"Word" - English
"Word" - Japanese
Hannah awoke to a crushing pain in her ankle, accompanied by a sharp Snap!
"OW!" She shrieked, reaching down to grab her ankle. "MY ANKLE!"
The poor bone was snapped, and whatever had crushed it must've rolled right off directly afterwards, because Hannah's precious ankle was snapped and twisted.
"MY ANKLE!" She hugged her leg to herself, "MY GOD, IT HURTS LIKE A MOTHERFUC-!" Her wide, black eyes, which were speedily filling with tears, became even wider when she felt a half slapped on top of her mouth. But she refused to acknowledge the feeling of an arm wrapping around her from behind and dragging her away in favor of tightly holding her leg to her chest.
"Shush."
Suddenly Hannah's view of the outside world was shielded by a giant green wall-like sheet. Hannah didn't have much mind to appreciate the brilliant leaf design on the curtain at the moment. It was beautifully realistic, down to the plastic dew drops on the top.
Then she recognized the voice.
"Gerra?" She whimpered, turning around to see the face of her blond friend. Gerra was wide-eyed and desperately trying to calm her shaking, black-haired friend down.
"What's going on? Where are we?!" Hannah panicked, looking around. Tears were flowing down her face by then, no sign of stopping. She was hysterical. "Are we in a forest?! Why am I sitting on dirt!? Ger- Ouch, My ankle hurts like hel-"
"Hannah, shush." She whispered, pulling the curtain back to look around it.
"My ankle is broken!" Hannah exclaimed, looking up at Gerra incredulously.
Gerra's hand slapped back onto Hannah's mouth, causing Hannah to flinch, and just as she was about to rip Gerra's hand off of her mouth, booming laughter shook the ground.
"Hi-Hiruzen," Hashirama was cackling madly, laughter racking his body as Hiruzen emerged from the waters, "how do you trip over nothing?!" Hiruzen had just tripped and fallen into the spring they were at.
They had finished training for the day and Hiruzen had proposed going to the hot springs to bond as a team. It was on one of those days where Hashirama joined them for training. Koharu had passed, seeing as she wouldn't have been involved much anyway, but Hashirama had practically forced everyone else to join.
"Teacher said that you did it a lot when you were a kid." Hiruzen humped, enticing a pout from Hashirama. "And I didn't trip over nothing. There was something there."
"There's nothing there, Hiruzen."
The twelve-year old turned to watch as his teacher, Tobirama, lightly stepped into the hotspring, "I felt something break under my foot."
"Then, where is it?" Homura pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose and watched silently as Hiruzen stuttered, the Hokage still replaying the scene in his head and letting out an occasional snicker.
Tobirama's eyes narrowed when his sensitive ears caught wind of a small, high-pitched voice.
"SIE SIND DAS ESSU-"
"HANNAH!"
"HAUL YOUR ASS OUT, GERRA! RUN, GERRA, FUCKING RU-"
"HANNAH, SHUSH, THIS IS SERIOUS! WHAT'S GOING ON!"
"IF THIS IS SO SERIOUS, THEN, RUN!"
"B-BUT WHAT ABOUT-"
"MY DAMN ANKLE IS BUSTED, DON'T WAIT FOR ME!"
"Stop that." Tobirama sent his brother a sharp glance. Hashirama sobered up immediately, "What?"
"Brother, did you hear that?"
"Hear what?" Hashirama and Hiruzen asked simultaneously.
Tobirama didn't answer, instead narrowing his eyes and scanning the hot-spring from fence-to-fence.
That look instantly had Hashirama on guard, "What's going on?"
Hamura slowly rose out of the hot water and tightened the towel around his waist. His red lights were flashing wildly. 'Something's wrong.'
"..." Tobirama pinpointed two miniscule chakra signatures, "It may be summons."
Hiruzen jumped out of the hotspring and re-wrapped his towel around his waist, redirecting his eyes to where Tobirama's where focused: A small bushel of bonsai by the springs.
He lunged.
Hannah shrieked when the leaf that was shielding them was pulled back and a huge face resumed it's position. She screamed even louder when she recognized it and identified it as Hiruzen.
Her black hair whipped in her face as she frantically looked back to Gerra, who was a foot away and desperately trying to crawl through a tight crack in the roots of the bonsai.
Gerra tried even harder when she heard Tobirama's voice boom out an order. To any outside person, she looked like a roach, with all her panicky kicks and wiggles. The blonde's eyes were wide and fearful.
Standing up on one leg, Hannah hopped to the right, narrowly dodging Hiruzen's hand.
She then speed-hopped over to Gerra, wincing and gasping every time her ankle was jarred.
The Sarutobi spoke Japanese words that she didn't understand.
Probably a warning, but she didn't pay it mind in favor of trying to push Gerra through the small space in between the bonsai roots.
It was vein effort because not a second later, Hannah felt a hand wrap around her from her torso to her waist. "OH MY GOD! NO! GERRA, HELP!" She desperately grabbed Gerra's leg when she felt herself begin to be pulled back. "I CHANGE MY MIND! TAKE ME WITH YOU! DON'T LEAVE ME HERE ALONE!"
Gerra continued struggling to get through the crack. 'No take-backs, you little shit. I swear.'
Besides, maybe when she got through, if Hannah could hold on that long, she'd inevitably pull Hannah through, too.
Otherwise, Hannah obviously was a goner and Gerra didn't plan to get killed too. 'Sorry, Hannah.' Gerra grimaced when she felt Hannah get jerked off of her leg.
Gerra silently wished Hannah the best of luck and finally got unstuck.
Clumsily scrambling to the other-side, Gerra flinched when she heard Hannah explode into Spanish curses.
And just as Gerra was about to heave a sigh of relief, inhaling a great amount of air, she unfortunately released it in the form of an ear-shattering scream as she felt overgrown fingers grab her foot and swiftly jerk her through the bonsai branches.
It took three pulls, with her body banging into the branches and slapping the leaves, before whoever this hand belonged to evidently stopped caring about her safety, for it roughly jerked her through the foliage, breaking it. Her screaming self was carried through the air by the foot.
"NOOOOOOO!"
Meanwhile, Hannah was banging her small fists on the giant hand that was holding her. It turned it's wrist at such an angle that allowed her to see four glaring faces; four very familiar glaring faces.
There was also a screaming wildly-flailing Gerra who was being held upside-down by her foot, thanks to Tobirama's quick fingers.
His hand bounced from how hard she was flailing, and sparkling drops of her tears were hitting his hand each passing second.
"Who are you and who sent you?"
When he spoke his foreign words, Hannah fixed her teary-eyed glare on Tobirama but almost immediately noticed that his torso was bare. Her eyes then flashed downward and stayed glued there.
Tobirama's glare intensified and he now had an almost unnoticeable pink tint on his face to accompany it. He repeated his question, but the meaning was lost on the girls.
Gerra had calmed down by then and was hiccuping occasionally, looking from face to face frantically before finally stopping on Hannah. "HANNAH!"
It took Hannah a few seconds to look up, her eyes still watery. She didn't respond, setting for sniffling silently.
Now that the adrenaline had faded, the sharp pain in her ankle had re-emerged, and she knew anything she'd try to say would come out in whimpers and sobs.
They watched as Hashirama spoke a few more words, before turning around and disappearing behind a cement wall, followed by Hamura. Hannah inhaled sharply when her ankle was jarred again by Hiruzen handing her to Tobirama.
The brunette said a few loud words to his teacher, before running after his teammate. Probably going to put clothes on. Hannah watched him as he left, but Gerra's eyes were refocused on Tobirama.
She flinched when he repeated his question a third time, this time tossing her upwards and catching her right-side up. Feeling her arms trapped within his grip, Gerra then started squirming wildly.
"I'M SORRY!" She cried, once again wide-eyed and fearful, "WE'RE SORRY! WE'RE REALLY SORRY FOR INTRUDING ON YOU HUGE ASS GIANTS', UH, BATH TIME BUT-"
"INTRUDE MY ASS, WE WERE TRYING TO ESCAPE BUT THEY CAPTURED US! THIS IS KIDNAP! Y'ALL ARE CRAZY, WHAT THE FUCK?!" Hannah was bursting into tears again and kicking wildly, only to cry more because her precious ankle hurt like hell.
The Senju furrowed his brow, finally realizing that reason they hadn't been answering was not because they were paralyzed by fear or nervous; they couldn't understand him. This 'Hana' was making that explicitly clear.
Hannah tried to thrash, but the Senju tightened his grip on her and shot chakra into his palm. Instantly, Hannah went limp.
"What the fuck?" Gerra stared incredulously, before registering what must have happened. Tobirama casually shifted Hannah into his other hand, and ended up carrying both Gerra and Hannah in his large hand.
He used the other to pick up a towel, which he expertly one-handedly wrapped around his waist.
Gerra, on the other hand, was not so calm. "NOOOOOO, HANNAH!" Her squirming intensified and she continued for a full two seconds, but then, she froze upon sight of the glare that Tobirama leveled her with.
"Silence."
Well, Gerra knew what 'Urusai' meant. She knew it well.
Not that she was going to listen. This man, awesome cosplayer or not, just killed Hannah.
At seeing her worried and fearful, but angry eyes, Tobirama narrowed his eyes, "She's only unconscious."
"WHAT THE ACTUAL F-" Gerra barely had a second to feel the icy cold energy shot through her body, going up to her head and overtaking it, before her vision blurred and went black.
A/N: Well, was anything else expected? They weren't gonna be all buddy-buddy instantly, haha.
