Too Long

Disclaimer: I know you guys don't want to read this disclaimer, but I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!!! Hinata owns Naruto…hehehe.

Intro: This is the seventh chapter of Too Long. I know you probably hate me for that last cliffie, but it's okay, I'm updating now. So why did the mysterious man in the woods take Sakura? You'll find out very soon. Hope you enjoy!

Warning: There will be blood, lots of it.

Sakura awoke slowly a few hours later. She looked around to find that she was in a dark, unlit room with no windows and from her point of view, no doors either. That thought was vanquished when the wall to her left suddenly creaked open and a man came in. Well, at least she knew where the door was now.

A tall, burly man was all that Sakura could use to describe him since she was still purged in darkness. Suddenly, he moved and a click was heard before Sakura saw a small light emitting from a cigarette lighter. It came closer to her until it illuminated her face. Slowly, it traveled down the length of her body, the light deflecting off of her curves and giving the man a vivid image of what she looked like.

Sakura felt very vulnerable for some reason, and it was then that she realized that she was sitting against the stone wall in only her underwear. "Ah, 'tis a beauty you brought fer me this time, Suko," the man said before extinguishing the light. "How much fer 'er?" he asked, making Sakura's heart beat twice as fast. She let out a loud gasp causing the burly man and the shorter, stouter man that had entered afterwards to turn to her.

"Four thousand yen," the short one replied, blatantly ignoring Sakura.

"Four thousand?! You're outer yer' mind! I ain't never paid that much for a whore!" the taller one exclaimed. "Three thousand," he said in a commanding tone.

"Three and a half, that's as low as I'll go," Suko said, showing no fear in the face of the stronger man.

"Fine den. I'll take 'er," the tall one said, as he handed over the money and then moved toward Sakura.

He bent down to pick her up, and Sakura let out a powerful kick, hitting him in the stomach. The man backed off and said, "Ya' could've warned me she was feisty!"

"She just woke up, so I didn't know," Suko said with a shrug.

"Servio, get in 'ere!" the tall man yelled looking toward the door.

A taller, skinnier man came walking in. "Yes, Tova-sama?" he asked in a snaky voice.

"Get the girl," the tall man, now identified as Tova said pointing at Sakura.

"Gladly…," Servio sneered as he neared the pink-haired woman with a leather whip in hand. Without knowing what else to do, Sakura spiked her chakra all of a sudden so that if any ninja were near they could detect her, and if she were lucky, come to her rescue.

……

Sasuke had followed the tracks all the way to a mountain, where at the base of it, there was a rinky dink old building that had unattractive stone walls and reddish slats for the roof. It looked deserted from the outside but Sasuke knew better. The tracks led all the way up to the door.

Sasuke drew his sword as he ran for the door. Suddenly two big guys came running out of the building. When they saw Sasuke, they went to draw weapons, but Sasuke was upon them before they could finish their movement. Without giving either of them a second glance, Sasuke slashed his sword through the first and then turned it around and cut down the second man in a graceful figure eight motion.

He continued his rampage through the still-open door and followed the chakra signal through the underground corridors. Eventually he came to a room where he could feel the unusually high chakra signature of Sakura. She must've spiked her chakra to make herself more detectable.

He knocked the door in only to find three men, one of which was holding a whip, and his pink-haired travel companion, who had been stripped down to her underwear and had a large red stripe across her back. Anger suddenly fueled through Sasuke's veins as he looked at the girl, who had tears in her eyes as the tall, skinny man neared her with the whip in hand. He took it for pure instinct therefore, that his first reaction was to rush the man who was closest to Sakura.

He knocked him down by hitting him with his shoulder, and while the man was still flying through the air, Sasuke used his incredible speed to get behind him. He held his sword out and the momentum caused the man to fly straight into the extra-sharp blade of the Uchiha's sword. It sliced straight through his left side causing his blood to fly all over everything, including Sakura and Sasuke.

The other tall man rushed at Sasuke, who threw his sword down and grabbed his left wrist as lightning chakra began to pulse around his palm. As the naïve man continued his pursuit, Sasuke charged his attack. Once the man was within a few feet of him, Sasuke thrust his hand into the man's chest, and yelled, "CHIDORI!"

Once again blood spewed everywhere as the Uchiha's attack sliced through the man's heart. The third man made to run for it, but Sakura extended her foot and the unsuspecting man tripped. As he was trying to get back to his feet, Sasuke pulled his sword out of the first man and walked over to the third one. He bent down beside him and hissed, "Nobody hurts Sakura," before piercing his sword through the man's back, dealing a quick death blow to him as he had the others.

Sakura immediately rushed to him, wrapping her arms around his waist, and through her tears she managed to say, "Thank you."

Sasuke, not knowing what else to do, put an arm around her as she cried out her tears on his chest. They stood there for a while before Sasuke heard voices above them. "We have to go," he said quickly, realizing that he'd drawn attention to himself by making such a ruckus. He quickly grabbed a kunai and cut the ropes off of her wrists and put his sword back in its sheath.

Holding Sakura tight to him, he used a teleportation jutsu, causing them to arrive outside of the facility. "Come on," Sasuke said trying to drag the immobilized Sakura along with him.

"What about my clothes?" Sakura asked, trying to cover herself with her hands. Sasuke took off his cloak and draped it over her shoulders. Sakura felt a bit uncomfortable wearing the Akatsuki robe, but at least it covered her nakedness.

"You'll have to wear that until I can get you some more clothes," Sasuke replied as he once again grabbed Sakura's hand and ran away from the building where they heard a woman scream suddenly.

They sped up, trying to get out of sight before the people could find them. Once they got to the trees, they just kept running; Sakura followed Sasuke, hoping that he knew where they were going.

End: I had written about twice this amount but I thought that it was pushing it so I cut off the rest and this is what you get. Don't worry though! I'll probably update both chapters at once.