Hi! This is my first fanfic, and I really hope this works! :) Please review, flames, praise, anything you like, but you'd be my best friend if you did! This was all done with the help of Tikarose, so equal praise for her!
Summary: The snake kept her chained down...the ice shall set her free.
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And now: BEGIN!
Chapter 1: Aisuko's Beginning
"Nana, we are running out of money, why don't we just take up Orichimaru's offer?" Mommy's brother Shouta asked her.
I sat, watching from my crib like I always did, as Mommy looked shocked. "But...he... We have no choice do we?" Mommy finished in a quiet voice, looking down, her voice laced with fake sadness. I didn't like that man, that Orichimaru. He had come into our house, a few nights back. Didn't even ask to come in.
Flashback
A man burst into the house. I looked up from my toy, and watched from my crib as Mommy went up to the pale-skinned man.
"Who are you?" Mommy demanded. "I must ask you to leave."
"My name is Orichimaru, I have come with an offer for you. I believe you will be very interested." Orichimaru hissed as he spoke, like a snake. I shivered.
"What do you mean? I have heard your name before, your a wanted criminal aren't you!" Mommy looked scared.
Orichimaru laughed. "Why yes, I am. All the more reason to listen to my offer, no?"
Mommy shivered, then nodded. She swiftly walked to the dining table in the one room house. "Please, sit." She said tonelessly as she sat down.
Orichimaru sat down. "I have heard rumors, rumors that you have a special bloodline limit from your father, but you never managed to activate it. Is that true?" He asked her. Uh-oh. Mommy didn't like people talking about that. She would ask him to leave now. I smiled and relaxed my shoulders.
Mommy slowly nodded her head. Eyes downcast. My mouth flopped open in shock. What!
"Perfect!" Orichimaru purred. "That means that the little three year old over there also has it, right?"
"Don't bring Aisuko into this!" Mommy cried out, her concern so completely fake. I was glad she did, the criminal didn't look nice.
Said criminal looked angry for a second, before his face composed once more, and there was no emotion on his face. "She is she very reason I have come." He said, "I wish to have her."
I watched the emotions go over Mommy's face. Shock, sadness, then, anger. "Never, I don't know what you want with her, the bloodline hasn't activated in her either, and even if it had, I would never give her to the likes of you!" Mommy told him. Then she walked over to me and picked me up, patting my head. I squirmed, she was squishing me and she knew it.
Orichimaru stood up as well. "Who said anything about giving her to me? I am aware that you have little to no money. I will pay you 10 million yen if you agree to this, and you will never have to see her again. I know you think of her as a monster with that white hair and those red eyes. Think about it for a bit. Place your hand on the seal when you have an answer, I will come." And with that, the horrible snake-like man disappeared, leaving in his place a piece of cloth, with a funny mark on it.
End Flashback
Mommy was looking at that cloth now. It was still in the same spot on the table, and Shouta walked over to it. "We will be able to live happily if we do this, and we wont even have to pretend to like that monster anymore, we can say it died of illness, it's not uncommon in babies." Shouta told Mommy.
I watched with fearful eyes as Mommy slowly changed her mind right before my eyes. I knew she never liked me, everything she did around me was an obvious act. But I didn't think she disliked me so much that she would be willing to sell me for a better lifestyle.
"Okay, I'll do it." Mommy said, I think I even heard a bit of relief in her voice but I couldn't be sure; her bangs were covering her eyes.
Mommy walked over to the cloth. Put her hand on it. A bright light filled the room, and I shut my eyes tight, whimpering.
"So you have made your disition?" That snake's voice filled the room when the light was gone, there stood Orichimaru.
"I have, the monster is yours." Mommy told him. My eyes widened through my tears.
"Mommy!" I cried. My first word, and it was all for a person that didn't care about me. Mommy's eyes widened, and for a minute, all I saw on her face was pain, pain and sadness. But the next second it was gone, replaced by scorn.
"She is not your mother, monster!" Shouta yelled at me.
Orichimaru crossed the room to me. He tilted my face up, and I looked into his eyes. What I saw there shocked me. All over his face, wasn't hate, or fake love like I was used to. On his face, was caring. And, was that, was it love also there?
"Do you want to come with me? I will treat you better than these horrible people who keep you locked in a crib." Orichimaru told me, caring laced through every word.
Slowly, I nodded my head. This man, was the closest thing I had to a father, and the only person I had ever met that seemed to actually liked me. "I'll go with you, Pappie," I told him in my high, clear voice.
His eyes widened slightly in shock, before being replaced with amusement. "Monster child, whatever, do you have the money?" Shouta asked Pappie, being very rude.
Pappie stalked over to him, and I thought for a minute, that Pappie would kill him, I didn't care though. I hated Shouta. Instead, Pappie just handed Shouta the money. He walked back to me and picked me up. I snuggled into his cold chest, smiling.
"Goodbye then," Pappie said, and we were enveloped in a cold light. The last thing I saw was my mother's hateful and also relieved face.
(Time Skip: 3 years, Aisuko is now 6 years old)
I lay in my bed, waiting for sleep to come. I was really tired, training was really tough today. Almost as tough as it was on my first day here. I smiled at the thought.
Flashback
When the glow disappeared, I was in a huge underground cavern, still snuggled into Pappie's chest. "What happens now Pappie?" I asked him.
"Well, we start your training. I'm going to make you into a perfect ninja," Pappie told me, holding onto his s's.
"Tomorrow? Or now? Can we start now?" I pleaded with him, I had always wanted to be a ninja.
Pappie chuckled, "Okay, seeing as you seem eager." I was still getting used to his gentle ways. He set me down and I turned around to face him, smiling.
"Where do we start?" I'll bet you anything that my eyes were shinning right then.
"Stand like this," Pappie struck a pose, and I copied him, giggling, I had never been so happy. "Now copy me," Pappie said, smiling. He went through stance after stance, and I copied him, while he corrected me every now and then.
When we finished, I was panting and my muscles were already sore. "Pretty good for your first time, but we have a long way to go," Pappie told me, pride in his voice.
I had collapsed, but now I stood, my legs shaky. "Again," I told him. Pappie looked shocked for a minute, but then smirked.
"If we do it again, you can't stop until we get through the entire thing," He told me. This time I smirked.
"If we do it again, and its not perfect, I'll do it again until it is, I wont even leave this room," I told Pappie, and meant every word.
This time Pappie looked shocked, and then laughed. "Okay then Kawaiiko (little one) let's do this," And he led me through pose and pose again. When we finished, I knew it wasn't perfect, so all I said was "Again."
That night when I first got here, I practiced that style of taijutsu over and over. I don't know how many times I did it, but after countless times Pappie looked down at me and said one word. "Perfect."
When he said that, my eyes widened, I had thought so to!I smiled, and then collapsed. After all, the first three years of my life had been spent in a crib.
End Flashback
I chuckled softly, my determination just never stopped. Speaking of determination, I couldn't lose to Pappie tomorrow. He told me we would spar tomorrow, and if I beat him, he would give me a present. I was curious to see what it was. There wasn't anything else I needed. I had a father, my own room, and a sword.
I glanced at Saigoretsu (the last cold) now. She was beautiful. At least to me she was, others would say she was plain. But I loved her. I thought back to when I first got her.
Flashback
I woke up, got dressed, and went into the kitchen to eat breakfast. Pappie had asked me if I could cook before, and I had tried really hard, but I still had to use my medical justu to force him to throw up the food I had made. Apparently it was toxic, while trying to make cereal, I had somehow made it poisonous.
When I walked into the kitchen, I was greeted by the smell of pancakes. I smiled, pancakes! Pappie knew my favorites to well. I thanked him as we sat down to eat. "Kawiiko, you know what day it is today, right?" Pappie asked me, smiling kindly.
"My fifth birthday Pappie! Are you going to teach me that new taijutsu you promised?" I asked him, my red eyes huge.
Pappie chuckled and nodded. "I also have a gift for you, but you need to take great care of her okay?"
"You do? Of course I'll take good care of her, what is she though?" I asked Pappie, overjoyed at the prospect of a gift.
Pappie reached under the table, and brought up a wooden box. He slid it over the table towards me. I smiled at him before taking of the lid. I gasped. Inside the box was a sword.
It was a regular katana, with a cream coloured sheath and handle. I laughed and lunged across the table at Pappie, giving him a bear hug.
"The taijutsu I promised you can be used with a sword, so I got you one," He said through my silver hair that had flown into his face when I jumped on him.
"Thank you so much Pappie!" I squealed. "What's her name?" I asked him, suddenly breathless with excitement.
"Saigoretsu, it means the last cold," Pappie told me, laughing as I attempted to swing her around the room, but instead through her into the wall.
"She's so heavy!" I exclaimed, pulling her out of the wall.
"I'm glad your happy, now, let's go train, and then I will give you some weights, to help you get stronger, only take them off when I say you can okay?" Pappie asked me.
I nodded at him, beaming from ear to ear. "Can you, can you strap Saigoretsu onto my back Pappie?" I questioned. He nodded, picked her up, and strapped her onto me.
"You look beautiful, Aisuko," Pappie told me, I gasped. He only called me by my real name when he was really proud of me.
I smiled and hugged him once more, and then we moved out of the kitchen to continue my training.
End Flashback
I smiled thinking of my first days with Saigoretsu. I stretched once more in bed before finally falling asleep.
The sound of buzzing woke me, and I looked around in confusion, before remembering that I had moved my alarm clock to the other side of the room, forcing me to get up. I walked over and turned it off, groaning.
I tugged on my ninja outfit, and strapped Saigoretsu onto my back. Once more I rubbed the freckles on my nose, wishing they would disappear. I pulled a brush through my long silver-white hair and pulled into a ponytail, so it wouldn't get in the way. I wanted to cut it, but I also wanted some long hair to, I still didn't know what to do.
I strapped my ninja pack to my leg and stocked it with kunai, and suriken, and of course, my kunai sharpening rock. I had a habit of sharpening kunai all the time. Once more I looked in the mirror, and made sure I was ready. Smiling, I ran into the kitchen and grabbed the toast that was already prepared, because no amount of training could fix my cooking. Must be genetics.
I shoved the toast into my mouth, and ran to the training room, where my fight with Pappie would happen. Wiping the crumbs off my face, I walked slowly into the room.
"Are you ready, Kawiiko?" A voice sounded through the cavern, echoing off the pillars.
"Yes Pappie, and no ninjutsu allowed, just taijutsu and kenjustu." I told him, and got into my battle stance.
"Then, begin," The word echoed around, and I saw white shoot towards me.
So? How was it? Please, I'm begging you, review!
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