Author's Notes:
I am not the creator of Naruto, I do not own Naruto nor am I attempting to portray myself who owns the copyrights/production rights to Naruto.

Chapter 7

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"Captive"

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Naruto stood there in front of the mirror looking himself over. The blue pants were a perfect fit and matched the long blue sleeves of the shirt perfectly with the white high collar button up shirt on top. The short sleeves of the white shirt gave him maneuverability that he instantly recognized the usefulness of as he reached up to touch the scar on his face in a habitual manner.

"Sensei - where did you get these?" he asked "they are almost a tailored fit."

He straightened out his hair hearing his mentor form his words, which rang in his ears as his eyes locked into a stare on the mirror in front of his… "They were the Fourth's…" the Sennin confessed.

As if seized by a paralysis that threatened to erase those words, Naruto failed any attempt to move as he asked back, "The Fourth's….? You aren't lying, are you?"

Jiraiya simply shook his head, no.

"The Fourth's… I..am wearing HIS clothes?" Naruto felt feather light. "…so cool…."

Naruto continued his stare into the mirror, intent on taking in the fabric with his eyes as Jiraiya came to stand behind him.

"The resemblance is unnerving. But.. Naruto- I need to talk to you now." He said to his pupil.

"Sensei..? What is wrong?" Naruto asked looking at Jiraiya's face in the mirror, suddenly noticing a growing panic in the elder's eyes.

"I've just come from Tsunade's and she tells me there's been trouble. Several Chunnin were injured during a mission, one.. did not make it back alive…" he announced.

"Died? WHO?" Naruto whipped around to hear the answer, but Jiraiya had already turned his back towards him.

"This will be hard to hear, Naruto. She died before we got here..we should head to the hospi…"

"Died… wait.. WHO?" the Kyuubi host asked again as he broke into realization, "She?.. SHE? Sensei- I know you aren't talking about.."

"Sakura, Naruto. She is dead."

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It was a familiar feeling that delivered another adrenaline rush peaking through Sasuke's body as he rolled into a tumbling dodge onto the ground, hearing 5 shuriken hit the tree he hid in a split moment ago.

Continuing the momentum of the roll, he launched up into a run without hesitation hearing a kunai whiz past his ear, swish into some bushes to his right as he jumped back up into the trees, using the limbs to propel his chakra launches forward.

"Dammit! He's really fast!" he thought to himself as he ran straight up the trunk of the tree, choosing a point near the top to abandon this tree trunk for the next one over, picking up his pace for the run of his life.

"The run for my life…" he thought to himself, his heart racing, his eyes dashing far ahead, his mind trying to formulate some sort of plan to get away from his pursuer.

He couldn't use any techniques that would draw too much attention. The one chasing him was already equal in level with him.

Jumping down a branch, Sasuke risked a front flip in order to catch a quick look behind him. Coming out of the flip he felt his body hit another warming rush of adrenaline as he slammed out chakra from his feet and legs exploding him forward and the image of dark blue and grey-white clothing topped off with silver hair in a ponytail and black rimmed glasses whirred into his mind.

"Shit. He's really really fast.." Sasuke's mind ran through the inventory in his side bag. "Wire…Ok." With his right hand he reached into his side bag, pulling out two spools of wire.
Instinctively, Sasuke jumped down onto the ground, clearing out the chakra stored into his feet and legs and he quickened his pace into powerful bursts foreword.

No longer needing his hands to balance himself through the trees, Sasuke strung out 2 arm lengths of wire, using his teeth as a holder.
Grabbing a kunai from his leg holder, he quickly threaded the 2 wires through the end hole of the kunai with the spools themselves acting as stoppers on the other side.

Sasuke took a deep breath, focusing chakra to his eyes which created a sickening warm feeling of imbalance in his mind for a split moment, he released his sharingan and prepared his attack.

A fast jolt to the left he began a quickened run east- into what turned out to be the perfect opportunity for the attack.

Sasuke spun around suddenly, catching his follower's eyes with his, locking his gaze with the eyes behind the glasses that found themselves in a immediate standstill as the world began to shift.

The pursuer didn't have a chance to react as Sasuke released the dizzying effects of his strengthened genjutsu, drowning his captive in the full forced illusion.

Sasuke, seeing the reaction on the other's face which confirmed the results, began an insane run towards him.

He threw the kunai dead at the ground, the point sinking in to pin the spools between the metal loop and the dirt. Sasuke stomped his foot down on the loop, releasing a burst of chakra into the ground behind it, which drove the kunai further into the earth.

With that, he jumped up onto a branch above them, coming down behind it to land staring the back of his captive.

Still maintaining the genjutsu, Sasuke began to melt the world away from the now-victim as he used the wires to secure his unresponsive body to the limb above.

Like a pulley, Sasuke pulled the wires tight across the body which locked it against the bottom side of the limb, then gathering up the leftover wires and securing them in a melted ball of wire using his Katon fire-breath technique.

He confirmed the captive was indeed secure just in time to see he had dispelled the illusionary jutsu.

Breathing heavily, the captive looked at Sasuke who was standing below on the ground looking up at him.

"I think that was a bit unnecessary, Sasuke-kun" he panted.

"Well I can't have you chasing me like this, you know" Sasuke snorted back.

"I won't be able to get out of here easily with the way you've separated my hands… I guess forming seals is out of the question and using a chakra blade can't be done with my hands to my back.. you really kinda got me here, right Sasuke-kun?" the captive confessed.

"If I wanted to really get you, I could simply tear your eyes out, don't you think, Kabuto?"

Sasuke noted a sly smile across the other's face and he took to his escaping dash once again, leaving Kabuto firmly confined within the melted wire to the tree.