Author's Note:

So I just realized (7 chapters in) that my computer was autocorrecting ROGUE into ROUGE... *facepalms into hard surface* I will be going back and correcting this mistake. So as of this moment I have red ninja running around trying to kill and capture people. Lovely.

OR I just may leave it for the funnies, who knows.

DISCLAIMER:

I do not own Naruto or crew.

I do however own some very ROUGE-ish ninja (hardy-har-har)

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"God damnit!" Sasuke's sharingan activated on its own as he punched the floor and sparks flew from his hand. "I'm going to kill them!" He growled before storming out of the cave leaving the rest of them still inside.

Chapter 7: Plans

Karin could sense Naruto almost at the edge of her range which was about three miles out and she lets the others know. They couldn't have been out long since the sun was just coming up over the horizon, so maybe thirty minutes they were out? Jugo used his ability to talk to animals to send birds out to locate and keep track of the group that took Naruto. Not that he had doubts about what Karin said, it was just at that distance Karin's senses weren't one hundred percent accurate and he wanted to find them as soon as possible. He knew they were going to want to get away as fast as they could and that with dead weight they were going to be slowed down.

Sasuke headed out in the direction that Karin indicated leaving the others to follow. He really wasn't in the mood to be delayed. Those ninja had done enough to Naruto they didn't need to have her any longer than necessary. The other caught up to Sasuke almost twenty minutes later since they had to grab all their gear, Suigetsu tossed him his bag where he catches it without thinking.

Once Sasuke has his bag in his hands he digs through it to find his chakra pills, eating one he places the other in the pocket of his pants and slings his bag over his shoulder. Biting into the marble sized orb and swallowing he begins to feel his chakra stores refilling and energy filling every inch of his body. He sees the others eat one of theirs as well from the corners of his eyes.

Slowly they begin to gain on them and Karin mentions to everyone that she can feel more signatures than just Naruto's. Sasuke grows irritated the further they have to go because with each step they go further out of their way towards the Land of Waves. Before to get to Konoha Sasuke had them traveling at the bottom of the southern border of the Land of Fire and was going to make a straight shot north but now they were going way too far west. Growling n frustration Sasuke pushed himself a little harder trying to get to them faster, they had already been chasing these bastards for three hours.

Just before Sasuke is about to activate his curse mark Karin shouts out for them to stop.

"They're gone! I just had them, like I could pinpoint them exactly, their numbers and everything, and now they're gone!"Karin yelled from the ground since they were running out of trees the further west they went and the more hills that grew into valleys ahead.

"What do you mean gone?" Sasuke asked his blood running cold, if they lost them then Naruto could be gone forever.

"It's almost as though they teleported. They had to have known we were behind them and gaining on them." she said desperately trying to calm him down, he looked ready to murder someone. She was about to cry in frustration when she suddenly felt Naruto's presence again faintly, this time it was just as far as before. And it had taken them over three hours to close in on them before and now they could teleport away? That wasn't fair.

"I found her." Karin said quietly which halted Sasuke's anger for the moment.

"Where?"

"Somehow they made it to the other side of the Land of Rivers border. I'm not completely sure how they did it but that's where they are."

Suigetsu and Jugo stood back and watched as Sasuke growled in rage and took off again, this time straight for the Land of Rivers.

Just a couple hours after noon passed they got close enough to see the small group of ninja that had Naruto in the distance. They were at the base of a mountain just standing there. Like they were waiting for something.

Determined to get to them Sasuke activated his curse mark and charged forward. Just as he came within touching distance of the guy who had Naruto the guy turned and smiled a cruel smile at him. The guy's red eyes met his and Sasuke could see amusement in their depths.

And then they were gone.

Landing in the dirt Sasuke laid there. Part of him wanted to give up and go away and forget about it all. But a larger, louder part of him demanded that he had to get her back. She was his damnit. And her had promised her that he would protect her and that nothing else would happen to her. Now those bastards had her.

Jugo found Sasuke laying in the dirt not quite sure what happened but judging by the way he just lay there it couldn't be anything good.

"Sasuke?" Karin came up beside Jugo followed closely by Suigetsu.

"What happened?" She asked no one in particular.

"I'm not entirely sure, I found him like this." Jugo responded.

"Well they aren't too far away, actually it's really weird, it almost feels like they're inside the mountain." Karin pointed at the ground rising up towards the sky.

The boys looked at her questioningly. She shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know maybe they teleported in there or something. There must be a room of some sort cause they're not dead."

Sitting up Sasuke looked around at the group of people that followed him before looking up at the sky. He knew that time was something that he couldn't waste but his body was tired and again part of him wanted to stop. Using his sharingan he looked at the mountain face in front of him but he couldn't see anything suggesting a way inside. Digging through would take way more time than they had and might cause whatever room they were in to collapse.

Karin kept her distance from Sasuke for the most part hoping that he would forget that it was on her watch that Naruto was taken, and her failure to detect them was the reason they were here. She has begun to think about how Sasuke must feel knowing that she was gone and he should have been able to stop it and couldn't. How she was all alone once again like she was growing up. Karin couldn't imagine growing up the way either one of them had. To witness your parents getting slaughtered before your eyes by a beloved brother, or to never have felt the love of one's parents. She didn't know which was worse, but she could understand why they had such a strong bond. They were like yin and yang, two halves of their own coin. Hell even their coloring were like night and day, as though they were just made to be together in one way or another.

"Hey. The moles and rabbits say that there's a tunnel that goes into the mountain about half a mile this way!" Jugo shouts towards everyone from behind a group of bushes. "It's pretty well hidden too, and they say it goes down, like into the ground."

"Yeah? Did your little friends tell you how long it would take to get through?" Karin asked, dripping with sarcasm.

"I don't know, a while?"

This made Sasuke agitated since he wanted to get to her as soon as possible to make sure she wasn't in any more danger and so they could get her to Tsunade. Also he wanted this feeling of hopelessness to disappear. "Is this how she felt for the past few years chasing me?"

While the group made their way towards the entrance of the mountain following Jugo and his little friends, the ninja who had taken Naruto were already deep inside.

"Hey boss, we finally got that fox bitch!" yelled the smallest of the four remaining ninja from the attack and kidnapping. "What do you want us to do with her?" She had come in through a large pair of double doors that in all reality looked like they were way too big for her to open. Though that wasn't saying much from her diminutive size.

They walked into a large cavern that was more oval in shape than circular, though it had an almost twenty foot ceiling with sparkling crystals hanging down. Each as big as the smallest member of their group if not bigger. Which isn't saying much since the smallest was a girl at about four foot eleven with short blonde hair and strange orange eyes. On the left wall where it had a slight curve there was a small waterfall that produced a calming burble of sound, the koi in the small pond at the bottom of the pond were quite relaxing to watch as well.

At the far back wall was a slightly raised dais which sat a huge throne like chair with a man that looked about fifty, white hair and piercing blue eyes. He merely looked at the girl who lead the small group into the room before looking past her to the blonde hanging over one of the men's shoulders.

"Just place her over there Kyo." The man directed the other towards a stone table off to the right where it had been covered in furs as though they were preparing it for her to sleep on.

Not saying anything the guy who had Naruto slung over his shoulder like a sack of grain made his way over to the table. "We should have Haru look at her, she's burning up, so the poison is getting close to the end of it's course. She'll die in a just a few days if she doesn't get the antidote." Kyo said as he set her down and walked away towards the koi.

"Unfortunately Haru is away gathering the ingredients for the the antidote and will be gone for a couple of days. Still plenty of time for her to pull through ok. Besides it may be easier to get her pregnant while she's unconscious." an evil smirk crossed their leader's face at the idea of making the host of the nine tailed fox pregnant.

"But then again her being sick might just kill anything, so waiting is inevitable." his smirk turned into a slight frown as though the thought of waiting really displeased him. "Such a pity."

"I still don't completely understand why we don't just remove the beast the easier way." The ninja that enjoyed taunting Sasuke before stated, pulling the mask over off over his head revealing a head of ebony hair and blood red eyes. "This way just seems like a waste of time, Shigure." he glared at the white haired man.

"I've told you already, her child, any of her children really, would be extremely powerful. But have a powerful father as well?" Shigure closed his eyes and hugged himself as he sat there in his chair. "The thought alone gives me chills." slowly his blue eyes opened and looked at the blond laying on the hard stone table, unaware of what was being planned for her.

"You're such a perverted leader." the girl said before dancing her way across the floor to the girl.

Pouting at her words Shigure looked at her. "You say the most hurtful things Suki." leaning back he waved a hand at her. "You should probably get her cleaned up, she looks like a mess."

"Whatever." giggling she circled the table. "Hey, Kyo, come help me." snickering from the others in the room could be heard as the man walked his way back towards the girls just because a little girl told him to.

Almost three hours had passed since they had gone underground to follow the directions of little animals. There was almost constant bickering from both Suigetsu and Karin as they traveled further and further down with the help of a torch they made and Sasuke's fire jutsu. They got so bad at one point that even Jugo threatened to murder someone if they couldn't be quiet. That lasted maybe ten minutes before they were back at it, even if they were a tad quieter now.

"We should be almost there." Karin said abruptly cutting Suigetsu off mid rant. "I can feel them a lot better now, like the room is on the other side of a wall or-" she trailed off as they came upon a giant set of doors blocking their path. "..something."

With a deafening roar Sasuke charged at the double doors in front of him, his chidori crackling in the air around them, before they exploded in to a million pieces. He doesn't wait for anyone before charging right into the cloud of dust and debris obscuring their view of anything beyond.

"What the hell?" came from the room beyond, echoing into the tunnels as Sasuke finally cleared through the dust. "OOh, giddy!" followed by clapping filled his ears.

Quickly surveying the room he noticed there were eleven people in the room besides Naruto, who was laying on a table, her hair dripping water on to the floor and wearing clothes that weren't hers. The idea that someone had seen her naked for any reason made his blood boil.

He started to make his way over to her when a little girl appeared at Naruto's head, stroking her wet hair while holding a knife to her throat, smiling cruelly at him. "Tsk, tsk." she lightly shook her head.

Another person, this time a male appeared beside Sasuke before holding a blade to his throat as well. "I'd stop if I were you Uchiha, and have your puppies stop as well." Kyo instructed gruffly.

Sasuke halted, not because of the knife held against him but because of the one held against Naruto. If she were to be cut now with the poison in her sysytem there would be no way to save her. She would bleed to death with no way to stop it. "Kairn, Jugo, Suigestu. Stop!" he commanded turning his head slightly in their direction, hearing them stop their movements as well.

Shigure motioned to three of the other ninja around the room to detain the other three unwanted visitors in the room when Sasuke's eyes landed on him. The three unknown ninja had their faces covered so he really couldn't tell what they looked like as they each grabbed a hold of one of his group members, leading them over to the wall on the far side of the room before attaching chakra chains to their wrists.

Karin let out a gasp of surprise at the sight of them wondering how they were able to use them.

"Surprised little Uzumaki?" Shigure asked as he looked Sasuke over, not even bothering to look in her direction. He walked around Sasuke as though he were cattle to buy at the market, while Kyo held him still at knife point and Suki held a knife above Naruto's throat. "I had an Uzumaki staying with us for a time and they thought it would be a good idea that someone else should know the technique before they died. Unfortunately only one person was able to learn it and not everyone. Pity."

As the chains were closed around their wrists they felt their chakra begin to fade away where they couldn't reach.

"You really are a nice specimen to look at aren't you, Uchiha?" Shigure asked as he came around to face Sasuke once more, his eyes traveling slowly over every inch of the male before him. "From what I've heard of the Uchiha clan, you would be the last of a very powerful bloodline." A smile slowly made it's way across his lips as thoughts of how to use the young man. "I have also heard that you are a wanted ninja for crimes not specifically mentioned outside your own village. Which honestly can't bee all that good, so why would you risk capture to take the girl there?" he motioned to Naruto absently. smirking broadly now at Sasuke he laughed with pure merriment.

"You like her! Oh that's wonderful news!" clapping his hands together like a giddy child he spun around a couple of times. "OH such glorious news! It's even better than I had imagined! And i bet she cares for you too doesn't she?" Shigure asked watching Sasuke's face carefully for any tells. The way the boy refused to answer told a lot, but it was the quick glance in the girl's direction that really gave away his thoughts.

"Don't you want to know?"

Sasuke not wanting to give the man the satisfaction of an answer refused to say anything, which seemed to goad the guy on even more.

Placing his hands on Sasuke's shoulders and bringing his face close enough so Sasuke could feel his words whisper against his ear. What he heard caused his eyes to grow wide and his vision to bleed red in anger.

"I am going to use her as a broodmare. She will give me my own little army of powerful ninja to use for my whims."

He spun away from Sasuke as though dancing before coming to a halt in front of him once more.

"You see, I was just going to have someone do the deed of impregnating her whether she liked the person or not, whether she wanted to or not. And after she gave us a child to mold into something usable, take the Nine tailed fox from her weakened state." A glint that was beginning to piss Sasuke off even more appeared in Shigure's eye as he continued. "But now I know about you. Just imagine how powerful a child born of the last Uchiha, and the nine tailed fox host and heir to the Uzumaki clan would be. Not to mention she was also born while her mother was a host, and lets not forget who her father was shall we."

Realizing where this lunatic was going Sasuke's blood began to boil. They were planning on raping his Naruto. Now they were planning to use him to do it. Hurt her in unimaginable ways and torture her with the thought of them taking her children to use. She deserved better.

Before he could think better of it his curse mark activated, the force of his chakra swirling about him sent anyone to close flying through the air away from him as he appeared beside the girl poised to strike at what was his. He grabbed her by the throat just as the blade began to press into Naruto's delicate skin above her jugular. The girl's eyes widened in shock at his speed before she too was thrown across the room.

As he went to pick her up Shigure charged him and instructed the others to begin leaving. Karin and the other's made their way out of the chakra chains due to Karin's figuring out how to get rid of them since she can use her own. With a flick of his wrist three kunai appeared in Sasuke's fingers before sailing through the air to embed themselves in his opponent's thigh, gut, and shoulder. He dropped like a stone and his lackey, Kyo, was at his side supporting him.

Jugo had gotten his hand on one of the fleeing ninja and before anyone could blink twisted the mans neck causing a loud pop to sound throughout the room. Suigetsu and Karin were each locked in a fight with a couple of other ninja that were beginning to look worse for wear as the seconds ticked by.

"We need to evacuate now!" he ordered to the others as Suki showed up on Shigure's other side to help him carry their leader to safety. The remaining ninja abandoned everything they were doing before following them into the tunnels. Karin, Jugo, and Suigestu opted not to follow since what they were here for was laying on the table and in need of their help. Scoffing at the two bodies of their comrades that they left behind Jugo and Suigestu went to look through the hideout for anything they could use.

Sasuke didn't care. All he wanted was the girl laying before him.

Naruto's breathing seemed to be shallow and her skin seemed to have a rosy hue to it. When he placed his hand on her arm his stomach dropped. Naruto felt as though she were on fire. Gathering her into his arms he cradled her to his chest before sinking to the floor.

How was he supposed to help her if she just continued to get worse?

"Sasuke we need to get her cooled off." He looked up at Karin, who he now noticed was sitting before him with her hands up in a peaceful manner while he held a kunai to her throat. "There's a waterfall in the corner with a pool of cool water we can use." she tilted her chin in the direction where the sound of burbling water was coming from.

Lowering his knife he slowly gathered himself and Naruto before standing and following her to the water. He slowly walked into the shallow pool of water, scaring the koi into scattering into small caves in the walls. The water only came up to about mid-thigh before he got down onto his knees and lowered her into the cool water.

"Keep her in there for about twenty minutes." Karin instructed, "I will go look to see if they have anything useful."

Sasuke stayed there holding Naruto in the water with her face above the surface, he watched as her skin became covered in goosebumps from the colder temperature and slowly the color started to fade from her skin. By the time Karin came back about fifteen minutes later Naruto's skin had regained it's normal coloring, if not slightly paler. Her temperature had dropped considerably but Karin wanted to get her to swallow a mixture she had found to bring down fevers and keep them down for a while. She said she had found a few bottles of the stuff as though they had been stocking up on it.

The idea that they knew they were going to need it for Naruto meant they were going to make her sick again. The thought made Sasuke determined that they wouldn't get anywhere near her again.

"Thank you Karin."

"Has she cooled any?" She asked as squatted down by the edge of the water and began taking things out of her many pockets, setting the objects, bottles, and pouches on the ground next to her. Seeing him nod in answer to her question she took her pack off her back and began to rearrange the items into it. "Then you need to get her out of there so she doesn't get too cold, she'll need to be wrapped in one of the blankets while she's carried, and hopefully there's clothes around that fit her."

Looking around Sasuke didn't see Naruto's clothes which he knew would cause the blonde to be upset later, provided there was a later at this rate. He carried Naruto out of the water and made his way back to the table in the middle of the room before setting her back down on it. Karin followed behind him, her back clinking softly with stolen loot.

"Karin, do you mind looking for something for her that's dry?"

"No need." came from behind them as Suigetsu stood holding out a rumpled set of Naruto's clothes that looked worse for wear, and another set of dry clothes in his other hand. "I found these on the floor of a bathroom, and these were on a shelf."

"Thanks." Taking the clothes from him Karin shooed the boys out of the room so she could get Naruto into the dry clothes, Sasuke took Naru's other clothes and placed them in her bag while taking out her blanket for when they were ready to travel.

Jugo came up beside Sasuke holding his large hand out. Reaching out to take whatever it was that he was offering Jugo dropped a bag of what looked to be smaller verions of chakra pills into his hand.

"What are these?"

"Going by what the journal next to them said, I'm guessing speed and chakra boosters." Shruggging his shoulders Jugo just looked at Sasuke.

He smiled at the big guy, these would come in very handy in the next day and a half it was going to take them to get to the village. Maybe even make it so they could cut off a few hours of travel. It explained how the ninja were able to stay so far a head of them the way they did.

"Thank you, you get to carry her first."

Author's note again...

So this is chapter 7. I'm sorry it took so long but I have had one hell of month, and I worked on it whenI could.

I hope you enjoyed!

PLEASE review!