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Painful Praise chapter 2

The Shadow took a few steps out of the fire and collapsed.

'What should I do ? This is a perfect opportunity... but it's not my prey...' A man clad in a red clouded black coat thought as he witnessed the shadow's actions.

He finally came to a decision and walked up to the collapsed form.

He took a look at the form : it was the shape of an human but tails, nine tails to be exact, were covering the nude form of the young boy. Long orange blond red hair were framing the pale face of its owner.

His face was appealing : No more baby fat, that was once one of the main features characterizing the twelve year old, his lips were full and a beautiful cherry blossom's color, his eyes were still closed but the orbits' shape had changed, more elongated making them appeared bigger, the whiskers marks were still marring his cheeks but they were nothing more than mere trace begining from the upper part of his cheek to finish at the edge of his effeminate face.

The Black clad man bent down, and picked up the boy's form, to his surprise, the body was pretty light.

"I'm sure Itachi won't mind... maybe we'll train you, little one... It could be quite interesting..." The man said walking away from the waterfall.

He opened his eyes to meet blackness. Where was he ?

He took a deep breath.

"This odor... A hospital ?"

He turned his head to his left and cautght the smell of his other teammates.

"Sasuke-kun ! You're awake ! You've been asleep since Kakashi braught you back, three hours ago..."

"Where's Naruto ?" Sasuke interrupted Sakura's ranting.

"Who cares about that idiot ! I asked him to make you come back and he didn't do anything... It's Kakashi who did all the work, I'm sure. He's never been able to do anything on his own..."

"Shut up." Sasuke cried. "Where is Naruto ? Did you see him ? How is he ? I didn't mean to do that..."

"I hope you didn't." A new voice was heard.

Sasuke's head shot up as he heard the door closed.

"Where is Naruto ?" Sasuke asked again.

"What do you remember ?" Tsunade said. "Start from the beginning !"

Sasuke frowned. Sakura was confused : what were they speaking about ? She looked back and for from Sasuke's guilty face to Tsunade's cold serious face.

"I... I... was attacked by Orochimaru's men and... they asked me... to join them."

Tsunade frowned a little, she had though that the UCHIHA had been kidnapped.

"I was placed in a sort of wooden box covered with paper seals... for my curse seal to develop..."

Sasuke bowed his head further down, his fingers were playing with the hem of the hospital sheet.

"I don't know how long I was in there... I was in the dark, I couldn't see, couldn't smell, couldn't feel anything, I only heard Orochimaru's voice telling me that he would give me the power to avenge my clan, power that had never been seen before. Suddenly there was light and I was in the middle of a field, a man was facing Naruto and I ran, away from Naruto to Orochimaru. I don't know what happened but Naruto got to me. We were at a waterfall... We fough, with all we had..."

Tsunade was staring at the younger UCHIHA with cold eyes finally putting the pieces together.

"You killed him !" Tsunade said in a cold voice.

Sasuke paled even more.

"I didn't... I couldn't..." Sasuke said beginning to panic.

Sasuke took his head in his hands and his knees to his chest and began rocking back and for. Sakura tried to touch him but Sasuke just curled up even more shielding away from Sakura's touch.

"Sa...Sasuke-kun ?"


Somewhere in the stone country :

"So he is the holder of the Kyûbi..." A man hidden in the shadows said.

"Yes." Itachi answered.

"You said he went under a transformation, Zetsu ?"

"Yes." Zetsu answered.

"We will see what we can do with him when he wakes up. Itachi, you'll take care of our guest..."

The shadows disapeared leaving Itachi alone with Naruto.

"We shall have fun together, little one." Itachi said a creepy smile on his petals like lips.

Chapter 2 end.


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