Chapter 11

Standing in the middle of the street, Naruto was concentrated, using senin mode to try and feel Sasuke's chakra. But instead he felt three very familiar chakra that were coming near him. He didn't hide, he just waited for them. Soon, Kiba and Akamaru, Hinata and Shino were in front of him.

"Naruto! We finally caught up to you!" Kiba enthusiastically exclaimed.

"He shouldn't be out in the open like this. Maybe this is a trick." Shino said.

The blond shook his head. "This is not a trick guys. But what the hell are you three doing here? Are you on a mission?"

"Yes, we're on a mission to find you and bring you back to Konoha!" Kiba said. "So, you're going to come with me!"

Kiba jumped and caught Naruto in his arms. They both fell on the ground roughly but the blond struggled and managed to push Kiba away.

"Dude! How did you get this strong?" Kiba said as he tried to attack Naruto again.

"Kiba back off okay?" Naruto replied, maintaining a safe distance.

"He's right Kiba," Hinata said in a soft voice. "He's not trying to escape you don't have to attack him."

She came to stand between them, to stop them from fighting.

"Thanks Hinata," Naruto smiled.

She smiled back. "I'm glad you're okay."

"So you guys are on a mission to bring me back to Konoha, huh?" Naruto laughed "Well this is kind of ironic..."

Hinata frowned. "Yeah... but Naruto what happened? Where's Sasuke?"

Kiba seemed to remember something. "Oh yeah! He was supposed to be with you and we were supposed to bring him back too! Where is he?"

Naruto shook his head. "Damn Kiba you can be such an idiot sometimes."

"Do you know where he is?" Shino asked.

"No... I was going to try and find him."

Hinata nodded. "Then we're coming with you."

"Wait! Hinata, who said you were the leader?" Kiba protested.

Naruto ignored him and turned to his friend. "Hinata, if I go back to Konoha now, am I gonna get arrested...?"

Hinata shook her head and smiled. "Of course not Naruto. Shikamaru told us what happened... and he overreacted when he told you that. I talked with Sakura, and she told me Tsunade would probably just yell at you and maybe give you a few missions without paying you or something like that."

Naruto sighed, somewhat relieved. "Thanks... okay we're losing time, let's go!"

"Well, do you have any idea where he went?" Kiba asked.

Naruto looked down. "Actually... not really."

"Oh and I'm supposed to be the idiot here?" Kiba replied and Akamaru barked, as if agreeing.

Annoying dog, Naruto thought. While Kiba and Naruto continued arguing, Hinata activated her Byakugan. She suddenly gasped and brought a hand to her mouth.

"What do you see Hinata?" Shino asked her quietly.

"So many..." she whispered.

Naruto and Kiba stopped arguing and paid attention to her.

"Hinata?" Naruto asked, suddenly anxious.

She frowned, "There are so many people. I don't know who they are, but they're all fighting and a lot of them are down."

"Is Sasuke there?" Naruto asked.

"Yes, I can recognize his chakra... and...he's the one they're all fighting."

Naruto nodded. "All right let's go, Hinata I'm following you!"

"Hai!"

The black-haired girl started running, Naruto close behind her. Shino and Kiba followed behind them.

Hinata had kept her byakugan activated to see what was going on and make sure they were going the right way. But suddenly she gasped and almost fell but Naruto caught her.

"What's happening?" he asked, panting.

"Sasuke... he collapsed... and now..." she breathed.

"What? What now?" Naruto urged her.

She narrowed her eyes and concentrated. "They're taking him..."

"Taking him where?" Naruto shouted.

Hinata didn't reply, and tears were forming in her pale eyes.

"Naruto calm the fuck down okay!" Kiba interrupted. "How could she know that? Let's just go and we'll see for ourselves okay? Oh yeah, and no more attacking random people to protect that bastard!"

Naruto glared at Kiba, he felt like punching him, very hard. But he just took in a deep breath and looked back at Hinata.

"I'm sorry Hinata. Let's go!"

He started running again, the others following him. They arrived soon after to a very disturbing scene. There were about fifty Kumogakure ninja lying on the ground in a valley. All were groaning and moaning; some of them even still unconscious.

"What the hell happened here?" Kiba asked.

Hinata was checking them to see if they were all right.

"None of them's really hurt! They just have minor injuries." She stated.

One of them caught Hinata by the arm. "Hey we got him! We finally got him!"

"What?" she asked.

"That fucking Uchiha bastard!"

Naruto kneeled beside the man. "Please tell us what happened."

"Well he was just walking there on the road! And we started attacking him, we also called some reinforcements. And we finally got him!"

Naruto was getting frustrated. "What do you mean got him? Did you... Is he..." Naruto couldn't bring himself to say it.

Kiba didn't care though. "Is he dead?"

The man shook his head. "I don't know... It was all blurry. My head hurts! That bastard hit me!"

"You should just be glad he didn't kill you." Hinata said while healing him.

Naruto stood up and ran shaky hands through his spiky blond hair. "Sasuke obviously didn't fight back properly... He didn't use any jutsu, he didn't try anything... What the fuck was he thinking?" he muttered more to himself.

That stupid bastard had better not be dead, he thought.

Hinata went on healing some more people, and soon after a group of medics from the nearest village arrived. Hinata went to talk to them and explained the situation. While they were doing their job, Hinata walked up to Naruto.

She sighed. "One of them knows what happened. Sasuke's not dead, but he's not in a good condition."

Naruto tried not to snap at her. "What do you mean?"

"He was unconscious. They brought him to the Raikage. The medic told me the Raikage would probably torture him... or worst."

Naruto let out a cry of despair and Hinata bit her lip, she hated seeing him suffer like that.

"Look man..." Kiba put his hand on Naruto's shoulder. "Let's just go back to our village for now okay? Let the Hokage deal with this..."

Naruto pushed Kiba's arm angrily. "I'm going to the Raikage..."

"Dude, I'm just trying to help you!" Kiba sighed. "Honestly, I think you should just let it go."

"I don't care what you think." Naruto whispered.

"Fine, whatever..." Kiba lifted his arms meaning he didn't want to argue anymore.

"I'm gonna go with you." Hinata said.

"Thanks, but you don't have to..." the blond protested weakly.

She smiled, "It's our mission to bring you, and Sasuke, back to Konoha and the Hokage." She glared at her two other teammates as if to remind them. She looked back at Naruto. "And I want to help you." She added softly with a blush on her cheeks.

The blond nodded and smiled weakly. "All right...thanks."

"I'm going to, then." Shino said.

Kiba sighed and looked at Naruto. "Fine let's go. But I'm doing it for her, not for you."

Naruto nodded, he knew all too well that Kiba was doing this because of Hinata, and he was all the more thankful to her.

The medics indicated the fastest way to the building where the Raikage's office was, and they immediately started running. Naruto kept thinking about Sasuke, about his stupid note, about how much of a stupid suicidal bastard he was… And his heart squeezed in his chest at the thought that he might be badly hurt, or even worst…

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When Sasuke woke up, his whole body felt freezing cold and extremely painful. He would rather stay unconscious... He was locked up in a small prison cell, with absolutely nothing in it. It was empty, cold and wet; probably in a basement of an old decrepit building. He was lying on the floor, his wrists attached to heavy metal chains on the wall. His injuries hadn't been treated and they hurt like hell. His vital organs weren't hurt, but he still had a lot of wounds from the fight. His clothes were all ripped off and bloodstained. He sighed; he suddenly wished he had died during the fight instead of being brought in jail.

He scanned his surroundings, well, as much as he could see. He could have escaped easily using one of his jutsu; there weren't that many guards anyway and this place didn't seem that solid. But he didn't want to; he didn't know where to escape anymore. He just didn't care...

One of the guards noticed that he was awake.

"Hey, Uchiha's awake!" he told another guard.

The other nodded, "Okay, well time to have some fun then!"

Sasuke heard them and he raised a brow. Have some fun? Did they seriously think they could "have some fun" with him, whatever the hell that meant?

They opened his cell and laughed. "Look what we got here! Even with all this blood, you're still pretty cute!"

"Yeah," the other said. "It's not often that we have new prisoners here. Especially pretty ones like you."

Sasuke's face was as bored and expressionless as ever.

The guard laughed even more. "Look at that! He's not even scared!"

"Oh I bet he'll be scared soon enough!"

One of the guards approached him but Sasuke's reflexes were really sharp; even in his injured state. In a split second, he stood up and kicked the man's face.

"Ahhh!" the man screamed, bringing his hands to his face. His nose was broken and he was bleeding profusely.

The other looked hesitant.

Sasuke smirked, "So, who's scared now?" he teased. "You two are a pathetic excuse for a prison guard."

"You'll regret this you son of a bitch!" the guard with the broken nose screamed.

Sasuke frowned slightly; he was getting sick of these two. His eyes turned red and he used a genjutsu on them. They were too weak to notice what was happening to them.

Because of Sasuke's illusion, all they were seeing now was a world in black and red shades, with raven birds attacking them and it felt as if they were being stabbed every time. Soon they were both lying on the ground, screaming and struggling against an invisible force.

After just a few seconds, although it had seemed an eternity for the two men caught in the genjutsu, Sasuke dropped it and closed his eyes. When he opened them again, they were their normal black. The two men got back on their feet hesitantly. They turned to look at the prisoner, real fear in their eyes now.

"What... what the hell was that?"

"I don't know but I don't want to stay near him anymore! Let's go report this..."

"Yeah, you'll pay for this Uchiha!"

They closed his cell and walked away quickly.

Sasuke sighed and let himself slide down to sit on the floor, his back against the cold wall. At least he was rid of these two...

It wasn't long before some more people arrived in front of his cell though. These ones were not just guards. They were trained shinobi and pretty strong ones too, Sasuke could tell. There were six of them.

The first one had the key to the cell in his hands. "We're here by the order of the Raikage, to retrieve information." He said unlocking his cell.

Sasuke smirked. "Hn... is the Raikage scared or something? Why does he need to send people to do his dirty work?"

"Don't you dare insult Raikage-sama!" one of them yelled.

These people were so god damn annoying…

The one with the key proceeded to unlock the door, and he smirked as he approached Sasuke, a kunai in his hand. Sasuke wondered just how idiotic these people were… A kunai, seriously?

He gathered lightning energy into his hands, and with a scream he broke free from the chains. He kicked the man's wrist, and caught the kunai as it was flying in the air.

"Thanks," he said mockingly, then storming out of the cell he transformed into one of the guards.

"H-hey! Catch him! Hurry up!"

But Sasuke was running much faster than any of them. Problem was, the place was a god damn labyrinth. He was running through the old building, passing corridors and corridors of prison cells. He eventually found stairs, and climbed them up as fast as he could. Some people looked at him funny, but he ignored them. And, since he was disguised as one of the guards, they didn't go after him.

Sasuke wondered what kind of lame, pathetic prisoners they were used to have but damn, he'd never thought escaping from jail would be that easy. He found an exit door in no time, and he arrived in a little dark alley. It was evening already. He wondered how much time he'd been unconscious…

As he quickly hid behind a closed store, he saw several prison guards suddenly come out of the building, running around in every direction. It appeared they didn't even have a chakra sensor amongst them.

Sasuke transformed back to his real body. He was exhausted, hurt, and drained of energy, but still he started walking, and searching for a hiding place. Sure he'd pretty much lost his will to live, but he sure as hell didn't want to be stuck in a prison cell…