Team 7 Gone Rouge

Chapter 12- Rock Bottom

"What- is- h-how do you know.." Hiruzen stumbled with his words, not wanting them to be true. Not wanting to know that his past student would do this.

Kakashi swallowed the lump that was forming in his throat, he didn't want to think about it.

"Sasuke has hickeys all over his body, human and snake bite marks, and his clothes were t-tore up and off his body leaving him completely naked when we found him,"  Kakashi said, hating this conversation and just wanting to check on his students, check if Sasuke woke up, that Naruto and Sakura weren't accidentally burning his apartment down.

The old Hokage let out a pained sigh, laying his chin on his hands. "We..?"

"Yes, Naruto and Sakura were with me when Sasuke was found. They are all currently in my apartment. Sasuke was unconscious when I left, I don't know if he still is." Kakashi said, slipping into a more professional tone.

Oh, how he would be wrong...

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Kakashi had just left, leaving the genin alone.

Naruto was holding Sasuke's hand, still gently running his thumb over the Uchihas knuckles. He had a lost look on his face, like a person who just lost everything and didn't know what to do. He couldn't understand it. Why would someone do this?! Why did adults take advantage of children? Why did they all have to go through pain?

Why did he have to get beat up in an alley since he could remember? Just because something happened when he was not even a day old? Why does everyone hate him? Why did he not have his parents? Why did Sasuke have to lose his whole clan? Why did his brother do it? Why did he not feel like eating? Why do his friends have nightmares that left them screaming? Why did this happen? Why did sakuras parents leave her? Did she do something wrong? Why did that man have to touch her? Why did she think she has to protect them?

Why? What was so wrong with them that the universe decided to do this to them? Was it a cruel joke?

The blond's eyes started to water, he used his other hand to wipe the tears that threatened to fall.

Sakura looked up from running her fingers through Sasuke's hair.

"Naruto?"

"Yeah."

"We'll help him get through it, you helped me." She said giving a small smile.

"W-what do we do? We can't stay in this village anymore Sakura..." naruto said with sad, dull, blue eyes looking down at their raven-haired friend.

Sakura sighed, "I know.."

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It had been ten minutes since Narutos and Sakuras little talk that Sasuke had started to shift. Then move his arms. Then opened his eyes. His scared, terrified, teary eyes.

He shot up and was shaking, scrabbling to get away from the hands that were on him. Sasuke had curled himself in the other corner away from the hands on the other side. He was screaming, he didn't know where he was, he didn't feel clean, he was hurt, he was scared.

"DON'T TOUCH ME," he kept screaming, not seeing the devastating looks his teammates had.

"GO AWAY, go..." his voice got weaker as the sobbing got louder and harder. Tears were running down his face, his hands covering his mouth trying to muffle the pathetic sounds coming from him.

Sasuke squeezed his eyes shut, the lights making his headache worse. He heard a voice, it was familiar, trying to calm him down.

"Sasuke, look at me. It's Naruto and Sakura. Open your eyes, you're not there anymore."

He listened and cracked open his eyelids open and peaked through blurry eyes. Sakura was there, so was Naruto, she was sitting in front of him with her hands in her lap. Naruto was sitting on the armrest of the couch.

Sasuke was taking in where they were now. A dark-gray blanket was at his feet, ruffled up from his movements. There were clothes on him, clothes too big to be his, it had a familiar scent. He looked around the room they were in, there was a coffee table from the couch that had a spider plant on it. A kitchen was connected to the room, which was probably a living room, it was small and had multiple succulents dotted around.

"W-where are we?" The Uchiha asked in a weak quiet voice.

"We're at Kakashi-senseis apartment," Naruto said, Sasuke now seeing the tear stains on his friends' faces.

"Oh," Sasuke looked down at his hands. There was dirt underneath his fingernails. Why was there dirt in his fingerna-

Oh. Right.

Sasuke's lip started to tremble, tears welling up in his eyes again.

"I- I didn't-" Sasuke, once again, was interrupted by his tears.

He buried his head into his trembling hands, letting out pained breaths.

"Sasuke, can I touch you?" Sakura said softly.

The raven-haired boy peaked through quivering fingers then nodded.

Sakura wrapped her arms around the trembling body and spoke, "It wasn't your fault, your safe now ok?" She whispered to him.

That's what had him full-on sobbing. So hard he couldn't breathe. Sakura was telling him to take deep breaths now. Sasuke buried his head in the crook of her shoulder, Sakura not caring about the tears soaking her shirt.

Naruto instantly joined the hug, tears trailing down his face too. He wrapped his arms around Sasuke's torso, burying his blond locks into Sasuke's shoulder.

Sasuke Uchiha had thought he'd reached rock bottom when he first brought a blade to his thigh, oh how his eight-year-old self would be wrong...