Hey guys! I really liked this chapter, so I hope you guys do, too. After this one, the next chapter will be a little late, since I've started school and all. (Bleh.)

Naruto's P.O.V

I got home from training in the woods all day and threw my shirt in Sakura's room, heading for her shower. Mine worked fine, but I liked the excuse to be in her room, which smelled exactly like her, a mix of cherry blossoms and rain. It was intoxicating to me. Almost as much as ramen's smell was. Almost.

"Sakura-chan?" I called out, hoping she was home. There was no answer apart from some birds chirping noisily outside. "Eh, Sakura-chan? Are you home?" I called out again. Silence. Hm. Wonder if she was still with that blockhead Takashi. I mean grey eyes? I don't know if it's just me, but his eyes look like contacts. He thinks he so hot. Thinks he can go around stealing my Sakura-chan. From her quick response when I brought up her kissing him, I figured she didn't like him. So why was she hanging out with him? I groaned to myself, and slipped off my net shirt, as it was still so hot in here. I walked out of her room to my own to grab a new pair of boxers when I heard a bird cawing annoyingly right outside of my window. I walked over, opened my window to yell at the damned thing when it dropped something in my hands, a little folded up white note. My eyebrows scrunched together in confusion. Who was this from? I hope it wasn't that blue-haired girl. What was her name? You know, I don't even remember, but she's always following me around. Maybe that's how it felt like to be Sasuke. I closed my hand with the note inside it, shut the window and walked back over to my bed, sitting down and opening the letter.

I recognized the writing almost instantly. It was Sakura-chan's.

It said:

Naruto, if I'm not home by the time you get home or by midnight, it's Takashi. Yesterday, something happened. I felt…I don't know. I felt as if there was something dark about him. Something evil. Come find us, if I'm not back.

Her name wasn't signed, but then again she never signed her name if it was something dire that she thought someone might be able to find. I felt my brows scrunch together again, but this time in frustration. I stood up, crumpling the note in one hand and tossing it to the side. I felt like some badass dude in a movie, and this is exactly where the sexy badass music would play. Damn, I wish I had a CD player or something that could play badass music when I needed it. Wait. I'm so badass I don't need music. I nodded my head, tossing my clothes back on and running outside. You know what? Scratch that, all badasses need badass theme music. I'll have to check up on that sometime.

Sakura's P.O.V

I woke up in a cage, Yes, a cage. My first thought was that Takashi was some freak who stole girls and made them become strippers or prostitutes to earn him money. But then he strolled up, his boots making thumping noises in the silent dark room.

"So you're finally awake." It wasn't a question. Just a simple statement. But I nodded anyway, and shot him a fierce glare.

"Who are you and what the hell do you want?" I snapped, standing up in my cage. Man I felt like a bird.

"Oh?" His eyebrow lifted. "I don't sound familiar to you?"

I squinted my eyes. So he was going to play that game. This meant that I've seen him before. But no, I didn't recognize his voice. At all.

"You mean to tell me," He paused. "That you don't remember my voice, Miss Haruno?" His voice had suddenly shifted into a deep, husky voice that I'd only just recognized.

My eyes popped open wide, and I couldn't believe it. Didn't Tsunade-sensei send me and Naruto here to get away from this guy? I felt anger rising in my chest.

"Where's your busty whore?" I spat out. Now there were heels clacks echoing in the room. And there she was. The busty dark blue-haired sidekick who was with him earlier.

"Busty whore? Someone's a little jealous. I mean, I don't blame you," Her voice was still cold, but now it was sarcastically seductive. I knew she was a whore. "I'd be jealous too, what with your box flat chest." She cackled and threw her head back. I growled under my breath and gave her the nastiest look I could give her. I remembered what Temari had told me, that when she looked at her, all she could see was black and she couldn't move. So I avoided her gaze as if she were Itachi with his sharingan activated.

"Who are you freaks? And what the hell do you want with me and Naruto?"

"Silence! You don't get to ask the questions here, Haruno!" The husky male huffed.

I smirked. "So who's Takashi?"

He waved me off. "Someone I killed not long ago."

"Ugh, I still don't see why you had to kill him. He was so fucking fine! And a great fuck at that!" The woman laughed again. I rolled my eyes. She's only proving my point.

"Now, Naruto will come for you, since he'll read the note,"

I gasped. The note! He knew about it and let it be! Sly bastard.

He chuckled. "Of course I knew about the note, Sakura-chan." My name in his husky voice made me shiver. "Naruto finding it is what's going to bring him to us, stupid girl." The chick added, giving me a death glare and roll of her dark purple eyes.

"Naruto will kill you both. Just wait and see." I snapped at them, shooting her a death glare of my own. They both busted out in laughter. I rolled my eyes.

"I think I liked her better when she was knocked out." The girl commented in a cold tone, turning around to leave.

"Why do you even want us? What can we possibly give you?"

The girl stopped walking, but didn't turn around. Takashi looked up at me a sly smirk plastered on his face. "We don't need to explain ourselves, brat." The girl said finally, then she flipped her dark blue hair and clacked off, out of the room. I shot my glare to the husky guy, the one who was supposed to be Takashi.

"Really, why do you want us?" I made my voice softer, maybe he'd tell me. I hoped he would. He ignored me, instead working on some laptop he had sitting on a small desk below me to the left. His back was faced to me, and I looked around my cage for an escape. The thing looked exactly like an oversized bird cage, and the spaces in between each bar were too small for me to stick my fingers through to pick the lock. The metal looked sturdy, but I figured with a few of my extremely chakra focused punches, I could bust open the cage. I just had to wait for an opportunity. But how would I get him out of the room?

Right when I thought that, the girl came clacking back into the room, her hands on her hips. "Hey," She called out to the man, and he turned around, a slightly annoyed expression on his face.

"What is it?" It was as if they were careful not to use each other's names in front of me.

"Come on, he's here." My chest froze up. Naruto was already here? How could that be? He wasn't all that good at tracking, especially on his own. Maybe it was someone else. Either way, this was the opportunity I'd been hoping on. He turned around and shot me a heavy glare.

"Don't try anything funny while I'm gone, 'cause you'll seriously regret it." Then, he turned back around and they both left, locking the door with a click behind them.

'Okay' I thought. 'This was it.' I took a few deep breaths, calming myself down and allowing my chakra to focus to my fists. After a few seconds, my hands were as much chakra-powered as they would get, and I slammed one hand into the cage bars, followed by my other hand. I breathed heavily as I tried to gather more chakra back to my hands again. The bars were bent, but not broken. I don't know how much longer they'd be, but I'd better hurry up. Two more punches and was feeling more drained than ever. And the bars were still where they were last time. Why did I feel drained? And with four of my chakra-focused punches didn't break it? What kind of cage was this? Was this some kind of chakra-draining cage? I let a groan of frustration. If that's what this was, how the hell was I supposed to get out of this? I punched the bottom of the cage, and surprisingly, a dent where my hand was formed. It didn't break though. I growled. Wait! I sat up straight. If the bars bent, but not broke, maybe I could bend the bars wide enough apart I could escape through them! I focused a little more chakra to both my hand and gripped onto two of the bars. I used all my strength plus my added chakra to bend them until they were far enough apart that I could step through. When I jumped through the opening and landed on my feet, crouched down on the floor, I felt exhausted, but at least I was out. I looked around the room quickly. They'd locked the doors from the outside, and I don't know if I had anymore chakra to break them down. There was his computer on the desk to my left. I walked over to it, and luckily, it was still open on his account. I pulled up the word he had minimized to find it completely blank. I groaned, slammed the laptop shut not seeing a use for it and stood there, thinking to myself.

"Look, I told you, we've got the girl. We're waiting for the Uzumaki child. He'll be here any day now."

"Any dayyyy?" The creepy voice dragged out the 'y' and I'd know it from anywhere. So there was only one question. Why the hell was Orochimaru here? I crouched behind a mountain of boxes. There was no window in this room, nowhere for me to escape. All I could do now was wait and charge up my chakra.

"Yes, lord Orochimaru. He'll be here soon. I guarantee."

"So where's the girl?" Orochimaru hissed, their voices getting closer.

"Right in the room, Lord Orochimaru."

"Shhhow her to me."

Shit! I'd have to take both of them on? I couldn't. As their steps and voices got closer, I grew more panicked, trying to figure out how I could handle all this. How was I going to handle all this?

"Lord Orochimaru!" The girl's voice.

The steps paused.

"What isss it, Okuta-san?" Hisses Orochimaru. I pause, my breathing slowing down, my chakra levels getting higher.

"Follow me, Lord Orochimaru." She ordered, and steps were heard again, this time coming walking in the other direction, leaving.

"Watchhh who you're talking to, Okuta-san." He murmured, but his footsteps fell into blend with Okuta as well as the husky male's. I let out a sigh of relief. That was almost too close. But wait. Could Okuta want to show Orochimaru and Takashi Naruto? Was he here? I peeked my head out from the boxes, and slyly moved over to the door, pressing my ear up against the door. I focused what chakra I had gathered to my right fist. With a huff of air, I blew my fist to the door, and they both exploded right off their hinges, smashing into the far wall up ahead. I panted, realizing that that move right there had probably left me with chakra levels dangerously low. But I was out, and I needed to hurry up and leave, maybe find Naruto on the way, and just leave. Get out of here.

"What was that!"

Oh shit. It was that damn Okuta. Stupid whore.

"Thought you said you had her all handled, Hiro?"

"I did." Hiro huffed. It was the husky male. So that was his name.

"Well, doesn't seem so. Go take care of her. And do it right this time, Hiro."

"Yes Lord Orochimaru." Hiro replied obediently. Heavy footsteps headed this way, and fast. I had to do it. I took off, running as fast as I can in the opposite direction of the sound of his thudding footsteps. There were rooms all over the place, all their doors closed and locked tightly. Those poor children stuck in those rooms. Used for Orochimaru's sick, cruel experiments. Ahead of me the halls just seemed to get darker and darker. No windows, no doors looking as if they led outside. It was all just a twisting, mind-confusing maze. I zipped around corners, checked every door, but all of them were locked. You know what? That was it. I took out some of my food pills and ate up, slowing my breathing down and making it quieter. After a couple of minutes, I felt better, and made another chakra filled punch, to make a hole in the wall. The dark night greeted me as well as fresh air. I must've been here for a day already, because when he took me, it was around this time of night.

"Thank God," I muttered to myself, and jumped out, into the night. From here on, all I had to do was find Naruto, and find him quick. Tsunade had taught me the basics of tracking someone, but it was of no use to me if I didn't know in which direction to look in. I didn't know if he was coming this way, or the left, right, or even the whole other opposite side. I only wished I'd had Sai here. Or Kiba. I sucked when it came to tracking. I mean I was useless at it. I couldn't even make shadow clones all that well, to go looking for him. Wait. Shadow clones? I could make one, but at the most, with my chakra right now I'd only be able to make two. And by then, I wouldn't have much chakra left, in case Hiro came after me. Which I expected he would. I mean, my trail wasn't exactly unreadable.

"Come on, Naruto. Where are you?" I asked myself.

"Heh. We know where he is, Haruno."

It was Hiro. Of course it was Hiro. "Who do you think you are, Haruno? Running off like this? It's unacceptable."

"I'm not your prisoner, Hiro. I will not be your prisoner." I said fiercely.

He chuckled. "You haven't got much of a choice. You're chakra levels are dangerously low, anybody with an eye could tell. I suppose our little cage helped with that?" He smirked and I wanted to do nothing but punch him.

"It doesn't matter." I snapped back.

He laughed again. "Oh but it does. It means I can do this-"He jumped forward, punching me in the gut and stabbing a kunai in my back, ripping it out with such force I dropped to the ground, a low whimper escaping my chapped lips. "- and not have you fight back."

I sit on the ground, crouched down, trying to think about something other than the agonizing pain in my lower back. Slowly, slowly I fought the urge to surrender, and stood. He looked taken aback for a moment, but it was quickly overcome when he slammed the kunai again in my stomach. When he ripped it out, it made a gurgling sound and blood drained from it. I clutched it and let out another whimper, falling back down onto my knees. He began to laugh loudly, cackle like a hyena.

"Do you honestly believe you're going to get away?" His tone was one of pure amusement.

"Do you…" It hurt to speak, but I went on in a raspy voice. "Honestly believe…" He held the kunai outwards, as if he was going to strike again. I didn't stop. "That you can beat me?" I smiled, feeling something warm drip from my lip, as I launched forward. He let out a curse word, and jumped back, seemingly unharmed. But I'd managed to cut him. He smiled triumphantly, walking slowly back towards me as if he were a god. He slammed his fist into my wound, pushing me backwards. I crashed into a tree, the wound in my lower back screaming out in pain. Or maybe that was just me.

"Don't mean to crush your spirits there, Sakura," He walked over to me, taking out a new, clean kunai. "But you've just gotten a little too annoying." He stopped, putting a hand on his chin, thinking. "Nah, I don't think Orochimaru will be that mad."

"Go ahead…" I rasped. "And try." He cackled again, throwing his head back and launching the kunai out at me. It cut the side of my arm, but stuck in the tree. I managed a half smile, ripped it from the tree and launched it at him. He dodged easily, and his laughing got harder and louder.

"Did you actually believe that was going to hit me? Do you actually believe you still have a chance in this little fight?"

I said nothing, but smiled as I saw my shadow clone come up behind him, a kunai in each hand. I pierced each one in either side of his neck, kept them there a second, so I could see the look of pure horror and shock before I harshly ripped them out, sending him crashing down. I walked over to him slowly. I put two fingers up against his cold neck. He was dead before he even hit the ground.

I really hope you guys liked it! I especially enjoyed writing the fight scene, but tell me what you guys thought of it! R&R!