Look at that! I'm not snailing this!


Chapter 3

Kakuzu froze.

I sat up and looked at the new person in this room. He was a bit smaller than Kakuzu, had orange hair and weird purple-gray eyes and looked like he's had a bit too much fun with the piercing gun.

Kakuzu bowed his head "Leader-sama"

This was the leader! Leader of what? He looked quite dangerous so I decided it would be best to keep my mouth shut. The man walked towards me, staring at me with those creepy eyes.

"You can leave now", he told Kakuzu, who bowed his head again and left the room.

The leader focused on me again.

A shiver ran down my spine. What was he going to do?

He grabbed my shirt and lifted me up. I immediately felt the dizziness coming back and trembled backwards but the man quickly hold my arms so that I wouldn't fall. My injury hurt so much, so I covered it with my hands. He noticed, of course.

"What's that?", he asked and lifted up my shirt with one hand exposing my stomach. I looked down. There was a huge bruise in the shape of a tall fist, Kakuzu's fist. I also noticed that my ribs were showing and suddenly I felt very hungry.

"That looks nasty" With his fingers he stroked over the bruise, making me twitch with pain. "But it doesn't look like a rib is broken so this will heal by itself"

He poked one of my ribs. I flinched, his fingers were so cold.

"You are very skinny by the way. We should fix that, it makes you weak"

Then he let go of me and walked to the door. "Come on, let's go"

Shaking without the support of his strong arms, I tried to walk a few steps but the ground felt like it was moving and little black spots appeared all over the room. My legs gave in and I fell to the ground.

The leader sighted and came back again, picking me up bridal style. It felt so weird and I blushed but he just kept walking out of the room into the hallway.

Its walls looked really shabby, plaster crumbling off everywhere and I could feel the humidity on my skin. We must have been in the basement of this building. I still had no idea what exactly this place was supposed to be but I was too scared to ask. Even though this guy rescued me from the other man earlier, he just did not look like that kind of guy you want to piss off with asking annoying questions.

He turned left and walked up some stairs. This new hallway looked way better than the one from a few seconds ago. It had cream-colored stone walls, same with the tiles on the floor.

The leader turned many corners until he stopped in front of a tall wooden door, kicking in open with his foot. Inside he sat me down on a couch, locked the door and began studying some papers on his desk in front of me.

"So..You must be Ena. Do you have a last name?"

My mind began racing. I did not remember anything. And I did not want to be here. What is this place? He looked up from the papers, growling: "I asked you a question, so you better answer. Otherwise..." He pulled a kunai out of his cloak. My eyes widened.

"I..I don't remember anything", I stammered eying the shining kunai.

He raised an eyebrow, obviously he did not believe me which meant he would hurt me.

I dug my nails into the couch, my mind was racing. There had to be something to prove that I wasn't lying. The leader sighted and stood up, the kunai in his hand.

"I woke up in a clearing with absolutely no memory of anything, not even my name. I'm not lying, I swear!", I cried. "Please don't hurt me"

He did not seem to care and came closer, grabbing my neck. I screamed and tried to push him away but he was way too strong.

"Look at me!"

He grabbed my chin, making me look directly in his eyes. Tears ran down my face. I didn't want to get hurt again.

"I belive you", the leader said "if you were lying you would have tried to eat my soul. Unfortunately this doesn't work on me"

"Why would I eat..."

"So you even lost memory of that powerful technique? We've got a lot of work to do then"

And with that he stood up and left the room.

"Don't try anything stupid"

Then he locked the door and left.