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Zoro POV:

After not too long, we were at the gate. Shikamaru was already there. He looked a little surprised when he saw Sakura & I coming up together.

"Hey Zoro," he greeted. "You sure you're ready to be on a mission?"

"I'm fine!" I told him, rolling my eyes, "wish I didn't have to talk with that bastard though…"

"Why does he hate you?" Sakura asked.

"Well, everyone in Ore hates me," I bluntly stated.

"Why?" Shikamaru asked. "That's all you told me and Naruto as well."

"Maybe I'll tell you guys one day," I told them. Dang! They were all so nosy!

Sakura POV:

Zoro was very secretive. Was he not telling us 'cause he just didn't want to or because he was afraid of what would happen if he did?

"Ok…" I said, sort of disappointed. Just as I did, Kiba & Naruto walked up.

"Hi Shikamaru ,hey Sakura-Chan!" Naruto greeted me, then grumbled, "Zoro…"

Zoro POV:

Looked like he was still pissed…

"What?" I asked. "Are you still mad about that?"

"Hell yes I am! You are such a bastard!" he yelled. I sighed. That was how I was used to being treated. Well, if he then tried to kill me it would be.

"Whatever. We should get going," I stated, then began to walk.

"Do you know how to get there?" the boy who must have been Kiba asked?

"Well, I should, since I walked all the way from there to here," I told him.

Sakura POV:

After we'd been walking for about a day and were getting ready to set up a place for the night, Zoro stopped abruptly and asked, "What do you want?"

"What do you m-" he cut me off. "Not you! We're surrounded!"

"What!?" Naruto exclaimed. "How do you know?"

"I hear them," he stated. Personally, I heard nothing unusual and my hearing was pretty good. Just as I was about to tell him he was making up crap, I man walked out of the woods.

"I'm amazing you sensed us. Are you Roronoa Zoro?" he asked. Why did he want to know if Zoro was Zoro? Why did he care? Zoro remained perfectly calm.

"Yes. I am. Why do you care?" placing a hand on the hilt of one of his swords, he demanded, "leave… now." The man in front of us sighed.

"I can't. I've been hired to capture you and whoever you are with. My client wants to ask you a few questions."

"How would you capture us?" Zoro asked.

"Well, I'd start out with the 50 jounin surrounding you." 50 jounin? I had no idea anyone else was there.

Zoro began, "I was wondering when they'd show themselves," as he drew a sword. "ready when you are," he said as took out his 3rd sword and attacked. 5 men popped out from the cover of the trees and Zoro easily got through them. As I was watching, I didn't notice the man sneak up behind me. When I finally noticed him, I screamed. Too late, he had me.

The man laughed. "If you don't want the girl to die, turn yourself in Roronoa Zoro." I was pissed! Zoro & everyone else was gonna get captured because I had slipped up and gotten captured.

Completely against my expectations, (I hardly knew the guy) Zoro sighed and sheathed his swords. Everyone else just stood there. That was all I knew before I blacked out. The bastards didn't want us to know where we were being taken.

When I woke up a few hours later, my head was throbbing. We had all been brought into a dark cell and chain to the wall in an uncomfortable sitting position. After a time of sitting in silence, another man walked in.

"Hello," he said to all of us, though obviously focused on Zoro, "we want some information from the demon kid." Naruto immediately tensed up as did Zoro. "Roronoa Zoro, you'll be coming with me. And don't even think about trying to run away. You'd probably make it, but your friends would be left behind. I could easily kill them." Zoro looked royally pissed as the man unchained him and led him out of the room.

"So," I asked, "what do they want with Zoro?" No one seemed to have an answer. We were all silent for about ½ an hour, when the door to the cell was opened up. Zoro was thrown in, then the man followed. Why was Zoro not standing? Don't tell me they…

"Who want to tend to the boy?" the man asked, kicking Zoro towards us. Zoro let out a grunt, and we saw his back.

"Uh, I will," I nervously volunteered. I was the only med nin of the group, so it only made sense. Once I had been unchained, the man gave me a bowl of water, then spoke, "if you're a medical ninja, don't use your chakra to heal him. If you do, one of the others will suffer for it," he stated before walking out of the room. Every person in the room looked towards Zoro, worried expressions filling their faces. I took a deep breath before approaching Zoro.

"Zoro?" I asked, hoping Zoro was all right enough to be able to respond.

"What?" he grunted, his voice a bit hoarse. He was facing away from me, so I turned him over enough that his back was completely towards me before pressing the bowl to his lips.

"Your voice is hoarse. Take a sip," I ordered. He obliged. Then I began again, "Is your front all right?" If it was anything like his back, it was pretty bad. It would be worse though, since his front hadn't completely healed.

"Yeah, it's fine. He only hurt my back," Zoro told me, his pain evident, though not as much as I would have expected. I began washing off his back. "He whipped you…" I murmured as I cleaned off the lines on his back. Once I was done with that, I pulled out some bandages from my pack. At least I'd brought extra bandages for the wound on his front. If I hadn't, I wouldn't have been able to bandage him up.

"Here, let me help you up. I need to bandage you up," I told him.

"No," he argued. "I can get up on my own."

As he began to sit up, I put my arms around him and helped him up, leaving no room for protest. When I had finished wrapping him up, I helped him lay down again.

"So…" Naruto said, breaking the silence, "why did he do this to you?" All of a sudden, Zoro looked away, looking almost, nervous? "and why did you tense up when he said demon kid?" Naruto looked honestly curious.

Zoro finally sighed and stared towards the ceiling. "Well," he said, "it's the same answer for both."

When he offered no more information, I softly asked, "What is that reason?"

"Nothing," he murmured, and then said in a firmer tone, "I'm tired. I'm gonna sleep now," before nodding off, his head in my lap. We remained like this for a while before the guy who did this to Zoro walked in. All of us tensed up, and Zoro woke up.

"How are you all?" he asked in a too cheerful to be real voice.

"Cut the crap, bastard," Zoro growled. "What do you want?"

"Oh, just to talk to you," Zoro tensed as the guy said this, "and find out more about Santou." Santou? Wasn't that a demon? Why would he be asking Zoro about that?

"Well," Zoro began, "as I won't tell you anything, that would be useless." The guy was torturing Zoro to find out about some demon?

"Bastard!" I yelled, "Why are you asking him about some demon? He probably knows less than you do about it!" Zoro chuckled.

"No, I know more than most about it, but I also know, or can guess, who hired him to find out. I'd rather them not know," Zoro told me. Confusing…

"Who?" I asked. "Ore?"

"No. An organization you've probably never even heard of."

"Then tell me," I said, curious. "If we've never heard of it, why not tell us?"

"Because," he said, "Naruto probably has heard of them." Naruto knowing something I didn't? That wouldn't happen…

"What?" the bastard bellowed. "So you guessed I was hired by the Akatsuki? Correct. Why does it matter? There's never been a person I haven't broken. I don't intend for you to be any different." The guy then proceeded to chain us up again. As he did, I was secretly glad. He at least wasn't gonna hurt Zoro again. Once he finally left the room, I noticed that Naruto had a look of confusion mixed with disbelief on his face.

"So," Naruto began in a dazed voice, "when you said you understood, you understood perfectly. No wonder you knew when we first met that it was weird…"

"Yeah," Zoro said. "Don't tell though? Be glad the Akatsuki didn't know you'd be here too."

"Uh huh…" Naruto said softly.

Finally tired of having no clue what they were taking about, I burst. "What the hell are you 2 talking about!?"

"Well," Zoro sighed, "the same organization is after both Naruto and I."

"Why? That didn't answer my question. I figured that much out!" I asked, really annoyed.

"That's nothing you need to know, Sakura-Chan," Naruto said. "And Zoro? Is this why your village hated you?" When Zoro grunted his yes, Naruto responded, "Yeah, I was treated sorta the same way, but I finally made friends."

"Lucky you…" said Zoro, before dozing off again. It seemed Zoro had the ability to sleep anytime, anywhere. Now that I thought about what they'd been saying, I realized that Naruto had been an outcast when he was younger as well. Did that have something to do with their secrets?

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I hope you guys like this chapter! It's a little longer than my others.

Me: What do you think? Orderly answers please. Zoro first.

Zoro: You didn't actually tell my secret, but any fan of the show Naruto gets it Damn you!!!

Me: Um… next, before Zoro blows.

Naruto: Weird

Me: Thanks

Sakura: Why'd you hurt Zoro? And what the hell is the secret!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Me: You'll find out later!!!

Shikamaru: I'm barely in this chapter. You barely mentioned me and Kiba. What could that mean…

Me: No offense, but you two weren't important this chapter

Kiba: bitch…

Me: Don't worry Kiba, you'll never be a big character! R&R people! No flames please, but constructive criticism is appreciated. Also, ideas are welcome. They may or may not be used.