Maybe your not so bad. Maybe. (Sasuke Uchiha) Book 2

Chapter 5

        I heard a crash and then I felt like a boulder had hit me.  "Ryoko get down!"  I let out a scream as something even harder hit my body.  Then I felt myself being picked up.  I closed my eyes tighter.  What was going on?

    I felt a fresh blow of air towards me and I gulped it in.  I opened my eyes to see trees blurring past me.  I then realized I was still being carried.  I looked over, expecting it to be my dad, but I was in for a surprising shock.  It was Pein, who was carrying me.  I felt my breathing become labored.  This was the guy that had tortured me and I guarantee I had a whole lot more to suffer for running away.

    I reached behind to grab a kunia but nothing was there.  Pein looked down at me with an evil smirk.  I knew then that if I was to survive this, I had to do everything and anything to get away.  I would just have to wait.

      My patience paid off.  At night-fall Pein stopped at a cave.  He made sure I was not too far from him.  He laid down and fell asleep.  I waited for a few hours before making my move.  I slowly began moving away little steps at a time.

   I made it out of the cave and began running.  Then I ran into something hard.  I looked up to see Pein.  I jumped back and threw a kick at him.  I then dropped as I felt a sharp pain.  He was looking down at me with a cruel smile on his face.  I felt the pain from the time he picked me up til the time he dropped me on the cold hard floor.

   Then it just went away.  I laid there for a few minutes, wondering if it really did go away.  Was it going to start again once I moved?  Then I noticed Pein was watching me.  "What w-was that?"  He sat down against the opposite side of the wall.  "You have my mark, which means your mine.  I can cause you physical or mental pain whenever I feel like it.  I can even make you think it's not real, when it is."  I looked at him.  "Get rid of it now!" 

   I fell to the floor holding my stomach.  The agony was greater than before.  I felt tears brim my eyes.  "Don't ever disrespect me again.  You won't be able to get rid of it."  I let the tears slip done my face.  The agony had stopped but my heart was aching for my dad.  I cried myself to sleep that night.

                               When I woke up I was in a strange room.  The walls were a dark red color.  I slipped out of the bed and walked to the door.  I tugged at it and of course it was locked.  I sighed as I noticed my clothes laying on the dresser.  I grabbed them and walked into the bathroom.  I turned the shower on and peeled my clothes off.  I still had my hospital gown on. 

   I jumped into the shower, welcoming the hot water.  I washed every part of me and I noticed my mark glowing.  Since when did it do that?  I touched my hand to it and the water encircled the mark.  I gasped and removed my hand.  The mark has a slight burn and I noticed it faded slightly. 

    I was about to try again until I noticed the water getting cold.  I got out, dried off, and slipped into my regular clothes.  I opened the door and walked out.  I brushed my hair and put it back into a pony tail.  I then saw a glass of water on the table.  Was that there before?

    I reached for it until I heard the door-knob turning.  I quickly withdrew my hand.  The door swung open and Itachi walked in.  I looked into his Sharingan eyes.  Itachi's eyes were nothing like Sasukes.  When I was with Sasuke they held some compassion and I could see a slight spark in his eyes.  With Itachi, all there was, was a cold emotionless act.  There was no way he could be that emotionless.  There had to be a reason.  Maybe he didn't have a good child life?  Who knows.  All I knew, was that I did not like this man.  He had hurt Sasuke in the most brutal ways. 

   I then noticed I was glaring at him.  I quickly looked down.  I had no idea what he could do to me.  I heard his chilling voice speak,"Come."  I automatically got up and began walking with him.  I was greeted with a living room.

   I noticed almost all of the members were there.  Including Pein.  I glared at him slightly.  I didn't care who he was.  I hated him.  I felt a slight burn through my mark and knew that I should stop glaring.  I knew how bad the pain could get and I wanted nothing to do with it.  I began walking and then..

        Then I woke up.  I flew up out of the hospital bed.  What the heck was going on?  I saw Tsunade and Kakashi surrounding me.  "Ryoko!  What happened?  We were talking to you and then you just passed out!"  I began hyperventilating.   Whatever had happend, I didn't care.  I just wanted everything to be over with.

   I then felt my dad wrap his arms around me. "Ryoko.  Look at me."  I looked up at him and I noticed his eyes held pain.  "I'll find a way to fix this."  I laid my head down on his shoulder and I slowly drifted to sleep.

                                       When I woke up Sasuke was there.  I reached for him and pulled him to me.  He seemed shocked by my movement but he didn't question it.  I assumed Kakashi told him.  "Don't leave me."  He slowly wrapped his arms around me and he got into my bed.  I laid my head on his chest and began wondering why I was so sleepy. 

    He kissed my forehead and I began drifting off into sleep again.  I knew that with him here, nothing bad would get to me.