Author's Note; Here's another update people! :D I just hope no one hates me for this chapter -inwardly begs for people not to hate her-
Naruto: I hate you!
Me: I'm sorry! D: It's part of the plot! Honest! D: -cries silently-
Naruto; I don't care! -pouts-
Chapter 7
Naruto
"I said I don't want to be around you creeps." I said as I glared at a couple of high school kids that decided to skip school. I was skipping classes too, only because I didn't want the other kids picking on me because of my bruises I always went to school with. Last night Dad was in another drunken rage and beat me up before he tied me up and threw me into our bath tub that was filled with ice cold water for half an hour so he didn't have to look at me while he went to the store and buy even more booze. Like he needed more of it. I'm still cold from that bath.
"Does it look like we care?" The tallest one of the three smirked before he looked to the guy on his left, then hi right. "Minari, Sanju, how about we show this little brat what the big kids do to those who need to be taught who's boss?"
"Why not Yaguro? We have two hours before we go back." The one on his left said and I only glared as I turned on my heels and ran as fast as I could in the opposite direction, but I only managed to go a few yards before I was suddenly grabbed and pulled back by my hair. I couldn't help but yell out in pain before a piece of cloth was tied over my mouth. I somehow managed to kick one of them in the balls before they tied my hands and feet together.
"Should we blind fold him too?" The other one asked.
"No Sanju, we want him to see his punishment." The guy that first talked said, and I'm going to guess his name is Yaguro from what the other guy said. "Minari, you get the front, Sanju and I will take the back."
I could wildly guess what they were talking about, but I still couldn't stop myself from trying to back away from the three when the guy named Minari started undoing his slacks. I knew there were tears falling from my eyes, especially when he pulled out his penis and ripped the cloth out of my mouth. I took the moment to scream at the top of my lungs for help before everything around me went black.
"Hey, Naruto, wake up. Wake up damn it." I heard a familiar voice yell over mine. It wasn't until then that I was being shaken and screaming the words 'get off me' until I felt a smack on my face and my eyes finally opened. Finding me staring at Sasuke, Itachi and my Dad, all three of them looking at me with shocked faces. I didn't realize that I was breathing so hard until I found myself holding my breath, releasing it shakily and just prayed that I didn't have tears falling down my face.
"Who smacked me?" Were the first few words that came out of my mouth, trying to not get them to ask me what I was dreaming about.
"I did, you were screaming at the top of your lungs moron." Sasuke said, and I only glared at him, though I was grateful for him waking me up. "What were you dreaming about anyway?"
"It's none of your concern. It was just a nightmare, that's all." I told him. But I didn't think that I'd have that memory first when I saw the bastards face waltz right into my room when Dad left. Why would Yaguro work here when he hated being around people? It's beyond me.
"It is, because we're all worried about you." Itachi said, instantly making me feel guilty, but remembering Yaguro's words from earlier when he walked in, made me think twice about telling them anything.
"I'm fine, it's normal to have nightmares, right?" I said nervously, though there was some hints to confidence and it seemed to have worked because they all sighed and left me alone.
"Tsunade's looking over your x-rays right now as we speak. The nurse who was in here about ten minutes ago said she'll be in as soon as she's done. Which should be any minute." My Dad said, reminding me that we all still had yet to hear the wrath of baa-chan when she finds out the damage.
"And you're right with that Minato, and I should bash your head in." She said the second the door was opened and closed once she was inside. I know she hadn't looked into the room yet, because I know she wouldn't have said that if she knew Itachi and Sasuke were in here.
"Hello Tsunade-sama." Itachi's voice spoke before Dad or I could say anything.
"Oh, you two are still here?" She asked, now wishing she didn't say what she said a moment ago, I could tell by the look on her face.
"Don't worry about it Tsunade-baa-chan, they know everything. Sasuke's not that stupid." I sighed heavily, forcing myself up on my hands as I went into a sitting position on the bed so I could see her better.
"Stop moving Naruto." Tsunade said once I was already in the position I wanted to be in, and blinked at her in confusion.
"Why, Tsunade?" Itachi asked, and I felt hurt as to why Dad didn't ask instead.
"Because, the breaks in his two spinal disks are webbed and could chip away and damage his spinal cord if he moves too much." Tsunade explained.
"That's fucking bullshit." I said before I realized what words flew from my mouth, but I couldn't get myself to believe the words coming from her mouth.
"Watch your mouth Naruto." My Dad's voice rang into my ear, I could feel Sasuke's and Itachi's eyes boring into me while Tsunade just stood there trying to comprehend what I was saying.
"It's not bullshit, Naruto, you've seen the x-rays. They're clear as crystal and obvious!" Tsunade yelled, throwing the x-rays in my face, meaning for me to catch them, but I let them fall to the ground because I didn't want the truth to sink in.
"Can I be left alone?" I found myself asking after the whole room was quiet for a moment.
"Five minutes, and we'll be in the hallway." Tsunade said and she pulled my Dad out by his hair while Itachi followed, Sasuke just looked at me before he followed them a moment later and closed the door behind him.
I could tell Tsunade-baa-chan was angry with Dad, but knowing how bad the situation is, she's going to ring him a new one in some private room where no one could hear them argue. Knowing Sasuke and Itachi, they'd stand by the door to make sure I wouldn't leave to go on a walk, but I knew of a way to get rid of them.
Sighing, I forced myself off the bed and wobbled my way over to the door, though I wished I didn't slam into the door like I did.
"What the hell are you doing?" Sasuke's voice echoed in my ears when the door opened and I managed to gather my footing before I fell over.
"I'm trying to go take a piss, is it so hard to get a little privacy?" I barked, knowing I'm lying, but I'm hoping I'm convincing them to do something for me. "And while you're annoying the crap out of me, can you two go to the cafeteria and get me something to eat?"
"What would you like?" Itachi asked, his head poking around the door frame to look at me. He looked bored as fucking hell.
"Anything, I don't care what it is." I told him. "And I want soda and coffee to drink."
"You'll be getting water and tea, soda and coffee won't help with your healing." Itachi sighed. "Come on Sasuke."
"Wait, we both can't go." Sasuke argued.
"I need help bringing up his food and drinks." He said.
"Whatever." Sasuke hissed. "Naruto, if you leave this room while we're gone, I'll kick your ass when you're better." He warned, and the two were walking down the hall within a moment after Sasuke got done glaring at me, trying to sink his warning into me so I would listen.
Like hell would I listen. I waited until I knew that they were gone from the hallway and down the elevator before I limped out of my room and made my way to tour the hallway for a few minutes. I'd be able to tour around and get back to my room before Tsunade-baa-chan and Dad came back. So she'd have no reason to pour salt on my wounds about how dangerous this could possibly, like I'd listen to her either. There's no way my back is that damaged from just a simple ass kick and getting hit with the corner of a stupid dresser. There's no way possible that could happen!
"Naruto! What are you doing out of your room!?" Tsunade's voice boomed into the hallway from behind me. Shit, I didn't know she was in one of the unoccupied rooms up here.
"I needed to move around, I hate being still!" I defended myself.
"Where in the hell are Sasuke and Itachi?" She yelled, still.
"I sent them to the cafeteria to get me something to eat and drink." I said, glaring at her because I feel like she shouldn't have to keep yelling at me like she is.
"And you can stop yelling at me, I'll go back to my room, just give me a few moments." I hissed.
"I don't think so. Matatabi!" Tsunade said, yelling on the top of her lungs again as the woman that brought Dad back up to my room ran up to us.
"Yes Tsunade-sama?" She asked, huffing from the distance she had to run to get here.
"Get this damn gaki a chair and get him back to his room now." Tsunade ordered and Matatabi nodded with a 'yes ma'am' and rushed off back to the desk area where the wheelchairs were usually kept on this floor. God, I just wanna go home.
"Who is his nurse right now?" Tsunade asked as Dad and Matatabi helped me sit down as comfortable as I could in the wheelchair before the two noticed I tensed, visibly, and I waited for someone to speak to get it done and over with.
"His nurse is Yaguro, and he's Naruto's nurse until three in the morning." Matatabi answered, all of us now heading back to my room at the same time, with me being wheeled in first and everyone else filed in after.
I refused to go back into the bed at the moment, so Tsunade let me sit in the chair for a little while longer, I guess she had some stuff to talk to us about. Probably back surgery, and I'm praying it isn't.
"Okay, judging from the web break, you should have surgery." Tsunade said right off the bat. "But, if you listen to every word I tell you exactly for the next two months, Naruto, then you won't have to have back surgery."
"And what is it that I have to do for two months?" I asked with a sarcastic tone in my voice that I honestly didn't want right now.
"No walking, or any physical stress that will stress your back out. That means no martial arts, standing only when you need to, and you're fixed to the wheelchair until I say so. And, every two weeks, you come in for x-rays to see how you're healing." She answered.
"I can't do anything!?" I whined, God, he must be torturing me for something. "I can't do that for that long!"
"Back surgery will keep you bed ridden for three weeks, then it will be months worth of physical therapy. And I mean months, probably a year or so." She told me.
"I'll listen." I mumbled, my head low so no one could see the small tears of defeat hanging in the corners of my eyes. I am being tortured.
"So, you'll stay here for tonight and you can go home in the morning. I don't expect to see you in school until next week." Tsunade sighed, her right foot tapping on the floor with impatience. I guess Shizune-chan is waiting downstairs for her.
Just then, the door opened and Sasuke and his brother, Itachi, walked in with arms filled with drinks and food. And for the first time today, my face beamed as I stared, mouth watering, at the food in Itachi's arms.
"They had miso pork ramen today." Itachi said, and I wanted to jump out of the chair to get it from him. "But first, you have to eat this." He added and Sasuke put down a couple drinks on the table next to the bed and grabbed a salad bowl from Itachi's arms, and I grimaced visibly.
"I hate salad." I pouted.
"You need the vegetables Naruto, eat it or no ramen." Dad and Tsunade said at the same time, and I felt like I was being ganged up on.
"Oh, and no soda until you drink your water and tea." Sasuke said with a smirk that was just asking for me to bash it in.
"First this happens to me, then I get the ass for a nurse, and now you guys torturing me with healthy shit while I'm stuck and unable to bash any of your heads in." I mumbled out loud, though I don't think anyone understood me as I grabbed hand fulls of my hair and pulled on it hard while whining loudly in frustration. "Why can't I just go home!"
"You can go home in the morning, but what makes Yaguro an ass, gaki?" Tsunade asked, great, they did hear me.
"He's just a sore loser every time we see each other." I half lied.
"I'd like to see how, he's our most recommended nurse we got on staff when he's working." Tsunade shrugged, I wanted to glare and tell them the truth, but I knew what would happen to me if I did. I'd never hear the end of it from Yaguro and his friends as long as I lived.
"Well, I'm going to look in on our other patients. I'll stop on by before I leave for the night Naruto." Tsunade said before giving me a soft hug. I hugged her back, but it only made me wish she didn't leave at all. And before I could voice my opinion, she was gone, her heels already clicking away on the linoleum tile down the hall and away from my room. I sighed and dropped my head, frustrated with myself that I couldn't talk her into letting me go home tonight.
"Naruto, I'm going to go home and get some rest okay? I'll be back in a few hours." I heard Dad say, and I felt even more abandoned when he came over to give me a hug.
"No, Dad, you stay at home and get some rest." I found myself saying before I could think. "You're exhausted."
"We'll be here for a while Minato, so it's alright." Itachi said as he took a step forward, his arms already emptied of food. I guess while we were talking when I wasn't paying attention him and Sasuke emptied their arms onto the table.
"Naruto is in good hands Minato." Matatabi said next to me, hell, I thought she left the room already, so I couldn't help but flinch a bit when she talked.
"Okay." Dad said when he finally let me go and ruffled my hair. I glared, because he knew I hated my hair being touched. "See you later Naruto."
"See you in the morning otoo-san." I corrected him with a nod and one of my sly grins.
"Don't give the nurses a hard time." He said before leaving with a small smile and a wave. Yea, he looked exhausted. I hope he drives home okay.
"I'm going to go give Tenshi a call." Itachi said as he left the room pulling his cell phone out.
"Tenshi?" I found myself asking.
"Itachi's boyfriend." Sasuke answered, and I could tell he felt slightly uncomfortable answering.
"B-B-Boyfriend?"
"Yes, my brother is gay, something wrong with that?" Sasuke asked, and I could tell he felt insulted.
"No, nothing wrong with that. I'm a big supporter of that stuff." I said, and honestly telling the truth this time.
Sasuke only shrugged, but I still couldn't get over this uneasy feeling I had in the pit of my stomach, and I was glad that Matatabi was still here.
"Hey, Matatabi, is someone allowed to stay over night with me?" I asked.
"Sure." She said with a smile when I looked up at her.
"Okay, thanks." I smiled back, and I felt some of the uneasiness leave.
"Alright, well, since you don't want in the bed right now. I'm going to go do a round. I'll be back in a little while to check up on you." She said, still with that same smile on her face before she left the room waving.
"Why did you ask her that Naruto?" Sasuke asked when the two of us knew she was gone down the hall, but I didn't know how to tell him why, I only found myself reaching over and grabbed his wrist, though it wasn't tight.
"Sasuke … can you stay here tonight?" I found the words sliding off my tongue faster than I could get myself to think of how I was even going to ask those words.
"I have school in the morning." He said, and I knew he would say that.
"I know, but please, I can't stand it here alone." I said, and I wanted to puke when Yaguro's words repeated in my head from earlier.
"I'm going to mess you up tonight gaki, and believe me when I say no one is going to come and help you." He said in my ear so in case someone was by the door and they wouldn't be able to hear him.
"Touch me and I'll make sure you're sued." I threatened, though my voice sounded shaky and was in a hoarse whisper.
"There won't be any proof of my doing anything." Yaguro chuckled as he brought his right hand up from where it was resting on the back of my left knee under the blanket and slid it up all the way to my ass. He knew I couldn't do sudden movements, or my whole body would go into a spasm of pain, so I couldn't do anything but sit there and feel the violations once again.
"Oi! Dobe! How long are you going to ignore me?" Sasuke's voice rang into my head, though his voice wasn't loud. "Hey, Itachi, can you come here for a minute?"
I didn't realize how bad I was shaking until I felt Sasuke put a hand on my shoulder, and I couldn't keep myself from crying any longer as the tears started to fall down my cheeks. I couldn't take it anymore.
"Please, don't leave me alone here." I found myself begging, and I never beg in front of other people unless it's Dad beating me to a bloody pulp.
"What's wrong Sasuke?" Itachi said as he came back into the room, then I could feel his eyes on me before Sasuke could speak.
"Well, he wants me to stay here with him tonight." Sasuke answered.
"I'll come by to pick you up for school around six thirty." Itachi said, and I felt grateful for the older Uchiha. "And since I don't have work tonight, Tenshi and I are going to dinner and a movie."
"Have fun." Sasuke said, and he sounded annoyed, God, I hope I wasn't annoying him with this request. He has a life too and I just took him away from whatever he had planned. Some friend I am.
"We will. Call if you need anything from the house, okay Sasuke?" Itachi said, and I didn't hear Sasuke give a reply before Itachi walked off down the hall.