Warnings: violence, and swearing, OOCNESS.
Disclaimer: don't own the characters
Chapter 9 :
Oh how lost, the broken are.
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It happened in a blur, a flurry of a moment, if you were to ask Itachi.
One minute they were speeding down the road, Hidan swearing and yelling, eyes fixated on Itachi, Itachi in inner turmoil, thinking of absolutely everything, and his cousin , working his ass off to lose the crazy bastard, and not get them all killed in the process. However, that...seemed to prove useless when a bright, Yellow ,light began blinding their vision. When Itachi turned to look ahead of him, followed by Hidan, and Obito from looking in the drivers mirror..It had already been too late.
The next minute he felt an impact. An impact quite similar to being slammed by a raging bull into the stone, cold, ground. When he finally regained himself, he could hear nothing but a strange screeching noise, ringing throughout his ears. He opened his eyes slowly, blood dripping down his nose and onto the...Pavement?
"What.." Those words gained him access to clear his mind quicker. He squinted his eyes shut for a moment or two, when it rewarded him a head splitting ache. Then his hearing cleared, and he could hear nothing but car horns and a strange cackling sound. He opened his eyes again..This time, slowly. What he saw caused him to gasp loudly. His car had been flipped over. Obito was all the way across the road, lying on his back. And Hidan..
"Hidan!?" Itachi found himself yelling, his hands fumbling for his seat belt only to find it had been jammed stuck from the impact. "HIDAN!"
Itachi began yelling as loud ,as his smoke scorched throat would allow.
Wait..Smoke?
Itachi frantically looked around him. Noticing the large truck they had speed right into, curled across the road, a large dent in the front, the back was also crushed, having been rammed into a very large tree on impact. He craned his neck around him, finally noticing Hidans car squished right into the bumper of Obitos...Obito was lucky he, wasn't wearing his seat belt. If he had, he would've been crushed. The back of Obito's car was now in the front. His car had been folded like a piece of paper.
But what struck him more, from these minute thoughts..Was the small lick of flames, spurting from Hidans hood, and making their way slowly to Obito's bumper..If it DID reach the back..Well, Itachi would become a very nice marshmellow.
He began to panic even more. "Hidan!"
Something grabbed him. He felt cold, slick, and slimy, hands reach for his forearms, jerking roughly, only to find resistance from the seat belt. Then he felt the hands pause, one retreating, before coming back with a very sharp object.
The blade was brought down into the material of the seat belt, slicing through the tough fabric brashly, and nearly cutting Itachis arm in the process..But he was free. Someone was pulling him out through the cars window.
"Itachi.." He felt himself being embraced. His legs, being too weak to stand on their own from the impact of the car crash, was conveniently placed around the mans waist, that seemed to be badly cut up.
When Itachi turned his head from out of the others neck, he found silver eyebrows brought down sharply, eyes squeezed shut, and lips drawn in a thin line.
Itachi felt his heart swell.
"Hidan.." He whispered softly, bringing his chapped, and split lips to the albino's. Pressing himself firmly against the taller male, he felt the other melt into his embrace.
"Shh.." He tried to calm the ravennette. Stroking his fingers through the others long, silky black, hair.
"I'm so sorry, I'm so, so , sorry" He began pleading, apologizing thoroughly, he felt dried tears began to leak down his bruised cheeks. He tried to hold them back, the salty liquid was burning his cuts, and he felt shame in showing such weakness.
"Shh, 'Tachi, it's ok. We'll get out of this, don't cry. Please don't cry" He heard the other coo softly. It was odd to hear such soothing, warm words from him, (especially without swears) but he wasn't complaining. It was actually making him feel good.
"Hidan, what the fuck is going on!"
The duo turned their heads to the abrupt, raspy, voice. There they found a tall looming, pissed, tanned figure.
"Kakuzu..What the fuck are you doing here?"
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"Kakuzu"
"Obito?"
"I'm at a retarded trailer that smells kinda like rust and fish."
"..Yeah..That's Hidan's place"
"The hell does he do here, rub salmon all over the damn walls of the vehicle?" Obito asked, his nose wrinkling in disgust from the strange smell surrounding the place.
"I asked him the same thing. He got offended, then took out a can of tuna, and began rubbing it all over the damn trailer. 'Said 'Here dick head, now it really does smell like fish'." Kakuzu chuckled
"..Charming friend you have"
Kakuzu sighed heavily over the phone. "I know right? A real keeper" He droned out sarcastically, causing Obito to laugh.
"Hey, how come the front doors open?" Obito asked suddenly. Getting out of the car and walking up to the front steps, gripping said door and checking out the door knob and lock.
"..Open? Hidan would've kept that locked shut tight. He doesn't let Itachi leave the damn trailer at all."
Obito nodded, looking down at the lock that was slightly broken, he began to smirk. "Hahah..Looks like Itachi's training paid off, despite his protests of not wanting to be an officer."
"Hm?" Kakuzu replied monotonously, wanting an answer.
"Well, he picked the damn lock. Sneaky little weasel.." Obito laughed heartedly, but Kakuzu remained tensed.
"Thats not good..." Kakuzu replied, letting another frustrated sigh part his lips as Obito raised an eyebrow at his friends reaction..Though he couldn't see it.
"In what way?" Obito asked, frowning, turning away from the steps, and making his way back to the car. "If he got away then that only gives me a head start."
"You don't get it. No one knows that forest like Hidan does. I used to take him there for training when I recruited him for Akatsuki. When I bought him that trailer, he decided to plant it right there in the woods. He has been living there for years and knows that place like the back of his hand." Kakuzu began to explain, stopping for a moment to see if Obito was understanding where he was getting at.
When Kakuzu didn't hear a response, he elaborated more clearly.
"..He knows all the roads that lead out from that area. If Itachi wondered off in that forest, when Hidan gets off from work, he can easily track his direction and he will instantly know which road to take. I'm afraid right now you are at a pretty bad disadvantage. You are going to have to look for him, then get him, then leave the area."
"..Just my fucking luck" Obito sighed, pulling a hand through his hair tiredly, before pulling the car door open and getting into the drivers seat.
"Are there any tracks from the trailer?" Kakuzu asked, wanting to help his friend out some more.
"Yeah...From the door..Heading..North of the forest" Obito explained, his eyes following the direction of the muddy foot prints.
"Take the mountain road out back..Just a little down from brook street, he is most likely headed that way"
"Thanks Kakuzu, I owe ya"
"..Just be careful alright? I'll try to stall Hidan at the trailer as best as I can. But even then..He seems pretty stuck on that boy of yours"
"..I got this. Just worry about your own affairs. Later Kakuzu"
"Hmph"
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"I was looking for you, that's why, you fucking moron. Look what you did to your car! Do you know how much money it costs to get repairs now a days!?" Kakuzu began yelling, storming over to Hidan, how began to tense and shift Itachi more to his right side. Expecting to be hit by his friend.
Itachi who noticed the shift, hid his head in Hidans neck. He was far to tired to deal with all this shit.
"That ain't my fucking fault, dick head! I was busy finding this fucking idiot, because a God damn cop showed up and-"
"I asked him to show up."
"What."
Itachi froze. A sudden frozen silence, tension filled the area, as Hidans posture and tone turned down right hostile.
"You fucking what!?" Hidan shouted, dropping Itachi to the floor, who in turn, yelped at the sudden fall to the stony ground. His legs began to ache more thoroughly from the rough treatment. It seems it wasn't just the impact of the car crash that got his legs in pain. His ankle must be sprained..Maybe even broken.
"I told you! I told you, you had to get rid of him. Do you even know how much shit we are ALL getting into because of this? Fucking wake up Hidan!" Kakuzu roared, slamming his fist into the others jaw, who in turn struck a hard kick to Kakuzus abdomen.
"Ugh!" Kakuzu, curled his hand over his stomach before pouncing on the albino man, his fists slamming into the others face repeatedly, as the other got his own fill of punches.
"Hidan!" Itachi shouted in concern.
Hidan raised his left leg, bringing his knee up into the others stomach repeatedly, causing Kakuzu to roll off Hidan in pain. Hidan grabbed Kakuzu's brown, shoulder lenght hair, and bunched it up in a fist. It was his turn to wail punches on his old time friend.
"Itachi." A sudden hand was felt on his shoulder,a soft voice reaching his ears. Itachi turned to see his cousin Obito, holding his side with a weak grin. "Lets go before they notice us"
"But Hidan-"
"He obviously doesn't care Itachi! Look at him! The way he is now, if you get in his way, he will kill you!" Obito snapped. His endless bouts of patients running thin from his injured side. He may have a cracked rib, Itachi concluded.
When Itachi looked back at the ongoing fight, he saw that both sociopaths had brought out knives at this point, and were brutally trying to stab each other.
"People like them don't have feelings Itachi. He doesn't love you" Obito Contineaud.
Itachi felt something inside him crumble.
"Its just obsession. Nothing more, nothing less"
'Dangerous'
Itachi recalled his previous thoughts. Its true. Hidan was a monster. A brutal, killing machine. And he would probably hurt Itachi if he ever crossed Hidans thin and unpredictable line. He needed to leave him. He couldn't stay there. It was so weird. One minute he had everything figured out and the next, just a touch from this man, and everything was distorted again.
"..Get me out of here" Itachi replied, to which Obito quickly agreed.
The last thing Itachi saw, was Hidan and Kakuzu rolling into the ditch, knife at each others throats.
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"Itachi!" he heard a familiar voice call out to him, worriedly.
When Itachi looked over the docters shoulder, he saw someone he has been wanting to see for a long, long time.
"Sasuke.."
Said boy ran up to Itachi, embracing his sore waist carefully. His face nuzzling into the others neck with a sigh. "Nisan..I've been so worried about you"
"We all have.."
When Itachi looked up from his brothers strangely cut hair, he saw his father and mother standing there. His mother was crying softly behind a tissue, and his father...Itachi couldn't believe it. His father looked ready to break too.
"Father..."
"I'm here Itachi" His father called softly, walking over and running his hands soothingly through his sons hair. "..and I'm so sorry Itachi. I'm so, so , sorry. For how I have treated you..You being gone really..It really opened my eyes. You know I am proud of you, right?"
His father must've been really scared, and worried about him. Itachi never heard this man apologize in his life.
"Its ok. It doesn't matter anymore" Itachi spoke truthfully. Accepting his father affection.
It felt ...nice.
His mother approached him too. Sasuke retreated to allow her to embrace her son. Tears streaking her cheeks as she sobbed, relieved. "I was..so worried. Oh Itachi! I'm so glad you're ok.."
He wasn't ok. He was breaking inside.
"Its alright mother. I'll be alright" he replied. Holding her gently to comfort her. How strange..he hadn't felt her embrace in years..And Itachi just melted to it. Like a secret part of him was waiting for this.
"Everything..will be alright"
And maybe he didn't believe it now. As he felt his heart crack. But maybe..just maybe..He will be able to get through this. With his family there..Maybe..Just maybe it wouldn't have to hurt so much anymore.
Ok. So here we go. What kind of ending do you think this will have? Don't worry this ain't over yet. But it will be soon. Maybe a few more chapters. Does this make you sad? WHO KNOWS. Wellp, I'ma go eat some cake now. Enjoy the chapter. And thanks to all who have reviewed or faved. Means alot!
