ANBU
By: Karasu Kyra
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
Kakashi's hand gripped a kunai as a chakra signature approached his apartment. He sighed silently to himself as a messenger bird appeared on his window. But that in itself brought back bad memories. They assaulted Kakashi's mind, forcing him to remember.
He remembers his first ANBU mission. He was part of Squad 8 who's job was to retrieve a missing-nin and force information out of him using any means necessary. By that they ment torture. They had captured the missing-nin and had his hands and feet bound, the man lying on his side on the ground. His captain approached the man and asked him something pertaining to the war.
With a negative response something was broken. If they received a positive response the man was only wounded with an abrasion. They continued until the man himself was hardly recognizable as a human. Kakashi could not participate in the event's and no one questioned him as he turned his back.
He wrenched off his dog-like mask that marked him as ANBU Hound. He emptied the contents of his stomach to the forest floor.
He remembered every kill he'd ever been forced to make, every face in pain, and anguish flashing before his eyes.
He remembered the day he lost his innocence in a hotel room as part of a mission. It was normally a mission a kunoichi would take, but as the man they were after preferred men himself...
It's two in the morning and Kakashi has donned his ANBU uniform once again after years of it sitting under the floorboards of his apartment, for no ANBU member really retires.