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A/N: WOW, guys! I got some pretty awesome reviews from should-be future detectives! You guys rock! This chap. is dedicated to Sakura4eva, Sharingan Tiger, MizzDarknezz, and Michelle! By the way, I think I'll take you up on your request, Sharingan Tiger. It's close to what was originally planned, anyways, so I thought "Why not, right?" Anyways, ON WITH THE STORY!

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Unspoken

By: Goth-VampireNinja

Chapter Three: Information

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After running for good over 80 miles, Ino started to feel a little weighed down. It was true that Sakura's near-nonexistent weight was not a disturbance, but she also wasn't used to carrying packs over 20 pounds. She started slowing down.

"Do you want me to take her?" Kiba asked, since he was closest to them, besides Hinata. Ino waited for a reaction, and shook her head when Sakura's hands started to tighten on her shoulders.

" I think I can make it for a few more miles." So Ino kept running, gradually slowing down.

"You're getting too slow, and we need to be back by today. Give her to someone else," Sasuke commanded. He didn't offer, knowing Sakura would refuse. The thought made a small feeling gnaw at the back of his head, but he ignored it.

"Do you mind if I carry her? I've been training on endurance with 50-pound weights. She doesn't look too heavy, and looking at the distance you've run with her, I take it my assumptions are correct," Hinata observed. Ino nodded, receiving no reaction from Sakura, and stopped on top of a sturdy branch. The others had been listening to the exchange and slowed to a stop to watch.

Sakura climbed off of Ino's back and went to Hinata. "Careful, Hinata. She's lighter than she looks," Ino warned. Everyone's attention perked. Hinata held her hands behind her back, ready to catch Sakura when she jumped, and bent her knees to give her more stability. As Sakura jumped and clutched Hinata's back, Hinata's eyes widened.

"Do you know how much you weigh, Sakura? You seem lighter than my 50-pound weights," Hinata said softly, stunned. Everyone else was quiet with shock.

"Last time I was checked—when I was still being fed every day—I weighed 44 pounds," she answered softly.

"That's impossible," everyone mumbled, or thought, in Neji and Sasuke's case. Everyone's eyes were wide.

"I think I've lost weight since they left me to die, since I've been fed every once a week," she continued softly, aware of everyone's eyes on her. "I'm a failed experiment. There were a lot of modifications done to me time and time again. I'm no longer human…" There was a suffocating silence. "Shouldn't we get moving? It's already almost dark."

Sasuke nodded and was the first to jump ahead, the rest followed. Kiba got closer to Hinata, Sakura, and Ino, trying to be friendly, but he was greeted with a growl out of nowhere. It took him a few seconds to realize that it had come from Sakura, since she was tightly clasping her hand tight to her mouth and looking as shocked as he felt, and really frightened. She kept looking at him as if expecting a blow. "I'm sorry, Kiba-san," she finally whispered, after deciding that he wasn't going to hurt her. "Please forgive me."

"It's okay Sakura, don't be so formal. I won't hurt you. And just call me 'Kiba,' 'kay?" She nodded timidly in response. "Do you mind if I ask you some questions?" Sakura shook her head. "What exactly did they do to you? How is it possible for you to weigh only 44 pounds? You look normal, if anything, only a bit underfed, but that's it. There's nothing different about you…"

"My bones were…removed, one by one, and modified. That was the first thing they did. But there was still too much weight on me for their purposes, so next, they injected a sort of acid into my marrow. That caused more pores to appear in my bones, but they were also giving me some sort of potion so my bones turned resistant and nearly hard as steel. Still…the weight reduction was only up to 60 percent, so then…" Kiba caught sight of the shiver that raked through her, and saw the tear that slipped from her chin. "They killed me. I was only dead for 30 minutes—I don't know what happened during that time—but when I woke up again…I was different. I was always hungry, I could move more easily, I was stronger…that's why I was always under restraint…Always at the mercy of the guards, Orochimaru…and Sasuke." She shuddered again and another tear fell. Everyone was listening and looking at her with new respect. To have survived through all that…

"I was never there!" Sasuke suddenly stopped and Hinata had to jump down from the tree to avoid crashing into him. "I was never informed about you, and this was the first time I'd ever been in that lair!" Sasuke yelled.

Sakura started crying, and she flinched violently at Sasuke's harsh tone, but she screamed back anyways. "Liar! You were there! You were just as cruel, or even worse than Orochimaru every time you came down to see me!" She jumped down from Hinata's back, ignoring her protests and everyone else's suggestion, and pointed hatefully at him.

Sasuke jumped down from the tree and stalked right up to her, grabbing her wrist when she tried to back away. "I was never there, Sakura!" She flinched and started crying and clawing weakly at him hand.

"Let go of me!" she screamed. She glared up at him and Sasuke caught sight of her eyes, which were glowing a bright silver-green and had a shrunken, red, feline pupil and the whisker-like marks on her cheeks were more defined than before. He also saw and felt her nails growing steadily into claws into his flesh. Nobody else saw this, so it surprised Sasuke when all these characteristics disappeared when Hinata and Neji came down and pulled them apart.

"That's enough, Sasuke," Naruto yelled at him. Sasuke glared at them and jumped ahead. "It's okay Sakura. Let's go," he said more gently.

"I'm sorry I brought this up, Sakura," Kiba said. Akamaru whimpered softly in response.

"It's okay," she whispered, riding on Hinata's back once again. Sakura could make no coherent though, her mind being fogged by all he terror, but the fell unconscious to the steady rhythm of Hinata's lithe and smooth jumps.

As the squad returned to the village, they were surprised to see the crowd of villagers gathered at the gates. There were even more then the day when Sasuke came back. When they approached, Naruto draped a black blanket over the sleeping Sakura, and wrapped the bottom ends together around Hinata's waist to hide her hanging legs.

"Where is she? Didn't you bring her back?" The villagers called worriedly, scanning the backs of all the guys and coming up empty. Someone saw the small bundle on Hinata's back, even thought the whole squad was crowded around her trying to hide it, and cheered, pointing at her. "They did bring her back! YAY!" the villagers cheered.

"Let us through! We have to report to Tsunade's office immediately and give her a full report!" Sasuke called loudly. The sea of people parted as the squad walked by, all surrounding Hinata and Sakura, who was on her back. Sakura was still unmoving, which was surprising, considering all the ruckus.

When they finally arrived at the Hokage's office, she was waiting for them with a bright smile and a few bottles of sake, bottles of juice, and fine wines. "You did it! And non of you are hurt! That's incredible! Where is she? I have to see her!" Hinata came forth while Sasuke explained the whole mission. "So there was nobody there? Only the traps were left? Are you completely sure? Well, then again, they would have put up more resistance if there was someone actually guarding the place, right?" Tsunade babbled happily as she took the blanket off Sakura. She took the weightless creature into her arms, and again, the poor victim was nearly thrown into the air from overuse of strength. "What the hell?! How much does she weigh?!"

"She said she weighed 44 pounds before they abandoned her and she hasn't been fed properly in at least two weeks, so I'm sure she weighs even less now," Kiba said uncomfortably. Tsunade looked stunned, and looked down at Sakura with pity and respect.

"Poor girl, she's been through so much. It's nothing less than a miracle that she's still alive…" Tsunade's eyes widened as she caught sigh of something…or rather, something that was missing. "Oh my God!" she screamed in panic. "She's not breathing!" She quickly cleared her desk and laid the still form upon it. She quickly checked her heart and chakra signals and started healing any damage she could find and trying to push life back into her. "Come on, Sakura. Breathe!" She cried desperately. Kiba ran out of the room and came back seconds later with Shizune, who quickly ran to aid Tsunade in her efforts.

After minutes and minutes of fruitless efforts, Tsunade collapsed on a chair, crying her heart out over the lifeless form on her desk. "Why?!" she screamed. Shizune patted her back comfortingly and murmured soft words of consolation. Hinata and Ino also burst out into tears and the rest of the squad looked horrified and sad. Naruto shed a few tears over his lost comrade, teammate, and friend. After having survived all that, just to die on the day of her liberation…

"What's going on?" a soft voice asked. Everyone's heads snapped up at the sound. Tearful smiles spread across the room as the girls rushed for a very confused-looking Sakura. The rest just walked over in happy relief, keeping their distance, having concluded Sakura's terror of guys.

"What's going on? It's impossible for someone to be alive after all that time of not breathing or having a heartbeat!" Tsunade exclaimed tearfully, hugging and crushing her pupil.

Sakura's eyes dulled. "I'm not the same, Tsunade-sama. I'm no longer human, and sleep for me means death until I wake up again," Sakura said sadly, ignoring her sensei's look of horror. Sakura couldn't help but feel out of place; like a monster among humans. Her happiness had vanished the day Orochimaru had taken her, and her hopes had disappeared the day Sasuke had shown up and…

Tears slid down Sakura's cheeks and every guy stepped back, afraid it was their fault. Tsunade noticed their strange behavior and decided to shoo them out of the room. "We need to have a talk among girls. Ino and Hinata will give me the full report, so don't worry about it. Naruto, before you go, could you look for Gaara? He came into the village a few hours ago. You and him report back here in an hour. Understand?"

"Yes, Tsunade-sama!" they all chorused, even Naruto, who seemed more serious than usual, or more like, ever before. They all disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Tell me Sakura, can you please tell me why you weigh so…little?" Tsunade asked gently. Sakura nodded and started telling her the same she had told the others. Tsunade nodded solemnly. "I see. And what are those marks on your cheeks?" The other girl's attentions perked, Sakura tensed, and Tsunade waited patiently.

"I…I became…a host. Like Naruto and Gaara, I carry a monster within me now…it's painful, but only sometimes, when she tries to break free…" Sakura said, lowering the hem at the shoulder of her flimsy clothing and showing them the extended seal marks. They were bight crimson and complex, they looked as if they were constantly bleeding, yet no blood came out. The others gasped.

Tsunade decided to change the subject. "I noticed…your reaction towards the guys. Why do you react so strongly?" Sakura smiled sadly.

"I'm surprised you haven't figured it out yet, Tsunade-sama. A mind as sharp as yours must have at least an idea, ne? But, if you must know directly and as a confirmation of your thoughts: I was abused in every way…I was raped, Tsunade-sama." Sakura smiled bitterly and sadly at them with their horrified expressions.

"Who!?" Tsunade yelled, enraged and crying along with the others at the sad story.

Sakura shrugged. "I stopped keeping track, but mainly…I recall…Sasuke. It was almost every day that I was beat and raped, but even though Orochimaru only 'visited' me once every week, and he was the most brutal of all, every time Sasuke came, it was even worse than Orochimaru's visits. And Sasuke came almost every day…" Sakura started sobbing. "I am no longer human, and I was no longer useful to their experiments, so they left me behind when they moved out and left me to starve…the day they left was the worst of all…everyone wanted a turn…" Sakura laughed manically, crying her eyes out.

Tsunade was enraged, but her logic was never clouded. "Sakura, did Sasuke ever use his Sharingan when he was with you?" Sakura shook her head. "That wasn't Sasuke, Sakura. He has had his Sharingan activated ever since he left. The only time he ever stopped using it was when he slept. And besides that, Sasuke has gained control over the Mangekyo Sharingan (sp?) and he would have used it on you when you resisted…because, you did resist, right?" Tsunade was crying and she felt her heart sink as Sakura looked away, ashamed.

"It no use when you don't have hope, Tsunade-sama. After the first couple of months, I no longer cared. But you're right, I never once saw Sasuke use his Sharingan!" Sakura said in realization. "I…should probably apologize."

The rest of the girls were crying silently at all of Sakura's sorrow. "It's all over now, Sakura," Ino cried, and hugged her friend.

"Yes, we'll take care of you," Hinata hiccupped.

"No one will ever harm you again," Tsunade said tearfully.

"Not while Tsunade-sama and the rest of your friends are here!" Shizune cried. Sakura smiled sadly and let herself be hugged, knowing all their efforts to be useless. She would never be the same. She loathes that man…it was all his fault. She could not live like this, not while he was still around. But, people would probably take him over her monstrous self now that he had come back and had been forgiven as the prodigy he was. She abhorred that man, it was all his fault…Sasuke.

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A/N: Well, how was it? I want reviews, people! Please, I want input. I don't care if they're flames, by this point. I'll just use them to cook, but please, REVIEW!!

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