Lost Sanity

Chapter four!!! Whoot! I’m on a roll! ^_^ the chapters before was the work that we did…this one I edited myself, so the story could flow a bit more…if you want, I could edit the first three chapters, all you have to do is ask.

Disclaimer: Need I say it again?

Japanese words:

Nii-san: Brother (older)

Otouto-san: Brother (younger)

Onegai/Onegai shimasu (they both mean please)

Teiryuu: Stop

Sensei: Teacher

Hai: Yes

Kame/Kami: God

Enjoy!


Ch.4 Psychedelic Craze

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Sasuke was silent, Itachi's words repeating themselves in his mind. He shut his eyes tightly.


‘No...I'm not...’ he thought to himself quietly.


‘I'm not crazy...I'm not...’ he continued to think to himself, biting his lip. Tears fell down his cheeks. He started rocking back and forth, trying to calm himself down. He hated Itachi, hated him with his very being.

He feared that he was actually going crazy. He curled into a ball, falling back asleep from exhaustion.

~

The next day came.

The door opened and Iruka slowly walked in.

"Sasuke?"

Sasuke flinched, his eyes snapping open, unknowingly activating the sharingan's. He backed away from Iruka, his eyes wide, with barely contained fear.

"Don't come any closer.." he stated, his voice shaking. He didn't seem to be all there.
Iruka stopped watching Sasuke a look of worry flashing in his eyes.

"Sasuke...it's just me...Iruka..." he started slowly. Sasuke backed away, pressing his back against the padded wall. Iruka didn't move any closer.

"Its alright...I just came to get you so you can eat..." he stated softly, extending a hand to help the poor boy.

’Kame...please don’t tell me he's lost himself already.’ Iruka thought to himself sadly.


Sasuke shut his eyes tightly, his breathing fast. He slowly started to calm down, his sharingan’s fading from his eyes, returning to the dark brown, almost black eyes. He looked around slowly, eyes clearing up as they landed on Iruka. He looked downright exhausted, bags under his eyes.

"Iruka-sensei?" he asked, sounding uncertain, his voice soft as he spoke.

Iruka nodded his head.

"Hai...it's me Sasuke." he replied, but he didn't take a step forward. He didn't want to make Sasuke uncomfortable, so he stayed where he was.

"Yes...it's me...can I come over?" he asked.
Sasuke looked up at him, before looking away and nodding his head slowly, biting his lip.

"Come in..." he said softly.
Iruka did and he walked over to Sasuke, slowly kneeling down beside him.

"Sasuke...are…you alright?" he asked his voice full of concern. His eyes held the same expression. He was worried about Sasuke. Sasuke didn’t say anything for a moment, looking like he was deep into his thoughts.

Iruka was silent.

"Do...you want something?" he continued.
Sasuke shook his head before opening his mouth to speak.

"He came to me last night...and taunted me...I hate him..." he muttered. He left out the fact that Itachi had touched him.

Iruka's brows furrowed in confusion. "..He?...Who's ‘he’, Sasuke?" he asked as he watched the young Uchiha. Sasuke didn't look up.


"Itachi." he stated. Iruka frowned a little.

"Sasuke...that's impossible...there's no way Itachi could have been here without us knowing." he whispered to the dark-haired boy softly.


Sasuke looked up.

"I saw him! His eyes...his voice...his..." he faltered, biting his lip.

Iruka watched him.

"Sasuke....no one was here...We have video cameras recording everything...even your room...if someone was here...then we would have known.." he said to Sasuke slowly, his eyes staring at him with more worry than before and fear.

He feared that the boy was losing his sanity.


Sasuke looked doubtful, frowning as he leaned forward a little, trying to make himself comfortable.

"...You think I'm crazy..." he muttered.

"I know what I heard...what I felt..." he whispered.
Iruka was silent for a moment


"What you...felt..." he started slowly before rubbing his temples.


"I didn’t say you were Sasuke. We can get the tapes right now and watch them. There will be no one there but yourself." he said to Sasuke, looking at the boy.


Sasuke shook his head, lips in a thin line as he spoke.

"I don't need to look at the video tapes...I know what I saw..." he stated quietly.


His already bitter mood went downhill and turned sour.

Iruka watched him silently.

"Fine Sasuke." he said giving up.

"Believe what you want. But you'll have a difficult time trying to get others to believe you." he said and stood to his feet, backing up and giving Sasuke his space.


"Now...do you want to eat or not?" he asked as he looked back at Sasuke.

Before Sasuke could answer his stomach growled, answering for him. Sasuke looked down at it blinking a little.

"Hai…" he said after a while, his stomach growling again.
Iruka nodded and walked out leaving the door open for Sasuke to walk out. Sasuke pushed himself to his feet following after him quietly, eyes on his feet.


Iruka shut the door, leading him down to the cafeteria. He walked over to an empty table, and motioned for Sasuke to sit. Sasuke sat down slowly before looking up at him. Iruka placed the plate of food in front the younger male, having grabbed it from one of the nurses, who was pushing a cart with plates of food on it.


Iruka sighed before going behind him slowly undoing the straightjacket. Sasuke frowned slightly.

"What are you doing?" he asked him slowly.


"I'm undoing this...I'm not about to feed you....you're capable of feeding yourself...I'm not about to treat you like a child..." he stated as he pulled it free and Sasuke was able to move his arms again. He sighed a little stretching his arms. Iruka frowned at him.

"But if you try anything...don't think that I won't hesitate to have you taken down..." he said to him seriously, moving to sit down in front of him.

Sasuke was silent before he picked up the plastic fork and started eating quietly, cutting pieces of the pancake, and eating them slowly.

The food didn't really taste bad, he had grown used to the bland taste of the food. He continued to eat, hand fumbling for a second on the fork before he stuck another piece into his mouth.


His thoughts kept going back to what happened the night before. He frowned a little. The feeling of Itachi's lips on his own haunted him like a ghost. It was as if he was right there. Sasuke slowly looked up before his eyes went wide. Itachi stood behind Iruka, leaning against the wall. His red sharingan eyes burned into Sasuke.

Sasuke let out a gasp his fork clattering to the floor, as he backed up in his seat. Sasuke let out a small yelp as the chair tilted back and he fell to the floor, still in his seat. He looked up at Itachi, eyes widening with fear.


Iruka frowned in worry and slight confusion. "Sasuke!" he yelled as he stood quickly.

Another nurse walked by with a cart of food going right pass Itachi. When the nurse passed he was gone just like that.

Iruka hurried over to Sasuke and tried to help him up. "Kame Sasuke! What’s wrong!?" he asked worry evident in his voice.


Sasuke shut his eyes tightly, hands coming up and covering his eyes. He tried to calm his erratic breathing.

"I-I'm fine..." he muttered quietly, voice trembling. He slowly started to calm down.

Iruka backed his hands away from Sasuke and stood up slowly, before offering a hand.

"...are you going to finish or...are you done?" he asked him.

Sasuke looked up at him.


"I can't eat anymore...' he muttered. He couldn't bring himself to eat. Not when Itachi was somewhere around him. It made his stomach twist uneasily.


"Alright...I'll take you back to your room…" he said slowly. Sasuke grabbed the offered hand and Iruka helped him to his feet and began leading him to his room.


Sasuke followed after Iruka, his eyes on his socked-feet, frowning a little. What was going on? Why was Itachi doing this? Maybe Iruka was right....maybe it was all in his head. That he was seeing things. It seemed as if no one else actually saw Itachi.

Silence.

Iruka led him back to his room, opening the door for Sasuke.


"I'll be back in about an hour so we can talk...alright?" he said smiling weakly at Sasuke.


"Try to get some sleep." he said before allowing Sasuke into the room and shut the door.


Sasuke walked over to one side of the wall leaning against it, and looking around the cell he was in before sighing. He lay down before shutting his eyes, trying to let sleep claim him.


~


An hour passed, and Iruka didn't show. In fact, the entire day passed by now. Suddenly the door opened and two men came in. The ones from before. The assholes.

They came in gawking at the sight, "WHAT THE FUCK .HOLY FUCK!" yelled one.

The room around Sasuke was different. He wasn't in the cell. He was in Iruka's office. How did he get here?

His hands were drenched with blood, a bloody pen in his hands. Sasuke's eyes went wide, as he looked at his hand blindly. How had this happened? He didn't remember anything. He continued to at his bloodied hands. He started to hyperventilate, hands shaking, when he saw Iruka.


Iruka's body was under him, motionless. There were stab marks all over his body, about the size of the pen that he was holding in his hands. Sasuke's eyes went wide dropping the pen. The guys tackled Sasuke to the ground. He struggled, twisting his body and trying to get free.

"Don't touch me!!! Onegai!" he yelled, his eyes wide. He looked at Iruka's body. Had he done this? He felt nauseous as they carried him out of the room. He continued struggling before they slammed him against the wall, a nurse injecting him with a needle to calm his nerves.


They forced him in a straightjacket. His other lay on the ground yards away from Iruka's body.

As Sasuke's eyes grew heavy, he saw someone else in the room. His brows furrowed when he realized who it was. Itachi. He stood beside Iruka's body, and he was looking down at it, before raising his eyes to look over to Sasuke.

"..Weakling."
Sasuke's slowly glazing eyes were drooping as he tried to focus on Itachi.

"Ngh...ta...chi..." he forced the words out with difficultly before everything went black.

~

When he reawakened, he was strapped down on a stretcher in the Infirmary.

He heard two people talking in hushed tones. Sasuke closed his eyes for a moment, before opening them again. His made a small noise in the back of his throat. Kakashi noticed he was awake and blinked. He looked up at Kakashi with glazed eyes.

Kakashi's eyes held pain as he looked at him.

"Sasuke..? Sasuke? Why!? Don't you know what you've just done!?" he yelled at the black-haired boy, hands resting on Sasuke's shoulders and shaking him. The doctors pried Kakashi from Sasuke, dragging him out the room. The door shut.

Sasuke could hear Kakashi yelling, his eyes moving around him quietly, not quite fully awake. He looked down at himself, seeing the straps holding him down. His vision swum for a second before he looked up at the doctor.

"Wha....am...doinghere...?" he asked him, his words slurring together. He could hear the constant beep of the heart monitor that he was connected to. It was beeping slowly.


The doctor turned around to reveal Itachi. His blank face looking down at Sasuke as he raised a hand. He held a scalpel.

"Performing tests..." he said flatly.


Sasuke's eyes immediately cleared up. The heart monitor sped up drastically, beating a mile a minute.

"N…N-no! Teiryuu!!” he yelled pulling at the restraints, his body twisting as he tried to break free. He started panicking, his breathing quickening.


Itachi placed a hand onto Sasuke's chest. "So weak..." he muttered.

The scalpel came down, getting closer to him-

Sasuke's pupils dilated.

"Shit! He's spasming out! Someone hold him down!"

Itachi vanished. Sasuke was surrounded by doctors and nurses, all trying to get him to relax.


Sasuke started screaming, the sharingans activated, the tomo's spinning around madly. He gritted his teeth together letting out a loud cry as tears started falling from his eyes uncontrolibly, his lips trembling.

"Nii-san!! Teiryuu!!" he screamed.


A nurse injected him with another needle, the sleeping vaccine working quickly since the other wasn't completely out of his system.

Sasuke's tense body finally relaxed, his eyes rolling up into the back of his head before shutting. His breathing evened out. The heart monitor's beeping slowed down, going at a normal rate again.

One nurse was looking at the now sleeping Sasuke, her eyes holding pity. She couldn't believe that this was happening. She looked to one of the doctors.

"What's wrong with him? He seems worst off than any person ever admitted here!" she asked.

Iruka was the doctor. He frowned a little, worry in his eyes.


"I...don't know..." he said softly.


"....His parents were killed before his eyes...his entire clan....I guess it was just too much for him...' he muttered before rubbing the bridge of his nose.

"If this keeps up...He's lost...'"

She nodded her head slowly, looking at the sleeping-drug-induced Sasuke with sad eyes.


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TBC
So what do you think of that twist? Iruka’s still alive…it seems that everything was just all in Sasuke’s mind. heheheh…well please review tell me what you liked, what you didn’t like. I would like some constructive criticism please! ><
Till next time…