I Need You Tonight
Author's Notes: Once again I find myself on the other end of luck for my computer absolutely screwed up and my nearly finished Chapter 7, which was never backed up, deleted along with the deadly pop-up bringer.
This fact almost saddened me to the point of not wanting to update for a while. But alas, I decided I needed to attempt.
"I see you've awoken Sakura-chan." The person smiled, "I wouldn't suggest you try to move a lot, for once you arrived here; we've injected your legs with a special paralyzing poison...it'll last for another thirty minutes."
Sakura glared at the most unwelcoming site in the world, and spat at her captor between the bars. The man 'tsk'ed lightly and continued to smile at her. "Now now, Sakura-chan, play nicely or I will have to hurt you, or shall I call you Uchiha-san now?" He continued to mock her as she glared.
"You have no right to call me with such familiar terms Kabuto-san."
"Ah. So she does speak." He continued to smile, "But I suggest you learn that being rude will lead you to no where but death." His smile faded. "Orochimaru-sama needs your help and I believe that you are the only one who can help us."
Sakura gave him a disbelieving look. "And why would I help you? I'm sorry to tell you but it's hard to cure the dead." She made a "ch" sound, not unlike her own husband's mannerisms.
"Kekekeke…" Sakura slightly flinched at the maniacal sound. Her eyes widened, he couldn't be! Orochimaru was dead, Sasuke-kun killed him! But there was no mistaking it as she saw a figure in the dark move closer to her cell; she could barely make out Orochimaru's form. "Or else you will find yourself much like your roommate." He pointed to the left of her.
She shifted her eyes to the left and what she saw made her gasp. There was an eccentrically handsome man with long white hair and sunken red eyes. There were odd bones sticking out from his wrists, arms, and back. "What…what did you do to him?!"
She crawled to him, her legs becoming a liability as she tried to move closer to the edge of the cell to check on this ill-looking man.
"It wouldn't help Sakura-chan if you tried to heal him. Kimimaro-san has long been dead. Being preserved for more constructive reasons."
"You're sick, you're both sick." She was sick to her stomach as she eyed the corpse next to her. What kind of humans would do this to someone? But then again, Orochimaru was the last thing anyone could ever classify as human and Kabuto was just as worse.
"Aren't you being a little judgmental for someone in a cell, Sakura?" Kabuto chuckled as he bent down to stare at her in the face.
"You deserve each other, you fucked up, pedophile loving, four-eyed --"
"Now what did I tell you about your rudeness Sakura-chan?" Sakura scrunched her face up in anger and kicked him from behind the cell bars. "Ah…I see you've removed the poison successfully, which just proves why you would be the best person to help Orochimaru-sama."
"Why? Why should I help him? How did I even get here?" She demanded angrily, standing up, and crossing her arms in front of her. She looked around to where Orochimaru was standing and recognized the old boot next to the sannin.
"The scroll you had grabbed. Took about three weeks to create, but a brilliant weapon, isn't it? It's supposed to bring whoever touches it the place where the other magical link is held. And it led you to us."
Still confused but a plan forming in her mind, Sakura asked, "How did you get even get it?"
With a wide smirk, Orochimaru answered, "With magic."
Sinister laughter filled the air as Sakura charged chakra to her fists and legs, "HA!" She screamed as she broke through the cell, running towards the old boot. She let out another scream as she felt a wet tongue wrap around her neck, squeezing the life out of her.
The last thing she saw was Orochimaru smiling down at her as his tongue slides back into his mouth. "Now you don't think we would have let you go so easily, now did you Sakura-chan?…" and then her world faded.
Naruto looked frantically around the area, Pakkun, next to him. They were following Sakura's scent, but the closest thing they found was the rock where she sat when she rested.
"It's strange. Sakura's scent doesn't move any further than here." Pakkun explained to the blonde Kyuubi.
"What's that suppose to mean? She couldn't have just disappeared, it's not possible."
"I have an idea." Everyone turned to look at Shikamaru. He was sitting upon the rock where Sakura last sat before she disappeared, in his thinking pose. His hands interlocked with each other in front of him.
"I think Kiyoko mentioned something about Sakura examining something. That is the only thing that Sakura mentioned last before she disappeared." He explained, his eyes closed, "I believe, if we find out what it is, we might be able to figure out what happened."
They all stared at each other silently; trying to figure any clues that she might have told them. Suddenly, Sasuke remembered something written in one of the letters.
"Scroll."
Naruto turned around to face him, "Wait…what?" Sasuke glanced at him before replying, "That's what she called it. When you read your letter, she said that there was an old scroll located in the area where she was supposed to meet her client."
They continued to scan the area for more clues, "But…does any one know what kind of scroll it could have been?"
"I believe I know what kind of scroll it could be." The men turned to Kakashi, who was leaning calmly against a tree. "Remember the time when Sasuke, Sakura, Shikamaru, and you were participating in the Chuunin exams? When you were in the Forest of Death, or the second round, you were given out of two scrolls, Heaven or Earth. You were warned not to open it, many genin were told that if they were to open the scrolls before they had gathered both something dangerous and magical would happen."
"Magic!?" Naruto yelled, his eyes shining at the sound. "What kind of magic?"
Kakashi crinkled his eye at his former student, "Well it's not really magic, but the shunshin no jutsu that is stored within the scroll."
Shikamaru pondered the notion before speaking up, "So you're saying that Sakura had picked up and opened a transportation jutsu that is similiar to how Sasuke and you disappear in a cloud of leaves?"
"Ah! Right. Exactly so. However, it is difficult to get your hands on one of those scrolls. You either have to pay a hefty sum for one or wait about three weeks to create your own, and even then, you wouldn't know whether or not it would work as effectively."
Naruto raised his hand slightly, "Wait...but what is it? What kind of things did they use?" He furrowed his brows and gave his scalp a small scratch; needless to say, he was a little confused about the whole talk about magic and transporation.
Shikamaru was the one to open his mouth, "One would have to be a pretty powerful ninja..."
"Yeah? Then who would be powerful enough to create one...and who would have something against Sakura?"
Kakashi turned to Sasuke, "That's what we have to find out."
"Ugh…" Sakura moved to rub her eyes, only to find herself once again, paralyzed. "What? What happened?"
When she could finally open her eyes clearly, she found comfort in the face she saw looking down on her. "Sasuke-kun?"
"Aa." Sasuke brushed the piece of hair plastered on her forehead. "How are you feeling?" He smiled down to her.
"…I…I was with Orochimaru! He's not—"
"It's okay. It's okay. You're fine. It was just a dream. You're at the hospital." Sasuke replied as he smiled calmly down at her. He sat down in a chair next to the hospital bed, holding on to her hand.
"But...then why can't I move my body? He paralyzed me! He isn't dead Sasuke! He had me in a cell with this dead guy! Kimi—"
He covered her mouth, sighing softly, his eyes looking down at her sadly.
"You just had a bad dream. Orochimaru is dead, Sakura. Remember? It's alright. You're going to be okay. Tsunade said, I'll be allowed to take you back to the Uchiha manor tomorrow." Sasuke explained, speaking slowly so she could understand him better.
"The Uchiha manor? But Sasuke, we're getting a divorce! I don't live with you anymore! I was staying at Naruto's apartment before I went to go to my mission. Wait! My mission? What happened on my mission?! That's when I took the scroll and was transported to where Orochimaru was hiding!" Sakura cried out, her hands making various hand gestures as she sat up. Sakura paused, her eyebrows scrunching, she calmed down, sitting still as she observed her ...husband.
"We found you collapsed at the site where you were supposed to meet your client. The client found you and said that you probably collapsed from mental stress, and left. There wasn't a scroll there, when we found you?"
"…There wasn't a scroll there?" Sakura inquired.
"No. We didn't find anything suspicious or anything of the nature." Sasuke explained, a small smile appeared on his face, "I'm happy that you've calmed down Sakura." He said as he grabbed her hand and squeezed it gently.
Sakura smiled back at Sasuke as she removed her hand from his. "I'm happy too…but you're not my husband."
"What?"
"KAI!" Sakura yelled as the genjutsu faded and so did the vision of a smiling Sasuke at her.
Sakura sighed as she once again found herself in the cold cell, Kimimaro stilled slouched in the corner of the cell, dead.
"So you've gotten out of that genjutsu, Sakura-chan? I'm surprised, it was quite a difficult one and you've managed to get out of it…" He paused, "in less than thirty minutes. I hope you reconsider helping Orochimaru-sama; your skill will be greatly appreciated." Kabuto said as he saw her stir from her almost lifeless form in the cell.
"That was a low move." She replied as she crawled away from where Kimimaro laid. She leaned against the wall, this mental and physical struggle against Kabuto and Orochimaru was putting her through a strain.
Kabuto walked over to her, squatting down next to her, in front of the bars but not touching them, "Ah. Well, we had to take certain precautions now that you tried to break free from us. It was decided that the bars will continue to steal your chakra should you get too close or come into contact with them."
He turned away from her, walking towards where he previously sat. Sakura glared at him as she moved away from the bars. Cursing him and her luck, she brushed back the hair getting in her way roughly.
She buried her head in her hands; everything was just going to be fine. She just had to think of it calmly. There must be a way to get out of this jail. There must be a way to escape and find a way back to Konoha.
She breathed in deeply, trying to calm herself. If she ever got out of here, she would treat Naruto to ramen, all he could eat. If she ever got out of here, she would buy Tsunade a box full of that imported sake she enjoyed. If she ever got out of here, she would get Kakashi a new edition of Icha Icha. If she ever got out of here, she'd be nicer to Sai and not sucker-punch him every time he called her a hag. If she ever got out of here, she'd allow Ino to finally take her out on a girl's day out with the rest of the kunoichis.
And if she ever got out of here, she'd finally let her feelings for Uchiha Sasuke go.
"Let her out of her cell Kabuto-sssan. I have use of S-sssakura."
Shit! How the hell was she going to get out of this one?
Imeralt: Ahhh! Finally! Chapter 7 is DONE! REVIEW PLEASE!
Even though I'm not a good updater, which I apologize for, I still love reading reviews. :D
