A/N: you have no idea how pleased I was to see this many reviews in the
first two days alone for this story, and just for the First chapter!! I was
crying tears of joy!! And many thanks to jane and gyhardin, for noticing
that little mistake I made and please report back to me any typos or
misusage of words, because im bad at that myself ^^, and I hope you all
like the second chapter!!
Disclaimer: (forgot it in first chapter ^^, oops) do I look like I own Naruto?? Would I be writing this crap if I did??
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Sasuke flew through the forest, with only one thing in mind, 'Sakura!'.
His heart pounded painfully hard in his chest, half for fear and half for anger. Fear that he might be too late to save her and anger for the enemy that took her. Without any consent from his sensei he ran faster into the direction of the scream.
****
Kakashi and Naruto tried desperately to catch up with Sasuke, but failed in their attempt. Kakashi's eye crinkled in concern for his female student's welfare. Sakura had always been the weakest one in the group, so he worried about her more than Sasuke and Naruto. Even though she had grown tremendously during the Chuunin exams not only in strength but in mind as well, she still had a long way to go, and he was sure that she wouldn't get away with just a few scrapes and bruises in a situation like this.
It didn't take long for the boys to find the little cabin in the middle of the forest in which the scream erupted from. Kakashi had to grab the collar of Sasuke's shirt to keep him form running straight into a suspected trap.
"You know better than that, let me check it out first" Kakashi whispered.
Sasuke huffed and shrugged off Kakashi's hand. Kakashi walked slowly around the cabin, he found it odd and slightly unnerving that it was made of concrete and had no windows. Although it had no windows, it did have a door which was slightly ajar, giving an obvious sign that the cabin was deserted, or was it? He signaled for the boys to follow him as he slowly creaked the door open and glanced inside.
It was a cold, blank concrete room, and no one was in it. The only thing occupying it was a metal pole with a body attached to it.
...A body...wearing a red dress...with pink hair...
"Sakura!" Naruto yelled, darting into the room.
Sasuke was soon to follow, then Kakashi. She looked like a zombie. Chains around the metal pole, giving the assumption that she had been tortured, bound her hands. Her eyes were glazed over and sunken in, staring out at nothing and her skin seemed so pale it could've been transparent. Her mouth hung slightly open, making her look like she was in shock and her body was hunched over as if she were exhausted.
Kakashi grabbed her wrist and put his hand above her mouth and sighed in relief.
"She has a pulse and she's still breathing..."
Naruto grabbed her shoulders.
"Sakuraaa..." he called softly, she didn't respond "Sakura, its us, your friends, we're here..." he called again.
She still didn't respond, it was hard to tell if she was conscious or not, even with her eyes open. Sasuke crawled around her body to where her hands were bound. It took him some time, but with some help from Kakashi, he was able to loosen the chains enough to pull her hands out of them.
Then suddenly her body came to life the minute her hands were free. She shot forward and plunged her hands into Naruto's backpack and pulled out the Demon Wind Shurikan (It would be better if I knew the Japanese name, I think its Shurikan Kaze Yokai, but I cant be sure ^^) and charged forward. Kakashi was the first to react and ran after her. Sasuke cursed and grabbed Naruto by the collar and ran after them.
****
Yumi walked in front of the group of Ninja, Tohru right behind her.
"Yumi-sama...was that wise?"
"What?"
"Well...leaving her there, and after you--"
"It's fine, if my assumption is correct, we'll be seeing her again very soon"
"What do you mean? Who is that girl?"
"...a...very special girl"
"How so Yumi-sama?"
"You will see"
Tohru sighed in exasperation, obviously she wasn't going to get the answers she wanted. She shoved her hands in her pockets and continued down the trail.
****
Sasuke's mind was racing, one minute Sakura looked as is she'd been beaten to the point of physiological damage, the next second she was as lively as ever and running as fast as she could away from them. They had done something to her, he didn't know what, but they did something, that was for sure. He had never seen Sakura act as fast as she had acted just then and he wanted to find out why...
****
Kakashi was having quite a lot of trouble, to his great surprise, catching up with his student. She had been out of his site now for a total of three straight minutes, and when he could see her, it was only a flash of her pink hair or red dress for half a second every now and then. This, to say the least, was very frustrating, 'Since when is Sakura this fast? Sasuke isn't even this fast!' he thought. He continued to ponder this as he kept up his chase after his student.
****
Tohru's head shot up.
"...something is coming Yumi-sama...something very powerful"
"...I told you we'd see her soon"
As soon as the words left her lips, screams erupted from the back of the group.
****
Naruto and Sasuke finally managed to catch up with Kakashi. He was standing stock still, his one visible eye wide open in shock.
"Something's wrong" he mumbled.
"Yea there is, they must've given her some kind of drug--"
"No, that's not it, this is something different"
"What then?"
"...I hear screams..."
"Sakura?!"
"No, these screams are by more than one person, come on!" Kakashi said and started off again, with Sasuke and Naruto right behind him.
As they got closer they could hear the screams, but they were by less people then at first. Soon after there weren't any screams at all, only the silence of the forest.
"...Sasuke, I smell blood..." Naruto murmured.
"Blood?"
"So do I" Kakashi said.
Just as soon as he said this, they reached the area where they heard the screams. Sasuke's eyes widened in horror. Bodies were scattered all over, not to mention the blood splattered everywhere. Limbs that had been ripped from some bodies were scattered all around, one body was even hanging from a tree branch by a rope. They had been massacred, brutally massacred.
"Stay here" Kakashi told the boys.
He walked through the bloody graveyard with caution. 'Where are you Sakura?' he thought, darting his one visible eye around rapidly. As he ventured deeper into the bloody mess he began hearing something, it sounded like ragged breathing. It was then that he spotted her. She was nearly drenched in blood. She was crouching next to a headless body clutching her chest. It sounded like it pained her to breath. He began walking towards her.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you"
Kakashi jumped, reaching for his kunai in defense.
"Who are you?" he demanded.
A woman stepped out from behind a tree next to the headless body. 'How did I not sense her?'
"Who are you?" he asked again.
"If you so much as touch her right now, she might rip your arm off" she smirked.
"Who are you?" he asked again.
"Tohru, you don't need to know my last name"
"What did you do to my student?"
"I, did nothing, you should be asking that question to my employer"
"I'm going to ask again, what did you do to my student?"
He glared at the woman, who just shot the glare right back at him.
"...well, if you must know, we gave her a glimpse of something she shouldn't see"
"What?"
"Now that I cant tell you, its none of your business anyway"
"...why did she react to it in such a way...?"
"Once again, cant tell you that"
"Either you tell me or I force it--"
"Urusai!!"
Both Kakashi and Tohru looked down at the pink haired onnako rasping on the ground.
"...urusai bastards, how am I suppose to control this bitch with you two assholes arguing?!" she hissed.
Suddenly she let out an ear-shattering scream, clutching her chest harder. She keeled over, scratching furiously at the ground. Then she stopped, and just lay there, Kakashi tried walking up to the fallen girl once again, but suddenly her head shot up. Her eyes were big and round, like deer eyes caught in headlights, a very surprised look. She whipped her head around, gathering in her surroundings. Her body was wracked with sobs.
"Oh god...oh god please..." she whispered over and over.
"Looks like the bitch is back to normal" Tohru hissed and disappeared within a cloud of smoke.
Kakashi slowly approached his weeping student.
"...Sakura...?"
"Kakashi-sensei!!!" he heard Naruto scream.
Both Naruto and Sasuke burst into the scene.
"Kakashi-sensei, wha--" Naruto cut off his sentence when he saw Sakura.
"Sakura!" Sasuke yelled, running up to her.
"S-stay away!!" she yelled.
They all starred at her as she began crawling towards Kakashi.
"Keep them away!" she yelled, grabbing Kakashi's arm. "I might, I might..." she wrapped her arms around Kakashi's arm and fainted.
Kakashi picked her up and walking over to the boys.
"We should be heading back, we found Sakura..." he mumbled
"...what...?" Naruto began.
"She's afraid of us..." Sasuke growled.
"Or, she's afraid of herself" They both looked at their sensei in confusion.
"What does that mean?" Sasuke asked.
"...I have things to discuss with Hokage-sama, lets hurry back"
The two boys stole a quick glance at one another and silently followed their sensei's instructions.
Disclaimer: (forgot it in first chapter ^^, oops) do I look like I own Naruto?? Would I be writing this crap if I did??
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Sasuke flew through the forest, with only one thing in mind, 'Sakura!'.
His heart pounded painfully hard in his chest, half for fear and half for anger. Fear that he might be too late to save her and anger for the enemy that took her. Without any consent from his sensei he ran faster into the direction of the scream.
****
Kakashi and Naruto tried desperately to catch up with Sasuke, but failed in their attempt. Kakashi's eye crinkled in concern for his female student's welfare. Sakura had always been the weakest one in the group, so he worried about her more than Sasuke and Naruto. Even though she had grown tremendously during the Chuunin exams not only in strength but in mind as well, she still had a long way to go, and he was sure that she wouldn't get away with just a few scrapes and bruises in a situation like this.
It didn't take long for the boys to find the little cabin in the middle of the forest in which the scream erupted from. Kakashi had to grab the collar of Sasuke's shirt to keep him form running straight into a suspected trap.
"You know better than that, let me check it out first" Kakashi whispered.
Sasuke huffed and shrugged off Kakashi's hand. Kakashi walked slowly around the cabin, he found it odd and slightly unnerving that it was made of concrete and had no windows. Although it had no windows, it did have a door which was slightly ajar, giving an obvious sign that the cabin was deserted, or was it? He signaled for the boys to follow him as he slowly creaked the door open and glanced inside.
It was a cold, blank concrete room, and no one was in it. The only thing occupying it was a metal pole with a body attached to it.
...A body...wearing a red dress...with pink hair...
"Sakura!" Naruto yelled, darting into the room.
Sasuke was soon to follow, then Kakashi. She looked like a zombie. Chains around the metal pole, giving the assumption that she had been tortured, bound her hands. Her eyes were glazed over and sunken in, staring out at nothing and her skin seemed so pale it could've been transparent. Her mouth hung slightly open, making her look like she was in shock and her body was hunched over as if she were exhausted.
Kakashi grabbed her wrist and put his hand above her mouth and sighed in relief.
"She has a pulse and she's still breathing..."
Naruto grabbed her shoulders.
"Sakuraaa..." he called softly, she didn't respond "Sakura, its us, your friends, we're here..." he called again.
She still didn't respond, it was hard to tell if she was conscious or not, even with her eyes open. Sasuke crawled around her body to where her hands were bound. It took him some time, but with some help from Kakashi, he was able to loosen the chains enough to pull her hands out of them.
Then suddenly her body came to life the minute her hands were free. She shot forward and plunged her hands into Naruto's backpack and pulled out the Demon Wind Shurikan (It would be better if I knew the Japanese name, I think its Shurikan Kaze Yokai, but I cant be sure ^^) and charged forward. Kakashi was the first to react and ran after her. Sasuke cursed and grabbed Naruto by the collar and ran after them.
****
Yumi walked in front of the group of Ninja, Tohru right behind her.
"Yumi-sama...was that wise?"
"What?"
"Well...leaving her there, and after you--"
"It's fine, if my assumption is correct, we'll be seeing her again very soon"
"What do you mean? Who is that girl?"
"...a...very special girl"
"How so Yumi-sama?"
"You will see"
Tohru sighed in exasperation, obviously she wasn't going to get the answers she wanted. She shoved her hands in her pockets and continued down the trail.
****
Sasuke's mind was racing, one minute Sakura looked as is she'd been beaten to the point of physiological damage, the next second she was as lively as ever and running as fast as she could away from them. They had done something to her, he didn't know what, but they did something, that was for sure. He had never seen Sakura act as fast as she had acted just then and he wanted to find out why...
****
Kakashi was having quite a lot of trouble, to his great surprise, catching up with his student. She had been out of his site now for a total of three straight minutes, and when he could see her, it was only a flash of her pink hair or red dress for half a second every now and then. This, to say the least, was very frustrating, 'Since when is Sakura this fast? Sasuke isn't even this fast!' he thought. He continued to ponder this as he kept up his chase after his student.
****
Tohru's head shot up.
"...something is coming Yumi-sama...something very powerful"
"...I told you we'd see her soon"
As soon as the words left her lips, screams erupted from the back of the group.
****
Naruto and Sasuke finally managed to catch up with Kakashi. He was standing stock still, his one visible eye wide open in shock.
"Something's wrong" he mumbled.
"Yea there is, they must've given her some kind of drug--"
"No, that's not it, this is something different"
"What then?"
"...I hear screams..."
"Sakura?!"
"No, these screams are by more than one person, come on!" Kakashi said and started off again, with Sasuke and Naruto right behind him.
As they got closer they could hear the screams, but they were by less people then at first. Soon after there weren't any screams at all, only the silence of the forest.
"...Sasuke, I smell blood..." Naruto murmured.
"Blood?"
"So do I" Kakashi said.
Just as soon as he said this, they reached the area where they heard the screams. Sasuke's eyes widened in horror. Bodies were scattered all over, not to mention the blood splattered everywhere. Limbs that had been ripped from some bodies were scattered all around, one body was even hanging from a tree branch by a rope. They had been massacred, brutally massacred.
"Stay here" Kakashi told the boys.
He walked through the bloody graveyard with caution. 'Where are you Sakura?' he thought, darting his one visible eye around rapidly. As he ventured deeper into the bloody mess he began hearing something, it sounded like ragged breathing. It was then that he spotted her. She was nearly drenched in blood. She was crouching next to a headless body clutching her chest. It sounded like it pained her to breath. He began walking towards her.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you"
Kakashi jumped, reaching for his kunai in defense.
"Who are you?" he demanded.
A woman stepped out from behind a tree next to the headless body. 'How did I not sense her?'
"Who are you?" he asked again.
"If you so much as touch her right now, she might rip your arm off" she smirked.
"Who are you?" he asked again.
"Tohru, you don't need to know my last name"
"What did you do to my student?"
"I, did nothing, you should be asking that question to my employer"
"I'm going to ask again, what did you do to my student?"
He glared at the woman, who just shot the glare right back at him.
"...well, if you must know, we gave her a glimpse of something she shouldn't see"
"What?"
"Now that I cant tell you, its none of your business anyway"
"...why did she react to it in such a way...?"
"Once again, cant tell you that"
"Either you tell me or I force it--"
"Urusai!!"
Both Kakashi and Tohru looked down at the pink haired onnako rasping on the ground.
"...urusai bastards, how am I suppose to control this bitch with you two assholes arguing?!" she hissed.
Suddenly she let out an ear-shattering scream, clutching her chest harder. She keeled over, scratching furiously at the ground. Then she stopped, and just lay there, Kakashi tried walking up to the fallen girl once again, but suddenly her head shot up. Her eyes were big and round, like deer eyes caught in headlights, a very surprised look. She whipped her head around, gathering in her surroundings. Her body was wracked with sobs.
"Oh god...oh god please..." she whispered over and over.
"Looks like the bitch is back to normal" Tohru hissed and disappeared within a cloud of smoke.
Kakashi slowly approached his weeping student.
"...Sakura...?"
"Kakashi-sensei!!!" he heard Naruto scream.
Both Naruto and Sasuke burst into the scene.
"Kakashi-sensei, wha--" Naruto cut off his sentence when he saw Sakura.
"Sakura!" Sasuke yelled, running up to her.
"S-stay away!!" she yelled.
They all starred at her as she began crawling towards Kakashi.
"Keep them away!" she yelled, grabbing Kakashi's arm. "I might, I might..." she wrapped her arms around Kakashi's arm and fainted.
Kakashi picked her up and walking over to the boys.
"We should be heading back, we found Sakura..." he mumbled
"...what...?" Naruto began.
"She's afraid of us..." Sasuke growled.
"Or, she's afraid of herself" They both looked at their sensei in confusion.
"What does that mean?" Sasuke asked.
"...I have things to discuss with Hokage-sama, lets hurry back"
The two boys stole a quick glance at one another and silently followed their sensei's instructions.