Chapter Twenty-One: The Rescue Mission

Hey guys here's just a quick note. First of all I hope that everyone had a great Halloween and second of all I just wanted to apologize for the mistake in the last chapter. You see this story is based upon multiple roleplays and Sachi's original name was Keiko after the main character from this story, but due to the fact that I didn't want to cause confusion I changed it to Sachi which has a very similar meaning to Keiko. Sachi means fortunate and child of wisdom while Keiko means lucky and blessed child. So anyways, I went back to edit that.

Also, I just wanted to point out in here that in my roleplays with Yuiheart, Keiko doesn't always stick a Kun or a Chan at the end of Sasuke and Sakura anymore so I do believe that even when I mistakenly forget to do so it isn't that big of a mistake when she isn't referring them to big brother or big sis. Anyways, that's all I wanted to say and enjoy the end of the story since there are only a couple of chapters left.

"I sure hope that Keiko finds her way back to us." Kizashi said while he and the others started running through the forest together.

"I'm sure that she will. She's an extremely bright kid and a really talented young ninja. As for the Chidori, now you have me and Sachi to help you out with it." His father told him while glancing over at him with a grin.

"No offense or anything Sensei but I really don't think that we have time to start training him now. Orochimaru has my aunt and uncle held hostage as we speak." Sachi told him.

"Oh I'm not really worried about Sasuke or Sakura either. There was a time when I would have told you that I believed that Sakura was too weak and more concerned about flirting with Sasuke than her ninja skills, but that all changed the moment that Sasuke left the village. After awhile she got sick and tired of him downgrading her and in the end her love for him is what wound up making her stronger." He explained.

Meanwhile Sasuke and Sakura were locked up together inside a dungeon cell. "I can't believe that I'm saying this Sasuke but I'm scared." Sakura began as tears started rolling down her cheeks. "Not for us but for the children. You know that Orochimaru isn't interested in us or in Ami." She said with a shake of her head. "He wants Keiko and Sachi and he's just using us as bait." She told him as he tightly embraced her and then placed a tender hand to her cheek and gazed deeply inside of her eyes while brushing away her tears with his thumb and then kissing her passionately on the lips.

"Don't worry Cherry, I have faith in both of the girls. They might only be children, but they're also very strong shinobis." He told her when all of a sudden he got an idea. "And so are you." He realized. "Sakura,.. you can get us out of this with your super strength." He told her as she gasped and widened her eyes at him in astonishment.

"Sasuke,.. are you sure?" she questioned him.

"You have to. Ami's life is in danger and she's depending on us to save her." He told her. "Besides, think about our niece and little sister. They need us too." He added as Sakura nodded and grew a sudden look of determination.

"Right, I'll try for all of them. After all, it was my love for you and your constant rejection of me that got me as strong as I am today." She told him while he hung his head shamefully and his heart was suddenly filled with guilt as he let out a deep sigh. "Oh it's alright Sasuke I forgive you." She reassured him. "Besides, even if I didn't now is not the time to start an argument. We have to save the kids so you better stand back." She told him as he looked back up at her and grinned.

"Hn. Well alright then." He began with a nod before he took a step back. "Do your stuff." He told her as she nodded back at him and then suddenly busted the cell open with her fist. "See? I knew that you could do it." He said.

"Yeah, but now we have a new problem." She began. "How do we find Ami without being seen or having any questions asked?" she wondered.

"That's an easy one, we can't. However, since you and I are powerful shinobi's ourselves, I think that we can still handle it with a little help from our friends. Orochimaru might be evil but he isn't a genius." He told her while he took out his cellphone and started texting Naruto.

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"Alright this is it, I think that I've finally done it." Keiko began as she stood outside the hospital with Kushina and Aiko. "It was nice meeting you both but I've got to get back to my family." She told them.

"It was nice meeting you too Keiko." Kushina said with a grin as Aiko looked over at her.

"Uh Keiko can you do me a favor?" she wondered.

"Yeah sure, just make it fast." Keiko told her.

"Can you let Sachi know how much I love her and that she really shouldn't blame herself for my death because there was really nothing that she could have done to save me and that me and her father will always be watching over her." She said as Keiko nodded.

"Alright, I will as soon as I can." She assured her before she placed her hands together, told them goodbye, and teleported back to her own time. As soon as she had gotten back she realized that she was alone so she took out her cellphone and started texting Sasuke just as he had been going up the stairs with Sakura.

"What is it Sasuke?" Sakura began. "Is it Naruto?" she wondered.

"No it's Keiko. She wanted to let us know that she's alright." He said as Sakura breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh, thank God." She said when they finally reached the top of the stairs but all of a sudden they came face to face with one of the Akatsuki members.

"Where's Ami!?" Sasuke demanded while activating his sharingan and cursemark.

"You better tell us where she is if you don't want to be knocked into the middle of next week!" Sakura hollered angrily as the Akatsuki member just simply chuckled at them.

"I don't know what good there is in me telling you." He replied.

"How about the fact that you get to live?" Sasuke questioned him.

"Fine. Orochimaru is taking her down to the ocean to swim." He replied.

"What are you talking about? She's just a baby she doesn't know how to swim yet. She can't!" Sakura exclaimed as the man chuckled again and sneered at them.

"I know, exactly." He responded as Sakura gasped and Sasuke finally had enough while he started growing a ball of Chidori inside the palm of his hand.

"Go Sakura! Go and save Ami! I'll take care of this bastard." He growled through his clenched teeth while he glared at him. Although Sakura was concerned for her husband's life, the life of her defenseless foster child currently meant more to her so she didn't stop to ask him questions and started running towards the exit.