Two onyx orbs soaked up the scene, concern flashed through the black of those eyes before silently the figure fallowed the two. He moved silently and quickly. There was no time to return to the others, he had to act alone in order to protect someone precious to him.

'I'm sorry Katara-hime, this was the only way. You'll understand soon,' Takayuki thought as he ran through the forest.

His black hair rustled in the wind as he moved quickly through the forest heading to his master, his venomous green eyes reflected concern, but at the same time fear. He was smart and a great ninja whose name is in the bingo book, but yet he couldn't detect the figure following him. He had his goal on his mind and nothing was going to get in his way, (well maybe Gaara if he found out what happened, but anyway.)

'I have to find where he's taking Katara, and then I'll try to get her back,' Sasuke thought as he continued to trail Takayuki.

Takayuki continued through the forest to an abandoned mountain that only had one compound on it. It was bigger than even the Uchiha compound when it was still standing. He carefully brought Katara in through a secret entrance on the side near the mountain side. He swiftly walked down hallway after hallway before turning into a room.

The room was dark blue in color with lots of scenery pictures on the wall. A fancy roll out mat was in the far corner. It was very spacious without a window.

Takayuki placed Katara gently on the mat before closing the door and going to deal with the intruder.

~TS~

"I would kill you, but you are precious to Katara-hime, so I will allow you to live for her sake only. Get out of here now before I change my mind," Takayuki said to the beaten and bloody Sasuke that lay on the ground.

Sasuke slowly got to his feet before deciding it would be better to get the rest before attacking again. He turned and jumped into the forest and slowly makes his way towards the moon village again.

'Hn, stupid boy; only Katara-hime has ever been able to beat me and you're nowhere near even a sixth of my power,' Takayuki thought before he finally went inside after making sure Sasuke was going back to the moon village.

~TB~

"Sasuke, what happened to you?" Naruto asked when he saw Sasuke all bloody.

"He…stole….her," he said before collapsing into Naruto's arms.

"What is that suppose to mean?" Kiba asked.

"He's probably talking about Katara," Shikamaru answered.

"What about Katara?" Temari asked as she and her brothers entered the room.

"We're not sure yet," Shikamaru replied.

"She never came out of the building," Gaara said in his monotone voice, he's eyes reflected sadness.

"We won't know what happened till Sasuke wakes up, we'll just have to wait for now," Shikamaru stated.

~TK~

Katara opened her eyes, navy orbs darted around the room.

'Where am I?' she questioned to herself.

"It's so good to see you awake, Katara-hime," a deep voice said from the doorway.

Light flowed into the room from the hallway causing a shadow of the figure to flow into the room as well.

"Who are you?" Katara asked.