Chapter3-going in
"Sakura!?" Sasuke frantically called her name, but there was no answer. He ran out into the empty hallway.
"No. . ." he said slumping down to his knees. An image of the death of his family appeared in his head again, blood everywhere, everyone dead, and him, just a kid, sitting there unable to do anything. He felt an enormous pain; he couldn't stand it, losing the most important person to him just because of the name "Uchiha." It took him a while to recover, but when he finally did he realized he had to do something, and quick.
He ran out the door without much thought. Kakashi was his first attention, he was a Jounin ninja; he'd obviously know what to do! He ran through the dark streets of the Konoha village. It was two o'clock in the morning; there was not a soul in the street. He ran past the closed shops with darkened windows, sweat trickled down his face as he ran as fast as he could. The teacher's house was on the other side of town, it was quite a long distance; he'd have to be quick. He started to scream out the name of his teacher the minute the red Japanese-style roof of Kakashi's house came into view. He ran past the gate of his house and immediately started pounding on the door. "Kakashi!!! Kakashi get up it's an emergency!!!"
"What is it?" he heard a faint voice from inside the house. The door creaked open and Kakashi appeared, wearing a mask regardless of the fact that he had just been sleeping. "Oh, Sasuke," then suddenly he made a serious expression. "Is something wrong."
"I, it's Sakura," Sasuke said in a quivering voice. "S, someone's kidnapped her. . ."
"What?" exclaimed Kakashi. "This isn't right, that wasn't what Orochimaru was after," Sasuke could hear him mutter.
"What? What does that mean?" Sasuke stammered. "You knew the reason was in the village?"
Kakashi paused before he finally said as though giving in, "there was talk that he was after one of the forbidden scrolls, even I wasn't told which one, but it apparently was the most banned one of them all. That's why at a meeting of Jounin and Anbu it was announced that we were to put all effort into guarding the scroll, if it fell in the hands of Orochimaru that would apparently mean the death of us all."
Sasuke's fist started to shake, "so your just saying it was a big mistake? That Orochimaru was after me, my friends rather, the whole entire time!?"
"Whoa, calm down Sasuke. . ."
"How can I calm down!? He nearly killed Naruto, do you think he would hesitate in killing Sakura? Who knows what he's doing to her now, he could be doing one of his strange experiments on her or. . ."
"Sasuke!" screamed Kakashi holding Sasuke still. "Calm down, if Orochimaru kidnapped Sakura because he was after you, then there's no chance he would have killed her."
Looking as though Sasuke had finally gotten a grip of himself he calmed down. "He didn't?" he asked his teacher hopefully.
"The whole reason he kidnapped her would have been to lure you into a trap. He probably has some kind of thought that if he killed her in front of you you'd use the power from that curse to get revenge. Meaning, that doing this is worthless if you don't walk into his trap."
"Ok. . ." said Sasuke, "so what are we going to do?"
"YOU are going to wait here."
"What!?"
"If you aren't there when he murders her than there would be no use in doing so. So the chances of being able to bring her back all in one piece are much higher if you aren't with us. I have an idea about where his hide-out is, I'm gonna go with a couple of Anbu, but you are forbidden to come."
"Kakashi. . ."
"Isn't Sakura's safety the first to consider?"
". . .It's my fault that he took her. After my family was killed revenge was all I could think of, all I could see was darkness. Sakura seemed to change that, when she smiled for some reason I'd forget about all of it. She's the only thing that's held me together. It's my fault that this happened, I have to take responsibility for this, please."
Kakashi sighed, "I guess there's no way to stop you. But this is serious, one mistake and it'll mean the death of her you know."
"I understand."
"Ok. I'm gonna have to contact some top class Jounin and Anbu to accompany me. We're leaving in an hour."
Sasuke waited on Kakashi's living room couch while the contacts were made. Minutes can seem like hours when you're impatient, and to Sasuke this hour seemed like days. He had to look at the clock every 30 seconds to check and see whether an hour had passed yet. When Kakashi finally came into his living room announcing that they were leaving it had already seemed like it was 5 days ago that he had noticed the disappearance of Sakura.
The teacher and student rushed towards the bridge where the Anbu were supposedly waiting. Three Anbu with their strange animal-like masks and the rest clad in black were waiting on the bridge. The first remark they said when the Jounin had arrived was, "you brought the kid?"
"He insisted, this is quite a major mission, we'll need the most help we can get," Kakashi replied.
"Well he better not cause any trouble," another Anbu said.
Sasuke clenched his teeth but said nothing; he just wanted to get to the scene, fast. The five of them ran through the village, it didn't seem like any of them had any intentions of leaving the village, so Sasuke was starting to get curious as to where Orochimaru's so-called "hideout" was. When finally the four elder ninjas stopped they were in front of a small building that looked as though it had been destroyed by a fire and left that way for decades.
"This is it," said Kakashi, "we're going in."
At his cue they moved in, it was dark inside. They had to use torches to see where they were going. It was four o'clock in the morning; the sun wasn't going to come up for another two hours. The three walked slowly and quietly, suddenly Kakashi screamed, "Everyone move!"
Just when everyone jumped away a couple of spears dropped from the roof sticking sharply into the ground. "Looks like there are a few traps here and there," said one Anbu.
"Ah ha, a trap door," said Kakashi lifting a floorboard.
"Isn't it a little too obvious to put a trap door right next to a booby trap?" asked Sasuke.
"Trickery is a ninja skill Sasuke," Kakashi smiled, "That's what he wants us to think."
They jumped down to find a metal door right in front of them. Kakashi kicked it open without much hesitance (telling the others to get to the side of the door just in case). Sasuke and Kakashi walked into the room, followed by the others. There was a strange stench, Sasuke recognized it, it was the smell of. . . rotting human bodies. Suddenly the lights flicked on and the five saw that they were in a room with blood smeared all over the walls. Suddenly four ninja's jumped from the ceiling, all in black traditional ninja costume, but instead of going after Sasuke, obviously the weakest, they went after Kakashi and the Anbu.
"Sasuke don't move!" screamed Kakashi, trying to fight off the ninja that had attacked him but not being successful. "Their aim is to get you alone."
Sasuke clenched his fist, and it was when he reached to get his Kunai and help his teacher that he heard the quivering voice: "S, sensei. . .?"
Sasuke lost grip of his Kunai, it fell to the ground with a loud clang. The voice was faint but he could have sworn that he heard it. He searched the room and found that there was still another door; a wooden one that looked like it could easily be broken open. Sasuke darted towards the door, he could hear his teacher screaming for him to stop. Sasuke kicked it open.
The room on the other side of the door was empty, other that one figure in the middle of the room. A girl with her arms chained to the walls
It was Sakura.
-To Be Continued-
Haha, sorry to leave you guy's with all these cliff hangers,
I'm hoping to have it finished soon, but Ne way Plz REVIEW!
-Jonko
"Sakura!?" Sasuke frantically called her name, but there was no answer. He ran out into the empty hallway.
"No. . ." he said slumping down to his knees. An image of the death of his family appeared in his head again, blood everywhere, everyone dead, and him, just a kid, sitting there unable to do anything. He felt an enormous pain; he couldn't stand it, losing the most important person to him just because of the name "Uchiha." It took him a while to recover, but when he finally did he realized he had to do something, and quick.
He ran out the door without much thought. Kakashi was his first attention, he was a Jounin ninja; he'd obviously know what to do! He ran through the dark streets of the Konoha village. It was two o'clock in the morning; there was not a soul in the street. He ran past the closed shops with darkened windows, sweat trickled down his face as he ran as fast as he could. The teacher's house was on the other side of town, it was quite a long distance; he'd have to be quick. He started to scream out the name of his teacher the minute the red Japanese-style roof of Kakashi's house came into view. He ran past the gate of his house and immediately started pounding on the door. "Kakashi!!! Kakashi get up it's an emergency!!!"
"What is it?" he heard a faint voice from inside the house. The door creaked open and Kakashi appeared, wearing a mask regardless of the fact that he had just been sleeping. "Oh, Sasuke," then suddenly he made a serious expression. "Is something wrong."
"I, it's Sakura," Sasuke said in a quivering voice. "S, someone's kidnapped her. . ."
"What?" exclaimed Kakashi. "This isn't right, that wasn't what Orochimaru was after," Sasuke could hear him mutter.
"What? What does that mean?" Sasuke stammered. "You knew the reason was in the village?"
Kakashi paused before he finally said as though giving in, "there was talk that he was after one of the forbidden scrolls, even I wasn't told which one, but it apparently was the most banned one of them all. That's why at a meeting of Jounin and Anbu it was announced that we were to put all effort into guarding the scroll, if it fell in the hands of Orochimaru that would apparently mean the death of us all."
Sasuke's fist started to shake, "so your just saying it was a big mistake? That Orochimaru was after me, my friends rather, the whole entire time!?"
"Whoa, calm down Sasuke. . ."
"How can I calm down!? He nearly killed Naruto, do you think he would hesitate in killing Sakura? Who knows what he's doing to her now, he could be doing one of his strange experiments on her or. . ."
"Sasuke!" screamed Kakashi holding Sasuke still. "Calm down, if Orochimaru kidnapped Sakura because he was after you, then there's no chance he would have killed her."
Looking as though Sasuke had finally gotten a grip of himself he calmed down. "He didn't?" he asked his teacher hopefully.
"The whole reason he kidnapped her would have been to lure you into a trap. He probably has some kind of thought that if he killed her in front of you you'd use the power from that curse to get revenge. Meaning, that doing this is worthless if you don't walk into his trap."
"Ok. . ." said Sasuke, "so what are we going to do?"
"YOU are going to wait here."
"What!?"
"If you aren't there when he murders her than there would be no use in doing so. So the chances of being able to bring her back all in one piece are much higher if you aren't with us. I have an idea about where his hide-out is, I'm gonna go with a couple of Anbu, but you are forbidden to come."
"Kakashi. . ."
"Isn't Sakura's safety the first to consider?"
". . .It's my fault that he took her. After my family was killed revenge was all I could think of, all I could see was darkness. Sakura seemed to change that, when she smiled for some reason I'd forget about all of it. She's the only thing that's held me together. It's my fault that this happened, I have to take responsibility for this, please."
Kakashi sighed, "I guess there's no way to stop you. But this is serious, one mistake and it'll mean the death of her you know."
"I understand."
"Ok. I'm gonna have to contact some top class Jounin and Anbu to accompany me. We're leaving in an hour."
Sasuke waited on Kakashi's living room couch while the contacts were made. Minutes can seem like hours when you're impatient, and to Sasuke this hour seemed like days. He had to look at the clock every 30 seconds to check and see whether an hour had passed yet. When Kakashi finally came into his living room announcing that they were leaving it had already seemed like it was 5 days ago that he had noticed the disappearance of Sakura.
The teacher and student rushed towards the bridge where the Anbu were supposedly waiting. Three Anbu with their strange animal-like masks and the rest clad in black were waiting on the bridge. The first remark they said when the Jounin had arrived was, "you brought the kid?"
"He insisted, this is quite a major mission, we'll need the most help we can get," Kakashi replied.
"Well he better not cause any trouble," another Anbu said.
Sasuke clenched his teeth but said nothing; he just wanted to get to the scene, fast. The five of them ran through the village, it didn't seem like any of them had any intentions of leaving the village, so Sasuke was starting to get curious as to where Orochimaru's so-called "hideout" was. When finally the four elder ninjas stopped they were in front of a small building that looked as though it had been destroyed by a fire and left that way for decades.
"This is it," said Kakashi, "we're going in."
At his cue they moved in, it was dark inside. They had to use torches to see where they were going. It was four o'clock in the morning; the sun wasn't going to come up for another two hours. The three walked slowly and quietly, suddenly Kakashi screamed, "Everyone move!"
Just when everyone jumped away a couple of spears dropped from the roof sticking sharply into the ground. "Looks like there are a few traps here and there," said one Anbu.
"Ah ha, a trap door," said Kakashi lifting a floorboard.
"Isn't it a little too obvious to put a trap door right next to a booby trap?" asked Sasuke.
"Trickery is a ninja skill Sasuke," Kakashi smiled, "That's what he wants us to think."
They jumped down to find a metal door right in front of them. Kakashi kicked it open without much hesitance (telling the others to get to the side of the door just in case). Sasuke and Kakashi walked into the room, followed by the others. There was a strange stench, Sasuke recognized it, it was the smell of. . . rotting human bodies. Suddenly the lights flicked on and the five saw that they were in a room with blood smeared all over the walls. Suddenly four ninja's jumped from the ceiling, all in black traditional ninja costume, but instead of going after Sasuke, obviously the weakest, they went after Kakashi and the Anbu.
"Sasuke don't move!" screamed Kakashi, trying to fight off the ninja that had attacked him but not being successful. "Their aim is to get you alone."
Sasuke clenched his fist, and it was when he reached to get his Kunai and help his teacher that he heard the quivering voice: "S, sensei. . .?"
Sasuke lost grip of his Kunai, it fell to the ground with a loud clang. The voice was faint but he could have sworn that he heard it. He searched the room and found that there was still another door; a wooden one that looked like it could easily be broken open. Sasuke darted towards the door, he could hear his teacher screaming for him to stop. Sasuke kicked it open.
The room on the other side of the door was empty, other that one figure in the middle of the room. A girl with her arms chained to the walls
It was Sakura.
-To Be Continued-
Haha, sorry to leave you guy's with all these cliff hangers,
I'm hoping to have it finished soon, but Ne way Plz REVIEW!
-Jonko