"Speak" Zetsu speaking.
Words like this are thoughts
"normal speech"
'The Dark'
A petit girl opened her eyes in the dark room, last thing she remembered was a pale man speaking to her. She looked around herself, waiting for her eyes to adjust in the dark, and hoping to see something, anything. Unfortunately, even when her mismatched eyes, one silver one green, adjusted she saw nothing, not even her own tiny hands. Seeing as she wasn't known to her new environment she decided to stay put, and wait. She wasn't scared or worried, she just didn't feel at all. The room or hall or wherever she was in, was cold, her skin could feel that, but it didn't seem to register in her head that she was cold.
Hours passed and she simply looked at the dark. This wasn't anything new to her, she was always in the dark parts of her mind alone, and this was just a reality version of it. Her ears perked when she heard footsteps to her right, and there opened a door, dim stained light shined through. A man stood there, with grey hair and glasses, a smirk on his lips.
"It seems you've finally awakened" His voice was sly, as if playful. Another man walked up next to him, his arms closed, also a smirk playing on his lips. He was the man she spoke to; he was the man that brought her here. From this angle he even seemed to look like a snake. The girl merely stared at them with a poker expression, she didn't ask any questions, she simply stared as if even bored. The snake-like man even chuckled to himself.
"Look at that face, how interesting" Followed by another chuckle to himself. "Kabuto, get her ready on the table, I want the testing to begin as soon as possible" The long haired, snake man walk away after giving orders. She assumed he was the boss or leader, or something in charge of the grey haired man. Perhaps he was even someone stronger than the grey haired man.
"Get up" The girl listened after a pause and followed him once he gestured her to. She was short compared to him and she noticed that, she didn't even reach his shoulders, almost but not quite. She could feel the oils in her dirty long raven hair that reached almost to her ankles. For a moment she was grateful that her hair wasn't long enough to drag on the floor, because she could see all kinds of things on these grounds, spiders, webs, snake skins and even bones of some sort of animal, she wasn't sure. She could feel the dirt on her face, and she could feel the hunger alive within her. She hadn't eaten in a few days; one thing she was grateful for in the Rain Village is the endless water. She looked down at her bare blistered feet, aching at each step she took next to this man, she could also see the ends of her dirty dress, that reached just around her thin boney knees. Her legs were filled with dried up blood, her own blood.
It was too long ago when she had a loving family, at least she thinks they were loving, she can't seem to remember very well, but she had a home and some food for sure. She'd forgotten how to laugh; she'd forgotten how it felt to feel anymore. The third great Ninja war had taken away everything from her and now she was alone. She probably wouldn't be here if her parents were still alive, she probably would have been normal. Whatever that even means. After their deaths, she roamed the destroyed Rain village, and somehow managed by for awhile but now, now she was with this man. They had mentioned something about testing; no doubt they had known what she does. That's all anyone was interested in. In that.
She looked up at the man with grey hair, he looked young to her. He was smiling to himself, and she wondered why. Should she be smiling too? Was there something amusing she wasn't seeing?
He stopped at a door, a brown rusting door, with a strange tube symbol on it. He turned the knob and surprisingly the door didn't open with a squeak. Mice ran across the room to hide once the lights were turned on. It looked like a hospital room to her, there was a bed, and a bunch of tubes filled with substances on tables and shelves, a lot of books, some ripped some looked old. The room had a few cracks on the ground, and there was even a machine hooked up to something. From the time she got here, everything was dim, except this room, it was bright and white.
He gestured her to the bed, and she obeyed, laying on it with her hands folded on her chest. He went on the machine, clicking away on buttons, before coming to her, and taking her arm, his hands were gloved; he had a needle in the other hand.
"Don't move, or it'll hurt more" He pushed it in her arm, she made no expression as he pulled some blood out of her to sample. He was smiling most of the time, the girl watched him. Watched him do his job with other substances and her blood, she stared at his smile. She wondered if he enjoyed what wad doing. She opened her mouth but then closed it; her throat was too dry to let out a sound out. She closed her eyes and let herself be taken by the darkness.
...
Zetsu was a spy to the Akatsuki, his stealth skills have come in handy in many occasions, and his ability to travel through the grounds quickly has always been useful for him and the organization. This was just another day where he had noticed something odd. About a certain ex-member from the Akatsuki. They had always been iffy about the snake, they had known his true motives in trying to take Itachi's eyes and even Pains at some point, and he hasn't stopped trying since, and they doubted he's stopping now. Zetsu reported back to his leader Pain about the kidnapping of a person from the Rain village by of course the snake himself. Zetsu had already done his research, and more on all this before reporting to his Leader, Pain-sama.
"What's so special about this person he's taken?" Pain's eyes cut the darkness that surrounded them in their hideout.
"Apparently she has some kind of kekkei genkai, a strange one that Orchimaru is interested in" Zetsu's darker side explained.
"A strange kekkei genkai? Last time I heard of someone with that was from the Mist village long time ago, he went by the name Haku" Kisame, an ex-mist village swordsman butted in.
"No, this one's a girl, she seems around fourteen, I can't seem to find anything about her abilities, but if Orchimaru has her, it must be something great. Who knows, maybe he's preparing her for us, or himself" Zetsu continued.
"If Orchimaru has taken in a girl, it's too dangerous to let him get away with it, and we wouldn't want him in the way of our plans" Konan joined in, standing next to Pain. "We should act against this, and use her to our advantage instead; perhaps she can aid us with finding the tailed beasts" Pain, the leader of the organization nodded to her idea.
"It's decided, we take the girl"
...The Girl's POV...
... Akumi Kami...Akumi Kami...Akumi Kami that's my name, right? I opened my dry eyes to see something green in front of me. The man named Kabuto was no longer in the room once scanning the bring place. Staring back at the green thing, I searched through my memory of the first time I entered this room, I couldn't seem to recall seeing it there when I first entered the room. It looked like a plant sticking out of the ceiling of the room. Perhaps the grey haired man had put it there when I was sleeping. Strangely enough it moved and opened like a Venus fly trap plants that I'd seen on TV back in the Rain village. Inside was a head of a man, his face was half white half black.
I stared blankly as he stared at me.
"Come here" It spoke and I listened, perhaps he was another person who worked with the snake man. He took hold of my arm and pulled me up, right when my arms went through the stone ceiling the grey haired boy entered.
"What the-! NO!" I blinked as he tried too late to grab for me. Huh...I guess this plant man wasn't a fellow peer of his. I stared at the man, right in the eye as we seemed to be moving through the ground, the nose was loud and deafening. Eventually we surfaced, and I came face to face with a big white bird. It looked like a toy, standing on it was a blond person, and the person had long hair and a black cloak with red clouds. In fact, even the plant man wore that.
Just like Kabuto, the blond person was smiling.
"Good job Zetsu, I'll take it from here, hop on, un" I listened and stepped on this toy like bird. It felt more solid than it looked. It moved, the wings and we were up in the air. "You don't seem scared at all un" He commented at me. I didn't respond.
I was looking at the plant man as he got smaller the higher we got, before turning to the blond boy once I couldn't see the plant man. I stared at him from behind, my long dark hair flying behind me and out of my face. He seemed to be having fun, flying, his grin never leaving his face. I wonder why he was smiling. Is he having fun? "We're going to fly for a few days, there's food and water in the bag next to you."
A few days, huh? I wonder what they want from me, I wonder if I'll meet more people. I opened the bag he was talking about, and only ate a few spoon fulls before putting it away, I drank a lot though, half of the bottle. I reached out for his hair, it looked soft, and clean, and I've never seen hair so yellow before. This action made him turn to me and stare at me in the eye, he seemed bothered, I hadn't even gotten the chance to touch his hair and he knew.
"The hell are you doing? Hm." I looked up at him at his one eyes he took was taller, my face expressionless, as expressionless as I felt. After awhile he realized I wasn't going to answer him, he turned back to flying his bird. I suppose I shouldn't touch his hair. I went back to thinking about the plant man. I looked down at where he had held me, puzzled by something. "Duck down NOW!" And I did when I saw a rock hurled just pass my head. A boulder to be exact. "Hold on!" He flew a sharp turn to the right to dodge another boulder, he took a dive to avoid a lightening bold, and he spun around, I was clenching onto the bird. We were being attacked, by who? Or why? I wasn't sure.
"Tch! I knew I didn't wanna take this course, un" This is when I saw it, his hands, there were mouths on it, he placed them into the bags inside his cloak and out came little white birds that flow down, I followed the direction they flew. "Katsu!" The boy was smirking while saying that, and when he said that, the birds exploded. I stared at the bodies that were hit, little did they look, like ants from this distance. Had he killed them? Did they have families? Children's? Loved ones? Did this man next to me think about those before doing what he did? Did he care to even think?
I wonder.
He handled the bird to go back high like it was before being attacked. I felt my weak body giving in to the darkness again, and I slipped back into it, and let the darkness embrace me.