When It's all I Know
Chapter 1
The Beginning
(age: 7)
Why am I here? Why are we all here? What did we ever do? Lee sat there in her cell, and like every other girl there, dirty, in rag like clothes, and there for sale. Lee was sitting there trying to think of why they were locked up the way they were, with little or no food, looked as though they never touched food in their lives, sold like slaves or pieces of meat. Those girls weren't aloud to have a life of their own. "Why?" was the question Lee wanted the answer for.
"Umm, sir?" Lee asked in a quiet voice to a man who was walking by.
"What do you want?!" The man said sharply.
"Well, I was just wondering, why are we here?"
"Come on, I've told you this over and over, time and time again. How many times do I have to tell you?! You're here because you women are little bitches who need to be taught a lesson. There, I've got business to do right now!"
"Well, Mr. Yaykoso, you've always told me the reason, but I want the story. You've always missed the story." Lee said in a voice like a mouse.
"You're a smartass aren't you? Fine, I'll tell you the fucking story." The man took a breath. "It all started when God made the Earth with a man and a woman; Adam and Eve. Adam was a good man at heart, honest and kind, but Eve was different, she wanted power, she had a craving for it. It was her lucky day when she met the snake in the Garden of Eve. You see, the snake promised her power, great power, all she had to do was do some simple tasks. But God found out about it, not to long after it happened, and punished them both. Adam was a good man, he didn't need punishment. It was Eve's fault. We know how God punished them, Adam to work in a garden of thorns and Eve to give birth till death. When she gave birth to each kid, one of each gender had different traits, bloodline traits. Yes, many of them had none for they take after their father, but many came out with traits. Each gender and the same amount of each: same number of normal boys and normal girls, boys and girls with bloodline traits. All was equal but one, Eve purposely gave birth to a baby girl to carry the same traits as Eve herself. Now Eve's power was the beginning of the knowledge of jutsus, she could make more, see one and immediately know how to do it. Incredible things, if Eve were to have time to learn how to use them properly, she could have concurred all, even Heaven and Hell. But since then, every five generations, to one person, and one person only, posses the traits of Eve. Some even say that they carry her soul inside them too. And why are you all locked up? Because they trait can only be possessed by a female. We men have our rights."
"You don't seem much like men if you have to lock every single girl in cells out of fear." Lee said as she looked the man in the eyes.
They man grabbed Lee by the shirt through the bars and lifted her and said, "If you were smart, you would know that smart mouths get smacked!"
Lee was ready to block the blow until she heard a voice emerge from the shadows, a voice she will never forget. "I like her. She seems like a fighter. Is she?"
"Yeah," replied the man. "A real fucking smartass too. You wouldn't want her, she's not broken. It's weird, the other girls gave up first week or two they were here. She's been here for three years. I don't think you'd find a use for her."
"Oh," said the man in the shadows. "I think it'll work out fine. Does this one have a name?"
"Hey, kid, he asked for your name!" The man said as he let go of her shirt.
Lee just looked at the other man in the shadows. "Why is he hiding in the shadows? Does he not want me to see him?"
"Just…"
"No, no. I think she has a right to ask that." The man interrupted as he stepped out of the shadows. "Of course, I think I should state my name first." Lee gasped as she saw the man's pale face with eyes like a snake's. "My name is Orochimaru, I think I'll take her."