"So Tenten

"So Tenten? Am I right?" He asked kindly.

"Yes." She replied unsure of Sasuke's intentions. A loud click forced her to jump, she looked passed the WarLord to see that Shikamaru had locked the door.

"So no one disturbs us…" Sasuke said calmly. What were they going to do to her? She shuddered a little at what was to come. "Hmm?" He'd noticed her reaction and had apparently not expected. "You needn't worry; I have no intention of harming you more than you already are."

"So long as I don't fight you right…" She commented a little to scared to show her anger. Kousuke had said that to her multiple times before.

"As if you could fight me…" He mumbled. "But yeah that is how it normally goes. On occasion someone will piss me off and then… well I can't be held accountable." He walked over to the cabinets and began to search for something.

"So, what's he going to do then?" She asked glancing over at Shikamaru who was leaning against a wall.

"Him? Ahh… he's going to be administering the drug, as soon as I find it- God how dose Sakura anything in here- oh and after that he'll probably just watch, but he might join in if he sees an opportunity. Though this really isn't his forte." He explained.

"Drug?" Tenten tried to calm herself, it's not like it'd be any different than if she was with Kousuke.

"Yes, don't worry it won't knock you out, it'll just throw you a little. You'll be awake and you'll be able to remember everything that happens. So no one's left in the dark." Why would anyone want to remember something like that? At least when Kousuke used drugs she couldn't remember anything, Sasuke continued to dig around in the cabinets. "Here we are." He announced as he pulled out a syringe and a small vile of clear liquid. He filled the syringe about half way before flicking it several times to bring the air bubbles to the top. "It's a good thing Sakura already put an IV in you…" He commented, expelling the air bubbles from the needle. "It make things much easier." What was wrong with this guy? He was trying to make it sound like a pleasant experience! Sasuke came up to her needle at the ready, he gently placed a hand on her wrist to steadying the IV.

Tenten tore her hand away before he could get the syringe in it.

"I know that you came from Kousuke's, so I'll take things slow. And make sure that I don't hit any 'triggers'." Why was he saying all this? Triggers? The act itself was a trigger. She couldn't allow this to go any further. Sure it was because of them that she'd gotten out but she owed this particular WarLord nothing within the realm of what he was planning. She quickly turned to the trey beside her and grabbed the scalpel Sakura had been cleaning earlier. Sasuke took a step back.

"Hold this…" He said as he tossed the syringe to Shikamaru who caught it with ease. "Shikamaru… I think she's decided to be difficult." As if on que Tenten let loose the sharp object, sending it straight for Sasuke. Who in turn seemed to disappear and reappear right behind her. He quickly grabbed her by the shoulders and held her to the table as Shikamaru came up with the syringe. Tenten struggled violently against Sasuke making sure she kept Shikamaru at a distance, Sasuke wasn't going to do anything if they didn't get that stuff in her. "Calm down I don't want to hurt you." He growled he sounded almost scared of the idea. Shikamaru continued to try and get close enough but Tenten kept him several feet away.

"She'll tare her stitches out at this rate…" He said. Sasuke sighed as he flipped himself on top of her. He grabbed her wrist and pinned one above her head and the other to her side to Shikamaru could administer the drug. Tenten felt him grab her wrist, without thinking she kicked him in the side forcing him the let go of the needle. A look of sheer terror flashed on Shikamaru's face as he dove for it, catching it by the tips of his fingers. He sighed in relief.

"Limber, isn't she." Sasuke said clearly amused.

"Shut up Sasuke…" Sasuke chuckled a little before turning his attention back to Tenten. Being careful of her injuries he caught her legs with one of his and pinned them to the table. He sighed.

"It's okay Shikamaru… she's docile. Don't be scared." He joked, grinning at his subordinate's hesitation. Tenten glared at Sasuke who's attention was elsewhere. She'd never been the kind of person to do this but held the way she was…. She went as far as she could and grabbed a hold of Sasuke's arm. She felt him jolt obviously he hadn't been expecting her to bite him, he looked down at her practically wide-eyed. "I don't think she like being called that." Shikamaru laughed as he injected the fluid into the IV. Tenten felt the liquid flow into her arm.

"Forgive me, a bad choice of words. Not docile simply restrained properly." He apologized. "Now would you please remove your bicuspids from my epidermis. It's quite uncomfortable." Seeing how they'd already accomplished what they set out to do she released him and he in turn got off of her. "Sorry I didn't want to do it like that." Tenten's head was already beginning to feel fuzzy as he went down to her right leg and placed a hand on her thigh. Her eyes went wide as she jerked her entire body away from him, almost falling off the table as she did so. "What?" Sasuke asked confused. "I had to check your wound, and by the way you're bleeding again." He turned to Shikamaru. "Go find some bandages." He turned back to her. "I see you're still a little hesitant about this whole thing so how bout I go then you go." What the hell was he talking about? Turns?

"What?" She asked completely confused.

"I'll ask a question then you ask a question, then so on till all my questions are answered."

"Questions?" That's what he wanted!?

"Yeah what did you think I wanted se- ohhhh…" He said finally realizing what he had just done. "Don't get me wrong I'm a horrible person but I'm no rapist. Shikamaru said that Temari mentioned that I was brought up in conversation. I assumed that meant that Sakura told you that I was the main interrogator for The Caged." He glanced back at Shikamaru. "And you allowed this to go on…"

"Hey half way through I thought you were going to take her." Sasuke growled a little at the situation he was in.

"My apologies for scaring you like that, it was not my intention to do so." He looked at her. "The drug we gave you was not meant to incapacitate you but simply to make sure I get the truth." He said as though reading her mind. "It's kind of like a truth serum only not in so many words." Tenten nodded her mind becoming more of a haze, how was she supposed to answer any questions when she couldn't even remain focussed?

"And now that I have answered your question you'll answer mine." He said. When did she ask a question? "Shikamaru said you didn't have a last name. Was that true?"

"Yes…" She replied before she could really register with the question. It was as though her mind had slowed down but sped up all at the same time.

"Alright your turn." Tenten had quite a few questions for him but which one would she choose? And would he tell her the truth?

"Why did you attack Kousuke?"

"We have a personal vendetta against him, and he has something we want." Sasuke answered it sounded like the truth. "How long were you with Kousuke?"

"What's the date?" Sasuke told her the date (I hate being too specific in these things). "Two years last month…" She felt horrible for saying it why'd he want to know anyway?

"Alright… and in that-" The WarLord started

"Wait don't I get a question?"

"I already answered your question about the date and now I'm answering another question so I get two more." He said. Either he was very cunning or she was just stone on that drug they gave her. "Anyway, so in that time you made weapons for Kousuke?"

"Yes"

"But a lot of his weapons didn't work… was that on purpose."

"Yes" She replied his questions were simple if not a little hard to answer emotionally. "What could Kousuke possibly have that you'd want?" They were rich weren't they?

"A one of a kind item that he keeps with him at all times. And if you ask any more questions retaining to that item I reserve the right to lie to you." Sasuke said calmly.

"How come you can lie to me when I can't lie to you?"

"You could lie to me, you're just incapable of it. I get two questions now." He smirked. "Why did you sabotage the weapons."

"I'm no idiot… I knew what the weapons where being used for. I figured if they didn't work he'd have no use for me."

"But you know he'd kill you then right?"

"Yes. But at least I would have gotten out." She smiled. But now she had to ask a question but if Sasuke was just going to lie to her…

"Your turn"

"I know" She said still unsure of what to ask. "How did Sakura come to be here?"

"It's more her story than mine. But to answer your question she helped me so I helped her. Why didn't Kousuke get anyone else to make his weapons?"

"I thought about it myself a coupe times and I came to two conclusions…"

"Which were?"

"My father made weapons for him and I get two questions now." Tenten grinned she may have not been able to lie to him but she could lengthen out her answers and use it to her advantage. "Was Sakura kept in the same situation as me?"

"Basically…" Tenten waited for the rest of the answer. Sasuke smirked he could play the same game she could.

"Basically…?" She sighed in defeat.

"Sakura was taken just like you and kept for her expertise. The same form of abuse was probably inflicted upon her as well. You said your father made weapons be for you, who was he?"

"A great man who probably had a good reason for doing it." She answered. Sasuke sighed even with the drug she could still keep stuff from him.

"Very well…" He said as Shikamaru handed him a roll of bandages.

"What are you guys going to do with me?"

"That remains to be seen but I can tell you that you will be kept reasonably comfortable while you're with us." He replied as he began to wrap her thigh trying not to spook her again. "Is that too tight?"

"No. Why is The Caged here?"

"What do you mean?"

"Why dose The Caged existed?"

"Why dose any gang exist? Some do it for money, others for power, we exist because we can." Shikamaru snickered a little.

"Liar…" She said. Sasuke cocked an eyebrow.

"Hmm?"

"If you were here simply because you could be you wouldn't have worried about taking things or persons. And you probably wouldn't worry about something like a vendetta…" Tenten explaind.

"And how can you be sure of that? Maybe we're just destructive by nature."

"Then you wouldn't have apologized to me earlier." She was right.

"Fine, everyone in The Caged has there own reasons for being here. And since we couldn't do it on our own, The Caged was formed. Now it's my turn dose Kousuke-" Sasuke started only to have Shikamaru cut in.

"Did Kousuke ever take you to meet the people he did business with?" He asked

"When he wanted show off, why?"

"Did you ever meet a guy with bad slouch covered in bandages?" His voice held a tint of urgency.

"Not that I can recall." Shikamaru continued before she could as another question.

"How bout a guy with dark gold almost bronze hair he'd be pretty tall, taller than Kousuke. He's also got a thing for taking trophies." Tenten thought for a moment, she'd met quite a few of Kousuke's 'loyal' costumes granted she'd always been introduced as his 'woman' to avoid anyone finding out that she was his weapons maker. Though a guy obsessed with trophies should have stood out in her mind. Why did he care anyway?

"No, who is he?"

"Thanks…" He said obviously disappointed before he unlocked the door and left. Sasuke shook his head.

"Sasuke?" He looked at her.

"She used my name that should be a good sign." He thought to himself.

"Why'd he want to know if I'd met those people?"

"Those people hurt Shikamaru deeply."

"What'd they do?"

"That's his story not mine."

"Alright then, it's your turn isn't it?"

"I only have one more question to ask so I'll let you ask a few more." He replied trying to sound kind. This was far from his style of interrogation but gaining her trust was a key factor in his future plans.

"How did he come to be here?" Sasuke sighed.

"I'd say it started about three years ago. This was about the time Temari and her brothers began helping us form our territory. One night she brought in this guy, who just kept on about his friend. 'He didn't deserve it' 'He was cooperating' 'There was no point' he kept repeating those lines. Sakura wasn't with us yet so we patched him up the best we could. We kept him for a couple days but he escaped before he was fully healed."

"Escaped?"

"Neji has a thing about turning injured witnesses loose." He explained. "Anyway, we thought we'd seen the last of him. But a couple months later Temari brought him in again. He looked like he'd been worked over, like who ever did it wanted something from him. He stayed for several weeks this time; mainly because he was in a coma. When he woke up we figured out why he'd been hurt so badly."

Flashback

Sasuke and Neji stood looking at a large map of the city on it were twenty-eight randomly placed red dots.

"What are we going to do? He's gone to the same place twice now? You think he'll show up in the same order?" Sasuke asked looking at his leader.

"I don't think he'd be that stupid. But he could have expected us to think that way." Neji studied the map. Someone had been setting fires in their territory, and had been doing so rather boldly during their patrol. He tried to predict their movements but there was no pattern. Some were on the outskirts of their territory and others were further in, then some were two blocks apart and others were close to miles.

"You don't see it?" Sasuke and Neji turned to see their injured newcomer limping up to the map. His body practically covered with bandages; only his mouth and one eye were visible on his face.

"See what?" Neji asked.

"The pattern." He said picking a marker up off the floor. "There is a pattern you just don't see it." He began to connect the dots by the date the fires had occurred. Neji and Sasuke stared in shock when he was finished, it looked like a cartoon style fireball.

"But the patterns been completed. He'll stop then right?" Sasuke asked the young man rubbed his injured temples.

"So troublesome…" He mumbled. "Wrong your arsonist isn't finished, and She isn't going to stop until She is either dead or done."

"How do you know He's a She?"

"For the simple fact that females tend to think these things through and since you've yet to catch her one can assume that she thought it through down to the last item."

"Alright so if she's not done where is she going hit next?"

"Normally with these kinds of designs there's some kind swirl in the middle." He stared at the map for a moment a made a dot three blocks in from the first fire. "She'll go there next."

"How can you be sure?" Neji asked amazed that he had figured all that out in less than five minutes.

"There will probably be several girls in the area and even a few guys. Those people are there to draw you off. The one you're looking for has brown eyes and dark hair." He explained completely ignoring Neji's question.

"And you know her eye color how?" Sasuke couldn't believe it now he was naming off features?

"She probably likes to stare at her work for a long time, blue eyes allow in more light which would hinder her escapes in the dark. (I have tested this theory and I ran into a shed)."

"And if she's wearing contacts?" He sighed he just got woke up he didn't need this.

"You'll know her cause she's the only bitch cart'n around a cooler." He snapped and held up a finger to stop the inevitable question. "She has a cooler cause she's carting around Napalm. She didn't buy it she made it by soaking Styrofoam in gasoline. She'll probably try and throw some at you too. Now I'm going back t bed…" He said with a yawn as he walked away.

End of Flashback

Shikamaru had been right down to her hair color; granted he probably guessed that part.

"When we got back he was gone and he'd stolen one of our busted bikes. So not only was he a genius he was a mechanic as well. Temari brought him back a year later. We then made the decision to make him stay here. He still hates us a little for it. Alright now it's my turn." He said. "Does Kousuke have an Item of sorts that he keeps with him no matter what?" Tenten thought for a moment, aside from her Kousuke had no constants in his life.

"He has a cigarette case that he doesn't like to be without." She explained. Sasuke smirked.

"Well, thank you this has been 'enlightening'." He laughed a little. "Oh and don't worry about the drug it wore off a while ago."

"Wait…" Sasuke stopped his hand hovering over the doorknob.

"Hmm?"

"Did Sakura… did she really try to kill herself?" She had to know the thought of Sakura's wrists sent chills down her spine.

"And here I thought you were going to ask about why I was interested in Kousuke's cigarette case."

"Well?"

"I don't know…" He said grabbing the doorknob and opened it. "But I don't believe that someone with her kind of medical expertise would slash across the vein and not down. Further more she wouldn't have had to slash so many times." With that Sasuke left leaving her with her newly acquired knowledge.

With Sasuke

"Well that was beneficial…" Sasuke said as he walked out into the hallway.

"Maybe for you." Shikamaru added as he walked up to his leader.

"Yes, well maybe God's telling you to stop looking for those guys." Shikamaru grinned.

"Well, I was going to let you figure this out for yourself. But why not."

"What?"

"You remember when Tenten threw that scalpel at you?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Your ear's bleeding…"

"Heh!?"

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Sorry if it's confusing it was kind of a rush job and I was tired but I hope you liked it. NejixTenten in next Chapter I promise.