Chapter 10

Well, looks like my laziness got the best of me. Did anyone else get Folie a Deux by Fall Out Boy? It's so good. Anyway, no more waiting.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. But I'm quite happy that he's back now. YES!!!

Sakura pulled out her drawer full of alarm clocks and sighed contently, a light smile on her face. She set the alarm for 6:00 am, because she would be out training the next day. She flopped on to her bed. That was one of her best days ever. Another Best Day Ever had been the day when Sasuke had almost kissed her, but it was knocked off the list when she found out it was only Naruto disguised as Sasuke. That had been humiliating. Just as Sakura started to drift off the sleep, the phone rang. It was Ino, probably. Sakura just wanted to get to bed. But she decided to talk to her friend, considering she hadn't seen Ino all day. She should probably talk to someone.

"HOW IS SASUKE?" yelled the girl on the other end. Yep, that was definitely Ino.

"Just dandy. Are you okay?" asked Sakura, rubbing her sore ear.

"I just wanted to know how Sasuke was…" said Ino, whimpering like a small puppy. Sakura laughed.

"Sasuke is totally fine. He's just like his old self, except a little more self-concious than used to be, I guess," said Sakura, thinking. It was true. Sasuke was different, but she liked him this way. "He tried to make small talk," she added, "It was hilarious. Karin isn't so bad either. Cocky, but she's nice at heart."

"Really? Well, I'll go visit him and that Karin or whoever tomorrow. Do you know where they live?" asked Ino. Sakura looked up their adresses inside her drawer of alarm clocks. She read it out loud to Ino and then hung up the phone. When she got into be this time, she fell into a long, sweet sleep.

Naruto was cleaning up for no reason, because everyone had been quite neat. He wandered around, trying to keep himself busy, but in the end he just sat at the table and rested his head there. He fell asleep like that.

An hour later

There was a loud ringing in Naruto's ears. Assuming that it was an alarm clock, Naruto ignored it and tried to doze off again. This plan failed. The ringing started again, followed by three slow but loud knocks. Naruto dragged himself off his chair, stretching. He checked the kitchen clock. He'd only been sleeping for an hour. Naruto ambled to the door, content to keep his visitor waiting. He peered through the eyehole. Red sharingan glared back at him.

"Open up!" yelled Sasuke.

Naruto rolled his eyes. "Sure, sure."

Sasuke walked into the room with the same slow able as Naruto.

"There's someone out there… an old teammate, you could say, following me," said Sasuke, after Naruto had made them both some ramen. Naruto raised his eyebrows. "Do you need help?" asked Naruto. Sasuke was probably, Naruto was pretty sure, much stronger than any ninja in Konoha, save the Hokage.

"No, I just need you to keep Sakura safe and out of—"

Something crashed out of Naruto's window.

Sakura was still sleeping, of course. There was a less dramatic opening of a window to her bedroom, but you could hear the intruder mumbling. "Dang, I told that damn Suigetsu that I didn't want to kidnap the friggin' girl, but noooo…" grumbled Jugo.

The mumbling stopped, replaced by a loud cry.

"Let go of me—," silence.

***

Sakura struggled out of the bandages wrapped around her, wanting to scream at the top of her lungs. These people had caught her and thrown her into, into, this, this, this DUMP! She was furious. She stood up and felt out her surroundings. She was stuck in an old fashioned cell, comeplete with bars and a large padlock. Sakura decided to pick the lock. Then she failed. The abducters had stripped her completely of all of her weapons, of course. Mad cackles rose from around her, mocking her. Sakura shouted back angrily at them. There was a huge aura of chakra in this room. It was full of powerful, and crazy, people, and she needed to be careful. Sakura closed her eyes and counted impatiently to ten. Then she opened her blazing green eyes and kicked and punched down three of the bars sealing her inside. She ran out, trying to ignore the wails of those around. She looked around, her eyes finally ajusting to the lack of light. Suddenly she felt like screaming again.

She was surrounded by people, yes, but they were twisted beyond compare. Each one had certain variations of the strange bruises Sasuke had. Each one was overflowing with chakra that made her head spin, that made her dizzy. The strange chakra was eating away at the people, all of them stangely old-looking. Sakura sank to her knees in pain. She had to get out.

NOW! screamed the Inner Sakura.

Why? asked outer Sakura

You're never going to survive if you stay in here. We have to get out! Idiot! cried Inner Sakura. Sakura smiled. She hadn't had a visit from Inner for a long time. This had to be important.

Whatever you say, said Sakura. With that, she put all of her remaining strength into her fist, and smashed the door open. Sakura tumbled into the blackness.

***

Naruto jumped onto the table like a startled cat. A man that reminded him of someone, someone dangerous, stood in front of Naruto and Sasuke. "Suigetsu," said Sasuke quietly.

"So I guess this was the guy you were talking about?" said Naruto.

"Yeah," replied Sasuke.

"Let's take this outside then," said Naruto. He smirked. "I'm going to help ou wether you like it or not," he said smugly to Sasuke.

"Fine by me," said Sasuke.

They both jumped out of the broken window, Suigetsu hot on their heels.

A/N so it's a bit longer then usual, though not by a lot. I go tired of everybody moving around so slowly, just randomly training and all, hence our dramatic break-in. You like?