A/N: Chapter 4!!! Yay!!!!! I hope you're all excited. . . but you might want to have yourself a good humor story ready to read after this. I mean, really it got a lot worse for Sasuke. . . And strangely enough, I'm a Sasuke fan. The fact I enjoy making the anime characters I love so much be tortured like this is beyond me…. It's kinda creepy. So all Sasuke fans beware, but remember I'M a Sasuke fan, and I enjoyed writing it, however creepy that may be… so don't beware too much :-P lol.

Warning: There IS a reason I rated this "T." Which is probably revealed in this chapter… I'm not sure, but the gore and stuff could get worse… so does anyone think I should change the rating to M cuz of this chapter and how it might get more gory? I'm kinda an over-rater, so I rate things high, but I have a feeling this much "mass murder" in a story shouldn't be just Rated T. Tell me what you think if you review.

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Chapter 4 – Nothing

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Sasuke had been locked up in his mind again. . . Orochimaru still allowed his prisoner to communicate with him, but Sasuke didn't care. He just wanted out. He also discovered that he could still climb into his body to see and feel everything, but only what Orochimaru saw and felt. He hadn't regained control of anything since that time at least three days ago. . . and that didn't even last for too long.

Sasuke didn't really know if he wanted his body anymore. What if he did get it back, but his mind couldn't handle the stress? What if he couldn't control his heartbeat or breathing anymore? But then again, living without a sense of any surroundings wasn't exactly appeasing.

Today Orochimaru was giving Sasuke the privilege to see what he was doing. Sasuke took it gratefully because these times were few.

"What do you want to see me do, Sasuke?" Orochimaru asked him. "See me kill someone, watch my prisoners be tortured, what do you want? Do you even care anymore?"

Sasuke was about to say, "Shut up," back, but then he realized Orochimaru might become angry. However, the thought still reached the snake's mind, no matter how much Sasuke tried to stop it.

"I'd watch what you say if I were you. Sasuke, do you really want to get on my bad side?" Orochimaru was toying with his captive. "I assure you, I have ways of making my enemies pay. . . especially when they can hear every single thought in my head."

"It's not your head," Sasuke argued. "It's mine, so give it back."

"No, I don't think I can do that. . . even if I wanted to, there's no way to reverse the Jutsu until the three years are up, and I get to change bodies. But why would I want to switch again with a perfectly healthy body so beautiful as yours." Orochimaru's hand touched his/Sasuke's hair. "But you're hair is too short. . ." Orochimaru commented. "I don't like it."

"Why do you think I care?" Sasuke shot back.

Orochimaru shrugged with Sasuke's body. Sasuke hated how he couldn't stop him from using his body, yet feel every single move Orochimaru made. "I don't know. . . I just thought maybe you wouldn't feel very happy knowing I was going to grow your hair out. But I guess you do have bigger worries than hair at the moment."

Sasuke finally noticed that Orochimaru was no longer in the Sound Village. . . he was with several of his followers hiding in the trees on the outskirts of another village. . . Just a regular town with no ninjas, only ordinary people.

Suddenly, Sasuke was afraid of the reason Orochimaru was letting him see all of this.

"Yes, Sasuke," Orochimaru assured cruelly. "There is a reason I am allowing you to watch. I hope you enjoy it."

Sasuke immediately tried to draw back to the corner in his mind that Orochimaru couldn't touch, but felt a solid barrier preventing him from retreating.

"There's no choice," the snake explained. "Whether you enjoy it or not, you will see it. It's all part of my grand plan for you. You weren't supposed to survive my Jutsu, so I want to have a little fun."

Sasuke helplessly tried to get through the barrier but to no avail. Orochimaru had him locked in. He couldn't even close his eyes because Orochimaru was in control. He was thrashing around, in his head, struggling to escape.

Orochimaru used his body to sigh. "You, child. Don't you realize this would be what you call a temper-tantrum?" he told Sasuke in his mind.

"Let me back in, you snake!" Sasuke mentally screamed at him.

Orochimaru's chuckle flooded through Sasuke's thoughts. "No," he stated simply.

Sasuke sent back a mental glare. "I. Hate. You."

"Hmm, I wonder why," Orochimaru teased. "Just consider this day a part of my previous training for you."

Then Sasuke found himself unable to stop turning his head to the side. He saw Kabuto, the one who had tied him up and gave Orochimaru the chance to perform the Jutsu in the first place. Death was the only word that came to Sasuke's mind. Smiling pleasantly, Kabuto looked back at "Sasuke"—who was actually Orochimaru—and nodded.

Suddenly Orochimaru, Kabuto, and their loyal followers made their way into the village silently. Sasuke was trying to force his mouth to scream, but Orochimaru overpowered it as usual.

"Stop being a baby," Orochimaru thought to Sasuke. "You can't stop me. You're nothing now. Understand me? You are nothing."

The already broken Sasuke scattered into several more pieces at his torturer's words because he knew they were right. . . he had no way to do anything now. He really was nothing.

Orochimaru and his followers moved silently into the town. They crept unnoticeably deeper into the city to where there were a few civilians. Except one lady, a beautiful, seemingly innocent woman, saw them, grew terrified, and started to run off to sound the alarm. Kabuto was about to thrash out and kill her, but Orochimaru stopped him and reached for a shuriken.

Sasuke tried desperately to stop him, but Orochimaru was too quick. He threw the shuriken right at her head so strongly that Sasuke watched it go straight threw to the other side. Two of the sound ninjas silently ran out and grabbed the body before any of the few civilians on the street could turn around and see.

Orochimaru stood over the body as it was set down. Sasuke saw through Orochimaru's eyes her pretty face split straight in half from the shuriken. Orochimaru bent over and pulled the weapon out of her head, revealing a gaping whole which erased her previous beauty.

Sasuke tasted blood as Orochimaru licked the shuriken with Sasuke's own tongue. A triumphant sneer intruded Sasuke's thoughts as he tried to puke from what had just occurred… of course, having no control over his body to do so.

"Why are you making me see this?" Sasuke demanded angrily. "What good will it do you?"

"As I said before, since you are still alive, I want to make the best out of it," Orochimaru supplied. "You know what that means, don't you, Sasuke? I want you to feel terror. Remember how you wanted to die. . . I was never going to spare you of your misery, never going to once and for all, kill you. I was going to make everything worse for you."

"But why?" Sasuke couldn't understand how Orochimaru could find taste from devouring those long screams from his prisoners, relish in his victims' terror and helplessness. It was just. . . pure evil.

Orochimaru laughed mentally at Sasuke's confusion, and suddenly, the Sound ninjas were spreading across the peaceful village, killing all as they went. . . Sasuke couldn't stop watching. Orochimaru showed neither him nor the civilians even children that he slaughtered any mercy.

By the end of the day, Sasuke had felt himself lose most of his sanity. "I don't want to watch anymore!" Sasuke screamed at Orochimaru. "Please. . . let me back in. Please!"

Orochimaru refrained from striking the helpless old man with his sword. The old man was startled at his hesitation, but was too frightened to move.

Unknown to that man, Orochimaru was savoring Sasuke's last words. "Say that word again," he thought, Sasuke hearing him all too well. "Say please."

Sasuke was a lot of things, but dumb wasn't one of them. "Orochimaru, please let me back in," he repeated. "I'm begging you!" Sasuke was thrashing as hard as he could against the barrier holding him out of his corner, forcing him to see and sense everything Orochimaru could.

"Very good," Orochimaru sarcastically complimented. Then he stabbed the man that had been paralyzed with fear as Sasuke's and Orochimaru's thoughts conversed. Blood splattered all across Sasuke's and Orochimaru's face. The old man had been cut through the head, apparently Orochimaru's favorite place on the body to destroy.

Sasuke mentally screamed as loud as he could.

"You child, Sasuke! I did not expect you to break so easily!" Orochimaru countered, speaking with Sasuke's own mouth. "I can hardly put up with this noise anymore."

The barrier lowered, compliments to Orochimaru, and Sasuke lunged back in, mentally sobbing at how much blood had been left on his hands today. His hands. . . even though he had not done anything. Orochimaru had killed using his, Sasuke's body, but Sasuke still couldn't erase his guilt on not being able to stop his own body. The images of Orochimaru's mass murders would never fade from Sasuke's memories.

A smirk passed gently from Orochimaru to Sasuke. "Remember, Sasuke. You are nothing," he told the broken boy in a sing-song voice.

Sasuke felt his mind, shaking with fear and helplessness. . . and tears.

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A/N: Yeah… kinda rude of me to write about my favorite Naruto character of all time like that…. But I'm a creepy person. All my favorite characters get tortured like that one way or another… So anyway, do you think the rating should go up since it might get worse in later chapters? Let me know.

Btw, I am also planning on writing a sequel to this, so, Sasuke fans, don't worry too much. The sequel will be a lot nicer on Sasuke than this is, once I actually finish writing this one :D Naruto's gonna be in it ;-)