Wayward straying.

Chapter 2:

Pain. All he felt was pain.

Flashing lights blinded him as his unfocused eyes opened a fraction, squinting. The cold glint of steel crossed his misty gaze.

Why?

Pain?

Distinct beeping sounds broke the silence except from the occasional clinks and flashes of metal; he felt the sensation of cold iron scraping his skin.

Shivering at the coldness, and the feeling of slippery plastic underneath his warm body, he mumbled incoherently.

He groaned and tossed his head, his limbs restrained by cuffs, hands reached and pulled his head to face the flashing white light overhead.

Must… Sleep.

So he did, and fell back to the comforting depths of unconsciousness.

A group of scientists gathered around a blonde haired boy, scribbling furiously onto their futuristic metal notepads, mumbling and whispering between each other as they observed others that were in progress of studying him, their hungry gazes dissecting him.

" Amazing, truly amazing… if we could incorporate his cell regeneration gene into one of our soldiers…"

" I know…"

" Imagine the possibilities."

" From his infrastructure, he seems to come from a different dimension."

" How?"

" Wormholes? They're very rare…"

They paused briefly when their test subject groaned.

The head scientist, indicated by his rather decorative lab coat amidst the sea of plain white, mumbled an order without even looking up from his notes.

" Somebody, fetch more tranquilizer, do it on full dose, his body can handle it and drugs won't effect his system unless on full dose…"

One of them, a rather messy young boy, stumbled upwards and quickly delivered a obscure crystal liquid bottle wordlessly, before scurrying back to the observatory room, his glasses askew, as they continued to study.

Naruto awoke in a blank room; the usually peeling and cracked walls replaced with white, flawless walls greeted his confused eyes everywhere, plain white furniture made the room look totally bland.

" What…? Where am I?" He mumbled, sitting up dazed, and futilely trying to recall his recent memories. Then he remembered. The men. The handcuffs.

Stumbling up, he felt the walls to confirm whether or not he was in a dream, or maybe an illusion.

A squeak alerted him to the glass door (which had escaped his notice) sliding open, revealing a friendly, immaculate looking woman.

" Hello," the woman beamed, " I'll be your caretaker for your duration at the lab, the name's Aoi." She continued, flashing him a forced friendly wink.

" You'll be put through a series of Volunteer experiments, the government will award you for your time of course." She plastered a sweetly fake smile, daring him to oppose.

Which he did, being the stupid sometimes-angst ridden Naruto he was.

" I ain't volunteered for being no lab rat!" He shouted, puffing up his small frame to defend this pride.

The woman frowned darkly, marching up to him and roughly tugging him out to the corridor, her shiny heels clicking on the smooth surface. Naruto resisted, planting his heels in the shiny floor but he was no match for a fully-grown woman.

So, screaming and kicking he went, with Aoi.

"Sasuke, not now, I have a mission to prepare for."

Sasuke gave a small, angry pout, folding his arms and refusing to budge.

" I know that, I just want to know what was the uproar about a few weeks ago, Mother and father wouldn't even let me out then!"

Sasuke tilted his head in confusion, remembering his parents' weird reactions.

Itachi sighed, his age lines deepened due to the stress, as he continued packing his worn bag, turning to face Sasuke at the doorway.

" Sasuke, don't worry about that, a boy your age went missing and people are just paranoid of pedophiles."

Not entirely true but still a hint of truth.

Sasuke stared at his brother, questioningly.

"What are pedophiles?"

" If you don't know then, they're just horrible people who steal children for their pleasure."

Itachi replied bluntly, mechanically slotting his kunai set into his waist pouch.

" Oh…" Sasuke mumbled, wanting to ask him to elaborate on what 'pleasure' but looking up, Itachi had already brushed past him and left to the village gates.

Hushed whispers.

He inched closer to the sleek titanium doors, wanting to hear more.

They were speaking in an entirely different sounding language.

" What the hell?" he mumbled softly to himself, before jumping back startled as the doors automatically slid open revealing Aoi, trying to compose himself to look like he hadn't been eavesdropping.

" Naruto, I've just had a word with one of the very important people here, and you're going to have to start the examinations tomorrow." Aoi spoke slowly, as if speaking to a mentally incapable child.

" I know that!" Naruto fumed, " But what is everyone here talking in!"

Aoi stared at him hard, before replying.

" It's English, you know, the most popular language on Earth? Now come along. It's a wonder you only speak Japanese."

Aoi dragged him to his room, before he had a chance to reply, muttering the last part.

Naruto was pushed roughly into 'his' room. More like a prison cell he thought, snorting softly. All day he was dragged from one place to another, being ogled at by various strangers and touched without his consent.

" Man, where am I in Konoha? They probably kidnapped me." He grumbled, upset by his treatment and the lack of recognizable cutlery when they were in the cafeteria.

The scenery was different too, and everything around here was so fascinating. Like those automatic sliding doors and metal floating thingies. They never had any in Konoha.

Kicking the wall in frustration, only for his small foot to ache in pain after a second.

"Argh… this place is weird." He mumbled, before falling onto the soft bed and falling soundly asleep.

A/N: I know this is kind of short, but i felt like i owe it to you people because the first chapter left a lot to be explained.

It's kind of filler-ish, cause i still haven't decided all the details in the actual plot yet. About the Sasuke, sakura and Konoha scenes in general i just added it there to add a bit more character development and understanding of them before Naruto goes back, instead of being filled in on what happened in Konoha after Naruto comes back and having to do a long winded chapter about Naruto reading a few years worth of newspapers about the Shinobi continents to fill you guys in.

And i don't like it when some Super-powered Naruto fics have Naruto come back really overpowered and perfect and the rest of the characters really OOC and grovelling at Naruto's newfound power etc etc.

Well that's enough blabbering from me, expect a new chapter from me to be really late. I feel my inspiration for this fiction to be too tiresome to write out. D: Always ends like that when i get tired of a plot.

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