Fallen
Chapter 34: Die, Sasuke! Uchiha Echolocation.
Sasuke's POV
"I've found her!" Naruto shouted out for the world to hear.
"Shut up, dobe," I told him quietly. Did he want half a dozen Akatsuki members to attack us?
"Sorry," he apologized. "But I've found her! One of my clones found Sakura-chan!"
"Where is she?" I asked.
"She's in this weird room…it's really white. I don't remember too much because that Akatsuki guy attacked me before-"
"Somebody noticed you?!"
"Yeah…but it's no big deal, really," he assured me.
I sighed. "Dobe."
"How am I a dobe now?!" he demanded, instantly flaring up. "I found her, didn't I?"
"Yeah, you did," I agreed. "But now the Akatsuki are going to try and find us."
He shrugged. "They probably already will. I mean, it's not like Itachi wouldn't have told the rest of those guys that you were here after your fight."
At the sound of his name, my lungs felt like they'd explode with anger. I punched the cave wall right next to me, making rocks fall.
"Whoa, chill, Sasuke," Naruto said.
"Just take me to where she is," I told him.
After about half an hour, Naruto stopped in front of a windowless, metal door.
"This is it," he whispered.
"How do we get in?" I asked.
Naruto pointed silently to a vent that was seven to ten feet above the door.
I nodded. We both climbed to the top and slipped into it. It smelled horrible. Like a mixture of dust and medicine.
After a while of crawling, I stopped. There was another vent that looked like it was on a ceiling seeing as it was on the bottom for us. I looked down.
Naruto's POV
When my clone had been here, he'd only caught a glimpse of Sakura-chan's pink hair before being found. So I hadn't really noticed many details about the room or Sakura-chan. But this time was different. This time, I saw it all.
It was horrible.
Sakura-chan was in a white, white room. Kind of like at the hospital in Konoha. Except this place gave you a really creepy feeling. Konoha Hospital only gave you a kinda creepy feeling.
She was lying down on one of those what-do-you-call-its that freaky scientists strap people to. Her eyes (which had bags under them)d were closed, showing that she was unconscious. There were hundreds of dots visible on her body. Somehow, they looked familiar. Some lady with red hair was bent over Sakura-chan's middle, holding what looked like dissecting tools in her hands. When she moved to switch one of them, I had a hard time not throwing up.
Damn, I thought.
I looked up at Sasuke to find out what the plan was, but stopped at the look on his face. It wasn't cool like normal. The expression was twisted; a mixture of shock, anger, and horror. I couldn't blame him.
After a while, he met my gaze.
I caught a bit of movement below us and looked down again. Sakura-chan was stirring.
Sakura's POV
My eyes flew open the second that I'd regained consciousness. Karin was still hovering over me. I was beginning to think she was the screwed up female reincarnation of Victor Frankenstein.
"Oh, damn," Karin cursed. "She's awake. Should I give her another shot?"
"You might kill her if you give her too many doses," that guy from before, Kazuku, said. Karin faced him. "And you never know what might happen to you if she does, Karin."
"Are you threatening me?!" she demanded. She shivered despite herself.
"What are you going to do if I am? Quit?" he asked calmly, with a hint of amusement in his voice.
Karin bit her lip. She swerved her body to face her work (a.k.a.: me) and picked up the tools again.
I hoped that the pain killer wouldn't wear off any time soon. Because she was bound to take her anger out on something. And having Karin taking her anger out on me while she was holding sharp tools and I was strapped down helplessly wasn't a pleasant thought.
She started working again. Luckily, it seemed like I was still as numb as an ice cube for now. Although somehow, I still needed to go to the bathroom despite the pain killers. Weird.
I began to think about Naruto and Sasuke-kun as I lied there.
What are they doing right now?
The image of Naruto and Sasuke-kun fighting at a ramen shop came into my head.
Are they happy?
I remembered Sasuke-kun's calm/bored expression and Naruto's grinning face.
Where are they? On a mission? Or are they training?
This time I saw Naruto and Sasuke-kun both relaxing at our normal meeting place.
I haven't known them for very long as Saori. And I haven't been gone that long, either. But still…, I wonder…if they miss me.
My mind's eye was completely blank.
Sasuke's POV
Naruto looked down. I looked down too, just in time to see Sakura open her eyes. We watched as the other two people who were there had their argument. Sakura didn't notice us, she just watched the red-head bitch get threatened by the guy.
The red-head turned back to face Sakura and started doing who-knew-what to her.
I looked up again, to find Naruto already looking at me. His face was serious.
"What's the plan?" he mouthed.
I shook my head. I had no idea what the two who were there were capable of. It would be stupid, Naruto-Level stupid (oh, the horror), to just jump in.
But I couldn't just sit here and do nothing either. The priority was to get Sakura back to Konoha, alive, with Naruto and me (hopefully also alive) and the rest of the ANBU members.
Oh, wait. The ANBU! I'd completely forgotten about them since we hadn't been making that much contact for a while. I could use them to distract the people over
But what if they heard us? I wasn't Harry Potter. I couldn't just wave a fancy stick and say some weird word that would knock them unconscious or render them immobile.
Then….
I gestured for Naruto to go back. He looked confused, but did it anyways.
We both got out of the vent and walked out of earshot of the door. I whispered my idea to Naruto, who beamed.
"Great! Let's just-" but he suddenly stopped talking.
"What is it, dobe?" I asked him, irritated.
He shot me a glare and then said, "Sasuke…how are they going to find here? They could be anywhere, and they don't know their way around this place. Unless any of them made a shadow clone and that Shadow Clone came over here and crawled into a vent then disappeared, there's no way they'll know where it is."
The dobe had a point.
Then I got an idea.
"Naruto, recall your Shadow Clones," I told him.
Naruto's POV
"Naruto, recall your Shadow Clones," Sasuke told me.
"Eh? Why?" I asked.
"Just do it," he hissed.
I did. The memories of all of them flooded into me. None of them had found this place.
"Now, make two more," he directed.
I did that, too.
"You two know where Sakura is, don't you?" he asked them.
"What, do you think we're stupid?" one asked.
"Yes," Sasuke answered.
"Die!" all three of us shouted at him.
"Anyways, original Naruto," he looked around, trying to find me. I raised my hand. "We'll find out the general area that the ANBU squads are using these," he pointed to his ear.
"Using our ears?" I asked, confused. How the hell were we supposed to do that? I don't know if Uchiha's have another special bloodline that I hadn't heard about, but last time I checked humans couldn't use echolocation.
"No," he sighed. "Using the microphones. Then, we'll send out your clones and they'll guide the two ANBU squads here. Got it?"
Oh.
"Yeah, I got it," I said.
"Finally," Sasuke sighed.
"Die!" all three of us shouted again.
A/N: That's the end of Chapter 34! Please review, guys!