Silent Lucidity

Chapter one

Three years ago

Sasuke Uchiha stared at the phone in his hand, staring at bulky, heavily muscled man bending another man over the couch and thrusting deeply inside of the man underneath him. Sasuke groaned softly and slid his free hand into his shorts, gripping his cock in his hand, twisting and pulling. The sound of the moaning on the phone sending shivers through Sasuke as he rubbed and pulled.

"Neji." Sasuke moaned. "Fuck me harder." Sasuke moaned, imagining that it was Neji thrusting into him with all that he was worth. He didn't care about anything but the pleasure that was starting to build up in his stomach.

"Come on." Sasuke breathed out twisting faster and harder.

"Sasuke Uchiha!" Sasuke's bedroom door was suddenly thrown up just as Sasuke breathed out Neij's name.

"What the hell?" Fugaku Uchiha said as his eyes fell upon the video on Sasuke's phone, and the location of Sasuke's other hand. "What's going on here?"

"Nothing." Sasuke muttered, pulling his hands out of his pants, and dropping it onto the mattress beside him. He grimaced at the sight of cum on his fingers, he couldn't believe his father had just walked in on him fantasizing about another male.

"It doesn't look like nothing to me." Fugaku yelled. "How long have you been a faggot?"

"I'm gay, but I don't like that other word." Sasuke replied quietly.

"You're still a faggot, you were watching gay porn and masturbating while thinking of another male." Fugaku crossed the room and picked Sasuke up by his shirt collar before slamming him into the wall, causing Sasuke's head to slam harshly against the plaster. Sasuke grimaced as pain shot through his head.

"No son of mine is going to like another male!" Fugaku said, before slamming his fist into Sasuke's stomach before dropping Sasuke to the floor and kicking him harshly in the stomach. "If I find you masturbating to anymore gay porn, I'm going to kill you." Fugaku slammed his foot into Sasuke's head again before storming out of the room, leaving a barely conscious Sasuke lying in the floor.

"Sasuke, what the hell did you do to our father?" Itachi stuck his head in the doorway, but when Sasuke didn't answer him, he entered the room to find a bloody Sasuke on the floor. "Sasuke!" Itachi called out again before hurrying over to his little brother's side and kneeling down beside him. Blood was dripping from Sasuke's ears and nose as Itachi gently lifted Sasuke's face. Itachi didn't know what Sasuke had done to deserve this but something told Itachi that their father had crossed a line that he shouldn't have.

"Sasuke?" Itachi asked again, as Sasuke opened his eyes but acted like he didn't hear what Itachi had said, Sasuke grimaced and looked up at his older brother but only saw his brother's lips moving but heard no sound.

"What?" Sasuke mumbled, his speech coming out garbled and confused. His head aching, and not feeling like paying attention to whatever Itachi was trying to say, Sasuke closed his eyes and once again lost consciousness, leaving Itachi to panic as he watched it.

"MOM!" Itachi yelled, Sasuke was going to need to be rushed to the hospital. Itachi didn't know what was going on or how Sasuke had exactly ended up in this condition, but Itachi knew that Sasuke needed to be taken to the hospital.

"What's going?" Mikoto stuck her head through Sasuke's door, her hands flying to her mouth when she was the unconscious Sasuke lying on Itachi's lap.

"What happened?" Mikoto demanded as she rushed over to where Itachi sat on the floor.

"I think father done this." Itachi told her. "I don't know why, but something tells me that Father hurt Sasuke."

"Why would he do something like this to his own child?" Mikoto asked. "It doesn't make sense at all."

"I don't know, but you have to talk to him, see what made him get so upset with Sasuke." Itachi replied. "But first you need to get the paramedics, Sasuke needs help and he needs to come before anything else." Mikoto nodded and reached into her pocket and pulled out her cell phone. Itachi heard her quietly talking to the 911 operator.

"Hang on Sasuke." Itachi said quietly. "Help's on the way and we're going to figure out what's going on."

"Fugaku wouldn't do this, he wouldn't ever lay a hand on either of you guys." Mikoto replied. "He has no reason to hurt either of you."

"Unless Sasuke done something that he doesn't like." Itachi suggested. He didn't know what had happened, but he was more than certain that Fugaku had done this. Clearly, he was more than capable of hurting them, or at least Sasuke anyways. Itachi didn't know what was going on, but he was going to protect his little brother from ending up in this position again. Sasuke was thirteen years old what could he have done that warranted getting beaten like this?

A few minutes later the unconscious Sasuke was being loaded onto a gurney and Itachi was trying to explain what had happened to his cousins Shisui and Obito as they were the paramedics taking care of him.

"I think my father done this to him." Itachi told them watching as Shisui checked Sasuke's pupils for a reaction to the light.

"He probably has a mild concussion at the least." Shisui said. "He's reacting to the light, but he still needs to get checked out. You don't want to mess around with head injuries."

"I agree." Itachi nodded. "I don't want to take any risks with his health."

"Where is Fugaku? He should be here explaining how Sasuke ended up like this. It isn't your place to tell us what happened?" Obito asked Itachi, who shrugged.

"He left a few minutes ago. I have no idea where he went or when he'll be back." Itachi replied.

"Fugaku couldn't have done this to Sasuke." Mikoto denied. "I don't know why Itachi has that idea in his head."

"Then why isn't he here?" Obito asked, frowning at his aunt. He didn't like thinking of the idea that his Uncle could hurt his own kid like this, but here was the evidence.

"He had an emergency at work." Mikoto said. "He's not going to be back until later."

"I would have him meet you at the hospital them." Shisui told her. "I doubt he'll be released tonight."

"We'll be there." Mikoto said shutting the door behind the paramedics as they loaded Sasuke into the ambulance.

"What the hell." Itachi said. "How are you going to deny that your husband beat Sasuke like that? Without a good reason?"

"There was probably a reason that you don't know about." Mikoto said walking over to the bed and picking up the phone. Glancing down at the screen, she saw that it was froze on a man driving himself into another younger man.

"What reason is good enough to beat someone unconscious?" Itachi asked, growing more pissed by the moment. He didn't care what they thought, Sasuke hadn't deserved that beating.

"Maybe because your father walked in on him watching gay porn?" Mikoto suggested and held up the phone for Itachi to see.

"So what? He's a kid, he's going to look at things that he shouldn't be looking at?" Itachi replied.

"Gay porn though?" Mikoto said. "If word of this gets out, Fugaku's reputation is going to be ruined. Homosexuals are not looked upon with any kind of respect. Your father isn't going to take having a faggot for a son very lightly."

"Even if Sasuke is gay, father shouldn't have beat him like this, he could have caused Sasuke some serious internal injuries? We could still lose Sasuke?"

"Sasuke should know better than to like someone of the same sex, he's going to ruin his father's reputation." Mikoto replied.

"Never mind that father beating his own son isn't going to ruin his own reputation." Itachi replied. "That shouldn't even matter, Sasuke should come before anything but your just about as heartless as father is, if you can't accept Sasuke for who he is."

"Being gay is unnatural." Mikoto replied. "And would end up being very dangerous to Fugaku's reputation."

"Does anyone care about what it would do to Sasuke to hide who he really is. Just so that our father's reputation can be protected?" Itachi asked, for the first time in his life he hated his father's career in politics. It wasn't right that Sasuke was going to be forced to keep hiding who he really was just to protect his father.

"Maybe he should try to be normal and then he wouldn't have to worry about hiding who he is." Mikoto replied.

"That's not fair to Sasuke." Itachi replied. "I'm starting to wonder how much you really care about him, if you want him to hide who he really is. By the way" Itachi turned and headed down the hall, he was going to find out what was going on with Sasuke. He cared about his brother no matter what his parents thought, he didn't want to see Sasuke do something dramatic like end his own life because his parents couldn't be accepting of him. Itachi would never forgive his parents if something happened to Sasuke because they were too busy considering themselves to be too important.

Exiting the house, Itachi headed for the sidewalk, he was grateful that they only lived about five minutes from Konoha General. Because right about now, he didn't want to be stuck in a car with his mother right about then.

"Just hang on Sasuke." Itachi muttered. "I still care about what happens to you, no matter what your parents think." Things were probably going to get harder for Sasuke in the long run, but he would still have some support in Itachi. Sasuke wouldn't be going through the hell alone. Itachi would always be there for Sasuke no matter what the kid was through.

Reaching the hospital, Itachi headed straight for the information desk.

"Sasuke Uchiha was brought in by ambulance." Itachi told the red-haired woman sitting behind the desk.

"Are you related to him?" Rin asked and Itachi nodded.

"He's my little brother." Itachi replied.

"I don't think the doctor has finished with him yet." The woman replied. "If you don't mind waiting out in the waiting room, we'll come and get you whenever we know something." Itachi nodded and headed towards the waiting room.

Sitting down in the waiting room, Itachi stared down at his hands, his fingers were stained with drops of blood, and he wondered why his father had to take things so far with Sasuke. So, what if Sasuke was gay and masturbating over gay porn, that was Sasuke's business and no one else's. Sasuke hadn't deserved to be beaten for it. Itachi's heart bled for Sasuke because he knew that being gay wasn't going to be easy for the teenager, their parents would never accept him for who he was, which meant that Sasuke was in for a lonely and painful childhood. Itachi would do whatever he could to make it better, but he wasn't always going to be home to protect Sasuke. Itachi had a job that he worked right after school, which meant that Fugaku would have plenty of time to do whatever the hell he wanted with Sasuke. Itachi worried that Fugaku would end up killing him. Sasuke deserved better than that, he deserved someone that was going to love and support him no matter what. Itachi just hoped that Sasuke would be able to find a partner that didn't give a damn what other people thought.

"Itachi Uchiha, what are you doing here?" Itachi looked up to find the red-haired Kurama Uzumaki standing in front of him, in his green volunteer scrubs. Kurama was classmates with Itachi, and he had a little brother who was constantly in trouble. Last time Itachi had heard, Kurama's little brother Naruto had ended up in Juvie, which is where he was currently residing.

"My little brother had an unfortunate accident and ended up here." Itachi replied. "What are you doing here?"

"Besides the fact that I volunteer here after school every day, Naruto had a run in with somebody in the detention center. It seems his smart-ass mouth earned him some broken ribs and a broken jaw." Kurama replied. Itachi frowned, Naruto had been a good kid until a few months when he started getting into fights and staying out at all hours of the night.

"What happened to him?" Itachi wondered. "He was always such a good kid, a little hyper maybe but a good kid."

"There's more going on than you realize." Kurama replied quietly. "More going on than father can handle."

"And can you handle whatever is going on?" Itachi asked, Kurama shrugged.

"I would do anything if it meant that my little brother wasn't suffering anymore." Kurama replied. "He shouldn't have to be dealing with this kind of crap either and it's kind of our father's fault, but he's too busy to give a damn. Which means he's lost complete control over the situation."

"Is there anything I can do to help?" Itachi asked, Kurama was his friend and he would do anything to ensure that Kurama got through the situation without losing his sanity."

"Just hope that my little brother can get through his pain without causing too much damage to everyone else." Kurama replied. "But I fear it's too late for that, Naruto's hurting so much, and he has the ability to recognize what he's doing as harmful to others."

"What happened to him to make him end up this way? Why did he change all of a sudden?" Itachi asked, because none of what Kurama was saying sounded like the Naruto that he knew.

"I can't say anything about that right now." Kurama replied. "Let's just say that father is ashamed of it happening, and that shame has only served to cause Naruto more damage. What happened to Sasuke?"

"Our father beat the shit out of him." Itachi replied, and Kurama's mouth dropped. Fugaku Uchiha loved his boy's Kurama didn't think the man would ever lay his hand on either of his son's.

"Why would he do something like that?" Kurama asked. "I doubt Sasuke could do anything to deserve it."

"Dad walked in on Sasuke masturbating to gay porn and calling out a classmate's name." Itachi replied, looking down at the floor so that he wouldn't see the disgust on Kurama's face.

"And that's why neither of your parents are here, because your mother doesn't think it's possible for your father to have done such thing, and because she thinks that being gay is disgusting?" Kurama asked, his heart going out to his friend. He thought Naruto's journey was a long and painful one, it didn't compare to what Sasuke would be dealing with for the rest of his life, especially if his parents never came to accept him for who he is.

"Yeah, that's exactly why." Itachi replied. "My heart bleeds because I doubt Sasuke is ever going to find acceptance from our parents."

"And sometimes acceptance and the knowledge that things are going to be okay is all that they want and can go a long way towards making them feel better." Kurama said quietly. "To not have that kind of comfort, I fear will only push them to make a more permanent decision."

"I won't let that happen with Sasuke." Itachi said. "I can't, I can't lose my little brother."

"Sometimes our roles as big brothers aren't good enough." Kurama replied. "They need their parents to step up to the plate and be there for them. Nothing we can say or do can change the fact that they need their parents more when they are dealing with something traumatic."

"You are wise beyond your years." Itachi said.

"Sadly, I'm still learning that lesson." Kurama replied. "But I have to believe that things are going to be okay in the end. I can't think about what will happen otherwise, it's too painful."

"I'm sorry that you're having to deal with this." Itachi said. "Being the oldest and stuck in the middle probably isn't the easiest situation."

"You know your parents will probably question your sexuality because of Sasuke." Kurama said. "They'll want to know for sure that at least one of their kids is straight,"

"I know." Itachi said. "But if it gets their attention off of Sasuke for even a second, I'll be glad to do it. You should have seen him, bloody and unconscious on the floor. How can I not hate father for what he done? Even if Sasuke is gay, so what? He didn't deserve to be beaten like that."

"Maybe the situation isn't as bad as you think?" Kurama said. "Maybe he was just curious about how things work between two guys?"

"Why would he masturbate to it?" Itachi asked. "No, I think he's carried this secret for some time because he suspected that father would try something like this if he ever told him."

"Maybe, in that case he's a stronger kid than anyone is giving him credit for." Kurama said. "He's still going to need your support, but he'll be able to handle anything that is dished his way." Itachi nodded, he dreaded Sasuke returning home to face their father's wrath. Fugaku could end up killing Sasuke out of anger without even realizing what he was doing. Itachi didn't want to risk that happening.

"He's going to be okay, I bet he'll deal with this mess better than Naruto is doing with his own situation." Kurama said. "The worst thing about it is watching them suffer and not being able to help them in any way."

A few minutes later a blonde-haired doctor was spotted coming towards Itachi.

"Are you hear for Sasuke Uchiha?" She asked and Itachi nodded and she frowned.

"Where's your parents?" She asked, she would rather inform the parents of what was going on, not the brother.

"They won't be here; they're stuck so far up their own ass that they don't care about what's going on with Sasuke." Itachi replied, struggling to keep the anger out of his voice. "What's going on with my brother?"

In that case, I'm Tsunade, I'm in charge of Sasuke's care. He's going to be okay; he has a mild concussion and a broken nose." Tsunade replied. "He's going to need to get some rest before he goes back to school, he'll probably experience some headaches until he heals from the concussion."

"But he shouldn't have any complications?" Itachi asked. "Like internal bleeding or anything like that?" Tsunade shook her head.

"No, he shouldn't it would be extremely rare for something to go wrong at this point. As long as you wake him up every few hours or so, he should be fine."

"Is he going to need to stay here?" Itachi asked. He wasn't sure that he wanted Sasuke to go home just yet, he didn't want Sasuke to have to face a politician who thought he was above the law and didn't care about his youngest son suffering."

"It will be best that he stays here tonight." Tsunade replied. "It should be okay for you to join him now if you would like." Itachi nodded. He wouldn't abandon Sasuke so easily.

"I'm going to call your parents and let them know what's going on." Tsunade said and Itachi nodded. He didn't give a damn what they thought, Sasuke deserved better than them right now.

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