Chapter 1
Seven years later…
"Give it back! You little brat!" Hidan yells, grabbing for his scythe.
"NO!" yells Karashii running down the hall, scythe in-tow. Then Sasori steps out of his room into the hallway, and turns right. He hears running behind him, turns around and sees Karashii with Hidan's scythe. He turns around and quickly rushes back into his room, just as Karashii runs past him; then Hidan...
"Holy shit!" yells Sasori. "That Karashii kid is a maniac; I should never have let Orochimaru get away with taking my subordinate. Look at what they raised!" He then closes his door, hoping to get some sleep.
Karashii turned the corner, then another, then another, then... "Give it back; there is no way you can get away from me now!" Hidan says slowing his pace. Karashii stops suddenly, it was a dead end!
Karashii holds the scythe close to her chest as she bares her teeth. As Hidan gets closer she starts to growl. Hidan takes a step back, just as Kakuzu steps up behind him. Hidan accidentally steps on Kakuzu's foot, almost falling over.
Kakuzu just smiles and gives a short snicker. "Aren't you going to help, you son-of-a-bitch?" Hidan says turning around.
"Awe, what's wrong, poor Hidan can't handle little Karashii? Awe, how PATHETIC!" Kakuzu says threads reaching across the floor, towards Hidan's scythe. Karashii didn't even see it coming, as the threads grab the scythe and quickly yank it out of Karashii's hand.
She lets out a little yelp and starts to cry. Hidan grabs his scythe and says "I'm done watching this little bitch! I want a new mission, can't I just kill her? You know, for my ritual?" Hidan is starting to whine, when Orochimaru walks up.
"What the hell did you do? You were supposed to be training her!" Orochimaru says sternly, startling both Kakuzu and Hidan. Karashii runs over to Orochimaru and hides behind him, still crying. Then she looks at Hidan.
Kabuto, Orochimaru's newest subordinate, walks over to Karashii and kneels down so he is at eye level with her. "Do you want to come and hang with Rukia?" He says in a soothing voice.
She nods her head and takes Kabuto's hand, walking away with him over to Konan and Pein's daughter, Rukia's, room.
When they are out of earshot Orochimaru turns around and sighs. "It was all that brat! She stole my scythe! How the hell am I supposed to teach her self-defense without my scythe and without killing her, accidentally?" Hidan whines.
Orochimaru raises one eyebrow then smirks, and walks away. Little did they know, she was capable of killing Hidan, in a sense, if he wasn't immortal.
Kabuto knocks on Rukia's room door, then walks away. Konan answers the door. She sees Karashii and gestures for her to come in with a warm smile. Even though she despised everything about Orochimaru, she treated Karashii like her own.
Rukia was sitting on the floor, doing a puzzle. Karashii goes over to her and says in an excited voice, "Hi Rukia! Guess what I did!"
"What?" Says Rukia sounding pre-occupied.
"I stole Hidan's scythe and then, once he got it back, Oro-san showed up and scared him to death!" Karashii says and she starts to laugh because she knows Hidan can't exactly die. Rukia just nods her head.
"I'm going to go check on Daddy, okay Rukia?" Konan says walking toward the door.
"Wait, Mommy, can I come too?" Rukia asks totally ignoring Karashii. Konan nods as Rukia gets up and runs over to her.
"Karashii, would you like to come as well?" Konan asks. Karashii just shakes her head "no" as Konan and Rukia walk out of the room, hand-in-hand, leaving Karashii all alone. She would have gone with them, if it were anyone but Pein they were going to see. Orochimaru had said so many bad, and terrifying things about him.
Karashii walks out of the room and slowly makes her way toward Orochimaru's lair, under the Akatsuki cave. On the way she sees at least 10 subordinates of different members and they all just stop, move out of her way, and look at her in disgust.
While all this is happening Orochimaru is observing everything on the screens on his desk. Kabuto comes over, takes one look, and says, "Whatever did happen to your original helper, you know the one who helped create Karashii, sir?"
"Oh, that helper. She just wasn't worth my time anymore, so I wiped her memory and put her in the middle of the desert of Suna." He said with a sigh, still staring at the screens.
"But, sir, it seems she was really a good person, after all, look what she helped to do!" Kabuto said pointing to Karashii, on the screen.
"Are you not satisfied with your position? You know, you CAN be replaced." Orochimaru said getting annoyed. Then he turns off the screens and goes over to the door, just as Karashii comes in, she is crying.
Orochimaru kneels down and gives her a hug. "What's the matter, my sweet one?" Orochimaru whispers into her ear.
"No one likes me! They all look at me like I'm some kind of monster that they can't get rid of!" Karashii cries, putting her head down on Orochimaru's shoulder. He starts to run his fingers through her hair, kissing her forehead gently, then stops suddenly. Remembering Kaye, and starting to sorrow because she was now gone, but also for Karashii. No mother, no father, no one but him and Kabuto.
Orochimaru suddenly stands up and walks over to a hidden closet, Karashii watching, eyes wide with curiosity. He opens it and pulls out a green vest with a red swirl on the back and pockets and a zipper on the front.
Kabuto's eyes widen when he puts it around Karashii. "But, sir, isn't that-" he starts to protest when Orochimaru quickly turns his head and gives Kabuto a wicked look.
He turns back to Karashii and says, "This was mine! I want you to have it, okay?" All she could do was nod her head. Then she yawns, very big, and Orochimaru picks her up and brings her over to his bed, he lies her down on it and she drifts off to sleep.
A/N: I have revised most of this up to chapter 9, but more revisions are to come. Remember this was mostly written a little over 4 years ago!