Running.

That was all Sasuke knew at the moment.

"Sakura-hime has been taken and Sara-chan is in Intensive Care."

Orochimaru's words echoed through his mind, over and over again. His two companions were far behind. They weren't willing to hold him back with their pace and he wasn't willing to wait for them. They'd said they'd meet up with him in Konoha.

Sasuke grit his teeth as some strange emotion bubbled in the pit of his stomach, building with every step he took that brought him closer to his birth place.

'What the fuck happened?'

Thick lashes fluttered opened weakly. The first thing viridian eyes took in was darkness. It took a second for her to get her bearings and remember what happened. As she laid there on a hard stone floor, her eyes slowly adjusted. Darker lines surrounded her which she assumed was a cage.

Like an animal.

Raising her hands to her stomach, she heard a jingle. Looking at her hands, she notices silver chains attached to her wrists and ankles. She sent chakra to her hands and watched as the chains glowed as the chakra was absorbed.

"Shit," she cursed softly.

There was a loud sound as a door opened, bathing the room in a blinding light. Sakura closed her eyes and turned her head away.

"You're awake," her captor spoke. "It's been about twelve hours."

Sakura looked up at the red-headed woman through squinted eyes.

"Karin," Sakura stated.

Karin grabbed a seat that was in the corner of the room Sakura hadn't noticed before and took a seat in front of the cage after sliding a bowl under a small space in the cage for feeding.

"You look like shit."

Sakura huffed as she inspected the food in the bowl. Porridge.

"Why are you doing this, Karin?" Sakura asked. "Bolt is your cousin's son. Does family mean nothing to you, too?"

Karin sighed and leaned back in her chair. "I didn't want to hurt him but he left me no choice."

"Naruto will never forgive you for hurting his son."

There was a pained look on her face before it was gone.

"Why are you doing this? You haven't told me yet."

"Revenge."

"On who? Sasuke?" Sakura wondered.

"No."

"Who then?"

"You."

The hospital was silent. Quieter than usual. With good reason. By now, the village knew about the attack on the Uchiha compound, on the last Uchiha's hand how it resulting in Sakura's kidnapping and Sarada's life-threatening injuries. The hospital had lost it's Head Medic so the staff was the first to feel the consequences.

But the silence didn't mean the hospital was empty. If anyone walked passed the waiting room, they'd know that it was far from empty.

Friends filled the hospital in support of Bolt and Sarada, though only Sarada was undergoing emergency surgery. Hinata sat on one of the seats, rocking a crying Himawari. Ino was beside Hinata with Sai next to her, holding her hand comfortingly while Inojin sat on her lap, knowing his mother needed assurance. Kakashi was leaning against the wall but the absence of his orange book spoke of just how serious he was. But it was Naruto that was overflowing with emotions. Guilt. Anger. Sorrow. Desperation. Guilt again.

He punched the wall, the plaster caving in like cardboard.

"What's taking so long!?"

A nurse walked down the hallway to them.

"I'm Higurashi Akemi, Haruno-sama's apprentice. Shizune-sama sent me to find you and tell you Bolt-san is ready for visitors," she informed them.

"What about Sara-chan?" Ino asked.

Akemi looked at them sadly.

"Tsunade-sama and Shizune-sama are with her as well as our best medics-"

"How bad are her injuries?" Naruto cut in.

"She obtained a deep cut to her face just missing her left eye. Her arms had been torn from their sockets and she had several broken ribs that pierced her lungs. She went into circulatory shock so we had to act fast."

"Is she going to make it?"

"It's too soon to tell, but-"

"But what?"

"It doesn't look good."

Sakura stared at Karin, taking in her statement.

"I don't understand? What have I done to you that warranted an attack on my family?"

Karin scoffed. "Don't you see? You have the life that I was meant to have!"

Sakura looked at her in disbelief. "Are you serious right now? You attacked me and my daughter because you feel you should have been with Sasuke instead?"

"If you hadn't come into the picture, Sasuke-kun and I could have been happy together."

"If I hadn't come into the picture, you'd have a Chidori sized hole in your torso," Sakura snapped back. "Or have you forgotten that?"

"That's not-"

"I hadn't even showed up by then. He was going to kill you, Karin, before I even came into the picture."

The redhead said nothing and Sakura sighed.

"Look, Karin, I understand," Sakura started. "Really, I do. But it's been years and no one has seen or heard from you since the end of the war and I'm not going to sit here and apologise for the way our lives turned out. At the start, none of us stood a chance with Sasuke. After he left the village for Orochimaru, he'd fully closed himself off from love or fun of any sort."

"Sasuke-kun doesn't do fun," Karin snapped.

A smile pulled at Sakura's lips as she allowed a memory to surface. She might not have the Sharingan to burn memories into her head, but she still had a good memory from all the mental training she did in the academy to make up for her lacking in all other subjects.

"He'd never admit to it," Sakura began, her tone affectionate and wistful. "But Team Seven shared a lot of fond memories."

They fell silent again, Karin observing the pinkette while Sakura got lost in memories.

Karin opened her mouth to say something when Kuromaru entered, the loud groan of the door announcing his arrival.

"I'm glad you haven't killed her yet, Karin-chan," he stated.

Karin tensed a moment before she stood.

"Me? You're the one that was having fun roughing her up yesterday."

Kuromaru laughed. "Touche, my love."

He stepped passed Karin before he was crouching in front of the cage that held Sakura. Her eyes hardened like emeralds as the mere sight of him made her sick with anger and fear at the same time.

"Now, dearie," he began. "That husband of yours is quite powerful, isn't he?"

"..."

"Thought so. How about that other teammate of yours? Uzumaki Naruto?"

"So what?" Sakura spat icily.

"I hate to admit it, but against the two of them, I don't stand much of a chance, regardless of my ability to become nothing but shadows."

Sakura smirked. "That's right. They wouldn't just beat you, they'd destroy you. Someone like you couldn't hope to be on either of their levels."

The way his body tensed spoke volumes of his disagreement to the words she spoke.

"You are their teammate, right?"

Sakura's smirk was replaced by a calculating look.

"They tell you everything, wouldn't they? Their 'beloved Sakura-chan'?"

"Where are you going with this?"

"All I'm saying is that you know everything about them," Kuromaru shrugged, straightening up. "Every strength. Every weakness. Every secret. Everything."

"If you think I'd tell you anything, you're diluted. I'd rather die then willingly betray my boys," she promised.

Kuromaru laughed as his hands slid through hand seals.

"Then it's a good thing I don't need you to be willing."

Her scream echoed in the stone dungeon.

Hinata walked out to the hospital cafeteria, sighing.

"Hinata, hey!"

The heiress turned to see Tenten, Ino and Temari sitting at a table. They looked like crap and Hinata felt glad she wasn't alone on that boat. She took a seat beside Tenten.

Ino and Tenten grabbed one of her hands each, worry and exhaustion clear as day in their eyes.

"Hinata-chan," Ino murmured.

That was all she had to say before tears began to spill down the Hyuga's cheeks.

"I don't know what to do," she managed to say through her tears. "Bolt-kun's hurt, Hima-chan's scared, Naruto-kun's furious and Sakura-chan is out there somewhere while they do kami-knows-what to her."

"D-Don't say that, Hinata," Ino soothed, despite the same fear clawing at her heart. "Forehead's strong. She'll be fine."

"You don't believe that," Tenten murmured sadly.

"But we should," Ino spoke. "I don't want to believe that she's being tortured or what ever else that stalker is doing to her."

And even though they knew they should believe Sakura would be fine, they could feel it inside. It was the reason Ino didn't wipe away the tears that never seemed to stop coming or why Temari couldn't stop grinding her teeth.

Sakura was suffering.

Drip.

Drip.

Naruto sniffed but stared at the tear drops that landed on the linen floor.

'I should have insisted she stay with me,' he scolded himself. 'I shouldn't have let the Teme go without seeing her. I should have assigned ANBU to watch over her or have one of our friends stay with her until she had-'

"Tou-san?"

Naruto's head snapped up to spot the now conscious blonde in the bed. He couldn't stop himself as he stood and embraced what he could reach of Bolt, practically hugging his head to his chest. He kissed Bolt's head as the tears now flowed without restraint.

"I'm so glad you're alright," Naruto spoke, his voice muffled by Bolt's locks.

Bolt hugged him back, his small arms winding around the older Uzumaki's neck and he allowed himself to cry as he relived the fear and pain. He remembered the horror that froze him when Sarada was being beaten when she activated the Sharingan. His hesitation resulted in him being knocked out.

Suddenly remembering, he fought off his father who released him, eyes swimming with confusion.

"What's wro-"

"Where's Sakura-ba and Meinu?"

Tsunade took a shaky breath as she stepped out of the Emergency Room and leant against the wall by the door. Her eyes caught sight of the clock on the wall across from her. 7:00. It had been a long fourteen hours of surgery.

A crystalline tear rolled down her cheek as she slid down the wall before burying her head in her hands. Sitting alone in the empty hallway, the Emergency light above her head finally winked out.

Hidden away in her pocket were two winning Lotto tickets and silently, the elderly woman shuddered as her body was wracked with sobs.

'So close...'

OHHHHH SHIT

I cried...

I cried so hard writing this .

The FEELS People. THE. FEEELS.

Anyway...

HAPPY NEW YEARS MOTHERFUCKERS!

Now, many people have reviewed about my rants.

AND THEY LOVE IT

So if you don't...Lol.

You don't EVEN matter xD

OMFGOMFG

Anyone else see that theres gonna be a BORUTO: THE MOVIE

Firstly, fuck Boruto!

I don't want no Burrito for my Salad.

How bout- BOLT: THE FUCKING MOO V

Boruto: The Movie makes me feel like I'm watching how some retard makes a burrito and eats it. Then how it proceeds through the body and blahhh.

Nope.

Fuck you, Boruto.

We're watching BOLT instead.

But yeah, I guess it'll all be about Bolt. BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

The characters involved at this point in time are Bolt, Naruto and the FUCKING UCHIHA'S!

a.k.a Sarada, Sakura and Sasuke.

HELLS to the FUCKING YeAH!

Fuck you, Naruto: The Last which apparently gives Sasuke about 2 minutes of screen time?

(Really, Kishimoto? Sasuke -who you paid too much attention to, mind you- got TWO FUCKING MINUTES APPARENTLY DESTROYING A METEOR TO STOP IT FROM DESTROYING KONOHA?)

Y U SO STUPID?

Back to the other movie...

so far it doesn't say Hinata will be in it.

(FUCK YOU HINATA FANS SHES NOT OMG AMAZING like you all say she is. But Naruto deserves better then Sakura who only cared about Sas- I will slap a bitch if I hear that excuse again. Not Sakura's fault Naruto only cared about Sakura. Sakura beats the crap out of him all the time- I can guarantee you, Sakura probs smacks Sasuke a good one every now an then when he's being a dick now that they're married.)

Naruto-kun is just soooooo SMACKABLE xD

My point is the next movie should be better now that it's not focused on .

I don't even wanna say her name since I've heard so many raging fanboys going on about her.

She has bigger tits then-

Fucking kudos to her, too bad she's too fucking awkward to use them. Plus I bet she's fridget in bed.

How that's related, I don't know.

BUT IT IS!

Kishimoto probs gave her them coz no one liked her before. Now she gets tits and it's all FUCKING HINATA YEAH!

No. Just no.

At least Sakura didn't need tits. She had something better.

A BLOODY OPINION

grrrrrrr nah lets leave it at that lest I be hunted by Hinata's fanboys.

Come at me, bro.

I'll make you my bitch.

Love you all, my readers!

Keep it real

- Me 3