Kakashi was unsure what was going on. One moment he was sleeping somewhat peacefully in his bed, then next he was hogtied and placed roughly on the shoulders of someone rather tall. Frowning, he tried to find the strength to protest, but he took notice to the fact that the ropes that were binding him weren't regular ropes. They seemed to be suppressing his chakra. Taking note how quickly they seemed to be moving by looking down at the ground, he quickly knew that was a mistake when his stomach rolled. He lifted his hands up fast enough to moved his mask out of the way before he was being sick down the back of whoever was carrying him.
"Serves them right. Stealing me from my warm and comfy bed and my lovely wife." Kakashi said and put his mask back in place before he gasped and tried to lift his head to see if they had captured Sakura as well.
"Get him off me! He just threw up on me!" A voice said.
"Hey be gentle. The boss said he didn't want a hair on his head moved the wrong way." Another voice said.
"Oh yeah, then you can carry him and let him be sick all over you!" The first voice yelled.
"'Ey, he doesn't look so good." A third voice piped in.
Kakashi, grateful that he wasn't being jostled around anymore, closed his eyes and tried to calm his overly beating heart as well as try to control the urge to be sick again. Even for himself he looked extremely pale. They'd placed him down on the ground. From the smell of it, they were in a forest. Now he was being lent against a tree. He could tell they were looking, staring rather, at him, but he could hardly care. At the moment he was losing the battle with his stomach and he turned his head and pulled his mask down once more to be sick again.
"What'd think wrong with'im?" The third voice asked.
"How in the world should I know? The boss said to find this guy and bring him to him. We don't want to be staying too long about these parts. Let's get going." The second voice said.
"Then you carry him." The first voice said.
Kakashi groaned and tried to open his left eye, once his mask was back in place, but he wasn't feeling too good and he was so tired. He felt he could rest a bit easy as they didn't have Sakura. She'd be throwing a fit if they did have her. If she had been tied and bound, or drugged somehow, he'd still be able to tell she was there. His last thoughts were on her as he fell unconscious.
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"I don't know what happened. Naruto came over to see him and I wouldn't let him because Kakashi had just gone to sleep. After Naruto left, I went in the bedroom to make sure Kakashi was ok, and he was gone. I know he didn't leave on his own terms either. He was too sick to just get up and go. He could hardly lift his legs to put them under the covers before he went to sleep." Sakura said to the Hokage.
"There isn't any way he could've just been delirious? Maybe thought he was somewhere else and went for a walk? Did you check the places he likes to hide in or the places he likes to just be by himself?" Tsunade-sama asked.
"Of course I did. You didn't honestly think I'd come here without checking them first did you? I even asked some of his friends if they'd seen him. None of them had." Sakura replied.
"So… within the span of you talking to Naruto, Kakashi managed to disappear?" The Hokage asked.
"Yes ma'am." Sakura said feeling low.
"And neither of you noticed anything during that time?" The Hokage asked.
"No ma'am." Sakura managed to feel even lower.
"Humm… well it's understood he couldn't leave on his own terms, so someone must have grabbed him, though I must say that's quite sad to for someone to be able to do that and not one single person notice." The Hokage replied.
Just then Shizune rushed into the room.
"Forgive the intrusion, Izumo just brought in Kotetsu at the hospital. Both of them look badly beaten, but Kotetsu looks much worse. He says that they fought against a band of ninjas. They didn't say where from, but one of them had Kakashi over his shoulder. They thought it was suspicious when Kakashi didn't acknowledge them and he appeared asleep." Shizune said.
Sakura's eyes grew large and she ran from the room, heading towards the hospital. Once she reached her destination she looked around for Izumo and Kotetsu.
"Hey Sakura. I thought you had the day off. What are you doing here instead of taking care of your hubby?" Ino asked with a smirk.
"Where are Izumo and Kotetsu?" Sakura asked ignoring Ino's question.
"Umm… just down the hall actually. Why?" Ino asked.
Sakura took off in the direction Ino pointed and sought out the two tower watchers.
"Izumo? Izumo! Can you hear me?" Sakura asked once she saw one of whom she was looking for.
Izumo really did look like a number was done on him. His hair was matted with blood; there was a cut on both his right cheek and just above his left eye. His usual chin cover had been ripped and Sakura could tell from the way he was sitting that he had at least one broken rib. He slowly turned to look at her and his eyes grew large as he realized who it was talking to him.
"Sakura! They took him. I tried to stop them, Kotetsu did too. We really tried, but they took him! They took Kakashi!" Izumo said frantically as he jumped to his feet.
He swayed unsteadily and Sakura quickly helped him back into a nearby seat.
"Take it easy Izumo. Have you been looked at?" Sakura asked as she laid her right hand gently over his eye.
Her hand glowed green and she began to heal his eye. She then moved to his other injuries, pulling back only once she was done. She had concentrated on him for so long, she didn't notice when the Hokage had gone into the operating room to fix up Kotetsu and she didn't notice when the Hokage was done.
"There, a bit of rest and you'll be good as new." Sakura said.
"Domo arigato Sakura-san." Izumo replied quietly.
He was slowly slipping into dreamland, but when the Hokage cleared her throat he managed to wake up a bit. He wanted to find out about Kotetsu.
"How is Kotetsu? Is he ok? Will he be?" Izumo asked.
"Kotetsu will be fine with rest. He'll need your support, but he'll get strong once again. We're going to move him to his own room. He's in a coma, but he'll come around when he's ready." Tsunade-sama said.
Izumo released the breath he didn't know he was holding and slowly sank to the floor, his head bowed.
"You on the other hand, will be staying here for three days. You two can share a room. Ino! Find a room and get Izumo and Kotetsu in it." Tsunade-sama yelled.
"Domo Hakage-sama." Izumo managed as he was pulled off his knees and placed onto a bed.
Tsunade nodded to him and watched as he was being wheeled away before she turned her attention to Sakura. Sakura looked lost. Unsure as to what to do.
"We'll find him. Don't worry." Tsunade-sama said.
Sakura just nodded and swallowed before trying to figure out what she should do now.
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"'ey Iwao, think he's waking up." The third voice said.
"Go get some more wood for the fire." Iwao said.
"Why can't Tadao go get it?" The third voice asked.
"He asked you to get it Kunio." Tadao said calmly. "However if you are truly unable to go, I shall."
"Kunio, get the firewood. Tadao get some water and start boiling it. 'ey you awake?" Iwao asked looking at Kakashi.
Kakashi had been awake, but he chose to ignore the man. Not only that, he was sure his fever was up again. He hadn't taken or eaten anything for some time now. He was slowly starting to drift towards the middle of being awake and falling sleep, but his stomach growled and it threw off any thoughts of sleeping again.
"'ey!" Iwao yelled.
Kakashi turned half mast eyes towards the voice talking to him, but for the majority of it he felt like ignoring the voice and going back to sleep.
"You didn't hit him with any of your poison without telling us did you Kunio?" Tadao asked once the two had returned.
Kunio was carrying an arm load of wood and shook his head quickly.
"No, Boss said not to do anything to him that was unnecessary. I mean he was easy enough to get because he was asleep. All we had to do was tie up his arms with the ropes. I didn't do anything we weren't supposed to do." Kunio replied.
"Well obviously somethin' wrong wit him." Iwao stated.
Tadao walked over to Kakashi and placed a hand on Kakashi's forehead, at least he tried to. Kakashi had found the strength to move at the last moment. He knew it wasn't much, but he attempted to give Tadao one of his fierce glares.
"He's with fever. I can feel it from him, even without touching him." Tadao said.
"Boss isn't going to like this." Kunio said.
"Well shit." Iwao said and got up pacing for a moment. "What are we suppose to do?"
"I suppose the most important thing now, is to feed him, give him something to drink, and then get him to the Boss. I'm unsure as to the cause of the fever, but if he were to keep still, I might be able to find that out." Tadao said.
He had attempted to touch Kakashi again, and once again Kakashi moved away from his touch. Kakashi was getting more tired now, but he couldn't help not wanting to help these guys.
"It would be easier if you were to cooperate with us. Would it not?" Tadao asked.
Kakashi turned his attention to Iwao, glaring at him.
"What you lookin' at me for?" Iwao asked with a frown.
Tadao took the slight distraction and once again attempted to check Kakashi's vitals, but Kakashi wasn't making it easy for him. Tadao sighed and moved back over to the others. Kakashi knew he couldn't just relax around them, but he was so tired and his sickness was really kicking his butt right now. Wincing slightly as he changed position, he tried to take in what was going to happen.
"Boss wants us back by tomorrow. We're actually making good time. We should arrive sometime around morning. S'long as he doesn't give us any trouble." Iwao stated.
Kakashi took a chance to look around and his eyes grew large as he realized where he was.
"Oh shit."
My extreme apologies! Unfortunately my laptop is in need of repair, or I'm looking at having to purchase another one. Granted the fact that I was able to get this chapter up with no problem is no excuse, but I'm not totally able to use the comps at school or the library all the time. Please forgive me!! I do hope you enjoyed the chapter. Let me know what you think and if you wish to yell at me I will take what's coming to me. Thanks for reading!