Trapped

Standard disclaimer applies

A/N : Helloooooooo! I won’t be ranting a lot today, don’t worry! I just wanted to clear something about the previous chapter. At the end, when I wrote “And Naruto knew he was done for” I meant that Naruto suddenly realized what he felt for Itachi and realized he was doomed since he doesn’t recognize that Itachi is in love with him too (Neither does Itachi). So to him, he fell in love with his tormentor/blackmailer/man that has no interest in him except screw him over!.

Sorry I didn’t realize it wasn’t all that clear *bows*

On with the story…

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3 Months later…

Naruto was eating his breakfast while waiting for Sasuke to come pick him up. Itachi was currently in China for business and Naruto was back in his own home, until the Uchiha came back.

He sipped on his tea while contemplating his situation, absently looking out the kitchen window. He had realized, almost three months ago, that he had made his situation worse by falling in love with who should have been his enemy. Itachi. He knew he shouldn’t have, but he didn’t see it coming at all. It was not supposed to happen so he didn’t even try to guard himself when he was with the older man.

And now, he was wondering what he should do. It was impossible for him to not free himself from Itachi’s grasp. But then what?

Was he supposed to try to forget him? Denounce him to the police as he had planned to do as soon as he was free? Act as if nothing had happened?

He didn’t know. And he hated himself for that. It shouldn’t even have to be an issue. Who fell in love with their self-proclaimed master? Someone who had threatened his only family’s well-being and his own?

Even though he enjoyed itachi’s attentions and that the man never hurt him, he shouldn’t be feeling this way.

He shook his head, disgusted with himself. He bent his head and looked at his distorted reflection in the greenish, now cold, liquid.

When he had watched Itachi cum that night, he had felt his chest tighten at the pure look of ecstasy on the usually stoic man. If he closed his eyes right now, he was sure he could relive it and probably even get a hard on from the memory alone.

He hated how vulnerable he felt next to the Uchiha. He hated how his attitude changed since he realized his feelings. How he blushed more often, felling even shyer at the slightest glance the crimson-eyed man sent him, or how his heart had throbbed painfully when he was told Itachi would be leaving the country for a week.

A week. And his fucking heart had hurt. Even now he could feel the hollowness the lack of touch, the lack of Itachi, created in him.

And he hated himself for it.

He could still remember his conversation with Shikamaru. They had met for lunch, three days after that fateful night, in a French café , twenty blocks from his office.

Flashback

Naruto was getting nervous. Shikamaru was twenty minutes late and although he knew the man would come, he only had an hour for lunch.

Itachi was busy in a last minute meeting and he knew he didn’t have much time. As it is, he had been lucky not to bump into Kisame or that Deidara guy when leaving the building.

He was ready to find a payphone to call his friend (couldn’t risk Itachi going though his cell) when he saw a very familiar pineapple-like ponytail lazily walking though the entrance.

He sighed in relief and waved to his friend.

Shikamaru walked to his table and sat down “I am late and I assume you don’t have much time , I’ll go straight to the point. What has gone so wrong that you would need a P.I?” He asked, looking genuinely curious.

Naruto sighed, looking around to make sure no one was listening to them “My boss is accusing me of embezzling money” he muttered and before he could continue Shika cut him off

“Let me guess: You didn’t do it and he had fake proofs. You want me to prove you’re innocent” he paused, looking into Naruto’s now wide blue eyes. He leaned back in his chair as a waitress came to bring Naruto’s order and take his.

“Did they fire you?” he asked

Naruto shook his head and waited until she left before resuming “That’s not all” he hesitated, biting his lower lip “I’m being kept…Hostage, you could say” He saw Shika’s raised eyebrow and blushed.

“I see” muttered the P.I, making Naruto stiffen “You do?” he asked

His friend nodded, eyes narrowed, while he played with the silver lighter in his right hand “It’s not very difficult to guess: Being your friend I know you are gay even though you probably didn’t realize it until you were trapped in your boss’ clutches, you have not been fired and you blush when you think of your situation. It leads me to think that it is not a very usual ‘hostage’ situation, is it. Uchiha is not simply making you work for free is he?”

He was rewarded with a nod and he sighed muttering “You’d think people would understand when you say not to come to me with troublesome cases” He sighed again when he saw the desperate look in his old friend’s eyes.

“Don’t look at me like that, you know I will help you. However, you need to realize that the people you work for are very powerful and secretive, so it will take some time before I can get my hands on something” he stated.

Naruto nodded as he took the cursed red folder out of his laptop bag “I know, but I brought this in case it could help. It’s the so called proofs they have against me”

He saw Shika’s eyes widen as he took in the information in the folder and sigh

“Troublesome Naruto, too troublesome”

End flashback

The encounter had been embarrassing to say the least. But he knew it was needed. He needed a sharp mind to take care of the situation, and who better than his genius friend?

Shikamaru had told him the proofs seemed very solid at first glance, and that it wouldn’t surprise him if he never found mistakes that would help him out. And Naruto was very scared that he’d be trapped with the man he loved, as his slave, his property, until he tired of him.

What would he do then? Would he send him in prison anyway? Or would he simply discard him and never look at him again?

He sighed again as he watched the clock, ticking on the kitchen wall. He still had about ten minutes until Sasuke arrived.

He inwardly smiled as he thought of the younger Uchiha. The only right aspect of the situation was the friendship the two had developed. It was funny how Sasuke suddenly decided to be nicer after being rejected.

The two had started spending a lot of time together, slowly building a bond that Naruto decided he wanted to protect. It was different from his other friendships. It was harsher, as they did not really act like they were friends, it was more subtle, it was fresh, and it helped sooth Naruto’s insecurities to be accepted by Sasuke.

He didn’t know why, but the self-hate disappeared when he was with the smaller raven. He sometimes wondered if Sasuke was aware of his thoughts as he always knew when to distract him from his depressed thoughts, when to insult him, when to not talk to him.

He really felt satisfied of Sasuke’s reaction to the situation too. He had been afraid at first, that Sasuke would rat him out to Itachi, but the raven had been nothing but help since they talked that night, and Naruto knew he’d always be thankful for Sasuke’s friendship.

He suddenly heard a car outside and knew it was his friend.

He picked up his coat and rushed out.

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A week later

Shoes clicked harshly against the glass floor as Sasuke strode purposefully into his and his brother’s building. He had decided, three nights ago, that he was going to talk to Itachi about Naruto’s mental state.

It was clear to him that the blonde was slowly breaking and even though they had never been really close, before the blonde blatantly rejected him, he felt he wouldn’t bear if his new friend really became depressed.

He had spent the last two months trying to distract the blonde from his own paranoia and he was starting to get angry at his still oblivious brother.

How could the man be a genius, but be so unaware of his own emotions, that he would cause the only person he loved so much distress?

Could he not see what was so obvious to Sasuke? Could he not see that Naruto needed reassurance?

He knew he shouldn’t be blaming his brother as they had been raised that way, but still… Something needed to be done, before it was too late, before they both lost the best thing that had happened to them in a long time.

Okay, so this was also a selfish act. It was also for him that he wanted to fix Itachi and Naruto’s relationship, but it was still primarily to avoid having a damaged friend, if that friend still wanted him at all once everything was revealed.

Because Sasuke had no disillusion about it. Naruto would learn the truth, and though he didn’t want it, Sasuke knew one day or another, the blonde would know everything; from his participation in the plan, to the very fact that the Caribbean bank used to open the fake account was a property of the Uchiha family.

He knew his friend would be mad, so for all of their sakes, he needed to show Itachi that it wasn’t worth it to carry on with the plan.

They needed to stop while they were still ahead, alive and out of prison themselves.

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Uchiha Itachi was silently sitting in his office, looking over a black opened folder when Sasuke came in. He had been sitting at his desk, elbows over non important documents, his fingers crossed before his mouth, as he studied the medical information he had been given earlier that day.

A quick glance at the clock told him he’d been in that same position for almost twenty minutes. His fingers were white from the force he was using to clench his hands together.
He was pissed off alright.

He looked up when his little brother came into his office without knocking.

“What is it Sasuke” he asked, trying to keep his anger in check.

He could see that his brother was pissed off, but he could also see the faint distress in the charcoal eyes locked into his.

“We need to talk about Naruto, Aniki” stated Sasuke, unknowingly angering Itachi even more.

“What is there to talk about, concerning my slave Sasuke?” he asked, stunning the smaller man.

“Your…” Started Sasuke, too stunned to continue, he mentally shook his head, deciding not to pay attention to his weird mood for now “Look, you need to let him go” he saw Itachi’s eyebrow arch questioningly

“I’m serious. He’s thinking too much and your emotionless attitude is not helping at all. He’ll break if this continues”

Itachi considered the only other Uchiha he trusted before asking, intrigued “What makes you think that, little brother? I certainly did not see anything indicating Naruto-kun wasn’t a hundred percent”

“Of course you wouldn’t” accused Sasuke “You’re like the perfect Uchiha, completely unaware of people’s and your own emotions unless you are trying to manipulate them” he narrowed his eyes as his brother’s glare hardened

“It is true. You have been in love with him from the beginning and didn’t even realize it. Heck, you didn’t even realize he was in love with you too”

Sasuke knew he was far from the perfect Uchiha image he usually radiated, scaring lesser men in his wake, but he didn’t care. He was ready to abandon that for his friend (temporarily).

He saw Itachi get up from his leather chair and walk to the tinted window, watching as the sun set behind another glass building “That’s ridiculous, Sasuke, you know why I decided to enslave Naruto-kun, love was never part of the equation” Itachi stated with conviction as he turned to his brother.

Sasuke frowned “I’m serious Itachi, if you keep this up, you are going to lose him. You and I both actually” he decided he didn’t need to elaborate when he saw his brother smirk

“I reckon you wanted in on the sex Sasuke, have you changed your mind? Is his friendship enough now?” he mocked as Onyx eyes narrowed

Sasuke tilted his head to the side, mentally pitying his brother “You really are Uchiha through and through aren’t you, Aniki? Is it so hard to accept that your plan didn’t go as planned and your feelings have changed?”

Itachi’s eyes flickered to the still open folder on his desk and he smirked “Of course not. Do not mistake me for a fool, Otoutou” he started “Love is a ridiculous notion Sasuke, It is too abstract to grasp, too fickle to maintain. And too similar to lust to truly identify. You are simply mistaken Otoutou. I could never love Naruto-kun” He ended

“Now leave, I have much to do today”

Shocked, Sasuke unconsciously obeyed.

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Naruto could feel his heart crack in several places as he left the office building. He ignored Kisame’s cries for him to stop and kept on running.

He could feel his phone vibrate in his pants pocket and looked at the ID before answering “Now is not the time, Shikamaru” he stated. He wanted to be alone, to have the time to grasp whatever little information he had acquired from his eavesdropping.

And he needed to keep thinking lest his heart decided to fail him, breaking completely and leaving him a mess.

Shikamaru could feel his friend’s distress “ Where are you?” he asked. Naruto gave him the address and he commanded

“Don’t move, I’ll be right there, I have a lot to show you”

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Oh oh!! The plot thickens!!

I don’t know what happened but I suddenly realized Sasuke was never the one trying to reason with Itachi, it’s always the other way around!! So in this chappie, Sasuke is the nice guy (I admit I have a soft spot for him too and read a story where he died today so that may also have something to do with it XP)

Angsty chapter ,huh? Don’t hate Itachi (or me for that matter XP) he has his reasons, promise, you’ll just have to wait to know what they are muahahaha!!!

Let me know if you liked, or if you think you know why he’s being mean!
Hugs!!