Dark Puppy
Story # 0162:
by Kaline Reine

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, or anything related to the anime, manga, or series. It belongs to Masashi Kishimoto, the creator.

WARNINGS: ItaSasu fic, Uchihacest, incest, YAOI, etc. It will be graphic, and there will be some very disturbing things in this one. (Adult stuff!) I hope you like it anyway, but if you don't, you were warned. Flames will only be used to make the rest of the story even hotter. ;)

Also I want to add that there will also be more Madara X Itachi in this story than in the last one. Sorry but I need them to interact more.



Chapter 4:

The next morning, he woke up to an empty bed beside him. That sort of thing was expected from Madara. He'd had his fun all day and well into the evening yesterday, and when Itachi had fallen asleep, he'd left.

With a sigh, he realized that he was going to be late for work if he didn't leave. He hadn't even thought to set his alarm clock the night before- he'd been much too distracted for that. Yet, he was still awake at the correct time. It was rare that he wasn't on time for work. His body seemed to be used his usual routine by now.

He had resigned himself to having to deal with tracking down Orochimaru again. It was a task he was not particularly looking forward to. But that was his job, and he was intent on doing it.

The Uchiha found his morning routine being interrupted by visions of that boy… He didn't seem to have a name, at least not that Itachi could remember, and the look on his face had been so peaceful. He had looked so blissful, even as he thought he was being burned to death. It almost seemed like the boy had been glad to die. And after spending so long in such an evil man's clutches, who wouldn't relish thoughts of the sweet release of death?

He had been left there to die whatever horrible fate the fire had in store for him. Whether it was from smoke inhalation, or terrible blisters on his skin from being burned alive… There was to be no escape from the scorching flames.

With a sigh, he cleared the mist away from the mirror after his shower. When he looked at his reflection, all he could see was the terrifying face of the chained boy.


When he arrived at work, he didn't expect the commotion that was stirring in one corner of the building. Itachi went to see what was going on. He never expected to see Hidan struggling to get a boy into a room.

He felt some unknown force tug at his heart. It was the same boy from before. He looked up, and black eyes met his own deep onyx ones. The confused and helpless teen looked like he was pleading for something. It was definitely a silent cry for help, if Itachi had ever seen one.

He did not know why this boy would interest him so much… There had to be more to this than met the eye. Surely there was some logical explanation. The more Itachi thought about it, the more he wanted to see if he could help. Orochimaru was the case he had been assigned, after all. This was related to said case. Pein would probably insist upon his interaction with the kid at some point. There would be no avoiding it.

"He's already been examined," A tall, slender woman with blue hair approached from behind him. "You're the one who found him, right?"

Itachi didn't answer for several seconds, causing her to look at him a little oddly. He didn't break the strange boy's gaze until he had been lead into another room by Hidan, the medical examiner.

"What? Oh yeah, I was the one who first saw him. Pein-san said that he would file the report, after I went home."

"He did," Konan nodded. "We've been trying to piece together his story. However, we haven't made much progress… We need you to try working with him today."

"Me?" Itachi was instantly on his guard. "Why?"

"To put it simply, you're one of the best investigators we've got, Itachi-san. We thought maybe you could get more information out of him. Give it a try. We haven't had any more leads on Orochimaru, since his last disappearance. So it beats doing paperwork all day long, am I right?"

"I guess so," The Uchiha took a deep breath and went into the room he had seen Hidan lead the boy into.

The gray haired medical examiner turned to him, the moment he had entered the room. He seemed glad to see him, which was always a bad sign when it was Hidan. "So you're here to take the little fucker off my hands, then?"

The boy whimpered pathetically. He had effectively balled himself up in a corner. There was something black fastened all the way around his head, covering his mouth. It looked like the devices they often used to keep mental patients quiet, or to keep them from biting people.

"Off your hands? Hn," Itachi smirked, clearly amused. "Why is he wearing a muzzle?"

"He fucking bit me during the damn examination!"

Itachi seemed somewhat amused by the way the older man was getting so worked up about it. He smiled, and shifted his weight to one side. The boy was watching him with worried eyes. He didn't seem to understand where he was or what was going on. The examination must have been so scary… No wonder he'd tried to bite Hidan.

"This is ridiculous," He reached his hand out to remove the muzzle from the boy's frightened face. He heard a growl, and moved back, with a heavy sigh.

"He's going to need fucking therapy or something," Hidan was still talking and flailing his arms about, obviously making the boy even more uncomfortable. "He thinks he's a dog."

Itachi turned to look at the man, incredulously. "You're serious?" He then turned back to the boy, and despite his protests, unfastened the device from around his lower face. "There, that's better, hm?"

Coal black eyes regarded him with uncertainty. He hadn't done anything bad yet, but the boy wasn't going to take any chances.

"I wouldn't remove that if I were you, Itachi-san…" Hidan sounded distressed. "He already bit me. Be careful."

"That is ridiculous. If we're supposed to be trying to help him believe he isn't a dog, then making him wear a muzzle certainly won't be any help."

Itachi found himself running one hand down the boy's face, as he removed the muzzle. Before he knew what was happening, a set of teeth had clamped down around his fingers. He cried out, as the sharp edges dug into his skin, pressing the flesh flat against the bone.

When he screamed, the young man let go. He backed even further into the corner, and let out a feral snarl. He was unruly and not wanting to trust anyone right now. He was afraid that these men would do the same thing Orochimaru had done to him.

When an animal is cornered, it will have no choice but to fight. And they had him very cornered right now. He was experiencing a primitive human instinct, known as fight-or-flight concept. He would either fight or flee. And since they weren't allowing him to flee… He could only fight them. Seiteki hadn't meant to bite him, but he had to do it.

"Easy there," Itachi was still trying to talk to him. "What's your name? Do you have a name?"

He looked around, wondering whether or not he should trust this person. Grudgingly, he whispered in a voice that was barely used. "S-s-Se-Seit-teki…" When he'd been with Orochimaru, it had been important for him to know certain words. He had to be able to accurately follow commands, so he had to know them. The first word he had learned had been his name, so he would know when they were calling him.

"Seiteki? Is that it?"

The boy nodded, making his back bangs fall in his face. His eyes looked even darker now.

If his name really was what he thought it was, that was going to make Itachi very uncomfortable. 'Sexy? His name is Sexy?'

Itachi decided it would be best if they gave Seiteki more time to adjust. "Hidan, I need to know everything you know about him. I'm supposed to be trying to get information out of him. But that's going to be difficult if he believes he's a dog. If I'm going to be working with him on this case, I need to know everything that is known about him."

The medic grabbed a clipboard. "Alright… He's a nasty little fucker who likes to bite people," He chuckled when this earned him a glare from the Uchiha. "He was being used as a sex slave. He has numerous cuts and bruises all over his damn body. Also, they tried to starve him to death. He's really fucking malnourished. And I did a DNA test to try and locate his goddamn family. Happy now?"

"I see… Anything else I should know?"

"The rest is pretty much a fucking mystery. I'll see you around." Hidan left and closed the door behind him.

Now it was just the two of them. Itachi and Seiteki… The boy, who was a stranger to him, just watched him frightfully. Itachi was used to working with rape victims, and other people who were the victims of violent crimes and other types of abuse. He knew the best thing that he could do was to sit and wait. Let the boy get comfortable around him.

He sat down on the other end of a long white bench that was in the plain little room. It was a room that was typically used for questioning people, but they knew they weren't going to get any answers out of this one. He would have to learn to talk first. Itachi was traditionally Japanese, and he was also a master of foreign languages. That was one more reason the FBI had so readily hired him. Teaching someone a new language was his forte'.

He sat for a long while, thinking about how he should go about this. It was obvious that Seiteki would be staying with him for a while. They needed him to work on this case for a while. At least until they were able to locate his family.

"Seiteki, are you okay?"

The boy gave him a blank stare. It was probably a sign that he wasn't used to people asking him this. Maybe he didn't understand. Since Itachi was just sitting there, and not trying to touch him or be near him in any way, Seiteki was tolerating it. He didn't feel as threatened right now.

Itachi decided to try something different. "Come here." He spoke it as a command, which he was fairly sure any dog who had been trained would know to follow.

He hadn't been sure it would really work, but the boy moved closer to him, until he sat by his side on the bench. Seiteki still didn't trust him, that much was obvious. But a dog would not ignore a familiar command. He made it a point not to do anything to the quivering, shaking, frightened boy. Not yet, anyway.

The first thing he needed to do was introduce himself. "My name is Itachi… I-ta-chi." He pointed to himself.

"I-I-t-taa-chi?" His words sounded really weird. But at least it was something.

"Good," Itachi resisted the urge to reach over and pat his head. He might get bitten for it. He needed to work to work gaining his trust first. "It's okay. I'm not going to hurt you."

Seiteki looked at him, and nodded then. He seemed to understand, and visibly relaxed a little. Itachi thought he should probably be dressed. This entire time Seiteki had only been wearing a thong. It was indecent, considering

Itachi noticed a small bag had been left behind, after Hidan left. There was a clean change of clothes in it. Someone must have gotten it for him. All of Seiteki's things would have been burned in the fire. He took out the simple blue jeans and plain white T-shirt, taking them to where the boy sat on the bench.

"These are for you," He laid them beside him. "Get dressed."

Seiteki just looked at him.

"You know… Clothes? You wear them," He sighed heavily. Maybe Seiteki was made to go around as he was now. Hidan did say he was a sex slave before. What kind of sick person would want to do that with… a dog boy? He tried to keep those thoughts out of his mind. "Here, I'll help you."

He was surprised that he wasn't attacked when he put the white material over Seiteki's head. The boy remained perfectly still, and tried his best not to move at all. Soon he was looking down at the white shirt he was wearing, in surprise and awe.

Itachi smiled to himself. Maybe there was hope for the boy, after all.

That was about the time Konan, the blue haired assistant chief of the FBI agency, stepped into the room. She had been watching what was going on the whole time, apparently. This room had two way mirrors, and they were all used to other people making good use of them.

Itachi sighed. "How could this happen to someone?" He cast a worried look at Seiteki then. "I mean… How can someone think they're a dog? It's… crazy."

"Not for someone who's been raised that way," Konan attempted to explain. "We've done our research on it. There is something within the human mind that can cause people to behave like animals, if they are treated as one. There have been a few documented cases of people believing they were wolves or dogs, when left to their own devices in the wild. Dogs and wolves seem to be the first thing the human mind will revert to. The second would be primates and such."

"I see," Itachi replied, even though he didn't really understand a word of it. "I'll do my best to get the information out of him. Are you sure Pein-sama is okay with this?"

"Yes, absolutely. He told me to have you take the boy home with you. That would give you more time to work with him. Right now, he is your new case."

He nodded, seeming to accept this news. After the way Hidan had acted, he expected it. It was going to take a long time to figure all of this out. It was highly likely that even after his family had been located, that he and Itachi would continue to have to work together to track down Orochimaru. It was up to him to get Seiteki back on the right track, after his life-long ordeal.

"Alright, Seiteki… Let's go. Come on, don't be afraid…"


Later that evening…

"Where is he?" Pein seemed angry about something.

He was pacing the office floor frantically, and staring at the ground. He had a stern look in his eyes, that said he wasn't going to take crap from anyone right now. Their leader was in another one of his moods, that much was clear.

"Where is who?" The woman smirked wickedly, a knowing smile forming on her face.

"The boy. I needed Seiteki-san for something."

"Oh… He isn't here."

"Why the hell not?!" The Ginger-haired man was going into a rage, which almost seemed appropriate, given that he was the one who had the most piercings out of anyone that worked here. "He was supposed to be- You didn't."

"I sent him with Itachi-kun."

Pein felt like he could slap her, really. "Damn it, Konan! You are supposed to clear things like this with me first. It's going to be really hard to fix this now… We'll have to re-think our plan."

She only nodded, solemnly. She had already played her part. She would stand on the sidelines now.


A/N: I really hope this didn't seem too rushed. But I was unbelievably busy over the holidays and then after that I had writer's block. But I somehow did it. I've been worked on this chapter for weeks! Can you believe it's been over a month since my last update? I really feel like I've let you guys down, and I am so sorry.

-Kaline Reine