A Stolen Cherry Blossom

A/N: Okay! This is my first real attempt at a serious Naruto fic, by that I mean no humour. How will I manage... :( Okay well please tell me what you think at the end, whether it's any good, if I should just stick to humour fics or its good and I should continue :) Please let me know! Thanks! :D

Chapter 1 - Kidnapped by a snake

"Suigetsu, thank you for coming so soon" a ghostly voice hissed and echoed throughout the cold room, gathered drops of condensation dripped from the tall, stone ceiling breaking the tense silence between the two men.

"Orochimaru, how may I be of assistance?" The tall, fish-like man asked, stepping into the light from the moon, which cracked from the stone ceiling and into Orochimaru's sights.

"There is a girl I need" He informed him in a low ghostly tone, flicking his snake like tongue out his mouth and grinning sickly.

This made Suigetsu shiver in disgust, but he was being paid for this "job", he needed the money badly, so whatever the consequences, he told himself he must complete this mission.

"A Girl?" he questioned, pretending that there were no disgusting thoughts of him floating around in his head.

"Precisely" he hissed, giving Suigetsu another sick grin of his "Not just any girl, this girl is the best medic-nin and the only person whom can heal my arms" he informed him, suddenly glaring at him, so he would know that this is a very serious mission and if he fails, there will be consequences.

"What does she look like?" he dared ask, curiously roaming his eyes around the dark, cold room.

The smell in the room, smelt like wet rock and damp moss, there was barely any light other than the cracks in the ceiling, which let in the light of the moon; the floor was made of stone and was covered in water, from since the room was so cold, condensation dripped from the ceiling and gradually created a tiny surface of water above the stone floor, Suigetsu did not mind this, he loved water, he lived in water, he could even turn into water himself.

"You will be able to find her; she is the only girl in the village with bright pink hair" Orochimaru informed, thinking about the beautiful pink haired woman and gave a sickening smirk.

"Pink hair?" He pondered to himself, asking himself who he knows that has pink hair.

"Do not waste any more of my time Suigetsu, go" he demanded the fish man, glaring with his grey eyes and black silted pupils, like that of a snakes.

Suigetsu nodded and suddenly began to melt and mould into the water, until he had completely submerged and disappeared.

Orochimaru gave sickening, twisted grin, and flicked his tongue like a cold blooded snake.

"Excellent".

It was 3 in the morning by the time sakura had left the hospital, she had taken the late shift, so there was no one around and only the light of the moon to guide her way home; but she did not worry, to her the village was the most safest place in the world, besides she was a strong ANBU ninja, even if she was drained of her chakra, she could take a measly mugging or attack.

"God, what a long day" Sakura sighed, chakra almost completely drained from healing so many people at the hospital.

As Sakura made her way home, she noticed a puddle in the middle of the floor.

"A puddle?" she pondered "It hasn't rained for 3 days..."

Sakura shrugged off the thought and put it down to someone had spilt some water on the path and carried on with her walk home.

Walking through the lonely, empty streets was always soothing for Sakura, no one was around to bother her, she could think about things clearly because there was no noise, she could walk where she wanted, be it on the path or in the road, it was a sense of freedom for her.

Suddenly she felt a drop of water on her nose.

"Maybe it did rain whilst I was in the hospital" she thought aloud and wiped the cold, wet drop off her nose.

Sakura continued along the path to her house, until she saw the old lake and the bridge where team 7 used to meet; Sakura sighed in painful memory, she had not seen Naruto for over a year, he had gone off to train to become stronger and Sasuke... he left for power and revenge.

Sakura stared into the lake, thinking of good times she and team 7 used to have back when they were all together; as she was staring into the lake, she could have sworn she saw a face in the water, but she passed it off as her own reflection and carried on walking toward her house.

Little did Sakura know that she was now pray for a predator lurking in that puddle, the drop of water and the lake; and he was now closing in fast, watching her every move waiting for the right moment to strike, when she felt most safe and vulnerable.

Sakura smiled a little, as she could now see her house, she felt a little safer knowing home was nearby, but she couldn't shake the feeling that she was being watched.

As Sakura approached her house and open her small wooden gate, she noticed a small puddle on her stone porch.

"Strange" She said to herself, crouching down to the puddle to investigate it.

Sakura put her finger in the puddle and it rippled, but the strange thing was, where as ripples normally get gentler and smaller, these were getting bigger and more violent.

She took a couple of shocked steps back and watched as a tall man, with icy blue skin, strange fish-like gills on his neck and beady purple eyes emerged from the water; she instantly recognised the man.

"Suigetsu" she growled at the fish-man, whom was currently between her and sleep.

"Sakura" he grinned at her, showing off his sharp, jagged, shark-like teeth.

"What do you want?" she hissed at him, venom dripping from every word she said.

"So you're the best medic-nin huh? You have come far" he complimented, catching Sakura off guard, making her think that he wasn't here for trouble; but she still didn't trust him.

"I'll say it again, what do you want Suigetsu?" she repeated gritting her teeth, getting agitated from having to repeat herself.

"I'm sorry Sakura, It's nothing personal, if it were up to me I'd run away with you myself, but unfortunately I need the money, so I'm going to have to take you to Orochimaru, so you can either come with me now or-" Sakura did what any sane person would have done at that moment, kicked him where it hurts and ran for it.

Suigetsu doubled over in pain, but watched her as he ran with one eye, the other eye was closed and wincing, due to the amount of pain he was currently in.

"-or I'll hunt you down and take you by force" he continued, as he recovered, dusted himself off and began to run after her.

Sakura had no chakra left now, she was running quite slowly due to the fact she was exhausted, she kept looking over her shoulder hoping not to see Suigetsu come running round the corner.

Fortunately he didn't. Unfortunatly she did end up bumping into something whilst looking back.

"Oh shit" she cursed, as she just bumped into the person she was trying to run away from.

"Yes, shit" he grinned and lifted up his hands to reveal a blue glow coming from them.

"Please Suigetsu, don't do this" she pleaded looking up into his purple, beady eyes.

"Sorry pinky, it's nothing personal, just business" he replied and the florescent, blue glow from his hands brightened and got bigger.

And Suddenly Sakura's world began to fade to black

When Sakura awoke, she was cold, wet and lying on a stone floor, she decided to opened her eyes to examine her surroundings; it was extremely dark, all she could see was a few beams of light from the moon that shone through cracks in the ceiling, so she decided to rely on her sense of touch to see where she was, to her dismay she found herself to be surrounded by cold iron bars and there was no way she could break them with her chakra being as low as it is.

"Sakura" A ghostly voice hissed and echoed though the room.

"Who's there?!" she demanded, trying to make out where the voice came from through the dark shadows.

"So nice to see you again, I hope you don't have any hard feelings for me taking away Sasuke-kun from you" He chuckled sickeningly, Sakura still could not see the man, but she knew instantly who it was.

"Orochimaru" She hissed angrily, dangerously close to trying to break the bars, even without her chakra.

"Clever kitten, I'm glad you figured it out, now I'm sure you're wondering why you here hmm?" he asked, suddenly stepping into the light where Sakura could see his ghostly, white self.

Sakura gave a low growl, she felt sick at the sight of him, he looked like a male transvestite crossed with a snake.

"You are here, my kitten, to heal me" he informed her, flicking out that tongue of his and giving her sick and twisted smirk.

Before Sakura could protest, someone burst into the room.

"Where is she?!" A low, masculine voice demanded.

"Ahh Sasuke-kun, I'm glad you're here, I was just informing Sakura of why she is staying with us" Orochimaru informed Sasuke, whom had just crushed the door down.

"Sasuke..."

End of Chapter 1

A/N: What did you think? Carry on with it? Or just stick to humour? Please leave me a review telling me what you think :) :D