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Sakura cupped her hands underneath the water sink, taking long sips of the water from her hands. She leaned heavily against the tiny sink upon finishing and stared at her reflection in the filthy mirror. She looked a mess. Strands of pink hair stuck against her pale face, chapped lips, and Sakura honestly hated how frightened she looked.
"Hurry up, my child," She heard Karin call from outside, voice light and sweet, as if nothing was wrong.
"A few more minutes..." She called out quietly, "my stomach is hurting." She glanced around quickly, scanning the tiny bathroom for a possible escape. It was simple white walls, a sink and a toilet, nothing else, no shower, no windows.
"You have a minute, Lilly." Karin snapped.
Sakura lightly scowled and quickly she bent, hands finding the only remaining handle on the brown sink, swiftly pulling it open and looked underneath the bathroom cabinet for anything useful, nothing was underneath but a bottle of shampoo and a few broken clips. She frowns, but grabs one of the clips, shoving it into her hoody pocket.
"Now, Lilly!"
A wince escaped her as she quickly stands fully. Sakura wrenches the bathroom's door open after a shaky breath, coming face to face with Karin. "I'm finished." Sakura snapped.
Karin narrowed her rusty red ireses, "Do you want a time out again?"
"No," Sakura answers tersely.
"No what, my dear?"
Sakura holds back her glare and instead lowers her light green eyes, biting back a response. This woman was insane, making her angry and arguing with her would do nothing. "No, Mother." She forced a sarcastic grin.
"Such a smart ass mouth, you're lucky I have things to do," She grabbed Sakura's sore arm and yanked, fingers digging into wrists, yanking her quickly towards the center of the basement which houses the iron door which leads into their prison." Sakura's shoved inside by the woman, her sore back and sides screaming in protest as she accidentally stumbles and falls onto the ground. "Now you, my son."
Naruto carefully rose to his feet with the help of the wall, unsteady, slowly walking to the woman for his bathroom break. He comes back a few minutes later.
"Well that was exciting," He grumbled after Karin had shut the iron door behind him. "I got to go potty."
Sakura lightly smiled. "Our mother for you..." It was suppose to be a joke but it failed at being amusing. Her stomach churned. Naruto slid onto the floor beside her, his face blank. Sakura waits an hour before moving, showing him the broken hair clip in her pocket.
The boy only raises an eye brow. "What are you going to do, do your hair?" She gave him an unpleasant glare.
"No...I'm going to work on that lock." She quickly got to her feet and moves to the lock, sticking the clip into it. It took a minute but the boy joined her. Receiving a few cuts, but eventually she hears a satisfying click of the lock.
Sakura's light green eyes locked on Naruto's blue ones, eyes wide with excitement a smile tugging at thin, chapped lips. Naruto's excitement was just as raw. Wide, eyes squinted hard. Sakura carefully pulled open the iron door, slowly cringing when it loudly scrapped along the floor. She took a breath before, hesitantly poking her head out into the basement beyond and stepping out into the all clear.
Old boxes decorated nearly every inch of the wide area along with covered furniture and an old washer and drawer. In front of them was a wooden stairwell, which both hoped was their way out. They began to climb them, carefully, Sakura's heart beating so chaotically she can hear it. The blonde mentally prays the basement's door would be unlocked.
"Are you sure about this, Sakura?" Naruto panted.
She gently shakes her head. "No..." Her hands land on the brass handle. Carefully she quietly pushes it open, it makes very little noise but it echoes inside both of their heads. It opens into a darkened kitchen, a sliding backdoor is the only thing the teens see however.
Quickly they dart towards it. It's Naruto who took on the lead, undoing the lock and forcing the glass door open, stepping out onto a back patio, chilly air hits both of them in the face. They share a brief look before both of them run.
"Move another inch and I'll blow both of your heads off." Kisame's voice freezes them, as the man rounds the corner of the house, a rifle in his hands. "Good thing I cut my hunting trip short, huh? Your mom would have bitched for days if I would've lost you two..." The man huffed. "Get back inside." He ordered, motioning with his weapon.
Sakura bit her lip, hope literally draining from her.
"Wait until I tell dear old momma."
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She was not happy, of course.
"You like the outdoors so much," The woman growled and paced before them back in their prison. Her flowery sun dressed replaced by a dark-blue wrap around dress and dark make-up. "Let's take a trip outside, then."
Cuffs are once again clamped around healing wrists, and pain assaults both of their bodies and both are ordered outside into the backyard and ordered onto the ground and legs on a broom sticks. Pain already coursing through Sakura's legs, as she uncomfortably shifts on the hard piece of wood. Beside her Naruto does similar. Karin paced before them. 'Her stick' in her hands. Kisame waits a few feet away, his rifle in his hands.
The overhead sun bares down on both of their backs, sweat began to creep down their necks. Sakura wipes her sweating face along her hoody and squints up, watching Karin, watching the wooden stick in her hands. Under her hoody her body was still aching, throbbing with pain.
"You two tried running away from momma," Karin said sadly with a small sigh. "After all I did..."
"Honestly, you can't blame us," Naruto said weakly. Having cuffs on her wounded wrists likely was killing him, Sakura stared at him worriedly. He was still painfully pale.
"Shut up!" Karin growled. Naruto's mouth clamped shut. "I'm tired of both of you alls disrespectful attitudes. I'm tried of your ungratefulness!"
Karin stalked behind both of them. A second later Naruto cried out in pain, his body surging forward, off the broom stick, he whimperd.
"Naruto," Sakura called out worriedly.
"Get your ass back on the fucking stick!" Sakura watched as Karin's strikes hit Naruto again, this time in the back. "Now!" Quickly the boy scrambles back onto the broom stick, stumbling for a few seconds before lowering himself slowly onto the wood with a wince. The woman hit him again, on the back of his legs. He gritted, his jaw twitching, it took everything inside of him not to jump from the broom stick again as she once again hits him, again and again. Sakura can only watch in horror, arms limp, mouth open.
"Honor your mother. I gave birth to you. You should love me. You shouldn't ever want to leave me. I. Will. Not. allow disrespect." She yelled as she hits him in the leg.
The boy made weak whimpering noises, his body shook and he cried. Sakura watched all of this, doing nothing and feeling bad about that. Karin moves to her. Sakura haggardly breathed out, watching the woman, watching Naruto, his head was bent as he quietly welpt, his shoulders shook. She had never seen Naruto like that. It was sad.
Her own cry errupted from her lips, she also falls her broom stick and into the grass. A blow also hit her in the back, hitting air from her lungs.
"Back on the fucking stick, Lilly." Sakura panted in the grass, staring at the woman's dark high hills, her body shuddering in pain and shock. It had hurt. " You were always my strong-willed one." The're so-called mother growled hitting Sakura again, causing a wheezed yelp from Sakura. "Get back on the fucking stick." The girl quickly crawled back onto the broom stick, her body stealing up for what was sure to come and did.
"Now..." Karin said once her frustration had been released on Sakura. Sakura felt as if she would never walk again. Her insides felt tight. Her own tears leaked from her irises. "I hope you two have learned your lessons about leaving, momma. You two should hang out here for a while to think about your actions." She appeared in front of them again. "I would also like an apology... Hidoshi..."
The boy looked up, a stream of tears flowing quickly down his cheeks. He was very careful not to look in Sakura's direction."I'm... sorry."
The woman smiled brightly, as if she hadn't been beating them a minute before. "You are forgiven my son. Now you, Lilly."
Sakura swallowed as Karin cool gaze lands on her. Her pride was certainly taking a beating, but her body couldn't afford another one. "I'm... I'm... sorry."
"You are also forgiven, my child. It'll be night in a few hours," she looks towards the clear blue horizon. It was a pretty day. "I may be back by then, but until I return, I don't want either of you moving an inch." When both teen merely continue to stare at the ground, Karin scoffed. "Do you two hear me, now?"
Both of them nod weakly. Karin left.
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"Naruto..." Sakura whispered as night begins to set in, the finale glow of daylight vanished. Her legs had long since grown numb. Her body burned. Crickets chirped a night time lullaby and wind rustles fallen leaves.
"Huh..." His body swayed.
"We're in on this together right?" She took a shuddering breath. She wasn't thinking clearly. Her stomach ached with hunger. "We'll get ou..." she winces. "out of this together right?"
"You bet..." He whimpered, "believe it..."
Sakura nodded weakly, turning around a little to look at the home that had become their prison. Karin watched from a second floor window. "We'll... find a way out of this. Did you believe me, Naruto?"
Naruto winced lowly, shifting a little. "Of...Of course," his voice cracked. Both of them grow silent. The air becomes nippy as hours go by.
Karin doesn't come back until nearly midday, when both teens are exhausted and swaying. Their necks and faces are beginning to burn with the over head sun and rising heat. Somehow they managed staying awake. Both were afraid Karin would punish them more if they should faint and fall from the broom sticks.
Not a word is said between them all night, nor in the hours of daylight. Karin leads both of them back into their prison, dragging them whenever one of them fell. Karin doesn't even say anything, simply hums a little tune as soon as Kisame removes the cuffs and he and Karin leave, the teens collapse, falling to the ground.
Sakura lowers her head onto the concrete floor, rage, frustration, fear, and uncertainty rumbling inside of her. Her mind was in a fog and she couldn't think. She was in so much pain. She had no idea what to believe. How to think.
A sob escaped her lips, she curled herself into a ball, her hands go to cover her mouth to silence them. Embarrassed. She winced as her fingers touch her sun burned face, and a bruise on her shoulder was disturbed.
"Fuck!" She growled under her breath. Why hadn't anyone rescued her yet, them?
"Sakura..." Naruto's hand lightly lands on her shoulder and she winced, he quickly pulled his hand away. She turned around and face him, wiping at her face with shaky fingers. He lightly smiled back, it a sad imitation of Naruto's normal radiant grin, it was forced, but he's trying. She thought about that. About Naruto. The first time the girl had met Naruto had been in the fifth grade. He had been new, his family moving into town after his father had accepted a job as police cheif. The little blonde boy had a huge grin on his face when he came to stand in front of her whole class, introducing himself proudly as Naruto Namikaze. He never lost that grin, Sakura couldn't honestly recall a time. "I cried... it's alright for you too..." It was all the girl needed honestly, Naurto was so genuine. The girl brust into tears, sobbing so roughly it hurt her beaten body. Naruto lightly patted her shoulder.
"Sakura-chan, its alright."
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Sakura woke up first, her whole body throbbing. She frowned, her gaze landing on Naruto's red, peeling face, he was frowning in his sleep. She carefully sat up, her legs ached. Her heart leapt when her gaze landed on Karin. The woman was standing behind Naruto, arms folded, her face tight and in a concentrated scowl. She was not happy. When was she ever happy, Sakura wondered.
"Naruto..." Sakura hand finds his shoulder without taking her green eyes away from Karin, she gently shook him. He bolted awake and looked at her quizically before turning around, he actually jumped upon seeing Karin, his back hitting her shoulder as he backed away.
"What is this?" Karin asked lowly, anger dancing in her dark gaze, anger like they had never seen before. Both were confused and briefly glanced at one another. "Why did I enter here and find you two in such a position?" She literally spit. " Bot of you, like barbaric heathens." Karin began to pace the area as the teens watched, beyond lost. The woman's hands were entangled around her red hair, pulling at every strand in an obviously painful way, her face was a crimson red, matching her hair. "When you two were little you were unnaturally close too I... I... told Kakashi, I told him, it wasn't normal..." The woman continues to rant under her voice, but they both hear her. "It's disgusting... completely vile... heathens!"
Somehow it actually dawned on Sakura what this woman meant and it was... crazy. "You think... you think because we were close while we were asleep...you think we're... What?" She couldn't believe this woman. She was fed up. "If were brother and sister like you say, why is the issue? Why is it a problem if I sleep beside my brother?" Sakura screeched.
"I see the way you too look at each other!" Karin yelled, pointing at them.
Sakura frowned, she and Naruto shared another look. "You're...you're crazy..." Sakura whispered in disbelief.
Karin growled, "stand up... stand up... both of you, stand up!"
Carefully both of them stand, both swaying on aching, unstable legs. They both tense as Karin stepped towards them, she grabs onto Naruto first, tugging him quickly towards the left of the tiny room. "Stand here... you stand here." Then she quickly rushes to Sakura, grabbing her, forcing her into the other corner. "Both of you stand, don't turn around, I'll be back."
Sakura leaned into the wall as the woman leaves, her body exhausted as well as her mind. She frowned at the brown stone of the wall.
Karin returned with the tape and began taping small boxes around first Naruto then Sakura. "Think, about your disgusting actions. Forget your horrible thoughts. Do you understand? Repeat after me, I will listen to my mother. I will not allow unpure thoughts inside my mind. I am sorry for my unpure actions."
"Yes, Mother..." Both teens answered out through numb lips, simultaneously, both to out of it and aware the woman wouldn't listen to anything else. They began to chant the woman's words.
Karin was still standing in the center of the area, breathing heavily. "Damn it, Hidoshi, louder," she yelled. Sakura flinched, staring at the wall, repeating the insane mantra over and over again as Naruto's words grew louder. Soon after, Karin left and didn't come back, whispering under her breath as she went.
After a while, the words begin to blur and Sakura leaned heavily into the wall beside her, unable to find strength enough to chant, nor stand.
"I'm so tired, Sakura-chan." She heard Naruto say. "I can't... I can't..."
The girl turned around, seeing the boy leaning against the wall face first, his orange T-shirt bloody. "You have to try, Naruto..." She couched. "She'll be back and she'll... You can sleep after. We both can sleep after. We're going to get out of here and all of this will be a bad memory."
He quietly moaned, "I can't handle another beating."
She nodded into the wall as she turned back around, no longer having energy to respond. She forced her lips and formed words, returning to her forced mantra.
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