"I can't get what I want." "Then steal it." – Random conversation in Goshuusho-sama Ninomiya-kun

Chapter 14

Saki –

I woke up with a big goofy smile on my face. Gaara and Karin were leaving today.

I looked around the dark room. Beside me, where Sasuke should have been, was a note. It said that he went to do "guy stuff" with Gaara uptown. As far as I could tell Karin and Rei were asleep. But, the kitchen light was on.

I put pants on and crept into the kitchen, seeing nothing. Maybe we had left it on last night?

My head was pulsing with a hangover so I went to the bathroom for meds. As I was reaching for the medicine, I saw him. In the mirror. Bathtub. Rei. He was tied up and bleeding. I quickly turned around and I dove into the tub beside him, using the sharp end of one of my needles to cute the tape. Once I got to his face, I ripped the tape of quickly and he let out a quick yelp of pain.

"You okay?" I asked him.

"Yes," He replied. I sat him on the counter and wiped the blood off of him, treating his injuries with the little medical expertise I had.

"Stay here, I'm getting the phone," I told him. Rei shook his head, tears streaming down his face. I went anyway. I grabbed the phone from the receiver and ran as hastily as possible to the bathroom. In there, Rei was shaking. He pointed a trembling finger at the corner of the ceiling and, instead of turning around, I looked in the mirror. When I saw what it was, I gasped and I covered Rei with my body. Many shuriken and kunai were lodged in my back and I turned around, grunting with pain, to face the person.

"Rei, remove these from my back," I commanded. He obliged and started, much to my dismay, pulling them out and sliding them into my shuriken pouch.

"It's you," I said menacingly to the man. "The bastard who killed my parents, Kabuto."

He laughed. "So you do remember me! That will make this a lot easier; I really hate introducing myself to my victims." He fixed his grey ponytail. "I'd rather not hurt Karin's prodigy, so could you just hand him over?" I shook my head.

"You're not getting Rei!" I yelled. I heard Mizuki crying in the other room as I slowly passed Rei the phone.

"Speed dial 2," I hissed, putting him down at letting him run off.

"Let's fight," I said. I had about eight separate holes on my back that were excreting blood all over our nice bathroom.

"Doesn't look like you're in a good condition," Kabuto said blankly. I pulled out my needles.

"No good," Kabuto informed me. "I'm a medic-nin, I could take the poison out easily." I crunched up my nose. Just then, Akamaru came rushing in, snapping his teeth and such. Kiba was riding him.

"They're okay," Kiba whispered to me.

"I got him," He informed me. I shook my head, tears forming in my eyes.

"It's okay Saki, this guy's a wuss," Kiba said. Classic Kiba.

I squeezed his hand and walked out, running to Mizuki's room where Rei was talking to Mizuki. I lifted Mizuki up and grabbed Rei's hand, pulling them both along.

"But your ba-" Rei started.

"Forget about my back!" I snapped. "Does your dad have a cell phone?" I grabbed our home phone and left with them.

"I don't think so…" Rei muttered. I created a shadow clone and sent it out to tell Naruto, who found me within moments.

"Rei, where's your mom?" Naruto asked Rei sweetly.

"They took her. Orochimaru's men. I knew they would, dad knew they would," Rei explained. My eyes went wide. Karin was as good as dead.

"I'll track down Gaara and Sasuke," Naruto said.

"They left me a note… maybe they were taken too," I suggested.

"Got it, I'll get some more shinobi on the job. Saki, whatever you do, don't fight; take care of those children, that is your mission," Naruto said. "You've been briefed." Then, his shadow clone disappeared. I held Rei's hand tighter.

"Let's go, Rei," I told him, taking him and Mizuki to the Hyuga complex and knocking on the door. Hinata's father answered the door. I just pushed past him and into the house, looking around.

"Where's Hinata?" I asked him.

"Who are you and why are you bringing children into my house?" Hinata's dad asked.

I rolled my eyes. "Why do you care?"

"Children are dirty."

"Look, who cares, just tell me where your daughter is!"

"I will not unti-"

"This kid's" – I pointed to Rei – "mother has been kidnapped, probably along with his dad and my fiancée, so back off geezer!"

His eyes widened. "Hinata's down the hall to the left."

I ran down there, holding Mizuki tightly to my chest. I opened the door hastily.

"Hinata!" I yelled. She turned to face me, her expression blank.

"TheguythatkilledmyfamilywasinmyhouseandhetiedupReiandhisbuddiesprobablytookSasuke,Gaara,andKarin!" I told her in one big sentence. Mizuki was crying. I ran my hand through her hair. She had gotten so much bigger since she was born. I tried to comfort her.

"Kiba's fighting Kabuto," I explained. Hinata picked up her phone and dialed Kiba's cell number. I heard a loud beep-beep-beep-beep come from the phone. The phone slowly slipped out of Hinata's hands and her mouth became a little "O".

"Oh shit," I said. I passed Mizuki to Hinata and sat Rei down on the bed.

"Okay, you take care of these two," I said. I slipped on my gloves. "I'm goin' in."

I heard Hinata gasp. "Saki… your back…"

"Enough about the back, okay? I know I have eight fatal looking wounds that will probably kill me from blood loss soon, but I don't have time to think about that right now, my fiancée's in trouble," I explained, walking out of her room and past her father. I ran outside, swinging my head from side to side to see where they were. I felt sick to my stomach and my hangover was getting worse and worse by the second.

I ran as fast as possible to Naruto's office, where he had a clone waiting.

"Naruto what should I do? Hinata has the children," I asked.

"If you're up for it, search the north woods," He explained. I nodded and jumped out of the window and down the tower, landing safely on the ground. I jumped off into the woods, searching left and right. It was dark, almost unhealthily dark, and it was too easy to move around soundlessly. Half-way through the dense forest, I heard whispers. I snuck over to a small, nearby clearing where I saw an ANBU man talking to Kabuto. I let out a small squeaking noise. He had Kiba. Kabuto turned around at the noise and I hid myself behind the tree, in its dark shadow, taking slow, quiet breaths. I could feel Kabuto walking closer and closer, looking around. He leaned over me, his shirt dangling so that it almost touched me, and then he walked back.

"Must've been a forest animal," He said. I snaked my neck around the tree, seeing someone else, Karin! She was sitting quietly beside the ANBU member.

"I'm glad we got her. She is a loose cannon, giving away our information to that Saki girl. Speaking of which, I have to go kill her now," Kabuto murmured thoughtfully. The ANBU member jumped off and Kabuto started to walk toward me. I knew he knew I was there.

I quickly used my jutsu and I pulled some trees in. They enclosed Kabuto completely. He scowled at me as I walked over to Kiba. While I attempted to untie him, I guess Kabuto got out, because within seconds he was holding a kunai to my throat. I grabbed his hand and flipped him over me, beside Kiba.

Listen to "By Myself" by Linkin Park

"Where's Sasuke!" I demanded.

"Who?"

"My fiancée, dumbass!"

"Ohhh. We have stronger men tackling the Kazekage and him."

I glared angrily and I thrust my hand into him, pumping chakra to it. Kabuto didn't even seem fazed by it. He pushed me into the middle of the clearing. I furrowed my brow and glanced at Kiba and Karin. That gave me strength. I pulled out one of the bloody kunai from earlier and viewed it. The dull grey blade made it look like a children's toy, but the crusty blood at the tip threw off that image. I twirled it around my finger and glanced at Kabuto, smirking.

"Time for a taste of your own medicine!" I screamed, running at Kabuto with the kunai. "DIE!" He laughed and jumped out of the way, punching me. He showed off his perfect chakra control and knowledge of human anatomy by striking my stomach. It hurt, but I could tell he wasn't trying very hard, or else he would have gone for my heart. As he jumped back, Kabuto snaked his arm around me and held a kunai to my throat. I elbowed him in the stomach and stuck my kunai in his leg, sending him stumbling backwards and treating the wound with his medical ninjutsu.

I gripped my neck, his kunai had slit a thin cut across it, it was nothing to worry about.

I heard a rustling in the trees in the distance.

"I heard something coming from down there," I heard a voice say. Sasuke?

My confused expression turned into outright rage as Sasuke jumped down beside me.

"Saki, get back," He commanded. I pushed him to the ground.

"This is my fight Sasuke!" I yelled. He jumped back up.

"You're injured," He informed me blankly.

"I. Don't. Fucking. Care."

I was tired of Sasuke having to save me all the time.

I was getting just a little bit cheesed off.

I whipped around, seeing Kabuto trying to pick up Karin. He turned to me. It was too late for him, the adrenaline was going.

I screamed and punched Kabuto in the face with more force than I knew I had, throwing him against a tree and shattering his glasses, sending the shards flying all over the place, and, more importantly, into him. I had a few shards in my arms and chest but I was okay.

"Saki just stop fighting!" Sasuke advised from the side. I shook my head and ran at Kabuto, stabbing him in the gut.

"You won't…ugn…kill me… by hitting me there," Kabuto mumbled. I looked down, noticing that he stabbed me too. I was dizzy, starting to feel faint from blood loss. I keeled over in pain.

"Saki, let me step in," Sasuke commanded.

"No!" I got up shakily. "I can't have you saving me all the time." I closed my eyes and clenched my fists. "I can't… be a weak little girl anymore."

I sauntered up to Sasuke, holding my hand out.

"Blade please," I told him. Sasuke skeptically handed me it. I walked up to Kabuto, stabbing him once where I knew it wouldn't kill him.

"That's for killing my family!"

I stabbed again.

"That's for almost killing me, twice!"

I stabbed once more and got a grunt from him.

"That's for hurting two of my," – I gulped, glancing at Karin and cringing – "Friends."

I stabbed him the final time, the blood gushed everywhere.

"And that's for messing with my family, bitch," I hissed. As I started to walk away, proud of myself, Kabuto grabbed my ankle, pulling me down. I dropped the blade just out of my reach.

Within the blink of an eye, the blade was gone, and Karin was standing over Kabuto, drenched in blood. I pulled myself away from the dead man and Sasuke ran to me, holding me in his arms.

"Idiot," He mumbled, clearly scared for me. With the sight of his face in my mind, I fell unconscious.

Told you I'd sleep on it, and now that I'm well rested here's another chapter. Time skip soon, maybe after next chapter.

rawr.

Does anyone but me WANT school uniforms? I mean seriously, wouldn't they be AWESOME?

Just food for thought.

Anyways, I'm going to go read lord of the rings and pride and prejudice (you can really tell how diverse my reading tastes are when you hear that)

:P

Update coming soon,

- - Suzuki Yumi '.'