Chapter 10

Just Something about Him

Itachi stood in the waiting room, he pulled out his cell phone and he dialled Dei's phone number and waited for him to answer. After the fourth ring he finally picked up.

"Hello"

"Hey Dei it's me."

"Hey babe what's wrong you sound horrible."

"It's Sasuke Dei, he's in the hospital could you maybe come down please?"

"Ya I'll be there in ten babe."

"Thanks."

Itachi hung up then he sat down and waited for Dei to show up. He couldn't believe that all of this was happening. Just a few days ago he was living a normal life well semi normal. He went to school got good grades had a boyfriend that loves him and he loves. He never thought that his father would be abusing Sasuke like this. He had to admit he knew that his father never really cared about Sasuke and didn't take care of him or his mother for that matter. This though, to take it to this level is just deranged of his father. Itachi was lost in his thought it wasn't until Dei had showed up twelve minutes later that he snapped out of it.

"Dei"

Dei went and sat down on the table right in front of Itachi.

"Babe, what happened is Sasuke ok?"

"He was taken in the middle of the night last night. Kakashi woke up and went to check on him around ten and found him missing. He came and got me at school and we went to my house. Father wasn't home we looked everywhere, finally we came into the basement. Kakashi noticed that the back wall didn't look right and we were able to push it open. "

"What was behind it?"

"It was a hallway with a bunch of doors leading off from it. We looked in every room and each one had a different scene for sex fantasies it looked like. We finally found Sasuke in the last room. It was set up as some sick sexual dungeon Dei and this room was absolutely freezing."

"Is he okay?"

"I don't know he wouldn't wake up Dei. I couldn't wake him up no matter what I did he wouldn't wake up."

"Have the doctors said anything babe?"

"Not yet they are looking at him."

"It's going to be ok babe, have the police been called yet?"

"I don't think so, Kakashi went out to make a phone call he might have called them."

"Ok let's just wait here till the doctor comes and tells us something. I'm sure everything will be perfectly fine. Sasuke is one hell of a fighter he has survived all of this and he won't let your father win."

Dei grabbed Itachi's hand he began to rub his thumb along the back of his hand hoping it would calm him down.

Kakashi stood against his car he pulled his cell phone out and dialled his boss' number. It rang three times then he heard his boss' voice on the other end.

"Agent Miller"

"Miller its Kakashi we have a situation."

"What kind of situation?"

"It's the Nicholson family again something has happened to Sasuke."

"What happened? He was at your place safe just yesterday."

"You need to come down for this."

"Is it that bad?"

"I'll explain everything when you get here, but you need to be here for this it's going to get over my head soon when the doctors call the local police."

"Alright I'm just around the corner from the hospital I'll meet you by your car."

Kakashi hung up the phone and waited a few minutes before his boss and long time friend showed up beside him. Kakashi always loved Miller's car it was a classic Camaro that had double headers. It was black with a dark pink dragon on the right hand side of it. Miller got out of it and walked around to face Kakashi.

"Kakashi how are you doing?"

"Could be better."

"So tell me what's going on from the very beginning so I can understand everything. I need to know the full story top to bottom so when the police show up I can speak on your behalf as well."

"It started about three months ago during that horrible storm. My car broke down outside of the Nicholson's estate. I went there to get some help to see if I could call a tow truck, the guard took me to the main house. That's when I met Fugaku and Mikoto and soon afterwards I met there son Itachi. At first they seemed very nice normal they let me stay the night. All through dinner we had talked about school and Itachi. That night I couldn't sleep so I went downstairs I took a look at the pictures they had displayed. All of which were just the three of them. The door to the basement was open and I went down. I saw writing books with very neat writing I assumed they were from Mikoto. All in all it appeared to be a normal household."

"So what got you so interested in the Nicholson's of all people. Especially Fugaku he's the top criminal defence lawyer."

"I know and it wasn't until I came upstairs. I saw a young boy around the age of twelve in the kitchen. He looked like Itachi but he had softer features and his eyes were blue. It wasn't until after I started talking to him that I realised something wasn't right. He was scared and nervous and I asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up. Now he said it in a low whisper not thinking I would hear that he wanted to be alive."

"He wants to be alive when he grows up that's what he said?"

"That's what he said now like I said he didn't mean for me to hear it. He then got up after that and then went downstairs into the basement. Now when I was down there it was freezing down there I could almost see my breath. That's where he sleeps down in the basement with nothing to keep him warm. That morning I noticed that he wasn't up and no one said anything about him."

"Did you?"

"No I kept our meeting a secret. There is not one picture of him, not one mentioning of him from anyone. Nothing at all that would ever suggest there is another child in the house. Fugaku gave me a ride to work and I had agreed to tutor Itachi in English. That night again I was over there nothing at all about Sasuke. I left and I had a blanket in my trunk just in case I needed it, I placed it outside the basement window for him with some left over food Mikoto gave to me. I waited and watched him sneak out and grab both the blanket and food. Then it got weird I came by the next time planning on tutoring Itachi only to find that Mikoto is gone and Sasuke is upstairs cooking dinner."

"Maybe he isn't social."

"That's what I thought but I was about to turn the corner to go into the kitchen where I heard Sasuke call Fugaku master."

"He called his father master?"

"He called him father then Fugaku corrected him and he called him master. He was about to set the table he reached up to grab a plate and he was in pain. I helped him get it down and gave him my card with my number and address on it. He took it and hid it as his father walked in."

"Did he ever call you?"

"That night I waited up I had a feeling that something was going to happen, but he never showed. It was like that for three months i would go and tutor Itachi Mikoto was never there Fugaku always had an excuse. Finally just after three months around midnight I heard a knock on my door and it was Sasuke. He was in horrible condition he was covered in bruises and cuts. He was extremely thin and weak he had a bruise on the front and back of his neck of a hand print. He's still covered in bruises and cuts and has bruising all around his neck. He had four broken ribs and four bruised ribs, his wrist was broken, he had a concussion, he had swelling on the side of his head, his throat was red and bruised he could barely talk, he fainted, and he also had a high fever."

"Holy fuck, so what happened when Fugaku found out he was missing? Wait he has an older brother and a mother where were they?"

"His brother came to me yesterday wanted to know what was going on. I explained to him and he never noticed. He acknowledged that Fugaku was keeping him in the basement he said he would sneak him up when he could and feed him. He was sneaking out at night though to go over to his boyfriend's house."

"His boyfriend's house eh. Fugaku must not know if he still has pictures of him up everywhere. What about his mother?"

"The night before I came over for Itachi's and mines first tutoring session. Sasuke watched as Fugaku and Mikoto had an argument and Fugaku killed her. He found Sasuke upstairs trying to save his mother but she was dead. Fugaku then beat Sasuke then made him clean up her blood as he dumped the body. Fugaku told me and Itachi that she went away to visit family for a month and she was at a conference as well."

"Ok so let's get back to what happened when Fugaku found out he was at your place."

"He came in and I told him to leave that I knew what he was doing. He left and came back with two police officers. Sasuke was in the spare room sleeping they wanted me to wake him up I did. I brought him out they called for a paramedic and Sasuke agreed to answering question as long as his father wasn't there. Once Fugaku was in the spare room officer Stanley started to ask him who did this. Sasuke didn't get the chance to answer he started coughing up blood then the paramedics showed up. Once they checked him out and left I told the police that he was going to be staying with me. That they could come back in a week and talk to him again once he was in better shape. I had to show them my badge to get them to agree but they did and took Fugaku out. He didn't really go willingly but eventually he drove away."

"Ok so that's how do we end up at the hospital?"

"Yesterday after Itachi showed up and I got him straightened out we brought Sasuke to the hospital to get checked out. They ran a bunch of tests everything came back fine they put a cast on his arm and let us bring him home. He was exhausted he slept through everything even the hospital so when I got home I put him to bed right away. Last night when Sasuke and I were asleep Fugaku must have hired one of his clients to kidnap Sasuke and bring him back to his house. I woke up and saw that he was missing went to get Itachi at his school and told him. We then proceeded to head over to his home Itachi went in first Fugaku wasn't there. We searched the place and I found some files in his office that I took. They had pictures of Sasuke and a few video tapes of what I don't know. There in my bag in the car. We went into the basement I saw that the back wall didn't look right. We were able to push it away and that lead us into a hallway. There were multiple doors that went off from it they had been set up to fit different sexual fantasies would be my guess. We finally found Sasuke in the last room naked chained up to the wall in a room made to look like a sex dungeon and that room was freezing. That's how we ended up at the hospital."

"Fuck Kakashi, this has to be the worse story I have heard in my career. How's Sasuke is he ok?"

"I don't know the doctors are with him. I wanted to call you right away I'm gonna need your help with this one."

"This isn't just a normal case to you is it?"

"There's something about this boy, he has never been to school and yet he writes better then his brother. He figured out that I was an agent only having talking to me for less then an hour. In less then one hour he knew me he's so observant and bright."

"You think he would make a good agent."

"No I think he would make a great agent and I think he needs someone that he can truly rely on. I care about him and I know that's dangerous and stupid but there's just something about him."

"Alright let's get inside and we can see how he is doing."

Kakashi nodded and together they made their way into the hospital. Kakashi noticed that Itachi was in the waiting room with who he guessed to be his boyfriend. They went into the waiting room to join them in the waiting game.

Itachi and Dei looked up to see Kakashi and another man walk into the room.

"Itachi this is my good friend Agent Miller. Miller this is Itachi Sasuke's older brother."

Miller reached his hand out and shook Itachi's.

"This is my boyfriend Dei, Dei this is Kakashi."

Dei shook Miller's and Kakashi' hand. Once the introductions were finished Kakashi and Miller took a seat. Kakashi figured it would be best to leave the explaining to Miller on this one. They have worked together many times Miller knew that the explanations would be left to him once Kakashi didn't speak after they sat.

"So you said agent Miller Kakashi?" Dei asked.

"That's right Dei I am an Agent, I work for a secret organization called Taka. We consist of undercover agents, Drug police, and Tactical forces."

"So what is your position?"

"Well Itachi I am the Chief of Taka and Kakashi here is my best undercover agent."

"Wait you're a cop and you didn't tell me?"

"Itachi look I am sorry that I didn't tell you. It's not something that I am allowed to discuss. Your brother figured it out actually that first night he was at my place."

"He figured it out huh"

"Your brother is very gifted and an amazing young man."

"So you're not a professor then?"

"No I am a professor it's a long story how me and Miller met. I am a professor I went to school and graduated. Being able to be a teacher still was the only way I agreed to join Miller actually."

"So were you sent to look into my family?"

"No I wasn't, my car really did break down it was just luck that I found the truth."

"So Agent Miller what will happen now?" Dei asked.

"Well first thing is first we need to know how Sasuke is doing. That is the most important thing right now. With cases like this it can be a long process I have a feeling though that with Fugaku it will be twice as long. It is such a relief that you both are here and more then willing to help in any way. I will be arresting Fugaku I'll have a team go over to your house and collect forensic evidence to hold your father for child abuse. We will place Sasuke in protective custody normally we do not place a victim with an agent. In this situation though, it is very important that Sasuke trust who he is with. From all of the abuse he will have server trust issues especially with men; however, he appears to trust Kakashi which is why I will keep him there."

"Now Itachi you will be able to come over any time you wish to see Sasuke. It would never be my intentions to keep you two apart Sasuke needs you just as much as you need him." Kakashi interrupted.

"That is very true Kakashi you both need each other and rely on each other. Now I am sure that Fugaku will post bail and we will place a restraining order against Fugaku. With that in place if Fugaku ever comes with in range of it we can place him back in jail till the trial. Fugaku's a top defense attorney he will try and make it look like Sasuke is mentally unstable. We have seen it before and if we are not careful and fully prepared sometimes they win. Regardless of what happens if he is found guilty or not Sasuke will never be in his custody again."

"Who's custody would he be in? I mean I'm eighteen I'm an adult legally now does that mean I can have custody of him?"

Kakashi and Miller looked at each other they didn't know how they wanted to play this out. On the one hand if Kakashi had custody of Sasuke he would be taken care of financially and he could go to school and he could go into the training program for becoming an agent. On the other hand he could live with Itachi; however, Itachi would have to work and go to university all at the same time. Not only that Itachi wasn't trained to deal with the after care for Sasuke once all of this sinks in.

"Itachi we can talk about that after when it gets closer. All of us can sit down and discuss what would be best for Sasuke."

"So are you saying I can't have custody of my brother?"

"Itachi Kakashi didn't say that; however, in reality there are things that will need to be discussed and looked at. Sasuke will need a lot of care once this is over with and not just physically. His mental and emotional state are severely damaged there are many different things we need to go over before we make that decision."

"Babe let's just focus all our attention on getting Sasuke away and safe from your father. Everything else will work itself out in the end."

"Have ether of you heard from the Doctor?" Kakashi asked.

Both Dei and Itachi shook their heads. That's when the room fell silent for the next eleven hours. The only sounds in the room were when one of them couldn't sit any longer and began to pace up and down the room. The room may have been silent but the fear and worry were loud enough to fill the room. Everyone didn't understand what was happening every now and then they would take turns and go and ask a nurse what was happening. It only resulted in the nurse not knowing and not being able to release information not even to Miller when he showed his badge. All they could do was play the waiting game.

In the mean time Fugaku had gone to work he had a whole day to make up. He knew that he would be there almost all night. Not only did he have to catch up on his work he had to get the next video ready. He needed to get in touch with the last set of guys as well as find new ones. He had been thinking of different ways to set up the next room for the new video. He eventually decided to make it a school video where the scene would be in a teacher's office. He could get Sasuke dressed up in a school uniform and have it as a detention. Just the thought seemed to make Fugaku hard and he couldn't wait till he got done all of his work to go back home. What he didn't know was when he got there Sasuke wouldn't be there but it would be full of crime scene investigators.

It had been a long hard day for Fugaku at work. Having to miss a whole day thanks to Sasuke he had twice the work load today. His night was long from over even if it was the weekend. He had to make a new video and then stream and edit both videos. He was going to make lots of money off Sasuke and he couldn't think of a better way to do it then sex videos. He couldn't wait to get back to his home and see Sasuke he had the last twelve hours at work to plan the next video. He was going to make this one dirtier then the first video. He had ten guys that were his clients meeting him at his house for the video. All of them were on trial for some form of rape or molestation so it was bound to be one rough and dirty video.

Fugaku pulled into his driveway once there he turned his car off and got out making his way towards his front door. When he walked in he didn't expect to find his home filled with the police and CSI personnel. Not only that, he saw the ten men he had hired for the video sitting handcuffed on his couch. Fugaku had noticed the other cars around his house but none of them were marked. He just assumed that the men he hired where here on time like they were suppose to be. Fugaku knew he would have to play dumb if he wanted to get out of this.

"What is the meaning of this? Who are these men on my couch?"

"Mr. Nicholson?"

"Yes that would be me now answer my question why are you and these men in my home?"

"Mr. Nicholson you are under arrest for child abuse and making illegal pornography."

"How dare you accuse me of such a thing! Where is your warrant for this search and my arrest?"

The arresting officer handed Fugaku the warrants. Fugaku looked them over and saw the judge that signed the warrants. It took Fugaku everything he had not to smile when he saw who the judge was. It was Judge Fallon; Fugaku went and dialed his house number not caring that it was nearing ten o'clock at night. Fugaku walked into the kitchen making sure that no one would be able to hear the conversation.

"Hello?"

"Hello there Fallon its Fugaku."

"I'm assuming you are calling about the warrant I signed today for your arrest."

"Yes I find it very interesting considering there is no evidence of these accusations. It would be in your best interest to revoke these warrants as well as any evidence that has been taken from my home. After all it would be in your best interest we wouldn't want that file to get into the wrong hands now would we Fallon."

There was a pause on the other end of the phone. Fallon knew that signing the warrant would have been a problem. Now on the other hand there wasn't any evidence to the accusations he merely signed it simply because he hates Fugaku and needed him out of the picture, him and that file of his.

"Fine put the lead detective on the phone and I will dismiss the warrants and the evidence."

"That's a wise decision Judge Fallon."

Fugaku walked over to the lead detective and handed him the phone. It was obvious that the detective was less then pleased. After a few moments he hung up and handed the phone back to Fugaku.

"I don't know what you said to him but you can't have every judge in this city under your thumb. I am going to find that judge and make sure you and your flunkies go down for what you are guilty of Fugaku. Let them go and bring back all of the evidence that has been removed from the house. The warrants were revoked by Judge Fallon."

It was clear that the men in the room were anything but pleased. However without the warrants they had no reason to continue with the investigation at his home. That didn't mean that they wouldn't continue the investigation back at the lab and station. They had strict orders from Agent Miller to make this investigation completely solid no room for any loop holes. Now Detective O'Neil will have to inform Miller that a road block has been set. It was one phone call he was not looking forward to.

Once everything was returned and the handcuffs were removed Detective O'Neil went to his car. Fugaku stood in his living room he had informed the men that he would call them tomorrow and told them to leave. Not forgetting to threaten them of what would happen if they spoke about any of this to anyone. Once the men were gone Fugaku looked out his window to see all but one car gone. He knew that the man was Detective O'Neil and he without a doubt was most likely talking to his superior about what just happened.

Detective O'Neil was sitting in his car starring at his phone. He really didn't want to have to make this call. He often worked with Agent Miller when they needed police involvement which was more often then people thought. He had gotten along well with Miller when he was assigned his first case after that Miller always requested him. Miller wasn't a man to get angry and yell; however, you could always hear it in his voice when he was upset. Slowly Detective O'Neil dialed Miller's number and waited for him to pick up the phone.

Back at the hospital it had been twelve hours; twelve long hours of waiting to hear if Sasuke was ok or not. Miller had called a few hours ago to get a team down to Fugaku's house he wanted to wait until they knew if Sasuke was ok or not but it was taking too long. They had already figured out on their own that Sasuke must have gone into surgery otherwise they would have been out long ago. Not even a single update was given to them which made Miller worry all the more. He knew from experience as did Kakashi that no news when in a hospital is not good news. If the doctors couldn't even spar one nurse to come out and inform the family then it was life or death bad.

Miller's phone ringing broke the dead silence of the waiting room. Miller reached into his pocket and pulled out his cell phone. He saw that it was Detective O'Neil on the other end which meant that Fugaku was either arrested or causing a problem for the man. Everyone in the room turned their attention to Miller they knew about the investigation that was going on at the house. They all knew that the phone call would be about what was happening and most likely that Fugaku was throwing a fit.

"Miller"

"We have a problem Fugaku called Jude Fallon. It appears that he must have some blackmail on him because Fugaku wasn't on the phone for two minutes. Fallon revoked both warrants as well as forcing us to return all the evidence that we had taken from the house."

"And I'm sure now that Fugaku knows what was taken he is working on removing it and making it all inadmissible."

"When we got there a few hours later ten men showed up looking for Fugaku. We arrested them but we had to let them go. Now it wouldn't be an issue to re-arrest them we ran their names they were all clients of Fugaku's."

"What were they on trial for?"

"Rape mostly some molestation all of which were under aged. I'll have some of my men pick them up and bring them down to the station for questioning. I'm sure one of them will crack eventually with the right persuasion after all. Have you any news on the boy what ever evidence is lifted from him will be all we will have by the time Fugaku is done."

"Not yet we haven't heard a thing. When we do see him I'll make sure we have everything that was taken from him. Let me know what comes of the men keep me updated."

With that Miller hung up the cell phone everyone's eyes were still fixed on him waiting for an explanation.

"Fugaku came home to find the team there as well as ten men handcuffed. He called Judge Fallon the warrant issuing judge. It appears that Fugaku has some form of blackmail on him, because Judge Fallon revoked the warrants stating that there was no evidence for them. He also had them return all of the evidence they had taken and the men that were arrested were let go."

"Wonderful so father gets away with it again."

"Itachi calm down your father may have won this round, just keep in mind that we will win the war. Who were the men?" Kakashi said

"Now it hasn't been confirmed what they were doing there. However they were there to see Fugaku and all of them use to be clients of his."

"What were they on trial for?"

"For rape or molestation all were under aged."

"You don't know what they were there for?"

"No Detective O'Neil had to let them go before he could question them. Now he will have his men looking for them and arrest them. Once they are at the station he will question them and see what they have to say."

Before anymore could be said a doctor finally walked into the waiting room. His face didn't give off much other then the fact that he was exhausted. It's to be expected after being with a patient for the last twelve hours.

"You all here for Sasuke?"

"Yes I'm his older brother, this is my boyfriend and these two are friends and law enforcement. How is he?"

"Law enforcement then I will hand over his clothing and any other evidence we found on him; which includes the DNA swabs we took and the SAE Kit. Sasuke has been in surgery for the last twelve hours roughly he had bleeding in his brain that we needed to repair. For a twelve year old boy he certainly has been beaten a lot. We were able to stop the bleeding however there is still a significant amount of bruising on his brain. His right wrist has been set in a brace as well as a few of his fingers. His ribs are re-tapped and wrapped. His throat there's a lot of damaged done to it and unfortunately the only thing we can do is give it time to heal."

"So what happens now? You said there was bruising on his brain what will that do?" Itachi asked.

"The bruising will take a very long time to heal I'm talking years it's that server. That doesn't mean your brother will have mental issues as fair as IQ. He will however have horrible headaches and even migraines possibly for the rest of his life even after the bruising has fully healed. There is some medicine we can prescribe to help limit how many he gets that's all we can really do for that though. As for what happens now all I know is that he just had brain surgery so he won't be able to leave the hospital for at least a few weeks. What happens after that is up to your friends and the police."

"So he'll make a full recovery then?" Kakashi asked

"If he wakes up he'll make a full recovery."

"What do you mean if he wakes up? Why wouldn't he wake up?" Itachi asked

"Your brother has been through a lot of trauma too much for any individual to handle. There was server rape injuries and internal bleeding not just in his brain. Your brother is in critical condition we almost lost him several times during surgery. I like to start off by telling the family and friends the good news verses the bad first. I do believe he will wake up he's a fighter through and through you just need to give him sometime."

"When can we see him?"

"You can see him in a few moments a nurse is just moving him into his room. I'll have her come and get you when she is done."

"Thank you."

"That evidence that you collected when can we get that?" Kakashi asked.

"I'll have them bring it to you right away."

Kakashi and Miller gave a nod and with that the doctor left them alone.