The Art of Deception

Chapter 4

In the dead of night he silently waits.

The lights in the building are slowly turning off, one by one. He wants to jump inside right now, but he has to be patient. Patience is key.

Waiting is agony, especially because he's not a very patient person. He wants to kill everyone who works inside the building. To describe him in one word at this moment would be pissed. Pissed at the world, at the Akatsuki, and he's pissed at everyone and everything.

All of the lights except for one turn off. He waits an hour more before getting to work. He uses that extra hour to make a plan.

When the hour is over he emerges from the safety of the shadows. One wrong move and he's done for; gone. Jail is not an option tonight. Failure is not an option tonight. He has to get it done right.

He adjust the gloves on his hand and proceeds towards the building.

He's beginning to think that he should have brought kusanagi with him. He doesn't dwell on the thought for long for tonight he needs to pay full attention to his surroundings, after all he is going to an insane hospital.

He makes his way towards the window on the far side of the building. He takes out a small knife and wedges it between the window moving it up and down until the window pops open.

He climbs inside. Slowly and carefully he finds the staircase and goes to the last level. He uses his knife to open the password panel and rewires a few wires, causing the door to open.

He goes inside.

The inside is set up like jail. With cells next to cell. The cells were tiny and fit only one person. He scans the place and looks for his target.

Neji...

He goes deeper inside the room and finds Neji in the last cell.

"Miss me," he says.

Neji looks at him. His long brown hair is coated in his blood and nothing is covering his forehead, showing his branding.

"Sasuke?" Neji asks confused

"Its me. Let's get you out of here."

"Freeze!" a women yells from a few yards away.

Sasuke eyes the nurse and her gun wearily. He didn't want to kill her, but he didn't want her to live, so he settles for the next best thing.

He gets up his hands in the air and slowly walks towards her.

He flicks his wrist up and the knife hidden inside his sleeve flies up into the air and lands in his palm.

He runs towards the nurse and holds the knife to her throat.

"You didn't see anything," he says before hitting the handle of his knife against her neck, effectively knocking her out.

He walks back to Neji and uses the knife to open the cell. "Let's go home."