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Chapter 10: The Ultimate Escape
"Sakura's name?" Naruto asked, still scratching his head. "Oh yeah! Now I remember! Sakura Haruno! Ha, ha! I am such a genius!" Naruto said, punching the air and falling off of the ladder again. This time, Kakashi didn't bother wasting his strength on saving Naruto.
Kakashi reached forwards to grab the scroll. Once he had it in a firm grip, he jumped down gracefully next to Naruto. The Haruno scroll? Since when was there such thing as a Haruno Scroll? Why was it so important? It was very tempting to open something that probably held so many secrets…
"Haruno Scroll, huh?" Naruto asked and snatching it out of Kakashi's hands. "I wonder what it says-..." Before Kakashi had the time to realize what Naruto was doing, he was already motioning to open it.
"Naruto! What do you-," he started, but it was too late. Naruto had already grabbed the rim of the scroll, and as if he had touched an electric wire, electricity shot through him, causing his hair to stand on an end. He yelled in pain before collapsing onto the ground.
"Naruto!" Kakashi yelled, shoving the purple scroll into his weapons pouch and grabbing his student by the shoulders and giving him a gentle shake.
"I heard something in 'The Scroll Room'! Someone must have got in!" called a voice from down the hallway. Kakashi's head jerked upwards as the sound of many people running began to grow louder. It was the farmer-ninja.
"They're coming…," Kakashi said to himself quietly before throwing Naruto over his shoulder and running down the hallway.
"-and don't let any of the chakra escape. You're pretty good at chakra-control, so I wouldn't worry too much about that. It'll be really forceful, so hold your arm steady. I'm not expecting you to nail it on your first try, but if you can at least get a little bit of energy, then you'll probably be able to break through these chains. Remember: You're turning your hand into a destructive weapon… so be careful with your aim. You could take off my head," Sasuke said, drawing breath from all of his rambling.
"So let me get this straight," Sakura said, "I'm going to be wasting all of my chakra on you?"
Sasuke frowned. "Even if you drain out all of your energy, I'll make sure that we get out of here," he said, trying not to growl.
She spit her tongue out at him playfully. "I was only kidding! So where do I focus my chakra again?" she asked, holding her arm out in front of her.
"Focus your chakra to the palm of your hand. It's just like the tree-climbing exercise, but you have to focus all of your chakra to it," Sasuke replied.
"O-ok… so here we go," Sakura said, closing her eyes for a moment before moving towards Sasuke. She paused. "What if it doesn't work?" she asked suddenly.
"Oh shut up! We won't know if it will work or not until you try! Do you have any confidence?!" Sasuke asked with frustration.
Sakura sighed. In truth, she hardly had any self-confidence at all. "Alright, I'll try," she said meekly, outstretching her arm once again.
She closed her eyes again, and with all of her might, she felt that one spot in her palm and gathered every ounce of chakra she had in her body to her hand. She felt it creeping beneath her skin, tingling and her ears listened for the sound of chirping birds… but nothing came.
"I can't," she said, tears reaching her eyes. "I hardly have any energy right now, and I can't do it."
"Oh," Sasuke said, his eyes softening. For a fleeting moment, she almost thought that he was going to give her words of praise, but instead he said, "I guess I overestimated you. I nearly forgot how different you were from the rest of us."
His words pierced her like daggers.
Different? Different?! Did he mean weak? Annoying? Useless? Clearly Sasuke had no idea how effective his words could be, because Sakura felt fury burning inside of her as smoke started to shoot out of her ears. More and more tears were waiting to fall, but she held them back.
"I'm sorry for being so different," Sakura said coldly, Sasuke's eyes widening. "But I'm not going to give up! I'm going for it again!" She kept her eyes opened this time, focusing every part of her into her hand.
"Sakura stop! You might die if you try it again!" Sasuke yelled, but he froze when he heard something that sounded like crackling electricity… like birds chirping.
"Here we go!" Sakura cried, tears finally rolling down her face. "I'll do my best for you! Chidori!" she yelled as she thrust her dangerous, heavy arm forwards towards the small chain in between Sasuke's hand-cuffs.
With the sound of cracking metal, Sasuke's handcuffs went flying off with the force of Sakura's chidori. He brought his arms down immediately to soothe their aching, but then Sakura fell on him from all of the energy she had lost.
"I-I did it, d-d-didn't I?" she said quietly, as her inner-self was cheering louder than ever before.
Sasuke removed her from him and placed her on the ground before he stood up. "Yeah you did," he said with a fond smirk. "You showed me." Of course, he didn't actually mean to say it that way (or at least, he convinced himself that he didn't to mean to say it that way), but he didn't want her to start crying again.
But Sakura cried anyways, much to his dismay.
"Now as promised, I'll get us out of here," he said standing up and focusing chakra to his own hand. He burst through the cell bars with more power than Sakura could ever dream of having, but he was way out of her league to begin with.
Kakashi was running for his life.
With Naruto over his shoulder and at least fifty guards behind him, Kakashi was running pell-mell down the hallway without a clue whether this lead to an exit. With the Haruno Scroll tucked safely in his shuriken pouch along with his "Make-Out Paradise" book, Kakashi felt ready for anything… or at least, he thought he was.
"You can put me down now, sensei!" Naruto yelled, nearly scaring the living daylights out of Kakashi. Luckily Kakashi didn't trip, but Naruto's sudden awakening had lost him quite a bit of time.
"I didn't know you were awake!" Kakashi exclaimed, putting Naruto down. "Now run!" Not wasting another second, the two of them sprinted down the hallway towards whatever waited for them through the darkness ahead.
"We've got to stop them!" yelled one of the farmer-ninja behind them. "Throw your weapons on the count of three!"
"This is bad!" Kakashi thought, grabbing Naruto's arm.
"ONE-,"
Kakashi spotted an open jail cell.
"TWO-,"
As quick as a flash, Kakashi dived in, still holding Naruto's arm.
"THREE!"
Kunai-knives and shuriken flew past and missed them by only a few inches. "We've got to keep moving!" Kakashi said, springing to his feet, but then he paused at the sight before him.
"I can't believe it," Naruto said quietly, taking a step forwards.
"Well that's pretty funny," said a voice. "This must be the first thing that you don't believe."
"SAKURA!" Naruto cried as he dove forwards to give her a hug (which turned into a strangle).
"Let her breathe," growled another familiar voice.
"SASUKE!" Naruto cried as he dove forwards with his arms again outstretched… but then he reconsidered and stopped in mid-air.
"Sorry to break it up," Kakashi said quickly, "but we're about to be ambushed. Can we please get going now?"
"But what about the scroll?!" Sakura asked immediately.
"We've already got it! Come on!" Kakashi said, grabbing Naruto's wrist, who grabbed Sakura's wrist, who grabbed Sasuke's wrist, who groaned.
With the enemies on their heals, they dashed forwards. "There's an exit up ahead!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Perfect! Let's g-," Kakashi began, but stopped abruptly when something very large landed a couple of feet in front of them, causing the floor to shake and squad 7 to nearly crash into it. After stopping to observe it, they found that it was a very large boulder.
"We've got those brats trapped now!" one of the farmer ninja said with an evil laugh.
"Yeah, they've caused quite a ruckus here too. I heard that the boss was going to come personally," said another.
Squad 7 was in a pickle.
CLIFFIE CLIFFIE CLIFFIE!! Boy am I mean! I'll update as soon as I can! Oh yeah, just so you know, they should be back in Konoha mid-way through the next chapter. Just thought I'd say. Tell me what you think!