Sayuri rubbed her neck as she coughed, trying to get her breath back. Her body went rigid as she heard Kenta leaving and felt Kosuke tenderly stoking the side of her face. "Such a beautiful face, it'll be a shame to mark it…" he sighed out, brushing the hair from her eyes"…but you do have to be punished for trying to leave and telling that ninja where to find me." he said. In an instant he grabbed her by the roots of her hair and threw her across the room. Her back slammed against the wall causing her to yelp out in pain before she fell onto the dresser. The large vase of flowers fell off the surface and smashed onto the ground. Kosuke smirked as Sayuri's body fell onto the ground and broken vase with a thud.
"H-how did…you know?" she gritted out as she began to push herself onto her knees.
"Did you really think I'd put listening devices in just the guest rooms?" Kosuke asked, crouching down and grabbing her ankle before dragging her slowly through the broken shards of ceramic until she was next to him. Holding her to the ground with his hand tightly over her mouth, he pulled out his favourite blade that was hand crafted from overseas; curved blade and rather than have one tip it was slit in the middle, creating two blades on one hilt. Best of all it reacted to his chakra and only his.
Starting from Sayuri's ankle he slowly brought the blade up over her skin, making sure that it didn't cut her but that she could feel it. As soon as the blade made contact with her skin, her back arched and she screamed into his hand. That was the joy of his blade, he didn't need to cut or stab the person to make them feel pain. Kosuke laughed cruelly before he began to press the blade a little more into her skin once he'd cut the fabric of her skirt away from her leg. This caused her to scream more and arch her back further as blood began to run freely from the wound. Kosuke stopped when the blade reached her thigh and repeated the same actions on her other leg. Once he'd finished, he moved his hand away from her mouth and twirled the blade in his hand. He watched with a sadistic grin as Sayuri's chest rose and fell quickly and sharply, tears flowed furiously down her cheeks while a clear line of sweat formed along her hairline. Fear and pain made her body shake but that was all she could do. She wanted to try and fight, she wanted to get away from this man but she was paralysed and couldn't even bring herself to beg. That was how desperate she was to make the pain stop. She was willing to beg but her lips wouldn't cooperate and the words wouldn't come. There was still so much more pain to come, Sayuri knew that and prayed she'd either die or pass out soon. With one sharp kick to her side, Kosuke made her roll over onto her stomach and there he laughed harder. Blood had soaked through most of her shirt. The criminal boss moved closer and knelt down. His fingers curled around the largest shard of ceramic that was pressed into her shoulder blade, slowly he pushed it in a little further before ripping it out, Sayuri's body jolted and a pained cry shot free from her lips. Grinning, Kosuke continued to repeat this action until all of the shards were out of her back and arms. By the end of it Sayuri's breathing was laboured and shallow, her lower lip trembled and her eyes were closed tightly. Kosuke wiped his hands on his shirt and rolled Sayuri onto her back again. Without a moment's hesitation he clamped both of his hands together into a fist and slammed it down onto her stomach.
Sayuri gasped sharply, her upper body rising involuntarily off of the ground. The loud audible crack that filled the room let them body know that one or more of her ribs were broken. Blood trickled down the side of her mouth as she slumped back onto the floor unconscious, the pain and blood loss too much for her to take anymore. "Just when I was starting to have some fun…but to make sure you aren't faking it…" Kosuke sighed and stabbed her in the side with his blade before ripping it out and put it back into it's sheath on his belt. He began to peel her off of the floor and lifted her into his arms. The blood from her wounds began to seep into his clothes, staining them. He looked up with an angry glare as the door opened. Ami froze in the doorway, looking from the bloodied shards in the room, to Sayuri and finally to him. Kosuke smirked. "Good thing you're here Ami." he said before letting go of Sayuri, letting her fall awkwardly onto the floor again. "Treat her wounds and lock her in here, make sure no one gets in to her unless I say so." he ordered before passing the woman and heading down the stairs to the bar, in need of a good, strong drink.
Naruto's clone waited until the man was in the bar before he released his transformation jutsu and rushed to Sayuri's side. He bit his lip, suppressing his worry and angry. Slowly and carefully he lifted Sayuri into his arms and made his way to the window. One of the other clones he had outside leapt up onto the lower roof of the inn outside of Sayuri's bedroom window and opened it. Naruto passed Sayuri to his clone and watched it disappear with her, in search of medical help. The blonde fisted his hands and thought of Kosuke. That man was going to pay he vowed before he disappeared. The clone rushed through the forest that his team had taken to get to the village and came to a halt next to a kunai stuck in the ground. "Are you there?" he whispered, looking around the dark forest silently. A small noise made him turn to see a figure approaching them. Her jade green eyes looked from the blonde to the injured woman in his arms.
"Naruto who is this?" Sakura asked as Naruto set her down on the ground gently against the tree,
"The manager of the inn, can you heal her?" he asked. Sakura walked over and knelt next to the woman, her hands glowed green and she placed them on her body. The kunoichi bit her lip and kept her head down, focussing all of her attention on healing the woman. It was a good thing that Tsunade decided to send her and the others out after all…
"There you guys are!" Sakura called, looking down from the rooftop of the bar. Her jade eyes looked at Kiba, Naruto and Kakashi curiously as they had begun to make handsigns. "Wait, where's Genma?" she asked with a frown.
"I think the main question is what you are all doing here?" Kakashi asked looking up at Sakura, Neji, Shino and Tenten.
"Tsunade-sama said that you'd all been gone for too long for this mission and sent us. It's a good thing you left Pakkun with her just in case." Tenten explained, only for the dog in question to poke his head over the edge of the roof to peer down at the masked ninja.
"We had to go through all of the different villages to try and track Kosuke down. It's not our fault Granny Tsunade didn't give us a specific place to go to." Naruto said defiantly.
"It's not the Hokage's fault that ANBU couldn't track Kosuke down and could only give us one area to search Naruto, but we should be thankful for her sending us reinforcements." Kakashi told his former student seriously before giving the group above them his usual eye crease smile. "Good to see you all, now we should think up a plan to find Genma and get him back safely…"
"What about Sayuri?" Kiba piped up. "We can't exactly leave her? Someone should at least check on her. I mean I'm sure Genma is perfectly fine. He's a ninja, Sayuri isn't, she can't take care of herself and needs us more." he said as the new arrivals dropped down to stand next to them.
"We can do both, with more here we can split up, one group with go back to the inn the other will go in search of Genma." Naruto suggested before looking to Kakashi. The silver haired ninja sighed and nodded.
"Neji, you go with TenTen, Kiba, Akamaru and Shino to search for Genma. Sakura, Naruto and myself will go to the inn -"
"What about Sasuke and Lee?" TenTen asked suddenly, looking around.
"They came too? Isn't Hokage-sama going over the top with sending all of you?" Kiba asked with a raise of his eyebrows.
"Well we were the initial group…but when Lee found out that Neji and I were going as well as Sakura, he insisted." TenTen explained.
"And Sasuke didn't like the idea of Sakura going with Lee, although he'd never admit it." Neji added. "Anyway, I spotted chakra restrictors at the four points just outside this towns perimeter, they went to get rid of them so we will have all of our chakra if it comes to a fight." The Hyuga explained, Kakashi frowned, he hadn't noticed any change in his chakra levels since he arrived.
"They'll find us some way or another. Neji once you and the others locate Genma, don't go to him. Instead go to the forest at the end of the town and wait by a part of the river edge." Kakashi ordered, Neji and the others nodded and disappeared, leaving Naruto and Sakura with him. "Sakura go to the forest that you had to travel through to get here and wait just in case you are needed to heal. Naruto create clones and disguise one as an inn worker. You can go to Sayuri's room and check on her. Make some clones patrol the area while the rest and myself disguise ourselves and go inside." he told them. The two nodded and set off for the inn…
Sakura gritted her teeth as she poured her chakra into Sayuri. "Sakura-chan?" one of Naruto's clones left to protect her asked curiously.
"It'll be fine Naruto, I won't be able to fight if an enemy comes. This woman is in need of a lot of medical attention." she told him. After all this time she'd only managed to stop the serious wounds , including the stab wound to her side, from bleeding and healed the large head wound. It was shocking at how much damage she'd taken in one beating. She moved her hands over to Sayuri's chest and began on healing Sayuri's broken ribs until they were fractured or just cracked so they couldn't pose any threat to her organs. She needed to reserve some of her chakra in case Genma or the others needed healing. Sakura pulled out some medical supplies and looked to Naruto who was leaning against the tree, staring towards the in. The kunoichi slowly and carefully pulled off Sayuri's ripped and bloodied shirt before securely bandaging her chest and stomach to help her ribs heal and cover the wounds on her back from infection. The medic lets out a weary sigh and moves her hands away from Sayuri to take a small break. Her bright jade eyes looked down at the unconscious woman, her breath was broken and strained. She couldn't imagine the pain she was in even with all of the healing she'd already done. It made the medic thankful that she was unconscious as she was sure that if this woman was awake, she'd be screaming in agony. After tying her hair back tightly, she leant over Sayuri and began healing her again. Her hands moved to the closing stab wound in her side, making sure none of her internal organs were damaged too. After a few moments her eyes widened and she looked fearfully up at the inn in the distance, hoping that who or what attacked Sayuri wasn't still in there with Kakashi and Naruto.
Kosuke looked silently to Kenta. "Kenta, I won't ask again. Who are those men at the bar?" he repeated in a dangerously cool voice.
"To be honest, Boss…they just came in while you were…busy upstairs." Kenta said softly. "They seem tough and I thought they may be usable to you." he continued, keeping his voice low so the rouges wouldn't hear him. Kosuke silently drank his beer while observing the three heavily cloaked men who were drinking, not bothering to look at the others in the bar. "Which one is in charge?" he asked Kenta in a low voice.
"The one in front of the knife in the bar surface. They haven't said their names but their headbands are from the Hidden Mist." Kosuke listened to the young man while keeping his steely gaze on the rogues before he smirked and got to his feet. Slowly he walked over, ripped the blade from the bar surface and inspected it.
"A nice blade…" he mused before setting it down while the lead rogue let out a croaking chuckle.
"I bet it's not as nice as the one you've got though…" he mused, turning his bloodshot gaze onto Kosuke whose eyebrows raised at the statement. His blade was sheathed and out of view, how did the rouge know about it?
"And what makes you think I've got a blade?" He questioned, appearing calm.
"You'd be a stupid leader of a criminal group this big and not have some sort of weapon on you…" one of the other rogues stated in a growl that made the other two rogues laugh. Kosuke's eyes flashed angrily and before the rouges could blink, Kosuke's blood stained blade was less than an inch away from the leader's throat, silencing everyone in the room. The leader's eyes scanned the blade slowly and he chuckled harshly.
"Looks like I was right, that's a fine lookin' blade…a lot better than mine." he complimented in his grating, croaking voice. "That blood on your knife and on your shirt come from the same person?" he asked with undisguised curiosity. Kosuke grinned and let out a gentle laugh that was filled of sadistic bloodlust.
"Yeah, but this blade isn't a normal one, it's a lot more dangerous than most. I'll show you." he informed the rogues who had keen interest flashing in their eyes. They watched along with the others in the bar as Kosuke walked to the door frame and yelled out for Ami. When there was no answer he narrowed his eyes. "AMI! ANSWER ME YOU NO GOOD-" he stopped when the door opened and Ami stepped in. Her dark eyes landed on the man and she tilted her head curiously.
"What's wrong my dear Kosuke?" she asked politely.
"Why the hell aren't you upstairs with that bitch Sayuri? I told you to heal her wounds and stay with her." he snapped, his grip tightening around the hilt of his blade.
"I haven't been here since this afternoon. I was with that leaf ninja and took him back to the base. I've been there for the last four or five hours." Ami explained. Kosuke's eyes widened in rage before he flew up the stairs and kicked the door to Sayuri's room off its hinges only to find the messed room empty and the window wide open. Kosuke's breathing slowed and deepened as he tried to control his rising temper, his teeth gritted but unable to hold it back he let out a loud animalistic roar.
"WHERE…THE HELL… IS SHE?"
Downstairs, everyone tensed and swallowed back their fear and anxiety over what Kosuke would do, they wanted to leave so he wouldn't take any of his aggression out on them.
"ALL OF YOU GET OUT THERE AND BRING HER BACK ALONG WITH THE BASTARDS THAT ARE NEAR HER!" Kosuke's deadly command bellowed down fiercely. Without missing a beat all of the men got up and charged out the door; leaving Ami, the rogues and Kenta in the bar and left with Kosuke as he came down the stairs and into the bar. Kenta and Ami shook with fear as they sensed the aura around him…he wanted to spill blood and they prayed that he'd take it out on the rogues or on Sayuri when she was brought back along with those that helped her escape. The rogues however grinned away as they drank, unaffected by the man's overpowering presence.