Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Everlasting Nightmare ❯ The Nighmare Begins... ( Prologue )

 

Prologue

 

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“Crap…! I stayed behind to do shuriken training so long that it has gotten late…”, a young boy of 7 or 8 years of age with short semi-spiky raven-black hair and dark almost black-colored eyes curses under his breath as he runs down alleys and back-streets, “I hope father won't be too upset with me…”, he pants, `Also, what was with father and Itachi last night…? Father sounded disappointed with big brother…', the boy thought, as he continued running towards his home.

 

“Wha…?!”, he gasps, skidding to a stop on the main-road inside his Clan's compound, “Wh-What…? What is this…?”, he questions the air, as he visible absorbs the sight of multiple members of his Clan laying lifeless in the street in puddles of their own blood, `Mother! Father!', he urgently thinks, starting to bolt towards his house.

 

“Mother! Father!”, the child shouts, as he runs through the house searching every room until he reaches the storeroom, “Father?! Mother?!”, he calls out, reaching out to grab the door-handles to push the doors open.

 

“Sa-Sasuke… D-don't come in…”, he heard a young man's voice weakly warns from inside the room.

 

`That was big brother's voice…!', Sasuke thinks, not heading his older sibling's advise as he opens the door and steps into the room, only to find the corpses of his parents piled on top of one another with splatters of their blood scattered on the moonlit-floor, “Father! Mother!”, he screams.

 

“UNGH…”, his brother's voice groans from the child's right, causing him to turn his head.

 

“B-big brother…!”, he stutters, seeing his sibling; who was still in his Anbu-uniform, being strangled while he was pinned against the wall by a taller ninja with long unbound spiked black hair wearing a white mask with a elegant blood-red swirls surrounding the single eye-hole on the right-side of the mask that covered the assailant's face.

 

“S…Sasuke…”, Itachi forces out, as he struggles to loosen the hand's from around his throat.

 

“Well, well, well… Who do we have here?”, the masked-ninja states, “The youngest member of the Uchiha Clan…”, the ninja's baritone-voice continues, causing Sasuke to gulp in fear, “Now what should I do to you innocent little brother?”, he asks, addressing his captive, “I know, I think I'll slowly torture him to death in front of you, so you can hear his screams and watch as his final-breath leaves his body before I do the same to you…”, he wickedly whispers, before he delivers a bruising-punch into Itachi's abdomen to immobilize him, letting him fall to the floor in a crumpled-heap before the assailant started making a move towards Sasuke.

 

“R-run… Sasuke…! Run…!”, Itachi weakly shouts, as he laid on the floor clutching his stomach and helplessly watches as the mysterious ninja slowly made his way towards his baby brother, “Get out of here…! Now…!”

 

At his older brother's second yell did Sasuke finally snapped out of his shocked-stupor, as he quickly turns and bolts back out of the open doors with tears pouring down his cheeks.

 

“Why did you have to do that for?”, the ninja evilly mocks, kicking the teen in the ribs, causing him to curl up and cough up some blood as he felt something break from the force of the kick and he held in a scream behind clenched teeth, “Now I'm gonna have to chase the brat and drag him back…”, he mutters.

 

“If you so much as harm one hair on his head… You'll regret it…”, Itachi threatens, as he forces his knees underneath himself.

 

“How are you going to do that, boy?”, the assassin taunts, kicking him in the torso again making him cough up blood again, before walking out the door after his prey.

 

 

 

 

 

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-Outside-

 

 

 

 

`This can't be real! This has to be a really bad nightmare!', Sasuke sobs in his head, as he continues running with his eyes closed, only to open them when he heard the sound of shoes scrapping against the gravel, causing him to stumble to a stop at the sight of the ninja standing in front of him, “S-s-stay away… Stay away from me…!”, the child whimpers.

 

“You poor pitiful child, being born into this cursed Clan”, the shinobi says, approaching the Academy-student with a ninja-to drawn.

 

Sasuke becomes paralyzed in fear and when he attempts to take a step backwards to get away, but he only stumbles and falls flat on his back, helpless and unable to move as he saw the masked man stand over him with his sword raised, prepared to impale him through his body.

 

“You're pathetic, not even worth the Uchiha name”, he mocks, “Too pitiful to even be allowed to live long enough to drag back to the house…”, he adds, “Go join your parents!”, he laughs, thrusting the blade downwards towards the boy's chest.

 

“UGH…!”, came a muffled grunt as blood splattered onto the pavement.

 

“B-big brother…”, Sasuke groans in pain, while his vision blurs and slowly darkens as the last thing he saw was the silhouette of his brother shielding him with his body, the sword completely impaled through his abdomen and had diverted the blade away from Sasuke's chest, nicking the boy's left shoulder, before he passes out.

 

“Sasuke…”, Itachi pants, looking down at the unconscious-face of his little brother.

 

“Oh, how sweet… An older brother protecting his younger brother…”, the killer sarcastically coos, “This is the exact reason why Konoha ninjas make me sick”, he spat.

 

Itachi doesn't say a word as he looks over his left shoulder to hatefully glare up at the slayer of his parents and clan, with his Sharingan activated.

 

“What are you going to do? Glare me to death?”, the masked-man mocks.

 

The teen's eyes coldly-narrow as his Sharingan shifts and slowly starts to morph, thicken, and combined until they looked like black three-pronged shurikens.

 

“Wha..?”, the assailant gasps in shock, as he watches as the blood-vessels in Itachi's eyes rise and consume the whites of his eyes and blood begins to run from his eyes like tears, and then he felt heat start to build on his right-shoulder and upon checking for the source of the warmth, he saw unnatural black-flames forming at the spot and rapidly grow consuming his whole shoulder.

 

Itachi allowed himself a small smile that the man wasn't going to escape unscathed as he watches the masked-ninja swat at the flames; so hard in-fact that he had accidently knocked his mask off, but by the time that had happened, Itachi was on the verge of passing out and his vision was completely blurred from all the blood he had lost and was still losing.

 

Falling limp on top of Sasuke's body and as he lost consciousness the flames dissipate and extinguish up as his eyes close.

 

“Interesting…”, the man comments, as he puts his mask back on, “It is too bad that a precious gem like you has to die…”, he says to the unconscious teen, as he lifts his sword into the air to finish off both of the brothers at the same-time.

 

The man thrusts his ninja-to downwards to pierce both of their hearts through Itachi-s back, but as the blade descended a shuriken flies out of the shadows and strikes the sword, shattering it in half.

 

“What…?”, the ninja gasps, looking in the direction the shuriken came from; seeing nothing, but could hear the voices of multiple people coming into the Uchiha compound, “Crap! You two just got lucky…”, he curses, before disappearing in a matter that made him look like he was sucked up into a mini black-hole.

 

 

 

 

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-Konoha Hospital-

 

 

 

 

Sasuke's dark-eyes snap open as his skin is covered in a cold-sweat.

 

`A dream…?', he thinks, as he lays in the bed gasping for air, before attempting to sit up only to be greeted by a sharp-pain in his left-shoulder, causing him to roll-up the sleeve to a shirt he didn't remember putting on, his eyes suddenly widen as he remembers what had happened when he sees the bandage wrapped around his upper-arm.

 

 

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He watches as the sword is thrust down, the metal cruelly gleaming in the moonlight as it headed towards it's target, suddenly his vision is veiled in black as someone throws their body in between him and the blade.

 

“UGH…!”, he heard his brother's muffled scream in pain, as he saw the sword go through the left-side of his abdomen, wincing as the blade gazes his upper left-arm.

 

“B-big brother…”, he mutters in pain, as the shock finally sets in and his eyes slowly droop close, with the last thing he saw was his brother struggling to breathe through the blood that now flooded his mouth, but he was smiling at the fact that Sasuke would survive his wounds.

 

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He slowly sits up, being wary of his injury before slipping his sandals on and sneaks out of his hospital-room and down the hall in search of a doctor or nurse.

 

“Yes, it's true”, he heard a female mutter from around the corner in another hallway, “They're the only ones who were rescued”, she continues, causing Sasuke to stop and listen.

 

“And his older brother?”, a second nurse asks.

 

`Itachi…?', he silently gasps.

 

“His condition is hard to say…”, the first one replies, uncertainty in her voice, as the other nurse gasps.

 

“To think that noble clan…”, she began, as neither of the two nurses notice Sasuke walking past, heading for the exit and starts running when he reaches the street.

 

 

 

 

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-Sometime Later-

 

 

 

 

Sasuke stops running and braces himself against his knees, panting for breath just outside the gates into the Uchiha-Clan's compound.

 

The gate was covered was covered in yellow Police-Tape stating: `Do Not Enter'.

 

After he momentarily catches his breath, he slips underneath the tape without breaking it and looks around; spotting a bakery he would visit every morning on his way to the academy.

 

“Hi Sasuke-chan. What did you come to buy today?”, he expected to hear from the older distant-cousin, but it slowly sunk in that he wouldn't hear those words or any words from the woman again, as he stares at the broken-glass of the shop window and door.

 

As he continues to look further up the deserted street, rain slowly begun to fall and quickly hastened, as if it was crying for the boy's despair, while he stumbled towards his house.

 

He stands just outside the door for a moment before sliding it open and takes a step inside, almost expecting his mother to be standing inside smiling as she greeted him home, but he knew that would no longer happen, as he walks in further, removing his shoes and begins wandering the house aimlessly leaving wet-foot prints everywhere he went. Until he found himself in the storeroom and was standing while looking down at the white out-line of where his parents' bodies had been, the water from his drenched hair still dripping made it hard to tell if he was crying or not.

 

He collapses to his knees just as a flash of lightning explodes and the child begins sobbing right there on the spot.

 

Which is where two Anbu found him hours later…

 

“There you are”, one of the ninjas says; the voice being female, as she crouching besides him, “You have the doctors and nurses in a panic”, she adds, placing a gloved hand onto his shoulder.

 

“Come along, son”, the second Anbu; a male, states, “Let's head back to the hospital, you need to go see your brother before it is too late”

 

The mention of his older brother causes the younger Uchiha to flinch and tears to begin to pour down his cheeks again, the child quickly turns and starts sobbing into the female Anbu's vest.

 

“There…There…It's alright…”, she consolingly whispers, as she gently pats his back, “Now look at what you did! You can be so insensitive!”, she snaps at her partner.

 

“Whatever…”, he groans, “Let's just get the kid back to the hospital before visiting-hours are over”

 

“Then say it that way, instead of making it sound like Itachi-sempai was going to die!”, she growls, “Come on, Sasuke-chan”, she softly advises, helping the boy to his feet.

 

“Okay…”, he quietly mutters, as he is lead out of the compound turned crime-scene.

 

 

 

 

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-Konoha Hospital-

 

 

 

 

“Thank goodness, you found him!”, a nurse exclaims in relief, running out to greet the two Anbus and child, “Doctor, they found him!”, she calls out.

 

“That's great”, the doctor nods, as he walks out, “Thank you for bring him back”

 

“We're just doing our duty, sir…”, the male Anbu states.

 

“I…”, Sasuke mutters.

 

“Hm…?”

 

“I…I want to see my brother…”, he whispers.

 

“Alright… Nurse could you take this young man to see his brother?”, the doctor informs.

 

“Of course, doctor”, she nods.

 

“Also, could you remind his other visitor that visiting-hours are almost over”, he adds.

 

“I will”, she agrees.

 

`Other visitor…?', Sasuke thinks, as the nurse leads him through the hallways.

 

 

 

 

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-I.C.U. Room 311-

 

 

 

 

“Here's your brother's room”, the nurse smiles, as she opens the door.

 

As the young Uchiha steps into the room, a gasp catches in his throat at what he saw.

 

Itachi laid on the hospital-bed, bandages wrapped around his head covering his eyes, his unsteady-breaths fog the transparent-mask feeding him oxygen, wires ran from his body hooked-up to machines that monitored his heart-beats and brain-waves, and even from the doorway, Sasuke could see the dark-ring of bruises surrounding his neck from the murdering-ninja choking the teen.

 

“Itachi!”, he shouts, running to his brother's bedside, “Huh…?”, he gasps, when he notices someone sitting in a chair on the other side of the bed.

 

The person in the chair appeared to be a girl around his brother's age with her eyes closed, her skin was lightly sun-kissed and wheat-blonde hair with honey highlights gently framing her face. She was dressed in a white long-sleeved Chinese-tunic and sky-blue mid-thigh length skirt with an open book in her lap, she looked like an angel who had fallen asleep while watching over Itachi, and Sasuke would have thought it to be true if the nurse hadn't gone over and shook her by the shoulder.

 

“Excuse me, Miss…”, she says.

 

“Hm…? Wha…?”, the girl sleepily mumbles, as she rubs the sleep from her eyes, “What is it, nurse…?”, she asks, opening her emerald-green eyes.

 

“Visiting hours are almost over, Miss”

 

“Oh… Alright…”, the girl mutters, as she closes her book and stands up, “Hm?”, she blinks, noticing Sasuke shyly hiding behind the nurse, “How are you feeling after your four-day nap, Sasuke-chan?”, she questions the boy.

 

“How do you know my name…?”

 

“Itachi-kun proudly talks about you when we're together”, she replies, “And you look so much like your brother at that age, that I knew who you are”

 

“So, you know everything about me that big brother told you, yet I don't know who you are…”, Sasuke coldly states.

 

“Oh, where are my manners…? I forgot to introduce myself…”, she scolds to herself, lightly hitting herself on the head, before bending to be at eye-level with Sasuke, extending one hand in greeting and the other hand tucking a clump of her mid-back length hair behind her ear with a smile on her face as she says, “My name is Hisoka Kurosaki, I'm a friend of your brother's. It is a pleasure to finally meet you Sasuke”

 

 

 

 

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