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I'm so so so so so sorry! It's been forever since I've updated and it's because I've been absolutely bombarded with school work! On top of that I'm also having problems with my ex boyfriend. It's been almost two months and he still isn't over what happened. My mom had to block his number and I had to be moved out of his classes. That's how ridiculous this is. I couldn't even go to my friend Halloween party cause the girl doing the guest list invited him, but since the girl who's house it's at is my best friend for the past 4 years and really my FIRST friend I ever made, it's not surprising she kicked him off the guest list. Whatever you guys aren't really interested in these little snip-its about a mellow-dramatic teenage girl's life. I hate drama, so just do yourself a favor and enjoy peace while you have it! HAPPY ALMOST HALLOWEEN!
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"You!" Sakura hissed while pointing her finger at the intimidating man walking out from the shadows behind her father.
"I want you to take it back!" Sakura's father shouted, "Take the money back, the deal is off!"
"I don't think so" came Kabuto's voice from behind Orochimaru.
Sakura couldn't believe she'd landed herself in this mess. She should've just trusted her intuition and never came in the first place.
"Where do you think you're going to run to?" Kabuto asked, slowly walking towards her, "There's no one else here. The Pier is closed, and your back is to the water. Going to go for a swim little mermaid?"
"You're wrong!" She shouted slowly being backed towards the water, "Sasuke will come!"
Kabuto held his stomach and laughed, "You really put too much faith in that boy. He can't help you now. Even if he were to show up this instant, what could he do by himself? It's 2v1."
"Wrong" She snarled, "I'd fight you too."
"Oh!" Kabuto let a jolly exasperation escape his lips, "A girl like you? I'm so scared."
Sakura bit her lip to regain her composure even though it started to bleed. While Kabuto was distracted by his laughing and making fun of her, she wasted no time in dashing for the silver haired nerd and landing her steel-toed boot right between his legs. Kabuto didn't even have any sound escape his lips. He simply fell over sideways in agony. Soon after Sakura was abruptly grabbed a hold of from behind and her arm was twisted behind her back.
"You'll pay for that later missssy" Orochimaru slitherily whispered into her ear.
Sakura cringed at the dingy and dark aura of the man now holding her captive. She just hoped that they had nowhere to run.
"Kabuto, pull yourself together and get the chord" Orochimaru barked at his writhing assistant.
Sasuke broke through the chain-link fence gates of the pier and went tearing towards the docks. His truck had a fender guard so ramming through weak metal-wire fence did virtually no damage to his car. He screeched onto the gravel road along the pier and stopped at the edge of the maze of wooden piers and docks. He flew out of his car and stopped short of the edge of the dock where it dropped off into the water. Seeing a small light just off on the horizon fading into the fog of the ocean, and at his feet there was a tarnished meal. She was here, but not anymore.
"Sakura!" he shouted from the edge of the dock with his hands by his mouth.
He heard nothing, except the slap of the waves on the wooden pillars of the docks.
Within an hour Sasuke had the detective at the edge of the dock looking for any kind of evidence to convict Orochimaru, anything incriminating enough to get Sakura back. It was considered fraud to bring up charges of kidnapping without undeniable evidence first, then a search would take place. Sadly the man shook his head, there was nothing to link Orochimaru to the crime. The only evidence that could've served as a witness had run off without a trace. Sasuke growled, he never should have trusted her to listen to him and meet him back at the car.
"Damnit!" he hissed while pulling his hair and snapping a wooden pillar on the dock with a kick.
"I wish there were more evidence here, or if you had seen him with your own eyes" the detective said shrugging.
At this point there wasn't anything either of them could particularly do. Sasuke just got back in his truck and slammed his face on the steering wheel rim several times before quietly sobbing with his face against it. He silently blamed himself. He was practically taking away all her freedoms, and she still slipped away. Orochimaru still got her. Sasuke knew there was no use in crying. Action needed to be taken, immediately.
He took out his phone and called the two people he knew would be the most upset, and most useful. Gaara reacted violently and Sasuke could've sworn he heard something smash into a million pieces on the other end of the phone. He just hoped the next thing the ginger smashed wouldn't be his face. Sassori reacted with utter contemplative silence. There wasn't much either of them could do. However Sasuke wasn't without a plan.
Sasuke awoke in the middle of the night to his phone vibrating on his nightstand. He could hardly sleep anyway, the second he closed his eyes the only thing waiting on the other side of them was a nightmare.
"Hello?..." he groggily grunted.
His bloodshot eyes snapped open at the sound of crying on the other end of the phone. "Sakura!" he shouted into the speaker.
"Sssasuke…" came the slithering hiss of Orochimaru on the other end of the phone, "I win. It wasss niccceee playing with you."
The "chk" of the phone ended any kind of angry conversation Sasuke was planning to spew. This wasn't over. Orochimaru couldn't just keep someone against their will and say it was game over. Sakura was a strong girl, and he knew whatever Orochimaru had in store wasn't murder, it would be much worse for her to stay alive. Sasuke cringed at remembering what happened to Ino. He told himself that he would personally dish out justice if it wasn't given through legal means.
It was another long 4 hours before Sasuke got up at 6am sharp to go to work the next morning. Groggy and apathetic he walked through the glass doors into his office of the Uchiha corporation, he hated being president in training. It wasn't what he liked at all. He was a completely hands off manager. He only stepped in when something went wrong, unlike his micromanaging father.
"Sasuke" Fugaku called his son into his office sternly from over his desk's intercom, "Come see me immediately."
"What is this?" Fugaku hissed throwing a business magazine on the table in front of his son open to an article of Orochimaru and a pink haired girl.
"Sakura!" he shouted, "damn he works fast…" he hissed afterwards.
Fugaku pinched the skin between his nose and flared his nostrils before demanding, "Explain."
Sasuke scratched the back of his head hesitatingly before answering, "Last night she was kidnapped. I was planning on sending the secret police with a diversion over to Orochimaru's estate to bear eyewitness that she was being held there. However for him to come blatantly open like this makes me even more afraid of what he's planning."
"Read it."
Sasuke picked up the article, holding the folded magazine in one hand and casualy slipping the other in his pocket with his weight shifted.
Orochimaru proudly shows the business world his newest endeavor. He adopted this young girl (Sakura Haruno) at the age of 17 when her mother died in a car accident and her father had abandoned her. He let her stay with her older brothers even though he'd bought and adopted legal-custody of her from the state. He now declares that she cannot marry into the Uchiha Corporation to their youngest son and heir without a merger of their corporations under his authority. She is now being taken back into his custody as a dependent since she is still attending college classes and does not live on her own outside of living with the youngest Uchiha. A date for the merger meeting has yet to be announced.
Sasuke threw the magazine at the wall, "What is this bullshit!" He was furious. No, that was an understatement. He was livid. "What makes him think that he can just buy people? She's 19! an adult! How can he take control of her like this?"
"You don't understand the law, son" Fugaku said sternly, "You are under your parent's or guardian's control until you have an independent job outside of their influence, and live completely independent of their financial help of any kind or any sort of aid. Or when you turn 21. Orochimaru still has legal control of her since he bought her from the state at 17, unbenounced to her I'm guessing."
Sasuke pulled his hair. This wasn't happening. This couldn't be happening. How can kidnapping suddenly become legal? She did have a job outside his sphere of influence. Her job was under his, and she was paying for her own college tuition through student loans.
"He was still financially helping her, from the shadows."
"How so?" Sasuke asked angrily.
"He paid her student loans off without telling her. She still thought she was in debt when she really was in no debt at all. And because of that financial aid, she was still a dependent under his care all this time."
How could Sasuke's world suddenly turn upside down like this? How could things be so backwards like he was a rat falling into a trap elaborately placed for him.
"If he had custody of her this whole time, why go to such extreme measures just to kidnap her?"
"That, I don't know." Fugaku scowled just as frustrated as his son.
The stoic man would never admit it out loud but he really like Sakura. He found her to be a perfect fit to keep his spoiled son in line and make sure that he was well taken care of. He also loved her as a person. She was radiant and dignified, stood up for herself and what she believed in, and everything a woman of the Uchiha household was supposed to be. He wasn't going to lay this to rest until the bitter end.
"Son, go get Neji. You two are going to pay a surprise visit with me."
Sasuke's eyes widened, were they busting in? Or playing diplomat?
One hour later three male Uchihas and two male Hyuugas were in front of Orochimaru's impressive estate. All five walked inside and were graciously greeted by the snake man's footmen. The place was elaborately decorated with scaled furniture and the walls lined with glass tanks and exhibits of live reptiles. It had an air of mystique and a sinister quality about it. All the men were led to the main parlor where a generously large sofa was presented to them to sit on. Each sat up tall with dignity except Sasuke who refused to sit until he saw the bastard's face.
"Sit" Fugaku told him sternly, "I know you're angry and anxious, but pacing will only look unprofessional and will come back to bite you."
Sasuke stopped and turned on a dime to face his father with a scowling face, "Sorry I can't be as relaxed as the rest of you."
"We aren't relaxed" Neji immediately corrected him, "We just aren't… going insane."
Sasuke just gave him a half-assed sarcastic grimace before taking a seat on the sofa between Itachi and Fugaku. He wasn't looking forward to this. The fact that each one of them had a gun tucked in the back of their pants made him even more uneasy. He hoped to god he wouldn't have to pull his out and use it on someone.
A few moments later a gray haired man entered the room and greeted them all with a confident smirk, "Hello, are you here to see master Orochimaru?"
All the men narrowed their eyes and nodded, "His lord will only see two at a time, who would like to go first?"
"Wipe that fucked-up smirk off your face, Kabuto." Sasuke hissed with his arms crossed and head slightly tilted towards the man.
Kabuto stopped smirking and scowled before saying "I guess that means the only one's here on professional business are the two Corporation heads… Uchiha-sama and Hyuuga-sama. If you would, please follow me."
Sasuke ground his teeth as his father and felt the urge to tackle the grey haired man to the ground and beat the living shit out of him. He was the one that laid the elaborate trap for Sakura by manipulating her father no doubt. What a conniving bastard.
"If the gentlemen wish," Kabuto stated looking over his shoulder before turning the doorknob to Orochimaru's office, "You three may go see the princess up stairs. Under guarded supervision of course."
Sasuke froze dead in his tracks with widened eyes and before he could even bark the question Kabuto pointed up the stairs with a smirk, "Eighth door on the left down the west wing."
Before Itachi and Neji could even hold a civil debate with him over possibly seeing Sakura at this time he was flying up the stairs faster than eyes could follow. Neji and Itachi caught up with him down the hall out of breath with his hand on the doorknob. Sasuke didn't know why his mind was suddenly hesitating.
"This could be a trap" Neji emphasized, trying to get the Uchiha's attention.
To Be Continued…
DUN DUN DUNNNNN! What will happen next! No one knows!