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Chapter 13: Hallucinations

“So, Sasuke-kun went to see her?”

“Yes, Orochimaru-sama, but I don’t know what he was doing there.” Kabuto said. He immediately went to Orochimaru when Sasuke went to Sakura’s room.

“It seems that Sasuke-kun still feels some sort of bond with his old team-mates.” Orochimaru said, while sitting on his chair.

“That could be a problem...” Kabuto muttered, but was clearly heard by Orochimaru.

He grinned while hearing this. “Maybe not,” he earned a confused look from Kabuto. “let’s watch. What will Sasuke-kun do if something happened to her? We know Naruto-kun would bring Kyuubi out, then would Sasuke-kun, perhaps, bring his Sharingan out? The Sharigan I want.”

Kabuto didn’t say anything, because if he did, it would cost him his life.

“You are dismissed, Kabuto.” Orochimaru suddenly said, making Kabuto jump a little. He made a quick bow, and almost hurried outside.

“I’m not so sure about that, Orochimaru-sama...” Kabuto said as soon as he was far away from Orochimaru’s room.

Sakura woke up with an terrible headache. Her hand went to her head, hoping the aching would subside, but it didn’t.

‘Wait, I... can move?!’ Sakura thought, forgetting her headache for a moment. She sat up straight in her bed, wiggling her fingers, wiggling her toes.

‘Seems like the drugs wore off.’ She tried to stand, she was dizzy at first, but it seemed that standing wasn’t a problem either.

She tried walking in a straight line, which immediately looked like she was drunk. Ok, scrap walking in a straight line, but at least walking went good.

She still had the same clothes on she wore with the date. She felt dizzy, and quickly sat on the bed, her head in her hands.

‘Ok, what happened?’ She asked herself while trying to recall everything. ‘I’m... in Orochimaru’s hideout...’ She shut her eyes, her headache growing worse. But she has to make a plan to escape. She can’t risk... that something happens to Naruto when he comes here. Because she knew he would come for her, to save her, to take her in his arms and softly whispering that everything would be ok.

She shook her head again, immediately receiving stings in her head. ‘Now is not the time to think about that. I need to get out of here. Let’s see...’ Sakura looked around the room, seeing that her only escape route was trough the door. There were no windows in her room and if it wasn’t for that one light, the room would be completely dark.

She stood up again and walked towards the door. She touched the door with one hand, analysing the thickness and strength of the door. It was a stale door. She took one step back and closed her eyes. She took a deep breath and thought of something that, well, really made her angry.

“Shannaro!” She screamed and she kicked the door. There was a loud bang, but the door didn’t move.

Sakura was already gasping for air, as she thought she used all her strength in the kick.

She grinned, ‘Not there yet, not there yet!’ She prepared herself for another kick, taking another deep breath.

“Shannaro!!” Another hard kick, now with her full strength. There was a louder bang then before, and Sakura saw the door falling n the ground.

“Yes!” Sakura said, proud of herself. She quickly put a hand on her head, as her headache got worse. ‘What did they do to me?’ She suddenly remembered Sasuke, how he came in her room, how she slapped him and how he drugged her.

She looked in the hallway, which she found a bit strange; there was no one to be seen. Or she was lucky, or they were all extremely deaf.

“Anyway,” She said out loud. “I need to get out of here. Question is...” She looked to her left, she looked to her right. “Where to?” She went with her feeling and went right. She figured the exit would be in the back.

She ran as quickly as she can, and it seemed there was no ending to this one hallway. She looked behind her; she still wasn’t followed. Somehow, she stopped. Something wasn’t right. She felt no chakra, she heard no one, she saw no one.

“Is this a dream?” She asked out loud.

“On the contrary,” A voice said, an well known voice.

Sakura began to sweat, but not because she knew the voice. She didn’t feel well, and her headache made her ears ring.

She turned around, and saw Kabuto standing there.

“K-Kabuto-san...” She gasped, breathing heavily. She felt like she was getting worse by the second.

Kabuto didn’t seemed to notice this, though. “Remarkable how you escaped. But, that was to be expected from one of the students from Tsunade-sama, right?” He said while smirking.

“C-cut me some slack...” She said, sweating now and still gasping for air.

“Oh? Didn’t you do this yourself? Weren’t you the one who escaped? You could say this is one of the consequences.” Kabuto said, as he walked over to Sakura.

“N-Naruto would never fall for this trap.” Sakura said, as she wiped some sweat from her face.

“Oh, I think he would. He’s in love with you, he wouldn’t want anything to happen to you.”

‘He’s... in love with me...’ She thought. It was true, because, she is also...

“It is sad, though.” Kabuto continued. “He is going to die because of you.” Sakura’s eyes went wide. Was this true? Of course, she was here, she let herself get captured and now Naruto is going to get killed.

She let out a cough, feeling her legs get weaker. Kabuto finally noticed this, and smirked.

“Ah yes, those are one of the side effects. Your have the worst case of side effects, so I see.”

“You...” Although Sakura didn’t had much strength anymore, she still attacked him. She ran towards him with one fist ready too attack.

Kabuto could easily see where she was going to attack, and dodged her fist. He managed to grab her fist, and started to hold it tighter and tighter. This made Sakura whimper under his grip.

Suddenly, Sakura was seeing double. ‘Oh, no... this isn’t good... I’ve gotta get out of here...’ She thought as she tried to free her hand from Kabuto’s grip.

“You are not getting away.” Kabuto said. Her legs gave in, as she fell on the ground.

She faintly heard footsteps behind her, but she didn’t had the strength look behind her. She heard Kabuto growl, so she figured it wasn’t Orochimaru.

“You again. You are forbidden to be here.” Kabuto said, with some fear in his voice for this one person.

“I can be wherever I want.” The voice replied.

‘Sasuke...’ Sakura said, as she recognised the voice like no other. She heard Kabuto growl again.

“What are you doing here anyway?” Kabuto asked.

“I heard the prisoner had escaped,” Sasuke said, and Sakura knew he was talking about her. “so I came to see if everything was going as Orochimaru planned.”

“Everything is going fine, as you can see.” Kabuto replied coldly.

“Yes... so I can see...” Sasuke said with an cold voice, and Sakura knew he was looking at her.

It was clearly audible that she was taking deep, heavy breaths.

Sasuke noticed this as well, “Is she sick?” He asked, still no emotion in his voice.

Kabuto looked at the sitting Sakura, still her hand in his. “Yes, it seems like she caught the side effects of the drugs.”

“Does she shows the effects of hallucination?”

“No, not yet, but she is breathing heavily, has an headache and a fever.”

“You are a medical ninja, aren’t you? Can’t you ease her pain a bit?” Although someone would normally say this with compassion, this was Sasuke who said it, so there was no compassion or any of that sort noticeable in his voice.

“Well, young Uchiha, it seems like you care for her, do you not?” Kabuto said with a grin, he was almost positive that Sasuke felt something for Sakura, just like Orochimaru said.

Just as Kabuto said that, Sasuke shot him and cold look that would made you flinch.

“No, why else do you think I abandoned these good for nothing team mates?”

Kabuto grinned, continuing. “Why else would you ask if the girl is ok?”

Sasuke didn’t say anything, and grabbed Sakura from Kabuto’s grip. He hold her in bridal style and turned around.

“What are you doing?!” Kabuto asked, as he was surprised by Sasuke’s sudden movement.

Sasuke didn’t turn around. “I’m bringing her to my room. Don’t let anyone come, understood?” With that said, he made his way to his room, leaving Kabuto behind.

“Tsk.” Kabuto said, as he also made his way back.

Sakura couldn’t move, she could barely speak. The dizziness wouldn’t sop, and she was sweating a lot. She was certain she had a fever. And did they said anything about hallucinations?

‘No...’ She thought, while Sasuke was carrying her somewhere in bridal style. ‘Sasuke, let go... I want get out of here... Naruto... Naruto...’

“Sakura-chan!”

Sakura opened her eyes a bit, as she heard the voice she was dying to hear. ‘Naruto...?’ Was he really here?

“Sakura-chan! It’s ok now, I’m here!” An orange coloured silhouette was forming right before her and it was running towards her.

“No... don’t come here...” Sakura said softly, but was still heard by Sasuke. He looked at her, wondering what she was saying.

“Naruto... stay back...” He knew she was hallucinating from the drugs, but she was hallucinating about Naruto?

“Sakura-chan, I won’t let anything happen to you, I promise.” The Naruto hallucination said as he came closer to her.

“Naruto... They are after you... You have to run... You have to live.” Sakura muttered, slowly reaching her arms out to, what she saw, Naruto.

Sasuke got in his room, and softly lay Sakura on his bed. Her eyes were closed again and she was sweating heavily. Sasuke had put an hand on her head to check her temperature; defiantly a fever.

“Sakura-chan, I love you and I would never leave you for my own good, I would never. I love you so much.” The Naruto hallucination said.

Sasuke could see a tiny and weak smile on Sakura’s face. He heard Sakura taking a breath, knowing that she was going to say something.

“Naruto... I love you too...”

“Tsunade-obaachan, are you sure the information you got is correct? I mean, how can we rust some guy?” Naruto asked, as he, Tsunade and Jiraiya exited a tiny town in which they made a resting stop in.

“I am positive!” Tsunade said happily.

Jiraiya walked over to Naruto and whispered something in his ear; “She used her brutal strength to get the information, not her... charm.” At this, Naruto shivered, suddenly feeling sorry for the guy.

Luckily, Tsunade didn’t hear him, and walked down the path. She stopped and turned around, “Hurry up, you two! Orochimaru’s hideout isn’t that far away!”

“Why is she so happy?” Naruto asked confused.

“She won... some money with her... erm, luck. Well, she actually lost, but when she got mad, those guys gave her all the money.” Jiraiya explained, with a sigh afterwards.

“Haha... some luck that is...” Naruto said.

“What is taking you two so long?! We don’t have all day, you know?!” Tsunade said, now getting angry at the two.

“She’s back...” The two said at the same time. They quickly ran after her, not exactly knowing what was ahead of them. But whatever it was, together they were strong.

“Sakura-chan, just a little more. I’m going to get you back, and then we’ll be together...”

To Be Continued