The Craziest Drug Ch.8

His stomach was hollow and his body felt weightless,he was hungry and dirty.

His flesh was crawling with an itch as if a horde of tics decided to make a bed somewhere beneath his skins surface.

He yearned to scratch but acknowledging the itch did nothing to alleviate it, in fact, it itched more since he had given in a few times when he thought it was unbearable.

I was wrong..

It was dark again and this had been his second night roaming the streets like an itinerant destitute of a home.

He hadn't slept either, he couldn't and he would have been crazy to let his guard down like that.

Not sleeping had taken it's toll on the boy, he found himself stumbling around woozily and his vision became distorted and hazy. A few times he had just barely escaped being wiped out by the wild traffic.

The boy sighed as he strolled down the long sidewalk path, he tripped over the cracking cement of the path and brushed shoulders with both the homeless and the wealthy enough. Scents brushed his nose strongly but his eyes could barely detect a single shape.

I...I can't see...

The darkness enveloped him but his legs marched on, his body swayed without strength.

He could hear the blaring of car speakers and the sound of cars swishing past urgently.

Where the hell am I going...

He had no idea the road his feet would lead him down but for some reason that didn't stop him from moving, the bright lights of buildings tried to cut through his abyssal sight but he cringed away from the sharpness.

The boy trembled when the acrid wind clawed at his weightless body and pushed him forward.

fucking cold...grrr...hn..

His teeth tried to clatter but he bit down hard and gnashed his teeth.

He closed his eyes to hide away from the icy weather and a small cry of hopelessness escaped his lips, he paused and felt a stinging all over him.

His eyes burned like hell and his lips trembled.

He wanted to scream, he wanted to cry like a little boy and coil up on the sidewalk hoping that someone would be kind enough to invite him into warmth but he knew he would die before he never took the easy way out.

I'm not a child and these people, don't give a damn...they never have before.

He stood there for a moment trying to build up both strength and will but it took longer than it usually would. He wanted to just be a normal fifteen year old boy,one who had a stabled home and parents who cared...parents who hadn't died and left you to parish in hell.

The boy hugged at himself and coiled his fist, he sucked in a long breath and sniffled. He took a step and then hit something warm and familiar, a scent came before the face submerged in his vision and Sasuke paused.

"Sasuke..."

Came the single reply of a voice that he knew in his sleep.

Sasuke stood rooted to his position, one of his ear burned and the other he could no longer hear out of. The man had to say it again.

"Sasuke..." he sighed."...your safe...are yo-"

The man was cut off as the boy fell right into his chest and hid inside of his warmth.

"Ka...kashi...sensei...I can't see...I can't...see anything...what's wrong with me." Sasuke cried out to the man, his body trembled and Kakashi stared down at him woebegone.

It was very apparent that the child had been in bad condition, his skin had acquired a sickly paleness and Kakashi had found him bumbling around like the walking dead.

This must feel like hell...I'll have to move fast.

Kakashi lifted the boy in his arms, Sasuke was already stiff and weightless so it didn't take him an ounce of strength to get the task done.

"Rest Sasuke, you'll be home soon...we'll get you checked out..."

He stared at the boy's face, his eyes were wide and held a slight red to them, blood shot, his lips trembled uncontrollably and Kakashi's heart broke for his suffering.

"...I can't see..." was all the child kept moaning miserably and a moment later he was hissing out a cry, silent, but a cry none the less.

Kakashi consoled him the best way he could as he rushed back towards the home, his stride diligent and swift.

The last thing Sasuke herd from his calm Admin were the words. "Hang in there Sasuke!"

"Ni-san I can't find Kaa-san and Tou-san...Ni-san...?"

"Ototo..shut up!"

"Wha..."

A hand restrained the boy from speaking and moving, arms held him dearly as if trying to bury him inside of their person.

"Do you want to die?" asked the voice.

The small child shook his head quickly and the older boy held him protectively.

"Good because I wont let them kill you...not you...just do what I say and if we make it out of this...run like hell Ototo do you understand!"

The small child was already in tears, trembling and frightened; bewildered.

"Great...now this is the plan, if it's hot...if it's smoky...turn away Sasuke...ok."

The boy nodded.

"Good, run...as fast as you can and don't you dare fucking come back for me...just get out of this place...get out and don't come back, find a hospital...find a police station...you remember how they look right?"

Sasuke nodded again, tears falling over his brothers clutch on his mouth.

"Good...now...on the count of three...I'll run out first, I'll fight off as many of them as I can but you...you just keep running. Don't try to be the hero Sasuke...there are no such things as heros...don't turn around Sasuke...if you hear me make a sound...ignore it...are you ready?"

'NO'

The boy clutched at his older brothers shirt and tried to hug him one last time but his older brother made him turn around.

"Are you ready Ototo..."

'NO'

"1...2..."

"NOO!"

"Sasuke...Sasuke!...it's ok...it's alright."

He was in the arms of a women, she smelled like buttermilk and sugar.

Sweets

He wanted to lick her and see if she tasted sugary and sweet but he realized that would be insane ,he felt insane. His eyes opened wider and the severity of a light above them severed his sight.

His ears rang too loudly.

He squinted and then everything panned out into a crystal clear image, well, sorta.

His groggy eyes stared at the black curly hair.

"Kurenai-san..." he murmured weakly with only half of his strength, he could feel tubes in his veins, hear the insistent pulse of a machine behind him.

"Yes, it's me babe..." she whispered into his cold head of raven locks, she rubbed at the hair on the nape of his neck and held him as if he were her one and only child. She rocked him back and fourth.

"Oh..I'm so glad your ok...I was so worried and if something happened to you Sasuke I wouldn't be able to look myself in the mirror, Sasuke...I..." her voice broke and she cleared her throat, she sighed.

"I'm just happy...your in one piece...I'm just..."

"..I can see.." Sasuke muttered hugging her back, he closed his eyes and sighed.

"Mr. Uchiha...you had me scared...what the hell were you thinking...running a way like that, the streets are corrupt Sasuke." she whispered.

"I know.."

One particular thought had been nagging him since he had come to.

"...Kurenai-san...I remembered..."

The women pulled away from him and looked the boy in the eyes, Sasuke pulled the crisp sheets of the hospital bed around his shoulders and closed his eyes.

"What did you remember?"

"...I remembered...my brother..."

Kurenai gaped and then she smiled.

"You do?"

"Hn,...I remember we were hiding from someone..." He looked at the women. "...who were we hiding from...tell me what happened...or Itachi...to tell me."

Sasuke waited for her response but got it from someone else.

"Tell him yourself."

Both the boy and Kurenai twisted and spotted Itachi in the door way, staring directly into the eyes of his brother. Sasuke was unable to look away, to think that he had gained some of his memory back was unimaginable.

"What happened...to Kaa and Tou...?"

"You already know,what happened Sasuke, we watched it...remember?"