Chapter 7
The search,

Gaara had search parties put together and turned the entire area upside down. But even after hours nothing was found, not even the smallest clue. Every cave, every hole, no matter how small, was looked for even outside the country. But without success, Gaara had the feeling that he was running out of time. What if she was already dead, but Gaara immediately chased the thought away by shaking his head. He was sitting in his office like hot coals, he would have loved to take part in the search, but the council was afraid that the matter might have something to do with him. That was the only reason why he was forbidden to leave Suna Gakure.

Several days had passed and one bad news followed the next.
The hope of finding Sakura alive faded with each passing day. Gaara was about to lose her mind, how could it be that you couldn't even find a clue. Were they too blind to see the facts or were the traces just too well blurred?
You doubted yourself the more you thought about it, and so they tried to distract yourself. But that also failed miserably.
Gaara was just on the way to the prison when Baki met him angrily. Completely beside himself, he stopped in front of Gaara and even forgot the bow and formal address.
But Gaara didn't even notice he wanted to know what had happened.
"Baki! Tell me what's so upset?" He ordered more than he asked.
"What happened that you will not like. Un ..." He did not get any further because he was interrupted by Gaara.
"Have you found her corpse?", He asked now completely beside himself.
"No, we still have no trace of her. This town council bastard has committed suicide. He hanged himself in his cell, he was just taking his last breath when the guard noticed. But it was already too late we could him do not bring it back.And then he had such a sneaky grin on his face. "
Gaara had opened her eyes when Baki had finished, Gaara had to calm down first so as not to scream out loud.
"I suspected that he knew more than what he had told us. As if he had suspected that I wanted to go to him to interrogate him again. This bastard, what did he want to achieve with it? Did he want to increase his power or even fall me. "Gaara looked inquiringly into the sky he seemed to have completely forgotten Baki. He was about to turn around and leave Gaara alone with his thoughts, when Gaara looked at him and said: "Baki let the catacombs of Suna be searched. This is the umpteenth place we haven't seen yet. If we haven't seen them there find I will turn to Konoha and explain the case to you, of course I will also ask for help with the search. But it is not that far and I that it will not come that far. "Baki did not understand his master completely, he hadn't even known that Suna had catacombs.
"How do you mean looking in the catacombs, I don't even know that we have any."
"Only the oldest members of the council and the Kazekage know about it. I won't tell you where they are. I'll take care of it myself." He said firmly and walked off in the opposite direction. He quickened his pace and finally began to run.

A strange feeling had crept into his stomach when he realized that he was an idiot.
Why hadn't he thought earlier that he had hidden her there?
He scolded himself for his own impotence for not having recognized things. He walked up to the Kazekage building and disappeared into it. He had noticed that Baki was following him, but he didn't want him to find out about Suna's secret so he fooled him into going into his office. Baki stayed in front of the door for a while before he turned away and went his way.But at this point Gaara had long since left the office. He had reached the cellar through a secret passage and was now standing in front of a kind of gully cover. It was provided with strange characters that only the initiated knew, and no one else. But the Kaze kage was no longer so sure when he saw that the lid was open. But he didn't know who had kidnapped Sakura either, at least he didn't want to admit that someone from his village should have dared to do that.
He pushed the lid completely aside and descended into perfect darkness. It seemed to be embraced and impenetrable like something final. But Gaara didn't notice that he only had one thing to look for in the sin as quickly as possible.
After a little more than 5 minutes, which seemed to Gaara like an eternity, he had reached the bottom. As if by magic, they lit the torches on the wall and gave him light, whereupon he continued on his way. Following his instinct, he walked ahead, further and further into the corridor, as if he had the plan in mind and knew everything by heart. He never looked back or had to think about where to go. But suddenly he stopped because there was a massive metal door in front of him. Gaara did not hesitate long and stretched out his hand to her, he laid it flat on it and mumbled unintelligible words when it suddenly opened.
He stepped through and found himself in absolute darkness. But Gaara didn't need his eyes but followed his sense of smell, which led him from one corridor to the next and thus deeper and deeper under the city. So it happened that he stopped in front of a door but this time he didn't open it immediately but first listened for a while. Then he heard the softly whispered voices that seemed to be conversing uncertainly, but when he listened more closely he realized that it was only one person. Which hummed to itself like in a prayer.Gaara didn't hesitate any longer but slammed the door, which made the person startled.
“Kazekage-sama!” Stammered the person without realizing that Gaara was really standing in front of him.
Gaara grabbed his collar and pulled him to her. “Where is she and don't try to lie to me,” he said in a threatening voice that seemed to crackle with suppressed anger.
"I..ic ..... I think ..." He didn't get any further, that prevented the blood from running out of his mouth. Gaara looked down at him almost startled and let him fall. He looked around in all directions but couldn't see anyone, so he continued on his way.
He fell on that the man had an arrow in his back and a thread was attached to it. He must have triggered it when he broke the door.
Startled he stopped when he thought he heard something, he listened tense in the silence, but nothing could be heard. Gaara shook his head to clear him up and walked on.
But then the sound was reflected and Gaara was sure that he wasn't just imagining it, he was almost running in the direction from which the sound was coming. The closer he got, it became clearer and you soon realized that they were screaming. Sakuras scream, he thought, but then he realized that they must have come from a male person, but he walked far in this direction and soon stopped in front of the next door. This was ajar and he opened it quietly to peer through. He didn't see it as black, so he pushed it open and went on quietly, just in time he noticed that a staircase led down and the corridor didn't go straight on. The screams got louder and louder downwards and now Gaara also recognized that he had landed in a kind of dungeon. One cell lined up next to the next, but they all seemed to be empty. But to be on the safe side, he looked at them all carefully. Then he suddenly realized that there was a figure in the last cell who was crouched on the floor, staring at the wall with empty eyes.Gaara went closer and closer and then he saw that it was a woman, only at the second glance did he recognize Sakura. Her things were completely filthy and torn her skin with wounds and bruises overlooked. Gaara ran the rest of the way to her and yelled at the cell door to get her open, but she wasn't as unstable as the others.
He looked at the door carefully and tried to lift it out of the fishing line, which he finally managed after the third attempt. He walked over to her and turned her around so he could check if she was still alive. Her breathing was very weak and when he spoke to her nothing moved. There was no sign that she recognized him or that she was still spiritually alive. Gaara took it, pressed it close to him and how cold it was. He picked her up and turned to go, but they wanted to stop him.
Leite came towards him from the direction he had come from. They pulled out their guns when they saw him and ran straight towards him. Gaara forced Sakura down and turned her to his attackers, much to the fact that they were not ninjas from Suna.
He went off without thinking about the consequences that might have, he picked up several kunai and threw them at his opponents. They weren't thrown very well and missed their target, but little did they know that it was just a distraction. Gaara let sand come up out of nowhere and let him jump forward. However, his opponents were prepared for this and one of the ninjas made a huge wall of stone appear. The sand bounced off it and trickled to the ground, Gaara took the opportunity, grabbed Sakura and ran down the aisle with her on her arm. He ran further and further into the labyrinth of corridors and seemed to have lost his orientation. He tried to remember where the other exits were. But Sakura's kidnapper didn't seem stupid because he had changed the gears and so Gaara had to guess more than he knew.Soon afterwards they had reached the end of the corridor and he realized that it was a dead end. He put Sakura down and turned around, he heard her approach, with every second that passed. He had to defeat her there was no getting around it. Already Gaara could see the silhouettes of his pursuers, he took up fighting stance and looked at Sakura one more time. She still hadn't moved and seemed dead, but the inconspicuous gentle lifting and lowering of her chest showed that she was alive.
It hurt a lot to see them like that, he didn't want to cover what they had done to her.
Anger boiled up in Gaara and his face became completely expressionless, as