Soooo sorry this took a lifetime but um.. yeah exams and Christmas shopping had been going on. Hope you enjoy this and sorry for it being short. The story is starting to wrap up now! :)
Police sirens could be heard from the distance. The sound came into the bare concrete room that was swimming in a sea of violent rusty chains. It was dark and the air was moist.
"Arrgg!" Sasuke screamed in pain as he was whipped again. His back was bleeding in few angry lines. Being tied up against the wall naked, for several hours really hurt his muscles and his wrists as the chains dug into his pale flesh.
"I asked: WHO TOOK NARUTO?!" Itachi roared as he whipped his younger brother's heavily abused back again. The flesh cracked open in another long line and red liquid oozed out, running down the young boy's bare backside.
"Arrgg! Itachi I told you I don't know. When I got up to Orochimaru's office, Naruto was already taken away. I did not arrange this!" The naked, abused boy's voice was shaky and broken; he didn't know what was going on. After Lee had checked the phone calls with him, he ran to Orochimaru's business building and all the way to his office and Naruto was already gone.
Suddenly, the door to the prison-like room opened and Orochimaru walked in with an angry expression.
"Itachi let him go. He had nothing to do with it." He smirked with his snake eyes shifting into an evil angle. "Sasuke came to my office when Naruto wasn't there yet. Naruto was kidnapped after it got dark, and Sasuke was around that green-pajama wearing kid's house, trying to figure out where Naruto was."
The long black haired man put the whip down and grunted in disappointment. Letting Sasuke go meant no more violence which he was really enjoying at the moment. However, he didn't know why.
Suddenly the wooden door was broken in half and well built police men came into the concrete box of chains.
"I am Yamato from the ANBU secret police group and these are my partners: Shin, Shisui and Sai. We are arresting Orochimaru and Itachi." The brown haired man pressed a very stunned Orochimaru against the wall and handcuffed him harshly.
He could not believe this... All that money... His ST&ST market! His life! What was happening? How could this happen? His breath quickened and ice cold sweat ran down his temples, but he didn't feel it. All that work he put in this artistic crime... He was shouting now, but did not hear his own voice. He was seeing the world in black and white, his head hurt and his ribcage was squeezing his chest tightly as if he wanted to strangle himself. All those pretty slaves are wasted... NO! There is still hope. Kabuto is there. His loyal assistant will keep everything stable as always.
"I have the right to make a phone call." Orochimaru calmed down a little but kept trembling and stated like it was an everyday event that he got arrested. He had prepared for this after all, but never knew it would come after all these years. However the chest pain was persistent and the squeezing wouldn't ease.
"He is right." Shin stated and handed the criminal a mobile phone. It was a rule that whenever the arrested wanted a phone call, the police has to allow it and it can be up to 10 minutes long, with anyone.
"Kabuto, I am officially arrested. Please keep everything stable and undercover until I escape." Orochimaru said as calmly as he could and hang up straight away. There were no worries. Behind him, the policemen snickered at his plan to 'escape'. Orochimaru had the urge to puke.
On the other hand, with the other arrested man, there was a lot to worry about. Itachi was hugging his bleeding and naked brother while crying. "Who did this to you Sasuke? Who dared to touch my little brother?" Sasuke tried to shake him off but it was difficult because he was very weak and his muscles and limbs were hurting.
The policemen looked at each other very confused.
"He must have personality disorder." Shisui stated calmly and and handcuffed Itachi. Yamato and his partner escorted the two men out of the place and pushed them inside two separate police cars.
Inside, Sai was freeing Sasuke from the chains.
"You are arresting my brother for helping Orochimaru kidnap a teenage boy from my house?" Sasuke moaned when he fell on the floor and started to gather his clothes.
"No. We are arresting him for torturing you. Gaara called us." Sai said with a fake smile, but his voice had no smiling in it. He helped Sasuke up when the boy had his boxers and jeans on. They couldn't find his shirt.
Sasuke had told Gaara long ago, that if he doesn't pick up the phone for the 5th time, it is Itachi's fault and he should call the police. This came in handy now even though the Uchiha never thought this will ever happen. His wrists were aching and he could hardly stand. he didn't eat today yet which made him very weak. Itachi had been nuts about him taking Naruto out of Orochimaru's office. Now that he thought about it, the whole personality disorder made sense. He had been very confusing sometimes acting all different suddenly. The pattern was clear, Itachi's personality shifted when pressure was put on him. That explained the gun and the forcing-Naruto-to-suck-him-off thing.
"I called an ambulance for you son," Shisui stated looking at Sasuke. He eyed the half naked boy's face for long moments. "Are you Uchiha Sasuke?"
"Thanks. Um yes I am." Sasuke looked confused at the familiar man.
"Fugaku's son?" Shisui didn't want to believe his eyes. He worked for the Uchiha secret police and his boss was Sasuke's father. How could that respectable and responsible man let this happen to his children?
"Yes. How do you know my father?" Sasuke was confused. Because the secret business was secret, he didn't know about it. Itachi didn't know. Responsible Uchiha's knew who worked for the ANBU under Fugaku.
"I work for him." Shisui stated and an ambulance arrived. Sasuke felt a little light headed and his brain didn't entirely process what this Uchiha man said. With a blank expression he thanked the policemen and climbed into the ambulance with the help of Sakura who he knew well from school.
On the way to the hospital, he found out that Sakura only studies part time, and has a full time job as a nurse. The pinkette checked up on him, and cleaned his wounds at the hospital.
"I need to see Naruto." Sasuke stood suddenly when Sakura was done with his back, which was rather painful.
"Sasuke you should really stay and wait for these ugly cuts to heal. If you make a quick movement they might reopen and bleed more." The girl said worriedly and pushed her patient back down.
"I really need to see Naruto." Sasuke complained glaring holes into Sakura's head. Everything happened so quickly, his brain couldn't keep up. The whole arresting and the ride to the hospital seemed so quick and empty. He had hard time processing what was going on. Gaara called the police, the police came and arrested Orochimaru and Itachi, he got to the hospital. Gaara. He must call Gaara back. "I want to make a call."
"Alright I'll be right back. Make sure you stay here." The pink haired girl smiled and walked to the office to get a phone for her patient. His health seemed to be fine apart from the cuts on his back, he should make a quick recovery but he really needed to stop jumping around and stay still for them to heal properly. It was worrying that they may scar, but Sakura couldn't do anything about that.
Sasuke dialed Gaara's number when Sakura came back with the phone.
"Gaara! Um yeah. Itachi and Orochimaru was arrested. Well I'm not really allowed to move at the moment because Itachi whipped me for ordering someone to kidnap Naruto. No I didn't I have no idea who the hell could have taken him and why. I will look for him. Shukaku? I hope he gets better. Visiting hours are until 8pm. Alright."
They hang up, and Sakura was handing a tray of food to a very hungry Sasuke that came out of the blue. Sasuke didn't see her go out and get it for him. He thanked her and slowly ate away the tasteless garbage on the tray the hospital called food. No, it wasn;t so bad but it just lacked taste. Surely, there were many different vitamins in it and it was a very balanced and nutrition full meal but the raven did't like it.
Gaara had said that he will visit him later on, he just had to bring Shukaku to the vet because it seems he had broken his front right leg. The redhead didn't explain what his pet did, because it was way too complicated to share that with Sasuke over the phone. After all, it was probably the most embarrassing situation he had ever been in.
(flashback)
"Gaara...?" Neji hesitated. "Why do you have my name tattooed on your... ass?"
WHAAT?! Neji saw the tattoo? There is no way! It can't be! Gaara's face matched his hair and he ran into his room. Neji was not meant to see that tattoo yet! This was extremely embarrassing and now Neji probably thought that Gaara only wanted him for sex. He screwed up. He should have never tattooed it on himself. Especially on such an intimate place.
Soon, Neji followed Gaara into his room and sat down next to the blushing boy who was on his own bed glaring hard at Shukaku who somehow run high up to the top of Gaara's cupboard.
"Um... Gaara..." Neji started. It was pretty strange to see his own name on the boy's bum who he fancied. It was almost creepy. It was too obsessive too soon. He had only confessed not long ago. Did Gaara make this tattoo before his confession?
"Sorry Neji I must look really obsessive now." Gaara hid his face in his sweaty palms, closing his eyes.
"Why did you tattoo my name on yourself?" Should Neji be concerned? Did Gaara have ROCD or something? Just in case, the brunette was approaching this carefully.
"I... it was an accident." The redhead looked very distressed that he had to share this story with someone. "I was practicing tattooing. I tend to daydream a lot. And instead of tattooing BVB I tattooed the person's name who occupied my mind. Why on my ass? Well as I said, I was practicing and if I messed up, no one would see it there anyway." His explanation was very quiet but Neji heard him. The long haired man didn't know what to reply to that... His crush had his name tattooed on his bum by accident due to heavy daydreaming problems. What was he meant to say? 'Yeah Gaara that's great let me have your name tattooed on my ass so we are even'? No way... That would be weird. Just like this whole situation is very weird. "Do you not believe me?" A very upset redhead blurted out with hurt in his green eyes.
"I do Gaara I do!" Neji tried to calmed the distracted raccoon lover by stroking his back. "I just don't know what to say... This is just so... um..."
"Disturbing. I know." Gaara hang his head. He needed his stoic expression back, Neji was getting too much access to his feelings and it made him feel too exposed. He felt like he was still standing Naked front of Neji. It is not a comfortable feeling.
"No... Its just weird. Look Gaara let's forget about it for now, and come back to it when we found a solution to this uncomfortable situation. Maybe the solution is to ignore it for now. We are not boyfriends yet so this wasn't meant to happen this soon and I know it." Neji tried to pick the right words to comfort his crush as he stroked his back.
"Alright. Let's forget about it. Come Shukaku let's have a bite. I'm sure you are hungry." Gaara has his stoic mask on again which makes Neji frown. Shukaku's cute face brightens and he forgets that he is on top of a cupboard. With full speed he starts running towards Gaara, but suddenly the top of the cupboard ends and he lands with a loud thud on the floor. He cried out.
"Shukaku!" Gaara's heart started to speed up dramatically as he rushed to his best friend's side.
On his way to the vet, he got lost. Now Gaara was not the type of person to get lost in his own home town. But they only had one vet only and it didn't seem to be anywhere. Driving around for an hour is not what Gaara calls fun. He decided to ask someone around for directions. At the edge of the town there was no one walking around there were only houses. A relatively small house caught Gaara's eye because the walls badly needed painting but the garden seemed to be in good condition which gave Gaara the idea that there was someone living there but wasn't a rich asshole like the neighbors. So decided to knock on the door after parking front of the house.
"Yes?" Suigetsu opened the door with two excited teenagers running up to him asking something about pizza delivery. One of the teenagers looked like Naruto...
"Gaara?" Naruto paled at the sight of his crush's best friend.
"Hi Naruto. It's good to see you again." The redhead says but frowns as he observes the young male. "You look sick."
"Don't look like that! We tried everything to make him keep his food in his stomach but he just doesn't listen!" Suigetsu put his hands up in defeat as he eyed Gaara's frown which looked murderous to an ordinary person.
"Wait how do you know each other?" A confused Kiba scratched his head while eyeing the scary man outside of the house.
"He is Gaara. Sasuke's best friend... About that, how is Sasuke?" Naruto turned to Gaara trying to hide his nervousness.
"He is in the hospital. He was looking for you actually." Gaara informs him and he doesn't know if Sasuke wants Naruto back or if Naruto wants to go back which makes him unsure of what to do.
"He looked for me?" Naruto's eyes started sparkling with a very powerful emotion that Gaara caught a glance of. "Hospital? why?"
"It's not my place to say. You can have his phone number if you like." Gaara suggested as he took out a card that had Sasuke's number on it. Sasuke gave him a pack of cards with his number on it to pass it onto important people. Gaara never had to use them up until this point. Just like Gaara never had to call the police for Sasuke. The redhead came to the conclusion that this blond triggered events.
"Um... Okay. But what do I say to him?" Naruto hesitated as he took the card glancing at the 11 numbers.
"Look I don't know. Shukaku broke his leg and I'm looking for a vet. Do you know which way to go?" He looks at all three men knowing his best friend in the car is in big pain.
"I know where it is!" Kiba jumped up and was about to explain but had no idea how. He didn't know the street names. He had few chances of running away from the old orphanage he was in when he was little and on his way he always saw a sign at the center of the town saying 'Vet upstairs'. Below the vet, there was a pet store which he always wanted to go inside but never had the guts.
"Could you guide me there?" Gaara asked as he glanced at Kiba's wrist seeing the handcuffs and than he looked up at Suigetsu, knowing he will need his permission. The brunette looked up at the silver haired man too.
"If you bring him back safely than of course." Suigetsu stated, eyeing the now friendly looking man suspiciously.
"I will. Come on um..."
"Kiba." The brunette grinned.
"Come on Kiba my raccoon needs your help." Gaara said as he started walking towards his car.