Hey guys, yet again I had the incontrollable urge to write a new fanfiction. It's kind of based on a dream I had the other day.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters. I do however claim the rights to Kaela Arikawa.
Kaela lay on her bed; her long pastel blue hair framed her soft featured face. Her plump pink lips were parted slightly and her breathing was deep and rhythmic with the signs of sleep. She had just bought a room in an inn for the night that was centralised in the middle of nowhere, somewhere between the land of fire and the land of Iron.
Kaela Arikawa moved around a lot since the massacre of her clan. Her clan were a gentle nomadic people with amazing healing skills that originated in the land of Iron. They weren't very well known because they didn't go through the main cities in the lands they travelled, rather tending to the sick and wounded in the smaller, less well-off villages.
They did unfortunately grab the attention of Orochimaru, who wanted to use and harness the powers of her clan for his own benefit.
You couldn't really call it a massacre because there wasn't really many of them to begin with. It was a gradual disappearance of more and more members of her family over the period of a few weeks until it was only her and her brother Saito left.
Her brother had died protecting her in a bandit attack only a week before, sacrificing himself to allow her time to run, which she refused to do until they stabbed him through the chest and she had no more reason to stay.
Arikawa were not shinobi, they had no way to defend themselves and their only viable skill was a unique type of healing that was more effective than the wholly chakra dependant healing often used by shinobi.
The room she had bought for the night was on the second floor and had a sliding door that opened onto a wooden balcony. She didn't lock the door that night because the innkeeper had lost the key and she didn't want to have to rent a more expensive room because of it.
The balcony door slid open and Kaela's amber eyes blinked open uncertainly, not quite remembering why she woke up at all until the light of the moon from behind the parted curtain hit her face.
Instinctively she blinked her eyes closed and moved to sit up until she was stopped by the feeling of sharp metal on her neck and a heavier body straddling hers.
Opening her eyes, she fearfully looked up into thickly lashed crimson eyes that stared back into hers so intently that she felt as though they could see straight through her.
She flinched when the blade pressed closer to her neck and her lip quivered in anticipation of what was to come. She could vaguely see the silhouette of the person on top of her and from what she could tell she was fairly certain it was a man, although most of him other than the top of his face was covered in a dark cloak.
"You will come with me, Arikawa-san," the man said in a deep velvety voice that almost caused Kaela to jump when the sound broke through the deafening silence of the night.
She lay there and weighed her options. She was powerless to fight him (more than she knew), running wasn't an option as she was trapped underneath him and he was proportionally heavier and bigger than her. She could let him kill her, it's not like there was anyone to miss her anyway or any reason to live. Or she could just go with him and find out why he wanted her.
Making her decision she turned her head to the side, her eyes tightly shut, and shook her head. Sensing her movements, he moved the kunai an inch away from her neck before she could use it to slice her own neck open and frowned when he saw her shake her head.
Why did it always have to be like this? None of his targets ever seemed to choose the easy way, be it death or capture. Kisame never seemed to have this problem. Not only did he have to capture a stubborn target, he also had to travel for a week or two on foot to get back to the base with that target.
Keeping his usual stoic features, he placed the kunai back into its pouch and leaned over the girl beneath him, using his much larger hands to capture hers on either side of her head. Her breath hitched in her throat at the contact and she turned her face back to look up towards him.
He inched closer and stopped when his lips were almost touching her ear.
"You know, there are things much worse than death girl," He whispered emotionlessly into her ear, causing her to flinch and start to tremble. With a reluctant nod she stilled beneath him and let her arms go limp as a sign of surrender.
Smirking in satisfaction he loosened the iron like grip he had on her wrists and slowly lifted himself off of her, studying her features for any sort of resistance and was surprised to see only fear clouding her vibrant amber orbs.
Climbing off the bed he turned back to see Kaela slowly sit up and turn her head towards him before reluctantly climbing off.
She was only wearing short sleeping shorts and a spaghetti strap top, and she wrapped an arm around her chest, shyly looking away from him.
It was easy to leave as she only had one bag that was already packed as she planned to leave at dawn the next morning. He walked onto the balcony and gestured for her to follow him, which she did, carrying her bag on her back.
Standing on the balcony, she looked up at him questioningly; there was no way she was going to jump off the second story.
He knew that Kaela did not have any shinobi skills and was about as good at fighting as any civilian, he preferred to have her willingly walk behind him than have to carry her over his shoulder. Nodding his head he crushed Kaela to his chest in a bone crushing grip and jumped off the balcony.
He was actually surprised not to hear a single sound coming from his captive and looked down to see her eyes shut tightly and her biting her lip. Releasing her again he turned and began to walk back to the camp where Kisame was waiting for him, only looking back to ensure he was being followed.
"Itachi!" Kisame called from where he was seated by the campfire before eyeing the girl walking sulkily behind Itachi with a large grin on his face.
"I see you caught her, ey? She's actually kind of cute," Kisame said, grinning widely at them.
"Hn," Itachi grunted looking back towards her.
Kaela's creamy white skin flushed a dark pink and she looked down at her feet timidly. Itachi looked emotionlessly at his partner before sitting down on the log beside him, leaving Kaela to stand in front of them awkwardly.
"Sit there," Itachi said, gesturing towards a patch of grass right of Kisame before looking back towards her. She nodded and walked over to the spot before lowering herself into a sitting position.
"I'll take first shift," Itachi said softly, looking towards Kisame who just nodded his head before clambering over to his tent to sleep.
Itachi looked back towards Kaela who sat with her legs folded to the side and her arms wrapped around herself to fend off the chilly autumn air and looked towards his tent to her left.
"In there," he ordered, gesturing towards his tent. She nodded timidly and crawled forward a few feet and into the tent. She lay down next to his bedroll and used some clothing from her backpack as a pillow. It was a lot warmer in the tent but it only made her feel more trapped than before, leaving her with only one exit, visible to her captor.
She fell asleep shortly after and after a few hours Itachi returned to his tent after waking Kisame up for his shift. He lay down on his bed roll and stared towards Kaela, who was sleeping peacefully as though he wasn't even there.
He didn't like having to be the one to get the target but he understood the necessity of having an efficient healer. There was Kakuzu of course but most members would rather have a gaping wound than go to Kakuzu for stiches as it usually did more damage than the wound would have.
And having a healer with civilian strength was another benefit; it was a lot easier to control someone who was a civilian rather than a shinobi.
Itachi didn't sleep that night, too clever to do so with an untrusted person sleeping beside him. He instead watched the strange girl sleeping beside him.
Hope you guys like this story; I might not continue it unless I know people like it. It is also a side story and my main focus is on my story "The Genie" a Gaara and Hinata demon fanfic.
I'm sorry if the chapter is a bit awkwardly written, I am completely surrounded by distractions at the moment.
Please review and let me know what you think .