We ran into the building with hardly a single word. It wasn't an awkward silence - no, never with us! - but more of a silence where neither knew what exactly to say, or had something else on their mind. In this case, both of us were trying to figure out what Naruto and Sasuke were doing. Knowing them though, I was terrified to think what they were up to. So instead, I distracted myself in other ways; memorizing the building's turns and halls, so I would know where to go if needed, reading the different signs on the doors in hopes of finding something interesting or of some value. I made the assumption that this was some sort of government building, like our own Hokage tower, but only scaled down, and not nearly as busy.
"Okay, this is impossible! Where the hell are they?" I hissed as I slammed a door open, scanned the room, then slammed it closed, being that it was empty. We'd been searching the building for a decent amount of time now and still found nothing. Not even the ohh-so-helpful - sarcasm - could pick up anything. Then again, we had only scanned a small portion of the building.
Kakashi was too busy searching to answer, that and I think he knew I was ranting again. How did he put up with my constant complaining, I wonder? Then of course, I'll save you the details of a thought that passed through my head as I marveled at his amazing ability to tolerate my complaining, which then led to me thinking about how amazing he was. Anyways, details that really should be left unsaid.
"How about we split up?" I suggested in a quiet voice. Although I knew it was best, the other side of me - jeez, does she ever shut up?! - yelled, infuriated to be separated again. My heart ached to stay with him, but I knew I had to worry about the mission first, boyfriend later.
He looked up at me, with both eyes, and I saw the same thoughts too. He didn't want to, but he knew we had to. He sighed, placed his hand on my head and said, "Alright, just stay safe, or I'll have to torture anybody who lays a hand on you."
"Excluding Sasuke and Naruto I hope." I said with a grin. "On second thought, you can include them." I chuckled, before stretching on my toes to give him a peck on the cheek. Then I turned and ran further into the building, wanting to hurry up and find the stupid boys.
Luckily, obnoxious Naruto wasn't as hard to find I was expecting. He was searching through some papers, though hardly glancing at them, with his lips turned down into a frown, and his eyebrows pushed down hard against his eyes; not in anger, but more of frustration or concentration.
"What are you looking for?" I asked, causing him to jump.
"That was fast." He commented, casting his gaze back to the papers. I don't think I'd ever seen him so serious.
"Took us long enough to get out of that friggin cell." I rolled my eyes, then walked up behind him and peeked over his shoulder. Every document he rushed through looked important, but crude at the same time. Some looked like plans, some maps, others just important leader stuff. "What's all this?" I asked.
"A bunch of Sound nin documents. Apparently all these sound ninjas work under their own leadership and don't follow their Kage's commands. Yet they still wear their headband proudly." He said, shooting me a glance before putting all the papers in a file. "This is all junk." He growled.
"Why does it matter?"
"We're going to burn this building and everything in it."
I froze. Burn, everything? "Naruto, y-you can't do that!" I said, eye wide.
"What else can we do? They're dangerous." He said, pulling away from the table. I stepped to the side to let him out. "We found plans to destroy Konoha. We can't just arrest all of them, the outnumber us."
"Naruto, you're just burning their building, what do you plan to do with the actual leaders themselves?" I snapped, watching him as he opened some drawers, double-checking something, rather than looking for something.
"They're all in here. Sasuke and I rounded them up." He stopped searching then stared at me with wide eyes, realizing something. "Where's Kakashi?"
"He went looking for Sasuke. We had to split up to find you." I said, as our eyes met. At first, I didn't understand the fear that shown in his blue eyes, then slowly, it sank in. "He's going to find the people locked up..."
"Sasuke went to secure the other entrances, so I don't know how you two got in. If Kakashi lets them out, they'll find the entrances still open and escape." Naruto said, growling and banging his fist against the desk.
"Alright, here," I said, thinking quickly, "I'll go lock the way Kakashi and I came in, and find him before he let's them out. You go and secure the last entrance, and we'll find out way out, got it?"
Quickly, he nodded, and we both ran off. I hastily retraced my steps, barely catching the signs on the doors as they blurred by. Turning a corner, the door came into sight. I locked it, then ran off in the direction Kakashi had gone only minutes earlier. Then came the hard part, figuring out where he had gone. I couldn't afford to be lazy and I had a lot of halls to check. This was going to take too long. From what it sounded like, Sasuke had only given Naruto a time limit to get out of the building, rather than have Naruto send a signal. I was working with a time limit, and I didn't know how long it was.
Racing down the halls, I only slowed to try the doors. Half of them opened - all of those empty. The other half, all locked. Any one of them could have held the prisoners, but I didn't have time for them. About halfway in the building, one of the doors creaked as I ran by, breaking the eerie silence and sending a chill down my spine. I halted, mid-stride then peered into the open door, squinting into the poorly lit room. There was nothing that I could see, but it still sent chills down my spine.
Ready to get back to Kakashi, and away from that room as soon as possible, I turned away, but not soon enough. A thick and rough hand gripped my wrists, and another grabbed my face, covering my mouth. Desperately, I struggled and screamed, but my attempts were muffled and useless.
"Less to me carefully women." The gruff voice hissed as I fought against him. "We know what your friends plan to do. You're going to get their attention, and let them know we have you here. Otherwise, you're going to die a fiery death just like us, and you don't want that do you."
Eyes wide, I stopped screaming, and instead cursed myself. How foolish of me! I had let them catch me! And now because of my damsel-in-distress-status, Sasuke and Naruto's plans would either fail, or it would work, but not for me.