Chapter I

"No matter how much we look at the past, we never go back. We can not change what has already happened."

Sweat. Steps. Alarms. Noise. Screams.

"Catch him!"

A man was running on the narrow hallways. The alarms were deafing the patients' ears. Panick. The nurses, even the doctors, were trying every method to keep them calm. The sleeping pills were about to end, it was about time to start using injections.

He was still running, followed by the guards. They were at the 10th floor, so he had no escape. But he had no intention of escaping; he came here with a purpose and he was determinate to fulfill it. Despise the darkness, he managed to see the rooms' numbers. 201,202,203.. it was close. The room with number 213. He turned to around the corner and the room was in front of him. He opened the door, went in and closed the door behind him.

After he heard the guards leaving he turned the lights on. On a corner of this room with no windows, but only four, white walls; that's where she was. Standing there, on the cold floor, looking at her hands that were playing with nothing. As he approached, he observed that she looked like she was knitting. Her hands were too white for a normal human.

As soon as he stopped in front of her, she stopped moving her hands in the air. For a while, there was only the sound of the rain outside, no alarms, no screams. She raised her head slowly, his black orbits met her green eyes. There was no life in her eyes; no fear, no happiness, no wonders, not even indifference. There was nothing.

He lost time. His arms wrapped around her small, skinny body. Her skin was cold as ice, though it was hot inside. He took off his black jacket and put it on her. His legs begun to run again, slower this time. Not because she was heavy, in fact, with or without her was the same, but because her life was the most important thing at the moment. It was obvious that he knew well the building. Instead of walking downstairs, he went upstairs. The guards weren't searching for him anymore and the alarms stopped, as well as the rain did. The screams of pain and fear were more powerful now, it was terrifying. Even for him, the atmosphere that surrounded them was like a nightmare.

"Stop it, I beg you!"

"It hurts.. stop.. STOP IT!"

She had no reaction. She wasn't tremblin—like he expected, if not because of the screams, at least because she was colder than ice—neither she showed any emotion. She was only staying in his arms, covered by his jacket.

He arrived in front of a metal door, the stairs ended. Holding her tighter, he kicked down the door with one leg. The rain stopped.

"Yo, little man." a blonde male greeted smirking. His left eye was covered by his long bangs. He decided to ignore the blonde and approached the helicopter behind him.

He carefully put her on the backseat and sat next to her. Only then he observed that she was already asleep, or maybe unconscious. A black-haired man, older than him, who seemed the pilot, looked at the two of them.

"Good job, Sasuke." told him the black-haired man.

The blonde from earlier also climbed in the helicopter and sat in front, next to the pilot. "Done." he said wiping the sweat from his forehead. The pilot started the helicopter and they left.

"Did you put the bombs?" asked the pilot.

"Three, two, one." the blonde counted.

As soon as his lips stopped, an unimaginable explosion formed under them. It even shook the helicopter, the sanatorium exploded. A flame appeared in the place of that building.

"I told you not to hurry. We could have exploded there, Deidara." the black-haired man said as he finally managed to control the helicopter again.

"Come on Itachi, I was way too excited! Besides, we didn't explode." Deidara said looking out the window at the moment the smoke filled the night sky.

The blonde male could smell the scent of blood from the smoke, that was his favorite part.

"So, where is this hottie gonna spend the night?" Deidara asked looking at the unconscious, pale girl.

"At Sasuke." Itachi said with a calm tone.

"I didn't agree with this." Sasuke answered mad, he hated when his brother ordered him around like this.

"It's only for tonight, maybe even tomorrow but it won't take long. I can't trust anyone with something of this importance." by 'something of this important', he meant the girl.

Sasuke didn't say anything anymore, he already knew that if Itachi decided something it was impossible to change his mind.

They soon arrived at Sasuke's estate. They stopped the helicopter in the center of the giant courtyard, right in front of the fountain. Meanwhile, the girl woke up. Sasuke took her in his arms again and the helicopter left.

"Master, shall I help you carry the young lady?" the butler asked as soon as Sasuke entered in the house.

He wanted to give the girl to him, but as soon as his butler's hands touched her, she screamed. Scared, the butler took off his hands. She wrapped her arms around his body, still screaming. Her voice was so weak she couldn't even scream properly, but she was obviously scared. She tried with all her strength to cling on Sasuke, but he could easily remove her. Still, something inside him made him unable to.

"I'll take care of her." Sasuke said as the butler waited for an answer.

As he carried her to a room upstairs, he looked at her one more time but couldn't see her face. He opened the door and entered in the big room. A large bed, two giant windows, a mirror on the other part of the room, it was obvious this room was for women.

He put her on the edge of the bed and she stayed there, without moving an inch. She was looking at the floor, his jacket was still on her shoulders. He turned the lights off and wanted to leave, but the maid was about to knock on the door so he bumped into her.

"Excuse me master, I wanted to ask if I should bring something to eat to the young lady."

He looked behind him at her again. He could clearly see her because the moonlight came in the room due to the glass wall. She was still there, her shoeless legs touching the cold hone.

"Yes. Also, change her clothes." he commanded and the maid entered in the room, closing the door behind her.

Sasuke made a few steps to his room which was a few rooms away from hers. He was tired.

Suddenly, he heard a weak scream again. It was her voice, she was screaming again. Her voice was so hoarse that Sasuke couldn't help but turn around. As soon as he opened the door, he saw the maid on the floor looking scared at the girl.

The maid explained to Sasuke everything without having him ask. "I wanted to change her clothes, but she suddenly started screaming. I think she is scared of me."

Sasuke looked at the girl on the bed. She was still screaming silently, it already took her a lot of energy to scream loud enough for him to hear and she was about to collapse if this is gonna continue. Pissed off, tired, he approached to her and put his hands on her shoulders, making her look at him. Their faces were very close.

"Stop screaming." he said looking in her eyes.

Her eyes were still lifeless, emotionless, but the fact that she stopped screaming meant that she understood. Again, he was surprised by how cold her skin was. He took her body again and put her in bed, this time in a position she could sleep. He covered her with the blanket and left, for the last time.

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"What do you mean?"

Itachi was standing in front of his brother with his usual look. His hands crossed in front of his chest; a sign he was angry. "We can't contact him."

Sasuke was resting his chin on his hands which's fingers crossed. He also had a calm look on his face which couldn't show his true emotions. "What are we going to do with her?"

"Just keep her a little while longer." the long-haired man looked at his brother which didn't seem impressed. "She means no harm, so with or without her is the same." he left the room and let Sasuke alone.

The man around the age of twoenty-four unleashed his fingers and got up, leaving his desk. He wanted to take his car's keys and leave the house but a knock on the door stopped him.

"Master?" a woman's voice called.

"Come in."

A sixty-years-old woman entered. "It's about the young lady master." seeing as he didn't answer, she continued. "She's screaming again, it's been already half an hour since she woke up and started screaming."

"Just let her be." he said and dropped the car keys. It was already past 1 am, he should go to sleep.

He passed by the room she was in and heard her hoarse screams again and the maid's voice trying to calm her. His room as about ten meters away from that room, so he should have a peaceful night. At least, as peaceful as a Uchiha could have.

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He never dreamed. His nights passed by slowly, having only a black background. He usually went to bed at 2 am and woke up as soon as the dawn appeared. For him, sleep was only necessary to keep him alive and healthy, and he needed health for business.

His dark and always soundless dreams got disturbed by screams that night. Low but painful screams; the screams were slow and rare, but he heard each and every of them.

Finally, after being sick of this, Sasuke climbed off his bed and went in her room. He opened the door and saw the maid trying to control some wild animal on the bed. He approached and the woman backed off. He looked at her emotionless again. Swinging, hugging herself tightly, she was looking nowhere while trying to scream. After all these hours, she reached her limit. She couldn't scream any more.

He analyzed her; she had dark bangs under her emerald, emotionless eyes, her pale shade of pink hair's color made her look even sicker, her nose was small and in drawn, her lips were almost as white as her skin but as she bit them for a while now, they had traces of blood. Her skinny arms were hardly trying to hold herself, her legs together had the same size as one of his arms.

Pitiable.

"You can go to sleep, Chiyo." he said still looking at the girl as the woman left.

The lights were on but the bed's red curtains made him now unable to see her face. The dawn was close.

He turned the lights off and sat on the bed. His arm slowly put her head on the pillow next to his as she finally closed her mouth and gave up screaming. Their eyes were facing each other's, but she couldn't see him. His hand on her cheek made her eyes wide, but she was still unable to see him. It was not until she closed her eyes and her small chest begun moving up and down, showing she relaxed, that Sasuke closed his eyes and fell asleep.