A/N: Gomen everyone! Gah it's a long story, but my computer screwed up and yeah well crashed. So it deleted everything including my latest chapters to all my stories. And yeah at the same time, it was the last week of school and I have shitloads of things to do so it just pissed me off, all my writing deleted. But yeah, I dunno if it'll be as good as the last one I wrote…hmmph…sorry again!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto and the rest of its charaters, belong to Mr. Kishimoto!
Chapter 9Sakura felt the darkness that was surrounding her and had put her into a deep slumber, starting to cease away, as she could finally open her eyes, albeit with difficulty. As soon as she had realized what she was staring at, a concrete ceiling along with a concrete floor as she felt the coldness and the hardness of it. Definitely a prison of some sort, Sakura thought. She continued to stare at the ceiling till her vision was no longer fuzzy and the crack-she noticed on the ceiling- stayed in the same place. Sakura took a deep breath and tried to move her hands. She suddenly jolted back into the hard floor that was already hurting her back and gasped as pain sprang through her whole body.
" Oh shit, what the hell did they do to me?" She croaked, the pain still not receding. She decided to wait for the pain to go away as it was still pulsing very hard, she felt like needles were inside of her, in every vein in every organ, especially in her head and her heart. She decided to take deep breaths to stop herself from going insane.
Calm down, let's take this slowly, maybe, I can just bear the pain and move, once I get through that stage, it'll be okay. Besides I can't lie here forever, I have to find Kahiko. Sakura thought, she decided to try and move one finger. Her back arched as she shrieked in pain and numbness.
SHANARO! Inner Sakura swore loudly.
Okay, maybe if I use my chakra to force the pain out, or to move even. I'll try that. Sakura and her inner spirit agreed on the plan and began to take deep breaths to bear the pain and began to find her chakra. Sakura realized it was one of those times where it was so hard, even to activate it. She closed her eyes and focused trying to search for that familiar warm feeling that is the source of her energy. But she felt nothing, no warmth or a flicker. She gritted her teeth in frustration.
Come on, try again! Her inner self was encouraging her.
Sakura closed her eyes tightly and tried to focus and concentrate and then tipped her head back.
"It's no use." Sakura said weakly, her eyes half closed.
Let's think this from another angle, maybe, perhaps this pain from my body is something else, and that something else is sealing my chakra, and my body is in pain because my chakra is trying to make it's way out, but the power is sealing it in. Sakura thought, and she felt sure that this time she was right. Then I guess, I have to use my will power. Oh, maybe that's why Kakashi couldn't move the last time I saw him…
She gave a hopeful smile before closing her eyes, and felt herself enter her own mind where it was a dark space but she heard her inner voice there too. She let herself wander in the dark abyss, until she saw a white light. But it was only a for a mere second as she saw another force, very dark purple orbs surrounding the white light and the white light was struggling to get out. It came to her, the white light was her chakra and the purple orbs are trying to block her chakra.
Sakura approached the white light where purple orbs were traveling fast around in an attempt to stop the chakra flowing. This is bad power, it needs to go out! Sakura thought, I have to move now before it completely seals my chakra! Sakura screamed in pain as she moved one of her fingers but she kept on going till she reached her pocket and got out a knife. She could hardly grip the knife, it was so painful, she could feel needles even in her fingers, under her nails. It was terrifying.
She grit her teeth as she cut herself a light wound on her biceps. There, now the bad thing can go out. Sakura closed her eyes and entered her mind once again, hearing her inner self, encouraging her. She tried molding chakra while she was inside her own mind. There seemed to be no change to the ball of chakra, but Sakura didn't give up. She kept on trying to mold chakra and observing the white ball of light being surrounded by the purple balls. Sakura couldn't hold it anymore, but suddenly she saw a flicker of a brighter light filling the white ball of light that was trapped. That gave her hope, and so she began to focus and concentrate, and she saw in the abyss of her consciousness, her chakra getting brighter and ebbing away the dark purple ones.
Just a little more, Sakura thought, sweat beads appearing on her pale forehead. Then finally, she saw the purple balls that acted like webs snapped against the white ball of light that was glowing ever so bright. Sakura opened her eyes with relief that she had made it and hissed with pain a second after as she felt heat from where she had inflicted her own wound. She tilted her sore head to the left and saw purple liquid pouring out of wound and settled into a puddle of purple substance.
Sakura groaned and got up into a sitting position. She wiped the sweat of her forehead and was glad she made it in time before the substance fully locked her chakra in. Then she would have been in trouble. She got up slowly, holding on to the stone cold concrete wall and studied her surroundings. It was just a concrete and stone made box and she was supposedly left in it to die, or stay in there for a long time.
" Damn, I have to find Kahiko now!" Sakura said angrily, lots of thing could have happened during the time Sakura was unconscious and when she awoke, trying to move again.
She listened to all four sides and found one that seemed hollow as she could hear sounds. Sakura took a deep breath, gathered all her chakra and punched the wall. The impact of her strong punch cracked the wall and formed a hole. Sakura got out of the crack and she was inside a hallway, also stone cold and dark. She focused and searched for presence or chakras. Sakura bit her lip as she couldn't feel such presence. She began running in the right direction and felt better when she felt chakras, though they were of an enemy.
She used her chakra to walk up the wall and climbed spider-like on the ceiling, waiting for the guards to pass under her, once they were under she jumped on both of them and knocked them unconscious. Then she began walking fast, cautiously waiting for men to come. But none came, she kept walking till she found a door, surprisingly made of wood. She saw a little crack and decided to peek through it. She saw Kahiko on the ground, bleeding because of her torn lip and unconscious. And two tall men, she recognized Hana and a medium-sized man as well.
" What chakras!" Sakura nearly said out loud but managed to keep it inside as a surge of bloodlust was drowning her. She needed a plan, no she can't do this alone. She needs to get out of here, get in the open, make her chakra known-how dangerous it will be- so Kakashi, hopefully could sense it and come. Then hopefully, he will come and together they can save Kahiko. Sakura sighed at her unreliability at times, like pulling off a rescue act and fight again three possibly four people with high level chakras. No, she was good, but she was not that good.
And, Sakura could feel the hairs on the back of her necks standing out of fear and anxiety, she had a feeling that one of them, sooner or later would find out she had gotten out. She began sneaking away fast from that room. She still felt the bloodlust on her, surely, they must know, she had escaped from their prison. She found stairs and climbed up into many paths till she finally got out. It was somewhere hilly, near the Hills Village, I'm sure of it.
I mustn't waste time! Sakura thought and she slid down on slippery rocks till she was on the forest ground again. She began to mould her chakra, and made her hand seals and watched and feel as her chakra was extracted and leaving its trace in the trees, and the ground. If Kakashi comes here, he'll definitely know, but will he come here?
Sakura walked and sat under a huge tree, breathing heavily into the night. Her wound was still burning from that substance, she suspected they had injected it inside of her. She winced in pain again as she knew even though the poison had left her body, there would still be traces of it remaining, being obstacles for her chakra to move quickly.
Then her heart almost stopped beating.
" That's not very smart, little girl, extracting your chakra so everyone can sense it." A deep voice was heard behind the tree. Sakura eye's widened and she felt that familiar sensation of fear as the hair on the back of her neck rose. Sakura gripped her arm.
Kakashi, hurry up!
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The stream in the hills are damn cold, Kakashi shivered as he dipped his hands into it and splashed it on his face. He needed something to make him much more alert. He had been circling around the village looking for Sakura and Kahiko. He blamed himself for not being so alert, he was too reckless, it was stupid of him that he didn't sense a pair of needles that hit his neck and disrupted his chakra flow.
He then began leaping from tree to tree till he sensed something. Very familiar warmth that's floating through the air he was breathing in. He stopped leaping on the branch he was on and jumped down. This atmosphere, it's different. He touched a tree. Then he felt the chakra of warmth and he could feel its surging power and its unique ability of individualizing people's chakra. He sensed Sakura's chakra, and he felt slight comfort flushing through him.
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Sakura gasped in pain when she was flung to the ground. She panted and looked to her left, an unconscious Kahiko. She squinted her eyes to see the people surrounding her. There were two middle-aged men, wearing white-bandaged masks with bloodthirsty eyes. And there was Hana smirking, putting her hands on her hips. And finally, there was a shorter man who looked older than the rest, with rounded body shape but still the eyes of a ruthless killer.
Sakura coughed up blood and suddenly realized her hands were tied together.
" No use, little girl, ropes are power by my chakra." One of the middle-aged man shook his head and gave a chuckle.
" Gano, believe me you're too soft on her." Hana smirked.
" And this is all a Konoha's ninja can do, tsk tsk, I'm disappointed." The other man beside Gano said, his voice all raspy that gave Sakura the creeps. The voice that seems to love and devour blood as though it was a wonderful thing. Sakura shuddered.
"No, you haven't seen anything yet." Sakura coughed up blood, and gave a confident smile, and disappeared in a puff of smoke.
" Where the hell did she disappear to?" Gano asked, there was surprise and panic in his voice.
" Relax, Gano, she is on a mission after all. You'll get your enjoyment soon, when she returns to get Kahiko." Hana smirked.
Hana made hand seals and clapped her hands. The power of her hands created a disturbing sound that disturbed the life of the forest, including Sakura. Her invisibility form and hidden chakra was exposed due to Hana's move. Sakura clasped her ears and fell down from the tree she was hiding from.
She cursed and swore for her foolishness for not acting quicker. In seconds she found herself being dragged again by Gano, and once again found herself being dumped like trash next to a still unconscious Kahiko surrounded by them.
" Nice try little girl, but you've fucked up. You could have made us kept on assuming you're the stupidest girl we've ever met. Now that you've TRIED to run away. We're gonna make sure you don't go anywhere." Gano smirked.
He gave a creepy smile before reaching his hands in his pocket fumbling for something, Sakura was scared now, and took out a syringe. Sakura's breath was hitched in her throat. He was going to inject her with something. Something fatal.
He took a step forward.
" You..bastard…get the fuck away from me!" Sakura shrieked.
He grabbed her pink hair and roughly pulled her face up with one hand while fixing the syringe with the other. Sakura wanted to fight back but his grip on her head was in a killing position so she didn't dare move. She waited for that prick on her neck but it didn't come.
" Hey, where are you- AAAAH!" Sakura screamed with insanity, as Gano wouldn't stop emptying the syringe contents into her bottom lip.
Sakura screamed her lungs out as torturous pain that attacked her lips and spreading through her whole body. Her heart, why was it beating so fast and irregularly?
And she was having trouble breathing, her lungs felt like they were going to explode any minute. This was it, she was going to die. She was left on the ground and she saw her vision fazing and blurring. She stared helplessly at the three people who was watching her with no mercy and seemed to be laughing. And then suddenly she heard nobody was laughing anymore. She saw one of the men collapse onto the ground.
And then she found something lifting her body despite her body feeling so heavy and she was still coughing up blood and her lips were massive she could tell. And then everything was a blur, and Sakura knew it wasn't because of the poison but because she was being carried at a very high speed and then everything stopped as Sakura found herself being laid gently. Her eyes rolled back into her eyes due to the pain, her breathing so harsh it was no wonder that her heart had been torn apart.
Next thing she knew, she found soft lips on her own, his smell invading her nose. It was Kakashi. What was he doing? Sakura's eyes half closed but she still couldn't see, only to feel his warm lips on hers. Had he removed his mask? There's no time to think about now, she was going to die very soon! She felt his lips compress in a pouting manner and began sucking at her bottom lip. Sakura just continued clenching the grass in pain. He stopped sucking and she heard him spitting. Suddenly she hears him gasping in pain.
No, though he didn't swallow it, the poison is still effective, NO, I must. Sakura jerked despite the pain and crawled to Kakashi was in pain. Her eyes half blind, but she still had chakra left. She crawled and let her arms travel, she touched something that felt like his arms, and let it move till she found his lips. Gasping, Sakura made hand seals while molding her chakra.
" Doku Jokyo no Jutsu!" Sakura shouted. And touched the blue light that appeared on her hand onto Kakashi's lips.
She held on for a minute or so until Kakashi stopped twitching and his breathing got to normal again, while she felt the blue light was still flickering in her palm she touched it on her own lips. She felt the pain recede and she could breath normally again, and didn't feel like being compressed anymore. Her vision was still blurry and she was half blind but she blamed it on her chakra being used up. She lay down from the exhaustion and felt everything turn to darkness once again.
TBC
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A/N: Ano…how was it? I was trying to find a Japanese beta thingo. But like when I do it on google , they translate it but like with the English word, which is poison removal. I want the Japanese word spelled in English alphabets lol. Any ideas on how to get that?\
doku jokyo no jutsu- poison removal no jutsu
Well pls review onegai! And sorry for the long delay, u guys probably lost interest already .
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