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Chapter Sixteen

Sana's POV

A feminine scream pierced the quiet silence and bounced off of the walls of the rather large sized room. Blood was thrown into the air like a busted water balloon being flung at a friend. Quickly, the scarlet liquid fell to the floor, making puddles and staining the sand covered floor.

"That isn't how you do it," a disappointed voice filled the room once the echo of the scream died off. The owner of the voice shook his head and said, "do it again. This time, if you do it right, we'll stop for the day."

"Do it again?" A woman with long blonde hair that fell down to her waist demanded. She clutched her bleeding arm as her life forced pulsed out of her badly injured arm. "The hell with you! I'm not doing this again. You told me she wouldn't be able to touch me, that I wouldn't get hurt. That's why I agree to help out. But this," she held her arm up for the man to see as her dark brown eyes blazed with anger, "this is what I call getting hurt. I will not do this anymore!" She spun on her heal and stormed out of the room without another word.

The man rolled his eyes, "Such a drama queen." He mumbled to himself as he quickly scribbled something down in his book before closing it. He took off his square glasses and rubbed the bridge of his nose from the stress he had been dealing with. After a moment, he put his glasses back on and stood up from his desk on the side of the room. He looked around, trying to locate the test subject. When he found her, he looked her over.

A girl of fourteen was in the middle of the room, clutching her own bleeding arm. Blood and cuts were all over her body and her clothes were dirty and torn. Her long brown hair that was usually put up into a pony tail was down and her hair was in a mess and was matted with dried blood and dirt. She was breathing heavily with a glare set on her face.

"Come here, girl." The man said and beckoned for her to come to him. But, she didn't move, just glared at him with unwavering forest green eyes. The man's jaw stuck out in annoyance and he said with a strained voice, "come here or else." Still, she didn't move. He did a mental sigh and reached into his white coat's pocket and brought out a small black object with a little red button on it. Upon seeing the object, the girl's eyes widened. He noticed that and smirked, "Come here or I'll push it."

The girl was stuck where she was. Should she go to him only for him to throw her back into her cell but not before being examined, or should she stay where she was and rebel only to be shocked until she passed out from the collar around her neck that she couldn't take off?

'What do I do?' She thought as she slowly stood up from her crouching position. She took a step towards the man but it was full of hesitation. She's only done this two other times and quite frankly, her choices were both ones she didn't want. Either way, she was going to be shocked and examined and thrown into her cage. That was what happened a couple of hours ago. 'What would Naruto do?'

"Do not make me tell you again, girl; come here." The man said in a tight voice.

Sana felt tears spring to her eyes. The man kept making her fight people after people, trying to get her to use her rare chakra but she kept refusing. Regardless, she had to fight so she only used her Tai-jutsu. That was why she was in this room and why she had made that other lady scream. If she didn't fight, then she'd be shocked and be forced to continue fighting. And by the time the other opponent refused to continue anymore, was when she got her break and was allowed to rest and go to her cell room that she was forced to stay in. The reason now why she didn't want to go over to the man was because he was rude and a perv.

She took another step forward. But, what choice did she have? She was a prisoner in this god forsaken place and there was not way of escaping. 'Only until Naruto gets here.' She thought and took another step. She had been praying for her brother to save her so she could stop getting hurt and causing other people to get hurt. She didn't want to show her chakra to these people because she knew if she did, they would want more. These people also treated her horrible and inflicted pain upon her when she never even did anything.

After a couple of minutes, Sana made it over to where the man was standing. He was now glaring at her and when she came close enough, he grabbed her by the hair near the skull and pulled her back to where she cried out but could release herself.

"Next time," he growled at her in a hushed tone as he pulled, "When I tell you to come here, do it. And I don't mean take your sweet time walking over here, I mean right here, right now. Do you understand?"

Sana felt the tears slide from her eyes as she tried to grab the man so he would release her. She nodded her head, wishing she wasn't so tired from the fight so she could teach this man a lesson.

But her answer wasn't good enough, "What was that?" He pulled harder, causing another cry of pain to escape from her lips.

"Y-yes!" She squeaked and he released her by throwing her to the ground. She caught herself with her hands as she laid half on the ground and was still in the air.

"Get up." He ordered and gathered his notebooks that he had been reading and writing in.

Slowly, the teenager rose to her feet. Once she was stable, the man pushed her forward where she almost lost her balance. Quickly though, she caught it and started to walk in the direction he wanted her to go in.

"I'll give you two hours to rest and by then, you better be willing to show me that power of yours." He said as they walked out of the large battle room into a long hallway that was lite with torches in the sides of the walls. "If not, you'll be in for the ride of your life."

Sana said nothing. He threatened her using that line last time and she received a shock punishment that had her on the floor with tears streaming down her face and a thin stream of blood flowing out of the side of her mouth. She slightly shivered at that thought, remembering how weak and pathetic she felt. Her bones had felt like they were on fire and with every small movement felt like she was swimming in a pool filled with acid. There was nothing she could do about it. She was to tired to resist because even if she tried, they'd find some other punishment for her. They tired her out on purpose so she wouldn't have any time to think of escaping or even have time to think.

As she walked in silence, the man behind her talking to her about using her rare 'power' next time or else, her thoughts led her to her brother, wondering when he was coming for her. She didn't know how much more she could take of this, and this was only the third time she had done this.

'Naruto... please hurry.'

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Naruto's POV

Today was the day. The day of Naruto's execution. Was he scared? Nah, not in the least bit. I mean, why would he be scared? Most people would be, considering that they were about to die. But, that's because they didn't know if they were going to live or not. Naruto was going to live so he had nothing to be afraid of.

Our favorite blonde was sitting in his cell room being bored. If he wasn't chained up against the wall, he'd be pacing the small room to give him something to do, even if that was boring. Anything was better than sitting on your ass all day staring at a dark wall that didn't move or do anything. The only things he was allowed to do besides sleep was sleep. But after you're well rested, you no longer want to do that. So as of now, Naruto absently drummed his fingers against the wall, tapping to a song that he couldn't remember the name of from his childhood.

He had two ANBU guards guarding him. Thankfully, neither one of them was Keo. They were just two ninja he had meet a few times in his earlier days and only talked to a couple of times. He couldn't remember their names even if he tried; he was bad at names so he tired to fake it until he made it. They were nice, but boring. Every time Naruto tried to start a conversation with them, just to pass the time, they'd give simple answers where he couldn't really continue the conversation. He knew they weren't supposed to talk to him and vice versa -being Keo's orders- but it would be better than being bored. Right now, they were playing a card game on the ground. The game was called 'War', one of the mind-less card games out there. He couldn't blame them for playing it.

Naruto yawned quietly; tired from doing nothing the last two days.

Ever since they were locked up in this cell, Kyuubi's voice stayed in an annoyed manner, never letting up to her normal purr. 'This is pissing me off. The Uchiha brat already came by earlier, what're we still doing here? Are we waiting for an invitation?' Her growl rattled around in his brain, causing a light head-ache to form.

With his eyes closed, Naruto switched his mind to the place where the nine-tails was locked up. When he reopened his eyes, he was now in the gutter like home the fox had lived in for the past twenty some years. He was standing on water outside of a large gate that was slightly opened. On the other side, Kyuubi was curled up with her head on her forepaw. She watched him walk through the gate and lean against her red furry paw.

"Pretty much," he said and closed his eyes to relax. "When we start to leave the cell, that's when things are going to happen. Just wait a couple of minutes."

The fox growled, the sound bouncing off of the walls, making the sound echo, 'Why wait when we could be out there right now and be looking for Sana? We already know the coordinates of her location, the only thing we need to do is follow them! Now we can't do that if you're stuck in this stinking, dirty cell, now can we?' Her sarcastic remark couldn't cover up all of the concern she felt for the younger girl. They grew so close in the last two years, she felt as though Sana was one of her own, much like how Naruto was.

"I know." Naruto pushed his bangs out of his eyes and opened his eyes again. He then huffed out, "I wanna get out of here too, but we have to wait –,"

'Why? You can bust out of here without breaking a sweat.'

True enough. Naruto could have freed himself the mili-second he was caught by the ANBU squad two days ago but chose not to. He was being selfish because he knew that with him being captured, he would be allowed to see his friends, the people he loved after four years. He had told himself, however, that when he saw them he would leave. That was until Sasuke gave him a plan that he couldn't refuse.

"You think I don't know that?" He demanded, pushing himself off of Kyuubi to face her, suddenly growing angry. With everything that was happening, like Sana being kidnapped by none other than Orochimaru; not being able to save her the moment she left his sight; about to be executed in less than an hour, to having the stupid cleansing device on his stomach, he was allowed at lease this moment to get mad. "I want to save Sana as much as you do. I would give up my own life if it meant her safety. You know that. But for right now, for at least a day or two, I just want to be selfish. I want to see my old village and my friends. Can I not at least have that? I'm sorry I'm being stupid and only thinking about myself when Sana is probably getting tortured, I know that's not fair to her. But, just give me this one day! Then, I'll give everything to go to her and kick that snake's ass for even laying eyes on my sister. I swear that after this day, I won't ever do this again because I'll probably never come back. My mind will finally be at closure here so then I'd be able to just think about Sana and her future."

The fox was quiet for a moment. It had been a while since he blew up and acted like this. He always kept his feelings bottled up inside ever since he was banished because he knew he would break down if he released them. So now, after yelling and speaking his mind, Kyuubi said nothing. This time was yet to come, and now it came. It definitely had been a while.

"The very minute we are away, my mind will only be on Sana and saving her. We only have a couple of minutes left to wait. So just..." His voice cracked and faulted. He became quiet and tried to keep the tears from forming from his frustration and anger.

'I know, kit.' Was all Kyuubi said as she herself became quiet.

It was silent between the two as Naruto looked off to the side of the cage and glared at the wall. He felt bad for being so selfish, but he couldn't help it. Hopefully, Sana will forgive him when he saves her. And he will save her.

Trying to calm his mind down was seeming to be impossible for him. He couldn't get over the fact that he was still here whereas he could have already saved his little sister. He just couldn't get over it. It was like he was abandoning her for his own needs. And that was pretty much what he was doing.

'Kit, she'll understand when you tell her your reasons.' Kyuubi sighed when she noticed her host being plagued by those thoughts.

Naruto shook his head. He was about to respond to her when he heard something outside of his mind. Not saying anything to the fox, he fazed back to his right mind and listened to his surroundings without even opening his eyes. The sound of many footsteps were coming his way at a fast face. From where he sat, he could easily count six people coming. Closer to him, he heard his two guards stop their game play and got to their feet as quick as possible. Keys sounded in the near distance that came closer with the footfalls.

Cracking his eyes opened just a slit so he could see what was going on, the blonde watched as the group her heard coming his way stop right outside of his cell. He recognized two familiar faces talking with the two guards; Sasuke and Keo. They talked in hushed voices in which Naruto could make out. The only words said was that it was time, and that was Sasuke speaking.

Keo was the one to unlock the cell but before he could walk into the room, Sasuke swept past him with the key to unlock the cuffs.

Neither of them said anything to one another as Sasuke loosened the prisoner's wrists from the wall but kept him in the chains around his wrists. He took half of a millisecond to look at his best friend and some kind of message passed between them. Naruto nodded with the littlest of movements that no one else caught except for the ANBU captain.

Sasuke turned away from the blonde and walked away, letting the other ANBU men talk it from there.

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The walk took no more than ten minutes. They group of seven now stood in an opened ceiling arena where the Chunin exams had taken place all of those years ago. Except, the arena wasn't as big. The stands were empty except for a small group that were in the middle but towards the front. And those people all had something in common; they were friends with Naruto. Everyone that had been at the goodbye meeting were up there and a few people that were good friends with him were there too. And there were a handful more people too. But as for them, they were standing far away from the friends and were all wearing smirks upon their faces. These people Naruto hated. They were the ones who hated the 'demon' that had lived in the village and had made his life growing up miserable and hell. No doubt they came to watch the demon child be sentenced to death.

Naruto turned his head away from the stands and looked around the clearing. Standing in the middle of the arena and where the ANBU were leading him to, was the elders plus one or two more ANBU ninja. Next to the small group was a random table that had been placed there with a scroll that was still sealed shut.

Knowing that he would rather be looking anywhere than the elders, the blonde returned his gaze back to his friends in the stands. When he looked closely at their faces, he saw most of them crying, only a few were holding up and watched the scene before them with unwavering eyes. These ones didn't know about the plan that had already happened and wouldn't know for another day or two.

"I can't believe they're crying for you," Keo spat in disgust, looking in the same direction as Naruto. He looked away and back to looking forward.

Naruto said nothing and looked forward again.

The group arrived at their destination. When they stopped, the ANBU guard stepped back to give the prisoner some space to walk forward. They bunched up together and awaited for further commands. Sasuke silently stepped to the side, next to his men and turned his hate filled gaze to the Elders.

Homura stepped towards the blonde. In a loud, clear voice that he had used many times in his life, he said, "Naruto Uzumaki. You had been warned that if you were to ever return to this village, the Village Hidden in the Leaves, after your banishment, that there would be consequences to be paid. Is that correct?" He looked expectantly to the blonde who just shrugged, refusing to say anything. He continued. "The consequence for your wrong doing is death. Is there anything that you would like to say before your sentence is carried out?"

Naruto bit the inside of his cheek as he thought about his 'final' words. Then he grinned and asked, "Yeah, why are y'all such assholes?" He heard a snicker or two from the stands and he looked over and found Kiba and Kankuro giving him thumbs up. He returned his gaze back to the old man.

The elder ignored his comment and gestured to his old teammate to proceed in taking over. He stepped back to give her room.

Koharu stepped forward and watches him, "You have three choices that you can choose from, Uzumaki. These choices will provide us with which method you wish to carry your sin out." The blonde rolled his eyes at the word but didn't comment on it. "Your choices are: the slow method of putting you to sleep and inserting a drug that will stop your heart, being electrocuted, or being blind folded in front of a firing squad. The choice is yours."

'Well, those sound charming...' Kyuubi sarcastically remarked. 'Which one are you going to be doing, kit? You only fake death once.' She added with a wink.

Naruto thought about his choices for a minute. The first option of being put to 'sleep' had nothing honoring about it. In fact, it sounded like the easy way out. Definitely not the one for him. The second was didn't sound half bad, neither did the third choice. It was a toss up between those two.

"Option three," Naruto answered without much thought to it. His voice held no emotion, making him sound lifeless.

Both elders nodded their wrinkled old heads. They gestured to the ANBU squad to go get in their positions. While they were doing so, one of the ninja that had been standing next to the Elder's when Naruto had first walked in, brought out a blind fold from his pocket and walked over the Naruto to cover his eyes. But right before the blue eyes were covered, they caught a glimpse of a look of victory from the elder's face and saw them mouth the word 'finally' before his eyes were covered and everything went dark.

XxxxX Until next time! And woooh! A cliff hanger! XD Kind of! At least you know that next chapter will be interesting!

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