Authoress's Note: YAY!!! Another chapter!! Thank you all for the reviews!!! I greatly appreciate them! This chapter was fun to write. XD Anyway, here's Chapter Twelve; Girl Power!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, nor any of the characters that it portrays. I do, however, own the bunnies and the tape. Thank you, and enjoy!


Girl Power!

Sasuke groaned, cracking open his eyes and staring at a white wall.

Where am I?

He could recall very little. He remembered a brown blur, a pale yellow blur, and a lot of head pain. He tried to rub his sore head – only to find that he could no longer move his hands.

He looked down at his hands, only to learn that he couldn't see them, so he tried moving them. He finally figured out that they were bound behind his back, and also realized that they were numb. "What the—"

A sudden bright light in his face caused him to cut off, making him shut his eyes from the harshness of its glower. His eyes stung, and he could hear shuffling going on in the room.

He heard a whisper and tuned his ears in to listen.

"The anesthetic is still in place, but he's awake – he just can't feel too well," a female reported. Sasuke heard more shuffling, and then another voice.

"Good. Get it ready. We'll start now."

Start what? Sasuke thought, a sense of foreboding causing him to wish he could open his eyes – but the light was still glowing on his eyelids.

"You got it," the first girl said as more footsteps sounded, heading Sasuke's way. He could hear something going on in front of him, and finally the light flickered off. His eyes shot open.

"Who are y—huh?" he muttered, looking ahead. There was a large, white canvas in front of him, and the room was dark except for it. His brows furrowed in confusion. "What is this?"

He got no answer, causing Sasuke to emit a low growl of frustration. Whoever was doing this was going to—

His thoughts cut off as something flickered onto the canvas. He could barely make it out. It looked like a rabbit, but, it wasn't a rabbit – right? Rabbits didn't act like this rabbit – and they sure weren't pink, blue, or yellow.

But this rabbit, now accompanied by two others, was pink. Sasuke narrowed his eyes as he tried to figure out a plausible explanation for this . . . Disturbance.

But there was no reason.

It was just insanity that was haunting his mind, Sasuke decided. This room didn't exist. The bindings didn't exist. And the pink rabbit certainly wasn't coming towards him with its little yellow teeth bared.

Right?

Wrong.

It was smiling at him. That evil little bunny smiled.

He glared as the bunnies continued to hop along the screen, and then they suddenly got up on their hind legs and started dancing – like they do on little kids' shows.

And then, to Sasuke's horror, they started to squeak in what could barely be determined as an attempt to sing of all freakin' things.

He winced as the rabbits hit an extremely high note, which to him, sounded like someone was shattering glass on blackboards as they ran the broken pieces along the board.

Oh God, this is torture, he thought angrily as the terrible sound continued to ricochet through his poor eardrums.

And then, all of a sudden, more stupid rabbits came onto the screen, all singing and dancing. There were yellow, orange, green, and purple rabbits. There were rabbits of every color of the rainbow!

Sasuke glared at the screen, for it was the only thing that helped him to keep a hold on his sanity. This was just cruel, and whoever was behind such mastermind of the torture area deserved a gold medal for this.

He sighed in relief once the bunnies finally stopped their escapade and crawled back into their holes, leaving one left. The stupid rabbit waved before the screen went blank.

Sasuke groaned. That had been terrible. He wished he could have rubbed his temples to help get rid of his headache, but he knew that that was wishful thinking. "Who on ear—"

He cut himself off as the screen flickered on again. He, for some reason, wasn't able to stop himself from looking at it again. The same video came on, and he was forced by something to watch it.

And then it flickered on again, again, and again.

By the time that it finally quit coming on, all Sasuke could see were pink, green, and multi-colored rabbits in his mind.

He muttered something under his breath as he heard a door open and turned to see a blue-eyed girl wearing a nurse's gown and a face-mask.

Strange. He didn't remember being toxic.

"What's going on? Where am I?" he demanded, narrowing his eyes at the girl. She had strangely familiar blonde hair.

She just glanced at him, and then turned back to her work. This annoyed Sasuke immensely. "Don't ignore me! Answer my question!" he shouted angrily.

"Don't yell," the girl stated, pulling something out of a box. Sasuke tossed her back a confused look, considering her back was all he could see of her. What was she carrying?

To his horror, it was a pink rabbit. Oh Lord, he was going to die.

"Why do you have that thing?" Sasuke growled, trying to back away. The chair seemed to be stuck to the ground, though, and he couldn't move because of it.

"Answer me!" he snapped, glaring at her as she walked towards him. Was this why Neji was scared of pink rabbits? He couldn't blame the Hyuuga . . . His eyes widened when the rabbit was thrust right in his face. He blinked. All he could see was pink. He sneezed.

"Are you allergic to bunnies?" The girl asked, cocking her head a little.

"I don't know! I've never been around a freakin' rabbit!" Sasuke snapped, before sneezing again. "Get that thing away from me!"

"Why?"

"Who are you?"

"Ino, get it away from him, I think he's allergic," A brunette said, walking inside.

The blonde growled. "Tenten, you just said my name!"

"I did? Oh, sorry," The brunette sweatdropped as she set a yellow bunny on the ground. Sasuke's eye twitched. No wonder he was sneezing. He was around Ino and, apparently, some sort of new perfume she was wearing. He narrowed his eyes at her. "Let me go now, Ino," he growled furiously.

"Sorry, that can't happen," Ino smiled, putting the bunny down and crossing her arms. "Well, we can't hurt him with bunnies, so what now?"

"We could cut his hair."

Sasuke's eyes widened. Cut his hair?! Were they insane or something?!

"Cut his hair? Are you sure?" Ino asked, looking back at Tenten. "Anything else we could do?"

"We could . . . Convince Tsunade-sama to make him the head of the interrogation area on that Karin girl."

Sweat began to form at the base of Sasuke's neck. These two weren't actually serious – were they? No one was that cruel, were they?!

"What else?"

"Hmm . . . We could have him . . . Baby-sit Hinabi."

Sasuke shuddered at the thought. That little Hinabi wasn't so little anymore, and she'd be a freakin' pain to take care of.

"Nah, we need something better."

"Like what, then?"

"Uh . . . Let's have him work at the flower shop! Part time, of course. Karin's been allowed certain privileges, including shopping, so she ought to come around some time. It'll be nice, considering Juugo told me how much Sasuke seemed to hate her," Ino smiled, clutching her hands together blissfully.

Sasuke growled, glaring at the two. "No! Don't even think about it," he snapped. "I'll kill you if you do!"

"You can't hurt us," Tenten smiled. "We've been informed of that. If you do, you'll be escorting Karin and Sakura around for a month, won't you?"

Sasuke glared at Tenten. He'd kill Tsunade, then her, then Ino, and then Juugo. The loudmouth.

"Don't you two dare! I don't want to work in your stupid flower shop!"

"Oh, well then," Tenten smiled. "It's a definite. Sasuke'll be working at your place in no time, Ino!"

Oh please, Tsunade, have the mercy to let me not go through this! Sasuke thought desperately, as the girls walked out of the room he was in – leaving the bunnies there to hop around as they pleased. One of them was nibbling on his pants leg.

And then the truth dawned on him. "Hey! You left me in here!" he shouted, trying to catch their attention.

It didn't work. He was trapped.

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Sasuke brushed himself as he looked back at the old warehouse he'd been stuck inside of. Once he'd figured out how to disband the jutsu cast on him to stop his chakra flow, he'd ripped through the rope and thrown the stupid rabbit nibbling up his pants leg out the window.

It hadn't been hard to get free, he realized, since the jutsu wasn't a difficult one. All he'd had to do after breaking free was kick a few rabbits out of his way when he went outside, since there were two out side that were probably meant to 'guard' the place.

Embarrassing, really.

He rubbed his temples in an attempt to hold off a horrid headache. He walked as he did so, heading towards the Hokage's office as he did this. As much as he hated going to that place, he knew he'd have to clear things up with Tsunade.

He didn't want to have to work in a flower shop as well as juggle his other tasks.

Working in the Academy.

Going to Therapy.

Dealing with brats.

Dealing with Anko's ravings.

He groaned at the mere therapy, and going to work in the flower shop would cause his mind to explode, considering the fact that he was having trouble keeping sane now. He crossed his arms as he walked up the stairs to the office and rammed his fist on the door.

"Who is it?"

"Let me in," Sasuke demanded impatiently.

"Fine, then, come in," Tsunade ordered, watching as Sasuke walked inside. Sasuke glanced around, realizing that Ino and Tenten weren't there.

They must have already told her, he thought angrily.

"Why do you look so annoyed?" Tsunade asked tiredly. "Anko didn't take care of you?"

Sasuke made a mental note to remember to ask her what the heck she meant by that. "No, it's Ino and Tenten."

"What about them?" Tsunade asked boredly.

"What did they tell you?"

"That they got back from their mission successfully."

"What?"

"They were on a mission," Tsunade stated with aggravation. "They got back just a few minutes ago."

"So, they've been gone for . . . How long?"

"A week."

But how? Then who was it that did that to me? Sasuke wondered, standing there as he tried to understand this all.

"Sasuke, what do you want? I'm tired, I want to go home, and it's ten o'clock at night. Hurry up."

Sasuke shook his head, realizing he probably looked like an idiot. "It's nothing," he muttered, before going out of the room and heading home. He tried to think of everyone who could have possibly done that to him – when two very suspicious names popped into his head.

Tai and Iria.

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"Do you think it worked, Tsunade-sama?" Ino asked as she and Tenten came out of their hiding places behind the Hokage's desk. Tsunade nodded.

"I'm certain that he believes what I told him. I, as the Hokage, never lie."

"But didn't you just lie, Tsunade-sama?" Tenten asked, puzzled.

"No, I just came up with a creative answer that didn't necessarily reflect the truth," Tsunade replied as she leaned back in her chair.

"So, do you think that we're really making Sasuke think that everyone's against him?"

"Not everyone," Tsunade smiled. "But it's fun to watch him walk around the village with a look on his face that reads 'where are those kids hiding?'. He's definitely suspicious of those Academy Students – and that's what makes this so fun to watch."

"We're not just watching, are we Tsunade-sama?" Ino asked, as Tenten recovered from laughing at the mental image Tsunade had displayed about Sasuke wandering the streets with that expression.

"No, but we are mostly watching. We're just . . . Giving him a push in the fun direction," Tsunade replied as she stood up from her desk. "Now you two go get those bunnies cleaned up and wash the paint off of them. You're dismissed," she announced, before leaving the room.

Ino smiled at Tenten, and the latter smiled back, before both burst out in laughter at what they had done to Sasuke. It had been hilarious to watch his horrified expression as he watched the videos.

Oh yes, watching Sasuke was most entertaining.

The two girls left the office with their laughter continuing as they went to go clean the bunnies, knowing that Sasuke would already be at home by now.


Well, there's chapter twelve! I hope you enjoyed it! I certainly enjoyed writing it. XD Anyway, please review!

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