Chapter 9 is up! Enjoy!
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Sakura sat on the small bed with a t-shirt snugly over her nose and mouth, patiently waiting for the unfortunate fool who had been told to get her. Little more than 10 minutes ago the pink haired woman mixed the bleach and ammonia in the bathtub, by the time someone stepped through the door they'd be assaulted by the deadly fumes. That would give her the opportunity to hunt down her targets like the animals they were.
Starting with Kabuto.
She couldn't help but smile at the thought of her so close to achieving her goal. Sakura double checked her arsenal to make sure she had every thing.
She only has one chance at this. If she failed, it would mean certain death not only for her, but for her family as well.
Well, she thought bemusedly, they want my death either way, so really I have nothing to lose.
It was strange how her fear of those men evaporated in the face of her hatred and pain. The men who were once like the boogeyman to her now seemed like cockroaches scattering from under her foot.
Sasuke's smirking face made it's way to the forefront of her mind and her traitorous heart lurched at the possibility of never seeing him again. The woman shook her head to rid herself of the image. She couldn't think about him now and weaken her resolve. Of course she was going to try her damnedest to make it back to him, but she also had to come to terms with the fact that she just might not make it out of here alive. Whether she lived or died in the process, one fact remained.
Tonight, she would annihilate Orochimaru, Madara Uchiha, and Kabuto.
Suddenly she heard the locks on the other side of the door move and unlock.
Sakura picked up the knife she made out of wire coat hangers and the chemicals, preparing to make a dash out the door.
A blonde man walked in with hair longer than Ino's. He looked confused for a moment and then suddenly clutched his throat as the fumes attacked it. Taking advantage of his hunched form, She moved and used her make shift knife to cut his throat. She could have left him there to slowly asphyxiate, but there were too many chances to that.
Best to get him out of the way quickly. She couldn't have him bothering her later on.
Quietly she stepped over the man's body and went into the hall, picking to go to the left Sakura ran, hoping to find someone who she could force to tell her where Kabuto was.
He was the first one to go and she was going to make him suffer.
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Sasuke watched patiently as Shikamaru spread out a map of the warehouse district Sakura was supposedly at.
"So, I couldn't get the specific warehouse, but this is better than nothing."
"Were you able to get anything from the DVD?" Sasuke asked the genius, hoping that he had.
"No, nothing other than the fact that it was a warehouse storage room. No other identifying marks or anything to tell where."
Sasuke stared at the map with obvious frustration. How were they going to find her? There were seriously 5 buildings and they had to pick the right one to storm. If they didn't, Sakura was as good as dead.
What was he going to do?
Gaara pointed out what Sasuke was just thinking and everyone stared in concentration.
"Maybe they are in the one at the back of the lot? You know it's the furthest from the road." Ino said flipping her hair.
Choji shook his head slowly.
"I think that might be a bit too obvious, don't you think Shikamaru?"
"That could be it. Or maybe they picked it simply because it's the most obvious place."
"All this thinking is making my head hurt." Kiba whined from the other side of the table.
Kankuro nodded his agreement.
"Damn it. There's no way to accurately guess what building they're in." Neji sighed as Tenten gently put a hand on his arm.
"Then why don't we go in all of them at once?"
Every head snapped up to the fireplace where one blonde stood looking into the fire.
"EH?"
Naruto walked over to the map and started pointing to different buildings.
"Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji can take this one by the fence. Tenten, Lee, and Neji can take the one by the entrance. Kiba, Shino, and Hinata take the one next to Shikamaru's team. Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro can take the one next to Neji's team. Then Sasuke, me, and Sai can take the one at the end. That way who ever finds Sakura can radio in and we have the best chance of getting her out safely."
Naruto's head looked up to find everyone giving him a dumbfounded look that really rubbed him the wrong way.
"That's...actually not a bad strategy." Shikamaru said in a surprised voice.
The blonde crossed his arms in a pout.
"I'm not an idiot ya know. I can use my brain."
Sasuke raised an eyebrow to dispute this fact causing the other man to jump to his feet, yelling insults.
The others sighed and listened as Shikamaru explained how they were going to go about the rescue.
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Sakura silently made her way through the winding halls of what she could now tell was a warehouse. So far she hadn't encountered anyone, but that didn't mean she should let her guard down.
Not seeing anyone made her really uneasy.
This was an evil secret hide out for Christ's sake! You'd think it'd be teeming guards or the like, but no. It was like a freaking ghost town.
She heard foot steps coming from the hall next to her and ducked into the door to her right. Their voices faded as the passed and Sakura let out the breath she was holding. Now that the men had passed, Sakura became more aware of what was in the room she was in. It seemed to be like a hospital room, with chairs placed beside a hospital bed and monitors hooked up to the person in the bed...
Wait.
PERSON?!
Sakura stood frozen, thinking that she had screwed up big time, until she realized that the person wasn't moving. Her curiosity getting the best of her, Sakura moved closer to get a better look at the man's face.
Who she saw made her gasp in shock.
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Sasuke motioned for Sai and Naruto to enter the building behind him. So far they hadn't encountered anyone, which was either a cause for worry or just a sign of the enemy's arrogance and stupidity.
Sasuke had yet to figure out which.
"This is so boring. I thought there'd be more fighting. Where is the excitement?!"
Sasuke punched the other male on the head.
"What the hell do you think you are doing yelling like that in enemy territory?!" He hissed.
"If Dickless wants excitement I could set this off." Sai offered as Naruto and Sasuke paled.
In his slender white hands sat a bomb.
"What the-"
"WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GET THAT FROM?!" Naruto yelled backing away very quickly, forgetting once again to lower the volume of his voice.
"Kiba I think. Though I don't know why he seemed so fast to get rid of it."
Other than Naruto, Kiba had a penchant for destroying things...
"Shit..."
Sasuke grabbed the bomb from Sai's hand and threw it away from them.
As it hit the ground, it exploded causing the ground to shake and part of the building to go up in flames.
"When this is over remind me to kill Kiba." Naruto said.
Sasuke could only nod as a headache began settling in his head.
If no one knew they were here before, they sure knew it now.
Damn it all.
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There was no way he could be here. Sakura herself saw him die, hell their entire family saw it happen!
This had to be some sort of sick joke.
"So you made your way to our secret room. Congratulations Miss Haruno. Not many would have been able to make it this far on their own."
Sakura looked over at the two men standing in the doorway with thinly veiled confusion.
Orochimaru stood looking as creepy as ever and next to him was a silver haired man that Sakura had been dreaming of torturing for the last 36 hours.
"Where are my manners? This is my second in command, Kabuto. He is an expert medic and quite the visionary. I really admire his work, don't you?"
Both men smiled as Sakura's face clouded over in rage and she wanted nothing more than to rip their faces apart, but that could wait until after she addressed the elephant in the room.
"Why..."
Both men looked at her with a small amount of confusion. They had expected her to fly at them in blind anger, so this was unexpected.
"Why is Itachi Uchiha here?!"
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