Interrogation

All is lost again, but I'm not giving in
I will not bow, I will not break

"Who are you working for?!" The man with bandages on his face said as he struck Sasuke in the face with his fist.

Sasuke shut his eyes and ignored the man before him. Even if he was at a disadvantage, being tied to a chair with his arms behind the back of the seat with thick ropes, he refused to speak. His lip was bleeding, but he didn't care, he just took all the hits as if they were nothing.

He was specially trained to not give in, he wasn't easily intimidated, which is exactly what this man was trying to do to him. Sasuke only smirked at his failed attempts to get him to talk, this man was pathetic for even trying.

"I'll ask you one more time, who the hell are you working for?!"

"Go to hell." Sasuke spat out as the man stared him angrily in the eyes.

"What did you say to me?!"

"Go. To. Hell." Sasuke slowed it down. "Do I have to spell it out for you?!"

The man growled and grabbed Sasuke by the collar of his shirt, still trying to intimidate him. Sasuke merely looked at him with an emotionless stare, one that didn't show fear or intimidation. Dosu growled and grabbed a knife from his pocket.

"Start talking." Dosu showed him the knife. "Or you'll have a little accident."

"Fuck you." Was all Sasuke said before he continued. "You'll never get any answers if you kill me."

The knife was brought back and then shot forward to plunge into his left shoulder. Sasuke let out a gasp of pain as the cool metal entered his flesh, ripping apart the tissue and veins as blood poured from the new wound. He couldn't free his hands to grab the cut, it just bled as Dosu merely gave a chuckle before twisting it slowly.

"I know this hurts." Dosu glared. "Tell me what I want to know."

"N-no." Sasuke choked out through the pain.

"Not the answer I wanted." Dosu stated and twisted the knife again before pushing it in deeper.

Sasuke clenched his teeth trying to not to yell out, but the pain was too intense. He let out a groan before yelling when Dosu shifted the knife to stretch open the wound in his shoulder. The raven-haired male clenched his fists before he felt his left arm go limp from the pain, he couldn't move it anymore, any strength he may have had in his left arm no longer existed.

"Tell me." Dosu again tried to get him to talk.

"No." Sasuke deadpanned.

"His will is strong," A gray-haired male said to the man next to him.

"We'll break him soon enough, he can't hold out forever." The black-haired male turned to leave as he said. "Perform some experiments on him and see how resilient he is after that."

"Yes sir." The gray-haired male turned back to the microphone and pressed the button to allow his voice to enter the other room. "Dosu, bring him to lab 23."

"Do you think this girl can help us?" Naruto asked his commanding officer.

"I hope so, she's the only one that knows where he is...and if she can't remember, Sasuke and a lot of other people are going to die." Kakashi sighed with frustration and worry.

"We can't let that happen, Sakura isn't taking this well at all, if he dies there's no telling what she'll do." Naruto breathed out.

"Then let's just hope this girl can help us," Kakashi stated as Naruto nodded slowly.

They walked into Asuma's office and spotted the young girl sitting on a chair looking down at the floor. Kakashi stopped in his tracks and sighed before turning to Naruto.

"You're up kid."

Naruto nodded as Asuma and Kakashi left and shut the door behind him.

"Hey Ayame." The young girl looked up to the blond haired male and nervously twiddled her fingers.

"Um, hi." She murmured.

"Don't worry I'm not here to attack you with questions. But if at any time you feel there is something you need to say, I want you to say it." Naruto smiled as he knelt down to the girls height.

"Okay." She smiled, letting her nerves relax a bit.

"We're really going to rely on what she says?" Asuma asked.

"We have to, believe it or not, she's the only one that knows where Sasuke is." Kakashi crossed his arms and stared through the window of Asuma's office.

"But Kakashi, don't you have a special team that can track him down."

"We could have, if the people we are dealing with were amateurs in concealing their tracks...But they have, and they are hidden well."

Asuma turned to the girl after he glanced at his friend.

"She's all that we've got."

"Ahh," Sasuke yelled in pain as a knife was dragged across his abdomen.

"Hold still." The man cutting his skin ordered since Sasuke kept moving to get out of the straps that were holding him down. "I need tissue samples from you."

Sasuke clenched his teeth as he felt the blade go farther down his stomach until it stopped. His breathing was heavy as his vision faded in and out from darkness. The pain he felt was intense, he couldn't stand to take it anymore. The man standing above him only smirked at the pain he was bringing to Sasuke.

"You know, this could stop." The male with gray hair said as he cut a piece of Sasuke's flesh and striped off a piece of the tissue in his body. "All you have to do is tell us what we want to know."

"No." Sasuke refused like he had so many times before, he refused to give in.

"Then only more pain will greet you, because you're never getting out of here."

"Kabuto," The gray-haired man's name was called when another man came in.

"Yes Zaku, what is it?"

"The boss needs to talk to you when you are through here."

"Oh, I'm done, take him back to his cell, and don't unstrap him from this bed." The man named Kabuto, stated as he got up and left the lab.

Zaku gave a nod before Kabuto left and pulled Sasuke's bed since it was on wheels and wheeled him back to the cell he was first thrown into. Sasuke glanced at Zaku with tired eyes and saw the man smirk and give a low chuckle. A door was opened and Sasuke was pushed inside before he was left alone in the cell.

His abdomen was still bleeding and it kept shooting pain throughout his body. They hadn't even bothered to sew up the wound before taking him back here, he could die from blood loss.

What's going to happen to me?

Sasuke's eyes drifted shut as the pain finally managed to knock him out. There was nothing preventing him from dying right here on this bed in this very room. There was no one coming to save him, was there? These men were professionals in what they do and it didn't look like they planned to make a fatal mistake in this point in time.

Sakura sat on the floor in her room as she leaned against the side of her bed. She was going through a box of things that Sasuke had given her throughout the duration of their relationship. One item she pulled out was a white teddy bear with black ears and black arms, Sasuke had given it to her as a surprise.

He always surprised me at the most unexpected times

She smiled softy as her eyes became blurry with tears that threatened to fall from her emerald orbs. She blinked and let them slid down her face as she set the bear aside and grabbed a journal from the box. Sasuke gave this to her on when they reached the first year of their relationship, it was filled with reasons like the title stated A Hundred Reasons Why...

"Sasuke." She spoke into the silence as her voice cracked. "Please come back to me."

She set the journal down as she placed her head in her hands. Ino stood near the doorway of her best friend's room, she had witnessed the tears the young woman was crying. Ino's heart was breaking for her best friend, and she could have sworn she felt tears falling down her face as well. A friends tears always brings a pang to her heart, she wished there was something she could do.

"Sakura, I hope he's alright for your sake." Ino muttered sadly to herself.

Sasuke's eyebrows furrowed as his eyes slowly opened, he was still inside the cell he was brought to before he passed out. But, there was something different, it was only a slight change but he had noticed it.

There's a video camera in here

He groaned when he felt the pain in his stomach suddenly return, it wasn't really bleeding anymore, it had stopped at this point much to his surprise and relief. He shifted as the straps of the bed weighed him down, he really didn't have a lot of area to move in, but he tried his hardest to shift into a more comfortable position.

The door opened and the man from before named Kabuto, walked in. His clothes were the same as what he was wearing earlier, a pair of dark blue scrubs. He walked over to Sasuke and peered over him.

"Well, well, look who's awake." He smirked again, and Sasuke had to glare at him for that. "It's about time, I need you for another test."

Sasuke was wheeled out of the room as he looked around the hall he was being pushed down. There were so many cells that he couldn't count, his only question was how many of them were actually occupied?

Kabuto and Sasuke arrived at another room where there were several beakers and vials filled with different colored liquids. Sasuke's eyes widened at the sight, especially when Kabuto picked up a blue vial and filled up a syringe before walking over to him. Kabuto smiled at Sasuke, a look saying 'hope you're ready for this'.

"This won't hurt a bit." The needle was shoved into Sasuke's arm as the young male clenched his teeth from the twinge of pain caused by the pointed medical tool.

A strange feeling consumed Sasuke as he felt cold and lightheaded and if he wasn't mistaken a little numb as well. Kabuto brought over a metal rod about the size of a ruler, and what caught Sasuke's attention was the fact that the end of it was brightly orange. Before Sasuke could say anything, the metal rod was dragged across his side as it burned and ate at his flesh. The searing hot rod went through his skin like a hot knife in butter.

The pain was more than Sasuke could handle as he yelled out and screamed. His training in ANBU was nothing compared to this, this was a thousand times worse than anything. The metal rod was pulled away, leaving Sasuke branded by its mark, his breathing was heavy and labored as Kabuto set the metal object on one of the tables.

"That serum was a failure," Kabuto shrugged, "Looks like it won't protect against burns like I thought it would."

If Sasuke could talk, he would surely be cussing at this man right now, there were so many things he wanted to shout at him, but his mouth would not form the words that he wanted. He really couldn't form any words at all really.

A male entered the room, he was one of the lower ranked personnel in this area and he was only here to deliver a message.

"Orochimaru, wants Sasuke back in interrogation, he wants to see if he's ready to talk yet." The male stated and glanced at Sasuke with distaste. "He wants Sasuke taken to the one in the basement."

"Hm. That interrogation room is very, what would say, deadly or more elaborate and painful." Kabuto grinned as he injected Sasuke with another liquid, but this time it was a pale lavender color.

"I think more elaborate and painful," The man agree with Kabuto's second option.

Kabuto nodded as two more men entered the room and unstrapped Sasuke from the bed before dragging him out of the room. When Sasuke made a move to kick one of the men that had a hold of him, he realized he couldn't move.

What the hell?!

The gray haired man that looked at him smiled smugly. "Having trouble moving?"

When Sasuke didn't repsond he laughed with a dark chuckle that came from deep in his throat. Sasuke felt his breathing go shallow and he had a hard time taking deep breaths.

"I injected you with a serum I created, it immobilizes your muscles and relaxes them to a point where you can't move at all." He glanced at Sasuke before going over to him to raise Sasuke's chin so he would look him in the eye. "Of course there are a few side effects. Shortness of breath, abdominal pain and dizziness but what do you expect from a drug?"

"You bastard." Sasuke managed to murmur out as he felt the pain and dizziness tear through his head and stomach.

"You can call me any name you want, I've heard them all before, your insults are nothing to me."

Once they arrived in the elevator they tightened their hold on Sasuke's arms. He didn't know why, it wasn't like he could move and attack them like he wish he could. His mind played the hits over and over but he couldn't even lift a finger much less a leg. He was surprised he even had the ability to use his eyes, as he watched the number of floors go down until they reached the basement.

His vision faded to a blurry sight and back to clear as the room around him started spinning. The doors of the mechanical contraption opened to reveal a dark hallway lit only by the flickering lights on the ceiling but that wouldn't provide comfort to anyone who may be afraid of the dark.

As they proceeded forward Sasuke could feel his muscles coming back to life with the strength he had lost when he was sedated by the damn serum the doctor, or so Sasuke guessed he was, instilled into his bloodstream.

Just a temporary effect, but it was short at least.

Upon reaching a door that Sasuke was positive was the interrogation room, he brought his leg up and knocked one of the guards in the stomach causing the hold on his arms to be released. He brought back his hand and jabbed the other man in the neck and he released his arm as well. Kabuto made a move to grab Sasuke but he dodged out of the way and ran back towards the elevator.

Just as he thought he was going to be able to escape, his muscles contracted and he fell to his knees in severe pain. He held an arm around his ribs as he tried not to yell out from the searing stabs in his body. Kabuto walked over as calm as ever and Sasuke cursed under his breath when he knelt down in front of him.

"That is part of the serum young Sasuke, it'll give you false hope that you have control again but it spreads further and that's when the real pain starts."

He was right, the pain began to grow inside his abdomen and he couldn't help but groan at the feeling. His stomach felt like it was on fire, the burning made him wish he could die right here so he wouldn't feel it anymore. Clutching his aching body with his arms the men that had a hold of him earlier picked him up off the floor and they continued on to the room.

Once inside Sasuke looked around and what he saw made his stomach lurch with disgust. There were blood stains everywhere, only a few spots were left untainted by the blood from a human body. He was taken to the center of the room and he soon saw why this interrogation room was more painful.

Hanging on hooks on the walls were a variety of torture tools, some ranged from whips to thick clubs and even sharp metal rods. Above where they stood a chain hung from the ceiling and it was brought down a little as they forced Sasuke to lift up his arms to chain him up. Once they were done, his feet hung about a foot above the ground.

When the three men left another entered the room. His attire was just a pair of black pants, a white shirt and a black trench coat over the clothes he wore. His eyes didn't really have a color except to be identified as a black color. His gray hair was cut to about the mid length of his neck and was parted, the right part covered his eye and Sasuke could have sworn the man was wearing black lipstick since his lips were not the normal color any other person had.

A voice over a similar intercom in the other interrogation room, rang in Sasuke's ears. "Sakon, begin when you are ready, and remember you can do whatever you need to do, but we still need him alive."

"Got it." The man known as Sakon stated with a smile on his lips.

He walked forward until he stood in front of Sasuke, he had to look up at the raven-haired male since he was hanging a foot off the ground. With Sasuke's hands tied together above his head, the dark-haired man had no way to defend himself. His obsidian orbs glared angrily at the man in the room with him. Sasuke could barely stand to breath the same hair as him.

"We can do this the easy way," Sakon began before continuing on with his statement, "Or we can do this the hard way."

Sasuke didn't respond but Sakon grabbed his chin to make him focus his gaze on his. "Just tell me what I want to know and you might come out of this alive."

Not being able to do anything else, Sasuke spit on the man before him. "Fuck you." He gritted through his teeth.

Sakon tsked. "You are strong. But I'll break you, you won't be able to stand what I have in store."

He walked over to the wall and grabbed the thick black whip before yanking it forcefully off the wall. Sakon walked around to Sasuke where his exposed back was completely untainted with scars. Sakon smirked and tsked again.

"You have been able to keep yourself pretty clean of scars, that was until you got involved with my boss. No one will be able to stand to look at your back when I'm through." Sakon unraveled the whip and brought back his arm, before using all of his strength to crack the whip against Sasuke's bare flesh.

As soon as the whip made contact with his skin, Sasuke screamed out from the unbearable pain. What they had done to him earlier was paradise compared to this.

Sakura couldn't identify what she was suddenly felt. Her heart seized just a few seconds ago, like someone was making her watch something terrible happen. This feeling was just like the time Sasuke had nearly gotten killed on his last mission with his team. She didn't like the nervous feeling she had right now, it was making her uncomfortable and she wanted to make it go away.

"It's Sasuke, he's in trouble," She whispered to herself with wide eyes.

After thinking for a few seconds she shook her head of those thoughts.

Don't be ridiculous Sakura, he would never let himself get into any real trouble. He is strong. Isn't he?!

She doubted what her thoughts were saying, but her heart screamed for them to be true, she prayed and hoped Sasuke was okay and that he was safe. But there was still that feeling that something terrible was happening to him, but she couldn't place it nor could she figure why she could even feel it.

"I want to help, I do, I just..."

"Ayame calm down." Naruto pat her head in a gentle manner as he glanced out the window of the office to see two more people standing next to Kakahsi and Asuma, whom he assumed were Ayame's parents. "If you want to help, just close your eyes and describe to me what the place you were in was like."

Ayame nodded and shut her eyes, images flashed behind her eye lids.

"It was cold and dark. There were hardly any lights, it was dirty and the walls had a lot of cracks, like it was going to fall apart." Ayame stated as her eyes remained closed.

"Is there anything from the outside that you remember? What surrounded this place?" Naruto asked.

"It was like a huge building, all around it were trees and it was inside a gate, there was a gate that they drove through and everything."

Naruto smiled again at her and pat her on the head again. "Good job Ayame, your parents are outside, if you remember anything else your mom has our contact number."

"Okay, please save Sasuke, he saved me, and I don't want anything to happen to him, it would make me sad if he got hurt."

"We'll get him back Ayame, we'll get all of them out and make sure none of them are hurt."

Ayame nodded and got out of her chair and walked out once Kakashi opened the door to allow her out. Her parents hugged her tightly as tears fell from their eyes, she had been missing for days which turned to weeks, they were just glad she was back.

Kakashi walked in with Asuma right behind him. "Did she give you anything Naruto?"

"I have a description of what the place looks like from the outside."

"We'll take it, its the best we have right now."

A whip cracked again against flesh that used to be unmarred by anything. Now deep lashes that bled out profusely desecrated Sasuke's back. His head had become doused with sweat at this point but he still refused to speak. He couldn't and wouldn't sell out his teammates for anything, no matter the beatings he received he defied the men that wanted answers from him.

Sakon was getting irritated at this point. "TELL ME!

Slashing the whip across Sasuke's skin again and again, Sakon growled with frustrated anger as Sasuke whispered something to himself, something he always lived by.

No matter how hard the enemy batters you, the will of heart and mind are stronger than any interrogator.

I won't let them down, I won't give in to these guys, I just can't. If I do, it could get my team into a whole mess of trouble.

Sakon lashed out again with the whip and it sliced into more of Sasuke's skin, digging deeper and deeper with each slash of the torture weapon. Sasuke could swear that his tissues and spinal cord would be exposed soon enough, the way the whip cut into him was enough to let him know. He could feel each strike as it dug into him, ripping him apart in strong agonizingly painful strike.

He yelled out again as he was struck once more, then Sakon came to stand in front of him with an enraged look that occupied his usual dark facade. His nostrils flared when Sasuke still refused to give in to his demands.

Pulling a knife from his pocket, he turned it so the light in the room shone off its razor sharp edges. Sasuke could already feel the sting he knew was going to come from this knife. He was right when Sakon drove the knife across his face in a slow torturous pace, the knife split open his cheek as blood poured down his chin to drip onto his chest.

Sakon went to drive the knife into his abdomen where the cut Kabuto gave him was. He wanted to make the wound reopen and bring more pain to Sasuke and he was about to when suddenly he felt his breath leave him as pain erupted in his stomach. Sasuke had managed to kick him since he was able to move again.

"You little bastard!" Sakon shouted and dodged another kick that Sasuke had aimed at him.

Sakon growled and brought the knife back ready to stab Sasuke in the heart when a man spoke over the intercom making him stop.

"Sakon calm down, he won't be any good to us if you kill him."

Sasuke breathed out but his breathing suddenly stopped in his throat when Sakon wrapped a hand around his neck, choking and slowly making each breath he took harder and harder.

"Who the fuck are you working for damn it?!" Sakon yelled as his hold tightened around Sasuke's neck.

Sasuke merely clenched his teeth down and shut his eyes trying desperately to keep his mind off of what was happening to him right now. There was no denying the pain that was eating at him, but he wouldn't give into this man, he would never be able to be broken, not now, not ever. The hold on his throat tightened to a point he felt he was going to pass out from lack of oxygen.

"Tell me what I want to know, and you could walk away alive." Sakon dragged the knife, that was in his other hand, across Sasuke's neck.

The cut wasn't deep enough to cut a vital area, but it still bled just like every other wound that coated his tattered body. His eyes lost the light they once held when he came into this place, he knew deep within his subconscious that he was going to die sooner or later, but his heart told him to hang on and keep his oath and loyalty to the team that he had spent so much time with.

Sakura...

He felt his vision fading, everything was blurring and he suddenly lost his sight as unconsciousness overtook his weary body. His heart was in the right place, but his body wouldn't be able to hold out anymore, no matter how hard he would fight, his body had its limitations.

Sakon growled as his hold on Sasuke's neck loosened and he brought it down to rest it at his side. The door opened and in walked, what Kabuto and Sakon would call their boss. His black hair reached to his back and his yellow eyes, one would assume an experimental accident, glanced over the male hanging from the ceiling.

"Sasuke, Sasuke," The male shook his head, "You could have had it easy."

He turned away and walked towards the door he came in from. "Sakon, take him to his new cell on the very top floor, when he awakes, have Kabuto run one of the bullet tests."

"But Orochimaru, what about getting the information we need?" Sakon asked.

"Its nothing of importance Sakon, he will do better for us as an experiment subject. If he won't talk, he won't talk, if you ever saw a man like him before, his eyes burn with strong willed fire." Orochimaru stated and left without another word as Sakon merely gave a nod with his head.

He turned to Sasuke a gave a low snarl before whispering darkly. "I'll make you talk whether my boss wants you to or not."

I will shut the world away
I will not fall, I will not fade

A/N I wanted to post this awhile ago, but I ran into some personal issues, hope you enjoy this chapter I drove myself crazy trying to actually sit down and focus on writing it. :)