I know last chapter was a little short and boring but this one will be better….in my opinion…hopefully in yours too.
Warning: somewhat graphic violence/ morbid stuff kinda
Disclaimer: still in place…
Sasuke quickly stepped off the train and sighed in relief. Even though the train ride was very uneventful, it stressed Sasuke out to no end. The longer it took the less time Naruto probably had to live.
Taking the now neatly folded letter in his hands he walked up to a nearby map and looked it over before copying it quickly on the back of the letter.
Naruto knew it was morning, the fact that he could see the sunlight coming through the drawn curtain through his own closed eye lids told him that. But he didn't want it to be morning, which meant that his life was catching up to him and he hated that idea.
A small dip in the bed caused Naruto to open his eyes slightly only to see the white fur of Allen's front paws and tail. Grunting, Naruto shut his eyes once again ignoring the cursed human, changing into a cat at random moments. Even thought Naruto felt bad for the kid, right now he just wanted to stay in his dream state and drown in his own self-pity.
Another small dip caused Naruto to once again to slightly open his eyes, only now to see the scarlet eyes of Allen as he was now laying down on all four.
"What?" he yelled suddenly, startling the cat to the point that he fell off the bed.
"He's only trying to give you a friendly wake up call." yelled Itachi suddenly from the small kitchen next to the bedroom that was separated by a thin door.
"Well I don't need one." Naruto muttered childishly pulling the sheets over his head to block out the world around him.
"Stop acting childish." Itachi scolded, coming in from the kitchen with a coffee mug in his hand. Smirking slightly as he saw the ruffled look of Allen's fur as he stood, seemingly glaring at the lump under the covers as his tails went back and forth angrily.
"It's not my fault, it's my personality." He yelled back, the words getting muffled by the covers.
Sighing, Itachi softly placed the mug down on a nearby dresser and without warning to the blonde; Itachi grabbed the covers and tore them off, throwing them on the bed right next to Naruto.
"When I say stop acting childish, stop acting like a 5 year old child." He replied coldly glaring at the blonde who suddenly stiffened and look away down at the pillow his head was laying on.
"Hurry up and get ready, we have to meet you father s…."
"Don't call him that!" Naruto yelled, interrupting Itachi. "No one's fucken father beats the crap out of them daily and tries to kill them over a matter of love. He didn't even love my mother, he just lusted after her. That's why…that's why don't ever fucken call him my father cause he's the fucken opposite!" Naruto yelled covering his ears and clutching his head to the point that he could feel his pulse.
Itachi stared blankly at the panicking boy, -could his behavior even be considered panicking, - before grabbing his mug from the dresser and walking towards the door. "We'll leave in a hour." he whispered before opening the door and walking out of the room soon followed by Allen.
"He's not my fucken father; he's the complete opposite…" Naruto whispered over once more, knowing by law that Sieto was his father, but then again, it was that same lack of government law enforcement that got him in this situation in the first place.
Sasuke checked his map once more before looking up at the sign and confirming that he was at the right place.
Stepping in the door, Sasuke watched in disgust as not one single person looked to be doing anything important. Walking up to the closest desk he glared coldly down at the police officer there. He already had a certain disliking for police and this only made it worst.
"May I help you?" asked the man. He had medium long dirty blonde hair that covered his ears and gave way to a barely visible beard. His small clear glasses hung low on a bony nose as brown eyes looked at Sasuke through them.
Holding up a picture of Naruto that he took when the decided to go for a walk and somehow ended up at the mall instead, he was surprised of how calm he was unlike on the train. "Him, his name is Naruto Uzumaki, he's missing somewhere in this town." Sasuke explained vaguely not wanting to give too much away.
"Do you have any lead as to where he is?" he asked, lazily taking out a file form and pen as he started to write. With this Sasuke's patience began to slip and fast.
"If I did I'd be following that lead right now instead of wasting my time with you." Sasuke snapped out glaring at the man who only made a little mark on the sheet of paper,
"How long has this person been missing?" And there it was, the question made Sasuke's anger reappear.
"Is this all you're going to do is ask me questions all day instead of actually getting up and off your lazy asses and search for him!" Sasuke screamed.
"Please remain calm; these questions are necessary in order to help locate this missing person." The man explained.
"Forget it I'll have better luck finding him on my own. All you're doing is wasting time trying to do the exact same thing as me!" he said turning around and storming out of the police office.
"Here we are." Itachi announced looking down at the blonde to see his reaction only to find his hands tightened in tight fists by his sides and eyes staring forward with pure hate for the being inside.
"Whatever…" Naruto muttered as one hand readjusted the strap of his bag on his shoulder. His eye took in his surroundings, a run down storehouse, the black tinted windows shattered; the metal enclosing those windows and doors the same rusty color as the chipping paint. 'Perfect' he thought as he began to walk forward to the closest door.
Grabbing a hold of the door handle he turned o Itachi. "Aren't you coming in too?" he asked.
"I have other things to do at the moment, I'll join your corpse later." He replied.
"Why do you hate me so much, I've never meet you until now!" Naruto yelled, having enough of his bipolar attitude. "That one day you actually seemed to be nice so why are you so cold all of a sudden?"
"I said it before, I have my reasons and those are none of your concern." He said and then walked away.
'And here I thought Sasuke was a bastard." Naruto joked to himself to ease the tension his body felt and it seemed to work. Instead of opening the door, his hand feel to his side as he stared forward blankly as he once again remembered the not so many memories of Sasuke.
"I guess I lied Sasuke, I guess I won't ever see you again." He said as he got control over his body and grabbed the handle to the door and opened it up slowly.
Walking inside, his eyes struggled for a moment to grasp the darkness inside. Even with the sun out and the windows broken, there was still little light. The parts that were illuminated held weeds and vines that crawled up whatever object was there. It was exactly like a scene from a horror film.
"Sieto!" he took a step forward, letting his bag fall down to rest in his hands. "Sieto where the hell are you, I'm not scared of you anymore!"
"Now why is that?" a voice asked from behind causing Naruto to spin around. If you blinked, you would have missed Naruto open his bag and pull out a gun, the end pointing only a few inches away from the black hair that covered Sieto's forehead.
At this a smirk grew on his face as Naruto's frown deepened and his glare intensified.
"Because…I'll kill you,…and then I'll kill myself!"
Sasuke stormed through crowds of people not even bothering to apologize, he was too busy to care. For the past two hours Sasuke had been walking around anywhere and everywhere. Sometimes he'd even stop random people and ask them if they'd seen the blonde boy in the photo anywhere but all he ever got was a 'no'. After two hours, he was starting to get desperate for any sort of lead but he wouldn't give up and he definitely wouldn't go back to those stupid police.
"Damnit!" he yelled out loud, getting a few awkward stares from people around him before they continued on their way.
Grabbing raven locks in frustration, Sasuke backed up into the wall of a street café and falling down the wall till he was sitting on the sidewalk. "Naruto where are you!"
"E-excuse me…"
"What?!" Sasuke yelled looking up to see a startled young lady with sparkling white hair and dark blue eyes. Getting her composure quickly back, she started to retaliate against Sasuke even though he was a complete stranger; she had that kind of confidence.
"Don't use that tone to an elder young man, even though I'm not that old, but all I was trying to do was ask you a simple question." She told him. One hand held towards Sasuke's face with his pointer finger up while her other hand rested on her hips. It was obvious she probably just became a mother.
"What?" he asked again, nicer this time, reminding himself to breath deep and long breathes, as he started studied the lady over. She was old not too old, maybe young forties or late thirties yet she had white curly hair pulled back in a low pony tail with a little blue clip. But some hair broke free from the restraint and framed her tan face along with her bangs. She wore a little baby blue t-shirt, almost the same color as the clip in her hair, with a chain locket necklace around her neck and plain blue jeans that flared out a little at the bottom. Her shoes however, had no famous brand, the were just plain white shoes, but they were dirty and torn up. Either she didn't like buying new shoes or she had traveled a lot. Her shoes were the type that would only get torn up if you either burned them, sent them through a shredder, or you wore them out.
"You said Naruto right? I've been looking for a Naruto…" she explained before trailing off and sitting down beside Sasuke.
"Well so am I." Sasuke said, ready to walk away from the lady for reminding him of what he had yet to accomplish.
"Are you searching for a…..never mind. Lots of people have the same name so I'm sure we can't be looking for the same person." She thought out loud before laughing softly.
"Yeah probably, the dobe only been missing for a couple of days but, he's gone looking for his bastard of a step-father. That idiot, he could end up dying!" his brain completely forgetting that he had company and that was giving too much a way to someone he had no clue about.
"A step-father huh…? The Naruto I'm looking for is probably alone." She explained sadly.
Looking at her briefly, Sasuke sighed and stood up soon followed by the lady.
"Sorry to cut this meeting sort, it was nice to meet you but if I wait any longer, Naruto Uzumaki could die." He exclaimed getting ready to turn around only to stop when he noticed how the lady's posture instantly weakened; her eyes now gleaming in the sun from the tears in her eyes.
"Naruto Uzumaki, you know him! Where is he, where can I find Naruto!" she pleaded grabbing a hold of a now startled Sasuke.
"What do y-you mean? J-just who are you?"
"Come on boy, you can't shoot me."
"Why not, then all my problems will be over, I'll never have to deal with your fucken face ever again!" Naruto explained.
"Any what about your lover boy, if you kill yourself, you'll never see him again." Sieto stated ignoring the gun pointed at his head. "Aren't you a selfish brat? Ignoring your lover's feelings just to settle some debts and problems."
"If you remain alive then he could die as well, I'm only protecting him. Besides, knowing you, I won't get out of this with a few scratches."
"Damn right brat." Sieto said, smirk dropping to a frown as he grabbed Naruto's wrist and ducked as the blonde pulled the trigger. The bullet grazing his hair as he punched Naruto in the stomach with his free hand and squeezed a pressure point on Naruto's wrist causing the boy to drop the gun.
"You might have been able to take me on if you'd took some fighting classes during my leave." Sieto mocked as he blocked one of Naruto's punches before returning it in his jaw, causing Naruto to fall on the floor.
"I'll still beat you, even at the cost of my life, my life may be worth shit but the lives of my friends are and you're presence threatens them."
Sieto sighed walking over to Naruto and grabbing his blonde locks and brought his head up to his won face. Naruto coughed before glaring and spitting in Sieto's eyes.
"Little bitch!" Sieto yelled wiping the spit out of his eyes before punching Naruto straight in the head. The force causing Naruto to fall head first to the broken concrete floor.
Naruto groaned in pain as he saw black start to enter the side of his eyes; blinking he tried to get it to stop advancing but it wouldn't obey. However, he was able to see Sieto grab the discarded gun a few feet away.
Struggling to keep consciousness, Naruto growled like an animal feeling threatened, because frankly, that's exactly what he felt like.
"Calm down now little boy, I have a reason to keeping you alive. But trust me once I get that information…your dead."
Naruto could only growl again, trying to get the point across that nothing would come out of his mouth.
Sieto only laughed, getting the point. "We'll see. I'll have you to the point that you shitty life will mean something to you, and you'll change your mind about throwing it away so carelessly." was the last thing Naruto heard before blacking out.
'Where am I…my head….it's pounding like mad…'Naruto thought as he became of himself. The last thing he remembered was getting knocked out by Sieto.
'Sieto!' his mind screamed out as his eyes snapped open only to find the blackness. 'I…I just opened my eyes…right?' he thought it through, closing his eyes before reopening them. The feel of his eyes lashes sliding across fabric telling him that he was blindfolded.
"Swm…" Naruto soon broke into a fight of coughing as a rough fabric pushed against and scratched the back of his throat.
He tried moving his hands to remove the fabrics that were blocking two of his sensory organs only to have his movements restrained, the fabric around his body seeming to tighten as he struggled more.
'I can't move, I can't see, I can't talk! Where the hell am I …am I all alone or is there someone else here with me?' Naruto panicked, as claustrophobia began to settle in among Naruto's brain, causing Naruto to struggle more. The fabric pushing down his throat the fabric around his body strangling him, only fueled his struggles.
'Get me out please! Where the hell am I, what the hell is going on. I'm scared Sasuke…Sasuke I'm scared.'
"See, humans rely too much on their eyes to see, their skin to feel, and the mouth to talk. Take those away and you can reduce a human's mind to the size of a pea in an instant."
Naruto struggled more, wanting to know where Sieto was, he knew he was in the room, but his voice was coming from all directions.
"I'd stop struggling if I were you. You'll never be able to get out of that." Sieto explained walking so that he was standing in front of the blonde, smirking as he watched the pathetic kid's movements slowly come to a complete stop.
Naruto tried to talk but ended up in a fit of coughing instead as the object found it's way farther down his throat.
"Didn't I just warn you to stop struggling? Don't you understand if you allow that gag to go down your throat any farther you'll coke to death. But anyway, in order to keep you from rebelling, you're in a straight jacket and I've blinded folded for the addition of fear. You don' know where we are or what is around you. There could be a gun pointed right at you heart right now but then again who am I to say anything." He finished before bursting out in laughter at his joke.
Sieto was right, he could see anything around him so who was to say he didn't have a gun pointed and him, loaded and safety off. It could go off at anytime and Naruto wouldn't even know until it happened and he was left with a bullet in his body.
Now that Naruto was actually faced with the fear of an unknown death, he didn't want to die. 'Anybody, anybody please come save me! I was wrong…I take it back! I lied once again I don't want to die!'
Naruto began to panic even more as Sieto's cold hand stroked his cheek. Was it meant as a warning or a gesture of comfort? Naruto was too sacred to even think or for that matter retaliate against the hand of cold fire that burned his skin.
"Don't worry, if you agree to answer some questions then at least I'll untie the blindfold and get rid of the gag." Sieto bargained.
Crap, what was he going to do? He'd now admit it, his life was precious to him but what was the depth and severity of Sieto's questions. But then again earlier he did say that once those questions were answered, he'd be dead. The least he could do was prolong his own death, or maybe by then, someone might come for him. Was someone even looking for him?
"N-n….o" Naruto somehow got out without the gag moving or restraining the pronunciation of his one word sentence either.
"You don't even know what the questions are brat or what their about and yet you can easily say no without a second thought. You do realize that no one is threatening your friends and here you are, convincing yourself that someone is. Is it to make it seem like your death won't be for nothing?" Sieto growled out in annoyance but all he got was a little shack o the blonde's head no.
'I may not want to die but….if I sell out, then that's worse then dying because of something stupid from you!' Naruto screamed in his head, trying to convince the other part of his mind saying that death wasn't what he wanted. That he wanted to live to be a hundred and walk down a beach during a sunset, listening to the wave's crash onto the shore and many others of the dreams he wanted to come true.
Receiving a harsh slap from Sieto, Naruto remained silent still ignoring that one side of his head; not changing his answer.
"Sit there for a couple of days and re-think about what exactly it is you want. Death or life?" Sieto stated, Naruto listening as he heard the man's footsteps become farther away and the sound of a door shutting before he was enveloped in silence.
Naruto's breathing had turned harsh as he wheezed for water and food. The gag in his mouth had only been removed a couple of hours ago….or was it? Naruto had lost all sense of time, how long had he been like this, was it days, hours, or maybe just a few minutes.
Everything in his mind was falling apart.
The sound of the door opening for the fourteenth time during this whole ordeal he was in, signaled to the blonde that Sieto was back.
The sound of footsteps stopping told Naruto that Sieto was probably somewhere in front of him, staring at his miserable sight of a being.
"How have you been…?" Sieto whispered. If any other person in any other situation was saying those words, maybe they would have sounded concerned. But this wasn't any other situation, so to Naruto, those words only sounded concerned for the greed of the person saying them.
If Naruto was close to dying, then how was he going to get his answers, all of these was just meant to break the blonde. And maybe it was working…
Naruto only wheezed in response. His throat was dry and hurt from lack of use.
Splashed of cold liquid suddenly found their way down Naruto's throat causing him to cough, but at least it helped quench the soreness his throat felt a little.
"Will you answer my question now?" he asked. "Just a few more days of this and you'll die. If you just answer my questions than you might just get out of here alive."
Weakly, Naruto shook his head no, blonde hair sticking to his sweating face. He knew he was being self-ish and prolonging his death, not wanting to die, but he didn't want to tell Sieto what he wanted either. His mind was torn even thought he didn't know what his step-father wanted, he wouldn't speak, but was he willing to die for it.
A punch to the head caused Naruto to yell out hoarsely in pain, the warm blood trailing down his face and absorbing into the fabric.
"You little brat just tell me where the fuck she is already!"
'Who…?'
"I know you know, stop acting stupid. She told you and I know you care about your pathetic life."
"w-who….w-who is s-she…?"
A tight grip on his neck cut off his sentence as he not fought to gain air into his lungs.
"You know damn well who!" Sieto yelled. "The answer is hidden deep within your mind but it's there so think, damnit, and tell me where the hell she is!"
Coughing, Naruto broke down as tears now were absorbed into the blindfold as well. He really didn't understand the question but one thing he was sure of, he couldn't take another second of this.
"I-I don't know, I r-really don't…but…but I'd rather die instead of taking this torture so please….please just kill me!" he pleaded.
'Shut-up, you may want to die like this, but I on the other hand cannot allow you to die this easily. Stop begging and let me take over…'