Author's Note: Thanks to all of you who have reviewed- you've really motivated me. This time, the chapter is longer. It would have been even longer, had I not wanted to ask a question before going on: Should I put the torture scenes in here? Are you all able to handle that? Maybe I should post them in one or two chapters with alert notes at the top? (The scenes I have in mind are going to get very dark and gory… These next few chapters may force the story into T or even M-rating… If you don't mind, I'll stick them in with a warning. If no one wants them in, I may just leave them out…)
There was darkness. Darkness, all around, everywhere. Nothing but darkness.
'Where am I? What is this? ... Is this a dream?'
Not finding the answer, Naruto began to look around. As he tried to pull himself to his feet, he realized that his arms were pulled behind his back, attached at the wrist. It wasn't handcuffs, but definitely wasn't rope...
'It's... some kind of... wire or something', Naruto thought, giving it a slight tug to test its sharpness and durability. He felt it bite into his arms slightly, but not enough to draw blood. The sensation traveled past his wrists, spiraling across both of his forearms and ending with a small pinch at the insides of his elbows.
'That's odd. Normally they'd just wrap wire around your wrists, or something. I've never seen anyone wrap it up past where it ties bef-' Naruto was pulled out of his thoughts as he cried out in shock and discomfort. To him, it felt like small trails of lava were crawling along his skin in the exact places where the wire was. In trying to get away from the burning wire, he tugged just a bit too hard, embedding the wire into his arms. Once the wire drew blood, the pain it gave him multiplied. Naruto pulled at the wire again, trying to escape from the searing pain it was causing. He screamed even louder as the wire's heat increased even more.
"Foolish brat. Haven't you realized that the more you tug at it, the hotter it gets? The only way to stop it is to sit still."
Naruto was in too much pain to look for the owner of the voice. Instead, he focused all of his attention on sitting perfectly still. For a couple of seconds, the unbearable pain continued to make him scream until at last the wire started to cool. Once the wire stopped burning his arms, Naruto looked around. He didn't see anything around him but the darkness that had originally confused him.
"Who the hell are you?! Where are you? Why am I here?!", Naruto yelled back to the voice that had helped him.
"Hn.", said the voice, somewhat offended. Suddenly, there was no longer darkness surrounding Naruto. Instead, there was a complete nothingness.
"Agh! What the hell?!", Naruto screamed.
"I see you're not used to the light.", the voice said, smirking.
Slowly, Naruto's eyes adjusted. He saw what he recognized to be a cell, much cleaner than the one he was in before. There was no longer a stench of death, but a hospital-like sanitary smell. Standing in front of him was the man who claimed to have kidnapped him. The man grinned as Naruto met his gaze.
Naruto growled, "What the hell am I-"
"Silence!", the man commanded. Naruto stopped yelling.
'I guess if I'm his prisoner, then I really have no choice but to listen... That bastard! When I get outta here..!' Naruto glared at the man as he continued.
"Those wires were specially designed by me. They have a coat of a special type of poison, one that creates a burning feeling wherever it enters the body from. The more poison there is in the body, the worse the sensation gets, and the more the victim struggles to escape from it, creating even more pain for themselves." The man paused as he walked over to Naruto.
"What's your point?!", Naruto spat out at the man as he approached. The man smirked and shook his head.
"You still don't get it, do you?" The man's face turned cold. "You are ours. We own you. You are nothing but a possession, something for us to do with as we please. An animal to be trained." Naruto looked somewhat confused, but still glared at the man. Naruto's glare intensified as the man crouched down to his level, looking directly into his eyes.
"Will you cooperate with us? I'm only asking as a formality- I know you won't. No one ever does on the first try."
"Screw you, bastard!", Naruto growled, confirming the man's statement. The man stood up, sighing and walking toward the door.
"I suppose I'm forced to convince you now that you've refused." The man flipped another switch on the wall, and Naruto heard mechanical sounds as one of the concrete walls sunk backward, and slid away to reveal a room slightly larger than the one he was currently in. The hidden room was packed full of metallic instruments of all different shapes and sizes, all of them organized in large glass display cases lining the walls. The man pulled a whip from where it hung on his belt, and cracked it right in front of Naruto's face. Naruto flinched, and groaned in discomfort as he moved his arms slightly and the poisoned wires began to sear his skin again.
"Hello. I'm Bari, and I'll be torturing you today!", Bari said with a sadistic but sweet smile.
Naruto shuddered.
'Oh crap...'
A repeat of what I asked above:
Should I put the torture scenes in here? Are you all able to handle that? Maybe I should post them in one or two chapters with alert notes at the top? (The scenes I have in mind are going to get very dark and gory… These next few chapters may force the story into T or even M-rating… If you don't mind, I'll stick them in with a warning. If no one wants them in, I may just leave them out…)