Stockholm Syndrome
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Sasuke's POV
When Sakura had said that, the entire room burst out into a thousands voices. Everyone trying to be heard at once. My mind was whirling but unlike everyone else- aside from Itachi- my mouth was sealed.
Sakura looks around trying to quiet everyone down. "Hey."
Everyone keeps talking, the judge orders for silence.
"Hey!" Sakura yells, her eyes narrowed. "Hey! Hey! HEY! Everyone, shut up!"
The room falls silent. Now no one wants to speak. Sakura rolls her eyes. "Can I continue, now?"
"Perposterous!" Mr. Kimbo snaps, standing up. "How do you get off saying things like that?"
Sakura spins around in that way she used to when we were kids- when Naruto asked her a dumb question she would spin around and thunk him on the head- so when she spins around the same way I almost thought she would walk over and thunk Mr. Kimbo in the head and call him a doofus like she did to Naruto all those years ago.
"How? How? I get off saying things like that because it is common sense in the world to know that Uchiha are beautiful. Period. There is no if, ands, or buts. Itachi is- believe it or not, an Uchiha so getting-" she stops. "um, later. First the evidence. I have a question for the court; can someone tell me what exactly is Stockholm Syndrome?"
"Now you just wait a damn minute," Mr. Kimbo snaps, "Why are you part of this case? This has nothing to do with you!"
"Actually," Sakura grinds out, "Itachi is my friend. Therefore, when something happens to him, something so bad that he stops talking altogether. It is one hundred percent my concern. My dad and Fugaku Uchiha were friends in high school and then in college all the way up to the day that he died. Now, can anyone tell me what Stockholm Syndrome is?"
"It's when someone starts to sympathise with someone else that maybe like kidnapped them or something, right?" I ask, looking around. Mom takes my hand and squeezes it. Her face stained with tears. Sakura nods.
"Exactly. Now why would Itachi write a story about Stockholm Syndrome unless he was trying to tell us something, right?" No one responds. "Well, at the back of the book, Itachi wrote that it is based on a true story, so I thought of all the possibilities. But the only logical one I could think of was that Itachi wrote it to tell his story without telling his story. With that in mind, I started to investigate. Sasuke, give us a brief description of the story." Sakura's emerald green eyes turn to me. Her voice strong and sure of herself.
I blink. How in the world did she know that I finished reading the book? How in the world does she do that?
I open my mouth when I realize that everyone is staring at me, waiting for me to talk. "Uhh, it's about a boy named, um, Leo who was kidnapped at a best friends birthday party, he later took on his capters' dead son Mickey's persona. Um, he starts to investigate this murder of a boy in his class and that helps him get over his Stockholm Syndrome... I don't know what else to say..." I mumble looking around nervously. Blood in my cheeks.
Sakura waves her hand dismissively. "No, no, Sasuke, that's enough. I can work with just that and add my own summary when need be. OK, so Stockholm Syndrome. Tsunade, you said that Itachi didn't talk or look at anyone when they talked all the while he was in the Institute, correct?"
Everyone turns and looks to the blond woman who was sitting next to Itachi at the opposite side of the chair's then me. It was me, my mom, dad, Itachi then Tsunade.
Tsunade nods. "Yes, Itachi showed 0 willingness to speak or listen to anyone. Only when this test trial became an option did he silently agree to go home and by then he started showing impressive improvements."
Sakura nods. "I see, now why in the world would Kimbo want to bring Itachi back to the Institute if he was doing so well at home? And if I'm not mistaken but hasn't Itachi been closing back up since it was suggested that he go back, Ms. Senju?"
I look over at Tsunade as she opens her mouth, nothing comes out for a moment before she finally mummers, "Well... yes, that is true." she says like she is just realizing it herself- maybe she is. But what is Sakura getting at here? Is Mr. Kimbo involved in this somehow? Is that what Sakura is trying to get at...?
"In the story there is a boy that is murdered after being raped," Sakura continues, eyes glued to the judge and the jury. "The boy was an orphan and I found out that at the orphanage down by some old medicine mart has a boy named Richard Melson. This boy is frequently escaping and running off for weeks, months and even years, but he was always found and sent back."
My eyes widen.
'The class falls silent. I don't know how to process what was just said to me. I didn't know Richard very well, but he was still a classmate. He lives- lived- at the orphanage down the street from the park. He was well known for running away from home and being gone for an extended amount of time before someone eventually finds him and sends him back. He is- was - in most of my classes.'
Just like Itachi had said in his book...
'"From what we can tell, Richard ran away two nights ago and the police found him just outside the old medicine store, in an alley back behind it." she takes a deep breath and tries to calm down. She dabs her eyes with a tissue. "He was rapped and then killed."'
"See now, I did some investigating on the orphanage down by our well known Medi-Mart convenient store. There is a boy identical to the one in the story named Josh Abel. See now, so far he has been missing for a little over 2 years. And I have proof to say that Josh Abel was outside the Medi-Mart back behind the building in the alley where he was raped and murdered. All the while Itachi was there, not only did he witness this happen to the boy but he left his own evidence behind." Sakura says coldly, pulling out a bag with some little bottle in it. She gives it to the judge who looks at it curiously.
She puts it on a little projector so everyone could see it.
"That's our family crest," Fugaku says deeply, eyes narrowed.
"Yes, " Sakura says, "Before Itachi went into the store he heard the noise of the boy struggling that the shop owners and employees couldn't because the walls are noise proof. The perfect place. So he went in and purches' the medicine with his father's company's money so there would be proof it was his- then he confronted the killer."
The room is silent. Mom is sobbing quietly into dad's shoulder. I look over to my silent elder brother, his eyes closed and his face is calm but I notice the almost unnoticeable shake of the body. He's quivering... he's afraid.
"Now, I know my average criminal and the ol' "I'll kill your family if you talk" but no- I've seen people who were dumb enough to go up against Fugaku and Mikoto Uchiha on threats over their lives and they don't so much as flinch anymore. So he must have known this because, I believe he threatened someone else's life that Itachi would worry about..." She walks toward my brother slowly, kneeling next to him. Itachi opens his eyes, possibly realising that it was silent.
"Itachi," Sakura whispers, "did he threaten to kill Sasuke if you talked?"
I sputter, eyes wide. Threaten me? Why the hell would he...?
Itachi blinks back tears, I see. He nods slowly, "..."
The whole room fills with gasps and light mummers. Mom sobs harder and hugs me close. My whole body feels cold.
Sakura swallows loudly, and everyone shuts up to listen. The news reporters are probably having a field day behind me. "Another question, the man did not just threaten you... did he?" Sakura asks. Itachi lowers his head as if in shame like something was all his fault. Sakura tries again, "Ita, did... did the killer... did he rape you?"
Mom falls completely silent and if anyone was talking before- they were silent now. Dad looks like he's shaking with fury.
Slowly- but surely- Itachi nods, wiping tears from his cheeks quickly.
"Oh my god!" Mom sobs loudly, her voice thick with guilt and grief. "My baby! Oh my angel! Why?"
Dad pulls her to him and whispers softly to her, eyes narrowed and cold and most of all, out to kill. Mom clings to dad sobbing loudly. After a few minutes, she quiets down, all the while, everything has been silent as Sakura stares at Itachi intensely.
"Final question, Itachi," she says ruthlessly, "The murderer of Abel, the one who threaten you and the one that raped you... it was Mr. Nashinoto Kimbo... wasn't it?"
Itachi burries his face in his hands and lets out a loud shaky breath- yes it was that silent- and for a moment, I thought that he had fallen asleep or something but then I hear a noise. Something that for a moment was unfamiliar. Everyone seemed to lean in to hear it.
"What?" Sakura mumbles, eyes wide.
"It was Kimbo," Itachi mumbles, his voice weak and creakily. "Kimbo murdered the boy, and threatened to murder my little brother."
So there you have it. Itachi spoke for the first time sense the day of the accident. Strangely enough, I was calm and collected while a split second later, the entire room is filled with all kinds of voices. That is- until there was a-
BANG!
A/N: O.O Oh nos! What has happened? Sorry for the slow update! My computer is fixed now! Thanks to my daddy! :D This wasn't exactly how I dreamed it, but it is close. How was it? I hope it all made sense. Let me know! Rate and review! Have a good day...