Chapter Forty

Deep inside the waterfall village, if you walk pass the heart of the village and go into its thick and unforgivable forests and you walk over the large four bridges and make two lefts and a right you will come up to a sign that reads. 'DO NOT ENTER' If you are stupid enough to keep on going you will see the thick trees soon start to swallow up all the light and you will have none left for yourself to see, you will need a flashlight.

If you use a fire jutsu well...good luck with the dry vegetation that has you surrounded. If you brush them with your fire, then they will quickly engulf you as their attempt to put themselves out of their horrible misery. If you don't know what step to take by heart, you're going to be falling on your ass a lot due to the overly rooted forest grounds. If you make it this far, you will stumble upon a weathered down path long forgotten.

A worn faded sign will scream 'AUTHORIZED PERSON ONLY', if you choose to go on against your God given common sense which should be screaming at your by now to turn the fuck around and go home, then may God be with you when you walk past the final sign that reads: 'COMMANDER ONLY'.

After what feels like hours due to this dark gloomy place sucking all sense of time out from around you leaving you with your own sense of time which...well your human so it's naturally wrong. Calm down; you haven't been walking for hours in a circle, it's only been fourteen minutes and you're sadly going the right way.

As you near your destination point, you begin to feel clammy and cold, your lungs feel like there is no oxygen inside the air it is pulling into your chest. You start to panic as you question how long it has been since you felt the sun on your face. But right before you break, you see a dark wooden door. The two guards that should be standing on duty are missing, you don't understand why, and you don't get paid enough to ask why so you open and step through the door.

You step onto cement that is covered with the forests leaf's and coated in what you prayed was dried mud. The sounds of your footsteps crunching on the floor sends shivers up your spine. If this was a movie the audience would be screaming at you, calling you a fucking moron and telling you to turn around, your gonna die!

You can feel the silence beating down on your neck, after you walk down endless flights of stairs going deeper into the earth you come across halls and halls of cages. The waterfall's prison is where you are standing. The worst of the worst lives down here, it truly was hell on earth. You ignore the screaming that echoed around the walls. You didn't know this currently, but these screams were going to haunt you in your dreams for a couple weeks, sugar pop.

You try to ignore how the screams of the damned found their way to slip under your skin as your heart felt ready to burst out of your chest. Finally, you begin to second guess why the fuck you would come down here!? You come to a metal door; you reach out to grasp the rusted handle feeling yourself begin to sweat. You look to your left, then to your right wondering if anyone was watching you thinking you were crazy because you don't know how long you had been standing there looking at that old broken door. You placed your hand on the handle ignoring the cold sting it gives your hand as you pull it open.

It is an interrogation room; you see a man strapped down to a chair as his head tilted down his face, his bare chest painted in blood. You see two strangers; you didn't know they were the missing guards from the entrance. Commander Dawn and Diem were standing beside the man tied down looking at you with expressionless faces, then you notice her. Her back is to you your eyes trail over her long and beautifully perfect hair. Your heart squeezes itself and your voice runs and hides as you shrink inside her shadow.

In a quiet moment you watch her turn around and you then wish you could melt into the floor, you pray to God that you magically find the ability to turn invisible but no matter how much you pray or beg her burning eyes still lock onto your image igniting you into flames. You suck in a deep breath at her beauty. She truly was a gorgeous woman with her perfect flawless skin and strong posture, she made your knees weak under her gaze and left you speechless.

The fearless commander of the waterfall village stood before you. You had only seen glimpses of her here and there, Sakura Haruno was a hard woman to get in touch with even if she was one of the people leading your village. Even down here inside the depths of hell she stood with her head held high, you wondered about the many mysterious rumors circling this woman.

Commander Haruno returned to the waterfall village injured not long ago, that information spread through the village like a virus on a mission. Half of the army attacked her within the first hour. She stood in the middle of the training grounds waiting for the soldiers to come and she killed half of her own army without a second thought.

Many other shinobi and dark organizations have tried to strike her down, but they all fell to their knees begging for forgiveness, but she never gives second chances once you raise a blade against her. Commander Haruno was so amazing, your heart pounded feeling start struck by her presence, she was so strong and cool...you wanted to be like her!

"What the fuck are you doing here?" Her dominate voice echoed around small stone room and bounced of the wall crushing your small body, making you take a step back.

"C-Commander." You stuttered trying to show respect, so you bow your head quickly your long brown hair fell off your shoulders. "I have a message for-"

"I don't give a fuck who your message is for!" Commander Haruno snapped cutting your sentence off by its head. "You are not allowed down here; I don't give two shits if we were under attack right now you have no right to be here." She said, "Now leave."

"But..." Your dumb ass said.

"I said fucking leave-" Commander Haruno snapped, glaring into your hazel eyes. You squeezed your legs tightly trying to keep yourself from peeing. "-Before I throw your ass inside a cell and leave you there until you fucking rot!"

"Ye-Yes Commander!" You said quickly bowing your head as fear had you shaking in your ankle boots. You turned on your heels dashing out of the room but not before you ran into the door since you couldn't open it fast enough.

"You two-" Commander Haruno turned to the guards, "-escort her out and you both return to your posts."

"Yes Commander." They bowed, moving to both your sides almost molding against you like unmovable walls as they gripped your arms hard, most likely will leave bruising for tomorrow. You glanced back as the door slowly closed you were able to see Sakura turn to look at her two commanders, she was speaking to them as she gestured to the man tied down against the chair. You had so many questions spinning around inside your head, but you do not get paid enough to ask questions.

You simply turn back around allowing the two guards to drag you back to the surface so you could return to your desk. You felt sad, you had been so excited to get the chance to see the commander but you knew you shouldn't have gone down into the jail and now you made her mad and what was worse you never were able to give her your message!