Act Four - Back to Sakura

I was slowly regaining consciousness. My lungs felt extremely tight as if my oxygen intake was limited. I coughed involuntarily, making my throat sore. I slowly opened my eyes and was faced with pure darkness.

I was confused for a moment. Where am I? I tried using my nose to see if I could smell anything familiar but instantly regretting it when the horrid stench of rotting bodies hit my nose instantly. I gagged violently and tried moving. My legs were free and able to move but my arms seemed to be held back by some sort of unique chakra cuff.

I tried to calm my breathing before trying to negate the chakra with my own. The chakra cuffs started to sting my hands and spread through my whole body but I knew that what I was doing was slowly working, so I'd have to endure this pain before I get out of these restraints.

I gritted my teeth and grunted slightly while exerting more of my chakra into the cuffs. The pain was slowly getting worse at first. But moments before I broke the cuffs a sudden jolt of electricity sped through my body.

"Urgh!" I shouted horsely as I remained my concentration on negating the chakra cuffs. After a short burst of excruciating pain the cuffs broke and I fell to the ground. The was a small splash as my feet hit the ground.

My lungs still felt limited to oxygen. So the cuffs weren't doing that...I winced at the sudden pain in my ribs. Oh yeah, that's right...I've been caught by the Akatsuki. My eyes widened slightly. They didn't kill me...That only means that they're keeping me for information about Naruto.

I tutted silently as I moved my hand over my wound. I quickly examined it and sighed in relief when I figured out that it was nothing critical. I started to heal it as I heard faint footsteps. Is there someone else in here with me? I tried to use my chakra to estimate how big the room was, but concluded that I must be in here by myself, It wasn't a big room at all. My wound had closed up as the rattling of keys were heard outside the room I was in.

I stood up and prepared myself. My legs felt sore but I could tell that the wounds had already healed by themselves, My right hand seemed to be damaged, so I couldn't use that hand to fight. My heart was pounding. I have nothing to lose now. They have my belongings so they'll have a list of every herb available to their desires around the border of the land of fire. They also have the herb they need for the antidote. So they only need information from me now. So if I die it won't matter to them...But they don't want me dead so I could play that into my advantage.

The door opened widely and I adjusted to the brightness that invaded my eyes. After a second I saw a silhouette at the door and rushed towards it with my left fist pumping what remaining chakra I had left. I roared as I landed a hit on the figure, which hit the back of the wall, causing it to crack and I heard their skull crush as it came into contact with the wall. My whole body was in pain but I'm not prepared to give up. I mean, what would Naruto think? I refrained from sneezing and rushed out of the room and decided to go left without looking at the person who I attacked.

There seemed to be loads of doors that looked like mine. Where exactly am I? This place reminded me of Orochimaru's hideout...layout wise at least. I sprinted forwards, hoping to find and exit, although the best I could find was stairs leading to the next floor.

I jumped up the stairs hoping to find some sort of sign of an exit. It wasn't long before I entered a huge room full of dull colours and a small amount of posters. I ran past a group of people. I quickly took a glance to my left and saw that some members of the Akatsuki were in casual clothing eating, what seemed like, breakfast.

Before I could reach the door at the end I heard one of the members stand up from table.
"Hey!" He shouted with a mouth full of food. I smirked slightly before noticing that the door was locked. It looked like a standard lock so I prepared my left side with a small barrier of my chakra as I effortlessly barged through the door. I could see light coming from a few metres ahead of myself. That must be the exit.

I smiled slightly to myself. I could make it out of this situation after all. I sprinted faster towards the exit, being careful not to trip on anything. My eyes adjusted to the natural brightness of the outdoors. It looked as if it was raining, but the fresh smell was such a pleasant one to experience after being held up in that room for who knows how long.

I was slowly getting more and more out of breath so I started panting. I was so close to the exit before something grabbed my ankles and pulled me back harshly. I squealed slightly as I braced myself for a harsh impact. I managed to prevent and damage to my head but both my arms landed on the ground with enough force to break my wrists.

Before I could even think of trying to escape whatever was around my ankles, I got pulled back. I turned my body around to face the huge room I just passed. I cried inside. I could have gotten away...If I didn't let my guard down for that split second I could have avoided the attack and slipped away...Not that I could have gone very far with the physical state that my body was currently in.

"That was naughty." I looked to my right to see Hidan. I scowled at him while being pulled closer to the table the Akatsuki were around. I've seen how Kabuto used his chakra as a scalpel blade, so it wouldn't hurt to try, right? I focused my chakra into my hand and slashed at the tendrils around my ankles, wincing at the pain of my broken wrist.

I shocked myself to see that it worked. I was about to get to my feet but more tendrils wrapped around my whole body and pulled me harshly above the table. I looked to my right and could see the masked man behind the attack. He had eyes a few shades away from my own and had an eiree feeling about him.

He hung me upside down in the middle of the table and I stared blankly at him.

"Stop playing games," a voice bored behind me. I was going to try and face him but I knew I was only going to make myself look like an idiot. Instead I focused on healing any small wounds that I had, that didn't include my broken wrists.

"Well," Deidara started, I looked at the seat next to the tendril guy. Deidara's face seemed extremely smug, which was something I didn't like. "We were going to collect you just now...Where is your escort?" He questioned playfully. I smirked slightly.

I head foot steps enter the room dragging something that sounded heavy. I looked over at the entrance and saw Kisame dragging a limp body behind him. I didn't recognise the person he was carrying but they were definitely dead...they must have been a mere civilian. I frowned slightly.

"Ah," He started before looking up at me. "I was about to inform you about a dead person in the hallway. His skull is broken and he's pretty much dead." He stressed the last word and dumped the dead body on the ground. I felt sick. I could feel the colour going from my skin...I just killed a weak civilian. I held the strong urge to throw up and concentrated on breathing deeply.

"What a waste..." A heard a soft female voice from behind me. I sighed quietly.

"If you let me go then I wouldn't have to go and kill everybody," I started while I sharply darted my eyes in the masked guy's direction. "You'll be next." I threatened. His eyes turned into a harsh glare as he tightened the tendrils wrapped around my body.

"You'll watch your mouth, weak kunoichi." He teased as I gritted my teeth. I resisted the urge to yelp in pain as the tendrils tightened further.

"Watch out," Deidara started while raising his arms up. "She's pretty strong you know, she did kill my partner after all." He playfully chuckled. I struggled harder for my breath.

"I'm going to tend to late business. I'll be off." the female voice said before standing up and leaving the room. I was hoping to get a glance of her face. But she left the room from what seemed like a different exit.

Kisame walked towards the table and started to lean his face closer to mine while smiling menacingly. I didn't have any energy to speak to him to tell him to back off.

"So, how was Sasuke?" He asked. I felt the tendrils getting slightly looser. I looked at him in a confused manner. Why would he want to know about Sasuke?

"So, how about I punch your face in when I get out of these restraints?" I hissed back. He smirked further and leaned back.

"Suit yourself." he said before turning around to look at the masked guy. I felt the tendrils unwind from my body and I had to quickly react and land on my feet on the table. I'd just about healed my body enough to move swiftly, everything other than my right arm was ready to use easily.

Kisame didn't give me a second before he reached his arm out to try and strangle me. This was perfect for what Neji taught me a while back. I dodged his hand and used my left arm to touch a pressure point in his arm with a good bit of force.

He gritted his teeth and his once light expression had turned serious. I jumped off the table and contemplated on running towards the exit. I saw that a weird green man was blocking the way. I sighed inwardly before looking around to find some sort of weapon laying around. the best I could find was a rusty looking salmon knife on the counter...behind the table.

Kisame span round on the spot and ran towards me with his sword ready in his hand. I waited until he was a good few metres from me until I started running. He swung his sword violently. I slid underneath him just in time. A few millimetres of my hair cut off along the slide though.

I sprinted for the knife and I could feel that Kisame was hot on my trail, so I quickly picked the knife up in my left hand and I had to jump off the wall and and strike in the direction of his face. He had to dodge it and hold the sword behind his back to avoid my attack completely.

I held the sharp end of the knife and threw the handle at Kisame. He looked at it confused as to why it wasn't the sharp end facing him. I took this opportunity to speed towards him and landed a strong punch to his face with my right fist. His head seemed too stubborn to turn to left to prevent any more pain...but I guess my punch would have made more damage if my wrist wasn't broken...and he knew that himself. I could feel a small amount of bones shattering in my hand as I pulled my fist back and stood in front of him.

"I give up, You want a fair fight, wait until I'm fully healed and rested." I said while hovering my left hand over my my right wrist Kisame looked down at me and glared. He held his cheek and walked back over the table.

"While you are here you will address everyone as master, Understood?" I turned around and saw an orange headed guy, who kinda reminded me of Naruto but with loads of piercings, had stared at me plainly into my eyes. I simply scoffed.

"Over my dead body." I hissed. He seemed to be losing his patience. His eyes narrowed at me.

"You do understand what position you are in? You might not die here, but I can make you feel like you're being killed in the worst ways ten thousand times over. So lose the attitude." He said plainly. I sighed before looking over at the table.

I stood there awkwardly with wide eyes. Should I sit down with them, there was a spare seat next to the ginger dude but am I even allowed to sit there? Even if I was allowed I wouldn't even want to. I mean, who eats breakfast with their enemy? I certainly wouldn't want to. Personally, I'd rather starve to death.

"Sit." His voice made me jump slightly from the suddenness. I hesitantly walked over to the seat next to him and sat down. My body was extremely tense as I looked round the table slowly. Am I really sitting around a table, about to eat food, with the Akatsuki.

I started to get a bit light headed before Deidara stood up.

"What do you want to eat?" He asked reluctantly. I looked over at him and stared at him for a while.

"If I'm eating then I'd rather cook for myself." I stated, trying to sound polite...but not?

"We can't trust you to cook in case you add in an extra ingredient that can kill you." Deidara responded before walking over to the oven. "I'm cooking you what we had. I cannot be fucked waiting for what you want to eat, sorry for trying to be polite." I raised an eyebrow before looking around the table. Everyone was going about their business as usual, which irritated me somewhat.

My eyes roamed slowly at each member of the Akatsuki until they eventually met with Itachi's crimson ones. I didn't know what to do, should I just look away? They were drawing me in somewhat. He stared at me a little longer before looking down at his plate of food. I smirked slightly. I won that little stair off.

"I'm not here to play mere games, Haruno." He muttered. No one else seemed to take any notice of what he said. I sighed as a hot plate of food was served infront of me. I looked at it in shock. It didn't looked burned at all, even some of the best hotels in Konoha have at least one thing on their plate burned.

"Are you a vegetarian..?" I turned around to face Deidara. His body was still leaned partially near the table from setting the plate down. I stared into his eyes for a moment. A tint of pink dusted my cheeks as I stroked a strand of my hair out of my face.

"N-No, definitely not," I started while turning around again. "Thank you." I thought I'd had to at least be polite, kind actions aren't to be taken so lightly if they're genuine... I felt a nudge at my side. I looked over to see the ginger dude glaring at me. I gagged on my own words before they even left my lips. "Master." I said somewhat in a harsh tone. I looked back over to my food and my heart just dropped.

I'm not going to get out of here any time soon...Lady Tsunade will be extremely disappointed in me.


O-O Glad this chapter is all over and done with D: I think the layout of these chapters will flick between Sakura and someone from the Leaf village . Just so I give myself more Idea's as to what I can do with the story :3 Also

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