Chapter 27

Sakura felt her throat dry up as Ino and Hinata were thrown into the room beside her, tied up, though this time however the men didn't immediately follow with the closing and locking of the door.

"Looks like Konoha's kunoichi aren't quite as clever as they'd like to think. Their top shinobi too, for that matter…"
Sakura gasped as those last few words sank in. They couldn't possible know about the others yet, or at least there was no way that they could have caught them, so that only left one person.

Two if accounting for Naruto's stupidity.

"What the hell have you done with my fiancé?" Sakura snarled, trying to force her enraged brain to remember the mission and the parts that they were playing for it. If she couldn't do that she might make things even worse than they already were, so long as that were possible. It was bad enough that she had let on about her chakra control and medical ninjutsu. It was even worse that Ino and Hinata were now stuck in this place with her. She just couldn't stand it if they got to Kakashi because of her actions. Ino and Hinata had left, she knew. She knew their chakras well, she would have felt it if they had stayed. So either they had chosen to come back or they had been ordered to, neither of which she could fully take responsibility for. Kakashi though… hell, even if had nothing to do with her, even if another ninja hurt him while he was gone she would have to blame herself. There was no way that she could blame him; he was good. He fought well, amazingly so and he always fought selflessly. If he were here she knew, nothing of this sort would ever have happened to her, he'd never have allowed it. He had always protected her, and not only that. He had taught her to protect herself.

"Where is he?" She tried again, forcing her weak voice into a tone resembling authority. It didn't work on them, just as she knew it wouldn't. What reason would these violent men ever have to be afraid of a kunoichi wearing chakra restraints? None whatsoever. These men had no respect for or fear of women. They were always the lower beings.

"He's still on his mission little sweetie…."

"But don't worry, we can look after you until he gets back."

They laughed, sending spikes of pure fear down her spine as they approached her, leisurely, as they would a gecko rather than a dragon. The shadows played across their faces, revealing inches of skin at a time; the yellowed greasy chin, the chipped teeth and twisted grin, the evil glint of eyes. They were predators, and most of the fun would be in the fight. They wanted her to lash back, to try and hurt them. She wouldn't disappoint.

Her body was the only one that was free; the other two had been bound with rope. They had only taken away her chakra with the restraints, and she had still plenty of room to move, because they wanted her to. She'd have to play their game. She didn't have to like it.

She lashed out at them when they took hold of her, clawing at the hands gripping at her waist and ass, squeezing at her chest.

"Get the fuck off of me!" She screeched at the, vaulting her whole body at them in a bid to knock them down. It didn't work. She'd known that it wouldn't. She felt less useless like this, the adrenaline running through her body to aid her as she moved on autopilot to lash out at them instinctively. She moved without thought; what good would that do her now? She had nothing to reasonably achieve. She had no strategy. She just... did. And at the end of the day she could only hope to do that well.

She barely noticed when her back hit the wooden chair, as focused as she was on causing them pain. She couldn't hurt them really, she couldn't cause any real damage, but she could lash out, letting out everything that she had felt towards them in the entire time that she had been there; the girls kept on the top floor, the girl and her baby, the man that had tried to rape her and the men that were going to.

She kicked, violently thrusting her legs out at them until she felt herself hit a kneecap and them she kept going, grinning as she aimed higher.

"You damn bitch!"

Sakura laughed manically at his pain at her foot finally connecting with his crotch. There, that's what she had been aiming for and she'd damn got it! She felt power and excitement at the look on his face, and the medical knowledge inside her telling her all of the possibilities of what she had done. The lasting damage that she may well have caused. At the least she had caused him pain.

She could hear Ino and Hinata, but she couldn't see them, couldn't place them in the small room. She couldn't focus on their cries as they called out to her, for her. She could only vaguely take in the abuse that they hurled at the men who were fighting to get her clothes off but it made her smile.

She wasn't alone.

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A fucking dud mission. That's what it had been. A damn shitting distraction. Kakashi pushed his body to it's limit as he ran, faster and faster towards that place. It had been a fucking distraction. He should have seen it coming, it was so frighteningly obvious.

It was so frightening.

It was so lucky that he had pushed ahead, that he hadn't stopped for the night after all. His instinct had told him that something was wrong and it was right. He'd gotten to the stop merely a few hours after he had left again to find nothing but an ambush. Not even a real fight but a 'scare'. They had brought him out there to intimidate him. To stop him from making a fuss about Sakura.

Well he had the last laugh with that bunch. He was the only one capable of laughing now. He had slaughtered them, butchered them down without a second chance and the killer in him felt no remorse.

They had angered him in the only way that it was possible to do so. They had taken a teammate. Not only a teammate but his love. They had deserved it, every second that he had taken to pull them to pieces.

Not that there had been many, as eager as he was to get back to those damn pricks running their little rape convention. If any of them so much as looked at Sakura's body...

Well, it wouldn't be a memory to cherish for long anyway. They would all be dead within an hour of his return. He'd make sure of it. They deserved it too, the fucking bastards.

If they treated Sakura in a way at all similar to the other women that he had seen with them then they would be damn sorry. His sweet Sakura...

He couldn't stop it, the way that the disgusting image wormed it's way into his mind. Sakura, with tears falling down over her pale cheeks, crying out for help when he wasn't there to give it. Sakura screaming. Sakura bleeding...

Kakashi's whole body tensed as he forced himself on, maintaining a speed that he hadn't needed since ANBU as he finally came back into familiar territory, close enough at a strain to feel Sasuke and Naruto's chakra signatures, along with that of Yamato and Shikamaru and two unknown. Good, back up was here. That meant that they were already getting her out, right?

Kakashi knew that his optimism couldn't be trusted, really. If there were four signatures in the cottage, and Sakura's wasn't one of them then she was in there and they weren't getting her out. He also knew that meant that they wouldn't let him go screw up the plan either, since they were abiding by the rules so very well. Hopefully she would lose control with them.

Against his better judgement, he wanted her to use That Jutsu.

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"Remember to keep a look out for Kakashi-sensei." Naruto rolled his eyes as Sasuke reminded him yet again. He'd only told him like a hundred times! He should surely know by now... right?

"Shall do." He called back as he turned his attention back to the equipment. Night had passed now and Ino and Hinata had not returned, with or without Sakura. That wasn't that odd, he supposed, but he couldn't shake the unsure feeling that grew everytime he checked the clock. The other teams hadn't radioed in either, so hopefully that meant that they did not need any help.

That or they had broken their radios.

Naruto fiddled with the equipment as he waited for Sasuke to come back; the time always went so much slower without him, when all there was to do was to watch the equipment and check, double check and triple check that everything was on and working correctly. Maybe it was just that no one needed any help yet. The ANBU and Tenten and Shikamaru had gone outside to train and to aqquaint themelves to each other's style so that only left him here with Sasuke, something that was normally a cause for cheer. They couldn't do anything fun now though.

They were both too damn worried.

At least they wouldn't kill her, right? It wouldn't fit in with their plan at all. For their plans to succeed they would have to keep her alive, especially if they knew that she was a ninja. The same for Ino and Hinata. That's why those two had been the ones to go. The people entering the building had to be women to stay alive.

Kunoichi to be precise.

But, Naruto wondered as he checked for Kakashi yet again, feeling for his chakra's distance, he wasn't sure if staying alive was enough for them to be thankful for.

A/N - Well here is another chapter! I hope you enjoyed it, even though very little really happened. As usual, I shall update as soon as possible despite my lack of a laptop ATM and you should also watch out for my new Vampire Knight fic! It will likely be called A New Addiction and shall be an M rated YukiXZero. Cheers guys!

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