(A/N: thank you to all my reviewers, and now, on to the next part)
Sasuke struggled to keep up, his scrawny little legs could hardly walk with the chains much less hike up a hill, which, under orders of the overseer, was to be done, or else.
"Amaris?" he asked quietly as he strained to left his foot so that the chain wouldn't get caught on a rock.
"Ya?"
"Why are we changing camps?"
Amaris paused before answering in a hushed tone.
"Because if we stay in one place too long, we attract unwanted attention from nearby villages, now be quiet, we don't want to get caught talk-"
"SHUTUP YOU INGRATE BEFORE I BEAT YOU INTO A BLOODY PULP YOU WORTHLESS WENCH!!!" the overseer yelled at Amaris, though he was standing right next to her now, little Sasuke hiding behind her legs, out of the mean man's view.
"yes sir master Akuma sir " she answered back with her head down in respect, the overseer, or 'Akuma' rather, walked off to the end, where he would probably be terrorizing some poor little one because they tripped or weren't moving as quickly as he liked.
"I-I'm sorry Amaris…" Sasuke started very quietly, Amaris didn't react to him so he figured she hadn't heard him. Allwell.
When Sasuke's part of the chain reached the summit of the large hill the edges of the roofs of buildings similar to those warehouses they had just left. At this point he didn't care, as long as he could sit and rest his tired and sore legs which were now drawing blood because of the rubbing from the rusty shackle.
He began his part of the careful trek down, being careful not to slip and fall; he rested one foot on a sturdy ledge and moved his other to the right, his bonds making it very difficult to reach safe ground.
When he finally maneuvered so that he got past the tricky part, he heard a yelp from behind followed by something suddenly hitting him in the back, knocking him over, the only thing in his mind right then was the sound of a snap and intense pain coming from his ankle………..
( KOHONA POLICE HQ)
"Please, let me see my husband" Mrs.Mikoto pleaded with Shika, the commander that had seen the video first-hand and had ordered the leader of the clan's arrest.
"Mrs. Uchiha, we've been over this several times, I can't allow you to see a prisoner while he's in interrogation, it's against-"
"PLEASE!" her eyes began to water as she could no longer make her voice calm, she was an emotional train wreck, and she wanted to, no, needed to see her husband. "I-I am begging you Shika…….let me see him"
He could see she was beyond desperate, he had known this woman for more than a decade now, and it pained him to see her in so much agony. He sighed before giving and order to a nearby guard, who escorted her to Interrogation Room 3 and unlocked the door, allowing her to see the man she held most dear.
When he saw her he stood to his feet, she ran into him, holding him close for comfort as she cried salty, painful tears into his green vest, his handcuffs not allowing him to return the hug or hold his beloved wife.
"F-Fugaku they think that you're the one t-that kidn-napped-" she started.
"Shh, there there, quiet now, it's all a huge misunderstanding" he tried to calm her down the best he could.
"I'm afraid that there's very little chance of that" a voice from the doorway corrected him. Ornlos, the man who had a look that was a mix between seriousness and complete passiveness plastered on his dull face.
"But there has t-to be some mistake, I know my husband, he would never do anything to harm our children" she retorted, a sense of bravery coming over her as she clung to her lover's chest.
"The evidence is what we go by Mrs. Uchiha, not some villagers petty gut feelings" he was a pretty blunt man, obviously.
Mikoto was angry, but the shattered feeling she had had in her chest for the past 3 days kept her too weak and in too much pain to do anything about it.
"And just what evidence do you have against me?" The former police chief asked, a snarl forming on his lips, he wasn't too happy with someone disrespecting his wife like that.
"more than enough" Ornlos started, he could have just left it there, but he wanted to cut the wounds deep, maybe if this man saw his wife having a complete meltdown he would come out with some sort of confession so he could atleast be with her.
"the tape showing you taking your youngest child out into the harsh and unforgiving wilds and leaving him behind, the last traces of the boy are his blood stains on your clothing"
"SHUTUP!" Mikoto actually screamed, she had heard enough! Shocked by what she had just done, she lowered her eyes and covered her face with her hand before running out of the room, just wanting so much to get away from it all. She ran out of the building, tears running down her cheeks, almost running straight into Shika on her way out. He had heard from word-of-mouth what Ornlos had done to upset her, and he wanted to have a little chat with him.
(Right outside the gates of Kohona)
Itachi crouched down against a nearby tree, they had been combing through ever tree, bush, and shrub in the area looking for signs of where the missing child might be with no luck.
'he was only gone for fifteen minutes on the tape, he couldn't of gotten very far, we should be right in range-OWW' he thought to himself as he stood up, brushing the ants off his foot that had just bit him with their nasty little stingers. He sighed before slipping back into thought, he tried to calculate the average speed of the man he called father and just exactly how far he could have possibly gotten.
As he thought on these things his eyes followed the trail of ants, watching them, one right after another, all walking in a perfect line, somehow it helped him think, strange as it may sound.
The lines stretched from across the clearing, and apparently ended somewhere behind the tree he had formerly been leaning on.
Each tiny little ant would walk towards his direction empty-handed and go back in a parallel line with something in their tiny little claws, on had a leaf fragment, another a small pebble, another farther down the line had a twig, and about 4-5 ants behind him one was carrying a red piece of frayed rope, and another was struggling with a –WAIT, where did he get the red piece of rope from?
Itachi bent over and gently picked up the dark red line from above, shaking the angry little ant off. He brought it close to his eyes, getting a better look, it was some sort of rope alright, and the color stained onto it was all too familiar to the clan prodigy. It was none other than the dark tint of blood.
Getting an idea he walked around the other side of the tree to see where the ant line went, which was right up against that same tree where he had been bit. The line of ants continued up the bark and into the leaves, but that was not was caught Itachi's eye.
There were several more frayed little pieces of the cheap rope that were caught on the rough bark, some of the ends of them had the same red stain, something, or someone, had been tied here for an extended period of time and apparently scratched their skin open against the bark. And it would only take a simple blood test to prove if it was who Itachi thought it was.
(A/N: ok I don't know if they can do DNA blood tests there or not but heck, that's why it's called 'fiction' lol )