Naruto cringed as he clutched at his bleeding wounds. His whole body hurt and his world had been turned upside down. He wondered where had it all gone wrong. As he fought off the darkness creeping into his vision once more. He marveled at the thought of freedom. He had been in the clutches of Orochimaru for far too long. He had been cut open and remade into an image that wasn't his. It couldn't be his. He made his way into a clearing miles away from Orochimaru's labs. Naruto cringed as his world faded into darkness for the last time.
'Don't worry we'll be safe. He's here now.' His other half told him in his last moments of consciousness.
He was on the table again. It was always the same damn surgical table coated in his blood. Naruto had been in Orochimaru's labs for months now. Orochimaru had let him keep only a few of his things including the necklace Tsunade had given him. He knew now that it was a way of taunting him when he was in the small dark cell that had been his for his stay in the labs.
"Well Naruto this will be the last time we speak before you're relocated." Kabuto said as he walked into the lab.
Kabuto pulled on a pair of rubber surgical gloves and took out a tray of tools. Naruto had to get away or he would die here. He knew that better than anyone.
"You know it was quite a surprise for lord Orochimaru when you gained that bloodline. We had no idea that you were related to such a unique individual, Uzumaki san." Kabuto said ignoring Naruto's silence as he perused the selection of surgical tools like a child with a new set of toys. A sick sense of sadistic glee in his eyes as he selected the first tool. Naruto let out and earth shattering shriek as Kabuto dug into an old wound reopening it.
Naruto cried out as he awoke. The first thing he noticed was that he was on a soft bed with clean sheets. The second was that his flytrap was closed. Slowly he tried to open it only for his other half to shut it tight once more.
'Hold on you nitwit. There's more going on here than you think. If you want to get out of this alive you're going to have to lie a bit. I've come up with a cover story but you need to follow along or we both die. First of all our name is Shinda. For now that is all we need to know' Naruto's other half told him as he opened the venus fly trap letting in fresh air. Another sign of his new-found freedom that he never expected to savor as much as he did. The saying was true. You never knew what you had till it was gone. Naruto continued to take deep breaths of the pure fresh air; unaware of the two ninja entering the room. Naruto's mouth watered as a tantalizing scent filled the air. A smell he knew all too well as dread filled the great pit in his stomach. It made him wish for the stale bread Kabuto had given him before they had awakened his bloodline. The usually dormant Uzumaki bloodline. The Uzumaki curse. It was rare for the bloodline to awaken after birth. Kushina's brother had been one of the cursed Uzumaki. The bloodline allowed one to travel and go anywhere unseen. The price however was too great. It was why the Uzumaki clan turned to seals in the first place.
Naruto shut the flytrap in an attempt to seal out the scent. The scent of raw flesh still on the bone. He both loved and hated it. He knew what type of flesh it was to. Human smelt the best out of everything. Orochimaru and Kabuto took a sick pleasure in feeding Naruto the dead and failed projects. He hated himself for it too. He hated it and it made him sick that he enjoyed the taste so much. He had originally tried to starve himself. However; every time he did his black half would take over and consumed what was set before him. He knew the taste of human better than anyone ever should and it tore him apart. His black half loved the taste just as much as he and he hated the fact that he loved it because he shouldn't. He could say that he hated his black half but his other half had saved his life just as often. Even when there were times when he wished that wasn't the case.
"What the hell un! I thought Tobi said he was awake." Deidara said irritation clear in his voice.
"He is" Zetsu replied stoically placing the tray down.
"He really doesn't think we're going to hurt him right, un?"
"His bloodline was most likely forcibly activated, what do you think" Both sides of Zetsu replied moving closer to the still form.
The muscles were tense, and he could see that the boy's breathing was far from calm and slow. All in all, it was a pathetic attempt at pretending to still be asleep if that is what the younger boy was trying to do.
"It's obvious that the boy is faking sleep." Zetsu's black half said.
The two nukenin watch in amusement as the body stiffens further. The venus flytrap on the Naruto's head began twitching.
'No were not eating that!' Naruto mentally shouted at his other half.
'Why not they already know we're awake and besides we haven't eaten in a week.' To, Naruto's black half replied bluntly.
They'd had this argument many times before and just as with all those times his will to say no in the presence of food grew weaker in the presence of fresh food. Raw or not.