My light in the dark

Chapter 21

I shook with fear as the car drove up the long driveway to a large mansion. I could see guards patrolling the grounds, all armed to the teeth. All the bravery I had when saving Sasuke and Gaara was now gone. I wasn't the strong young master anymore, raised to govern thugs and run the underworld. I was just a scared little boy, kidnapped and unsure of his future. Would Madara have me killed? Whore me out like those men had threatened to do? Or would I be given to Sai who sat with his hand on my thigh, humming to himself as we drove along? We reached the house and Sai got out, pulling me along with him, his hand tight around my arm as if to stop me from fleeing. He needn't have worried. I had no fight left in me and even if I did run, I wouldn't get far before I was caught again or worse, shot by one of the guards and then the pain would begin. No. I wouldn't run, I had been running for so long.

We were escorted up the stairs and into a large study where we waited in the door way for the man at the table to look up. When he did I saw red eyes meet mine and all the remaining strength left my body. I would have fallen if it hadn't been for Sai's tight grip on my arm. In my mind I heard my parents screaming my name, telling me to flee. I could remember the last time my mother had kissed my head and then their dying screams.

"We succeeded in our mission. Sasuke is dead and Naruto Nami"-

The man, Madara, held up his hand and Sai closed his mouth. He signalled for everyone to leave apart from two of his men. The Uchiha leader stood up, bracing his hands on the table and glared at Sai, his blood red eyes boring into his black ones.

"Watch what you say around here. I don't want anyone knowing about this."

He turned his eyes towards me and I felt my body begin to shake with fear. His hair was the same colour as Sasuke's and Itachi's, most likely its part of the Uchiha heritage but those eyes were nothing like there's. Devoid of any emotion and a deep blood red they chilled me to the bone. It was the eyes I remembered the most of the night my parents had died and his cold voice calling my name in the darkness. It was that voice that called me now.

"Well hello Naruto, it has been quite some time. You have grown up into quite a fine young man. Come here."

Sai pushed me but my legs were too heavy and I only managed a few steps before I fell to my knees. I looked down at the carpet beneath me, my hands clenched into fists.

"You killed my parents."

My voice was little more than a whisper but it was filled with all the rage and sorrow I had kept bottled up for all these years. I heard heavy footsteps and then he was crouched before me, rough fingers gripping my chin and forcing me to meet his eyes.

"I did more than that, I had my fun as I took my time ending their miserable lives. But you know that, I mean you were hiding nearby. A young boy, little more than ten years of age, watching the blood pool around his parents and hear them dying. How did that feel?"

I felt tears in my eyes as I trembled in the monsters hold as he smiled down at me, his eyes full of glee at the memory of my parents' bloody death. He reached out to wipe a tear away from the corner of my eye and I saw a flash of silver and felt the cold touch of a knife at my throat. I closed my eyes, tears unwilling forcing themselves out from underneath my eyelids. I was going to die. Please let it be quick. I pulled the memory of Sasuke's smiling face into my mind and my breathing calmed down. I felt him draw it lightly down my chest, drawing blood and I bit the inside of my cheek to stop any sounds from emerging. I would not give him the pleasure.

"Now hold on Madara, what do you think you're doing? You promised he would be mine."

The knife travelled to my cheek and there was another shallow nick. My heart began to thump painfully in my chest. He was not going to make this easy and I could almost hear the smile in his voice as he realised that I knew. Another cut, this time on my forearm and a lot deeper. A whimper escaped me but I kept my eyes closed, only wanting to see Sasuke, not the face of my parent's murderer.