A/N: I AM REALLY SORRY FOR THE LATE DELAY!! PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME!! (Begs on knees) I had this major writers block (I think that's what people call it) one day, and the next ideas came flooding into my head like a hurricane. I then lost at least half of it the next day after (Yes that's how my brain is!) but then it came back a week later. It took me a long time to write down my ideas ( I had like, 10 ideas, which were super long?). Well, here's the next chapter, and I hope you like it!!

OxO

Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke were slowly trudging back to Kakashi's house, trying to figure out why Kakashi mysteriously left at the ramen stand.

"It's a real mystery why he would leave like that." Naruto wondered.

"True. I mean, WHY would he just disappear like that?" Sakura pondered, along with Naruto.

"I guess we'll just have to find out." Sasuke finally said, in perplexity.

Meanwhile at Kakashi's house…

"WRITE FASTER!!" Sakumo shouted, flicking the whip on Kakashi's poor bare back, leaving a bleeding rip. Kakashi's face was tear stained, eyes red and puffy while reading a book on ninjutsu and scribbling in his best kanji on a piece of paper notes on that subject. Kakashi tried to suppress a yelp of pain as the whip flickered again and scathed his back with more rips. His mind was beginning to fade away into unconsciousness, but Sakumo's booming voice and the sound of the menacing whip shocked him back into the harsh reality. His face showed that he really wanted someone to save him right now.

Back with Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke…

The little trio was heading closer to the house, and could hear the faint sound of a whip hitting something.

"Hey, I wonder what's that noise." Sakura said.

"Hmm… sounds like a whip, but I'm not so sure." Sasuke said as he began walking faster to the house. He had a feeling something unpleasant was waiting for them.

"Yeah, yeah! We should go and find out what's happening!" Naruto included like he knew what was going on, but on the inside we all know that he's just trying to get answers out of the others, and is very clueless at what is happening right now.

As they neared the house, they heard the noise of the whip was making. They shuddered at the crackles of the menacing whip, and whatever was being hit. They slowly opened the door, surprised to find out that it was locked, like it had a bar on the inside and outside. They quickly found a way in using the front window, thanks to Sasuke's quick thinking. Their hearts pounded as they made their way toward the noise. They got closer and closer. The place where the noise was coming from was closed. They started to debate on who should open the door in whispers. Naruto was urged to do it. He gulped, and slowly edged toward the door. His hand slowly etched toward the handle. He grasped it, turned it, shut his eyes, and flung the door open. The trio stared, shocked at the scene of blood, and the howls of pain coming from the only person they thought they could trust at the moment.

Kakashi was in the middle of the room, in front of his father. Sakumo was holding a very thick and bony whip. Kakashi's was biting his lip very hard to try and not scream, which caused it to bleed. His hand was rapidly scrawling out words, and his face clearly told what was happening. The whips on his back was bleeding, dripping slowly down his back and chest, and plopping down into tiny puddles on the hardwood floors. His right leg had a very heavy looking chain wrapped around it, which was chained to the floor. The lashings continued, and Sakumo didn't even know his guests were in the room. Naruto, somehow to first person to snap out of this, this… horrid torture, shook Sakura and Sasuke awake.

"What the fck is happening?!" Sasuke cursed.

Naruto and Sakura looked at Sasuke's sudden cursing and outburst.

Then the trio jumped at the next outburst that came out of nowhere.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING TO YOUR DAMN SON, SAKUMO!!" yelled Minato, somehow passing by unnoticed.

Sakumo turned, and directed at Minato about why was Kakashi late coming home.

"WE WERE JUST HAVING RAMEN AFTER TRAINING, AND THIS JUST HAPPENS IN FRONT OF MY EYES?!" Minato yelled in rage, seeing his student harassed by the whip.

Sakumo seemed to space out for a while, but snapped out of it when Minato threatened to tell the Hokage what happened.

"Oh no, I'm scared! What's going to happen to me?" Sakumo mocked back at Minato.

Minato launched himself at Sakumo, which proceeded into a fight. Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke walked toward Kakashi, which was on the floor, about to pass out from blood loss.

Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke shuddered at what just happened. Slowly, they picked Kakashi up and and carried him to the kitchen, leaving the room of chaos behind them. Shivers went up their spines as they recalled the events that passed while they were here. It was just a short time, yet they already saw very devastating things happening, like the war, torture and 'oh dear god what's going to happen next' feelings of fear settle in the pits of their stomachs. They had a feeling that the next thing going to happen was not going to be particularly pleasant.

Slowly they set Kakashi on the couch. His face was very pale, probably from loss of blood. They each helped Sakura fix the rips in his skin, and healed them until the rips were no more than scars.

"Wow." Was what Sakura could say

"Yeah, I know." Was Sasuke say.

Naruto remained silent. His energetic smile and positive attitude was long gone.

Silence claimed the trio.

"Hey, teme?" Naruto asked.

"What, dobe?" Sasuke replied, his face showing pain at the torture Kakashi, his sensei, went through at a young age.

"You know, Kakashi-sensei went through all this. I wonder why he doesn't break down from the pain, or even tells anyone about it. I want to believe it, but I don't" (A/N: I think Naruto screwed up his own punchline.) Naruto finally said after letting silence hang around for a few minutes.

Sakura went to fetch a blanket, and she got one. She covered Kakashi with it, and began talking softly.

"I think we should go to sleep. I'm sure that they don't want us interfering with their "family" problems."

Naruto and Sasuke agreed, and then left along with Sakura to get some shut eye.

Silence soon regained around the house, after slamming of doors and very angry curses and threats thrown between the two fighting adults.

But none of the trio could get any sleep, for the piecing screams and pleads of help from Kakashi's poor soul echoed in their minds for the remainder of the night.

Until one, was very real.

OxO

Something is going to happen, and it's not very pleasant. Sorry to all my readers that had to read about the torture session. It actually came to me in a dream O.O"

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