Control is Everything

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Chapter 5

A Plan of Action

From what Sasuke could tell, he’s been here in the asylum for two days now. He learned almost everything from the groups he’s with. Naruto and Hinata were the youngest, being twelve years old, and then Sakura at the age of thirteen, and him, Kiba, and Rock Lee, being the oldest of the age of fourteen. They were feed three times a day of small portion of food, Sasuke was very suspicious of it at first, but when he saw that the rest were okay with their food, he begin to eat his too, and it tasted awful. They were also given bathroom breaks, three times a day. They were to go two at a time; they always paired him up with Naruto. He found out that Naruto also share a cot on the same wall as he did. He grown use to the boy’s company anyway. Since he’s been there, they had never taken him out of the room to meet the man behind all of this, besides from bathroom breaks, but to actually meet the man, he never had the obligation to do so, not that he would want to or anything, just, they always seem to take Lee. He wondered why. What did Lee do to be picked out of all of them? He was going to find out.

When they got their morning breakfast, he sat down next to Lee. He was baring new wounds around his arms, they looked like rope burns, but he could be wrong.

“Hey,” he started.

Lee looked at him for a moment and then answered, “Hey.”

From there, Sasuke was stuck, he never really thought about how to actually ask him what they did to him and why, but there he was.

“So what did you do,” it came out plainly and almost desperate, but it got a reply.

First, Lee just looked at him, and then he lowered his bowl and looked down.

“I don’t really know what I did to be picked out of everyone? All I know is that afterwards, he tells me that the others will be easy to break. He said that he had to break the stronger ones down first, and then he will get the rest,” he stopped there.

“What does he mean by that,” Sasuke asked.

“I don’t know, but he must going to come after the rest of us soon, because I don’t think I can handle it much longer. I can’t go through it again…it’s too painful,” Lee started to sob. He leaned his head on Sasuke’s right shoulder that tensed and Lee began to sobbed, loudly.

“Lee,” he heard Sakura say. She walked over to them and sat next to Lee. She rubbed his back to sooth his cries away, but it seemed to only make his cries worst. The rest came over and tried to sooth Lee as well. They, after all, been here a lot longer than Sasuke has so, he guessed they were use to the boy breaking down and all.

“Don’t worry, Lee, everything will be alright,” Naruto said.

“Yeah, everything will be fine,” Kiba offered beside Naruto.

“We’re here, all of us,” Sakura insured.

“Y-yeah, we’re here to support you,” Hinata provided.

Lee seemed to calm down after that, but he still hiccupped a few times. He wiped away the free tears and appeared to be a lot stronger than what he’d looked like a few minutes ago. Sasuke only guess was that it was the support he was given by the group. In the meantime, Sasuke looked at his surroundings. He had pulled away from the group, he got what he wanted, an answer of why they were here. The man responsible wanted to break them…but of what… he thought. He looked at the window above his bed. It was small and rectangular; maybe he could get a good look at what his surroundings were like. There got to be some form of life outside these walls.

He stepped onto his cot, and tried to peer through the window, but it was still too high. He tried his bed post for leverage but it still didn’t get him high enough to look through. He looked around him until his eyes landed on the group.

“Naruto, is it, come here…I need you to do something,” he called out to the group. Naruto was confused at first, but he chose to head over to Sasuke anyway.

“What is it, what do you want me to do,” he asked.

Sasuke stepped off his post and stepped off his cot, “I need for you to climb on my back so you can look out the window.”

“Why would you want to do that, there’s nothing but trees out there, we looked already,” Kiba informed. “What can you see that we already have seen?”

“Just trust me on this,” Sasuke countered. “Naruto, you ready?”

“Yeah, uhm…sure,” Naruto nodded and stepped on the cot with Sasuke. Sasuke got on his knees and instructed Naruto to climb on his back and put his legs over his shoulders.

When he and Naruto were situated, Sasuke stood up precariously and angled them to the wall.

“Can you see anything,” Sasuke grunted when he was on his tiptoes.

“Yeah,” Naruto answered. “Uhm, I see trees, lots of trees…”

“See, I told you,” Kiba enlightened.

“Can you see anything, beyond the trees, like maybe some buildings, or roads,” Sasuke asked, ignoring Kiba.

“No…I can’t see any of those things….But, wait… I think I see a fence, a tall fence. Is that something,” he looked down at Sasuke, who nodded his head, yes.

Slowly, Sasuke lower them down until he was on his knees again and Naruto could climb off his back.

“So there’s a fence out there, what does that got to do with anything,” Kiba asked.

Sasuke sat on the edge of his cot and smirk, “Nothing really, but it could be useful.”

There was a confused silence between the teenage captives as they waited for Sasuke to explain.

“The fence is obviously there to keep whatever in, in and to keep whatever out, out. Whatever’s out there has to be where others people are, if we get out of here and beyond that fence, I bet we can get help.”

“You think we didn’t think of that already,” Kiba argued. “You think we just sat here and did nothing and not plan to escape. We tried and nothing works, we can never leave this room. Face it, whatever you are planning won’t work, we’re stuck here and you know it.” And with that Kiba left from the group to go set on his cot. Hinata feeling sorry for him, because they tried, Kiba made up so many plans to try and escaped this room… and nothing worked. They were stuck here, and Kiba had given up many attempts ago, she knew how he felt and this new kid, Sasuke, will know soon enough. Kiba was just trying to stop him before he gave everyone hope again, and then have it crunched again out of disappointment. She scooted over toward Kiba and placed a small timid hand over his and smiled, that always cheered him up a little.

“Thanks, Hinata,” he smiled back at her. She just blush her appreciation.

“You obviously didn’t try hard enough,” Sasuke said after a full silence after Kiba’s outburst.

Everyone looked at him for more explanation. They watch as he casually walked over to the unoccupied wall and hit one of the padding. A square piece loosened and there was an opening under it. A gush of wind smoothly ushered into the room and everyone gasped.

“I found it last night when everyone was asleep. I was trying to find a comfortable spot to lie on and considered the floor over here. When I went to lie down I felt a breeze, small, but there. I saw the small crack in the cushion wall and pulled on it. This is how far it gave way, but I think if we work together, we can get it open and escaped. But…” Sasuke casually stated but left the opening there for someone to ask…

“But what,” Sakura asked.

“We all can’t go. It’s better if one or two of us go and get help, but all of us at once would be sloppy and it would take too much time for us to wait for all of us to climb over the fence.”

“But if we leave the rest of us here, who knows what will happen,” Lee informed.

“It’s either stay here or wait for someone to find us, which probably will take days, months even. Or we can have someone get help and have help find us faster,” Sasuke made clear.

No one had anything to say. Desperation spoke loud and clear that this was a good plan, but was it worth it, yeah… it was, but was it the safest? One or two go get help while the others stayed and wait, and maybe suffer from it as well. No one was sure of what to do.

Not until one person spoke up.

“I think that is a good plan,” Lee whispered. He had his head bow as though he was still uncertain but when he lifted his head up and puffed out his chest and nod, boldly, “I think we should go with the plan. The faster we get help, the better.”

Everyone was stun, but smiled afterwards. They all saw the hope in his eyes, something, out of the few weeks they’ve been there was gone for a while. If he had hope then the rest of them had it too.

“Okay,” both Sakura and Naruto said at the same time.

“Alright,” Hinata said behind her hands, but a confident smile was there behind it.

“Yeah, I’m with you,” Kiba gave in.

Sasuke nodded his head to agree in his own way, “Alright…now, who gets to be the two to go out there and climbed the fence?”

There was a dead silence, no one could fill.

They all grabbed around the square cushion on the wall to pull it off. It took three strong pulls to actually have the square shaped pad come off.

They had decided who would be going. Sasuke, because it was his plan and they felt he should do the honors of doing it and Kiba because he was the only one to offer. Lee offered to stay and protect the rest of their group, he said that he could handle it and he didn’t want to see anyone else get hurt. Naruto had offered to be the one to go outside but Sakura had convinced him that the girls would need another ‘man’ to protect the group. He agreed and offered to stay with the group. This new plan put everyone in a good mood. They had their hopes again and it felt good to actually have it restored.

After they had place the pad, carefully, on the floor, they looked into the hollow hole. It was an air vent, a large air vent. Another gush of wind blew through it and slickly blew into their faces.

“See, when I felt the wind last night, I thought that there must be an open to the outside,” Sasuke explained plainly. There were a moments of content ‘Oh’s’ and nods from the rest of the group, they understood.

Then the moment of good moods were broken as everyone pulled away from the hole in the wall to look at the two that would be going for help. It was scary because they didn’t know what could happen while they were gone or if they would see each other again, but they knew that this had to happen in order for them to get rescued.

“Well, then,” Kiba started.

“Yeah,” Sakura sadly smiled.

“See'ya when we see'ya,” Kiba tried to get the happy mood back, but the end result was a hit on the shoulder from Sakura and a groan or two from Naruto and Lee. Hinata just blushed and sighed, sadly. Everyone moved around Kiba and gave him a hug.

“We should go before they serve the lunch rounds, that should give us at least two hours,” Sasuke told the group. He didn’t do the mushy stuff, not in a long time, it brought back memories of his brother and him, but that was a long time ago. He didn’t want those memories again. He was about to climb in the vent when he felt a hand place on his shoulders. He turned to find Naruto’s hand there.

“You…be careful too. I know we didn’t know each other that long, but…everybody needs a little encouragement here and there,” Naruto smiled sheepishly and hugged him. Sasuke tensed and awkwardly tried to hug him back, seriously memories he just didn’t want to remember.

He pushed Naruto away and climb through the vent, he crawled a few feet into the vent and turned around to find Kiba climbing behind him. “Close up the wall behind us, we don’t want them to know how we have gotten out, if something should go wrong,” he yelled to the ones still in the room. They nodded and when Kiba was completely in and a few feet into the vent they reached down for the piece and placed it back onto the wall the best they could.

“Do you know where you are going,” Kiba asked after they did varies turns in the vent.

“I’m just following where I feel the wind, it should lead us to an opening somewhere,” Sasuke answered.

“Great, we’re lost,” Kiba complained.

With a sigh, Sasuke stopped himself before he rolled his eyes and said, “Come on, I think we’re close.” He didn’t really think his plan all the way through, he just saw the opening and took it, it was impulsive. Now that he thought about it, he could have thought a little more about his plan in the beginning, but he was desperate to get out of the place. He had no idea what the person responsible was going to do to him or the others and not knowing was something he did not like. No, this had to work, it just have to.

They found the opening, it was blocked by a small metal fence, but with two powerful kicks the fence was gone. Sasuke crawled out onto the open field before the building. He looked around and noticed that the place was huge. It also looked ancient, with all things considering that it looked like no one had used it in years. The lawn was covered in weeds and vines and there was a water fountain in front of the building that was also covered with shrubbery and moldy water. If someone did happen to come upon this place they would sure to find it creepy and unoccupied.

When Kiba was out of the vent, they made a run for it to the woods surrounding the place.

“I see’em,” Naruto said from his perch up on Lee’s shoulders, looking out the room’s window. They cheered for them to make it while Sakura and Hinata was seating on the cot next to Naruto and Lee. They were holding hands and Sakura was feeling uneasy about the whole thing.

“I’ve should have said something earlier. This doesn’t feel right, it’s too easy,” she said to herself, but Hinata was listening and she too was becoming uneasy.

“I-I’m sure they will be a-alright, Saku…”

A noise from inside the building cut her off. Naruto and Lee must’ve heard it too because they looked towards Sakura and Hinata for answers.

“What was that,” Naruto asked.

Sakura shrugged her shoulders, “I don’t know.”

The noise sounded again and this time it sounded closer. It sounded like cell doors being opened and closed, forcefully.

“That doesn’t sound good,” Naruto said and turned his head back to the window and started pounding on it. “Kiba…Sasuke, turn back, something’s happening. Sasuke…Kiba,” Naruto yelled at the window. “There too far, I don’t think they can hear me.”

He looked to Sakura with a worried expression. “What do we do,” he asked her. She had nothing; she was on the verge of tears when she realized everyone was looking at her.

“I don’t know,” she covered her face with her hands. “I don’t know.”

Naruto looked down at Lee, who at the same time looked up at him. Naruto felt him shrug his shoulders; he too had no clue of what to do.

Naruto turned back to the window and could see his friends almost at the fence. He closed his eyes and prayed that something bad won’t happen. Please, he thought, please let everything be okay, don’t let nothing bad happen…please. He looked up to see his friends reach the fence.

“We’re almost there,” Kiba shouted as he ran ahead to get to the fence. Sasuke was right behind him…when he felt something inside of him telling him to stop. He stopped, instantly and looked back at the building. It doesn’t feel right, he told himself. He looked back at Kiba to see him just inches away from the fence. In doing so, he caught something on the fence. It was white with words on it. It didn’t take him long to figure it out, nor did he have to finish reading the sign to know what it was warning him of.

“KIBA, stop, don’t touch….”

It was too late; Kiba had already leaped up to climb the fence. He didn’t get far when he felt the high voltage zap through his body. For some reason his hands didn’t want to let go of the wired fence. He tried with as much thought that he had while being continuously zap with electricity going through his body.

“Ahhhh,” he yelled, his only cry for help.

Sasuke figure he only had two seconds to figure thing out before Kiba was toast. He looked around for anything that could help him get Kiba off the fence.

Nothing.

He thought for a moment longer, he had no other choice.

He ran up behind Kiba and grabbed around his waist to pull him off. He felt the electricity bolt through his body, but he was grounded and the shock didn’t hurt as much, not like how Kiba was feeling it. With one pull and a spark or two from the fence once Kiba’s hands were free, they found themselves lying on the ground, tired, on fire from the inside, and a bit shaken. Sasuke was the first to recover. He looked down at Kiba, who was breathing quite heavily and had burns all over his hands. It looked bad and Sasuke had to look away for a minute.

“Kiba, you okay? Can you hear me,” he shook Kiba’s shaking body for a little.

Kiba groan and opened his eyes.

“Can you move,” Sasuke asked already picking himself up and examining his burn wounds. He reached down to help pick up Kiba when he grunt a yes and tried to get up from the ground.

“They’re okay, they’re getting up…they’re okay,” Naruto yelled to the group. He’d seen everything and was scared the entire time. Kiba look really hurt, he thought as he watched them pick each other up.

They all heard Kiba scream and at the same time the lights in the hallway and their room flickered off and on. Sakura and Hinata covered their ears when they heard the shriek coming from Kiba, they couldn’t stand the way it sound…filled with pain and suffering.

Lee kept whispering to the group that it will be okay that they were going to make it. He repeated it over and over. Now they were just waiting there, quiet, listening to Naruto as he described Sasuke and Kiba’s every move. But that didn’t last long, because they heard that noise again. The sound of cell doors opening and closing…and then something else:

Dogs.

“Put your right arm around my shoulders, Kiba,” Sasuke instructed Kiba. “We have to…”

He heard a sound of something opening. Kiba must’ve heard it too because he lifted his head to look around.

“What was that,” Sasuke asked more to himself than to Kiba.

Another one of those sounds and then dogs barking. They tensed as it struck them of what was happening or what was going to happen if they just stood there.

“Move,” Sasuke yelled as he ran and tried to carry Kiba at the same time. He didn’t know where the dogs were coming from. It sounding like they were coming for every angle he turned to. Then he remembered the vent, he had to get back to the vent.

Kiba was falling unconscious fast, all his weight was lean on him making it harder for them to reach there destination.

“Kiba, you have to try and help me here…I can’t do all the running for the both of us.”

Kiba groaned but he did move his feet a little to help Sasuke run a little faster.

They’re almost there, Naruto thought. He could see them reach the building.

We almost there, Sasuke thought as he could see the vent just a few feet away from where they were. Almost there, just a few inches more.

“Ahhh,” Kiba scream and Sasuke’s grip on him was yanked away. He turned around to see a rottweiler pulling on Kiba pants leg and biting into his leg. “Get it off me,” Kiba yelled at Sasuke. Sasuke picked up the fence that was covering the vent opening and hit the big dog across the head. It didn’t back off, it just growl and bit down harder into Kiba’s leg. “Ahhh.”

Sasuke took the small fence and was just about to hit the dog over the head again when another rottweiler jumped from behind him and took his arm. A sharp pain shot up his arm as the dog twist his arm to yank it towards the other dog next to it. He held a scream that threaten to leave his throat when another dog came and took his right leg. He tried using his free hand to hit the dog on his arm, off, and he tried his left leg to do the same to the dog at his taken leg. But they wouldn’t let go. Suddenly, he looked over to his right to see more dogs approaching…about five of them. They raced over to get over to their other companions as they saw their victims as tasty treats or one of their pulley toys to play with. They love tearing does apart. Before impact, Sasuke closed his eyes and hoped that he loss consciousness before he felt the insufferable pain.

“AAHHHHHHHH.”

Naruto saw the dogs heading for his friends; he just chose to look away before he saw the actual scene. He placed his head on the edge of the window sill and cried. He could only think of what this could lead to, now. They weren’t getting out of here; they probably weren’t going to see Kiba or Sasuke again. They were alone and they couldn’t escape this place, it was confirmed. They were going to die here.

“AAHHHHHHHHHH.”

They covered their ears as they heard their friends’ screams from the outside. Yeah, they’re defiantly going to die here.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHH.”
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AN: Oh My...I hope Kiba and Sasuke are okay. Eheheheheheheh!