I groaned, birds were chirping and a cool breeze caressed my scantily clad body.
I froze. I'm outside? How? Did Mama find the empty bottles? I knew I should have hidden them away straight away. No, she told me freaks shouldn't go outside, but how else would I have gotten here?
I slowly opened my eyes and took in my surroundings. Trees? I sat up wincing as I took stock of my body. I frowned at one large bruise on the side of my body. Aside from that it was like I had never even taken the Morphine.
I sighed and used the one skill I had that Mama did not punish me for. I lay my hand over the area and sighed as a pale green light soothed the ache.
I gasped as a small tattoo was revealed. When did I get that? It was of a bird in flight, the detail was impressive, as though it was about to turn it's little head and look right at me.
A deep voice snapped me out of my thoughts, I squeaked and whirled around. A tall scarred man stood behind me watching me silently. One very noticeable scar stretched from his right eye and down past is jaw line. He had short cropped moss green and loose fitting clothing.
What caught my attention was the long sword h had pointed directly at my face.
"Entschudigung,"(Sorry) I whimpered. The man scowled and took two long strides towards me, I stared up at him with wide eyes and felt rather than saw the kick connect with my side.
I screamed as I saw a tree rushing towards me, I closed my eyes only to never feel the impact. My power, I realised as I pried my eyes open to see the tree mere inches from my face.
The man said something as I dropped gracelessly to the ground. I felt him drag me to my feet.
He pointed to himself, "Master." I nodded.
He straightened himself seemingly satisfied with my answer and turned and walked away. I trailed after him, after all, where else will I go?
My thoughts raced as I tried to keep up with his long legs. Where am I? Where is Mama? Will she look for me? Or will she even notice I have gone?
I shook my head and followed Master to my new home
The next 5 years were busy. Between training, Master taught me as much of the language as I needed to know. I understood what he told me his name was now but I also understand why. Master told me will die on my own, my purpose is to serve him in return for food and shelter.
I learned more about my power and how common it actually was here. I learned how to repeat the incident with the tree and then how to use it to aid or hinder others.
As soon as I had mastered chakra control the next step was to hide my presence from others, the lessons hastening with the constant presence of Master's cane. The ability to camouflage my appearance was an added bonus, Master even gave me a new blanket.
That leads us to what I do to serve him. The healing is a given, the rest involved supporting him in battle and intel gathering.
If you ignore the missions, it was a peaceful existence, Master largely ignored me when we were in the shack so I was left to my own devices provided I kept p with my training.
This mission was supposed to be simple. We were to assassinate a merchant, we knew he would have protection and only one person at that.
I stood shaking on the tree branch, it had happened so much faster than I thought possible. I stared at Master's corpse as it fell to the ground.
The merchant looked as shocked as I was, one lightning charged attack and it was over. The ninja stood over the body lazily.
"You might as well come out," He turned his face towards me, a single eye locking on my trembling form.
I do not want to fight him, I realised. Seconds seemed to stretch on for an eternity as I crouched, praying that he would forget about me. The ninja sighed and poofed away only reappear on my branch.
I squealed and dropped my cover, staring wide eyed at him. His gravity defying white hair swayed in the wind and he watched my closely.
"I-is Master dead?" I forced out in a shaky voice. He raised an eyebrow and the word Master.
"Yes," he said simply, still watching me closely.
"I'm going to die," I said softly. He looked confused. "Master said I will die if I go alone. My purpose is to serve him."
He gave me an incredulous look, I stayed silent as he appeared to be in thought.
"Come with us," He said finally.
"Yes Master," I nodded eagerly.
"No, not Master. Just Kakashi," His voice seemed strained.
"K-k-k-kashi," I managed, the foreign name still having me struggle after all these years.
Kakashi smiled and ruffled my hair, "Close enough." he laughed and I jumped at the sound and stared at him in wonder.
"Well let's get going," he jumped down and I followed suit. I listened to the merchant complain that I could turn on them in revenge for Master. I glanced back at the corpse that now decorated the side of the road. He looked peaceful I noted.
"What is your name," I was pulled from my thoughts by Kakashi who was looking at me expectantly.
"My name?" I asked.
"Yeah, what people call you," I frowned, thinking back to what Mama and Master called me.
"Girl," I said finally. Kakashi stared at me, I quickly apologised.
"Kid, Girl ain't a name," the merchant said gruffly.
Kakashi recovered and looked around the forest for inspiration. "Lily," he said finally, his gaze having landed on some lilies.
I nodded, "Yes Kashi."
He smiled and led the way back through the woods, I looked back at Masters still form and turned away to follow the two men into yet another new chapter.
In German there is formal and informal ways of speaking to people, like how the Japanese will refer to another by their second name instead of first.
Entschuldigung is a formal way of saying sorry. Mama is the German equivalent of Mum/Mom/Mummy/Mommy etc.
Also I am British, so my spelling will vary, I'll try to keep english slang out of it because it can get confusing, fag in British slang means cigarette but is really offensive in America...
Let me know if I make a mistake!
