Sasuke ran his chakra covered hand down the front of Satori reinstating Satori's real appearance. Satori looked down and noticed he was wearing his normal outfit.
"Konoha. My daughter. You created it all?"
"With the help of my Sharingan." Sasuke said. "Now please tell me. How did you discover the truth? The future I created for you should have been convincing."
"It wasn't. It was the video of my 'wife' Azumi. Bad move."
"But I chose a person from your past. Someone you had relations with."
"Your mistake, Sasuke. Azumi was killed during a mission."
"So much effort. So little accomplished."
"Why did you even bother in doing this?"
"We're wasting time." Sasuke said as he began to walk away. "Bring him."
Sasuke and Satori walked down a dimly lit corridor followed by a few Sound ninjas.
"When you and your teammate passed out in that cave you were not far from our position."
"My teammate where is he?"
"I allowed him to be safely retrieved. But with the help of my Sharingan I didn't allow them to see you."
"They won't stop looking for me."
"They already have." Sasuke said opening a gate. "Say hello to your daughter."
Satori walked into the room to see a girl sitting on the far side of the room.
"Kushina."
"That is not her name of course." Sasuke said. "Nor have you ever met her. I merely used her image to add to the genjutsu."
Satori stepped closer to the girl. But she quickly stood up and ran off.
"What have you done to her?"
"While I'm gone please give careful thought to your situation." Sasuke said as he shut the gate.
Satori watched Sasuke and the guards walk off. He then turned his attention to the girl.
"What's your name?"
He got closer to her but she attempted to get farther away but the wall was preventing that.
"Easy, I'm not going to hurt you. Who are you? How did you get here?" He said slowing getting closer. "My name is Satori."
"Tohru. They brought me here with my parents. We were traveling from the Lightning Country to the Waterfall Country when we ran into a group of Sound ninjas."
"That's odd that they just took prisoners without any reason. Where are your parents now?"
"They took them away."
"Do you know why you're here?"
"No. I just want to get away."
"I'll get us out of here, Tohru."
"How? Even if we do escape they'll find us. They found me when I escaped before."
"You escaped?"
"Yeah, I hid a secret compartment for weeks. They caught me when I came out to look for food."
At that moment the door opened and Sasuke entered.
"I want that information, Satori. I want to know where Itachi is."
Satori stood silent. He really didn't know and wanted to know why Sasuke thought he knew.
"Very well. You've given me no choice and I'm willing to use whatever means are necessary."
At that moment Tohru leapt to her feet and ran.
"Tohru, no."
Sasuke looked back at Tohru and turned around just in time to see Satori's fist. Sasuke hit the ground hard. Satori then threw a kunai and hit the other guard in the chest. Tohru and Satori stopped at the cell's entrance.
"That secret hiding place of yours…"
Satori was cut off by a kunai barely missing him. Satori threw one in return and killed the oncoming guard.
"This way." Tohru said.
The two of them ran down the corridors. Another guard came out of a room and Satori spit his senbon from his mouth and hit the guard in the neck.
"In here." She said as she pulled open a metal grate from the wall.
She climbed in followed by Satori. Once both of them were inside, they pulled the gate shut and latched it to the wall. A few seconds later two more guards came running down the hallway. They knew that the intruders had come this way due to the dead body on the ground. One of them looked at the metal grate and tried to open it but it wouldn't open. Satori and Tohru hid as the guard tried to open it.
"I don't sense their chakra." The guard said.
The two guards stood up and left.
"They should've sensed us."
"No they can't. There's something in these rocks."
"Heavy metals?"
"Right."
Tohru led Satori deeper into her hiding place.
The Sound forgot all about this store room when they rebuilt their tunnels. After I escaped last time I mapped out all their tunnels."
Tohru grabbed a piece of paper sitting on a nearby box. She pointed out a few places on the map.
"Here is the entrance way." Tohru said.
"Well we could try and get to the entrance way. How many guards are stationed there?"
"There are only two or three guards posted there at a time but it won't work. The entrance itself is locked by a special seal."
"Do you know who can unlock the seal?"
"Only Ambassador Sasuke."
"Who?"
"Sasuke."
"Ambassador Sasuke? Sasuke isn't an ambassador. The only time he was called that was during his little genjutsu fantasy. How do you know about that?"
"You told me about that."
"Who are you? What is your part in all this?"
At that moment, the grate was pulled open. Satori lazily turned around towards the noise then back to Tohru.
"They found us."
"You said they couldn't sense chakra in these tunnels."
"Maybe they figured out a way. Come on we've got to go." Tohru said grabbing a hold of Satori's arm.
Satori pulled her closer to him.
"Where are we going to go, Tohru?"
"Anywhere but here."
"I've had enough."
Just then Sasuke and a few guards appeared in front of them.
"Satori, surrender." Sasuke said.
"No more games. No more fantasies. I'm not going to play anymore."
Tohru looked disappointed as she stared at the ground. Finally, Sasuke and the guards disappeared as well as the room they were in. It was replaced by the cavernous cave that Satori was in earlier.
"It was never the Sound, it was you all along wasn't it?"
Outside, Junshin, Hanako and Aoba stood at the cave's entrance.
"There's no doubt about it. I can sense his chakra." Hanako said.
Aoba pressed the button on his neck to activate his radio.
"Aoba to Satori."
"I'm here Aoba-sensei."
"Are you all right?"
"Yeah I'm fine. What about Junshin."
"He made it out of the cave over an hour ago, he's fine. Where have you been?
"I'm not sure yet. I think I'm about to find out. Stand by." Satori said releasing the button.
Tohru walked over and sat down on a nearby rock.
"You are very gifted in Genjutsu." Satori said.
"My mother taught me. My village was destroyed. My mother brought me here so our enemies wouldn't find me."
A look of sadness fell across Satori's face.
"They found her didn't they?"
Tohru nodded. "My mother taught me Genjutsu to give me anything I wanted."
"Anything? Then why did you kidnap me?"
"I wanted you to stay. It's been so long. I wanted somebody real. I thought that you'd be happy. I'm sorry."
She turned her eyes away from Satori and stared at the ground.
"I have to return to my village."
Tohru looked back up to Satori.
"Come with me. You don't have to stay here anymore. You don't have to be alone anymore."
A smile grew across Tohru's face. Satori walked over and put his arm on her shoulder. He then pressed the button on his neck.
"Aoba-sensei, we're coming out."
Together, Satori and Tohru left the cave and headed for the Hidden Village Among the Leaves.
The End