Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Nothing Lasts Forever ❯ Captured ( Chapter 6 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Sitting on a branch high in a tree, Sasuke sat staring at the moon deep in thought. He had promised himself that he would never break down and ever let even a sliver of the truth slip to Naruto… And yet the moment he saw him, he almost broke down and cried like a little girl. The pain at seeing the blonde idiot had incapacitated him long enough to let his feelings loose for a fraction of a second. He would not make the same mistake again… He would go far away… He would keep running until the pain no longer touched him… He would never see the blonde again.

Standing with a sigh, Sasuke made to leap from the tree before he sensed someone’s chakra; a chakra that he had been looking for for years. But it was mixed with a faint chakra of someone else; the unmistakable chakra of his former blonde-haired teammate.

Jumping into action before even his brain registered the movement; Sasuke was off after his brother and Naruto in a flash. Sharingan eyes spinning dangerously, he closed in on the fleeing form of his brother. As he got closer he could see the limp form of Naruto slung over his shoulder.

“ITACHI!” Sasuke yelled, grabbing some kunai in preparation for an attack.

Itachi turned his head to the side to stare blankly at him. Instead of speeding up as many pursued people would, Itachi slowed down and leapt deftly to the forest floor. Before Sasuke made it to the ground, Naruto was already laying against a tree with no Itachi in sight. Sending his chakra out to check for other chakra signatures, Sasuke sighed in relief when he only felt Naruto’s faint signature.

Creeping up to Naruto’s unconscious body, Sasuke kept his eyes and senses open, constantly scanning for attackers. Once he was standing over Naruto’s body, he knelt down to check for a pulse.

Before he could touch Naruto’s tan skin, a monotone voice taunted him for behind, “Foolish little brother. You are still too weak.”

Those we’re the last words he heard before he felt a senbon slide into the side of his neck, officially rendering him unconscious.

With a small moan, cerulean blue eyes blearily opened. Sitting up, he tried to remember where he was and how he got there. Looking around he noticed he was on a bed in what appeared to be a cave with only his boxers remaining.

“Shit!” Naruto shouted with wide eyes as he remembered seeing swirling sharingan eyes before he was, apparently, knocked unconscious.

“I see that you have awakened, kyuubi,” a cold voice echoed in the room.

“S-Sasuke?” Naruto questioned softly.

A figure stepped from the shadows, “Wrong brother little one.”

“Itachi,” Naruto breathed.

“So I see my little brother has talked about me. How touching.”

“TEME!” Naruto shouted as he lunged toward the nonchalant ninja.

With a swift movement, Naruto found his back meeting with the wall of the room with a resounding crack. Standing up, he felt his consciousness fading as the kyuubi began to manifest itself. His eyes turned red with slits as pupils as his canines grew until they pierced his lip. However, before the change could finish Itachi appeared behind him and incapacitated him with a sharp chop to the side of his neck. Snarling at Itachi, Naruto slid to the ground.

“You seem to think you can escape this situation kyuubi,” Itachi spoke.

Slowly lifting his head, Naruto glared at him, “I’ll either get out of here or die trying.”

“How adequate, because I don’t plan on letting you out of here alive.”