Yes, yes, here we go, if you hate torture and violence and depression please skip this chapter. This one should be long enough because I have nothing else to do until Tuesday!
Ino left leaving Sasuke feeling enraged, confused, and even a little guilty. In a way it was his fault that she had chosen this. But then again she was smart enough to know that joining Itatchi would be a bad mistake on her part. She shouldn't have been so weak, she should have learned how to control her emotions, she should have used her sense. But even as he told himself that over and over in his head a part of him kept saying it was his fault.
Sasuke tugged at the chains once more. He had no way of getting out. His only option was to wait until someone let him down, then he'd waist no time trying to escape. He had to get free before Itatchi tried this experiment out on him.
Sasuke sat there all day or night (he wasn't sure) just hanging from the chains. His arms and legs felt limp and lifeless from the constant strain it was under. After awhile though against his will he fell asleep.
Kakashi and his two remaining students took a seat around a table. After a day of searching the area for clues they had decided the trail was dead and that they had better just start from scratch to retrieve their missing teammate.
"How are we going to find him! He could be anywhere by now!" Naruto yelled frustrated that he had let someone disappear right before his eyes.
Sakura nodded her face worn from crying, it took the whole time while they searched to get her to stop believing that it was entirely her fault. Kakashi shrugged, his nonchalant attitude only partly broken from a slight expression of worry.
"In order to find him we must think like him. Most likely he'd be hidden out of public view so as to avoid public attention naturally. So we can scratch out searching in villages or towns."
Sakura nodded. "And he should still be in the leaf village area because trying to get into any other place would cause more problems then he wants. So we should search the forests around us." Sakura's eyes lighten up in hope. "Oh yes, and he'd need some sort of lair no one knows about, some place that very few remember! There are lots of scattered old buildings around the west side! I learned it while studying the geography. We can find him easily!"
Kakashi nodded agreeing that it made sense but, why would Itatchi make it so easy for them to figure it all out? Certainly he wasn't the type who would just slip up on such things. Or perhaps he was so certain that they wouldn't be able to get to Sasuke that he just didn't care.
Noticing Kakashi in his deep thought Naruto clapped loudly in front of his face. "Well! We know were he's at! Let's go get him! I'll tear that cocky big brother of that stupid bastard piece to piece! BELIEVE IT!"
Kakashi nodded once again and got up. "Fine, pack lightly; I want us out on the search in twenty minutes."
The two young ninja agreed to meet up on the hill and left. Kakashi prepared to leave himself when a young fainted looking boy rushed in the door. "Sir," He said panting heavily.
"Huh?"
"Two ninja have been questioned and visited by Itatchi, Nejii and Shikamaru. They said they remember talking to him and he used some type of jutsu to….'read their souls' Also Hinata reported seeing someone talking to Ino who matches the description of Itatchi and now…well, Ino's up and vanished!"
Kakashi sighed running his fingers through his awkwardly spiked hair. With every passing second the situation seemed to become more and more complicated.
Sasuke woke up to the sound of the wooden door slamming against the wall. Itatchi swept in with Ino behind. His face stayed calm looking but by the way he walked obviously something had gone wrong.
"Ino had told me that she saw your little friends running around the forest. A good distance away yes, but Kakashi should not be involved. Your partners left chasing us right as we left and I assumed that they continued. Did they go back and tell him or…did you have him sneaking around?"
Sasuke glared at him. "How should I know? Why, is the great Itatchi worried?" Sasuke teased.
Itatchi glared back at him. "Simply annoyed, don't get it mixed."
Itatchi was not afraid, and he truly was annoyed. But honestly he was irritated at how he had made such assumption of the team. He had expected them to continue to search with out help for at least another day. It was too early for Kakashi to be snooping around which meant that he had to speed up his experiment. But, mentally Sasuke wasn't ready. Itatchi scolded himself for being so stupid careless and cocky. It was an armatures mistake, but he had been so caught up in the joy of being able to torture his brother a bit more that he slipped. Either way he had things under control. A slight shift in plans could fix it all.
Originally Itatchi had intended on simply letting Sasuke sit there, hungry and helpless, and tired. Every once in a while he would come in and stir up memories but the intense alone time would eventually effect Sasuke and he would do damage to himself mentally without Itatchi's involvement.
Now he would have to join and egg him on a little more. He needed Sasuke's emotions to be off check. To be unstable. He needed him to be weak so then his "mind control" jutsu could work.
He only wanted mind control for one, a sick sort of pleasure, and two; it could be useful, since Orochimaru was so interested in Sasuke, to obtain information, which would make his job a lot easier in the end. His brother was a valuable asset and it was times like these that he was glad to have spared his pathetic little life.
Itatchi stared into the younger, more innocent, yet still deeply cold, similar pair of onyx eyes. Stubbornness and anger etched across the boys face. Itatchi suddenly lashed out his hand sending it deep into Sasuke's already tender stomach. Sasuke grunted wishing he was able to defend himself. His fighting instincts were screaming at him to fight back but the chains prevented him from doing so.
Itatchi sent another punch into the stomach and another while Sasuke hung there helpless. After a while Itatchi stopped and looked at his brother.
"Can you not even attempt to fight back?" he said "Are you too weak?"
Sasuke scoffed. "Cheap shots, If only I wasn't chained up—"
"Then what? You would tear me bit by bit? You would kill me; fight back and at least make a hit on me? Or may I remind you how you stood there crying like a helpless infant while I slaughtered our parents."
"I was only a child!" Sasuke shouted back in defense. It wasn't his fault that he was so weak then. He would give anything to have the power he had now then. Anything.
Itatchi smirked. "You rushed at me…yeah I do remember when you tried but what happened?"
Sasuke shut his eyes. "Shut up."
Itatchi continued though. "Do you remember what their blood looked like on our floor? Or what the streets looked like? How every time you took a breath the taste of blood filled your mouth?"
Sasuke shut his eyes tighter trying to push the memories back. Itatchi laughed suddenly his voice echoing in his ears.
"Or how the bodies just laid there on the floor like dolls? Or what about--"
"STOP!"
Itatchi turned around. He had expected Sasuke to shout the word but Ino did instead.
"Please master, not while I'm here." She said her voice cracked and unstable.
Sasuke looked at her wondering why she had said stop. She wasn't the one who had to remember. But even though he saw her eyes filled with hurt as if she was indeed remembering herself.
"I guess I was too lenient when I let you keep some of your own self will." Itatchi mumbled walking out.
He'd have to fix Ino's little outbursts. If he kept having these irritating little distractions around then things could possible mess up.
Wow I'm updating like super fast…hehe well. This chapter wasn't all to exciting but you have to have the good with the bad right? Later
