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A/N: This story is now completely Alternate Universe. And I'm truly sorry for taking such a long time to update. But as many of you know, life has its own agenda, and sometimes you just have to follow along with it :-)
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Part 6:
"I just do Hinata-chan! That chakra that I sense definitely belongs to Sasuke! And he's…with Sakura-chan and Lee-kun right now!"
With that said Naruto quickly rose from Hinata'side, and made a mad dash across the valley towards the now ominous-looking waterfall.
"Naruto-kun!" Hinata cried out in a panicked voice.
"Hinata-chan! What's happening? What's going on? Where's Naruto going?" Shikamaru cried out, as he and the others quickly ran towards Hinata's side.
"Naruto-kun…he thinks…that…he's here…Sasuke-kun…" and as that name passed through her lips, Hinata's eyes rolled up into the back of her head, and she began to fall backwards in a dead faint.
Only Neji's quick reflexes kept Hinata from slamming into the hard ground beneath her, as he quickly got in behind her, and caught her gently in his arms.
"Sasuke-kun…" Shikamaru said in a soft, quietly-shocked voice, as he looked off towards the waterfall which Naruto had already disappeared behind. "But that's impossible! Sasuke can't be here! Someone would have detected his presence long before now! Like the Anbu…or even the Hokage-sama herself!" Shikamaru exclaimed, as he ran an agitated hand across his face.
"Well Hinata-chan believes Naruto…and Naruto believes that Sasuke is here…so I also believe that he's here," Neji answered, as he gently lowered Hinata onto the soft grass below, and then stood back up with a dangerous glint in his alabaster-colored eyes.
"And if it's indeed Sasuke…and he truly has returned…then Naruto is going to need all the help that he can possibly get. Isn't that right Shikamaru?" Neji asked, as he quickly began walking towards the waterfall.
"Argh…so troublesome," Shikamaru moaned, as he looked over at Ino, who gave him a quick encouraging smile, before they both hurried to catch up with Neji and Ten-Ten, who were already halfway across the valley.
"Sasuke!" Naruto cried out, as he ran behind the cascading wall of water, and burst into the hidden cave, panting with his eyes darting quickly around the seemingly peaceful interior of the cave.
Then his eyes fell on Lee's prone form, and he quickly ran over to his friend.
"Lee! Lee! Wake up! Where's Sakura-chan? Where's Sasuke? I know that they were both here! Wake up Lee! Dammit!" Naruto cried out, as he frantically tried to shake Lee awake.
"Ah…wha…what is it…who is it…what's going on? Naruto-kun? Is that you? What are you doing here…and where…where's Sakura-san?" Lee asked in a groggy voice, as he slowly raised himself up onto his elbows.
"That's what I'd like to know!" Naruto cried out in an aggravated voice, as he grabbed Lee's shoulders, and unconsciously began squeezing them.
"Sakura-san…she was just right here. We were both just looking around the cave…and I was showing her the stalagmites on the ceiling when…" and as Lee's voice slowly trailed off, his already-wide eyes grew even wider, and the color slowly began draining from his face.
"I remember now…" he said in shaky voice, as he slowly got to his feet with Naruto's help.
"Sasuke…Sasuke-kun was here! He hit me with a powerful blow to the back of the head! And before I passed out I heard Sakura-san cry out!" Lee exclaimed. "Oh, how could I have failed Sakura-san so badly? I'm such a loser! A total and complete failure as a ninja!" Lee lamented, as he grabbed his head in his hands, and slowly began to shake it back and forth.
"Lee! We don't have time for this! Where are they now? Where are Sakura-chan and Sasuke?" Naruto asked in an urgent voice.
"I don't…I don't know…" Lee moaned, as he continued to shake his head back and forth.
Naruto's heart rate suddenly began to pick up, and the palms of his hands became slick with sweat as he quickly began to panic.
"I've got…I've got to find her…I've got to find her…NOW!" Naruto cried out, as his voice deepened, and the clear blue of his eyes suddenly vanished, and became flashing, red orbs of uncontrolled anger.
Then with an inhuman cry that made the hairs on the back of Lee's neck stand up on end, Naruto turned on his heels and wildly charged out of the cave.
As Naruto exploded out of the entrance to the cave, he almost barreled over Neji and Ten-ten, who were coming around the side of the waterfall. But he neither slowed down, nor spared them even the slightest glance, as his mind was focused on two things, and two things only…finding Sasuke…and rescuing Sakura.
"Hey Naruto! Stop! Wait! Where are you going? Hinata-chan told us that you thought Sasuke-kun was here. Is that true? Is he really here? Naruto!" Ino yelled at Naruto's quickly retreating back.
"Yes Ino…" Lee said, as he slowly came out the cave, and began walking towards his friends. "Sasuke-kun was indeed here. He attacked me, and while I was knocked out," here Lee looked ashamedly down at the ground. "He attacked Sakura-san, and I think he kidnapped her, and took her with him."
Ino gasped, and quickly raised a trembling hand to her mouth. "Sakura-chan…" she quietly whispered. "No…Sasuke-kun would never do something like that! He would never attack, or hurt Sakura-chan like that!"
Lee straightened to his full height, and looked straight into Ino's distressed, blue eyes.
"I'm sorry to inform you that he did indeed hurt her. I don't care if you believe me or not, but believe this…wherever Sasuke has gone…wherever he has taken her…I will hunt him down, and rescue Sakura-san!" Lee cried out, with more conviction in his voice than they'd ever heard before.
And then before any of them could stop him, he quickly ran past them, and swiftly vanished into the night.
"Lee!" Shikamaru cried out, as he took a step forward in preparation to go after him and hold him down, until he answered all of the questions that he had to ask.
"No Shikamaru…you're not going to up and disappear into the night, like those two hot-heads have done," Neji said, as he laid a restraining hand on Shikamaru's shoulder. "We need to get back to the village, and inform Tsunande-sama about the events that have transpired here tonight."
"I guess that you're right about that," Shikamaru said with a sigh, as he allowed Neji to hold him back. "We'll have to organize a search and rescue party…probably recruit a few Jounin…possibly even one or two Anbu. Because if Sasuke's back, that also means that Orochimaru is probably back as well. And wherever Orochimaru is, Kabuto isn't going to be too far behind. We're definitely going to need all the help that we can possibly get with this one."
"Don't worry love," Ino said as she walked into the warm comfort of Shikamaru's arms, as he held them open for her. "We'll get them all back safe and sound."
"Yes…I know we will," Shikamaru replied, as he gazed sightlessly up into the crystal-clear, night sky.
"I know we will…"
Sakura twitched slightly, as the fingers of the hand continued down from her hair, and moved slowly across the pale smoothness of her face.
Slowly opening her eyes, and shaking her head slightly to clear her vision, Sakura cried out as a white-hot lance of pain, shot straight through the back of her head, and into the space right between her eyes.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk Sakura-chan…it isn't a smart idea to move around so much, when you've taken such a great blow to the head. You could injure yourself even more than you already are," a silky-smooth voice, spoke up quietly from the darkness around her.
"Sasuke-kun…?" Sakura asked in a weak voice, as she strained to see his face in the dark light of the cave.
"Yes Sakura-chan…I see that you do at least remember who your kidnapper is, hahaha" Sasuke laughed chillingly, as he bent his head closer to her face, and looked down into her startled-green eyes.
"Oh yes, Sakura-chan…I have great plans for you, hahaha," the terrifying laugh that Sakura was truly beginning to hate, escaped once again from Sasuke's mouth.
This can't be happening to me, Sakura thought to herself as she tried to get to her feet, only to find her wrists and ankles bound tightly with some kind of thick cord, that not even she with her newfound strength, could break free of.
"Oh, and don't even bother trying to break out of those bonds. Those ropes were specially made by Kabuto, because I know all about the special training that you've been receiving from Tsunande, and I wanted to make absolutely certain that you wouldn't be able to break free. Believe me when I say that I've had my eyes on you, and the entire village for very long time. So, there's absolutely nothing that you've all learned, in the last two and a half years that I don't know about."
"Why are you doing this, Sasuke-kun? I don't…I don't understand…I thought that we were teammates…friends…I thought that you might even…love me…" Sakura said in a quietly anguished voice, as she allowed her head to fall forward, and tears of sadness and pain, to slowly make their way down her face.
"Teammates…friends…lovers…none of those words have any meaning for me. I cut my ties with all those that did, or could have fallen into any of those categories a long time ago. The only thing left that I feel for anyone is hate…pure, unadulterated, burning hate."
"Is that what you feel for me now then, Sasuke-kun? Hate?" Sakura cried out in an anguish-filled voice, as she whipped her head forward to look straight into the eyes of the one person, who had held her heart firmly in his hands, since the days when she was a young academy student.
"Hate…oh no, no, no my dear Sakura-chan. What I feel for you isn't hate at all," Sasuke said as he slowly bent his head forward, until his lips were just barely touching the outer layer of her ear.
"Desire is more along the lines of what I feel for you," Sasuke continued with a deep purr, as he slowly took Sakura's ear in between his lips, and gently began nibbling on it.
"Sasuke-kun…please…stop…don't do this…" Sakura begged, as she tried to move her head away from his questing lips.
"Hmm…what is this? You're spurning my advances? But isn't this what you've always wanted? Me…showing my…affection for you," Sasuke asked, with a slightly cruel smile on his face.
"No…not like this…not like this at all! It wasn't supposed to be this way…" Sakura moaned into her chest as her head fell forward, and her pink hair obscured the red-hot tears, that continued to fall unabated down her face.
Sasuke watched in silence, as Sakura cried heart-wrenching sobs that filled the small cave around them, with their heart-breaking sounds. He continued to watch for a few seconds more, before he abruptly turned his back on her, and slowly began walking towards the entrance of the cave.
Then just before he reached the entrance, he slowly turned back around, and said in a slightly-gruff voice, "You had better get some sleep. We've got a long journey ahead of us."
And with those final words, Sasuke walked out of the cave, and melted into the dark, inky-blackness of the night, leaving Sakura alone in the cave… the sound of her sobs creating a melancholy music of their own, that filled the air around her with the gentle melody of her pain.
To be continued…
