Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Broken ❯ Every thing they have ( Chapter 14 )
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14
Everything they have.
I do not own Naruto
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Seven months in this snake pit, and it was all going down tonight. It was a little sooner than originally planed, but the last time Sasuke had seen Naruto he was not good, very not good. He had not responded at all to the dark eyed teen and Sasuke had spent the entire time holding the broken shell of his friend, trying to get him to say something, anything.
Naruto had closed himself off to the outside and only moved when ordered, only responded to pain and the hiss of the bastard Orochimaru. The once vibrant blue eye was grayed with the hopelessness and despair of the blond. Each time the sannin had him destroy a village, the eye became bleaker as he retreated farther in to his shell.
14 towns in 7 months and suicide attempts after the towns fell, that was the only unordered response from Naruto. His attempts at finding his own death, the blond had slit his wrists, cut his neck, ingested poison, and purposely stopped Kyuubi mid attack so that the defending shinobi would kill him. Each time, Orochimaru saved him, if you could call it saving.
The blond would be taken to the labs and have the god awful doctors cut him apart, then sew him up and do it all over again. The only thing trying to kill him self gained Naruto, was more pain, but he never stopped trying to find a way to end his life. To worsen matters, the dark haired teen had found out about the snakes fetish involving Naruto. How controlling the demons power was a turn on for him, how after Kyuubi destroyed a village he would take advantage of the fact Naruto could not move and rape him.
The bigger the town the more of a turn on it was for the snake and the more depraved the sexual acts performed in celebration of it. Orochimaru was planning the destruction of a shinobi village next, and what would happed in celebration of that, Sasuke did not want to think about.
The Uchiha heir balled his fists and growled at the knowledge that Naruto was being violated as well as manipulated by the snake. That the damn bastard would rape his best friend then call him over to give him a mission or teach him something new, like it was nothing. He had to stand there and listen to the snake when he knew the blond was still curled on the floor of the bastards rooms. And he could not even seem to be affected by it or it would raise suspicion.
Sasuke had thrown himself in to the training, learning everything he could. He was still going to kill his brother, oh yes, but not until he had gotten Naruto out of this place. Not until the one person he cared about was safe and to do that he needed power.
Learning from the snake lord gave him exposer to jutsus that would be forbidden to him in Konoha. Orochimaru had accepted his return and had resumed training him like he had never left. Not that the sannin trusted him, just that the more he knew now, the more he would be ready when Orochimaru took over his body, because some jutsus, like chidori, required additional training other than just knowing the hand seals.
For chidori to be effective, the user had to have speed, had to have the coordination to use their arm as a sword. Orochimaru was training him only for the purpose of not having to teach the body how to use the jutsus he knew.
And for it to be effective training, he had to use it in a real battle, not just against straw dummies. So for the last four months the raven haired teen had been going on missions, closely supervised by either Kabuto or the snake himself.
Mostly assassinations where the target did not even know he was one, or stopping a rebellion in the territories gained by the demons destructive rampages. The demon had doubled the sounds territory, pushing east and west in to the countries that bordered the sound that did not have ninja villages, far enough to threaten the lightning country to the east and to send the village of hidden waterfall in to hiding with over half of the country taken over, in the west. The only direction the snake lord did not press to hard to get in to, was south, in to the fire country and the leaf. But he had made his presence known and the boarder towns had all either fled or hunkered down for the battle they knew was impeding.
That was were he had proven himself to the snake, on the boarders of the countries he was taking over. Orochiamru loved to mess with people, mind games that pissed Sasuke off. All to many times Orochimaru would have him kill the guards and warriors brought in to protect the towns and villages as the snake was meeting with the elder or leader. Then when he would walk in to the meeting room covered in blood then the snake would smile and either kill the man or instruct him to do what the snake wanted or find the rest of his village murdered.
The raven haired teen hated this ploy, giving the villages hope that they might be spared, then kill off any who could fight him and leave them broken and defenseless so that they would not matter as Orochimaru passed through them to bigger villages.
At least he knew that the villages he killed in would not be destroyed, there was no need once he had killed off all the people capable of fighting back. Sasuke had only seen the demon destroying a village twice and that was from a far. Shuttering as he remembered the blood red eyes and the horrendous sight of the beast of a rampage. How when the fox was called back in to Naruto there was nothing left of the buildings and it was almost a humanitarian mission to put the few that survived out of their misery. Still, he was glad that he was not sent on to many of the demon follow up missions, to many times the beast had turned on the men that had not hidden themselves far enough away.
Orochimaru did not want his next container to get hurt and be unable to perform the duties, so he was no longer ordered to go and instead the snake had come up with the silent killer missions.
The only obstacle left for him to be ready to be the snakes next container was that he still had to kick the addiction of heroin. It was the insurance policy that he would come back from the missions Orochimaru sent him on. That he would be a good little puppet and jump when told. He had tried to stop, but around day 3 he could no longer hide his shaking hands and by day 4 he was unable to leave his room. Kabuto had found him curled up next to the toilet after he had missed a meeting with the snake. The silver haired lackey forced him to take the shot and from then on he had to report to Kabuto every morning to shoot up or have the four eyes hunt him down and force him to.
Sasuke could tell that he was starting to get less each day, that they were weaning him off it so that his body would not be contaminated when Orochimaru took over. Addiction is mostly mental he knew, that if they put him through the withdrawals, his body would no longer crave it, only he would. But he would be shoved in to a pit in his own head so Orochimaru would not have any issues with drugs.
It was the signal that his time was quickly running out and when Naruto no longer responded to him at all, he knew that there was no choice but to move immediately.
Striding down the corridor silently, Sasuke put a pale hand to the front pocket of the gray vest he wore. The vest just showed Orochimaru’s trust in the drug controlling him. That the damn snake believed that he was not going to do anything against him or try to leave.
The fact that Orochimaru gave him the vest, was a bone of contention with the raven haired teen. He had only been here for 7 months and had shown the snake how skilled he had become and earned the rank of Jounin as soon as Orochimaru was sure he was not going to run away.
He had been in Konoha for over a year after his return and they still openly questioned his loyalties, not even qualifying him for the chunnin exam, he was only in it so there would be a team of three. It was stupid because he would kill the bastard snake with out hesitation if he got the chance. The only thing that made him go on missions with out a fight in the first place, was that if he stayed on the snakes good side he was less supervised and could see Naruto.
Sasuke turned the final corner and ducked in to the training room to a waiting Koshi. In the months he had been here, the long haired illusion master was the one person who he knew he could trust. A rarity in a place where back stabbing was encouraged.
Koshi was the one to bring him to Naruto after Orochimaru did something horrible and the blond would hide inside himself. The dark haired man was the one to try and get him off heroin. It did not work but at least he had tried. Koshi had also taught him how to get control of the demon so he could get out of here with Naruto. When he had said that they had to move the plan ahead a few months because Naruto would not last any longer, Sasuke believed him and scrambled to put the last few piece’s in to place to make their escape. Had it been any one else he would of thought it was a trap.
Looking at the long haired effeminate man he nodded. He had gathered the necessary supplies he would need. A scroll was tucked in to one of the vests pockets. He had memorized the words he needed to say with the hand seals to get the demon in to a summoning contract.
Koshi nodded in return and Sasuke could feel the illusion being placed over the room.
“Ready”
“Yes.”
No hesitation or second thoughts, he had been ready to get out of this hell hole from day one. Sasuke removed his pale hands from his pockets and started a set of hand seals. The warm soft hands that did not have a single kunai callous on it, grabbed his wrists and forced his hand palm up.
“Here.”
The long haired man placed two syringes both filled with a clear liquid on Sasuke’s palm.
“Its not heroin but a powerful pain killer, it will stop the withdrawals and not get you addicted to it.”
Sasuke quickly put the two syringes in to his pocket and mumbled thanks. He found it embarrassing to talk about his addiction, especially with Koshi who had tried to get him off the stuff. He restarted the interrupted hand seals, eager to change the topic.
“Sexy no justu.”
A poof of smoke and a female Sasuke stood in front of Koshi. Who smirked and tossed a set of clothes to the dark haired beauty.
“Where did you learn that?” the monotone voice held a slight edge of amusement to it.
“Naruto.”
“Ah.”
Koshi did a quick set of hand seals and transformed in to Benisato, mini skirt and all with careless ease. Sasuke had dressed in to the set of skimpy clothes and looked back to the now more female Koshi. The raven haired teen had to smirk, the man just looked like he had cut his hair, changed clothes, and had a bigger bust, other wise he looked like himself. Now that he thought about it, Koshi and the woman he had lost his virginity to, Benisato, look somewhat similar, like they could be related or something.
“Remember that a rabbit means someone is coming.”
“I know.”
The two stepped out of the room and started for the guarded hall that held the blond.
“You walk to stiffly, you have to swing your hips more to be a convincing female.”
“Hn.”
Despite the annoyance of being told how to be a female Sasuke put a little more sway in to his stride. Coming up to the guards, Koshi leaned over and giggled in his ear. Sasuke, swallowing his male pride, giggled back.
The two guards looked at the two whores walking up to them. Benisato they knew well, but the dark haired beauty was new and seeing that Orochimaru like the best of anything, they were quite willing to find out what tricks this one knew. When the two females stopped to chat they thought it was going to be the highlight of there day and probably night if they had their way.
Sasuke put up with the sly touches and innuendo laced conversation as Koshi wove one of his master illusions around the distracted guards. At the signal from the master illusionist, Sasuke, with a quick blow to the head, knocked his oh so attentive guard out cold, the female Koshi did the same.
The raven haired teen returned to his male form and immediately started down the hall to the blonds room, never looking back, he knew what he would see. The two guards would be standing watch and no one would be able to tell that they were not the real guards. Koshi would stand watch in the guards place and alert him with a illusion if someone was going to come in to the blonds room.
Coming to Naruto’s room five doors away from Orochimarus, Sasuke opened the door and silently closed it behind him. Scanning the room for his friend, he saw Naruto curled up on the bed. The blond wore a dark shirt with padding over the chest and black pants. Shin guards and empty kunai holster tided on. He looked ready to go on a mission, weapons would not be given to him until there was someone with him though. To many suicide attempts for him to be trusted with pointy objects by himself.
Orochimaru did not like to call on the demon for every small town that stood in his way and if he did not use Sasuke to covertly kill all the possible defenders, he used Naruto to kill them openly. The blond was a very strong fighter and Orochimaru took great pleasure in having him kill people with his bare hands instead of the demon, knowing that it hurt Naruto even more.
Sasuke strode up to the bed and set a hand on the blonds shoulder. No flinch or shutter, no response at all. Slowly the Uchiha heir took a deep breath and let it out. Seeing Naruto like this was painful, it made him hurt deep in his chest to see the bight light that was the blond, be snuffed out.
“Naruto get up, I’m going to get you out of here.”
No response.
“Naruto come on.”
Sasuke gently shook the tan shoulder, trying to get him to do something, he could not carry Naruto and have the plan work. Still the blond lay unresponsive on the dark sheets, eyes half open starring off in to nothing.
The blonds eye had grown back, but still remained unseeing, clouded over and unfocused. The demon was being pressed hard to heal bigger wounds on his container and could not linger to long on one that was not life threatening. What was worse was that his other eye had faded to almost the same color of dead gray in his hopelessness.
“Damn it dobe, come on.”
Sasuke grabbed the blonds shirt and dragged him to the edge of the bed, flipping the blond on to his back and forcing him to look at his face, getting the one good eye to focus then turn away when he actually saw him.
“Come on, I’m not leaving with out you.”
“Stop it, he won’t let me leave.”
The voice was quiet and Naruto did not move. Sasuke let go of the blond’s shirt and grabbed his wrist. Both of Narutos wrists were bandaged, hiding the growing number of scars from suicide attempts. The ones on his neck could not be hidden and the white lines stood out on the tanned skin.
“Come on.”
“No, he’ll just stop me.”
The dark haired teen was growing impatient. He only had a small window of opportunity and it was swiftly passing.
“Not this time. Come on.”
Sasuke pulled Naruto to his feet and stepped back. The broken teen slumped back down to sit on to the bed with a groan. Balling his fists, at the welling anger for the snake that had broken his friend, the Uchiha shouted.
“Damn it Naruto, do you want to stay here. Living like this, feeling so damn guilty about what he makes you do that you want to kill yourself.”
A flicker a movement off to the side caught the Uchihas attention, stopping him mid rant. A large white rabbit hoped across the room and turned in to smoke before it could hop in to the wall. Someone was coming, his chance was passing. Sasuke reached out and grabbed the down turned face of his friend tilting the chin to make the blond look at him.
Naruto would not look at him otherwise and he wanted to see those blue eyes sparkle with the joy, mischief and determination that had once been one of his friends most striking features. He wanted to hear the blond’s loud, exuberant shouts, he wanted to see his Naruto. Not this broken teen in front of him.
But all that looked at him was the dull blue gray eye that had fear permanently etched in to it and the left eye that had grown back, but did not work. It was better than a hole in the side of Narutos face but the lifeless eyes just reminded Sasuke about how close Naruto was to giving up completely, if he hadn’t already.
Reaching up and tracing the line that marred the tan cheek, his voice dropped several octaves at he once again tried to convince Naruto to go with him.
“I’m not going to watch you die. Not from your own hands or from that fucking bastard. Please Naruto come with me.”
Somewhere in the depths of Sasuke he already knew that Naruto had died in his own head. The raven haired young man let go of the face and it drifted down to look at the floor again. The avengers chest was hurting again, there was a lump in his throat and a heavy rock in his stomach.
Not knowing what else to do, but refusing to give up, Sasuke grabbed the blonds wrist and forced him to his feet. Then he practically dragged Naruto to the shadows. Pulling the blond teen to him, Sasuke wrapped his arms around the thinner teen, forcing them to be chest to chest in a hug.
The dark eyed teen quickly did a set of hands seals at the blonds back. Making the air ripple around the two, as what was once obscured by shadows was now the brightest part of the room and the window seamed to have darkness instead of sunshine pouring through it.
This was shadow skill, a hard justu to learn and evan harder to pull off correctly, it made the caster a shadow and let him travel along shadows at a high speed. Sasuke had killed off all the guards of entire towns in a single night with this jutsu. As soon as a target crossed in to a shadow containing the inverted Uchiha, their throat would be cut. Shadow kunai worked just as good as real ones.
The sudden change in the room’s lighting startled Naruto who tried to push away from Sasuke. The now white haired teen grabbed the now dark haired Narutos wrist and held on, getting the startled teen to look at him as he explained.
“If you lose contact with me you’ll resume your normal self. Right now you’re a shadow and you see things from a shadow’s point of view. Dark is now light, light is dark. Stay in the dark because we are shadow and we will show on walls if there is to much light. Got it?”
Naruto numbly nodded.
“The doors locked, how do we get out?”
Glad to hear something almost positive out of his abused friend Sasuke smiled.
“Like this.”
Sasuke pulled Naruto with him as he charged the door. He could feel the hesitant steps of the teen in tow and heard the quick intake of breath as they dived through the bright shadow under the door.
“Shadows are naturally flat.”
Sasuke whispered snidely and dragged Naruto in to the shadow of one of the many wall hangings that covered the bare spots on the hallways walls. The majority of the seven months was spent perfecting this jutsu and Sasuke was enjoying showing it off. It was not as developed as he wanted it, but evan as is, it was something to be proud of.
Two men were walking to Orochimarus chambers and they walked passed the two shadow teens. If he had wanted, Sasuke could of killed them both easily, but he would of had to let go of Naruto to do so. As soon as the men passed them, the Uchiha started jumping from shadow to shadow dragging the abused blond with him. As they passed the guards at the end of the hall, Sasuke stuck his free hand in the dark light and one guard nodded.
With Koshi informed, Sasuke sped up and jumped out of the open window at the end of the hall. The sun was still rising and the shadows the building made were perfect for the escaping teens. Sweat beaded at Sasuke’s forehead and ran down his pale face. Staying in the shadows was taking its toll on him. He knew his limits and he knew that he was going to be pushing them. Shadow skill drained chakra and when in shadow form, one could not used any chakra for jutsus. He could not use his sharingan or chidori, but it did hide all traces of chakra so Orochimaru could not tell were they were by tracing either Narutos or his chakra.
“Sasuke.”
The harshly panting voice of the blond in tow whispered.
“What.”
“Were going the wrong way.”
“No were not.”
“Towns the other way.”
Grunting in irritation at the teen who always had to argue with him, he decided to enlighten the blond on the plan to get the hell out of here.
“I don’t have enough chakra to get us to the other side of town. So we are taking a short cut. The sounds village is in a protected valley, the only visible way out is on the other side of town, right. But originally Orochimaru’s hide out was underground. The underground is were he tries to make new justu’s and were he keeps the prisoners he means to test them on.”
Sasuke felt a shutter from Naruto who was breathing hard and was slowing down. The ground was getting steeper as the buildings looked like they were cut in to the side of the protecting mountain. The raven haired teen was staring to feel the burn in his legs as well, but he needed to get to the darkness of the underground so his shadow skill would not need as much chakra.
“The underground cuts threw the mountain and ends up in a deep forest on the other side. In here.”
Once again Sasuke dragged Naruto under the door of a plain looking building. The building was empty save a set of stairs that descended it to what must have been total darkness because to the teens inverted vision it was horribly bright.
The darkness lessened the strain of the jutsu and Sasuke ran though the tunnels at high speed dragging Naruto with him. They were practically flying at the pace the raven haired teen set. The tunnels flashed by so quickly that it was impossible to see what was going on in the rooms they passed.
Sasuke was panting and sweat dripped off him but he would not slow down, he was almost to the exit. He could hear the labored breathing of Naruto behind him and then the raspy voice.
“Sasuke I have to stop.”
“Not now we’re almost there.”
Before he had finished his sentence Naruto had jerked his hand out of Sasuke’s and fell to the ground in a fit of coughing. Stopping and turning to the blond he saw the blood that was dripping off his friends chin.
‘Damn, we are so fucking close to getting out.’
He stopped the shadow skill and blinked several times to readjust his eyes to normal vision. The tunnel was so gloomy that he could barely see Naruto’s out line. But he could hear him coughing and made his way to the blonds side.
When he set a hand on the blonds back, Naruto made a pained sound and tried to move away only making him worry more over the others condition.
“Naruto what’s wrong, we’re almost to the exit. They can trace our chakra like this, we need to get moving.”
“He’s to tired. He can’t heal me.”
Blinking in the darkness, in his confusion over who Naruto was talking about.
“Who’s he.”
“Kyuubi. We’re exhausted Orochimaru never gives us enough time to recover and last night Shijima...”
Naruto could not finish he went in to a fit of coughing that left him gasping for air. Sasuke was tired as well, having hauled Naruto so far with the shadow skill had drained him, but he would not give up. Not when he was so close to getting the blond out of this hell Orochimaru made for him. Turning, the dark eyed teen crouched in front of Naruto.
“Get on my back I’ll carry you.”
Slowly Naruto climbed on to Sasukes back and he activated his sharingan. It was better than normal vision in the dark. Besides he could not redo shadow skill, he did not have enough chakra and his hands were occupied holding Naruto up.
Sasuke’s foot steps echoed in the tunnels and although Naruto was lighter than what Sasuke had originally thought, after a while he felt like he weighed a ton. He could hear the blonds raged breathing and feel his face pressed in to his shoulder to smother the sound of him coughing.
‘What the hell did Shijima do to him. I know he has human experiments and he threatened to steal my eyes once, but Naruto has never been sick before.’
Sweat dripped off Sasukes face and landed next to his feet. In the dark tunnels it was almost unnoticeable. Panting, Sasuke mentally went over the way to the exit. He had found an old map of the tunnels and had used sharingan to copy it. They should almost be there, one more hall than turn right and he should be able to see the light coming in from under the door to the out side. Reaching the end of the hall and seeing the promised light shine through Sasuke stopped and leaned on the wall, panting.
“Naruto, do you see that.”
No response.
“Naruto hay.”
Sasuke rolled his sore shoulders and earned a mumbled response with a cough.
“Almost there Naruto hold on a little longer.”
The raven haired teen straitened up and readjusted the blond on his back. With renewed vigor he started out for the light at the end of the tunnel. The closer he got the brighter the light felt, 100 feet from the door he heard movement off to the right. Jumping left and settling in a crouch he let his sharingan see what moved.
Sasuke knew this part of the tunnel had snake statues along the walls. Large cobras and asp’s. Orochimaru had fondness for vipers and the statues reached the ceiling of the old entry way.
Setting Naruto in to the space in between the statues Sasuke focused on an open doorway off to the right. There was something blocking the light in that door way. He could barely make out the shape. The light from the exit was blinding in the near absolute darkness and the form was recessed in to the doorway.
Suddenly light flared up behind the figure in the door. It outlined the figure of the most hated and feared man in all of the villages.
Sasuke mentally cursed Orochimarus knack for good timing and showy entrances.
“Sasuke I’m disappointed that you would steal my demon. I had such high hopes for you.”
Orochimaru’s tongue shot out heading for the two teens. Sasuke held his ground in front of Naruto and pulled out a kunai. He did not know who the snake was aiming for, him or the blond on the ground behind him. He parried the tongue and thanks to his sharingan, was able to doge the snake that was hidden in the shadow of the tongue. The snake slammed in to the carving to the left of the teens and cracked its foundation. As the old stone crumbled and started to topple over, the raven haired teen grabbed Naruto and jumped out of the way of the collapsing statue.
Sasuke hovered protectively over his friend as he glared at the snake fiend. He glanced down at the blond, torn between asking for help or telling him to make a break for it and run. But what he saw eliminated the possibility of either. Naruto had curled up in to a small ball and had a vacant look in his eyes.
‘Not good, he has to move, I can’t protect him and fight.’
Sasuke looked back at Orochimaru as the snake moved out of the door way and in to the hall between them and the exit.
“See, Naruto has learned that fighting me is futile, it just leads to pain. You should follow his lead and roll over and submit.”
“No.” He was practically snarling.
“Pity, I was going to let you have a shot to finish off your brother, but seeing that your being an insolent welp I’ll have to take care of this now.”
Suddenly it seamed that Orochimaru had turned in to a large powerful snake that was oozing chakra. He had seen this kind of thing before. At the fight at valley of the end when Naruto started to turn in to Kyuubi before he knew what was in him, all the demon’s chakra had made it so he could practically see the fox.
‘I had no idea he was this strong. It’s almost as much as Kyuubi or is it an illusion?’
Orochimaru and Koshi were the only two people that could produce an illusion that could fool his sharingan. The giant snake disappeared and Sasuke was slammed in the side. Knocking him away from Naruto and in to the wall at the foot of one of the cobra statues.
‘It was an illusion. Shit.’
Sasuke stood and searched for the snake bastard. Silently, arms reached out from the statue behind him and wrapped around his torso pinning his arms to his sides. The Uchiha twisted but the arms had him in a vice like grip, holding him in place. Orochimaru leaned out from the statue and hissed in to Sasuke’s ear.
“There’s not much left of Naruto but he will be completely crushed when his only friend becomes his master.”
The Uchiha heir lurched back in an attempt to get away, but Orochimarus presence inside his head stopped him. The snakes conscience had placed itself between his own and his body, preventing him from doing anything as pain shot through him.
Sasuke was unaware how loud he was screaming as his mind was forcefully removed from his bodies controls and shoved in to a dark pit in his own head.
But Naruto heard and he felt the snakes chakra fill the hallway as it slowly forced its way in to its new master. The blond curled tighter in to a ball. He had nothing now, no friend to give him hope and no way out of this hell. He was exhausted, he and Kyuubi both needed rest and last night Shijima wanted to see just how far his regenerative ability went. Yes, it can regrow organs as long as Naruto could survive with out it for about five minutes. That had drained Kyuubi evan more and he was unable to fully heal the last few cuts on his lungs.
The demon was spent but he was unable to use the demons chakra anyway. Orochimarus seal did not let him use the chakra at his own choosing.
Sasuke was still screaming and he had to sit back and watch as any hope he had left.
“BOY.”
Naruto felt a wash of vertigo then he was standing in front of the half open cage. The demon never called him here before, it as always him running to the demon to stop the pain. Looking up at the fox as the demon glared out at him, the blond teen could see the fangs of the growling beast.
“Yes Kyuubi.”
“Are you just going to watch as he is turned in to a puppet.”
Kyuubi was snarling, glaring right through him.
“Do I have a choice.”
All to many times he had been forced to do things that he did not want to do, kill people, hurt people. The snake had beaten the point in to him that it was pointless to fight him.
“It takes to much to control the jutsu's he’s using on the other boy and to control the seal he put on
us. So if we attack now he can’t use the seal.”
“We’re both to tired.”
“You’re to tired to save your friend. You really are a pathetic coward.”
Kyuubi kicked Naruto out from the cage and in to reality where the weak screams of Sasuke were still echoing off the walls. It was to much for the shattered blond, his best friends screams and the verbal slap from Kyuubi, knocked the fight back in to him. Naruto gathered all his remaining chakra in to his palm. He had barely enough for one rasengan. Standing on weak legs he held the spinning mass of chakra and charged the man that had come so close to truly breaking him.
Orochimaru had stepped out from the statue and was holding on to his next body, the jutsu transferring his soul was almost complete. Sasuke had been slumping in his arms, but now he was standing and Orochimaru could feel the weight of his last body pressing on to his back. He was so deep in concentration that he did not sense the chakra coming at him until it slammed in to his old body and sent it spinning away to hit the doors that led out.
With the contact broken, the jutsu failed and the vile snake was forced to return to his old body. The major disorientation of being forced back so late in to the casting of the jutsu made him unable to control any other jutsu but the one that anchored him in to his hosts. As he sat slummed against the door, reacquainting himself with the body he had just tried to leave, Orochimaru could only watch as the demon loaned chakra to Naruto. Surrounding the blond with the raging red substance and making ears and three tails form out of the chakra as fangs and claws grew on the teen.
Sasuke was barely staying conscious, the world warped and phased around him, blurring and blending together. His head felt sore and wonderfully empty as the colors faded back to the normal spectrum and he saw the form to the right of him turn red and grow chakra ears and three tails.
This was his chance.
Sasuke forced his hands to pull the scroll out from his vest pocket and as the red fox Naruto charged past him to attack the downed snake, he flung the weighted side out and held on to the other. The scroll unrolled across the hall showing the black ink kanji that covered it, there was a circular spot in the center with curving arrows pointing to it. Head pounding, Sasuke whispered a set of words and the ink on the scroll glowed for a second. As the fox Naruto passed over it, one of the three tails brushed the scroll and all the kanji turned red for a second time and the name Kyuubi no yokai appeared in the circle.
Sasuke tugged his end of the scroll and it rolled up. It was not that neat and it was rolled loosely, but it would not mater. The raven haired teen brought his thumb to his lips and bit down, drawing blood. He reopened the scroll and wrote his name on a blank spot in his own blood. The scroll flared red for the third time and his name was turned to ink as the summoning contract was finished.
Just in time to see Naruto knocked back, passed were Sasuke was sitting. Orochimaru had recovered and forced the seal to stop all chakra in the blond. Naruto lay in a heap further down the hall from him and he could see the blood dripping off his friends face before passing out.
The obsidian eyed teen tried to stand but fell over, his head was throbbing, making it hard to think or move. Orochimaru was walking up to where he was struggling to stand, with the lopsided smile that always spelled doom for any that it was meant for.
‘Move body, move god damn it. He’s getting closer.’
Sasuke did not want to let Orochimaru to have a second try with that jutsu. It was like he was violated, tainted, in some way for having him inside his head. The snake was 20 feet from him when his hands started doing seals. He hated to do this to Naruto but it was the only thing he could think of that hated Orochimaru as much as they did and would stop at nothing to kill the bastard. Sasuke completed the set of hand seals and slammed his hand down on to the stone floor. Pouring all his chakra in to the summons and as the black kanji circled out from his hand, smoke formed as the horrible chakra engulf the hallway.
The hall was to small to contain Kyuubi and the roof was pushed out as the demon destroyed the tunnel. When the dirt and smoke cleared, the demon in his full 6 story glory, stood growling at the snake.
Sasuke had been knocked aside by the emerging fox and he was frantically looking for Naruto. Whatever Shijima had done to him last night he hoped the dobe had healed enough because now he was without his healing abilities.
The raven haired teen spotted the blond and let out a small sigh of relief. Naruto was still laying on the floor of the hall, he had not moved from where Orochimaru had knocked him out. There was some rubble between him and the blond and Sasuke was still having trouble getting his body to obey his commands. The Uchiha leaned heavily on a large piece of rock that had a one time been a chunk of the ceiling, when a loud hiss followed by a ferocious snarl forced him to look up.
Kyuubi was battling a large dark snake. The fox did not look so good, Naruto had said that they both were exhausted and the demon looked it. His fur had no shine and he was thin. The fox demon was panting and although he was fighting like a bat out of hell, Sasuke could see that the well rested snake was slowly gaining ground and soon Kyuubi would have to return to his vessel.
He fully intended to make sure that Naruto was alive for him to return to. But if Kyuubi was preoccupied with the giant snake then were was the summoner of said snake.
Sasuke put his back to the bolder and looked over the debris with his sharingan. The pounding headache made it hard for the dark haired teen to focus and soon he had to drop the red eyes. As soon as his eyes returned to there normal color of black, a tongue shot out from one of the other boulders and wrapped around his neck. The disoriented teen tried to pry the disgusting thing off but it just tightened. His head was pounding and the sounds of battle from the two animals fighting on the mountainside above them was making it worse. He was panting and clawing at the tongue as Orochimaru walked out of the boulder and up to stand face to face with him.
“You know this time it will require a more personal contact to transfer my soul to your body.”
The snake bastard ran his hand through Sasuke’s raven hair.
“I do believe I will enjoy it very much.”
Sasuke kicked out at the vile creature and had his head slammed back in to the bolder behind him in retaliation. It dazed his already strained brain and he fell in to a semi conscious state. The tongue around his throat held him up as cold hands started to remove his tattered clothing.
Naruto woke to the sound of a great battle being waged above him as Kyuubi fought the large snake. Chest hurting and breathing choppy, he looked around to see if his friend had managed to escape. Only to see his pants being removed by the same bastard that had raped him countless times.
He could not stand it. It was one thing to force him to go through that kind of humiliation but to hurt his friend like that.
Oh hell no.
Naruto knew that without the demon inside him, he was as good as dead anyway. His lungs were filling up with blood, he could hear the gargle on each intake of breath. He had nothing left to lose. Looking to the right of him, the room that Orochimaru had come out of was some kind of armory. Getting up and grabbing a solid looking sword he went to start what was probably going to be his last fight.
Sasuke was not to sure what was going on, he did know that he did not like it. His face had been pressed in to something hard and now he felt a draft on his lower parts. There was something rubbing on his inner thigh. It was annoying he wanted it to stop.
When a finger was slid in to him, the pain cleared up some of the fog that obscured his thoughts. Regaining his footing, the raven haired teen spun around to face Orochimaru, dislodging the finger in the process. The sannin raised his hand and was about to do something when two Naruto’s came out from the bolder, one on each side of Sasuke. One produced a kunai and cut off the offending tongue around the Uchihas neck as the other slid under the sounds lord.
Sasuke fell to the ground and heard the familiar Uzu- ma -ki as another Naruto came out from under Orochimaru and two more from behind. All the clones made there kick’s and the snake was air born. Naruto, with sword drawn, was coming down from above. Orochimaru saw and quickly pulled out the sword that he kept sheathed in his stomach and not only parried the blonds sword but cut it in half with the far superior blade.
The abused teen slammed the pommel of his broken sword on to the pommel of the snakes and twisted. The sword slipped out from Orochimarus hand and flew over his shoulder. Now with two open hands, Orochimaru grabbed the blond and slammed a punch in to Naruto’s chest. Who turned to smoke.
Before Orochimaru could turn to face the real Naruto, his own sword sliced threw his neck and cut off his head.
Sasuke watched as Orochimaru and his head landed a few feet apart and Naruto landed and fell over, coughing up blood. The battle on the mountainside stopped and Kyuubi poked his head in through the large hole he made getting out. He looked really beaten now, his eyes were half lidded and his breathing was rough. With a long whine the fox disappeared in a cloud of red chakra.
Sasuke pulled his pants up and made his way to the blond. There was a soft red glow around Naruto that faded by the time Sasuke made it to his side. The raven haired teen put his hand to the blonds neck and was relieved to find a pulse. Pulling up the blond’s shirt, the half seal was still around his navel and the blue seal that Orochimaru had put on around it was gone, it had disappeared when the bastard had died.
Sighing, Sasuke sat next to Naruto. It figured that the blond could kill the snake, Naruto was stronger that he thought. Orochimaru had capitalized on the fact that the blond was too trapped in an emotional hell to realize that he was on the same level as his tormenter.
The old snake had made it this far by being able to judge people and being able to predict there reactions. That’s how Sasuke had ended up in the sound in the first place. Now that he thought about it, Naruto had figured out the best way to kill the bastard.
Orochimaru thrived on the predictably of people reacting in a set way. Naruto had being submissive throughly beaten in him and Orochimaru figured that he would stay that way. The snake did not think there was enough left of the blond to fight back. Thank god the snake did not figure in Naruto’s natural unpredictable nature.
Groaning, Sasuke laid down next to Naruto.
Thinking hurt.
He wanted to join the blond and sleep for a good 15 years. He was exhausted and had a pounding head ache. But sleeping in a place like this was not a good idea. Even Sasuke’s beaten up brain could figure that out. But a little rest would be good.
With out meaning to Sasuke started to dose off, dark eyes blinking as the cave started to blur and fade. A sudden, consuming pain lanced through his shoulder and the raven haired teen could not help but scream as the curse seal consumed itself. Setting his flesh on fire and pulsing as blood started to drip down as the skin was destroyed.
A spike of pain laced, black chakra made him activate the sharingan as dark splashes raced across his skin. With the sharingan Sasuke was able to detect a group of shinobi coming down the tunnels from the sounds city. They had to get out of here, crawling over to the blond, he tried to wake him. ShakingNaruto but getting no response.
Sitting down beside his friend and pulling Naruto so that he was sitting in his lap. The dark haired teen whispered hoarsely in to the abused teens ear as his shoulder throbbed in pain.
“Kyuubi please loan him as much chakra as you can. One last time.”
He was panting and had a death grip around Naruto’s waist, his forehead resting on the blonds shoulder. Blood dripping down his back as the seal destroyed itself. Naruto opened his grayed eyes and had a faint red glow around him again, looking confused.
“Naruto, summon Gamabunta sama.”
He mumbled and jerked away from Sasuke.
“Naruto, you have to Summon Gamabunta sama.”
Sasuke let go of the blonds waist and ran his hands along the blonds arms until he had a hold of Narutos wrists.
“Naruto, summon Gamabunta sama.”
The curse seal glowed and Sasuke felt like screaming out from the pain. Instead he gripped Naruto’s wrists and started to make the blond in his lap do the seals. The sounds shinobi had reached them and the raven haired teen had to stop to block a kunai. Reaching out and grabbing Orochimaru’s sword, using the superior blade to deflect the kunai that had started to ran on them in abundance.
“NARUTO, SUMMON GAMABUNTA SAMA. NOW.”
Sasuke’s yelling and the loud pings as kunai bounced off the large sword being twirled around his head snapped Naruto out of the daze and he obediently did the hand seals. Seeing that the blond was summoning the toad, Sasuke leaned forward, hugging the blonds back and forcing the minuscule amount of chakra he had left, in to the boy on his lap.
There was a pop, followed by a large smoke cloud and suddenly the two teens were looking out at the tops of the trees. Naruto moaned and fell over, that was his and Kyuubi’s last bit of chakra, there was no way either could be woken after this.
Sasuke was panting, his hand covering the burning seal in the crook of his neck. A loud Ehhhhhh echoed in the forests as Gamabunta sama realized that he was sitting in a large hole in the side of the mountain. Suddenly the large smoking pipe in the toads mouth was tipped up and nearly smashed Sasuke upside the head.
“Why are you on my head. Get off.”
“Please Gambunta Sama get us out of here.”
“US. There is more than one of you on my head!”
“Yes, Naruto is hurt.”
“Naruto!”
Sasuke could hear the surprise and recognition in the booming voice.
“Yes. Now please get us out of here.”
Sasuke knew he should be nice to the toad, but his stubbornness was annoying. And the toads voice hurt his head. A shinobi appeared off to the side of the large toad head and before he could attack the two teens, a large pink tongue with gray studs in it wrapped around the ninja and whipped him off in to the distance. Sasuke could feel the giant toad under him crouch down.
“Hold on.”
Sasuke managed to grab the blond then the toads clothing and pin Naruto under him, using his own body to make sure the teen did not fall off in the massive hop that must of covered half of the country.
“Where do you need to go.” Gambunta sama asked midair.
Remembering that Naruto did not want to return to Konoha Sasuke said what he promised.
“Anywhere but here. Some place safe.”
Gambunta sama made a agreeing noise and started to hop away. Sasuke, shoulder burning and head pounding, was still laying on top of the blond and holding on to the toads jacket. Sensing that the danger had passed and that they were heading in the right direction to where ever they were going, Sasuke snuggled in to the pleasantly warm form under him and passed out.
Everything they have.
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Seven months in this snake pit, and it was all going down tonight. It was a little sooner than originally planed, but the last time Sasuke had seen Naruto he was not good, very not good. He had not responded at all to the dark eyed teen and Sasuke had spent the entire time holding the broken shell of his friend, trying to get him to say something, anything.
Naruto had closed himself off to the outside and only moved when ordered, only responded to pain and the hiss of the bastard Orochimaru. The once vibrant blue eye was grayed with the hopelessness and despair of the blond. Each time the sannin had him destroy a village, the eye became bleaker as he retreated farther in to his shell.
14 towns in 7 months and suicide attempts after the towns fell, that was the only unordered response from Naruto. His attempts at finding his own death, the blond had slit his wrists, cut his neck, ingested poison, and purposely stopped Kyuubi mid attack so that the defending shinobi would kill him. Each time, Orochimaru saved him, if you could call it saving.
The blond would be taken to the labs and have the god awful doctors cut him apart, then sew him up and do it all over again. The only thing trying to kill him self gained Naruto, was more pain, but he never stopped trying to find a way to end his life. To worsen matters, the dark haired teen had found out about the snakes fetish involving Naruto. How controlling the demons power was a turn on for him, how after Kyuubi destroyed a village he would take advantage of the fact Naruto could not move and rape him.
The bigger the town the more of a turn on it was for the snake and the more depraved the sexual acts performed in celebration of it. Orochimaru was planning the destruction of a shinobi village next, and what would happed in celebration of that, Sasuke did not want to think about.
The Uchiha heir balled his fists and growled at the knowledge that Naruto was being violated as well as manipulated by the snake. That the damn bastard would rape his best friend then call him over to give him a mission or teach him something new, like it was nothing. He had to stand there and listen to the snake when he knew the blond was still curled on the floor of the bastards rooms. And he could not even seem to be affected by it or it would raise suspicion.
Sasuke had thrown himself in to the training, learning everything he could. He was still going to kill his brother, oh yes, but not until he had gotten Naruto out of this place. Not until the one person he cared about was safe and to do that he needed power.
Learning from the snake lord gave him exposer to jutsus that would be forbidden to him in Konoha. Orochimaru had accepted his return and had resumed training him like he had never left. Not that the sannin trusted him, just that the more he knew now, the more he would be ready when Orochimaru took over his body, because some jutsus, like chidori, required additional training other than just knowing the hand seals.
For chidori to be effective, the user had to have speed, had to have the coordination to use their arm as a sword. Orochimaru was training him only for the purpose of not having to teach the body how to use the jutsus he knew.
And for it to be effective training, he had to use it in a real battle, not just against straw dummies. So for the last four months the raven haired teen had been going on missions, closely supervised by either Kabuto or the snake himself.
Mostly assassinations where the target did not even know he was one, or stopping a rebellion in the territories gained by the demons destructive rampages. The demon had doubled the sounds territory, pushing east and west in to the countries that bordered the sound that did not have ninja villages, far enough to threaten the lightning country to the east and to send the village of hidden waterfall in to hiding with over half of the country taken over, in the west. The only direction the snake lord did not press to hard to get in to, was south, in to the fire country and the leaf. But he had made his presence known and the boarder towns had all either fled or hunkered down for the battle they knew was impeding.
That was were he had proven himself to the snake, on the boarders of the countries he was taking over. Orochiamru loved to mess with people, mind games that pissed Sasuke off. All to many times Orochimaru would have him kill the guards and warriors brought in to protect the towns and villages as the snake was meeting with the elder or leader. Then when he would walk in to the meeting room covered in blood then the snake would smile and either kill the man or instruct him to do what the snake wanted or find the rest of his village murdered.
The raven haired teen hated this ploy, giving the villages hope that they might be spared, then kill off any who could fight him and leave them broken and defenseless so that they would not matter as Orochimaru passed through them to bigger villages.
At least he knew that the villages he killed in would not be destroyed, there was no need once he had killed off all the people capable of fighting back. Sasuke had only seen the demon destroying a village twice and that was from a far. Shuttering as he remembered the blood red eyes and the horrendous sight of the beast of a rampage. How when the fox was called back in to Naruto there was nothing left of the buildings and it was almost a humanitarian mission to put the few that survived out of their misery. Still, he was glad that he was not sent on to many of the demon follow up missions, to many times the beast had turned on the men that had not hidden themselves far enough away.
Orochimaru did not want his next container to get hurt and be unable to perform the duties, so he was no longer ordered to go and instead the snake had come up with the silent killer missions.
The only obstacle left for him to be ready to be the snakes next container was that he still had to kick the addiction of heroin. It was the insurance policy that he would come back from the missions Orochimaru sent him on. That he would be a good little puppet and jump when told. He had tried to stop, but around day 3 he could no longer hide his shaking hands and by day 4 he was unable to leave his room. Kabuto had found him curled up next to the toilet after he had missed a meeting with the snake. The silver haired lackey forced him to take the shot and from then on he had to report to Kabuto every morning to shoot up or have the four eyes hunt him down and force him to.
Sasuke could tell that he was starting to get less each day, that they were weaning him off it so that his body would not be contaminated when Orochimaru took over. Addiction is mostly mental he knew, that if they put him through the withdrawals, his body would no longer crave it, only he would. But he would be shoved in to a pit in his own head so Orochimaru would not have any issues with drugs.
It was the signal that his time was quickly running out and when Naruto no longer responded to him at all, he knew that there was no choice but to move immediately.
Striding down the corridor silently, Sasuke put a pale hand to the front pocket of the gray vest he wore. The vest just showed Orochimaru’s trust in the drug controlling him. That the damn snake believed that he was not going to do anything against him or try to leave.
The fact that Orochimaru gave him the vest, was a bone of contention with the raven haired teen. He had only been here for 7 months and had shown the snake how skilled he had become and earned the rank of Jounin as soon as Orochimaru was sure he was not going to run away.
He had been in Konoha for over a year after his return and they still openly questioned his loyalties, not even qualifying him for the chunnin exam, he was only in it so there would be a team of three. It was stupid because he would kill the bastard snake with out hesitation if he got the chance. The only thing that made him go on missions with out a fight in the first place, was that if he stayed on the snakes good side he was less supervised and could see Naruto.
Sasuke turned the final corner and ducked in to the training room to a waiting Koshi. In the months he had been here, the long haired illusion master was the one person who he knew he could trust. A rarity in a place where back stabbing was encouraged.
Koshi was the one to bring him to Naruto after Orochimaru did something horrible and the blond would hide inside himself. The dark haired man was the one to try and get him off heroin. It did not work but at least he had tried. Koshi had also taught him how to get control of the demon so he could get out of here with Naruto. When he had said that they had to move the plan ahead a few months because Naruto would not last any longer, Sasuke believed him and scrambled to put the last few piece’s in to place to make their escape. Had it been any one else he would of thought it was a trap.
Looking at the long haired effeminate man he nodded. He had gathered the necessary supplies he would need. A scroll was tucked in to one of the vests pockets. He had memorized the words he needed to say with the hand seals to get the demon in to a summoning contract.
Koshi nodded in return and Sasuke could feel the illusion being placed over the room.
“Ready”
“Yes.”
No hesitation or second thoughts, he had been ready to get out of this hell hole from day one. Sasuke removed his pale hands from his pockets and started a set of hand seals. The warm soft hands that did not have a single kunai callous on it, grabbed his wrists and forced his hand palm up.
“Here.”
The long haired man placed two syringes both filled with a clear liquid on Sasuke’s palm.
“Its not heroin but a powerful pain killer, it will stop the withdrawals and not get you addicted to it.”
Sasuke quickly put the two syringes in to his pocket and mumbled thanks. He found it embarrassing to talk about his addiction, especially with Koshi who had tried to get him off the stuff. He restarted the interrupted hand seals, eager to change the topic.
“Sexy no justu.”
A poof of smoke and a female Sasuke stood in front of Koshi. Who smirked and tossed a set of clothes to the dark haired beauty.
“Where did you learn that?” the monotone voice held a slight edge of amusement to it.
“Naruto.”
“Ah.”
Koshi did a quick set of hand seals and transformed in to Benisato, mini skirt and all with careless ease. Sasuke had dressed in to the set of skimpy clothes and looked back to the now more female Koshi. The raven haired teen had to smirk, the man just looked like he had cut his hair, changed clothes, and had a bigger bust, other wise he looked like himself. Now that he thought about it, Koshi and the woman he had lost his virginity to, Benisato, look somewhat similar, like they could be related or something.
“Remember that a rabbit means someone is coming.”
“I know.”
The two stepped out of the room and started for the guarded hall that held the blond.
“You walk to stiffly, you have to swing your hips more to be a convincing female.”
“Hn.”
Despite the annoyance of being told how to be a female Sasuke put a little more sway in to his stride. Coming up to the guards, Koshi leaned over and giggled in his ear. Sasuke, swallowing his male pride, giggled back.
The two guards looked at the two whores walking up to them. Benisato they knew well, but the dark haired beauty was new and seeing that Orochimaru like the best of anything, they were quite willing to find out what tricks this one knew. When the two females stopped to chat they thought it was going to be the highlight of there day and probably night if they had their way.
Sasuke put up with the sly touches and innuendo laced conversation as Koshi wove one of his master illusions around the distracted guards. At the signal from the master illusionist, Sasuke, with a quick blow to the head, knocked his oh so attentive guard out cold, the female Koshi did the same.
The raven haired teen returned to his male form and immediately started down the hall to the blonds room, never looking back, he knew what he would see. The two guards would be standing watch and no one would be able to tell that they were not the real guards. Koshi would stand watch in the guards place and alert him with a illusion if someone was going to come in to the blonds room.
Coming to Naruto’s room five doors away from Orochimarus, Sasuke opened the door and silently closed it behind him. Scanning the room for his friend, he saw Naruto curled up on the bed. The blond wore a dark shirt with padding over the chest and black pants. Shin guards and empty kunai holster tided on. He looked ready to go on a mission, weapons would not be given to him until there was someone with him though. To many suicide attempts for him to be trusted with pointy objects by himself.
Orochimaru did not like to call on the demon for every small town that stood in his way and if he did not use Sasuke to covertly kill all the possible defenders, he used Naruto to kill them openly. The blond was a very strong fighter and Orochimaru took great pleasure in having him kill people with his bare hands instead of the demon, knowing that it hurt Naruto even more.
Sasuke strode up to the bed and set a hand on the blonds shoulder. No flinch or shutter, no response at all. Slowly the Uchiha heir took a deep breath and let it out. Seeing Naruto like this was painful, it made him hurt deep in his chest to see the bight light that was the blond, be snuffed out.
“Naruto get up, I’m going to get you out of here.”
No response.
“Naruto come on.”
Sasuke gently shook the tan shoulder, trying to get him to do something, he could not carry Naruto and have the plan work. Still the blond lay unresponsive on the dark sheets, eyes half open starring off in to nothing.
The blonds eye had grown back, but still remained unseeing, clouded over and unfocused. The demon was being pressed hard to heal bigger wounds on his container and could not linger to long on one that was not life threatening. What was worse was that his other eye had faded to almost the same color of dead gray in his hopelessness.
“Damn it dobe, come on.”
Sasuke grabbed the blonds shirt and dragged him to the edge of the bed, flipping the blond on to his back and forcing him to look at his face, getting the one good eye to focus then turn away when he actually saw him.
“Come on, I’m not leaving with out you.”
“Stop it, he won’t let me leave.”
The voice was quiet and Naruto did not move. Sasuke let go of the blond’s shirt and grabbed his wrist. Both of Narutos wrists were bandaged, hiding the growing number of scars from suicide attempts. The ones on his neck could not be hidden and the white lines stood out on the tanned skin.
“Come on.”
“No, he’ll just stop me.”
The dark haired teen was growing impatient. He only had a small window of opportunity and it was swiftly passing.
“Not this time. Come on.”
Sasuke pulled Naruto to his feet and stepped back. The broken teen slumped back down to sit on to the bed with a groan. Balling his fists, at the welling anger for the snake that had broken his friend, the Uchiha shouted.
“Damn it Naruto, do you want to stay here. Living like this, feeling so damn guilty about what he makes you do that you want to kill yourself.”
A flicker a movement off to the side caught the Uchihas attention, stopping him mid rant. A large white rabbit hoped across the room and turned in to smoke before it could hop in to the wall. Someone was coming, his chance was passing. Sasuke reached out and grabbed the down turned face of his friend tilting the chin to make the blond look at him.
Naruto would not look at him otherwise and he wanted to see those blue eyes sparkle with the joy, mischief and determination that had once been one of his friends most striking features. He wanted to hear the blond’s loud, exuberant shouts, he wanted to see his Naruto. Not this broken teen in front of him.
But all that looked at him was the dull blue gray eye that had fear permanently etched in to it and the left eye that had grown back, but did not work. It was better than a hole in the side of Narutos face but the lifeless eyes just reminded Sasuke about how close Naruto was to giving up completely, if he hadn’t already.
Reaching up and tracing the line that marred the tan cheek, his voice dropped several octaves at he once again tried to convince Naruto to go with him.
“I’m not going to watch you die. Not from your own hands or from that fucking bastard. Please Naruto come with me.”
Somewhere in the depths of Sasuke he already knew that Naruto had died in his own head. The raven haired young man let go of the face and it drifted down to look at the floor again. The avengers chest was hurting again, there was a lump in his throat and a heavy rock in his stomach.
Not knowing what else to do, but refusing to give up, Sasuke grabbed the blonds wrist and forced him to his feet. Then he practically dragged Naruto to the shadows. Pulling the blond teen to him, Sasuke wrapped his arms around the thinner teen, forcing them to be chest to chest in a hug.
The dark eyed teen quickly did a set of hands seals at the blonds back. Making the air ripple around the two, as what was once obscured by shadows was now the brightest part of the room and the window seamed to have darkness instead of sunshine pouring through it.
This was shadow skill, a hard justu to learn and evan harder to pull off correctly, it made the caster a shadow and let him travel along shadows at a high speed. Sasuke had killed off all the guards of entire towns in a single night with this jutsu. As soon as a target crossed in to a shadow containing the inverted Uchiha, their throat would be cut. Shadow kunai worked just as good as real ones.
The sudden change in the room’s lighting startled Naruto who tried to push away from Sasuke. The now white haired teen grabbed the now dark haired Narutos wrist and held on, getting the startled teen to look at him as he explained.
“If you lose contact with me you’ll resume your normal self. Right now you’re a shadow and you see things from a shadow’s point of view. Dark is now light, light is dark. Stay in the dark because we are shadow and we will show on walls if there is to much light. Got it?”
Naruto numbly nodded.
“The doors locked, how do we get out?”
Glad to hear something almost positive out of his abused friend Sasuke smiled.
“Like this.”
Sasuke pulled Naruto with him as he charged the door. He could feel the hesitant steps of the teen in tow and heard the quick intake of breath as they dived through the bright shadow under the door.
“Shadows are naturally flat.”
Sasuke whispered snidely and dragged Naruto in to the shadow of one of the many wall hangings that covered the bare spots on the hallways walls. The majority of the seven months was spent perfecting this jutsu and Sasuke was enjoying showing it off. It was not as developed as he wanted it, but evan as is, it was something to be proud of.
Two men were walking to Orochimarus chambers and they walked passed the two shadow teens. If he had wanted, Sasuke could of killed them both easily, but he would of had to let go of Naruto to do so. As soon as the men passed them, the Uchiha started jumping from shadow to shadow dragging the abused blond with him. As they passed the guards at the end of the hall, Sasuke stuck his free hand in the dark light and one guard nodded.
With Koshi informed, Sasuke sped up and jumped out of the open window at the end of the hall. The sun was still rising and the shadows the building made were perfect for the escaping teens. Sweat beaded at Sasuke’s forehead and ran down his pale face. Staying in the shadows was taking its toll on him. He knew his limits and he knew that he was going to be pushing them. Shadow skill drained chakra and when in shadow form, one could not used any chakra for jutsus. He could not use his sharingan or chidori, but it did hide all traces of chakra so Orochimaru could not tell were they were by tracing either Narutos or his chakra.
“Sasuke.”
The harshly panting voice of the blond in tow whispered.
“What.”
“Were going the wrong way.”
“No were not.”
“Towns the other way.”
Grunting in irritation at the teen who always had to argue with him, he decided to enlighten the blond on the plan to get the hell out of here.
“I don’t have enough chakra to get us to the other side of town. So we are taking a short cut. The sounds village is in a protected valley, the only visible way out is on the other side of town, right. But originally Orochimaru’s hide out was underground. The underground is were he tries to make new justu’s and were he keeps the prisoners he means to test them on.”
Sasuke felt a shutter from Naruto who was breathing hard and was slowing down. The ground was getting steeper as the buildings looked like they were cut in to the side of the protecting mountain. The raven haired teen was staring to feel the burn in his legs as well, but he needed to get to the darkness of the underground so his shadow skill would not need as much chakra.
“The underground cuts threw the mountain and ends up in a deep forest on the other side. In here.”
Once again Sasuke dragged Naruto under the door of a plain looking building. The building was empty save a set of stairs that descended it to what must have been total darkness because to the teens inverted vision it was horribly bright.
The darkness lessened the strain of the jutsu and Sasuke ran though the tunnels at high speed dragging Naruto with him. They were practically flying at the pace the raven haired teen set. The tunnels flashed by so quickly that it was impossible to see what was going on in the rooms they passed.
Sasuke was panting and sweat dripped off him but he would not slow down, he was almost to the exit. He could hear the labored breathing of Naruto behind him and then the raspy voice.
“Sasuke I have to stop.”
“Not now we’re almost there.”
Before he had finished his sentence Naruto had jerked his hand out of Sasuke’s and fell to the ground in a fit of coughing. Stopping and turning to the blond he saw the blood that was dripping off his friends chin.
‘Damn, we are so fucking close to getting out.’
He stopped the shadow skill and blinked several times to readjust his eyes to normal vision. The tunnel was so gloomy that he could barely see Naruto’s out line. But he could hear him coughing and made his way to the blonds side.
When he set a hand on the blonds back, Naruto made a pained sound and tried to move away only making him worry more over the others condition.
“Naruto what’s wrong, we’re almost to the exit. They can trace our chakra like this, we need to get moving.”
“He’s to tired. He can’t heal me.”
Blinking in the darkness, in his confusion over who Naruto was talking about.
“Who’s he.”
“Kyuubi. We’re exhausted Orochimaru never gives us enough time to recover and last night Shijima...”
Naruto could not finish he went in to a fit of coughing that left him gasping for air. Sasuke was tired as well, having hauled Naruto so far with the shadow skill had drained him, but he would not give up. Not when he was so close to getting the blond out of this hell Orochimaru made for him. Turning, the dark eyed teen crouched in front of Naruto.
“Get on my back I’ll carry you.”
Slowly Naruto climbed on to Sasukes back and he activated his sharingan. It was better than normal vision in the dark. Besides he could not redo shadow skill, he did not have enough chakra and his hands were occupied holding Naruto up.
Sasuke’s foot steps echoed in the tunnels and although Naruto was lighter than what Sasuke had originally thought, after a while he felt like he weighed a ton. He could hear the blonds raged breathing and feel his face pressed in to his shoulder to smother the sound of him coughing.
‘What the hell did Shijima do to him. I know he has human experiments and he threatened to steal my eyes once, but Naruto has never been sick before.’
Sweat dripped off Sasukes face and landed next to his feet. In the dark tunnels it was almost unnoticeable. Panting, Sasuke mentally went over the way to the exit. He had found an old map of the tunnels and had used sharingan to copy it. They should almost be there, one more hall than turn right and he should be able to see the light coming in from under the door to the out side. Reaching the end of the hall and seeing the promised light shine through Sasuke stopped and leaned on the wall, panting.
“Naruto, do you see that.”
No response.
“Naruto hay.”
Sasuke rolled his sore shoulders and earned a mumbled response with a cough.
“Almost there Naruto hold on a little longer.”
The raven haired teen straitened up and readjusted the blond on his back. With renewed vigor he started out for the light at the end of the tunnel. The closer he got the brighter the light felt, 100 feet from the door he heard movement off to the right. Jumping left and settling in a crouch he let his sharingan see what moved.
Sasuke knew this part of the tunnel had snake statues along the walls. Large cobras and asp’s. Orochimaru had fondness for vipers and the statues reached the ceiling of the old entry way.
Setting Naruto in to the space in between the statues Sasuke focused on an open doorway off to the right. There was something blocking the light in that door way. He could barely make out the shape. The light from the exit was blinding in the near absolute darkness and the form was recessed in to the doorway.
Suddenly light flared up behind the figure in the door. It outlined the figure of the most hated and feared man in all of the villages.
Sasuke mentally cursed Orochimarus knack for good timing and showy entrances.
“Sasuke I’m disappointed that you would steal my demon. I had such high hopes for you.”
Orochimaru’s tongue shot out heading for the two teens. Sasuke held his ground in front of Naruto and pulled out a kunai. He did not know who the snake was aiming for, him or the blond on the ground behind him. He parried the tongue and thanks to his sharingan, was able to doge the snake that was hidden in the shadow of the tongue. The snake slammed in to the carving to the left of the teens and cracked its foundation. As the old stone crumbled and started to topple over, the raven haired teen grabbed Naruto and jumped out of the way of the collapsing statue.
Sasuke hovered protectively over his friend as he glared at the snake fiend. He glanced down at the blond, torn between asking for help or telling him to make a break for it and run. But what he saw eliminated the possibility of either. Naruto had curled up in to a small ball and had a vacant look in his eyes.
‘Not good, he has to move, I can’t protect him and fight.’
Sasuke looked back at Orochimaru as the snake moved out of the door way and in to the hall between them and the exit.
“See, Naruto has learned that fighting me is futile, it just leads to pain. You should follow his lead and roll over and submit.”
“No.” He was practically snarling.
“Pity, I was going to let you have a shot to finish off your brother, but seeing that your being an insolent welp I’ll have to take care of this now.”
Suddenly it seamed that Orochimaru had turned in to a large powerful snake that was oozing chakra. He had seen this kind of thing before. At the fight at valley of the end when Naruto started to turn in to Kyuubi before he knew what was in him, all the demon’s chakra had made it so he could practically see the fox.
‘I had no idea he was this strong. It’s almost as much as Kyuubi or is it an illusion?’
Orochimaru and Koshi were the only two people that could produce an illusion that could fool his sharingan. The giant snake disappeared and Sasuke was slammed in the side. Knocking him away from Naruto and in to the wall at the foot of one of the cobra statues.
‘It was an illusion. Shit.’
Sasuke stood and searched for the snake bastard. Silently, arms reached out from the statue behind him and wrapped around his torso pinning his arms to his sides. The Uchiha twisted but the arms had him in a vice like grip, holding him in place. Orochimaru leaned out from the statue and hissed in to Sasuke’s ear.
“There’s not much left of Naruto but he will be completely crushed when his only friend becomes his master.”
The Uchiha heir lurched back in an attempt to get away, but Orochimarus presence inside his head stopped him. The snakes conscience had placed itself between his own and his body, preventing him from doing anything as pain shot through him.
Sasuke was unaware how loud he was screaming as his mind was forcefully removed from his bodies controls and shoved in to a dark pit in his own head.
But Naruto heard and he felt the snakes chakra fill the hallway as it slowly forced its way in to its new master. The blond curled tighter in to a ball. He had nothing now, no friend to give him hope and no way out of this hell. He was exhausted, he and Kyuubi both needed rest and last night Shijima wanted to see just how far his regenerative ability went. Yes, it can regrow organs as long as Naruto could survive with out it for about five minutes. That had drained Kyuubi evan more and he was unable to fully heal the last few cuts on his lungs.
The demon was spent but he was unable to use the demons chakra anyway. Orochimarus seal did not let him use the chakra at his own choosing.
Sasuke was still screaming and he had to sit back and watch as any hope he had left.
“BOY.”
Naruto felt a wash of vertigo then he was standing in front of the half open cage. The demon never called him here before, it as always him running to the demon to stop the pain. Looking up at the fox as the demon glared out at him, the blond teen could see the fangs of the growling beast.
“Yes Kyuubi.”
“Are you just going to watch as he is turned in to a puppet.”
Kyuubi was snarling, glaring right through him.
“Do I have a choice.”
All to many times he had been forced to do things that he did not want to do, kill people, hurt people. The snake had beaten the point in to him that it was pointless to fight him.
“It takes to much to control the jutsu's he’s using on the other boy and to control the seal he put on
us. So if we attack now he can’t use the seal.”
“We’re both to tired.”
“You’re to tired to save your friend. You really are a pathetic coward.”
Kyuubi kicked Naruto out from the cage and in to reality where the weak screams of Sasuke were still echoing off the walls. It was to much for the shattered blond, his best friends screams and the verbal slap from Kyuubi, knocked the fight back in to him. Naruto gathered all his remaining chakra in to his palm. He had barely enough for one rasengan. Standing on weak legs he held the spinning mass of chakra and charged the man that had come so close to truly breaking him.
Orochimaru had stepped out from the statue and was holding on to his next body, the jutsu transferring his soul was almost complete. Sasuke had been slumping in his arms, but now he was standing and Orochimaru could feel the weight of his last body pressing on to his back. He was so deep in concentration that he did not sense the chakra coming at him until it slammed in to his old body and sent it spinning away to hit the doors that led out.
With the contact broken, the jutsu failed and the vile snake was forced to return to his old body. The major disorientation of being forced back so late in to the casting of the jutsu made him unable to control any other jutsu but the one that anchored him in to his hosts. As he sat slummed against the door, reacquainting himself with the body he had just tried to leave, Orochimaru could only watch as the demon loaned chakra to Naruto. Surrounding the blond with the raging red substance and making ears and three tails form out of the chakra as fangs and claws grew on the teen.
Sasuke was barely staying conscious, the world warped and phased around him, blurring and blending together. His head felt sore and wonderfully empty as the colors faded back to the normal spectrum and he saw the form to the right of him turn red and grow chakra ears and three tails.
This was his chance.
Sasuke forced his hands to pull the scroll out from his vest pocket and as the red fox Naruto charged past him to attack the downed snake, he flung the weighted side out and held on to the other. The scroll unrolled across the hall showing the black ink kanji that covered it, there was a circular spot in the center with curving arrows pointing to it. Head pounding, Sasuke whispered a set of words and the ink on the scroll glowed for a second. As the fox Naruto passed over it, one of the three tails brushed the scroll and all the kanji turned red for a second time and the name Kyuubi no yokai appeared in the circle.
Sasuke tugged his end of the scroll and it rolled up. It was not that neat and it was rolled loosely, but it would not mater. The raven haired teen brought his thumb to his lips and bit down, drawing blood. He reopened the scroll and wrote his name on a blank spot in his own blood. The scroll flared red for the third time and his name was turned to ink as the summoning contract was finished.
Just in time to see Naruto knocked back, passed were Sasuke was sitting. Orochimaru had recovered and forced the seal to stop all chakra in the blond. Naruto lay in a heap further down the hall from him and he could see the blood dripping off his friends face before passing out.
The obsidian eyed teen tried to stand but fell over, his head was throbbing, making it hard to think or move. Orochimaru was walking up to where he was struggling to stand, with the lopsided smile that always spelled doom for any that it was meant for.
‘Move body, move god damn it. He’s getting closer.’
Sasuke did not want to let Orochimaru to have a second try with that jutsu. It was like he was violated, tainted, in some way for having him inside his head. The snake was 20 feet from him when his hands started doing seals. He hated to do this to Naruto but it was the only thing he could think of that hated Orochimaru as much as they did and would stop at nothing to kill the bastard. Sasuke completed the set of hand seals and slammed his hand down on to the stone floor. Pouring all his chakra in to the summons and as the black kanji circled out from his hand, smoke formed as the horrible chakra engulf the hallway.
The hall was to small to contain Kyuubi and the roof was pushed out as the demon destroyed the tunnel. When the dirt and smoke cleared, the demon in his full 6 story glory, stood growling at the snake.
Sasuke had been knocked aside by the emerging fox and he was frantically looking for Naruto. Whatever Shijima had done to him last night he hoped the dobe had healed enough because now he was without his healing abilities.
The raven haired teen spotted the blond and let out a small sigh of relief. Naruto was still laying on the floor of the hall, he had not moved from where Orochimaru had knocked him out. There was some rubble between him and the blond and Sasuke was still having trouble getting his body to obey his commands. The Uchiha leaned heavily on a large piece of rock that had a one time been a chunk of the ceiling, when a loud hiss followed by a ferocious snarl forced him to look up.
Kyuubi was battling a large dark snake. The fox did not look so good, Naruto had said that they both were exhausted and the demon looked it. His fur had no shine and he was thin. The fox demon was panting and although he was fighting like a bat out of hell, Sasuke could see that the well rested snake was slowly gaining ground and soon Kyuubi would have to return to his vessel.
He fully intended to make sure that Naruto was alive for him to return to. But if Kyuubi was preoccupied with the giant snake then were was the summoner of said snake.
Sasuke put his back to the bolder and looked over the debris with his sharingan. The pounding headache made it hard for the dark haired teen to focus and soon he had to drop the red eyes. As soon as his eyes returned to there normal color of black, a tongue shot out from one of the other boulders and wrapped around his neck. The disoriented teen tried to pry the disgusting thing off but it just tightened. His head was pounding and the sounds of battle from the two animals fighting on the mountainside above them was making it worse. He was panting and clawing at the tongue as Orochimaru walked out of the boulder and up to stand face to face with him.
“You know this time it will require a more personal contact to transfer my soul to your body.”
The snake bastard ran his hand through Sasuke’s raven hair.
“I do believe I will enjoy it very much.”
Sasuke kicked out at the vile creature and had his head slammed back in to the bolder behind him in retaliation. It dazed his already strained brain and he fell in to a semi conscious state. The tongue around his throat held him up as cold hands started to remove his tattered clothing.
Naruto woke to the sound of a great battle being waged above him as Kyuubi fought the large snake. Chest hurting and breathing choppy, he looked around to see if his friend had managed to escape. Only to see his pants being removed by the same bastard that had raped him countless times.
He could not stand it. It was one thing to force him to go through that kind of humiliation but to hurt his friend like that.
Oh hell no.
Naruto knew that without the demon inside him, he was as good as dead anyway. His lungs were filling up with blood, he could hear the gargle on each intake of breath. He had nothing left to lose. Looking to the right of him, the room that Orochimaru had come out of was some kind of armory. Getting up and grabbing a solid looking sword he went to start what was probably going to be his last fight.
Sasuke was not to sure what was going on, he did know that he did not like it. His face had been pressed in to something hard and now he felt a draft on his lower parts. There was something rubbing on his inner thigh. It was annoying he wanted it to stop.
When a finger was slid in to him, the pain cleared up some of the fog that obscured his thoughts. Regaining his footing, the raven haired teen spun around to face Orochimaru, dislodging the finger in the process. The sannin raised his hand and was about to do something when two Naruto’s came out from the bolder, one on each side of Sasuke. One produced a kunai and cut off the offending tongue around the Uchihas neck as the other slid under the sounds lord.
Sasuke fell to the ground and heard the familiar Uzu- ma -ki as another Naruto came out from under Orochimaru and two more from behind. All the clones made there kick’s and the snake was air born. Naruto, with sword drawn, was coming down from above. Orochimaru saw and quickly pulled out the sword that he kept sheathed in his stomach and not only parried the blonds sword but cut it in half with the far superior blade.
The abused teen slammed the pommel of his broken sword on to the pommel of the snakes and twisted. The sword slipped out from Orochimarus hand and flew over his shoulder. Now with two open hands, Orochimaru grabbed the blond and slammed a punch in to Naruto’s chest. Who turned to smoke.
Before Orochimaru could turn to face the real Naruto, his own sword sliced threw his neck and cut off his head.
Sasuke watched as Orochimaru and his head landed a few feet apart and Naruto landed and fell over, coughing up blood. The battle on the mountainside stopped and Kyuubi poked his head in through the large hole he made getting out. He looked really beaten now, his eyes were half lidded and his breathing was rough. With a long whine the fox disappeared in a cloud of red chakra.
Sasuke pulled his pants up and made his way to the blond. There was a soft red glow around Naruto that faded by the time Sasuke made it to his side. The raven haired teen put his hand to the blonds neck and was relieved to find a pulse. Pulling up the blond’s shirt, the half seal was still around his navel and the blue seal that Orochimaru had put on around it was gone, it had disappeared when the bastard had died.
Sighing, Sasuke sat next to Naruto. It figured that the blond could kill the snake, Naruto was stronger that he thought. Orochimaru had capitalized on the fact that the blond was too trapped in an emotional hell to realize that he was on the same level as his tormenter.
The old snake had made it this far by being able to judge people and being able to predict there reactions. That’s how Sasuke had ended up in the sound in the first place. Now that he thought about it, Naruto had figured out the best way to kill the bastard.
Orochimaru thrived on the predictably of people reacting in a set way. Naruto had being submissive throughly beaten in him and Orochimaru figured that he would stay that way. The snake did not think there was enough left of the blond to fight back. Thank god the snake did not figure in Naruto’s natural unpredictable nature.
Groaning, Sasuke laid down next to Naruto.
Thinking hurt.
He wanted to join the blond and sleep for a good 15 years. He was exhausted and had a pounding head ache. But sleeping in a place like this was not a good idea. Even Sasuke’s beaten up brain could figure that out. But a little rest would be good.
With out meaning to Sasuke started to dose off, dark eyes blinking as the cave started to blur and fade. A sudden, consuming pain lanced through his shoulder and the raven haired teen could not help but scream as the curse seal consumed itself. Setting his flesh on fire and pulsing as blood started to drip down as the skin was destroyed.
A spike of pain laced, black chakra made him activate the sharingan as dark splashes raced across his skin. With the sharingan Sasuke was able to detect a group of shinobi coming down the tunnels from the sounds city. They had to get out of here, crawling over to the blond, he tried to wake him. ShakingNaruto but getting no response.
Sitting down beside his friend and pulling Naruto so that he was sitting in his lap. The dark haired teen whispered hoarsely in to the abused teens ear as his shoulder throbbed in pain.
“Kyuubi please loan him as much chakra as you can. One last time.”
He was panting and had a death grip around Naruto’s waist, his forehead resting on the blonds shoulder. Blood dripping down his back as the seal destroyed itself. Naruto opened his grayed eyes and had a faint red glow around him again, looking confused.
“Naruto, summon Gamabunta sama.”
He mumbled and jerked away from Sasuke.
“Naruto, you have to Summon Gamabunta sama.”
Sasuke let go of the blonds waist and ran his hands along the blonds arms until he had a hold of Narutos wrists.
“Naruto, summon Gamabunta sama.”
The curse seal glowed and Sasuke felt like screaming out from the pain. Instead he gripped Naruto’s wrists and started to make the blond in his lap do the seals. The sounds shinobi had reached them and the raven haired teen had to stop to block a kunai. Reaching out and grabbing Orochimaru’s sword, using the superior blade to deflect the kunai that had started to ran on them in abundance.
“NARUTO, SUMMON GAMABUNTA SAMA. NOW.”
Sasuke’s yelling and the loud pings as kunai bounced off the large sword being twirled around his head snapped Naruto out of the daze and he obediently did the hand seals. Seeing that the blond was summoning the toad, Sasuke leaned forward, hugging the blonds back and forcing the minuscule amount of chakra he had left, in to the boy on his lap.
There was a pop, followed by a large smoke cloud and suddenly the two teens were looking out at the tops of the trees. Naruto moaned and fell over, that was his and Kyuubi’s last bit of chakra, there was no way either could be woken after this.
Sasuke was panting, his hand covering the burning seal in the crook of his neck. A loud Ehhhhhh echoed in the forests as Gamabunta sama realized that he was sitting in a large hole in the side of the mountain. Suddenly the large smoking pipe in the toads mouth was tipped up and nearly smashed Sasuke upside the head.
“Why are you on my head. Get off.”
“Please Gambunta Sama get us out of here.”
“US. There is more than one of you on my head!”
“Yes, Naruto is hurt.”
“Naruto!”
Sasuke could hear the surprise and recognition in the booming voice.
“Yes. Now please get us out of here.”
Sasuke knew he should be nice to the toad, but his stubbornness was annoying. And the toads voice hurt his head. A shinobi appeared off to the side of the large toad head and before he could attack the two teens, a large pink tongue with gray studs in it wrapped around the ninja and whipped him off in to the distance. Sasuke could feel the giant toad under him crouch down.
“Hold on.”
Sasuke managed to grab the blond then the toads clothing and pin Naruto under him, using his own body to make sure the teen did not fall off in the massive hop that must of covered half of the country.
“Where do you need to go.” Gambunta sama asked midair.
Remembering that Naruto did not want to return to Konoha Sasuke said what he promised.
“Anywhere but here. Some place safe.”
Gambunta sama made a agreeing noise and started to hop away. Sasuke, shoulder burning and head pounding, was still laying on top of the blond and holding on to the toads jacket. Sensing that the danger had passed and that they were heading in the right direction to where ever they were going, Sasuke snuggled in to the pleasantly warm form under him and passed out.