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SASUKE - NINETEEN YEARS AGO (AGE 16)

"Grab his legs, usuratonkachi!" I shouted in a whisper to my brother, who was picking up a baseball bat from the ground and throwing it into the fire in the fireplace. The wood of the bat crackled and the flames engulfed the bloody evidence.

"Don't order me around, teme! I'm going!" He groaned and caught up with me. He bent down, picked up the limp man by his legs, and helped me carry him to the back door of our house.

"Listen... Are you sure this is a good idea?" Naruto snorted, practically out of breath as the weight of that body crushed our shoulders. Despite Naruto and I being in good shape, the limp body was heavier than we thought.

"We have to bury them deep in the woods, there's no other way." I reminded him and continued. "Then we'll report them missing." We've been left home alone for weeks several times and the cops know it. It's just that when those two are close with the sheriff's office, no one in this damn town cares what happens to us.

"Yeah..." Naruto responded with a nod, though he couldn't hide the tension and nervousness on his face. I couldn't even blame him. Killing two people at once is a big fucking deal, and if anyone finds out, we both have our lives ruined until the day we die.

We proceeded and in the deep darkness we carried the second body out to the driveway behind the place. We live by the woods, so there are no houses or cameras for miles. And no one goes into the woods at night. Except for us, apparently. There's a small swamp nearby. We can dig a hole somewhere nearby and bury both bodies so no one ever finds them again.

The trunk of their minivan was open, so we lifted the man's body a little higher and threw it on top of his dead wife's body. Her brown eyes stared at us as if she was alive and about to scream our names or curse us for spilling milk on the kitchen floor.

But this time she couldn't beat us up for it. Not either of them. Now they're dead and we're free.

"Fuck, he's heavy!" Naruto rubbed his neck and shoulder, flexing a little with his bicep. Entirely pointless, in my opinion. No one was impressed. I slammed the door of the minivan, thankful I'd never see those two faces again.

"Ehm… Hey… who's driving?" Naruto asked me. Good question for that idiot. Neither of us could drive. Our adoptive parents never bothered to teach us anything. Booze, drugs, beating us or starving us took up too much of their time.

"I'll do it. You sit back there with them and stay down in case we run into anyone." I adjusted the black cap on my head that our adoptive father always wore so no one would see my face if anything happened. If anyone meets us at this time and sees this cap, they'll think it's him.

"I'm not sitting there with the corpses, teme!" He shouted angrily and loudly, so that if anyone walked by, they would know what was going on. Right away.

I think I'm gonna kill him too...

"Shut up and get in while I lock the house!" I ordered him and he snorted in displeasure, but I didn't care.

The plan was that once they were underground, we would clean the minivan and I would drive it to the next town over and drop it off at Hayate's Autobody Shop. Hayate's never there anyway, he's either home sick or at the doctor's, leaving the front gate unlocked most of the time.

While Naruto reluctantly struggled inside the minivan, trying not to fall on the dead body of our old man, I grabbed the door keys from my pocket and hurriedly walked back to the hell we both called "home" since we were 10 years old. Giving the foyer a lingering look, I closed the door and left it all behind... hoping it never catches up with us.

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End of Chapter 01