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Warning: little romance with Sasuke and Sakura near the end, nothing too bad, really, so i didn't mark it but it starts a few paragraphs up from Rain Country down near bottom.
Chapter 28
Blowing Up
Rain Country
Amegakure
Apartment Building
Room 28
Night
He hadn't been sleeping merely laying on the bed, hands behind his head and legs crossed at the ankles. He couldn't sleep was more like it, ever since that afternoon in the office, he couldn't help but feel he was betraying Sakura by giving out the information he had about Konoha, but if he didn't then he placed her at risk for getting hurt.
He turned to his side and had closed his eyes going to try and find some sleep when an incessant pounding began at the door to the small apartment he had gotten. Groaning he though about just letting the people knock, but listening to the pounding he knew something was off. It was too urgent of a pounding to be something innocent.
He grabbed his haori that was next to the bed and shucked it on as well his pants and sandals before grabbing his kusanagi and sliding the sheath into the space between his clothes and the cloth belt he had tied around his pants to hold the sheath. Shrinking into a corner he decided to let them come to him rather than him going to them because if it was due to a violent nature that they were here he wasn't going to step right into their trap. His thoughts were cut off when he finally heard the shouts from outside the door.
"Open up murderer!" a man cried out from behind the door. His eyes narrowed wondering why they would come here to call him a murderer.
"Open up coward. Too brave to kill a man but not face us!?" another voice shouted through the door.
His thoughts tried to look back to see if he had killed anyone they knew, and that's when it hit him. He had been out earlier finding something to eat when he had heard that a prominent councilor, a man by the name of Fumio had been assassinated. They couldn't think he actually killed the man? He had heard of the shutting of the council doors and how people had gathered to try and here what was going on. He had also heard the Kenji had apparently come out to say he was the rebel leader, but that it came out forced. A woman had somehow known that Kenji was a rebel.
"Sakura!" he whispered harshly before grabbing a small pack and disappearing from the room.
Rain Country
Amegakure
Kage Building
Quarters
Two Hours Earlier
she was practically flung into the room as soon as Kenji had to the door opened after having been dragged up the flights of stairs from the council room until they arrived back at the quarters and she knew she would have a nice hand bruise marring her skin the next day.
She nearly dropped to the floor but Kenji's hand had caught her upper arm again and was forcing her to move towards the bedroom. Getting tired of the man's strength she used some of her own pulling against the man's grip. Once he felt the tension and the resistance he faced her anger blazing in his eyes. He quickly rounded on her sending a well aimed slap to her face. It was loud and hard and her head was flung to the side mouth gaping as she tried to collect herself from the dizziness that had just ensued.
He pulled at her again and this time she moved forward without resistance, but stumbling behind him. She felt her body being thrown towards the bed and the only thing she felt after that was the softness of the bed before a prick in her neck. She let out a mewl of pain as her hand shot to her neck wanting to reach the now agitated area, but a hand forcibly stopped her own.
"Don't even think about it." was all she heard him growling at her. Her face looked upwards and into his won. "You're lucky that they went along with it, or else you would be dead." he snarled at her and she felt her energy leaving her.
He thrust her away from him and more onto the bed before leaving the room in a rage. He knew he had some work to do and first was sending the messages to begin the attack on the Fire Country. She heard the door close and the she proceeded to drag herself the rest of the way onto the bed crawl over to her side and reach under the pillow for the necklace trying to reassure herself everything would be alright.
As soon as Sasuke was out of the apartment he was heading straight towards the Kage building. He had to maneuver around several search parties for him but he was sure he was partly safe when he reached the building and started heading up the flights of stairs, again going the back way, to the floor on which Sakura was on.
Hiding in the shadows of the hallway that held the room Sakura was in he slid along the walls to get to the room. When he searched for her chakra he could hardly feel it. Speeding up his pace he soon was before the door that he could sense Sakura's chakra inside the room. Trying the door handle he was met with hard resistance but he couldn't wait anymore so with slight impatience he again grabbed the handle and let electric currents run from his hand to the lock and indefinitely opening the door.
Pushing the door open he unsheathed his kusanagi just in case someone was waiting for him inside. He closed the door behind him while creeping into the room and continuing to feel the weakening of Sakura's chakra. Pushing open another door he stepped sideways into the room kusanagi in front of him. Finding out it was a bedroom he opened the door even more and walked cautiously into the room and was greeted by the sight of Sakura curled up near the headboard, breathing lightly and visibly shaking.
He approached the bed, sheathing his kusanagi. Making it over to the bed he placed a hand on her shoulder and crouched down to her level, so if she opened her eyes she would see straight at him. Moving his hand from her shoulder to her neck he checked her pulse. It was slowing down but not at a deathly rate.
Standing up his eyes scanned the room. Seeing the glint of something come from the exposed counter of the bathroom he walked over and picked up the small capped needle. He studied the remaining liquid in the vial attached to the needle and placing it carefully in his pack he had brought with him. He knew if it was anything dangerous she would need medical attention, she would need to go to Konoha, and he didn't care how mad Kenji would be.
Hearing the main door to the apartment creak open he got into a defensive position. He waited until the person made it into the bedroom and when they did they found his katana at their neck. The head turned and he met the familiar face of the woman he had subdued in the alleyway a few days previous.
He lowered his sword.
"What are you doing here?" he demanded, still not letting his guard down and she held out an envelope to him.
"This is all the orders he has given out." onyx looked at the envelope and then the girl who still had the envelope in her hand. "I also placed other information in there as well. You need to hurry back to Konoha though. He just sent out the word to the others to start their attack on the Fire Country. The birds will get there in a at least a day."
"What about you?"
"I will stay here. I am of better use here than anywhere else." she gave off a small sad smile. "Tell Sakura, that I appreciated all that she did for me."
"What did he give her?" Akiko was about to turn away.
"If it is what I believe it to be, then it is a induced sleep. A sleeping formula to keep the person asleep for a period of time,depending on how much was give." Sasuke pulled out the vial and needle.
"How long?"
"With that amount, probably a good two days possibly three." Akiko told him examining the vial before giving it back to Sasuke. "But you should get going. I know a back exit." she told him. He nodded and went to pick up Sakura and noticed the necklace he had given to the girl to give to her clutched tightly in her hand. He held her in his arms, one arm under her legs and the other around her mid back, hand resting against the side of her rib cage. He nodded and Akiko began to lead the way out of the building and out of the city.
Fire Country
Forests
Fire/Rain Border
Mid-Day
They had still received no orders to make any kind of movement. They were all still sitting around in the trees when a familiar creak of a branch was heard coming from Rain. They all expected to see Sasuke but not the sleeping woman in his arms. All sets of eyes looked at each other before turning back to the couple that was before them.
"Sasuke, what happened?" Kakashi asked nodding to Sakura.
"Sleeping formula." he responded.
"Okay, what about Kenji?" Anko snapped.
"He sent the word to attack the Fire Country last night." Sasuke replied numbly.
"What did you tell him?" Genma asked. "when he wanted to meet with you." he finished.
"Where the teams were that were patrolling the borders."
"Smart." Asuma blew a smoke cloud out of his mouth.
"We need back up though." Kakashi stated, "we can't go up against an army with only the four of us."
"We'll destroy the bridges like we did all those years ago." Asuma pointed out and the others nodded.
"It will be a message to Tsunade to send out the other teams to help the other patrols as well." Genma said, chewing thoughtfully on the senbon.
"Then let's blow up a couple of bridges." Kakashi stated warmly.
That evening the five overlooked two bridges that connected Rain to the Fire Country. They didn't have anywhere near enough explosives to take down both bridges so the next best thing was their ninjutsu. With the lightening that both Sasuke and Kakashi had it would be one hell of a blowup. Anko and Genma placed the explosives they did have at the ends of both bridges. Asuma strung wire from each set of explosives on both bridges while Sasuke and Kakashi placed themselves on the Fire Country side of the bridges getting ready to blow them up.
Once they knew that Anko, Asuma, and Genma were out of they way and back where Sakura was propped up against a tree, they pulled the strings releasing the explosives as well as sending a stream of electricity towards the explosives that were about ready to explode. A loud boom was heard the three standing near Sakura covering their faces from the debris that seemed to shower them.
After a few minutes the smoke began to clear and everyone taking their arms from their faces looked at the wreckage. Both bridges were now unaccessible, being broken and torn. There was maybe a foot of walking space to start going over the bridge before the only thing was the dark abyss below the bridges. Sasuke and Kakashe rejoined the others after a few minutes of making sure that it was completely inaccessible.
Kakashi then summoned Pakkun and once the pug appeared, the pug looked over at the wreckage before making a smart comment that got him reprimanded slightly, before he was told to head towards Konoha to tell Tsunade that the rebels were to attack the Fire Country any day now. The small dog nodded and took off without hesitation.
Sasuke went to pick up Sakura letting them know that he too would be heading to Konoha with Sakura and he also had something to give to Tsunade. The others nodded to him before they too set out finding another bridge to successfully destroy.
It was their second day of travel the first consisting of helping Kakashi and his team destroy the two bridges. Sasuke had found a small clearing and was effectively starting a fire to keep them warm when he noticed that Sakura was beginning to stir against the tree he had propped her again. Walking over to her he crouched down in front of her and waited for her to wake up completely.
The first thing she did besides open her eyes was groan and place her hand against the side of her head, as if trying to dull a terrible ache that was there and when she did open her eyes he could clearly see the haziness that was interlaced with the jade green, causing the once vibrant jade to become a murky jade color.
He watched as she tried to regain her senses closing her eyes a time or two before opening them and actually looking around at her surroundings. He watched as her eyes passed over him to look at the forest and clearing they were in before they came back and focused on his crouching form that was right in front of her position against the tree.
Her eyes rested on his form and he knew that she was trying to make sense of everything without asking any questions. She soon let out a sigh but he wasn't sure if it was out of relief or of something else. He was tempted to reach a hand out towards her but he didn't and instead he continued to gaze at her.
"Where are we?" her voice was finally heard.
"Fire Country." he replied shortly.
"Why?"
"You were in trouble." He replied curtly, "and so was I."
"Because Kenji blamed Fumio-sans death on you?" the Uchiha nodded.
"What about Akiko?" she asked once again looking around.
"In Amegakure."
"Why? She could have gotten out with us."
"She didn't want to come."
"But Kenji...."
"Will be taken care of." Sasuke finished the sentence. "We are heading back towards Konoha to deliver information." Sakura nodded before she started to reach for Sasuke, burying her head in his clothed chest.
"Don't ever leave me again." she whispered as she turned her head on his chest so her cheek was resting against the cloth. She felt his arms wrap around her and his head bob up and down in response.
Fire Country
Konoha
Hokage Tower
To get the news that two plus bridges were being destroyed near at the Fire/Rain border was quite a bit of a shock. She wasn't expecting any sort of movement of offense or defense for quite some time but when she saw the brown pug that was sitting unceremoniously on her desk when she turned around from staring out the window she knew that something had gone terribly wrong.
And of course the story came out. Amegakure now knew that Kenji was the rebel leader and were whole heartedly supporting him in his ways. Pakkun of course explained the explosions at the border as a defense strike for the impending attack of the rebels against the country as well as the other locations.
Once finding out the needed information she immediately sent runners to the teams that had been formed for the attacks and within two hours teams of four were running out of the gates each heading towards their respective locations that they were assigned to help fend off the imminent attacks that were coming.
A part of her was almost glad that this war was coming because as soon as it came the sooner it would be over and then things could go back to a relative peacefulness and she wouldn't have to worry about the rebels any longer. The next thing would be the wait to see what Amegakure would do. She was almost certain that Kenji would probably meet his death in this war seeing as how he had Sasuke after him for threatening Sakura and Kenji was also on her hit list as well.
It was nearing night when there was a soft tapping on her door and she told the person to come in but one look at the entering persons made her back stiffen slightly and frown. She really wasn't expecting to see Uchiha Sasuke standing in front of her with her very own apprentice right behind him looking a little dazed.
"I was wondering if I would be seeing you again, Uchiha." she crossed her arms in front of her larger bosom.
"I have information." was the only thing the raven haired man said as he pulled an envelope out of his pack and handed it to the honey haired woman, who graciously took the package. Eying him carefully she began to pull out the contents of the package.
Her eyes roved over all the notes and messages that were contained as well as the other files that someone had deemed worthy enough to put into the envelope with the other contents. Tsunade hummed lightly as she gazed through everything taking everything that was before her into memory.
"This is quite a collection of information. Who gave it to you?" Tsunade asked with curiosity. She needed to know if the information was valid to trust.
"Akiko." Sakura answered. "She helped me when I was Ame. She was also someone that was.......close to Kenji, in the rebel area. Her father is a councilor and was threatened to help Kenji." Sakura went to explain, knowing that look in her shishou's eyes.
"Okay then, now why are you here Sakura? Not that I'm not happy to see you, but aren't you supposed to be in Rain?" the two in front of her shifted on their feet, Sakura more than Sasuke.
"Kenji injected a sleeping formula into me and..." Sakura was cut off.
"I thought it would be best if she returned to Konoha for the war." Sasuke blatantly stated. "Kenji has a history of abuse and rape, it was no longer safe for Sakura to remain there." he continued and both women gawked at him. Tsunade in surprise at seeing the Uchiha worried over the shocked female behind him, while Sakura gawked at the man that had just said it seeing as how he was concerned for her.
"Of...of course." Tsunade got out still stunned at the response the man gave her. "Well then, welcome back Sakura. Your apartment that you had had to be leased out so I can make some arrangements for you for the time being." Tsunade was saying but was interrupted.
"She can stay with me." The Uchiha spoke again causing the two women to again become shocked.
"I'm not entirely sure if that is appropriate, seeing as how Sakura is a married woman." Tsunade pointed out.
"Tsunade-shishou isn't there a way for me to 'get out' of the marriage with Kenji?" Sakura asked a pleading look in her eyes and Tsunade sighed heavily.
"Let me see." she ruffled around her sets of papers and pulled out the certificate of marriage between Sakura and Kenji. "You're marriage to Daisuke ended when he became deceased. Seeing as how Kenji is still living the best thing I can do is this." the two looked at her with curiosity and watched as Tsunade took the certificate and ripped it into several small pieces. "Now get out." Tsunade said sharply. "I have other things to do now." Sakura nodded and as the two turned to leave Tsunade said one last thing. "Oh Ino has some of your things Sakura." was all they heard before the two shut the door and left the office and soon the tower.
The two walked silently next to each other. Sakura had told Sasuke that she would need some of her things so the two were first headed to Inos and then Sasuke's house. When Sakura had knocked on the door it was greeted by Ino's mother who was currently taking care of the place as Ino was out on one of the fronts. Sakura asked if the lady knew where her belongings were and soon enough she had a box of her old clothing before her first marriage, and were walking towards the Uchiha compound.
The two continued walking towards the Uchiha Compound Sasuke adamantly carrying the box that they had gotten from Ino's. Sakura had complained that it wasn't his things and that she should carry it but he silently refused to let her carry the box. Sakura shrugged and followed the Uchiha to the compound wordlessly.
Sasuke led Sakura through the streets towards his own abode, her standing and looking over the place when they both arrived. He told her to follow him and breaking from her reverie at the house she hurried her pace and was soon beside Sasuke in his new home. She wandered around the home after watching Sasuke walk up the stairs to deposit her box. Once looking around the bottom area of the house she went up the stairs and found Sasuke in the master bedroom her box on top of the bed.
"Sasuke, this is your room." she said hoping the implication would be obvious and he just shrugged.
"So?" he said back, starting to head out of the room.
"I can't stay in your room. It wouldn't be courteous. It is your room not mine, I can find another room." She said starting to lift the box but a hand pushed it back down.
"You will stay in here." was all her told her firmly shoving the box harder into the mattress. She blinked and nodded at his declaration of the box staying put.
That night Sakura had made due with the supplies in the house and made them both a dinner that was nicer than what they had been eating as they had traveled. Sasuke had looked pleased with the food that she had served and she had a feeling of gratification.
Following their meal she had gone upstairs to take a shower and when she was done she wrapped a thin navy blue towel stitched with the Uchiha symbol around her body. Once the fog cleared from the mirror she looked closer at her face and saw the light swelling that was still present on her cheek from Kenji's slap.
Lightly she touched the area and let a small flow of green chakra emit from her hand and take the swelling the rest of the way down as well as small amount of pain that came with touching the sore area. Not paying attention she didn't notice as Sasuke entered the bathroom and stand right behind her until she felt his breath and his image in the mirror.
She didn't turn around but watched his image in the mirror, just waiting to see what he would do. Her eyes watched as he lifted his arms and then watched as they encircled her shoulders hand coming together for a moment before separating and she saw the necklace he had given her in Amegakure. Her body shivered as his hands clasped the necklace together brushing against her bare neck and shoulders.
Unconsciously she closed her eyes when she felt him kiss her bare shoulders and his hands spread across her cloth covered stomach causing another shudder to run through her body. Only he could ever make her feel like that. She felt his hands tug against the towel and her hand that had been holding it up let it fall free baring herself to him, and the next thing she knew she was turned around so fast she wasn't able to realize her mouth being invaded by his.
Feeling his hands roam her back made her arch herself towards him, while her hands twisted up into his hair and before she knew it he had lifted her up, forcing her to wrap her legs around him for support and him exiting the bathroom to make his way to the bed with her in his arms.
Rain Country
Amegakure
Kage Building
Days Earlier
After leaving Sakura he went back down to the council room and began satiating the councilors again on what his plans were and making sure that they were totally behind him he had seen that several men were already trying to storm the Uchihas small residence to get the murderer of Fumio-san. But when the man had come back empty handed a few hours later he was not at all pleased.
The Uchiha had somehow escaped his little apartment, but where would he go? Cursing himself he began the long march up to the quarters to check up on the woman he had put to sleep for a few days. The woman was going to be the end of him if he didn't do something to her first. Again cursing himself he began to up his pace to get to the room.
When he got to the room he found the lock useless and he again cursed loudly before stepping into the quarters. Nothing in the main room was touched but taking long strides to the room he thrust the door open and looked at the now empty bed. He knew exactly where the Uchiha had gone. He had come here to take Sakura back or at least away from him.
Going to the adjoined room he found nothing missing and was at least a little satiated that nothing from the room had been stolen, but where would the Uchiha have gone? The man hadn't been in Amegakure long enough to know the back ways out. And then one name came to him. Akiko. She had to have led him out of Amegakure with Sakura. Both of them were wenches and would get what was coming to them, at least in time.
Storming out of the bedroom and quarters he made his way back down to the meeting rooms to begin the attack preparations on the Fire Country. The messages to the other leaders had already been given out and now it was his turn to start his own plans of attack.
There's the chapter. Hope it is good. so things are going to start getting good.
Note: there will only be 31 chapters to this and i am working on the last chapter right now and am about half way done with it. also, the reason why last update was so rushed was because some things came up and i got a job in the state where i am going to college and the job starts next week. yeah. but, i am getting a new computer but it needs to be shipped to me, so, this is what is going to happen.
my last day on the internet will be tuesday and then until i get my own computer and get it up and running will probably be about a week from next wednesday. i will still be on the computer but for work, because of what my job is. so on monday i will change my email to my other email so you can still pm me if you want to say anything. but for those of you whose stories i read and those to who i review to as well, don't expect a review after next Tuesday for a little while. i will try but i will not guarantee anything.
so that brings me to my next thing. i want to get this story done and posted before i can no longer use the internet for extra-curricular activities. so i will post the last three chapters everyday until friday if i get 10 reviews, by the next afternoon. i think you can do it so let's do it.
Next chapter: two main fronts, dealings in Konoha and with Kenji, sasuke and sakura head out to their battle front.
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