Delerium

Author: DarkSyndicate
Title: Delerium 5/?
Warnings: Yaoi, lemon (eventually), Light het (Is that a warning now?), Non-con, BDSM (eventually), Violence, language, mind control, has now be upgraded to full on AU, Nice Kyuubi. Sasu/Naru, Kaka/Iruka (mild), Kabuto/Itachi (In the not so distant future) …I think that’s all for now
Summary: Four years ago Naruto vanished from the hidden leaf village, where did he go? and what happened to those he left behind?
Authors Notes: Do not dispair. I swear, by all that is holy, if it takes the rest of my life to do it, I WILL FINISH THIS FIC!!!!


~*Delerium*~

“What in the hell is going on here?”

Kabuto and Kakashi exchanged a meaningful glance and Sasuke took a deep calming breath. He reminded himself that Naruto was at least showing some signs of life and he knew that if he kept exploding that eventually Kabuto would keep his word and remove him from the hospital until he could collect himself.

“Why don’t we take this in my office.”

It was a statement, not a question and with that Kabuto and Kakashi turned to leave.

“Wait, how long will he be out? I promised I’d stay with him.”

Sasuke’s glare left no question that he would keep his promise no matter what.

“That sedative was fairly powerful. Even with Naruto’s healing ability it should keep him out for at least a few hours.”

Sasuke nodded his consent and the trio left the sleeping boy for the haven of Kabuto’s office. He couldn’t help but notice the strange looks the two Jonin kept passing back and forth and his stomach knotted with each step he took. There was very little doubt that whatever information Kabuto had be keeping under wraps was going to be anything less than terrible, possibly bordering on horrific, and Sasuke was suddenly unsure whether he WANTED to know. But as a Ninja he knew that any information he could get on Naruto might be useful in helping him get better. It might also be that he spent so long searching for any scrap of information regarding his blond companion that to turn anything down now seemed tantamount to heresy.

When they reached Kabuto’s office, Sasuke entered last and softly shut the door behind them.

“Now, the two of you are going to tell me EVERYTHING you know about Naruto’s condition, and I mean EVERYTHING, including what the FUCK just happened back there. Or I am going to MAKE you tell me and believe me it WONT be pleasant.”

Kabuto’s jaw dropped at the calmly spoken threat and Kakashi simply raised an eyebrow. Kabuto opened his mouth to respond and Sasuke cut him off in the same quiet tone.

“Don’t even bother, I’ve learned some interesting techniques while I’ve been searching these last four years. I really don’t want to use them on my allies but I will if I have to.”

“I don’t think that will be necessary”

Kakashi cut in just a quietly.

“We have every intention of telling you everything we know. To tell the truth there isn’t much that we know that we haven’t told you already.”

Both teacher and student locked eyes for a long moment, each silently assessing the situation. Kakashi trying to read if the mental stress had finally, truly, cracked Sasuke to the point that he would use violence, and Sasuke trying to see the truth in what his old sensei was telling him. From the start they had been keeping things from him, fearing for his mental state no doubt. But from the moment he saw Naruto, struggling like an animal in a trap, the genuine fear in his eyes when he saw the needle, and the soft terrified pleas he had made that had fractured his HEART strait down to the very core of his SOUL he knew. Knew that he would do ANYTHING he had to, go thought any torture, kill any person, do WHATEVER it took to keep that look from Naruto’s eyes.

“You really love him, don’t you.”

Sasuke stared at him in wide eyed shock. It had been so long since he’d been around Kakashi he had forgotten the almost paranormal insight the man could have. But then he just shook his head and smiled this small sad little smile.

“Yeah, I do.”

“Good now that we have that settled, lets get down to business shall we? Sasuke, I promise I will tell you everything I know. But I’m afraid Kakashi is right there isn’t that much that you aren’t already aware of. Physically, Naruto is healing up nicely, with any luck there wont even be any scaring. In fact the only thing left that could cause any lasting damage is at the genetic level.”

Sasuke blinked “Genetic?”

“That’s right, as part of our earlier testing to find the cause of Naruto-kun’s coma, Hokage-sama had us run some genetic tests to see if what was happening could be linked to the Nine Tails.”

Kabuto stopped at waited for a reaction, he was rather surprised when Sasuke just stared at him, waiting for him to continue.

“I take it then you are aware that Naruto is the container for the Nine Tails Fox that the Fourth sealed all those years ago?”

Sasuke snorted.

“I’ve known since the battle with the sand at the end of the chunnin exams.”

Both Kakashi and Kabuto stared at him.

“What?”
More staring.

“I mean it was kind of obvious, when he and the freakishly large frog of his transformed into the damned fox right in front of me. With his incredible stamina and his weird healing ability, not to mention the damned whiskers it wasn’t really all that hard to put two and two together.”

Kabuto just shook his head.

“At any rate, Naruto’s genetic structure has always been slightly different from that of a normal human. Both the Third and the Fifth Hokage’s were aware of this, and its something that has been closely monitored since the day he was born. So when we took a current sample and compared it to the most recent record we have on file we were rather shocked at the difference. At first we thought his seal was deteriorating and that the foxes chakra was altering his genetic makeup. But the more I look at it the more I feel that the alterations are more deliberate than that. I don’t have any conclusive evidence yet, but I think that someone has been tampering with his DNA.”

Sasuke shuddered, recalling Naruto’s subdued pleading from earlier.

“Tests”

“What?”

“That’s what Naruto said, he said he didn’t want any more tests.”

“He’s right, I heard it too.”

“God, I had my suspicions but…”

Kabuto slipped a hand over his face and pulled off his glasses. He pinched the bridge of his nose in a tired gesture he’d had for years. Sasuke wasn’t the only one loosing sleep over that kid. As much as he hated to admit it he owed Naruto, he and Itachi both. He was the one who quiet literally saved their asses when all that shit with Orochimaru was falling down around their heads. He owed the damn brat his life, the least he could do was loose a few weeks of sleep trying to thwart the basterds who had tried so hard to ruin his.

“Kakashi, is the Hokage aware of this?”

“The Hokage has been briefed on everything since you stepped thought the hospital doors. A special investigation squad was formed after Kabuto’s initial examination revealing the rape. They haven’t been made aware of the DNA problem because we haven’t had anything but Kabuto’s hunch to prove it, but with Naruto’s current statements, I think we can safely say that they will be informed shortly.”

Sasuke just sort of blinked, he hadn’t been aware that a special investigation squad called to deal with the problem of hunting down Naruto’s attackers. He hadn’t been aware of anything other than a goofy blond stuck in a stark white reality of a cold hospital room. Although, he thought, it shouldn’t surprise him. He had been RAPED for god sakes. Of COURSE the Hokage would form a team to hunt the basterds in to the ground. Sometimes he forgot he wasn’t the only one disappearance and subsequent reappearance.

“Is there anything else you haven’t told me Kabuto, Kakashi?”

“Now you know everything we know.” Kakashi looked him right in the eye so he would know it was the truth.

“Then I think I’ll start heading back now.”

Sasuke turned to leave, but stopped, hand hovering just above the door knob, struck by a sudden thought.

“The Tests, or whatever they did to him, it must have hurt him a lot for him to react like that to the needle.”

Kabuto looked down at his desk, eyes going cold, imagining the kind of torture that could have made Naruto act like that at the mere sight of a needle.

“I imagine it did.”

“So, then, why did he stop?”

“What do you mean Sasuke?”

Sasuke turned around, letting his eyes travel from Kabuto to Kakashi and back again, Doing everything he could to keep from slipping in to the sharingan. Both his teacher and the medical nin had been very forthcoming just now and he didn’t want to startle them, but damn it was hard. He’d been in emotional overdrive and his anger, hot and flairing, was threatening to melt away the numb he’d been using to get through the past hour. He wanted to get back to Naruto, and soon, before he did something really, fucking, stupid.
But there was just this one last question nagging him.

“When you tried to give him the sedative, he was fighting you, he even flared his chakra to the point where it hurt to hold on to him. But then he just, stopped.”

Kabuto thought for a minute, before shaking his head.

“To be honest, I really don’t know.”


When Sasuke entered Naruto’s room, he was rather perturbed to find someone else’s ass occupying his place of honor at Naruto’s bed side. He couldn’t be too angry though, she was the Hokage after all.

Before he could say any thing, her voice, usually so strong and confident drifted softly across the room.

“ One of the guards told me he woke up.”

Sasuke shifted nervously from foot to foot, the woman sitting in the chair accros from him was so different from the person he knew the Hokage to be. She seemed tired and small, almost…defeated.

“He did, but he had some kind of fit or something, and Kabuto had to put him under again.”

“I see.”

She was quiet for a while after that, and Sasuke just stood there listing to the beeping of the monitors and Naruto’s quiet breathing. He had always had a problem dealing with women when they were upset. He was very blunt by nature and in his experience women who were upset were often very sensitive. He was always afraid they would start to cry at something he said and it would make him feel guilty and annoyed all at once and he really didn’t think he could handle that right now. So he just stood there feeling uncomfortable and listing to the heavy silence that wasn’t really silence and wishing she would say something or really just get the fuck out so that he could be alone with the Dobe.

“I’m making you nervous aren’t I ?” It was still soft, but amused, a little closer to her normal tone. So he felt it was O.K. to be just a little annoyed.

“You are in my favorite chair.” She laughed lightly

“O.K. Just a few more minutes and I’ll leave you be.” She took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

“I really thought we’d lost you. After loosing one little brother, I thought I‘d gone and lost another one. Come back to us Naruto, I don’t think I can handle losing you again.”

It was so quiet, he was certain he wasn’t meant to hear it. But he had, and it served to remind him that he wasn’t the only one who carried the pain of losing someone he loved. He tucked the small bit of knowledge away soothing his tired soul, and watched as she carefully pressed a kiss to the sleeping idiot’s forehead before standing to leave.

He moved to occupy the now empty chair, but before he could get very far a strong hand on his shoulder stilled him.
“I almost forgot, here” She pressed something small and cool in his hand.

“He might want it when he wakes up.”

He blinked and then she was gone.

Looking down curiously, he saw he now held a battered forehead protector. It was Naruto’s, the one they had found all those years ago. The only thing they had found ever found of him. Sasuke was suddenly very glad he was close to a chair because he really needed to sit, right now.

“Holy Crap, Dobe.”

It was very quickly becoming to much to deal with, and for the first time since Naruto had come stumbling back into his life he found he very much wanted a drink. Something strong, like Tequila, by the gallons.

He buried he head in his arms and tried to sleep but he kept twitching uncomfortably and finally he sighed in frustration.

“Well don’t you look comfy” he grumbled at the sleeping blond.

“Che, if anything else happens today I might just end up in here with you.” He laughed softly at his own foolishness. But then he stopped and considered it. Finally he shrugged.

“What the hell, why not? If you have a problem with it when you wake up you can just kick my ass out.” And with that he crawled up on the hospital bed, ever mindful of the wires and the I.V. and settled next to Naruto. He squirmed a bit, trying to find a position in the small space. And finally he fell asleep, snuggled next to his best friend and best rival, one arm around his waste and a leg tossed over the other, face buried against his shoulder, breathing his sent. Even with everything that had happened, and all that was looming over them in the future, for the first time since god knows when Uchiha Sasuke was at peace.

TBC...

~End of the World~
Blair: *sees and kicks a lifeless mass* Come on keep it moving, you dont have to go home but you cant stay here.
Sarah: urggg...
Blair: Holy Crap, Sarah? I havent seen you in years! Where in the hell have you been man? And why are you all...slimey...and stinky.
Sarah: Cthulu ate me...he said he wanted me to brush his teeth and then he swallowed me.
Blair: HA! Thats what you get for being a slacker moron. Yuck. Please tell me you got him to throw you up and that you didn't come out the other end because thats just...eeewww...
Sarah: *whimpers*...I need a shower...