Incorporating two 'different' styles here. I think. Past tense will probably be used for the flashbacks and present tense for current events. It's kind of hard switching between the two sometimes. Also I've be started a fanfic called "Oh My, That's So Stupid". It's got humor, which is good. Naturally, it's also SasuSaku. Hopefully, I'll be able to update for this periodically as well as that.

Rejoice~ It's an early update!
Also, I'm planning a Mikado/Kida oneshot since there is a severe lack of that pairing.
Please read and review as always~

Disclaimer: As always, I don't own Naruto. Though, Kishi's not doing much of a good job with the actual thing.

"Does it hurt?" Sasuke lay on the floor, clutching his stomach. Blood dripped from between his fingers and onto the laboratory floor.

"Where is the file Sasuke? Hm...? You know it is not wise to oppose me."

The Uchiha looked up at the dark figure and laughed darkly. "Then I'm a fool."

The figure starting chuckling before throwing his head back and laughing madly. The laughter rapidly stopped and he squatted down. Grabbing a fistful of the Uchiha's dark locks, the man jerked Sasuke's head back and forced the trapped man to look at him.

"Perhaps you wouldn't mind being tortured," he hissed, "But how about your dear wife hm?"

Sasuke's eyes widened immediately. "You wouldn't dare!" Malice laced every word that came out from his mouth.

The dark figure laughed again, dropping the Uchiha's head. He looked at the fallen figure with glee, a malicious glint in his eyes.
"You don't know what I can do Uchiha-san."

"Sakura, won't you wake up for me today?"

The man was back in the laboratory, caressing the cold glass where his wife was encased in. The woman inside utters not a single word.

A bitter smile crosses the man's face. "If it only were so easy..." He rasped, his voice hoarse from the years without use.

He briefly wonders if he is going insane before letting a short laugh echo the room.

What sanity? How could he lose something that he never had in the first place? Ridiculous. Being isolated makes a man ridiculous. He knows he is a ridiculous, bitter, and insane man.

So ridiculous as to try and bring his wife back.
So bitter as to isolate himself from the rest of the filthy mankind.
So insane as to hate mankind when he is human himself.

"What can I do Sakura?" He whispers against the surface of the tank. "Normality is beyond me already, so how do I know that you aren't?"

The woman inside the tank cannot answer his question.

"Answer me! Answer me dammit!" He pounds his fists on to the thick glass, sending a faint vibration throughout the tank.

"Bring in the wife." The dark figure looked at one of his many men and motioned towards a door.

"Mama... mama! No! Maamaaa!" The cries of a little girl led to the pulling of the wife through the door and to the front of the man.

"Saku...!" Sasuke began to say before one of the men gave him a sharp kick to the side. He weakly coughed, the wound on his stomach growing more and more painful.
"Sasuke!" The wife resisted the grip of the men, twisting her body in an attempt to reach her fallen husband.

The dark figure took a few steps back and laughed. Instantly, the room grew quiet, only full of the figure's crazed laughs.

"Wonderful... wonderful! That's right, despair! Go ahead cry! Nothing can change the outcome now can it! Isn't that right Uchiha Sasuke-san!" The Uchiha's face contorted into an expression of pure rage and he directed his hateful gaze at the dark figure.

The figure merely smiled and continued onward. "That's right, you knew the consequences of defying me. Unfortunately for you, you forgot that I can do anything to you. An~ny-t-h-ing."

He did a little spin and motioned his arms to Sakura. "That includes doing anything to your wife~"

He stops his pounding and quivers a bit.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." Fingers stroke over the clear surface, leaving streaks.
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." He mutters the two words over and over again, all while slowly embracing the tank.

"I'm sorry..."
"I'm sorry..."

"I'm sorry..." He chokes out, reaching out to his wife as she is pulled away from him, his child's wretched cries in the background.

"I'm sorry..."