A/N: I haven't written this in forever. Thanks for all the reviews!
"The Bail"
By train-to-nowhere aka yotarou
"OW!" An unhappy Naruto screamed in pain as his body mashed against Sakura and Sasuke in the very uncomfortable fishnet. He twisted around to stare them both in the face. "Where are we?" He whined. Looking through the squares of the net, he could only tell that they were in a dark, dark, room. A lit candle was placed on a table near them in order for them to see. It burned a sickly potato-like smell.
"I don't know Naruto," said Sasuke angrily. In fact, Sasuke was a lot more angry than ever. His eyes were in a sort of half-squint, and a bunch of creases in his forehead seemed to magically appear. "I was just dragged unconsciously for about thirty minutes straight against all sorts of terrain. I have five bruises all over my body and numerous scratches and rips in my clothes and skin." Secretly though, Sasuke was a bit satisfied inside. He felt like he was better than Naruto and Sakura because he survived the deadly four-wheeled monster and was dragged and hurt and still survived.
"Well!" said Naruto heatedly. "I'm sorry for not getting knocked out by a mere bump of a head! Look's like Sasuke's actually delicate, and I am stronger!" He made a face at Sasuke by pulling down his left eyelid and sticking his tongue out.
Sasuke inwardly groaned. Naruto could be so immature. He grunted and turned his head away briskly, then said, "Had you been boldly in front of the foreign monster instead of me, you would've died. But," he said, pausing as if he were pretending to think. "Oh wait, you weren't. I was. Naruto's not so brave after all, is he?"
At this, Naruto angrily blew up. "WELL EX-CUSE ME! YOU SEEM TO TAKE EVERY CHANCE YOU CAN GET AT BEING HERO! I… I challenge you!" He squirmed around in the net to get at Sasuke, but Sakura kept blocking him.
"Naruto, just… stop. We're in a very threatening situation right now and we don't have time for this," she said seriously. "But, this really is kind of gross sharing a small enclosed space with two guys who kind of… smell."
Sasuke blew a sigh of frustration. "For your information, I don't STINK. It's probably all Naruto." He glanced around his whereabouts. He couldn't really see, but using his ultra cool Sharingan he managed to find that they were locked in a cellar. "Naruto, Sakura, we're locked in a cellar," he said after a couple of moments of silence (Naruto didn't deny that the smell was all coming from him).
"Hey! How do you know that?" demanded Naruto.
"Sharingan."
"Oh."
A brief moment of silence lingered over the three. They sat quietly in their fishnet and fidgeted around, staring at the black space around them. Suddenly…
"Well, you know, maybe we should escape," said Sakura. "We are after all ninjas, right? We can handle this fishnet!" She punched her fist up in the air, pink hair twirling around in the small space. Bright stars flashed around her in a blue-ish background.
Naruto glanced sideways at Sasuke, who was still partly being blocked by Sakura. "Well, okay. I guess I'll use my mighty ultra powers then…" He said slowly.
Sasuke glanced sideways at Naruto. "Maybe I'll use MY powers. You know, let me handle it."
"I dunno Sasuke-kun," said Naruto slyly. "Are you sure you won't bump your head anywhere?"
"It depends. Are you sure you your idiocy might ruin our plans?" Sasuke cracked ¼ of a sly evil grin. Because Sasuke really never smiles unless it's for evil purposes.
Sakura groaned. "What happened to working as a TEAM?" she asked the two. "And we still don't even know who our captor is. Really, I'm ashamed of both of you! If we don't get out of here alive I will make sure Kakashi knows how badly you two are treating each other." She twisted around more in the net, attempting to glare at both of them but also making sure her kimono wouldn't rip in the tiny compartment of the fishnet.
Naruto laughed out loud. "But Sakura! We always are like this. It's not even under the category of 'bad' anymore, the way we treat each other. It's more like 'normal.'" He patted Sasuke on the back in an attempt to be friendly. "See?" Then, his hand suddenly felt numb, like tiny miniature needles had just stabbed him all at the same time in various places of his hand. "AAAAAHHHG!"
Sasuke had inconspicuously crushed it in his fist for a split second, and the pain was … very anguishing. "DON'T—" he let go and a sickening crack could be heard –"touch me. Again." He stared at Naruto with cold eyes, then scoffed, and turned away.
Sakura watched, horrified. "Ohmigod! Sasuke! Why'd you do that! Naruto needs his strength!" Why did Sasuke always have to prove he was BETTER than everyone? I mean, sometimes it was attractive, she had to admit, but other times… she blew a tiny sigh out, then peered out through the holes of the net. "Sasuke? Do you see any way to get?"
However, Sasuke had already been cutting away at the net with his knife. "Baka… we were all too busy griping to each other, that we forgot we had kunai…" Naruto, however, had also come to this revelation, and was cutting away at his end of the net, grumbling here and there, eyes squinting in pure concentration.
But, the net would not budge, nor would it break.
"Um," said Sakura. "Well, why aren't we free yet? It's so stuffy!" But she didn't really make an effort to help.
After a few minutes of silence, well, excluding the shrrrk shrrrk noise of knife against net, Sasuke stopped.
"It's useless. There must be some sort of charm on this thing – I sense it's not just an ordinary fishnet…" He pressed his two fingers against his temples and let out a long breathe, as if he were meditating.
"Well, you know, we could always use our ninja powers. We are ninja!" Naruto quipped in.
Sasuke nodded. "All right. Watch out. I'm going to set this thing on fire. Then we can make our escape. Ready?"
The two others felt an unneeded sense of fear…
"One… two… THREE!" He crouched down and shaped the symbols needed to create his fire jutsu, and within moments, a mini-fireball had erupted from his mouth and the net caught on fire, enveloping the three ninja inside. Bit by bit, the net began to wither, and one final HISSSS let them all fall down onto the hard floor of the cellar.
The fire still raged on – albeit a small one, they knew they had to leave before the owner of the net and place found out.
"Hurry!" whispered Sasuke urgently. "Find an exit so we can get out of here!" Naruto and Sasuke nodded an "Mm!" and they all began to feel their way around. In a moment, Sasuke used his Sharingan, and he grabbed them both by the waists and fiercely slashed a way out from the weak walls and soon, they were out, gasping for air…
"Now—what—?" croaked Naruto, still breathing hard.
The three faced one gigantic four-wheeled monster; red, and complete with water hoses. It made a siren noise they all mistook as a battle cry, and each withdrew a shuriken from their ninja pouches.
A man, in red, stepped out of the monster, and stared at them gravely. "Put your weapons down and no one gets hurt," he said in a gruff-mannered voice.