Chapter 5
Seething with rage, Naruto grit his teeth as he left the railings and started towards the raven-haired bastard who stole his precious necklace.
Despite his seeming preoccupation while talking to some kind of a longhaired blond and a slick-haired silver-head, the dark-haired man was well aware of Naruto's advances, if his arrogant smirk towards Naruto was any signification to that.
'Asshole! Does he even realize that I'm about to break his neck?'
"There you are, Naru-chan!"
Naruto gasped in abrupt startle as he was suddenly grabbed around the waist and hoisted over someone's shoulder, being carried back outside. "Shikamaru's been looking for your naughty ass all over the place. Well ain't I lucky to get to it first?"
Forgetting all about his current goal and missing the way the raven-haired man shot a nasty glare towards his captor, Naruto sure as hell didn't miss the way his now distinguished captor patted his ass before pinching it.
"Fuck! Cut it out, Suigetsu!" screamed the blond and slammed a hand against the whitely-blue hair's back.
"AAhh! You're so mean!" nearly dropping the blond from the pain, Suigetsu still managed to hold him still and hoisted him further up his shoulder, making Naruto come face to…flesh with his ass. "Enjoy the view why don't you."
"You pervert! Get me down before I bite off a chunk of your 'view'!"
"Now-now, let's not get too excited Blondie. I know you're secretly craving me, but you'll just have to wait until we're all alone." playfully teased Suigetsu and grunted as another hand came slamming on top of him.
"Like hell you'll be!" hissed Shikamaru and grabbed Naruto right before he could bite Suigetsu in the 'other cheek' as promised.
"Killjoy!"
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21:29
As night approached and sky darkened, a loud signal soon rang throughout the whole courtyard and all prisoners were called to leave the grounds and go back to their cells.
"'Night everyone!"
"Bye Naru-chan!"
"Hn."
"Later guys!" yelled Kiba as he, Neji, Suigetsu and Lee retreated back in the prison.
"Whatever," nonchalantly grumbled Shikamaru and slid a hand around Naruto's shoulders, slowing him long enough to stay behind the others.
Finally ditched by the others and able to freely speak his mind, Naruto turned to his 'boyfriend'. "I found my necklace."
Arching a dark brow, Shikamaru looked over Naruto's chest in question, "And? Where is it?"
"As you can see not on me," hissed the displeased blond, recalling a certain smug bastard's smirk. "It's currently in another inmate's possession."
"Which one?"
"I don't know."
"Okay… Any insinuations?"
"Hmph. He's tall. Has long dark hair, tied in a loose tail; black/red eyes; and strange-…"
"…-markings across the cheeks," Shikamaru seemed familiar with the man's description all too well, seeing that he finished the sentence himself. "That's Itachi Susanoo. A sly man. Smart, competitive, well skilled and very dangerous. Stay away from him."
Naruto blinked at the quickly laid out background added by a direct warning. "Well I can't stay away from him now. He has my fucking necklace, for pit'sake!"
"Forget it," Shikamaru hissed in warning; grabbing Naruto's hand, he pulled him after himself into the prison, "If something comes within his possession and is adapted to his liking he'll keep it forever. Even if he suddenly decides to give it back to you, which is mostly unlikely, don't expect it to come out freely. You'll have to give something in return. And his price is always high."
"But it's my necklace! He knows it. He stole it from me!" Naruto protested and glared even harder as his eyes abruptly caught that longhaired blond the raven was previously talking to, staring at him from his spot against the first-storey bars.
The man smirked and winked at him. Before Naruto could flip him off, Shikamaru yanked him up the stairs.
"Lost and found is not stolen, Naruto. Haven't life taught you anything? Damn, man, are you really a sniper?"
"Tsk! Shut up! That…man took that what rightfully belongs to me!"
Sighing, the thief pushed Naruto into their cell. "Not anymore."
Crossing his arms, Naruto set on his bed and glared at the other who went to clean his hands. "I'm still gonna get it back."
"Geez, Naruto… It's just one necklace. I'll buy you ten more like that one, if it makes you happy. So get over it."
"I don't want ten others. I want the one that's mine."
"Why are you so worked up over it?"
"None of your business!"
Trying not to palm his face, Shikamaru turned the tap of the sink off and glared at the blond. He did respect and understood the fact that that necklace was precious to Naruto in some twisted-historical way if he was ready to go to such heights so as to retreat it back, yet still… "You're stubborn! I'm telling you to forget it!"
Naruto's eyes glinted, "Who are you to order me around, Nara? This is not your business to deal, let alone your problem. I'm getting my necklace back, be it with or without bloodshed. You have no say in it."
Shikamaru stared as the blond's eyes flashed with immense determination. Sighing, he shook his head, "You don't know what you're getting yourself into Naruto. Susanoo is not a forgiving man."
"Neither am I."
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08:11
Already fully dressed, Naruto lay on his bed as he started at the mattress above him, waiting almost patiently for the sound that'll open the doors and he'll be able to get his hands around someone's neck.
Sneaking a hand under his pillow, he pulled out one of the screws and stared at its sharp edge. 'Weapon you say huh…' courteous to his cellmate's words, Naruto placed the sharp object in his pocket and stood up as the signal rang and the cells were opened.
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08:32
Keeping his hands in his pockets, Naruto glared as he slowly neared his located destination and subconsciously fingered the sharp object inside his right pocket.
Catching the long since awaited blond approaching, Itachi's eyes glinted and he glanced at his cellmate, who merely smirked and exited their cell.
Seeing a smirking blue-haired man exit, Naruto gripped the screw tighter and boldly entered the cell, coming to stand in front of the Susanoo who was casually leaning against the top bunk.
Itachi's brow arched in questioning interest, "To whom do I own the pleasure of this little visit?"
"A crystal shaped topaz hanging around your neck." evenly answered Naruto, tightening his hand around the screw.
The man's lips twitched upwards. "Aa… Seems it was only a matter of time once you came after it."
Trying to stay careful, Naruto nodded, "Indeed. May I please have it back?" he asked politely, silently waiting for the man to mock him, laugh at him or even arch a brow at him after those words, though Naruto was not expecting to receive neither.
"Hn," smirking, the man suddenly unhooked the jewel and hung it around Naruto's neck. "Here you go."
'…? …? …What?' Naruto was surprised, the man didn't even ask a thing in exchange. Forgetting all about caution, Naruto slipped his hand out of his pocket and gripped his necklace, checking if it was really his. "Like that huh… You're just gonna give it to me?"
"That's right."
'Hm. I can simply thank him and turn away, …but…' but the man's sly smile and its close resemblance to the way Shikamaru tried to play him with those same words restrained Naruto to do so. 'Talk about déjà vu.' "If I leave this cell right now I know you're gonna come back looking for me for a debt repayment." 'Because it's always like that. They say you owe them nothing, but in the end it turns out to be a debt for life. Tch…I hate morals.'
Itachi arched an innocently amused brow, "Whatever makes you say that?"
'You're laughter of a voice does it flawlessly.' Naruto sneered to himself, but ignored the question as he asked one of his own, "What's the catch?"
"Catch, little fish?" the man's lips twitched slightly, "There is none." 'For you've already been caught.'
"I don't believe you." said Naruto with a glare. "You don't look like a type of a man who supports beneficence. What is it that you hope to get from me?"
Smirking, Itachi reached out and fingered a small lock of blond hair by Naruto's left-ear. 'You're prudent.' "I see that you've already been enlightened of this prison's basic principles: …there are no givers."
'If a familiar slacker has anything to do with this information.' Naruto thought in his head, shivering involuntarily as Itachi slight tugged on his hair before letting it go.
Pocketing his hands, the raven tilted his head to the side, lowering his eyes to stare at the blond's scarred cheeks. "You're partly right. I don't support beneficence. However, I do support a favorable equivalence. Tit for tat. I believe it's only fairly justified… seeing that I returned your necklace."
'Justified? Prisoners don't know such things as justice.' Naruto's eyes narrowed deeply while the man continued.
"But whatever my demand may hold, I'm going to let you figure it out on your own."
"Why not simply state it already?" the blond grit out, getting impatient and slightly unnerved by the man's calm composure.
"Hmm… it's more entertaining that way. But don't linger too long, I'm not very patient."
'That bastard. Even for a stupid rock on a string he still expects me to give something for him? He doesn't deserve shit! Talk about sly. Shikamaru was right.' Hiding his inner tremor, Naruto played along, "Alright…let's say I agree to the terms. But what if I don't come up with the answer till then?"
Leaning closer, Itachi whispered into the other's ear, "Then we'll just have to see what happens then."
Frowning at him, Naruto nearly jumped as his name was suddenly called.
"Uzumaki. You have a visitor." grumbled Asuma outside Susanoo's cell as he walked pass.
Nodding towards the exit, Itachi's smooth voice brought Naruto back to attention, "Go."
Snorting at him, Naruto quickly left the raven's presence and went after Asuma, though before that, he stopped by the doors and glanced back. "By the way: I owe you nothing."
Coming to stand by the entrance, Itachi smirked as he placed his elbow against the bars and stared after the retreating blond. 'The moment you came to me…you already did.'
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08:58
Meeting eyes with purple blue, Naruto quickly came to a halt and looked around to make sure there were no Sasukes lurking behind his brother's back.
Chuckling at that, Kyuubi beckoned him to come and greet him.
Sighing, Naruto did so and entwined his hands around his brother's shoulders. "What are you doing here?"
"Since my previous visit got interrupted by Kusanagi, I decided to come and meet you again." Pulling the blond over to one of the empty tables, Kyuubi skipped a glance at the guards by the far doors and then turned back to his brother. "How far are you?"
Understanding the question as the one concerning his breakout plot, Naruto sighed in irritation, "Near the start. My cellmate turned out to be of a major hindrance."
"That's to be expected." nodded Kyuubi. "After all, you two share a room."
"Aa." putting all needless discussion for later, Naruto turned serious. "His name's Shikamaru Nara. Twenty years old. Claims to be confined for thievery. Five years; two left. His girlfriend is Ino, no further info on her aside the looks."
Taking in all the gathered background information on the person Kyuubi momentarily understood as the one to be tagged along (or otherwise known as a meddling threat that's to be dealt with), he questioned further, "What's his status?"
"Has good connections with inmates and is the leader of one of the gangs. Members come from small caliber. Most of them are thieves and robbers; none's sentenced for more than seven years. That's the least I could find out."
"Nothing but a minor hitch."
Shaking his head at Kyuubi's conclusion, Naruto frowned and entwined his fingers to prop his chin. "Hardly. He's strong…and very smart."
Narrowing his eyes, Kyuubi absorbed his twin for a silent minute before he leant back in his seat and asked with emotionless gaze. "When are you planning to kill him?"
Naruto's eyes turned up to meet his cold brother's.
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10:45
Keeping his gaze down on the trod out grass of the courtyard, Naruto strolled along and headed for the benches, ignoring constant looks he received from other gangs and inmates he passed.
"Why so down?"
Turning his head to the side, Naruto looked up at smiling Kiba and some dark-haired man walking beside him with expressionless face and black-glasses; the two decided to string along with him over to their usual spot.
"I didn't sleep well," simply brushed off the blond and looked once more at the unknown man.
Catching the lack of introductions, Kiba grinned and pointed towards the other, "This is Shino Aburame. My roomy. Mind you, he's not very talkative."
Stopping long enough to shake the offered hand, Naruto nodded and introduced himself.
As soon as the three made their way towards the already occupied benches, Naruto turned to Shikamaru who narrowed his eyes at him, "Where've you been this long?"
Smirking, Naruto arched a brow, "What…worried?" he asked and reached a finger to tug out a black string from his shirt, intentionally showing it to Nara and silently saying that he got what he wanted.
Sighing in both relief and disturbance, Shikamaru still smirked and pulled the blond into his lap.
Soon the other usual members from Nara's gang joined them and Naruto was met with yet another person from it: Juugo – Suigetsu's cellmate. The man was older than the rest, his hair was uncharacteristically orange and his height was higher than that of officer Gai. Despite all that, he was slightly mental and advisable no to fuck around with.
Sighing, Naruto leant his head against Shikamaru's shoulder, while the lazy-one bent to whisper by his ear. "How did you get it back?" he asked, tugging on the black string.
Smacking lightly on the hand touching his necklace, Naruto said, "He gave it to me."
Naruto felt the brunet stiffen slightly. "He just gave it back to you?"
"Aa. But don't think too much, he still expects me to return the favor."
"So I've guessed…. What he wants?"
"I don't know. Tells me to figure it out myself. But that doesn't mean that I'm actually going to give him anything. Besides, I don't think I'll be sticking around for too long to even find that out."
"Are you intentionally trying to dig yourself more trouble than necessary?" Tired of arguing with him, Shikamaru dropped his forehead against the shrugging blond's shoulder and sighed. "You just like it the hard way, don't you?"
"Turns out that you don't know me so well," grinned Naruto.
"Hm."
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10:49
"You just gave it back to him?" watching the blond-haired boy tug out a black string from his shirt, Kisame looked over to his cellmate. "How unusual for you. I thought you're gonna use the advantage."
"All in due time, Kisame." Leaning against the benches situated closest to the prison building, Itachi silently absorbed the interaction between Nara and Uzumaki across the yard. "Right now, I don't want him to feel pressured."
"First consciousness and now compassion? That's not you, man." Getting a glare for his efforts, Kisame shot his hands up, "Not to be meant as a bad thing of course."
"Of course…" turning away from the grinning blue-haired, Itachi looked over to the opposite benches and slightly scowled as he saw his blond interest in Nara's hands.
Sighing, Kisame ran a hand through his spiked hair. "You do realize that he's not going to keep his end of the bargain, right?"
'Not that there actually was any bargain to begin with. Not a bipartite one at least.' Smirking, Itachi shook his head, "I know. I just want to see if he's actually bold enough to do so. Nara's probably already told him about every inmate there is to keep his guard and distance from. Though it seems the young one doesn't like to listen."
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12:04
Laughter and foolishness was soon interrupted as officer Might Gai intervened in Nara's gang's muss.
"Mr. Nara!" Looking up at loud, spring-overfilled annunciation, the gang turned to the grinning officer. "It's time for your private visit."
Smacking Suigetsu for his idiotic whistles and catcalls, Shikamaru went after the officer.
As the two disappeared, Lee looked over at Naruto with a sympathetic look in his black eyes. "You ok?"
In turn, Naruto frowned and arched a questioning brow at the other's strange behavior. "Why you ask?"
Piping in, Kiba rubbed his neck as he cleared, "Well…you know…, watching the way Shikamaru is going to meet his girlfriend while leaving you behind…?"
'Ah…they think I'm jealous, since Nara's supposed to be my boyfriend.' Laughing to himself, Naruto shrugged indifferently, "It doesn't bother me."
"Really?"
"Hm. Mine and Shikamaru's relationship is nothing other than a small fling tossed between desire and lust of two inmates." Stretching out on the bench, Naruto looked up at the clouded sky as he went through easy lies. "Anyways, I don't think it's any different from the way all of you feel when one of your cellmates head for their visit."
"Feel…for our cellmates? What do you mean by that?" frowned Kiba.
Smirking, Naruto looked at him knowingly, "I'm now more than certain that you've all done it with your own roomies."
Suigetsu chocked on air while Kiba spluttered and blushed.
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12:23
Entering the private room provided with nothing other than a soft bed, a table and night lamp, Shikamaru walked over to the steal grid window and waited for the doors to open.
After some time, the lock was picked and one of the officers led in a blond-haired girl.
Turning around, Nara smiled as his girlfriend Ino walked over to him and hugged him tightly. As the doors closed behind them, she turned her head and kissed him longingly.
"Hey."
"Hi."
Smirking at their usual greeting exchange, Shikamaru rubbed circles on Ino's back as he then asked, "How did you get here?"
Smiling, Ino had to mention only one name to drive Shikamaru in fury, "Sai. He drove me here."
"Sai?" the brunet nearly exploded with venomous shout. Shikamaru hated Sai, because he thought that he was going all friendly with his girlfriend just to steal her away from him.
Sighing, Ino kissed her boyfriend to assure him that he has nothing to worry about. "He's just my friend, Shik'. He's trying to be nice."
"Of course he is." sardonically retorted Shikamaru while the blond girl chuckled at his jealousy.
"Don't worry. I love you, not him."
"I know that. But that still doesn't mean that that's a good enough reason for me to start liking him."
"Fair enough."
Sighing irritably, Shikamaru shook his head from all mental images of the Sai guy and smiled at his girlfriend; pulling her over to sit on the bed, he then said, "Ino… There's something I need to tell you."
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18:19
Standing in line to get dinner, Naruto leant close to the 'slacker' and cautiously whispered out, "I need something that could attenuate masonry."
Frowning, Shikamaru wondered, "Chemicals?"
"Preferably."
"There's a Toxic Control Center in between the first and the second sector of the prison."
"That would do. By the way, why would prison have something like that in the first place?"
"In case there's an accident within the prison or the walls, like after-flame effects, decay or corrosives, inmates are placed to do the dirty work in place of the owners, thus providing us with all necessary gadgets, including chemicals, to get the dump cleaned."
"How can I get inside that Center?"
Pulling out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, Shikamaru handed it to Naruto. "His name's Hayate. You can't miss him, he coughs a lot. Just flash him a pack of these and he'll get you in."
Without another word, Naruto left the dining hall.
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00:01
Poking out their small square mirror through the bars, Shikamaru made sure all walks on their storey were clear, while Naruto squatted down before the unscrewed sink and gently pushed it away from the wall, disabling all hooked rubber and plastic pipes aside to reveal a cinder block wall.
Taking one of the long screws, Naruto ran it over the still wet concrete mass between the wide cinder blocks and smirked as small bits easily crumbled against the metal and fell down.
After getting the masonry cleaner from the Control Center, Naruto went back to their cell and splashed the quick-acting chemical on the wall, that way getting the wanted result of easy-work.
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00:43
After some time, it was deemed enough. Unable to dig the concrete out further than the screws length, Naruto put the screw aside and brushed his dusty hands against his pants. 'Let's hope it's enough to kick through.' "Shikamaru. I need noise."
"What?" confused, Shikamaru pulled the mirror back in and looked at Naruto warily.
"I'm going to kick the wall out. And I need you to make me some noise to muffle it down."
"Really… I thought you were supposed to be the screamer in our relationship."
"Not that, you idiot!" hissed the embarrassed blond.
Chuckling, Shikamaru shook his head and leant more comfortably against the wall by the bars. "Yo! Suigetsu!" he screamed through the whole sector and grinned as a 'the fuck you want' was shouted out from somewhere to their left.
Naruto arched a brow in amused interest, wondering what Nara had in mind.
"Sing something!" simply said Shikamaru, making Suigetsu react…negatively,
"FUCK YOU IN THE ASS, NARA!"
"Shouting ain't even remotely close to singing, Hozuki."
"I Said FUCK And YOU! I Ain't Singing Shit!"
"OH-OH! Tobi Knows A Song!" suddenly someone else shouted from their right and started singing. "Sweat Baby Sweat Baby sex is a Texas drought Me and You do the kind of stuff that only Prince would sing about, So put your hands down my pants and I'll bet you feel nuts, Yes I'm sisco, yes I'm…-"
It wasn't long for the first inmate to finally lose it…,
"SHUT UP!" as one lost it they all lost it as all inmates went ballistic and started screaming in outrageous burst.
Getting the noise he wanted and more, Naruto turned back to the wall and propped his elbows against the floor; with a hard swing of his foot, he began kicking the block out of its loosened place.
As the guy Tobi sang even louder, the rile rose up even higher. "Come On Homies! Sing Along! You and Me Baby ain't nothin' but mammals so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel, Do it again now!"
With a few more forceful kicks, Naruto finally broke through to the other side, just in time for the floor alarm to go off and officers enter the chaos.
Stopping in the middle of the sector, Asuma shouted out silencing the racket, "QUIET IT UP! The Next Inmate To Open His Mouth Gets A Free Trip Inside The Icebox!"
As everything quickly calmed down, Shikamaru peeked down to see the officers head back; picking up the mirror, he made sure none's on their storey before turning to the blond.
Meeting eyes with Shikamaru, Naruto smirked as he gazed back at the illuminating hole.
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A/N
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I named Itachi after one of his techniques – The Susanoo (God of the Sea and Storms technique);
I did so because I needed to separate him from Sasuke, for they're not related here…sorry.
Sasuke's last name is – Kusanagi (the name of his sword).
Anyway, I hope ya don't mind…;)
Thanks ta: Naruto00, Felnore, CorruptedCharlie, saya420, neko raccoon, seto'swifey, Stoic-Genius, Savagehunger47, dragonzice, narubby23, YaoiYuriLover, Tuuna, Narutopokefan, RandomKleenex & TheDeviant! XD
Reply: Felnore – …umm, nope… I haven't mentioned the Uchiha name previously. Itachi & Sasuke's surnames revealed only now;))
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