Remember me

THREE MONTHS AGO

"She's underwater again. Somebody's daughter, a friend. In the night, in the dark, in the cold. As she walks far away." - Bird, Billie Marten
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Three months has passed since the kidnapping of Sakura, Hinata, Temari and Karui. There has been several other shinobi that was reported missing and some even blamed Konoha until thy explained the situation. However, from all the villages, only Konoha had two missing shinobi.

Shikamaru and Sasuke never stopped searching for the missing, they also didn't stop at the village for more than a few days. Kiba, on the other hand, went back to tell Naruto news and followed his orders.

All the Konoha 12 were called back to search the land of fire. However, worry ate at Naruto and Shikamaru could see it. Dark circles formed under his worried blue eyes. Naruto now grew serious and Shikamaru hadn't seen him doing anything goofy in three months. He also couldn't concentrate on work at all.

But what happened three months ago when they were kidnapped. These events are what happened three months ago when the kidnappings accord...

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Sakura walked calmly through the dry desert. It was extremely cold since it was night time in the desert. Sakura shook a little from the cold, but never allowed herself to stop. At a temperature this cold she knew she'd freeze to death if she fell asleep.

That's why she kept walking even if it was past midnight. Sakura sighed and rubbed her bare arms while she walked over the sandy dunes. She'll never wake up again if she fell asleep now.

However Sakura allowed herself a moment of rest when she heard flashes of lightning behind her. She turned around and looked behind her as she watched the intimidating flashes rain down on the earth below. Her face softened as she watched the lightning.

It reminded her of Sasuke...

Sakura's eyes widened. There were no clouds to generate the lightning. Maybe it was him. Maybe it was Sasuke that was the cause of the lightning. Could it really be that easy to have found him so fast? To be only a few kilometres away from him after just a day.

Sakura took a step to the lightning, but stop. Someone was behind her. However, before she could spin around something blunt hit the back of her head. Sakura grunted at the impact and fell to the ground. Her eyelids closed slowly as her consciousness slipped away.

"Sasuke." Sakura said softly on the sandy ground as her eyelids closed completely.

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The night sky was crisp and cold as she walked through the forest and each time the wind blew, the coldness nipped at her exposed skin. Hinata rubbed her arms as she continued walking, she had seen Ino with her Byakugan earlier and was heading there right now.

She had heard earlier rumbling from lightning in the far distance, yet she never saw a cloud in the sky. However it had made Ino stop which she was grateful for, but as time passed something ominous approached.

"Why are you hiding? You know I can see you." Hinata said, raising her voice so they could hear her.

There were 3 men and one woman hiding in the bushes before her. In front of Hinata in the middle of the road was an abandoned wagon.

The woman chuckled and revealed herself as she placed herself in front of Hinata, blocking her path while the men blocked the path behind her. The woman had long auburn hair in a ponytail that hung to her back with beautiful blue eyes that reminded Hinata of Naruto's eyes.