Bound by Torture

Chapter 17

One week has passed since Kakashi and Sakura had run from Suna, no one had heard from them since. But then again no one knew that they had run away, yet that is.

Naruto walked into the village with his team members trailing close behind them, they were going to go see the Hokage. Then after wards they were going to go visit Kakashi and Sakura, they'd all been surprised when they left with out saying good bye. They were even more shocked when Gaara told them why Kakashi had requested they be sent back.

Not even two hours after Kakashi and Sakura's departure there had been an assassination attempt. The so called hostage civilian had attacked the Kazekage, and then the women who was said to be the leader had attacked as well. Yamato had gone on and on about how he couldn't believe Kakashi and Sakura had messed up so bad. Or that they had fallen for such a translucent trick, but then again he thought maybe it was so bad neither of them had been thinking straight.

All of team Kakashi was confused, except for the two noticeable absent members. The Kazekage and his siblings were confused. Tsunade was confused when she heard about the assassination attempts, but no one had mentioned that Kakashi and Sakura were supposed to be back in Konoha. She was preparing to chew them out as Naruto and friends entered the Hokage tower.

Naruto knocked on the door, and Tsunade yelled for them to come in. Entering carefully so as not to get hit by any flying objects team Kakashi entered and stood before her.

Tsunade didn't even look up as she started in on them. "What were you all thinking?! How did you not know that those people were the true leaders? Why did you idiots fall for such a dumb trick? Huh? You almost got the Kazekage killed, both people who tried to kill him were killed in the process; therefore no one can get information from them! Do you know how bad this reflects on us? How inadequate and inexperienced this makes us seem?" She looked up and starting with Naruto looked each and every one of them in the eye until she got to Sai. Her eye brows knit in a confused glare. "Where are they?" she asked in a deathly mean voice.

"Who?" Yamato asked, he wondered if she meant Kakashi and Sakura. But why would they need to be there, he was sure they'd already been chewed out several times by the Hokage.

"Hatake Kakashi and Haruno Sakura, where the hell are they?" she asked in the same patient scar tone. Naruto looked confused, Sai looked bored, Yamato looked thoughtful, and Sasuke looked all three at the same time. "Huh?" She added at the end loud enough to make all four jump.

"I don't know!" Yelled Naruto. "You're the one who should know; don't you pay any attention to where your shinobi are?" He tried to glare back and be as scary as her, but she threw a paper weight at his head and sent him flying into a wall.

"Why should I know where they are? You've been with them since they got to Suna. You traveled back here with them didn't you?"

"No Hokage-sama we didn't travel back with them." Yamato said, Tsunade's head snapped to look at him. "They left a week ago to come back here; Kakashi requested the early leave for them because he said Sakura was having some kind of mental breakdown or something. And we went the exact route them would have gone to come back here. They should be in the village; you should have seen them by now."

Tsunade turned to look out the window behind, almost like she expecting Kakashi and Sakura to be standing in it. "You don't think they…" it was Sasuke this time, speaking the words no one wanted to think.

"I'm going to kill them!" Tsunade whipped around and slammed her fist down into the table, everyone jumped. "I've been good to them! Both of them! How dare they take off like this? And why? Why in the hell would they fun off together? I don't understand." She sat down in her chair and put her head in her hands. "Yamato get ANBU teams together, get all the decent shinobi you can find, I want search teams going out twenty minutes ago. I want those two dragged back here by their hair; I don't care if they don't want to come back." Yamato turned to leave. "And remember, they're missing nin now, of they try to fight you off, I don't now if they'll kill you. But if you have the chance and things are getting violent, you have to kill them. Dismissed."

The remaining members of team Kakashi walked out of the office, heads hung low, tears going down Naruto's face. First Sasuke, now Kakashi and Sakura, and no one ever told him what was happening till it was almost done. Now he might have to kill two of the people he holds dearest.

All were asking themselves the same question, what would make them run away together?

And that's it. That's the end. For now at least. Thank you to everyone who reviewed and put up with my grammar mistakes. Thank you to everyone who read this fic, I really enjoyed writing it. You're all amazing and I hope you really liked it. Review this to tell me how you think the sequel should be, I really do consider you input. Thank you all so much, it's really been great!

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