Chapter 9
Pakun pushed his small body through the powerful storm he knew Kakashi and Sasuke were relying on him. He was exhausted to the fullest by the time he got to Tsunade's office. He walked into the office and dragged his butt up onto her desk he was panting and trying his best to catch his breath.
"Yes?"
Tsunade didn't even know how to take this situation if she should be serious or laugh at how Pakun looked.
"Kakashi found the boys Sasuke is in horrible shape he couldn't wait out the storm. Kakashi has requested that you be at the hospital and get a team and room ready for him."
"Do you know what is wrong with Sasuke?"
"He's covered in injuries, stab wounds, cuts, bruises, burns, his lung was punctured but the boys did their best to repair it. They did say that they had just gotten out of the Sound this morning."
"He was there a week."
Tsunade felt horrible and responsible like she should have done something sooner. She was so concerned about the village getting attacked to forgot what Orochimaru was capable of. She forgot that Sasuke is not just a ninja but he's a twelve year old boy.
"He was also brutally raped Orochimaru apparently wrapped barbwire around himself first."
"How far behind are they?"
"About twenty minutes."
Tsunade got up and went out of her office to get to the hospital to get a team and room in the intensive care ready for Sasuke. Pakun began to drag his ass over to the hospital. Kakashi and the boys were almost at the gates. Kakashi looked down at Sasuke who was still asleep but his breathing was getting worse by the minute. He was shaking now and it was becoming difficult to hold him. Even though they did the best they could to keep him warm and dry he didn't have a doubt that Sasuke would have one hell of a cold or worse from the storm. No one spoke the entire time whether it was from the fact that they didn't have the energy to after fighting in this storm for so long or they just didn't know what to say.
They finally arrived in Konoha and headed straight to the hospital where sure enough Tsunade was standing at the front door with three nurses beside her. Pakun had gotten the strength to find Sakura before he headed over to the hospital so she was there as well along with the other genin and team sensei. Sakura ran to get them knowing they wanted to see their missing team members.
Kakashi went in and Tsunade ran over to see Sasuke. She gently removed Kiba's jacket from his face. She then removed the other jackets so she could open the blanket. Which was covered in blood despite the heavy rain. She couldn't believe what she saw she immediately checked his pulse it was low dangerously low. She turned around and addressed the nurses.
"Find as many heating blankets as you can and three pints of o negative now. Kakashi get him in the room."
Kakashi moved to the room that Tsunade had assigned for Sasuke Tsunade led the way. Once in the room Kakashi didn't hesitate to put Sasuke down on the bed. The other Genin were all surrounding by the door. Kakashi turned to Asuma and Gai.
"Get them out of here and keep them away from the room."
"Get the four boys to see a nurse to check them out as well."
Asuma and Gai nodded then went to work getting the young Genin away from the room. They knew that Kakashi was worried that Sasuke would die. They didn't need to watch that especially at their age.
"What we're just not suppose to go near him we just spent a week with him and now we can't be!" Naruto yelled to Asuma who was practically dragging him away from the room.
"Naruto you have also been gone for a week you all need to get looked at. You were out in that storm without a jacket all four of you are going to be sick. Kakashi needs to be with Sasuke right now and he needs to be able to make decisions that will be best for Sasuke he can't do that with everyone standing around." Asuma tried to explain
"You also don't need to watch as Sasuke is being healed. His injuries are server…"
"Ya we know we were there watching it all happen not being able to do anything about it!" Kiba cut off Gai. The others looked at him it wasn't like him to yell or talk that way especially to an elder.
The room was silent for a few moments Asuma nor Gai knew what to say to them to help them feel better. From the injuries they could tell that Sasuke was tortured and most likely raped and now they just found out they watched it all happen. Sakura was the first to speak up.
"What happened?"
"Sakura…. I'm sorry but Sasuke was…" Naruto started
"Tortured." Shikamaru cut Naruto off it wasn't anyone's business what happened besides that. Not to mention Sasuke wouldn't be able to handle it if everyone knew. Shikamaru didn't even think they should tell him that they knew.
"When we got there he was already in the Sound he was chained up to a metal table. When we were trying to get him out of the chains the man came back and he was stronger then all of us. We were locked away in a cell we finally were able to get out and beat the man then get Sasuke out. The storm though forced us to stop and we just found out that we were gone a week. So Sasuke had been getting tortured for a week."
Before Shikamaru continued he looked over to Naruto, Neji and Kiba as if to tell them to keep quiet.
"Sasuke never left that room so we saw him being tortured but that's all that happened Orochimaru never got his hands on him."
The others looked at each other they knew what Shikamaru was doing and they remained silent it was what was best for Sasuke. Asuma and Gai looked at each other they knew Shikamaru was lying they could tell but at least the truth would be kept to the minimum with this. They saw the nurses run back into the room with heating blankets and blood for Sasuke then they closed the door once again.
Tsunade had already begun to heal Sasuke's most life threatening wounds. She looked like she was about to cry at how bad Sasuke was. She began to heal his behind from the brutal rape that was where he was loosing the most blood. Once the nurses came back she instructed one to heal his punctured lung the others went to work on getting the blood set up and the heating blankets going.
"He's going to have a serious case of pneumonia that will need to be watched and medicated. He's also going to be in a great deal of pain. Hopefully with pain medication and sedatives he'll be able to handle it. He's been able to handle the pain without anything for a week so he's tough."
"Are you saying he'll make it?"
"If he survives the night he'll make it. His injuries though will take a while to heal at least six months with no missions no training. He'll have to slowly work up to walking around for more then five minutes at a time. His wrist needs to be in a cast for six weeks his ribs ten of them are broken so that will take three to four weeks to heal fully. The rest are minor injuries just a lot of them. The burns are first degree the stab wounds are shallow and can be healed easily. His behind will be sore for a good month it was brutal and extreme."
"You need to check his mouth the barbwire was there as well he couldn't talk."
Tsunade gave a nod and when she was finished with Sasuke's butt she moved over to his mouth. His jaw was partially dislocated which would account for the speaking problems. She quickly healed that though a very large bruise would be there for a few weeks. She slowly opened Sasuke's mouth and couldn't believe what she saw. She shock her head slowly in disbelief. It was shredded even the back of his throat he wont be able to talk very well or loud till it was fully healed. Then there was the issue with Orochimaru who would be looking for Sasuke by now.
"He can't be living alone right now or being alone. Orochimaru will not like that he is gone. I'll be having ANBU all around the hospital and around this room."
"I'll be here with him till he is allowed to leave then he'll be living with me. I can get Iruka to get a room ready for him at my place I'm sure he won't mind."
"Good I'll get send someone to get him for you I'm sure it would be better coming from you. Also the rape stays between us we don't need everyone knowing."
Once Sasuke was in the bed under a few heating blankets and the blood IV was hooked up they nurses left as well as Tsunade. She wanted to make sure the others we're looked after as well just in case. Kakashi let out a sigh he couldn't believe this was happening to Sasuke. He looked so pale and sick lying there. A few moments later Asuma and Gai came into the room.
"I know your going to say no to this but do you want to go home and get changed take a shower?" Gai asked
"No I'm fine."
"Do you need anything?" Asuma asked
"Ya actually could you find Iruka for me I need to talk to him and if one of you wouldn't mind going to my apartment and getting me a change of clothes please."
"Sure I'll go and I'll get Iruka to." Gai said
"Thanks"
Once Gai left Kakashi turned to Asuma
"How are they holding up?"
"Well Sakura asked what happened and I think Naruto was about to tell her that Sasuke got rapped but Shikamaru stepped in and hide it from them. I think that's for the best especially for Sasuke."
"Ya it is that's good though something needs to be done they watched the whole thing. They need to talk to someone about it."
"Ya I'll get them to come with me to dinner and we can all talk about it. I'm sure Naruto will talk to Iruka about it more."
"That's fine Iruka is smart he'll know what happened once he sees Sasuke. I'm not worried about him acting weird around him either."
"He looks so sick. How he survived is truly amazing."
"Ya he's not going to be able to do much for six months Tsunade said. He's going to go insane plus he can't be alone with Orochimaru coming after him. How am I going to protect him from that snake?"
"We'll do it Kakashi I'll be here with you same as Gai and Iruka we won't let him take Sasuke again. We'll keep him safe no matter what the cost."
Kakashi grabbed a chair and pulled it over to the bedside and sat down Asuma did the same. He meant what he said he wasn't going to just leave Sasuke alone in this nor Kakashi. He didn't have any parents and they other sensei's had taken it upon themselves to keep an eye out for him. Even though he was young Sasuke had many strong and dangerous enemies out there just waiting to attack him.
