Control: Chapter Six: Monsters Do Exist
Only a true idiot wouldn't know that I don't own Naruto and I never will in any of my days living on this planet Earth. I won't even in my afterlife. I can only dream. Because of this, there will be an absence of disclaimers, also because they waste time and like I said before, only a true blue dolt would think that I actually have some sort of ownership towards Naruto. Happy reading!
Refreshment for your brain: Not much happened. Sakura and Naruto found Sasuke and took him to his house where he dreamt of the raping that wound him up in his current condition.
Naruto was the first to rise and greet the day. The first thing he did (even before brushing his teeth and taking his shower) was check on his snoozing teammates. He took Sasuke's temperature which was 103.3 (it dropped some. Before it was 105.0). After which he brushed his teeth, took a shower, blow-dried, and brushed his hair. When he was done with that, he noticed Sasuke was up trying to get to the kitchen.
"Where do you think you're going?" Naruto asked in an almost fatherly voice.
"To the kitchen." Sasuke replied in a sass kind of tone.
"Lie down. I'll get you whatever it is you need."
Oddly enough, Sasuke obeyed Naruto. He was just too tired to argue. He set his crutches against the sofa and relaxed there. While Naruto made his way to the kitchen.
"What is it that you want anyway?" Naruto said from the kitchen.
"I was gonna get some orange juice."
Naruto proceeded to get the orange juice for his teammate. In the meanwhile, Sakura rose from her sleep. She almost immediately checked Sasuke's room to see if he was alright. When he went unseen this momentarily frightened her. She then saw he was fine on the sofa. She calmed and went into the bathroom to brush her teeth and such.
Naruto came out of the kitchen with a full glass of orange juice and a bottle of pills in his hand. He held both objects in front of Sasuke and gestured him to take them. Sasuke took the glass of juice first and gingerly took the bottle of pills from Naruto.
"Tsunade-baachan gave them to me to give to you last night. She said you should take two a day."
"With orange juice…?" Sasuke was used to taking his pills with water.
"Does it really matter? As long as you get the pills to go down there with something you should be alright."
"Good morning you two." Sakura yawned. "Have you had any breakfast yet?"
"Nope."
"…"
"Good. Then I'll make some for you two. What would you like?" Sakura put on an apron that was hanging next to the kitchen door and searched around for things to make in the fridge.
"You know what I like!" Naruto beamed. "I want ramen!"
"For breakfast? You really are a first class moron aren't you, dobe?"
"What was that, Sasuke-teme?"
"Hn."
Even though it annoyed her regularly, Sakura was happy to see Sasuke and Naruto to behave in such a way. Like in the old days. They had been so distant, Sakura couldn't even recognize her teammates or even herself sometimes. It seemed so real, so genuine to her, yet something still seemed so cold and distant. Almost surreal.
"I'll make the ramen for you, okay?"
"Okay, Sakura-chan."
"Suit yourself."
Naruto definitely seemed to lighten up a little. He thought that maybe they all could grow closer together- or at least be the way they were at the beginning again.
After Sakura made her way back to the kitchen, Naruto's smile faded a little as he looked in Sasuke's direction. He knew that getting on the road to recovery for his team meant getting Sasuke's physical and mental health to the way it was before. He hadn't been the same since we was retrieved from Orochimaru. Sometimes this made Naruto wonder what exactly happened while Sasuke was there. Naruto also knew that everything fell apart from the second Orochimaru sunk his teeth into Sasuke's neck. He didn't find out about that happening until months later, but he still figured it was the cursed seal that broke Sasuke away first. Now Itachi was trying to pull loose the thread that held Sasuke with Konoha. Naruto's mind still wondered about those various things until his thought was broken with the ring of the telephone.
Sakura made her way from the kitchen to answer the phone, even though the phone was easily in Sasuke's reach. She was a little used to doing things for everyone (men) because that's what she was taught at home.
"Hello?"
"Oh, Tsunade-sama! Are you looking for Sasuke-kun?"
This immediately got Sasuke's attention.
"Oh, really…? Well, um… Sasuke's injured. He can't come…" Sakura constantly looked back and forth at Sasuke and the floor in front of her as she spoke. "Okay. We'll be there as soon as possible. Bye." She hung up and looked back and forth at Naruto and Sasuke, who were both looking at her in return.
"Is there something you want to tell us?" Sasuke stated in a sort of impatient voice.
"Tsunade-sama wants us to put up some walls around the village to reduce the damage that hurricane's expected to cause. You're in no condition to go, Sasuke-kun, so Naruto and I will go. You'll be alright by yourself, ne?"
"Yeah, yeah…"
With that, Naruto and Sakura headed out the door leaving Sasuke alone.
(an hour later)
Sasuke was in the same spot as before. He could feel his temperature rising as he was stretched out there. Something about being alone- and being able to reflect on himself and his hell of a life is what always drives him off edge. Every time he thought of Itachi and what he did to him, he always got a dizzy sensation in his head and his blood would begin to boil. Little did Naruto know, his mind was definitely on the right track when he thought Orochimaru had something to do with Sasuke's behavior. Every day- until the sun set up again at dawn- Orochimaru mentally and sexually taunted Sasuke. The only reason Sasuke didn't leave was because he wanted the power Orochimaru promised. It never came, so it was like Sasuke sold his soul- and virginity- for nothing in return.
Sasuke could feel tears go down his cheeks. His head began to pound as he thought of all his experiences in life- each a new saga that caused more pain and suffering for him. He often thought of suicide. He frequently tried to hurt himself in several ways- sometimes he did it because he hated himself that much, other times he did it just to see if he was really living, or if he was already in hell.
Like what happened at the hospital, he often saw images of his mother or father. Sometimes of his aunt and uncle, or even he and his brother together like when he was little. He was well aware of the fact that he was getting crazier every day. He knew one day he would snap and just fall into the dark pits of death. "If it happens, so it happened" was his thoughts of it in the beginning, but later in time, we has getting afraid of what would happen to him if he died. He often talked of death being happiness and hell being the truest of paradises. But more and more, he's been afraid of what may happen to him if he did arrive in hell. He wished more than anything to be able to die and fly to the mighty gates of heaven to be once again united with his mother, father, and the rest of his clan, where they could watch Itachi burn and suffer worlds below.
He knew that wouldn't happen. He, too was going to hell- he knew it. He too was going to live out the rest of time in profound damnation. He too was going to be boiling in all of his negative emotions for the rest of eternity with Itachi, and Orochimaru too.
He knew he was going there while Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi, and everyone else shook their heads at him up in those heavenly skies.
If that was to happen, he would pin it on Itachi overall. Itachi deceived him and started the hellish rollercoaster he rode on everyday. Everyday seemed like a nightmare that Sasuke just wanted to wake up from, but his eyes would never open. No one was there to shake him genteelly and tell him that it was alright. What he needed wasn't counseling like what Kakashi once said. He need friends by his side, or more likely an angel to guide him through the rest of his life. His problem was that no one would become that angel.
He had to admit though, even though he didn't have his angel, he did have friends. Two very close ones at that. They hadn't known each other for more than two years, but they had already become like siblings to Sasuke. Who you may ask? Well that can be easily answered as Naruto and Sakura. In fact, they both could almost be identified as his angels. Without them, he probably would have died a long time ago. Thinking of this automatically made Sasuke think of how Itachi was like his guardian angel until that day…
(small flashback)
The wind howled and the lightning illuminated the tree by four year old Sasuke's window as if it was a monster's claw trying to break in and eat little Sasuke away. Sasuke saw the tree as the monster, the howling wind as the cries of his ghostly henchmen, and the angry thunder as the monster's ferocious shrieks. Sasuke had a vivid imagination. In addition to that, his mother had just let him watch one of those late night horror flicks with his aniki. Typically he was frightened and was getting the impression that everything he saw that night was in some way related to the movie he saw. In the movie, there was a big monster that could summon ghosts as its henchmen. It wanted to kidnap little children (like Sasuke) to use as its new henchmen to conquer all of the world (So it was a crappy plot? Can you really blame the people of the 1920's movie industry?). Near the end of the movie, it was a stormy night, just like the one that Sasuke was enduring then. The monster was just coming to a small boy's house. When he got close enough, the boy's night light turned out and the movie then ended in a cliffhanger. Sasuke was scared to death that that was going to happen to him, but he didn't want to admit it to his mother or more importantly his aniki. The only reason his mother let him see the movie in the first place was because he promised that he could handle it. If he showed fear, then his mother would treat him like a little kid again and aniki would never leave him alone about it for the rest of his days. There was no way Sasuke would ever admit his fear. He swore upon his Mother Goose book for that.
Sasuke tried to shrug it off and go to sleep. It was a big day the next day because his father promised him that he would buy him one of those "Build it Yourself Swing Set" kits. Sasuke was a good boy during his grandparents visit, so his father felt it was necessary to give him a little present for that. Sasuke closed his eyes shut. He felt a little safer with his Barney the Dinosaur, Care Bears, GI Joe, and Sesame Street nightlights shining plenty bright on each corner of his room. Sasuke knew (thought) that each one of his nightlights would protect him if that mean old monster came about. He curled underneath his blanket with a flashlight in one hand and an action figure with "25 laser powers" in another. He had an army helmet on just in case of some serious combat. His mother told him to always wear his helmet when taking part in such things. Underneath his pillow, he put his play walkie-talkie for "talking to fellow officers in case the monster were to show up". He closed his eyes tighter and stayed that way for at least ten more minutes. The sound of his kitty clock ticking and tocking and meowing mostly put him to sleep. Then, out of the blue, this massive boom of thunder and strike of lighting came through, waking little Sasuke and taking out the power (including all four nightlights) all across his house. He didn't stop to think twice. He leapt out of bed and flung the door wide open, screaming through the halls of the big Uchiha house.
"AAAAAH! ANINKI! THE MONSTERS ARE HERE TO KIDNAP ME AND DISSECT MY BRAINS SO HE CAN SELL IT TO HIS MONSTER FRIENDS ON EBAY AND USE MY SOUL AS HIS GHOST BENCHMAN (henchman) AND THEN EAT THE REST OF ME WITH HIS WIFE AND KIDS!"
With that, Sasuke shot through the door to Itachi's room and leapt into his bed and snuggled him real tight. Itachi was already awake because of the loud thunder and because of Sasuke abrupt scream.
"What is it?" Itachi sounded uninterested and tired.
"The monster from the m-movie…" Sasuke started really shaky. "He came to my room to KIDNAP ME AND DISSE-"
"Hush. You'll wake mother and father. Then you won't get your swing set."
Sasuke thought of this and decided to be quieter.
"But I don't wanna be a benchman…!" Sasuke whined like a sick puppy.
"Henchman." Itachi corrected him. "Now go back to your room."
"No, I don't wanna!"
"Go."
"No!"
"I said go!"
"Protect me, aniki." Tears started to form in Sasuke's big puppy dog eyes. "You don't love me anymore!" He began to cry.
"N- No…! I didn't say-…" Itachi could have slapped himself. What was he to do? He made his brother cry. He didn't want his parents to come in and see this- it would get put on him. Plus, he didn't want to see little Sasuke this way (or so we thought). "Shh… You'll wake our parents. Don't cry. There's no such thing as monsters."
"Really?"
"Really."
"Really, really?"
He sighed. "Really, really."
"Would you swear on the Mother Goo-"
"Yes, already!" Itachi quickly changed back to a soothing voice. Sasuke was the sensitive type then. "Just go to sleep and it'll be over by morning. I promise."
Sasuke squealed in delight of such glorious news. He closed his eyes tight and buried his face into Itachi's side. Before falling asleep, he remembered one more thing.
"Aniki, don't tell Okaa-san that I got scared… please?"
"I won't."
(end flashback)
Thinking of such tender, peaceful times only made Sasuke's blood boil more, and his head pound harder. He remembered what Itachi said to him that day. "There's no such thing as monsters".
'Yes there is…' he thought. 'You were the monster the whole time.'
To get rid of the stress from his thoughts, he turned on his TV only to see the weather station on.
"This hurricane's moving fast at nearly a 500 mph speed. It's expected to make landfall later on this evening. Don't turn that dial. We'll be right back with more details."
I got a little carried away with the whole flashback scene… heh. So how'd ya like?
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