hey guys!! here's the tenth chapter just as i promised! it's long!! lol just as i promised too! lol...weeeeeeeeXD hope you'll enjoy this!! nothing is Sasuke's fault in this okay? lol...okay on with the story! i promise to make my 11th cahp long too so look forward to it! plus i'm gonna do a bit of timeskips in the foloowing chapters...well not really that much but just i think about 1 or 2 or3 timeskips:) on with the story:D

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Chapter 10: His Worry From Mission Success

"Now…wear your mask" Sasuke put on his mask so did Sakura. At least hers was of a white leopard.

"That also fits you" Sasuke instead from behind his mask.

Sakura smirked under her mask and leaped to the nearest tree as Sasuke followed.

Sasuke and Sakura leaped from tree to tree.

It was sunset and they were only a couple of miles away from the sand country.

"We'd probably arrive by night" Sakura stated.

Sasuke simply nodded in reply.

By the time the sun arrived to a mid-seen horizon they leapt from the trees and ran across the sand.

It was night and they needed to be cautious. Finally they saw the entrance for the Sand country.

"Sakura get down" Sasuke yelped as she pulled Sakura to fall to the ground.

"Stop" Sakura signaled to the sand shinobi.

"Who are you?" the shinobi asked as more sand ninjas appeared from above the entrance displaying their weapons.

"We're here to help you. We have a mission to recover the ambassador's daughter. We're from Konoha"

"Oh…" the shinobi signaled the others to lower their weapons. "I'm very sorry for attacking earlier."

"That's okay…can you lead us to the ambassador?"

"Ah"

Sakura and Sasuke followed the shinobi until they entered a manor nearly as big as their Hokage's mansion.

The shinobi knocked on the door to the last left on the 4rth floor.

"Akuro-sama the Konoha ANBU are here"

"Let them enter"

The shinobi opened the door and gestured them in.

"Please sit" Sakura sat down on the chair to the ambassador's front right. "I'll just stand thank you" Sasuke replied.

The ambassador nodded.

"Where did they first take your daughter?"

"They took Rinoa when she was sleeping and our ANBU here realized that they didn't here anyone breathing inside her room as they were doing they're patrol and went inside to find my daughter's empty bed." The ambassador replied as tears went down his face. "This is her picture" The ambassador gave them a wallet sized picture of Rinoa and Sasuke took and observed it.

Rinoa was about their age with light brown hair, fair skin, lavender eyes that had a beautifully mixed color of salmon pink.

"Did the other nins who failed to retrieve her know where the kidnappers were headed?" Sasuke asked.

"Ah…they were headed for the Sound country" the tears started pouring down his face fast. "I'm sorry but, I just don't understand why my daughter would be kidnapped." the ambassador said as he wiped his tears. "Please…retrieve my daughter" he said as he went from his desk and moved in front of Sasuke and Sakura kneeling.

Sakura helped him up "Akuro-sama, there's no need to beg. We promise you that we will retrieve you daughter Rinoa. We promise." Sakura said with a smile as he helped Akuro to his chair.

Sakura and Sasuke walked towards the door about to leave.

"Thank you" the ambassador said as Sasuke and Sakura smiled and put on their masks just before closing the door.

"So they're headed for the Sound huh?" Sasuke said as they moved down the stairs.

"Could it be connected to the plan of those assassins who plan to kill Mr. Hanate in the sound country?" Sakura asked.

"It's obvious that it's not because what would they do to lure him to a teenage girl anyway? Unless he has a relationship with the girl or her family." Sasuke stated under his mask.

"And Tsunade reported to me that they didn't have a relationship whatsoever while you were taking a long time coming to her office."

Sasuke and Sakura left the Sand country and headed towards the Sound village.

They entered a boundary of trees and traveled from tree to tree.

"Sasuke, ANBU don't rest in important missions like these. I'm sorry to say that we won't be resting until we complete the mission." Sakura said as she jumped from a lower branch to a higher branch with Sasuke trailing close to her.

"No problem"

They've been traveling for a long time and the sun was already rising.

"Sasuke stop" Sakura stated putting a hand to his chest to stop him.

They leapt to the ground and crouched down low.

Just then at least 15 kunais came their way and they were barely able to dodge it.

"It's an ambush!" Sakura stated unpinning the kunai that hit her shirt pinning her to the ground.

"Sharingan"

5 ninjas leapt from a nearby tree and smirked.

There were 4 boys and 1 girl.

The girl seemed familiar.

"Sasuke look at the picture of Rinoa that the ambassador gave us!" Sakura stated as she moved a closer to Sasuke until they were back to back since they were surrounded.

Sasuke took the picture and looked at the girl.

"That's Rinoa!" Sasuke said to Sakura.

"How do you know me?" Rinoa asked smirking pulling a fuuma shuriken out of thin air.

"She won't recognize anything you say" a guy that was 5'6 which had black messy hair said with a smirk.

Sakura and Sasuke looked at him.

"We did something so that she'd forget her past and sped up with her training and convinced her she was helping us and that we are the good guys." The guy ended as he pulled a kunai from his pouch swirling it in his hand.

"You see…this girl had a special ability we came to know of that she hid from her family" He said his smirk getting wider. "And you're about to see what it is" he ended as he leapt towards Sakura as the other did so.

3 of them attacked Sasuke who dodged them easily and the guy and Rinoa attacked Sakura.

Sakura kicked the guy who leapt at him and tunred around just in time to block Rinoa's fuuma shuriken.

"Rinoa you need to stop this right away!" Sakura said as she held her ground still blocking Rinoa's shuriken.

"Why should I?" Rinoa asked as they both leapt back and faced each other.

"Because they're just using you!" Sakura stated getting ready as Rinoa was charging at her pulling a spear from thin air and stopped a few distance from Sakura and threw it at her.

So this is her ability…to take weapons out of thin air. This is going to be hard. When we get her or strain her she could easily run away just by taking whatever weapon she wishes from thin air…

Sakura dodged the spear but it hit her shoulder blades.

Sakura yelped but was still, of course, strong enough to move and fight. She wasn't ANBU commander for nothing.

"Sakura!" Sasuke shouted worriedly as he kicked the guy running at him with a kunai and bent down kicking another who was about to hit him with a sword.

"I'm alright Sasuke, keep your head to defeating these nins."

"Chidori!" Sasuke ran for the guy who was also charging at him.

They were about to clash but the guy jumped and appeared behind Sasuke ready to strike him with 7 kunais.

"Sasuke!" Sakura shouted not aware of the guy that attacked her earlier aiming a few kunais at her.

Sasuke quickly turned back and hit the guy first in the chest spilling blood all over the ground.

Sasuke let go and saw the guy aiming at Sakura ready to throw the kunais.

Sasuke quickly kicked the corpse out of his way and went behind Sakura making handseals as fast as lightning.

Sakura looked back surprised and saw that there was someone aiming at her.

The guy threw the kunais at her and Sasuke's direction.

Sasuke finished his handseals fast enough to blow a huge fireball towards the guy.

The kunais flew back to him along with a big ball of fire which he couldn't dodge.

The guy fell to the ground rolling to put out the fire but it was too late and he burnt to death.

"You fuckin' bastard!" Sasuke stated as he looked angrily at the burnt corpse a few meters away from him.

"3 left!" Sakura stated as they were once again back to back with each other.

Sakura returned her gaze to look up front of her to find that Rinoa was gone.

"I don't care if I'm used" Rinoa said as she leapt from a tree moving closer to Sakura.

Damn…I can't hurt the ambassador's daughter. But how do I change her self back?

"They simply used me to lure Konoha's ANBU commander…which is you" Rinoa ended with a smirk.

"What?" Sakura whispered from under her mask.

Even Sasuke had a surprised look under his mask.

So we fell to their trap…fuck!

Just then the 2 guys leapt from the tree and kicked Sasuke hard in the stomach.

"Sasuke!" Sakura said turning back"

As she turned back Rinoa ran for her and choked her as she hit her back with at least 10 kunais.

Sakura yelped with pain just before fainting.

Sasuke stood up but the guys kicked him harder and sent him flying towards the nearest tree.

Rinoa carried her and leapt heading towards the Sound country.

1 guy followed her but 1 stayed behind and whispered something in his ear just before hitting him with a

Kunai near his spine.

Sasuke yelled with pain.

"That was how we made her go with us" the guy stated and left with the others.

"Sa…Sakura" Sasuke said trying to stand up but failed.

He was in so much pain and he was sure he lost a lot of blood but, thinking about Sakura made him eager to kill those fuckin bastards and send them to hell himself.

He stood up and ran for the nearest tree and leapt from tree to tree faster than he had ever gone before and caught up with Rinoa and the others.

Because of his anger, he kicked the 2 guys at their spine so hard that you could hear it break and they fell limp to the ground.

"I know how they made you like that" Sasuke told Rinoa. "It was a mistake for that guy to tell me how to undo it and that I never could cause' now I am going to undo that thing that your in" Sasuke said forming handseals.

Rinoa let Sakura fall to the ground and pulled 20 kunais in thin air.

Sasuke looked at Sakura's limp body and anger filled his eyes as he continued to form the handseals.

He moved towards Rinoa as she was about to strike at him but he knelt down and kicked her legs for her to fall down and as he finished his handseals, blue with a mixture of green chakra was visible at his hands and he touched Rinoa's forehead.

Rinoa screamed so loud as Sasuke whispered something in her ear.

As Sasuke ended Rinoa fell limp to the ground.

He carried both of them towards the Sand country.

He entered the ambassador's office carrying Rinoa.

The ambassador hugged his daughter as she shook her head and ask what happened.

"Thank you!" Akuro said with tears in his eyes yet again.

"Can you please heal Sakura?" Sasuke asked removing his mask to reveal tears that poured down his face.

Sakura was black and blue all over with a lot of blood still running from her back to the floor.

"I'll tell my healers to do their best"

Sasuke didn't need his injury to be taken care of. The fuck with himself. He just wanted Sakura to stay alive.

"What was she hit with?" the healers asked in the emergency room.

"At least 10 kunais" Sasuke replied placing a wet cloth to his back to at least stop his bleeding.

"Are you hurt too Sasuke-sama?" the healer asked.

"Never mind about me I'm okay! Just tend to Sakura and make her okay!" Sasuke let the cloth fall behind him and he buried his face in his hands. "P-please!..." Sasuke whispered.

"Ah…" the healer had a troubled look on his face "We'll do the best we can but there was something wrong. She was hit with kunais but she's black and blue all over. In that state…kunais weren't the only things that made her like this.

Sasuke lifted his head to reveal his worried face with tears streaming down.

"We'll just do our best…"

1 hour passed

2 hours…

3…4

Finally the room opened.

"Sasuke-sama! You need to bring her to Tsunade! We made the bleeding stop. But there was something at the tips of those kunais to make her injuries worse plus there's also poison in her body which we can't remove. She won't last long! Hurry! Only the sannin can help her!"

Sasuke looked horrified and quickly ran towards the bed where Sakura lay. She was still unconscious but she was shivering and her injuries were getting bigger and cutting deeper. She was sweating all over.

"Thank you" Sasuke quickly carried her with the tears pouring down his eyes and quickly ran towards the entrance and leapt from tree to tree towards Konoha.

He went so fast worried that Sakura could go any minute.

"Sakura…" Sasuke whispered.

By noon he could see Konoha's gates.

tbc...

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