Wow. Feel happy! I'm actually writing this after finishing chapter 2! Ahaha.. feel lucky. =p Even though I probably won't post it till tomorrow. If I'm not grounded that is...

Sadly, as much as I want, I never have and never will own Naruto.

Chatper 3

Sasuke pushed his wet hair out of his face as he ran to Kakashi's place. He would need the help of his sensei to actually beat this man and get to Naruto and Hinata in time. Once he'd reached where Kakashi was staying, he started to jump up the flight's of stairs to get to him. He landed infront of his door and began to pound onto it hardly.

"Kakashi-sensei! Kakashi-sensei, hurry up! It's an emergency! Damnit, open the goddamned--!"

The door opened to show the half-asleep Jounin. Once he'd heard the frantic pounds on his door, he had jumped out of bed and quickly got dressed--mask and all.

"Sasuke? What is it?" He asked while yawning.

"Naruto...! Hinata!" He paused to catch his breath. "Man in black!" Kakashi nodded and grabbed Sasuke to teleport to where Naruto and Hinata were.

Within a few seconds they were in the place from Sasuke's dream. They both began to walk around, eyes searching for any sign of anything. Kakashi sensed a strong chakra coming from one direction and not too long after, Naruto's familiar scream was heard.

"That way!" Sasuke yelled as he and Kakashi began to race in the direction.

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The man had Hinata pinned to the ground, his heavy body over hers to prevent her from using any of those Hyuga tricks and stuff. Most of her chakra had been used up, but not quite enough for him to have his way with her. The boy also caused a problem... but, that pathetic loser was knocked out cold and could not interfere.

"Get off of me!" Hinata screamed as she struggled to get her legs out from under his heavy legs.

"Hehe..." Was all he said as he lowered his head to her face, wanting to remember the way her expression was in this moment of fear.

"Hinata!" A voice from the trees yelled. Naruto had managed to pull himself together and snuck up upon the enemy. He landed ontop of the man, being able to knock him away from Hinata.

"Hinata, go!"

"Naruto..."

"Go now! He's trying to hurt you, damnit, I won't let him!"

"Naruto!" Sasuke's familiar voice was heard. Naruto blinked and turned his attention to see two figures rushing to them.

"Opening!" The man screamed as he grabbed a kunai and plunged it into Naruto's stomach, blood immediately beginning to fall like a waterfall.

Naruto's eyes were wide-open as he felt the force of the kunai going inside of him. Hinata screamed as Kakashi and Sasuke stopped dead in their tracks. Sasuke's horror-filled eyes could only watch in slow-mo as the man pulled the kunai out of the spikey-haired boy. Naruto dropped to his knees, but Kakashi quickly teleported to him and caught him in his arms before he could hit the ground.

"Uchiha Sasuke. I wasn't expecting you to come into my plan now..." He said and jumped by the girl.

"No!" She screamed as she tried to struggle away from his grasp, but he held her firmly.

"We shall meet again." He said and then vanished with Hinata.

Kakashi was motionless as he held his hand over Naruto's bleeding wound. Sasuke was stunned and shocked. //Why didn't I attack him, damnit?! Why didn't I at least try to protect Hinata?! Goddamnit!// He mentally cursed at himself while clentching his hands into fists and closing his eyes. Naruto's soft groans of pain snapped him out of his trance. He ran to the two and kneeled down by them, looking into the darkness at Naruto's bloody head.

"Hi...na...ta..." Was all Naruto could say before he started to cough up blood from his internal injuries and then passing out. Kakashi's grip tightened around the boy as he used one hand to push his blonde bangs out of his eyes.

"We need to get him to the hospital." Kakashi spoke as he then placed that same hand on Sasuke's shoulder, teleporting them to the hospital.

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Hinata cried softly as she felt the pain from the chains tearing into her flesh as she struggled to be freed. Hours had passed since the attack, and she had been raped not once, but three times by this sick bastard. She felt as though she'd be split in two if this carried on anymore. The chains were also around her feet, but there was no need for that considering that he'd broken her legs the moment they came and any movement she caused made the pain travel throughout her body.

He appeared infront of her, not wearing his hood or clothing at all. He smirked as he stared down at her surprised expression.

"Y-you're...!"

"Shhh..." He said, placing his fingers over his lips. He then pulled out an object made out of the hardest wood in the Earth Country and began to walk to her.

Hinata's tears could only flow down her already swollen cheeks from his blows. He really -was- going to kill her. She knew he'd never let her live now that she saw who he was...

"Please... I'm begging you... don't..." Despite her injuries, she still continued to struggle against the chains. God, how many broken bones -did- she have? //My ribs... my legs... god, the pain won't stop... but I have to get free...// An image of Naruto's smiling face entered her mind. //Naruto-kun...// She -had- to live for him. With her new-found inner strength, she began to pull onto her chains, ignoring the pain she felt in her body.

"What a shame... putting up such a strong fight--huh!?" His expression grew as he saw that she was -actually breaking the chains some. He had to act -now-. With one quick slash, he brought the object down quickly, slamming into her head. In that instant, Hinata felt the pain leave her body, and she became even weaker. She lay there, staring into the familiar eyes of her attacker, then suddenly seeing only darkness.

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Naruto lay unconcious in the hospital bed with Sasuke, Kakashi, and Sakura around him. Sakura's eyes were filled with tears at seeing her friend being so badly injured like this. And over the fact that Hinata was gone. She felt so sorry for the poor girl having to go through the same stuff Tenten did...

Sasuke just mentally cursed himself over and over. How could he have been so stupid?! Why the hell didn't he move and help Hinata?! Damn, because of him... she's... God, that innocent girl having to be a part of that perverted bastard's plans... //Damn, this just pisses me OFF! If I had only had the dream sooner... gah!// With that he turned and started to walk outside.

"Sasuke-kun..." Sakura spoke softly as she watched his back leaving the room.

"Sakura, go after him. I'll stay with Naruto..." Kakashi turned his attention to his stupid, placing his hand on his forehead again. Sakura nodded and ran after Sasuke, shutting the door behind her.

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"Sasuke-kun! Wait!" Sakura called as she ran to the boy. Sasuke stopped and turned around to face her.

"Sakura..." He spoke as he saw that her eyes were still full of tears as she tried to catch her breath. She cleared her throat and they slowly walked to each other. Sasuke's eyes were staring at her and she looked back at him.

"You blame me, don't you?"

"Blame you? For what, Sasuke-kun...?"

"For not getting there time. For not... saving Hinata and finding out who that guy was..." He sighed as he looked down.

"Getting there in time?"

"I... had a dream... about it happening. I thought it was only a dream... but... I remember... I had one about Tenten that night it happened to her... but I ignored it and..." He sighed. "God... I can't stand dobe sometimes, but he -is- a friend, and friends protect each other. And Hinata... that poor girl. Naruto did all he could to protect her..."

Sakura smiled some and looked down as she spoke. "I wish someone would protect me like that. Even though I doubt anyone would go after me..."

Sasuke took a step forward and placed his hands on her shoulders to bring her closer to him. He used one of his hands to gently touch Sakura's chin and bring it up to look at him.

"I'll protect you."

"Only because you have to."

"That's one reason... the other reason is I couldn't bare the thought of you suffering the way Tenten and Hinata probably is right now. I... care for you, Sakura. A lot." A soft smile finally came across his lips as he stared down at the pink-haired girl.

Sakura's cheeks were blood-red. Had Sasuke actually said that to her? That he cared about her? She placed a hand onto his chest, feeling his heart racing under her touch as Sasuke began to wrap his arms around her more.

"Do you care for me... as I care for you?" She spoke, her lips only being about two inches away from his face now.

"Aa..." He said softly as they each closed their eyes. Sasuke leaned down and placed a soft, slow kiss onto Sakura's lips. He didn't want to go into anything too fast, so after a few seconds he pulled away and hugged the girl to him, kissing her on the side of her head, continuing to whisper "I will protect you" in her ear.

"Let's go back. Dobe will want to see us when he wakes up."

Sakura laughed and nodded. They turned back to walk inside when Sasuke wrapped his arm around her and held her close as they walked. Sakura knew that she couldn't ask for nothing else in her life... except Naruto's recovery and Hinata's well-being.

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Two days passed and Naruto was still unconcious. Sakura and Sasuke had gone to their homes to rest, but would spend the day with Kakashi in the hospital. The Jounin never once left his student's side. Inside, he blamed himself for not checking on Hinata or Naruto when Kurenai had asked him the last time he saw Hinata. All Kakashi did was give her his trade-mark smile behind his mask and told her not to worry, that Naruto would protect her... part of his prediction came true. Had -tried- to protect her the best he could... and that's all that mattered.

A small groan of pain caused everyone's attention to turn to Naruto.

He lay there, barely being able to move. His eyes were half-way open, and he turned his head slowly to see everyone.

"Sa...kura... Sasuke...Kaka...shi-sen...sei..." He smiled some.

Sakura stepped up to him and smiled softly. She kissed his forehead in a friendly matter, and stepped back.

"Glad to see you're awake now." She said.

"Mm." Was all he could say. Suddenly his eyes flew open widely and he sat up in bed, not caring about his injuries.

"Hinata! Where's Hinata?! Ugh!" He fell back, holding onto his stomach as he winced and moaned in agony.

Sakura sighed and looked down. Suddenly, there was a knock at the door. Kurenai, Shino, and Kiba stepped inside. Shino had his glasses on, but everyone could tell that his eyebrows were narrowed in a -very- pissed off sort of way. Both Kiba and Akamaru sat on his head, growling lowly.

"Kurenai? Why're you here?"

"Kakashi, I have some... information..." She turned her gaze to Naruto as she spoke. "Good to see you're awake... because I'm glad I get to tell all of you this instead of having to just wait..."

"Kurenai-sensei..." Naruto spoke weakly. "Where's Hinata...?"

Kurenai flinched as she could hear the pain in the boy's voice. Not pain from his injuries, but pain from not being able to protect Hinata...

"We found... Hinata..."

Sakura's hand slowly made it's way to Sasuke's holding onto his tightly. He gave her hand a comforting squeeze and prepared himself. Naruto's eyes were widened, tears already rising up into them.

"Well...?" Kakashi spoke to break the silence.

"...She's in a deep -deep- coma. They don't even know if she'll live."

The sound of a glass shattering caused everyone to look at Naruto. Tears were falling down his face and blood covered his fist from where he punched the glass vase that one of the nurses put in there, having millions of pieces there.

"Naruto..." Kakashi said quietly.

Naruto released a scream of emotional agony and started to go insane.

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Boom. Chapter 3. .; I hope you all like it. I wanted to make Hinata die... but... that'd just be -too- painful. ;.; Poor Naruto-kun having to suffer... anyways, I'll -try- my best to update with chapter 4 tomorrow. But, I may be grounded. *Dies* If so.. you must wait for an update until Friday.. thanks again for the lovely reviews!