To Hear Your Voice
Chapter one
Naruto wasn't sure sure how long he had been hanging there, had no idea what the enemy ninja planned to do to him. He did know that the shackles that literally left him hanging in the air from the ceiling, were a little too tight around his wrists, he could barely feel his hands as they had started to go numb. Naruto really wished he could force chakra into his wrists to break the shackles but unfortunately the shackles were slowly draining his chakra and if he even tried to use his chakra it was drained that much quicker, which meant that someone believed him to be a threat, and if he was ever let go he would prove just how right they were. He wondered how long it would take for someone to even realize that he was missing, since he had been taken from his own apartment?
"What are you two planning on doing?" Naruto asked, once Kakashi-Sensei had declared that training was over for the day.
"Sasuke and I have a date." Sakura informed him "and it's only going to be the two of us this time. We can't have you coming on all of our dates."
"Maybe I have a date." Naruto said frowning at Sakura, he was used to his pink haired teammate being annoyed with him. It was never hard for him to annoy either of his teammates. He seemed to do just that by breathing anymore.
"You have a date?" Sakura asked. "With who? Iruka doesn't count." Naruto winced and raised his hand to scratch at the back of his head. In reality Iruka would be the one that he was having dinner with that night.
"Dobe, I think I will die of shock if you did actually have a date. Who in Konoha would want to date someone as loud and annoying as you." Sasuke said speaking up for the first time. "We are going to be late if we don't hurry." He told Sakura.
"I guess I'll see you guys tomorrow at training then." Naruto mumbled watching as Sasuke grabbed Sakura's hand and started walking away. He didn't know why but the fact that his two teammates were dating bothered him, and he didn't understand it. Feeling rejected, Naruto stuffed his hands into his pants pocket and started towards Iruka's house. Iruka was good company, he always knew what to say to cheer Naruto up. Naruto frowned as he approached Iruka's apartment door just as the brown haired chunin was coming out of his door.
"I'm sorry Naruto, I'm going to have to cancel tonight. I had an emergency come up. I promise to make it up to you." Iruka said sounding hurried.
"Sure," Naruto mumbled, feeling even more rejected. Even his favorite person didn't have time for him. "Just let me know when, it's not like I'll be all that busy." Naruto said as he turned and headed back down the street towards his apartment. Iruka stood still staring after him, frowning for a moment before heading towards the ninja academy.
Naruto let himself into his apartment, sighing as he pulled his shoes off his feet and went and flopped down on his bed. He sighed, not feeling like getting anything to eat, instead he was just ready for the day to end. Naruto had ended drifting off to sleep, unaware of the root agents that were on their way to his apartment, he only woke up when he felt a needle being injected into his skins and a hood being placed over his head, before he was unconscious. He woke up in a dark cellar, with next to no light and having his wrists shackled to the ceiling in an uncomfortable position.
"What the hell are you waiting for?" Naruto yelled, straining to hear some kind of sound in the pitch blackness that surrounded him. He didn't know exactly where he was, other than that he was stuck in a cell that had no light and shackles that kept him hanging miserably by his wrists. Naruto figured that this was some kind of torture that they wanted him to withstand, why he didn't know.
"My teammates are going to find me." Naruto hissed under his breath, sensing the chakra of another's presence hiding in the dark, away from Naruto's eyes. "You'll be sorry that you took me away from them."
"Yeah, right." the voice which somehow sounded evil to Naruto's ears laughed. "Your teammates can barely tolerate you and your Sensei is more interested in training the Uchiha than you or the pink haired bitch."
"Watch your mouth." Naruto growling, not liking the insults to his teammates. No one got to mess with them unless it was Naruto himself, and even then there were certain lines that he didn't cross when teasing his teammates.
"Why should I? they treat you worse than anyone else and yet you still try to protect them? Why protect garbage?" the man asked as he stepped out of the darkness, the torch he carried illuminating his snake like features.
"They are not garbage!" Naruto said glaring at the man, wishing that his feet were free from the shackles so that he could kick the man in his face. He would teach him to talk about his teammates like that. Naruto glared at the man, wondering how the man had somehow managed to block the nine tails chakra. He could really use it right about then.
"My you are angry," the man said laughing, his voice coming out in a soft hiss, much like a snake hissed. "There is no need for such anger. By the time they find you, you won't be worth much as a ninja."
"Who the hell are you?" Naruto asked, twisting and pulling his hands, hoping that he would somehow be able to pull them out of the shackles.
"You can stop fighting. You won't be getting loose until I'm ready to hand you back to Konoha."
"Lord Hokage is going to have your head for this!" Naruto said narrowing his blue eyes in anger at the man. "he won't allow you to get by with this."
"Too bad it was an elder of the village that asked me to permanently remove you from the ninja roster." the man said as his hands flew through some hands signs before he placed his hands on Naruto's chest, knocking the Jinchuuriki unconscious. While Danzo's actions hadn't exactly been sanctioned by the current Hokage Orochimaru knew that deep down the Hokage didn't want to let Naruto leave the village because of the danger of his being a Jinchuuriki presented. Well, Orochimaru would put an end to the ninja's career and then return him to Konoha, broken beyond repair and Orochimaru would have fun doing it. Reaching up, he unlocked Naruto's hands and tossed the unconscious body over his shoulder before taking him to another room, one that was well lit.
Dropping the unconscious blonde on the stone table, Orochimaru placed chakra restraints on his wrists and ankles. He would have fun with this.
"Kabuto is the formula ready?" Orochimaru called to his medic who was standing in a corner of the room, filling a syringe with a blue liquid. While the poison wasn't life threatening it would cause an indescribable amount of pain, Orochimaru wasn't completely sure of the side effects which is why he wanted Naruto as a test subject.
"Just about." Kabuto replied as he filled another syringe before crossing the room to stand beside his master.
"Are you sure that it won't cause death?" Orochimaru asked. "Danzo didn't want the boy to die only to be rendered useless as a ninja."
"I'm sure that it won't cause death, I've tested it on a few animals." Kabuto replied. "I believe it is ready to be tested on humans."
"He's a Jinchuuriki" Orochimaru muttered. "he can hardly be called human."
"Be that as it may, it won't kill him, it could cause internal damage, but nothing that I won't be able to fix." Kabuto assured. In fact the liquid had almost always caused a heart attack in the animals, but that kind of damage was easy enough for Kabuto to fix. There were a few other problems to, as the liquid appeared to be a cancer causing agent, Kabuto figured that the Nine Tails demon would be able to clean that out of Naruto's system should he start developing any sign of cancer.
"You may proceed then." Orochimaru states watching, silently as Kabuto walks forward and inserts the needle into the crook of Naruto's arm, after the syringe was emptied they only had to wait a few minutes before the pain began coursing through the blonde ninja's body.
Although Naruto was barely conscious, he could feel the pain flooding his senses, and he is unable to hold back the earth shattering scream as the pain increases in intensity. Sweat breaks forth on Naruto's forehead and he fights against the restraints, wanting nothing more than for the pain to end.
The longer the pain courses through his body, the more Naruto's chest aches and he realizes just how serious his situation is, even as he fights to remain conscious as the effects from the poison slowly ease off, leaving his chest heaving, and aching. Naruto closed his eyes, trying to gather his strength, he was going to have to somehow save himself if he was going to live.
"Unless you want your heart to explode, I would suggest that you be still." a cold voice said from beside Naruto, causing the blonde to open his eyes and glare at the silver haired man beside him.
"I'm going to kill you as soon as I am free from the bonds." Naruto hissed, wishing he could be free from the pain that coursing through his chest.
"Not if you want to drop dead." Kabuto replied. "Because right now your heart is overworking itself trying to ease the pain that you just went through. If you don't calm down, and keep stressing yourself out your heart is going to quit on you and I won't be able to heal you."
"Why would you heal someone only to torture them some more." Naruto snarled, panting hard unable to stop the anger from coursing through him. He hadn't deserved to serve as their guinea pig. And he most certainly didn't want to experience that drug again. He fought harder as he felt Kabuto's cool, healing chakra flood him, healing the damage the poison had done.
"Blame this on your village because it's their fault you are here." Kabuto replied. Leaning over and removing the bonds, knowing that Naruto wouldn't be able to go anywhere because of the pain coursing through his body.
"I can't hate them." Naruto squeaked as Kabuto inserted another syringe full of liquid into his blood stream once he'd finished healing Naruto. "Besides if the Lord Hokage knew that this was going on, he would be putting an end to it and to you." Kabuto snorted.
"That man is the weakest man to ever rule Konoha. He couldn't stop us if he wanted to." Kabuto smirked as he watched the agony begin to flood Naruto's features again.
"You need to extend the amount of time that the poison lasts." Orochimaru said. "It didn't last long at all."
"Of course if we give him too much it will kill him, Jinchuuriki or not." Kabuto said. "But I will work on it."
Suddenly unable to deal with the onslaught of agony, Naruto's body began thrashing on the table, his head slamming roughly into the stone table, until his body rolled over the side of the table, slamming the side of Naruto's head into the stone ground. Both Orochimaru and Kabuto stood by watching as the violent seizure played itself out, neither making a move to see what kind of damage the seizure had caused the body on the table finally stopped twitching and his body was once again left still.
"Check him over and then dump him somewhere close to where his teammates will be." Orochimaru said. "But don't heal him, I want Konoha's crappy medics to attempt to heal him." Kabuto nodded and walked over, and kicked Naruto in his side, knowing that he would likely cause more damage to the already injured boy. Kneeling down, he ran his hands over the boy's body checking for damage, smirking when he felt the signs of bleeding in the abdomen, and healing the badly damaged heart enough that it wouldn't give out on him as soon as he got to his feet. As his hand ran over Naruto's head, Kabuto noticed the bleed on Naruto's brain but chose to follow Orochimaru's orders and didn't heal it.
"One more thing." Orochimaru said watching as Kabuto finished looking Naruto over. "Make sure that Naruto does not have access to the fox's healing, and since we really don't want him to go back to work as a ninja, damage his chakra points to the point that they can't be fixed." Kabuto nodded. The Hyuuga would be useful for that, but Kabuto knew how to damage the chakra points just as effectively.
"Sorry, kid looks like your time as a ninja is over." Kabuto muttered as he went through the process of damaging each chakra point, and adjusting the seal that would keep Naruto from getting access to the nine tails chakra.
When he was finished, Kabuto undone the restraints and tossed the unconscious kid over his shoulders and left the hideout that was fairly close to Konoha's gates. Sighing, Kabuto lowered Naruto's unconscious form to the ground and placed him against a tree. It wouldn't take long for them to find him here in the park where they normally meet. Kabuto kind of liked the idea of Naruto's teammates not knowing what had happened to the boy while he wasn't with them. He doubted anybody even knew that Naruto had been kidnapped the previous night, they would no doubt be confused about Naruto's current condition. Kabuto smirked, he had witnessed how badly they had treated Naruto the night he'd disappeared, they should have kept Naruto away longer but Orochimaru had accomplished what he'd set out to do so there was no longer any need to keep him. Now they would watch the effects of their cruel plan, and Kabuto couldn't wait. Not only for the damage of Naruto's condition to be reveled but that they had allowed a missing nin inside their village to cause that kind of damage. It would start making people wonder about the security of the village and make them start to distrust their Hokage. Yes, Orochimaru and Danzo working together was a good idea. He couldn't wait to see what else would result from their plans. The fall of Konoha would soon be coming.