Snakes slithered upon the ground, small rocks and mounds of dirt waked in their paths and the sound of slithers and hisses and other such noises echoed throughout the underground layer. The crawled slowly eyes reflected the scene back to their master in far away distance from the underground layer in Iwagakure or somewhere in the land of the earth.

They slithered past the guards, adorned in black uniforms with silver armor embellishments especially around the shoulders and their forehead protectors with red fabric and the small rock symbol. It gathered around one of their boots, mouth gaped as if ready to inflict a slow but painful death to the man yet it stopped.

It continued onwards before it found itself, at my own foot. It slithered around my leg twirling around underneath the junihitoe that did not belong to me. Junihitoe were only supposed to be adorned by empresses and other such noble women that only let me guess my fate would be left in a corrupted noble's slimy little hands.

It crawled upon skin before reaching my nape, where it curled around my shoulder in its final resting place with its head against the shell of my ear. It was a slave of Orochimaru, eyes a faint yellow colour that allowed him at will to see through upon the scene in front of me.

'Well hello Sensei.' I whispered,

I listened for the sound of the guards yet they stayed in position looking down upon the scene of a tsunami of fabric layers that engulfed my body without actually hearing what I said.

'Guess you found me Sensei... Perhaps you could help me out with my little situation..' I grumbled,

In fact the only reason I was caught was due to the stupidness of the ones he pretended to "trust" only to betray in the situation at faced. I stared for a little longer before the sound of multiple feet came hurdling down the door.

'It's your time prisoner.' He grumbled,

Five men stood extremely muscular, faces hidden by fabric before they opened the door wide open. Their hands grabbed my arms dragging me with my feet behind me, back arched and head hung over so the hair hid the midnight coloured snake that wrapped around my shoulders.

They dragged me until the dirt wasn't dirt as it turned into the stone slicing my feet making small droplets of blood follow in the wake.

'Where are we going?' I grumbled,

Yet silence continued as my head sank further into my chest, the continuous miles began to bother before we were stopped. I knew that it was stenched from anywhere. The stenches of doom, mystery, anger and everything in between. Him.

'The noble demands you not to drag the prisoner like that.' His voice dragged on with his usual low and brooding tone,

The hands were let go of me and I fell into his arms legs over one of his arm and my back pressed against the other with my head pressed softly on his chest.

'You are no longer needed, return to your positions.'

'And what gives ya' the right?!' one of them said angry,

'The order of the noble man does.'

With that they disappeared and he threw me over his shoulder running along the maze. He threw the helmet at a oncoming standalone guard knocking him out.

'Stupid woman.' Sasuke grumbled,

I crossed my arms in the continued to fight with the engulfment of the fabric.

'It's not my fault than those stupid trators.' I mumbled out,

He let out a sigh, before a smile played apon my lips, 'Why did you come? Got feelings for me Damn Uchiha?'

'I'll drop you so hard woman,' He muttered,

'WHERE IS SHE!'

I looked behind him to see a large number of guards behind him and one that looked too presentable to be a guard. I looked at Sasuke and stared, I weighed him down with the amount of fabric that fell from my Junihitoe and perhaps I didn't want to see him hurt due to my own stupid mistake.

'Uchiha let me go.'

'No.' He grumbled in return,

I raised my eyebrows, before returning to a stoic state. I didn't deserve to be saved it was my mistake and I should pay with it with my life.

'Uchila let me go.' 'No.' 'Now!'

He held me tighter as I tried to escape, perhaps it was the guilt or the lack of food and water that made me emotional yet I couldn't help but let tears fill the brim of my eyes.

'Shut up women, I'm not leaving you behind.'

In his spare hand, he pulled his sword out, he flipped it in his hand a few times before he span around and slaughtered all of them in sight. It wasn't long after that we were at the border of the land of the earth. With the sun setting down it was a major risk if we dared to cross borders into enemy territory if we knew we weren't followed. He placed me on my feet and stood away from me. I crossed my arms still angered that he didn't drop me.

'Why didn't you listen to me.' You grumbled,

'I'm not going to leave you behind, it wasn't your fault-' 'I don't belong with your or Orochimaru if I couldn't even save myself.'

'Shut up woman, shut up.' He stepped forward continuously until my back was pressed against a tree and his body fell over mine. His hand pressed firmly around my cheeks to stare up at him. I stood in anger continuously staring trying not to show weakness in front of him.

'Your not weak you stupid woman,' he grumbled, 'You had hundreds of men against yourself and you came out on top, your not weak you're far from that.'

I stared upon him as he slowly embraced me and my head fell into his chest. In a manner of a second my weight was pressed against him, he laid against the branch of a tree, arms wrapped around me and his chin on top of my head and a very vague look upon his face.

'So you do like me?' I cooed,

I heard his little grumble, 'You were just cold, you were shaking.'

What a lie, even the most broody of men couldn't come up with an excuse, the thousands of layers to the kimono were actually boiling hot rather than cold yet why would I ever complain from affection from an unaffectionate person like him.