Chapter 2

His hand closed around her small gloved fist and pulled it to his side, lurching her forward. His face loomed over hers and his sharp teeth lit up with desire. Sakura squirmed in discomfort, She looked up to meet his gaze with a scowl, whilst taking in all of his distinct features she had read so much about in her Bingo Books. Blue shark-like skin, with black beady eyes, set above a set of gills that moved ever so slightly when he breathed. Her eyes glanced down ever so quickly to his mouth, where his mocking grin was still in place.

God those teeth are terrifying.

"What a predicament you are in, Kunoichi" Kisame mused, breaking her out of her slight daydream. He gripped her fist tight and with one swift motion threw the girl halfway across the room and into the wall.

She almost flew at light speed, until the rocky, damp wall broke fall. The pink haired girl slammed helplessly like a rag-doll, letting a small gasp of pain breach her swollen lips. She picked her head off the floor, slowly losing the dizziness the impact had given her. Sakura coughed violently into the back of her hand, drawing in a sharp breath at the pain. She pulled her arm away and grimaced at the sight of fresh blood speckling her milky skin.

"Fine" She ground out between heavy breaths "I'll heal your damn chest, Shark".

"Oh?" Kisame smirked "and what changed your mind".

"Well, I need to be alive to kick your ass" She half joked.

Kisame looked down at her with a speckle of confusion in his face. Was that a joke? He left the room without another word and slammed the door shut behind him, hearing a lock click Sakura presumed that meant stay. The poor girl lifted her knees to her chest, wrapped her arms securely around and did something she hadn't done for a long, long time, cry.

The white haired sharingan ninja and the number one knuckle-head ninja leaped furiously through the thick forest, never once slowing down to take a breath. The tree branches creaked and groaned under the pressure as they flew by, Naruto frowned at his own thoughts. A thick tree branch gave under the pressure of his chakra infused jump and fell smashing to the ground.

"Naruto!" Kakashi called out "Naruto listen to me".

The blonde ninja turned his head slightly, anger plastered fiercely on his young face "What is it Kakashi-sensei? We have to speed up!" He shouted back.

"I understand you are worried, Naruto, I am too" Kakashi's expression was almost worried "But do you think using all your chakra and anger are going to help find her? Save it for the enemy Naruto!".

"But Kakashi-sensei, what if they are Akatsuki? I mean who knows what they will do to Sakura" Naruto grimaced at his own words "I mean they could torture her or-or" He paused, sadness eloping his eyes "or worse" he breathed.

"I know Naruto, I had Tsunade call us some back-up, as soon as Gai's team get back from their mission they will be hot on our tail. Also Ino volunteered to gather their old team to help, Naruto we all want to help".

He seemed somewhat satisfied with Kakashi's answered, and sped back up to his preferred speed, first clenched with all sorts of emotions.

Kakashi, however, saw through his own calm voice, he has faced the Akatsuki, more than one of them, and he was worried.

Am I dead yet? Probably, good going Sakura, I thought I had grown out of being the damsel. She frowned at her own thoughts. Sakura knew that Naruto would be the first to hunt her down, for a glimpse of a moment, comfort settled in, but as soon as it had arrived, it was drowned out with an overwhelming sense of guilt and worry. Maybe that's what they want?! And i'm going to lead Naruto straight here! Shit what an idiot.

"Are you done snivelling?" Came a harsh voice.

Sakura looked away.

"Now, where Is that scroll you were delivering that was so important?" Kisame asked roughly.

"W-what? Scroll?" Sakura asked. Ofcourse, I was delivering a scroll to Gaara personally, is that what they wanted? Hm.

"Answer me properly girl, or you lose a limb"

"Well I don't have it!" She spat back.

"Wrong answer" he smirked. He was above her in a matter of seconds, staring right through her.

"I-it would have been sealed inside one of the anbu, so tough luck" She could almost rejoice at her words.

"Oh? Then I guess you are of no use to me" He picked Samehada off his back and aimed it right at her face.

"B-but your injury? It'll become infected if you just leave it bandaged up like that!" She blurted out. Since when was she so concerned about that.

"Would you look at that, the little Kunoichi has a crush on her captor, how cliché" Kisame laughed, not as maniacal as Sakura had expected.

She blushed inwardly, why? She had no idea, but lifted her head to look him dead in the eye "I'm just trying to stay alive shark, I have my uses" She growled.

"Fine, I take it you have regained some of your chakra" He begun "but don't think you could even attempt to best me, girl" He rested Samehada to his side and patted her with his other hand "Samehada here can drain every ounce of chakra In your body in a second, and she is quite hungry" He smirked his Kisame smirk.

"I won't" Sakura stated.

"Good! Then you have one hour to clean up and get ready or whatever you medics do" Kisame left for a few minutes before emerging with a clean rag and a luke-warm bucket of water, then he slumped down on the couch.

Sakura timidly stood up, she took a tiny step towards the bucket, never peeling her eyes away from Kisame who was shrugging his signature Akatsuki robe off his shoulders.

Okay Sakura, this is just like a day at work. Except, he's the enemy, he is practically a shark, and oh he is taking his shirt off, nothing to worry about.

"I guess I don't get a shower, huh" She mumbled under her breath.

"You get what you are given, girl" He spoke back.

"I have a name" Sakura grumbled quietly.

She quickly washed all the grime and blood off her pale skin, making her feel somewhat clean. Whilst eyeing the shark-man on the sofa she raised her hand to her injured head, It glowed a soft green colour as she began repairing the damage.

Kisame noticed the spike in her chakra signal and glanced over to the girl, he knew what she was doing, but let it slide because he was oh so generous.

Sakura carefully approached Kisame, staring intently at his rather nasty injury. "They really got you bad huh" She said, mainly to herself, she outreached her hand to trace the broken skin.

Kisame sharply grabbed her hand and pulled his face to hers.