Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, but I defiantly wish I did! XD

A/N: Okay, first off I want to apologize for the delay of this chapter. I like to normally have a new chapter every week, but I COULDN'T WRITE ANYTHING DURING COLUMBUS DAY WEEKENED BECAUSE I HAD FAMILY OVER! D: Not that I don't love seeing my family, it's just I would have had THREE WHOLE DAYS to write and instead I had none! :( I did my best to write this chapter for you guys! So please don't be mad! I'm sorry! So here's Chapter 10! :D Please tell me what you thought at the end by reviewing!

By the way, the beginning of the chapter is Sasuke's perspective before Sakura fell. It will go back to Sakura once I'm done explaining what happened to Sasuke before. :D

Chapter 10: The Reunion

Sasuke ran until he was at the edge of the large valley. He summoned a giant hawk and flew down to the bottom. If his assumption was correct, Takamaru's hideout should be located at the bottom of the abyss.

He leapt down from the hawk and ran down the middle the valley. The hawk soared up to the sky and disappeared into the sunlight.

He soon saw giant boulders up ahead and what looked like a cave entrance between them. He stopped and observed the giant cave. He slowly walked towards it with his katana drawn out, ready for an attack.

He activated his Sharingan as he walked into the dark cave. It appeared no sign of any life was in there, until he heard a loud cackle echo off the cave walls.

His Sharingan blazed as he jumped up to dodge the stream of fire headed for him. The fire instead lit the torches all around the darken cave, filling the cave with light.

His eyes widened when saw how huge the cave was with its high ceiling and wide diameter. He jumped down from the ceiling and lunged towards the average height male at the end of the cave.

The male smirked as he ran towards him and threw a kunai with a paper bomb at him. Sasuke jumped to dodge as the man took out a dozen shuriken and threw them rapidly at him. Sasuke used his sword to dodge them all easily.

"I see the rumors are true, you really are an excellent shinobi, Uchiha." The man smirked viciously at Sasuke.

His eyes widened under his mask as he looked at the male. He got a closer look and noticed there was a darkened scar under his left eye. He had shaggy, long, black hair and what appeared to be a crown with rubies tied to his belt. He wore black pants and a torn black V-neck showing the fishnet he wore underneath. Bandages were poorly wrapped around both of his upper arms and were dripping with blood as he smirked at Sasuke.

"Are we going to continue this charade? I'm sure you know who I am by now," Sasuke narrowed his eyes at him. "If not, I'm Takamaru, nice to meet you Uchiha." He snickered as he held out his hand to him even though he was on the other side of the cave.

Sasuke glared at him as he tightened the grip on his katana and ran towards him. His chidori was emitting from the sword as he aimed for his chest. Takamaru took out his own katana and raced towards him.

Sasuke froze halfway across the cave as his eyes widened in a panic at something. "No… SAKURA!" He screamed madly, creating echoes all around them.

Takamaru smirked at his chance and ran even faster.

Blood splattered onto the ground as the raven shrieked in pain. The katana plunged through the side of his ribs. Takamaru smirked as the raven fell to the floor gasping. He pressed both hands against his side to stop the blood flow.

Takamaru reached over and yanked off Sasuke's mask. He smirked at Sasuke's twisted face in pain.

"I guess I was wrong, you're nothing special. You didn't even try to dodge. I would have thought a ninja of your level would know better to lock away all emotions when fighting an opponent, but you're just a joke!" He laughed and kicked Sasuke hard in the ribs.

Sasuke screamed in pain from the kick to his already gushing wound.

"So much for the last Uchiha, you're pathetic!" He shouted mockingly.

A nerve snapped in Sasuke from those words. "SH-SHUT UP!" He yelled angrily as he began to slowly stand up clutching his side.

Takamaru began to cackle, he stopped when he noticed a man with long, brown hair at the cave's entrance walk in.

He smirked at the man as he walked in. "So, how did it go Hideki?" He looked at Hideki's face "It seems the girl was able to do a number on you." He said cackling and kicked Sasuke in the ribs again causing him to fall down, gasping.

Hideki shrugged. "I will admit she was pretty good," He continued walking towards them. "She was very physically strong and I could tell she was a skilled medical ninja too."

Takamaru smirked. "My, maybe this girl has some valuable attributes after all, if she was able to do that to you," He mocked. "Why don't you go bring her here? Perhaps she would be very valuable as a healer, or maybe my wife." He sneered as he placed his foot on top of Sasuke's side.

Sasuke's eyes widened angrily as a dark, cold chakra emitted from him.

Takamaru felt something burning on his foot and looked down at Sasuke. "What the HELL? What is this?" Takamaru gasped as he took his foot off Sasuke and stared at him, aghast.

Hideki smirked and quickly ran out of the cave.

Sasuke slowly stood up with his chin down and bangs covering his face. He was fully engulfed in a dark, blue chakra cloak.

Takamaru looked at him bewildered as he slowly lifted his head. He cringed when he saw blood pouring out of his eye, and the dangerous glare he was giving him with it.

Sasuke howled in rage as the Susanoo took over him.

"DON'T EVER, TALK ABOUT SAKURA LIKE THAT, YOU BASTARD!" Sasuke screeched as a stream of Amaterasu flames burst all around him.

Takamaru's back landed against the wall as the flames pierced through his chest. He howled in pain as he was burned alive. His whole body was engulfed in the black flames. His screaming then stopped suddenly.

Sasuke extinguished the flames and saw nothing remained of Takamaru. He smirked as he fell to the ground unconscious.

Hideki walked back in and stood in front of Sasuke as he smirked. "Well, well, do I have some plans for you, Uchiha," He chuckled as he grabbed Sasuke's arm. "Soon you'll be meeting one of your old friends, although I suppose you look at her as more than a friend from the way you just reacted. This will make everything more interesting." A wide smirk appeared on his face as he dragged him away into a hidden passageway deep underground.

Sakura continued running with Tadashi following beside her. In the corner of her eye, she saw Tadashi suddenly fall to the ground.

She stopped and turned to him quickly. "Tadashi! Are you alright?" She said in a panic as she scooped him up in her arms.

The pinkette placed her finger on his chest. She could feel his heart beat every few seconds, barely. Her eyes widened from the condition he was in.

Tadashi looked at her softly, and then slowly closed his eyes.

"No, you can't be, because if you are, wouldn't that mean he's?" Her eyes widened further and she quickly took off through the valley again.

"Please Sasuke, please be alright."

Hideki smirked, admiring his finished work on Sasuke still unconscious in a cell. "Things are going to get fun now." He cackled as he ran out of the cave.

Sakura continued running for a few minutes until she saw a flash of someone coming towards her up ahead. She stopped and looked all around as she took out a kunai in one hand, while the other held Tadashi against her chest.

She gasped as she felt someone's kunai under her chin. "Drop the kunai or your life will end." The voice whispered into her ear, threateningly.

Her eyes widened recognizing that voice from earlier. "If you come with me, I'll let you see the person most important to you before he dies," He chuckled. "If you don't, I'll kill you right now."

Sakura's eyes widened from shock causing her to drop the kunai to the ground. She mentally cursed herself for her carelessness.

"Wise decision," He chuckled as he put his kunai down. "Now follow me; I'll know if you run off so I wouldn't try it, unless you want to die." He laughed as he took off through the valley.

She narrowed her eyes at his back, having no choice but to follow.

"Sasuke please be safe. Whatever you do, don't die." She whispered as she took off after him, with Tadashi still unconscious in her arms.

He felt something cold constrict around his torso as he slowly woke up. Everything was dark, except for a lighted torch nearby. He could feel something cold running down his body. He felt tired, very tired.

He looked down with his blurry vision and saw something gray and dark red wrapped around him tightly. He tried to move and screamed in pain from the movement. He looked down again trying to focus more as he gritted his teeth.

Chains were tightly wrapped around him with his own blood leaking through them. He was struggling for breath as he panted from the binding.

"Wh-Who the h-hell, d-did th-this?" He chocked out as he struggled from the chains. He flinched as he gritted his teeth in pain.

His eyes widened remembering what occurred before. "SAKURA, WHERE ARE YOU?" He screamed with his Sharingan eyes moving frantically all around.

His scarlet eyes stopped moving and stared at a spot on the wall fixatedly.

His eyes sank as he gazed down at the chains with his bangs covering his face.

"Don't do anything stupid, Sakura." He whispered to himself as he sat and waited in silence for his old teammate.

Tadashi stirred in Sakura's arms causing her to look down aghast. Her eyes widened seeing him open his eyes in a frantic. He blinked a few times and then focused his eyes on hers, intensely.

Sakura smiled. "I glad you're okay, Tadashi." A tear fell down her cheek as she smiled softly at him.

She blushed in realization of her crying and wiped away the tear with her wrist as she continued to smile.

Tadashi looked at her softly as his eyes sank down. Sakura looked down at him curiously until she heard Hideki call out to her.

"Okay, we're here." Hideki called out and stopped in front of a cave's entrance.

Sakura's mouth opened ajar as she gazed upon the size of the cave she was standing in front of.

Hideki smirked to himself as he walked inside. "Come on; don't you want to see the man you love?"

Sakura glared at him. "What did you do to Sasuke?" She yelled as she narrowed her eyes.

Hideki turned to Sakura chuckling. "Me? I didn't do anything to him. You just arrived a little too late, that's all." He said smirking as he shrugged his shoulders.

Sakura's temper snapped at those words.

Her fist glowed bright blue as she ran towards him madly. "DON'T EVER TALK ABOUT SASUKE LIKE THAT AGAIN, OR YOU'LL REGRET IT!" She screamed furiously with her fist only a few feet away from his face.

He snapped his fingers and smirked. "Funny, he said the same thing earlier, but about you." He laughed as he watched her baffled expression.

Chains were shot all around the cave in every direction towards her. Sakura tossed Tadashi out of her arms and he flew weakly away from her to dodge one. She did a cartwheel missing a few to her side and then shot one out of the way with her fist. She jumped into the air to dodge one shooting out of the ground beneath her.

Hideki smirked at her. Another one was shot from the ceiling at her in midair. Tadashi's eyes widened, and he called out to her madly causing a barrage of chains head towards him in the process.

She looked at Tadashi then up and was caught by a barrage of chains as it wrapped around her torso and arms.

"Shit!" She gasped only making the chains tighten around her as she fell to the ground with a loud thud.

Tadashi landed in a heap of chains covering his small body, screeching in pain.

"I wouldn't move if I were you," Hideki said snickering as he coolly walked over to her. "It will only make them tighten around you more."

Sakura coughed repeatedly from the hold and glared up at him.

"Awww, what's with the face? I thought you would be happy to see him, the last Uchiha." He chuckled. "What a joke he is."

Tadashi continued struggling until he heard the insult. His Sharingan turned dark red as he looked at him with a death glare.

Sakura's own glare intensified. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO SASUKE?" She snapped at him.

He smirked. "I'll show you if you want." He said nonchalantly as he looked down at her, chuckling softly.

Sakura's eyes widened for half a second and then continued to glare at him.

"Isn't that what you want, I presume, Sakura?" He licked his lip as he said her name and continued smirking.

Sakura looked at him furiously. "How do you know my name and what do you want with me and Sasuke?" She said through gritted teeth.

Hideki laughed. "You'll see," He turned around and then looked back at her. "I learned your name from the man we are about to see. I'm sure you'll recognize him, even in his current state," He smirked. "Well, shall we go?" He pulled her back up to her feet forcefully and grabbed one of the chains dangling from her.

Hideki put his free hand in his pocket and took out a piece of cloth. "Makes it more interesting," A small grin appeared on his face as he tied the piece of cloth around her eyes. "Don't you think?"

Sakura didn't say anything, which caused him to laugh mockingly. He led her to the back of the cave down a hidden passageway deep underground, with Tadashi still struggling in his chains.

Sakura slowly walked down the stairs into the darkened atmosphere. As she went deeper and deeper, it became colder and all she could hear was Hideki's and her own footsteps. She couldn't see anything, and she felt like she had been walking down the stairs for over five minutes, at least.

Sakura didn't say anything at all the whole time and almost tripped as she reached the landing of the stairs. Hideki continued to lead her as he opened a door at the end of a hallway causing her to look up from the sound.

Sakura could hear him silently chuckling as he guided her. She could see a faint glow of light through the blindfold, and something like red eyes only about fifteen feet away. Her body began trembling, realizing this must be Sasuke.

"Who are you?" A deep, angry voice said in what sounded like pain.

Her emerald eyes fully widened under the blindfold, recognizing that voice anywhere. Her legs stumbled a little from shock, causing Hideki to chuckle.

"My, my, you seem awfully chipper don't you?" Hideki said nonchalantly and began untying the blindfold. "Can't you see who I brought to visit you? Don't the Uchiha have the best bloodline for visibility? Or is it as much of a sham as your skills in battle?" He mocked and swiped the blindfold from Sakura's emerald eyes.

Sakura blinked a few times clearing her vision. She yelped silently to herself as she gazed at familiar Sharingan eyes staring back at her.

Sakura had to blink again to make sure her eyes weren't playing tricks on her. What she saw almost made her fall over in complete shock.

He was staring at her with widened eyes, and his lips were slightly parted in shock.

Sakura examined him closer and noticed he had chains encircled around him like her. She gasped when she saw they were coated in blood.

"S-Sa-Sasuke-"

"SAKURA, LOOK OUT!"

She swiftly turned around in surprise at Sasuke's mention of her, and saw Hideki had his hand on the hilt of his katana.

Hideki smirked. "Oh, I see what's going on; the 'Great Uchiha Sasuke' has a soft spot for his old teammate," He pulled his katana out a few centimeters from its sheath. "Although, I thought you had broken those bonds long ago, isn't that right, Sasuke?" He asked mockingly.

Sasuke gritted his teeth.

Sakura looked at him in the corner of her eye with a slight blush on her face.

"I have an idea," Hideki said snickering as he put his katana back in its sheath and walked over to Sakura.

"DON'T TOUCH HER YOU BASTARD!" Sasuke snapped as he tried to break free from his chains.

"Sasuke?" Sakura whispered to herself in disbelief.

"Relax, I'm going to undue her chains," He said as the tips of his fingertips glowed with chakra and turned to Sasuke with a smirk. "You know Uchiha, if you have been trying to come across as a coldhearted bastard all this time; you're kind of ruining your image." He finished his sentence as the chains fell to a pile at Sakura's feet.

Sasuke gave him a deadly glare.

"Tell you what Sakura, if you don't join me, I'll kill everyone most important to you besides Sasuke," Sakura looked at him aghast. "Or, you can kill Sasuke and no one will die except him." He snickered.

Sakura's eyes enlarged in fear. "Wh-What di-did y-you s-s-say? Wa-Wait, wh-why?" Her legs trembled as she spoke.

Sasuke looked shocked for a second at the two, and then his face went emotionless.

Hideki took out his katana again causing Sakura to stagger backwards and Sasuke eyes to fire up.

"WHAT DID I-"

Hideki threw the katana at Sakura's feet.

Sakura gasped, as she and Sasuke looked at him bewildered.

"Well, choose. Which do you value more, your friends or an old teammate who went rogue?" He folded his arms against his chest. "Sakura no matter what, you will end up joining me so don't even try to get out of it. I'll even make you my personal 'nurse,' if you know what I mean." He winked at her as he grinned.

Sasuke eyes widened in shock and then quickly turned to rage. "IF YOU TOUCH HER I'LL MURDER YOU!" He screamed as he violently tried to break free from his chains once again.

Sakura looked at Sasuke terrified as he screamed in pain. "Sasuke, please don't use any more strength!" She screamed worriedly, as she ran to the cell's iron bars and gripped her hands to them as she peered through at him.

Sasuke Sharingan disappeared immediately as he gazed into her beautiful, worried eyes. He then looked down at his chains, hiding his face from Sakura's view with his bangs.

"Fine, then just end my suffering, Sakura." He sounded a bit saddened to Sakura. But he also seemed to have spoken in a monotone voice to her.

She looked at him curiously, wondering why he suddenly would say something like that.

He slowly tilted his head up and looked into Sakura's eyes, expressionless. Her eyes widened realizing what Sasuke was trying to do.

Sakura nodded slightly and turned to Hideki. "Can I heal him, before I kill him?" She said with saddened eyes as she looked at Hideki.

Hideki smirked. "I suppose. Here's the key." He handed the key to Sakura nonchalantly. "Even if you do turn on me, I'll make sure you suffer if we fight. Keep that in mind."

Sakura nodded. "Thank you." She said softly and picked up the katana as she unlocked the cell's door and walked in.

Sasuke stared at her blankly as she sliced through the chains with her chakra. She looked down, hiding her blush from him with her bangs.

Sasuke's shoulder relaxed as the chains fell down.

She ripped off his shirt and vest, coated in blood.

She gasped a little to herself as she gazed at the gashes all around his toned body. His chest was covered in blood with a huge gash on his side.

Sasuke continued looking at her with blank eyes as he watched her gaze at his body.

"Please lay down." Sakura whispered, still trying to avoid eye contact with Sasuke.

Sasuke slowly laid down on his back as Hideki watched from afar.

The katana laid next to Sakura's side as her palms casted a green glow. She gently placed them on Sasuke's toned chest, blushing madly.

The wounds slowly began to heal as the blood drifted back into them.

"Hurry up!" Hideki called out with his arms folded.

The bleeding stopped as the tissues around the wounds healed.

She panted softly and wiped her brow as she healed the massive gash on his side. Sasuke cringed as she increased the pressure on his ribs with her hands. Chakra glowed all around his wound and her hands as she bit her lip.

Sakura removed her hands once she was done and panted heavily. She slowly turned her head and looked into Sasuke's eyes.

He was staring at her with thankful eyes and hid a small smile as he nodded slightly.

Sakura smiled at him and blushed. Her eyes then turned to sadness seeing the katana by her side. She slowly reached her hand to the hilt and held it.

"Well? Do it!" Hideki yelled in anger.

"I'm sorry, Sasuke." She whispered as a tear slid down her cheek.

Sasuke furrowed his eyebrows, waiting for the impact.

She raised the katana above her head and swung down towards Sasuke's throat.

Sasuke reached out his hand to the hilt of the katana, stopping the swing inches away from his throat. He smirked as he sat up in an instant and took the katana away from her. He lunged towards Hideki sending chidori through the blade.

"Perfect, Sakura."

Hideki smirked and quickly dodged the blow as it went through the wall. "I thought you would heal him so he could fight me, brat. But this makes it more fun." He snickered.

Sakura furrowed her eyebrows at him as if he was crazy.

Sasuke's Sharingan blazed in anger. Chidori emitted throughout his whole body bouncing off all the walls, missing Sakura.

Hideki smirked and quickly appeared behind Sakura with his arm around her neck and a kunai at her throat, laughing.

Sasuke looked shocked at how fast he moved with his Sharingan almost unable to catch him. He quickly turned to Sakura as rage continued to build in his eyes.

Sakura tried to break free from his hold but was chocked even more from him.

"LET HER GO, OR ELSE!" Sasuke snarled as his hands turned to fists.

Hideki chuckled. "There you go making threats again," Sasuke's knuckles turned white and he gritted his teeth. "Well, I'm going to make one for you instead. You have five seconds to drop my katana, if you don't I'll kill her." He pressed the kunai against her throat more creating a small bead of blood.

Sakura started crying and gasping from not being able to breathe. Her face began turning a shade of purple as she struggled for air.

Sasuke slowly closed his eyes as he increased his grip on the katana.

"Five,"

Sakura continued to gasp as she placed her hands on his forearm, trying to pull the kunai away from her throat.

"Four,"

Hideki chuckled at Sakura and pressed the kunai more to her throat.

"Three,"

Blood was slowly dripping down Sakura's throat to her shirt.

"Two,"

Sasuke opened his eyes fully, and shot him a deadly glare as blood cascaded down his cheek.

Hideki's eyes widened at Sasuke. He howled in pain as his body was shrouded in black flames and fell to the ground, dead instantly.

As he fell to the ground, he dropped his kunai and it sliced through Sakura's throat to her windpipe. She gasped for air as she slowly fell towards the ground and began coughing, violently.

In a second, Sasuke was by her side and caught her in his arms.

Sakura turned to him in shock as he held her in his arms. She looked at him softly as her eyes turned to sadness.

Sasuke put his hand on her cheek as he looked at her softly. "Please, heal yourself Sakura." He whispered pleadingly.

Sakura put her hand to her throat and flash of green emitted for less than a second.

She looked up to Sasuke and smiled softly. "I can't Sasuke; my chakra is almost at zero." She whispered in a cracked voice.

Panic showed in Sasuke's eyes as he looked at her. He held her close to his chest and embraced her gently, as he laid his head on her shoulder, hiding his face from view.

Sakura's body stiffened as her lips slightly parted in shock from Sasuke's action. She quickly recovered from her shock, realizing Sasuke was actually holding her. She laid her head on his shirtless chest as she held him too.

Tears began falling down Sakura's face onto Sasuke's chest.

He lifted his head from her shoulder and looked into her puffy eyes, sadly. He placed both of his hands on her cheeks and gently wiped away her tears with his thumbs.

Her eyes widened and she began crying even harder.

Sasuke's eyes widened in realization and he reached over and picked up the blindfold. "What are you going to do Sasuke?" Her voice cracked softly.

"Shhh, don't speak Sakura." He whispered as he tied the cloth around her neck gently to try to stop the blood flow. She cringed as the cloth touched her wound.

Sasuke stared at her softly. "Sakura, thank you for healing me," He picked her up bridal-style in his arms causing her to blush as she hung her arms around his neck. "I promise I will find someone to heal you, and you will not die." He whispered gently and placed his face inches from hers.

Sakura blushed from the distance between them and then her eyes widened.

Sasuke placed his lips on hers, kissing her gently.

Sakura's body went numb in his arms from the kiss. She closed her eyes and began kissing him back. She melted into the kiss and ran her fingers through his hair as he gently ran his hands up and down her back. The two broke apart after they both ran out of breath, panting for air.

Sakura was blushing madly as she looked at Sasuke, shocked.

Sasuke looked into her eyes and then softly smiled.

He held Sakura with one arm and grabbed the katana with its sheath. He tied the sheath to his belt and took off with Sakura up the steep staircase.

Once he was at the top, Tadashi flew to him and landed on his shoulder. They departed from the cave and into the stormy, night.

A/N: Thank you for reading this chapter and being patient for it! ^_^ I am very sorry you had to wait two weeks! But you got a longer chapter and there was SASUSAKU finally! :D YAY! Please review and tell me what you thought of the chapter! :D