A king's treasure (SasuNaru)

Searching for the truth

I woke up in a dark and cold room with candles on the stoned walls, dimly lighting up the place. I felt so light headed, but I was lucky enough that the drugs Ino used wasn't strong enough to kill me. My vision was still blurry but I could see the queen and Naruto still unconscious on the hard floor. I bolted to their side, but it was very difficult to stand and run.

I clumsily fell onto my knees a few times before I reached Naruto's side. "Naruto? Naruto? Wake up." I shook him. I was so afraid he wasn't going to wake up. My heart was racing inside my weakened body. "Naruto? Please wake up." I called out to him some more. There were no bruises or cuts on him so I would assumed he was just knocked out like me as well. But I feared for the worst.

"Naruto? Please.." My voice was growing weaker as well, overwhelmed by all of my negative emotions. I kept tugging on him, but he just wouldn't open his eyes. Even though my voice didn't reach out to Naruto, it woke up Tsunade. She groaned as she got up, puzzled by where she is. "Sasuke! You-you're the one behind this?!" She yelled.

"Are you fucking crazy? If I was the one, why the hell would I be here?...
It's Itachi and Ino." I bluntly and harshly replied, still holding Naruto in my arms. She stared at me intently, extremely confused by what I said. It took awhile for her to digest what I said after being heavily drugged but when it finally struck her, she crawled up to me and asked with disbelief, "INO?!"

"Believe whatever you want. I don't have time to waste to convince you, we need to get out." I carried Naruto and placed him on his mother's lap. My eyes scanned the entire room for any possible ways to escape. Tsunade sighed in defeat, choosing to believe me in the end. She was a pretty smart lady after all. She could understand what was happening even without me explaining. No wonder she was such a well-respected queen.

"Uchiha, I know a way out. This is my dungeon after all." She calmly stood up with Naruto in her hands as she directed me to a piece of stoned brick that was loose from the wall. I hurriedly removed the brick and began removing others to reveal a dark tunnel between the dungeon to another room. It was a very low and small tunnel, how were we going to carry Naruto through this?

"Put him on my back." I said as I positioned myself low enough so Naruto would not collide with the top of the tunnel. I had to use my forearms and elbows to pull myself forward. I couldn't use my legs at all. It was such a pain to use my arms to pull not only my entire body weight but also the one lying on me. I also had to balance Naruto on my back and legs.

My arms ending up very bloody, scraped and bruised from dragging myself through the tunnel. But I made it and Naruto was carefully transferred back into his mother's arms. Fortunately the room was unlocked, and we had to sneakily make out way out to ground level again. I had to take out of some of Itachi's men but it was fairly easy.

Tsunade was carrying her son, tightly in her arms to protect him from harm. She reminded me of my own mother. We proceeded to the top floor again, I signaled Tsunade to not enter the room when I heard Ino and Itachi arguing.

"Wha-what do you mean-Were you just using me?!" Ino screamed in agony, tears streaming down her face. Itachi did not reply, his cold merciless eyes staring into her broken soul. "How foolish of me.." She mumbled as she collapsed to the ground weakly, unable to take the truth.

Itachi didn't care about ruling her land, in fact I would assume he doesn't even care about ruling Naruto's land. He just wants to ruin and end me.

Then a long blade was held in the air as if ready to slice, I dashed to stop the blade from cutting Ino at the last second. My palms were oozing out blood again as I tightly gasped the sword in my hand. Ino's eyes widen, feeling guilty and surprised. "Why did you.."

"Go, now!" I ordered as Itachi slowly pull the blade out between my skin. I groaned in deep pain and let it go when Ino ran away in tears. "Don't you just love playing hero, brother? What happened to you? You're becoming weak." My older brother grinned evilly at me.

We positioned ourselves for our final battle.