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"Possibly you say," Madara kicked pieces of debris out of the way. The group had got to the village they'd explored and found nothing. The people of Botan's village had fought back, "What a great waste of time this was." Muttering he watched the Kobayashi talk to the white haired man and then run over to him.
"Botan-kun said that the attack wasn't well organized and it was like they were looking for something."
"Something or someone?"
"What do you mean?"
"Think about it, isn't it a little suspicious that as soon as Cho leaves Konoha you all have trouble?" Madara paused, Ishi thought over his words and nodded slowly. "Granted she said it took them six months to plan an attack, and they've double teamed you all. I think your little Sakamoto friends figured Cho and her brother would return back to Konoha. I think they are all a lot more smarter than you lead them out to be."
"Your suggesting that the attacks on the village was a rouse? A cleverly schemed plan to make us part with Leader-sama?"
"Well it's just a thought I may be completely wrong," Madara shrugged and crossed his arms. "Clearly your enemy doesn't care for people your attached to. Well they do but obviously not as much as you all thought, otherwise they'd all be dead."
"We have to get back to the village."
"Well," Madara said while watching Ishi who was more than prepared to start sprinting at that moment. "They don't care for Konoha."
"Where is the safe house?"
"Excuse me?"
"Don't play dumb! Where is the safe house which you assigned to my leader?" Madara narrowed his eyes at him, he didn't take to kindly to being shouted at by an angry red head, sighing he ran a hand down his face.
"We have to get in contact with that Senju." Madara said, he didn't want to get in contact with Hashirama, mainly because he just didn't want to talk to him. Ishi gave a nod, Madara flinched when he grabbed a hold of his arm, a tingly feeling ran through him and the next time he looked around they were standing in another wrecked village.
"Ishi how nice of you to join us, I take it you had the same problem?"
"No one was there, Botan-kun and everyone else is fine though, hello Kiki," the older of the twins smiled and bowed to Kiki, who was still smoking, she smiled kindly.
"Oh Ishi, you get more charming I swear."
"Only to you."
"Quit flirting we have a problem." Tomi dragged his brother over to Hashirama who was talking to Madara. "If they were just trying to split us up then those few guards you assigned to looking out for Leader-sama and Nobu-kun aren't going to be much help."
"You make her sound defenceless." Madara crossed his arms, "I'm sure they're fine."
"Madara-san, I appreciate what you say. But has the thought crossed you mind of; if the Sakamoto's weren't in the village which they were meant to be attacking. Then where are they?" Ishi questioned, Tomi flinched and rubbed his eyes quickly before looking up at his brother. Madara frowned and narrowed his eyes at him.
"We have to get to the safe houses." Hashirama said while eyeing the two red heads up who were naturally concerned more now than ever about their leader and her sister. "Come on," Hashirama ran off and was quickly followed by Ishi and Tomi and lastly by Madara who seemed to be having a mental conversation with himself.
It was dark, all Kiyomi could see was darkness having to rely on her other senses was something she had never trained to do. It was now that she realized how dependant people were on sight, hearing foot steps she moved away from leaning against the wall and listened as something was dragged and dropped into the room.
It was silent and dark to her, hearing raspy breathing she flinched, "Hello?" She called out to the darkness, whoever it was coughed. "Hi Kiyomi-chan...fancy seeing you here."
"Cho-san?"
"The one and only," Cho answered although her voice was broken up, it sounded like it took her a lot of effort to talk. Kiyomi felt along the ground until she touched her shoulder, Cho hissed and flinched, "What did they do to you Cho-san?"
Cho looked up at her friend and frowned, "That's a nasty curse you have on your eyes." She answered instead of answering her question. "The more you touch it the more it takes your eye sight away." Cho spoke quietly and slowly, inhaling painfully she looked down at herself, her legs were a bad colour of purple. "Kiyomi-chan?"
"What is it Cho-san?"
"I'm scared, I am completely defenceless here."
"What do you mean?"
"I can't feel my legs."
"What about the rest of you?"
"Where's your hands?" Kiyomi waved them in her vision, lifting her arms up Cho put them to her hands. Kiyomi pulled a face and tilted her head down to look at her, "What is that?"
"My arms."
"No no those aren't your arms! What's on them?"
"Something to stop me lashing out." Cho winced, the more she talked the more it hurt. In truth she had some sort of restraints on which led up to her elbows. Shutting her eyes the room turned silent, "You have to stay awake Cho-san! Help will come and you know it."
"I was on my way to a safe house because those bastards had attacked my friends." Cho said quietly while trying to get comfy on the hard floor, she failed to do so and winced painfully. "We get ambushed, the guards which Hashirama-kun had set up were killed. We didn't stand a chance...a whole clan against five people, those aren't fair odds." Cho paused and tilted her head up to look at Kiyomi, "At least I'm not alone. Kiyomi-chan how many times have you touched your eyes?"
"A few times, I want this piece of material off!"
"I shall repeat what I said earlier, the more you touch it the more your vision shall be taken away from you. Sneaky bastards," Cho spat bitterly, she groaned when Kiyomi decided to pick her up and put her head on her lap.
"Welcome back Cho-chan,"
"Heh...chan now?" Cho said distantly, Kiyomi shook her slightly and received a hiss of pain from the red head. "You have to stay awake!"
"But I'm so tired..." Cho yawned and shit her eyes, "Just let me sleep for a few minutes...that won't hurt anyone...would it?"
Kiyomi frowned not being able to see what state her friend was in didn't help either, "Alright Cho-chan you sleep for a while. Help will be here soon." Kiyomi said while the woman resting against her legs drifted off to sleep.