Disclaimer: I do NOT own anything that is anything Naruto related. It is owned by their creators, however the Characters are mine C:

Authors Note: My second fanfiction with a SasuxOC pairing, but a ItachixOC pairing. reason I say that is because my friend doesn't know who she wants yet...I told her Itachi because she loves him as much as I love Sasuke. IK IM A SASUKE FANGIRL. SUE ME!

Summary: Two girls, best friends, get sucked into the World of Naruto because of a stupid idea. One, is like a Naruto, the other is like a louder Sasuke. Connected by their friendship, can they stick it out in the ninja world?

Songie: REVISED 11/25/12

Chapter 9 - Don't Let Go

Sam stood there as she stared at the image of the one person she wouldn't dare to think would go this far. Tobi. Madara. Whatever you wanna call him.

"You got to be kidding me." She repeated as she looked at the oracle. She shook her head.

"I am aware you know of him?" She asked. Sam nodded in compliance, as the woman brought them back to the dark temple.

"Where is Jemry?" she asked, growing worried for her friend.

The oracle walked over to the pedastal with the sword, motioning for Sam to come forth.

"She is being told the same thing as I've told you by my reflection. She will be receiving powers, instead of a sword in this case though." She motioned towards the blade.

"Am I supposed to..?" The woman nodded.

Sam's POV

I stared at the blade for a while. In disbelief that this was mine. The beautiful weapon called out to me, and I couldn't help but answer that call. Reaching out for it, I could feel powers surge within me.

This strange feeling I couldn't shake off.

"This was the guardian's weapon..." I whispered. The Oracle nodded as I picked it up. Surprisingly it was very light.

"This weapon is for you only. No one else may wield it, and you may summon it whenever you wish." The woman explained, and the sword turned into small orbs, and soon to nothing into my left hand.

"So. All I'm supposed to do is kill Madara right?" I asked, staring at the woman. She nodded.

"Be warned. Once your task is complete, the Gods will confront you to return you to your world." She explained.

Return home...? I was too caught up in being a ninja, and now a guardian; I forgot where I came from. I would leave all my friends behind here. Naruto...Hinata...TenTen...

Sasuke.

. . .

How could I forget him? I couldn't even confess to him yet and I was already going to leave!?

"Hey uh..." I didn't even know this woman's name. She noticed my confused look, and chuckled.

"Rao"

"..Right. Uhm...does anyone else know of this..? This whole guardian business?" I asked.

"Few know the legend. So I would be careful when you return." She warned. I nodded.

"Alright then. Send me back."

"Send you back where, Sam?" Jem asked, standing in front of me. I nearly screamed, and all my friend could do was stare at me, blankly.

"Did you..."

"The whole guardian story thing and my boost powers to not only move things and people, but also talk to animals and now control the life to give and take in nature? Yeah, what about it?"

. . . I stared at her blankly. That was just too weird to deal with.

"Well...damn. I didn't know they gave you that much." I laughed. She hit me softly.

"Well, what happened with you?" She asked. I focused in my right hand the blade to come forth.

Come to me. I thought. The sword became solid within my grasp and I showed her.

"I got this thing." I shrugged. Jem was amazed that when I handed it to her, it immediately fell to the ground, and she couldn't pick it up.

"What-" She tried to lift it. "-the hell?" I focused on the sword to return, and it did. Well wasn't that interesting?

Before we could say anything else, I pushed Jem out of the way from a senbon, the needle puncturing through my skin and hitting a pressure point.

"Come out you fucking cowards!" I screamed, Jem scrambled to her feet trying to help me, but I put my hand out to stop her. "Come out!" I yelled again.

Lord and behold on who stood before me.

"Well well well, seems we've hurt a little fox, Kabuto." Orochimaru purred. His servant, Kabuto, or rather a creepy-ass man-bitch, that I preferred to label him as, nodded, standing behind his master high and mighty.

"Why is it," I huffed, "that I'm not in the least, surprised that you sons of bitches would be here. How terribly cliché." I smirked, and before I knew it, Kabuto had thrown another senbon at my legs. Now I couldn't move. How fuckin great.

I tried to use what little strength I had to lift my arm to defend myself with the sword, but I couldn't even do that. I could feel my chakra being drained. This was why I hated needles.

"Jem! Run dammit! Don't just stand there!" Being Jemry, she just stood there. I knew she would be scared rather than pissed off like me. Her knees, I could tell, were bucking, and she couldn't move. "Dammit you!" I used my other arm that I could move, and slammed my hand down, causing a line of fire to separate Jem from myself and the two fools.

I knew they were going to come after people like us. I just knew it.

"Orochimaru." I spoked, turning to him.

"Yes, my dear?" He purred, giving me shivers and causing my eye to twitch.

"Tell me why you are here." I ordered. I knew that since he believed he had me and Jem in his clutches, he might as well reveal his 'devious' plot.

"I'm here for you both. I am aware that you both have the powers of the long lost guardians a millennia ago." He clicked his tongue, and I, for some reason, hissed at him. Weird reaction to that.

"You won't get anything out of this you know. We can kick your asses." I motioned to both him, and Kabuto. They just chuckled.

"Jem, get your ASS out of here now! God what the HELL are you doing?!" I yelled at her. She shook her head.

"I'm NOT leaving you behind, Sam!" She yelled out, standing behind the dancing flames.

"Don't worry, you both won't be going anywhere." Orochimaru whispered in my ear before I felt a sharp pain in my neck, and blackness faded over me.

Sasuke's POV

The odd silence for the past two hours were quite unbearable. I managed to convince Itachi to come back home, to Konoha, though knowing deep down I still hated him for the past. I somehow pushed that aside to ask him the question. Oddly enough he agreed, but warned me that he may be put to death for being an S-Rank criminal known around the nations.

It was going to be hard to get back up to where he was. And how the rest of his team, more like his friends, were going to react. He hoped somehow they all would eventually turn to his side. But they were all unaware that it was Tobi or Madara that controlled them all. Especially Pein.

But now waiting for two hours while Tsunade talked to Itachi with top Anbu around her, he was put outside.

Then there was a poof of smoke.

"The Hokage wants to see you." The man said, and I knew it was Raiki.

"Alright." Raiki nodded, and poofed away.

I entered, only to be startled with a firm command. "Shut the door behind you." I did so and sat down infront of the next, next to the cuffed Itachi.

"Sasuke. You are well aware that Itachi is an S-Rank criminal, and that the difficulties on putting him back as a ninja and citizen will be hard right? What will the Elders say?" She questioned me. I scoffed.

"It's the ELDERS that did this in the first place." I snapped, and she nodded.

"I realized this, but what of the other nations? And the other members of the Akatsuki?" She asked, and looked to my brother.

"They, no doubt, will come looking for me. But they won't attack unless on Madara's orders." Itachi explained. Tsunade sighed, resting her chin on top of her propped up hands.

"You have no ill-intent towards Konoha, correct?" Tsunade asked finally.

Itachi did not hesitate to answer. "No. I came back because my brother convinced me. He now knows the secret I've kept from him, one of the reasons why I left." He looked straight into the Hokage's eyes.

I couldn't help but look at both and looked down at my hands.

"Sasuke." Tsunade called out. I looked up.

"Itachi will be granted as chuunin, and will work his way back up. I won't assign ANBU to watch him, because I trust you can deal with that. No missions either for him." I nodded, as did my brother.

"You both may go." Tsunade dismissed but before we left, I didn't move, but merely asked,

"Tell me about this mission you supposedly sent Sam on."

3rd POV

Somewhere underground, in a cold room laid two girls in two separate plain beds.

Jem groaned, sitting up and rubbing her forehead. She had a splitting headache and for a moment didn't know where she was or what was going on.

"Where am I..?" She whispered, looking around, until she realized Sam wasn't around to be seen.

"Sam?" She called out dryly. It hurt to swallow.

"Nnngh." Was a soft, almost inaudible noise and Jem turned to see her friend asleep as well. She sighed in relief, and tried to move, but realized she was just too tired. Sam eventually moved a bit and fell off the bed. She just groaned in irritation.

"You okay?" Jem tried to hold back a laugh. Sam flipped her off, and kept her face down into the stone floor. Boy did it smell like shit.

"ver arf vee?" Sam muffled. Jem looked around, only to find nothing in the room but a square wooden table next to a barred window with two seats, a wardrobe, a hanging light bulb, and their two beds.

"I really don't know. But I can bet you that-"

"Orosheemaru?" Sam muffled in completing her sentence. Jemry nodded, and decided to use her strength to push herself up, and help up her friend. She helped Sam back onto her bed and dusted off the rocks off her.

"My head feels hot..." Sam muttered. Jem quickly placed the back of her hand on Sam's, and one on her own head.

"You're burning up, Sam." She sternly told her, eyes moving over to the sound of locks unlocking.

"It seems that you both are awake." Kabuto observed, bringing in a tray of two bowls of some sort of liquid, and a glass of water.

"What do you want, you b-b-bitch." Sam muttered staring at the floor and holding her forehead. She had a splitting headache, and the room was spinning before her. She kept her eyes closed. Kabuto smirked.

"It seems someone has caught a cold." Kabuto said in a mocking tone, causing the protective friend to growl.

"Well when you're thrown into a shitty room like this one, and have thin sheets, and a window that never closes, it's kinda hard to not get sick. Stupid ass." Jem rolled her eyes. Kabuto, who tried to not raise a hand towards the rebel girl, only smirked again and left the room.

This time the locks didn't click.

"So tell me about this friend of yours, Sasuke." Itachi asked, his straw hat off, but his Akatsuki cloak still remained on his fit body. Sasuke, who tried to concentrate on running through the high-tops of trees, sighed. He was already worried enough about Sam, but to be reminded, and talk about her made him worry more.

"Well...she came to Konoha around two or so years ago. We met, first time, by passing by each other."

"What a great way to meet someone." Itachi scoffed. Sasuke continued.

"She and I were shown the...well..that one day," Referring to the massacre, "It was like going through your sharingan all over again. Except she didn't have it. She somehow showed me."

"Since then, we became teammates, and trained a lot together. Missions, everything. Eventually we started to hang out outside of missions, and whatnot. We would just sit back and watch movies. Or just go out and have some snacks." Reminiscing, Sasuke didn't notice he had a soft smile on his face. But Itachi caught this.

"She always had this...loudness to her. Yeah, it's annoying when Naruto is loud...but when Sam's loud...she automatically draws the spotlight on her. But she doesn't cease to amaze the audience. She's always caring. And even though she can't sing, draw, or even play instruments well, she can do things that alot of people find hard to do sometimes." Sasuke smiled even more now.

This was his genuine smile that Itachi missed seeing on his brother's face.

"And that is?"Itachi lifted a brow.

"She's there for you...always."

It was nearly midnight when the girls were tying up their hairs in ponytails. They couldn't afford to mess this up because this was a one in a lifetime chances of getting the hell out of this little prison.

Jemry had thought, since Kabuto forgot to lock their door, that it was a trap to see if they were actually daring enough to attempt an escape. But Sam, however, thought of it as a test, seeing if she was brave enough to take the chance, or as she put it, Go hard or go home.

"Remember," Sam whispered, looking around the corner, the exit just had to be around here somewhere. "If one of us get's captured, the other runs and tries to escape. No matter what. We'll come back for the other with backup." Jem, shook her head.

"What if they kill one of us that get's captured." she questioned. Sam just gave her a smirk, one that Jem recognized. This smirk meant that, it won't ever happen.

"That's only if they plan on doing that in the first place. I'm guessing we'll just be some stupid guinea pigs." She shrugged, as they whipped around the corner.

The stone hallways underground were cold, almost making the girls sneeze. Luckily, they both had enough clothes, and tried to warm each other up. When a guard rounded by, Jem used her kekkei genkai, and choked the man to death by shorting the air around him, and Sam created a fire that made a shadow big enough to dispose of the body.

If they were spies they'd be great at not leaving tracks behind.

Orochimaru sat in his throne like room, smiling as he could feel their chakras moving about in the hideout. He purposely allowed them escape just to bring up their hopes and crush them. That was the way this wicked snake got into his enemy's head.

"I think it's time you caught our little vixens." Orochimaru signaled Kabuto, who nodded, and poofed off.

Sam could see the blue night sky just a yard or so away at the end of the long entrance tunnel.

"Finally!" She huffed, and she and Jem started to run together, but when Sam noticed that Jem was no longer by her side, she turned around. Her eyes widened.

Kabuto had Jem by her throat along with a kunai pointed at an open spot. Her vein pulsed there.

Sam scowled. "Let her go you bastard!" She balled her hands into a fist, and noticed that the kunai go closer to her vein, nearly the tip poking her.

Jem let her hands drop, only to try to perform a substitution jutsu, but only received a kunai stab to her forearm instead. She gasped and hissed at the unwelcome sting.

"This kunai has poison in it. If you return to your rooms like good little girls, I'll give your friend here the antidote." Kabuto blackmailed her. Sam wouldn't let go of this opportunity to leave. But she couldn't abandon her best friend either.

"Don't go Sam..." Jem muttered. Sam remembered what she said...but she was hoping it would be her in that position, not her friend.

That's when she started to let her guard down.

"Are we there yet?" Sasuke asked, referring to where Sam and Jem were headed. But Itachi halted.

His head whipped around, feeling a strong chakra somewhere. Without replying, he swerved to the right, having an irritated raven follow behind.

"Where are you going? Tsunade said-"

"I think your friends are in danger." Itachi sternly interrupted him.

Sasuke, who had been worried, only allowed that feeling sink finally down into his gut. He wondered if he would empty his stomach of the meal he had a day ago.

All he could do was pray that Sam was all right.

The two momentarily arrived at a hideout, guarded with only two sound nins. They were quickly taken out and the two brothers quickly rushed in to the entrance.

Inside the entrance were only unlit torches. Itachi could've sworn that he felt immense chakra resonating from this area. Could his senses have been tricked?

"Sam! Jemry! Are you here?" Sasuke called out, his voice echoed throughout the empty halls.

That's when the only reply that came was a loud explosion.

Sam stared at Kabuto, angrily, and unballed her first. She walked back to him.

"Fine." She hissed under her breath, and stomped back to her room. Jem was carried by Kabuto, who couldn't help but smirk to himself.

Once they arrived back to their prison room, Kabuto gave Jem the antidote, and she immediately went to sleep. Sam was told it would take effect in a day, but she was to see Orochimaru that same night.

"Ah, my dear dear, little vixen." Orochimaru purred. The young girl stared down the snake, not pleased at all. She was rather pissed off and was ready to tackle the man down if it weren't for the chakra cuffs Kabuto placed on her before she entered the room.

"What the fuck do you want you bastard?" She hissed, only for her face to be met with Orochimaru's fist.

She didn't fall, as some girls would, but only had her eyes show fury that will be released when given the right time.

"You seem to forget your place. You are in my hideout. You are my toy now." Orochimaru spoke, his voice filled with coldness now rather than the creepy-perv like voice he used before to greet her.

"And for your foolish and rather useless attempt to escape, you and your dear friend will suffer the consequences." Orochimaru smirked.

"Don't you fucking touch her." Sam nearly jumped at the man, but was held back by Kabuto quickly. She fussed, and kicked but she was hit once more, but on her head with something that felt like a stick. Warm liquid trickled down her forehead to the side of her dirtied face.

"I swear Orochimaru! You lay one finger on her I swear I will hang you by your rotten skin." The pissed off raven threatened. Orochimaru couldn't help himself, and threw his head back and laughed wickedly, along with Kabuto.

Suddenly, a familiar reddish-pinkhead popped into the room. Before she left, her eyes darted to Sam.

"Ah, right, well I presume you know who this is right, my little vixen?" Orochimaru smiled at Sam, who growled.

"What do you know about us Orochimaru?" She sternly asked. The paled man smirked and answered,

"You both came from a different world. You know what will happen, who everyone is etcetera. And not only that but you both are guardians for light and shadows."

Sam, wide eyed, started to tremble, just a bit. Their secret was already known?

"Some people are aware of your existence."

And the oracle wasn't even kidding!

"H-how did you know that?!" Sam yelled, and Orochimaru laughed.

"Wouldn't you like to know? My sources tell me many things. Now answer my question." He referred back to the red-head. Sam, who hated her even in the show, growled.

"Karin...your stupid little helper for experiments. She is from the Village Hidden in the Grass."

Orochimaru shook his head. "I know you know more than that."

"Well you should've specified on what the fuck you wanted to know." The girl snapped back.

"My my. Such a feisty guinea pig you have, Master." Karin smirked. She was told of this young girl, and how she was best friends with Sasuke, the one man who Karin was just absolutely in love with.

The young raven knew as well that this woman liked Sasuke. She always did in the anime but that's only when they met.

"Shut your dirty mouth." Sam snapped at her, causing Karin to chuckle.

"Karin, why don't you tell our little vixen of the news you just received." Orochimaru smiled. Sam knew this was going to get into her head but she couldn't let whatever was coming, get to her.

"It seems that an Akatsuki member, the Eldest Uchiha, and Sasuke-kun have located our fake base. They seem to be looking for these girls."

Sam's mind snapped. Did they hurt him? Did they hurt Sasuke? What about Itachi?

"It seems that they set off the trap." Karin smiled, and her mischievous eyes glittered at the young cuffed girl.

"Orochimaru if you as so dare to even hurt a hair on Sasuke...I swear I will fucking have your head."

LINEBREAK

The dusts and rubble from the explosion left a few trees knocked down. There was smoke rising a bit into the night sky, and the smell of explosions filled the air. Sasuke and Itachi, luckily, escaped where the blast was deadly, and was under piles of rubble.

There was a shake on Sasuke's shoulder.

"Wake up, Sasuke." Itachi ordered, his little brother fluttering his eyes, focusing his eyes on red ones. Itachi's sharingan was activated.

"What happened..." Sasuke muttered, sitting up, and dusting he dust off of him, and then holding his aching head.

The pain slowly subsided.

"There was an explosion after you yelled. Seemed that this was a trap laid out by the snake." Itachi, who was obviously pissed off, scoffed.

How dare Orochimaru fool him with this little trick?

"Dammit..." Sasuke cursed under a breath until suddenly, he heard a very very loud scream.

"I heard it coming from that way..." He looked behind him. The brothers looked at each other, and dashed for where the scream came from.

Sam, who was chained up, and hanging in a medieval-dungeon like room, screamed. The only light that shined on her was the faint light of dawn seeping through the barred window.

Orochimaru had whipped her for the 50th time already. She wished he would just stop.

Karin, smiled from behind as did Kabuto.

"Have you had enough?" Orochimaru tilted Sam's chin up with the handle of the whip. The bloodied girl did what she was waiting for, and spat blood at Orochimaru's eye.

The man growled angrily, and whipped her again on her neck this time. Sam screamed louder than before. The blood on her lashed body dried, yet the fresh scars still trickled down her body.

Her outfit was torn, dirtied. Her face covered in dirt, and dried blood, and her once tied up hair was let free from the bindings.

Tear-stained, red cheeks stung on the girls face. How this was hell for her and how she looked by now did not matter. All she knew was the stinging and aches that raked her body and the faint ideas she would focus on that she would inflict upon the snake one day.

"It seems you haven't learned your lesson yet..." Orochimaru dropped the whip, and motioned for Karin. Sam, who was slipping in and out of conscious, lifted a heavy eyelid to look at the red head hanging over something that looked like a needle. A shot.

"What...is..." Sam tried to get out, but her voice was dry from screaming.

"Don't worry. You'll be reunited with your dear lover soon." Orochimaru smiled, and a sharp pressure was felt in Sam's vein on the other side of her elbow. She hissed, but soon the pain subsided, and darkness swarmed over her.

Sasuke and Itachi arrived at another hideout. No guards this time, however, so they ran in, and looked around in each room. They found one locked one, but Itachi kicked it down. Inside was a sleeping girl, who breathed heavily, with empty syringes beside the bed.

"Jemry." Sasuke muttered and hurried to the girl, he shook her gently, trying to wake her, and she only lifted her eyes a little.

"S-Sasu-ke..?" Jem whispered in a rasped voice. He nodded, and tried lifted the girl up to sit her up, she lifted her, bridal style.

"Where's Sam?" Sasuke asked, he could feel the butterflies of nervousness and worriness flutter about in his stomach.

"I d-don't know..Kabuto...Poison." She muttered before passing out again. They had to take her to Tsunade quickly, so he lifted the girl from the bed, and handed her off to Itachi.

"Sasuke?" Itachi lifted a brow, and shook his head.

"Take Jemry back to Konoha. I'm going to find Sam." He turned on his heel and dashed around, looking for the missing raven.

"It seems Sasuke has arrived" Kabuto said, holding the unconscious girl in his arms beside his master in their throne-like room. Karin had left, saying that she was to go to Konoha once Sasuke and Sam returned to fulfill her roll.

Orochimaru just smiled.

"Good."

The doors to the throne-room were kicked down, and an angry raven with red eyes rushed in.

"Sam!" Sasuke yelled. Kabuto smiled.

"Orochimaru..." He growled, ready to take out his katana, but Orochimaru rose but a finger and wagged it.

"We'll gladly give back your precious little tramp." Orochimaru purred, which just provoked the Uchiha more. Sasuke just noticed that his friend was battered and bloodied up. Kabuto saw the interest in the Uchiha, and threw the body into the air.

Sasuke quickly responded, and jumped up and caught Sam in his arms, his back was to the two men. When he turned, they were gone.

The raven focused his attention now to the unconscious friend in his arms.

"What did they do to you..." Sasuke whispered, a hand caressing her cheek.

It's been a week since the return of the four ninjas. Each carried an unconscious girl in their arms. Hinata, and TenTen were the first to see them and asked what was wrong Itachi ignored, not knowing who they were, and Sasuke just shook his head.

They were both admitted to the hospital, although Jemry woke up the next day since they came back, Sam was still unconscious.

Sasuke never left the raven's side. His hand never ceased holding onto hers with an idea that when she woke up, she would know its him and she would feel safe. Flowers surrounded the hospital room, as were there candy and stuffed animals and it was only a week since their encounter. Jem was given permission to leave, but she often came to switch with Sasuke, to give him some time to himself, and promised she would get him as soon as Sam would wake up.

So far, she didn't even move or make a sound.

"Sam..." Sasuke whispered, it was nearly 2 in the morning.

"Sam...you got to wake up..." He pushed her hand to his forehead. The raven was seriously worried about his friend. Since Naruto left for extensive training with Jiraiya, he only had her to brighten his days. To visit him when he was lonely. Or sick. To keep him company.

"Please..." He whispered again.

"Nnnngh.." A noise was made, and Sasuke's head whipped back up to see Sam's eyes flutter a bit, trying to pry themselves open.

When her eyes opened, she looked over to the Uchiha, and weakly gave him a smile. Her bandaged face and body ached all over, and she couldn't help but wince when she turned her head. She even had a wrapping on her neck from where Orochimaru whipped her last.

Sam, before Sasuke wiped his eyes, could've sworn she saw them glisten with tears.

"Where..." She dryly managed to get out. Sasuke smiled softly.

"You're back home, in Konoha. In the hospital. You've been here for about a week." He chuckled when she tried to get up, but fell back down, and let out a groan of frustration.

Tsunade popped in, and closed the door behind her.

"Ah, you're awake. Good." The blonde read over some charts, and smiled.

"Your wounds should heal within a month, two at the latest. You don't seem to have any concussions so we're guessing the pain from the wounds caused your coma." Tsunade read over the charts, and wrote something down.

"You can leave in about three days." She smiled, and looked at Sasuke, and lifted a brow.

"You know, visiting hours were over hours ago." She chuckled, and Sasuke, looked down.

Tsunade caught this and shook her head.

"But I suppose I'll let this slip. Sam, don't worry about reporting to me about your mission. Jem already did so, and told me all what happened. I'm glad you found out. That woman has been pestering my dreams lately, and I decided to finally let you girls go do what had to be done." Before either of them could question the woman, she left, closing the door once more.

Sam looked at Sasuke, who looked confused.

"I'll tell you..." She yawned. "Tomorrow." Sasuke nodded.

"Anything new...?" Sam asked, smiling softly. The raven just smiled back.

"I made up with Itachi." He said, and started on what happened while she and Jemry were away.

The entire time he filled her in, he never let go of her hand.