A/n: The next chapters are critical. My notes will be short. Um…my updates will not occur any time before February because I have the SAT and finals to study for. Enjoy the climaxing chapters of Unknown Romance.
Chased-Kidnapped
Shinra sat in a tree filing his fingernails. The man was vain. He loved his image almost as much as he loved men. Almost. Okay…he did love his image more but why not. He thought he was quite the looker. Which he was. In his mind, at least. "Why are these people talking so long? Dear God I might die of old age waiting here."
Yachi appeared before the young man and cleared his throat loudly. "Boy." He called.
"Yeah?" He answered annoyed.
"Respond to me with respect!" Yachi slapped the male over his head and frowned. "You insolent fool!"
"Yachi-sama you always you're always frustrated with me. You should be nicer." He pouted cutely to the older man who glared.
"Listen child; do not play games with me! The Konoha shinobi are coming. They have Kazuya's girl."
"Oh? Well then I can start playing? Great! This will be awesome. How many?"
"It's the Yoshimitsu girl and two of them."
"Three? That's all? So lame. Oh well. I can have fun with only them." Shinra pulled from behind his back ten poison needles. Five in each hand. He threw the ten needles into different directions, making sure each hit a tree and stuck ground inside the bark. "First thing is to confuse your prey. It's so much more amusing that way."
"Just make sure you don't kill the girl." Yachi vanished as a winter air blew. Shinra would obey his orders...to some extent. He'd leave Yui alive but that didn't mean he couldn't play games with her before doing as told. He'd have as much fun as he wanted.
As the threesome ran through the cold terrain Kakashi's eye searched diligently for anything out of place, or anyone. He looked back occasionally to check his two comrades. "You see anything in particular?" He asked Naruto.
"No. I can't sense any other chakra either. Nothing is really strange."
"Keep looking." Yui told him. "I know someone is here. That attack on Sasuke could have not come from nowhere."
"Yui's right Naruto. Keep your eyes… open?" Kakashi halted when he noticed the oddest thing about the woods. "There's an awkward smell here. It's faint but there…like…salt?"
"Salt? There is the sea some miles from the village. Still, how can you smell that in this weather?" Yui pointed in the direction which the body of water was.
"Yeah. My nose is cold. I can't smell a thing." Naruto told them.
"No, its here. And look at the trees."
"Huh?" The two blondes said in unison.
"Every other has a needle in it."
"Needles?" Yui looked and noticed what Kakashi said to be true. "Yes. They're everywhere. But why?"
"Our enemy is one who specializes in use of this weapon. Also if you look, it's like he threw the needles in a pattern…He's trying to confuse us. Stay together---"
"Someone's there!" Yui shouted. She looked further up ahead and saw a motioning figure. She ran after the dark figure which began to run.
"No Yui!" Naruto ran after the blonde with means to stop her. Kakashi's eye widened as he called out to the two.
"Come back you two!" He called. He began to chase after them when he realized he wasn't going anywhere. "Genjutsu." He whispered. "That's a shadow clone those two are after isn't it?" He said aloud.
"Yeah. You're smarter than you look. Well…I can't really see how you look because you're wearing a mask…but I'm sure you look sexy. You sound sexy." Shinra appeared from behind one of the many trees, and then many Shinra appeared. Kakashi looked around quickly trying to see each and every clone as it appeared.
In the blink of an eye, the clones doubled and soon tripled. Kakashi found he was surrounded and sighed. He raised his forehead protector to reveal his sharingan. His eyes quickly scanned the area and he hoped Yui and Naruto be alright. "I'll try and make this quick."
"Naruto I see him up ahead! He's…" As the shadowed image faded from view Yui stopped and the blonde behind her ceased as well. "Gone…the figure is gone."
"I was trying to tell you it was shadow clone." He said to her. "But you run fast."
"I already messed up. Shit." Her face became red with anger as she pounded a fist into a nearby tree. "I've already screwed up!"
"its fine Yui, we all make mistakes."
"But I can't afford to make any now. Look, I even got us separated from Kakashi. I'm such a…"
"Shh." He placed a hand over her mouth and his eyes darted around. "Some else is here." He whispered to her. Naruto reached into his pouch and pulled out a kunai. "It sounds like one…or maybe two others." He moved his hand from over her mouth and smiled slightly. "Sorry about that."
"That's okay. But…look…" She pointed to the trees and again appeared many needles. This time, in one of the tree the needles had been thrown to form the image of a heart.
"What?"
"I love you." Sang Shinra as he touched Naruto's shoulder. He whispered into the blonde boy's ear. "I mean you're too cute to leave alone." Naruto used the kunai which he held and sent into the older man's chest. The clone vanished and Shinra's voice echoed throughout the area. "I love you, I love you, I love you." (A/n: You know Natasha Beddingfield right? I think that's how you spell it…Yeah…I just had to mention her.)
"Who is that weirdo?" Naruto asked he and Yui leant back to back.
"You ask me like I know."
"Isn't he singing to you?"
"He whispered in your ear."
"…right."
The two looked around, eyes darting about the place to find the man who disturbed Naruto so. For a moment it grew silent and the only sound that could be heard was the howl of the winter wind. Another Shinra jumped before them and Naruto threw another kunai into it. This time when it vanished an explosion note was left.
"It's an explosion tag, go!" Yui shouted and fled with the younger blonde. The two moved away from it and hid behind a nearby rock. They took cover and waited for what felt like hours. The silence was the only thing at that time. "Well…do you hear anything?"
"No."
"I'll go check."
"No. I will." Naruto looked over the large rock they hid behind and saw another note. This time it wasn't an explosion tag, but a--- "It's a letter?"
"A letter? What? Well…what's on it?"
"It says 'Blondes have all the fun, because they're too stupid to know that it's dangerous…'? What? WHAT?" He shouted in anger.
"You think blondes are dumb huh?" Yui shouted and stood to Naruto's side. "I'll show you!" She pulled out shuriken and scanned the area.
"Go ahead…" Shinra's voice once again returned and echoed loudly. "Let me see how smart you blondes can be…"
"Yui…there's more…" Naruto said to her.
"What does it say?"
"P.S. look up?"
"What?" With that said a rain of needles fell from the sky…
"Yui move!" And ---
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"NARUTO!" She screamed.
Kakashi's eyes looked at each and every clone of Shinra trying to find the actual one. 'I don't have time for this; I've got to find Naruto and Yui.' After a few moments each Shinra clone raised a number of needles and one after another began to throw each and every last needle at Kakashi. He dodged almost every attack but was soon caught off guard when two Shinra ran circles around him, tying him up by the legs with thin wire. "No!" He shouted as he fell to the ground.
"Too bad you have to go." The clones said in unison. "But, I'm afraid I only like younger men." Shinra himself emerged from the crowd and stabbed the jounin in his chest. Kakashi screamed loudly and vanished with an explosion note left where the clone was. "Shit!" The brunette jumped back, fleeing from the explosion tag. "I'm okay for now…" Shinra breathed heavily and looked around the terrain. For a moment, dead silence. Soon he heard something strange. "Birds? Many of them in this cold?" He turned his head to see Kakashi charging with a formed Chidori. "WHAT!"
The jounin charged towards the younger man with a full on attack. "Raikiri!"
"No!" He screamed. Then, many Shinra clones jumped before Kakashi's attack allowing the real one to flee. "Hey you'd be a ton sexier if you didn't try to kill me." With those being his final words Shinra was gone.
"NARUTO!" Kakashi heard Yui scream as he canceled his jutsu. He looked around and tried to follow where the voice came from. He began running through the snow at incredible speed. His adrenaline pumped and heart beating crazily.
'Be okay you two...Naruto…Yui…'
"Hey, hey Naruto…" Yui cried. Some tears welled up in her eyes as she shook the boy who lay in her lap unmoving. "Come on…be okay." She cried. In the boy's arms and back were several poison needles. His face, which once had a red color because of the weather, had become pale. "Hey…"
"Yui!" Kakashi ran up to the two blondes and knelt down by Yui's side. "What happened?"
"I don't know, but he protected me. The needles fell from above and he pushed me…he saved me."
"Naruto do you hear me?" Kakashi pulled the many needles from his former student's shoulder and checked him for pulse. "He's alive, but his pulse is faint. We need to get him to Sakura." He threw the blonde over his shoulder and stood up.
"Kakashi I---"
The silver haired male began heading back towards the Yoshimitsu estate, ignoring Yui's call to him. 'She was careless and now Naruto's hurt…'
Sasuke slept peacefully in Sakura's room. Further down the hall the pink haired female was taking a shower. With the hot water beating against her back she sighed. 'I hope Naruto and everyone...I hope they're fine.' She closed her eyes as she remembered Naruto's hurt look. 'I hope…I don't want him to hate me…I really do still care for him so much.'
"Haruno-san!" One of the maids called. "Haruno-san!" She shouted from outside the bathroom.
"Huh?" Sakura looked up and heard the voice call again. She turned off the water and quickly grabbed her robe as she exited the stall. Wrapping it around her tightly and slipping on her bed slippers she quickly opened the bathroom door hitting Yuri in his head. "Sorry!" She exclaimed.
"It's…fi….fi...fine…Hatake-saann ne---needs your ssitance…" He mumbled. He blinked a few times and his eyes rolled in his head.
"What?"
"Hatake-san needs your help, Naruto-kun is hurt!" Yume said running down the hall.
"Oh my God!" Sakura ran towards the entrance of the home to see her freezing team captain, Yui, and her possibly dying friend. "Naruto!"
Evening approached and soon Sasuke awoke. Sakura worked relentlessly to heal Naruto, who quickly recovered because of the Kyuubi. By nightfall the house became dead with utter silence. Everything was too tense even for words. Dinner was eaten in each person's room rather than around the table. Yui did not eat. Nor did anyone else. As the maids returned for the dishes they saw full plates and were amazed…well except for Yuri. His plate was as clean as a hungry dog's bowl.
Yui took a shower. Her thoughts ran wild as the hot water created steam and filled the bathroom. Everything that happened today was her fault. Because of her…her carelessness. Her mother said she would mess up and she did. She messed up badly. At this point there was nothing to prove. Not to her family…not to Kakashi…not even to herself. 'I'm a joke.'
While dressed in a white bath robe, Yui walked down the hall after she exited the bathroom. The steam from the shower escaped through the door which had been left ajar, and slowly faded away. She dried her hair and in her eyes was a dead and sad mystic color. It seemed almost as if the firefly glow it had at times had died. Yui sighed as she looked down at the floor. The wet prints her feet left on the hard wooden floor were slowly evaporating. It had been as if the most insignificant things were going. Just like her pain should have been, but did not seem to.
"Yui." Kakashi called. She looked up to see the man dressed in evening wear walking towards her. He wasn't wearing his forehead protector and had his mask pulled down. His handsome face was revealed to her once more. Soon, he stood a few feet before her. Yui's heart jumped all little to the sight. "I'd like to speak with you about today." He said to her.
"I don't care to speak to you about it." She said to him with a glare.
"It does not matter whether you care to discuss this or not." The silver haired jounin stepped closer to the blonde. "The fact is that you need to understand I have a job to do. Your careless acts today placed my comrade in danger.
"I don't care to speak to you."
"But you will listen."
"I don't have to listen to anything!"
"As my client you need to understand having you interfere endangers the mission. I allowed you to come with us today and you disobeyed me placing my life in danger, my comrade, and you! How can I protect you when you act like that?"
"I never asked for your protection! I never wanted you here! I can't even stand the sight of you!" She marched past him and he grabbed her wrist.
"You're being spoiled. This is the same behavior that almost got Naruto killed today."
"Really now?" She snapped back. "Isn't that the same cocky and spoiled behavior that got your friend Obito killed?"
Kakashi released Yui and glared at her. His blood boiled and for that single moment he lost it, and forgot everything. He slammed her back against the wall and placed his fist against her neck. "How dare you?" He growled. Kakashi's eyes flared with anger, and in his sharingan she could feel burning hate. "Watch your mouth."
Yui's green eyes widened in fear. She felt shivers up her spine and her bottom lip quivered. "Get away." She said in a whisper. "I'll…I…I'll scream." This was the first she feared him. This was the first he was hostile with her.
"Go ahead." He said to her lowly. His breath was warm. The feeling that would, at one time, tickle Yui now caused her to tremble in fear. The blonde shivered so much her robe slowly slipped down her shoulders, revealing some of her bare chest.
"Ge---get away…" she repeated. "Leave me alone!" She screamed. Yui closed her eyes and raised her hand to Kakashi's face. The jounin's head turned to the impact of the female's powerful slap. An awkward silence accompanied the fading sound of Kakashi's face being smacked. Kakashi stepped away from the blonde and remained silent.
Yui straightened the robe upon her body and recovered her exposed self. She looked to the man she just hit and soon her mouth opened in utter astonishment. Her recent action was a total surprise to her. Moreover, the fact she was able to hit him was an even bigger surprise. She brought her hands over her mouth and covered it. Kakashi looked at Yui. He blinked his eyes to her. For the first time since their breakup she saw how hurt and depressed he really was.
"Kakashi…I…I didn't mean…" She began. He turned his back to her and headed down the hall. Yui stood there for a moment. With her back still to the wall she slid to the floor. She brought her knees to her chest, closed her eyes and sighed deeply. Before she knew it hot tears formed and slid down her cheeks. "I…I'm such a fool...I'm so sorry Kakashi."
Kazuya breathed hard against the window. He smiled as he saw Kakashi walk down the hall. Yachi reappeared behind the dark haired man. "Everyone is ready and in place."
"Great. Now make sure no one messes up like Shinra has."
"Right. You're taking the woman?"
"Yes. I am. After this attack do nothing until I've ordered for you to do so."
"Fine then."
"And make sure to leave no traces."
"Understood." Yachi vanished and Kazuya placed the katana against the window's frame. With untraceable speed he ran scratching the glass which was the window.
The healed up Naruto stood in the kitchen drinking warm milk. 'Sakura was really worried about me. I haven't seen her cry in a while.' As the liquid slid down his throat he felt an awkward feeling on the back of his neck. Warm…like his milk. Warm…blood. As he dropped the glass and touched the area in which his blood was dripping from the large window frame of the kitchen shattered.
The young chuunin took shelter under a near by a counter and covered his ears to the breaking sound.
Yui's eyes widened as she saw Kazuya's cloak flaring in the cold winter wind, and the shattering glass was behind him. "Come now. You can't say you didn't miss me." He grabbed the blonde woman and jumped through the now broken window. Then without any trace they were gone.
As Kakashi sat in his room holding his cheek while many thoughts played in his head. Images of Yui and her smiles shattered like glass. Everything faded and soon faded images of Obito appeared and reappeared. The images of today's events occurred. The sight of seeing Sakura fighting tears, and Sasuke with worry in his eyes to Naruto's health. It was like a broken recorder.
"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura screamed as she ran down the hall. "Anyone!" Kakashi pulled up his mask and stepped into the hall.
"Sakura what's wrong?"
"Did you hear that!"
"It's in the kitchen!" Said Sasuke as he ran up to the two. The three ran down the hall to the kitchen which was now covered in glass. Naruto arose from under the counter and stumbled a bit. "Naruto!"
Sakura ran towards the blonde not caring for what she stepped on. "Are you okay?" She asked. On the blonde's cheek were open cuts and fresh blood. His arms were covered in scratches. Sakura touched the boy's face. "I told you to get some rest…if you hadn't gotten up…I'll clean you up."
"What happened?" Sasuke asked.
"I don't know. I didn't sense anything. Nothing was strange."
Kakashi thought back to earlier that day. "No. I can't sense any other chakra either. Nothing is really strange." Again nothing could be sensed, yet something occurred.
"Hatake!" Kirara ran down the hall and breathed heavily as she entered the kitchen.
"Yoshimitsu-san—" Sakura began.
"Where is Yui?" She asked. In her voice wasn't anger, but honest concern. "My house is covered in glass and my daughter is gone…"
"What!" Naruto shouted.
"Yui!" Kakashi ran down the halls to her room and slid the door open. "Yui!" He then ran to where he had last seen the woman only to find shattered glass and her not there. "YUI!"
A/N: See you next Chapter
