The Fallen One
Chapter 2
Kisame quickly followed Konan through the door and into the room with the girl. She was awake and staring ahead in the same way she had been when she was sitting in the rain.
"What is your name child?" Konan asked her gently, not knowing how the child would react. The girl looked over at her.
"My name is Sakura Haruno" the girl stated then looked over at Kisame and fainted. Kisame gasped and looked at Konan. He looked back to the girl and back again to Konan.
"Is she ok?" Kisame looked worried. Just then, Leader-sama walked in.
"Konan, what are your findings of the child?" he stated while looking at her.
"She knows Kisame somehow. She whispered his name while she was out. When she came to, she looked frantically around then started looking straight ahead until Kisame and I walked back in. after I asked her name, she looked at Kisame and passed out." The bluenette looked over at Leader-sama and sighed. She wasn't sure if Sakura was connected to Kisame or what but she was going to have to find out. They all left the room to discuss the matter further and no sooner than they left, the child awoke.
"Kisame-sama.."
The following morning, Kisame awoke to find the child kneeling beside his bed. He was confused as to what she was doing. When she heard Kisame shuffling around the room, she looked up. This was the remaining member of the family she once served. It seemed he didn't remember her though. She knew as soon as he remembered, he was going to banish her for being a "witch" like his family had before they passed away. After that moment, she had fled the village and nobody had taken a notice except for him until he joined the akatsuki and forgot about her too.
As he left the room, she stood and followed silently behind him. She could easily say that she was hungry but she was taught early on not to eat until everyone else in the household was fed and so she stood patiently against the wall and closed her eyes and made it look like she was sleeping when in reality she had all her senses trained on the men in the kitchen. Just as she closed her eyes, konan walked into the kitchen and stood next to her.
"Are you not going to eat child?" Konan watched the men argue over the food, not aware of the 2 girls watching them.
"With all due respect ma'am, I'm not to eat until all the rest of the household has eaten and is satisfied. So go ahead and eat and enjoy your meal and after you eat leave the dishes. I will wash them all for you."
Konan started to argue with the girl but Sakura made it clear in her posture that she's not backing down in this. Konan sighed and went to fix her and Leader-sama some breakfast. As she passed by Sakura, she bent down to whisper in her ear.
"Meet me in Leader-sama's office when you finish what you have set out to do. Leader-sama wishes to speak to you" Sakura nodded and closed her eyes once more and waited patiently for the men to finish their breakfasts.
After Sakura finished her breakfast and washed the dishes, she headed to Leader-sama's office. She knocked once and stepped back. When she was told to enter, she knelt down and bowed low to the floor in the same manner Kisame had found her this morning.
"Rise child. You do not have to bow to me." Leader-sama looked at her as she rose. She kept her head lowered in the same manner as she did as if she was still kneeling.
"Konan has told me some observances she has made of you. She has informed me that you know one of our members, child. How is that so?" Leader-sama looked down at her with his ringed eyes.
Sakura softly sighed and looked up at him and Konan and turned around and lifted the hair which happened to be covering her outfit that Konan had given her which consisted of a silver tank top and pale blue skinny jeans and silver flats. Upon her left shoulder blade underneath the tank top strap was a tattoo she was forced to get at the age of 4. It was a mark of ownership that she belonged to a family as a servant until she died.
"I was kidnapped as an infant and sold to a power greedy lot of people. One particular family wanted me for themselves when they found out I wouldn't disobey. They took me to a seal artist and had that property of Hoshigaki tattooed onto my shoulder in hopes that I would try and run. I stayed still and didn't flinch. When I was introduced to Kisame, I was to become his personal servant. So I did. I kept my mouth shut and did what I was ordered to do. When his family discovered my secret, they banished me. What they didn't count on was the tattoo was a sort of tracking device. I discovered the family was slaughtered all but Kisame. I cared deeply for him so I fled and used my tattoo to keep tabs on him."
Konan looked at Sakura and gasped softly. Sakura just shook her head and continued.
"I was kidnapped again at 14 by a group of rouges. All I have to rely on is pure strength. I have no chakra. I couldn't fight back for a good year and a half. I was brutally assaulted and raped. I didn't flinch. I couldn't even if I wanted to. When I got the chance last year, I ran. I ran like hell. I don't own a weapon. I can't tell you my secret either. I'm not allowed to."
Leader-sama looked at her. She looked back. He wanted to know why she couldn't tell her secret to them. She read his expression and the curiosity across Konan's face. She lifted her left wrist. It was a seal.
"If I tell anybody my secret, I will die. I wouldn't mind dying but not the way that the seal on my wrist is for. I would rather not have to go like that. And I really don't want Kisame to find out about me so soon."
Leader-sama dismissed her and she left the room and went outside and leapt onto the highest tree branch she saw. She felt through her tattoo that Kisame was looking her. She wasn't ready to be found. Not yet.