Chapter Four
A/N: It's only when I write chapters like this one that I realize, I either watch waaaay too many horror movies or...I am a psychopath in the making XD I am hoping it's the former!
Darkness. That's the first thing Naruto notices when he opens his eyes. After that? Restriction. After his head clears of its fuzziness, he realizes he can't move. By craning his head, he manages to see that is tied to a kind of post. His hands bound behind his back by a seperate rope.
What is going on here? He wonders as, feverishly, tries to orient himself. Where was he? How had he gotten here? The last thing he remembered was being knocked out by Daiki. He must have brought me here... Suddenly, the breath catches in Naruto's throat. Where's Sakura?! He was pretty sure he was alone in the small room. But it was so dark that he couldn't quite tell.
Deciding that he needed to know if Sakura was nearby, he allows himself call out, quietly to her. "Sakura?" He whispers. "Sakura, are you here?"
"Uhnn..." The sound came from his right.
"Sakura?" He says, softly.
"Uhn...Naruto?"
The young Jinchuuriki breathes a sigh of relief at hearing her voice. "Are you okay?" He asks, squinting through the dark to see her.
"Yeah, peachy." She grumbles in a bleak tone. "What about you?"
"I'm fine." He assures her. "Any idea where we are?"
"I was about to ask you that...hey, are we tied up?" She gasps in outrage. The sounds of struggle come from where she is trying, fruistlessly, to escape.
"Looks like it." He says, looking around the pitch black room a bit more, now that his sight has adjusted to the low light. What he sees sends a spike of fear through his heart. "Uhhh, Sakura?" He calls.
"Huh?" She glances over at him, following his line of sight to the scene of horror in front of them. "W-what the...?!"
"Are you seeing what I'm seeing?"
"I think so..."
Set out, in the center of concrete floor, was a white table. Or at least, it used to be white. The entire, plastic surface of the rolling desk, was stained a deep shade of red. Nightmarish tools sit in neat lines, as well as fill the open drawers. Something sticky, indicated by a sickening gleam on its surface, puddled in various locations on the floor. There were four other posts in the room, beside Naruto and Sakura's. All of which were surrounded by fallen heaps of rope and duct tape.
"What is this place...?!" Sakura shudders at the closeness of such a revolting, disturbing sight.
"I don't-"
They both flinch as the undeniable sound of a creaking door rattles behind them. Soon followed by the sound of two sets of footsteps. A long, orange ray of light stretches out from where the door has been opened, only to vanish once its closed again. Once more plunging the two captives into blackness.
"Oh, good. You're awake." A voice, that Naruto recognized as Aito, says. "We were getting tired of waiting."
A deep growl comes from Naruto's throat. "What do you want with us?!" He shouts, fiercely. He refused to be afraid of them. No way was he going to give these jerks the satisfaction of seeing him scared.
"Oh nothing much..." Aito chuckles. "Just some answers, is all."
"What is this place?" Sakura sounded much less stable than Naruto. Her voice shook slightly, amplifying the terror that was threatening to burn a hole right through her. But, if they could see her face, they'd be surprised to find she didn't look the least bit frightened. If anything, she looked angry.
"Oh this old shack?" Daiki snickers as he strolls across the room and stops in front of them. He was soon joined by his partner, who was gazing around at the torture chamber like it was his childroom bedroom. "This is where we do our interrogating."
"Interrogating!" Naruto snorts in a way that sounds like he might be laughing. "You mean torturing."
"Eh," Aito shrugs. "Call it what you will. But I'll say this, being a rogue ninja is tough. You don't always get things handed to you, the way you do when you live in a village. Getting food, water, supplies...information." He sighs, deeply. "Sometimes you have to be pretty...persuasive to get what you need in our situation."
"Persuasive." Naruto makes a show of rolling his eyes. "When you say it that way, it almost sounds like you aren't insane psychopaths."
Without warning, a foot crashes straight into his gut, causing him to double over in pain. "Gg..." Naruto straightens up again, glaring hatefully into Daiki's eyes. "What, exactly, do you want from us?" He snarls.
"Do you remember what I told you about Yugito?" Aito asks him, inciting a metaporical lightbulb to flash over Naruto's head.
"It was you two..." Naruto realizes. "She got jumped by you, didn't she?!"
"Us? No, no. We were friends back then, remember?" Daiki says.
"But she hurt you." Sakura points out.
"It wasn't us." Aito snaps, out of the blue. "Although, I'll admit we thought about it. She was a monster."
Naruto stiffens as the cold, harsh truth washes over him. She had a bad temper...she lost control of herself and ended up hurting her teammates...they call her a monster...and she was killed by a pair on unknown ninja... He suddenly felt sick to the stomach.
"She was murdered by the Akatsuki."
"Because Yugito was a Jinchuuriki."
