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Chapter 2

A tortured Soul.

It's been about five hours since I have been captured. The grass ninja must have this place well hidden if my team couldn't find me by now. It was unlikely that they were dead, or at least I hoped they weren't. But soon, the ninja would come back in here and try to get me to spill the info about my village. Yet, I knew that I would die before I would give up such things.

My undying devotion to the Leaf was very strong, despite my very lazy demeanor. It wasn't time to stray off my current predicament. I was in a cave, there were no light sources that breached this part of the cave, and a thick metal cage stood in my way. Plus, my hands were bound behind my back with some rope.

In reality this was the perfect place for my shadows to strike, within the cave I would have unlimited range. Taking down the enemy would be a walk in the park, but the issues were that I didn't have much charka to use. I needed what was left of my charka to survive, so it wasn't worth using for some stupid attempt to free myself. In the end of my attempt, I would just run out of energy and they would kill me. Staying in the cage until I could think of a plan was my best bet. So far I would need to break out of my binds first.

I moved around the closed area, trying to feel for something sharp to cut the ropes. It was no good at all; there wasn't anything to help me within this cage.

It became very apparent that I would need the other woman's help to get out of here. My reasoning had led me back to her, but would she want to help me? Honestly, she hadn't said a word to me for five hours now, so should I just have to be the first one to speak my mind? Man, why do I have to always be the one dealing with woman?

I focused on her frame for a few moments. Her stomach was moving, so she wasn't dead. Maybe she was weak from hunger and couldn't talk to conserve energy. This was going to be such a troublesome thing for me to do, but it was now or never. I tried to think of what a sensible guy would say to her, and then I remembered that I was just that guy.

"Hey, are you still alive?" I said bluntly to her.

No answer came from the woman, so I decided to try to get her attention again.

"I can see you are breathing, so can you just speak to me already?" another blunt response from a sensible guy like myself.

I noticed that she stirred at my words this time but still didn't respond. So I had decided that it was time to bring out the big guns, my signature words that tend to lead to my problem with women all over the globe.

"Why is it that every woman I meet has to be so troublesome? Always holding something against anyone they met for a split second, thinking of all their flaws first, and then make a big fuss over those little things. Man you're just the same as all the others."

I watched her body start to clinch into herself for a few moments. Yet there was still no response from her, and I was shocked at this realization. It was a first for me, since any other woman would be yelling at me by now. Either she was a really calm or she was holding back with every fiber of her body to stay silent. I decided to test my theory out on her.

"Man, I hate speaking more then I need too. I try to be a gentleman but even then, woman like—

"Shut the hell up already!" The woman finally yelled towards me.

I didn't say anymore to her after that, it seemed that dealing with troublesome woman all the time had helped me. It taught me the trade of getting under woman skin, to the very core of what is at the center of most of their souls. Thankfully I wouldn't need to talk forever like Ino does most of the time.

"So, are you willing to speak to me now?" I said with a smirk.

"Didn't I just say to shut up?"

"Yes, but I wouldn't listen to you. I still have my own will after all."

"Wise guy, huh?"

"I guess, but that is a story for another time." I said tirely to her, as I yawned.

"I don't care for stories, they aren't important."

"Man, you're so troublesome. Maybe I liked you better quiet, I didn't know what I was thinking when I wanted to speak to you."

"You're the one that went on a monologue about your trouble with woman. What the hell is your problem?!"

I sighed at her words. Honestly, I found it ironic.

"If you knew me, you would understand why I am like this."

"I don't know you."

"Then you wouldn't understand. Look I just want to speak with you about something."

"Why should I listen to you?" She asked curious of his response.

"Because I want to get you out of here. Don't you want to escape this hell hole?" I asked seriously this time.

"What's the catch?"

"I get out of here as well…?" I said with my usual blunt tone

"Sounds like you are only thinking of yourself."

"Yes and no."

"Yes and no?"

"I want to get out of here, but I need your help to achieve that goal."

"I can't trust you…..I won't trust you."

"Why the hell not?"

She turned over to my side, her orange eyes stared into my dark ones. I could see that hers were filled with sadness, but it wasn't from here. It was more of a mark of time; it was like Naruto's back when we were kids. The mental image had made me look away from her, but I was shocked as I looked over her face. It was covered in bruises and cuts. They had beaten her this much? Was it out of fun for these damn bandits, or was it because they knew she was threat to them?

"Well aren't you going to say something?" she asked seriously.

I only tried to think of what to say to her, this was something I had never had to deal with.

"Why did they go to such lengths to harm you?"

"You wouldn't understand what I go through."

"Yes, I wouldn't understand what you go through because I don't know what you go through. So why don't you tell me?"

It was her turn to grow quiet as I had tried to tackle her problem. I wanted to know, but I knew that it would only waste time for us. Yet, what I saw had hit me directly in the heart and I would like to help her. So this was how Naruto feels when he does things, man what a drag. Soon enough I'll be saying "Believe it"…over my dead body that is.

Before she could utter another word, she turned around away from me as grass Ninja had came back into the cave room. He approached my cage with a smirk on his face. He was holding a long chain, attached to the end of it was a metal collar with spikes around the inside of the ring.

The man had opened my cage and picked me up from the ground. He placed the collar around my neck, the blunt spikes pressing into my throat, only allowing me to breathe through my nose.

I waited for the man to speak, but instead he pulled the chain, causing the spikes to press into my throat even harder. It caused me to cough horribly into the cave, the woman in the cage giving me a sad look as if I wasn't going to get back to the cage. In reality, I expected the same from the way they were going to toy with me.

I followed him like he ordered and we soon walked into a much bigger part of the cave.

I studied the route, to ensure that I knew my way back through this path. I would need this to escape out of here and plan very much ahead. Expect I noticed that there was no way out of this cavern, so there must be a secret way into here. It was then that I heard the sound of water running throughout the area I was in, and knew that it had to be a waterfall. That must be the way in and out, but that could also be the reason for my team not finding me.

I only sighed at the way this would turn out, so far nothing would support me. When the guy had stopped, there was a group of ninjas crowded around the front of the waterfall. Which must have been the entrance to this cave, they looked at me with a smile and I noticed that the leader was there. They passed the chain over to him and he looked at me with a smirk on his face.

"Oh, you still have that same look on your face. You're not scared of little old me, yet? Truly, you will find out what is to be scared about," he said arrogantly.

I only spit in his face for speaking those words, while the rest of his band of merry man had laughed at my actions. It was then that the leader had smashed his fist into my chest, causing me to let out a gasp and then fight for air at the same time. When he shortened the range of chain and pulled it into my throat, causing me to lose air much quicker.

I fought for air for about five seconds, before he released me from his grasp. I fell to the floor with my body taking the full blunt edges of the stone floor, trying to regain the air that I had lost.

"That wasn't nice to do, you little bug! Now tell me, what are the secrets of the hidden leaf village?"

"Go….to...hell…" It was all I could muster to say in my current position.

He only smiled down at me, and dragged me across the floor with the spikes pressing into my throat once more. He forced me to stand up, while the others had circled around me with interested expression on their faces. I only tried to look strong at the attempts to break me, but I knew it was far from over.

"Oh, another guy who won't speak, I wonder how long that will last?" One of the Ninjas said

"Nah, he will give up in the first hour," another had said.

"Either way he might die, so let's put some money on this bet!" The final one spoke proudly all around

I was disgusted by the way they played with human's lives without remorse. It only drove me to want to survive and kill these men myself. Yet, would I die here in this matter of abuse….had they done this to that woman back there. They dragged me over to the waterfall. I looked down and noticed that it was a long way down. Falling would surely lead to my death and I hoped they weren't going to make me jump.

"Alright, now that we have the bets settled. It's your time to shine kid, it's quite simple really. The collar will be attached to your neck, we will then push you off the edge of the waterfall and lucky for you. You will have your hands unbidden, but really you're going to need them to survive while you're being hung."

"Then why release my hands?"

"Quite simple, to see if you survive or not. If you die, then who gives a damn, but if you survive an hour of being hung...then you get to stay alive for another day. Well time for you to play the game, good luck! " he said cheerfully.

It was then that he had kicked me off the edge of the waterfall and the chain had fallen with me. I instantly slipped a hand through the front of my collar, to cushion the spikes that would drive into the front of my throat and used the other to grab a hold of the chain. To hold myself up was the most important task, yet when the chain had stopped with such force. The pain had run through my body like no other and I knew that the falling water would hinder my strength over time.

In the end of it all, I knew that they were sick bastards. I felt the spikes pressing into my hand. The pain was bearable for now, but for long would I last? Damn my fate it seems, that I would need to use all my strength to survive…but what was there for me to want to survive?

I only focused on the sound of running water from the falls as I closed my eyes to conserve my energy to the present task.

….

Fu's Pov

Did it matter what I wanted? Of course it didn't, if it did I wouldn't be in a cage. Every day, I get beaten by the ninja and I have to see his face each time. The traitor to my village, he took me from my village for power. But in the end, I couldn't stop them all and they hardly feed me, so my energy could not recover to get out of here.

Today, they had brought a new prisoner, but I knew that it would only be a matter of time before he died. So it wouldn't matter what he said, of course I hated him anyway. Humanity was a sick joke at times and I knew that I couldn't break free from its rules. Everyone hated me, and I hated Humanity to its very core. Yet, this one guy had tried to speak to me and then started ranting on about woman.

Man he was such a jerk, yet he had grabbed my attention as we spoke. He had said things that a lot of people have said to me in the past. To break free from my cage and get out of these caves...what did it matter to me? In the past month, I had always been here with many other prisoners, and each one had meant their death on the first day. They always had, what would be the difference with him.

When I showed him my face, instead of the usual sorrow within one's eyes, his were filled with something different...they had cared for someone like me. I still couldn't take my mind off his eyes, as if he wanted to understand me. It was like he had done it before, yet that couldn't be possible with my predicament. I carry within me the seven-tailed beast, one of the nine and was very powerful.

Yet it had stopped talking to me because it was weak as well. All it could do was heal my wounds, even though it couldn't help me break out of this cage.

Before I could speak to him again, the guards had come into the cave and I turned away from him. I didn't want to get caught by them, trying to predtend that I was asleep from all the pain. They had taken the guy from the room and I turned back to his retreating form.

Wondering if this would be the last time he would be alive, my mind had retreated back to his piercing eyes. Could he really break out of here? I wonder if he would survive their little game. If he did, maybe I could try to work with him. Yet I was reminded what had happened when I trusted someone…

A fellow ninja of my village by the name of Honjin, he had been with me as my ally within our village. I had trusted him with my life. But when he was put on trial for breaking our rules of the village, he had killed one of the elders, and I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, he had knocked me out and raided our village with grass ninja. It wasn't long before he had brought me in this cage and his followers had made sure that I wouldn't pose a threat. A month in here, and I was still alive but it was because Honjin had use for me.

My only friend within the village had betrayed me, and even if that wasn't the case, the village had shunned me, so I had strayed away from talking to anyone. When I looked towards the entrance to this room, he had come into the room with a smile on his face. Slowly walking over to my cage room, he looked down at me with his kind smile…..I hated that smile the most.

"Oh, Fu. You are such a pleasant angel to me." he said sweetly to her

"Shut up, Honjin…..you can't speak to me like that anymore!"

"Silly little girl, you don't understand where you stand. It's alright if you talk that way because you're about to be gone." He said as he switched over to his darker side.

"Gone? What the hell are you talking about?"

"I've sold you over to some fellows, it was a nice sale really. They offered secret justu's from the rock and lightning village."

"I'm no slave! I'll kill you before that happens!" She spat at him angry at his claims.

"I would like to see you try, but they will be here tomorrow. So time is ticking down, tick, tock little Fu."

He laughed at his own joke but I clinched my hand into a fist. I couldn't do anything else within this cage and waited for him to finish. I turned my eyes back to the other guy's cell and he noticed where I was starring.

"Oh, you've grown attached to that guy. Why I never knew you were such a whore." He said with anger filling his voice this time around, like it truly mattered to him.

I tried to kick him from my cage but he was too far away. I turned my back away from him, as he walked away from my cage. He had already done his damage to me, now he would only end up getting rid of me now. Like every other person has done to my entire life, I went to take a rest…the last one I might take.

It was a few hours later, then the sound of shuffling feet had approached this room. I awoke to see if it was the two men that Honjin spoke of. Expect I was relieved to see that it wasn't them and smiled to myself that it was the guy from before. He was dragged into his cell and locked under key again. He looked awful and I was surprised that he even survived their punishment.

I just stared at him with my orange eyes as I tried to figure out what to say to him. He of course had turned to me with a black eye around his right eye. I wondered if it was from Honjin, but it might have been from his task.

"You're still alive?"

He didn't speak a word.

"Hey, I'm speaking to you!"

He looked at me with a blank expression, then turned back to stare at the ceiling.

" I want to escape with you "

He turned to me with a slight smirk on his face, as he pulled a blunt spike out of his pants. They had expected him to be too weak to move but he had somehow been able to do more during the task. I was surprised at his will to survive this encounter but I still didn't trust him. It was only a mutual gain to get out of here….that was all.

"I've got a plan already set in motion, you just have to follow me and cover my back," he said confidently to me.

I only hoped that it would work, this would be our last time seeing each other if it didn't work.

"What's your name guy?"

"Shikamaru Nara. And yours, woman? "

"Fu, glad to make your acquaintance." I said honestly for once.

"No regrets now."

"Huh? "

"Don't mind me, so here is the plan." he said waving my curiousness off.

So he told me his plan to escape and I knew that it was a long shot. Yet, what more was left for me? Either I die or I live. Currently I want to at least try to live before I die, let's hope this Shikamaru fellow feels the same way.