Chapter 21
Naruto had been banging on the door for what seemed like hours now. His hands were starting to crack and bleed from the pressure he was using to try and free himself. He sat down on the floor next to the door and that's when he noticed, out of the corner of his eyes, a paper tag on the wall. If he remembered correctly, this was a barrier that needed all the tags removed at the same time for him to be let out. He looked around the room. Naruto had hoped Kabuto was stupid enough to just leave all the tags in room, it would be a shame to locate all by one tag and then be stuck in there until god knows when.
He looked around the room, locating another two tags. There were five, if he recalled correctly. He looked in the corner of the room and sure enough he found the fourth one. But where was the fifth? His eyes scanned everything, he even got up to flip over furniture, searching in vain for it. Kabuto must have put the last one outside the room. Naruto sighed loudly and flopped down on the ground.
His last hope was Sasuke and his lover didn't even know that he had been kidnapped yet. Well, maybe he had. But that still didn't mean that Sasuke knew where he had been taken. And Naruto knew that Kabuto was clever enough to cover their scents so Sasuke couldn't easily track them. He cursed Kabuto for being so smart.
Naruto looked up at the ceiling then, the hopelessness starting to surround him and eat away at him like never before. But that's when he noticed something flapping a little on the ceiling. It was the fifth tag. He almost cried with happiness but decided it was not the time to dilly-dally. Now was the time to figure out a way to pull off all five tags so the barrier would release him and he could kick some sense into Kabuto's snake ass!
Naruto took a step but that's when everything went fuzzy and his eye sight darkened around him.
" Sasuke, lets play a game, K?"
Sasuke stood under a bloom cherry tree and looked very amused as he looked over at Arashi. She was smiling brilliantly at him and he walked over to her and placed a kiss on her forehead. " You know that I'm not really one for games…But for you, I'll make an exception."
" Hurray!" She said, hugging him around the waist. " I want to see how well you are at tracking me when there is more than one of me!"
" Let me guess, you learned something from Iruka, right?"
" Yep! it's a multi-shadow clone jutsu!" She said placing her hands together. There was a popping sound and there were four other Arashis around Sasuke. They were all smiling and giggling at him. " Okay Sasuke, now close your eyes and turn around! We're going to run around and you'll have to find the real me! It should be easy for you since you have that all powerful nose."
" What do I get when I win?"
" Oh I don't know." She said with a coy smile. " Maybe a little kiss right here." She poked Sasuke's lips and he smiled at her. " Sound fair?"
" Yes, I suppose it does." Sasuke said turning around and putting his hands over his eyes. " I'm going to count to ten, so run, run little Arashi."
And as soon as Sasuke said one, all of the clones and Arashi went running around. They zig zagged through the field mixing their scents with the ground so Sasuke would go on a slightly wild chase as he looked for the real one. Once he was done counting Sasuke turned, smelling the air and smirking as he took off as well.
He was fast, so fast that he found one right away. But when he went to kiss her, she disappeared. The smoke in his face made him frown, the scents were exactly alike and it was going to be a slight challenge to actually find her. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the swaying of blond hair, as another ducked behind a large tree. Sasuke moved quickly and Arashi gasped but then disappeared.
It was starting to annoy Sasuke that the clones were so good and keeping the real Arashi hidden. He started to smell again and darted off in another direction.
Arashi was sitting beneath a tree, giggling to herself. Sasuke would have a more difficult time finding him and no doubt he would be a little frustrated when he finally did. It amused Arashi to no end. She peaked her head around the tree and was greeted with Sasuke's crotch at eye level. She blushed and squealed a little as the demon grabbed her around the waist, smirking at her.
" NO! You found me!" She whined folding her arms across her chest and puffing out her cheeks. But Sasuke soothed her by rubbing his thumb against her lips as he leaned in and kissed her very gently. When he pulled back, Arashi was blushing even redder than before. " You found me faster than I expected…"
" Well, it did take me four tries to get it right." Arashi smiled at that.
When Naruto came back to reality he blinked a little, holding his head as he tried to regain his sense of self. He smirked a little. Arashi always knew what to do to help him. He put his hands the way Arashi did in his memory and poof, there were four other Narutos standing around, looking at the tags.
" Okay, we need to remove all the tags at one time!" He said as they all ran over to grab one. The real Naruto ran up the wall, forcing the chakra to his feet and grabbed the tag on the ceiling. " On the count of three!" All of them braced, pulling a little at the corner of each of their tags so they could rip it off. " One, two, THREE!"
Before Naruto could see if it had worked, the door went flying open with a loud bang as it hit the wall. They had done it!
He made the shadow clones disappear as he landed on his feet. " Now to rescue Taka and Itachi…"
-Sasuke-
Sasuke glared as he came down the dimly lit stairs, but felt his heart seize up in his chest. Iruka was barely standing. He was black and blue, his right arm was hanging uselessly, he was even bleeding and looked like he was about to keal over. Kabuto laughed at him as he dodged another reptile demon.
Iruka used as much power as he could to kick the demon in the head, hearing its jaw snap before he spun, kicking its feet out from under it and with a lot more force, drove his heel into the demon's head, shattering it.
"Where... is... Arashi?" Iruka demanded.
"Safe... Ah, finally you decided to join us, neh Sasuke?" Kabuto asked, smiling deviously at the angry demon.
"Sasuke-sama? I'm sorry-"
"Don't worry, Iruka..."
Iruka nodded his head as he backed up and Sasuke glared at Kabuto. Said snake just smiled as he held out his hands as if greeting an old friend.
"I'm glad you could join us... Come let's have a seat." Kabuto said as a table and chairs appeared from thin air and Sasuke reluctantly took a seat. "Now, I know you are shocked to see me and I know that you are most furious with me, but we should honestly stop playing this endless game of cat and mouse, neh?"
Sasuke glared at him as he spat, "Why should I believe you! You tricked us the first time, why would I trust you now!"
"Simple really, I have your son's soul and his time is running out. You have less than 48 hours to reunite his soul to his body or he's going to die and we both know that Arashi-chan will never, ever forgive you if anything were to happen to Takahiro-kun." Kabuto said, smiling.
Sasuke growled standing up, but Kabuto held up a hand and said, "Ah-ah! No fighting, I did say we were going to be civil... Now then. There's a problem that needs to be sorted out. I have you child's soul and I have your mate. But you want them back."
"What are you getting at Yakushi?" Sasuke growled.
"Simple really... I can give you your son's soul back but in exchange..." He paused and adjusted his forever falling glasses and even removed some lint from his dress shirt, "I get to keep Arashi."
"Like fucking hell I'll let you take him from me!"
"I'm not done listing your options, so please sit down and let me finish. Your other choice that you take Arashi, but in exchange Takahiro-kun and Itachi-kun die... Those are the only choices unless you have something of much better value and I might consider letting them both go free."
Sasuke growled. Iruka stood behind him glaring at the snake as he smiled and watched the torment and anguish war on Sasuke's face. He wanted his mate, but that meant his son would have to die and Naruto would kill him if he let anything happen to their child, but at the same time he could save Taka and Itachi, but then what about Naruto? Knowing Kabuto as soon as they sealed the deal he'd take Naruto and vanish off the face of the earth and they'd never ever find him again.
'There has to be something I can do!' He dropped his face into his hands and bared his teeth, he was frustrated and wanted to cry, but he would not let the fucker see him cry. He had to think-
"What... What if I give myself to you?" Sasuke asked.
"Hmm? Why would I want you? I'm not Orochimaru-sama... I prefer blonds, more specifically, I prefer a certain prince." Kabuto said.
Sasuke glared at him and Kabuto laughed loudly before he stopped and his eyes lit up.
"I know! Give me your soul... I can cut out your soul and replace it with Itachi-kun's! That way he can live, Takahiro-kun's soul will automatically return to his body and Arashi can go free! I get to keep your soul and torture you any way I see fit and in exchange your family gets to live on in peace and never have to worry about me ever again. What do you say? In fact if you agree, I can even let you see Arashi one last time before I do the surgery and Iruka-san here can take Takahiro's soul back to his body."
Sasuke looked at him, trying to see if he was bullshitting, but because the fucker was a master at masking his thoughts, he couldn't tell. He looked at Iruka who was looking just as lost as he was. It was the only option that allowed Sasuke to save all three at once, but that meant he had to remain even if he didn't have a body...
Iruka looked at his charge's mate, feeling helpless as he watched emotions war within him, tearing at his soul like red hot knives. There was no other choice, Sasuke knew it.
"I agree... I'll give you my soul. But Taka, Itachi and Naruto go free." Sasuke said.
Kabuto smiled and drew up a contract and laid it on the table before he made a knife appear and he cut his wrist and palm before handing it to Sasuke and telling him to do the same. They clasped hands and squeezed their blood mixing together and dripping onto the contract and like magic the terms of agreement appeared and both their signatures were their in blood at the bottom.
"Then our deal is sealed... Iruka-san you may drink this to heal and you may want to take a nap. The surgery will take a bit but I promise you that everything will according to our agreement... Now then, Sasuke-kun, let us go visit Arashi, neh?"
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And that's where we're stopping. Kabuto is one evil bastard.
Naruto: NOOO! SASUKE DON'T DO IT!
Me: DON'T TRUST A HOE SASUKE! HE'S DIRTY FUCKING HOE!
Rye: Really?
Me and Naruto: YES!
Rye: Right then...You two need to calm down.
Me and Naruto: Can't...Dying on the inside.
Rye: -rolls eyes and walks away- this was your master.
Taka: And this was Hitoko-sama...