Chapter Three: Answers
Gaara's POV
We had made it to the hokage's tower with the mist ninja still over my shoulder. Sakura had moved in front of me and opened the door. She moved over while holding the door to make room for me to slide through. Once the ninja and I are inside the building Sakura comes in shutting the door behind her.
Sakura and I do the same routine to get into the hokage's office. As I look over I see Sakura head towards the corner and just stand there as if staying out of sight of the hokage.
"Sakura you've return with Gaara I hope that means that you reconsidered the idea of him guarding you." She said finally looking up at the beaten girl. Tsunade face had a look of discomfort at the sight of her student in such bad shape. Now that I think about it I hadn't taken the time to notice the amount of damage the mist ninja had done to her. She had a deep long cut going across her cheek, with bruises and scrapes going up along her legs, and her clothes were torn all over. All this gets my blood boiling.
'The ninja must of saw Naruto and Sakura's fight and decided to wait till the end to finish them off when they were at their weakest.' I thought to myself figuring that's why the ninja hadn't attack sooner. Which I'm lucky for any sooner and I would have failed my mission.
"What happened to you. God your chakra is almost completely drained." Tsunade's voice full of worry interrupting my thoughts.
"Don't worry about me we got someone from the mist village for interrogation." Sakura said trying to get the focus off her.
"Okay put him in the chair. Wake him up." The hokage ordered me and I quickly obliged by placing the boy on the chair, but not before 'accidentally' dropping him on the floor.
"Sorry arm gave out." I say bluntly while adjusting him onto the chair. All the girls did was roll their eyes at my actions. After Setting him up in the chair I snap my fingers in front of his face waking him up. He look up with 'huh' as if forgetting about attack. His face is blank at first then is scrunched up as if remembering what happened.
"Good you're awake now why not give us some answers." Tsunade says to the enemy ninja.
"I prefer not to be a traitor before 5pm, but I might make an exception if pinky here is the one asking the question." He finished off with a wink towards Sakura. All she did was shutter.
"No. No way am I going to allow." The hokage didn't get a chance to finish before getting cut off by Sakura.
"It's ok I'll do it, but little warning to you I think my chakra is coming back." She said making a fist at the boy to prove her point.
"Pain before pleasure as I always say." He says with a smirk across his face. How bad I wanted to knock it off, but Sakura had beaten me to it by punching him in the gut with very little chakra in the punch. The punch had made the Ninja hunch over in pain. The punch had made even me flinch.
"Like I thought my chakra is coming back." She said catching somewhat of my interest.
'That is not the same Sakura that I use to know.' I think to myself remembering the girl from Chunin Exams. She had gotten a little braver.
"What's your name?" She questioned him with a glare upon her face.
"Oh so we're at first name bases. Well sweetheart you first." He said smirking. Sakura was about to answer when Tsunde came up behind her and put a hand on her shoulder.
"You don't have to answer his questions." Tsunde said making eye contact with Sakura. All she did was nod at what the hokage had said.
"I know, but if it gets him to cooperate then it's ok. My name is Sakura Haruno." She said gesturing to herself. She had a small gleam in her emerald eyes that I do not recognize.
"Well Sakura." The mist ninja said rolling his tongue. "I'm Tabi Hikaru." He finished putting his hand out for her to shake. Which she glanced at it ignoring it, and the boy put his hand down a disappointed.
"Why did you attack me?" She said a little bored of questioning the mist ninja. He looks at me and then back at Sakura.
"You weren't my original target actually, but that blonde kid with the Nine Tailed Fox inside him was. I attacked you because you were there, and it might be just me but you defeated him. So I attacked the strongest first." He stated as if it should've been a well known fact.
"Sakura what were you doing fighting Naruto again. You know he has an advantage with his chakra. He could of killed you." Tsunde said yelling at Sakura for her stupidity.
"But Tsun.." Sakura said trying to defend herself but got cut of by the hokage.
"No Sakura you have to realise your not as strong as some of the ninjas here. You can't afford fighting them." The hokage said silencing the pink haired ninja. All I did was watch all this go down and stayed silent.
"We can continue the interrogation later. We got enough information now. They are going after the stronger ninja first. Put him in a cell or something." Sakura ordered not looking at her mentor. It looked like she was more interested with the floor. All the hokage did was nod and grab the mist ninja by the arm dragging him out of the room to some place unknown. I look over towards Sakura to see her looking at the floor. She looks up at me and flashes the most endearing smile I've ever seen.
"Let's go I'm tired and want to rest." She said catching me off guard. That now after the words from the hokage had spoken she was willing to cooperate with the plan. With that we were off.