Unwanted?

Chapter Nine – Capture or Escape?

Disclaimer: I own this computer, the teddy bear on my bed, and the notebook on the desk. But I'm pretty sure I don't own Naruto.

Rated T for language and safety.

Sakura smiled widely, her body shaking with happiness. She slid her hand from his and wrapped her arms around his neck. She couldn't help but chuckle at his look of surprise before slowly laying her lips on his.

But before the kiss got any deeper, they heard Ino and Naruto yelling from the path that lead to the road.

"Sasuke! Sakura!" Naruto yowled, "The police are coming! They somehow found us!"

"Damn shit!" Sasuke cursed, eyes blazing. He turned to Sakura, grabbing her wrists, harder than he meant to. Sakura winced, "Run to the mine, follow the purple crystals on the ground, you'll find a crevice in the wall that leads into our secret hiding, we'll meet you there soon," he let go of her and ran to the house with Naruto and Ino before she could protest.

She could feel her blood pounding in her head as she ran through the old mine, following the sparkling purple crystals that found light from lowly lit candles. Sakura fell many times, scraping her palms and cutting her knees open.

"Shit, the police will see the blood on the ground if they come in here, oh well, no time to waste," she stumbled to her feet and found herself at wall. She found the cut in the earthy wall and wiggled threw easily, tripping over something. She felt for the object and immediately realized it was an oil lamp.

She sighed in relief and lit it. And when the light filled the tiny space, she was surprised to see what the tiny room with filled with.

Sasuke ran through the house with a bag, carelessly tossing their belongings into it, as to delete all evidence that he and his friends had ever been in the house-mansion. With the help of all his friends, everything was stuffed into a bag very quickly, even if they didn't have very many things.

"Sakura's already in the secret hide-away, let's hurry before they find us!"

The group nodded and bolted out of the back door one at a time. As they ran down the mine tunnel, Sasuke quickly realized that someone was missing.

"Where's Sai?" he asked, relatively unconcerned.

"He's probably still searching for another case," Ino answered, "at least he's safe."

"Why wouldn't he?" Naruto asked, "He's the only one who can really pass as an adult yet,"

"Very true," Ino seemed to purr.

Sakura jumped as a hand touched her shoulder, she spun around and saw Sasuke standing behind her. She sighed in relief. Everyone had made it to the hide-away just fine. Why did they have bags?

She looked quizzically at Sasuke.

"All the things that could suggest that we were ever there," Sasuke explained, dropping his sack, "all our night clothes and matches we used to light the candles. Everything,"

Hinata gasped after his last 'everything', "Oh no!" she whispered, "We don't have everything,"

"What?"

"The necklace, the diamond necklace! It was on the bedside table! I totally forgot about it! They're for sure going to find it!"

Naruto took her hand softly and led her away from the others, to a different corner of the weird shaped hideout.

Sasuke was lost for words, his mouth was dry and his eyes were wide. Sakura slowly touched his arm and he looked around at her.

"There's nothing we can do now, they're probably already searching the place," Sasuke said, wrapping her in a hug, "And they'll probably find us, since we forgot to blow out the candles on the way down here,"

Sakura stared blankly at the wall over his shoulder, at a picture that a tiny hand drew what now seemed thousands of years ago. It was drawn with crayons and the person who drew it had not gained his or her hand-eye skills yet. Still, the miniatures of Neji, Hinata, Ino, Naruto, and Sasuke, the original five unwanted children, were smiling down at her with black crayon marked grins. Their black dots for eyes stared back at her from where she stood holding Sasuke. She smiled back at the five children on the old piece of paper.

Her eyes wandered to the other drawings. One was of Kiba and Shikamaru as children, standing side by side. To it's left was a picture of Hinata, Neji, and Naruto. Naruto was, she guessed, throwing something like a water balloon at Neji. The last one was of Naruto, Sasuke and Ino. The art work was just as poor quality as the first, but she could feel each memory behind each separate one. A deep compassionate feeling that she would never understand, because she would never have friends like them. She never had friends like them.

Sakura swallowed hard, realizing what she had to do.

She pulled away from Sasuke, he looked confused.

"Sasuke, I have to do something, you probably won't want me to, but I have to," Sakura told him in an undertone, not looking up at his face.

"Sakura, don't play hero again," Sasuke said, grabbing her shoulders.

"I have to go," she whispered. He was about to protest, but she pointed to the picture behind his back. He turned and stared at it, "I'm not doing it for just you here in the present, but for your past and future,"

"But you're my future," Sasuke told her, turning back to stare into her beautiful emerald eyes.

Sakura sighed, "I promise that we will see each other again, whether it be in a couple days, or a couple years, I will make sure to come back,"

He was about to protest again but she cut him off by kissing him. She pulled back and touched his lips with her forefinger, "I promise, and you made me swear to keep my promises, remember?"

Sasuke nodded, "But I still don't want you to go,"

"I've got to,"

"No you don't,"

Sakura sighed, "Good bye for now, Sasuke," she looked around and smiled at everyone else, "I'll see you all soon, I promise," she took Sasuke's hand one last time and squeezed it gently. He squeezed her hand back and she smiled sorrowfully.

She turned and left the hideout to confront the police.

Probably my best chapter in the whole story, don't you agree? Even if it's almost twelve o'clock here? Please excuse any grammar mistakes because of my tiredness.

Thanks for reading everyone!