Author's note: Ok I give up I try to get on this dog gone PC everyday to update but I find I only get on like once or twice a week lately. So with that said I will start on the next chapter ^_^ sorry it took so long oh an warning there may be some gore and violence and a lot of it in this chapter if not then in the next one be warned. The names of the nin about mid way into the chapter are not mine and belong to Masashi Kishimoto if you think real hard you might find where I got the names they are minor characters scattered throughout the show and movies. Though I change lot about the person they still are not mine just some parts of the personalities now I'm bored with this note ONWARD my readers!

"It must get darker before the light can peek out and shine." SM

In Your Eyes

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Chapter Four

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Darkness

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Hinata lay in darkness bound and gaged. A pain pushed at her temples and she was barely aware of the stone floor beneath her or the cold that clung to her. She was soaked to the bone and couldn't stop the shaking that her body kept doing. It was trying to warm itself. How did she get here? Why was she so wet? Or Why was she tied up for that matter? She tried to snake her way to find a wall. Her body crying out in protest at the movement. She made her way to a wall and as she used it to help sit up against it a cry would have fallen from her lips, but it only came out as a muffled groan. Blood was died on her face and a cut was near her temple. Ah so that's why my head hurts. She thought. Everything was throbbing. Every muscle ached. Every cell within her cried for relief. She tried to remember what had happened how she got there and what had happened before, but she couldn't think. Just as she was beginning to process the reality of her world. Her world of darkness went darker. Consciousness left her and she was plunged into oblivion.

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He stood there his hands covered in the blood of his enemy. His face and hair sprinkled with the same blood. The man (or what once had been a man) sat in the chair a mangled pile of flesh. One would sooner think him hamburger meat before they understood that the pile there had once indeed been human. It had started the moment he returned with the girl.

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His hair clung to his face as the rain pelted down on him. The girl still slept in his arms hanging lifelessly her long hair a mess across her face. He tried to remember the girl... he must have known her she couldn't be much younger then himself that would place her in the rookie nine. Just as him. Though for all his efforts he couldn't remember. Oh well. He thought It's not as if it changes anything. I will soon know who and why she is here. As he came to the gates of Otoga they opened. The guards knew to let him through as soon as he was spotted. He entered the gates and head for the the prison...

"Sasuke-sama!" Kabuto came running up to him from the prison. Questions clear in his eyes when his eyes fell on the b ody in Sasuke's arms.

"Yes?" Sasuke said voice void of emotion.

"Oh! Well while you were away some of the guard caught a group trying to break into your home. When they found them several committed suicide others first tried to flee then tried suicide. However we were able to contain a handful of them." he said fallowing Sasuke toward the building that marked the prison.

"Did you interrogate them?"

"Other then the normal... nothing else. Sasuke-sama we were sure you would want to do that yourself. No one talked. Though one did say something about having a message for you, but I can't remember who."

"Was anyone hurt?"

"A maid and a male servant were killed when the intruders entered the house. One maid was knocked down the stairs and suffers from a broken wrist, two broke ribs, and a broken ankle. Other then that There were a few who suffered only minor injuries no more."

"Well done. I will see to this." He walked to a cell. Which was really just a stone room with a wood door as the only exit. Grabbing a spread of cloth and disposing of his unwanted burden he bound first her feet and then her hands finally gaging her. So when she wake no one wouldn't have to hear her screams. he left the room and turned to Kabuto. "You watch this door. No one goes in no one comes out do you understand me?"

"Yes. Sasuke-sama. Oh and the ones responsible for the deaths and injuries died committing suicide. I thought you'd want to know that"

"Good... and thank you." he walked down the dark hall and toward the cells that lead deep under the building. He knew where they would be held he didn't even need to be told. He walked into a large room where four men and one woman were changed to the wall. Their arms held high above their heads, their feet barely planted on the ground. The room was bare but for a table along one wall and torches that were placed just so that when all were lit the light filled the room it left an eerie feel in the air. Enough to see everything but to little to hide the many shadows. Two male nin walked in and lit the torches while two other wheeled in a table with various tools on it dried blood coating them.

"Now." he said as if oblivious to the goings on around him as yet another piece of equipment was wheeled in. This time a chair with spikes yet again the blood still coated the chair. No evidence that cleaning had EVER taken place. "So someone had a message for me? Did they? Who was it?"

"We have a massage for the leader of this hell hole Orochimaru! NOT! His lap dog. You have no power over us." the female spat.

"Then you are in luck for I am the leader of this... how did you put it? Ah yes! "hell hole." The leader for which you seek has been dead for quite some time. I took his place. Sorry to disappoint you but I do have the power over you. I have all the power in the world." a wicked grin touched his face.

"Orochimaru? Dead?" Came the small voice of the man at the end of the group. "Then there is no reason to fight." Sasuke couldn't help but look at the man he was a bit perplexed he would have thought someone that soft spoken would have been a female but no it came from the man at the end.

"What is your name?"

"Like we would tell you snake!" the man next to the woman sneered.

"Tell me what you know and join me. Then you can go now."

"I would never turn against my leaders what makes you even begin to thi-

"-Oh! Karashi give it a rest. We knew they sent us to die when we left. They either think we're dead or... nope that's pretty much it and right now. I may not look it but I'm far from dead. We didn't turn on them they turned on us. They knew what would happen to us. And now we don't even have a target. Right now don't you think the logical thing would be to live past the night? HHHHHMMMM?"

"I – I" the man was doing a good job looking like a fish out of watter his mouth opening an closing like a guppy. Sasuke couldn't believe that the man who was so soft spoken even in his sarcasm could have such a quick wit even while being half starved and hanging by his wrist. It would be nice if he joined we need more men like him. He thought.

"Again I ask your name?"

"I am Jirocho, the woman over there is Toki the big mouth next to her is Karashi her husband. The one in the middle is Temujin and the one beside me is my little brother Sandayu."

"Will you tell me anything?"

"Feed us, bathe us, clothe us, don't kill us and I'll tell you all you need to know." Under normal times Sasuke wouldn't take an a vow like that but he saw the truth of it in Jirocho's eyes. The eyes of a man who had been betrayed by those he had mindlessly severed. A man who did just want a warm meal and a place to sleep.

"And what of your brother?" Sasuke said looking at the boy in question who just stared at Sasuke blankly. "Will he join and tell what he knows.?"

"Sandayu?" the boy who couldn't have been older then Sasuke looked at his brother. Sasuke already had the keys in his hand. He may have been know to be heartless but once you were in his care he never took back his word. The fact that they were not responsible for his wounded servants helped too. "Sandayu? Will you help this man?" his brother prompted him again. Slowly the boy nodded yes. Sasuke had already begun to undo the locks before the boy was finished. "Forgive my brother he is mute. Though for his lack of words he is a fighter worth more then his weight in gold."

"Well then he better start packing on a few pounds. Guard!" Sasuke yelled as he helped to steady the boy.

"Yes Sasuke-sama?" Two nin said as they came into the room.

"Take these men get them bathed, fed, clothed then set them up in my home this night. See that they are well cared for. What about you three?" the woman and her husband glared at him as their answer.

"Hell as long as ya don't throw us away or kill me tonight I'll join ya... of coarse I know nothin' though I just fallowed mi orders and went with 'em. Did mi work and went home. I maybe useless for info but I can fight, not as good as that youngin's right there but enough to earn mi keep." the one called Temujin said.

"Okay him too." he said undoing his bonds. "I will speak with you when you are well. Until then rest."

As the guards helped the men out. Sasuke turned back to the two remaining. "So I guess it's fair to say you won't be helping us." As if on cue a man was hauled into the room kicking and screaming. Wearing nothing but a pair of thin baggy pants. "I'll give you another chance to think on it. However first I'll let you see what happens if you keep down this path."

"Michiru!" the woman called out as the man was strapped to the chair the spikes beginning to pierce his exposed back. Sasuke smiled wickedly as he made the first cut into the flesh of the man's shoulder. Blood seeped out flowing down the man's chest. Cut after cut the man's blood started to find it's way to Sasuke's hands and clothes. Each cut done so perfectly that it would hurt and still bleed while not bleeding enough to kill the poor man. All the while sitting in the chair who's spikes pierced the man causing even more pain. A side effect of the spikes being they held the blood back fairly well keeping blood loss low and pain high. Not even an hour passed and the woman's pleas began to pour from her mouth "Let him go! I'll do what you ask. Just let him go." but Sasuke had to remind her. It was not her actions that had gotten this man where he was it was his own choices. This was simply where she would end up if she continued as such. Sasuke turned back to his victim picking another toy of his. This one being one of his favorites. He went back to work on the poor soul.

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Sasuke set his tool down and stared now at the two. He had taken off their restraints and went about wiping his hands on a towel though it didn't help much. The woman clung to her husband weeping as he held her there tears staining his face. Leaving them there he left the room. Giving orders to the guards to bathe and feed them but to keep a close eye on them. He was walking down the hall thinking that all he wanted was a shower and a hot meal, but alas that was not to be.

A guard stopped him in the hall "Sasuke-sama?"

"Yes?"

"Did you do it? That method?"

"Yes."

"But that can have two kinds of service."

"Yes I know that but I needed to get some sleep and they were to scared to even think of doing other then serving me."

"For now that is." Sasuke stared at the man.

"Yes for now. That's all I needed. Now if you don't mind I'm going to-"

"Sasuke-sama! Sasuke-sama!" Kabuto was running full speed at him. Sasuke let out a long sigh at this rate he would never get to sleep.

"What is it now Kabuto-san"

"W-well I didn't mean for it to happen. I really don't know how it happened. I left it shut but I-"

"Oh do spit it out!"

"I had to take a leak so I left a guard at the door. I came back he left, but about an hour later I heard scuffling and a male groan from behind the door. I remembered that you had put a woman in the cell. I opened the door to be sure that I was only hearing things but nope. The very guard that I had ordered to watch the door was bound and tied!"

"So you're telling me she escaped?" Sasuke said with a groan. He almost felt guilt he had forgotten all about his prisoner.

"Hai." With that Sasuke walked down the hall purpose in his every move. He needed to find the girl and fast.

End Chapter Four

I realize that I made the guards come in two by two lol I guess I starting a Noah thing lol. jk jk. So there you have it next you will get the hours with Hinata which Will be interesting I hope. ^_^ Please Review I never believed people when they said reviews made them all happy but now I do. I'm aiming for 20 for now... in truth I just wanna see how many I can get but HEY! Why not put a number Oh and if you want a story with a different couple in mind send me a pm me and I'll t see what I can do... ^_^ NEXT CHAPTER!