Pacing back and fort in his room, Kakashi rang Sasuke multiple times. After the officer's theory, he had spent time digging information as much as he could in the old and abandoned laboratory. All he had gotten were the results of chemical tests that were in the test tubes. Some were meant to get high and forget things. It only magnified Kakashi's theory that Naruto was once the culprit's victim in experimenting human anatomy. Now, a couple of days later, Kakashi called to inform Sasuke, but the receiver did not pick up the phone.
"Tch. Just when you need to talk to him." Kakashi grumbled as he pocketed his phone, grabbed his gray tracksuit jacket, and rushed out to Sasuke's working place.
"Akihito, please come out." plead Sasuke, knocking on the door, only to hear muffled sounds of restrained cries. Sighing, the man put down the tray of brealfast he had been holding to fish out a key from his pocket.
The boy locked up in his room turned his head to the door. He was currently sitting on bed crying, but jumped out of it once the door opened. Aki run past Sasuke, who stumbled back a little, but was caught by his arm. "Ouch!" the boy yelped in pain.
"Akihito. Why are you doing this to me?" was Sasuke painstaking question to Aki.
Wrenching the hand that held him back, Aki glared at his father whilst gritting his teeth. "It's all your fault!" yelled the child that made the man's eyes widened. "It's all your fault! Your fault! Papa died because of you! You took me from papa! Papa said he can't live without me, so I promised papa I will always be with him! But-but! You took me! Y-you... You...took me..." Aki exclaimed, however, his tone broke into grief as he cried to his heart's content. Falling down the floor, the boy wept in his hands. "Bring me back papa! Bring me back papa! Please daddy! Please!"
Sasuke can only stare at his crying child, hearing the said child asking for his papa. It broke Sasuke's heart to witness such a font in his child's face.
Why does it has to be like this?
"Papa! Papa! Papa!"
Why do you have to die this way, Naruto, and have my boy grieving over your death?
"Papa...please daddy...gimme papa back..."
Why does Akihito had to cry over you? Were you not the bad guy in this picture? You cheated on me...hid my child from me... But...
"PAPA! Daddy, PAPA!" Aki yelled as he stood and hit Sasuke on bis abdomen with his small fist! "IT'S YOUR FAULT! YOUR FAULT! DAMN I-"
Sasuke slapped Aki.
The boy dropped to his left. Still in shock of being hit by his father, Aki nursed his tender cheek and looked up at the man with eyes that showed fear and disbelief. "Why...?" he whispered.
"Where did you copy that word, huh?" asked Sasuke firmly; his face was devoid of any emotion, but his voice was laced with anger. "I bet you got that from your filthy papa." he said when he recieved no answer from Aki. "Did you know that your papa was a bad guy?"
"No..." Aki whimpered.
"Yes, he was. We were married but he cheated on me. To make you understand what I'm saying... I loved your papa, but he did not love me. That's why."
"No, your wrong!"
Sasuke brushed off Aki's outburst, opting to simply leave the boy for now. "There's your meal. Eat it. I'll be back later." he told the child.
A sigh escaped Kakashi's lips. He had been sitting on the black, leather couch in Sasuke's office for the past fifteen minutes waiting. Well...he probably won't be coming. I should go to his house. He thought, and stood up. Just then, the door to his right opened. "Ah! Good timing, Sasuke."
Hearing his name, Sasuke looked to his left to see Kakashi waving at him. "Eh? What're you doing here, Kakashi."
"I'm here to talk about Naruto's case-"
"Drop it." Sasuke cut off as he made his way to his table wherein he slumped on his swivel chair.
"I can see you are in distress. Is something wrong?" Kakashi approached the younger man.
"I snapped at Akihito. I shouldn't have spoken to him in such a way to degrade Naruto. That guy had never told our son anything bad about me, but then he never said anything at all of me. Akihito's so upset that I don't know how to face him." Sasuke told the man standing in front of him whilst having his head hand massaged his temple with his eyes shut close.
"You've always been a problem child, Sasuke... Anyway, I found out something very important."
Sasuke looked up.
"Naruto... He was experimented on six years ago. That days he disappeared."
Aki stepped warily out of his room, careful not to make any noise as he closed the door. Looking left and right, he deemed it clear of his babysitter his father had called and so he made his way to the living roon and into the entryway where he located his pair of shoes. He sat down and put in his shoes, however, he did not know how to tie shoelaces yet.
"Having a hard time, kiddo?" a woman asked from behind, startling Aki who looked over his shoulder and saw the pink haired woman, his baby sitter.
"Miss Sakura..." the boy whimpered.
Putting on a smile, Sakura said, "Let me help you. You want to visit your papa, right?"
The child nodded. He then stood up as the woman crouch down to the boy's level to tie his shoelaces. "All done!" she exclaimed with a smile once done.
"Thank you, miss Sakura."
Sakura only smiled back at Aki as she held tye child's hand. She led the boy out, closing the door behind and locking it before heading straight to highway to catch a cab that would bring them to cemetery.
Once there, Aki asked, "So, where's papa?" looking up at Sakura, who replied.
"I think it's here, his grave."
The boy, whose hand was held by the woman, followed Sakura. They walked farther in for a moment, and turned to right.
"Ah! There it is!" exclaimed Sakura.
Aki let go of the hand that was holding him to kneel before the tombstone. "Papa, hello." he greeted. "You know what? I miss you so much. I want you to come back papa, but I know you can't. You're in heaven, are you not? With mom-mom and God? How does heaven looks like? Is it beautiful up there? You know what? I wanna see you, papa. Will you wait for me just like mom-mom is waiting for dada? By the way...daddy hurt me." he sniffled as tears were welling up, remembering his pain. "He said you don't love him... I wish I could talk to you, papa. I really am so confused. Is he really my daddy?"
While Aki was talking and as he fell in silence, Sakura watch with unreadable emotion on her face.
Poor child has to go through his parents' mess. The woman furrowed her brows.
To be continued...
