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Chapter 14- Sasuke's PoV
After leaving the village, I travelled as fast as I could back to Konoha. What should have taken me half a day only took me four hours.
I inwardly smirked when I approached the huge, heavy, open wooden doors of the village. I passed through them and made my way to the Hokage's office where I was to hand in my report.
I knocked and waited patiently for Tsunade to permit me to enter.
"Come in!" she bellowed from behind her office doors. I sighed and entered, cursing my chain of bad luck that I seem to have been having lately.
"Tsunade-Sama." I walked in with an expressionless face. "I've come to hand in my mission report." I held out the small scroll in my hand towards her. However, she didn't accept it, instead she just looked dead at me, eyes fixated on me as if I was the only thing in the room.
"Tsunade-Sama?" I tried again. The woman's eyes flickered briefly showing hints of emotion and that she was aware I was there.
"Uchiha?" She finally blinked as she took notice of me. "How was your mission?" She asked calmly.
"It went partly according to plan." I replied. "The rest of the information is written in the mission report." I placed the scroll on the table. "If there are any problems with the report, please don't hesitate to find me." I turned to leave.
"Uchiha!" She called out suddenly, the sound of worry and fear was etched in her tone of voice. I stopped in my tracks before turning to face her. I wish I hadn't. The same aforementioned emotions were clear as crystal on her usually stoic face.
"Sasuke…" She started. I began to have a bad feeling. My stomach felt sickly and it felt as though my chest had contracted and began to crush my heart ever so slowly. "Sasuke, while you were away, Naruto, he…"She inhaled loudly before expelling a shaky breath. "Naruto got kidnapped six months ago from the Konoha hospital after he was rushed back from his mission from being food poisoned"
Something inside me snapped at that moment. My eyes shot wide open and my whole body felt as if it had been ran over by a thousand stampeding Naruto clones.
I couldn't hear Tsunade as she tried to snap me out of my stunned trance, all I could see her lips moving, but I couldn't hear them making a single sound. It felt as though my whole world came crashing down around me. My heart was heavy and my breathing quickened as I tried to control the sudden anger that had built up within me.
"When did this happen?" I gritted out through clenched teeth as calmly as possible.
"A few days into his mission. He was immediately brought back here for medical care which I administered."
"How the hell did he manage to get kidnapped in one of the safest places in Konoha!" I rebuked, my anger flared up inside of me.
"Nowhere is one hundred percent safe Sasuke." She stood from her chair. "We're doing all we can to find him." She moved from behind her desk and towards me. "For the past six months every available ninja have been out searching for him and…" I cut her off.
"S-six months!" I blinked in shock. "The Dobe has been MIA for six fucking months!" I bellowed, my anger had finally broken through my barriers. "Why didn't you send word to me?" I growled as I clenched my fists. "I could have helped look for him."
"Uchiha! You were on your own mission. I was not about to pull you off it just for Naruto."
"Just for Naruto! You stupid old hag! Naruto means the world to me! If something remotely bad has happened to him, Kami mark my words, I'll fucking obliterate Konoha!" I yelled before stalking out of Tsunade-Sama's office intent of blowing something up before resting and starting my own search for my blonde, blue-eyed Dobe.
Somewhere between leaving the Hokage's office and setting my head down on my pillow that night, my mind became a total blank. I couldn't remember anything, it was as if my body was in a trance, I had no control over what it did.
Soon sleep hit me like a tonne of bricks, I had worn myself out that much that my constant worry for Naruto hadn't disturbed me at all.
Morning came quickly, for which I was thankful. After a good breakfast and the packing my bag with the relevant items I left my house and headed for the Hokage's office
I knocked on the large door before entering the room where the Hokage resided.
"Uchiha." Tsunade-Sama addressed me as I entered. "I thought you might have shown up." There is a look of anger on her face and the sound of distain in her voice. "I took the liberty of contacting your old team." I looked up and noticed the three other people in the room. I smirked as I walked closer.
"It's been a while."
"Yo! Sasuke." Suigetsu grinned toothily at me.
"Nice to see you again Sasuke-San." Jugo smiled as he let the little bird that he had resting on his finger go. The small creature flew swiftly out of the opened window.
"Sasuke-Kun, I'm so glad we can work together again!" Karin blushed and fluttered her eyelashes at me. I inwardly groaned, she was still infatuated with me after all these years. When would she get it into her head that I wasn't interested in her?
"Karin, Jugo, Suigetsu… It's a pleasure." I looked to the still pissed off Hokage. "Tsunade-Sama, I request that you send me and my team to locate and bring back Naruto."
Tsunade sighed and handed me a mission scroll.
"Take it and get out of here." She said. "I have part of a village to rebuild no thanks to you." She growled out the last part before returning to her work.
I looked at my team members and smirked.
"Lets go." I ordered them before leaving the room, building and then Konoha.
My search for the blonde, blue-eyed Dobe had begun. Who knows how long it would take me to find him and make everything in the world right again.
Once a month I returned to the village. Each time I was there, I would replenish my stocks, rest up and report any findings to the Hokage. I also prayed that every time I went back, Naruto would be there waiting for me, grinning like the idiot he was.
Before I knew it, three months had past in my search for Naruto. I had this weird feeling in the pit of my stomach that something was wrong with him. Therefore, I doubled my team's efforts in finding him. I would send word to Tsunade-Sama by hawk and would stock up on my supplies whenever I would pass through a village.
We hunted high and low for any information we could gather on his whereabouts.
A full six months had past since Tsunade had told me about the Dobe's disappearance. My team and I were due to meet up in a small village on the outskirts of Otogakure when I stumbled upon a petite, blonde haired girl. Rather, she came up to me.
"Excuse me?" She started her voice just above a whisper. "you look like someone a friend of mine once described to me… May I ask your name?"
I blinked down to the girl. She was about a head and a half shorter than I and a little on the thin side.
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. Yours?"
"My name is not important." She grinned up at me. "But you are the person I've been looking for!" she all but yelled in my face before quickly covering her mouth with her hand. I raised a brow as she looked around cautiously. "I could get killed for telling you this, but…" She looked straight at me. "I know where Naruto is." It took all the control I had in me not to fall to my knees and break down crying with relief.
"W-where is he?" I managed to ask, sounding semi-normal.
"O-Orochimaru has Naruto." Her eyes scanned the bustling village once more. "Not too far from here, about three miles north there's a cave. To a normal person that is all it looks like. However, there is a door at the back that's disguised as a rock. Two hand widths away from the right seam of the rock door is a button, pressing it gains you entrance to the den. But be aware, the place is heavily guarded, and so is Naruto." She quickly finished up whilst adjusting the basket in her hand. "S-something bad has happened to Naruto." She added quietly. "Naruto may not remember who you are." I nodded in understanding. I kept a passive expression on my face, while my insides where churning. Why wouldn't Naruto remember me? "You have to save Naruto Sasuke-San. They've put Naruto through hell…"
My mouth was open, but no words were coming out. This stranger had just walked up to me out of nowhere and told me flat out where Naruto was. How was I to know I could trust her? What part did she have to play in it?
"H-how do you know Naruto? What part do you have in his disappearance?" I know, Uchiha's don't stutter… but I was in over my head at this moment in time, my nerves were quaking within me.
"I've been looking after Naruto for the past year after Orochimaru's horrible experiments. Kabuto was the one that abducted Naruto from the Konoha hospital." I nodded, she sounded genuine.
"Ok, I believe you." I said through gritted teeth, trying not to loose my temper.
After I get back with Naruto, I'm taking a long holiday. "When I meet up with my team we will put together a plan of attack to infiltrate and rescue Naruto from that snake bastards hands. I need you and any of your friends to escape before hand. Other than Naruto, my team and I will be destroyed." She nodded vigorously.
"Thank you." She smiled "Naruto really needs you right now." I nodded and smiled in return.
"It's me who should be thanking you. I've been searching for him all this time and now I finally have a chance to save him and take him home once and for all." She chuckled.
"I'm glad I could help you." She then stood with a calm look in her face. "I have to go now before anyone gets suspicious." She turned and lefts, immediately dashing off into the crowd.
I felt my insides burning with the anticipation of seeing Naruto again and churning with fury towards Orochimaru. I headed into the local inn to wait for my teams return. I could finally complete what I set out to do; I'd have my Dobe back and have the added bonus of Orochimaru's head at my feet. It was like Christmas and my birthday had come all at once.
Time was ticking away, Orochimaru's hours were numbered…
A/N- So! What do you think? Did I do good? Please review! It would be good to hear from you wonderful readers again! Puts me into a good mood too! Got lots of things to sort out today JA NE!