Hello people, sorry for the cliffhanger in 24… it was just me bored during Astronomy. Also… I wanted a chapter with little to no angst (yeah, that's a first, neh?) and so blah! Chapter 24 was created… in classes… of course. Heeheehee… the cliffhanger I had to throw in there. ((sigh)) I miss Creature. I her Daddy… and my girlfriend might be able to keep her! YAY! Moving on, so that my hopes aren't put too far up… here's Chapter 25. And look! Characters that haven't appeared for a few chapters will once again crawl out of the first few sentences. Enjoy!

I Bleed Black

Chapter 25

When Naruto awoke again, he wished that he hadn't. "You…" he murmured softly. Brief memories of the man in front of him had returned. There, with Orochimaru's gang flanking him, sat Uchiha Tomoe. Naruto tried to get up, only to find that he couldn't move his hands. They had been bound tightly with some kind of rope. He stared up fearfully at the dark-haired man.

"W-Why?" he stuttered, trying to get out of the ropes.

"Why what, Naruto-kun?" Tomoe sneered, his mouth forming an evil smirk. He stared down at the boy from where he sat.

"W-Why am I here?" came the hesitant answer.

"You are here, Naruto-kun," Tomoe responded, "because I want you to be here."

"That doesn't give me an answer!" Naruto snapped before he could hold himself back.

The blow came faster than he could follow. The boy's head slammed into the hard concrete floor of the room where they were.

"Don't be disrespectful," Tomoe warned. Naruto glowered as he sat back up, not really knowing how he managed to. "Now tell me. What kind of relationship do you have with my son?"

"We're nothing to each other!"

"That's a lie, and lying is not good for you, you'll be punished for that in due time," Tomoe scorned. "Now what was Sasuke doing living in your dorm for almost three months?"

"I don't know!" Naruto yelled. He shuddered, trying to hide all the fear from his face and voice. A little managed to sleep into his words though, throwing his voice a pitch higher.

"Do you not?" Tomoe asked, though he didn't really expect Naruto to answer. "You've got an attitude, Naruto-kun, and I don't like whores that have attitudes."

Naruto stiffened, openly staring at the older man with terror written across his face. So this was what this entire confrontation was about. This was what Uchiha Tomoe wanted. The man didn't want to learn about Sasuke.

He wanted Naruto.

Naruto shivered, realizing what that would mean for him.

"You've got to be kidding me…" he whispered. "I… I'm not a whore!"

"Silence!" Tomoe thundered. His hand came up and he smacked Naruto down. "You will not speak unless I tell you too."

"Bullshit!" the blonde shouted back. "I'm not going to listen to you… ever!"

"Hmm… is that so?" Tomoe asked in a slithering tone. Naruto felt fear run up and down his spine. It wasn't something he liked – this fear. But whether he liked it or not, it still overtook him, making him struggle even more against the ties in vain.

"You won't escape, Naruto-kun," the man laughed. "You're mine now. Nobody will come for you because nobody cares."

The last line made Naruto freeze up, trying not to shudder or shout something back. People cared… that's what yesterday had been all about, right? They had come to his dormroom because they cared… right? Or was it all some kind of lie…

No, Naruto had to believe in his friends, even if they didn't believe in him. He had to wish for them to come, even though a tiny voice nagged at him that they wouldn't.

Tomoe finally stood up from where he had been sitting throughout the entire "meeting." He looked hungrily at the blonde before turning to Orochimaru and his gang.

"Leave us," he ordered. "If I am in a better mood, I may let you have a turn with him when I finish."

"Yes, sir!" Orochimaru's gang chorused. They left the cold, dark room. Naruto stared fearfully at Tomoe. The man's look of lust was almost to much for the just-turned-fourteen to take… but something prevented him from looking away.

"Stay away from me, you sick bastard!" Naruto screamed, backing up until he hit a wall. The cool surface gave no comfort to the terrified teenager. If anything, it just scared him even more than he already was.

"What would be the fun in that, Naruto-kun?" the man asked, his voice low.

"It's not supposed to be fun," Naruto whimpered.

Tomoe grinned impatiently at his "prey," licking his lips. "Really?" he purred. "And who says that?"

Naruto didn't have time to reply as Tomoe's mouth covered his own. The older man's tongue pushed past his lips, exploring the entirety of his mouth. Naruto shivered but was unable to do anything to help himself. This man was much stronger than the blonde, not to mention that he had Naruto's hands tied together so that the boy could do nothing to stop Tomoe's advances.

Tomoe groaned into Naruto's mouth, the sound sending shivered down the blonde's spine. Naruto felt something hard poking him in the stomach. It disgusted him, made him want to vomit but he was unable to. He felt tears well up in his eyes as Tomoe continued to moan into his mouth.

No! Uzumaki Naruto yelped in his mind. This can't be happening to me. Yet here he was, once again at the mercy of someone else. It was too soon. It had only been, roughly, a month since the last time he had been in this position. He couldn't believe he was stuck like this again.

And who knew what kind of a man Uchiha Tomoe was?

The man soon began to unclothe Naruto. He first cut the wrist bindings, yet his weight on top of the blonde prevented the boy from escaping. Instead slowly trailed kisses down Naruto's neck. He found Naruto's gasps of pain/pleasure like music to his ears. Tomoe couldn't resist doing all he could to get Naruto to make those sounds.

Naruto screwed up his face, trying to ignore the man's soft caresses. Tomoe saw the boy's futile attempts on trying to act dead. It amused the Uchiha to see his self-chosen uke trying to make believe that Tomoe didn't exist.

"I'm still here, Naruto-chan," the man whispered silkily in Naruto's ear.

Naruto didn't acknowledge him, content on just struggling more. Tomoe sighed, looking at the uncooperative blonde.

"I didn't want to have to do this," the Uchiha said, his soft voice thick with a sadistic edge.

"W-what?" Naruto stammered before he saw Tomoe close his eyes. Realization dawned on the poor boy and he stared at his captor in horror.

"No!" he screamed, his mind going blank with terror. "NO!" The blonde thrashed violently, trying his hardest to get free…

And then his body stopped following his brain's commands. Tomoe had used the boy's weakness against him and his flailing limbs fell limply on the floor. Tears fell freely from open eyelids as Sasuke's father towered over him.

"Don't do this to me," he begged softly, trying to restore any power over his body.

"Why not? Don't you like this?" Tomoe's soft voice, layered thickly with lust, questioned him.

"N-no!" was Naruto's quavering reply.

"Aah, but something else tells me differently," replied the Uchiha.

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"You know, kitsune, it was me what made you the way you are," Tomoe informed the blonde, watching the boy's face for any reaction. Naruto's eyes snapped open as he realized what the man had said.

"W-what?" he murmured softly.

"The person who combined your DNA and that of the fox's… that was me," Tomoe continued, as though this were a normal conversation to be having while slowly undressing the other boy.

Naruto deemed Tomoe both a genius and severely insane.

Not being able to stop himself, Naruto growled, "Oh, so you're the evil bastard that fucked up my entire life who I will kill one day."

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"Screaming is beautiful," Tomoe murmured softly. "Especially when I cause it."

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"Naruto, I'm going to tell you to lie exactly as you are – and don't move, or else you'll be punished," the Uchiha told him. Naruto blinked back tears. He really did not know how the man could get back up after having an orgasm, but he really didn't care either. All of the sudden, Naruto felt a burning pain enter his lower back – that wasn't there before. He shivered, glancing back with as much effort as he could spare.

There was Tomoe, with someone else in the room. The other person Naruto didn't recognize, but he was inserting the tip of a tattooing needle into the boy's back.

"W-what's happening?" Naruto asked softly.

Tomoe rubbed the boy's head, much like one would pet a dog, as he stared at what was being done. "I'm just claiming you as my own, it won't hurt for long, Naru-chan," he told the boy, still rubbing his hand through the locks of gold that adored the boy's head.

Not knowing what else to do, Naruto let the blackness that had been growing at the edges of his vision consume him completely.

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Sasuke had woken up at five in the morning on October the 11th. He looked around, surprised that he was covered in a warm blanket – and surprised even more than he was in Naruto's dormroom. His mind searched his memory for reasons of this. Oh yeah, birthday party… than Jiraiya and Tsunade came with sake… and gods! Sasuke's head hurt so much. He looked around for the blonde he loved, but was surprised when he couldn't find him.

Something was nagging at his mind… what was this feeling? Why did he feel afraid – as though something bad was happening to the blonde? Stumbling over to the kitchen, Sasuke found the aspirin and popped two pills into his mouth, swigging them down with water from the sink.

Goddamn hangovers!

He needed to figure out where Naruto was – he needed to find the boy… before something else happened. Normally, this would be the point where his rational mind kicked in and tried to remind him that Naruto could be anywhere and running around would bring meaningless results.

Sasuke didn't hear it this time… he just ran.

Out of the room, out of the dorm, down the path, towards anywhere and nowhere. His heart beat furiously, pounding with fear and adrenaline at the same time. He didn't know where Naruto was. Yet something told the Uchiha that he had to find Naruto… before something happened… like before.

The image of the bound and naked Naruto flashed into Sasuke's mind and that was enough to hone his determination. He would need a plan. The blonde's name being mentioned pricked his ears towards a conversation a little farther down the path.

Jumping into the trees, he stopped right above where Orochimaru and Kabuto sat. It was still early morning, so chances of anyone hearing them were slim to none, but unfortunately for them – Sasuke was listening.

"Naruto better do what the Boss asks him to do – for his own good," Orochimaru growled.

Kabuto smirked. "You just don't want Oyabun to damage the boy, don't you?" he questioned.

Orochimaru gave a mirthless laugh. "That is true, Kabuto."

"But to think of the irony," Kabuto sneered, pushing his glasses up on his nose. "Sasuke-kun has taken a fancy to Naruto-kun, so it seems."

Orochimaru just stared at the slightly younger companion. "What do you mean by 'irony', Kabuto," he asked.

"Well, right now… Sasuke-kun's father is probably fucking Naruto-kun senseless," the white-haired student said casually.

Sasuke gripped the branch he was balancing on until his knuckles turned white. Kabuto and Orochimaru walked off in the night. Debating for a moment whether or not to follow them, Sasuke finally did. They knew where Naruto was… and Sasuke could almost feel the hatred pouring out of him as he thought of what could be happening. With a determined promise to protect the blonde dobe, Sasuke leapt off through the trees after Kabuto and Orochimaru.

He was going to find Naruto.

Holy shit, that took forever to finish. Mou… I finally got my lazy ass off my chair and decided to edit this… not sure if that was a good decision or not… I'm bad at editing sex scenes. For those of you who want to read the original and haven't yet… there's a link in my profile.

And yes, there is a reason – a very important reason… which will be explained sometime in the future… not now… or now… just whatever.

Love all of you that read this and have kept with it. Sorry for no poem here, I couldn't find a place for one.