By all means waking up in a windowless room would be grounds for panic. Waking up beside a limp body in a windowless room with one flickering light above his head freaked Itachi the hell out. He shifted his weight cringing when a rocketing pain erupted through his left leg. He glanced down realizing that the pain was coming from; there was a swollen bullet wound in his thigh. The blood had seized out over his jeans make shift gluing them to his skin in that spot. He grit his teeth and took a long slow breath wrapping his hands around his thigh so that he could move it up bending his knee. It hurt like a nest full of angry bees were swarming inside his leg stinging his nerves from the inside out. He glanced gingerly at the body on the floor beside him as his vision swam from moving his leg. He sucked in another hard breath realizing that it was Kai.

"Kai…" he whispered. His eyes roamed her body noting there was also a sizeable amount of blood matted and cracked in her hair at the back of her head. He leaned over half dragging his leg to check her pulse. Holding his breath he let his fingers fall over her skin…there was a faint thrumming beneath his forefinger like a birds wings. He remembered now what all had transpired from the moment they'd walked outside of the bar when looking for Naruto.

"I guess he's not here…where else should we look Kai?" Iruka had asked glancing back at the two kids fishing the keys from his pocket.

"I'm not sure. We could look downtown." She sighed rubbing her hands over her face. Itachi put a hand on her shoulder gently.

"We will find him. He will be fine." He soothed her softly.

"I just know something isn't ok…"

"Uchiha, Itachi?" a voice spoke from beside the police cruiser as they neared it. Iruka had seen that it was a male in his middle thirties that looked an awful lot like Fukagu and others from the Uchiha family.

"Who wants to know?" Itachi snapped narrowing his eyes. Before he'd had a chance to think there had been a gunshot. It had rang out loud in the night scaring the living hell out of Itachi. He had grabbed Kai's arm yanking her back behind himself as Iruka had stumbled grabbing for his gun.

"I really do love a man in uniform, but sadly it's the wrong night for you." Another gunshot.

"RUN!" Itachi had screamed shoving Kai back towards the bar. The body of Iruka fell to the ground beside them his head cracking off the pavement with a loud thump. There was a new hole there between his eyes.

There had been a shot to his leg and he'd been hit in the back of the head. After that he didn't know what happened but guessing by the wound in the back of Kai's head he'd hit her as well. It wasn't a gunshot wound but most likely from the butt of the gun handle. Who had that man been? He'd looked so much like his father and Sasuke. Itachi sighed and tried to nudge Kai's shoulders. She made a soft groaning noise and half rolled onto her side coughing. Her eyes slit open a fraction and he could see red where there should be white; it was possible the blow to her head had given her a concussion and busted a blood vessel in her eyes. He waited as she tried to prop herself up on her elbows making a face squeezing her eyes shut tightly.

"Kai?" he whispered. She glanced around to him trying to sit up. He helped her slipping an arm under her shoulders and moved back as she cussed holding the base of her head.

"What the hell happened?" she swayed where she sat for a moment.

"I'm not sure, but suffice it to say…we're kidnapped?" she groaned again and put her face in her hands bringing her knees up so that she could put her face there.

"Why? This makes no sense." She was trying to make the room stop spinning.

"I don't know…" he said gently rubbing her back. "But uhm, I have a question for you…"

"Yeah?" she glanced up at him blinking.

"Can you dig a bullet out of my leg without puking?" she sat up straight her eyes wide.

"Oh my gosh…" she breathed out leaning over him touching his leg. "Shit! Itachi…we have to get this out!"

"Yeah…ow…that's why I asked." He swallowed as pain blossomed where she was touching him.

Sasuke and Kiba grabbed Naruto the moment they'd seen him stumbling down the sidewalk. The boy was beaten like he'd been run over with a car. His face was swelling to the point that his eyes were barely open and several black and purple bruises were starting to form over his cheeks. His nose was broken and as far as they could tell he had several broken ribs. Fukagu rushed over clearing the table in the dining room where they laid him so they could inspect the extent of damage.

"Get his shirt off now." The old man ordered as Kiba complied taking the blood soaked material off his friend. Sure enough there were disgusting violet splotches formed over his ribs and stomach. There were also several sweltering blisters festering in various places which almost looked like burns, freshly applied burns.

"Naruto, can you hear me?" Sasuke took his best friends face gingerly in his hands. "Naruto…"

"I can….ow….holy hell…" he moaned in a cracked voice coughing. He was missing a tooth to the right side of his mouth where his cheek was slightly larger than it should have been.

"What happened? Sasuke can you tell me what happened?" he snapped quickly before the drunken idiot lost consciousness.

"Easy. He's not all there right now." Kiba grabbed the Uchiha's hands trying to pull them off. Naruto groaned turning his head to the side coughing more. Sasuke glared at the dog lover punching him hard in the jaw.

"Get off! This is important!" he yelled as his father brought the two cops in behind him. "Naruto, what happened? We have to know. Someone has my brother…and Kai!" he screamed taking the boy's face in his hands again forcing him to look at him.

"Uch….Uchiha…..Madara…" he moaned rubbing at his stomach curling up on his side. Fukagu stiffened as the officers looked at him. It was exactly what he thought it was. The man had really come back to finish what he'd started.

"Naruto…" Sasuke sighed running a hand through the other's hair gently. "You idiot…why do you always have to do this? Kai was so worried about you…she knew something was wrong…damnit." Kiba watched the two raising an eyebrow. Now he knew Sasuke and Naruto had been inseparable since high school but that was a little out of character for the raven. He was usually very emotionally guarded and here he was leaning over the blonde.

"Sasuke, move back so the officers can handle this." Fukagu snapped eyeing his son.

"I'm sorry." He said quickly backing off from Naruto as the officer to his right leaned over calling for a medical unit over his radio to examine Naruto.