Chapter 14

Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto…only Mayume, and my friends own Auku, Rinu, whom shall now be called Dien, and Minoru... I will introduce more Ocs later on when they become significant.

Author's Note: Thanks to my friends, Jessica and Anna, whose characters are Auku and Dien…they helped me write this chapter and we rpged the fight and kidnapping scenes which take up like all of this chapter…Oh and there's major swearing in this chapter, and I mean excessively!! I hope that this chapter makes up for my last chapter which was crap…Ja ne !

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'…' is thoughts,

"…" is talking,

… is a sound,

and everything else is an action !!

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After a half hour of searching, carrying and setting up traps, Sakura lay down her three teammates under the protective roots of a giant tree. Sighing at the fact that she was truly alone at the moment, she opened up her canteen of water and poured some onto the three chunks of ripped cloth. She slowly placed the pieces of soaked material onto Naruto and Sasuke's foreheads and went to put the third piece down on Mayume. Suddenly the Uchiha girl's left hand snapped up and grabbed Sakura's hand.

"I'm fine." Mayume grunted at the pain in her right shoulder but noticed that her left arm was now fully healed. She grinned and moved her left arm around to make sure that it healed properly, took it out of the sling that it had been in, then looked at Sakura as she stood up. "So what happened?" Mayume's eyes narrowed as she listened to what Sakura had to say about the fight.

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Sakura had sent Mayume off to find some more water because she had used a lot of it to soak the material and to clean their wounds. Mayume walked into a small clearing a few minutes after hearing a river nearby. She bent down beside the wide stream and started to open the 3 canteens of water that she had brought with her. As she started to hum to herself and plunge the containers into the stream, she heard a rustling nearby. Surprised, she dropped the canteen in the water and got a kunai in hand, 'You can never be too careful'...

Not too far away from her, a devious character that went by the name of Auku was practicing one of his wicked Jutsu's of reanimation. He stopped what he was doing sensing a disturbance in his surroundings and silently made his way through the thicket of the vegetation around him to see what it was. Carefully observing his surroundings he soon spotted a young girl with navy blue hair collecting water from the swift running river in front of her. On her back, he saw her clan symbol, a red and white fire fan, "She's an Uchiha…Lord Orochimaru was talking about them before…" He squinted his eyes and leaned forward in the bush he was spying through and accidentally snapped a twig, triggering an almost instantaneous reaction from the girl in front of him. He swiftly dove down into the bush as not to be seen hunched his shoulders ready to spring out and attack at any instance.

"Who's there?" Mayume crouched down into a defensive position and closed her eyes so that she could try to sense if it was an enemy ninja or just an animal, after all, she couldn't be to careful since she was alone and her right arm was still injured from the last fight. Mayume shrunk to the ground and started to make her way over to the bushes where the rustling sounds were coming from and quickly pulled aside the thick branched that were in her way. Expecting something to jump out at her she instinctively put her arms up to her face.

Auku smirked as he saw the girl slowly and cautiously make her way over to him, he waited a moment to see what she was going to do and at the last moment when she pulled the branch out of the way he darted swiftly into the tree branch above. He then concentrated his power and began to assume the form of a dark navy blue wolf with a red scar like mark reaching from his ear, over his eye and down to his jaw, which then protruded down the left side of his body. He grinned and then steadied his body over the branch to observe the girl below him, waiting for an open opportunity to strike.

"Phew!" Mayume wiped her brow with her hand and let out a deep sigh of relief. "I better get back to Sakura quickly...knowing her, she won't stand a chance if a ninja attacks them" Mayume ran back to the river and started to fill the last 2 canteens at the same time.

Auku took this moment and jumped down quietly from his perch. He lowered his head quietly while staying as low to the ground as possible as he approached the unsuspecting girl. He raised his hackles and got ready to strike with his teeth bared, but then he did it...he stepped on another twig which froze him on the spot, hopefully not raising the girl's awareness of him.

Mayume stiffened as she heard the twig snap. Quickly forming a hand seal, she made a fire barrier around herself and spun around, only to come face to face with a giant wolf. "Kuso..."she quietly mumbled as she stared it in the eyes and started to back away slowly, not wanting to fight the creature with her injured shoulder. Thank fully if it came down to a fight, her left arm had healed while she had been knocked unconscious from the fight with the sound ninja, who she now knew as Orochimaru.

Auku leered at her with his vibrant green eyes; he scrunched up his muzzle to reveal a set of razor sharp teeth and a pair of 2-inch long canine fangs. He let out a very low growl and slowly began to circumvent the barrier; all the while keeping a hawk's watch on her in case she tried anything funny.

Mayume smirked at the wolf. After all, now that she knew what she was dealing with, she wasn't scared. She closed her eyes and got into a meditative position on the floor and started quite a long line of hand seals. When she opened her eyes, she grinned at the clones that she had created; there were 3 of them. She whispered a small thank you to Naruto who was still unconscious from the last fight, and then started another set of hand seals with her eyes opened and staring at the wolf. All of her clones copied her as she ended off with the sign of the monkey and whispered "Kanashibari no jutsu" (Body Freeze Skill) and all of the clones rushed after the wolf, piling on top of him and freezing him to the spot. She released her barrier since she didn't wish to waste her chakra.

The first and second clone had made contact with Auku's body deteriorated into nothing and another lunged out from the treetops above. With his jaw agape and ready to sink his fangs into anything that got into his way, he aimed himself straight for Mayume.

Mayume quickly rolled out of the way, and just in time. The wolf's giant fangs sank into the ground and a shiver was sent down her spine at the thought of the ground being her. She shook her head and activated her sharingan. What she saw next confused her greatly, for she saw the body of a boy about 17 or 18, inside the body of the wolf. His low growls brought her back to reality and she crouched down again and popped a soldier pill into her mouth before starting another jutsu. "Katon Goukakyuu no Jutsu" (Fire Element Grand Fireball) she shouted out as she jumped up into the air and sent a giant wave of flames towards the wolf below her.

Auku let out a sharp bark as he looked up at the giant flames coming towards him. He hadn't the time to run far enough away from the massive inferno that was coming towards him so instead he took in a breath and spat out a viscous substance that stank of alcohol into the flames. It was only moments before the substance collided with the flurry above him and erupted into a rather violent explosion, sending him quite a few feet back into some thicket of bushes.

At the sight of the explosion, Mayume put her hands up protectively and braced herself for the oncoming debris. A few seconds later, she was violently thrown into a tree, a small stub of a branch puncturing her left side. Her light body hit the hard ground with a sickening thud and she let out a painful groan. As she tried to get up, a wave of nausea hit her, she couldn't see straight and her legs collapsed underneath her.

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Auku's landing had been a bit more pleasant; he had been thrown into a tree and slid down into the bushes, which had broken his fall. His torso ached a bit but all else was ok as he stood up and shook his head to rid the dizziness from it. He smirked and calmly began to reassume his human form and began to approach the semi-conscious girl who was sprawled across the base of a very well rooted tree. When he was standing right next to her he kneeled down, knowing that she was currently unfit to do anything and put his hand around her neck, holding her down as he pulled out a Kunai knife.

"We can do this quickly and painlessly, or as a prolonged torture, it's up to you" He looked down at her with a very devious grin and angled the kunai in his hand towards her throat.

As she opened her mouth to talk, blood spilled from the side "W-who...are y-you...?" she asked as strongly and loudly as she could in her current state. She shifted a bit so that her hand was resting near her kunai pouch, but inconspicuously enough so that the sound ninja in front of her didn't notice. She stared at the boy in front of her and thought 'He's kinda cute...' she then mentally slapped her self as she remembered that he was about to kill her.

Auku did nothing but stare her down for a good few seconds before answering her question, he spoke a bit aggressively at the fact that she was asking him questions.

"You are in no position to ask me anything, I don't have to answer" His voice was low and husky as he spoke in a tone just above a whisper. Auku clenched his teeth and moved the kunai right up to her neck, resting it above her right jugular, just above his hand, which was still around the front of her neck.

Mayume smirked and slowly started to laugh. "You think that an Uchiha would be that easy to kill?" she laughed louder as the leaves around them rose from the ground in a whirlwind. As the wind died down, the scene looked the same as before, except that there was now another figure in a tree over top of them, hiding their chakra so that their presence was unknown to the two below them.

"What are you doing here? You disobeyed direct orders." Mayume had left a clone underneath the wolf boy and transported herself into the tree and jumped down, disguised as Orochimaru, whom Sakura had told her was a ninja from the sound village as well.

Auku lowered his head and let out a low growl as he turned around to greet his ally. He wasn't too pleased that Orochimaru was here and withdrew his kunai and stood up to face him. " L-lord Orochimaru... I found this suspicious girl snooping around and thought to please you by capturing her..."

Mayume smirked at the fact that the boy thought that she was his ally. 'So this Orochimaru guy is more important than I thought, and this guy isn't as smart as I thought he was either' Mayume scanned her own bloodied clone that thankfully hadn't disappeared yet, and then looked straight at wolf boy.

"You think that your lame excuse would make up for your mistakes?" In Orochimaru's form, she stood about one inch above the boy, but in real life she knew that she was only up to about his chest. "Go find your team-mates and get to the tower." She narrowed her eyes and snaked out the unnaturally long tongue that she very clearly remembered that Orochimaru had. She shivered and let out a small grunt as her left side started to ache again and she was hit with another wave of nausea. 'Kuso! If I don't get this guy out of here soon, I'm as good as dead.'

Auku took one step forward towards Mayume's almost lifeless body and smirked "Yes lord Orochimaru, but not before killing this girl..." He took a swing with his kunai and implanted it into the clone's neck, which on impact, instantly vanished. When he saw that the girl against the tree had just been a replica he growled and was about to run out and search for her when he realized that 'Lord Orochimaru's' scent resembled that of the girl he was currently after. Without taking another step or turning around he swung his arm back and threw his kunai in the direction of her disguised form.

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Mayume smirked as she caught the kunai, and reappeared in her normal state. As she held her side in agony she looked up at the boy and laughed "It took you long enough..." she threw the kunai back at him and took out a giant shuriken. Opening it in front of her, she added chakra to her feet and leapt up onto the first branch of the tree behind her, never taking her eyes off of the sound ninja.

Auku grinned and easily evaded the kunai, he flipped backwards, only to see that Mayume was holding a giant weapon. He took a fighting stance with his arms out to the side, extending his claws, not completely but just enough for them to be about 7 inches long. "Looks like I underestimated you girl..."

"Everyone always does…It's the height isn't it?" She looked down at him as he extended his nails and shivered at the thought of them going through her. She jumped into the air, off of the branch and as she mumbled inaudible words, she quickly pulled out 6 kunai so that she wouldn't be weapon less as she landed and swung 4 of them at the boy as she landed gracefully on her feet. Mayume's smirk widened as she split the giant shuriken into 2 and criss-crossed them in front of herself as a sort of shield. "Take that, asshole..."

Auku jumped up and did a kick flip into the air, evading the first three kunai and landing carefully a few feet away from her. He was unlucky to have not missed the fourth kunai and it nicked his right calf, slicing through the black material of his pants and the side of his leg so that there was a nice deep cut in its place. He ignored the pain that followed, as he kept a watchful eye on what the girl would do with the large, crossed blades. He swung his arm forward and shot out a flurry of senbon, each drenched in a dosage of a strong narcotic drug.

She laughed at his futile attempts to hit her with the needles, not knowing that they were filled with poison. She swung her shuriken around deflecting all of the needles that she could see. She suddenly felt something pierce her neck and stopped her counter attack, which got her hit with 3 more needles. "Damn it..." She crouched down and pulled the needles out quickly so that the wounds wouldn't get infected. She picked up her giant shuriken again and weakly got up. She growled at the boy and swung the shuriken at him before collapsing to the ground again, now feeling the affects of a poison at work. "Those weren't just senbon were they?"

He looked at her form crouched on the ground and smirked triumphantly. The effect of his poison would last for at least an hour and a half, and that was more then plenty of time to finish her off. "No, they weren't" He grinned and walked over to pick up a kunai that was embedded in the ground a few feet away from her. He picked it up and walked back to her and once again held it to her neck. "Any last words?"

She grunted as she felt the effects of the drug fully take over, and collapsed to the ground without the time to say anything. She twitched a bit before she felt her body stop moving, and within a few seconds she was unconscious.

Auku tightened the grip on his Kunai and hesitated for a second before a thought popped into his head 'What if I were to bring her back to Lord Orochimaru and use her as a hostage...he would probably award me with a promotion or something...' Auku grinned to himself and looked around for a moment to see if anyone was watching him. When he found the coast was clear, he shoved his kunai into the pouch on his hip and slung Mayume over his shoulder with ease and headed off to look for the rest of his team members.

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Mayume's thoughts were fuzzy as was her sight at first when she opened her eyes. She could hear the voices of what seemed to be a female and male a bit off from where she was. "Sakura, Sasuke, Naruto!!!" she cried out as she remembered that they were all alone. As she tried to get up, she realized that there were ropes tying her against a giant oak and her legs were bound. She smiled to herself...whoever had taken her must have been stupid enough to have forgotten that she could use fire, and these stupid ropes could be burnt easily. She made a few hand signs and summoned a small ball of fire to her hands.

"Auku...I think she woke up..." a red head male, that went by the name of Dien, quieted his feminine voice down to a whisper as he looked at his teammate.

Auku turned around too look at his captive to see that she was just about to set ablaze the confines of the rope that were keeping her immobile. He swiftly walked over to her with a scowl gracing his features.

"Right…unless you plan to burn yourself alive then go right ahead..." He looked at the rope and then to the clothes she was wearing and then pulled out a small vial, pouring its contents on the area under the rope. It held a strong scent of gasoline and sulphearic gas.

Her frown turned into a grin as she saw the wolf boy from earlier, walk towards her. She quickly started to burn the ropes, but stopped suddenly as he poured the flammable substance on the ground below her. "You know...it's not polite to not tell someone your name...especially if you've just kidnapped them..." Mayume's grin widened with each step towards her that he took.

Auku gave her a very intimidating glare as she looked up at him "Shut up, why and who the heck cares about being polite when your a freaking captive?!" He gave her another glare, as he stood tall and loomed over her small form.

She giggled slightly at looks that he was giving her, then without warning threw the fireball that had been in her hand, right at his chest. She then kicked out her still tied legs, towards his red haired teammate who had been staring at the wolf boy with a dreamy look throughout their dispute.

Auku growled loudly as he felt the impact of the small inferno smack him square in the chest, and he fell back onto the ground. He winced at the minor pain he was in, and then shook his head "You're such a fucking annoyance! Dien, go tie up her hands..." He barked rampantly, slowly getting himself up and dusting off the dirt on his pants

"Alright Auku-san"… Dien put his hand to his waist and snapped something off of his belt. When he brought his hand back up, it seemed that he had a thick metal pole in his hand, but with one flick of his wrist, a leather whip appeared, and he "tied" Mayume's hands from distance...

The whip curled around her thin wrists without warning, and she fell on her face..."Ouch..." She could feel the leather rope dig into her skin and she quickly got to her knees and grabbed hold of the weapon... "What a drag..." She grimaced as she pulled on the whip, dragging Dien to the ground as well.

Auku wiped a smidgen of dirt from the side of his cheek and then walked over to Mayume. Stepping on the end of the whip he made sure that there could be no movement from her hands from the ground. He roughly thrust his hand forwards and curled it around her neck tightly and picked her up so that she was eye level with him "Why the hell are you so much fucking trouble..." He asked her as he pulled out a vial filled with a strong paralysis fluid. Taking out a senbon and drenching it in the liquid, he injected it into her neck.

"Hopefully this will make things easier on us" He then threw her to the ground and tied her hands separately from each other around the trunk of the tree so that she wouldn't be able to perform hand signs.

Her eyes widened as she felt the senbon pierce her neck. 'Fuck...I hate needles' for the second time in what seemed to be an hour long meeting, she could feel her body going numb, but this time, she didn't blank out. 'Great...now they can flippin torture me and actually get a reaction...' As the boy in front of her dropped her to the ground and dragged her to the Giant Oak, she thought that she saw some pity in Dien's eyes.

Dien slowly walked over and sat in front his and Auku's captive and looked her in the eyes for a moment "Hi! I'm Dien.", he whispered. Mayume just stared back at him with a weirded expression on her face. "Um...hi?" She let out a small smile and looked towards Dien's teammate with hatred. "Um...I'm Mayume...It's nice to meet you Dien." Dien smiled back sweetly and started asking her random questions. "What's your favorite food?" "Um…sushi? What's yours?" "I LIKE RAMEN!!" "So… what's your teammates name...he's kinda hot..." She giggled lightly and hoped to God that her girly girl act would work on the red head in front of her.

Dien smiled back at her with a knowing look in his eyes and leaned towards her ear "I know he's hot...but he's mine…" He brought his head back in front of her all the while staring into her eyes and smiling softly.

Auku growled in frustration from his spot a few meters away at the noise and yelled out "Dien keep that damn girl quiet..." Mayume turned her attention to the wolf boy and shouted back in retaliation. "Shut the fuck up you asshole!!" She screamed as she tried to move her fingers. "It's bad enough that I can't move..." Auku growled, trying get back to concentrating on his meditation, he ignored her snide comment and closed his eyes again.

"Are you homophobic or something?" Dien continued in whisper. Mayume stared at the for sure gay teen sitting in front of her, and smirked smugly "Oh, I'm not homophobic at all, it's just, your teammate...whatever his name is...doesn't seem the type to be bisexual or gay...he was staring at me while we were fighting...I should know." She smiled to herself, knowing that this little white lie would work as a distraction to both sound ninjas, giving her time to try and escape again.

Dien didn't say a word as he just sat in front of Mayume, and kept staring at her eyes intensely. "What? Does the truth hurt?" Mayume grinned again, waiting for Dien's reaction. She knew the right way to push people's buttons and she knew that he was just about ready to burst.

"Many people have told me that before...but all I can say is that I know him way better than you..." He said as he narrowed his eyes. "Pfft...So you say...queer boy..." Mayume said as she closed her eyes. She figured that since she couldn't move, she could at least be an annoyance to them. With her eyes still closed, she started to sing "99 cups of sake on the wall, 99 cups of sake, you take one down, pass it around, 98 cups of sake on the wall..."

Loosing all patience in ignoring the girl Auku stormed towards his captive and stood beside Dien glaring at her "If you can't keep your fucking mouth shut I swear I'll slit your throat!" he growled in frustration and put stress on certain words to try and get his point across.

Mayume just smiled back sweetly. 'One down, one to go!' she stared him in the eyes and stated in her bravest voice "But what would Lord-Orochimaru say?' She snickered, as she stuck out her tongue and stared at Auku's face.

"I don't give a fuck what he'd say, I don't even give half a shit about that snake faced freak!" Auku pulled out his kunai and held in front of her "and this time I'll torture you slowly if it comes to this..."

She gulped slowly, but quickly put on a strong bravado, not wanting to show any weakness. "What crawled up your ass and died? Of course you care about what he would say...you're under his command are you not?" She blew a raspberry then closed her eyes again lazily.

He clenched his teeth at his ever-growing frustration with her "I may be from the sound village, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to listen to that freak Orochimaru... Why the hell am I even arguing with you!?" He let out an exasperated sigh an rubbed his temples.

"Because I can make you mad...you're so easy to manipulate!" Mayume just sighed with her eyes still closed and noticed that she could now mover her finger. 'Pfft it doesn't matter if my hands are apart...I trained under Kakashi so I can make hand signs with one hand...' with her eyes still closed, she activated her sharingan and created a clone to use as another distraction.

Auku sensed the chakra that she was stirring up, and kept a careful eye on her. He knew that she was going to try to pull another stunt to try and get away again, so he never took his eyes off of her. "Right and I'm some sort of amusement to you?!"

She opened her eyes and gave him an evil look, "Of course you are." She smiled as a huge explosion came from the right of the three ninjas, about 1 kilometer away.

"H-hey Auku-san… d-do you have more of t-that…um… paralyzing p-poison stuff with y-you?" Asked Dien as he looked in the direction that the explosion had come from. Mayume smirked as she could sense the slight fear in his voice.

Auku grinned "That I do, there's plenty left to keep her still for a week" He grinned and pulled out a small vile containing concentrated sulfuric acid "But first to slow our little friend down if she should attempt to get away again... ", He picked up her right leg and poured the acid down the back of her shin so that it started to damage her Achilles tendon and eat away at her skin.

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Instead of screaming out in pain, Mayume started to hyperventilate. "Fuck!!! What the hell...did you do that for?" As her breaths grew faster and shallower, she swore that she could see some regret on Auku's face, but as quickly as it came it left. She groaned in agony as she felt the acid deteriorate her leg, and found that she couldn't concentrate on anything but the pain.

"Be lucky that it won't go farther then the first few layers of your muscle tissue, try anything funny again and I will chop your leg right off..." Auku sighed in exasperation and put the vile away into his pouch. Mayume just stared at him in disbelief, "You wouldn't dare...would you?" She shivered at the possibility of having her right leg chopped off and pushed the thought from her head. "That would be so disgusting!!"

Auku gave her a very sinister smirk and rested his kunai on her leg "Sorry to disappoint you, but my world isn't filled with pretty ponies and rainbows; this is reality kid and I don't care about removing limbs" Auku licked his lips sadistically and lowered his face closer to hers, "besides I wouldn't mind to taste human flesh, it would be the first in a long time..."

Mayume moved her head, as far away from Auku as possible and shivered, 'This guy ain't kiddin...'. As of now, she couldn't feel the bottom of her right leg or move it, but waves of pain kept coming up from her right knee cap. She could now tell that her own fear was showing and she deactivated her sharingan, wanting to keep as much chakra as possible in trying to escape the hellhole.

To make matters worse Auku began to reassume his previous wolf form and continued to intimidate her with his demonic glare. He bent down and sniffed the now open wound on the back of her leg and licked his lips smelling the strong scent of blood dripping from the corroded flesh. His grin was even more evil as he looked back at her to see how she'd react " Or if you'd like I could tear it off here and now.

Her eyes shrunk and she started to mumble incoherent words out of pure shock. A tear slid down her cheek as she started to break down on the inside. "I can't take it anymore!!" She lifted her head up to glare menacingly at Auku, "...if you want to kill me...just do it already..."

He just stood there looking at her with his piercing green eyes with the same grin unwavering on his face "Now you'll think twice about questioning my motives the next time..."He growled low and assumed his human form again.

Auku had a horrible influence on her and she knew it. She just sat against the tree, dazed, shivering and crying...

Dien changed his position on the ground from sitting to lying, staring at Mayume all the while. He wasn't too impressed or happy by what Auku did since he was generally a peace-loving child.

Auku looked around for a moment and then reached his hand into his pouch and pulled out a bottle filled with small tablets. He popped the lid open and grabbed one then shoved the bottle back into his pouch. "I'm gonna end this here and now Dien, I'm going to kill this annoyance" He walked over to her and gave her a long intimidating look before forcefully shoving the pill into her mouth.

"You caught her... do whatever you want..." Dien couldn't help but feel a bit of regret at saying this, as he didn't actually want Auku to hurt the girl.

Mayume struggled to keep the pill out of her mouth since her body had started to numb from the shock of her leg. She spit it out and pursed her lips in a sad attempt to keep Auku from forcing another in her mouth.

Auku scowled at the fact she was being so stubborn "You are going to take it or I'm going to make you!" He grinned and pulled out another one from the bottle and leaned over holding it in front of her "Now…we can do this the easy way or the hard way..."

Mayume was now too weak from blood loss to even respond and she knew that Auku could sense that "now that was easy…"as he pushed the next pill into her mouth, she only had the energy to scowl at him one last time before the 'deadly' drug took over.