Chapter 25

"You killed Yaketsuku?! Why?!" Takara yells.

"He let you get away," Leitangi says. "You should have seen him after I was done with him. In fact, I have a picture of him dead. Let me go find it."

Leitangi leaves and goes to a desk.

Takara looks up and her eyes start to water up. "Yaketsuku... No... I'm so sorry."

Leitangi starts to laugh. "Yeah, here we go."

Leitangi goes up to Takara and throws a picture at her. Takara slowly picks up the picture. She then starts crying loudly.

"Oh my GOD!" Takara screams. "You BASTARD!"

The picture is of Yaketsuku. His skin is burnt from the fire. His face is barely recognizable from all the blood. Takara's tears hit the photo.

"Yeah, killing him was easy. Then we buried him in the back," Leitangi says.

"At least he isn't in pain any more," Takara thinks to herself.

Takara flips over the picture and pushes it away from herself. She feels sick to her stomach seeing her hero dead.

Eito comes by with steel toe boots on. Takara's heart skips a beat.

"Lift up your shirt Tak," Eito says.

Takara slowly lifts up her shirt just enough to show her belly.

"Perfect," Eito says under his breath.

Eito then pushes Takara against the basement wall. Leitangi runs up to Takara. Leitangi holds down her feet.

"Leiji! Get your ass in here! Hold her arms!" Leitangi orders.

Leiji comes by slowly and holds Takara's arms up.

"Hey Eito, remember our ashtray here?" Leitangi asks.

"Of course!" Eito says. "Hey, light me up a cigarette after this would ya?"

"I think I'll join you," Leitangi says. "Will you join us, Leiji?"

"You know I have no interest in smoking," Leiji says while looking down.

"Someday, I'll get you to smoke," Leitangi says while putting a cigarette in his mouth.

After a tear rolls down Takara's round face, Eito kicks her stomach hard. Takara grunts loudly and tries to breathe. Eito kicks her again causing blood to come out of Takara's mouth.

"Wait," Eito says. "Keep her still."

Eito then runs out of the cage. Takara is breathing heavily with blood running down her face to her neck. Eito then runs back in with a kunai knife.

"A kunai knife?" asks Leiji.

"Hold her still. This will only hurt a lot," Eito says and slowly starts to walk towards Takara.

"No... No... NO... PLEASE!" Takara screams out. "PLEASE DON'T! NO!" Takara then screams as loud as she possibly can.

Then, Takara feels a sharp pain where her stomach scar is. Naturally she screams. Takara looks down and sees that Eito just stabbed where her scar is. Takara's stomach starts to gush out blood.

"E- Eito... why?" Takara asks.

"Why not?" Eito asks.

With the kunai knife still in Takara's scar, Eito moves the knife towards the right making Takara bleed more. Takara doesn't scream because screaming will do her no good. She just starts sobbing. That's all she can do.

"Oh stop your crying," Eito says.

Leitangi lights up his cigarette. "Want a cigarette?"

"Absolutely," Eito says with an evil smirk.

Leitangi stands up. He gets the cigarette pack from his back pocket. He takes the lighter out of his pocket too. He flicks the lighter and he and Eito light their cigarette. They puff the smoke into Takara's face which causes her to cough and gag. Afterwards, Etio and Leitangi go to Takara's feet and put out their cigarette on her right foot. Takara leans her head back and tries to keep herself from screaming but fails. Takara screams loudly while crying.

"WHY?!" Takara screams.

Leitangi lights up another cigarette and smokes it. He lets the ash hit Takara's feet which causes Takara's toes to curl. Then, Leitangi pushes his cigarette down hard on Takara's feet. Takara screams loudly, still crying.

Eito then takes the kunai knife out of Takara. As each second passes, Takara feels weaker and weaker. She's losing blood at an alarming rate.

"You… you guys… are truly monsters…," Takara weakly says.

"NOW!"

BOOM!

Takara, Eito, Leiji, and Leitangi look over. The door to the basement gets broken down by Bee and Sakura. When Takara realizes she sees Bee and Sakura, she tries to smile. Then, everybody else that was outside run inside the big basement. Neji runs straight to Takara and tries to open the cage and everyone else starts to attack Eito, Leiji, and Leitangi.

"Allow me, then you can plow through," Bee says.

Bee then grabs the bars on the cage and pulls them apart wide enough for Neji to get in.

"Is that Ay?!" Eito shouts while trying to throw Naruto off him.

Bee turns around. "No, I'm Bee. Killer Bee. Ain't this a thriller?"

"N- Neji," Takara softly calls out.

Neji runs to Takara "I'm here Takara, we're gonna get you out of here."

Takara falls onto Neji. Her blood immediately stains Neji's clothes "I don't know if I'll survive. P- Please... help me."

Neji tears up. "You're not going to die. I won't allow it!"

"How is she?" Sakura asks while in the air getting ready to kick Eito.

"Sai! Draw something and get her above everything!" Neji shouts.

"On it!" Sai replies. Sai goes on his knees and starts to draw.

Sakura runs to Takara and Neji. "Oh God, Takara..." Then Sakura starts trying to heal Takara.

"Don't waste your chakra on me," Takara softly says. "I think I'm going to die."

"No you won't!" Sakura says. "If I have to cut you open and pump your heart I will. I've done it once, I'll do it again."

"Come on, Sai! Hurry up!" Neji yells.

"I'm working on it!" Sai says.

Just then, Eito runs up to Sai. He picks up Sai by his crop top and throws him against a wall. Eito then tears Sai's paper.

"Sai!" Ino cries out.

"Damn it!" Neji yells while holding Takara.

"SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" Naruto calls out. 30 Naruto clones appear all over the basement. "RASENGAN!"

Naruto and all his clones form the rasengan. They all run towards Leiji since he is the closest.

"Shadow possession jutsu!" Shikamaru calls out.

Shikamaru then takes control over Leitangi. Shikamaru controls Leitangi to go inside the cage. Neji holds Takara closer. While holding Takara, Neji and Sakura leave the cage.

"Everybody stay back," Shikamaru calls out.

Shikamaru then pulls out kunai's with paper bombs attached.

"I- Is that a real bomb?" Leitangi asks.

"So glad I got these the other day from Tenten," Shikamaru says in his head.

Shikamaru then throws multiple kunai bombs at Leitangi. Then, Shikamaru makes Leitangi get his lighter and light up the bombs.

"N- No!" Leitangi calls out.

"Say your goodbyes, you bastard," Shikamaru says. "Takara is too precious to go through this."

Then... BOOM!

Takara smiles when she sees Leitangi blow up. "I- Is he dead?"

"Yes princess," Neji says.

Takara's smile gets bigger. "Thank you Shik... Shikadai."

"It's Shikamaru, princess," Neji calmly says and kisses her hand.

"What..?" Takara says weakly. "I'm barely alive."

"What did you do to my brother?!" Leiji asks in shock.

"What does it look like? I blew him up," Shikamaru says with a smirk. "You may be next."

"Wipe that smirk off your face before I-," Leiji says until someone else enters the basement.

"I think I'm needed here," They say.

Takara's eyes get big and she clenches onto Neji.. "P- Please don't h- hurt me!"