A/N: This story will end in about two or three more chapters. Thank you, everyone!
Why on earth was she back?
She tried to run away, she tried to hide, she tried to relax but now she was just back to where she had started. Struggling against Sakon was no use and it wasn't as if she had enough consciousness to think of a plot anyway. The half of what is left of the conscious was no use to her, because it was just a claw of panic trying to cling onto a glass wall.
Despair.
Anger
And fear.
None of the above are a pleasant condition to be in, yet Tayuya was currently experiencing a chaotic fusion of all of the above. And it isn't a mixture of those emotions. It was a fusion, an utter solution… No percent composition, but a full-blow 100 of all three. But as turbulent as her insides were, her outside body didn't move a muscle as it continued to lay there limp as Sakon carried her further and further away from the place she wanted to be.
In fact, she'd rather be anywhere but here.
Apparently, it didn't matter to anyone including her unconscious body where she'd rather be.
She still had so many things to do, back home…
She had to pick up her groceries off of the doorstep or someone might steal it. Why that even mattered now, she didn't know but that was the first thing that came into mind. She needed to clean out her flute. Which is a bit more important. She also needed to finish Kakashi's freaking library filled with shit. So maybe that was on her list of "to do" things after all.
"Hey, Sakon…" Ryoko's voice said. While Tayuya was wondering when she got here, Ryoko said, "How about a break?"
"Yeah…" He said, and came to a swift halt. He let Tayuya go - literally - and Tayuya fell down head-first not so gently. "Go stand watch incase someone's following."
Ryoko left.
Tayuya was always told that she was a skinny girl but she changed her mind when her weight shifted to her skull as it hit the ground. She cracked her eyes open.
It was still dark with half moon dimly lighting the black sky.
"Yo." Sakon said.
Tayuya looked up to him, sneering at her helplessness. "Where are you taking me?" She asked, trying to hide the pain that coursed through her body.
"Somewhere where you're needed, of course."
"That… doesn't… answer my… fucking question," Tayuaya said softly, although it should have been a lot more louder and angrier if she was in such an unsightly state.
Sakon's sneer just got bigger as he looked down at her. "Shame," He said. "But there will never be any more moments where I would have to answer to you, my dear friend. He bent down to touch her cheeks.
Tayuya was contemplating whether to like this feeling or not when Sakon's other hand squeezed her right breast with such force, that she had to bite back a scream.
"However, that means you ask no questions and just obey," He said.
"Get your fucking hands off of me!" Tayuya kicked at him, but it missed and he only squeezed harder. Tayuya yelped in agony this time as she groped her hands around his forearms to try to yank it off. But it was a man's iron grip against a woman's desperate plea. Tayuya didn't want to give in but what hurts hurts and she felt as if she was going to pass out if he didn't let go.
"Does it hurt?" He asked with a cruel grin on his face.
Like he did on that one day when he…
"Stop it, you… fucking sc- AHH!" A scream tore out of her lips as he used the same hand to shove her to the trunk of a tree.
Yet he still did not let go. "Want me to let go?"
Tayuya looked at him.
He tightened his grip, causing her to scream. "Looking at me doesn't answer my question, bitch," He said then groped her other one. "I don't think you understand the situation. When I ask you a question, you give me the answer you want me to hear or I'll just torture you until you do."
"You son of a bitch!"
"What was that?" He said as he squeezed both of her breasts so hard that she thought it was going to explode into pieces.
A raw scream pierced out of her in a volume that scared even herself.
"Beg me to stop," Sakon said, licking his lips.
"S - Stop…"
"I said beg me."
"Please…"
"Give me an alternative."
"Wh - What?"
"Since I don't want to stop, I'll do something else."
"No!"
"Then I should just continue this," He said as he began to emphasize the pain by slowly massaging both of them with his current strength, which was more unbearable.
"Stop! Please!" Tayuya screamed.
He suddenly let go, and Tayuya fell to the floor.
"You don't want me ever to treat you like that again, do you?"
Tayuya said nothing.
"Answer me, you stupid bitch!!" He said as he kicked her stomach.
She coughed up what felt like blood. "NO!" She yelped out.
"That's what I thought. Well, I think I've had my fun. And I don't think I want to see you anymore for now," He turned his head around. "Ryoko!" He called.
As if she knew she was going to be called after a certain abuse, she showed up instantly.
Sakon carelessly lifted Tayuya up by her vest collars just before chucking her across the branches toward Ryoko, who caught her like a sack of potatoes. "I don't want to carry that piece of shit anymore. You take it from here."
It was obvious that Ryoko hadn't expected this since she began to grumble under her breath. Also, it was quite obvious that Ryoko did not like Tayuya much either as she simply slung her over her shoulder.
Tayuya thought, for the whole trip, that she was going to die in both pain and humiliation.
If this was some kind of a joke, it wasn't all that funny.
If it was a payback for him missing out on training sessions, it was too harsh.
But since the words were coming out of a certain down-to-earth, bad-tempered, and currently very ticked female hokage, Kakashi dismissed the two complaints.
Tayuya was taken… again.
He remained motionless for a few moments, digesting all that he's heard in the last five-seconds. The meditation was brutally broken the same moment the hokage's desk snapped in half.
"There is no time to think, Kakashi! Go and get her! What the hell is wrong with you?! I didn't bring you here to think!"
"Other than the fact that if shinobi ceased to think, then none of us would be living and breathing now and-"
If looks would kill, Kakashi would have been crucified and staked at the same time as Tsunade's death-glare broke off his words. "Do… I.. look… like… I'm fucking around?" She asked, her voice unusually soft.
It wasn't his fault… He lost too much focus to be serious at this moment. It hadn't quite hit him yet. The fact Tsunade laid out so clearly, that it was difficult as hell to make out. But then again, he knew that when Tsunade's voice gets this soft after breaking her desk in two, there was clearly something wrong, and pretty soon, Kakashi would share a similarity with the desk which would be to be no longer functional. "I understand. I'll go right away," He said, and ran out fast as possible.
He gripped his nose bridge with his thumb and index finger in an attempt to calm himself.
He summoned his ninken and they ran off in their own way to help their master.
He too began his search but a mix of worry and panic made concentrating rather difficult.
He searched for a trace of clue that may help him find her. Always kidnapped like this… and I always have to save your butt… Where does all your aggressiveness go when the kidnappers come, huh? He thought with a deep sigh.
Of course he had three former apprentices who were just as unstable with one with a similar curse that Tayuya had, one with a demonic kyuubi inside him and the other with a monster-like strength, but at least they'd never get kidnapped if not, just walk right into trouble. The point was though, that them three could take care of themselves, or he was always there to get them out of trouble since they were under his care. Now that the three of them grew up to be impressive shinobi, they were each on their own ways, fully able to protect themselves at need, and there really was no reason to fear that any harm would come to any of the three. Tayuya however, was placed under a completely different situation. Although he was to be a mentor for her, she was already an adult, a jonin, when she came under him. Although she had the skill of being a jonin, when it came to… not being kidnapped, she… just wasn't very good.
Chasing enemies because of a careless (or something) kunoichi didn't exactly fit his job description, and the rank of this mission had not been decided, yet here he was, flying through the forest with his sharingan serving as a headlight and a detector for enemies.
It wasn't like he was going to be paid for completing this mission but there was something about completing this mission that was hundreds of times more worthy than getting his paycheck… although that would be nice. No.
He was in this so he could save a fellow ninja, his student, his… well… student or something like that. Well, more than just a student… also his librarian… sort of. And… well…
Pakkun landed right in front of him. "Yo," said the wrinkled mutt.
"Find something?" Kakashi asked.
"I can smell her shampoo," Pakkun said.
Kakashi raised his eyebrows.
"Well, something like that…" The dog trailed off. "Let's go," He said before Kakashi could say anything.
Kakashi too decided that finding Tayuya was pretty important right now, more so than teasing his shampoo-sniffing bulldog looking thing.
It didn't make a whole lot of sense for such thoughts to pass Tayuya's mind at such a time as this. Maybe it was because her brain was tired of wandering between the borderlines of consciousness and unconsciousness and finally decided to settle onto something pretty random but important. Something that was beyond her but also something that Tayuya couldn't let go of. Something that was so overrated and ideal that it was almost stupid.
A little something called love.
There was no sense in trying to understand why such a subject would suddenly pop up in the middle of dying or somewhat close to it. All she could do now was to lay there quietly as the person who she thought she had once loved spoke to another girl about what to do with Tayuya. A rather an unpleasant experience, really…
She was close to hating Sakon. It happened so quickly.
After all the time she thought that she's loved him… It was so hard to trust in what you believed. Because it all fell down in the end so worthlessly. The love she believes that would always be there shattered away. Sure, he'd always treated her this way.
He'd always mock her, tease her, taunt her, toy with her, fuck her…
And yet she always thought she loved him.
Was it because of the fact that Kimimaro infinitely abused her more than Sakon had? Was it because her fear of Kimimaro caused her to seek comfort in Sakon's way of cruelty?
It wasn't like she knew the answer.
In this pained state, in this state so painful that she could not even cry, she thought of Kakashi who always happened to save her ass.
Was he going to save her this time too?
If he was, she swore that she'd be the one to kiss him this time.
He was the only one she could account for. He was the only one who could bring her back. He was the only one who could find happiness for her.
Why she suddenly came to realize this, she did not know.
But what she knew, she knew.
He was the only one she knew she could wait for.