AN: Sorry I didn't post anything for a while. I got writers block, and felt a little discouraged by the lack of reviews. Please review? I want at least a few reviews before I decide to post another chapter.
I sprint down the never ending halls of crimson, orange, and gold, brilliant fire all around me. Where the hell is the damn exit? I pause for a moment.
"Sasuke!" Kurama's voice echoes loudly through the halls.
My eyes widen, and I start running again. Where is it, where is it, where is it?! My heart pounds in my chest as I blindly run through hallway, and hallway. I have no idea whatsoever of where I'm going.
Finally, after what seems like hours but must have only been a few minutes, a set of doors appears in a corner.
I immediately bolt over, and quickly open the door. Relief spreads through my chest as a set of stairs leading downwards appears.
"Sasuke, come back here!" Kurama's thunderous voice once more booms through the corridors.
"Sasuke-chan!" Another male voice calls.
"Sasuke! Please stop!" A female voice.
Soon, choruses and choruses of voices are calling out to me, telling me to stop, to come back, just endless upon endless callings of my name, and the sound of feet, and paws, and hooves scampering across the floor.
There's more of them? I bit my lip, and focus all of my energy into escaping. I rush down the stairs as fast as possible. I find a familiar-looking door, the one that had taken me to Itachi. I gulp, before pulling it open, and dashing down the worn stairs. Once more, I find a familiar iron door. I open it a little, barely squeezing through, clipping my shoulder in the process and tearing some skin and fabric off.
"Itai," I murmur as I rush to the next iron door, barely opening that one too, more flesh torn from my side and shoulder. Muffled sounds come from behind the closed door, and I rush out to the mouth of the cave.
Waters rage up against jagged rocks, but I run to the side, hard, cold rock pressed up my cheek, as I slither to the outside of the cave. Occassionaly, wild waves splash into me, and I hold desperately onto the rocks.
Move, move, move, move, move, I repeat over and over again in my mind, a crazed mantra. I'm done with this place, filled with monsters who are psychopaths. Screw the fact that psychology doesn't use that term anymore, these demons are psychos! Kurama, for one, cannot comprehend how I feel about our…situation, he's also very aggressive, and only really thinks about himself. A pure psychopath.
"Wah!" I grab onto the rock cliff as a particularly large wave washes over me. I finally manage to get out of that cave, and out into the open. The sky is dark, and the air smells like a thunderstorm is about to hail down on me.
"Sasuke!" Kurama's voice echoes from the cave.
"Kuso," I curse under my breath, and try to move even faster. My shoulder throbs from where it got injured from the door, as well as my back from my…previous activities with a certain monster. I try to ignore the pain, to continue getting as far away from Kurama as possible in the shortest amount of time. The further away I get from the cave, the longer this cliff appears to be.
Another large wave crashes into me, and I lose my grip on the rocks.
"Ah!" I scream as water flows into my mouth and down into my lungs. I panic and flail my arms, my shoulder throbbing more than ever as salt water flows over the wound.
"Sasuke!" Kurama's furry head appears in my line of vision. "Sasuke, keep your head above the water, I'm coming."
"No!" I shout, starting to swim away from the beast. "Don't come any closer! Stay away from me!"
"Sasuke, stop swimming, it's too dangerous!" Kurama's eyes seem to widen. "Sasuke, stop!"
"No!" My eyes sting. Am I crying? I bob underwater for a split second before coming back up. I don't know anything about my body anymore!
"Sasuke, please, stop moving," Kurama pleads. "Please, let me help you."
"Help me," What? "Help me?" Who the hell does he think he is?! "Help me?!" I roar, moving my arms and legs faster to keep myself afloat. "All you've done is fucking hurt me and the ones I love! You nearly killed my brother, then force me to stay with you as a prisoner! Then you fucking rape me! You're a monster! Stay the hell away from me, you crazy son of a-" A sharp, barbed, rope like thing grabs onto my leg and pulls me down. My eyes widen then close as water rushes all around me. I flail my arms around and miraculously pull myself to the surface.
"Huwah," I gasp for air, taking as much in as I can.
"Sasuke!" I hear Kurama shout before I'm pulled under again.
I struggle, and open my eyes, staring down below me into the murky waters. Black tendrils swirl about, with tons of glowing pearl like objects in them, giving some light in the darkness of the waters. The tendrils yank me down further, and I fervently lash out with my legs and arms, ignoring the numb like feeling spreading from my wounded shoulder.
No! I panic, putting all my energy to breaking away from this force pulling me down. I can't die here! I have to go home to Itachi, I can't leave him like this! NO!
Something slithers around my waist, and I'm suddenly yanked from cold wetness into the air. Kurama, swimming precariously in the water, has lifted me up with one of his tails. He pulls me towards him, and the tendril pulls at my ankle painfully. I feel skin and flesh tear off.
"Kuso," I curse as I gasp for air, inhaling huge quantities and trying my best not to hyperventilate.
Kurama manages to get near the tendril, and reaches out with his mouth full of sharp teeth. He grabs it, and snaps it cleanly in two. The tendril attached to my leg gives one final squeeze before falling down into the waters.
Kurama slowly makes his way back to the entrance of the cave, with me in the air via his tail. Once we get onto the rocks, Kurama lowers me down, before a familiar red light flashes once more.
"Sasuke!" Kurama breathlessly calls my name, and scoops me into his arms, one hand on my head, the other around my back on my left shoulder. "I thought I was going to lose you. I couldn't bear to think that I was going to lose you."
"N-nani?" I whisper. Why…why does the monster care? Why? I'm so confused!
"Kurama-sama!" A unknown voice. "Kurama-sama, Sasuke-sama, are you okay?"
I turn my head, only to see a blond haired, blue eyed servant boy.
"Yes Naruto," Kurama rumbles with his deep voice. "We're fine."
I blink slowly, then cuddle up into Kurama's chest. Yes. No matter what, I'm still alive. Kurama saved me. Kurama…cares for me. Everything's just…fine.