Sasuke refused to leave the room the next day, he wouldn't even unlock it for Kisame. Konan just left his deadly food in the hallway and called him a brat as she stormed off. Everyone thought he was just sulking because they wouldn't let him leave, everyone except Deidara that is. Sasuke spent some time just laying in bed doing nothing and slowly stretching out his battered body, then when he was able to move a bit he got up and started looking all over the room for some kind of weapons that he could use. He found a stash of them in a box under Itachis bed and started setting up a security system so he wouldn't get taken by surprise again. He placed Itachis pencil cup by the door so that if it was opened far enough it would topple the cup, making enough noise to warn Sasuke of an intruder. Then he grabbed the shuriken and the yarn that he'd found in Itachis dresser and threaded them, he then hung them from the ceiling and set them up to where when the door was opened enough for a person to get thru it would send them flying down at them. Finally after the classic trip wire, that did nothing but trip the person since he ran out of weapons to use and hid a kunai under his pillow. He stepped back and admired his work, now no one could surprise him.
Itachi made it back to the base a day early, glad to be back so he could look after his little brother. It wasn't that he didn't trust Kisame to protect Sasuke it's just that the shark was so stupid that if anything did happen to Sasuke he probably wouldn't even realize it. Itachi was walking thru the base towards his room, wondering how Sasuke would react to him being back early, he wasn't expecting much joy from his brother. On his way he stopped by the kitchen and grabbed some snacks for them, intending to finally sit down and talk to Sasuke in a somewhat pleasant way. He slipped the snacks into his bag as he neared the door freeing his hands for the attack he was sure would come as he opened the door, he activated his sharingan too, just in case. After Itachi stepped in the door he was glad he had activated sharingan as he narrowly escaped the shuriken that flew at him while wondering what had made such a racket when he opened the door. He walked forward searching the room for Sasuke and almost didn't see the line strung across the floor, he quickly stepped over it and carefully entered the room waiting for something else to happen. When nothing did he looked over to see Sasuke with his back to the wall and a kunai held in his hand.
"Well that was quite a welcome, I wasn't expecting the task of opening my door to be such a challenge." Itachi stated slightly annoyed that his room was a mess now " Where did you get all of these weapons anyway?" Itachi asked wondering who would give them to him.
"I found them under your bed, and the reason I set up the door trap is none of your business" Sasuke snarled, secretly glad to see his brother was back, even tho he was an ass and raped him at least itachi was more gentle.
"I see, well then, can I sit down on the bed or is something going to cut my head off if I try?" asked Itachi more than a little annoyed at his brother now.
"I only rigged the doorway with traps" Sasuke huffed going to sit on his bed.
Itachi flipped the lights on, wondering why Sasuke was sitting in the dark and looked over at Sasuke. Itachi was shocked to see the bruise on Sasukes cheek, the fat lip and the black eye.
"What the hell happened Sasuke, and don't say none of your business this time" Itachi growled ready to go kill whoever had dared to lay a hand on his baby brother.
"fine then it's none of your fucking business" Sasuke snapped back, annoyed that Itachi would even pretend to care.
"Sasuke, stop being an idiot and tell me who did this to you" Itachi growled advancing on Sasuke.
"I don't know where you got this mother hen routine but I can take care of myself, I didn't need you growing up and I don't need you know aniki" Sasuke said the last word with obvious distaste and looked away.
Of course it was a load of crap, Sasuke had needed Itachi growing up, he just had to deal without and take care of himself as much as an 8 year old orphan could. Even tho people from the village helped and he had a good fund for clothes and food provided by the village it would have been better to have someone to be with so he wasn't so alone all the time. Itachi was stung by Sasukes words and by the way he had said the word aniki with such contempt. He went over to where Sasuke was and looked down at him with sad eyes.
"Look I'm sorry that I left back then, but if I hadn't I would have just gotten arrested and you would still have been on your own" Itachi said hoping to reason with his younger brother.
"Well then maybe you shouldn't have killed our family, did that thought ever even occur to you." Sasuke snapped glaring at Itachi
"I was ordered to Sasuke, it was either I killed them and spared you or they would have gone in and killed everyone"
"If you were really ordered to then they wouldn't have arrested you"
"I didn't think they would but when I went back they ambushed me, they said they couldn't let everyone know that they had ordered it, apparently it would look bad if the leaf village ordered one of it's clans to be murdered."
"Then you could have taken me with you if you really cared so much"
"And do what, raise you here and hope that you still had a head when I got back from a mission, or maybe have Zetsu baby-sit while I was gone that would have gone well, 'hey Zetsu can you look after Sasuke and make sure that when you eat him you don't put any walnuts around him, he's allergic to those'" Itachi scoffed getting really annoyed with his brother now.
"Well you didn't have to join these freaks you know" Sasuke fumed
"I joined them cause the leaf village told me to"
"yeah and do you always listen to the people who stab you in the back?"
"I had no choice it was the only way to keep you safe and taken care of!"
Sasuke froze and looked at his brother skeptically. "What do you mean?"
"As long as I was here sending them messages about the organization you were well taken care of and perfectly safe, but if I hadn't joined or had quit at any time while you were there you would have an unfortunate accident" Itachi explained slowly trying to keep his temper in check. "you need to get it thru your head that they aren't all good guys back home"
"Kekashi wouldn't have let them do anything like that" Sasuke replied bluntly.
"I agree which is why I was glad that he became your sensei, I didn't have to worry about it then, when I met him and told him he started watching over you for me"
"If that's true then why stay here?" Sasuke asked
"Because I've been here for so long that this is my home now, and I'm a wanted criminal which leaves me with no chance of even joining another village"
"Well then why did you bring me here?"
"I didn't bring you here Sasuke, Kisame did?" Itachi snapped.
"Well even if that's true you didn't exactly rush to sneak me back out as I recall"
"I lost control! And I'm sorry for that but I did try to sneak you out the following morning, and I would have succeeded if you hadn't wandered out and run into Sasori and Deidara" Itachi noticed how Sasuke shivered when he said the last two names and narrowed his eyes. "So which one of them attacked you?" Itachi asked in a deadly voice that made Sasuke flinch a little.
"Who said anyone attacked me" Sasuke yelled
Itachi raised an eyebrow and just looked pointedly at the door then at Sasukes face. "Your saying that you're bruised and beaten and the door is rigged to kill for nothing?" Itachi said with obvious disbelief.
Sasuke looked away knowing he was caught but too ashamed to admit to anything.
"and what are you going to do if one of them did attack me?" Sasuke scoffed.
"Kill them" Itachi stated bluntly, showing no emotion.
"It doesn't matter cause nothing happened!" Sasuke yelled drawing his knees up to join him on the bed in a somewhat defensive position. Itachi noticed this and frowned realizing that it wasn't a normal attack, Sasuke would have been bragging about how many hits he had gotten in or saying the other had cheated if it was just a fight.
"Really so nothing happened?" Itachi asked as he walked over to Sasuke slowly, Sasuke gulped and started to get up, only to be pushed back down by Itachi who climbed onto him and sat on his hips. "So if I look there won't be any other marks on you?" Itachi asked coldly.
Sasuke squirmed under Itachis weight, he was starting to get really nervous now.
"Get off of me Itachi" Sasuke growled. It had no affect on Itachi who just lifted sasukes shirt to see a bunch of bite marks and bruises on Sasukes neck and chest.
"Do I need to check anywhere else or will you confirm that you were attacked on your own?" Itachi asked in an annoyed tone.
Sasuke huffed and finally conceded. "Fine so I was attacked, congratulations you won your argument"
"Who did it?" Itachi asked in a voice dripping with venom. Itachis tone made a shiver go up Sasukes spine.
"WHO DID IT?" Itachi roared when Sasuke refused to speak again.
Sasuke flinched. "Deidara, ok? Now get off of me"
Itachis eyes flashed and he bounded up and headed for the door. Sasuke was confused and followed after his brother.
"Itachi what are you doing?" Sasuke asked warily.
Itachi didn't answer he just kept storming down the hall. They finally got to the living room where they found Deidara and Sasori talking on the couch and the others scattered around the room.
"Hey Itachis back early!" Tobi cheered.
Deidara froze when he saw the look Itachi had and Sasori slowly got up and backed away from the blonde, already sure he knew what Itachi was pissed about.
"hey Itachi what's up?" Deidara stammered as he backed away.
Sasuke peeked into the room and everyone looked over at him curiously and backed away from the situation, deciding it was safer to let this one play out. Deidara glared at Sasuke with fury.
"You went and tattled on me to your big brother, you little bastard!" Deidara yelled at him.
"It may have taken a while to get him to tell me who assaulted him but I can be very persuasive when I want an answer" Itachi said in a dangerously quiet voice.
"I don't even know why you care I can take care of myself" Sasuke mumbled loud enough for Itachi and the others to hear. Some of them stepped back a bit more, konan was trying to get closer to watch Itachi start killing people but Pein held her back.
"Be quiet Sasuke" Itachi growled
"Yeah un, why don't you just let the kid fight his own battles, maybe he'll get strong enough to not pass from a light hit yeah" Deidara said mockingly as he sneered at Sasuke.
"Shut up Blondie!" Sasuke yelled about ready to pounce at the asshole.
"Sasuke stay out of this!" Itachi warned him.
"Or what? You'll ground me?" Sasuke scoffed at his brother.
"If you don't shut up I'm chaining you to the bed again." Itachi mumbled, he meant for only Sasuke to hear it but the others had heard it too.
Sasuke looked at Itachi with pure hatred but didn't say another word and backed up to the doorway. He looked at the others in the room, some of them looked at him with confusion, others were sneering at him as tho they knew what the threat really meant, but two reactions stood out to Sasuke. Pein looked from him to itachi and he glared at Itachi as tho the thought of Itachi doing this angered the older man and Zetsu who looked at Sasuke with slight interest. Zetsu didn't take his eyes off of Sasuke and it began to creep Sasuke out and he glared at the plant who smiled at his reaction and went back to watching the scene unfold. During this time Sasuke missed an important exchange between Itachi and Deidara. As he looked back at the two he saw that everyone in the room was now staring at him with curiosity and Itachi was looking at him questioningly as Deidara smiled triumphantly in behind him. Sasuke started feeling uneasy and backed away a bit, not sure why everyone was staring at him. Itachi seemed to be having an inner battle that was over soon as he turned around and proceeded to beat the crap out of Deidara as everyone watched. He finally seemed satisfied that the blonde had been properly beaten and turned toward everyone in the room glaring. Everyone took a step back, not wanting to be on the wrong side of Itachis fury. Itachi then headed over to his brother and pointed at him meaningfully.
"Nobody touches him but me, if I find out that anyone has ignored this rule I will come after you" Itachi stated thoroughly annoying Sasuke who was about to protest and say that he wasn't Itachis property when someone in the room decided to speak up.
"So can we at least know what the scar on his stomach is?" Sasuke froze and his eye's widened. 'how the hell did they know about the scar on his stomach'
"If he wants to tell you he can" Itachi said with a shrug. Everyone looked at Sasuke expectantly causing him to shift around nervously.
"What scar? I don't have any special scars, just the usual from training and battles" Sasuke said as calmly as he could, tho he didn't even sound convincing to himself since he was still in shock and trying to figure out how anyone here knew about that damn scar.
"Yeah right un, I saw that scar and it wasn't cause by training or battle yeah" Deidara said weakly from the floor, flinching when Itachi glared at him.
"Shut up blondie! You don't know what your talking about!" Sasuke shouted at Deidara wanting to knock him out before he could say anything else about the scar.
"I know that it's way too clean to be a battle scar, that's a surgery scar yeah" Deidara stated confidently.
"I said shut up blondie" Sasuke hissed
"Sasuke have you had any surgeries?" Tobi asked in a curious voice.
"No and I don't have a scar on my stomach" Sasuke yelled backing up slightly. Even tho no one had stepped toward him it felt as tho Sasuke was being backed into a corner by all the curious gazes and questions. Hidan got a devilish look on his face and spoke up.
"okay then, if you don't have a scar on your stomach then lift your shirt and show us" he said with a smirk.
"I don't have to prove anything to you assholes" Sasuke stammered backing up a little more, he felt like bolting out the door.
"Just show them Sasuke they won't stop until you confirm it" Itachi said calmly.
"Fuck you! I'm not lifting my shirt for anyone" Sasuke said backing up again and noticing that he really was backed into a corner now.
"Your being ridiculous, even if you do have a scar it's nothing to be upset about, people have surgery all the time" Kisame stated, trying to calm Sasuke down.
"I already told you I've never had surgery" Sasuke hissed, forgetting to deny he had a scar.
"So you've never had surgery but you have a surgical scar on your stomach?" Hidan asked stepping closer towards Sasuke who pressed himself up against the wall.
"Back off! I don't have a fucking scar on my stomach" Sasuke yelled flattening himself against the wall.
"Then just lift your shirt and show us Sasuke kun" Tobi chirped in a cheerful voice, Sasuke felt like hitting him.
"I don't have to show you people anything" Sasuke yelled again. Suddenly he felt his shirt start to go up and yelped. He swung around him expecting to see a person but instead saw no one, but his shirt was still inching up. Sasuke looked around him and saw a chakra string that had been attached to his shirt and grabbed his shirt to try to pull it back down, having no luck. Sasuke began to get upset and kept trying desperately to keep his shirt down.
"Hey! Knock it off! Leave my fucking shirt alone!" Sasuke yelled looking for the one who was controlling the string and zeroing in on the red headed boy, Sasori.
Sasuke tried again to keep his shirt down but with another tug he realized there was a string around both his wrists too that prevented him from holding his shirt down. Itachi was about to put a stop to this and save his younger brother when he paused and stared at Sasuke with a look of shock that quickly turned to anger. Sasuke knew what his look was about, his shirt had gone up to reveal a large scar on his stomach that was red and irritated from one of Deidaras nails scraping along it the night before. The strings vanished and Sasuke yanked his shirt back down, glaring furiously at the red head.
"I thought you said you didn't have a scar on your stomach" Hidan said with a smirk.
"Shut up, it doesn't matter where I have scars, it's none of your business anyway" Sasuke yelled.
"Sasuke" Itachi looked at his brother in concern.
"Don't even try Itachi I'm not talking about it and you can't make me" Sasuke said defiantly.
"We'll see about that" Itachi said in a determined voice.
Sasuke just glared at his brother and stormed towards the door, he was angry and embarrassed and just wanted to go back to the room. Surprisingly nobody stopped him, they just looked after him with confused looks. Once Sasuke had left the room they all turned to look at Itachi with worried looks, everyone knew how Itachi felt when it came to his younger brother. Itachi stood there with a look of anger and determination on his face and started after his brother. One way or another Itachi was going to get Sasuke to tell him about that damn scar.
Ok that's the end of this chapter and although we didn't completely traumatize Sasuke in this one it was still uncomfortable for him as a few secrets were drug out into the open. Now the question is what will happen next? Will Itachi get Sasuke to tell him about the mysterious scar on his stomach? Will it remain a mystery? Why is everyone else so curious about Sasukes problems? We'll find out later, when I finish the next chapter. Yet again suggestions and feedback fully welcomed, if you have an idea for the next chapter just let me know and if I can work it in well enough I will and you will be given credit for it. Thanks for reading, I hope you all like it so far.