Retribution

Chapter 14

Her screaming could not be contained, the liquid fire had spread through her body, she wanted to grip her head so badly, it pounded and all she could feel is fire in her veins, it was like acid. Every beat of her erratically beating heart made it so much more, if she could have been capable of thinking she was certain she was about to have a heart attack. At some point she must have passed out since she was then woken up by someone lightly smacking her cheeks to bring her back to awareness.

They looked at her eyes with a flashlight and were giving her a full physical exam. She could feel the blood pressure monitor on her arm and hear the scribbling on paper but her eyes hadn't adjusted to the light yet. After several minutes she attempted to look around and caught the time before she focused her attention on Kabuto who was once again at some high table preparing a red thick liquid and it made her wonder if it was blood.

She didn't have hardly any strength left in her to even glare at the guy much less put up a fight and she could feel the bindings still holding her down. She noticed her palms were now facing up and felt the binding on her right forearm tighten for a couple minutes as Kabuto poked at her veins there with his fingers. Once the vein was ready he stuck the needle in and slowly pushed out the red liquid. There was no excruciating pain this time and she was thankful for that.

They had continued to monitor her vitals and occasionally took a sample of her blood and looked at it under a microscope. She kept dozing off and coming back to awareness, also keeping her own check on what her blood pressure was. When she had seen it was back to normal the next round of pain came. Kabuto had another needle full of that orange liquid, her eyes widened and her body tensed as she watched him line up the needle with the middle of her abdomen this time. Her screaming could once again be heard echoing through the room and out across the cave.

That was the last she could remember and after noticing her left arm she realized he must have used that vein to inject something, most likely that red liquid that still reminded her of blood. After several minutes her heart had begun to calm down again and she could hear Kabuto telling his help to prepare for the solar plexus injection and mark the sacral as a success. Dread filled her body as she figured out that it was time for more of that orange liquid again. She took note of the time and seen that a couple hours had passed by, it was now 12: 06 but she was unsure if that would mean it is midnight or the middle of the day.

She wished she could get her heart pumping faster again, figuring it had to get to normal before they could inject more of that stuff inside her. Flexing her toes and rapidly opening and clenching her fists she tried to move as much as she could to get her blood pressure to stop from dropping. One of the lab technicians noticed her blood pressure increasing and noticed what she was doing. They alerted Kabuto and knocked her out.

The pain after the needle was then inserted into her upper abdomen was what woke her up. She could feel her chest feeling constricted and it was getting harder to breath. Her screaming was interrupted with her panting and she felt an oxygen mask go over her mouth and nose, forcing her body to accept more air. It wasn't long and she could feel herself slipping back into the black abyss wondering if she would come out of this alive as her body jerked and twitched.

It was around 3 she could barely make out on the clock through all the haze. Her eyes were still heavy and the oxygen mask was gone, she somehow lived through it again. She felt numb right then, her thoughts were slightly jumbled but for now she was in the room alone it looked like. She could feel the sting of where 4 needles had gone into her torso, the last one being her chest although she couldn't remember it at all.

She could do nothing but lay there with her thoughts, trying to sort through the fog. She wondered when help would come. This was the first time in a while she could attempt at thinking about anything other than what was happening in this room. She had no idea if Itachi had a way to find her anytime soon.

Kabuto seemed confident that he would find her and he must have wanted him to since he had showed Itachi how to return. If he did find her would it be a trap or was it something else. She had no clue as to what Kabuto was doing to her and what end result he was hoping of this. She did know that she was starting to feel abandoned by her Gods at this point. How could she end up in the clutches of this mad-scientist as a living test subject?

She used to be rescued before anything bad could truly happen to her but then again, maybe this orange liquid was just getting her prepared for the true horror. If that was the case then she hoped she was rescued in time once more. Her eyes clouded with tears and she silently wept. She had no way of saving herself or knowing if she will be saved again and her fear swallowed her whole. She could only hope that if she fell asleep again she would be looking at Itachi's face as he took her to safety and not this hell hole.

Itachi was stopped on a branch as he focused on the area around them knowing Sasuke was doing the same. Naruto entered Nine-Tail Chakra mode and searched for Kabuto's chakra. After several quiet moments his eyes opened again, his success and determination easily read.

He then took the lead and forced them to speed up. He could feel several signatures and was unsure if that meant they were all enemies they would have to face but he figured there would be little use sweating over it.

The sky had begun to lighten by the time Naruto started to slow down. Recognizing the area both Itachi and Sasuke nodded, confirming Shikamaru's theory of them being at the last place they battled. They carefully proceeded into the cave when it came in view with the sun rising behind them.

Itachi took in every detail as he followed a dirt path with drag marks to a large column and noticing a small hand print, the same size as Kagome's. Following the next set of drag marks for as long as he could, going past several tunnels he finally had to leave it up to Naruto once more.