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The Secret I Keep

Chapter Five: Trapped

I had seen nothing of the rest of the base. There was no clock in the damned room to tell me how long I had been trapped here. So far into this mission, my sense of time wasn’t working. I couldn’t tell if it had been a week since Tsunade gave us the mission, or just a few hours ago.

The room I occupied had changed, I knew that for a fact. I was no longer sleeping on that lumpy futon. I had been moved (without knowing) to a bed. Lumpy, no, I couldn’t complain, but the bed was hard indeed, and the thin mattress made to effort to make it comfortable.

I settle back into the bed, shifting to make myself vaguely comfortable. The thin blankets provided hardly any warmth; it was my body heat that kept me from freezing. I knew my body couldn’t sustain the heat much longer. It was like a slowly dying fire, with no fuel to keep it alive. I had no energy; I hadn’t eaten for a while.

I don’t know how long ago it was, but I could still feel the searing imprints of his lips along the skin of my neck and shoulders. My lips still prickled of the kiss.

I had to get out of here.

Slowly, I slid my legs out from under the blanket. My feet were bare. Slowly, like a cat, I levered myself off the bed. The floor was cold. I looked for my nin-sandals. Nothing.

I padded on tip toe slowly toward the only light in the room. The gap beneath the door.

I kneeled beside it, and pressed my ear to it. I heard the patter of someone pacing outside. The uneven rhythm of their footfalls told me they were waiting for something or someone.

I crept back to the bed and curled up under the blanket, trying to keep what little heat my body could emit. I huddled in a tight ball, trying to keep the heat close, trying to keep from losing it to the endless cold darkness. My breathing became more laboured, heavier, like I was running out of oxygen.

Of course, he had left me to die. He had taken advantage of me again. Like the foolish girl I was. And still am. I thought I had changed. I thought a mission like this couldn’t break my focus. But it was this mission that the past caught up, and I didn’t know who I was.

Foolish foolish me. I should have killed him. Why did I hesitate? He couldn’t make me kiss his dead body. He’d be dead then. So why didn’t thrust that damned kunai into his chest? Then the mission would be done. Finished!

Why? Was my head not working then? Was my logic confused? And because of it, I am to die here.

With the creak of the opening of the door, I felt hope rush through my body. I didn’t recognise it, but it was of a woman. Her lean figure showed clearly, and the unmistakeable aura of a ninja clouded around her.

“Here. Sasuke-kun told me to bring this for you.” Her voice was spiked with annoyance.

I couldn’t care less of the bowl of food the woman had bought. My attention was more focused on how she addressed Sasuke.

Sasuke-kun?

She left immediately after and I heard the clicking sound of a heavy lock.

Trapped again.

I wondered what Naruto, Lee and Neji were doing. Had they been locked away too? Or had they been set free? Were they fighting Sasuke? Were they even alive?

“Eat.” A cool voice shattered my thoughts. I sat up on the bed, letting the blankets fall across my legs. He was back again. I was so lost in my thoughts I hadn't heard the door open, I didn't hear the footsteps stepping into the room, I didn't see the light kill off the darkness.

“Where are the others?” My own voice sounded raspy and dry.

“Eat.” He repeated.

I was scared of his voice. The voice that sent a chill up my spine. The voice that made be bow down to his will. And he knew it.

Not taking my eyes off him, I walked slowly toward the bowl on the ground. I crouched, my fingertips touching the rim of the bowl. I picked it up and brought it close to my lips. I stopped.

I still couldn’t trust him. It could all be a ploy to kill me. My eyes darted from the contents of the bowl to his eyes.

“I haven’t poisoned it.” He said, looking sideways. “Eat.”

My hands were shaking. I tilted the bowl, and the contents surged into my mouth and down my throat. I swallowed and felt much better for it.

A pregnant pause fell between us. I did nothing but stare at his highlighted figure. He did nothing but avoid my gaze.

“Where are they?” I managed to whisper.

Not a word.

“Where are they?” I repeated, putting some more strength in my voice.

“They’re safe.”

It wasn’t enough.

“Where are they?” The sting of tears burned my eyes. “Where?!”

“I don’t know.”

“What do you mean you don’t know?! They’re here aren’t they?!”

“No.”

I had opened my mouth to retaliate, but realised I had nothing to say.

“They’ve gone back.”

He walked past me but stopped just shy of the doorway. I prepared myself to be closed inside darkness, with no hope of light ever passing through again. I heard the click of the door closing, and the light being locked away.

I let out a deep sigh and I allowed myself to sob quietly in the darkness.

I felt so useless. I had let my team down. I had let my village down. Burning inside me was the guilt. Sasuke knew my weakness; that I would let my heart make decisions, and let emotions run free inside me. I hated him for it. But I hated myself because I let him get to me.

I let my knees shake and they buckled, my whole body shaking as I fell on my knees. I held my arms tight to my body, as the only comfort I had.

Suddenly, I felt hands grip my forearms tight. They pulled me back against their chest. The touch that only another human can give gave me comfort.

“You’re annoying when you cry.”

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