Chapter 18 : Revenge Best Served Cold

Academy's Meeting Room. 8 AM.

The government took a radical approach towards radical issue. To capture every single radical Gonchato leader alive and put each of them in question, and perhaps to force them to change their teaching to their followers, or even to the point to exile them or even kill them if they chose not to cooperate with the government.

Konohamaru created a meeting that included all the young shinobis of his class, only to teach them about the danger of religious fanatism and radicalism. They were meeting inside the meeting room of the academy. Some of them didn't show up. One of them was Metal, he was a radical Gonchato follower and he knew that going to the meeting would only discredit his own belief.

Sumire, being the one who came earlier sat beside Mitsuki. Mitsuki was Sarada's teammate and the girl practically became the talk of the town since her rape allegation towards Nanadaime. Sumire couldn't help but believe in Sarada, she knew that she wanted to be a Hokage and she was a headstrong young girl, it didn't seem to make sense for her to actually have sex and get pregnant with a married man. Sumire somehow believed that there was certain kind of power play in Nanadaime's and Sarada's relationship, that the old man somehow forced himself on her. Despite being known as a kind Hokage, he's still a politician, a part of the government she used to hate, and still lightly disliked. She knew how some of the men would cheat on their wives with young girls. It's not impossible that Naruto Uzumaki was one of those perverts.

Sumire gazed at the boy beside her. The pretty boy with striking eyes and long soft almost white hair. "Mitsuki, you're close with Sarada, right?" Her question made the boy looked back at her. "She was my teammate," Mitsuki answered with a friendly smile on his pale face. "Do you know her situation right now?" Sumire still had the class representative mentality, she still tried to care for her classmates. "I haven't been in contact with her for a long time," Mitsuki replied. "But, i have been in contact with Boruto," Mitsuki added. Sumire hadn't been in contact with the boy she liked for quite some time. Especially after the whole mess happening with his family. Rumors spread, they said that Hinata and his children moved back to Hyuga mansion. Boruto and Uchiha Sasuke came back from their journey. "It must have been hard for Boruto and Himawari," Sumire mused. "Boruto defended his father, he told me that it was Sarada who seduced Nanadaime," Mitsuki added. "But, it is almost impossible to get pregnant over one intercourse, they must have done it so many times," Sumire was confused. But, it's possible for Nanadaime to use his power to make Sarada following his order. The idea of Sarada being forced to have sex with a man more than twice her age made Sumire felt uncomfortable. "The only ones who knew whether it was forced or not are only Nanadaime and Sarada themselves," Wasabi suddenly joined the conversation. "But, for a girl to admit that she's raped isn't an easy matter," Sumire still chose to believe that she was raped.

Chocho, despite having Gonchato follower parents, somehow still got invited to the meeting. She herself never cared about religion or such. Inojin, Shikadai, Mitsuki, Wasabi, Namida and the others came to the meeting.

Chocho, who was sitting on the chair while waiting for Konohamaru to show up, relaxing while eating her potato chips and checking on her phone. Suddenly, Inojin showed up beside her and he sat in relaxed position. The pale boy smelled like blood and infected amniotic fluid. His under eyes looked incredibly dark and he looked very tired. Chocho who smelled that immediately moved away from him.

"Hey! Chocho! Why did you move away!" Inojin immediately moved back beside Chocho.

"You smell like blood and god knows what! Ew! Disgusting!" Chocho immediately moved away from Inojin, to sit beside Shikadai.

"I just finished my shift! I had to assist four deliveries last night! Of course i'm both tired and smelly!" Inojin replied while staying two chairs away from Chocho.

"Psst ... Chocho, i assisted Sarada's delivery last night," But, Inojin moved his upper body to Chocho to whisper to her. Chocho was surprised, her pupils dilated and she stopped eating her chips, she hadn't heard Sarada's news for a long time.

"Did Nanadaime actually rape her?She didn't look traumatized at all" Inojin asked the plump girl. They all know that Chocho is Sarada's closest friend. Shikadai who overheard immediately joined the conversation. Chocho stayed silent. She wanted to protect her friend but she herself disagreed with what Sarada's doing. But, then, she remembered that everyone knew how Sarada had adored Nanadaime very much. "It just seems impossible for a man like Nanadaime to do something that low," Shikadai added. "And Sarada always adored Nanadaime," Shikadai and everyone in the class knew about it. "All i know is that she liked him very much," Chocho replied. She didn't want to go forward with a yes or no answer but her sentence summarized the answer. "I knew it!" Shikadai's statement was followed with a sigh. He knew how his father was incredibly stressed even before the rape allegation showed up on tv and Shikadai eavesdropped his mother and father talking about polygamous marriage in Gonchato religion. He knew that it wasn't their own family because his mother certainly looked calm. "We all know that Sarada's greatest desire is or was to be a Hokage ... guess it is obvious now why she chose to say that it was rape," Inojin shrugged his shoulder. "One thing for sure is that ... Sarada is a scary woman," Shikadai huffed.

Boruto surprisingly showed up. Sumire and Mitsuki immediately put up a chair for him to sit. The boy looked incredibly pissed and he reeked of nicotine, as if he was smoking all day. "Boruto, are you okay?" Sumire looked concerned at her crush. "Do i look like i'm okay?" Boruto certainly sounded incredibly annoyed, his eyes were staring at Sumire as if he wanted to eat her up. "Is it about the allegation?" Mitsuki had airier tone in his voice more than Sumire. "That fucking bitch," Boruto huffed. "Everyone seems to question whether Sarada lied or not about the rape allegation," Mitsuki whispered to Boruto. The blond's blood boiled. He immediately stood up and slammed the table. "Hey! Everyone! Listen to me! My father the seventh hokage Naruto Uzumaki is not a rapist! That bitch Sarada fucking Uchiha was making up stories!" He was yelling in his frustration, shocking everyone in the room, including Konohamaru who had just entered the room.

Everyone sat down. Including Boruto. Konohamaru certainly looked concerned at Boruto. Before starting the topic, he called the young boy. "Boruto, you can go home if you still don't feel well," Konahamaru gently said to the young boy. "No, i will still do the mission, i need to save my father from those crazy Gonchatos," the boy said.

*

Hospital. 9 AM.

Sakura screamed when she saw her child was no longer there with her and her baby were also gone. Her voice caused the staffs of the hospital to be startled, and they knew it was Sakura's.

Ino who was writing at the nurse station quickly put down her pen and ran right to Sarada's room. She showed up in front of Sakura wearing her purple scrubs. Sakura was looking around the bedroom once again, her eyes were showing distress, she kept on looking around like a crazy woman while muttering "Sarada" multiple times.

"Sakura, please calm down, Sarada's probably buying some foods," Ino rested her arm on her friend's shoulder while rubbing it.

"She escaped with my grandson! She took all of her stuff and my grandson isn't in the baby room!"

Sakura's eyes displayed horror, she was hysterical.

"What? That's impossible! We have cctv everywhere and baby's room can only be entered by staffs!" Ino was bewildered. But, it got her thinking. Sakura had no advantage of lying in this kind of situation. She quickly ran into the baby room, she remembered the baby's face completely and then when she saw Sarada Uchiha box, she saw a different baby, she looked around and then she saw an empty baby box, it was just another baby from another box being moved to her grandson's box.

Damnit! Sarada is escaping the hospital!

Ino quickly ran to the CCTV room, where there was a guy with dark blue hair still sleeping while sitting on the chair.

"Yuzuki! Wake up!" He's the one in charge with the CCTV in the hospital. She quickly scrolled to the recording that night. Sarada never left the room and there was nothing suspicious there.

"Yuzuki! Did you sleep the whole night?" Ino yelled at the young sleepy security guy. Yuzuki was startled. "N...no," He was hesitant in answering. Ino knew that he was sleeping all night long during his shift. "You're a very bad security, Yuzuki! I am definitely going to ask the committee to fire you!" Ino said while leaving the room. She quickly picked the closest phone she could get to reach Sasuke so he could be informed about Sarada's and his grandson's disappearance.

Sakura knocked the door of the cctv room. She was showing up with a letter in her hand. The letter she had just found in her pocket.

There was a writing in it.

"She told me ... she told me ... she told me not to look for her anymore," Sakura's knees went weak. The pink haired medic nin fell on the floor.

*

Sakura became a patient in that hospital. Her life had become a rollercoaster in few months. She never thought that her beloved daughter, her obedient sweet little Sarada turned out to be a monster.

Sakura stayed in the vip room, lying on the bed with infusion in her arm for at least a day. When she woke up, she saw her friend, not in working outfit, she's wearing her purple crop top and her long skirt.

"Sakura, i'm really sorry about what you're going through right now," she said. Ino herself looked like she was going through a storm.

"I'm sorry that you have to get dragged into this problem," Sakura huffed. "You yourself look very worn out, what happened?" Sakura eyed her friend who looked like she couldn't sleep for few days.

"My son is a flaming homosexual, i'm fine with that but everyone in Yamanaka family found out and i seriously have no idea what to do, they have been pestering me day and night since they had found out about it," Ino was fighting with her husband the previous night about how she no longer wanted to receive calls from her family members and how Sai forced her to answer the calls. She was so stressed because of the pressure from the other family members about Yamanaka clan's future. Inojin had to be the leader of Yamanaka clan, they couldn't risk having gay clan leader, which meant that they couldn't have another Yamanaka heir.

"I'd take a homosexual child with risk of not having offspring and being called names by my family rather than this whole mess Sarada created," Sakura sighed. "I'm sorry," Ino realized how insensitive she was for telling Sakura her problem.

"She is a lot like you, you know, willing to do anything for the one she loves, guess she won't stop until Naruto marries her," Ino commented. "You're willing to die for Sasuke, right?" Sakura nodded at her friend's question. "I still am willing to die for both Sasuke and Sarada," Sakura gazed at Ino.

"Sakura," Sasuke entered the room. He looked more tired than usual. His eye-bags looked rather prominent.

"Sasuke!" Ino greeted the man but only to be replied with a short "uh" by Sasuke.

"Did you find any information about Sarada?" Sakura looked worried. Sasuke felt like a total failure. He tried to get through every dark corner in Konoha ,every person who might have the information, but, he acquired nothing.

"No, i went everywhere, asked everyone, including the Gonchato intels but they know nothing," Sasuke himself looked very stressed. He pulled a chair and sat beside Sakura's bed. Their daughter managed to perfectly hide for months, it wouldn't be hard for her to hide again.

"Have you asked Naruto? He probably knows," Sakura commented. The name sickened Sasuke. He never thought that a guy whom he used to consider as the kindest man in the planet would do such thing to his daughter.

"Even if he met her, he wouldn't try to stop her of save her, it's going to be like the last time when he didn't do anything until we barged into his house," Sasuke scoffed.

*

Sarada woke up that morning wearing a silk red kimono inside Uzumaki Residence. It was a king sized bed and the bed was incredibly soft. The sun shone through the window, waking the young woman from her slumber.

Beside her there was an empty cradle in orange color. She stood up and walked out of the room.

She arrived at the kitchen. There he was, Naruto Uzumaki, holding his baby, while sitting at the dining table. It was a sunny day, the sun lighted up the room. She could completely see that Naruto's smiling at his baby and touching his forehead with his finger.

"Sarada-chan, good morning," Naruto said while smiling at her. He was wearing a white t-shirt and orange jogger. Sarada couldn't help but to blush when she saw him.

"Naruto-san ...," She was bewildered. Then she saw a picture hanging on the wall. A picture or her wearing a white wedding kimono with him wearing his black wedding shiromoku beside her.

"I'll take care of our baby, so you can take care of our breakfast," He smiled. Sarada then cooked for him, a bowl of home-cooked freshly made pork ramen. The way he liked it.

After she was done cooking and serving in the table, he gave the baby to Sarada, he then kissed her forehead and said "i love you" to her.

While she was carrying her son, she wandered around the house and she found no one but her and Naruto, not even a picture of Boruto, Himawari and their mother.

"Naruto, did you throw away every single picture of Boruto, Himawari and Lady Hinata?" Sarada looked confused.

"I think it is best if it's only the two of us starting a life together with our son," Naruto replied while a smile in his face.

Just the two of us. With our son.

Sarada was ecstatic. It's just too wonderful for her.

"Your cooking is delicious, Sarada-chan," Naruto's smile made her blush. He stood up and kissed the girl's forehead once again. His bandaged hand was caressing her head and then he kissed his son's forehead too.

"Now, let's send our child to Sasuke and Sakura so we can work at the Hokage Office and you can prepare yourself to be the next Hokage," He added.

*

But, it was just a dream. Sarada woke up inside an all-white square shaped room. Her wrists and ankles were cuffed and she's lying on a bed. She knew exactly where she was. The underground dungeon where they put dangerous criminal inside. She never went there before but she heard stories about it. She felt fear crept inside her vein, she experienced goosebumps and her body hair stood up.

She was lying on the bed with both of her arms and her ankles being cuffed with steel cuffs. Sarada was trying to pull it but it was a futile resort. She couldn't move.

"Fuck!" She cried. A familiar man entered the room. He smelled like burnt cigarette, as he walked closer, Sarada could see that he was Shikamaru Nara, followed by few men wearing anbu grey uniform.

"Sarada,i can't believe that we need to come to this point," Shikamaru lit up his cigarette before and put it in his mouth.

"You know that he impregnated me!" Sarada yelled at Shikamaru. Shikamaru didn't immediately respond. He just walked closer, his dark eyes were staring into hers as he blew the smoke to her face. He pulled the lever of the bed/chair so it would transform into chair. Sarada's face was closer to Shikamaru's.

"But, you were the one initiating it ... Naruto never rapes you and you will tell the public that you were a fucking liar," Shikamaru was glaring to the young woman. But, Sarada didn't feel remorse at all. She glared back to Shikamaru with her blazing red orbs.

"Naruto might be a kind man with soft heart but let me tell you something, i am not and he had given me freedom to take care of you in any way i want," Shikamaru stood tall and blew another smoke.

"No! No! No! That's impossible! I am the mother of his child! He would never let anything bad happen to the mother of his child!" She couldn't believe what could happen to her next. She knew Naruto, she knew that he's a man with gentle heart, he would never hurt a woman, moreover her, the mother of his newborn.

"I'm leaving Sarada to both of you," Shikamaru said to the men wearing anbu masks. "Make her agree," he whispered to them.

When Shikamaru reached the door of the jail, he looked back and told her "Anyway, your child is safe, he's with Naruto right now." He then left the girl with two men inside the jail.

The anbu man started to pick a torture item, a long thin nail with sharp end. She knew what it was. A denailing device.

"No!no!no!" She cried. "Please don't!" Tears came out of her eyes. The steel was cold when it touched her skin, and when it went under the nail, blood came out and it felt excruciatingly painful. She was screaming inside the dungeon but no one could hear. They kept on pushing the steel till it broke her nail then they used a clip to pull the rest of the nail. Then, they did it again. Blood all over the sheet, teeth clenched and a young woman screaming in agony. She never expected herself to be put in such situation. She thought that her beloved Hokage was soft, a gentle persona. She miscalculated. She didn't want to expose herself to public as a liar, she would be branded as a liar her whole life, she would never have a future. She prefer dying instead of having no future. She was a hardworking kunoichi and it would go to waste if she exposed herself.

She screamed, she endured until she fainted. The Anbu men stopped when they saw her fainting. They huffed and then they walked out of the dungeon, leaving unconscious Sarada alone, strapped on the bed.

Note :

I'm sorry that it took me a while to update this fic(and yea i know the update is not that long as well) My life had been pretty hectic lately.

Thank you for the comments, especially the lengthy ones ;) please comment/review some more for they are the reason why i keep on updating this fic.