Chapter 8 is up and I feel like I'm on a roll! Hope you all like it!
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Sasuke paced the length of the room as he waited for the others to arrive. Now that Sakura was gone (again), he had made it the gangs number one priority to find her by any means necessary.
Damn it he never should have left her to go take care of Gato. He knew she wasn't emotionally stable enough to be left on her own and he went anyway. What a sorry excuse for a boyfriend he was.
Naruto couldn't help but roll his eyes at Sasuke's behavior. If it were anyone but Sakura that were missing, he'd be sitting in the chair cool as a cucumber. It's not as if he cared any less about their friends, Sasuke would lay down his life for any of them in a heart beat. He just worried more about the pink haired woman than he did about the rest of them. Naruto was worried too, but his best friend was worrying enough for all of them. He needed to lighten up just a bit or else he'd exhaust himself before they ever even found her. It was up to him to play the part of comedic relief.
The blonde smiled in amusement at the thought, which Sasuke didn't fail to catch on to.
"Dobe, does this situation amuse you?" He asked with dark look that promised hell on earth.
Naruto, being the idiot that he is and far too familiar with the Uchiha's threats, waved his hand as if it were irrelevant.
"Oh nothing teme. Just thinking about how adorable you look when you're worried about Sakura."
Naruto yelped as he flipped the chair he was sitting in backwards to avoid the knives that were hurled his way. They lodged themselves in the bottom of the seat, narrowly missing Naruto's most precious organ.
Said man glared at the one who almost castrated him.
"What the hell, teme?!"
Sasuke sent him a side glare.
"Hn. Don't act like this situation doesn't have you worried."
"Please refrain from getting blood on the carpet. It'd be a hassle to have cleaned." Shikamaru drawled as he and Temari entered the room with Ino, Kiba, Hinata, Shino, and everyone else.
"Where's Gaara, Sai, and Neji?" Sasuke demanded.
Other than Naruto, those three were the ones that he was going to rely on the most for this.
Ino crossed her arms and shook her head.
"When we got here, Gaara told Sai and Neji to follow him. Apparently there was something he needed their help with."
Sasuke scowled at the fact that two of his best fighters were commandeered at a time like this, but had the sense to know that it must have been for a good reason. If there was one person who was as worried about Sakura as he was, it'd be Gaara.
"Tenten's youthful presence isn't here yet either." Lee spoke up from the doorway where he was doing pull ups on the door. To a normal person, this would be more than a little weird; but to the group who have known the enthusiastic man for years it was normal.
"Where the hell is she at-" Kankuro demanded irritated with the girl and in that moment several things took place.
Tenten pushed the door open with much more force than was really needed, sending Lee into Kankuro and Kiba, the three ending up in a heap on the floor. Naruto clutched his stomach as he rolled on the floor laughing, causing Kiba and Kankuro to lunge at him.
Ignoring the commotion she had just caused, the brunette made her way over to Sasuke.
"We know where Sakura is. Somewhat."
The room went silent as everyone's attention turned to Tenten.
Sasuke was in her face in an instant.
"Tell me everything. Where is she?"
Tenten took a step back to put a bit of space between her and the agitated male.
"Well Neji and I were a few towns over window shopping-"
"*cough* Date *cough*"
Tenten shot a glare at Ino, who maintained an innocent expression.
"When Gaara called. We looked down the street and saw Sakura get into a black Sudan with a couple of guys. They were creepy looking and Neji relayed the info to Gaara over the phone. Long story short, we're too late. Akatsuki and the Snakes have her."
Sasuke walked over to a window and put his fist through it.
"DAMN IT!" he yelled.
How were they going to find her now? No one knew where their base was located and they were running out of time fast.
"Wait! I'm not finished yet! Gaara figured out a way to find her. That's why he took Neji and Sai with him. They should be back any moment now."
After that statement, Gaara came through the door way followed by Neji and Sai, who were supporting a man with silver hair between them.
"What's this?" Sasuke asked, jerking his head at the unfamiliar man.
Gaara's face twisted in to a psychotic, blood thirsty smile.
"This is the man who took Sakura. I'm thinking he might know where to find her."
Sasuke's face darkened and he snarled at the two holding the offender up.
"Take him to the basement. I'll make him talk one way or the other."
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Sakura looked around the windowless room they placed her in, trying to find something she could use as a weapon. Upon her arrival, Sakura was frisked and her knives and side arm were confiscated. Not only was she weaponless, but she had no idea where she was. The men in the car had placed a bag over her head and as a result, she had no way in hell of telling where she was. She went in to the little closet and looked around. There were a few metal hangers and Sakura smiled as she took them out of the closet and placed them on the bed. Next she went into the small bathroom that was connected at the opposite end. She went under the sink and rummaged through the cleaning supplies trying to find something, anything, that'd help her out.
The pink haired woman sucked in a breath as she found bleach, air fresheners, toilet bowl cleaner, and ammonia. Not many knew that those could be used to cause a tremendous amount of damage to the body and even result in death in some cases. If she mixed bleach with the ammonia it'd create deadly fumes. Air fresheners contain Formaldehyde: a highly toxic, known carcinogen. Phenol: when phenol touches your skin it can cause it to swell, burn, peel, and break out in hives. It can also cause cold sweats, convulsions, circulatory collapse, coma and even death. Toilet bowl cleaner contains Hydrochloric acid: Highly corrosive, irritant to both skin and eyes. Damages kidneys and liver. Hypochlorite Bleach: Corrosive, irritates or burns eyes, skin and respiratory tract. It may cause pulmonary edema, vomiting or coma if ingested.
Sakura grinned.
Without even realizing it they supplied her with an arsenal of weapons that she will use to destroy them. She wanted them to die slow and painful, not only for what they did to her parents, but for ever coming after her in the first place.
Without another thought, the medic went to work planning her next move.
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Sasuke prowled around the man who was tied to the chair in the interrogation room like a predator stalking its prey. He was getting tired of the games the man, Hidan he said his name was, was playing. Sasuke and Gaara had already ripped off all the man's finger nails, they cut him and then rubbed salt in each wound they had made, hell they even electrocuted the bastard and all he did was laugh.
Sasuke had decided that enough was enough and grabbed a metal wire from the instrument table. He stepped behind Hidan and asked him one more time.
"Where is she?"
Hidan smiled.
"In a bed that I put her in. Let me tell you she was a nice piece of ass-"
Sasuke wrapped the wire around the man's throat and pulled until he was gasping for air.
No one, and he means NO ONE, was going to say that about Sakura in front of him. He applied more pressure and blood started running down Hidan's neck as the wire cut into his skin. His struggling was getting weaker and weaker. Sasuke was forcefully removed from the man and Hidan sucked in a breath, coughing. Sasuke glared at Shikamaru, the one that pulled him away.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" He asked dangerously.
"Sasuke if you kill him, we will never find out where they are keeping Sakura. You and Gaara go for a walk and cool down. I'll handle this."
Sasuke's boiling blood demanded Hidan's death, but his head acknowledged that Shikamaru was right.
With a nod he walked out with Gaara following behind him, sending an almost longing look at the tied up man.
With them gone Shikamaru pulled out a cigarette and lit it up. Temari was always telling him to kick the habit, but it was the only way he felt connected to Asuma.
"You have made this very troublesome." He said as he pressed the lit end of the cigarette to the exposed flesh of the man's arm.
Hidan hissed in response, but otherwise kept silent, his eyes never leaving Shikamaru's face.
"Where did you take our friend?"
Silence.
Shikamaru pulled out a match and struck it on the chair. He then lit Hidan's left arm on fire.
The concrete room was filled with the man's tortured screams until the brunette sprayed him down to put out the flames.
"I'll ask again. Where is she?"
Hidan wasn't laughing anymore. He was studying Shikamaru's face. He had the feeling he's seen him somewhere before, but where was it?
Shikamaru repeated the process five times before Hidan cracked.
"T-The w-w-warehouse district a-a-at the w-w-west end of t-t-town."
Shikamaru sighed and turned to leave when Hidan spoke again.
"You remind me of him."
Shikamaru stopped dead in his tracks and looked blankly at the man as his mouth twisted into a crazed smile.
"Oh did he scream. It was music to my ears. He was a fighter, Asuma was."
The world stopped for Shikamaru when his friend and mentor's name left his mouth. Asuma was murdered by the Akatsuki, the much he knew, but he never found out who did it.
"The woman he was with screamed and begged me to stop, but his blood felt too good as it ran through my fingers."
The world turned red as the brunette plunged a knife into Hidan's side.
"How dare you..."He growled fighting back the tears that threatened to fall.
Hidan gave a maniacal laugh.
"I quite enjoyed it. He was looking at a picture of you and two other brats when I finally killed him. I figured the blonde would be my next play thing. Damn does she have a nice body.."
Shikamaru pulled the knife out and slashed it across his face.
"Never again..." He said, his voice shaking.
"Never again will you hurt my friends and family."
He reached into his pocket and touched the cool metal of the lighter he got from Asuma. He pulled it out and flipped the top open. Without a second thought, Shikamaru tossed the lighter onto Hidan, said man ignited into flames as Shikamaru walked away.
"That was for Asuma, you sick bastard."
Hidan was still screaming when Shikamaru left the room to head back to the others.
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