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Chapter 5: Unbroken

He couldn't make out any features in the darkness but he was certain that the boy was staring at him. He moved a finger to his lips, terrified that the form would cry out and alert whatever man had left his room earlier.

"I'm not here to hurt you." he whispered consolatorily.

Dark eyes glinted but remained silent as the face turned towards him as the rattling of a chain told the blond that it would take a key of some sort to free him from the room. The dark form stood and Naruto realized that he could not be very old judging from its height but the figure silently gestured towards what Naruto assumed must be a light switch.

Turning the blond found he was accurate in his guess and smiled as he flipped on the switch illuminating the room in dim glow. The room was even more beautiful when lit but the smell of sex and blood, something that Naruto had grown quite used to in his lifetime, hung unpleasantly in the air.

The boy looked incredibly out of place in the room, he was dressed only in an oversized black t-shirt, and he had clearly missed a few baths. The shirt was so disgusting Naruto took a moment to wonder if it was a form of punishment all its own. It was stiff with semen and blood and God only knew what else.

The boy himself was not ugly even though his body was marred by countless burns and scars and open wounds. His t-shirt stuck to his back with what the blond was certain was a mixture of fresh blood and other bodily fluids. The marks did not touch his face however, and though the paleness clearly stated that he had not been outside in a while that made Naruto certain that it meant that the child was older than his height would have had him believe in the dark. He had black hair that was too long and black eyes that were fearful.

"You must leave," the raven haired boy said, "The master will kill you and he will make me watch and you must leave because you don't know how much it will hurt and you will scream..." the voice trailed off and black eyes that met blue assured that not a lie had been spoken.

"What's your name?" was the blond's reply.

The raven haired boy started shaking, "please you have got to leave! You've got to leave!" his voice became more insistent, he glanced towards the back of the room and when Naruto followed his gaze he saw the window he had known to be in this room. "It's the only window on this floor, it's steep but you can make it. You have to go now."

The cerulean eyed whore smirked, this was an interesting figure indeed before him.

"Are you broken?" he said using the word he had learned referred to those who couldn't maintain themselves in the 'lifestyle'.

The raven grew angry and confused, why wasn't the stupid fool escaping already, he thought of Sakura and wanted to vomit again, he wasn't good at keeping the memories back when they wanted to overwhelm him, but he tried to focus on what was before him instead of what was in his head. The blond said he wouldn't hurt him, but he didn't know how to make the idiot understand that his very persistence at this moment was guaranteeing him pain. It was guaranteeing the both of them untold amounts of pain.

"You must be stupid," he responding both frightened and irritated with the blond, "Why else would you still be here after I very clearly directed you to an exit. The only exit on this entire level of the house. It's the third floor just so you know." he added.

The blond boy smiled at his irritation and still smiling extended his hand, "I'm Naruto, boy-whore and performer extraordinaire. I am no newbie to this type of situation and am quite pleased to see that for all the trials you have apparently endured you are still a sight to behold and most definitely not broken." Sasuke stared at the hand as though it were a serpent attempting to ensnare him it its nest and did not return the gesture.

"Why are you still here?" he asked his fury growing and overcoming his fear, if this boy was not here to hurt him then he should just leave already before they both got hurt!

"Oh trust me I have no intention of lingering here longer than I need to but I do intend to take you with me when I go are there any others here that I should pick up too? Mind you they can't be broken or they'll just get you and me killed... but if they aren't and can walk I'd be willing to break them out." the blond continued smiling and waited for a response.

"You have a death wish, I'm chained to a wall there is very obviously no way for me to leave here."

"I don't leave friends behind," the cerulean eyed boy's smile widened and although he retracted his hand he stepped closer to the boy who very pointedly stepped away, "are you saying that you want to stay here? I heard you crying out so I don't think you do."

The raven haired boy turned a shade of red comparable to that of a tomato at the reference to his weakness, "Since when are we friends? You're here to die if you don't remember...wait of course I don't want to stay here? You're an ass for even suggesting that AND you really MUST be an idiot I just said I'm chained in this room there's no way for me to leave not that I don't want to!"

Naruto's gaze darkened slightly (probably at being called both an ass and an idiot in the same sentence), but Sasuke was used to reading the slightest changes in expressions from dealing with his brother and he was happy that he had dimmed that ridiculous smile at least a little bit.

"I'm not an idiot, I just have had the situation of having my education being limited to what I've learned walking the streets and the stage." Naruto retorted, mildly irritated. This guy should be looking at him like he was a God for coming here to rescue him, not like he was an idiot!

"I tried leaving before, with the help of my first friend, it didn't work and as punishment I've been chained in here for the last six months. She's worse off though and you'll be just like her if you stay, with a hot fireplace poker torn out off your innermost sanctities and your tongue cut out of your mouth."

Naruto didn't flinch at the mental image the raven's words brought to mind not because he wasn't disgusted, not because he was used to such words or promises because he was a performer and to let your mask slip was a crime worthy of the greatest punishment.

A performer, his inner conscious was just as snide as always as it mocked him. You're a pretender, you don't even know who you are anymore. The blond mentally shrugged, as though he wasn't aware of that fact. That although he continued to go by his birth name that innocent smiling boy had died inside a long time ago and only his smiling exterior remained.

"Will you not tell me your name?" he asked the raven aloud, "It's much easier to rescue someone when you're on a first name basis."

"You can't rescue me!" both boys visibly flinched at the volume the raven had exclaimed his protest in and immediately lowered their voices to the softest of whispers.

"You can't rescue me!" the boy snarled softly, "And you'll be killed for the attempt!"

"But you're not broken," the blond protested, "I can't leave an unbroken victim behind. I've been left behind all my life and don't intend to do the same to you."

The black eyed boy frowned, but figured that an idiot was an idiot, "Sasuke," he at last murmured softly, "That's the name I've been using since my parents died, it's what my brother calls me at least."

"Your brother? Where's he?" Naruto inquired.

"You said you heard me cry out," Sasuke responded, "he's the only one who ever makes me cry out."

"You're brother?" Naruto had never had a real brother, but the bond's he had made with his fellow victims had been akin to brotherhood and the thought of having one of them treat him in such a way as Sasuke had obviously been treated was not a pleasant thought. "The man who did that," Naruto gestured to Sasuke's worse-for-wear form, "to you, a twelve year old, was your own brother?" Naruto couldn't keep the horror out of his eyes, but caught himself and tried to make a gest of it, "And I thought the only relatives who could hurt you were pervy uncles and dads, not that I suffered from the latter, it's just what I've picked up in my journeys around the circuit."

"Circuit?" Sasuke inquired softly.

"That's what I call it anyways," the blonde shrugged, "I guess if you're with a relative you haven't entered the real trade yet. It's a connection of collective pervs who get together and buy and sell people to use in the films, photos, shows, and bedrooms. Be glad you never been to an auction it's a truly humiliating awful place."

"I've known humiliation here that I doubt you've experienced," Sasuke said darkly, but this only made Naruto laugh.

"No boy, you've known pain here that I've never experienced," his eyes raked over the raven, "Humiliation. Humiliation is being stripped of your clothes and being shoved into a metal crate like you're a cat and having people come and fondle you and prod you like you're a pet. Humiliation is having them touch you to see how long you can last before orgasming in a warehouse filled with hundreds of other people watching to see how much you might be worth." Naruto continued on despite the look of horror on Sasuke's face, "True humiliation," the blond explained with a grin, "is being led out onto a stage where the same things and worse happen to you and people are watching as you are abused and laughing and cheering it on and you have to smile at all the right places and touch all the right places because they want you to perform and if you don't perform well you are punished and beaten across your genitalia while everyone watches and gets a hard-on from your pain. What you've known is pain, physical pain I have never endured, but you have not endured the humiliation of performing."

Sasuke shrugged, "So which is worse the pain or the humiliation?"

Naruto shrugged as well in response, "When a slave which is worse: Being treated like

an animal or knowing inside that you're a human?"

"Being treated like an animal," the black-haired boy responded immediately.

"I'd sooner be an animal," the blonde frowned.

"Why?"

"Because if I'm human then I have to face that I am capable of what they do. That I am part of a race that destroys innocence like it's a fucking game and has never done anything for me as a supposed human being in my entire life."

"I don't think so," the raven added, uncharacteristically optimistic, "When I think of human I think of my mother, who tried her best not to cry as she was dying and to be strong for me. My mother was what a human should be, the rest of them like my brother and the people who watched you perform aren't. I think they're the animals not us, and I think animal is too nice a word for them, animals are driven by instinct, those people, (or at least my brother) is driven by a love for pain and flesh and I think that makes them monsters. Also, you're a human and you came here and wanted to rescue me even though you know absolutely nothing about me."

Naruto pondered this and shrugged and laughed, "There's no way in hell I'm leaving here without you."

The door opened and a dark laugh rang out, "There's no way in Hell you're leaving here at all."