Naruto: The Unwoven Threads of Fate

He gently runs a hand almost endearingly down Choji's face. "Usually I'd swap you spots with the cute one but I think you deserve something special today. Now when you thrash in pain from the whip you'll risk pulling your joints out. Fun fun fun! What will happen? Will you endure it or will you cause yourself more agony?"

Choji boldly stares right back at his torturer. Yet he doesn't speak, his courage only goes so far.

"Let's begin." The brute of a man steps back to get a proper swing of the whip.

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Choji's will breaks on the third swing. He can't help but scream out in agony. He can't help but try to contort away from the sting of the whip. He can't help it as tears start to stream down his face.

"Please." Ino quietly begs into the darkness. "Please. Please just… please."

She repeats it over and over like a mantra. Just the one word but her eyes speak volumes more. She can only hope it's enough.

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"Now then." The torturer turns away from Choji. "Ladies second?"

"I can't wait to watch you die." Ino does the only thing she can to get one back at him. She spits. It doesn't hit him, in fact it falls dreadfully short of him. But her intent was clearly conveyed.

"You're feisty today!" He cackles. "I like that!"

"Hey dipshit! I've seen preteen girls swing better than you!"" Shikamaru attempts to distract him but it's too late.

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It's Ino's turn to scream out into the lantern lit cave. Her shrill cry of pain echoes long and loud. But then unexpectedly it changes. It's slowly turning into a chuckle, then a laugh, then full blown hysterics.

"What's this?" The torturer pauses on his second swing. "What are you laughing about?"

"I won't say!" Ino can't stifle her laughter. "Wait that's not right! Hahaha! I can't say! HAHAHA! I can't say!"

"Hm." The torturer pauses for a moment. Then he shrugs and hefts the whip once more. "Guess I broke her. Doesn't mean I'm going to stop!"

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Seen by only one person, a spider disappears down the tunnel of the cave.

The Following Day

"You know." The Torturer almost longingly calls out to his toys. "I'm going to miss you three."

"What?" Shikamaru asks before he can think better of it.

"We found someone who wants you." The Torturer walks over to Shikamaru. His eyes rake over his body, taking in every minute detail it can. It's like an artist taking the final look of a painting he just sold. "Or at least your heads. They're paying a pretty penny too! My group will be set up for life!"

"Who?" Choji hoarsely asks. None of them have had a drink in days and they're all feeling it.

"I suppose it wouldn't matter if I told you." The torturer moves over to Choji next. He tenderly runs a hand down his face yet again. Choji can't suppress a shudder and the Torturer smiles in victory. "But I won't."

The Torturer moves over to his last victim, Ino. He stops next to her and bends down so that they're at the same height. She doesn't lift her head to meet his eyes but he's having none of that. He reaches out and gently lifts her chin until she's forced to meet his gaze. There's something burning in his eyes. Something different. Something… primal.

"How about one more session?" He speaks to everyone but looks only at Ino. His face is taking up her entire line of sight. She has no choice but to watch as a disgustingly sweet smile forms on his face. "You all don't have much time left but that's okay. I've been given the go ahead to do whatever I want to you all now since only your heads are important. Let's see, I only have enough time to work over one of you but I want to do all three of you. Choices, choices! Oh, I know what to do! This will pain all three of you more than anything else I've done!"

He releases his gentle hold on Ino's chin and stands up straight. He adjust the chains binding Ino so that her arms are locked in place above her head and she's forced to stand on the balls of her feet.

"Plus it's been awhile since I've had someone quite so… exquisite." He rubs a strand of her hair between his grubby fingers. "And you're a screamer, it's so much better when they scream."

He steps backwards and rips off the tattered remains of Ino's coat barring her torso to the world.

"Stay away!" Ino screams at the despicable man before her as she flails in her bonds to try and attack him by any means necessary. She tries to shoulder check him, she tries to headbutt him, she tries everything she can but he's out of her reach. "I swear I'll kill you!"

Despite her words and futile attacks the Torturer's smile only grows. Her words only spur him on like pouring gasoline on a fire. He likes them when they fight back.

"I'LL KILL YOU!" Shikamaru and Choji roar in unison as they both wildly thrash in their chains. They don't care how much it hurts them. They don't care that the cold steel is ripping their skin off. They don't care that they're cracking their bones. They only have one thing on their minds.

"TOUCH HER AGAIN AND I'LL SKIN YOU ALIVE!" No one knows if Choji or Shikamaru said that. They're both shouting their heads off while doing everything they can to break their restraints.

But the restrictive steel is too strong. The seals confining their chakra are functioning perfectly. They can't do anything to stop this.

"Skinning alive. I'll have to remember that one for next time." The Torturer cracks a grin as his eyes slowly drag over Ino. The only protection she has from him lecherous gaze is her suddenly not long enough shorts. They're also the thing that his eyes lock on. "These are in the way."

The sound of fabric ripping is heard once more.

"Pink panties. Cute." The Torture smirks as his prize worms around. "Those can stay on for now." He reaches for the hem of his shirt and takes it off.

"I will kill you!" Ino's face drains of all blood and her wild flailing doubles in ferocity. The Torturer is slowly closing in on her. "DON'T COME NEAR ME!"

"I gotta give it to ya girlie, you've certainly got some spirit. That's good, I like it when they're feisty! It's so much more fun when I have to work for it!" Then he reaches for his belt.

"YOU FUCKER LEAVE HER ALONE!" Shikamaru shouts out. "I'LL STRANGLE YOU TO… to… death?" His rage fueled shout peters out in confusion.

He's hearing the sound of footsteps. Someone is walking towards them. This has never happened before, it's only ever been this scoundrel of a man that's visited them.

"Ha I knew it!" The Torturer barks out and stops fumbling with his belt to address the owner of the boots stomping down the tunnel. Yet he doesn't look away from his prize. "I knew I'd get one of you to join me! So, wanna take turns or spit roast her?"

There's no verbal response from the person who is just out of sight, instead their footsteps quicken.

"Hey if you don't want her that's all you had to say." The Torturer shrugs and gestures towards the two bound boys. "The bigger one has more fight in him but the scrawny one would definitely curse you better. He knows a lot of big fancy words."

A mass of pure black threads with one stark white mass springs out of the shadows at the mouth of the cave. The monster greedily falls down onto the Torturer and completely envelopes him. Black unbreakable threads wrap around his limbs and force them to remain still. Several cords tightly wrap around his neck to the point that every breath is a struggle. That's not it though, there's someone else lurking just out of sight in the shadows.

None other than Alvarcus Mar steps into the light. There are blood splatters all over him. It's splashed across his legs, it's drizzled over his torso, his hands are completely covered like he dipped them in a bucket of blood and there's a single spray pattern across his face.

"Who the fuck are - URK!" The Torturer only got out four words before his collar of threads choked off the rest of them.

Alvarcus doesn't say a single word. He slowly stalks into the cave. He's heading straight towards the Torturer like a spider moving in on the unfortunate insect caught in its web. Except there's no web, instead it's his ever present companion restraining the man.

As he gets within reach the Jiongu gently lowers the Torturer down to the ground and pulls his limbs spread eagled. He has no hope of escaping the living bindings that dictate his movement, in fact he's so caught of guard that he doesn't even fight back yet.

Once Alvarcus stands next to the Torturer he still holds his tongue. His face is terrifyingly blank as he slowly reaches down and grips the left wrist of his captive. Alvarcus plants his boot on his shoulder and starts pulling the arm up. Higher and higher he pulls until the limb is taunt. The muscles are stretched to their ripping point, the bones are about to snap under the extreme force and a cold sweat forms on the brow of the Torturer.

"Now hold on just a moment - GAAAAH!" The Torturer screams out in agony as his arm is ripped off. Blood squirts out of the jagged stump and the detached limb, spilling uselessly on the ground.

Still there's no emotion on Alvarcus' face. He's remaining completely blank as he's holding the bleeding limb.

"GOD DAMMIT MAN!" The Torturer thrashes around in the living bindings in agony. "That's not at all how you go about torturing someone! You slowly work up to it, now you can't even use my arm to get to me! Start at the fingernails or something you amature!"

Alvarcus doesn't reply. He simply bends down and shoves the stump and the severed limb together. Then the Jiongu takes over, part of the black threads that are restraining the man lift into the air and start weaving the two pieces back into one whole.

The entire time the Torturer is screaming in pain but there's a crazed look in his eyes, almost as if he's evaluating his own torture. His crazed eyes go wide as his limb spasms back to life.

Alvarcus finally breaks his mask of nothing as he moves over to the other arm. A sick and twisted smile of satisfaction has started to take over his face. He grabs the wrist again and once more places his boot on the shoulder. He starts pulling. Slowly increasing the tension until the limb can't take it anymore. It comes ripping off with a sickening tearing sound and a splatter of blood hitting the ground. Alvarcus drops this limb and the Jiongu expertly catches it and goes about the agonizing process of reattaching it.

"Haha not bad kid." The Torturer weakly says. His face is pale and he's struggling to remain conscious. "But from one professional to another, don't cause big wounds. Your victim will bleed out and die from blood loss."

Alvarcus pauses on his way to the left leg of his prey then changes directions. He kneels down over the man on death's door and splays his fingers wide as if they're claws. He rams them into his chest with enough force to penetrate ribs.

Something throbs beneath Alvarcus' skin, several tendrils seem to be pulsating down his arm and into the Torturer. Slowly, over the next three minutes, the Torturer's complexion starts returning to normal.

"That's… that's one hell of a trick." The Torturer finally has a tinge of fear in his eyes now. Before he knew that there was the escape of death quickly approaching for him, but now? Now he knows that he will suffer for so much longer.

"Holy shit." Choji says as he watches his friend go about systematically causing deadly wounds and then fixing them over and over to their captor.

Alvarcus resumes his place at the left leg. He starts pulling this one.

"H-hey now, let's talk this out yeah?" The Torturer attempts to plea to the source of his pain. "We're alike you and - GAAAAHH!"

Alvarcus got tired of going slow. He just ripped off the limb without fanfare but he doesn't drop this one yet. Instead he moves onto the next leg and unceremoniously rips that one off too. Then he releases both legs for the Jiongu to reattach.

"I think that's enough." Shikamaru says with a green tinge to his face. He's about to be sick.

Yet it's not enough for Alvarcus. He reaches into his coat and pulls out a wickedly sharp kunai but before he can do anything with the the Torture does something.

He bit his own tongue clean off in an attempt to drown himself. He knows that Alvarcus can refill his blood supply but he's inhaling the sticky red liquid in an attempt to escape the pain.

Alvarcus pauses, not out of shock or surprise, and simply watches as the man suffocates on his own blood. He watches as the light fades from his eyes as the man is wearing a victorious smile. The Torturer thinks he's won in death.

He couldn't be more wrong.

The Jiongu maneuvers the man so he's on his side and Alvarcus viciously kicks him in the stomach. Dark red blood billows out of the dead man's mouth. He kicks yet again and more blood billows out. After a third time the Jiongu lays the man back down on his back and Alvarcus places a single hand on his chest.

The smell of ozone fills the cave as Alvarcus shocks the man's heart while the jiongu reattaches his tongue.

With several reflexive hacking coughs the torturer is brought back from the dead.

"You do not get to die yet." Alvarcus breaks his silence and with it the Torturer. His eyes are watering and his jaw is trembling in suppressed cries of anguish. His limbs are shivering in fear of what's to come. "You made a grave mistake. You hurt her."

"Please no more." The now broken man shamelessly begs. "Have mercy!"

"Mercy?" Alvarcus says as he towers over the bound man. "You ask for mercy?"

"Yes!" The man continues to beg as tears stream down his face. "Please show mercy!"

"Mercy?" Alvarcus asks as countless black threads leisurely extend out of his fingertips and lower to the Torturer. "Where was your mercy when you whipped her? Where was your mercy when you starved her? Where was your mercy as you pulled her joints out of her sockets? Where was your mercy when you attempted to rape her!"

The black threads lower down to the man's jaw and wrap around his teeth.

"You did not show mercy!" Two teeth accompany Alvarcus' words.

"Pwease!" The man begs again as he feel the black threads tighten around more teeth. "Mewcy!"

"You smiled happily as you plotted the next session!" Two more teeth fly out of his mouth.

"No mowe!" He futilely thrashes his head around to try and free himself of the black threads. "Mewcy!"

"You are the lowest of the low, beneath the scum of the earth!" Yet another two teeth launch out of his mouth with gusto.

"Stahp! Mewcy!" Blood flies out of his mouth as he fumbles to speak.

"And you have the gall to ask me for my mercy!?" Alvarcus yanks two more teeth out.

"Mewcy! Mewcy! Pwease! Mewcy!"

"You do not deserve mercy!" Alvarcus roars as the final two teeth fly out of the man's mouth. He only has twenty two instead of the full thirty two.

"Ino tell him to stop!" Shikamaru please with his teammate. "He listens to you!"

Ino remains silent as she watches the horror show before her. But she's not repulsed at all.

"Now then." Alvarcus continues going about his business as he extends out the Jiongu from his fingertips once more. The black threads hover menacingly over the man's face, they're swaying from above his left eye to his right. "Which eye do you like better? The left or the right?"

"No no please no!" The man shameless begs once more even though he knows nothing will come of it. "Just kill me! Please just kill me!"

"Kill you?" Alvarcus says in sadistic fake confusion as the Jiongu continues to wave over both eyes. "But we've just started. I have so many things to try still. I'll ask again, which eye do you like better? Left? Right? It's not that hard."

"Ino please! Tell him to stop!" This time it's Choji who calls out to his teammate. But his words fall on deaf ears.

"Please! Ki-" The man stops himself mid sentence because the black threads lowered themselves down to both his eyes. They haven't done anything yet, but the threat that if he fails to answer he will lose both is blatantly clear. "L-left. I l-like the left one more."

"See that wasn't so hard." The black threads over the man's right eye retract back to Alvarcus and the other, the ones over the left, spear into the man's skull and yank the eyeball out. It's crushed to a jelly in Alvarcus' fist.

"No more! Please no more! Kill me! Someone kill me!" The man calls out like a wild animal to anyone and everyone who can hear him.

"No one can hear you." Alvarcus whispers down to him. "No one is there to hear you. Your friends are gone. Do you know why? Do you want to know where they all are? Shh, Shh, don't worry I'll tell you. I ripped them all to shreds with my bare hands."

"Now then, let's make Father proud." Alvarcus pleasantly says as the black threads leisurely worm their way down the man's chest to his groin.