Chapter 3 Love Leaves You Scarred

Being questioned by the Hokage.

Edit: 07/24/17

A/N: A warning goes up with this one, there is a rape scene in this chapter. Not very detailed, but if you don't like then don't read. Naruto is not mine Rachel is.

Beta/RileyyHeartt: Yes, I know. It's been forever since I did some editing. All I have to say is that I've been having tons of technical issues, BOTH of my laptops are screwed thanks to the new Windows 10 update. So at the moment, I'm using Microsoft Word on my phone. Yes, that is a thing. Yes, I totally forgot about it being a thing. The good thing is that I did remember and that I may be able to catch more mistakes this way. Probably because I'm secretly an online grammar Nazi. Anywho, now that I have it on my phone, there is no excuse for me to not work on things. I may add a bit more detail to the scenes than were originally on here. So take that as a warning. I can be a bit graphic sometimes and I'll be drawing from my own experiences of sexual assault. Yes, if a guy who is dating you keeps touching you, even if you say no, it is sexual abuse. It doesn't matter if you are dating. If you say no, and he continues, that's what it is. I myself struggled with that for a very long time and I know there are others who experience such things as well. You still feel violated. You still feel dirty and pathetic. So that's that. If you're under the age of 18, and are reading this, well, while it's against the fanfiction guidelines, there is nothing I can do to stop you and I was reading much worse at a much younger age. I don't condone it, but on the internet, we can't stop you. On a more positive note. I now have a cat. I've named him Tobi. Yes. After that Tobi.

P.s. Because it is on my phone, editing will take slightly longer due to the fact that I don't have a keyboard. I have word on one of my tablets so I may try to dig up a tablet keyboard, but at the moment, this is what I have. Sorry for the long wait.

P.p.s. Halfway through this, I went through my things and found the tablet keyboard, only to fins that it doesn't work with my specific tablet. So, I'll continue to use my phone. I type faster on it than on a tablet.

The Yondaime placed her in a seat on the opposite side of the massive desk centered at the back of the room. Quickly, she shrugged out of her back pack and put it down next to the chair so that she would be more comfortable. Walking away from her, he leaned the crutches against the windowsill behind his desk. Out of reach, but not out of sight. The memories of what she can do with them fresh in his mind. It may not be anything compared to a Ninjas skill, but she obviously was able to defend herself.

He sat behind his desk as she fidgeted uncomfortably. With a flick of his wrist, the room was sealed form praying ears. ANBU remained on high alert in the room, though they were hidden in the shadows.

He laced his arms together before he started to speak.

"First off, I would like to know your name?"

"Lockhart, Rachel Lockhart. Just call me Rachel, my surname leaves a bitter taste in my mouth."

He nodded "Well then, Rachel I just want to ask you a few questions. I shouldn't need to tell you that if you lie to me, the consequences will be severe."

She nodded in understanding she knew better then to lie to a ninja especially one of the five Kage.

"A few things don't add up and I would like answers." she nodded again,

"There is no record of you entering the village last night." he stated. He watched her reaction closely her eyes filled with surprise "Can you explain?"

"I-I don't understand, the gate guard signed me in! He even wrote down directions to the place I was supposed to be staying." she said worriedly.

"The guard has no memory of signing you in. There was nothing on the books at the guard post."

Her brow was wrinkled in confusion. Eyes still filled with worry as she tried to understand what may have went wrong. She knew if they had no record of her, then they would deem her as a threat.

"Answer truthfully, I will know if you are lying. Did you have any involvement in last night's attack?"

"No I had no involvement in it." There was no lie behind her words. Her eyes spoke the truth.

He was relieved to hear it. She did have his son in her arms for most of the attack.

"Well then, I should probably thank you for saving my son."

Her sea-green eyes widened in surprise once again, "Your son?"

He nodded in response as she placed a hand over her mouth in shock. "If you hadn't been at the bottom of the window he would have fallen to his death." his voice hitched slightly as he spoke. Instinctively she knew it was from the fear and dread of losing his child. "I am truly grateful that you saved him."

"I did what any one would have done" she said modestly. "Is he ok? I mean, he was crying a lot so I assumed he was ok; but I'm no medic." he raised his hand, halting her mid-ramble.

"He's fine. Thank you." A small smile graced his face and in response she smiled as well. She was glad to know that the baby was ok.

"Now that the main issue out of the way I still have a few more questions." He laced his hands on his desk. "Did you see anything suspicious on while on your travels to the village?"

Pursing her lips in thought, she tilt her head to the side in an attempt to recall anything strange.

"Nothing comes to mind" she frowned "C-could I have been in a genjutsu and not have know it?"

"It IS possible." he said as he placed his hand on his chin in thought. "Would you agree to a mind sweep?" he asked leaning back in his chair and dropping his hand to his lap.

Her eyes widened. She really didn't like the idea of someone going through her head. "Do I have a choice?" she asked. She knew that he was the most powerful ninja in the village so he could overrule her anyway if he pleased.

"Yes."

She frowned at him. She knew he was lying. "No. I don't, if you say I pose a threat to the village, you can do the mind sweep whether I give permission or not."

"True. As Hokage I can order a mind sweep, however," he leaned forward and laced his hands back together. "It would show good will and no ill intentions if you agreed to do so now." There was an underlying threat to his words, causing her to bite her lip nervously.

"It's not that I don't want a mind sweep. If it will clear my name then I'm for it, but…" she looked away from him.

"But?" he prompted.

"But I have stuff in there that even I don't want to see." She cringed inwardly at her wording. She was digging a hole for herself and she knew it.

"Stuff?" he raised an eyebrow.

"Trauma. Bad memories. I-I could do without seeing that again."

"I see. As for the mind sweep, I only want your memories travelling to the village. As of yet I have no other reason to go delving further into your mind."

She nodded her head. Frowning inwardly. She knew he could change his mind at any moment, but she really had no choice if she wanted to clear her name.

"Then I agree."

"Good." he snapped his fingers and a masked man appeared in the room as if materializing from thin air. Startled, she jumped slightly at the foreign presence.

"Don't worry, they're not here for you. Boar, fetch Inoichi will you."

The masked man nodded and disappeared with a puff of smoke.

He turned his attention back to the girl. She sat in the chair, her blonde hair was in a loose pony tale and her sea green eyes stared blankly back at him.

"Nearly done now, Rachel."

She nodded her head and adjusted her leg slightly.

"My medical staff told me that you have chakra. Not uncommon for a civilian to have it but I was told your coils are slightly developed and that your chakra levels are a little on the high side. Have you ever been a shinobi?"

She flinched visibly at his question and her gaze fell to the floor.

"No."

Minto frowned. That was clearly a lie. Her down cast eyes told him so. When you told the truth, you didn't avoided eye contact.

"You're lying." he stated. She snapped her head back up to look at him, eyes filled with guilt.

"Why?" he asked his tone much colder than before.

"I-I wasn't lying I was never a shinobi" he narrowed his eyes at her.

"I was never allowed to become a shinobi because my chakra is… uhm, a bit different."

"How so?"

She scratched the back of her head. "It's kind of hard to explain. It would probably be better if I show you."

He felt his the chakra of his ANBU become sharp at the potential threat.

"Go on, but be warned any attempt to harm me and my ANBU will not hesitate to subdue you."

She nodded her head. Lifting her right hand up, she closed her eyes. It was always so hard for her to do this. She concentrated on the chakra inside her body and willed it to come to her hand. The energy quickly responded, but Instead of it been a constant blue glow, it flickered on and off like a light.

"My chakra is too unstable I never found out why. It's like this throughout my entire body. Instead of a constant flow, it flickers like there's a broken circuit somewhere." she quickly cut off the output of chakra as it had begun to burn the inside of her hand.

"So, I was never a shinobi, but I was trained by one. Only in the basics. I can't use my chakra to enhance my fighting or my speed, all he did was made sure I could at least take care of myself. He also taught me how to walk on stuff, hoping that an increase in chakra control would solve the issue. However, with the way my chakra is I've never been able to stick to a surface for more than a second."

Minato was silent as he took in the information. "So you never became a shinobi, but were trained by one correct?"

She nodded her head hesitantly. He glanced down at her hand. She had only used her chakra for a fraction of a second and her hand was red and possibly blistered. He couldn't tell because she was trying to hide it from him.

This girl was unusual, that was for sure.

"Who trained you?"

"M-my brother. He was my only sensei."

Minto frowned she spoke of him in a past tense he thought.

He nodded solemnly.

They were interrupted by a knock on the door.

Minato disabled the seal on the door. "Enter."

Two men entered the room. One was the ANBU that had left earlier and the other was tall with long ash-blond hair in a high ponytail. He had an earring in his left ear and his eyes were a green almost blue color with a lack of pupils. He wore a long black trench coat with a back flak jacket underneath.

He walked over to the desk and stood just behind Rachel.

"You summoned me, Lord Fourth?"

"Yes. Inoichi, this is Rachel. The girl who saved Naruto and who the guards have no memory of."

He nodded.

"We think she may have encountered someone on the way to the village, but she has no memory of it. Do you know of any genjutsu that could be responsible?"

"It's possible. I could find out if there are any using the Mind-Body Transfer and dispel any genjutsu that may be affecting her subconscious mind."

Minato rose from his seat and moved around his desk. Rachel eyed him warily while he stood next to his long-time friend.

"She has given permission to only view the memories of her travel to Konoha. She requested that we don't delve further due to past traumatic experiences."

Inoichi nodded and stepped to the side so he could see her expression. He mentally took note of how she was obviously scared of what was about to happen.

"Rachel, was it?" she nodded hesitantly. He gently knelt down on one knee so that he was eye level with her. "It's important that you not resist me when I enter your mind. If you resist me it will become painful. When it comes to the automatic defense of the mind, I can normally remove them without pain, and the same can be said for the most common memory altering jutsu. However, anything stronger and any fighting from you and it may hurt you, becoming more severe over time." She nodded fearfully.

He stood and moved back to Minato. "Do you want to accompany me?"

"If you don't mind."

"It's fine. Your company is far more pleasant than Ibiki's."

Minato chuckled lightly before his expression morphed into something more serious. "Inoichi, use your chakra, not hers. It's very volatile. Not to mention she has a smaller chakra source because she is a civilian." The mind-walker nodded.

"Ok, Rachel? It will be slightly uncomfortable, but I'm going to start now."

Her eyes slid shut at he placed his large hand on top of her head. Shortly after, she went limp in the chair.

"She's now unconcious. Is there anything else you want me to look for?"

Minato shake his head "No, I believe she telling the truth. However, I do need you to speak to her at some point. Whilst she was holding Naruto, she killed an enemy shinobi. She's still a civilian woman. While we have been trained all of our lives on ways to cope, she has only had minimal self defense training."

"We shouldn't handle it as well as we do."

"I know, but until there is real peace, the shinobi world will never be without sacrifice." There was a short silence in the room as both men became lost in their own thoughts.

"We should begin, you know how this works?"

Minato nodded as he placed his hand on Inoichi's shoulder. The mind-walker turned to the girl he made his clans secret jutsu hand signs and placed his hand on her head, transferring both his and Minato's subconscious mind into hers.

As always, a large giant brain lay before them. Inoichi placed his hand on its stem and they both appeared in a room with multiple doors. The walls around some of the doors were cracked and crumbling.

"Those must be the traumatic memories she mentioned." Inoichi pointed out. Minato nodded in agreement.

Inoichi closely examined the most recent doors for any abnormalities. The most recent ones only seemed to be slightly cracked, their cracks webbed out into the wall and lead to a door that seemed to be completely shattered at some point. A red, blood-like substance was leaking from the cracks.

"That must be what she doesn't want anyone seeing." Silently, they both moved back to the forefront of the room. A slight shimmer caught Inochi's eye as he passed one of the more recent doors.

"This must be it, looks like a fake memory was layered on top of the real one."

"Genjutsu?" Minato asked.

"No… shit, this is bad."

"What is it?"

"Someone laced the false memory partially through the memory of what happened on her trip here. That's why it has lasted as long as it has. It's meant to trick the victim into believing what they wanted them to remember as real. It's a dangerous jutsu. If anything had gone wrong she could have ended up dead or worse. The long term effects are why it's only used on enemy shinobi. She's lucky she has more chakra than the average civilian. The lack of it when they used this on her could have been her demise. Whoever cast this jutsu definitely knew what they were doing, however, they aren't anywhere near a Yamanaka Jounin's level of skill."

"Can it be removed?"

"Yes, but therein lies the problem. I can remove it no problem, but it will cause her a lot of pain. She not a shinobi so she won't be used to any of this. Plus whoever put it there designed it to activate the nerve receptors that tell the brain it's in pain. I can try to block some of it, but I'll need to mostly focus on removing the false memory."

"We need to see it. She could hold vital information to the attack. Proceed."

"Very well then, I need to go back to your office to get an ANBU to restrain her. If she moves too much my connection will break."

Minato nodded. "Kakashi is there."

"Ok, don't move. I'll be right back." Minato nodded.

Inoichi went back to his body. Everything was as he left it. Minato still stood beside him with his hand on his holder.

"Kakashi," he called"

"Hai." a silver haired Anbu wearing a dog mask appeared

"Ah, good, Minato said you were here."

"Problem?"

"Sort of, it's not a genjutsu it's a false memory laced partially through her existing one. Removing it will be painful for her. Could you please restrain the girl while I proceed with the task?" the silver haired ANBU nodded as he approached the unconscious girl. Taking out some rope from his pouch, he quickly tied her hands to the arms of the chair. Her legs he stretched out in front, mindful of her injured knee, and tied them together up to her thighs. He then tied above her injury to keep both legs in place.

"Could you stand by? If she moves her head too much my connection will be lost."

The silver haired ANBU nodded.

"It shouldn't take too long."

He returned to her mind, as he had instructed, Minato had not moved. He made his way towards the door and went through a series of complicated hand seals.

As his chakra flowed out from his tenketsu, he pushed it towards the altered door. "Forbbidden Art: Memory Erasing Technique!" The false memory absorbed the released chakra, and the slightly shimmering door cracked. Falling to pieces and desinigrating. Revealing a plain door with even more fractures to the body of it. Back in the corporeal world, the girl struggled with pain as she thrashed about in the chair. Kakashi had to hold her head still in order for Inoichi not to lose his connection.

"There. It's done, though she will have one hell of a headache when she comes around."

Inoichi went to open the door to the real memory when he was sent backwards by a barrier that had appeared.

"Inoichi are you alright?"

"Yeah." he stood dusting himself off. "She must have put that up out of fear."

"Can you remove it also?"

Inoichi inspected the barrier "Yes, but she really gonna hate me when she wakes up. I would advise getting Lady Tsunade to take a look at her."

"Noted, please remove the barrier. I am eager to see what happened outside of the village. For someone to go to such lengths in creating a false memory and invading my village… mark my words they will pay dearly."

Inoichi nodded and began his clan's jutsu to remove the barrier.

It shimmered and wavered under Inoichi charka, but soon it fell. In response, the door creaked open on rusted hinges.

They both entered and the memory materialized in front of their eyes.

They saw the world through Rachel's eyes as she made her wary track through the forest. Every now and then she would turn and see if anything was behind her, only to see the vast expand of trees.

Calm down Rachel, she mentally scolded herself, it's just an empty forest.

She continued her walk. Every now and then surveying her surroundings.

Curse my own damn stubbornness. Nooo I just had to refuse an escort because it would save me money.

Her senses were going haywire. In response she stopped and attempt to send chakra to her ears for enhancement. Ugh, why does it fail me when I need it?! She stomped her foot on the ground in frustration. I know someone is following me. Question is, who? and how many? If it's just civilian bandits they should be no problem, but something tells me there's more to it than that. It's too silent for bandits. Nonchalantly, she reached for the weapon she kept stashed in her waistband. Adjusting her top as if it had been bothering her to throw off suspicion. Her brother had taught her well.

Stretching a little, she took a step forward. Continuing on her journey at high alert. The shadow of her stalker visible in the corner of her eye. She kept straight. Pretending not to notice.

A shinobi jumped out in front of her and instantly, she reacted. Quickly throwing the Kunai she had in her hand. The man let out a grunt of pain as the sharp metal pierced his shoulder. With lightning fast reflexes, he sent the metal back at her. As slow as she was, she still managed to dodge the weapon. Not noticing a second shinobi coming up from behind her. The metal of a kunai was held to her throat and her arms were twist together behind her.

"Well, well. Look what we have here boys! A civie with some bite to her!" While they laughed in tandem, the kunai at her throat moved away slightly. She quickly twist out of the mans grip and gave a quick back kick to put some space between them. The man, who was no longer amused, gripped her ankle and twist it at an awkward angle. Using his leverage to twist her around so she lost balance and fell. After, another shinobi showed. Gripping her hair harshly and shoving her face in the dirt as the one she kicked grabbed her arms once again.

"Now, now sweet cheeks. No need for violence." His voice was light but had a violent undertone that said any more trouble and it wouldn't end well for her. Still, she struggled in his grip. In response, he twisted her wrist. Quickly fracturing part of the bone. She gasped in pain and tensed her entire body.

She felt the two men holding her remove the pack she had with her. She was jerked to her feet and pressed to a nearby tree. The man she kicked holding a kunai to her jugular.

She surveyed her surroundings. Taking in details from the shinobi before her. Obviously Iwa, unless Kumo managed to make less obvious spies. Those were the most likely threats this close to the hidden leaf. Kiri had shut itself off from the rest of the world and Suna was too weak to try to pull a large scale operation.

"Be good and we won't hurt you…much." She heard the others snickering, the one who talked approached her. He must be the captain of the operation. His hair was a deep brown. His eyes almost as dark, if not darker. His skin showed slight aging. Maybe around his late thirties. There was a pale scar at the edge of his mouth. Stretching from above his upper lip down to his chin. It's jagged edge showing that it most likely came from an unsharpened weapon. His hand lightly touched her waist, sliding up over her torso to wrap around her neck as she turned away from him. His large hand moved to her jaw, harshly pressing his fingers into the hollows of her cheeks and turning her face towards him.

"Yes, you're a pretty little thing aren't you?" He chuckled. "You'll do nicely." She spat at him through her pursed lips and the other men laughed. The one holding her down tightened his grip in silent rage as the Leader wiped the spit of his face. So quickly that she almost didn't realize what happened, she was backhanded. Her body was almost thrown out of the tight grip the others had on her and her cheek throbbed harshly in pain.

"You bitch! Tch. Perhaps our plan can wait a bit. You two! Secure her to the tree!" Rachel's hands were gripped tightly. Tied together. And then attached to a thick, low-hanging branch. Her midsection was then tied to the tree as well. Rope crossed over the back of the tree and then over her shoulders, under the rope at her midsection and then down to wrap around her thighs. Spreading her legs slightly and holding them in place. Dread began to build up in her chest as she felt the ropes tighten.

The leader approached once again. Cupping her chin yet again and she knew she would have finger-shaped bruises covering her skin.

"Shame that we can't rough you up too much. Our medic is very limited in what he can heal." He learned closer his hand keeping her face still, she flinched when he felt his other hand slide up from her waist to grope her left breast, his rough fingers pinching and twisting at her nipple hard enough for pain to shoot through her.

Grinning at her discomfort he leaned forward. Pressing his mouth onto hers. He taste of metal and earth. His tongue moved across her lips and then up her cheek, licking at the tear that had appeared there in response to the pain she was in. He moved back to her mouth as his hand continued to assault her breast.

She bit down on his lip harshly, drawing out the thick metallic taste of his blood as her teeth tore through skin.

Instead of backing off like she had hoped he would do, she heard a deep moan rumble through his chest. His body pressed against hers and she could feel the throbbing of his penis against her thigh. He positioned himself between her legs and rubbed himself against her as he continued the kiss.

No! she struggled violently now, but the more she did the more he seem to enjoy it.

No, not again! I Can't. This can't happen again!

"Oh kami! I love it when they fight back, it's always such a turn on!" his laughter echoed in her ears.

"Err... Boss?"

His hand pulled the fabric covering her breast down. Exposing the now bruised delicate skin. His fingers continued to rub and grope at her. Occasionally pinching her nipple as he continued to rub against her.

"Boss?"

His hand trailed down to the waist band of her trousers.

"Boss?"

His free hand slid the material down some. Popping open the button and unzipping them. The tips of his fingers grazed the area above her pubic hair before he slid his fingers down to touch her intimately. He rubbed the area surprisingly gently and waited for her body to involuntarily respond. As soon as he felt the wetness he removed his hand, sliding his fingers into his mouth and letting out another moan.

"Boss?"

He went for another kiss.

"Boss?"

"WHAT!?" he snapped at his subordinate.

"W-we need to go, there's a scouting party headed this way."

The commanders cursed under his breath as he stepped away from her. She let out a quiet sigh of relief at avoiding the situation, at least for now.

"Tch. Untie her and bring her with us. We need to be just outside of Konoha before dark."

The men pulled her down from the tree and retied her before putting her over one of their shoulders. The man who held her kept groping her ass and sliding his fingers a bit lower every now and then. Still touching her in a way that made her disgusted. She was already loathing herself because her body responded, no matter how much she told it not to.

It was about an hour before she was slid off of the shoulder carrying her and tossed to the ground.

The men surrounded here so there was no chance of escape.

"Err- Commander Rider… what's this plan of yours? The men are getting uneasy… you know how it is… heh… not knowing what the job entails and all…?"

The commander grinned evilly. "Well boys! A few weeks ago we got some intel that told us the bastard himself has got a son! Figured a bit of karma ought to come his way if ya' know what I mean!"

"Who?" Asked one of the more younger ones

"Oh, that's right your too young ta 'member the carnage he caused on the battlefield. Still has a flee on sight order against him, but were not going directly for him. We're going for his son."

"T-the only person I can think of with still a flee on sight orders is the Leaf's Yellow Flash!" his face contorted with horror at the thought. We're so screwed! This is a suicide mission! Oh god! Why did I accept a higher rank mission?! Oh. Right. I thought I could use the money. But wait! That's right! Now I'll be too dead to receive my paycheck!

"Bingo kid, were gunna hit him right where it hurts, his precious little boy. An' we're gonna use that girl there to gain entry to the village."

"B-but how she just a civilian?"

"Manzou here," he pulled a man to the front "is going to alter her memories and place a external genjutsu on her so that when she touches the guards they will have no memory of her. Throwing suspicion off of us. We will split into two teams. Team one will directly approach and capture the Yellow Bastards son. Team two will wait in reserve until team one is followed and then attack the search team from behind. Then we will all move out as one. The village will wait for word on the search, but they'll never get it. And all will be none the wiser. Nice and clean. All of you who participate will get a large monetary reward, of course." There was collected mummers form the men as they discussed their options.

The commander walked over to the girl "You," he picked her up by her hair "need to be healed and made presentable, because you are our ticket into the Hidden Leaf Village." he tossed her to where two men stood.

"Get to work you two. And make the memory good. I don't want them figuring out what our plan is."

The two men grabbed her and then she felt someone hands on her head.

Her last thought before it all went dark was: That can't be it. There has to me more to his plan than that.