"Wha…" Naruto promptly passed out.
A dark figure carefully picked up the limp figure on the bed and left the room quickly.
"Damn it… Naruto is late again! It is already 45 minutes! Shikamaru…" Ino whined, gazing at her boyfriend with puppy eyes.
"I can't do anything about it Ino."
A worry frown creased Iruka's brow, as he fervently hoped Naruto would turn up soon, his left eyelid had been twitching since morning and that was definitely a bad omen from his past experience.
"Ah…Iruka, there is nothing to be worried about, I am sure the boy will be fine. Here's the fan mail while we wait for Naruto," Jiraiya suggested, waving a stack of envelopes of assorted colours
Jiraiya sorted out the mail and passed the envelopes to the respective people.
Iruka picked up an envelope seemingly made of leather and examined it curiously, noting its scaly texture. He opened the envelope and the photos of Naruto tied up in a dark room staring back at him.
"Iruka love, please wake up…hmm…please love, for me…"
Iruka tried to attach a name to the voice in his head but his mind was feeling hazy and there is something important lingering in the deep recesses of his mind. He moaned as he felt something icy cold pressed to his forehead and remembered that Naruto always love the snow. 'Naruto…gone, abducted…Naruto!'
Iruka attempted to sit up as he slowly opened his eyes, only to fond hands restraining him. The image of Kakashi swam into focus and Iruka latched onto his lover for support as he cried.
"Kaka…Naruto…in danger…" Iruka sobbed.
"Shh…Iruka love, we know, everything is going to be alright." Kakashi rubbed the crying man's back, trying his best to soothe his lover.
Itachi was on the verge of desperation. He and Kisame had inspected the photos for clues but there was none. They checked for fingerprints, the scene in the photo, everything they could think of and the origins of the note. Speaking of Kisame, maybe he could fall in love, since Sasuke had found a love one too, he could finally let go of the guilt in his heart, but Naruto is missing now…
'The note…' Itachi mused over the contents. The abductor wanted Uchiha Sasuke's corpse to be hung up in a public place as the ransom. Itachi had received a fair number of death threats himself, however he knew this note was not to be taken lightly, considering the electric shocks Naruto received, evident in the photos.
Itachi felt the presence of a migraine and it did not help that his brother was currently in a rage outside and smashing everything breakable in his kitchen.
Itachi stood up abruptly, upsetting the cup of hot coffee in the hand of Kisame standing right behind him, spilling the steaming hot liquid over the hand of his bodyguard. He was about to apologize when something clicked.
Itachi rushed back to observe the photos, there was something unnatural about the position of Naruto's hand which they thought was from the pain of the electric shocks. However, looking at the position of Kisame's hand which was scalded with the coffee, he realized that the position the blonde hands were in, were not the natural response of a hand experiencing pain.
Naruto was trying to tell them something through hand signals.
"Sasuke, we need your assistance," Itachi said with a hint of urgency as he arranged the photos in chronological order according to the time on each photo.
"Look at his hand positions little brother, do you understand what Naruto-kun is trying to tell us?"
A glint of understanding flashed within Sasuke's panic-filled eyes as he reached for writing materials to start decoding the hidden message.
They were on the bed, enjoying the afterglow of lovemaking when Naruto sat up, making a series of hand signals to his lover.
"Well, what is that supposed to mean?"
"This means 'I love you' Sasuke-koi."
"Mind explaining how the hand signal represents the words?"
Naruto chuckled at the 'I am free now, so I can tolerate your nonsense' look Sasuke was wearing on his face.
"This hand signal represents the letter 'I'," Naruto said, right hand pointing to Sasuke and the left hand pointing to himself.
"From what I have seen, there isn't a systematic way to the signals is there?"
"No…each signal is unique, so you have to memorize them individually."
"I have to?"
"Please, or else…I won't make love to you anymore!"
"Fine…Is there an easier way to memorize them?"
"Well, you will have to think like me. For example, the hand signal of the letter 'S' is like a heart shape, each hand representing half of the heart, because when I think of 'S', I think of Sasuke and that leads to love, which explains the heart."
With that, the loving couple learnt the secret language of their love that night.
"The message is 'Door of mating snakes' does this makes any sense to you?" Sasuke asked Itachi, hope filling his heart.
"Orochimaru, a fellow politician…The doors in his house have the pattern of mating snakes carved into it, but why did he do this, there is no feud between us and him…No matter, we will work on saving Naruto first, it is better if the police is not involved. This is what we will do…"
Naruto's eyes were following the figure of his captor who was entering a glass chamber which was in the room as he was now currently in. The blonde looked on as the figure leaned down to tenderly brush his lips against that of the corpse which laid frozen in position in the ice cold chamber.
Naruto had been disgusted at first, the intimate actions of his captor with the corpse which he later knew, from the lips of his captor, was a person named Kabuto. However, he realized that his captor was deeply in love with Kabuto and of this seemed like a tragic love story.
"Why did you capture me?" Naruto asked, his voice laced with pain when his captor walked out of the glass chamber.
"Why…I guess I should tell you the reason now, if you are going to die for those Uchihas!" The captor spat out the last word with anger.
"That was 20 years ago, when your precious Sasuke-kun was 5 year-old…"
Chibi Sasuke blushed cutely as his play mate, servant and crush came over to him.
"Sasuke-sama, can you follow me to the living room, your parents have something to discuss with you," A bespectacled white hair youth asked with a smile on his face.
"Of course, Kabuto-san!" Sasuke exclaimed happily as the youth carried him off the floor.
After setting the child down on the plush carpet of the living room, Kabuto went to get tea for the family.
"Ah, Kabuto-kun, your tea is always the best, we enjoy your tea very much, thank you," Mr. Uchiha complimented as the youth served the tea, offering juice to little Sasuke.
"Thank you Mr. Uchiha for your kind words."
Chibi Sasuke occupied himself with tracing the patterns of the carpet with his finger as he always found adult conversation to be extremely boring and wished his elder brother would come home quickly to play with him.
He looked up when he found the strange silence to be deafening when he spotted Kabuto standing close to his parents, he was just about to called out to his 'crush' when he noticed blood dripping down the side of his parents mouths.
Sasuke eyes widened in shock and back away as Kabuto approaches him with a maniacal grin on his face, distorting the face he had known for two years into a face of a stranger.
"Why Sasuke-sama, do you not like the juice I give you? Well, I guess it can't be helped then. Don't blame me Sasuke-sama, I am only following the orders of Orochimaru-sama."
The white hair youth pulled out a gun hidden in his servant clothing, before pointing the gun right at Sasuke. He was about to pull the trigger when…
"Bang!"
Kabuto rolled away in time to avoid the gun shot and was immediately tackled by Yondaime, a fellow politician friend of the Uchiha.
Kabuto cursed himself mentally, he had forgotten the appointment the blonde adult have with the Uchiha that afternoon.
In their struggle, a vase was knocked over, breaking over the body of Yondaime, distracting the blonde man momentarily, but that was all Kabuto needed.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
Kabuto and Yondaime lay dead on the carpet, blood staining the cream color carpet a deep red.
Itachi dropped the gun his was holding and rushed to Sasuke's side, carrying the crying hysterical child to safety.
"Itachi fucking killed my love and I didn't even have the chance to tell Kabuto how much I love him. I will make him pay by killing his brother who is most important to him, make him relish the pain of losing a love one. Don't you hate the Uchiha? Your Sasuke-kun is the reason why your father died, if he didn't exist, my love will not die, the same with your father! Enough of this talk, now for your treatment."
Orochimaru slammed his hand on the button controlling the electric current, a mad look on his face.
Naruto immediately closed his eyes tightly and braced for the pain. Screams and shouts filled the room as the blond writhed in pain, just as he was about to pass out, the pain stopped. Naruto strained to open his eyes when he saw the dead body of Orochimaru on the stone floor, he raised his eyes and Itachi, Kakashi, Kisame and Sasuke came into view. The blond gave a weak smile to his lover before passing out.
A year and a few months passed…
Naruto was currently attending Sasuke's new book release press conference.
"Don't you think a man in love for 20 years with a frozen corpse is too…unbelievable?" A reported ventured daringly.
"Actually, that is entirely possible, we have seen a similar case," Itachi said, wrapped in the arms of Kisame.
"Err…okay then, about the dedications in the new book 'Frozen in Love', can you tell us what does the phrase 'to those haunting my past…rest in peace' refers to?"
"That is a secret." Sasuke smiled as he drew Naruto in for a kiss.
A/N: This is the last chapter of the story, thank you for reading my first fanfic. I hope you all have enjoyed the story and tolerated the long span of time without any updates.
Thank you very much and please review for the last time.
