Chapter Fourteen

Two days previously….

Sasuke charged through the forest, pushing stray branches and other plants aside. He knew he had a hideout somewhere deep in this forest, but he wasn't sure if he and his assistant would be there. Most of the time they were out on assassination missions. Sasuke would just have to pray he was there.

It was nightfall by the time an old decrepit building came into view. Trees mostly hid it from the outside world and ivy was growing all the walls. Long cracks spread the length of the building. To sum it up, it looked like it was a race between the cracks and plants to see which could break the structure first.

Sasuke made his stealthily in, undetected. If the outside looked bad, the inside was worse. Pipes were sticking out at odd angles and water was dripping off the ends. Blood was smeared onto the crumbling walls. The place was not as…sanitary as it used to be.

Sasuke stared at the room in awe until he heard a high-pitched scream echo through the still lifeless silence. He ran toward the sound as fast as he could, fearing the worst. Every now and then he would bump into something in the darkness or slow as his leg seared, but that only made him want to get there faster.

Finally he stumbled onto a dimly lit room. There were chains all over the walls and some even hung from the ceiling. The former occupants of the chains dangled limply on them. Sasuke felt sick just looking at them. The dark stains on the walls, he decided, were bloodstains from the skeletons in the chains. He hoped none of the blood was fresh…

Before Sasuke had the chance to investigate the place further, he heard the cry again. It was definitely closer now. As he sped up slightly, it became coherent words.

"I won't! You know I won't you evil slimy sick twisted bas-ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!" it spoke. Sasuke figured by the high-pitched tone that the person speaking was a female. And it sounded like she was in deep shit.

"Stop!" another voice, this time male, yelled.

There was more screaming, and then the female spoke again. "I'll…. never…tell you…where…. he is…. torture me…all you want…. I won't…give…. in," she choked out, breathlessly.

"Oh you don't have to worry about that, I already know where he is. In fact, I had my friend him a little visit. He's left Konoha by now. Actually, I think he's here listening to every word we speak," a voice dripping with malice explained. "Now don't look at me like that. I might actually let you go if things go as planned. No need to worry."

This voice Sasuke recognized. His fists clenched, but before he could even begin to ponder where these voices were coming from the screaming started again.

"Sakura-chan!" the male voice yelled.

Sasuke narrowed his eyes that had turned blood red Sharingan out of anger. His teammates were here somewhere. And Sakura was being torturing. For some reason this made Sasuke even madder. He had an urge to scream (or yell, can't really see Sasuke screaming).

What came out of his mouth was something that sounded like, "Goteammateslet."

The screaming stopped and the room became eerily quiet.

"Sasuke-teme?" the male, whom Sasuke now knew as Naruto, questioned. "Where are you?"

Sasuke was too furious to answer.

"Sa…. Sasuke-kun?" Sakura gasped out. There was a vomiting noise followed by a sickening SPLAT!

Sasuke flinched. That does not sound good, he thought to himself. Though he never would have admitted it out loud, he was becoming quite concerned. On the other hand he was madder than hell and wanted to kill something…or someone.

"Quit hiding!" he yelled. "Come fight me! Man to man!"

A wall on his right opened to reveal…

A/N- Mwhahahahaha! A cliffhanger!!!! Well not really, I guess I made it kind of obvious who has them, but pretend you don't know or it will spoil my fun!!! LOL!!!!