Chapter 4:

Hey Guys Here's Chapter 4! Hope you guys like it ^_^

Sorry for the lack of good grammar, I realised I keep switching between 1st person and 3rd person. Again very sorry but I am a rookie ^_^

Started Writing: 18:15 29/01/12

Finished: 22:10 31/01/12

Chapter 4: Hidden Leaf Village have a new addition

As Kichiro awoke, she realised a few things: 1. Rock Lee staring at her with amused eyes, 2. a very large breasted woman with a blonde hair, a stern expression and a clip board, 3. a young blonde boy knocked out on the floor and lastly 4. One she wasn't too thrilled about was she was bound by the wrist and ankles to the posts of the bed she was on.

"KYAA! WHAT THE HELL!" Kichiro screamed as she began to struggle against her bindings, her chakra began to build as she began to panic. Her chakra suddenly burnt though the ropes and she was immediately on her feet and hiding behind Lee, "LEEEEEE! WHAT'S HAPPENING? WHERE AM I? WHO ARE THEY? WHY IS HE ON THE FLOOR? WHY WAS I BOUND TO BE BED?" She began to hyperventilating as panic rose in her throat and her hands began to shake.

"Woah woah woahhh" Lee said, he quickly span round and held her shoulders as he tried to calm her, "hush now it's ok, you're in Konoha hospital, this is our Hokage, Lady Tsunade, she is the best doctor in the whole of Fire country, he is Naruto Uzumaki, he is on the floor because your reflexes knocked him out while you were knocked out." Her mouth made an O shape.

Tsunade cleared her throat; she slowly turned away an announced to a man with silvery spiky hair with his head protector covering one eye. "Bind her and get Ibiki, she's awake and ready for interrogation."

The man bowed, "Hai, Tsunade-sama" as the blonde woman left while dragging the blonde boy with her, he moved with lightning quick speed as he grabbed Kichiro around the waist and slammed her into the bed then began tying a strange band around her neck.

"NO!" She shrieked as she struggled against the man's grip, suddenly a sharp shock radiated through her body as the neck band clicked into place. A blood chilling scream of pain escaped her lips, the sliver haired man released her and took a step back and Kichiro's body writhed in pain as her scream continued. "PLEASE! PLEASE I'M BEGGING YOU TAKE IT OFF!"

Lee went to step forward but the man stopped him. "I don't understand this reaction; it's just a chakra draining neckband. It only drains the body of a certain amount of chakra." The man looked confused but didn't take any action to stop the girl's pain. Lee looked at the wheezing girl as her body began to still.

"Mura-chan" she sobbed, her head turned to the side and tears fell from her eyes onto the bed. "I hope you can't feel my pain, I hope you are safe."

Lee pulled his shoulder from the man's grip; he turned to say something to him but was cut off when a man with two diagonal scars across his face entered the room. "Ibiki" The silver haired man greeted. "Kakashi" Ibiki greeted with a nod.

"Morino-sama" Lee said, his voice was calm and steady, "Could you please go easy on her? She just had a strange reaction to the chakra collar" Ibiki turned to the Green clad boy and he analysed him with cold eyes.

"Of course not!" He boomed, "She is a Ninja of the Hidden Sound, she will not obtain ANY sympathy from me" he turned his back on Lee's defeated expression and approached the girl who had sat herself up as Lee spoke to Ibiki. "So you are... Kichiro?" He paused as he looked down at the clip board at the end of her bed. When he received no response, he raised his head.

Kichiro's blood red eyes met Ibiki's Cold black ones; Ibiki smirked at the girl's bravery. "Yes, I am Kichiro Niji. Ex-ninja of the Sound, and I would like to ask you to never affiliate me with that village ever again. I'd rather you killed me right here right now in the most painful way than return to that shit hole. That entire place deserves to be eaten by flames."

Ibiki was shocked by the girl's reply, "and why is that?" He asked intrigued to learn why this girl despised her own village more than he hated the hidden sound. "What has brought you to hate your own village to this extent?"

Kichiro's eyes flooded with tears and spilled onto the bed, sorrow filled her as she asked "You wish to know my story?" Ibiki nodded, Kakashi and Lee nodded as well. "Then be seated, I shall tell you why it will be I, who will be the one to slaughter Orochimaru and burn his village to the ground."

Ibiki leaned forward and placed his elbows on his knees and linked his hands together as the girl began to tell him her story, "Hold up!" he announced, Kichiro stopped and looked to the scarred man inquisitively. "I'm afraid I can't learn your story this way, so I'll have to search your mind personally. I'm going to attach a heart monitor to you just in case."

Kichiro looked slightly confused but nodded anyway. Ibiki stepped closer with small pads in his hand; he leant forward and pulled her gown up her arm, Ibiki paused when he saw horizontal scars going across her forearm some were old and some were still fresh and red. 'She cuts herself' he wrapped the pad around her arm, 'What did he do? To push you that far.' Kichiro pulled her arm away when she saw Ibiki looking at her marks.

"Please Sir," She whispered only loud enough for Ibiki to hear, she kept her eyes down as if ashamed, "Do not think I am weak, you would understand if you had lived my life."

"I do not think you are weak, it is not my place to judge." His voice was low even though he sounded rough; there was a hint of sympathy and truth behind his words. He continued speaking even though he has finished attaching the equipment, "In fact I am surprised by your strength. By the extent of your injuries, you are lucky to be alive so you young lady are far from weak." Ibiki took his seat once again and nodded for her to continue with a nearly invisible smile. Kichiro nodded with hidden gratitude, Ibiki moved forward and placed his hand on her head. "I recommend you close your eyes, this will feel strange but I'm afraid you'll have to tolerate it." Kichiro gave a small nod and closed her eyes and like that he was in her mind.

Ibiki closed his eyes and suddenly he was floating in front of Kichiro's brain, well normally he would be floating in front of a brain, but something was different this time instead of a brain was it seems to be the brain in a different form. There 12 feet ahead of him was Kichiro asleep, but half swallowed from the hips down by a wall of snakes, he let out a sound of disgust. "I hate snakes" He muttered.

"And we hate you!"

Ibiki looked at the wall and slowly move closer to analyse the wall, "What are you?" He asked, horrified that the wall had replied to him and heard him.

"We are the girl'sssssssssssssss hatred!" Each snake said in unison, "Her hatred growssssssssssss for Orochimaru, her enemy, her hunter, her creator, her prey."

Ibiki seemed disturbed by their statement, "What do you mean by creator?" He asked he held his voice steady refusing to show any hint of nervousness.

"Orochimaru created Kichiro and her sssssissssster, he trained them, he raisssssed them, and he taught them all he knew and then after earning their trusssst HE ABUSSSSSED THEM! WHEN THEY HONORED HIM, WHEN THEY TRUSSSSTED HIM!" The snakes moved with fury as they shouted Kichiro's betrayal. "HE WILL BURN, HE WILL DIE. BURN, DIE, BURN DIE!" "WILL YOU GUYS SHUT UP?"

Ibiki looked to the girl in the centre of the wall, she raised her head to see what the commotion was all about, to reveal a battered face she had a black eye and various cuts and bruises on her face. Kichiro's inner self saw Ibiki and began to weep. Ibiki would've taken a step back if he wasn't in thin air. "Why are you crying?"

"WHY IS HE HERE!" She yelled, the snakes writhed and cowered away from her. "He must not see... he cannot see... YOU MUST NOT SEE!" Kichiro screamed as she began to cry harder.

"What? What must I not see?" Ibiki asked as he moved forwards cautiously in attempt to comfort her. "What are you hiding?" He reached his hand out to touch her shoulder.

As his hand was about to touch her shoulder she flinched away from his touch and screamed, "DON'T TOUCH ME!" Ibiki snatched his hand away as the snakes struck out in a failed attempt to bite his hand before recoiling and reciting 3 words over and over. 'Must not touch, must not touch, must not touch'

Ibiki retracted his hand, "Ok, I won't touch you but I will continue to ask questions, so will you answer them honestly?" The girl nodded and the snakes settled. "Firstly, who are you? I can guess you are Miss Kichiro's conscience."

"No," She whispered, "I am not Kichiro-san's Conscience." Ibiki was confused, if she was not Kichiro's conscience in a different form then what? "I, I am Haru. Kichiro's Imagination, I am as some people may say, her imaginary friend. It's ok, Kichiro-sama, just... relax." When Haru said relax, the snakes slithered away and the whole of the inside of Kichiro's head changed, instead of a skull with a wall of snakes in the middle, Ibiki stood on a solid dirt path the path was bordered by Cherry blossoms; the petals fell slowly like pink snow.

"Incredible," Ibiki said in a hushed tone, "how is this possible?"

"Beautiful isn't it," Haru said as she walked towards him. She wore a white kimono with a turquoise trim, the kimono came down to her knees and had wrapped tightly around her moulding to her strong hourglass figure, Haru beckoned him to walk with her. "She created this place when she was growing up, you see Kichiro and her sister were not born, they were grown." Ibiki was disturbed by the thought, Orochimaru can grow humans now. Could it be possible that he could...? Ibiki shook away his thought before he finished it and motioned for Haru to continue. "Kichiro has only known this world for 2 years, she has been in a chamber like a womb for 15 years of her life and during that time her mind was active. She created a world of her own, she created me and sadly I have something that should be impossible." Ibiki waited, "Orochimaru found me; by the numerous fluxes in her brain he discovered me and decided to conduct an experiment and it succeeded. He gave me the ability to produce chakra as if I was a different person entirely and technically I am but I do not own a body so if the occasion calls for it I can supply my chakra to her but the last battle she had drained all of her chakra and my own."

Ibiki nodded, he had seen the medical report, multiple lacerations, several bruises, broken ribs and no chakra at all. 'Poor Child's been through hell.' Ibiki looked ahead to see a small shrine, in the centre was a statue of a young woman. "Who is the statue of?" Ibiki stepped up to the thin white rope that sectioned off the praying area from the statue. Ibiki knelt in front of the statue and prayed out of automatic response to the shrine. Haru joined him and held her hands together in prayer.

"This," Haru said, her eyes were closed in prayer but still motioned the statue. "This is a statue of Murasaki Niji. Kichiro's biological sister, grown from the same day but 'born' only a few days apart, Murasaki-san is Kichiro's sister as they were both grown from eggs taken from the same woman. The woman died when sent out on a mission shortly after her donation." Haru's eyelids lifted, her eyes filled with sadness and sympathy. "Those poor girls never got to know their mother or their father, also a Sound ninja killed in action. So Kichiro only has Murasaki, but Orochimaru couldn't even let them have each other, he pushed them to their limits; Kichiro cut herself and Murasaki cried herself to sleep every evening." Haru looked at Ibiki, "Please do not think she is weak, in fact she is incredibly strong. She was able to escape the sound village with her sister, with her life but again due to Orochimaru's interference the girls had to part ways in order to survive. Kichiro would've died if it were not for the green clad boy out there." Haru rose to her feet and turned to Ibiki who followed her actions and stood to face her. "Here, catch." She flicked something shiny to the man.

Ibiki's reflexes were quick and he caught the object, he looked down at his hand to see a small golden coin with a small square hole in the centre. He looked up at the young girl questioningly. She chuckled as if what she was asking him was obvious; her laugh was smooth and bright. She pointed to the shrine, "It's not just a shrine you know," she grinned, "It is Kichiro's memory bank, place the coin in the box and ask for what you wish to see." The scarred man looked at the shrine in fascination; Kichiro chuckled again before walking back down the dirt road. "Oh and Morino-kun," the man turned to look at Haru, "Once you have completed your task, leave as soon as possible; snakes do not lurk where I am when in small numbers because they know I can kill them, they keep returning but still hurts, anyway what I'm saying is they will attack any and all intruders, they will not damage your physical body but they will poison you with hatred. That is the curse of Kichiro's hatred, it is something that isn't just an emotion but something that can strike and harm. Good day to you, Morino-sama." And with that Haru disappeared down the long dirt road.

The Jounin stepped back towards the statue, then he quickly looked around and saw a small black box with a faded 'Donations' label on it. Ibiki knelt down and slotted the small coin into the box. "Haru's cheap as ever I see," a soft amused voice announced, the man jumped and looked up to come nose to nose with a solid stone lady, "Hi there."

"GAH!" Ibiki leapt back away from the young woman making the woman laugh, "How the hell can you move? You're stone!" Ibiki looked unusually fascinated.

"Pretty easily actually; I mean this isn't real life, this is Kichiro's mind." The girl smiled, "I am the statue of her sister Murasaki, but I do not know where 'I' am in your world so don't bother asking, Haru has already asked a million times. But you are not here to ask me the location of Murasaki Niji, you are here to learn Kichiro's past." Ibiki nodded as he turned serious and remembered his mission. "I shall show anything you wish to see but do not protest if I stop you from seeing an entire memory in detail; it would kill Kichiro if I did and she would make me disappear and assign my job to someone else, but I like my job and would like to remain here as I can roam these fields for as long as I wish unless I know someone will be coming by then I must return to my solid state until summoned. Anyway, will you accept that I will cut some memories short or make them skip a part?" The girl returned to her podium while waiting for his reply. He gave the girl a suspicious look; she looked serious as she said "I will only hide things that do not have any relevance to what you wish to know."

Ibiki thought about this and thought of refusing but thought against it and nodded. "Ok, so you will answer my questions?" The stone woman nodded, "Good, shall we sit? This may take a while." The statue of Murasaki sat on her small stand and Ibiki sat on the floor. She placed her hand in front of him. He looked at her questioningly.

The girl looked deep into the man's black eyes and instructed "Just say the word and I shall show you Kichiro's past." Ibiki looked at the stone hand in front of him and slowly took hold of it, and just like that he was sucked into the young girl's past. Ibiki's eyes closed and he was lost in the girls memories. Haru watched quietly as she stood under one of the cherry blossoms, she quietly hoped he was prepared for what he was about to see.

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