Redone:4/24/2012[mostly spelling]
Sasuke and Neji had made it to the sound boarder by night fall. The same place Sasuke had defeated Naruto and left. Sasuke could clearly remember the battle and remember that Kakashi had been their watching it. Sasuke went across the gap with Neji following silently behind. They had reached the grounds of the Sound Village. Sasuke inhaled a deep breath of air smelling the same nauseous toxic smell that made him want to puck. He could tell corpses were around the village masking any particular scent from nin-dogs, not that they had any to use.
They went in deeper. "Let's split up the sound is small, but not to small. It will take awhile to look through. Most likely their base is hidden and not that easily entered. Set up the talking devices so if if either of us finds anything suspicious we'll tell the other." Sasuke said. Pulling out the devices from his pack and handing on to Neji. They both strapped it around their necks and placed the listening device in their ear. Setting the frequency they split.
Sasuke took the searching the Western area which he need held most of Orochimaru's old traps and hide outs while Neji took the East. Sasuke ran through the decaying vegetation. Everything in the sound was dying. First it's people then the plants most likely animals were dying now with half already gone.
The movement of a bush drove his attention. He looked over seeing a small black kitten one much like the one his mother had shown him and told him about before he was even born. Though he was cautious he started to follow the cat as it went. Going around the dying trees and roots of the plants around them he made it to a waterfall that came to a pond. He saw the cat perch itself at the side of the pond on a rock and meow.
He went over and saw something a black hole. Most likely though his guess would lead him to an akatsuki base. Touch the button on his neck to activate the device. "Neji?" Sasuke said.
"You find something?" Neji's voice came from the ear piece in Sasuke's ear.
"Yeah try and find a river that leads to a waterfall. Not a large one, but a waterfall that goes into a pond. In the pond their should be a black hole. I think that's the entrance. I'm gonna go ahead and figure out how to get in. I'm gonna take off the talking device, so I can't help you anymore." Sasuke said.
"I already can see where you are with my byakugan. You can go ahead I'll be there as soon as I can." Neji said and the after that was alone static as Neji had switched his off.
Sasuke unhooked the strap and removed the ear piece. Putting it on the rock where the kitten sat he took a pouch of kunai's and suriken that would not be damage if they got wet and place it on his side. Take the deep breath of air he entered the water went straight under to the black hole. He easily slipped through finding a tunnel that seemed to glow from some sort of moss in the water, but he quickly ignored it and made sure to watch for a any strings of tags that could set something off. He found it odd that by the time he could feel air getting closer he had only seen about ten traps. Then again this was not a completely obvious hiding place and was well hidden.
He came to air and as he took in the much relieving oxygen he found himself alone. The hiding place was not elaborate and probably just a get away if you had ninja chasing you another reason why a large number of traps would not have been put and the fact of going through the water would cover the scent just like the corpses already did. He still remained cautious.
"NEJI!" The ear piercing scream of pain came from deeper within the cave and he knew it was from Tenten. He quickly went deeper not bothering to wait for Neji finding them was the most important thing at the moment. His footsteps were covered by Tenten's screams and explosions when he found the room Tenten's screams had stopped instead she was fallen to the floor in tears and burns on her body completely naked while Deidara the psychopathic boomer artist laughed.
"I knew this would be entertaining!" Deidara laughed out. Sasori sighed and looked at the Kyubi vessel that had to be stabbed into the ground on his arms and legs to keep from trying to safe the other ninja. Then at the Hyuga woman who kept to the corner her eyes glued shut and her hands over her ears to block out her friends screams.
Sasori smirked and strode over grabbing Hinata's wrists and removing her hands and causing her eyes to open in shock. "Deidara set off another one." Sasori said moving his body so Hinata could see as Deidara threw yet another clay figurine against Tenten's back then set it off.
Tenten's scream rang through the walls and entered Hinata's ears her eyes turning wide as Tenten curled up wanting to get away from the pain.
Sasuke clenched his jaw as he watched this. It was far beyond sick and twisted. It was disgusting on many levels and even more so by the fact that both Deidara and Sasori were amused by all of this. Sasuke knew the only way they could get away is if Neji came and he could get Naruto unpinned from the ground quickly. Sasuke forced himself not to look at Hinata knowing full well he would forget about waiting and wind up getting all of them killed.
So Sasuke forced himself to wait and listen to Tenten's screams and Hinata's cries to until Neji came to his side.
"You get Deidara and block his chakra use. I'll get Sasori." Sasuke whispered.
"I think it's time you started your puppet Sasori-dono." Deidara said smugly.
"Right." Sasori said and pulled a kunai out from under his cloak and sent it into Hinata's wrist where the veins gathered and he removed it allow the large flow of crimson liquid to pour.
Neji ran in first hitting Deidara's chakra points before he even figure out what was happening. Sasuke ran in next picking up the kunai's that kept Naruto from moving out as he rushed past and sent two straight at Sasori which were block the next to Sasuke planned not to waste as he rushed forward allowing himself to get stabbed in his left shoulder as he stood face to face with the remaining two kunai Sasuke had in his hand plunged into where his heart would be if he were human.
"How did you know where to hit?" Sasori strained to say as Sasuke continued to apply pressure against the point.
"I had my brother tell me a little about you all before I killed him. My name is Uchiha Sasuke." He said and smirked as a look of shock and anger came to Sasori's face.
"Damn Itachi" He said and collapsed before coughing up poison on to the ground instead of blood as Sasuke let him drop.
"Sasori-dono!" Deidara yelled and managed to blow Neji away with an explosive they had not seen in his hand and grabbed Sasori's body and left. "You'll pay Uchiha! Hyuga!" He yelled before a splash of water told them he was already gone.
They did not have time to run after them. Naruto was partially injured, Tenten was burned in multiple places and Hinata was still bleeding and unconscious.
"How are we gonna get out? That blond bastard took Sasori with him putting posion in the water." Naruto said.
"Neji how thick are these walls?" Sasuke asked.
"1 foot of pure rock. Explosives won't work if we brought them through the water." Neji said.
"Yeah, but this is an akatsuki base, so they should have a stock of explosives here." Sasuke said. "Naruto apply pressure to Hinata's wound I'm going to look around." Sasuke ordered and got up and left the small group.
Moving around the small base he had found no place that held supplies. 'Meow' The small sound made him look to his feet and see a white kitten that looked similar to his father's description of a cat he had saved when he was younger from starvation. He followed it and to his surprise it lead him to the supplies. He searched through and found the tags and went back forgetting about the cat. He found them still where he had left them with not many changes to the situation except that Tenten had stopped crying as much.
"I got the tags." He said and went to one of the cavern walls and stringed the tags together with string from his pack. He set the string as a detinator and backed away. He waited till he was back where everyone sat and far from where he had sent the explosive tags. Giving a jerk to the strings that explosions went off. Rumble flew, and smoke burst in the air. When it cleared they saw their way out.
Sasuke carried Hinata. Naruto had already healed thanks to his Kyubi chakra and Neji was taking care of Tenten. They found what Sasuke and Neji had left at the pond of their packs and took it and put medicine and bandages over the wounds and gave Tenten the extra set of clothes to wear. Naruto carried both packs. Neji had a still hysteric Tenten who still had not known she was pregnant before going on the mission and they all thought that it was best she did not know for now. Sasuke carried Hinata protectively meaning he got cautious and tense even if Naruto touched his shoulder.
They had set up camp after getting outside the Sound border and passing Naruto's and Sasuke's first major fight that was not stopped. Naruto went straight to bed after setting the tents up. Neji did as well, so Tenten went with him. Sasuke was to take first watch and would be the only one to check on Hinata so he held her in his lap as he watched the fire.
Sasuke only about after an hour was having trouble staying away. He felt something move against him and he bolted awake and watched Hinata stir in her sleep.
Hinata opened her eyes to see a black vest. She looked up and saw Sasuke. "Sasuke..." She mumbled.
"Hinata, are you OK?" Sasuke asked.
"Yeah. Guess were even right?" Hinata said and gave a light laugh.
"No. You owe me something." Sasuke said and smirked.
"What do I owe you?" Hinata asked.
"I'll tell you when your better just rest." Sasuke said.
"OK" Hinata said and went back to sleep.
