A New Beginning Chapter 4

We traveled for three days to get to this supposed hidden house, I don't think Itachi has slept once since we left. "Hey Itachi, I was wondering something?"
"Yeah."
"Have you slept since we left."
"No."
"What! Why not?"
"I need to watch for any danger."
"Sasuke attacking us really shook you up, didn't it?"
"No." I didn't know what to say after that, I felt a little sad that he wasn't worried about Sasuke coming after us. We travel for a little while longer until we get to the base of a mountain. "We have to climb up to get to the house."
"Isn't there a path?"
"Yes, but the release for the path is on the top of the mountain, so for now we will have to climb." All I do is sigh then start to climb.
"Shouldn't you be going first?"
"No I need to be able to catch you if you fall."
"And what happens if you fall?"
"Then you need to find somewhere to stop to wait for me." It was obvious that he would rather me climb then talk.
It was a hard journey up the mountain, it took us almost a half-hour to get to the top. But when we did I was amazed. It was almost like a hidden resort. "Why does this look like hidden hot spring bath?"
"Because it once was."
"What happened?"
"It was abandoned when we got here, so I don't know."
"Oh ok." Once again he sounded like he wanted me to shut-up and focus on going inside, so I dropped the conversation all together. He started to walk in front of me. 'I don't understand what this guys problem is. I know he's lived a hard life, but still he needs to learn to have a conversation with people with out making them feel like they are an idiot for even talking to him.'
'You know how the Uchihas are, they think they are better than everyone else, you if we kill him we wouldn't have to worry about him anymore.'
'I'm not going to kill him, right now he is the one with money, something we are lacking. Or do you not want us to eat?'
'You win this time kit, but sooner or later you will realize I'm right.'
'Sure I will.' I feel someone grab me and pull me out of the way.
"Naruto watch where you're going." He said in an exasperated voice.
"Sorry, I zoned out."
"You seem to do that a lot, is there something that you're not telling me?"
"No." He didn't believe me.
"Is it something to do with the fox?" Of course he would know, he was in the Akatsuki.
"It doesn't matter." I snap. I really just wanted to drop it. My conversations with the fox are private. He doesn't say any more on the matter, instead he just motioned for me to follow him. It didn't take long until we were out side the front gate. Itachi pushed them open and looked inside. Once he knew the coast was clear we went inside. The place looked magnificent from outside the gate, but it looked even better from inside. There are no words to describe this place. It was huge, almost as big as a castle, everything was extravagant, even though it was run down. I couldn't imagine what this place would look like if it were to be restored. "This place is amazing."
"It's a run down hot spring."
"But still, it's huge."
"I've seen bigger." He made me angry, every time I say something he has to go and put me down, or make me feel bad, it's almost like he is Sasuke's twin instead of his older brother.
"Do you have to do that, every time I say I like something you have to go and say something bad about. I mean really, don't you know how to have a decent conversation with some one?"
"Yes."
"Do you know how to answer in more than just yes or no. Do you know how to have a conversation about random things."
"What's the point of that." I was shocked. 'Has this guy ever been in a relationship with someone? Wait why am I thinking about his relationships?'
"I don't really know. I just know its what people do when they are trying to talk to someone. You know when someone asks you what kind of movies do you like, what's your favorite color, random things that come to mind."
"I still don't see the point."
"I give up, having a conversation with you is like talking to Sasuke." I yell as I walk away. I hear him call for me to come back but I don't listen I just go of towards the gigantic building. It really doesn't take me long to get to the front gates. I push open the door and make my way inside. The inside of the building was in much better condition than the outside. 'I guess even the Akatsuki had to do house work.' I start to wander around, the place looked like a normal hot spring on the inside. All the walls were a neutral color, there was some old paintings on the wall. It was nice. It was quite. I went in to the first room I found, it looked like a meditation room. 'Perfect,' I think. I go to the middle of the room and sit down. 'Hey fox?'
'Yes, kit.'
'Is there any way to speed up the healing processes?'
'For your mind no, but for your body, maybe.'
'What do you mean maybe?'
'I mean there may be something that I can do.'
'I'm not letting you out.'
'It doesn't require that.'
'Then what?'
'I could use my chakra to heal you, but it would be a little painful. Before we begin we need to see if that Uchiha boy is still here. I don't want him to interfere, should you scream.'
'Alright, I'll go look then we can get started right?'
'Yes.' I get up from where I'm sitting and leave the room. I go back down the hallway and begin to look for him.
After an hour of looking all over for him I couldn't find him. 'I guess he left.' I felt a little saddened that he didn't tell me that he was leaving, but at the same time I was a little happy that he wasn't here and that the fox would be able to help me. I find my way back to the room and sit back in the spot that I was sitting in before and call for the fox.
'I suppose he isn't here if your calling for me.'
'That's right. So can we get started. Oh and if you do anything to hurt me I will go look for Sasuke and have him kill us both, understand.'
'Yes. Now shut-up and lay down.' I do as I'm told and lay down. 'Now just close your eyes and relax, I take over from there.'
'What?'
'Not like that you idiot, I meant I'll start the healing process.'
'Oh, okay.' I close my eyes and relax, just as I was told to. After a few minutes I started to feel this burning sensation throughout my entire body. I hear him mumbling about how the people at the hospital missed a few internal injuries and about how I had a few broken ribs that had healed wrong. I tried to pay no attention to what he was saying. After another few minutes the pain really started to kick in. I wasn't unbearable but its definitely not something I wouldn't want to feel again after this was over. After another few minutes the pain became almost unbearable. It felt like my bones were breaking and previous wounds were reopening.
'I had to reopen a few wounds that had some infections starting to set in and I needed to re-break your bones so that I could heal them properly. Just try to bare it a little longer.' I couldn't respond, I was in to much pain to respond. I felt myself let out a scream of agony. In the midst of my screaming I feel someone touch me. I open my eyes for a second, I see Itachi crouching next to me. I hear him say something, then I feel everything just stop. I'm still in a lot of pain, but not as much as I was a second ago.
"What the hell?" I've never heard him cuss before. It was a little unnerving. "Do you want to tell me what was happening to you?" I tried to open my mouth to speak but I couldn't. I feel him touch my chest. "Why are your ribs broken? What were you doing to yourself?" Once again I found I couldn't speak. "Your not going to tell me?" I didn't say anything again. "Fine, but we need to go bandage you up." He picks me up and carries me into another room. He doesn't speak a word to me while we go. All I could do was grunt in pain. He lays me down on a bed, then leaves to get stuff to bandage me up. When he comes back I see that he has a bowl of water and bandages. I decide to try and talk one more time.
"I was in the middle of something."
"What ever it was it wasn't good for you."
"The fox was healing me, he had to reopen some of my wounds and re-break some of my ribs. You interrupted us before he could heal all of it."
"The Nine Tailed Fox is not a good being out to help you."
"But at the same time I'm not any good for him while I'm wounded. He knows that."
"He also knows that this was a good opportunity to escape." I shut-up knowing that I'm not going to win this fight. "Do you know how many ribs he broke?"
"Like six, I think."
"That's a lot of ribs, why did he break that many?"
"They had been broken previously and didn't heal correctly, so he was going to re-break them and then heal them properly."
"I know some medical ninjutsu, but not enough to completely heal you, just enough to take some of the pain away." As soon as he said the last part I felt a little spark of happiness, happiness at the fact that he could take some of the pain away.
"Could you hurry up? On a scale of one to ten I'm about a nine."
"Alright." He makes a hand sign then his hands begin to glow green, he puts his hands on my chest, I could feel some of the pain go away almost immediately, it was a relief. When he stops he looked tired. 'He must have been really concentrating.' "Are you feeling any better?"
"Yeah a lot better. Maybe you should take a nap."
"I still need to bandage you. If I don't you wounds could get worse." After seeing my face he quickly added, "then I'll take a nap." I nod.
"Where did you go?"
"In town, we needed food and other provisions."
"Oh okay." We ended the conversation there, there really was no need for us to continue talking.
He had to cut my shirt off so that he could bandage my ribs. It didn't take to long for him to bandage all of my wounds. After he was done he left. After laying there a few minutes I became restless. I looked over at a clock that Itachi had put in here, it was exactly six pm, I was a little hungry. 'He did say that he went and got food for us to eat. Maybe I should make him something to eat.' Before I got up to get something to eat I decided to try and talk to the fox again. 'Hey fox?' No reply so I call for him again, 'Fox,' again no reply. 'What did he do to you?' Instead of sitting there all night and trying to figure out what he did to the fox I decided to do what I had planed just a moment ago, to go get something to eat.
I slowly get up out of bed and start to head to the door, when I stop for a moment I see that there is a map on a desk up against one of the walls. I grab it and head out the door. I followed the map to the kitchen, when I get in the kitchen I was amazed but the size of it. I was about twice the size of the kitchen in my old apartment, all of the appliances looked some what new, maybe only a couple years old, and there was an island sitting in the middle of it. It was amazing. I go over to the fridge and see that it is indeed stocked with food. 'When did he do this? Hell when did he leave then come back?' All questions I planed on asking him when he wakes up from his nap. I grab a few things from the fridge and put them on the island. I look around the kitchen for the things I needed to make dinner, it took me a few minutes but I found everything needed.
It didn't take me long to have things cooking on the stove and some bread being prepared to go into the oven. I stand back and look at all my hard work. 'I wonder if Itachi will be up in enough time to eat some of this.'
"What smells good?" I hear Itachi say in a sleepy voice.
"Dinner. Did I wake you up."
"No I never really went to sleep. How are you feeling?"
"Fine, barely any pain. You're really good at medical stuff. But really you didn't need to interrupt what was happening."
"I don't know how I can make you understand that you can't trust the fox."
"I didn't say that I trusted him, he and I have an understanding, he needs me to be healthy so he can be healthy. That and he wants the chance to see me fight Sasuke, again."
"I don't care what he told you, I'm telling you he's no good." I don't know how he was able to keep his voice so calm even though I know he was getting angry at me.
"Please, I don't want to argue, can we just stop. I really don't like people fighting." He sighs.
"I know, I apologize." We stopped the conversation there, things were already awkward between us, we didn't need to add to it. I finished dinner a little while later, and put the bread in the oven. "What is the bread for?"
"Breakfast tomorrow. What else do you want?"
"I don't care, I got as much as I could while I was in town."
"Okay, where is the town from here?"
"Just a few minutes further up the road we came in on."
"Oh okay." I didn't know what else to talk about. I know Sasuke is a sore subject for the both of us, and I really didn't know much about him. 'Maybe I could ask about the Akatsuki.' "What happened to the Akatsuki?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"I don't know, I'm just curious."
"They died."
"How?"
"Does it matter?" He obviously doesn't want to talk about it.
"No I guess not." I finish eating then get up and start to do the dishes, all without saying a word. I was surprised when Itachi spoke.
"Are you worried about Sasuke finding us?"
"Why would you ask that."
"You talk more when your nervous and you tend to act without thinking when you feel like your in danger." I stopped moving, he really did know everything about me.
"How in the hell do you know everything about me?"
"Kakashi told me that." 'Of coarse he did.'
"Oh okay." I finished doing the dishes then go to dry them and put them up, but as soon as I lifted my arms up I felt a sharp pain go through my body. I don't show that I'm in any pain, I don't want Itachi thinking that I'm weak. I push through the pain and finish putting the dishes up. "I think I'm going to go to bed, I feel a little tired." He just nods and goes back to what looks like spacing out. 'I will never understand that man. He doesn't seem like he's like Sasuke but at the same time he is so much like him. Both of them are quite and both of them are strong shinobi that a lot of people respect, hate, and fear all at the same time. I really don't know what to make of him.' I think as I make my way to my room.
I look around my room for a moment, it's a normal room, my room back at Itachi's house was much better. Or it at least wasn't as plain as this one. The bed, from what I could tell earlier, was as comfortable as the one from the other house. The walls were plain white, no pictures in here, hell no decorations at all. A wardrobe and a dresser was the only other furniture in the room besides the bed. All in all it was a simple room, something that I didn't like. I walk into the adjoining bathroom, it was like the room plain and simple, in other words, boring. I go back in to the bedroom and sit down on the bed. 'Hey fox? Fox!' I try to call for him again, but there was no response. 'Itachi must have learned a sealing jutsu while he was away from the village.' It bothers me a little, I felt alone. I was had gotten used to having the fox with me, it was weird not to hear his voice.
I sigh and lay back on the bed. 'My ribs are still killing me, and the ANBU never got here with our stuff. I only have clothes for a couple of days, give or take.' I looked up at the ceiling, it to was as boring as the rest of the room. 'Really, can't there at least be a stain or something to look at, I feel like I'm back in the hospital. But at least the hospital had magazines and stuff.' I sigh again and slowly get up off the bed. I go over to my bag that Itachi left for me on the dresser and take out what little clothing I had and put it up, leaving my pajamas out for me to change into. I go over to my door  and look to see if Itachi is waiting out side for me, just incase I were to let out a sound of pain, he wasn't. So I go back in to my room and agonizingly change into my pajamas. I go to lay down on my bed and attempt to fall asleep.
After a few minutes of tossing and turning trying to get comfortable I give up. I sigh and lay on my back looking back up at my ceiling. After a couple of minute of laying there I realize I didn't brush my teeth, so I get out of bed and start to head for the bathroom, but after a couple of steps I feel a sharp, almost unbearable pain course through my body. I stop and look for something to hold on to so that I wouldn't fall, but unfortunately there was nothing at the moment. 'Damn these oversized rooms.' I think as I fall to my hands and knees. I bite my lip to try and stop my self from screaming in pain, it almost doesn't work. I push my self up and stumble my way into the bathroom looking for something to help with the pain, there was nothing. 'Of course, we haven't even been here a day, so there would be nothing in here for me. I don't want to go to Itachi, he seems like he is in a bad mood.' Another wave of pain hits me. 'That one was worse than the last.'
It felt like I was going to die from all the pain. I grab on to the wall for support and try to steady my breathing. 'Wait I think I saw some pain meds  in the kitchen, Itachi must of gotten them for me when we went to town today. But what it Itachi is there? Naw, he looked like he was going to pass out when I saw him last. He's most likely in bed already.' I slowly start to head for the kitchen holding on to the walls for support, falling down a couple more times on the way.
Just as I get outside the kitchen I feel the biggest wave of pain hit me. I fall to the ground and let out a scream of pain, this time though the pain didn't ebb, it stayed like that. All I could do was scream. My sight became blurry after a few seconds of this, and after a few more seconds I lost the fight to stay awake.