Isolated Murmurs

Chapter 1: Ten Minutes

Ten minutes. Boring, pointless ten minutes. That's all tragedy needs to strike you when you least expect it. Before the ten minutes of horror starts, you're only sitting at home reading a book. That's all that you need to be doing. Nothing more, nothing less.

Sasuke was sitting at home reading a book. It was nearly midnight. He couldn't sleep. He had been trying to sleep for the last two hours. Finally, after giving up on sleep, he flipped on the light, and pulled out a hard cover book labeled "Chakra in various ninja" and flipped through the flimsy pages until he found the spot he was looking for.

It was no longer than five minutes later when he heard glass shattering, making Sasuke jump. His eyes darted from the book, to the door of his room.

He slowly got up, making his way to the door. He couldn't hear anything at first, until he heard slight whispering. The evil rasps getting louder and louder as they made their way around the house.

Sasuke did hand signs for Chidori, ready to blast through the door Chidori in hand. He put his hand on the handle preparing to open the door, while his ear was still listening through the brown wood waiting for the intruders to get close enough for him to catch them by surprise.

He heard them close enough to his door, and then the voices got quiet. All the footsteps stopped. They weren't close to his room door though! He couldn't get to them fast enough without risking getting attacked himself.

Without warning, the door blasted open and Sasuke was thrown back by the force. The Chakra immediately faded away as he let out a surprised yelp. He fell to the ground on his back just as a heavy weight pounced onto his stomach and tried to hold him still as he thrashed and squirmed under them. Sasuke tried to let out a scream but the intruder covered his mouth with his hand, which was covered with a thin, black glove.

Sasuke immediately tried to give the intruder a swift punch in the stomach but somebody else had grabbed his hands. They twisted his hands back painfully and Sasuke would've screamed in pure agony had the intruder not have been keeping him quiet.

The burglar on top of his took out a cloth and wrapped it around Sasuke's head, making sure it was tight enough to stay in Sasuke's mouth and not outside it. Sasuke panted painfully as the cloth was pulled closer to his throat. He could barely breath through his mouth, making his panting rough. His jaw was sore from staying open so long but he couldn't shut his mouth, he would only clamp down on the thick white towel. He couldn't scream for help with the cloth there either.

To make it worse, the intruder had another cloth. He took it out, and reached for the back of Sasuke's head again. Sasuke thrashed under the masked man, desperately trying to get him off so he could get away.

The man above him spoke, his voice rough and cold. "Hurry up; we don't have all night you know." He spoke clearly.

Sasuke refused to stop thrashing. He wouldn't give up. Not until he was safe and far away from these people.

After a long time of thrashing, the man above Sasuke had used his knees to sit on Sasuke's hands. Sasuke cried out in agony as loud as he could, but the man wasn't finished. He rammed his elbow into Sasuke's ribs, then grabbed the sides of Sasuke's head with both heads and held him still.

Sasuke could no longer move; he could only tremble in absolute fear as the man wrapped the white towel around his head, this time tying it over his eyes.

Sweat beads finally fell from Sasuke's forehead, soaking the towel. His panting got louder and louder, even with the first towel still in his mouth tightly.

Being blinded, Sasuke didn't notice the man take out a syringe out of his pocket, filled with a clear looking liquid. The man above him sighed, and then bent down closer to Sasuke's face.

Sasuke was visibly shaking much worse than an average person. He was clearly afraid of what was going to happen.

"Calm down, Sasuke. You're going to feel a little bit sleepy, alright?" He said calmly. Popping of the cover of the syringe. Sasuke started thrashing again as best as he could with the man still on top of him and the other one holding his head while the pain rushed through his stomach. "Mrff!! Mrff!!" He tried to scream with the cloth still in his mouth.

He felt a small prick, and then he felt the rush of fluids entering his body through his neck. The man on top of his removed the cloth from Sasuke's mouth and got up from on top of him.

"Alright. We got what we needed. Let's go." He said. He removed the cloth from Sasuke's eyes, even though he knew Sasuke was still awake.

Sasuke tried to scream for help, but all that came out was a soft, worthless moan. He felt the darkness lift from his eyes but found that everything was still a little blurry from the effects of the drug. His eyes were half closed, but the intruder knew that Sasuke would be awake a little longer before he fell asleep.

"Help…" He whispered, making a last desperate attempt to call out for help. The intruder smiled evilly at the sight of Sasuke trying to fight the effects and call for help.

"Shh… calm down and go to sleep, Sasuke." His voice was nothing but a soft murmur. "You can't fight when drugged. You might as well go to sleep. You should be sleeping anyway."

Sasuke didn't know why the man was acting differently suddenly.

The man picked Sasuke up in his arms. Sasuke still stared blankly up at him. Sasuke let out another pained moan.

"Shh... Hush. Go to sleep, Sasuke." The man murmured again. The two kidnappers quietly left the house, silently hopping through the trees, waiting for the young 13 year old Uchiha's breaths to even out.

It took twenty three seconds before the Uchiha finally succumbed to sleep.

His eyelids felt like they were 40 pounds… each. He couldn't stand keeping them open. The throbbing pain in his stomach had slowly started fading away.

A blotch of black invaded his vision, slowly getting bigger and bigger as it taunted Sasuke to enter it. At first, Sasuke was a little shaky about it, but the he couldn't stop it from growing due to whatever drug the kidnappers had injected him with. He finally accepted the welcoming darkness, hoping that when he could finally ascend from the darkness, he would be safer than where he was now.

The carrying Sasuke heard the Uchiha's even breaths, and looked at his clock to see how long it took to sedate Sasuke and get out of his house.

Exactly 10 minutes.

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