Chapter 4: Dangerous minds part 1
Kisame abruptly hit the breaks and began staring outward into the road, luckily traffic was low when he did this so no one was behind him. "What the hell…?"
Itachi glanced over at him "What?" for once not noticing something before Kisame did, then turned toward the road to see what had cause this reaction. Kisame opened the door and stepped out of the car, knelling down beside something unknown in front of the wheel. Itachi followed, noticing what had caused Kisame to react in that manner.
There it was, a blue scarf laying in the middle of a road near downtown in the Sound country's capital. No one else wore a something like this in the middle of summer besides" It's Konohamaru's." Kisame easily confirmed it, not that it was hard to recognize it. "What the hell is that damn kid doing here?"
Itachi looked at the fabric and then around at the road they were on, it seemed they had some tracking to do. "Something must have happened to him." Itachi said, both of them knew that it was Konohamaru's favorite thing in the world, he would never leave this anywhere let alone the middle of the street.
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Konohamaru gasped and his eyes shot open as he abruptly woke up after being knocked out who knows how long ago. Panting heavily, he looked around frantically as his blurry vision slowly sharpened. Along with sight came all of his senses, and dulling pain on the back of his head from when Orochimaru knocked him out.
He was sitting in a chair, both of his hands handcuffed behind him along with his ankles. He was in an office…no, it was just a completely empty room with hardwood floors. The only light existent was the outline of sunlight in the window behind closed blinds in back of him, it just barely gave him enough light to see Orochimaru along with 2 other armed men standing behind him.
Orochimaru silently waved them away, they nodded and walked out of the door someplace behind Konohamaru. "Finally awake." Orochimaru took a step closer to Konohamaru, only a portion of h is face could be seen by the small amount of light, the rest was covered in shadow.
"Where is Sasuke and Naruto?" Konohamaru shouted, glaring at the man furiously.
"They're…Alive." Orochimaru smirked when he said this, filling Konohamaru with fear for his friend's current conditions.
"…Why"
"I'm sure you want to know why I went through the trouble of capturing you." Orochimaru interrupted. "I'll get to the point, I want answers about Konoha."
Konohamaru tensed, at first he thought his abduction was just to send a message to his grandfather, a ransom maybe. But this was even worse, somehow Orochimaru found out how much he knew about the Leaf, military included. Unusually his age and clumsy appearance would discredit anyone's ideas that Konohamaru knew anything of value, but not Orochimaru, which meant very bad news for Konohamaru and possibly Konoha.
"What are you talking about?" Konohamaru asked confusedly, but his ploy didn't work. Orochimaru could see how uneasy his body was by how he clinched the chair, and eyes never lied, the nervousness could easily be seen within the brown orbs.
Orochimaru smirked, "If you tell me now, I'll take it easy on you."
Konohamaru also knew about the Leaf's main enemy, Orochimaru was not a force to be taken lightly. His threats weren't either, what ever he had planed for Konohamaru would no doubt be painful on more then one level. Maybe not physically, maybe all physical, either way Konohamaru wasn't looking forward to it, there were stories about what Orochimaru did to interrogate people. He swallowed hard and shook his head "I don't know what your talking about."
"Shame really…" Orochimaru took a few steps back, his body enveloped in darkness and unable to be seen anymore. "You see Konohamaru, I know all about you. I have my sources in Konoha that tell me everything about you. How much you know, who you friends are, what you like, what your biggest fears are."
Orochimaru returned with the keys to the handcuffs in his hands, dangling them freely above Konohamaru mockingly. "I'm sure if you won't tell us, you must have told something to Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto. I'm sure they'll tell us what they know." Orochimaru smiled as Konohamaru's eyes grew wide and a small, almost nonexistent gasp escaped from his mouth. "Ready to tell me now?"
He couldn't, he just couldn't tell Orochimaru anything, Konohamaru bit his lip and shook his head again. "I don't know anything, leave them alone." He couldn't help but wonder what Orochimaru's sources were.
"They're being taken care of, don't worry about them, you should be more concerned about your fate." Orochimaru lifted his foot and sent a sharp kick into Konohamaru's stomach, knocking all of the air out of his lungs and forcing his chair to fall backwards. The landing was possibly just as painful as the kick.
His hands were pressed down under the weight of his body and the back of the chair making the handcuffs dig into his wrist. And his head slammed into the ground painfully, but that was the least of his problems. Orochimaru pressed his foot down on Konohamaru's chest and lent over him, some how during that process he'd retrieved a vile and a needle full of green liquid.
"This is a chemical agent that completely paralyzes the body, after injected the effects start within a few second and it's completely permanent unless I give you the antidote. As you can imagine it will be quite an unpleasant experience. " Orochimaru pushed the needle into a fearful Konohamaru's arm, injecting the green liquid into his bloodstream.
Konohamaru immediately felt his body go numb, instinctively beginning to squirm and struggled against his restraint, trashing about wildly under Orochimaru's foot who seemed to have no problem holding him down. But it seemed just as soon as he started, Konohamaru's wild trashing became less and less until it was non-existent. Konohamaru found himself unable to move anything, as if he was trapped in his body, nothing was responding, not even his lungs.
He just lay there, mouth slightly open and his eyes half-lidded, he looked almost at peace despite the fact that he was screaming inside of his head and trying most of all to just simply breath. But no matter what he did or how hard he tried his longs wouldn't respond to him and he still couldn't breath. Orochimaru knew it was working when he saw tears stream from wonton eyes down a calm face. "After 3 minutes without air the brain begins to die...you got about 1 left then."
Orochimaru held up a clear liquid in a needle that contained the antidote, watching his watch in his other hand. "Remember this feeling Konohamaru, if you don't corporate you and both of your friends will have an excruciating death." Orochimaru knelt down and injected the fluid in to Konohamaru.
The boy was still for a moment as if it didn't work, but as soon as he could move again he took a deep breath and began coughing uncontrollably . The coughing was made worse by Konohamaru constantly gasping for air while his body wouldn't let him stop.
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Naruto, now only with his black pants on, let out a loud and sudden cry when he felt himself being punched in the stomach. He only shook his head and smirked. "That's it? I've been through worse." He said dismissingly, his hands bound behind his back and his legs cuffed together in an empty office. 2 men, one of them being Kidomaru one of Orochimaru's generals. He stayed behind for a very specific task, he had on the same uniform Orochimaru had on.
They were trying not to kill him, only to draw information, but it wasn't easy. Since Naruto was used to this type of treatment it was hard to coarse him by it. "Damn kid." Kidomaru grunted, grabbing Naruto by his hair and driving his head into his knee. Naruto stumbled back, spitting out some blood from his mouth.
"Bastard." Naruto shot back, only to be lifted off the ground by his head as a reply, which was being squeezed tightly by Kidomaru. The man carried him to an open window and held him out of it still with an increasingly firmer and painful grip on his head. '!' Naruto tried to be as still as possible, hoping that the man wouldn't just left him go so he wouldn't fall what looked as if 20 stories to his death.
He was in a tall skyscraper, made of silver steel and highly reflexive glass. He would have admired the fact that he could see himself in it if he wasn't in so much pain hovering over a fatal fall. He was 2 floors under a large bridge that connected this building to the one next to it , another lay about 10 stories down. 'Sasuke and Konohamaru could be anywhere in either one of these buildings…'
"We don't need you to live, we already have Konohamaru. So you keep talking like that and I may have to drop you." Kidomaru pulled him back inside abruptly, tossing him into the opposite wall. Naruto let out another loud yelp of pain as he slammed into the barrier and fell to the ground, pushing against the handcuffs binding his hands behind him.
Naruto shook his head in an attempt to reorient himself, only to be pulled to his feet by his head again. Somewhat wobbly, Naruto managed to stand up. "Did Konohamaru tell you anything about Konoha?"
"No." Naruto said truthfully.
Kidomaru sent another kick into the defenseless Naruto's stomach, dropping him to his knees. "Your lying, how the hell could he not tell you anything?"
"I'm not lying!" Naruto shouted back, only to get a swift punch to the jaw that once again knocked him to the ground. Kidomaru grabbed him by the handcuffs around his wrist and pulled him up again painfully by his arms.
"I'm not playing around here kid." Kidomaru said, which might not be the complete truth considering his personality. "Start talking."
Naruto rolled his eyes, managing to get a swift punch to the temple for that, Kidomaru didn't bother to pick him up again this time. "I already told you I"
"Wrong answer." Kidomaru gave Naruto a light kick to the face while the other man handed him a vile filled with the same drug Orochimaru used on Konohamaru. "Fine have it your way." Kidomaru knelt down by Naruto as the other man handed him a needle.
"Wait, what's that?" Naruto asked uneasily, he didn't like the thought of anyone injecting anything into him, but despite his question Kidomaru did it anyway, forcing the liquid into his shoulder. "What did you just do!" Naruto shouted, feeling a numbness wash over his body.
Kidomaru only watched as Naruto's body went completely still and silent, the same that happened in Konohamaru happened to him. "Maybe now you'll listen!" Kidomaru sent another kick into Naruto's stomach but got no sound in response as all the other times. No tensing or resistance either, just a limp body that absorbed the impact.
Though he didn't show it, Naruto's mind was racing, desperately, begging for release of this hellish prison. And the pain of Kidomaru only added to it, he almost wished he had something to tell just to make it stop. But it didn't stop, Kidomaru's blows only grew harder and harder until the man suddenly stopped and injected another substance into his body.
Naruto felt that numbness return, and with it came movement of his body and his lungs started to function again. He coughed and panted heavily, taking large gulps of the air and cringing from the pain in his torso.
"Damnit!" Naruto shouted "Do you really think Konohamaru would tell me national secrets? He probably doesn't know anything himself!"
Kidomaru lifted the boy by his shoulders and pushed him into the wall, "We're not stupid, intelligence told us just how much he knows."
Naruto could only look at him and laugh, not because he was in anyway amused but to emphasize his next statement. "There's no way intelligence could ever get something like that about Konohamaru, he's with me most of the time."
"I doubt he lives with you, there are plenty of opportunities to get information on Konohamaru." Kidomaru said plainly.
"No way, you couldn't get someone to watch him in the white house, security is to tight." Naruto said in disbelief.
"Your such a dumbass, of course we have someone watching everything that happens, the president's right-hand man in fact." Kidomaru said with a smirk.
"No way…you don't mean that guy Kabuto do you?" It didn't take Naruto long to figure out who the president's right hand man could possibly be.
"Of course that's who I mean you idiot. We know Konohamaru has a lot of information, and there's no way a kid like that wouldn't tell either of you."
"Either of you? You mean Sasuke? Where is he!"
"He's going to be dead if you don't hurry up and start talking."
"I don't know anything Damnit!" Naruto was quickly chastised with a strong punch to his jaw.
"Have it your way, we start from square one."
He wasn't a cop's boyfriend for nothing, he knew how to get out of handcuffs, he was only waiting for the right opportunity.
