Author's Note - DO NOT OWN NARUTO clearly...anyways that's to my fans to have encouraged me to continue writing this, I'm having fun with this story more then I though I would, lol ^^

WARNING:

there is rape in this chapter towards the end...well rapeish...you'll see what I mean when you read it.

Chapter Three.

Weeks had past and Sakura was learning how everything worked in this place of humanity. Every week the villagers would go to Tsunade and her lab to be checked. She would check to see if the R.M.B, Radiation Monitor Bracelet, was working correctly. She would check to make sure they were healthy before letting them go back to work. Females, the few that was alive was heavily protected and well cared for. The men would give their own food to a woman if their wasn't enough before they would reduce the amount of food. There were three groups in this humble village. The hunters, the workers and then the Gatherers.

The hunters would go tot eh surface and hunt for food. Their hunting shift consisted of days out side on the surface and many times the group would come back with injured or news that one of the members had turned. The workers consisted of males that were either too old or too young to be hunters. They would make homes, heavy lifting and mining for material and making more space. The gatherers where the woman. Sakura had been placed with them and really disliked the way she was treated.

She had been on her own since the war, she had protected her self and was self affection, yet here she was being treated like a child, not able to go anywhere without one of the males following her to make sure she was safe. She was unable to do anything that would stress her out mentally of even physically, witch in turn stressed her out. It wasn't all back learning how to cook, sew and other home making things, she had meet a few woman that she liked and got along with.

Tenten, a Chinese girl with dark brown hair that she tied up in two buns. Brown coco eye, oval face and olive skin. She was about the same height as Sakura, maybe a little shorter. She was one of the few woman that got to do something dangerous. She was a weapon smith, a damn good one too. She was sneaky as well, she would find ways to train with the weapons she crafted, she would say it was to test them if she was caught. A few times she had brought Sakura with her to train, one of the small things that would release some stress.

Then there was Temari, Gaara's sister. She was a little hard around the edges, but once Sakura got past that she learned she was only that way to protect her brothers. Often she would tell Sakura her troubles or vent to her about something. Still Sakura's best friend had to be Ino, the odd ball blond girl that she fought with often . Their relationship was goofy, they could tell each other anything but fight every day only to be laughing the next.

Even with people who she liked and got along with Sakura was still on edge all the time. She was unable to get her pent up energy out with out someone stopping her. The R.M.B didn't help either. Many times Sakura would wake up to Gaara pinning her in the middle of the home the shared. When asked he would simply tell her that she was sleep walking and trying to use her mutation. After the third time of it happening she was forced to go to Tsunade. The old woman had told her that she was to ware not only one bracelet, but two, so her mutation was more under control. Since then Sakura had only woke up once to being pinned.

Today was the day that the girls would be allowed to go to Myra field. Sakura had never been, but the other girls had side it was where very rare plants and material that Tsunade used grew, but only every three months did the marital ripen. There was also the fact that mutants lived in that part of the mines. How they got there no one really knows, but these Mutants were different. There were eleven, each one looked human, they were intelligent like humans, but their blood said that they were no longer human. When the girls went to the Fields they had to go with a large group of males and never stray far from the group. They also only had an hour to gather everything they could.

Sakura was dressed in her normal attire of a pink halter top, pink skirt and black shorts underneath, black books and gloves that kept the bracelets from digging into her skin. Walking out of the home she shared with Gaara she smiled when Hinata, Ino and Tenten where standing there waiting for her.

"Good morning Sakura-chan" Hinata said with a low bow. They girl was so sweet and well mannered. Her long black hair framed her lush body that was covered by baggy clothing. Her eyes were pale, the mutation that ran in her family was an odd one. It allowed her to see peoples mutational flow. Upon seeing it she could black the man flow points, stopping it completely for a few hours to even days. Even though the mutation was genetic, there was a slight difference between each family member.

"Good morning Hinata-chan, Ino, Tenten" Sakura said walking up beside them and following them to the check point where they would meet everyone else.

"So what's it like living with Gaara?" Ino asked, a question she liked to ask every day, one that Sakura for what ever reason would not elaborate on as much as the blond wanted her to.

"Odd I guess, like I've said, I'm not use to living with people in general" Sakura said with a shrug as the rounded the corn to meet the group. She was a little surprised at how small the group really was. Besides her, Hinata, Tenten and Ino, Shizune, Temari and Kurenia where present. Well at lest of the females. There was plenty of testosterone. Naruto, Kiba, Kakashi, Gai, Rock Less, Genma, Asuma, Konkuro, Ibiki, Shikamaru, Iruka, Neji and Gaara had all shown up. They were all talking and laughing when they approached them.

Naruto was the first to notice their arrival and rushed over to Hinata, pulling her into a big hug as he kissed her. Kiba then proceeded to make his way over to Ino to welcome her and Neji to Tenten. Sakura felt a little left out. Kurenia was with Asuma, Shizune with Kakashi, Temari with Shikamaru and the rest had their wives of partners at home. Sakura, Gaara and Konkuro where the only ones without someone. This of course made Konkuro think that she was free game.

He strutted up to her as if he was the best thing in the world. Really Sakura found him repulsive. His shaggy brown hair, dark eyes and pale skin was not something she found attractive, the purple marks on his face didn't help either. Then again even if he was attractive she would dislike him because of his personality.

"Hey Pinky, coming along as well, just stay close" he gave her a wink and she just rolled her eyes. How very unoriginal.

"oh shut up Konkuro, I had to drag your ass back here last week because you couldn't even take care of a level one mutant, if anything she'd be safer if you stayed here" came Naruto's voice before Sakura could say anything. Kankuro's face turn beat red with embarrassment and anger as he turned towards the blond. Everyone just laughed while Sakura smirked.

The sound of metal doors hissing open brought every ones attention to the Field doors. When the opened they revealed a very tired young looking Tsunade. She looked at everyone before, without saying anything, leaving. Everyone looked at each other before moving into the contentment room. As the doors shut the hissing of air being removed and replaced was all the filled the room. The males seemed on edge and instead of the happy go luck expressions she was use to she was getting killer like auras from them and even the females seemed to be on high alert.

Time seemed to go by to slow for Sakura as she waited for the doors to reopen and reveal the field she had heard so much about. She could feel her heart beat thumbing against her chest, the sound of rushing blood in her ears blocked out all other sounds. The lights in the white room flickered and then the doors opened. As soon as they did all the male seemed to disappear. Sakura blinked a few times at their speed and went to step out, only to be stopped by Kurenia.

"Wait" was all she said, her red eyes looking out at the darkness.

So Sakura waited and waited and waited. She could see nothing past the doors, nothing besides darkness. No sound besides breathing come from behind her from the other girls. It was only made more adrenaline rush threw her veins. Suddenly light flooded from the darkness, leaving Sakura blind for a few minutes. When her vision finally came back she was greeted by a sight that took her breath away.

Arrays of color splattered across the cavern wall and floor. Some gave off a glow in the light. What everything was Sakura didn't know, only that what every these organisms were, they were breathing or at lest looked like they were. There was a small water pool off to her left and ran a stream threw the middle of the lighted area. Sakura could only on wall. The others were not hit by the light created by the lamps. For all she knew that this seemly large area was only a little piece of what the cavern really was. Stepping out of the white room she paid little mind that Gaara and Ibiki where following her. She made her way carefully threw the field of colors, looking at the glowing mass that was at her feet, it seemed any little pressure would cause the moss to glow. The little flowers that grew in the mass were a vibrant purple, three petals sprouted from a gray center. She knelt and went to pluck one of the tiny flowers only to have in disappear with he gentle brushed it. It seemed the flower had retreated in the moss.

A small smile appeared on Sakura's lips as she went to check out a few of the other organisms. The next one she came by was by the waters edge. It was a flower that reminded her of the plant birds of paradise, though this one was yellow instead of red and blue instead of green. Reaching towards it she lightly touched the center petal that was sticking out. It felt slimy and bumpy. Sakura snatched her hand back just as the flower snapped shut, nearly taking her hand. She glared at the plant before moving on.

There where some many different things to explores and look at in this place, Sakura could see of this place could be dangerous, beside maybe the two types of man eating plants she had run into. She spotted a plant that looked out of place though. She looked around to see if anyone was watching her and it seemed Gaara and Ibiki where busy with trying to get Rock Less out of one of the larger plants. Taking this opportunity to check out the plant at the edge of the lights she quickly moved over to it to study it more.

The plant was a dull green, all the colors of the plants she had seen where very vibrant and very few had green in them. Yet this one grew tall and was a dull puke color green. It almost looked like a venues fly trap. She stepped in front of it, still not learning her lesson not to touch plants she knew nothing about she reached out and placed her hand on the outside of the plant. Surprisingly enough it was warm, really warm. The plant was breathing like the rest, but something in the back of her mind was telling her to move, and quickly.

As she went to move she found her limbs ignoring her, they were frozen in place. Panic filled her as that large venues trap started to move, opening up to reveal something that if Sakura could scream she would. A man, with two toned skin and gold eyes, looking at her like she was food. One side of his body was black where the other was white, he was completely bar from head to toe, though with no manly bits. Though Sakura wasn't too worried about being raped as she was being eaten.

Strong bi-polar arms reached out and gripped her shoulders and started to drag her closer inside the mouth of the plant, towards the body. Sakura heard her bracelets started to beat loudly as her mutation acted up, trying to save her from what ever was threatening her. The sound alerted everyone that something was wrong and they turned towards her. Sakura heard a few swears, from who she wasn't sure, everything was started to blur together in both her vision and hearing.

Gaara snapped his attention to the direction the loud beeping was come from, his breath stilled in his chest at the sight his eyes witnessed. The pink haired girl who had been staying with him was being pulled in by one of he mutants that looked like a plant. A growl emitted from his lips as he dashed towards the scene, making it there well before the others. He reached forward and wrapped his arms around the girls waist and pulled back. He ignored the beeping from his own bracelet as he let part of his mutation take over to help him. Dry sand that was by the rivers edge slithered quickly to help Gaara in his task. Ibiki was pulling on one side of the plant and Naruto on the other, both trying to stop the every closing mouth.

The sand he had call forth twisted around the body in the middle and started to crush inwards. A sickening crack was heard and both the mutant and Sakura let out a scream, though the girls was much more high pitched where the plant was more of a howl. Gaara once again growled as he pulled more on the girl with the help of three others. His sister, Shikamaru and Kakashi. He could fell the girl limp in his arms and could hardly hear her breath of her heart beat, maybe she was dead. The sound of a groan told him differently. The plant started to skin into the ground, treating to take everyone with it. With one late attempt Gaara wrapped the sand around the girl and him self and pulled with everything he had.

Air rushed past his ears as he flew backwards with the girl in his arms. His sister, Shikamaru and Kakashi had been thrown as well, where Ibiki and Naruto laid still on the ground, Hinata and Kurenia fussing over them. Rage built up in Gaara as he sat up and looked down at the girl. She had been stupid and nearly cost him not only his sister but everyone else life. He looked around at everyone. No one seemed dead, but a few he could tell were in critical condition, the poison from the plant, Zetsu, was strong and killed with in an hour.

"Quickly, take them to Tsunade" He yelled at everyone. His sister walk up to him, she was a little dirty, but only seemed to have a few cuts and maybe on bruise. She looked at him sternly.

"Better take her as well Gaara, she was hit with it the most" She said earning a growl from him.

"I should have just left her" he muttered getting a glare from Temari. Without saying anything she picked the pink haired girl up and looked down at him disapproving. She walked quickly with the others to the door, Gaara stood and followed as well, not one bit happy with the girl.

Tsunade was expecting something like this to happen. She knew Sakura was reckless and bring her to an area she had never been after having her confined for so long was trouble, but she wasn't expecting others to come in hurt or even dying along with her. Rushing around the lab she gathered everything she was going to need and ordered everyone out except for Shizune, her assistant.

"Shizune start working on the antidote for the Zetsu poison" she order the shorter woman as she rushed over to Sakura, who was in the worst condition. The antidote wouldn't work on her anymore, she had gotten to high of a dose for it to counteract it without it killing her. The bad thing about the poison the mutant used was it was a viral poison that attracted the blood stream. It was fast acting, first latching on to the nerve system, shutting it down and then moving to the blood and infecting it so even if the nerves where cured the blood wouldn't be and with in an hour the blood would all be infected and then it was shut down the whole body by stopping blood flow. It was a painful process that for the longest time many people infected with it died for there was no cure, but now if caught soon enough it could be, other wise Tsunade had to do something she hated doing, wait.

She would have to wait until Sakura's body fought against the poison and dispelled it on her own or died from it. Tsunade was pretty sure that the young girl would be able to fight it, her mutation was as strong as those who had won against it before, but then again no female had ever survived it, even with the similar mutation levels.

Tsunade watched as the girls skin paled, her lips turned blue, body stopped giving off warmth and sweat poured from her pores. All signs that her body was fighting, but losing. What worried Tsunade the most though was that it seemed the girl was dreaming. That only meant that the poison had already made it to her brain and that the poison was working faster then it should.

Drip…..Drip….Drip…..

Darkness, no light only the sensation of floating filled the pink haired girl. She could remember nothing. Pain exploded all around her like fire. The sound of something falling into water echoed threw the darkness, warmth spread form the points of pain. As much as she strained to see nothing revealed it's self to her. Only the pain comforted her and told her she was alive. She tried with all her might to move, but her limbs felt as if made of lead. She tried to scream, to speak, her lips moved, but no words escaped the pale lips. Pain once again explode in her body, this time in one central place, her lower back. With the pain the felling of something warm running down from the wound followed. Nothing felt real yet all too real.

Laughter soon sounded threw the darkness. Eye of molten lava came into her sight. Where had she seen those eyes before. Those eyes of amusement and hunger plastered in them.

Tsunade stood still as she watch the scene unfold in front of her. Green lines spidered out on Sakura's pale skin. First it had only been a small little green dot on her neck, wrist and stomach, but now the lines rapid dale started to spider out from the dots on her skin. A new symptom that she had never seen before. The bracelets had broke off and clattered to the floor and the blue glow that normally flowed around her hand appeared. She hadn't even noticed that Gaara had reentered and was looking over her shoulder at the pink haired her.

"once she is healed escort her to the main door" his rough voice sounded behind her and Tsunade quickly turned with fire in her blue eyes.

"She has a 3.76 percent chance of getting out this alive, do you not realize the severity of the situation young man, you many be the leader of this village, but you need to think before you speak, Young Sakura is dying and you walk in here and demand her exile" her voice reach a new level in anger with each word. The only time someone was escorted to the main door was for when they were exiled.

"She nearly killed nineteen people to day and maybe even her self, I will not risk another mistake like this again, she will leave this settlement if she ever wakes again" He said sternly before turning on his heel and going to leave, only to have Tsunade grab his wrist and hold him in place.

"If she wake she will not make another mistake like this or I will personally escort her out of settlement" The threat was clear in her voice that she would watch over Sakura if she ever healed. Gaara said nothing only nodded and left once released.

Tsunade let a sigh fall from her lips as she turned back towards the girl she had become attached to. She was dying, slowly and she could no nothing, never in her life helpless. She had to busy her mind as she waited, so the woman went back to her research, many time looking up and watching Sakura every once in a while.

Days had past and Sakura condition had not changed. Her heart rate was elevated, breathing heavily, pale, cold to the touch, yet sweating, unmoving beside the occasional twitch and the green lines that had shown up covered her body. Tsunade had tried everything she could think of, even giving the girl some of the antidote, it seemed to work, but only for a hour and not completely. Hinata, Ino and Tenten visited every day to check on her and Temari did once. The four where very concerned for the girl, almost as much as Tsunade was.

What ever was effecting Sakura it wasn't the same poison that she had cured so many times before, other then that she knew nothing. Tsunade sat at her desk reading over the test results of yet another test she had formulated in trying to figure out what was effecting Sakura, only to come up with nothing yet again. The only thing that Tsunade could come up with that would help Sakura was if Gaara used his Mutation to reactivate Sakura's or boost it, but doing that could end Sakura's and even Gaara's life and she couldn't risk losing either.

She was stuck, unable to move, unable to scream, only able to fell the pain in the darkness as her body was violated over and over again. Each time it was different. It would be a different place, even a different person some times, but it all ended the same. Her screaming wordlessly for them to stop, only to be hit, raped and then thrown back into this world of darkness. She didn't know how much time had passed, only that if she counted the minutes she knew when her new attacker would show up, when the next time she would have fight would be, the next time she would lose.

'three…Two…One' as the word entered her mind light flooded her vision and in place of the darkness a dark room with a single bed with red sheets appeared. She laid on the bed of red silk, her arms tied above her and feet below her, legs spread. She knew this room all to well. It was the bed of the man who had taken a particular interest in her and often she would find her self in this room.

She had never seen his face, he made sure that at the end of her fight she was blindfold so she wouldn't be able to see him. She knew his touch though, his rough, uncaring enticing touch. The touch of a killer, the touch that forced unwanted feeling to boil in her, the touch that she begged for and despised all in one.

She heard his chuckle first, she knew if she could see his face that he would be smirking, lust would fill those steel ringed eyes and burn over her naked body. She pulled at the chains that held her, like every time this room appeared the chains where stronger then her. She couldn't struggle as much as she would have liked, kicking her legs the best she could against the wooden bottom where her feet where held captive she tried to brake the wood. To her surprise and the man in the room it had worked, her feet were free, but not for long, for he was between her legs before she could kick up and brake the wood holding her chains for her hands.

Sakura gasped as she caught a glimpse of the mans face before the blindfold was once again placed on her face. His orange hair was short and spiky, three silver rods seemed to be place on the bridge of his nose and then there was the two pointed metal fangs at the bottom of his lips that Sakura always felt both pain and pleasure from. He was handsome, Sakura was expecting him to be ugly, hence why she had to be blindfolded, because he was ashamed of his face, but that was not the case, why was she blindfolded.

The first lash came as a surprise to Sakura as she let out a wordless scream. The whip came once again across she stomach, leaving a red welt next to the other. With each new lash another wordless scream passed from her open lips. By the time she felt no more lashes she had lost count of how many times she had been hit, all she new was that her stomach, legs and arms stunk like hell and anytime the moved pain rippled threw her body.

When she felt him once again between her legs she stilled, knowing what was going to happen next, even in her pain fogged mind. The familiar felling of being rip in two accompany the fell of pain from the lashes. A temporary felling that would soon disappear. He went slower then normal, letting his rough callused hand brush over her warm skin. Tears soaked the blindfold. She could feel her body betraying her once again, moving in time with his thrust, her body desperately trying to urge him faster and deeper, so that he might hit that lovely little spot that made her numb.

His hand worked their way over her body, finding each sensitive spot, make soundless pants and moans fill the room of darkness. Tenderly his fingers reached for one of her cherry pink nipples, twisting it lightly and playing with it until it was a nice round nub. She felt him lead down and his tongue flicked over her other nipple, gained a moan and arch as her body tied to get him to do it again. He complied, taking the cherry bud in his lips, the cold metal of the two fang lake piercing brushing against her soft skin only added to the thrill rushing threw her body.

She could feel the slow coiling in the pit of her stomach, an action that she would forever be ashamed off beckoned forward and moved her hips to move faster, urging to go faster. He too had the same urgency her body did. His pace quickened, his trust became deeper as his hand gripped her hip tightly in place. His lips had left her breast so lat he could trust deeper into her.

Indescribable pleasure erupted in her mind, making her body numb as it clench tightly around the mans member. The felling of his release only seemed to rocket Sakura higher in a place of disgusting bliss. Even though she knew what was to happen next she was unable to move, unable to come down from her orgasm quick enough. The felling of cold metal ripping into her stomach jerked her from her bliss, darkness flooded her mind, leaving her to once again wake later to only go threw another event similar.

Tsunade looked at Gaara with hopeful stern eyes. She had told Temari her plan and the blond had gone to her brother and convinced him to hear Tsunade out. She had explained to him that the only hope they had of ever getting Sakura to wake was either to find Zetsu, capture him and study this new poison directly or if Gaara him self help Tsunade wake Sakura up. The first option was not one Tsunade liked, considering capturing the mutant would be hard and also studying him would take longer then she would like and she didn't know how long Sakura would live. Though the chance of Gaara choosing option two was very slim. The red head had been staring at Sakura and Tsunade for two hours already, thinking everything through Tsunade hoped.

"fine, what do I have to do" Tsunade let her breath out that she hadn't known she was holding and smiled warmly at Gaara, her blue eyes hold great thanks towards the red head for agreeing.

Author's Note: hope you like this, the next chapter is being worked on, wont be up for a while though, I'm going to be moving to a place with no internet so once it's finished I have to find a place I can upload it at or wait until I get internet...