A longer wait than thought...

This one will be more on Hinata, Sakura and Ino, just because I'm sure you're wondering what will happen to them, and who this new Keiji dude is. (Not in this chapter, sorry!)

Also more on Sasuke, Naruto and Neji, what will happen to them, I wonder?

Read on…

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Ino got grabbed first. Her foot slipped out from under her, and she was hung from the ceiling by her ankle.

She shrieked as she saw blood red eyes staring at her.

Hinata and Sakura turned to run, but the both got the same thing Ino did.

"Thanks you guys, run and leave me here," Ino yelled at them.

"No, we were… We were going…" Hinata stuttered.

"For… Help…Yeah, help!" Sakura finished for her.

"Shut up!" The deep voice growled. "All of you!"

Hinata, Ino and Sakura stopped yelling at each other, and they all turned to look at the red eyes that were glaring at them.

"If only I had known how much work this would have been, I wouldn't have bothered capturing you!" The voice sighed.

A flash of light, and a fire was borne in the corner.

"Now, that's better," A young man said. He turned towards Sakura first. "My, my, what pink hair. Tell me your name, young one."

"Haruno, S-Sakura…" She stuttered, her arms hanging uselessly above her head.

"Sakura… Hmm… And you?" He said, gesturing towards Hinata.

"Hyuuga, Hinata," She whispered.

"Hinata… Hyuuga, did you say? Hmm… Interesting… Interesting…" He looked surprised at the name, but made no more comments about it. "Now you… Wait… Yamanaka, Ino, I am correct, am I not?"

Ino stared blankly at the man.

"I'll take that as a yes," He said, walking towards the fire. He picked up prongs that were in the fire and walked over to Hinata. The tips were not quite white, but close. Very close.

He placed the prongs next to Hinata's cheek.

"Don't move, or else," The man laughed.

Hinata shivered, and held her body as still as she could.

"Oops," He chuckled as Hinata screamed. He had pressed the prongs onto Hinata's leg, and left them there. Sakura and Ino winced slightly as the smell of burned flesh reached their noses. "Did I do that? Well now, that won't do," He held up a hand that was glowing green.

Hinata's face was wet, and she stared, terrified, as the man in front of her healed her wound.

"You know," He said, as soon as he was done. "The good thing about you three hanging upside down with such short gowns on is…"

Sakura, Ino and Hinata automatically reached up and pulled their gowns towards their aching feet.

"I guess I should let you down," He snapped his fingers and the three girls fell to the ground, immediately springing to their feet, preparing themselves for anything he might do.

No kunais, no shuriken, Ino thought. How can we fight him?

Beside Ino, Hinata was thinking the same thing while rubbing her recently healed leg. Meanwhile, Sakura was looking around the room for a weak spot, or something to use.

"No kunais," The man's voice echoed Ino's thoughts. "No shuriken. How will you fight me? No form of Jutsus will work on me, not even TaiJutsu. Hmm, how will you escape?"

Sakura glared at the man. "Jeez, I've already been through this once with the Snow Country, and Naruto, Sasuke and I beat them, didn't you know?"

"Aww, come on Sakura, was it? What's with the look? Do you hate me already? You shouldn't," He smiled evilly, ignoring her comment. "Because I haven't even started."

He snapped his fingers again and lights flickered to life above them. The three girls squinted as their eyes adjusted to the bright light.

"I just have to tell you first, your boyfriends are outside fighting for their lives, and yours," He said. "But, they won't live even if they do manage save you. Their bodies will live, but their souls will die, and they will help me take over Konoha, then the world."

"Typical," Ino mumbled.

He turned towards her, looking angry. "Typical? And what does that mean?"

"It means exhibiting the qualities, traits, or characteristics that identify a kind, class, group, or category," Sakura said, equally angry. "What do you think?"

"I know what it means, I meant, what do you mean?" He said, walking close to Ino while glaring coldly at Sakura.

"Sprechen zie Deutsche?" Ino asked, getting into Sakura's spirit.

The man growled. He walked to Sakura and struck her across the face, then did the same to Ino. Sakura laughed as she fell to the ground.

"Do you honestly think that striking us is going to make up shut up? It'll take alot more than that to get to us, because we're from Konoha and we're the strongest there is!" Ino jeered at the man.

"Well, well, well, why is it that one of the ever popular Hyuuga's is the only one that's silent?" He asked. Once again, he snapped his fingers. Chains, inlaid with spikes, wound themselves around Ino and Sakura's arms and legs.

Hinata trembled as he approached her. "Who are you? What do you want?" She squeaked, closing her eyes.

"I am Kyros, and I've come to kill all ninja," He said. "Don't ask anymore questions, or you will end up like those two," He pointed towards the two struggling, bleeding girls.

Hinata nodded, keeping her eyes shut tight, as though he'd disappear if she kept them closed.

Hinata burst into smoke as the real Hinata jumped on Kyros front behind. She wrapped her arms around his thick neck, but knew it was useless as soon as he reached behind his head, and picked her up with one hand as though she were a doll.

"Bad decision, I was actually starting to like you, too bad," He threw her to the floor, and kicked her in the stomach to keep her immobilized as the chains wrapped themselves around her as well.

The spikes cut into her delicate skin, and she screamed, squirming and writhing.

Sakura and Ino were surprised she had tried something like that, considering she was so quiet and didn't really like fighting.

"Back to what I was actually trying to say before," Kyros continued as though nothing had happened. "When your boyfriends come to save you. Do you want to know what will happen to them?" Silence. "I'll tell you whether you like it or not."

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Neji, Sasuke and Naruto

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Neji looked at Sasuke. "You can't be serious! We do have to leave, but what about Ino, Hinata and Sakura?" He asked Sasuke.

"What? What's wrong?" Naruto asked. He honestly couldn't keep up with them. They thought too fast.

"We'll have to get help, it's our only option," Sasuke answered ignoring Naruto.

"No, we can't, remember what the note said? If we bring help, they'll die! We can't chance that," Neji said to Sasuke ferociously.

"Oh my God! Just tell me what's wrong?" Naruto begged the other two. "Please tell me! It's not only your girlfriends that are stuck up there, you know!"

Neji looked at Naruto as though he just realized he was there. "Oh, well, the legendary Forest of Combination and Combining started out as an amusement park, but it became run down, and people stopped coming. So the rides were broken apart and abandoned. It's said that the original owners died, but they came back, reincarnated, like Orochimaru, and lured three or four heroes at a time into the forest and combined their greatest powers and Jutsus and used them for their own dirty work."

"So... So that means," Naruto said, thinking fast. "So, then that means they lured you, Sasuke and me here because of..."

"Byakugan, Sharingan and the fox-demon. Exactly," Sasuke finished for him.

"Whoa," Naruto gasped.

"Yep," Neji said. "And I'm guessing the only way to get the girls back is to follow what they want, but that would mean dying. We're in big shi..."

"Let's go," Sasuke interrupted. "We can't afford to waste anymore time."

Eww... Clowns... Naruto shuddered as he imagined the overly-happy, too-much-makeup things prancing towards them.

"How are we going to get inside?" Sasuke asked as they were under the glowing shuttle.

"Dunno," Neji said, staring, transfixed, at the changing lights.

"Like this," Naruto jumped up and punched a hole, clean through, so a bright white light was shining in their eyes.

"That works," Neji said, jumping up after him and landing in something they had only seen in SciFi movies.

"What the...?" Sasuke asked, genuinely confused when he jumped in after Neji. "Are we in the set for Star Wars?"

"Ha ha," Neji laughed sarcastically. "I doubt it. It was probably a ride changed to this."

Naruto had already snuck down to the end of the hallway and was looking around a corner. He was thrown to the floor as the huge ship thing started moving.

"Ferris wheel?" Neji joked.

"No kidding," Sasuke said, as they both laid on the floor. "Kay, let's go," Sasuke stood up and walked cautiously down the other hallway. Neji and Naruto stood up and followed him.

Neji was in front and Sasuke was in front of Naruto. Neji held up a hand to stop them as he came to a corner. He looked down the left hallway, then down the right one. It was a 'T' hallway, and Neji signed to the others: Join back here in two. Sasuke: Right. Naruto: Left. I'm watching your backs.

He activated Byakugan, and Sasuke activated Sharingan. Naruto woke up the lazy fox spirit.

They went down their hallways, Neji watching for anyone or anything coming at them.

Fox, wake up and help me, Naruto thought.

The fox yawned. What the hell do you want?

What do you think? Naruto asked it.

Fine, fine, the fox yawned once more. 'Sbeen a while, hasn't it?

Yeah, yeah, I've been avoiding battles lately, Naruto glanced behind him.

Because of Hinata? The fox chuckled.

Well... Maybe... Naruto reached for his kunai, remembering that he didn't have one on him.

"Damn it," Naruto cursed under his breath. Several clicking noises alerted him to his surroundings. "Damn it," He cursed again, louder, as 20 or more guns were pointed directly at him.

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Sasuke jumped to the ceiling, automatically sending Chakra to his feet to keep him up.

Where do I go? He thought, looking behind him. He turned to where he was looking. I could have sworn Neji was going to follow me... Uh oh... Sasuke turned back around and went cross-eyed.

He was staring straight into a gun that was aimed at his forehead.

"Crap," He rolled his eyes.

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Neji fell to the ground as someone tried to whacked him on the back of the head with a shovel.

Of course, he had seen the attack coming, and just before the shovel came in contact with his head, he fell to the ground.

He flipped over, landing back on his feet, coming face to face with a very good looking man.

"I should have known, the ultimate Hyuuga dodges another attack, I should add it to the book," The man said.

"Keiji," Neji snarled. "I should have known."

Keiji smiled.

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Okay, so Neji knows this Keiji guy? Hmm...

Review please!

I wonder what's going to happen to Hinata, Sakura and Ino...?