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The Long Run	By : Sasunarufan13 Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Naruto/Sasuke Views: 1939 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto nor make profit of it. Kishimoto owns it.

Chapter List
- 26
- 27
- 28
Author's note: I hate the heat. That's all.
Warnings: Violence; suspense; angst; character deaths
I hope you'll like it! (Even if you know, we've got cannibals and crap)
Chapter 27
"How are we going to get out of here with the kid?" Karin whispered.
By now it had become completely dark outside, night already having fallen a few hours ago. After they had given Konohamaru a packet of biscuits and a bottle of water, the boy had promptly fallen asleep on Naruto's lap; his head slumped back against his shoulder. The biscuits and the water wouldn't do much for Konohamaru when it was likely he hadn't eaten decently in more than a week, but it would have to do until they could get back to their car. Getting back to their car, however, was a whole other matter.
"The only way to get out is how we got in," Sasuke murmured. "We can't risk leaving through the entrance if the cameras do work."
"We're going to have to stay at least a day, though," Naruto remarked. One arm was loosely wrapped around Konohamaru's back while the other rested on his crossbow. "If only to figure out if they have some kind of schedule. The main staircase is used by everyone, so if we go at the wrong time …"
"Staying a whole day will be risky," Karin cautioned and rubbed her knee.
"I know," Naruto sighed and rolled his head against the wall. "But what other choice do we have? We can't just go downstairs without even the slightest clue as to whether they have a fixed schedule or not."
"I really don't like this," she muttered, shaking her head.
Sasuke didn't like it either, but it wasn't as if they had much choice. If they just used the staircase while banking on good luck to get them through without being caught … At the same time staying here for another day wasn't exactly enticing either, because the longer they stayed, the more they risked being caught. They were stuck between a rock and a hard place; whichever they ended up doing, they risked getting caught.
A shadow passed by the broken window, quick and silent, followed by an eerie ooohooo. The noise didn't even make them flinch – they would only start worrying if animals started making those dying god awful moaning sounds as well – but it did startle Konohamaru. The boy shot up straight, looking around wildly even as he clasped a hand across his mouth, presumably to keep himself quiet. Sasuke didn't want to think about how a kid that young already knew how to keep himself quiet even when spooked.
"Hey, hey, it's fine," Naruto soothed him, carefully patting his shoulder. "It was just an owl, nothing more."
Konohamaru stared at him with big eyes, still shining with fright, before he slowly nodded; his shoulders slumping a bit. He didn't lay back down, however; his gaze flickered from Naruto to Sasuke to Karin and back to Naruto.
"Why are you here?" he asked, plucking at the raffles of his torn sleeve. "You weren't here when we got here."
Well, guess it was question time after all. Sasuke had been surprised that Konohamaru hadn't started asking questions sooner. After he had finished crying, he had accepted the water and the food before promptly falling asleep. Sasuke would have questioned why the kid had been so easy to trust the three of them so soon after having lost his parents to the freaks inhabiting this hospital, but he assumed Konohamaru had overheard them talking about how to escape. From there it was an easy assumption to make that they didn't belong to the group of cannibals.
It still wasn't a good idea for a kid that young to be so trusting still of strangers, but he wasn't going to scold him for it either. His reaction now was still marginally better than if he had run off screaming, alerting the cannibals downstairs.
"Do you know how some people have fake arms and fake legs?" Karin asked, shuffling a bit closer so that she was sitting next to Naruto now.
Konohamaru nodded slowly, obviously confused.
"Well, you see, one of our friends got badly hurt a while ago and he needs a fake arm," she continued. "We heard that this hospital might have fake arms so we came here to search for them. Except we didn't expect … people to be here."
"They're bad people," Konohamaru said, frowning heavily. "They – they hurt mum and dad."
"We know," she said softly. "Which is why we're now trying to figure out how we're going to get out of here without them seeing us."
"Do you have the fake arm?" he asked curiously, looking at their bags as if expecting to see a prosthetic peeking out from one of them.
"No, we don't know where they are in the hospital and it's too dangerous to go searching," Naruto replied and his eyes flicked down to the floor. "Don't want them to find us."
Konohamaru tilted his head to the left. "I think they're here," he said. "I – I saw something like a fake arm when I was hiding."
"Where did you see them?" Sasuke asked surprised, sharing a look with the other two.
Depending on where the prosthetics had been stashed, they might still be able to emerge somewhat victorious from this trip. At least putting themselves in danger wouldn't have been for nothing then.
Konohamaru pointed at the wall behind them. "In the last room, I saw some there."
"We can't go into that room, though," Karin said, furrowing her eyebrows. "The whole floor is littered with shi-garbage, there's no way we can even tiptoe around all that. They're going to hear us the second we walk over that part. How did you manage to get into that room, Konohamaru-kun?"
"I crawl through the holes in the walls here, but I only saw the fake arms from one of the other rooms," he answered.
"Even if we would fit through those holes, there's still no way to reach that room," Sasuke murmured, considering it.
He'd seen the hole in the wall that the wardrobe had barely covered. There was no way for either of them to fit through that, not even Karin with her slim figure. Truly only someone the size of a young child could crawl through those spaces without getting stuck. Even if Konohamaru would be able to crawl back to the room closest to where the prosthetics were kept, he would still have to cross the debris covered floor. At his age it was very doubtful he would manage to be completely silent and stealthy even when he had done a terrific job in hiding from the cannibals so far. Hiding in small crawlspaces and crossing a floor silently were two different things, though.
"There might be," Naruto said slowly. "There's a hole in the ceiling right in front of that room. I can go a floor higher and let myself drop from there. If I time it right, then I can land right in front of the door where there isn't that much garbage."
"Very superhero-like," Karin said dryly, "but how exactly are you going to drop from that hole without making any noise? You jump and they will hear that, no matter if there's garbage left on the floor or not."
Naruto patted his bag and flashed a quick, but grim smile. "Got rope with me. As long as I can tie it to something, I'll be fine."
Sasuke couldn't help but stare at him. "So you take rope with you, but not food."
"Food can always be caught on the road, but it's not like you're going to find rope lying everywhere," Naruto retorted flippantly.
"Have you even done something like that before?" Sasuke demanded, narrowing his eyes.
"A couple of times, yeah. Last time was with Gaara when he lowered me in a well after some shitheads threw out their stash," Naruto answered casually.
"Why did they throw out their stash?" Karin asked befuddled.
"Hm, well, in a last ditch effort to spite us before they died," Naruto smiled thinly. The look on his face was clear: best not to push him further on this.
Sasuke could hazard a guess as to what might have happened back then and once again he couldn't help but be amazed at how long Naruto had managed to survive.
"But do you really think you can land quietly?" Sasuke persisted, still dubious about the idea.
The plan sounded decent in theory, but it was now the middle of the night, almost pitch black save for the moonlight sparsely filtered through the gaps in the windows and the walls. One wrong move could send Naruto crashing down to the floor and hell would break loose then.
"I learnt to be stealthy from a young age with a mum who has the hearing of a bat," Naruto scoffed and coaxed Konohamaru from his lap.
Konohamaru, however, was very reluctant to let go of him and his hands shot out to grab the flaps of Naruto's jacket, clinging onto him. Naruto's face softened and for a moment he paused.
"Hey, it's fine. I'll be back before you know it," he said quietly and nodded at Sasuke and Karin. "In the meantime you can stay with them, okay? They'll keep you safe."
"Want to stay with you," Konohamaru said in a small voice, but stubborn at the same time.
"What I'm going to do is not exactly safe," Naruto smiled wryly. "You helped us a lot with pointing us in the right direction. I'll just go quickly upstairs, lower myself through the hole, go into the room and grab the prosthetic and then I'll be right back. Won't even take me more than fifteen minutes tops."
Konohamaru still looked quite dubious, unwilling to let go of Naruto. He was like a duckling in a way: imprinting on the first person he had seen.
"What if they hear you?" he whispered worriedly; fear creeping back up in his eyes.
"How about this," Sasuke interjected, attracting both Naruto's and Konohamaru's attention, "you stay with Karin here. Naruto will go up to the next floor. I will keep watch in the corridor while Naruto grabs the fake arm just in case someone tries to come up. If someone tries to come up, I'll take care of them."
"See, Sasuke will have my back; nothing is going to happen," Naruto smiled reassuringly.
Sasuke didn't dare to go that far, but this plan was something at the very least. Karin could keep an eye on Konohamaru and Sasuke would be more at ease being able to keep an eye on Naruto. They hadn't heard any noise from the floors above them, so it was fairly safe to assume that the cannibals were only occupying the hospital up until the second floor. Still, he didn't dare to bank on their luck too much. What Naruto was planning on doing, was risky as hell. The least Sasuke could do, was ensure that nobody would try to sneak up on them.
"They're both very badass, they can take care of themselves," Karin said reassuringly and patted the floor next to her. "Trust me, you won't ever see someone more badass than these two, they'll be fine."
"Coming from you, that's a major compliment," Naruto snorted.
This time when he coaxed Konohamaru to release him, the boy did so, although very reluctantly. He shuffled over to Karin, sitting down quietly next to her while he watched how Naruto and Sasuke stood up.
They slipped out of the room, Naruto riffling in his bag to retrieve the rope.
"You sure you can do this?" Sasuke asked quietly, looking around.
The darkness, barely broken up by some smudges of moonlight fighting its way through some of the windows in the rooms, felt oppressing now, even more than before. The knowledge that just one floor below them there were people sleeping who were hunting their own kind in order to slaughter and eat them had shivers of revulsion running down his spine and he became hyper alert of even the smallest of sounds. Zombies had become a known entity by now, something he had become adapt at handling. Cannibals? That was something unknown, somehow even more horrific than the dead wandering around.
The quick kiss against his mouth had Sasuke jerking back in surprise.
"I'll be fine," Naruto promised and reached out to squeeze his hand. "I wouldn't have suggested this if I didn't know I could pull this off. Trust me, I've been in worse shit than this."
"We're dealing with cannibals here," Sasuke said flatly. "That's not as reassuring as you think it is."
"Too bad we haven't seen any propane tanks here," Naruto muttered as they carefully made their way back to the door leading to the staircase. "I'd have loved to set this shithole on fire."
"Should have brought Itachi with us," Sasuke murmured.
They shared an amused grin for a moment before they sobered up again.
"All right, going to make my way up now," Naruto said, looping the rope around his arm while he raised his crossbow. "Give me ten minutes. If you don't see me appearing through the hole then, come check up on me."
Sasuke stared at him. "You're actually requesting my help now?" he asked amazed.
Not that Naruto was always so difficult about accepting help – well, no wait, he was an absolute prick about it actually, which made it all the more astonishing that he actually gave Sasuke a time limit to work with.
"I'm giving you a timeframe to work with, because I know you're going to eat yourself up in worry otherwise," Naruto said unruffled. "This way you don't have to explode from sheer concern."
"I apologise for caring about you," Sasuke snarked.
Naruto grinned. "Apology accepted." He disappeared into the main staircase then, letting the door swing shut behind him.
Through the matted window Sasuke could see his shadow pausing before he disappeared completely from view.
"Don't like this," Sasuke murmured underneath his breath before slowly making his way to the debris covered part of the floor.
The room in question was at the end of the floor; its doors hanging off its hinges. With no light to work with, Sasuke could only trust Konohamaru's word that there were actually prosthetics inside there. He didn't think the kid would lie about that, but it would have been handier if they could have done this during the day when they would actually have had natural light to work with.
Now all he could see was a gaping black space at the end of the corridor, the whiteness of the doorframe the only way to indicate there was even a door opening there. Likewise he couldn't see the hole in the ceiling Naruto had mentioned, but the blond man had no reason to be lying about that, so Sasuke would trust that it was there.
He halted right in front of a wooden beam that had fallen down from the ceiling at one point in time. It acted as some kind of barrier between the part of the corridor that was absolutely filled with trash and shattered glass and the part that was manageable. Even in the darkness the outlines of broken chairs and bricks strewn about could be seen.
Knowing how bad this corridor looked from when they had entered this floor earlier today, he wondered why the cannibals had only taken in the ground floor to the second floor and none above it. Perhaps they weren't with that many after all? That would work in their favour if that was the case and it would explain why they hadn't taken over the rest of the hospital. Perhaps it was easier to take care of just the first couple of floors instead?
Maybe there was no reason. They were people eating other people; reason had left them a long time ago.
Something seemed to move at the end of the corridor.
Sasuke squinted into the darkness and breathed out when he saw a vague form slowly making his way down. No need for the time limit of ten minute then.
Being forced to linger at this side of the corridor while watching his lover slowly make his way down a rope of all things through a goddamn hole in the ceiling was kind of nerve-wrecking, Sasuke wasn't going to lie. He didn't like being separated in this way, in a place where they had no idea what else might lurk behind the corners.
He looked on as Naruto silently dropped on the floor, bending down slightly. There was no movement for a little while until a quiet click echoed through the corridor. A small flame sprang to life and Naruto's face was illuminated for a couple of seconds before he turned around and disappeared into the room.
The flame danced in and out of Sasuke's view while Naruto made his way through the room in search of a prosthetic. Sasuke suddenly realised they hadn't agreed on a timeframe of how long Naruto should be alone in that room before help might be needed, but he comforted himself with the thought that if a zombie had been there, they would have heard the moaning already.
Considering what they knew about the people in this hospital, zombies might actually be nothing they should worry about this time.
The flame danced back in sight and Sasuke straightened up. Naruto made no sign to him, but the flame disappeared as soon as he was near the rope again. Up he went on the rope, climbing back up to the fourth floor. Any other moment and Sasuke would have admired how limber Naruto was, but now he could only stand there tersely, his ears pricked, trying to hear if something was amiss.
He didn't even hear Naruto making his way to the stairs above him, but the door swung open and Sasuke whirled around, already raising his katana just in case.
"Just me, no need to make someone into shish kebab," Naruto whispered, making his way over to Sasuke.
"You found a prosthetic?" Sasuke asked, more at ease now that Naruto was back with him.
"Hm." Naruto patted his bag. "Grabbed one that looks like it'd fit Deidara the best. I didn't dare to grab more, because they're heavier than they look like and I don't want to be dragged down by extra weight when we get the hell out of here."
"Good idea," Sasuke muttered and they snuck back into the room.
As soon as Naruto lowered himself onto the floor, Konohamaru shot away from Karin's side, latching onto the blond again, making him huff in amusement.
"You found anything?" Karin inquired.
"Yeah, think this one might fit Deidara."
"Can't believe you used a rope to drop yourself down a hole in the ceiling," she snorted in disbelief, shaking her head. "You really are quite something."
He winked at her. "I aim to please."
"So we're going to stay one more day and then leave during the night?" Sasuke asked, settling down next to Naruto.
"In the dark the zombies might take us by surprise," Karin warned, but she sounded somewhat subdued.
"Yeah, but it also might give us enough cover in case someone spots us," Naruto said pensively. "It's not ideal, but … If we leave during the day, then they might still spot us if we screw up their schedule."
"So stay the day, leave in the night," Sasuke concluded.
Karin sighed, thumping her head quietly against the wall. "I'm going to be so glad once we're home."
It was a sentiment they all shared.
"We're going to have to be careful that he doesn't see his parents when we leave," Naruto said, coming to stand next to him.
The room they were in looked out at the front entrance. They were careful to remain out of sight every time they peeked through the window, but so far they hadn't caught any of the cannibals outside. They could be heard rummaging around in the lower floors, though; sometimes laughing loudly and chattering amicably as if they were just a regular community.
Karin was in the room they had spent the night in, together with Konohamaru, telling him about their compound and preparing him for when they would leave during the night. The kid seemed cautiously optimistic about going with them.
"That's not a sight either one of us wants to see again," Sasuke murmured, peeking through the window. Nobody out there. They really did wait until their victims entered the hospital themselves, huh?
Naruto hummed in agreement. "You think your dad will make a fuss if we take Konohamaru with us?"
"No." Sasuke shook his head. "It's not like expansion is forbidden. Mei is having a baby soon and I bet that won't be the last baby either. He won't mind. Where else would Konohamaru even go?"
"True," Naruto sighed and crossed his arms. His crossbow was slung over his shoulder, but his machete and dagger were in reach, strapped to his side and thigh. "I hate being reminded how shit this world is now. That kid shouldn't have had to lose his parents this early already. It wasn't even zombies who got them, for fuck's sake."
"You're good with him, though," Sasuke commented, glancing at him from the corner of his eye. "He clearly likes you."
"He just latched on to the first person he saw," Naruto snorted. "That could easily have been you or Karin. Doesn't mean anything that he latched onto me."
"Still, you're good with kids, Itachi said that as well," Sasuke recalled after some of the lessons Naruto had taken over from Itachi. "He was impressed with how quickly you managed to corral them and get their attention."
Naruto stretched his arms before crossing them behind his head. He stared up at the ceiling, popping his lips quietly. "I grew up with a lot of kids in my street," he said and smiled faintly. "It was as if every year there was yet another baby being popped out. Mum and dad never had another kid after they had me. Don't know if that was their own decision or whether mum wasn't able to have more, but … I ended up spending a lot of time with the neighbour kids, no matter their age. As I got older, I also started babysitting, so … Taking care of a kid isn't that weird to me."
He side-eyed Sasuke. "What about you? You popular with the neighbourhood kids back in the day?" he teased.
"Popular for my looks and that was about it," Sasuke scoffed. "I never really have been a people person, not even when I was little. Itachi, on the other hand, he was like a magnet for kids. Mum used to reminisce about how when I was a baby Itachi used to carry me around everywhere, said at times that not even she could get me to calm down. Itachi managed to calm down every kid, though, fussy or not. It's why he's in charge of the defence classes because he can connect with them easily."
"Mah, I'd say you aren't doing such a shabby job now, you know," Naruto commented lightly. "Hell, you got him to calm down last night too, so you aren't that much of a Grinch when it comes to kids."
Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Doesn't count, I was just expanding on the plan to show him that we had it under control."
"Man, you suck at accepting compliments," Naruto said amused and lowered his arms, bumping their shoulders together. "Just accept it: you're good with kids too."
"You're better, though."
"Practice, that's all that it is," Naruto laughed quietly.
They stood side by side in silence for a while, listening to the birds chirping outside. With spring well under way, the days were getting warmer and the sun had reached its highest point now, high and bright up in the sky; some fluffy white clouds dotting the bright blue sky. If they weren't hiding from cannibals in a downtrodden hospital this day could be considered peaceful.
"We're going to make it out of there, all four of us," Naruto said softly, twisting around to wrap his arms around Sasuke's waist. "We managed well so far, we're going to stretch this streak all the way back to our car."
"Yeah," Sasuke breathed out slowly and returned the embrace, closing his eyes while he buried his face in Naruto's neck.
They had to believe that they were going to be okay. Because without belief what did they even have left?
The crossbow felt both reassuringly familiar and alien in his hands.
The decision had been made that one of them would carry Konohamaru while they made their escape. The young boy was still rather weak, looking like he could sink through his legs at any given second, and they couldn't afford to lose time by walking at his pace now. When Karin had made this suggestion to him, Konohamaru had instantly turned towards Naruto with a pleading look on his face. It didn't take a genius to know that he wanted Naruto to be the one carrying him around.
Naruto had easily acquiesced, but he had ended up shoving his crossbow in Sasuke's hands before lifting up Konohamaru.
"If shit hits the fan, you'll be able to react quicker than I will," Naruto had explained, nodding down at Konohamaru who had wrapped his limbs around him in an imitation of a monkey. "Can't exactly aim with a crossbow and carry him at the same time."
They ended up waiting until it was nearly midnight before they made their way back to the staircase. All they had to do was go down the stairs and sneak out the way they had snuck in. Then make their way through the forest, giving the hospital a wide berth once more and get to their car as quickly as they could so they could get the hell out of this place finally. The plan was simple and the cover of the night would ensure they would be able to sneak away undetected. They might have to deal with some zombies, but they couldn't risk waiting yet another day. The food and water had run out earlier this evening and at some point one of the cannibals might actually decide to come upstairs after all.
The three of them heaved a sigh of relief when they finally arrived on the ground floor. The stench of death and the rusty scent of blood still clung thickly to the air here, cutting off their sigh as soon as they inhaled. Konohamaru scrunched up his nose before digging his face into Naruto's shoulder, hiding in his jacket. Sasuke wished he could do that. The smell was so repugnant, it caused bile to nearly rise up.
Karin gestured at the door at the end of the hallway and silently they crept forwards, on high alert, inching closer and closer to the exit.
"Who the hell are you?"
Bright light instantly flooded the corridor, nearly blinding Sasuke and he hissed; the brightness of it stinging his eyes. He whirled around immediately, ignoring the annoying pain, and came face to face with a petite, curly, blonde woman. Her light purple eyes were lined with yellow eyeshadow with her lips matching the colour. She wore a simple green tunic, but her hands and legs were smudged with blood as if she hadn't cared to wash off yet. Her eyes widened when she took in their little group, before a cold smirk graced her yellow painted lips.
"Oh look who we have here, our little piggy finally showed up!" she cooed, but her eyes were like ice when she regarded them. "Why don't we have a nice chat together somewhere else, hm? You three must be exhausted."
Her hand dipped down almost imperceptibly to a walkie-talkie hanging near her hip.
Instantly Sasuke aimed the crossbow at her, adrenaline making him pull back the bow quickly as he took aim.
"Isshi-!" Before she could finish her scream, a bolt struck her straight in the middle of her forehead, followed lightening quick by a second one through her throat.
"We have to leave now!" Sasuke snapped as the sound of thundering footsteps approached them way too fast.
Forget sneaking out. They broke out in a sprint, Konohamaru crying out in fear as they slammed straight through the door into the narrow corridor.
A man roared "DELTA!" right as they stormed outside; the fresh night air hitting them like a slap after having suffered that awful stench of death for way too long. They bolted straight into the woods, forgoing their attempt to be silent about it. There was no point in trying to be quiet when all the cannibals had now been alerted to their presence. They had to get the fuck away from here and fast.
Twigs cracked underneath their feet and branches were smacked out of the way as they rushed through the trees, trying to put as much distance between them and the group hollering in fury behind them. Light beams occasionally danced over them and Sasuke ducked away just in time before a bullet hit a tree, sending trunk shrapnel all around them.
"KILL THEM!" the same man from before roared in rage and as if that was the sign, that awful rattling moaning and groaning started and shadows began moving all around them, seemingly detaching themselves from the trees.
Gritting his teeth, Sasuke slashed at any zombie stupid enough to get too close, stabbing them through the head or simply cutting it off. Cutting it off wouldn't really kill them but at this point he was just trying to keep all of them alive until they reached the car.
The cannibals were quickly gaining up on them, clearly familiar with these woods even in the dark and from somewhere to his left he could hear Karin whispering, "Shit, shit, shit!"
Then one scream after the other erupted, followed by a salvo of gunshots and Sasuke realised that while the cannibals might know the woods better than they did, they clearly hadn't counted on being attacked by the zombies lingering around. They couldn't slow down, though, because even amidst the screaming, there was the noise of footsteps coming ever so closer, nearing them at an alarmingly rapid pace.
"I'M GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU ALL! I'M GOING TO RIP YOU APART AND SKIN YOU ALIVE!" the man from before screamed.
In a fit of desperation, Sasuke grabbed his gun, briefly turned around and fired off a shot. There was a yelp, but the footsteps only slowed down a bit.
"How much further?" he asked; his lungs already on fire from how fast he was running. He was pushing himself now, his legs burning and threatening to become like jelly, but there was no way he could stop now.
"Almost there, I think!" Karin panted, nearly stumbling over the upended root of a tree.
A startled shout and a kid's terrified scream had Sasuke whirling around and his heart threatened to stop when he saw Naruto going down – zombie hands grabbing at his legs and at Konohamaru, trying to pull the boy out of Naruto's arms.
"Go get fucked, dipshits!" Naruto snarled and his machete flashed up briefly before he cleaved one of the zombies' head in two.
But there were more crawling towards him and Konohamaru was wailing now and Naruto had trouble getting up with the boy clinging on to him and zombies grabbling at him. Sasuke was there in a flash and hastily stabbed several ones through their head before snatching Naruto's wrist and pulling him up roughly. Naruto stumbled a bit, thrown off balance by the abrupt handling and Konohamaru still clinging onto him, but he straightened up quickly.
"Right, thanks for not letting us die," he panted and then they were off again.
They had to jump across a creek and circle all the way around the town, but somehow, through sheer dumb luck or the intervention of some kind of divine being, they managed to stumble out of the town without any of the cannibals trailing after them. If Sasuke concentrated hard, he thought he could still hear furious screaming echoing through the forest, but the cannibals seemed more occupied with zombies at this moment than with chasing them.
This was their only chance.
They practically dove into the car and Karin started it immediately without waiting for them to get settled. The tires screeched, sending pebbles flying around as she threw the car in reverse before turning around, turning onto the road that would finally lead them away from this hellhole.
"Everyone all right?" she demanded, still panting. Her hands were trembling but she simply tightened her grip around the steering wheel. Her red hair had come loose from her ponytail and stuck in sweaty strands against her forehead. Her entire face was flushed but Sasuke doubted he looked any better.
"Yeah, they didn't manage to hit me," Sasuke muttered; his ears still ringing with the sound of gunshots.
"Naruto-kun? You okay? Did they manage to get you?" She looked at Naruto through the rear view mirror.
When no answer was forthcoming, Sasuke frowned and turned around in his seat. "Naruto?"
Naruto sat in the middle of the backseat, clutching Konohamaru to his chest. His head was bowed but upon hearing Sasuke's voice he looked up.
The look on his face was … Ice filled Sasuke's veins when Naruto slowly lifted up Konohamaru's left arm, holding it firmly even when the boy whimpered and cried. But even though he held it firmly, nobody missed the way his hand trembled.
Right there in the middle of Konohamaru's arm: a large bite mark.
AN2: Yep, more shit happening.
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I hope to see you all back in the next chapter! Please stay safe and take care of yourselves!
Cuddles
Melissa
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