Hitoko: HERE'S CHAPTER NINE!


Chapter Nine: Too Late or...

Naruto tried to crawl away from Danzo, his eyes wide and his breathing was erratic. His heart bumped out of rhythm and he was sure that if nothing calmed him down in the next few minutes, he'd die from a heart attack. Danzo seeing his 'bride' retreat grabbed his ankle and yanked him back towards him, but that seemed to jar the blonde out of his fear induced hysteria and he kicked the man as hard as he could in the face.

Danzo screamed feeling his nose crack and break as Naruto scrambled over the bed and over to the closet. He ran inside of it and bolted the door shut and pushed the old heavy dresser in front of the door. He looked for something dark and big to hide under as well as searched the walls for a secret escape route.

Danzo snarled and fixed his nose before he ran to the door and smashed into to it, literally. It was bolted shut.

"NARUTO! OPEN THE DOOR!" He screamed in rage, banging on the door with all his strength. He glared at the door and when no sound came nor did the door open, he grew infuriated and began flashing signs with his hands and then burnt the wood of the door before kicking it in and knocking down the dresser blocking the way.

"NARUTO!" He was furious.

As soon as he got that boy, he was taking him on the nearest flat surface he could find. He torn his clothes down and broke anything that was big enough to hide a body and when he hit the back wall he cursed. There was a spot in the dark closet that was even darker and there was a draft coming from it. He snarled and took off down the secret tunnel.

Naruto pulled the thick black cape off and closed the secret door and blocked it with anything he could before picking up the shredded clothes and began fastening a rope out of them. He had to avoid Danzo until Sasuke got there...

Itachi snarled at the guards that threw rotten food at him and laughed at him. It was cold, dank and it smelt like Sakura's cooking, but only worse. In the cell across from him was Suigetsu and Sai, the demon was just barely alive and was badly wounded. They doubted he'd be able to walk ever again if they didn't get him medical treatment soon.

Sakura was screaming in her cell, as the men laughed and made crude comments about fucking a priestess as Lee in his own heavily guarded cell snarled and bashed the walls. He had gone completely insane from hearing their comments on his mate. He snarled again as a blue tomato hit him in the face and he jerked on his chains.

"This is the demon that caused us so much trouble? Weak isn't he?"

"That's not what your mother said when I fucked her last night." Itachi snickered as the guard opened the cell door and walking over to him intent on punching his lights out.

"What the fuck did you say, parasite!"

"I said that I fucked your whore of a mother last night and she said that I was way more satisfying than your father and his limp lizard." Itachi laughed again, enjoying the rage filling the stupid human as he got with in reach of Itachi.

Once he was as close as he wanted him to be Itachi lunged and sunk his fangs into his throat and bit hard before draining him of his blood and then eating his Adam's apple. Sui laughed at the other guard as he ran off pissing his pants forgetting to shut the cell door.

"That was pure genius."

"Hn..." Itachi used his long legs and his flexibility to his advantage and managed to get the keys off the dead guard before kicking them up into the air and catching them with his bound hands.

But before he could get free more guards came in and beat him bloody. But before they could hurt him anymore three of them screamed in agony as they were set on fire.

"ABEL! BELLE!" Kakashi yelled, a little peeved at being left behind. He had been placed in the lower dungeons to keep him from getting free, but they didn't count on the baby dragons coming to the rescue.

"Kakashi! Itachi's going to die if you don't help him soon!" Sui yelled and the breeder snarled as he pounced at the group of soldiers, more running in to try and recapture Kakashi as others sounded the alarm...

Naruto slid down the rope he made and landed on the floor under the balcony. He hid behind a pillar as soldiers scrambled to the prison to help detain the prisoners. He hurried along the paths of the garden and found a hole in the wall near where his old room use to be. He smiled and was glad that it was still there before he walked over to it, but he heard a guard shout. He turned and began to panic, if he was caught now then he was a goner!

He tried to scream when a hand clamped tightly over his mouth and a strong arm kept him immobile as he was pulled through the hole and out of the castle grounds. He screamed and cried, but froze when he heard someone hiss and then heard a familiar hiss, that of a dragon.

"Hands off, sicko!" He heard the dragon hiss and looked through the corner of his eye to see a young man with gray hair and black eyes, big glasses kept slipping down his face, making him adjust them constantly.

"Relax Kabuto... Orochimaru's Laments reached all of us before he was killed." The other reminded him.

"Yes I know, but let go of the priest! He's turning blue for Shenron's sake!"

The demon let him go and he fell to his knees gasping for air. He looked up at his two captors and saw that one was a humanoid dragon and the other was a harpy.

"Shit... Look what you did, Ibiki! He's bruised now and he's gonna pass out!"

"So?"

"Sasuke's his mate, baka! If his majesty finds out who bruised him up, he's gonna kill you!"

"You mean Danzo." Ibiki said smugly, but Kabuto ignored him in favor of looking over the young queen.

"Forgive him, he's a moron..." Kabuto said as Naruto barely nodded.

So Sasuke had, had Danzo watched very closely? Was he planning on attacking Danzo and making him his bride? He felt a small smile slip onto his face before sobbing into Kabuto's arms.

It wasn't long before the stress, hunger and pain finally took its toll and he passed out in the dragon's arms.

"Alert Kakashi-san." Kabuto said before taking off with Naruto. Ibiki cupped his hands and as he blew into them, he flexed and wiggled his fingers making a chirping sound and a few held out hoots. When he got back trills and a chirp he took off with Kabuto to protect the unconscious queen...