AN: Someone brought up a good question about Ino being mentally 12 and Sakura being mentally 20, but I've always thought of the characters as being in their late teens like 16-18. I hope that clears up any confusion you might have.
Sasuke was not happy at all. The moment that he had heard that their targets were ninjas, he had immediately rushed to their hotel, with Kakashi following close behind, only to find that Sakura had taken out her two attackers but that Naruto was nowhere to be found. "What happened?" he asked Sakura.
"I didn't know there was three of them until I felt Naruto be taken," Sakura explained. "At that point I thought it would be okay to take out these two since the other one has Naruto. I figured that they would be able to tell us where they took the girls."
"They better," Sasuke scowled. He couldn't feel Naruto's presence at all, which meant that there was a jutsu up to hide chakras, and he didn't like not knowing where Naruto was. Especially when he was in a dangerous situation like this.
Naruto woke slowly. He was on a bed, he noticed almost immediately, but it wasn't the only bed in the room. There were, in fact, several beds spread throughout the entirety of the large room and the all had girls on them. Most of them were talking amongst each other in hushed whispers, but Naruto could still hear exactly what they were saying. They were wondering what he was like and what they were going to happen to them all since so many girls were being taken.
"What's going on?" Naruto asked the girl closest to him.
"I don't know," the girl replied. "I haven't been here that long, but I don't think that these guys have done anything to any of us. They've been taking pretty good care of us, actually, but they won't let us leave this room for anything other than the bathroom and we have to ask for that."
"Ask who?" Naruto asked. The girl pointed at a camera situated in a corner and Naruto nodded. That made his job a bit more difficult, but he could work around it. "What's your name?" he asked.
"My name's Amateratsu," the girl replied.
"It's nice to meet you Amateratsu," Naruto said. "My name is Namiko."
"You're not acting all that scared right now," Amateratsu pointed out.
"I have no reason to be," Naruto leaned forward and whispered in her ear, "I've come here to save you all."
"But how?" her eyes widened.
"I have to find someone first," he replied.
"Who are you looking for?" she asked. "I might be able to help."
"A guy named Katsuro told me he was looking for his girlfriend," Naruto said as he recalled what Gobi had said his jinchuriki's name was.
"You saw Katsuro?" Amateratsu asked. "Is he okay?"
"So you're the one I'm looking for," Naruto smiled. "That was a lot easier than I was thinking it was going to be. Katsuro is fine, but I didn't really get to talk to him since Gobi was doing all the talking."
"You know about Gobi?" Amateratsu's eyes widened.
"Of course," Naruto nodded. "I'm Kyuubi."
"Isn't that like the king of the spirits?" Amateratsu asked.
"Something like that," Naruto shrugged. "I inherited the job when the last spirit gave up his life to save me."
"Oh, I'm sorry."
"Dinner time," someone called from outside as the heavy wooden door swung open. Naruto studied it intently. It was thicker than a normal door and would have been difficult for any normal man to open, but Naruto wouldn't have much problem with it. There was chakra infused with the door, though, and even though Naruto would be able to break through it either way he knew that it would alert their captors and he had a lot of girls in here to protect and no clue how many ninjas out there he would have to protect them from.
The door opened and carts were pushed in with plates that were promptly handed to each of the girls. Naruto was the last to receive his food, but the moment that it was given to him, the man from the restaurant grabbed his wrist and made him drop all the food. "Who the hell are you?"
"You're hurting me," Naruto whined as he futilely tried to force the other man's hand off of him.
"You're little lady-guard took out two of my team members," he hissed. "You hired ninjas didn't you?"
"I don't know," Naruto cried out as the grip tightened. "Sasuke hired them. I don't know."
"Damn it," he growled before turning to the rest of the men who were still in the room. "We're going to have to leave early."
"But we haven't gotten as many girls as he hired us to get," one of the others said.
"I don't care," he growled. "Start packing up before those other two idiots give away where we are." With that, he wrapped an arm around Naruto's waist and threw him over his shoulder.
"Put me down," Naruto demanded as he struggled to free himself from the other's grip.
"You're already enough trouble for me," the man hissed, "so if you don't settle down you'll regret it. I'm sure he won't be mad if we have one less girl. The same goes for the rest of you little bitches if you try to act up."
"Where are they?" Sasuke growled to one of the men who had just woken up. The other one was in a different room with Kakashi as his interrogator. Sasuke would have felt sorry for the other man if he wasn't so angry. Instead, he felt that the other man was lucky for not being his charge.
"You'll never find them in time," the man growled just in time to receive a punch from Sasuke.
"He's right Sasuke," Sakura pointed out. "They'll notice that we've captured two of their team and start packing to head out. We don't have much time to get to them before they disappear."
"Fine," Sasuke growled as he allowed his Mangekyou to cover his eyes. "Just know that you brought this upon yourself."
Sakura had to look away. None of them really enjoyed when Sasuke used the Mangekyou, including Sasuke, so they usually tried to use it only at the end of most need, but she couldn't really blame him for doing everything that he could to save the one he loved. Had their situations been switched and Ino been the one to be capture, she would have done the exact same thing.
"Let's go," Sasuke said a moment later as their prisoner screamed out before collapsing into unconsciousness.