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I follow Itachi to the bathroom, but just as he goes to open the door he stops and turns to look at me. "Naruto, if things become to much for you to bare just tell me and we'll try to work something out alright?" I just nod and follow him through the door. "I'm going to start the water, then I'll leave to give you time to get undressed and to get in the water." I knew what he was trying to do, he's trying to give me as much privacy as possible in out current situation.
"Thank you, I really mean it." He nods then turns and starts the bath, then leaves the room, as he walks out he tells me to tell him when he can come in. I start to undress by taking my coat off first, I had a little trouble with that because of the wounds to my upper body. I then attempt to take my shirt off. I found that I couldn't do that because I couldn't life my arms up high enough without causing me a lot of pain. I try to suck it up and take my shirt off but I couldn't all I managed to do was let out a sound of pain, a sound that happened to attract Itachi back inside.
"Do you need help?"
"No."
"Can you get your shirt off?"
"Yes." Then he did something that reminded me of his little brother.
He smirks then says, "prove it." I tried to think of a way to get it off without ruining it, I really liked this shirt. I try to take it off again, and again was stopped by an agonizing pain. "I didn't think so. Come here." I shake my head, I was bound determined to get it on my own. "I know you don't want people to touch you, but I know a way to get it off without ruining it." I perked up at the last part. 'If he wanted to do something to me he would have done it already. Anyway I can't be afraid of people for ever.'
"If you so much as touch me inappropriately, I will kill you." He nods and motions for me to come over to him. It was only a couple of steps, but it was the hardest couple of steps in my life, but I make over to him.
"How high can you lift your arms with out them hurting?" I lift them, I can only go to where they are even with my shoulders. "Higher than I thought. This will be easy. Just stay still and I promise I won't hurt you." He grabs the bottom of my shirt and starts to lift it up slowly, when he gets to my shoulders he asks me to bind down a little, I do as he asks and he slips my shirt right off. "I'll let you finish getting undressed." I nod as he leaves the room. Getting my pants and underwear off was easy, I just had to sit down, getting all of the bandages off was easy also, I just found a pair of scissors and cut them off. Once I'm completely free of all my clothing I get into the bath.
"Alright." I say hoping that he gets the message that it's somewhat okay to come in. "I only want you to do my upper back, then I want you to leave. I can get everything else, you can re bandage me after I get redressed, alright?"
"That's fair enough."
"Then lets get this over with." He nods, I guess he understands that I don't want him to be in here longer than he has to be. In all honestly I think he was uncomfortable about this situation also. He gabs a washcloth and dunks it in to the water.
"Can you sit in a different position, I can't get to your back when your leaning against the tub." He had a point. But instead of doing anything I just sit there and stair at him. "Just bend your knees and scoot forward." I didn't really want to move, but if moving would make this go faster, then I would move. I do as Itachi said and move forward. I hear him rewet the washcloth, then he carefully starts to wash my back. It didn't hurt much, I didn't really have any injuries on my back, just some bruising that didn't really hurt anymore. The injury that hurt the most is the stab wounds that still haven't healed. They were healed enough so they could allow me to get in the water, but not enough to where they don't hurt. I hear him say something, but I couldn't understand what he said.
"What did you say?" He looks at for a moment, I guess thinking about if he should tell me or not.
"I said I can't believe Sasuke would do this to you. From what I understand you two dated before he left the village." I look down at the water, I could kind of see my reflection, I didn't look like my self, I look like a shell of my former self.
"Yeah we dated. It was the first time in my life that I felt loved by someone. I thought we would be together for ever. Guess I was just being naive about it. When he left I promised my self that I would get him to come back home, and when he did, I was so happy that I didn't even see just how much he had changed." I couldn't help but realize just how much I had told him. "I'm sorry I guess you didn't want to hear all that." If he was even listening.
"No I want to hear it, I want to know what he did to you, I want to know what happened. Something happened to him to cause him to get this way." I just nod my head, both in understanding and in agreement. 'There has got to be something that I did to make him turn in to what he turned into. I had to have done something wrong.' I don't know how long I had been zoned out, but by the time I came back to reality he was done. "If you need anything just call for me." I nod again and watch him leave. I grab the rag that he left on the side of the tub for me to use.
It took me a little while to bathe, like around 20 minutes. I was spacing out most of the time. Mostly just thinking about Sasuke. Most people would think that I was thinking about everything that had happened to me, but nope I was thinking about where Sasuke was, what did they do to him? I slowly climbed out of the water and dried off. I rapped my self in the towel and looked out the door to see if Itachi was out there, he wasn't, I quickly run across the hall and into my room. I slowly pull on my underwear and pants. I look at my self in the mirror, it was worse that I thought it was. I hadn't seen myself in the mirror without my shirt off yet, hell for that matter I really hadn't seen myself in a mirror, just reflections here and there. I still had a lot of bruising, but the worst injury was obviously the stab wounds that littered my chest and stomach, in truth there was only a few but if felt like there was a lot more. I knew that Itachi was supposed to put anti-bacterial stuff on all my cuts and wounds, then re bandage me. But I really didn't want him touching me more that he had to. 'Maybe I can go sneak it out of the bathroom then do it my self.'
I open my door and look to see if he's out there waiting for me, once again he isn't, then I slowly walk across the hall and open the door. "What are you doing." I jump at the voice. I knew who it was, Itachi.
"Um, n-nothing. I was just going to the bathroom." He gave me a look that said 'you are busted'.
"Yes, I believe that. Go wait in your room for me to get some bandages and the anti-bacterial cream."
"I can do it."
"No you can't. I know you don't want me to touch you, but in this instance there is no other choice." I just bow my head in defeat. For once I knew when to give up. I turn and head back to my room to wait for him. 'Hey kit, you know if you let me out we can make him go away.'
'You know as well as I do that is not going to happen.'
' A fox can try, right?'
'Yeah. Look when are these going to start healing? Normally I would have been better by now.'
'I'm working on it. It's going to take a few days for these one's to heal.'
'Great, just what I wanted to hear.'
'Beggars can't be choosers.' I didn't get to reply, Itachi came in with bandages and a tube of cream.
Nothing really happened while he was putting the stuff on me, he told me what to do and I did it. After that he invited me back down staires to watch TV or to play a video game. I choose to just watch TV for now, even though there was nothing on at the moment. After a little while I feel my stomach starting to rumble. "Are you hungry?" Itachi asks. I guess he heard my stomach growling.
"Just a little."
"So am I." As if he said the magic words I was up and heading for the kitchen to start supper. Like a good little fox. "What are you doing?"
"I'm going to make supper."
"I was going to go get something."
"Oh, well then I'll just make myself something then."
"I was going to get you something as well, seeing as there is nothing here to eat for dinner." I perked up when he said that he was going to get me something. "Would you like ramen?"
"Yes. Please." I was nervous about saying yes, I figured that he would tell me no or do something to me. He nods.
"I'll be back in a few minutes." I watch him turn and leave. I stand there for a couple of minutes before deciding to have a look around. I thought he would have a house more like what Sasuke would have, considering that they are brothers. But instead of crisp white walls with stream line furniture like what Sasuke had, he has walls that are different colors, with comfortable furniture. His kitchen was a nice shade of light green. 'I get the feeling that he didn't do the decorating.'
I leave the kitchen and head down the hallway, walking past the living room and stopping out side a door just a little past the living room. I was shocked when I opened the door I was shocked, it was a library, something not even Sasuke had. But what was shocking about it was that it was almost full. I don't know how long he had been collecting books, but he had a ton of them. The library had wall to wall books, a bunch of different types, ranging from history all the way to manga. After skimming the through some of the books I leave and go head back down the hallway, once at the end I turn around and head back, there wasn't much down there, just an office and a downstairs half-bath. I go back in to the kitchen where there was a door leading to the backyard. I go out and look around. It wasn't anything special, just a normal backyard. There was a gazebo, but nothing else. I go back inside and go upstairs to look around up there. I pass the bath room and my room. I go to his bedroom and look inside. 'Wow its huge.' His room was twice the size of my room. He had a private bathroom and a private balcony. He had more books in here as well, these looked to be a little more private than the ones downstairs. 'I should go, I don't want to get into trouble.'
I go back downstairs and sit down to wait in living room for Itachi to get back. After waiting a little while longer I hear the door open and close. Itachi comes in the living room and holds up the food, "you still hungry?" I nod and he motions for me to follow him. We go and sit at the table in the kitchen. He hands me my food and starts to eat his. About half way through our meal I feel the need to ask him about Sasuke. "Itachi, what happened to Sasuke."
"Don't worry about it."
"I want to know." He sighs.
"They took him to prison, he's been sentenced to life in prison for attempted murder." I didn't say anything after that. I didn't know what to say. After we get done eating we go and watch TV, we didn't say anything to each other for the rest of the night.
Around 10:00 pm we head to our bed rooms to try and get some sleep. 'Hey kit, what are you going to do now that you know where Sasuke is.'
'What do you mean?'
'Mean what are you going to do, are you going to go break him out, are you going to go kill him, or are you going to just leave him alone?'
'I'm just going to leave him alone, I don't think I can do anything else.' The fox doesn't say anything else after that. I know what he was thinking, he was thinking that I was weak, and that I wasn't worth being his host. After laying there and thinking myself in to depression I finally begin to fall asleep.
I know this one isn't very long but oh well, the next one might be longer. Please tell me if there is anything wrong with it, especially grammar and spelling. So obviously I want you to review. Review, please?