Now, I know I said another chapter wouldn't come out, but I thought I needed to get this out sooner than later, and I'm late for dinner with by friends and I have to go, so enjoy:P

Naruto POV- Current

The black goes on forever, and I can feel the rain beating on my skin. I see flashes of an alleyway, and hear screams. They are beating on my mind, but all my thoughts are instead focused on Sasuke. On my heart.

I'm always depending on him to save me, I thought. If anyone saw me, they'd probably think I was out of control in rage. They'd be only half right. I'd forked over my anger to Kyuubi so I could concentrate-his cage was walled off, but I can still feel the heat throbbing in my abdomen around the spot he would be. It's pulsing and writhing. His anger is overflowing, but only a little bit seeps into my own viens.

No, I'm much too busy thinking and supressing to be angry right now. I can be angry later when I have time for it.

I had carefully started climbing, and now I realize that if I fall, Kyuubi won't be able to help me; I have to be several hundred feet up above the elevator car, and haven't found what I'm looking for. I know from Sasuke's talking that there is only one other way out of this long, dark shaft. A maintenence coverling on the 83rd floor, incase of a mechanical problem.

Luckily for me, I don't have too bad a start. Granted, I can't see and my nails are sinking into the walls like a saw into melted butter, but I'm not seeing red anymore. From the 2nd to the 24th floor is a mass of torn up metal though, and it was then I'd agreed to give Kyuubi my anger, bubbling like magma in every pore of my body.

I haven't heard from him since then.

There!

Now I can faintly sense something about six floors up.

How is he pulling Sasuke up with him? I now he isn't exactly fat, but this kid must be younger than we are...

I have a sort of feel as to where the guy is, so I speed up, careful to make no noise. Nails sliding smoothly in and out of the steel, my shoes flat and converse, so they don't squeak on the metal wall. Muscles ripple in my arms, and my hair is hanging straight down, covering my eyes. Not that there's anything to see.

For a moment I'm back in the storm, thunder blasting above me and catcalls being yelled from somewhere I can't see. A hand latches onto my shoulder-

And I'm back in the elevator shaft, sweat rolling down my back. I can feel the fear-for myself, for Sasuke, for Juura back in the elevator car. The rain is back, and it's not cool but steaming, scalding my head and arm, until I'm again in the almost freezing cold tunnel, climbing steadily up to where the figure is moving ahead.

I must be high above the ground now, and my stomach quivers at the thought, but those are thoughts for some other time. Finally, he's too close to get away from me, and I dig a small spot in the metal, going up and putting my shoetip in it. Then, I leap, foot pushing off, and bound up the dark place, from one side to another.

The booms from it are probably majorly freaking people out on the observation decks.

For a moment or two, I'm back in Sasuke's bathtub, and he's singing to me. Then I'm where the rain can sting my face, running back down the alleyway, and next I'm landing on the other side of the shaft, nails carving niches into the rough but smooth steel like a layer of putty.

I've got to get ahold of this, I think weakly, trying to stop swaying. I can't afford to lose it right now.

Above me, the boy has finally realized what made the noise, and I feel something drop. Next, there's a blinding pain in my shoulder, and the snake has bitten me deeply. I can feel it as my surprised viens pump the poison through me, but the overheat of my body melts it and it disintegrates. But the snake is still on me, and it wraps tightly around my neck, trying to strangle me.

Holding on with one hand, I grab it's thin body and sink my nails in. Another bite strikes on my cheek, but it's gone in a moment, and the venom is flushed out, evaporated by the anger buldging into me.

Theres a few tones above me, like a cell phone, and I can hear him say, "I got them. One's with me, and the other is-"

The words are cut off by a loud rumble.

Lights come on and flood the tunnel, as a slot far above opens. One of the floor doors have been open, and a head appears.

"What the hell-Shikamaru, I don't see him! Are you sure that noise was him?"

The lazy voice that drifts back says dryly, "Of course, I could be wrong, Kiba, but what else could make that noise except a very angry blonde idiot? Tell me."

There's silence, and I open my mouth to call out, when another snake drops onto my face, landing in my mouth. My tongue is pressed to the back of my throat, and I fight off panic, a flashback taking hold once more.

When I come out of it, the snake has fallen below and the light is gone. So is the teenager. I curse and leap again, sensing him a couple floors up.

Seriously. How is this kid managing to carry himself and Sasuke? He said Sasuke was with him, and I was following- well he didn't get that chance to, but what else could he have been saying?

Suddenly, a flash of heat shoots through me, and Kyuubi growls, Go back. Hurry!

What?

Go BACK DOWN!

Why the hell would I do-

Kit, he was talking about you! You're with him!

But...

My eyes widen, and I almost let go out of shock.

I'm with him. That meant that...that Sasuke isn't.

Fuck.

GO BACK!

I tune him out, and claw at the wall, leaping out and grabbing the thick wired attaching the car to the building. It slices into my palm as I slide, and blood slicks my hands. Hissing, I know I have a long way to go. I have to slide down these wires for almost 64 floors.

Pain rips through me, and I skid down the wall, blood trickling down my arms and staining me.

A sliver of energy heats me though, and soon the pain is a memory as I hold onto the cable, letting it cut and almost break my hands. Even as they heal, I can feel more anger pouring into me everytime the cuts disappear. This is wearing us both down, and I'm not sure I can stay concious, the agony is piercing me so strongly everytime I clear a few floors.

Rain beats down on me and I can feel hands through my clothes, probing, laughing at me I can feel jabs in my stomach and sides, and then I'm back in the dark, sliding down a rope thats now slicked in my blood.

I know I'm halfway there by now. It's been too painful to consider that I'm not, and I take a rest for a moment, questing out in my mind for the wall Kyu put up. I touch it, brushing my conciousness against it, and I'm suddenly in bed with Sasuke, looking at him as he sleeps.

Then I'm being bandanged and helped into bed for the first time, and I'm thrown away from the wall.

Focus, I can feel Kyuubi growling.

Gritting my teeth, I start again.

Sure, Naruto. Lets go to Tokyo, it'll be fun!

Who's idea was this again? To come halfway around the country just o climb up and down elevator shafts?

I'm pretty sure they didn't expect this to happen, brat.

Yeah well they should've.

Just keep going; we're almost there.

He's right, I see, when I smell the stale air around me. I can smell the grease of the car and go faster, ignoring the blinding hurt. Finally, with the top just ten feet down, I let go and landin a heap, right before slipping and falling into the car, onto the shoulders of a shouting Shikamaru.

"Naruto? What the fuck? Where the hell did you come-" I stand and run out of the doors. (A/N: The group had the car moved down to the bottom floor, so Dobe's just gone up and down Tokyo Tower in about fifty minutes with no climbing gear:P)

Where?

Left. I turn, and sprint down the open space towards the gift shops.

No. Wait... Skidding to a fast stop, I see people staring at me. I have to glance down as Kyuubi thinks. Theres blood all down my sides and front, dripping down my arms and drying on my shirt. There isn't anymore pain, since the cuts have healed, but just as I grimace, Kyu comes back.

Right. They've gone already.

How can you tell?

Kit, you really think I can't find your mate after so long? Pfft.

Okay, okay. Just tell me where to go.

And with that, I run past the group of people who call my name, and down the street, turning down a darker road as Kyuubi guides me.

The last thing I remember before my sight turns red again is dropping down to run on all fours, faster than I've ever run in my life, and the rain's constant beat on my back.

I knew it wouldn't last much longer, Viper thought tiredly, hauling himself through the maintenence hatch and up onto the last observation deck.

How did that kid come after me, anyways? I had a rope set up and hooked to my belt, but I brought it with me. There shouldn't have been anyway he could've-

A thin cord dropped around his throat, and he felt frantically for Tanya and Cole. Oh, right. They fell down the shaft.

I'm going to die, he thought, exhausted.

Sasori slipped out and stood behind him until his body quit shaking, and waited. A firecraker went up from the amusement park, and more followed, marking his end of this job. To collect his money.

Where am I?

Sasuke drifted in and out of pain, still unable to breathe right, body frozen, groggy. Every now and then, he'd hear his brother's voice, taunting him.

"Your little boyfriend is so much fun to play with. I love it when he screams so loudly. Can't you hear him, little brother?"

Then he'd fall into dark again, imagining Naruto safe in his arms, only to be ripped away.

Naruto...I'm sorry.

But then a tiny voice would come too, I'm coming for you, Sasuke. I'm coming for you.

He didn't know what to do, so he just floated in the pain, unable to move or see or hear more than those whispers.

I'm coming for you, teme.

Okay, so It might be a bit bad, but I think I did alright for a rush job. I had a plan, and I didn't want to forget it:P

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