Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Subjects ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )
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By: CagedRaven 
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Supernatural | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 03.23.2011 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.5K | Visits: 302 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Supernatural | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 03.23.2011 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.5K | Visits: 302 | Status: Work In Progress
Subjects
CagedRaven
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Chapter two
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On death row; Shikamaru was right… Maybe I didn't think this out right. Oh, well. At least I'll be free one way or the other. As the guards settled me in a chair, locking my hands and feet into the restraints and all that, they left without a single word. I tested the chains to see how strong they were; seems like they learned their lesson about the door. The room was dark, and by the smell of it I wasn't the only one in here.
"Hey," I said nonchalantly, pretty sure the guy wouldn't answer me back. "So, what they get you for?"
As I expected the room stayed silent. That is, semi. A whispered voice spoke too low for my ears to pick up. That was saying something. "Huh?"
What made it stranger was that I only smelt one and that was a male but the voice I was having trouble hearing was defiantly female. Then it clicked, Class 02.
"I am… not strong enough to… to lead a team." She stuttered shamefully.
I didn't know what to say, by the way she was talking then yeah, I agreed. But I couldn't do that to her, she was a female, so I lied. Not like it was going to kill me anyway. The drugs were. "That can't be true. I bet you came out too pretty or something."
Hey, if it made her last day to live – because I am assuming we're all dieing today- any better then by all means I was going to tell this girl anything.
"I'm not …pretty at all." She whispered into the darkness.
"Liar," I smiled, happy I had someone to talk to. "They got me on killing a couple humans."
I heard her gasp like it was the end of the world. "How could you?"
"How could I?" my happiness quickly left. "Why shouldn't I, is what you should be asking me. Those damn humans, always treating us like fucking shit - monsters! But they're the monsters! You hear that?" I yelled in the direction of the door hoping they could hear me. "I didn't ask to be here, you made me, mother-fuckers!"
My breathing was labored after all that screaming, I wish it wasn't. I could taste the blood still in my mouth from before but it was mixing horribly with some more bile. I spat it out, judging from her voice and the male's scent across from me; it was no where near them.
"I'm sorry…" she whispered out to me, causing me to sigh.
"It's not your fault, I shouldn't be - I'm sorry." I apologized lamely. "What's you name?" I asked, just to keep the conversation rolling.
"Hinata," she answered after a pause.
"I'm Naruto."
***
Sitting in the darkness for what felt like hours, Hinata and my conversation eventually did stop. The male in the room with us wasn't much help either. More then once he told us to shut up, causing her to stop talking and me to yell at him each and every time.
The silence in the dark room caused my ears to ring. After a while I didn't know if my eyes were closed or open. I felt like I really had to pee and my back was starting to hurt from sitting in this chair too long. My boredom lead me too humming, which was quickly silenced by the other class 01 male who seemed to just be waiting for me to say something. I had stopped fighting with him, my energy more focused on not emptying my bladder.
With the endless time remaining I starting to actually wonder about yesterday night. I remembered killing those two bastards, hearing another pair of footsteps… and after that, I was with Shikamaru. Something else must have happened, I just couldn't think of what it could be.
As my brain jumped from topic to topic everything always boiled down to my revulsion for humans. I think I even cursed them aloud a few times because Hinata gasped and the male growled in annoyance at the sound of my voice. I had to take my mind off everything dealing with them, as Kiba had told me before: it wasn't healthy to be angry all the time. But, hell, if they weren't so damn bossy and shit I wouldn't have killed them. If I hadn't killed them I wouldn't be in this situation right now. And if I wasn't tied up I could have gone to the bathroom already! My insides felt like it was at its limit.
I tried to move around in the chair but it was hopeless, looks like the last of my life was going to play out in embarrassment…
"Naruto… what's wrong?"
She must have heard me, "It's nothing…" I couldn't very well tell her I just might have to pee my pants. Though, I guess if I did they would both smell it anyway.
"The idiot has to urinate." The other male muttered.
"Whoa, you talked." I claimed loudly, sarcasm dipping heavily off my words.
"The great part about it all is," he began as noise from behind the door started. "That I hear once you're dead your body releases everything, so you won't have to hold yourself too much longer."
I snapped my eyes shut (answering my question earlier) at the light that pooled into the room. "Well, thanks." I muttered under my breath.
I heard footsteps walking in after the door closed once more. I found that odd. Why would the guards close themselves in with us? For that matter, why had only one entered?
"Shikamaru, is that you?" Hinata whispered, as if she feared she might be wrong.
A small light pointed to each of us, "Man, I didn't know three would be in here…" Came his lazy tone.
"Shikamaru!" I would have leapt for joy had my arms and legs not been locked. He hushed me down but I didn't care. "Thank the humans' god! Look, let me out, I've got to pee so bad."
"Are you kidding me?" He sighed, already working on the locks. "You're going to have to hold it."
"I've been holding it!"
At the final 'click' of my restrains, my freedom to walk was welcomed. My freedom to run to the nearest bathroom, however, was halted.
"I'm serious, Naruto, I snuck in here. If you blow our cover, we'll all be six feet under faster than it takes you to think of something stupid to say." Shikamaru snapped, having caught me in the act of running toward the door. I nodded, deciding to ignore his comment.
As Hinata was freed Shikamaru made his way over towards the male. Hinata, in her shy way, watched me as I jumped around stupidly.
"Gaara?" I stopped moving, looking over toward the two males. "Can't say I'm surprised to see you here…" The 02 male said. The other 01, Gaara, merely stayed silent. So I guess I wasn't the only one to notice he was a whack job.
"You two know each other?" I asked.
"Not now, we have to get out of here." Shikamaru stated, pointing his flashlight towards the ceiling. My eyes followed the only light source, looking for anything. However, there didn't seem to be anything we could use to escape with.
"Um," Hinata started. My head looked over to her in the darkness; I think she was near the door. "I think we should go through the corridors… until we reach a safer place."
"They'll see us in the hallways." Gaara bluntly said in his cold voice.
"But," Shikamaru cut her sentence off.
"No, she's right. That's the only way out of this room. That's why they keep you in the dark; it's both physical and mental. Without your eyes to see what's around you, you can't start thinking of a way out."
"Fine," I said, happy that we finally came to a decision. I let my claws sharpen stretched out my arms and legs, readying myself for a fight. "I'll go out first, kill any human that's there and when I knock on the door you'll know it's safe to come out."
"Wait," Hinata grabbed my arm before I could open the door. "You're not really going to kill them, are you?"
"Of course, a few less to chase after us later."
"You mustn't, Shikamaru, please…" she sounded like she was going to cry again… seriously, what was the matter with her?
"Fine, fine! I'll just rough them up a bit." I muttered, cursing under my breath as I stepped out of the dark room. My eyes were blinded immediately by the bright florescent lights but my ears heard the men surrounding me.
"How'd he get out?" someone yelled. "Didn't you put the restraints on properly?"
I let out a laugh, stopping their petty argument. "You thought those things could stop me?" I was starting to be able to see slowly, however in all honesty I didn't need my eye sight to hurt these buffoons. "This is going to be fun." I grinned.
***
I knocked on the door a couple seconds later, waiting for Hinata to pop out of the room. As soon as she did her eyes landed on the hand I put on her shoulder.
"See, I didn't kill them, just like you wanted."
The men were screaming in pain though, and if I went by her expression, she didn't seem too happy. It was hard to please this female… but I was going to lighten the mood. I patted her shoulder in reassurance as we four made our way down the hall.
"Thank you, Naruto." She smiled, reaching up to hold the hand I offered. When she realized it pulled too far forward she turned to look at me and screamed, throwing the arm to the floor.
I never laughed so hard.
"You… you ripped off… his arm?" Her hand went to her mouth as if she was going to throw up, her pale eyes glittering with moister.
"Oh, it was only a joke, don't worry. He'll live." I smiled, stopping my laugher as Shikamaru and Gaara stared at me.
"Yeah, if someone gets there in time he might. Now quit acting retarded; we have to get out of here." Shikamaru sighed.
"And I still have to go!" I whined, moving in place.
Everyone ignored me as they continued down the hallway, forcing me to run to keep up with them. We moved quickly, trying not to run into as many humans as necessary. Whenever we did, though, I couldn't stop my natural reaction to make them bleed. I think Hinata was starting to dislike me while I was gaining Gaara's approval, Shikamaru stayed neutral.
Following Shikamaru's lead, we ran into the area where the class 02's were held. Some of the 02's ran, screaming at the sight of me. I had no time to wonder why as humans in uniform pointed rifles at each of us. I stopped in my tracks, having seen first hand what those things could do even to their own creator. The others followed my lead, I had a feeling they didn't know what guns were, especially when someone asked why we stopped. Hopefully the 02's would put two and two together, the smell of gunpowder was hard to ignore.
"The blonde 01 is malfunctioning," the supposed leader shouted, I guess he was talking about me seeing as I was the only blonde. "Aim for him first!"
I let a cruse slip out of my mouth as the clicks of the weapons vibrated in my ears. I dove for the left, hoping the other three would run as well. A bullet bravely missing my leg. I'd have to be faster on my toes to dodge the tiny, round pieces of metal. It moved faster then I thought it could. I took a peek at Hinata, she was safe across the room from me as well as Shikamaru and Gaara. The humans wouldn't go after them until I was dead after all.
"Try to keep going," I whispered to them, sure that they could hear me. "I'll catch up."
Shikamaru nodded, "Just watch yourself."
To distract the humans I did the only thing I could think of, I ran at them head on. A few shots grazed my skin and two painful bullets pierced my skin, burning my insides, but I held down my discomfort long enough to let the others escape.
Another wave of pain went through my body as a blast sounded in my ears. I grabbed the wounded arm and winced as warm liquid coated my hand, the smell of my blood entering my nose with each shaky breath. I hated guns almost as much as I hated the humans who used them.
They stopped firing at me as I fell to my knees, a wave of dizziness overcoming me I guess from the blood I lost. I heard their footsteps walking closer to me until they were standing over me, a gun's cold barrel resting against my skull.
"I hope your death is quick." Someone murmured.
Faster than the human eye, I racked my claws across his stomach and followed the circle around me, cutting into each of them. The pain must have made the first squeeze his hand, causing the gun to fire because another bullet entered me, hitting my collar bone as I stood to attack. They fell to the floor, grabbing their bellies in misery as the blood continued to pour out. I'd have to apologize to Hinata later; these men weren't going to make it.
"Ditto," I said, walking away from.
I exited the area before more humans with guns could come and slowly followed the scent of Gaara. My blood mixing with everything I smelled proved to be a problem as I stopped every three steps hoping I wasn't going in circles, and the pain forced me to move at a snail's pace.
Several 02's I didn't know looked at me funny, not hesitating to move out of my way. I didn't care what they did as long as they didn't call for guards to finish me off.
I believe I finally made it to Shikamaru's room; Gaara's scent was coming from behind the closed door. There was no handle for me to open it with so I peeled it open the same way I had done to mine a day or two ago. I entered the room, letting the door shut behind me and saw the uplifted tile on the floor where they must have gone down to Shikamaru's secret room. I took a deep breath, wincing as pain shot from my multiple wounds, and took my first step on the ladder. Before going all the way down I made sure to pull the tile back over. If it gave us even a few more seconds to escape to freedom, it was worth it.
"Naruto…?" Hinata whispered up to from the dark bottom. They didn't want to turn on the lights, I suppose. We'd be in the dark again, and just after my eyes adjusted to the light.
"Yeah, it's me." I breathed out, taking in air as I rested after a few more steps. My bleeding wasn't stopping like it normally would when I would fight in spars. "Hinata, move away from the ladder a bit." I heard a couple of footsteps, learning my assumption was right.
"What for?" Shikamaru called up.
Not bothering to answer, I counted to three in my head and jumped the rest of the way down, landing in a roll and got to my feet. "That's why." I panted, bending over as more of my red liquid spilt out.
"You're badly… hurt." Hinata said, gently touching my arm. I wasn't aware she would be so close.
"Its fine, I'll heal in no time."
"When we get out of here," Shikamaru said, sounding like he was pushing something heavy. "You'll have to dig the bullets out or else your wounds will never heal and you'll bleed to death." The noise of metal against metal screeched through my ears.
"What the hell are you doing over there?" I yelled over the noise.
"Opening the door for our getaway." He yelled back at me. "Gaara can you pull that side?"
Weather the red head helped or not I wasn't sure, my mind too filled with shock at how close I was to freedom before. It all came crashing down as realization hit me like a ton of bricks. I hadn't made it to Kiba, to save Kiba from this hell hole. I was about to run to the ladder, thinking of a way to get him and return when Hinata grabbed my arm.
"Where are you going?" she asked, forced to speak over the loud crushing noise of the 'door' falling to the floor.
"I have to save my friend-"
"We'll come back for him… after we escape." She sounded like she was pleading with me. Maybe it had something to do with the footsteps coming from over our heads; the humans had entered Shikamaru's room, probably following my blood trail.
"I have to save him now!"
"We don't have time for this." Shikamaru scolded me, walking closer until I felt his hard fist connect with my cheek – his way of knocking sense into me. "Look, damn it, you're the one that started most of this shit. If you're going to go back now then we're all dead. There's your freedom!" I looked over to the open hole in the wall, watching as Gaara walked through it but waited to see what the rest of us were going to do. Hinata begged me again to come as ran over to the 'doorway' as well. The loud pounding and heavy crashing from above told each of our ears the humans were tearing apart Shikamaru's room. "So," he continued, his voice quieting down. "What are you going to do?"
I had to go back and get Kiba. We promised we would escape together. He was my first friend, best friend. The blood dripping from under my hands, however, made me realize two things. I couldn't take on more humans in my current state and I wouldn't have the energy to kill every last one of our creators.
I looked up, trying to see past the darkness and into Kiba's face. Sorry, I would have told him, I'll have to leave you for now… but I will come back. So just stay alive until then.
"Let's go."
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TBC...
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A/N: Chapter two posted up :]
I hope readers enjoy.
CagedRaven
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Chapter two
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On death row; Shikamaru was right… Maybe I didn't think this out right. Oh, well. At least I'll be free one way or the other. As the guards settled me in a chair, locking my hands and feet into the restraints and all that, they left without a single word. I tested the chains to see how strong they were; seems like they learned their lesson about the door. The room was dark, and by the smell of it I wasn't the only one in here.
"Hey," I said nonchalantly, pretty sure the guy wouldn't answer me back. "So, what they get you for?"
As I expected the room stayed silent. That is, semi. A whispered voice spoke too low for my ears to pick up. That was saying something. "Huh?"
What made it stranger was that I only smelt one and that was a male but the voice I was having trouble hearing was defiantly female. Then it clicked, Class 02.
"I am… not strong enough to… to lead a team." She stuttered shamefully.
I didn't know what to say, by the way she was talking then yeah, I agreed. But I couldn't do that to her, she was a female, so I lied. Not like it was going to kill me anyway. The drugs were. "That can't be true. I bet you came out too pretty or something."
Hey, if it made her last day to live – because I am assuming we're all dieing today- any better then by all means I was going to tell this girl anything.
"I'm not …pretty at all." She whispered into the darkness.
"Liar," I smiled, happy I had someone to talk to. "They got me on killing a couple humans."
I heard her gasp like it was the end of the world. "How could you?"
"How could I?" my happiness quickly left. "Why shouldn't I, is what you should be asking me. Those damn humans, always treating us like fucking shit - monsters! But they're the monsters! You hear that?" I yelled in the direction of the door hoping they could hear me. "I didn't ask to be here, you made me, mother-fuckers!"
My breathing was labored after all that screaming, I wish it wasn't. I could taste the blood still in my mouth from before but it was mixing horribly with some more bile. I spat it out, judging from her voice and the male's scent across from me; it was no where near them.
"I'm sorry…" she whispered out to me, causing me to sigh.
"It's not your fault, I shouldn't be - I'm sorry." I apologized lamely. "What's you name?" I asked, just to keep the conversation rolling.
"Hinata," she answered after a pause.
"I'm Naruto."
***
Sitting in the darkness for what felt like hours, Hinata and my conversation eventually did stop. The male in the room with us wasn't much help either. More then once he told us to shut up, causing her to stop talking and me to yell at him each and every time.
The silence in the dark room caused my ears to ring. After a while I didn't know if my eyes were closed or open. I felt like I really had to pee and my back was starting to hurt from sitting in this chair too long. My boredom lead me too humming, which was quickly silenced by the other class 01 male who seemed to just be waiting for me to say something. I had stopped fighting with him, my energy more focused on not emptying my bladder.
With the endless time remaining I starting to actually wonder about yesterday night. I remembered killing those two bastards, hearing another pair of footsteps… and after that, I was with Shikamaru. Something else must have happened, I just couldn't think of what it could be.
As my brain jumped from topic to topic everything always boiled down to my revulsion for humans. I think I even cursed them aloud a few times because Hinata gasped and the male growled in annoyance at the sound of my voice. I had to take my mind off everything dealing with them, as Kiba had told me before: it wasn't healthy to be angry all the time. But, hell, if they weren't so damn bossy and shit I wouldn't have killed them. If I hadn't killed them I wouldn't be in this situation right now. And if I wasn't tied up I could have gone to the bathroom already! My insides felt like it was at its limit.
I tried to move around in the chair but it was hopeless, looks like the last of my life was going to play out in embarrassment…
"Naruto… what's wrong?"
She must have heard me, "It's nothing…" I couldn't very well tell her I just might have to pee my pants. Though, I guess if I did they would both smell it anyway.
"The idiot has to urinate." The other male muttered.
"Whoa, you talked." I claimed loudly, sarcasm dipping heavily off my words.
"The great part about it all is," he began as noise from behind the door started. "That I hear once you're dead your body releases everything, so you won't have to hold yourself too much longer."
I snapped my eyes shut (answering my question earlier) at the light that pooled into the room. "Well, thanks." I muttered under my breath.
I heard footsteps walking in after the door closed once more. I found that odd. Why would the guards close themselves in with us? For that matter, why had only one entered?
"Shikamaru, is that you?" Hinata whispered, as if she feared she might be wrong.
A small light pointed to each of us, "Man, I didn't know three would be in here…" Came his lazy tone.
"Shikamaru!" I would have leapt for joy had my arms and legs not been locked. He hushed me down but I didn't care. "Thank the humans' god! Look, let me out, I've got to pee so bad."
"Are you kidding me?" He sighed, already working on the locks. "You're going to have to hold it."
"I've been holding it!"
At the final 'click' of my restrains, my freedom to walk was welcomed. My freedom to run to the nearest bathroom, however, was halted.
"I'm serious, Naruto, I snuck in here. If you blow our cover, we'll all be six feet under faster than it takes you to think of something stupid to say." Shikamaru snapped, having caught me in the act of running toward the door. I nodded, deciding to ignore his comment.
As Hinata was freed Shikamaru made his way over towards the male. Hinata, in her shy way, watched me as I jumped around stupidly.
"Gaara?" I stopped moving, looking over toward the two males. "Can't say I'm surprised to see you here…" The 02 male said. The other 01, Gaara, merely stayed silent. So I guess I wasn't the only one to notice he was a whack job.
"You two know each other?" I asked.
"Not now, we have to get out of here." Shikamaru stated, pointing his flashlight towards the ceiling. My eyes followed the only light source, looking for anything. However, there didn't seem to be anything we could use to escape with.
"Um," Hinata started. My head looked over to her in the darkness; I think she was near the door. "I think we should go through the corridors… until we reach a safer place."
"They'll see us in the hallways." Gaara bluntly said in his cold voice.
"But," Shikamaru cut her sentence off.
"No, she's right. That's the only way out of this room. That's why they keep you in the dark; it's both physical and mental. Without your eyes to see what's around you, you can't start thinking of a way out."
"Fine," I said, happy that we finally came to a decision. I let my claws sharpen stretched out my arms and legs, readying myself for a fight. "I'll go out first, kill any human that's there and when I knock on the door you'll know it's safe to come out."
"Wait," Hinata grabbed my arm before I could open the door. "You're not really going to kill them, are you?"
"Of course, a few less to chase after us later."
"You mustn't, Shikamaru, please…" she sounded like she was going to cry again… seriously, what was the matter with her?
"Fine, fine! I'll just rough them up a bit." I muttered, cursing under my breath as I stepped out of the dark room. My eyes were blinded immediately by the bright florescent lights but my ears heard the men surrounding me.
"How'd he get out?" someone yelled. "Didn't you put the restraints on properly?"
I let out a laugh, stopping their petty argument. "You thought those things could stop me?" I was starting to be able to see slowly, however in all honesty I didn't need my eye sight to hurt these buffoons. "This is going to be fun." I grinned.
***
I knocked on the door a couple seconds later, waiting for Hinata to pop out of the room. As soon as she did her eyes landed on the hand I put on her shoulder.
"See, I didn't kill them, just like you wanted."
The men were screaming in pain though, and if I went by her expression, she didn't seem too happy. It was hard to please this female… but I was going to lighten the mood. I patted her shoulder in reassurance as we four made our way down the hall.
"Thank you, Naruto." She smiled, reaching up to hold the hand I offered. When she realized it pulled too far forward she turned to look at me and screamed, throwing the arm to the floor.
I never laughed so hard.
"You… you ripped off… his arm?" Her hand went to her mouth as if she was going to throw up, her pale eyes glittering with moister.
"Oh, it was only a joke, don't worry. He'll live." I smiled, stopping my laugher as Shikamaru and Gaara stared at me.
"Yeah, if someone gets there in time he might. Now quit acting retarded; we have to get out of here." Shikamaru sighed.
"And I still have to go!" I whined, moving in place.
Everyone ignored me as they continued down the hallway, forcing me to run to keep up with them. We moved quickly, trying not to run into as many humans as necessary. Whenever we did, though, I couldn't stop my natural reaction to make them bleed. I think Hinata was starting to dislike me while I was gaining Gaara's approval, Shikamaru stayed neutral.
Following Shikamaru's lead, we ran into the area where the class 02's were held. Some of the 02's ran, screaming at the sight of me. I had no time to wonder why as humans in uniform pointed rifles at each of us. I stopped in my tracks, having seen first hand what those things could do even to their own creator. The others followed my lead, I had a feeling they didn't know what guns were, especially when someone asked why we stopped. Hopefully the 02's would put two and two together, the smell of gunpowder was hard to ignore.
"The blonde 01 is malfunctioning," the supposed leader shouted, I guess he was talking about me seeing as I was the only blonde. "Aim for him first!"
I let a cruse slip out of my mouth as the clicks of the weapons vibrated in my ears. I dove for the left, hoping the other three would run as well. A bullet bravely missing my leg. I'd have to be faster on my toes to dodge the tiny, round pieces of metal. It moved faster then I thought it could. I took a peek at Hinata, she was safe across the room from me as well as Shikamaru and Gaara. The humans wouldn't go after them until I was dead after all.
"Try to keep going," I whispered to them, sure that they could hear me. "I'll catch up."
Shikamaru nodded, "Just watch yourself."
To distract the humans I did the only thing I could think of, I ran at them head on. A few shots grazed my skin and two painful bullets pierced my skin, burning my insides, but I held down my discomfort long enough to let the others escape.
Another wave of pain went through my body as a blast sounded in my ears. I grabbed the wounded arm and winced as warm liquid coated my hand, the smell of my blood entering my nose with each shaky breath. I hated guns almost as much as I hated the humans who used them.
They stopped firing at me as I fell to my knees, a wave of dizziness overcoming me I guess from the blood I lost. I heard their footsteps walking closer to me until they were standing over me, a gun's cold barrel resting against my skull.
"I hope your death is quick." Someone murmured.
Faster than the human eye, I racked my claws across his stomach and followed the circle around me, cutting into each of them. The pain must have made the first squeeze his hand, causing the gun to fire because another bullet entered me, hitting my collar bone as I stood to attack. They fell to the floor, grabbing their bellies in misery as the blood continued to pour out. I'd have to apologize to Hinata later; these men weren't going to make it.
"Ditto," I said, walking away from.
I exited the area before more humans with guns could come and slowly followed the scent of Gaara. My blood mixing with everything I smelled proved to be a problem as I stopped every three steps hoping I wasn't going in circles, and the pain forced me to move at a snail's pace.
Several 02's I didn't know looked at me funny, not hesitating to move out of my way. I didn't care what they did as long as they didn't call for guards to finish me off.
I believe I finally made it to Shikamaru's room; Gaara's scent was coming from behind the closed door. There was no handle for me to open it with so I peeled it open the same way I had done to mine a day or two ago. I entered the room, letting the door shut behind me and saw the uplifted tile on the floor where they must have gone down to Shikamaru's secret room. I took a deep breath, wincing as pain shot from my multiple wounds, and took my first step on the ladder. Before going all the way down I made sure to pull the tile back over. If it gave us even a few more seconds to escape to freedom, it was worth it.
"Naruto…?" Hinata whispered up to from the dark bottom. They didn't want to turn on the lights, I suppose. We'd be in the dark again, and just after my eyes adjusted to the light.
"Yeah, it's me." I breathed out, taking in air as I rested after a few more steps. My bleeding wasn't stopping like it normally would when I would fight in spars. "Hinata, move away from the ladder a bit." I heard a couple of footsteps, learning my assumption was right.
"What for?" Shikamaru called up.
Not bothering to answer, I counted to three in my head and jumped the rest of the way down, landing in a roll and got to my feet. "That's why." I panted, bending over as more of my red liquid spilt out.
"You're badly… hurt." Hinata said, gently touching my arm. I wasn't aware she would be so close.
"Its fine, I'll heal in no time."
"When we get out of here," Shikamaru said, sounding like he was pushing something heavy. "You'll have to dig the bullets out or else your wounds will never heal and you'll bleed to death." The noise of metal against metal screeched through my ears.
"What the hell are you doing over there?" I yelled over the noise.
"Opening the door for our getaway." He yelled back at me. "Gaara can you pull that side?"
Weather the red head helped or not I wasn't sure, my mind too filled with shock at how close I was to freedom before. It all came crashing down as realization hit me like a ton of bricks. I hadn't made it to Kiba, to save Kiba from this hell hole. I was about to run to the ladder, thinking of a way to get him and return when Hinata grabbed my arm.
"Where are you going?" she asked, forced to speak over the loud crushing noise of the 'door' falling to the floor.
"I have to save my friend-"
"We'll come back for him… after we escape." She sounded like she was pleading with me. Maybe it had something to do with the footsteps coming from over our heads; the humans had entered Shikamaru's room, probably following my blood trail.
"I have to save him now!"
"We don't have time for this." Shikamaru scolded me, walking closer until I felt his hard fist connect with my cheek – his way of knocking sense into me. "Look, damn it, you're the one that started most of this shit. If you're going to go back now then we're all dead. There's your freedom!" I looked over to the open hole in the wall, watching as Gaara walked through it but waited to see what the rest of us were going to do. Hinata begged me again to come as ran over to the 'doorway' as well. The loud pounding and heavy crashing from above told each of our ears the humans were tearing apart Shikamaru's room. "So," he continued, his voice quieting down. "What are you going to do?"
I had to go back and get Kiba. We promised we would escape together. He was my first friend, best friend. The blood dripping from under my hands, however, made me realize two things. I couldn't take on more humans in my current state and I wouldn't have the energy to kill every last one of our creators.
I looked up, trying to see past the darkness and into Kiba's face. Sorry, I would have told him, I'll have to leave you for now… but I will come back. So just stay alive until then.
"Let's go."
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TBC...
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A/N: Chapter two posted up :]
I hope readers enjoy.