Chapter 15: Sasuke and Atrocitus: Their Hellish Hate
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Sasuke awoke and found himself in the middle of dark and dimly lit cave underground. "Where am I and for that matter what happened?" He asked himself as he started to gather his thoughts until he felt a stabbing pain in shoulders. Suddenly the memories of the fight with Naruto and Sakura began to flash in his head ending with Naruto driving a Rasengan into his shoulder and Sasuke driving a Chidori through Naruto's but after that nothing. "Strange this isn't the leaf village." Sasuke said aloud to himself.
"You're right it's not!" A voice said as Sasuke turned in all directions trying to find the source of the voice that answered him. "Down here you brat." The voice said looking down to find a strange ball with burning red eyes, razor-sharp teeth, the red lantern insignia on his head which caused Sasuke to raise an eyebrow at him in confusion.
"Are you supposed to be Atrocitus?" Sasuke asked thinking that this was the leader of the Red Lantern Corps which caused the over sized ball alien to laugh.
"My apologies but no I'm not Lord Atrocitus, I'm Zilius Zox, Red Lantern of Sector 3544, I was sent in here to treat your wounds." Zox said to the Uchiha which caused the Uchiha to glare at him.
"Okay now tell me where I am right now?!" Sasuke demanded.
"Nice to see you're a spiteful as usual that's good." Zox said.
"Tell me where I am right now?!" Sasuke demanded again.
"Fine, you're I the newly christened Yofungakure-no-Sato (Village hidden in the Rage) or as it was formerly known as Otogakure no Sato (Village hidden in the Sound)." Zox said began to explain to Sasuke how the Red lantern rings while they could find and attach to anyone with a great deal of rage in them, they did especially well when attached to those who's rage was fueled by personal loss like losing a friend or family member. Sasuke thought about it, and thinking it over it made sense but still one thing bothered him.
"Whatever but answer me this where can I find this Atrocitus?" Sasuke asked.
"I am Atrocitus." A voice said as he turned around to see the alien that Tayuya had described to him staring down at him with contempt. "So you are the one that fool Orochimaru wanted to transfer his soul into?" Atrocitus asked with suspicion.
"I am but now that he's dead, there is no point for me to find him. My only goal is to track down my older brother, and kill him for what he did to our clan." Sasuke said with a snarl.
"Oh really what did your brother do that clan of yours?" Atrocitus asked knowing that even petty revenge when handled correctly could be taken in with extreme pleasure. Sasuke then told his tale of his life back in the Hidden Leaf including the clan massacre, and the events that lead to where they were now. Atrocitus listened intently but was upset to learn that at least four other individuals had become lanterns, and to make it worse for him the four lanterns in question were on the positive side of the emotional spectrum.
"Wow my lord and I thought we had traumatizing back stories that justified our anger." Zox said to his master only to get a fist to the face or body whatever comes first sending him into a wall.
"You think your life has been Hell, you've only been living it for five solar years! Try standing around helplessly as your family, friends, neighbors, and everyone in your entire galactic sector and your planet get wiped out by an army of killer robots for me THAT IS HELL!" Atrocitus said screaming the last part at the Uchiha before he grabbed him by the throat. "While I admit you have plenty of anger, you let it control you too easily, you and I are going to have a few training sessions until you learn how to use that ring properly if it weren't for me knocking out the Star Sapphire and Indigo Lantern of your village then you would have been locked up in a prison cell to rot, got it?!" Atrocitus asked squeezing Sasuke's throat to the point he was foaming at the mouth like a mad dog. Sasuke nodded weakly before Atrocitus dropped him and he fell on the ground. "As for your former comrades I have something special planned for them." Atrocitus said as he rounded up his troops. Elsewhere in the hide out, Dex was busy trying to catch whatever meals he could after all he is a cat. Right now he was chasing a rat down each and every winding hallway of the lair before finally managing to pounce on it and slam it into the ground a few times. He then used his ring to give his claws a longer and sharper look before tearing into the dead rodent's flesh it wasn't much but it would be enough to hold him over for the day. Dex-Starr then spotted Sasuke who just stopped and looked at him with the rat's blood still staining his fur before he spotted Atrocitus and ran to his side.
"Is he yours?" Sasuke asked the leader of the Red Lanterns sarcastically finding it funny and somewhat strange that among the Red Lanterns was a regular Earth cat. Atrocitus glared at Sasuke before they finally stopped in the main hall where Atrocitus threw Sasuke across the room.
"Be forewarned boy, I am nothing like anything you've ever seen before not let's begin." Atrocitus roared as he charged at Sasuke who jumped into the air trying to land behind Atrocitus but just as he was about to hit Atrocitus, he got back handed in the face and was sent flying into another wall by Atrocitus. Sasuke made it back up to his feet as he then went through a series of hand seals before taking a deep breath and again sticking his ring near his mouth in a way that would amplify whatever he was up to as Atrocitus looked at him curiously.
"Fire style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!" Sasuke shouted launching several small fireballs at Atrocitus that hit him and seemed to have consumed him Sasuke thought he had one as he smirked at the damage with arrogance until the dust cleared to reveal Atrocitus flying straight at him and nailing him with a flying tackle into the wall before finally he tossed Sasuke over his shoulder and threw him down to ground before dropping a rage enhanced foot on Sasuke's sternum knocking the wind out of him. When the battle was over Atrocitus grabbed Sasuke by the hem of his uniform.
"I'll give you credit for being persistent young one but you must learn to control your rage in order to use it properly. Attacking like that will reduce your rage to nothing more than it being comparable to a rabid animal understand?" Atrocitus asked Sasuke who was teetering on unconsciousness so he nodded feebly before passing out. "Good; take him back to his quarters Zox." Atrocitus said as he left the main room and dropped the Uchiha on the floor leaving him for Zox to drag back to where Sasuke was being kept.
As he was dragging Sasuke back to his barracks, Zox heard a squish under his boot and smelled something disgusting. He lifted his boot to find that the sole of it now had cat waste on it. "DEX-STARR!" He screamed which carried all through the network of tunnels. While somewhere else in another part of the hideout Dex-Starr having heard Zox's voice just looked up and snickered to himself.
Meanwhile in his throne room; Atrocitus sat there contemplating whether or not he should keep Sasuke around, on one hand his Sharingan would be valuable asset to the Red Lantern Corps but on the other hand the Uchiha's arrogance and superiority complex were a hindrance to both him and the Uchiha boy; sure Sasuke had the rage but his pride was what Atrocitus believed would lead to the boy's downfall. "How can I use this to my advantage?" He thought to himself, then their were the other lanterns Sasuke warned him about; first there was Naruto the Blue Lantern; Atrocitus found it a shame that by the time he reached the valley both Naruto and Sasuke were unconscious, He didn't cross paths with Lee the Green Lantern so he couldn't judge even if the boy was under the command of the same arrogant dwarves who built the man hunters who eradicated countless civilizations in the forgotten zone; as for Hinata and Sakura he viewed them as weak if they couldn't stop him from attacking granted the Indigo one did try to stop him but it was a futile effort nevertheless. However regardless, Atrocitus figured now would be a good time to concentrate on the battles to come not on what had already happened as he looked through various notes left behind by Kabuto and Orochimaru. "I think I'll take a trip up to the north." He said to himself as he left the base to head for the mountains but not before grabbing his lantern and saying his oath.
"With blood and rage of crimson red
Ripped from a corpse so freshly dead
Together with our Hellish hate
We'll burn you all that is your fate!" He said as he took off like a shot to the north.
Uh-oh what has Atrocitus found out and why is he heading up north? Meanwhile Sakura's training under Tsunade has been going well but what happens when she ends up having to play the role of master to Tsunade? Next Time: To Learn and to Teach. Read and review folks.