Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any Naruto character.
Warnings: This story will contain physical and verbal abuse. Sexual themes and strong language.
Pairings: KankuroxOC; KibaxOC; hints of ShikamaruxTemari
Summary: Kaoru(OC) is a Suna Jonin that is physically abused in her private life. Can a sudden trip to Konoha change that? Will a certain dog lover be her escape from hell, or will it be the Kazekage's brother?
Author's Notes: This was the first fanfiction I ever wrote. I corrected some mistakes, and add some paragraphs. I didn't change the plot or anything besides grammar. I apologize if there's still some mistakes. English is not my main language, and I have no beta.
In future chapters, this story will contain lemon, which I'm not putting them here on . If you want to read the lemons, check my LiveJournal at my profile. I will tell you about them in their respective chapters.
I hope you enjoy =)
Between Purple and Red
Chapter 1 – The Mission
It was early in the morning, the sunrise had begun a few minutes ago. It was the best time of the day in Sunagakure. Where people could feel the warm sun, but still feel the cool breeze from the night. That is why the purple haired girl stood in the middle of the empty street.
Just to enjoy that moment.
The cold wind made her back shiver. The newest scar was added to the collection the earlier night. Her back was painfully wrapped in bandages. But all hidden by the typical Sand nin uniform. The pain was there, but her face stayed normal. Not emotionless, not happy or sad. Simply normal.
Kurokaze Kaoru was a 16-year-old kunoichi recently nominated Jonin. She had a long royal purple hair that ended up at her waist, it was perfectly straight. Her blue eyes stood out with the purple longs bangs framing her face. In her forehead of course, she proudly wore her Sunagakure forehead protector.
Kaoru had received a message to see the Kazekage. She knew it would be a mission.
Being a Jonin somehow got her life better, better payment, long time out of home and more recognition from her family... Bullshit. This is what she told to the other shinobis. In reality becoming a Jonin got her life even worse that it was before. All the money she earned, her father took from her; being long time out of home was good, until she got back at home and she would be punished even f it wasn't her fault she was in a mission; and being recognized by her family... it was just simply a lie, a lie that she knew it would never true.
Kaoru sighed, and started to walk towards the Kazekage's mansion. Within 10 minutes she stood in front of the Kazekage's office. She knocked, and heard the monotone voice saying "Come in". She entered and closed the door and bowed to greet her Leader.
"Good morning, Kazekage-sama." Kaoru lifted her head and glared the other person in the room.
"Kankuro-dono," she coldly greeted. Kankuro raised a brow confused, then suddenly a thought came to his mind, but before saying anything to his brother, Gaara spoke.
"Kaoru-san, I have a mission for you. It's a A-rank mission and it's a very important one."
"Gaara, no way. Not her, she's freakin' annoying, I can handle the mission by myself!" Kankuro burst.
'Annoying?' Kaoru thought. She gave Kankuro a deathly glare, that if it could it would kill him for sure. The puppet master had pushed his limits this time. There was a limit to decensy; even between them.
"Kankuro watch your tone. Konoha requested for a shinobi good in sealing and chackra control. She is the best we have in that field," Gaara said.
'Konoha?'
"Then send Temari instead of me!" Kankuro continued mad.
"Temari is going to be busy with another mission. Kankuro you will do this with Kaoru-san. Kaoru-san," Gaara turned his head to her, "as you may now understand. You will go with Kankuro to Konoha, and you will assist the Hokage with the mission."
"What is the mission, Kazekage-sama?" she asked.
"The Hokage will tell you what to do once you get there. The mission is a sensitive matter, and it is confidential. Only you two, myself and the Hokage will know about it. You will stay there for a month, even more if the Hokage requests so," Gaara replied.
'One month? Father will be mad'. Kaoru's heart ache, she had a bad feeling about this.
"Do you have something in your mind?" Gaara asked after seeing her face gloom.
"No, Kazekage-sama," Kaoru said returning to her perfect poker face.
"Then go pack, you will leave as soon as you're ready," the redhead gave Kankuro the mission scroll, and a letter to the Hokage. After a final bow to her leader, Kaoru left the office followed by Kankuro. They were silent until they left the building.
"Gaara is..." Kankuro mumbled lowly.
"What?" Kaoru asked.
"I said Gaara is crazy for putting me and you in this mission... together," Kankuro grumbled.
"Kankuro-dono... You... You are a bastard," she said punching his arm, and losing her calm nature. That boy was the only one that could get into her nerves so easily.
"What the hell?" he said pressing his hand against his arm, faking that the pain was much worse than it really was. "You're a crazy girl, this is why I didn't want to be in this with you!"
"And you are a stupid boy, what is with you telling the Kazekage that I am annoying?" Kaoru asked with the same angry tone.
"He's my brother I can say what hell I want to!" they both glared each other with hate.
"Just go home and pack, I'll be at the gate in an hour."
Kankuro started to walk inside of the building again, then paused and looked back. Kaoru was still there, she was looking at the ground thoughtfully and sadly? Kankuro frowned. Then he intentionally coughed to catch her attention. She looked at him and with a final glare she left.
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Kaoru gave a big breath before entering the house. She had thought of numerous possibilities to escape her father's wrath. This wasn't going to be easy.
She walked in and went to the kitchen where her father was sitting reading the newspaper. Her stepmother was making breakfast.
"Good morning father. Good morning Kyo-san," she bowed.
"Where were you?" her father asked. He had a brownish blonde hair perfectly combed. His blue eyes, the ones she inherited, looked coldly at her.
"Kazekage-sama has a mission for me." Kaoru waited for some kind of response, but of course nothing came from that person she called father, she continued "It is in Konohagakure no sato."
He raised an eyebrow. Her heartbeat started to pound fast and loud.
"How long?" he asked with an even colder voice. Kaoru swallowed painfully and looked down. Her voice was almost a whisper. "One month."
"Refuse it," he ordered.
"I cannot, it is a special mission. Even the Kazekage's brother is going." Her father stood up and she unconsciously took a step back.
"T-the payment will be good." she said. He stared at her.
"Fine," he said sitting back again.
"I will leave in less than an hour." He ignored her. Kyo didn't said anything, like always. In fact it was like she wasn't able to see Kaoru.
"Father." he sighed and looked at her again "I will need money."
That was it, she spilled it out... But for her own surprised her father didn't got mad. In fact, he smirked.
"Sure," he said. She lightly smiled.
"Thank you father." she bowed and went to her room relieved.
She prepared her backpack with everything she needed. Her father wasn't mad at her after all; when she was about to zip the bag, she screamed in pain. Her father's breath in the back of her neck made her feel sick.
He laughed.
"There's your money," he said throwing some bills and coins to the floor. Then he left the room. Kaoru tried to understand what happened to her back until she felt the handle of a small dagger, she pulled the knife out of her back, she hissed in pain, biting her lip to contain a scream. That demon stabbed her right above the kidney. The wound wasn't too deep to the point of hitting the organ, but it hurt really bad, and it made impossible for her to travel.
But she had to... She had to go and do the mission... She had to earn that money... She had to leave her house!
Kaoru took off her slightly bloody vest, and her shirt along with the long gloves that covered her fingers. Her hands and arms were covered by seals. She put her hand in her wound trying to stop the bleeding. The bandages she already had were now covered in red. Thankfully, her father didn't hit her in the previous wounds.
Kaoru treated her injury and wrapped herself in new bandages. Then put the rest of the bandages in her bag. She dressed a clean black shirt and went to the bathroom sink to clean the blood from her Jonin vest. Every step she took it was like she was receiving another stab She had no idea how could she hold on in journey to another country for three days... Tears fell from her eyes.
The red stain in her vest, didn't want to come off easily, but she insisted and soon, thanks to the cold water, the stain faded away.
Kaoru looked at herself in the mirror and inhaled and exhaled deeply. She needed to put herself together. No one could ever find about this. It would be humiliating. She prepared herself to look perfect. Perfectly clothed, and perfect hair. The tears were now dried, the poker face hiding the pain and shame.
She knelt picking up the money her father gave, and she almost burst into tears again. He gave her enough for only a few days. Kaoru knew that in Konoha they would not pay for the room they would stay, but still she would need to eat...
She put the money in her wallet and left the room with her back pack in her shoulder in opposite side of her recently wounded side.
"I'm going to leave, father. Goodbye," she said.
A grunt was his response. She turned her back and faced the door.
"Put your backpack how it should be. You look like a cheap hooker like that, don't blow my image with your incompetence." Kaoru did how she was told, and tried not to whine in pain feeling the pressure in her wound. Her whole back was now in an unbearable distress. But she didn't reacted to it, like always. She wouldn't give her father the pleasure of hearing her suffering.
"Go, you useless piece of shit."
She opened the door and left. With any other family, a daughter wouldn't bear hearing such words, but they meant nothing to her. Like she meant nothing to her father, he was a simple shell of the devil for her. Those words meant nothing at all...
She walked the street calmly and after turning the to the gate, she took off her back pack. Kaoru wanted to scream in pain but she couldn't, the streets were now starting to crowd, it would be embarrassing, and people would ask questions, especially the shinobis patrolling. She pulled the bag in her shoulder and went to Suna's entrance trying not to cry again, holding back the tears.
A dark shadow appeared in front of her.
"You're late freak."
"Whatever. And you are the freak," Kaoru replied. Kankuro noticed the weak answer.
"What's up with you? You look pale," he said.
"Nothing, let's go," they both left Suna.
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Kankuro ran fast in the desert, that was a fact. Running in sand was not as simple as running in other types of ground. Even in shinobi speed, running in sand was slower that normal, and consequentially tired people faster. But not for the puppeteer. He ran like hell in sand, and those that couldn't keep up with him were doomed to be hated by the Kazekage's brother.
Kaoru was slowing down, not because of the sand, but because she was in pain. Not only that but she was feeling weak, because of the blood loss. Kankuro sighed in annoyance, and looked back to yell at the girl, but then he saw something very amusing.
Kaoru was running but only placing her feet, in the footprints left by Kankuro. He smirked evilly, he loved to tease the girl's strange habits. He started to run in S shapes and she kept doing the same thing without realizing what he was doing. Then Kankuro noticed something else, her mouth was mumbling things. Kaoru was counting the footsteps. Kankuro ran and in between steps he didn't put one foot on the floor. He looked back watching Kaoru reaching the footless sand, and as he thought she stopped.
Not only that but she started to panick. He stopped running too, and laughed loudly. Mocking her.
"That was priceless! You are so pathetic, Kaoru," Kankuro said still laughing.
"You demented prick!" she went after him to punch him, he starter to ran away from her, when she stopped almost falling. A high pitch of pain took over her back. She breathed slowly a couple of times, in and out. And put her self together. A frowning face was staring at her.
"What?" she yelled at the older Jonin.
"Don't yell at me bitch" Kankuro replied also yelling.
"Then do not stare at me like that! Go put some more make-up you little girl" Kaoru said, trying to hide her pain face the best she could.
"It's not makeup, ignorant!"
"Whatever."
They both kept going, running full-speed ahead. Kaoru tried not to pass out a couple of times. They reached the Wind Forest in a day, and soon it was night.
"We should stop here," Kankuro said putting his scrolls down against a tree. Kaoru didn't replied but took off her bag as well and placed it against the opposite tree. She sat down and hissed.
"What was that?" asked Kankuro while doing something with his scrolls.
"Nothing," she could feel blood dripping in her skin, from the back of her waist to her pants.
"Then don't make so much noise, last thing I want is to be found by some stupid rogue shinobis," Kankuro continued doing whatever he was doing when he saw Kaoru standing up. "Where are you going?"
"I have to... pee." Kaoru lied. She had to change her bandages. She went to the farthest and biggest tree possible and jumped to the higher branch. She could see Kankuro from there, but Kankuro wouldn't be able to see her with all the darkness provided by the trees.
She took off her vest and shirt and took off the bandages. They were soaked in sweat and blood. She cleaned herself the best way she could and put some ointment in her wounds. Some were quite difficult to reach, the day before her father decided to give her a lesson about "sealing" and he played with her back and a sharp kunai. Not that it wasn't the first time he did that, but this time he really went deep in her skin. She bandaged herself again and dressed back.
Kankuro was in deep thought leaning against his scrolls. He saw Kaoru coming and sitting in the same place she was before. He saw her taking a bag with a couple of hyorogan. She stared at them wondering if she should waste one right now. They were her last, and she probably wouldn't be able to buy more, but she knew she was weak, and she had lost a lot of blood. She needed energy and vitamins so she decided to take one.
Kankuro noticed the uncertainty in her face, then he watched her eating the pill, and she neatly folded the small plastic bag and put it in her backpack, which once again she patted until it was placed perfectly behind her back. Kaoru was a strange girl, and it annoyed him that she had to be so... perfect. Her clothes were perfect, her stance was perfect, her hair was perfect it didn't even move with the wind. She was a control freak... But what intrigued him the most were her hands. She had always, ALWAYS gloves on.
"Kaoru?" he asked softly. He knew he had to be kind with her, to receive an honest answer, or even an answer at all.
"What?"
"Why do you always wear gloves?"
She looked at him with surprise. This wasn't what she expected to hear.
"None of your business." she said closing her eyes to sleep.
'Bitch'
TO BE CONTINUED...
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