It was Sakura's house.
It was Sakura who was gone.
It was Sasuke in her house.
It was Sasuke clutching the wall for support, his knees threatening to collapse.
It was Sasuke reading the blood-red words scrawled messily on the tops of the now-white floor.
It was Sasuke who was too late.
I have missed you, Sasuke-kun.
Sasuke let out a strangled, desperate roar into the night.
Orochimaru.
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Sasuke knew he had no time to lose. He sighed shakily, and stood up from where he was crouching against the wall, holding his head in his hands and rubbing his temples.
He decided to look for some clues.
But where to start!
He tread carefully on the papers, as though if disrupting them from their perfectly lain places would be bad.
Papers…papers…papers…
Suddenly, Sasuke heard a noise.
"Ughh…"
Sasuke turned around and whipped out a kunai, ready to fight whoever had just made that noise.
He looked around the room.
Nothing stirred.
He looked around once more, and was just about to put his kunai back when—
A figure rose shakily from the corner behind a table, clutching his head and groaning considerably. He smashed into the table and steadied himself, cursing.
Sasuke lowered his kunai and looked skeptical.
"Ichiwa Miruko?" He asked, disbelieving.
The man rubbed his eyes and readjusted his glasses.
"Huh? Yeah, that's me…YOU! AGAIN!" He attempted to run at Sasuke, but was still trapped behind the table, and rammed his hips instead. Groaning, he stepped around it, and staggered to stay standing.
"Now I know you've got something to do with Sakura's disappearance! You hired those Soundnins! They took her! They're going to kill her!"
Sasuke took Miruko by the shoulders and sat him on a chair.
"Soundnins? Did you say Soundnins?"
"Yeah, I said Soundnins you evil bastard! I can't believe you would go to this extremity to get Sakura! They'll kill her!"
"Shut up and listen! I. Did. Not. Hire. Soundnins! Okay!"
"Then who did!" His voice was getting squeakier.
Sasuke rolled his eyes and pointed to the message on the floor.
"Why would I get people I hired to write that, huh? Dipshit." He muttered under his breath.
"I heard that!" Miruko called, getting ice from the fridge in the adjacent room.
"Good." Sasuke said. He made his way for the door and was just about to walk out of the house when Miruko stopped him.
"And where do you think you're going?" He asked, glaring.
"I'm going to get Sakura! If you haven't noticed, she isn't here."
Miruko scoffed and threw him back into the house, he himself walking out instead.
"No, I'm going to save Sakura. She's my girlfriend, after all."
Sasuke clenched his fists. It was bad enough that the prick was rubbing it in his face, but it was even worse when he was going to take the credit for saving her!
"You think you can save her? Sure, right away. I bet you can't even do one simple technique."
"Oh yeah? Just watch me!"
Miruko muttered something under his breath, and sent multiple kunai's at Sasuke, aimed for his head.
Sasuke disappeared.
All of them missed, and lodged themselves into the wall of his house.
Miruko gasped and spun around as he felt someone tap him on the shoulder.
"Loser." Sasuke smirked.
"You evil Soundnin-hiring bastard!" He growled.
"For the last time, I did not hire those Soundnins!"
"I DON'T CARE! YOU'RE WASTING MY TIME!"
"YOU'RE WASTING MY TIME!"
"SHUT UP!" They yelled at each other.
The battle of the male egos.
Sasuke sighed, defeated.
"Alright, fine. We're going to have to work together if we're going to get Sakura back. I can't lose her."
He muttered the last part to himself, but Miruko heard.
But, instead of getting mad, Miruko's mood softened, and he patted Sasuke on the back. Sasuke tensed, and glared.
"Alright, Uchiha. Let's go."
You better not have hurt her, Orochimaru. Sasuke thought to himself. Or I will kill you.
Must I prompt you to R&R?
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