Eyes bleed Tears 33

F^ck... someone... HELP ME!!!

The moment my mind screams out an SOS, I hear a huge explosion of sound coming from the far end of the cave, followed by tumbles and rumbles of loose rocks and rubbles continuously falling down right to the bottom.

And then, a huge animalistic growl comes from where the explosion was heard from.
Although, this growl, had words.
Words, that even made my spine chill, and hairs stand on end, but at the same time, shock and relief overwhelm me.




"GIVE ME BACK SASUKE!!!!"






Chapter 33: Destruction by hatred

After running for so long -with god knows where the physical strength came from- I finally start to sense Sasuke stronger and stronger.
I find a clear opening of just fine, dry dirt stretched across in between the forest and a cliff with the same color as the ground.

The eerie wind from the entrance gives me a hollow greeting, as it mockingly brushes against my scarred face, beckoning me to dare, step into the box of Pandora, and open its secrets, bringing disaster to ourselves.
I feel my eyes growing hot in anger, and wouldn't be surprised if my eyes were glowing red again, because that's exactly how I feel inside... the boiling rage.

I grit my teeth and ball my fists tight as I trudge over to the entrance of the cave that swallows me whole, into darkness.

You better be okay, Sasuke!

Without vision, I sense the walls around me, and the direction where Sasuke is, so I follow my instinct and keep walking because I felt that there isn't time to waste as Sasuke is already suffering enough with whatever this enemy had done to him.

The small, dim flickering flames on the walls don't help much, but my eyes slowly start adjusting to the darkness, and I start to see the narrow path that seems to go on and on.
After spurting non-stop all the way here, a lot of sweat trickles down my face, and the cold wind coming from the inner cave makes me slightly shiver.

Not one sound can be heard except my footsteps that loudly echoes and bounce off these walls and I just find it weird to find many rooms all empty with absolutely nothing contained inside, making me wonder why there are all these rooms in the first place if they aren't used for anything at all.

...an abandoned part of a village?

After the umpteenth empty room, I slam it shut with a loud bang in frustration.
I know that Sasuke is here somewhere, but I just can't seem to find him in this ghostly deserted cave.

Where the hell are you, Sasuke!?

Just then, I suddenly feel a strong wave of panic rush down me as if a bucket of freezing cold water had been thrown at me.

It's Sasuke.
He feels this fear and I had felt it as well, just as I had awhile ago with his pain.
And it also had given me a direction of whereabouts Sasuke is right now.

Right underneath me!

And to go underneath, I needed to find stairs that would lead me down there, so I run where my instincts direct me.
I run into a room where immediately I skid to a halt because of the stench that hits my nose like a powerful blast.
I reopen my squinted eyes and then widen at what looks to be a laboratory filled with so many experimental tools.
Some tools that I don't even want to start imagining what they're used for.
And then my eyes settle on the shelves at the very back of the room, which widens my eyes in shock.

"What the hell..."

The words escapes my mouth as I see rows and rows of jars in front of me, all having some clear liquid in it along with what my eyes can't believe...


...eyes.


Somehow I instinctively know that all these eyes that stare down at me with blood crimson eyes, are related to Sasuke's.
My eyes tell me that these all belong to blood relatives of the Uchiha.







"Ooh-chee-huh?"

"Yeah, my family name. It's the Uchiha people who have curses upon them."

"Curses?"

"Yeah, well, more like a disease, I guess."

"That's what you have? A genetic disease?"

"Something like that..."

"Why are you telling me this?"

"Because I want you to know about me, and to assure you..."

"...? Assure me about what?"

"...that I'm not afraid of your red eyes."

"...So... cursed Ooh-chee-huhs aren't afraid of red eyes..."

"Hahaha... not quite. It's just that, we too, get red eyes from time to time, when we feel excitement, whether that's from anger or pure ecstasy, or at the verge of death... anything of the sort with extremity in emotion."

"Mine is a bit irregular though..."

"Means you're special"

"Hahaha... what's that supposed to mean? Am I supposed to be happy about that?"

"Heh, who knows?"




Yes. They are definitely the eyes of an Uchiha, as I suddenly remember a part of a conversation I once had with Sasuke.
To be collected into jars like these, makes me sick to the stomach, and I feel their rage as well, starting to pour into me, consuming and overtaking my emotion that's already filled to the brim and excessively pouring out.

My body feels hot and gravity starts pulling me down where I put my hands to the cold ground and I see an orange-red glowing substance sealing around me.
Not liquid, but not gas either while I can see it but not touch it and it makes me wonder if this is the emotion of the Uchiha people, all wanting to release their rage upon the person who made them be.
Eyes gouged out and have them stick into a jar, ready to experiment on freely as if killing so many isn't enough of a crime already.

I feel the power within me and I just let my emotions and theirs, control my body.
The moment I do,
I see red and my mind becomes blank, with only just the feeling of rage overtaking me that I don't bother to use the stairs, but just raise my fist up in the air, only to recklessly drop it down hard onto the ground, actually making the whole floor crumble down the ground beneath the laboratory.

When the dust from the fall clears, I see Sasuke's figure, half naked and bound to the wall with what looks like blood streaming from both hollow eyes, and beside him, is a pale ghostly figure who looks fairly dumbstruck at my sudden appearance.
But that's only for a second, as a creepy, wicked smile is brought up to the snake-face as his long tongue slips out from the crack between the lips and moistens them as if he's in for a feast.

"GIVE ME BACK SASUKE!!!"



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Naruto growls with so much hatred.
He goes on all fours, waiting and ready to pounce at the snake when it makes the first move.

"Kukukuku... hello again, Naruto-kun," Orochimaru grins, "oh how lovely to have my experimental object come back to me with its own will."

"SHUT UP!!"

Naruto sprints across to the other side of the room and balled a tight fist, swinging at the corpse-like dead face.
He feels the whoosh of the wind, but feels no hard contact with the jaw of his opponent.

"Too slow, Naruto-kun, dear," Orochimaru gives a tut-tut mocking gesture, further adding oil to the flames of hell's pits inside Naruto.
But no matter how many times Naruto tries to attack, Orochimaru dodges it so easily, and the only thing that's building up is Naruto's anger, that just keeps burning his insides, almost to the point that it's almost made of lava.

And the lava, he needed.
He starts to feel this hotness burning him from the inside out, and his scars on either cheek creases into a harder line. The inner edges of the brows sink deeper in anger while the eyes beneath are showing an infuriating red with an animalistic thin slit pupil which seem to not show hatred anymore, but just plain emotion of a carnivorous animal...


...kill.



"AAAAAAAAARRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


Orochimaru senses the change and feels the danger coming from this wild animal.
Naruto charges at Orochimaru who can no longer keep up with just a swift dodge.
He can't predict Naruto's movements as he feels the powerful blows of kicks and such inhumane strength in the smashes of fists colliding against his jaw.

Orochimaru manages to throw Naruto off who lands dangerously close to Sasuke, but he realises that Naruto is no longer sees Sasuke as he just seems to be on attack mode.
Threatening to kill Sasuke isn't going to gain Orochimaru anymore.
Due to this tremendous aura the blonde releases, the previously cold and clammy cave becomes hotter and hotter and so steamy as if someone keeps adding the heat into a sauna.
The doctor licks his lips, catching his dripping blood at the corner of his mouth nervously.

"What a monster I have created..."

Naruto twitched just barely enough for Orochimaru to notice, and he pulls a smirk on his face, thinking he has found Naruto's weak spot, but it immediately gets wiped off as he gets charged at and flung over to the other side of the wall with so much more force than before.

Yes, it is Naruto's weakness and he is reacting to Orochimaru's words, but these words just infuriates Naruto further, increasing his speed, his power and the amount of punches he sends to the doctor's face.

As if Orochimaru finally admits defeat, he starts laughing, but the laugh sounds so off to Sasuke, and he senses something wrong.

"Come now, Naruto-kun! Kill me! You're just a monster that I created! You're never going to become a normal human! Because that's how I created you to be! You have nothing but just destruction! A monster that destructs everything until it self destructs from the inside! That's what you are!!"

Orochimaru evilly spits out words that Naruto had been afraid of, depressed of, and had wanted to deny. Even with his mind lost right now, he still hears and feels the words that have toxic poison smeared across it, making him want to shut the mouth that's hurting him so much.

If Naruto kills Orochimaru... then Naruto will be broken on the inside, and would never be able to recover from it! Sasuke thinks, Orochimaru is thinking of destroying Naruto from the inside and taking him to the depths of hell with him!!

"NO! NARUTO!!" Sasuke screams at the top of his lungs.
He can hear the smashes and the collision of bone to bone continuously and he needed to stop that before it's too late.

"Naruto! You're not a monster! You hear me!? Don't listen to that mad doctor! He's the one who is a monster for creating this entire twisted situation, but you're not!" Sasuke keeps shouting, wishing it will reach the inner Naruto, the Naruto he knows, the Naruto he wants back, "if you kill him now, you won't be able to come back! I know you're just a kind and loud-mouth human who from time to time becomes depressed and become lost, creating a shelter to get away from the cruel outside world who can't see past your mask. But I know you're just an innocent guy like all others, with maybe just a bit more curiosity than others and you love chocolate! That's the real you, Naruto! It doesn't matter what the others think, cause you have me! That's all you need, right!? I'll be there for you, beside you till the very end, so come back!! Don't lose yourself to what's not worth to you!! Naruto!!"

Sasuke finishes screaming with heavy pants of breath and he only realises seconds later that he can only hear the panting of his breath and nothing else.
Fear washes over him, thinking he had been too late, and the worst scenario has happened.



"...Sasuke?"


Relief washes over Sasuke as he hears the normal curious tone of the blond's coming from the other side of the room.

"...heya, you okay?" Sasuke asks with a shaky laugh.
But his heart freezes when he hears what Naruto has to say next.







"Why are my hands bloody...


...and who is this person laying still in front of me?"