A/N: The following chapter is going to be various scenes during half a year that Lucy has been staying in the Naruto world :D please enjoy
Chapter 2
Time Fly's, Tears Dry
A little girl sat at the base of a big tree in a forest, tears poured down her face and dripped onto the dirt ground. The tears distorted the picture that the girl had drawn with a stick, a father, a mother, a grandpa, a grandma and a little girl.
One big happy family.
Not anymore, she thought bringing fresh tears from her eyes.
Just hours ago back in that dreadful clearing where she woke up Ashi had explained to her how he had taken her from her home for his own purposes.
'Your my vessel now girly, this world isn't your own, its mine' Ashi spoke in her head 'you won't ever be able to get back so you should just forget about it and start a new life here'
"Why would you do that? I wasn't mean to you I didn't do anything wrong, I ate my vegetables and used manners like a good girl, why?" She cried out, rubbing at her eyes fitfully.
'You were in the wrong place at the wrong time, move on with your life' He growled out before disappearing back into the confines of her head.
"I HATE YOU!" She screamed out, getting to her feet and sprinting through the large forest.
The little girl still couldn't wrap her head around why?
And like any 5 year old would do when they had lost the only place they had to call home, she cried for the rest of the day and a little of the night before falling into a fitful sleep filled with nightmares. She woke up and the first word she could think was Hungry, then It hurts, tired and cold.
Survival instincts took over almost immediately. Making her identify the only one she could ask for food was Ashi, right now she didn't care that she was so far away from home, or that Ashi was the one that had taken her from that home.
"Ashi, I'm hungry" She mumbled out, shivering from the morning air.
'I though you hated me girly, I'll only help you if you forget about your old home and stop being difficult'
"Hungry, Ashi, feed me" She mumbled out again, peering up through half-lidded eyes.
'Fine' He spoke back.
And thus the beginning of a beautiful relationship was formed through a little girls need for food.
"Ashi, Ashi get up, you said you'd teach me about chactera today"
'It's chakra girly, say it with me now cha-k-ra'
"Cha-ke-ra"
'That will need improving, but I guess it's expected'
The little girl skipped down the dirt pathway and out of the village she had stayed at that night. After her first couple of nights sleeping in the forest Ashi decided he couldn't deal with the complaining and explained to her how to steal money, though the first few (25) times were a fail.
"'Scuse me Miss" The little girl shouted out to a lady up ahead only to bump into her a couple of seconds later. She went through the instructions that Ashi gave her in her head and fumbled to get her hands into the ladies pocket to steal her purse.
"What are you doing you filthy child, get your hands away from my money! Help! Help!"
Needless to say the little girl had to get very good at running. Though sometimes Ashi said she was very lucky before mumbling about thanking the gods that ninja never came after her.
'So the first step is for you to feel your chakra, shouldn't be too hard considering you weren't born with it'
"It's that funny stuff running through my new veins isn't it, and it's that stuff that's everywhere right Ashi?" The girl questioned excited that she could finally do something right for Ashi.
'That's right girly, chakra is that stuff that flows through your body and helps to keep things alive. But your special, since the chakra in your body isn't yours you can live without it since you've practically lived without it since you were born'
"Yay! I got it right" She said happily while running down the path for a bit with her hands waving in the air.
'The next bit will be much more difficult, there are 12 basic hand seals used to manipulate the chakra in your body so you can perform jutsu's'
"What's a juetsu Ashi?" She asked quizzically her head tilted to the side.
'A jutsu can do many things like help you manipulate water, fire, wind, earth and all the other attributes-'
"So it's like magic?"
'Well I gue-'
"Yay Ashi's gonna teach me how to do magic like Harry Potter!" The girl yelled with enthusiasm while skipping around in a circle joyfully.
'Why do I even bother?'
There was a little girl walking along a dirt road as the sun was just setting, Ashi had told her not to stay out too late before going to sleep or else bad people would come. She hummed a tune happily as she made her way to the next village she would be staying at.
Up ahead she could see three rough looking people making their way in the opposite direction to her. When she got to them they moved outwards and formed a circle around her.
"I'm scared Ashi, why are their people surrounding me?" The girl whispered causing the three people to laugh, the leader leant forward and picked her up by the front of her shirt.
"Look little girly, there's no one else here, so who ya talkin to" The leaders voice was smooth and strong like liquid metal, as he gestured around to the only other two people there.
"If ya don't answer us we'll have ta steal everything that ya own, but den again we'll steal all yer stuff anyway" He spoke again, grinning to show his chalky teeth while his friends laughed cheering him on.
The girl started whimpering until Ashi's presence once again came forth in her mind.
'Don't just take it girly, use what I've taught you' Ashi growled in her head.
Suddenly everything became clearer to the girl, the sharp scent of something bitter, the fading light illuminating a sharp thing in the man's pocket, and the feel of his breath fanning against her face.
Lessons with Ashi flew through her head quickly, making her actions come like second nature.
'Punch like this'
She punched.
'When they fall kick like this'
As they both fell she lifted her right leg and kicked his bleeding head before landing on the ground gracefully.
'When they hit back use their momentum against them'
He tried to punch her with his right arm as he fell to the ground, so she grabbed it and twisted it behind him.
'Then deliver the last blow'
As soon as he touched the ground she jumped and twisted, using her own momentum to kick his head a final time.
All of this happened in the time frame of ten seconds, as she moved fluidly like a machine. The man stayed still and did not get up. His lackeys were already running away at the hint of a fight, leaving the girl alone with a corpse.
"Why isn't the man getting up and running away with his friends Ashi?" The girl questioned innocently.
Not wanting to deal with the emotional turmoil telling the truth would put her in Ashi lied.
'He's sleeping. He's gone into a very deep sleep and won't wake up for a while'
"Okay Ashi, what about that red stuff coming out of him?"
'That's the bad things he's done coming out of him, that's what happens when bad people go to sleep'
"But that stuff has come out of me before too, does that make me a bad person Ashi?"
'No, you're a good girl, so when that stuff starts coming out of you, you have to stop it as soon as possible, got it girly?"
"Yes Ashi, I'm tired now" So the girl started walking towards the town again, sun long gone and moon taking its place.
A little girl sat up quickly in her bed, the night horrors had come to haunt her again. Ashi thought she had gotten over her family, her home, losing her entire world. But he was wrong. He could only see the outside even if he was inside her head.
The moonlight spilled through the window and gave her pale skin an eerie glow and made the tears pouring down her face shimmer and sparkle like diamonds. In truth she missed home and her family, and it hurt so much in her chest that sometimes she felt like falling asleep and not waking up for a while, just like that bad guy.
'What's the matter girly, you woke me up with your pathetic sobbing'
"I-I'm sorry Ashi, it just hurts so much, I want to go home" She sobbed out, covering her face with the pillow and curling up into a ball.
The voice that had been inside her head since she got here sighed 'It's okay to cry, just for tonight girly, I don't know too much about children, but if you need someone to…. Support you I guess, I'm always here'
The girl sobbed harder into her pillow.
'If it helps, think of me as your new family, like an older brother'
She sniffled a bit more before smiling with tears still running down her face.
"I would like that, big brother"
Even though her pain was still there, and she still remembered, the pain had lessened slightly, and with time it would fade until all she would have to rely on,
Would be Ashi
The little girls day starts early, like most ninja in training (even though she though that wizards were way cooler).
A head of dark caramel hair peeked out of the cocoon of blankets she had made around herself the night before.
'Come on girly, time to wake up'
"Nngh" She mumbled something incoherent while rolling over in attempt to block out the voice. Her efforts were fruitless however, mainly because that voice was in her head.
'If you don't get up now I won't teach you how to fly'
The bundle shot up and out of bed revealing itself to the bright sunlight coming in through the window.
"I'm up big brother Ashi, I'm up please say you're still teaching me how to fly" She asked in a pleading tone.
He chuckled a bit before answering 'Of course girly, wouldn't dream of not teaching it to you'
She then goes about her morning ritual which includes stretches,
"Look at me Ashi! My feet can touch my head in handstand"
'Be care-'
THUMP
'Why do I even bother?'
A lovely morning shower,
"Aah so nice"
Eating a nutritious breakfast (an apple),
Cleaning her teeth and getting dressed into her everyday clothes, which consist of a loose dark red tank top tied to her body with bandages, baggy black pants also tied to her legs with bandages, bandages on her feet ("Shoes are expensive" 'Whatever') and arms ("Ninja training hurts" 'It's supposed to') and a black scarf around her neck (sometimes pulled up to be a mask).
The little girl can then head off for Taijutsu lessons with her big brother.
'Since you'll be starting with the weights tomorrow will up your training today-'
"But Ashi" She whined
'Don't 'Ashi' me, 23 laps around the village, 53 handstand push-ups, 100 crunches, practice your backhand springs till they're perfect and after that you can practice the basic fighting kata's again'
"Fine" She pouted before starting her training.
*A while later*
"Finished Ashi! Can I go get lunch now?"
'Go ahead'
The town that the little girl was currently staying in was a small village near the sea that had bountiful food for very low prices. The best prices she had seen on her travels in fact, so for the past week she had been staying here, money was hard to come by these days for the little pickpocket. She had improved dramatically, but wasn't a master of it and would often slip up, she'd have to leave here soon.
"Hello little missy, how's your training going? Good I hope" A nice old lady asked the little girl.
"It's been going great Naomi. Could I please have five squid sticks?"
"Hungry today are you little one? Here it's on the house" The lady smiled showing her cracked and greying teeth.
"Thanks Naomi, see you" The little girl smiled back before running back to her temporary training grounds.
The rest of her day went through peacefully and quietly, Ashi had her work on chakra control for most of the afternoon so she could improve her 'Thousand Dancing Leaves' technique. It's a self created jutsu which allows her to use her chakra to form her body into leaves and travel long or short distances (depending on how much chakra is used) using chakra induced, or natural wind.
The little girl was now officially exhausted, so she got back to her small apartment and laid down to sleep.
"Night big brother Ashi"
Unbeknownst to the little girl as she fell asleep Ashi replied.
'Night little sis''
(A/N: And I have made this special little extra because I love you all so much J)
"Have you found the source yet?"
"Of course my lord, it seems to have been residing in the Land of the Waves for the past week, if we leave now we could make it there by tomorrow"
"Then prepare a team, we need to get there before it leaves"
"Yes my lord" His glasses glinted in the dimly lit room as he turned and left.
"Soon my plans will come together, and it will all be with the help of you, my dear little kyuubi girl" Orochimaru spoke to the room, his voice echoing out into the rest of the base where a small team of five was being prepared.
A/N: Well I do hope you all liked the latest chapter of innocent evil :D Please review if you can because it will make me a very happy author : )
