Chapter 2: Arrival
Kushina shivered as she entered the hostile looking village of Otogakure. The unwelcoming darkness…
She shuddered. The guards at the main gate stared at her in such a way, it made her scared out of her wits. Kushina covered her fiery red head with her purple cloak. Suddenly, she literally jumped out of her skin as Orcohimaru ran his icy cold fingers along her arm. She pulled back immediately and snarled at Orochimaru.
Orochimaru just snickered. She felt a strange eeriness flowing down her spine.
To weave a future full of happiness and peace I wished. Now that magic web has crumbled away....
She knew she would never be free now. She would never be safe. She would never be happy.
Kushina suddenly burst into a silent sob as she thought of the bright future she had planned with Minato. Her heart pained as her mind echoed with the name Naruto. Kushina restrained her tears and looked into the world in front of her which shimmered in deep unfriendliness and darkness. This was going to be her new life now. A hard life full of sadness and loneliness.
Orochimaru took her into some strange looking place. The kind of place she positively hated. A tall official looking building with hostility practically radiating from it.
"Kushina, THIS is going to be your new home" Orochimaru smiled sardonically. Kushina felt as if the whole world was crumbling around her. She certainly wasn't prepared for this ugliness.
"I was going to keep you in my house, but my heart counseled against it. I knew you would like bright places. And this is the best. See, I was being very rational and sympathetic towards you, Kushina", continued the snake like voice with sarcasm intensifying every millisecond.
Kushina gasped with horror. If this was the friendliest place in Otogakure........
Kushina burst into tears and fell at Orochimaru's feet.
"Orochimaru-san, please, please let me go.... I would never ever survive here. And- and I-I would NEVER tell anyone what you did to me. I won't even go to Konohagakure. I would go to some other place. Please, please let m-me go... PLEASE!!!!" , She wailed.
Orochimaru remained smiling and shrugged his long black hair off his shoulders. "Nonsense, Kushina chan. YOU are one of the few people who would invariably survive here. You are one of the strongest people I know. Both physically and mentally."
Kushina whimpered, her misery expanding even more. "Not now, Orochimaru. Right now, I'm the weakest person you could ever imagine"
Orcohimaru just shook his head quite maliciously. "That is why I decided you must rest for about two days. Then you would be up and about, then you could start teaching me."
Kushina just sighed in intensified sadness and helplessness. It would, of course be hopeless to make Orochimaru sympathise her. Of course. She was stupid to even think that.
I have to cope up with it. My life is over now. I lost Minato and Naruto. My life is over.