Right the next chapter of this fic and I hope you like.
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Chapter 2
Orochimaru stormed down the subterranean corridor his pale skin translucent with anger; hissing dangerously under his breath. He rounded a corner and viciously kicked open a door which led into a dimly lit room. He stalked over to a large wooden table and gripped the edge glaring holes into everything he looked at.
The door suddenly opened and sensing the familiar chakra signature Orochimaru looked up his face contorted with fury. Two blood red eyes glared calmly back hardly flinching as a jar filled with a greenish liquid sailed past the young boys face.
Sasuke looked down at the spilt liquid and shards of glass that now littered the floor. He nudged the pickled foetus with his foot then looked up regarding the Sannin's livid face.
"Was she really that important?" Sasuke asked quietly.
Another liquid filled jar whistled past his head.
"I'll take that as a yes," the Uchiha muttered under his breath.
"I was so close!" the old man raged, "So close to the answers and they slipped through my FINGER!"
Orochimaru's fist came down and smashed another jar.
"HOW?! How did she escape?!"
"Unknown at this time," Sasuke said flicking imaginary dust of his sleeve, "However there is still the other one."
The Sannin growled, "This one was younger and her blood purer than the old man's."
"Old?" Sasuke asked bemused, "He doesn't look very old."
"Looks can be deceiving," Orochimaru replied dismissively, "He's probably older than me."
Sasuke looked momentarily surprised but his face became pensive as he thought.
"Well, then we would have to go get more," Sasuke suggested, "Instead of worrying about that one that got away."
A sickly light illuminated the Sannin's eyes and his thin lips drew into a tight, sadistic smile.
"Perhaps you're right Sasuke-kun, perhaps your right."
The pale blonde hair of the fifth Hokage glowed in the bright sunlight that poured in from the open windows. It was perhaps the hottest part of the year and she positively sweltered in the heat trap that was her office. Her eyes glazed momentarily as she looked with distaste at the vast amounts of paperwork. Perhaps the only bane of any job like the position of Hokage, the people were nice enough but the paper work mounted and took weeks to clear.
Her hand reached out for her sake bottle when the door flew open and Shizune entered closely followed by Naruto.
"There's an emergency Tsunade-sama," the young women said looking at the Hokage hopefully.
Tsunade sighed heavily like one who had the burdens of the world lying on her shoulders but secretly she was glad for the distraction.
"What's happened?" she asked rising to follow the younger two out of the office.
"Team Gai brought in a girl," Naruto said, "she looked really beaten up bad."
"Alright let's go then."
When they got to the hospital Tsunade was rushed into emergency and there waiting was her pupil Sakura with a clip board in her hand.
"What's the diagnosis?" she asked beginning to tie her hair into one ponytail.
"The girl looks as if she may have fallen off a cliff or something. She has sustained multiple contusions along her right thigh, torso and arms. Her right ulna and radius are broken and her right shoulder was dislocated. Several of her ribs appear to be broken and have punctured her lungs and various organs."
"Anything else?" the Hokage asked worriedly.
The pink haired girl paused.
"I can't be sure but I think there are needle marks on both her arms."
Tsunade stopped and looked at Sakura intently.
"You sure?"
"Yes Tsunade-sama they span from the crook of her elbow up to her shoulder and inside of her upper arm," the girl said, "and who ever did it was not entirely careful about how they did it either."
The Hokage frowned, "Alright lets see what we can do is she still unconscious?"
"Er," Sakura looked at the floor a little sheepishly, "No it's taking all of team Gai and some of the stronger staff to hold her down."
Tsunade's eyebrow went up and they rushed down the corridor as a bellow like roar rattled the walls. They got to the room the girl was taken too and a body came flying through the door.
"Neji?!"
The young Hyuuga got groggily to his feet and re-entered the room with out noticing the Hokage or Sakura. He came tumbling back out however tangled amongst the arms and legs of a doctor and Rock Lee. The heap moaned trying to disentangle themselves from each other.
"What in the world is going on?!" Tsunade demanded as she entered the room.
The scene would have been comical if it were not for the snarling patient on the bed being held down by almost the whole of the hospital staff, Gai, Tenten, Yamato and Kakashi. Gai and a doctor had one leg, Kakashi and Yamato the other and Tenten was holding onto the girls shoulders trying to pull her down on the bed. The rest of the hospital staff held on the other various limbs with all the strength they could muster.
"Has anyone tried to anaesthetize her?" Tsunade shouted over the noise.
A doctor's head looked up his face flushed with the effort of keeping the girl down.
"We tried several but they did not work Tsunade-sama."
Alright if that's the case, she thought.
Tsunade walked over to the patient looked her straight in the eye and punched her in the face. The girls violet eyes glazed and she fell unconscious. Everyone looked at the Hokage in shock and she turned to them.
"Anyone who is not authorised to be in here or has duties else where, leave, NOW!"
Everyone quickly left leaving the Hokage and her pupil to deal with the now unconscious patient.
Naruto watched the doors waiting for anyone to come out. Rock Lee and Neji exited first draped across each other for support.
"What happened," the blonde asked the older ninja. Neji looked at the blonde with his pearly eyes.
"She was strong."
"Stronger than we thought but we stand victorious," Rock Lee added giving a thumbs up.
Neji shook his head demurely and slumped into a chair near were Naruto was standing. The doors suddenly opened and Tenten, Gai, Yamato and Kakashi walked through looking a little exhausted. Naruto's eyebrow's went up at the sight of the others who seemed like they just come from a hard battle.
"You didn't have to use the Mangekyo did you Kakashi-sensei?" the light haired ninja laughed.
"No she just put up quite a fight for someone who was injured."
"Yes but she was no match for our youthful might," Gai said giving a thumbs up.
Everyone sighed but ignored him. Naruto looked at the doors curiously, "I wonder where she's from?"
"That's what I would like to know," Kakashi agreed putting his hands in his pockets.
Takara's eyes slid slowly open and she blinked at the unfamiliar surroundings of the hospital room. A face looked at her, it remained blurry and indistinct. Takara blinked several times and it was then she realised her whole body was sore and ached painfully but no more so than her jaw. Why did that ache?
"Welcome to the world," the face said and as her eyesight cleared and she found herself looking at a woman with pale blonde hair and a strange jewel embedded in her forehead. Takara looked across at another who was younger but with pink hair and the girl smiled in a friendly fashion.
"How are you feeling?"
"Like crap," she said simply and the other two laughed, "Where am I?"
"In the Konoha Hospital," Tsunade said and the girl turned to her again, "I am Tsunade, the fifth Hokage of Konohagakure and this is my student Haruno Sakura."
"Hokaga what? Oh, I'm Takara daughter of Kita and Akihiko," she paused then sat bolt upright as if she just remembered something, "Oh no, To-san! We have to go back have to save Oto-san!"
Takara winced clutching her right arm which was strapped in a sling. She looked at it her teeth bared as she snarled. Tsunade reached forward to ease her back on the pillow but the girl resisted eventually yielding as the Hokage's strength was greater.
"Please you must rest," Tsunade said in alarm, "you have sustained many injuries which must heal."
Takara glared at the Godaime panting gentle with the effort of her struggle but looked away to look longingly out the window. Tsunade sighed and motioned for Sakura to follow her outside the room. When they were outside she looked through the window quickly before turning back to her student.
"Keep a guard posted here at all times till I deem it necessary as well as regular checks."
Sakura nodded to indicate she had understood and Tsunade left as Sakura went about getting guards for the door.
As the Hokage exited the emergency rooms she noticed all the ninja previously involved had not yet dispersed themselves and sighed. Naruto was the first to ask question and of course she had no answers.
"There has been no time to question her she is still very weak."
"She did not seem that way earlier," Yamato commented.
"She will be now but I have a sneaking suspicion she will try and leave before her injuries have healed thus endangering herself."
"Is it okay to see her?" Naruto asked her suddenly and Tsunade looked at him curiously.
The boy shrugged, "Why not?"
"Not yet Naruto."
The young boy was about to argue when Tsunade cut him off.
"You can all go away as she is stable, alright so no need to worry. Team Gai I want a full report so come with me."
With that she left the hospital with team Gai on her heels leaving the other three to muse amongst themselves and so they headed back to the market to get the lunch they missed.
Takara lay on the hospital bed cradling the arm that had broken in two places. How the hell did she end up in Konoha she wanted the other direction, north not south. She berated herself over and over again for her incompetence. She tried to remember what happened but all was a blur. She remembered her father urging her to leave but at first she had refused not wanting to leave him at the hands of that monster and his humourless brat and four eyed butt kisser.
She growled again as a twinge in her arm sent a bolt of pain shooting up her arm. She also remembered wondering around a forest and taking a tumble but she did not remember being brought here. Then there was that brief dream of seeing that guy. Damn it what was his name, she thought trying to remember.
It did not matter anyway, as soon as she was healed she would go back and kill that damn snake and save her father and if those two lackeys got in her way she would have to kill them to. She shifted to find a more comfortable position on the bed and sighed mournfully.
She looked up at the door and she could tell there was guards just outside so she looked to the window but dismissed that idea as she could not really do that in her condition. She just hoped her father would be alright.
She then began to pray clutching a pendant in her hand hoping to bring fortune not for her self but her father that was trapped in that dusty prison.
Soon after she lay there and slowly drifted off to sleep. She was reawakened however when a cool hand touched her forehead and she looked up at the pink haired girl. She watched as the Kunoichi scribbled something on a clipboard and proceeded to check the rest of her giving Takara a gentle smile as she did so.
A confused frown crossed her young face as she checked the ribs. She then scribbled some more on her clipboard.
"How long did I sleep?" Takara asked curiously as the girl was about to leave.
Sakura turned to her patient, "Nearly two days."
Takara sniffed in annoyance. Two days, I must have been beaten up bad, she thought to herself. Her stomach then rumbled and she looked up Sakura who chuckled.
"I will get something sent to you," she said as she left leaving Takara in silence again. What she really felt like doing was getting up and walking around so ignoring the odd ache and pain she got up and investigated the room. She went up to the window to look out and realised she was on the ground floor. Probably one of the wards off from the emergency room she surmised.
The door suddenly opened and a stunned nurse stared at Takara a tray in her hand.
"Should you be moving around?" the nurse asked sounding very surprised.
Takara blinked, "Probably not."
The nurse placed the food on the movable table beside the bed whilst Takara came and sat down preparing to eat hospital food. Though she had never been in hospital before she had heard rumours about the cuisine that was famous or rather infamous. She sniffed the bowl and picked up the chopsticks looking at them with interest.
She smiled at the nurse, "Thanks."
With that the nurse left leaving Takara peering in the bowl which looked like some kind of stew with long stringy things, vegetables and meat. It was no dish Takara had seen before and the chopsticks she was not to sure on how to use them. There were two sticks but she had one hand. What was she supposed to do stab the meat and vegetables? She mumbled to herself taking one of the sticks and speared a piece of meat then popped it in her mouth. She chewed and chewed trying to determine the meat and seasoning but what ever it was it was tasty. Next she tried the vegetables and nearly gagged. She quickly removed the offending legume, nearly spitting it out. Then she tried to pick up the long white strings with no success. Each time she tried they either slid of the end of the stick of over the side. Infuriated she left them and concentrated on eating the meat and removing the vegetables. When she was finished the tray was half covered in rejected veggies and puddles of dark brown liquid. Takara looked down at the remains and all that was left was a bowl full of sauce and string. An idea came to her and awkwardly picked up the bowl in her hand and tipped the bowl so the contents fell into her mouth. The method was ineffective but it got the job done; there really was not that much mess but at least she had eaten most of it. The string things she found soft to eat and rather tasteless but not that bad to eat really. The gravy was thick and delicious and for her first hospital meal it was not all that bad just shame about the vegetables. She then looked down at the hospital gown she was wearing and was quite glad she had not been wearing the clothes she came in.
The door opened again and the pink haired girl came in with the Hokage. The moment she laid eyes on Takara she stifled a giggle making the patient smile awkwardly.
"Huh it was quite nice thanks," Takara said wiping some of the gravy off of her face.
Tsunade's eyebrows drew into an amused frown.
"We can see you enjoyed it."
Takara laughed scratching the back of her head. Tsunade approached making disapproval sounds and asked Sakura to get another gown. She then proceeded to do her own check up on Takara who thought it was a waste of time as her body would heal eventually anyway.
"You're healing rather quickly," Tsunade said conversationally.
"Yeah well I've always been that way," Takara said adjusting the sling a little, "Any chance of being able to go out for a walk?"
There was a hopeful glint in her violet eyes. Tsunade thought for a moment, "Maybe, I still want you here at least till tomorrow."
Sakura entered giving the gown to the Hokage. They then proceeded to carefully remove the sling laying Takara's plaster covered forearm on the bed cover. They pulled the dirty gown gently over her head to reveal her torso covered in bandages. Takara proceeded to scratch vigorously at her stomach and sides.
"Can't you remove these damn bandages they are driving me nuts."
Sakura looked to Tsunade who shrugged.
"Well your ribs appear to be healed so it wouldn't do any harm."
"Thank Gaea," Takara crowed.
So using their chakra to cut the bandages they pulled them away to reveal bare skin which was free from bruises. Every single one had disappeared. Tsunade looked at her student with a suspicious hint and Sakura nodded. Takara ignored it as she continued her scratching sighing with evident relief. They pulled on the new gown and she shrugged it on feeling a lot better.
Using the older gown as a rag Sakura cleaned up the rest of the mess and took the tray closely followed by Tsunade who gave her assurances that she would come back to check up on her. Out side the door however they stopped a light frown on both faces.
"Do you think she might be like Naruto?" Sakura asked a fearful hint in her voice.
"I'm not certain but I don't want to rule it out as a possibility," the older women replied her hands planted on her hips.
"Well I didn't see a seal on her body."
Tsunade shook her head. "The seal only appears when the jinchuuriki concentrates their chakra."
Sakura nodded and was about to say something else when the door opened and Takara came out.
"Better not be talking about me," she grinned flashing sharp canines.
Tsunade smiled, "No we were just conferring that s all."
"Well if that's the case could you confer to me were the damn toilet is."
The Hokage's smile turned to a grin as she turned to a nurse that was passing by.
"Could you show Takara here where the toilet is please."
The nurse nodded and took the girls left arm to lead her away. As she was leaving Tsunade looked up to see Kakashi walking towards her.
"What do you want?" she asked aloud.
"I just want a word Tsunade-sama," the silver haired ninja replied earnestly.
Takara looked over her shoulder and stopped, grinning. She motioned for the nurse to wait and she walked up behind the Hokage. When she got to a metre away she stopped again staring wide eyed at Kakashi.
"I don't believe it," she whispered to no one in particular. Then without warning she burst out laughing pointing at Kakashi's shocked face. Her laughter echoed down the corridors and she held her side as it began to ache.
Kakashi shook his head sighing.
"After all these years she still remembers," he said quietly to himself.
Tsunade looked at the two with an annoyed frown.
"I take you know each other."
"We met once," Kakashi said, "When we were about six I think."
Takara managed to calm her storm of laughter enough to say something, " Ku ku ku I was five actually but it was still a lasting impression, ow, ow my sides ow oh my."
"It wasn't funny then and it isn't now," a rather annoyed Kakashi told her pointedly but she just grinned at him.
"I can't believe your still wearing that thing," she said pointing at his mask, "Just for old times sake let me just take a peek."
His hand went to his mask protectively.
"Aww come on its not like it's your virginity or anything," she said aloud.
Sakura's hands went to her mouth to stop the laughter from escaping and her body trembled. She had never heard anyone talk to her sensei like that before and she was torn between hysterics and anger. Tsunade saw to head off a near disaster, so with a cruel smile playing on her lips she waved Takara away.
"You have to go and you are to come with me," she pointed her finger at Kakashi. The skin around his only exposed eye was turning a slight pink colour as he followed the Hokage and Sakura.
"Well, until we meet again Kaka-chan and we can play some more." Leaving her laughter behind her she followed the nurse to the toilet.
Takara stood there staring out the window at the trees beyond. She had now been in this place for three days and was itching to leave. That was not all that was itching and her arm was beginning to drive her nuts. She did not relish the thought of the remaining three days she would have to put up with a broken arm. She knew her body's physiology though bruises and cuts healed in a couple of days a broken arm took nearly a week. She was lucky really as a week was preferable to month like people of the main land.
She looked down at the cast and scratched her knuckles wishing she had a stick or something to reach inside and scratch the sensitive skin underneath. The door opened and a nurse came in with her clothes and Takara said her thanks as the nurse left again leaving the bundle on the bed.
This was going to be interesting, she thought picking up her black shorts.
After a awkward half hour she managed to dress herself in her clothes. Her top was tight but not restricting of her movement. It was also a teal green colour which was meant for camouflage in a forestry environment. It had no sleeves but the collar was 'v' neck the point coming down as far as her cleavage. A thin belt that hung on her hips held her kunai holster and shuriken pouch as well as other essential items. Her black shorts covered her thighs and the shoes she wore resembled thin opened toed sandals instead of typical open toed ninja boots. On her left arm was a vambrace that covered the forearm. She would have put the opposite one on if it were not for the plaster cast she just thought it was a good job she was used to having half her arm covered. Her hand instinctively went to the cast as it began to itch again. She turned back to the bed and the last item lay there gleaming at her. Her forehead protector made from the little metal that could be found on her island home. The symbol was that of a dragon with its wings out stretched and a certain feeling of pride filled her when she looked at it. She held it in her free hand tightly holding the dark cloth it was attached to.
Tsunade chose that moment to enter and greeted her patient with a smile.
"You ready?"
The answering grin was ecstatic as she followed the Hokage out. Up until the time she had been here she had no idea what a Hokage was but it turned out this large breasted women was the leader, which came as no surprise really because she was a little scary Takara thought.
As they walked from the hospital to the Hokage tower Takara took the opportunity to take in as much as she could looking around with great interest. They entered the tower and ascended towards the top. Tsunade entered her office first gesturing for Takara to sit down and she took the seat politely looking about with curiosity.
"Well," Tsunade began, "Where do we start."
"I would say the beginning but you don't have a couple of centuries to listen."
The cursory answer made Tsunade chuckle.
"Alright maybe you could start were you got yourself in trouble."
"Alright, father has always been a keen traveller wanting to see the sights of the world. I always went with him were ever he went not just because I also wanted to see but because I wanted to be with him. I'm an only child and never got on well with the other kids back home so that parental bond was very important to me,
"As we passed through the Sound country some two months back we were ambushed by rogue ninja and they managed to over whelm us. After being knocked out we were surprised to find ourselves in an underground prison. We had no idea whose hands we had fallen into but we soon learnt that lesson."
"Orochimaru."
"Yeah, I take it you knew him?"
"Yes."
Deciding not to press the issue she carried on.
"Well as you could probably imagine that sick monster did stuff that I don't really want to get into. However, my father is still there, I just hope he's alright."
Her hand went instinctively went to her heart where the pendant she wore rested hanging from a long silver chain.
Tsunade felt a certain measure of sympathy well up in her chest and she gave the young women a reassuring smile.
"As soon as you fully recovered we'll try and find your father. Do you think you would be able to back track from where my team found you?"
Takara thought about it for a moment then nodded. "My memories are sketchy at best but I should be able to.
Tsunade nodded, "There is also the case of what you are and where you originally came from."
Takara suddenly stiffened looking away. "It is forbidden to speak of that to outsiders."
"What is?" a familiar voice said and the Hokage looked up.
"Your late," she said.
Well that was the latest chappie and I hope you liked it because I got a giggle or too writing it. 'I am so mean to Kakashi' ah well it is a fan fiction.
Anyway I should have the next one soon I quite enjoying writing this fic.
R&R!!!!!