Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto! I just own my OC, Chihiro Sasaki.
Fire, one of god's most destructive creations. Once ignited it spreads like a disease poisoning and infecting everything it comes into contact with. My blurred vision was cascaded and painted with bright reds and oranges. The bright light was immediately replaced with a blinding cloud of smoke that mixed with the air around me.
"Mama!" I screamed out for the security of my mother who was nowhere in sight.
"Papa!" I called out for my parents in a hopeless search as I ran throughout the ash and rubble that use to be my house. I screamed until I lost my voice completely and began to cough violently. I must have breathed in too much of the poisonous smog in the air. Pushing my way through the rest of the wreckage I made it out onto the street where the towns' people were screaming and running for their lives. A group of rogue ninja's had come to our town and were pillaging it.
I could barely focus on all the chaos around me, fresh tears streaming down my face as I just stared at all the death that surrounded me. At that I point I knew. No one was coming to help me, and most likely no one would survive this. What was a ten year old girl to do? So I just stood there and waited to be struck down. I did not know how to fight and I was so in shock that my body was practically paralyzed.
Everything seemed to slow down when you were waited to die. Just waiting for something to happen you end up thinking of what will happen to you.
Will I be killed from the back?
Will it be quick?
Slow?
Painful?
Bloody?
So many things were running through my head that I had not even noticed the man standing in front of me. I merely shifted my tear stained eyes up to look at him. He had a dual swords and was covered from head to toe in blood, a sadistic grin plastered on his face as he glared down at me.
"Well you're it little missy. The very last one here," he chuckled bringing one of his swords under my chin and raising my head up farther to look him in the eyes as he crouched down to level with me, "Aren't you going to beg for your life?" he asked with a little chuckle.
I was too scared to say anything as I just stared back into his menacing blue orbs.
"Alright I'll make this quick for you." He chuckled taking the edge of both blades and pressing them to the top of my chest before slashing them down in an 'X' motion deep into my chest.
The pain had not entirely comprehended to me as I began to fall forward my face burying itself into the ground below. I was still conscious by time the fires died down and the smoke rose higher than the clouds. My eyes were trained on the trail of red liquid that was pouring out of the cavity in my chest. My vision was blurring with new tears. Even though the sun was rising to bring new light darkness still took me.
Kabuto's POV
"Well, look at this mess." Lord Orochimaru chided kicking over some burnt piece of building and looking to see if there were any survivors.
I began to scan the area looking for anyone that may be still breathing when I noticed a small body in the middle of the street. It was a child, a little girl; she was laying face down in the dirt. Her brown curly hair was matted and snarled in the puddle of blood she was laying in. She was wearing a white dress that was now soaked in red from her still gushing wound.
"What a pity." Lord Orochimaru sighed kneeling down by the child and slowly turning the girl onto her back.
"I had no idea you cared so much for children?" I teased her readjusting my glasses further up on my nose causing them to glare off the reflection of the sunlight.
"I could care less, but she could have been useful." He replied wiping her hair out of her blood covered face. His pale fingers went down to her cuts on her chest. Her wound was a giant 'X' shape on her chest, could have been caused by any sharp weapon, but was most likely made by a katana. When Lord Orochimaru's hand touched her wound her body jerked and she began violently coughing.
"Would you look at that the girl still has a little fight in her," he grinned his snake like grin and licked his lips, "Kabuto can you heal her?" he asked giving me a sideway glance. Sighing I kneeled down next to the girl and examined her wounds.
"I can heal this. She will have a scar though I cannot fix that, but I need to get her back to the hide out in order to effectively work on her." I explained to him taking some gauze out of my back pouch and sitting the girl up so that I could wrap the gauze around her upper torso as to slow the bleeding.
"Let us hurry then I doubt that there is anyone else left here and we would be wasting time by going through anymore of this wasteland." Lord Orochimaru ordered as I picked the child up into my arms and carrying her out in the direction of our hide out.
Chihiro's Pov
I felt lighter than air. I did not know if you were supposed to feel anything in the afterlife, but it was soothing to say the least. It did not last long though for I was woken up by the droning sound of beeping. Opening my eyes for the first time since I last closed them I looked around my surroundings to see I was in a dimly candle lit room made completely out of stone. I was on what appeared to be a hospital type of bed and the beeping sound I heard was a heart monitor that was attached to my bandaged chest, back, and abdomen.
"I see you're awake." Someone spoke to me from the other side of the room.
"W-who's t-t-there?" I asked barely above a whisper due to the fact that my voice had not completely come back to me yet.
"My name is Kabuto. My master and I stumbled upon your village when we found you wounded and heavily bleeding. We brought you back here so I could treat your wounds." He explained approaching the bed taking a hold of the clip board at the end of it and looking over the information.
"Well it seems like you are recovering fairly well and have stabilized completely. Now I do not suggest you move so much, we wouldn't want you to reopen those stitches now would we?" he asked rhetorically placing the clipboard back down onto the edge of the bed.
"What do you remember?" he asked taking a seat on the stool next to my bed.
"Honestly not much. The one thing that I remember was fire, a lot of fire and smoke as far as the eye could see." I explained still whispering for my voice was still rather sore.
"Yes, well that makes sense I would not expect someone as young as you to remember the events that took place. So in response to the extreme stress your mind buried the memories into your unconscious." He explained taking the clipboard back and writing some things down.
"Am I going to be ok?" I asked him my eyes beginning to get droopy again.
"You're going to be perfectly fine. You just need some rest and you will be back on your feet in no time," He explained trying his best to give me a reassuring smile, "Now go to sleep." He urged laying me back down and tucking me in.
"Thank you Mr. Kabuto, sir." I murmured through my sleepy state before yawning and falling into a dreamless sleep.
"Good night."
AN: Alright guys so that is the first chapter hope you liked it! Next chapter won't have Jugo, but it will have two other key characters that lead to their relationship. I would really appreciate it if you guys would review periodically to tell me how I am doing so I know if the story is going down the right path or not. See ya next chapter! 3