Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters. I also do not support or indulge anyone to go out and join crime organizations of any kind.
Warning: Rated M for a reason. No, most likely not for lemons or limes at the moment, but for the graphic content of this story. Graphic content includes: Gore, Drug use/abuse, Sadism, Masochism, Nudity, Prostitution, Gambling, Harassment, and Abuse. This story is about a CRIME ORGANIZATION and I will not be going easy on any of the details of actual acts the Yakuza do. I will try to keep this realistic, BUT it is an Alternate Universe, which will hold mostly Naruto brand names. Thank You.
A/N- So many of you reviewed and with so many compliments. Ah, thank you all! All right, my only specific warning for this chapter is heavy gore. So if you're eating drop the food and if you are not a fan of gore, this chapter will have a short note about important facts in this chapter at the bottom. In this chapter there is a narrator, you may or may not discover who it is. You might also discover who our poor broken man is. This chapter is occurring during the same time period as chapter one. Now, on with the show.
Chapter 2: A Snake's Venom
Blood was its Avatar and its seal --the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men. And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the disease, were the incidents of half an hour.
-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
(Narrator/ Third person POV)
If ever there was bad luck in the world the crumpled man in front of the Oyabun must have devoured it all. If you had happened to forget where we left off, we were about to enter a so-called arena with the competitors, a broken man and a very upset Oyabun. You see the Yakuza, especially everyone in the Uchiha district, were known for their thousands of cruel and inhumane tortures. That if lightly expressed could compare with the Sabaku district. Now children if your eyes and gag reflex are weak turn away, for from now on morals are dropped and blood and pain are the price for sin.
"You are to scrub your hands until they begin to bleed with your own blood. I will not have that scum's blood on your hands." The hallway was silent except for the small clacking of the Hyuuga heiress's shoes on the cold unfeeling floor. Once the distinct sound had abandoned the two men, a tense air and the sense of bloodlust were the only things left. "You have defied our law, and disobeyed my orders to leave. Your light punishment has been increased; you are to be escorted to the 'lower room'." No mans voice should ever leave a feeling of pure terror nestled in anyone's breast, but at this moment that thought was broken. The man in front of him let out a small gurgling sound and began to grip his head as if tearing it in two would be the better of the two choices.
"Forgive me…" A name was caught in the sound of the man choking on his own vomit. Itachi had caught the name and his fists balled up in pure spite. "How dare you speak HIS name in this house? He is lower than scum. He has harmed what is mine, one to many times. If he or any of his agents come near what is mine they will not have the honor of even seeing her or anyone of my family, they will be killed with the petite thieves. They will not enter my house; they will go to the farm. I'll feed them to the pigs along with the bones of anyone who has ever associated with them." Itachi's once cold mask was pulled into a look that seethed of wrath and the promise of death. The "farm" was not a light threat. It was a place where the lowest of low went. Thieves, rapists, scum in all their worth. Often times they were torn apart by beasts more than man there. It was one of the ultimate disgraces.
The man was quivering and his tears were molded with the slight marks of blood and crusted vomit on his face. Moments later the man was picked up, his shoes were scuffing along the floor a grayish mark left on the floor. Itachi had his stone cold mask back on; he made a quick step around the vomit and followed the sound of whimpers down the hallway.
(Scene) In the lower room where hell may lie, and by and by people die. (Change)
"You have been proven guilty of breaking two of the of the commandments of the Tekiya and it has been spoken that you have broken the third. 'Do not touch the wife of another member.' You have touched the Ane-san with without the permission of the Oyabun-sama. 'Do not reveal the secrets of the organization to the police.' It has been spoken that you have been giving them trading routes. 'Keep strict loyalty to the Oyabun-Kobun relationship.' You have disobeyed the Oyabun's trust and have become the Kobun of another. You have denied him as yours and now the consequences have been decided. You will be punished by the needle and the rope for the deepest offenses." The deep baritone executioner did not even flinch at the mildly put tortures.
The executioner lifted the crumpled mess in front of him and dragged him across the hard tiled floor. Itachi watched from the room next to the chamber. His piercing red eyes stared, rotating his wrist and allowing the glass of wine to swirl from its placid state he let out a small grunt. He had allowed Hidan to handle this man since he was under his district. Hidan was not the most loyal, but this was a way to teach him what would happen if he were to betray his Oyabun.
Hidan dropped the whimpering being in front of what looked to be a system of pulleys from the ceiling. "Stand." The man began pulling on his executioners pant leg silently begging for assistance. Hidan looked over his shoulder at Itachi. He caught a small frown of disapproval on Itachi's face, and opted for not angering the Oyabun anymore than he was. "Swine! Collect your honor and stand on your own!" He kicked the man off his leg and watched the man once again recoil into tears. "Get up before he decides to increase your punishment. I will give you a swift death once you have gone through your sentence." Hidan hissed following his words with a small prayer of forgiveness for the man's soul.
The man stood up on wobbling legs barely maintaining a solid footing. "Put you hands behind your back." The wreck of a man once again did as he was told. Hidan tied a hard solid knot binding the mans hands together. The soon to be dead man's eyes widened as the realization of the world of pain he was about to be in came to mind. Hidan pulled down a large hook attached to a thick rope that wound through the pulley system, and attached it into the knot that held his hands together.
Hidan moved over to the side where the large rope came down and a pair of gloves for the rope burn were. Hidan slid the gloves on and whispered a last prayer as he began pulling the rope down and hoisting the man up. When the dangling man reached the near top pulley he began to squirm, his hands awkwardly lifted still behind him, a fiery pain building up in his shoulders. He let out a pained scream as Hidan let go of the rope letting him freefall only to stop him seconds away from the floor. The sound of the bones cracking in the mans arms as he came to the sharp stop was sickening. From Itachi's point of view you could see the bones contort behind the mans layer of skin and the signs of bruising and sickening breaking were occurring as Hidan once again began to hoist the man up. This process happened over and over again until there was no longer any noise, the bones completely broken and the muscles pulled out of place. The man was now unconscious.
Itachi silently sipped on his wine, waiting patiently for the more painful set of actions to come up. Hidan untied the man and let him fall to the floor with a sickening crack. The bone was starting to break the skin and the internal bleed was evident. Hidan silently grimaced as he walked over to get a bucket of cold water and the items for the next step.
The man woke when cold water was splashed into his face. He let out a scream from the white-hot pain in his arms. "Shhh, now." The man was seated on a stool like device. His arms were supported in mid air by ropes and his back was straightened by a wall. He could feel his legs held still by ropes attaching them to the legs of the chair. He could smell the blood that laced the ropes and the floor where he sat. The eerie light that was located above him was blacked out for a moment as Hidan stood in front of him, blocking Itachi's view he noticed. Hidan quickly pulled out a small pill from his pocket and put it in the mans mouth and watched him swallow before he backed away.
Hidan kneeled checking the manacles holding the mans feet in place. "That pill will numb all the pain. You must scream after every needle or something of the sort. Do as I say and it will be short otherwise we will be here for hours. Your death is soon. Let your last thought not be of this place. May the ones above let you fly." Hidan whispered finishing his inspection. The mans eyes opened and he began crying again. "Thank you." Came a scratchy reply that Hidan could barely catch. He looked behind him and found Itachi watching eerily patient and sipping his almost empty wine glass.
Hidan sighed and stood up. He pulled a tray of stacked with Senbon closer to him. Hidan sighed as he pulled up the first needle and slowly pierced the center of the mans hand. As if on cue a horrible screams echoed, Hidan smiled. The man wasn't an idiot after all. After that scream Hidan went at a decent pace pushing the needles in watching the small trails of blood that slid down the mans arms. The trail soon switched to the mans legs. After a good thirty minutes, his legs and arms were covered in needles and the man was still screaming as the deal was. The last steps were the face and then the heart. Hidan bit the inside of his cheek as he watched the need press into the mans one cheek and come out the other side. He had to hurry or the very drugged man would die of blood loss. He pressed one needle through the low jaw and stood back. The man basically looked like a bloody pin cushion. His face had needles through his mouth and tongue so the mans moans came out gurgle like he was choking. His legs and arms were completely covered on blood some drying and a lot of it new.
Hidan bit his lip as he looked at the time. He had five minutes to take the needles out and place the golden colored one into his heart or else Itachi would have him on the stool next. Hidan began pulling the needles out of the man almost in handfuls and dropping them on the ground. The mans skin began to tear as Hidan grabbed the bunches of them. Hidan could tell now these screams were real the pill was wearing out. His hands now soaked and his hands bloody from the needles. He finished the last of the needles by removing the one from the mans lower jaw and tongue. 30 seconds left. Hidan quickly plucked the golden needle from the tray and pierced the mans heart. There were pools of blood on the floor on Hidan's clothes hands and the man himself. The man gave one last choked cry and Hidan bowed his head whispering a short apology.
Itachi stood up from his seat and seemingly disappeared from view as left the viewing room and entered the lower room. "Congratulations Hidan. You may go clean up now." Itachi walked past him and made his way to the body. Hidan looked behind him for only a second before scrambling out of the room. Itachi walked up to the body and laughed drawing out the golden needle that remained and piercing through the man's forehead in a quick motion. "That fool thinks I can't tell the difference in screams. He'll be punished later. As of now, you will be sent to your master." Itachi spit of the body and stepped out dodging the bloody puddles and making his way out, stopping only to give the order to have the body shipped to a certain someone.
Itachi was once again wandering the house this time headed towards his study to make a few calls. As he was walking down the hallway his study was in, he spotted someone waiting at his door. He made a small tsking sound, today was supposed to be relaxing. As he got closer to the door, he found Deidara leaning against the panel. "Kumicho-sama, I was told to wait for you till your 'session' with Hidan and the traitor was done, un." Deidara sighed and ran a hand through his hair briefly. "Yes, I would like you to tell the Ane-san to join me at dinner later. If need be, make it an order. Have it formal dress, oh and also check to make sure there is wrapping or something of the sort on her hands for me." Itachi stated coldly. He knew Deidara wouldn't question. Deidara he could depend on, not like Kisame and occasionally the scarecrow but he was in the top four. Itachi watched as Deidara walked down the hallway. He must have already heard of the location of Hinata because he was walking in the right direction.
Itachi stepped into his study and moved towards the desk. He needed a good nap, and maybe a massage. But that would have to wait; he needed to figure out how he was going to ask Hinata. He knew she was still 'attached' and he needed to figure out how to get her to admit to everything without putting up her wall or mask. Eh, it was all too much thinking for the moment. He would improvise when he got there. For now, he would finish those phone calls, and make everyone aware of what happened to a traitor and then the simple pleasure of that vile animal's growl as he found the ruined body waiting for him on his doorstep. See that was the rule…
Do not play with the snake unless you want its venom.
Summary
The visitor reveals his connection to someone that Itachi really does not like. The man is then tortured to death by Hidan, who Itachi is testing by making him torture a man he had worked with. Itachi finds that Hidan had given the traitor a drug to numb the pain and Itachi promises a punishment for him. Itachi then orders the body be sent to a certain someone, and heads to his study to make some phone calls. There he meets Deidara and gives him the order to check on Hinata and tell her about dinner. Itachi then goes in and begins to make some phone calls. (Doesn't seem like I worked that hard but I did a crap load of research to get this short chapter done –sigh-)
Terms
Tekiya are the three commandments peddlers dealers and other such are bound by although all members are expected to obey them
Kumicho-sama- means supreme boss
Next Chapter Overview
A corpse discovered and memories brought back. A dinner for the dead and an offering of blood.
Dedication
Itachi whose birthday is June 9 and the wonderful reviewers.
Authors Notes
Man, you guys make my eyes water. I did a lot of research to make sure the torture was accurate. With Deidara I will switch between Un and Umm because with questions it sounds better with an um. Bad explanation but you know what make it work! I also got a comment about Hinata being weak. Yakuza treat women one of two ways like she's a whore or like she is a superior. By her Father Hinata was treated like the former now she is treated like the later. She has a few things going on with her and I still want to try to keep her IC without making her so weak that she would be disrespected. It is kind of complex. Anyway, Thank you all for your reviews. I hope this chapter meets standards. Lots of platonic Love!
-Riza