Itachi's Promise: Chapter Thirty-Four

Hidden Leaf Village

"How did she escape? I thought she was meant to be under high guard observation and be in an escapable prison," Tsunade shouted, slumping back in her chair and waiting for the officer to speak.

"She was; someone must have helped her escape," The cellblock head guard said, bowing her head to Tsunade in hope of not angering her even more.

"Helped her?" Naruto spoke, remembering Kakashi saying Sasuke had stayed with Sakura.

"Naruto, what do you know?" Tsunade asked, turning to the 6th Hokage in training and noticing the all too familiar look on his face.

"Sasuke; wasn't he with Sakura in the cellblock?" Naruto asked, unsure of his words.

"A black haired boy, I believe he was the Uchiha," The cellblock head guard told Tsunade.

"Sasuke, helped Sakura…why?" Naruto asked.

"Itachi," Tsunade told everybody in the room.

"Itachi," Naruto repeated.

"Sent every available Anbu out to find them…NOW!" Tsunade yelled.

Hidden Sound Village

Pein struggled into a sitting position; his leg, upper arm and stomach were now bleeding badly. Since Madara had left sound ninjas had arrived and badly injured Pein worse, Pein had barely been able to defeat the four sound ninjas. He now lay in a puddle of both their and his own blood; looking around Pein tried to figure a way out of this.

"If I don't get help soon, I'm not going to make it," Pein whispered to himself.

Near the boarder of the Hidden Sound Village

"Sasuke, which way is it now?" Sakura asked.

"Um, the village is west and Orochimaru's hideout is to the east," Sasuke answered, hoping that he knew where the base was from where they currently were.

Sasuke and Sakura ran together, Sasuke ahead of Sakura to allow him to lead without giving directions. They had been running for almost the whole day before they decided to stop, Sasuke scanned the surrounding area to find out if anything looked familiar and Sakura created a small uncooked meal for the two of them. Sasuke returned and sat across from Sakura, taking the meal from her.

"I found the hideout," Sasuke told Sakura.

"Good, we will finish this and them go check it out," Sakura said.

"Someone has been there recently," Sasuke told Sakura.

"I thought you said ' no one goes there'," Sakura replied.

"No one did, but obviously someone has," Sasuke said.

Sasuke and Sakura quickly finished their food and then headed slowly towards the hideout, Sakura stopped as they spotted the entrance of the hideout and looked around in the forest.

"Someone is watching us," Sakura whispered, leaning up to Sasuke's shoulder and letting only him hear.

"Are you sure?" Sasuke asked.

"Yes," Sakura said, shoving Sasuke forward and going to jump back before Madara grabbed her by the arm and tossed her into a tree.

"Sakura," Sasuke yelled, trying to jump to Sakura's side.

Madara grabbed Sasuke's throat and held him from the ground; Sasuke squirmed in Madara's grip. Trying to breathe and trying to escape, Sakura looked up at Sasuke.

"Let him go," Sakura ordered, pulling herself to her feet and stepping towards Sasuke and Madara.

"Sit down, Sakura," Madara ordered, pushing Sakura back into a tree with his free hand and dropping Sasuke on the floor.

Sakura fell back against the tree and looked at Sasuke as he half lay, half sat on the ground trying to get air into his lungs. Sakura crawled across the ground under Madara's sight and sat next to her teammate.

"Sasuke, just breath," Sakura ordered, Sasuke tried his best to control his breathing and look up at Madara.

"I thought finding you was going to be challenge, but it seems you have fallen into my trap," Madara said.

"Find us?" Sakura asked.

"Find you; Sakura Haruno," Madara said, Sakura's eyes widened and she leaned back away from Madara as he reached down to grab her.

"DUCK," Kisame yelled from behind Sasuke and Sasuke.

Sasuke and Sakura ducked and felt the air around them move, as Kisame flew above them and pushed Madara back with his sword. Sakura smiled and helped Sasuke to his feet and a safe distance away from the fight between two Akatsuki going on.

"Sakura, Sasuke get out of here," Kisame ordered, Madara's kunai slicing into Kisame's arm as he twists around to look over his shoulder at the two younger ninja.

Sasuke and Sakura took one last look at Kisame, before running away from Orochimaru's hideout and towards the Hidden Sound Village.

"You can't beat me," Madara told Kisame.

"I know, but I can slow you down," Kisame replied.

"Good luck, with that," Madara said.

In the Middle of the Forest

"Where were Sasuke and Sakura headed?" Kakashi asked, in this full Anbu uniform and waiting for his Anbu teammates to reply.

"Hidden Rain Village, Tsunade believed," Anko answered, being on Kakashi's Anbu team.

"Let's go then, we have got two missing ninja to find," Kakashi said, running further away from the Sound Village where Sakura and Sasuke really were.

Kakashi looked around with sharingan active, he looked around and stepped back when he saw a figure quickly moving towards him.

"Someone is headed this way," Kakashi told his team.

"Who?" His team asked.

"…" Kakashi didn't know.

"Kakashi, we need to get to the Sound Village fast," Itachi ordered, landing before Kakashi and watching as Itachi seemed almost panicked.

"Everyone Sound Village," Kakashi ordered, looking at Itachi as they ran and waited for answers.

"Sakura is in grave danger, Madara is after her," Itachi panted.

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