How are you? It's me again, S.A.Hikari. How do you like it so far? Let me know. Well, here's chapter 7. Enjoy!
I don't own Naruto.
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I really don't know what happened next, so I'll just rely on what everyone told me later. They say my eyes went black. Then they started to tell me something that Sasuke did, unfortunately, he showed up and threatened to beat the crap out of them if they told. That made me smile. I'm not dumb, though Sasuke refuses to acknowledge that.
Anyway, apparently I became a mindless zombie, pushing my friends aside to get to the imposter, (I still can't believe that I could fall for something like that, so he must have been really skillful.) Then, he blindfolded me and tied up my hands, just in case if I was strong enough to break out of the jutsu.
"He." The man chuckled, "after your little stunt, you'll never see her again."
They say Sasuke gritted his teeth and started to prowl towards us.
"Ah ah ah," the man said, scolding him, "One more step and I'll slit her throught."
Sasuke hesitated.
He smiled an evil smile. "That's a good boy, now back away," he slumped me over his shoulder, "just tell your village leader her precious apprentice is a hostage, and if she ever hopes to see her again, stop operation "mother and child" immediately and give consent to the village hidden in the skies so we will send ninja to confirm it. If we find any fooling, the Hokage won't have to worry about thinking up another lesson."
He slumped me over his shoulder and took out a kunai knife, which he pressed to my neck.
He slowly backed away into the shadows, until we were in the shadows and out of earshot.
Sasuke shouted. "Sakura!"
A hand rested on his shoulder affectionately. "Calm down Sasuke, we'll get her back."
Kiba hung his head and shook it. "Man, what are we going to do now?" He said solemnly, with Miho by his side whose eyes were starting to water.
A fierce voice pierced the air. "I'll tell you what were are going to do." They all turned to see Tenten, who had a warrior's look in her eye. "We aren't going to sit here and mope about it. Remember that it wasn't us. It was him. He played the cheat card and made us underestimate him."
Neji's lids were closed and his head rested on his chest. His arms were folded to represent mysteriousness about him. "Tenten is right. We did underestimate him. Our only chance now is retrieve Sakura. We are going to get her. The bad news is that he's more powerful than we originally thought. The good news is…" he opened his eyes and met Sasuke's, "He underestimated us."
Tenten looked to the rest of the group. "Correct. We have a tracking expert on our side." She nodded to Kiba.
Kiba smiled a wolfly grin. He lifted his arms up into the cold winter air. "You better believe it!" Then, as if to finish it off, he shouted his signature line, "Yahoo!"
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I woke up in a cold, damp place. The air tasted salty and wet. The sound of crashing waves echoed in the room I was in. I couldn't see anything on account of I had a blindfold on. Behind it all, the squawking of birds, which I was told were seagulls, informed me that I was at the ocean. I had never been to the ocean before, even if I was being held captive, the aura it gave off was a good feeling. I liked it here. Then I smiled. A thought crossed my mind. I'll be sad to leave so soon.
I sensed a presence around me. "Who's there?!" I said.
"See, governor? I told you." Came a voice I recognized as the man who kidnapped me.
"Impressive, Kotaru. Usually your annoying jutsu just gets you in trouble."
The man who is now known as Kotaru, began to take off my blindfold, I-I think.
Then I saw their faces. Kotaru, a not very friendly face, just looked simple; his hair went down to the nape of his neck. His eyes, beady and mischievous, darted back and forth as if he were nervous or something.
The governor had a short white beard, but despite that, I don't think he was very old. His eyes were even more menacing than Kotaru's.
"Well, you know what to do." The governor said. And he left. I glared at him.
"So what are you a coward?" I screamed.
Kotaru grabbed my shirt and pulled my face up to his. "Just be quiet, and don't insult my master."
"Kotaru, for goodness sakes put her down. She doesn't know what's going on, if she keeps to be a problem, just leave her alone. The deadline will arrive soon."
Kotaru nodded. "Yes, master, go and do your business."
Without another word, he left, and Kotaru threw me back in my seat where I was trapped.
"Where am I?" I asked innocently.
"The land of air." Kotaru said, keeping his eyes off me.
"Well, that makes sense." I said in a normal voice, and then added quietly, "considering everyone here is an airhead."
"What did you say?" He exclaimed.
I tried to talk my way out of it. "N-nothing…"
The door of the room crashed down. I saw Sasuke. The others were behind him. "Leave. Her. Alone."
"Sasuke!" I screamed.
He looked at me, then back at Kotaru. "How did you get here?"
He smirked. "We have a tracker, plus, you underestimated us."
He sprinted into the room, and threw a punch.
Unfortunately, Kotaru dodged and appeared behind Sasuke, hitting him upside the head. Sasuke flinched, allowing Kotaru to push him to the floor.
"Sasuke! Untie me!"
He looked up to me, then turned on his back and punched Kotaru in the stomach.
"Ooh!" Kotaru kneeled over, groaning in pain.
Sasuke turned and began to cut the ropes binding me. The others were just frozen in stun, as if this was Sasuke's battle only.
Kotaru looked up with a bloody scowl.
He leaped to his feet and began fighting Sasuke over me. Since he was distracted, I had to give instructions on how to fight back, and untie me at the same time.
"Left!"
"Down!"
"Punch!"
At last he untied me. I leapt to my feet, and gathering charka in my fist, I plowed it into his chest.
He was thrust back into the cabin wall, which collapsed when he collided with it.
Sasuke walked up to him, and looked down. He was still barely alive.
He said something I never thought I would hear him say.
"Keep your paws off my wife."
"Noooo!" The scream was from Miho as she watched Sasuke kill the man who had threatened my life.
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How did you like the ending? Was it a surprise?
Well, I'll guess I'll talk to ya soon. It's just weird how I'm evolving the story line. I wish it were simpler and had more romance in it. Don't worry though, it's coming up. I promise. This is just in here to make it more interesting and seem like it could actually happen in the show. That is what I was going for.
Sayonara,
S.A.Hikari