Consciousness set in like a dulled fog which slowly reactivated Tayuya's senses as she squinted her eyes tightly as golden rays shined down passed the blinds and onto her face. Blinking profusely Tayuya's dark brown eye focused on the image of an old woman leaning over her head.
"I-im not dead yet?" Tayuya spoke in a soft hoarse voice.
"Ohh heavens no child but you were so close to it last night. Korijo dear she woke up!" The older woman called out as the older man walked into the living room of which they occupied. Soon both of the residents looked over Tayuya.
"Where am I?!, you senile fucks answer me!" Tayuya shouted with a dry horsed voice as she attempted to get up.
"Please young lady you are in no danger here but you mustn't get up you have a sever fever from your wounds." Calmly spoke the old man as he walked over to Tayuya who rested on a bed carefully tucked under sheets.
"...I'm not safe anywhere old man..." Tayuya spoke quietly while resisting the urge to rest. "Now answer me! Who the fuck are you?!" Tayuya spat at the old man who took a seat across from the infuriated girl.
"I'm am Korijo Takahashi and this is my wife Inoue Takahashi and you are in our house which you broke into last night." Korijo paused seeing the girl noticeably tense up and her glare intensify. As a response to this he rubbed his white beard diligently and looked to Inoue who offered both him and the young intruder a cup of tea resting it on a table stand near her bed.
"You need not worry child, we do not intend to have you arrested for home invasion and theft." He paused to take a sip of hot tea. "We are not so ignorant to be oblivious to a person in desperate need."
Tayuya looked intently at the old couple as her body stiffened from the situation.
"Please drink up, you need to keep your fluids up for that fever of yours." Korijo insisted pushing the tea cup towards her only for Tayuya to reach for it slowly then bat it off the table spilling it on their floor.
Korijo smiled weakly at the red head and scratched the tip of his beard as his wife quickly began to pick up the pieces.
"You know it is a good thing tea is easier to clean then blood young lady." He finished nodding knowingly then set his cup on the table.
Tayuya scowled then looked away and inhaled a long dry breath into her sore throat. The air burned a little and she began to see her action to be premature and detrimental for her condition because after all if they planned to poison her they would have already done it. But acts of pity are as bitter to her as any poison.
"Young lady?" His voice spoke up snapping Tayuya out of her daze. "Would you like another cup of tea?" He asked holding a fresh cup up to her.
"...Fine shithead..." Her threatening tone trailed off as she took the tea cautiously and sipped it quickly not minding the hot liquid burning her mouth. Finishing the cup in a few gulps Tayuya let out a soft sigh of satisfaction. "This shits not bad..." She forced herself to as she pushed herself up forward.
"Please do not push your self young lady you need to rest yourself." Korijo added again to Tayuya's annoyance.
"Tayuya..." The red head spoke up as a lone response.
"Tayuya?" Asked the old man inquisitively.
"It's my name understand? I am fucking sick of you both calling me young lady!" The red head shouted as loud as she could giving her sore throat.
"My my such a lovely name Tayuya although I would never have guessed it with that mouth of yours." Inoue chimed in with a pleasant tone.
"What the fuck is that suppose to mean?!, are you trying to insult me?!" Tayuya screamed while tightening her grip on the sheets till her knuckles turned white.
"No no Tayuya, I just found it ironic that your name can mean classical yet your speech is well..the opposite." Inoue slowly stopped talking once she realized she did insult the bed ridden girl. "I'm sorry Tayuya I didn't mean to insult you." Inoue began bowing genially to the red head.
"Stop bowing...just give me another cup of that crap okay?" Tayuya reserved her voice as she looked away.
"No problem deary." Inoue steaded her hand and poured more of the warm green tea into a glass and handed it to the wounded kunoichi.
Tayuya said nothing as she finished her second glass of tea and remained sitting up despite the uncomfortable pain she was in. By closing her eyes she could feel where every wound and bandage was on her body save for her disabled leg from which she felt nothing. A bandaged applied along the right side of her neck from the gash that nearly slit it open. Bandages wrapped around the left side of her stomach from the tree branch that impaled her and all the various cuts and gashes from that whirl wind caused by the fucking weasel. The disgrace she felt almost made her smile bitter sweetly.
"So...why did you senile fucks save my life?" Tayuya asked suddenly in a low voice. "You could have let me bleed to death last night or turned me over to the cops to worry about...you had no reason to go through all this trouble seeing as how I was ready to kill you last night."
Korijo remained quiet for awhile while his wife looked at him sternly possibly for not telling her that part of the encounter.
"...Your a ninja correct?" The old man finally responded sternly.
"What of it bastard?" Her response cold and non chelate.
"I don't know what happened to you to put you in such a condition but this village is practically anti shinobi, depending on your village and clan affiliation that would determine if you would be alive right now or not to them...had I taken you to a hospital they most likely wouldn't have tried to save your life."
"If you villager hate shinobi's so much why save me?" Tayuya retorted with a little more anger in her tone then before.
"We...no this family does not represent the views of the village. After all own our own son is a ninja so how can we let you die so horribly before us?" His voice soft and full with sentimentalism.
"...That thinking will get you killed you realize. Allowing murderers into your home." Tayuya's lips twisted into a sinister smile as she looked up at both of them from behind the locks of her untamed hair.
Both elderly parents looked at her for a moment. It was obvious she had killed before and most likely enjoyed it.
"We are well aware of the duties of a shinobi for both myself and Inoue participated in the first great ninja war." Korijo spoke up much to his wifes surprise. He simply waved her off from speaking out at the moment.
Taken back by this information it made sense to Tayuya for them to aid a ninja.
"Your guilty as hell aren't you?" Both of the former shinobi's looked with confused faces at the red heads statement. "Don't understand me scum? Let me spell it our for you then. Your guilty for all the killings you have committed!, all the atrocities and deaths by your hands! Tell me do you feel you had to help me because I looked like some child you slaughtered?!" Tayuya screamed loudly shaking the elderly citizens with her bile.
"Korijo l-lets leave her be to rest." Inoue pleaded as she pushed back the tears building up in her eyes while she tugged her husbands arm.
"...Not yet dear. She wants an answer so I will give her it." Inoue backed away with surprise from her husband. "Your not wrong Tayuya. We did many things in the names of our villages, many horrible things for reasons like security of our people and revenge..." He paused as if pained to continue. "I have stared into the eyes of children as they watch me kill their parents and stared into the eyes of parents as they watched me kill their children...all the bloodshed and what was gained? Do you know why we adults fought and murdered each other?"
Tayuya held her glare steady to his quaking eyes as if trying to show him the decades of the rage of war that was built into her by her master.
"I know why bastard, its because you adults fucking enjoyed it! Its because deep down were all god damned monsters waiting to tear each other apart for trivial reasons like greed, envy and malice."
Korijo sighed deeply as a response to her cold words.
"Generations of a soldiers rage breed by war drilled into the body and mind of a young child...theres no greater evidence that war truly is hell now is there?" He asked him self while slowly walking to the kitchen. "Lets leave her be Inoue, she needs her rest more then she knows."
As the elderly couple cleared the doorway Tayuya reared her head to the window above her and stared out into the bright blue sky and contemplated the actions she now needed to take. After all it was against her honor to kill defenseless old shits especially if they were aiding her but they knew her face, they knew her name...though she only had her self to blame for that and they knew her situation as a kunoichi on the run. She was thorough and precise unlike her teammates save for Kimimaro who would complete tasks before his opponents had time to guard but unlike him she was for the most part her own person considering she was Orochimaru's slave which was more then a well known fact.
Because of this she had a sense of morals if not harsh and misplaced and killing the elderly outside of a direct order or a absolutely necessary precaution for her safety and mission so killing them...even while they slept and were unaware at this moment didn't feel right to Tayuya.
Tugging the covers over her head to hide from the world she had been brought into she spoke softly for her ears only. "...I need to get the fuck out of here."