Prologue:
Konoha has seen it's ninjas come and go. Few leave for long training and come back to town. There are however those very few special people that were born in a town, raised to love it, and then forced to leave for something they didn't do.
This very same incident was no exception to twin girls, Okami Kurusu and Magenta Kurusu, that haven't seen the bad in the world just yet.
Okami had dark blue eyes that would roam over everything to analyze it. Her short black hair barely brushed her shoulders. For being five years old, she was tiny but expected to be tall when she finally grew.
Her sister, Magenta, was of course named after her hair. It brushed past her shoulder blades and was dark enough to be mistaken for a red. Her blue eyes weren't calculating like her twin's; however it was her tongue she was known for.
Everyone that's met the twins would say that the eldest's, Okami, eyes held wisdom although she was five. The youngest, Magenta, was said to have a clever tongue that would save her from the trouble she got in with it. They were loved by all and held no ill will towards anyone.
That is however till that one night.
Neighbors began reporting that for two weeks there was screams coming from the same house every night at a exact same time. When they had tried to get in however, a jutsu would force the help away.
When a four man team Anbu had gone to check out the house, they were shocked with what they found. A terrifying chakra was seeping out of the crevices in the house. After a few minutes of disabling the jutsu, the chakra thinned away immediately. Wasting no time, the Anbu charged in.
Blood was smeared over every inch of the house. The Anbu were surprised that the smell of spilled blood didn't attract attention faster. As the Anbu travelled farther into the house, the sounds of whimpering were the only noise that indicated that a life form was still there. The captain, Kakashi Hatake, had sent out his ninken to search the rest of the house while the team searched the master room.
In the master bedroom, two bodies were mauled open and thrown across the floor. A mednin, who was in the search group, moved fast to take notes on how the two victims died. She reported to her captain that the victims had every bone broken before the throat was sliced.
An ear piercing scream radiated throughout the house scaring the professionally trained ninjas. Hatake's team moved fast to a second room where the scream was coming from. The ninkens that were recently in it, ran out with their heads low and tails between their legs.
'What the hell is in there?' Hatake thought peering in after the scream died down. The kunai that he was holding clattered to the floor at the scene before him. Sitting in the corner were the twin girls he hadn't seen in two weeks.
The youngest was covered in week old bruises and cuts. Her clothes were torn and splattered with dried blood and what looked to be pieces of meat. She was clutching her mouth and had her head in her sister's lap. Blood was slightly oozing through her fingers making her whimper and tremble even more. Magenta's eyes were flickering everywhere as she cuddled closer to her sister.
Her older sister, Okami, on the other hand had a dead look in her eyes. Blood trickled out of the corner of her eyes making her dark blue eyes glaze over. She appeared to be trying to calm her younger twin by patting her back. Her wounds were deeper and more gruesome than the other twin.
The mednin was scared to approach the girls.
"Girls? We're here to help. Please stay still till we transport you to the hospital." The mednin cooed softly as she gripped each hand of the girls and pulled them close. Getting a closer look, she was able to see that the "meat" on Magenta wasn't meat at all; It was chunks of a small tongue. 'Their diagnose isn't going to be good.' She grimaced.
Kakashi held onto both twins as his Anbu team ran across the rooftops. Leading the team into the hospital, everything was thrown into a chaos when the nurses saw the little girls. His mednin ran after the other nurses demanding to be there as they started to plan surgeries for the girls.
Two days past after the twin incident. Hatake went to the hospital to pick up both girls to take them to the Hokage.
Hatake had asked for a nurse to let him see the twins chart before he took them. The nurse was reluctant and began to cry as she handed both files over. Excusing himself, Kakashi took to the roof to see how bad the kids were.
'Okami Kurusu. Age 5. Blood type O negative. Height yada weight yada.' Kakashi began to grow bored until he noticed a side note next the end of the first page.
'Gruesome details on her attack ahead. What the hell happened to them?' Kakashi flipped several pages till he found the chart on her injuries. The chart showed that Okami had lost her eyesight in both eyes by being having the cornea's being destroyed leaving her blinded. It also noted that she had a broken rib, severe gashes along her arms, and several hand bruises on her legs.
'Now onto the next twin.' Kakashi mused as he set Okami's chart down and held up Magenta's medical file.
'Magenta Kurusu. Age 5. Blood type O negative. Height yada weight yada. Where's her chart?'
"I see you have seen their charts." A voice murmured behind Kakashi's back. Whirling around, Kakashi held a kunai in front of his body before relaxing at seeing his guest.
"Hokage-sama." Kakashi murmured before bowing.
"I was on my way to see the girls. Accompany me please?" The Hokage said walking past Kakashi to enter the hospital. Picking up the charts fast, Kakashi followed quickly and leaned in to speak quietly with the Hokage.
"What happened to these girls Hokage?" Kakashi whispered running his fingers through his silver hair that defied gravity. Although his face is obstructed by a mask, it was obvious that Kakashi was not old enough to be mistaken for an old man.
"I suppose we're about to find out." The Hokage spoke softly as he stopped in front of the door to the twins. Knocking, both men waited till they heard a soft come in. The Hokage pushed open the door to reveal that another guest had beaten them to seeing the girls.
There standing by the twins was a tall man that held a resemblance to the two girls. His blue eyes flicked to inspect the two new comers before turning his gaze back to the girls.
The Hokage entered the room with no indication that he noticed the guest. Calmly he walked towards the closest twin near him, Magenta.
Magenta had wrappings around her mouth and shoulders with wires connected to her arms and neck.
"Dear. Do you know who I am?" Magenta slowly nodded at the question.
"Good. I'm hear to ask what happened to your family?"
"She won't answer." Okami replied pushing herself up into a sitting position. She had bandages wrapping around her head covering her eyes. There were stitches running up along her arms.
"Why not?" Kakashi questioned. 'First her chart goes missing and now she won't answer questions?'
"Because she can't." The guest spoke for the first time. The Hokage turned to face the guest now.
"And might I ask who you are and what is your relations to these girls?" The Hokage questioned and strode over to stand in front of the man.
"Raitoningu Kurusu. I am their older brother and their last surviving family member, Hokage." He bowed slightly before moving over to sit on Okami's bed.
"Sissy's tongue was cut off. The bad man said he would let one of us be blinded and the other silenced." Okami replied slowly as blood began to pool into the edge of the bandages. Her brother caressed her head and cooed softly.
"The doctor said no crying Hun. You'll ruin your eyes more." Raitoningu said as he held his sister. Raitoningu held onto Okami as she cried herself to sleep a few minutes later. Magenta had kept starring at Kakashi the whole time.
Kakashi moved closer towards Magenta's bed. To him, it was a bit unnerving to see a five year old starring at him with a scared look.
'Never being able to talk anymore. Never being able to say your thoughts again. At such a young age.' Kakashi pulled out a scroll from one of his pouches. Laying it out on her lap, Kakashi began searching for a pen.
"Even though your voice was taken away, it doesn't mean you can't communicate a different way young one." The Hokage murmured as he presented a pen to her. Magenta gave him a confused look before turning towards the scroll.
It took her a moment but in the end, Magenta was able to write down a small summary of what happened.
/Bad man said Peopke know my tongue, so I get to lose it. Sissy had to lose her eyes then. Then he beat us. Bad man hurt Mum and Da. Two men stopped bad man from killing me and sissy./
"Hokage. If we may talk about the situation somewhere else? Kakashi may you watch over the girls please?" Raitoningu motioned to the window. The Hokage nodded and followed the older brother of the girls out.
Both men travelled by tree tops for five minutes before they deemed that no wandering ears would hear.
"Hokage. I would like permission to take my sisters out of this town to train them in the arts of ninja." Raitoningu quickly said facing the other way. He didn't want his sisters to have to feel the pain of being crippled. He's seen how the some ninjas acted towards civilians with disabilities.
The Hokage considered the proposition before turning back to the Twin's older brother. "The two men that Magenta mentioned. Do you possibly know who was there?"
Raitoningu shook his head. "Okami said that a puppet and a birdie saved them. I don't understand what they meant but I'm thinking that's the description of their saviors."
The Hokage nodded once more while mulling over the recent information. 'Teach them to defend themselves so they may never be hurt again.'
"You have till they are 12. The day they turn twelve is the day they must return to Konoha to take the chunnin exams. I will provide their headbands for being gennin but you must properly train them." The Hokage nodded after a moment of thinking.
"I thank you Hokage. You will not be disappointed." Raitoningu bowed before disappearing to collect the last of his family. The Hokage looked around the clearing that they had landed in to talk.
There was a lone egg nest in a thick branch. Egg shells were scattered around the trunk of the tree indicating the baby birds have been born.
'New lives were reborn today. Maybe some hope will blossom as well.'
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Later,
~Yoshi