A chance to make things right Chapter 14, a naruto fanfic

I want to answer some questions for you guys before I start off.

First Danzo is not responsible for Rin's kidnapping. I did look into it because I want to make sure that everything is as accurate as possible! Second there will not be lemons in every chapter because I don't want younger readers to be overwhelmed by them! One more thing I would like to say is that my updates will be farther in between because my brothers are off on winter break and I don't have as much computer access, add that to the fact that we just had a huge ice storm and it knocked the power out! Luck is not my friend right now... Now that I have all of that out of the way on with the chapter! I do not own Naruto!

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Blue eyes shot open at the sound of a door being opened and the soft padding of feet down the hallway. Minato glanced down at the pink haired woman who was sound asleep in his arms before he got up to check on Rin. He crept out of the room and down the hallway towards the kitchen and peered around the corner. Rin was sitting at the table facing away from him with her sleeves rolled up as her medical jutsu healed the bruises on her arms. Her once pale skin was decorated in splotches of purple, and brown. It made him sick to think that her father had done this to her. "Rin?" He called making his prescense known as he stepped into the kitchen. Said girl whirled on him as she desperately tried to cover her arms from his view.

"Minato Sensei what are you doing up? I didn't wake you I hope!" She smiled at him with false cheerfulness. He had seen the very thing she had tried so desperately to hide! What was she supposed to say to him now?

"Rin why? Why didn't you come and tell me that your father was hurting you? Did you not trust me enough to protect you?" He frowned at the young girl. Did she not trust him and her teammates to protect her from anything? Did she not know that she could count on them whenever she needed them?

Did she not trust him enough to protect her? The thought was ridiculous because she trusted her Senseis, and teammates more then anything! How could she just come out and tell them about the very thing that made her feel so ashamed of herself? She hated being the weak link as it was! She bowed her head and refused to meet his eyes. "I didn't want my team to think I was even more weak then they thought I was. And I felt like maybe I deserved it for not making mom stay with us. If I had paid more attention to how she was acting then I could've done something to stop her." Hot tears welled up and spilled down her cheeks, as her shoulders shook with sobs that she tried desperately to keep in.

He took two quick strides forward and drew the young girl into a hug. He couldn't stand to see one of his students looking so broken and hurt like this! Especially not Rin. She had been putting everything she had into her training so that she could become the kunoichi she wanted to be. Anyone who had a drive like hers could not be considered weak. "You are anything but weak Rin. Without you, Team Minato wouldn't be what we are today. We've all grown, but I think you've grown the most. So keep putting everything you've got into your training, because your team will always be there for you. And even when they aren't, Sakura, and I will be." He held her tighter to him as her sobs died down into quiet sniffles against his t-shirt. His senses chose that moment to kick in and alert him to the fact that Sakura was in the hallway listening to their conversation. She was just as worried about Rin as he was...

Rin stepped back from her Sensei as she swiped away the evidence of her sadness with her sleeve. Those words had made a huge impact on how she would view herself from now on. They had reassured her that she was responsible for her own fate. They made her feel like she was foolish for letting her father hold her back from being who she wanted to be. She resolved herself to become even stronger so that she would never feel like a burden to anyone again. "Thank you Sensei I really needed to hear that from you. I will keep working hard so that I will be deserving of your praise." She beamed happily at the older man. She really felt like she was startig over as a completely new person, and she owed that to Minato, and Sakura.

"Anytime Rin. You should probably get to bed though, you have training in the morning." He shooed her down the hall and into her room before returning to his own. Sakura was facing him with a smile on her face. "You should know better then to eavesdrop Sakura..." He scolded playfully as he slid into the bed next to her and pulled her to him.

"I was just making sure that Rin was okay. And besides, I let you feel my presence Minato. If I didn't want you to know then you wouldn't have felt me there." A cocky smirk crossed her lips as she ran her fingers through his hair. He pouted at her and it looked so adorable that she wanted to squeeze his cheeks like he was a baby, if only to annoy him further...

"Do you really doubt my skills that much Sakura? Because if you do then I will just have to show you who you are dealing with!" He smiled mischievously at her horrified look as he flipped her onto her back.

"NO! I didn't mean it that way! Jeez give my poor body a break!" She tried squirming away from him but he had her effectively pinned under his weight. He leaned in slowly like a predator but before he had a chance to make contact with her neck a poof was heard right next to the bed. Letting out a shriek Sakura quickly shoved Minato off of her as she brought the blankets up to cover her less then covering pajamas.

"Sorry for the interruption Namikaze-san, but the Hokage requests both of your prescense immediately." The anbu with a tiger mask barely got the words out before poofing back out of the room, leaving one very annoyed man, and one relieved woman behind.

Sakura opened the door o the hokage's office and almost froze on the spot. There standing not two feet from Jiraiya was Yamato-taichou! 'Awww he looks so adorable!' Inner squealed girlishly. Sakura had to agree with her. His face was so round and childlike, while his brown hair was even shaggier then in her time. She had to wonder why he was here though. Surely a mission requiring Jiraiya, Minato, and her would be too advanced for a chunin. Her eyes darkened at the memory of Kakashi almost dying on their last mission and she wanted to protest his presence. The Hokage seemed to sense what she wanted to say because he shook his head sharply to silence her. She bit her lip in irritation as she made her way to the Hokage's desk with Minato close behind.

Hiruzen looked over the four ninja before him with solemn eyes. He had a special reason for having Yamato on this mission. He had already informed Jiraiya of his reasoning and the Sannin had agreed with it, so there was no reason for him to waste time convincing Sakura. She would just have to deal the best she could. "I have called you all here to investigate a small facility just a few hours outside of Konoha. There have been multiple disappearances in the vicinity and we believe that they may have been taken to the facility for reasons unknown." He leveled Sakura with a hard gaze as he voiced the part that would no doubt bother her the most. "The people who are dissapearing are all young children who have an affiliation to prominent clans that are located outside of Konoha." The pinkette tensed up this not going unnoticed by the other occupants of the room. Hiruzen could feel the smoldering anger rolling off of her. "Your mission is to investigate the facility and recover anyone who is alive. You leave immediately. Dismissed!" They all poofed out of the room leaving the Hokage to his thoughts. He hoped that they would not need Yamato at all...

As they neared their destination Sakura could not stop thinking about the situation they were in. All fingers pointed in Orochimaru's direction and fo that reason she was worried. Not for her group, but for the innocent children he had no doubt been experimenting on. She was already wound and on edge and the others could sense it, if Minato's close proximity to her was an indication. This mission was going to test the limits of her self control, and she wasn't sur f she would pass. The things that Orochimaru did to people were absolutely horrendous. But the thought that children could be going through these things... No amount of preparation was enough when dealing with Orochimaru. But she had to hold it together as best she could... Now it made sense why the okage had sent Yamato with them. She just hoped that it wouldn't come to that...

"There are no guards patrolling the place... I don't even sense any chakra signatures inside!" Jiraiya mused as the group surveyed the decent sized stone building. His gut told him that there was something wrong here. Why would anyone kidnap children from prominent clans and not have anyone guarding them? "We go in and split up to search the place. If anyone finds anything, or gets into trouble radio for backup. We will meet back at the entrance in a half hour." They immediately went to go their separate ways, but Minato couldn't help but shoot his girlfriend one last worried look. He had a bad feeling about this...

Sakura made her way down the dimly lit corridor being mindful of any traps. She had yet to run into any which was odd. The doors were all open leading to sparsely furnished bedrooms. But there was no sign of any of the children here! Where could Orochimaru have taken them? "Damn snake..." She hissed bitterly. She turned the corner and descended a flight of stairs. When she reached the bottom there was a long corridor that led to one door at the opposite end. It was dark and a sinister vibe wafted from the slightly ajar door several meters away from her. She approached it almost hesitantly and placed a hand on it to push it open, and the sight that greeted her made liquid fire flood her veins.

Bodies lined the room from one end to the other. Some were tied down to tables, and others were strewn from the ceiling, and some were even suspended in tanks of foul smelling liquid. But the one thing they all had in common was the fact that they were all children. The children that they had been sent to rescue were already dead...

"You should know better then to intrude on one's research Sakura..." A sinister voice echoed from the darkness surrounding her. Eyes just like that of a snakes lit up directly across from her as a tall man with long black hair, pale white skin, and purple markings under his eyes stepped out to face her. "They didn't serve much purpose..." He gestured to the bodies strewn about the room before focusing back on her. "But I have been watching you... I think you are a worthy specimen. Much more interesting to study then a bunch of brats with no true talent."

He truly was the epitome of a monster! She was aware that she was drawing power from Kurama at an alarming rate, but she was helpless to stop it. Her body felt like it was on fire as the red chakra flooded her chakra network and permeated the air around her. "You... You son of a bitch! I WILL KILL YOU FOR THIS!" She roared animalistically as her eyes turned red and slitted like the foxs'.

"Kit calm down! You're drawing power much too fast for anyone to take! You have to-!" Kurama was cut off when the pinkette lunged viciously at Orochimaru.

"SHUT UP!" She shrieked as her body immediately became enveloped in the Nine Tails cloak. Before her consciousness faded completely she felt a sharp pain in her side fuelling her anger. Blackness consumed her leaving her dead to the world as she rampaged.

Minato looked up as his Sensei, and Yamato approached him at the designated meeting place. He was becoming worried about Sakura because she had not shown up yet. "Did you guys find anything?" He asked his comrades with as much interest as he could muster. All he really wanted to do was find Sakura.

Jiraiya shook his head at the blonde whose mind was obviously somewhere else. "Sakura's not back yet? Maybe she found something." He flicked on the radio on his ear and spoke into it. "Sakura come in. Come in Sakura!" Worry flooded not only him but the other members of the group at Sakura's failure to respond. Minato looked like he was ready to leave everyone behind to go track her down. "I'm sure she's alright Minato. She is probably the strongest kunoichi in Konoha! Have a little fai-" A huge explosion sounded from somewhere deep inside the facility making the ground shake from the force. "Damn! Minato-!" Said man had bolted in the direction of the sound without even hearing what his Sensei had said. "Stick close Yamato!" He called to the young boy as he took off in the direction Minato had gone in.

"Sakura you better be okay!" Minato breathed out in a state of almost panic. He raced down the stairs and down the corridor in the direction fighting could be heard from. Red chakra seeped from the open door and it made his blood run cold. He could vaguely feel that his teammates had caught up with him as he moved forward to push the door open. "Sakura...?" He whispered as his eyes landed on the woman who was covered in a thick mass of the sinister red chakra. Four red tails stuck up from her bottom, and fox like ears adorned her head. She had blown the roof of and destroyed half of the facility in a second. She wasn't even acknowledging her team as she continued to lash out at a form he vaguely recognized as Orochimaru. He heard his Sensei shout at Yamato and in the blink of an eye the boy was in front of him performing hand-signs that he was not familiar with.

Wood beams covered in spikes on one side surrounded Sakura as a beam of green chakra shot from Yamato's hand and connected with the necklace on Sakura's neck. Yamato grunted with the effort of trying to subdue Sakura in her enraged form. He had not previously done this so it was taking its toll on him. He pushed more chakra into the necklace as the beams wrapped around Sakura constricting her movements. A bloodcurdling scream erupted from the woman's mouth as the red chakra slowly started to recede leaving bloody and torn skin in its wake.

"You survived... I'll be watching you from now on codename Yamato. And Sakura as well..." Orochimaru chuckled darkly as he dissapeared into the ground.

The Nine tails chakra finally receded into the seal on Sakura's stomach as the pinkette fell unconscious. Minato ran forward and caught her as the wooden beams finally released her causing her to plummet towards the ground.

"Sakura!? Say something!" His chest tightened at the blood, and shreded skin that was all that was left of her once creamy skin. There was a gaping wound in her side where it looked like something had been thrusted into her body. "Shouldn't the Nine tails chakra be healing this?!" He turned desperate eyes onto Jiraiya who was holding up a sword covered in a purple substance.

"He cut her off from the Nine tails chakra... We need to get her back to Konoha now!" Jiraiya stated solemnly.

Jiraiya's words scared the blonde more then he would like to admit and he cast panicked eyes down on Sakura's unconscious form. He wouldn't let her die. No one mattered more in the world to him then her.

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Sorry for the cliffy ending but I had to get this posted today! I'll update again in the next few days so look forward to it. And to whoever keeps flaming me a dozen times today please just stop it. If you don' like this pairing don't read the story! Simple as that!