Chapter 2: The Inner Torture Within Sasuke
Sneak Peak of chapter 3 at the end! :D
When Sasuke awoke, he mindlessly flopped his arm over his eyes, letting out a small moan of annoyance of the throbbing headache that seemed to stab knife wounds into his brain. Where was he? What happened? His mind felt so fuzzy… the bed felt so warm and comfortable. He desperately wanted to snuggle back in to the covers and fall into another warm, calming sleep. The darkness was much too comfortable for him to open his eyes.
He heard the faint sound of water dripping. A sink? A leak in the rock ceiling? He couldn't tell. He smelt the faint smell of blood, which didn't bother him much. Orochimaru's hideout always smelt like blood because of the merciless experiments Kabuto and Orochimaru did on people.
Sasuke unusually felt fatigue just from using minimal Chakra to search around without his eyesight. It was strange. It was weird enough that he didn't want to open his eyes to look around, now he felt strange fatigue? What happened?
Still curious about what had happened, and why he couldn't remember, Sasuke slowly drifted off.
His eyes shot open at the speed of light two hours later. A loud gasp escaped from his lips as he bolted upright from his pillow. He was immediately greeted by the same pounding headache. He remembered! The serum they had used on him must have made his mind muddled.
A black snake… He couldn't believe it. He wouldn't survive something that deadly. Never. He shut his eyes painfully at the thought of him dying before killing Itachi. He promised himself he wouldn't until he did so, but now, he was sitting there, dying.
The reality of it crushed his heart, like a cold blade taking the life of an infant. Sasuke wanted to cry; he kept his head low, silently pleading for his life. He knew praying wouldn't help. He had committed countless crimes. Killing, abandoning friends, leaving his home, wanting to kill his own blood… he closed his eyes tight shut until they stung painfully. He was surprised they didn't start bleeding.
He couldn't hold back any longer. Silent tears dripped from his chin, soaking the blanket. Sobs escaped. He lowered his head, praying that nobody would walk into his room during his time of weakness.
The next ten minutes was spent with unstoppable tears spilling from his eyes. Finally, he regained control, and it wasn't long after that when he started to feel dizzy. Another effect of the poison.
He kept his head still and he closed his eyes. I tried to calm his mind, which ended up working after what seemed like ages to him.
Slowly, he drifted off into an exhausted, dreamless sleep.
He woke himself up with his uncontrollable coughing fit. Tiny scarlet red droplets of blood sprayed the white sheets on his bed. He clutched his head in agony, letting out an awkward scream between coughs.
Twenty minutes of coughing finally seized, leaving Sasuke lying on the bed, panting uncontrollably at the pain in his throat. He wanted to tear his own throat out to stop the agony, ripping his throat out wouldn't be as painful as what he was facing right now.
Sasuke screamed out in pain, clutching his throat as he jumped to his knees. He heard footsteps in the distance, but his hearing seemed to… morph. Sounds went bounced in different echoes. He could only hear the thump as his door was slammed open and someone rushed inside.
He tried to open his eyes but everything was swerving, moving in wave-like structures slowly.
Somebody touched his arm, making him hiss in agony. He let out another scream, and he could just make out somebody saying "Sasuke!" before it dispersed in all its frequencies.
He felt something get slapped onto his face, and he tried to scream, but his voice felt shattered. All that came out was a worthless moan.
Kabuto's POV:
The more he kept breathing in the anesthetic the faster he started to calm down. I could see fresh tear marks down his cheeks, and when he had finally calmed down enough to open his eyes and look at me, I noticed some things: pleading, tears, agony, and fear.
All of them, except agony, seemed way out of the ordinary for Sasuke.
I sat there for… hmm… I'd say about… twenty seconds? Yea, that sounds about right, twenty seconds. I knew that the anesthesia I was using took a little longer, because I was using a lighter dosage of it, and using one that took longer to affect him, but I expected his eyes to start getting that clouded, delirious look to them after twenty, and for him to pass out at about forty-five, maybe fifty seconds, but it was strange. Sasuke didn't for almost another whole ten seconds.
His eyes clouded, just as I expected and he got that hypnotic look. He lied there, his panting halting to weak, tired breaths. I sat there, wondering how long it he could hold out with all that panting he had been doing while I had put the mask on. Normally, he'd be out almost instantly by how deep the panting was, but after forty seconds ticked by, I wondered how he was awake. I sat there and waited, still pressing the mask to his face. He didn't fight back an inch, but he also didn't close his eyes, nor did he fall asleep.
Forty-five seconds, with Sasuke lying awake. I wondered if he was at least responsive. Probably not. I thought, he'll be out in the next five seconds. I waited with a stilled breath as the next five seconds clicked by.
Click, click, click, click, click… I sighed and closed my eyes the fifth second struck. I shifted my glasses up before opening them again, but when I did an alarming sight struck my eyes.
Sasuke was still awake!
How..? I thought, but still quickly regained my counting. Normally, this stuff knocks him out at about forty seconds, but it's been 53! I stared unbelievably. I thought that I should ask Sasuke for a response since he wasn't asleep yet.
"Sasuke." I whispered coolly, next to his ear. His hair brushed against his ear with my warm breath.
No response.
Click, click, click… Two seconds after I regained my posture wondering why Sasuke hadn't responded to me, I saw his eyes flutter as he sunk into the drug induced sleep.
I glanced at my watch. 61 seconds… I thought, with bewilderment. I blinked once at Sasuke, then back at the watch, before flipping off the machine and leaving.
You should thank me, Sasuke. Not only did I just knock you out for the next two days, but I also saved you from Orochimaru. You wouldn't want to deal with him if you woke him up with that irritating screaming of yours… I thought as I headed out the door, shutting it behind me, leaving Sasuke alone in a drugged sleep for the next two days.
3rd Person POV (Naruto) (Day 2 ½, Sasuke's death day… tonight):
Naruto darted across the dirt road. Finally found you, Sasuke! He thought with a scowl. A month had passed since he had left to go to Orochimaru for power. Now, Naruto knew where the hideout was, and even where Sasuke was inside the massive underground fort.
He took a step into a deep puddle, splashing muddy water everywhere.
When I find you Sasuke, you better be ok…
I APOLOGIZE FOR THIS CHAPTER BEING SO SHORT!
I PROMISE THAT THE NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE EXTRA AWESOME AND PACKED WITH ACTION!!!
That's it for chapter two! I believe this book will be four chapters long, but it could be shorter/longer.
This is for the people that actually READ my author notes… here's a sneak peak on chapter 3!
Naruto took one step towards Sasuke, freezing in his tracks. "S-Sasuke..?" He whispered, unsure how to react the situation. Sasuke's blank eyes looked up at nothing in particular but the ceiling. Naruto kneeled down next to his teammate, lightly shaking him on the shoulder. "Hey, Sasuke? This isn't funny, come on, wake up! Wake up!" Tears flooded from his eyes as Sasuke's grey-eyed gaze remained fixed on the ceiling.
Sasuke coughed roughly, and a small twitch escaped from the fingers in his left hand. Blood droplets sprayed the ground, sprinkling the tainted stone with a bright red. He moaned, but never moved and the twitching ceased.
Naruto looked down at the blood and realized something, it had a purplish tint to it. So that's what it is Naruto thought. Poison from a black snake, the most deadly snake there is.
He thought about his choice of tools: knives, food, water, and a scroll that could shoot anesthetics. What should I do? Naruto's mind raced.
He surely couldn't use anesthesia or take him back to the village in time. He could tell by the stronger tint of purple that Sasuke would die soon. By tonight.
He had no choice, he had to do what he had to do. It was risk it all, or have no chance of saving Sasuke.
I have to do this Naruto thought, taking out a knife and a small cloth.
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~SasukeUchihasGuardian