WARNING: It gets a little Dark in this chapter as were dealing with Yamato's Past.

CHAPTER 6

"Aaarrrrggggg" Yamato dropped to his knees holding his head releasing the pole which clattered to the ground.

"Taichou…" Sakura shouted a little shocked at Yamato's behaviour. She ran up to him trying to heal the wound on his head and stem the blood. The string of sense in Yamato broke and his mind scattered like beads; he lashed out hitting Sakura square in the abdomen with a wood tendril bruising and knocking the air out of her. "Don't touch me" he screamed again.

"Sakura!" Gai moved to catch her before she hit the ground and dodged the next tendril that came at them carrying Sakura out of harm's way. "Shit…Yamato's not himself" he stared at the form in front of him holding his head in anguish lashing out like a caged animal. He signalled to the Shinobi nearby to send word to Iruka. He sent out a turtle to Kakashi. "Sakura, heal yourself, we need to restrain him. I've sent word for Kakashi and Iruka, we need to keep him from hurting himself till they arrive and calm him".

Sakura barely had time to heal herself when she saw the beginning of Yamato's hand seals for the great forest technique. She gathered chakra into her right hand and slammed it into the ground causing it to break. "Sa…Sakura…Don't damage the academy any more than it already is" Gai sighed. Yamato felt the ground tremor and jumped forming hand seals. "Sorry I was trying to stop him without hurting him".

"Wood Release: Four Pillar Prison!" they all heard the shout too late and found them self imprisoned in Yamato's jutsu. Yamato fell to the ground gripping his head again; they heard an animalistic cry of agony from him as he turned clutching his abdomen and took to the trees. The cry shook them to the core sending shivers through their veins. Gai turned to find Sakura shaking are eyes wide and teeth clenched.

"Shit…Shit…Sakura, stay with me now. We need to get out of here and go after him. Sakura!" Gai shouted sternly, trying to destroy the prison and keep Sakura from breaking down. Sakura shook her head clear and pounded at the prison releasing her anger and sorrow seeing her Taichou like that. Iruka ran to them "What happened? Where's Yamato?" he asked panic stricken seeing the two in Yamato's prison. "Sensei…" Sakura whimpered.

Gai looked at Iruka and Sakura feeling their pain but there was no time to waste "He just took off North West. Iruka hurry, we'll catch up when we get out of this. Sakura step back". Ninjutsu was being absorbed by the prison but it was no match for his Taijutsu. He performed Konoha whirlwinds repeatedly to shatter the prison. Once released, they climbed out and took to the trees immediately. They were both disturbed by what they had seen. 'Kaka Sensei… hurry!' Sakura pleaded in her thoughts, the tears falling from her eyes.

Yamato ran confused and disorientated from tree top to tree top going where his legs took him. His mind was obstructed and the shadows leering face seeped in again, he wouldn't let himself recognise it. "You can't run from me lab rat" it sniggered pulling at his soul.

"NO! NO...Aaarggg" Yamato fell to the ground holding his head; his sleeve got caught on a branch grazing his arm badly as he fell. He found himself in a clearing that looked and felt familiar yet he had no recollection of. He walked further gripping his bleeding arm and found himself near a cave taking shelter from the rain. This too looked familiar but he didn't know why.

From somewhere within, the wounds of the past released themselves reaching the heart and he lost himself to it. The shadow would not be supressed. It MUST come out and it MUST be heard. It took on a form and the face scrutinised him further. "You are mine" it hissed "and you shall forever remain so". The shadow had weakened its prey and pushed away the memory of the current Yamato to the depths. "You can't hide from yourself Tenzou" it sneered, "Yamato doesn't exist; they don't know who you are" it laughs at him.

"WHY ME?" Yamato asks the shadow in a whimper "Why me?" The walls built in his early years to hide this mist had been breaking down slowly the past few months and finally it had collapsed completely.

"Why not you?" the sneering face laughed "There were so many lost and abandoned children…you weren't special Tenzou…hahaha…no…you just had a stronger will to survive…but this time…I won't let you get away" the shadow came at him and passed through him in a cold sweat. The darkness consumed his soul in one great wave.

Screams, echoes of screams, metal scraping on metal. Arms holding him down, straps binding him keeping him still. He had no understanding of what was happening to him or who he was. Spasms, he felt his body spasm, he was cold, tired, hungry. This was the norm for him. They kept him like this, in a long dark room lined with cubicles and a single light bulb. He had no concept of time, days, hours, minutes, seconds they were not familiar to him, he did not know their existence.

Darkness. Emptiness. That's all he knew. Other bodies around him suffer seizures and he sees them cough up blood. Cries, more screams. He was being injected with something, it hurt, it hurts he thinks. But he doesn't understand pain his only an infant, he knows he doesn't like it. A leering face, he soon comes to associate it with the hurt he feels and cowers when in his presence. He doesn't understand what he feels, no one has explained emotions to him yet but he knows this man makes him shiver and hurt.

The screams echo over and over in Yamato's head. He crawls on his hands and knees further into the cave to drown out and escape the memories. His body convulses when the images get stronger and the screams louder. "N…Nnn…No!" he gasps for breath. His chest tightens, he can't fight the darkness, the shadow, the screams, the cries, he tries but he can't fight it anymore. He shrieks out in pain, a sudden flash of blinding white light crosses him "Kakashi…Iruka…forgive me" he saw their faces flicker through his mind then immediately was replaced by a black void. He couldn't endure the pain anymore and gave himself up to the darkness of his memories letting it devour him whole.