I'm Sooo that it took me so long to update on this story! I was working on my oneshot... and the oneshot was long for me... Again I apolagize for how long it took me, hope that this chapter makes up for it though!
Okay last chapter was... rough, not the best and I want to make it up to you guys. I want to make my chapters a bit longer, I'm making that a goal of mine.
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"Shinji!?" Naruto and Sasuke said in unison. What? Who the hell is Shinji? I looked over to where they both had their eyes glued. A man on the bar stools looked over at us.
The man was young but older than us, he had dark hair with a tint of green in it. Wow I'm not alone in the strange hair color department! It was rather short but curled right around his ears. He had a bit of stubble on his chin and his eyes looked almost red, who has red eyes freak... anyway, they looked at us with a hint of amusment in them. So... that was Shinji?
"Sasuke... Naruto... I've been waiting for you guys... and your little friend." Wait what? He wanted to see me too? He had said he'd been waiting for us... just who is this guy? I was having a mini panic attack by now, in case you guys didn't get that...
Naruto had a look of panic across his face while Sasuke looked angrier than I could've ever thought he would be. "Shinji... What the hell are you doing here!" Sasuke shouted his voice shaking from his now known furry. That shout was enough to get everyone quiet in the cafe, now everyone was staring at us.
Shinji smiled like nothing had just happened and that this sort of attention was normal. He got up off his bar stool and took a few steps towards us. Naruto and Sasuke immediatly took a defensive stance and that only made Shinji's smile grow widder. Soon he was cracking up like Naruto's panic and Sasuke's anger was the funniest shit he'd seen in his life.
"It's been a while hasn't it?" He casually stepped closer still making the three of us in turn take a few steps back. "Sasuke, Naruto, you missed me didn't you-"
"Shut up Shiji! I asked you a question, what the fuck are you doing here!" His voice was deep but raised as he clenched his teeth at Shinji. What was going on? Shinji had said that it had been a while and obviously they know him and OBVIOUSLY this guy was an enemy, but why? What did he do?
My head was buzzing with questions but even I knew better than to ask.
"I told you Sasuke... I was waiting for you guys." Shinji shrugged. Then he sighed almost annoyed at the fact that he had to repeat himself. This guy... I don't know what it was but suddenly I got this vibe... I was never one for voodoo stuff, but I knew it wasn't a 'normal' feeling, he wasn't a 'normal' bad guy... there was something special about him... I wasn't sure I wanted to find out.
"Why..." Sasuke said through gritted teeth, clearly annoyed.
Shinji had another low laugh and sighed in amusment. "Tsk tsk, Always were impatent Sasuke. What about you Naruto? You haven't said much. What's your take on my arrival?" Everyone looked over at Naruto his panic look calmed down a little more and replaced with a bit of hate.
"You'd better tell us why the hell you're hear Shinji!" Naruto clenched his fists.
Shinji sighed somewhat dissapointed. "Aw, The Uchiha has gotten to you hasn't he? Such a shame..." He shook his head and closed his eyes.
"I had such hopes for you Naruto, Sasuke messed you up-"
"Shut up! You don't know what the hell you're talking about Shinji! You don't know anything!" Naruto was angry now. Didn't know what!? I was so confussed...
"Now now, we've attracted quite a lot of attention, why don't we take this somewhere else?" Shinji suggested with that coy smile still on his face almost like he'd won something.
Sasuke calmed down and looked a little disturbed almost like Shinji was speaking some kind of code and Sasuke understood what it meant and that that something was bad. REALLY bad. Sasuke looked over around at the people that had been staring at us now the whole time, wide eyed, like he'd just noticed them all now.
I could faintly hear Naruto curse under his breath like he understood the same code Shinji was speaking. Why was I always so out of the loop? It was very uncomfertable for me...
"Well, what do you say boys, sweetheart," Refering to me, " Lets get a move on." Shinji stated as he walked right passed us and to the door, we stayed put. I could feel the air get somewhat lighter as the bell rang signaling that he had walked out.
I let out a breath that I didn't even realize I was holding and looked over at Sasuke and Naruto.
Sasuke's head was down and his fist were clenched at his sides in frustration. His bangs were covering his eyes and his body was visably shaking in anger. Naruto Just stood there looking at the ground his brow furrowed deep in thought and worry. Slowly Sasuke lifted his head and turned it in the direction that Shinji just left in.
I gasped.
The same blood red eyes that he had explained to me as the Sharingan swirled in his eyes faster than I would've thought imagenable. In furry. In rage. In unexplainable anger as he shook with it all. I'd never seen Sasuke like this.
It scared me honestly. Terrified, was a better term to use for the frear I was feeling when I looked into those murderous eyes.
It was almost like I was hypnotized by that bloody gaze even though it wasn't directed to me, and I imagened my eyes were wide as ever and my mouth agape. Naruto was the one to snap both Sasuke and I out of our mezmorized state.
He reached his arm and layed in on Sasuke shoulder, trying to comfort him. Sasuke jerked surprised and turned his heated gaze to Naruto. Naruto didn't even flinch. I imagen that he'd probable delt with this enough times that he was used to it. Angered Sasuke that is.
When Sasuke saw the pleading look in Naruto's blue eyes he relaxed. He sighed and closed his eyes reliesing the tight knot that his brow was making and unclenched his fists. When he opened his eyes again they were back to the same deep chacole color that I was used to. I also realaxed a little seeing that Sasuke had been calmed.
Thank goodness.
"We have to go." Naruto said suddenly in a soft whisper so that no one around us could hear. The croud that had gathered to watch the little scene in the Cafe had broken into worried and somewhat terrified whispers about what this little frey could have possibly meant. I had no clue either.
Sasuke, though looking disturbed by the idea of going after Shinji, nodded once and looked up at me for the first time since we'd gotten there.
"Sakura, I know that you're confused right now... I'll explain later though okay? Just come with us and don't leave my side." Though I was still a little shaken up by this whole thing I maneged a small nod.
He smiled at me a sweet comforting sad smile and reached for my hand. I laced my fingers in his and we silently walked out of the Cafe ignoring the still continueous stares that we were reciving from the coustomers. I was glad to know Ayame. She could be somwhat helpful to the police if they found three bodies near by. Two men and one woman.
Maybe I was just exagerating about the whole thing. But if Shinji was able to get Sasuke that pissed off and Naruto that worried. It had to be close to that bad, and I was glad that I could take that procaution for Ayame as a whittness.
When we stepped outsied Shinji was no where to be seen and though it was a bit of a shock to me it seemed as though Naruto and Sasuke expected it. I tried to calm myself. Sasuke had said that he'd explain to me later, so that meant that there was going to be a later. At least I could count on that much.
I hadn't noticed that I was shaking until I felt Sasuke grip my hand tighter. I looked up to meet his worried eyes, scared shittless of the whole situation and dispite that Sasuke managed another smile and he leaned down to kiss me in comfort. I kissed back only to pull away when I felt the wetness of tears streaming down my cheeks.
"Sakura?" Sasuke's concerned voice asked curious as to why I was crying.
"My life wasn't perfect. But livable..." I choked out through the sobs now racking my chest and throat. "And now, I don't know what's going on anymore... nothing's right and nothing... nothing makes sence!" I yelled trying to get whatever emotion was wrapping around me at the moment, out of my system.
Sasuke pulled me to his chest in a tight hug and I burried my face in his shirt, letting the tears freefall down my face even though they were soaking his shirt. I let it out. What exactly, I had no freaking idea and that only lead to frustration.
"I'm so sorry Sakura," He rubbed his hand up and down my back trying to sooth me. "I wish that this could have happened to anyone else... you don't deserve this..."
Seriously! Since when did I deserve this! Karma, sweet karma that I believed in seems to not like me very much. I steal one paper clip from my teachers desk in sixth grade and now I have rouge ninja after me trying to kill me for some unknown document from my newly discovered uncle that I never knew I had... stupid paper clip...
"So does this mean you're coming then?" Came that sly voice... I wish I could punch that voice in the face...
Sasuke Naruto and I turned around to see that son of a bitch Shinji, it was like he came out of no where. I did NOT like this guy, a creep and sneaky? A deadly combonation that spells several differend things-
-stalker-
-rapist-
-murderer-
-drugy-
-or all of the above-
I clung tighter to Sasuke and Shinji's eyes seemed to fill with some sick amusment. Bastard...
"Where do you want us to meet you...?" Both Sasuke and I flinched slightly at Naruto's sharp tone and his suggesetion that we were indeed going along with Shinji's stupid sick twisted plan... whatever the hell that was...
A snake like smile passed over Shinji's lips and a dark laugh followed.
"I'm glad you're going to coaporate. This makes things SO much easier..." Shinji walked forward to an average looking car and opened the door. He motioned his hand to Sasuke's car, "Shall we?"
Though it took all three of us a minute we responded and briskly walked toward Sasuke's car.
"Just follow me." Shinji said with that sick smile still on his face. I cringed.
Sasuke scoffed but none the less complied and got into the car after Naruto and I. I think that I was still shaking slightly but it wasn't our main concern at the moment...
Shinji's car pulled out of the parking lot of the cafe and into the road of this small part of town. Only a few meters behind, Sasuke followed with his car.
Once I couldn't see Shinji's face anymore I felt more relaxed.
People had given me the creeps before but for some reason Shinji was the worst... I couldn't understand why... Was he somehow connected with the man that tried to kill me?
"Sakura..." It was Sasuke's voice that broke my thoughts. "Shinji... he's... bad news..."
I rolled my eyes dispite the seriousness of the situation, "Yeah?"
"Sakura I'm serious." My eyes looked at his blank dark ones as the watched which way Shinji's car drove carefully. His brows were furrowed and his shoulders were tense.
"Okay... so whats the profile on this guy... how does he know you and Naruto...?" I asked tired of waiting.
Sasuke sighed and Naruto stayed quiet in the back seat, like he was deep in thought.
"Shinji was one of Naruto's and my comrads back when we were Chunin... He was a good friend but I guess we always sensed something was off about him... like he was hiding in plain site... It's hard to explain." Sasuke took another deep breath.
"A few years ago, about the time that Reki became a rouge... Shinji dissapeared... We thought that maybe they were connected but none of us had ever seen the two talk... never even together really. We didn't know what to make of it... That is until we found out that Shinji was taking secret meetings to the village of the sound."
"What's with the village of the sound?" I asked. I don't know anything about all this ninja stuff...
"The village of the sound holds one of the most rouge, evil, bastards that's ever walked to face of the earth with the power of jutsu..." Naruto finally spoke up.
"Who?" Sounds like a bad guy...
"Orochimaru..." Sasuke said almost quietly.
"That sick bastard is one of the worst ninja to have ever lived. I mean worst as in the bad guy, evil, in ninja rank... he's one of the best." Naruto stated.
"That's what makes him all the more dangerous..." Sasuke added. "We'd done some detective work on Shinji's dissapearence and peiced together that he had gone to see Orochimaru quite often. Sooner or later we figured that we should send a squad or two out to the sound village to further investigate, get some solid evidence before we fully accused Shinji."
"Sasuke-Teme and I were a part of one of those three squads that were chosen to go." Naruto said all the while I stayed quiet, listening.
"We got to see him... face him and battle in person..." Sasuke frowned sadly, and sighed. "It was... enthrilling... but terrifieing all at the same time." Naruto was in the back staring off into space like he was thinking of something. Like he was reliving the battle in his head. I shudderedd at the thought of facing on of those ninjas again.
Reki scared the crap out of me that time he attacked me in my bedroom, I couldn't imagen 'one of the best' in a battle.
"Even with all of our men... only six survived." Sasuke almost whispered as we took a right turn, we were still following Shinji's car.
"Shinji was there when we got there though, only Sasuke, Yatcha and I saw him along with only two other men on our squad." Naruto continued. "He killed the two other men as one of Orochimaru's sort of body gaurdes... the rest were facing Shinji's sort of commrads and died when we reached Orochimaru."
"Well how did you get passed Shinji withought killing him? And who's Yatcha?" I asked a bit confused. We made a sharp turn up in a part of town I'd only been too once or twice.
"Yatcha is a good friend of ours that was assigned to be one of our group members, we've known him since we were in the acadamy, very young." Sasuke answered.
"Oh... and the other question?" I asked.
"We battled him for a long while... we wasted most of our energy on fighting Shinji, part of the reason that we lost so badly to Orochimaru, though I have no doubt we'd've lost to him anyway, it was still a burdon, and took a lot of fight out of us."
Sasuke continued. "Eventually though, Shinji knew that just him and two others- he was still outnumbered even though he'd killed two men. He'd betreyed the village in the worst way- and then abandoned his two comrads to our destruction when he dissapeared yet again during our battle."
"This Shinji guy sounds like an asshole..." I said childishly.
Sasuke and Naruto laughed lightly at my comment. Sasuke reached his hand over the seats and grabbed mine. I let our fingers lace together not too shyly and looked up at his smiling face.
"Yeah, he really is." Naruto was still chuckling.
"I still have one more question." Sasuke and Naruto went silent telling me that I had their attention. "What did Orochimaru do that was so bad?"
They sat in silence for a few more seconds, like they were remembering something bad. I waited.
"Not only was Orochimaru a rouge at a young age... He... He was one of the worst known murderers in the entire world." Sasuke said just above a whisper.
"Well... that's what ninjas do... right?" I asked a little confused.
"Absolutely not!" Both said at the same time. I was a little scared at that reaction, not what I was looking for.
Sasuke's eyes must have seen my frithened expression because his eyes softened and he gripped my hand a little tighter. "I'm sorry." Then he grabbed my hand and brought it up to his lips to kiss gently while still peeking at the road.
"It's just..." Naruto started.
"It's just that, we consider murder... Murder in our deffinition is killing without a rashinal reason. What we ninja of the hidden leaf village and the rest of the hidden villigas do, is like... like protection... in a way thats more..." Sasuke sighed clearly frustrated in trying to explain it to me.
"It's sort of like defence. You know, if someone is attacked and the attacker has cuts and bruises, the attacked don't get procicuted because it was clearly self defence?"
I nodded. "Well, it's almost like that, but we're in more of a war... Instead of pure self defence-which most of the time it is- we also do a matter of kill before they seriously damage us. Orochimaru simple kills... not for the 'right' reasons... but... it's like he's just knocking out chess peices to get to the king... It's bruttle the way he goes about it though."
"For those that survive his sick twisted games of testing- he takes them as his experiments... his pawns." Sasuke slightly shuddered.
"So what you're pretty much saying was that, ninja of your guys's standards or type killed only when nessisary and he kills for his own games?" I put it as simply as possibal.
"Yeah..." Sasuke laughed out lowly.
"When he escaped the village no one knew where he was," It was Naruto speaking. "But when we did find him, he had collected rouges all over the- well I don't know, world! With those ninja... he distroyed and took over an entire village."
"The sound village?" I asked putting the peices together.
"Exactly." Naruto half smiled.
"So bottom line, Shinji was working with Orochimaru... betrey our village, killed some of our men... and we haven't seen him since. I somehow always figured he was alive though... I just knew somehow..." Sasuke said, finishing this story.
"I think somehow we all knew Sasuke..." Naruto commented.
"He's slowing down." Sasuke said lifting his chin up to suggest our direction.
I looked up and out the perfectly polished- or was it washed- win-sheild and noticed something intiresting... I had no idea where the hell we were! We had to have been in the same town, the style of the little houses and shops were the same.
Or should I have said what was left of thos buildings. They were all abandoned and the further we drove on the more the houses dissapeared. Soon we were out in a sort of feild driving on a dirt road.
We were all silent in the car as we knew that Shinji's car ahead of us would soon come to a stop and whatever he had wanted from us... or rather Sasuke and Naruto, I was a bit scared.
Shinji scared the living shit out of me! Honestly, I'd rather face that Reki guy 100 times over than to face Shinji just once.
There was an open clearing up just a few yards away though you could just bearly see it through the tall grass that outlined it. This place was remote and hidden, I had a feeling that there was a reason for that...
Shinji's car stopped just before the enteryway to the clearing and Sasuke slowed the car to where it was bearly moving as we watched shinji step out. Shinji then turned to us and motioned for us to park right behind him.
Sasuke sped up the car only a little bit only keeping his eyes off of Shinji for small moments at a time until he was directly behind Shinji's car and he pulled the shift into the P.
The air in the car was intense as Sasuke and Naruto had a little showdown stare with Shinij. I dared to only look up once to see Naruto's furrious gaze and Sasuke's look that could most likely kill. When I looked over to see Shinji's look it was that same smile of amusment that graced his thin lips, his eyes however peircing, almost like that of a snakes.
After my quick glance to the three of them I qickly but quetly shifted my head down toward my dirted up shoes and bit my bottom lip, waiting for someone to do something.
Seriously, the intensity of the moment was choking me. I had no idea what this Shinji guy wanted from us, and apperently Sasuke and Naruto didn't either. I knew who this guy was now, why he was so bad. What could he possobly do now?
With a heavy sigh Sasuke finaly unstrapped his seat belt and opened the door almost breaking it off the hinges. Naruto was quick to follow out the side back door and I was a little hessitent.
"Sakura." Sasuke's soft voice called to me. It was quite comorting to hear him say it so gently, any louder and I think I may have had a spazz attack then and there!
I looked up to see his gentle onyx eyes staring at me in a pleading way. He wanted me to get out of the car.
I did as his eyes told me to, nodding to him while gulping down hard. I pushed the passanger door open after un buckling myself and slowly stepped around the car to the other side where Sasuke and Naruto were, only a few feet away from Shinji.
The only sound that filled this quiet little space before the clearing was the sound of my shoes shuffling slowly along the dirt path as I made my so small journy, though it seemed so much longer.
When I finally reached Sasuke's side I had the urge to latch onto him but I knew that in this tense air that probably wasn't the best thing to do.
"Follow me." Shinji stated mocing slowly off the dirt path and out into the clearing. Once we were a few steps away from him we began to move, I only after Sasuke and Naruto.
I had my arms wrapped around myself as the sun had already began to set and a light breeze had creeped its way through the tall green brown grass, making it dance smothly. I tried to focuss myself on the sceanary rather than the back of the three others heads.
When I noticed Them all stop I looked up at Shinji turning half way around and give us a cocky smirk.
"Why did you bring us here..." Sasuke said dangerously with the same emotion that filled his voice back in the cafe. Though I couldn't see Sasuke's face, only the back of his head, I remembered the red eyes that he had and the scowl on his face when we had encountered Shinji first.
My arms tightened around me when I saw Sasuke's fists tighten at his sides and Naruto spit in the dirt in descust.
"Like I said, it's been a long long time since I've seen the two of you. The battle was the last time right?" He asked now fully facing us, his head cocked to the side in dumb confusion.
"Yeah." Naruto said, every intention on harsh sarcasam.
"Seems like so long ago..." Shinji stated simply now looking up at the sky.
"There is more reason to this than 'it's been a long time' Shinji. Why did you bring us here, I'm done playing stupid games with you!" I flinched at the tone of Sasuke's voice. I really hoped that I never got Sasuke that mad.
"I heard word of your... mission." When he said the last word, Shinji looked directly at me and I took half a step back. He chuckled lowly at my cower.
"Heard word? It's... secret." Sasuke said confused.
"Well obviously not as secret as you think!" Shinji laughed.
"Agh, what do you want with Sakura?!" Naruto blurted angrily.
Shinji stopped his laugheter though the smile never left his face and he looked at Naruto, "Not so much of what it has to do with her as much as what I want to use her for..."
"You will NOT be using Sakura for ANYTHING!" Sasuke almost screamed.
"Tsk tsk, defensive huh Uchiha?" Shinji smiled.
"I'll put it simply. I want what's in that file." I froze.
Could this be the same file that Sasuke had said Kai wanted me to open? The same Untitled file that I needed to get back to Sasuke's village to see? It had to be since he mentioned my use.
"H-how do you know... what's in the file..." My voice was like a small mouse and I couldn't really believe that it had come from me, I'd never been that quiet before.
Shinji snickered at me and sighed in amusment, again...
"That's what I'm wondering..." Sasuke added.
Shinji tilted his head back and rotated it on his shoulders popping it effectivly. I shuddered slightly. "Again not as secret as you seem to think."
Sasuke's fist tightened and I stepped forward to cling myself to Sasuke's arm. When he looked down at me his eyes shifted back to his same coal black ones- I was right in the fact they'd changed with anger again- and his muscles relaxed.
Sasuke sighed, "How did you get such information?"
Shinji paused for a moment and smiled the most evil smile I'd seen from him yet. He seemed to look directly at me when he said his next words, words that almost shattered my world.
"Kai Haruno."
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Oh I'm sooooo glad I finished this.
If this chapter doesn't make the slightest of sense, review and tell me because I took HUGE breaks at a time from this chapter and didn't remember every word I wrote in the previous section I'd written.
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