cell's defenses.

Propping himself up on his elbows, Sasuke took a better look at the spotless wall. "Unbelievable," he murmured under his breath. "I'm going to die in here."

This positive thinking was only back up as Kojuuro pushed to his feet once more and glared at him like never before.

"You will pay for ruining Masamune-sama's bento that I made."

Sasuke didn't dare to point out that the older man had dropped his too while chasing him.

Even he could tell Kojuuro had finally lost it.

Welcome to the party, the green-clad shinobi dryly thought.


Yukimura bowed his head again, slamming it into the tatami mat below. "Please!" he missed the winces both Shingen and Kasuga made at the cracking noise. "We have to rescue Sasuke! He is being held captive by a dangerous enemy!"

Shingen warily eyed the boy for any signs of sudden head slamming again, asking, "Did the letter say who was holding him hostage?"

"No, oyakatta-sama!" Yukimura snapped his neck up, large eyes boring holes into his lord's face which was twisted into a strange expression. "What is it, oyakatta-sama?"

"…Your head…" Shingen leaned back in his chair. "Nevermind. Just…continue on."

"Hai!" The brunette clenched his fists in excitement and worry as he spoke. "The letter did not say who. It was only signed by Sasuke's codename and said that a fierce dragon had taken hold of him!"

"A fierce dragon?" Shingen slowly grinned beneath his hand. "Interesting..." he threw back his head and let out a mighty laugh. "Interesting! HAHAHAHAHA!"

Yukimura and Kasuga looked at him with wide eyes.

Shingen was now beaming like a tiger, hands planted on either side of his chair as he leaned forward and said, "Yukimura, my son-"

"Oyakatta-sama!"

"-how would you like to rescue Sasuke?"

"Very much! Very very much!"

"Good!" Shingen pushed to his feet, swinging a pointing arm towards his sliding door. "Go get him!"

"Oyakatta-sama!"

"Yukimura!"

Kasuga placed a finger to her temple.

"Oyakatta-sama!"

"Yukimura!"

"OYAKATTAAAA-SAAMMAAA!"

Shingen chuckled and leaned back with his hands on his hips. "That's the spirit! Now, go to Oshu and meet with Masamune."

"Oshu?" Yukimura bounded to his own feet, fists held out in front of him. "Ah! I get it! Since Masamune-dono is a dragon, he should know where the one holding Sasuke is! Genius, oyakatta-sama!"

Kasuga deadpanned. "Yukimura...san..."

Shingen, on the other hand, only laughed yet again with a twinkle in his eye. "That's right! Why are you still standing here? Go rescue the princess from the dragon, Yukimura!"

"Hai! Oyakatta-sama!"

And then he was gone, ripping a hole through the sliding door as he flew through and racing for the closest horse.

Kasuga quickly followed, wondering how Sasuke would take it if he heard his lord referring to him as a princess of all things. Probably not well. That baka.

Kai's Tiger was obviously in a mischevious mood. And she wouldn't want to be victim to that...


"Knock knock!" Masamune kicked the cell door open, hands on his hips and eye closed. "You two sleeping yet-"

"-cut each slice into pieces until there is nothing more than-"

"No," Sasuke moaned, hands covering his ears as he hung upside down, Kojuuro's sword piercing his shirt to the ceiling. "No more. Enough already." How do you sucessfully torture a shinobi? Give them a retainer that doesn't shut up. "I give. Didn't you hear me?"

Masamune stalked into the center of the room, eye open and narrow. "Kojuuro! What do you think you're doing?"

Kojuuro ignored his lord standing less than a foot from in front of him, staring straight at the shinobi as he continued to speak. "The thesis of the matter is-"

"I'm never coming here again," Sasuke muttered, also taking no notice of the livid dragon beneath him. "Stop."

"You guys...are you listening?"

"-I am Masamune-sama's loyal retainer, you would do well to know your place Takeda's shinobi-"

"Or else you will not hesitate to shoot me full of lightening," Sasuke rolled his eyes, lowering his hands and crossing them over his chest. "Yes, I know. You've told me this seventeen times already."

Kojuuro's nostrils flared. "Then I will tell you again!"

Masamune stomped his foot onto the ground, smoke coming out his ears and nose. "You dare to ignore me? Oshu's One-Eyed Dragon?"

The two continued to bicker.

"I am Masamune-sama's loyal retainer-"

"More like loyal pain in the ass-"

"Better than a monkey-"

"Please, I've heard that one before. What next- a magical dragon like your lord?"

Eye widening in rage, Masamune drew his claws, having still been dressed in his armor, lightening crackling all around him. "SHUT THE HELL UP!"


Sasuke and Kojuuro sat back-to-back, arms tied firmly behind them.

"This is all your fault," the shinobi muttered, elbowing the brunette.

"Masamune-sama had never acted like this until you started showing up," Kojuuro shot at him, elbowing him back.

Sasuke elbowed him again. "Well I guess I should be flattered then."

"Maybe you should." Kojuuro elbowed the monkey harder.

"Don't hit me so hard!"

"You hit me first."

Sasuke narrowed his eyes, amber glinting in the dark.

Kojuuro also narrowed his, brown gleaming in the shadows of room they had been locked in.

That's right.

They had been locked in a considereably larger room, with a broken latern, scattered books, and piles of growing dust that were growing by the minute.

Oshu's dragon had somehow seen it fit to punish their ignorance of him by tying them together for the next seventy-two hours.

There was a door that Sasuke thought he might be able to escape out of. But with Masamune prowling every second with his swords sticking out like pikes from his waist, he didn't dare to take the chance. There was a window too- but there was no way he'd make it there without having to take the dragon's right-eye with him. And there was absolutely NO way he was doing that.

In other words, his escape plan was being ruined by some man attached to his hip.

Great.

At least Kojuuro had stopped giving his speeches.


Kasuga bounded from tree to tree, glancing down every once in a while to where the young brunette entrusted to her raced on his horse. "Yukimura-san," she called. "You don't have to rush so much. I'm sure Sasuke will be fine-"

"No!" Yukimura jumped his horse over a stray log, grabbing the reins tighter as the hooves splashed in fresh mud. "We can't stop for a moment!"

"But..." Kasuga gracefully somersaulted over a branch that she hadn't seen before. "To charge straight into Oshu like this- it's reckless," she finally blurted out.

"Sasuke's life is at stake," Yukimura ground out from his bumpy position. "He is my closest friend. I can't allow a mere dragon to take him away." He reached behind him with one hand and grasped the pole of a spear. "My spears shall burn a path to safety! For Sasuke!" His heels squeezed the flanks of his horse and they shot off faster than before, the brunette shouting, "Sasukeeeeeeee!" the whole way through the forest.

The blonde ninja inwardly groaned, face dropping as she too picked up her pace. I wanted to inflitrate Oshu quietly and get that stupid monkey out. But Yukimura's going to attract the entire Land of the Rising Sun.


Masamune folded his arms, staring narrow-eyed at the door in front of him.

He was currently sitting cross-legged in the middle of the hallway, having stored away his pests in a storage closest within his main household. After politely asking the servants to leave-

"Leave before I incinerate you all!"

-he was comfortably left to watch after the two idiots by himself.

Don't get him wrong. He really appreciated Kojuuro. That man was his right-hand man and a good friend. But sometimes he just had to be put away. That guy would never stop talking once he got started.

And as for Sasuke...

"Che."

Masamune could care less about that shinobi.

The perverted shinobi at that.

"Hmph. They're quiet for once," Masamune grumbled, scruntinizing the door even more.

He wished he could see through doors.


Sasuke rolled his eyes for the third time, attempting to shift away from the raging brunette. "I already apologized for dropping your bento. Drop it will you?"

"Never! I put too much effort into it. To think that Masamune-sama would even think of feeding it to someone like you," Kojuuro trailed off in disgust, turning his head away. "Unbelievable."

The shinobi stuck his tongue out. "Yeah well, screw you too."


Masamune became more unsettled as his inability to see through doors finally got to him.

What was that monkey and his retainer doing?

He clenched and unclenched his arm guards, shifting uncomfortably in his spot.

Damn that perverted monkey and his prying eyes!

And damn Kojuuro for not seeing the green creature in his tree to begin with!

Masamune ducked his head forward, bangs covering his eye as he started to twitch. Now that he thought about it...this was all Kojuuro's fault, wasn't it? If he had noticed the shinobi earlier instead of feeding him obvious lies and bentos every day, then none of this would have happened. He could be sitting under his favorite sakura tree with not a single care in the world, drinking sake and ignoring his retainer like the true man he was.

But nooo.

Kojuuro had failed at his task.

Masamune really couldn't help but to jerk his entire body as he came to a suitable conclusion.

"DAMN YOU KOJUURO!"


Both Kojuuro and Sasuke stopped in their argument over bentos and looked towards the door, conking heads in the process.

"Itai!"

"Watch your step, Takeda's shinobi!"

"I didn't even move, right-eye!"

Sasuke irritably scoffed after finding he couldn't even nurse his bruising head. "And anyway," he started to say, "that's your lord calling you out."

Kojuuro flipped their positions so that he was closest to the door and the green-clad shinobi was facing the window. "At least my lord calls for me."

Sasuke's lips quirked. That son of a-

"Kojuuro! Can you hear me?"

Kojuuro half-smirked, haughtily looking towards the sound of his lord's voice. "Of course, Masamune-sama. I'll always be here when you call."

"Like a dog," Sasuke muttered.

Kojuuro gave him the evil eye.

"Good..." Masamune's voice sounded muffled through the closed door, but still imposing all the same. "Kojuuro...when your seventy-two hours are up..."

"Yes, Masamune-sama?" Kojuuro eagerly leaned towards the door, bringing Sasuke with him.

"Oi-" Sasuke started to complain.

"YOU ARE FIRED!"

Kojuuro's eyes popped from his face in disbelief. "M-Masamune-sama!"

"WHAT KIND OF RIGHT-EYE ARE YOU? HOW COULD YOU NOT SEE SOME MONKEY SITTING IN OUR SACRED TREE YOU PRAYED AT EVERY MORNING?"

Sasuke began to snigger. "Some right-eye," he jabbed.

Kojuuro's eyes watered. "I have failed..."

"And YOU-"

Masamune roughly kicked the door.

Kojuuro and Sasuke, jumped felt chills run down their spines at the even darker tone.

"TAKEDA'S SHINOBI!"

Said shinobi felt a tiny part of him die. "Oh no...what did I do now?" I'm screwed. Never to see daylight again.

The dragon's mad laughter rang throughout the entire household. "Takeda's shinobi!" he shouted in a much calmer voice.


Masamune could feel the waves of tension coming from the cramped room, making his smirk wider. "Everyone knows I like Yukimura. So cool your head. When you go home, cry if you want. But either way, your party's over. You see? So don't even think about hiding out in anymore trees like the creature you are. Got it?"

Yes, it was cruel. But he couldn't have the shinobi thinking that he liked him.

Yukimura was purely his.

"Oh yeah-" the young lord thoughtfully gazed at the door he had just been trying to knock down, placing a hand on his hip. He had jumped to his feet during his little rampage. "You'll be fed properly before you go. Just be glad you aren't unconscious," he added with a cheeky grin.


"We are here at last," Yukimura not-so-softly whispered to the exasperated blonde crouching next to him. He peered through the leaves of the bushes they were hiding in. "What should we do?"

Kasuga shook her head at the shouted words and stood up. "We go in. There's not much more we can do." Anything's better than staring at a wall for another two hours.

"Alright." Yukimura made to get on his horse and barge inside when the ninja stopped him.

"You can't do that," Kasuga said with a raised brow. "Oshu's peaceful this time of day. Going in there like that would be breaking tradition Yukimura-san."

The brunette slowly turned from his horse, a curious look plastered on his face. "Tradition?"

Kasuga nodded and faced the walls of Oshu once again. "Every Tuesday, the people of Oshu go to the sacred tree within these walls to pray for prosperity. Breaking in would ruin this."

"I see..." Yukimura bowed, brown locks flying all about. "Forgive me for my insolence!"

"N-Nevermind that," the blonde muttered in embarrassment. "Let's just get Sasuke-no-baka."


Sasuke twitched. What a rejection...whoa, wait! Did he just say that he liked DANNA? "N-No way..." he glared out the window. "Danna- that's not fair!"

"Do not use red warrior's name in vain," Kojuuro dutifully intoned. He looked over his shoulder at the monkey. "What are you getting so worked up about? It's just an infatuation that you have with my lord. I too went through the same thing during my first few years with Masamune-sama."

For the first time in the two days he had been stuck with the older brunette, Sasuke tuned in to what he was saying. "Really?"

Kojuuro let out a good humored chuckle. "But Masamune-sama easily shot me down."

"And..." Sasuke averted his gaze, staring down at the ropes which bound him. "What happened after that? What did you do?"

"Nothing." Kojuuro gave him a warm smile, all traces of a crazed retainer gone. "Within the next hour, it was like nothing had ever happened. Masamune-sama and I remained friends and we moved on. That's all you have to do now. Move on, or else you'll be stuck on a dangerous path for the rest of your life."

The shinobi shook his wild head of hair. "Easier said than done..." his fingers itched to scratch the side of his face, but to his chagrin, they were tied. To his hands.

"You have to. Masamune-sama had already made his choice," Kojuuro wisely said. "Besides, he's already claimed the young red warrior as his. You can't argue with that."

"Aa.." Sasuke wistfully looked out the window. "Perhaps you're right." He let out a bitter chuckle. "Who ever heard of a monkey and a dragon together?"

Kojuuro focused his attention back on the door. "No one."

Sasuke glared at him. "Those were the wise words I was looking for," he dryly said.

"I know."

They had sat in a complete silence for over a minute, until a thought came to the green-clad shinobi.

"Kojuuro?"

"What is it, Sarutobi Sasuke?"

"What-" Sasuke started to say and then paused, trying to get the right words. "What made you...like Masamune like that?"

Kojuuro looked back at him, raising a brow. "The same thing that caught you obviously."

The monkey deadpanned. "Err- and what would that be?"

Kojuuro rolled his eyes. "His dance. The way he moves as one with his claws. Truly a master of his weapons."

Sasuke's eyes widened in realization. "You're right."

"Yes." At this, the retainer seemed to grow a far away look in his eye.

Sasuke was officially creeped out, and attempted to scoot away even though he knew he couldn't really go anywhere. "...yes?"

"A dance so magnificent," Kojuuro started to gush. "That it should be known as the Dance of Love! I even told Masamune-sama that myself!"

Sasuke twitched. "What did he say?"

"He beat me up and threw me off my horse. We were in the middle of a battle."

"You told him that in the middle of a battle?"

"I couldn't help it."

"Right...of course..." Sasuke's eye twitched even more. "Silly me."


Masamune stared wide-eyed at the door, unable to believe what he had just heard. In the end, he decided to walk away.

He was hungry and he had no idea what those two idiots in the room were talking about. There was time. Seventy-two hours to be exact.

He could curse them out after he had his bento.

At least...that's what he thought before he heard the walls of his household being broken into, and a familar cry of-

"MASAMUNE-DONO!"

"Sanada...Yukimura?" Oshu's One-Eyed Dragon had a strange feeling about this meeting as he stalked up the stairs from the underground prison. "What's that hothead think he's doing here?"


Sasuke cocked his head towards the door and sound of crumbling stone from above ground. "It sounds like...danna. And the other presence...Kasuga?"

Kojuuro also peered at the door, as if expecting it to open. "Red warrior and your fiance is here?"

"She's not really my fiance- and HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT?"

Kojuuro tilted his nose up. "Who wouldn't? You say it loud enough everywhere you go."

"Why you-!"


"Sanada Yukimura," Masamune politely addressed the young brunette standing in his kitchen with his sliding door in his hands. "You could have told me you wanted to come over and party. And Kenshin's wife over there," he pointed to the blonde hiding in the corner of the room. "Why did you blow up my wall?"

Kasuga narrowed her light eyes at the dragon, a blush evident on her cheeks. "Saying things like that, I'm not Kenshin-sama's wife. And Yukimura-san broke your wall down, not me."

"Why?" Masamune felt an aura start to build like with his retainer. "Why is everything of mine being blown up or invaded-?"

"Masamune-dono," Yukimura loudly interrupted.

Oshu's One-Eyed felt his lips quirk at being cut off. "Yes...?" he slowly answered.

"We need your help! Sasuke has been captured by a dragon and is being held hostage somewhere!"

Masamune's aura flared. "Really? And how do you know this?"

"Sasuke had sent a badly written letter to my room last night," Yukimura explained. "Please! You must know where he is!"

Kasuga suddenly froze and then motioned for the brunette to stop talking with large gestures.

Masamune felt his fingers sizzle with lightening. "Why should I know were that monkey is? Sanada Yukimura?"

"Yukimura-san, no-"

"All dragon's know where other dragons live. So I assume you must know where the dragon holding Sasuke is!" The red warrior of Kai proudly inferred.

Kasuga slapped a hand to her face.

Masamune grew horns from his head.

"Sanada Yukimura...ARE YOU SAYING THAT I'M A DRAGON?"

Yukimura jumped back in fright, large brown eyes wide in surprise. "B-But you are, Masamune-dono."

"I'M NOT A LEGITE DRAGON YOU IDIOT FROM KAI!"

"So..." the brunette twiddled his thumbs nervously. "Will you help us find Sasuke?"


"That's it," Masamune said as he dragged Sasuke from his cell and threw him towards a shocked brunette. "Take this monkey, lock him in a cage, and leave. I never want to deal with this again."

Sasuke, unbinded from Kojuuro, flew into his danna and Kasuga with a stumble. "Itai! Watch it you crazy dragon!"

"Get out!" Oshu's One-Eyed had had enough. "GET OUT BEFORE I SET YOU ALL ON FIRE!"

The three didn't need to be told twice.


Masamune stood, panting harshly outside the door, still pissed even after the three had vanished.

And then Kojuuro, his ever loyal retainer staggered out the room. "I'm...alive..." he grinned, satisfied. "Out in less than seventy-two hours and alive-"

"KOJUURO!"

"M-Masamune-sama..."

The dragon knocked him upside the head. "Damn you! You will be punished! Punished! I'll give you a party like never before!"


A/N: SO yeah...the ending was really bad...but I was kinda rushing ^m^ Sorry!

And that concludes Sasuke's feelings. All shut down in a single chapter :}

PLease, criticism welcome! You guys never criticize me *^* er- constructive criticism that it hehehehe