Escape Attempt

I don't want to change the world
I just want to leave it colder

Sasuke was shoved into a room that was bare except for the plain ragged bed that sat at the corner of the room the only light came from the flickering light on the ceiling. All of his weapons and hidden communicators had been taken away and he was left unarmed and vulnerable. He banged on the door and rammed into it hoping it would give way but to no avail.

He muttered curses to himself and rested his arm against the door with his head leaning on his arm. He let out a frustrated sigh and turned his back to the door. He walked around the room before leaning against the wall and sliding down to a sitting position on the floor.

"I can't believe I made such a stupid mistake." He dropped his head into his hands and sighed. "How could I let this happen?"

Looking around, he noticed what the room really looked like now that he had calmed down. It was disgusting, the walls were tainted with stains, but identifying those stains would take a lot of scientific study. The floor was dirty and covered in filth, he wasn't exactly sure what covered the floor and he really didn't want to know. He stood to his feet, his leg stiffened causing him to fall onto his knee, his injured leg was brought up and he touched it before hissing out with pain.

"Damn mother-fuckers."

He froze when he heard voices coming closer to the room he was in. This wouldn't be good if he just let them take him without a fight.

"We have to interrogate him, then take him to Kabuto for the bullet test, though I guess it had already been tested on him. Did you see him at the other hideout? They shot him with one of their specialized bullets and it went straight through his bullet proof vest."

'That's what happened. No wonder I got injured in my back.'

"Orochimaru wants to know who he's working for?"

'Orochimaru? Who the hell is that?'

Sasuke hid himself behind the door and waited to see if they would open it. He muttered a 'yes' to himself when the rusty door was opened, the guards that walked in cursed and starting yelling at one another. What a stupid way to act, guess these guys weren't really professional when it came to dealing with captives.

"Where the hell is he?!"

"Right here assholes!" Sasuke yelled.

Sasuke appeared from around the door and knocked them both to the ground, he punched them straight in their face causing them to black out from the pain they felt in his strong right hook. He spared no second and grabbed the guns the guards had stowed away in their pockets, he would have to be careful, there was no telling who the hell might be waiting out there for something to go wrong.

Peering around the corner he spotted a guard walking away from his position, he looked the other way and ran off down the corridor, he stopped suddenly when he heard crying in one of the other rooms that was sealed shut with an iron latch. Walking toward it he unlatched the lock and pushed open the iron door.

Inside was someone he didn't expect to see, it was a small child, no older than seven years, she was dressed in an old, dirty, white shirt that went down to her knees and a pair of black shorts that went just below her knees. Her brown hair was tattered and dirty. She glanced up as tears trickled down her face that was covered in dirt and bruises.

Setting the gun into his pocket, Sasuke knelt down and held out his hand to the little girl, she flinched and backed away from him. Sasuke seemed surprised at this, they must have done something terrible for her to act this way to someone that wanted to help her out of this. She sobbed quietly.

"Hey, it's alright, I'm going to help you get out of here." Sasuke tried to coax her out of the corner that she huddled herself into.

"Liar, you're part of the bad people." She cried out softly.

"No I'm not, they captured me too." Sasuke explained to the girl, she glanced up to him before nervously standing to her feet and running over to him. "I'm going to get you out of here, I promise."

"Please, I don't want to die. The bad people do all of these things to other people, I think some of them already died." She clutched his torso with a tight embrace.

"I'm not going to let you die." Sasuke lifted the girl into his arms. "You got a name?"

"Ayame." She stated quietly, afraid if she spoke to loud she would get them caught.

"Ayame, my name is Sasuke." He looked down to her as he looked around the corner before running out into the corridor again.

He only hoped that none of the guards would spot him, he needed to get this little girl out, even if it meant he couldn't leave. There was no telling what she had been through, he just wanted to get her out before they could do anything else to her and seriously cause some emotional damage to such an innocent child.

There were other children here as well, but the question was where were they being kept. Sasuke was going to make it his goal to get them out of here and save them if was the last thing he would do. And it just might be the last thing he would do, they could shoot him dead at any minute if he had his back turned.

"Damn it where could they have gone." Shikamaru cursed angrily as he typed away on his laptop, he had been working all night trying to find any trace of the tracking device inside Sasuke's communicator only to come up with no results. "This isn't good."

He sighed with aggravation, Sakura wasn't going to take this news very well, and he would surely be given hell by Ino for not finding Sasuke. But it wasn't his fault, they had to have broken the communicator or found the tracking device in it and set a tracer scrambler so he couldn't find his teammate.

Kakashi walked through the door his eyes asking for any good news, but Shikamaru merely looked away with shame and the silver-haired man glanced down with a disappointed look, but it's not his fault, Shikamaru was trying and that was all that they could do right now. Kakashi had sent a team to scope out the hideout that was destroyed by the bomb to look for any clues that might tell them where they took Sasuke but that came up with negative results as well.

'Where are you Sasuke?' Kakashi thought to himself. 'If only I hadn't sent you alone.'

He glanced over Shikamaru's shoulder and watched as the lazy genius, who wasn't so lazy right now, punched in several different codes and went into hidden files. He was trying to hack a few computers to find any suspicious activity, maybe just maybe that would help them find their friend.

"I'm not getting anything Kakashi." Shikamaru said.

"Just keep trying and keep me posted." Kakashi replied.

Shikamaru nodded with understanding and continued on with his work as Kakashi left the room. He leaned against the door and ran over some ideas in his head before pushing himself off the wall to go check in with his other team members.

Sakura sat on her bed holding a picture of Sasuke and her in her hands. She clutched the frame tightly in her slender fingers as she stared at Sasuke's surprised face when she kissed him on the cheek. It gave her a small spark of hope that he would return to her and they could continue to live their lives like she wanted.

'Things had been so simple then. Then he got recruited into ANBU and everything changed.'

She held back her sob as she tried to think of the positives, maybe Kakashi and the others had already found him and were on their way to rescue him by now. Maybe he was just outside the door of their apartment getting ready to surprise her by opening the door and sneaking up on her. Maybe she was just dreaming and Sasuke would wake her from this horrible nightmare. But she knew she wasn't, no matter how much she wished this reality wasn't real, it was and there wasn't anything she could do to change it.

"Damn Kakashi for not letting me assist in the search. Why won't he let me help?" She growled out.

"Because he knows your emotions will get in the way." A voice said to her.

Sakura jumped and turned her head to see her boyfriends best friend standing in her doorway. He had a look of sadness on his face just like she had. He was feeling worse then ever, this has never happened before so why did it have to happen now, things didn't seem to make sense to him anymore. He always thought Sasuke was good at what he did, then everything changed in one night on one solo mission.

"I should have gone with him Sakura." The male looked down in shame, how could he let his best friend go alone on a mission that was potentially dangerous. Now look, he was missing and they didn't have any leads to where he was taken.

"Its not your fault Naruto, you can't take all the blame." Sakura tried to ease his guilt.

"Why not?"

"Because its partly my fault too."

"Why would this be your fault?" He asked with a confused expression.

"I don't know, I just feel like it is, he always helped me before, now I can't even do the same for him." Sakura set the picture aside and gave a soft sigh.

"I remember that day." Naruto smiled sadly as he glanced at the picture she set down, "That was the day Sasuke asked you out for the first time."

"Yeah, remember how embarrassed he was to do it?" Sakura smiled bitterly at the memory. "When he finally did, I was so happy."

Naruto nodded, it was the day he convinced the male to ask Sakura out. He had liked her forever but never had the guts to go through with it. He finally did in the end though, after some pushes from Naruto and the guys and a little teasing from the girls. When a year had passed, Sasuke had been happier, Sakura changed him and made him feel complete. He even confided to Naruto that he might ask Sakura to marry him, because he knew she was the one.

"I know we can find him, I'm sure he's okay, wherever he is." Naruto said to try and ease Sakura's pain.

"I just hope your right Naruto, I don't know what I'll do if something bad happens to him." Sakura let a few tears fall from her eyes as Naruto sat nex to her on the bed.

He pulled her into an embrace and comforted her, trying to calm her down. They would find Sasuke, they just had to, for his sake as well as Sakura's. Things would only get worse if he got killed, Sakura might slip into a state of depression. He was surprised she hasn't already, though its only a matter of time and then it would be hard to pull her from that dark state.

He wasn't going to let that happen, he would find Sasuke and bring him back. Who ever these guys were that took him, were going to pay dearly for putting his friends in this state. And if anything happens to Sasuke, they better be ready for a fight.

The raven-haired male ran down the corridor, his breathing was becoming more and more labored as he continued running to find a way out of this building, his wounds weren't exactly helping his situation. But he didn't even know how to get off of this floor, every turn he took there was a guard scouting the area and it wouldn't be long until they found their comrades unconscious in the room he was thrown into.

The alarm could be set off at any minute and he had no time to spare. He finally found a small gate like door on the floor near a room, it was large enough for a person to crawl down into, but the question was where did it lead to? His eyes widened when the alarms were suddenly sounded throughout the area. Without a moments pause he lifted the gate and jumped down into it, where he landed with a soft thud, it wasn't very deep until someone took the ladder down into the deeper part of the underground area.

Sasuke reached up and closed the gate, he heard guards yelling and calling or back up. He tucked himself into the shadows of where he was standing just in case one of them looked down, then they wouldn't be able to see him. He held the girl close to him as he tried to keep her quiet by hugging her and saying he would protect her. Once the guards left to continue looking Sasuke shifted the small girl onto his back and began descending the ladder.

He reached the bottom, only to realize he was standing in water, it was a sewer, and it was pretty large to be one. When he looked down he cringed in disgust when he saw a body floating down the flow of water. He turned to eye the girl on his back, she had her eyes squeezed shut in fear.

"Keep your eyes closed."

"Why?"

"Trust me, just keep them closed okay?"

"Okay." She murmured and did as she was told.

He moved through the water and began walking down a tunnel that was flooded, the water was up to his waist now and as he walked along he spotted more bodies hidden in the depths of the water. He felt like he was going to be sick, he shook the images of the bodies from his thoughts and proceeded to make his way down the tunnel.

Stopping suddenly when he saw a patch of light from above him, there was a ladder crawling up the side of the wall, he took hold of it and began climbing upwards. He didn't know where this ladder led to, but he just prayed it go them out. Reaching his arm up he pushed open the sewer lid to find himself outside the gates of the asylum.

Just as he glanced up he came face to face with a gun, he looked to the owner of the hand and watched as the guard gave a sneer look. His partner grabbed him and forced him out of the tunnel. The man with the weapon took the girl and held onto her small wrist, his grip was strong so she might end up with another bruise on her frail body.

"Let her go!" Sasuke demanded.

"You're in no position to be telling us what to do." The guard that had a hold of the girl threw her onto the ground and aimed the gun at her.

Sasuke elbowed the man that held him and tackled the other one to the ground. Wrapping his arm around his neck he flipped him over and shoved him down before picking up the girl and running down the road. He stopped and hid near a bush and placed his hands on her shoulders and looked around to see if there was anyone coming for them.

"Okay, listen to me carefully." Sasuke started and Ayame nodded. "I want you to run as far away from here as possible, get to the city and find a policeman or someone that will help you. Have them contact a Commander Kakashi Hatake and tell him code 4015."

"4015?"

"Yes, they will help you get back to your parents."

"What about you?"

"I have to keep these guys busy so you can get away." Sasuke tried his best to explain to the young girl. "You remember what I said?"

She nodded and he smiled slightly before telling her to keep following the road but stay within the trees on the side of it. It would be harder for them to find her if she hid and ran amongst the plants. She hesitated, not wanting to leave on her own but she did so with a few nudges from Sasuke. Ayame ran off and tried her hardest not to get caught, while Sasuke turned his attention to the army of men that were heading his way,

He held his hands up in surrender, maybe if he didn't fight back just yet, they wouldn't have time to track down Ayame. When they were about to go off and look for her, Sasuke started hitting and kicking as many guys as he could. It didn't take long until they had him pinned to the ground with cuffs on his wrists and guns pointed at him in every direction.

He gritted his teeth with anger. 'I just hope Ayame got away.'

They brought him to his feet and dragged him back to the asylum, he was going to get punished for this but what exactly would they do to him for trying to escape. He couldn't predict their motives, so how would he know if they were going to kill him or leave him to die in a cold empty room? He clenched his eyes shut and a pink-haired girl entered his mind.

'I'm sorry Sakura, looks like I won't be coming back anytime soon.'

Ayame rushed through the trees, she heard the sound of footsteps tailing not too far behind her, her heart was beating uncontrollably in her chest as tears streamed down her face. She hadn't known how long she had been running and dodging away from the men's sight.

Right as she thought she was going to get caught by one of the men she ran through a wall of trees and arrived at a road with cars driving by. She stood at the side and waved her arms for someone to help her. She turned around and quickly surveyed the area behind her to make sure she hadn't been followed.

It was just her luck when she saw a policeman drive by and she tried desperately to grab his attention. She thought he hadn't see her, but was surprised to see him turning around and heading back her way with his lights flashing. He parked his car and got out before approaching the girl cautiously. Ayame ran up to him and tried explaining to him what was happening, he knelt down and grabbed her shoulders to calm her down since he couldn't understand what she was saying since she was speaking quickly and breathlessly.

"Please help me. There are these guys and they are hurting people."

"I will, I need to take you down to our station so we can get a group of men together."

Ayame nodded and she got inside the car with the older man. He wasted no time and drove down the road, driving as fast as he was allowed to, though he really couldn't get pulled over since he was a policeman just like all of his co-workers.

Once they had arrived at the station, the officer whose name Ayame had figured out was Kenji brought her into the station as he rushed to his boss's office, his name was Asuma to explain what he had found out from the girl on the drive over here. She had been kidnapped six months ago, he recognized the picture that was hanging on the billboard in the hallway.

"What do we do Asuma?"

"We need to figure out what all that she knows. Did you say she mentioned a man that helped her escape?" Asuma asked.

"Yeah."

"What was his name?"

"Uh, Daisuke, no wait I think it was Sasuke, yeah Sasuke."

"Ask her what he looked like."

"May I ask why?"

"I have an old friend who runs a government organization, he has a team member whose name is Sasuke. If its the same guy then Kakashi and his team can help us stop these guys."

"Then it is the same guy. He told Ayame to have us contact Kakashi Hatake and tell him code 4015."

Asuma's eyes widened. "Shit this isn't good."

The man thought for a second. "I'm going to have Kurenai get a hold of the girl's parents. There's no telling how they are doing since she went missing. I'm going to call Kakashi right now, but make sure to confirm Sasuke's identity with the girl."

Kenji left the office with a nod and walked over to Ayame who was sitting on a chair just outside the room, she was twiddling her fingers nervously as he knelt down in front of her. She looked him in the eyes.

"Listen carefully, can you tell me what Sasuke looked like?"

They threw Sasuke into a room that was different than the one he was in before, all around him were plain white walls. But what really caught his attention were the several children in the room with him along with a few adults that looked as if they went through some beatings. There were about five of the children and three adults. They were all huddled together in the corner of the room. He saw their trembling forms and took one step towards them which caused them to flinch.

He stopped in his advancement towards them, they were scared as hell. What the fuck were these guys doing to them? He glanced over their arms and noticed bruises and burns etched into their skin.

'What the hell? Are they torturing these guys?'

"I'm not here to hurt you." Sasuke tried to calm them down.

He looked at them as they started trembling even worse. It wasn't him they were scare of, he froze when he felt someone standing behind him. Turning his head he spotted a tall man, he was huge, he looked as if he could snap someone's arm with his bare hands in a split second. Sasuke heard a voice come over the speaker.

"Taichi, begin the test, we need to get rid of the weak ones, whoever lasts longer will go into phase two."

The big man named Taichi went for the children and the other adults first to get rid of the weak ones in the bunch. Sasuke's eyes widened and he ran in front of them and spread his arms out to shield them.

"You'll have to go through me first." Sasuke stood without fear against the large man.

"Big talk coming from someone so small." Taichi taunted.

Sasuke glared and before anyone knew it he delivered a punch to the man's jaw and sent him stumbling backwards on his feet. He looked up and glared at Sasuke with a murderous gaze, Sasuke stood in a defensive position, he may be injured but that wasn't going to keep him from protecting these people.

"You'll pay for that you little runt."

"I'm so scared." Sasuke taunted back.

Taichi growled and charged at Sasuke with fists raised ready to strike. Sasuke merely grabbed the guys wrist and opted to use the man's own weight against him. With a quick movement, Sasuke flipped the man onto his back before delivering a punch to the mans face. Taichi yelled in pain and lifted his hands to his face to nurse the wound, his looked to his fingers and found blood staining them. His lip had been busted open from the impact of Sasuke's fist.

Sasuke dodged when Taichi jumped to his feet and tried to attack him. Taichi decided to use another tactic and sprinted towards the people in the corner. Sasuke saw this and ran at him, Taichi smirked and grabbed Sasuke around the throat and lifted him into the air before slamming him into the wall.

"You are weak to care for this garbage." He gestured his head to the huddled forms in the corner. "I will crush you like the ant you are."

Managing to shift his leg, Sasuke kneed the man in the stomach which caused Taichi to drop his grip and let Sasuke slide to the floor. Taichi was about to go at him again when he heard the same voice come over the speaker.

"Enough Taichi, we have what we need." Taichi growled before obeying and leaving the room.

He sealed the door once he left but not before turning to Sasuke to give him a smirk. Sasuke found it suspicious and before he could do anything, thick red gas began to fill the room. He covered his mouth but it didn't help his situation, he coughed out and attempted to walk over to the group in the corner.

He didn't make it that far when he felt his eye lids grow heavy, he collapsed to the floor and struggled to force himself to his feet but to end up with negative results. His eyes shut slowly as everything around him vanished into darkness.

"I know it sounds strange Kakashi, but I'm serious here." Asuma said to the man over the phone.

"But she's only a little girl, she might just be imaging things." Kakashi said back.

"How could she imagine his name?"

"I don't know."

"There's another thing."

"What?"

"She was instructed to tell you code 4015."

"4015?! She really did have contact with Sasuke then...where did she come from?"

"One of my men picked her up from the side of the road, we are trying to find out where she was being held, but all of the questioning is shaking her up pretty badly. She's getting nervous about all of the questions and its harder for her to answer."

"I'll have one of my guys come down there, he says he's good with kids so maybe he can get some answers."

Asuma sighed into the phone, this was going to be a long week.

"If what she says is true Kakashi, then Sasuke and those kids and other adults are in real danger."

"I know." Kakashi murmured. "I can't let that happen, I have to find them before it's too late."

Sasuke cracked open his eyes, the room was spinning, whatever they gassed him with still lingered in his blood stream. He glanced around the room to find himself sitting in a chair with his arms bound behind the back of the seat with thick ropes. How was he going to get himself out of this one. The room he was in, looked like an interrogation room criminals were taken to in a police station, only there weren't any windows and this place was a complete hell hole.

A stainless still table was set in front of him with a stack of papers sitting on it. What were they going to do to him now? He tried to shake off the wave of dizziness that came back to his vision as the door opened up to reveal a man with bandages around most of his face. He stepped inside as the man walked in front of Sasuke and picked up the pile of papers and began reading off facts about him. How the hell had he gotten those files?!

"Sasuke Uchiha. Black belt in Taekwondo. Location: unknown. Helicopter and airplane operator. Weapons specialist. Stealth specialist."

The man looked up at Sasuke and set the papers onto the table and spread them out in front of the raven-haired male.

"We have everything on you from your preschool years all the way up to high school. But from there we have nothing, its like you dropped off the face of the earth." Dosu walked around him and leaned into his ear. "Who exactly are you?"

"What do the hell do you want with me anyway?"

"To find out who you are working for." A voice came over another speaker. "Dosu, let the interrogation begin."

Light the fuse and burn it up
Take the path that leads to nowhere

A/N Finally done with this chapter, I was racking my brain to figure out what direction to take this in. But here it is, hope you like it.