A/N: Hey sorry it took so long to update if it did. I was really busy shopping for the most wonderful time of the year. Anyway this one is going to be away from Sakura so you won't see her in this chapter. (I wanna keep her whereabouts in the dark for a while) you may or may not see Sasuke. You will however see a lot more of the Konoha ninja though. It will be short so don't get upset if it is.
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- Konoha 3 am -
- 15 hours since Sakura's disappearance -
- With Alex in the Konoha archives -
'Damn it' she had looked for hours, hell she didn't even know what time of day it had been outside. The room she was in blocked out all light from the outside world, the only thing that could be heard were the flames of small lamp she lit, her frustrated sighs', and the turning of countless pages. God it was driving her mad. Alex had read everything in this damn place and still nothing. She knew every single letter in every damn book there was here, and still nothing on who took Sakura. Countless files, countless papers, countless accounts, Alex felt like ripping her hair out. She was not the smartest, that title belonged to Shikamaru, but she sure as hell was the most knowledgeable on this planet, no one knew more than her when it came to information. So why was it so difficult to find one damn asshole. Thanks to her photographic memory she must have seen every single file on most off the people in the fire county.
"Damn it all to hell," this was the fifth time she had gone through everything this place had to offer, but it wasn't enough, she needed, wanted more. Alex gave a small ironic smile to her-self, "What the hell am I good for?" Leaning up against the shelf of mixed books and files behind her she told her-self to take a nap. "I need my energy to find anything right?" Plus she needed four hours of sleep to add up to eight hours. "Great," here we go again, "now I'm talking to my-self."
As she rested her head against the shelf she went over the facts in her head. The suspect was male that much was for sure. How old, Alex thought back, he looked around their age, or maybe a few years older. How tall, a little taller than your average male friend that much was for sure. Why he took Sakura, well if she knew that Alex wouldn't be in this mess now would she. Still one thing was for sure, it wasn't Sasuke. No, it was far from being Sasuke this guy was familiar but all to distant to paint a good picture for Alex. As much as she wanted not to do it, it was her only option. She would need 'their' help in this. They where the only chance Alex had left at finding Sakura and killing the bastard that took her from her home.
Alex laughed at her-self, "Heh, looks like I'll be going back sooner than I thought," sighing she continued to talk with her-self. "Man am I going to get my ears screamed off." Raising an arm to cover her eyes from the dark she began again. "Maybe," the wheels in her head began to spin again. "Maybe, I could use 'him' to find Sakura. He may even be more motivated to find her than Naruto" It was crazy, but an option none the less. The only question was 'How?'
- Konoha, meeting hall -
- Naruto and company: 7am -
- 19 hours after Sakura's disappearance -
"Why the hell can't we leave now?" time was far to valuable to waste now. "Every second we waste talking we get farther and farther away from finding Sakura we already waited to long." Naruto was at the end of his rope now. His friend was endanger and who knows what could happen to her if they waited any longer. "We need to get her back now!" The blonde was now at wit's end should anyone pull at his patience any longer would he start tossing tables.
"We understand that Naruto but we don't have any leads as to where she is yet." A brown-haired man spoke. "All we can do now is wait for Alex to come up with something." He was losing patience with the blonde idiot. "We all want to get started as much as you do you're not the only one who cares for her, Naruto." Said person then lowered his head to look at the floor. "And to add-on to that we have no idea what this guys motive is for why he took Sakura. Keep in mind that people are after you as well, if we cause to much of an uproar finding her we attract unwanted attention and that will put us off of finding her more so than we already are."
Neji brought up a good point, there where to many factors working against them if they wanted to find Sakura the had to make sure that they knew where she was at and where to find her before anything. They could not afford any mistakes, too much was at stake here. Who ever this guy was, caught them at such a good time. With out so much as a strand of hair left, they had no idea who this guy was, plus there was that disturbing appearance of that first shadow figure that had Sakura by her throat. All in all they all agreed on the same thing. "What the hell was going on!?"
- Meanwhile -
- With Alex -
She was rummaging threw her chest of things that held 'sentimental' value. "Damn it where is it when I need it?" After talking a two-hour nap in the archives she left to go to her house. She considered her options and decided that it was the only way for them, everybody, to find Sakura. Because of her past she came across some ... interesting people. "Found it!" pulling the sealed scroll out she did some hand signs and broke the seal sending out strings of chakra in different directions. "Let's hope this works."
An ANBU then should up and called for her to be in the meeting room. Alex nodded not bothering to hide anything to avoid any suspicion. She had nothing to hide.
- Sasuke somewhere else -
- 8am 20 hours after Sakura's disappearance -
He was hiding in a tree next to Sakura's house waiting for her to show up. On his way here he realized things where a bit hectic than they where last time. Of course he only passed this off for the scene he made yesterday. Sasuke fought with him-self to not break the tree.
"Where is she? She better not be with the red-head." When the door opened he hid his chakura and continued to watch thought the trees. 'That's not Sakura.' A girl with brown hair walking in she looked around the same age as him and Sakura. The girl stopped in the middle of the room and called "I know you're there Uchiha-san. Please come out this is about Sakura." What was she planning?
A/N: So what do you think? Please tell me I am begging anyway this is my last update till the holidays are over. So Marry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Plus I kinda need your help I am dealing with writer's block here and am running out of ideas to put in my story. I am trying my best to deal with it. So any ideas would help.
Alex: If you all want to give Kit-Chan a good present than please review. Thank you all for reading.
Me: Trail of Lights here I come! Till next time, Enjoy. ^^