The Kitsune war.
Itachi sat in his seat, taking notes from his collage class, learning about human health, the truth was Itachi wanted to be a doctor, but he also knew that he would have to go through his father's work first. Someone tapped Itachi's shoulder, and Itachi glanced back at the person.
"Uchiha-san, note," the classmate behind him politely whispered passing the note to Itachi. Itachi unfolded the note and read:
Uchiha,
I need to speak with your ass after class, meet me in the library in front of the shelf against the wall about historical fiction.
-Kyuubi
Itachi raised an eyebrow at the name, after all it was quite unusual. He had never met anyone of that name. He shrugged; at least he knew it wasn't some fan girl. No fan girl would be so rude as to say they needed to speak with his ass. After class he quickly picked up his belongings and left for the library, his curiosity leading him the whole way. Itachi got to the last shelf and sat at a nearby table, noticing that in fact that this part of the library was deserted. Soon he felt a tap on the shoulder; he looked up to see a man about his age, with bright red hair and blue eyes. It took Itachi barely a second to realize that the red was pissed.
"Are you Kyuubi?" he asked. The man nodded.
"So you're him, you're the son of that bastard," Kyuubi accused.
"What did he do?" Itachi asked, feeling used to people hating his father. So many people hated his father for taking out their businesses and such.
"He fucking bought-
"Out one of your or your families companies?" Itachi interrupted.
"No, I could fucking deal with that if he had. I wouldn't care if he bought my dad's company, in fact I would have loved it as a damn alternative. My dad… he freaking SOLD him! He sold him like a piece of property!" he yelled at Itachi.
"Quiet down! What did he sell?" Itachi asked, highly interested now although it didn't show.
"He made my father sell him… He was only five!" Kyuubi told him angrily.
"What is it that he sold?" Itachi asked again, feeling aggravated that Kyuubi once again didn't explain what was sold.
"He sold my-
Sasuke sighed as he hit the snooze on his alarm clock. He was tempted to smash the thing to bits, but there was only one thing stopping him, he just wanted to sleep. Sasuke sighed, deciding it was time for him to get up. Sasuke got dressed, nothing unusual or extravagant, just a black shirt and some dark blue jeans. As Sasuke exited his room for the kitchen he picked up his black backpack and a small bag. He poured three cups of black coffee as his brother sat at the table and his father entered the room.
"How was it?" Sasuke's father Fugaku asked to which Sasuke smirked and threw the small bag from his room to his father. Fugaku nodded. "What happened exactly?"
"Simple, we found our way right in, no cameras were even in the building. I lead the way to the locked box they oh-so-brilliantly put on their director's desk so he would see it tomorrow, then I opened it, put it in this bag, and we left, it was definitely one of the much easier missions I've been on," Sasuke answered. Fugaku looked pissed.
"You took it out of the box?" he growled. Sasuke shook his head.
"I didn't take it out of that box; I couldn't if I wanted to. I can't break into your special made locks. They put it into a safe," Sasuke answered. Fugaku relaxed then sighed and handed the bag to Itachi.
"Bring that to Hidan and Deidara; tell them that it's the element I want mixed for our experiment. Also check on you-know-what and make sure it is doing well enough for the next," Fugaku ordered. Itachi nodded and left with the bag and his coffee. "Good job Sasuke, when you are older I will show you exactly what it is we are working on, and someday you may even have my job when I retire," Fugaku congratulated, although his expression was still as cold as ice.
Sasuke only nodded, but on the inside he had a small smile. Finally he had done something, he had done something useful and not been told that Itachi would have done it ten times better, although it might be due to the fact that Fugaku was in a bigger rush than normal, for some reason he seemed that he thought he must get to work faster than usual. Sasuke hoped that didn't mean that he was going to give his group another job. Sure, Sasuke had confidence in him and his group, but three of his best, Neji, Shikamaru, and Jūgo, were out of town and had to leave on business with their fathers which had been delayed until after last night's mission. Now Sasuke only had Suigetsu in his squad. It was hard to work around enemy groups with only two people. Sasuke finished off his coffee then left for school.
Itachi sighed as he sat down in his car and put it into reverse then to drive. He felt bad, although he never had shown it. The poor kid was locked in a dark room all day, yes he was well fed, got plenty of water, had a nice bed, but that was only part of his life, Itachi felt terrible, due to the fact that no matter what he tried, he knew it was the best he could do for that kid.
Itachi parked his car outside a large building then proceeded to walk inside. He headed straight for the chemical room, where Deidara and Hidan worked together on mixing the next thing to be injected into the boy. Itachi quickly made the pass off then walked to his station.
Through the darkness, a sigh was heard. The boy locked in the darkroom felt alone. Alone and sad. He wanted nothing more than to run. He wanted to run through the forest at full speed and not worry what their next experiment would be. Would it luckily just be painful? Maybe for once he would only feel a prick of a needle? The boy sighed and shook his head at his stupid hopes. The experiments were always excruciating pain at least. He was always in agonizing and unbearable pain for each experiment. So far all of the experiments were fails.
There was truthfully no effect so far from any of the things they had done to him. Not any that he noticed, but according to his… experimenters he had slept less than he usually did. His bed now was a lot more comfortable than it used to be, but he was no fool. There were one or two among the large group who cared for him, but they hid it. One of them had gotten him this new bed, but it was only agreed to by the head so that he would sleep enough to be healthy. That's exactly what they wanted for the experiment, a healthy child to test on. The boy sighed again, wondering what exactly it was they were trying to do to him.
Suddenly the door to his room open and light flooded the room. The one standing in the door was one of the 'experimenters' who cared. To be truthful, he was actually not one of them. He was there to make sure the boy was in good health.
"Please go to sleep, if you stay up much longer tomorrow will feel even worse. You should remember it feels worse when you have no sleep," the man said, trying to persuade him to go to sleep.
"I can't sleep. I-… I'm worried about what might happen tomorrow… What if I don't make it this time Itachi-san?" The boy questioned.
"Don't worry; they do not plan to kill you. There is a medical staff that will be able to save you if anything goes wrong," Itachi reassured. They had this talk every time he knew there would be an experiment the next day.
"Itachi-san, what is it they are trying to do to me?" The boy questioned. Itachi shook his head.
"Even if I knew, I couldn't tell you," he replied in a calm voice, but the boy knew Itachi wished he knew.
"Goodnight Itachi-san," the boy said as he finally lay down.
"Goodnight," Itachi replied as he shut the door, sealing away the rest of the light. The boy slowly fell asleep, with the worries of tomorrow lingering on his mind.
When it was time for the experiment, he was shocked to say the least. All they were going to do was inject him with a needle? That was it? No electric wires? No dangerous gasses? Quickly Deidara put the needle in the base of the boy's neck and injected the fluid. Naruto smiled. That was it?
"It won't hurt now, actually it shouldn't hurt at all it's suppose-"his screams of pain interrupted Deidara. The sides of his head and his lower back hurt the most. "Oh my god, Hidan- the mix works- the theory- wow…"
"What's with you?" Suigetsu asked Sasuke.
"Hn," was his simple reply.
"I hope so too! Wait, something's going on with your dad's business what is it?" Suigetsu questioned.
"Hn,"
"Sorry, I'm not interrogating I'm just asking," Suigetsu apologized. Sasuke rolled his eyes. Suigetsu always did this, just to make other people think he had a clue what Sasuke was saying. The pair began to walk into their first class, gym. After everyone changed out it was time for laps, as usual they ran for 20 minutes. Sasuke sighed as he began running. He was tired of this, every day was the same. He enjoyed the missions he got because they were always something different. Sasuke couldn't wait until he finally got out of this hell hole and joined his father's business. That day, Itachi would no longer have all the glory.
As he ran he noticed unlike normally, Gai-sensei was not running with the group. He was speaking to a student. The student was short and had spiky blonde hair, he was wearing the gym uniform, a white short sleeved shirt with two black lines on each sleeve and black shorts. Gai-sensei seemed to be scolding the boy, but the only word he could hear was 'youthful' from Gai-sensei. Sasuke snorted, the moron probably tried to skip out on running, which meant he would have to run the entire period and hear a lecture for the next three weeks from Gai every morning. Wait, why was the kid walking over to sit on the bleachers?
The buzzer sounded, signaling the twenty minutes were over. The students all walked to their assigned spots, so that it was easier for Gai to take attendance.
"Yosh! How are you my youthful students? Today we have a new classmate, come here," Gai told the student on the bleachers, motioning for him to join Gai. The blond boy walked to Gai. "Introduce yourself,"
"Umm… My name is Naruto Gijutsu (1), it's nice to meet you," he shyly introduced. Sasuke could tell by his eyes, it was obvious, that he wasn't just shy. He seemed fearful. His eyes literally seemed to be pleading them to not hurt him to Sasuke.
"Now, Naruto might be in this class permanently or he might be leaving this class," Gai looked to Naruto, "may I tell them about why you aren't allowed to..?" Gai-sensei questioned. Naruto smiled at Gai and nodded. "Naruto here, used to run track, but unfortunately while he was running in the race he had a heart attack, and now until it is known if it is safe for him to be running or not he will not be allowed to run in this class period, or really do many of our activities, so if you see him participating when you do not think I have given permission, tell me so I can stop him from hurting himself," Gai ordered the class.
He then gave the class an activity to do while Naruto went to sit on the bench. Naruto sighed. That was why he couldn't run? Damn it! He cursed to himself. It was stupid. All he wanted to do was to run. He didn't care that he might get hurt. Although, he was sort of scared of the class, when he introduced himself he looked around at everyone. One of the people he saw… he had the same eyes. Cold. The ones that showed no emotion what so ever, they seemed to say that emotions were a crime. He shivered. All he could hope for was that he would not be hated nor would he reveal that to a single soul. Naruto sighed, realizing what hell he would soon face.
To be continued…
(1) Gijutsu means clay
Nanami: So how was it? Good? Bad? Also very much credit is due to YaoiChick1 this story is her request, not only that but she helped me fully develop the plot. Hope you like the first chapter.