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Sasuke and Kakashi entered Konoha-hospital. Kakashi was surprised, or should I say worried, that Sasuke managed to walk so fast with that leg. As the grey-haired man studied Sasuke's face for a moment, he could tell he had some pain though.
"Sasuke, let's rest for a..", "No fucking way. Where is he?" Sasuke interrupted angrily as Kakashi blinked at him.
"Well…I'll ask it...then…" Kakashi said as he walked towards the reception and sighed desperately when he saw the brown-haired receptionist making a phone call.
Kakashi, as the only person near the reception, leaned onto the counter. He tried to make eye-contact with the receptionist, but the lady was too concentrated on her phone call. "Hahahaha nooo of course not! Well…huh? What are you saying?...hahahaha no! Are you serious? Unbelievable!" The receptionist said happily while playing with her pencil.
Kakashi frowned a little. This didn't sound like an important phone call.
"No I know that….hahaha…Really?...Ooh amazing….No…Yes….Uhuh…Yeah…" The woman continued while Kakashi looked behind him to see if Sasuke was alright, only to see a pissed, no, furious-looking Uchiha glaring at the receptionist.
Kakashi swallowed and turned back to the lady. "Excuse me." Kakashi whispered to get her attention. The woman looked up, a questioning look on her face. "Can you help me for a second?" Kakashi demanded softly. The woman stared at him for a couple minutes while Kakashi could hear the soft, but high, speech coming out of the phone.
The woman signed at him that he had to wait a little more. Kakashi was astonished. 'How…can…she…just…No wait. Control your anger, Kakashi, control-your-anger!'
The lady ran a hand through her hair as she started answering the girl on the other side of the phone again, "Yeah I've seen that shirt as well! It's so cool!...Yes!...That's right!...What?...How expensive?...Omygosh…..Hahaha well I can ask my boyfriend….he'll pay it for me….Because I know…haha…..If not? Hmmm….then I'll shout at him…hahaha!"
With a slight scream the receptionist saw how a hand yanked the phone out of her hands.
Frightened she looked at Sasuke who had the phone in his hand, his eyes filled with anger. "Sasuke, calm down…" Kakashi whispered at him.
Sasuke gritted his teeth angrily. This woman was getting on his nerves. "Where's Himai Fusu?" Sasuke demanded.
The woman didn't move; she just stared at him with wide eyes. "WHERE'S HE?" Sasuke repeated, bending forward a little. The woman snapped out of her thoughts and started to leaf through some documents behind her. "I'll look for you right away sir!" The woman said nervously.
The woman grabbed a document and opened it. Her eyes scanned the page. "Ehm…sir…" She looked up slowly before continuing, "Mister Himai is….dead…"
Sasuke slammed the phone on the counter.
Kakashi watched how Sasuke's anger started growing and decided to drag him away.
"What are you doing?" Sasuke almost yelled as Kakashi pulled him back. "Let me handle this." The grey-haired man ordered.
Sasuke stood at the other side of the hall while Kakashi walked towards the reception again.
"Is he alright?" The receptionist asked carefully when Kakashi leaned onto the counter again. "Where's Fusu?" the grey-haired man asked calmly, totally ignoring her question. The woman hesitated, but answered, "In the basement, sir. Room 35."
Without a 'thank you' Kakashi walked back towards Sasuke. "Come on." The grey-haired man said softly when he reached him.
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Almost one minute later, Sakura walked towards the receptionist, who stared forward with wide eyes. "Hey, I'm done with the patient in room 604, I'm going home." She said.
The receptionist didn't respond.
Sakura blinked.
"Hello?" Sakura asked as she waved her hand in front of her face. "Huh?" The receptionist stammered as her eyes met Sakura's. "Are you alright?" Sakura asked softly.
"There was a man here…no…two…and…the one with black hair…was…extremely mad…They wanted to see Himai Fusu…but the guy is dead!" The brown-haired lady stammered. Sakura gasped. "Where are they?" She asked. "Basement, room 35." The receptionist answered while Sakura turned and ran away.
'What's going on?' the receptionist thought confused.
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Kakashi and Sasuke walked through the dark and small hallway in the basement. The walls and floor were dark-grey, almost black, and a couple of small weak lights showed them where they were walking. There were a lot of doors in the hallway. They were made from metal with no window. The basement was silent and it smelled…weird. 'They're properly keeping dead bodies here…' Kakashi thought with disgust.
When they reached room 35, Sasuke slammed the door open. Kakashi felt sick. The smell was…indescribable, but Sasuke didn't seem to mind, because he entered with no hesitation.
Kakashi watched how Sasuke paused when he was in the room. His back shivered violently. Kakashi slowly stepped forward; his hand covered his nose and mouth.
Sasuke glanced at a pile of body parts in the corner of the totally-isolated room. Kakashi didn't dare to look at it, so he watched Sasuke instead. Kakashi decided to enter the room as Sasuke kneeled down slowly.
Panting, Sakura ran through the hallway. She saw one of the doors was open and when she came closer, she saw it was the door of room 35.
As silent as possible Sakura stepped closer and peeked around the corner. She saw Kakashi with his head against a wall. It was clear he didn't wanted to see any of this. As she took another silent step forward, she saw Sasuke sitting on the ground with his eyes closed.
It looked like he was medicating or something.
Sakura also noticed the bloody mess in front of him, but, just like Kakashi, she couldn't look at that.
Sasuke suddenly became so pale, it was almost bleu. He then lifted his hands in a position that looked like he was holding a bowl and he gritted his teeth. Sakura frowned a little and took another small step forward. 'He's using Naibuteki Denka!' Sakura thought fascinated. 'I have to watch this closely…I can learn from this!' She narrowed her eyes a little.
The sound of ripping flesh was heard, and a scream filled the basement. It wasn't a scream that belonged to a human; it was a scream that belonged to a 'thing'.
Kakashi was afraid and shut his eyes.
The scream faded, but the sound of ripping flesh increased. Sakura's eyes widened as the body-parts started moving, some of them splashing against a wall.
Then she saw it. Two huge bloodstained claws made their way out of the body-parts, yanking some flesh with them. They shot forward and disappeared in Sasuke's belly. Sasuke screamed his longs out and Sakura took a step back, fear written all over her face.
A long and skinny animal was attached to those claws; also disappearing in Sasuke's body. Sasuke's hands and legs were shaking like hell and sweat trickled down. Just before the whole body of this monster vanished, the head paused in front of Sasuke's face, who had his eyes shut tightly, still screaming.
"Marodine" the monster grumbled.
His voice was heavy; like someone was using a sound-effect on it. Kakashi's was shaking as he turned around slowly.
Sasuke's hands grabbed his belly after the head also disappeared. Screaming, Sasuke fell to the ground and started trashing around violently. Kakashi's eyes widened.
Sakura, who took one step back every time she felt scared, stood now at the end of the hallway, panting heavily; like she was the one where a monster disappeared in. Sasuke's screaming was so painful to hear, it almost made her throw up.
Kakashi, who almost had to lay on top Sasuke to calm him down, panicked. "Sasuke! HEY!" Kakashi had tears in his eyes; not because he was sad, but because he was scared. "Sasuke!"
Sasuke's screaming and trashing around faded slowly when Kakashi forced him to sit and hugged him tightly. Although Sasuke finally seemed to calm down, sometimes, the black-haired man made a movement as if someone was putting current on his body.
Kakashi dragged the man out of the room and closed the door his feet. Sasuke, who lay on the floor in the hallway, breathed very fast. Kakashi held him tightly and whispered things to him, which Sakura couldn't hear.
Slowly she sunk down and Kakashi's head shot up. By seeing her shocked expression, Kakashi knew she had seen it. The grey-haired man gritted his teeth. "You still want to use it? HUH?" Kakashi yelled angrily. "AMAZING TECHNIQUE HUH?" Kakashi screamed sarcastically.
Sakura hid her mouth with her hands and shook her head fast.
"NO? WHY NOT?" Kakashi continued.
"S..stop.. stop Kakashi-sensei.." Sakura begged softly, but Kakashi couldn't hear her.
Tsunade came running down the stairs but stopped when she noticed Sakura, Kakashi and Sasuke.
Never in her whole life, had she seen people so afraid. Sakura looked like she had seen a ghost. Tears trickled down on her face as she kept shaking her head and kept repeating softly, "no no no no no"
Kakashi had his head down, looking at Sasuke. "Oh god…" Tsunade mumbled softly as she ran towards him. "Kakashi! I demand an answ…" The Hokage stopped when she heard Sasuke groan. The Uchiha tried to squint his belly with both hands.
Kakashi was so shocked that he didn't even noticed Tsunade, who lifted Sasuke and carried him away. Sakura still sat there, but she stopped repeating 'no' and watched her ex-teacher wide eyed.
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The realization finally hit Kakashi that Sasuke was carried away, so he lifted his head. After a couple minutes of silence, Kakashi said a soft, "Sakura…I'm sorry…I yelled at you.."
Sakura brushed some strands of hair out her face nervously. "He's going to be okay, right?" She asked, her voice trembling.
Kakashi nodded slowly.
The two of them sat there for almost two hours without saying anything, when Tsunade came down the stairs again. Her head shot from Sakura to Kakashi.
"Kakashi, you can take Sasuke home with you. He's alright." Tsunade said softly. It took a while before those words reached Kakashi's and Sakura's mind.
Tsunade's face turned worried. "Are you two okay?" She asked softly while Kakashi stood up. "We have to leave this place…that will make us feel a lot better…" He said.
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Sasuke sat in the hallway. Tsunade could heal the pain in his belly with easy. It just felt a little sensitive and he felt like he had lost 85 percent of his chakra, but that was it.
He cursed himself for using the technique. He must've been so mad at Fusu, that it happened. He also thought he already stopped the technique before Kakashi told him about it, but unfortunately, it didn't.
Sasuke looked up when he saw Kakashi and Sakura walking up to him. Kakashi was right; they both felt a lot better now that they left the creepy basement.
Sasuke picked up the crutches and stood up, avoiding his Kakashi's eye. "Sasuke…" Kakashi began softly. "Let's go home." Sasuke nodded slowly and turned to walk away, when a hand grabbed his arm. "Sakura. Let go." Sasuke said softly without turning around. Sakura didn't released his arm as she said sadly, "Take it easy, okay?"
Sasuke turned around slowly and Sakura released her grip on Sasuke. "Sure." He almost whispered.
Sasuke and Kakashi silently left the hospital, leaving Sakura and Tsunade behind. "Are you sure Sasuke is fine?" Sakura asked softly. "Yes. Naibuteki Denka is a technique. If techniques would be live-threatening, why would you use it then?" Tsunade explained while Sakura looked at her. "To sacrifice yourself…" Sakura answered while Tsunade nodded slowly. "Yes, okay, but Naibuteki Denka isn't self-sacrifice. Now, go home and rest." Tsunade said as she patted Sakura's shoulder.
"Sasuke…" Kakashi began as they walked through konoha's streets. "I don't want to talk about it." Sasuke mumbled while looking down. "I have one question." The grey-haired man said softly. Sasuke didn't said anything, so Kakashi decided to ask it, "What did it say to you?"
Sasuke lifted his head, but still didn't looked at Kakashi. "He said 'marodine'." Sasuke mumbled. Kakashi raised an eyebrow. "And that means?" he asked while Sasuke folded his arms.
"That means, fuck you."
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Omg this chapter is….weird…
I've got some notes here, with things I want to have in this story and, believe me, things will get interesting.
Shugotenshi, here's the info about Naibuteki denka! Thanks for reviewing again!
Mizuki Hikari, I'm glad! Thanks!
MyFallenAngel, thanks for your advice! I already use a dictionary, but I try to use it as less as possible, because I'm too lazy hahaha. (And because, if I pick up the dictionary I need, six more dictionary's fall down….on my head…ouch..haha)
Priestess Kurumi Inu's sister, you're welcome and thank you! Anyways, I'm from the Netherlands, so that means I'm dutch.
Sakura hatake kakashi'sgrl, I'm glad you like it:)
Screwed Fortune cookie, yeah, Sasuke does have a lot of secrets. And, he's having more! ;)
Thanks for reading and reviewing so far!
(more reviews welcome, of course.)
Bye bye see you soon
-vlissan
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