The Art of Patience

The Art of Patience Ch. 35
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Sasuke felt strange. He was cold and in some pain. Granted not as much as he was the previous night... It all came back to him at that moment; the abduction, the torture. The youngest Uchiha's eyes snapped open and immediately shut again due to the light tin the room. It wasn't from the sun however; just the room lights hadn't been turned off. He looked around and noted that the man who captured him was gone and his uncle was nowhere to be seen, but he was still bound and could still feel the fullness of the vibrator in his ass; thank god it had been turned off.

Madara strutted into the breaking room with a tray in his hands and smiled. Sasuke was awake and it looked like he had only recently woken up. "Good morning Sasuke. I hope you’re ready to be more polite from now on."

Sasuke had decided to revert back to the silent treatment. He knew it would most likely anger his uncle but he had no desire or will to give in to the man. He figured Madara wouldn't hurt him too much since it would be in ill favor of Itachi to do something like that.

Madara looked Sasuke up and down and put the tray down on a table next to the bed. Looked like Sasuke had actually bled last night despite the instructions he'd given Kisame about giving the boy breaks. "Looks like you had a rough night Sasuke. There’s blood all over your stomach and trailing down your dick. And here I thought you’d be nice so I could remove that vibrator for you." Madara looked at the blood disdainfully and sat down heavily on the edge of the bed to wait for Sasuke’s answer.

Sasuke glanced down at himself and then glared at his uncle. He was not going to say anything but his body betrayed him as his stomach growled in hunger at the smell of food. He had not had dinner the previous night.

Madara looked at Sasuke and smiled wickedly and waved the smells of Sasuke's breakfast toward the boy’s face so he would know what was waiting for him. "If you’re hungry all you have to do is ask for your breakfast; easy right?"

The captured sub shook his head in denial even as his stomach betrayed him once more. He looked away from Madara, not wanting to be encouraged to scream in the man's face.

Madara leaned over and grabbed the coffee he'd put on the try for just this occasion and bit his lip to keep from snickering as he tipped the hot liquid over Sasuke’s stomach and cock as punishment for his defiance. "If you continue to defy me Sasuke, I’ll leave you like this for the day but this time I’ll tape wires to your balls and I'll personally shock them until you lose your voice from begging me to stop."

Sasuke gave an involuntary cry at the burning sensation that came with boiling coffee on such a sensitive area and jerked away as ineffective as it was. He really hoped something was happening on Naruto's end to try and get him out.... he didn't know how much more he could take, being so fragile in mentality already.

"Now let’s start again, from the top. Good Morning Sasuke." the older man smiled evilly and leaned over his tortured nephew and made Sasuke look at him to get his point across.

Sasuke could still feel the burning on his cock and closed his eyes to possibly will the pain away; he hoped nothing was permanently damaged. He stayed silent though and didn't even bother to open his eyes again; screw Madara. Despite the pain, his stomach chose that moment to make itself known once more; stupid body.

"Look at me Sasuke, look at me or I'll be tempted to cut your eyelids off after I eat your breakfast."

It was an empty threat; Sasuke knew that much. If Madara really wanted Itachi like he said, he wouldn't dare hurt the only thing that meant anything to his brother. But the threat was said all the same so Sasuke did open his eyes but didn’t look at Madara. "You can eat whatever you want; I'd rather starve before eating your food."

Madara let Sasuke’s chin go and picked up the fork he'd intended to feed the ungrateful boy with. "I think I will. And I won’t extend this kindness to you again for a while boy." with that Madara dug into Sasuke's breakfast and made a point of enjoying it while the boy watched him.

Sasuke sighed as his stomach made another noise and hoped for the millionth time that Naruto was hurrying up with a plan.

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Itachi rolled over in bed and opened his eyes. He hadn't gotten a very good night’s sleep. He’d woken up more than once due to anxiety and nightmares. He looked at the clock and saw it was six in the morning. The dark haired man rolled over to look at his master and realized that the man had finally fallen asleep. Thinking that he still had duties to perform, Itachi carefully got out of bed and made his way into the kitchen to prepare his master's coffee.

Meanwhile Naruto struggled with his dreams to reach his poor lost Sasuke form behind a veil of darkness and imagined pain even as the boy was wisked away by the hands of faceless aggressors. It had been like this ever since he'd fallen asleep, the dreams almost exactly the same except for how he was separated from Sasuke by no more than an arms length and having to watch as his Kitty was dragged out of sight while screaming his masters name. Most times the blond crawled out of the nightmare only far enough to get beyond the dreaming state but the unwanted dreams always reached out and pulled him back in.

The blonde clawed his way slowly into wakefulness and rolled over to snuggle against Itachi's side only to discover a void next to him where Itachi had been. Like Sasuke in his dreams the older sub had vanished without a trace.

Suddenly wide awake Naruto put his hand in Itachi's place to see if it was warm and looked around in panic. Itachi was missing and his spot on the bed had gone cold with his absence, just like in some of his worst nightmares so far.

Itachi put the creamer back in the refrigerator and picked up the mugs to make his way back to the bedroom. He hoped his master would have a better day today and hopefully get some good news from Kakashi. Stepping into the room, Itachi noticed Naruto sitting up, obviously awake and looking around frantically. Damn it; he probably shouldn't have left without telling the blond. "Master, I brought you coffee."

The blond jumped up at the sound of his missing slave’s voice and quickly rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn’t imagining things. The smell of freshly made coffee and the steaming cups coaxed the stressed master out of the bed. "Thanks, I think I'm going to need coffee after that scare."

Itachi raised an eyebrow. "What happened; are you alright? I didn't mean to scare you... I was doing what I always do." He tried not to sound ashamed, but he did feel horrible for scaring his master. He held out a mug awkwardly.

Naruto took the mug and nodded his thanks before taking a sip, Itachi always made it just right for his master. The only problem was that he was wound up tighter than a spring after his unwanted scare so he couldn't enjoy it as much as he would like to but he couldn’t bring himself to reprimand Itachi for being a good slave. "I’m fine, don’t worry. "

At that moment, Naruto’s cell phone began to ring. Itachi watched as the blonde almost spilled his coffee in surprise. The long haired Uchiha took the cup from Naruto so the blonde could answer the phone; it was most likely Kakashi.

Naruto got out of bed and almost jogged out into the living room where he left his phone, after throwing on a shirt to cover his chest sine he'd gone to sleep in his pants, and took the call outside where he wouldn’t have to worry about wire taps or Itachi looking at him hopefully for some good news.

The long haired slave knew better than to follow Naruto. The blonde hadn't given any indication that he wanted Itachi to follow him. It did hurt a little but it was something he did have to get used to but wasn't really practiced much with his master.

Naruto carefully closed the front door and took the call before his voicemail fired up. "Hello Kakashi. I hope you've got good news for me and Itachi."

"Well, it’s a start at least. We've found the house; Iruka just gave me the call this morning. It wasn't one of Sai's addresses; I figured it wouldn't be though. Iruka had gone to your apartment and talked to your roommate to ask him a few things."

The blond straightened up as if he could somehow feel that something was about to happen and reigned in his hope until he learned more. "Well at least you found out where Sasuke was. What kinds of Questions did you have to ask Kiba anyway, he's got as many ties with Madara as I do?"

"Well he asked if anyone had come to the apartment recently and Kiba described a black man who said he had just moved into the complex; when Iruka asked the landlord, they'd never heard of anyone like that moving in. So he did some digging and from Kiba's description found out who the man was and consequently enough was seen by some of Itachi and Sasuke's coworkers outside of the Uchiha Inc building yesterday."

The blond swallowed past the lump in his throat and tried not to shake. The person who’d been at his apartment had also been seen outside Itachi and Sasuke's work the day Sasuke went missing. That meant that Madara had been waiting for a chance to steal Sasuke for who knew how long, probably since before the bogus apology, since the party maybe. "Is there any chance of getting Sasuke back today?

"There is a slim chance, but I don't see it happening. Iruka and his team need to be very careful about this. Especially since we don't know if Kisame is still involved. He may be guarding the house. According to Sai, the man had worked with Madara before."

Itachi sat inside trying to guess what was going on by his master's body movement. Apparently it wasn't good news. He really wished he could go out there with the man but then again, it would seem a bit odd for two people to be standing outside.

Naruto stiffened and felt like he was being slowly crushed with how imposable it seemed to get Sasuke back today. The blond didn’t know who this Kisame was but he felt positive that the man had stolen Sasuke last night and if the blue eyed man had his way that person would die horribly for abducting his Kitty! "And you're sure there’s nothing I can do to help you? Anything at all?"

"All I ask is that you be there when we bring Sasuke to you. I'll be giving you frequent updates on Iruka's progress but I can only hope they'll have him by tomorrow at the latest." Kakashi sighed into the phone "I wish there was more I could do."

"It's alright; I know you're doing your best. I'll just try not to tear Itachi's place apart while waiting." Naruto walked to the door and put his hand on the knob. He was running out of questions he hadn’t asked yet and it wasn’t going to help anyone if he kept Kakashi on the phone instead of doing whatever to help Iruka.

Kakashi said his goodbye fairly quickly and let Naruto get back to his remaining sub. Hopefully he was wrong and Iruka would be able to get Sasuke back sooner.

Itachi watched as the blonde entered the condo once more. He looked at his master expectantly, not wanting to put Naruto in a mood by asking him about it.

The blond sat down on the couch and rubbed his face to wake up from this bad dream. How the hell was he going to wait two days for his Sasuke's safe return? "Kakashi said they'd be able to get Sasuke back tomorrow at the earliest"

Itachi almost cursed and wanted to punch something. He took a deep breath to try and calm himself, there was no need to get violent now. He wrapped his arms around Naruto and buried his face in the blonde's neck, looking for comfort and reassurance. "There's nothing we can do to help?"

"He was pretty clear that he and Iruka were taking care of it. We just have to be here for Sasuke when he gets back." Naruto buried his face in Itachi's arms and tried to hide the fact that he was starting to cry. He felt so helpless not being able to get Sasuke back. He knew that his friends would get his lost sub back but the waiting was killing him a little bit at a time.

TBC
GOD I’M SORRY!!!!! It’s taken me so long to update I know but Naru and I are having to do the RP through deviantart now so it takes a bit longer. But HERE YOU GO!!!! LOL Review???

And FYI if anyone was wondering. Itachi and Naruto didn’t go to the police because 1. You have to wait 48 hours to report a missing person. 2. Naruto knows Kakashi and knows what kind of skills he has which fit what they want to do. 3. Cause I’m the author XD

~Sasu