Chapter 4: Memories of a plagued sanctuary

Even my dreams were troubled; the one pace I could escape from the outside world, my sanctuary was now plagued by my past memories.

I was running, my left side was bleeding from katana. I was on a mission; it was an infiltration and sabotage job on a group of bandits from another village that was risking our security. Our ANBU team had been sent to survey the area and wait for the signal to attack; I reached my point in the tree top waiting for the signal. The Amegakure symbol on our forehead protectors gleamed, pulling my mask on top of it.

A small spark of light escaped into the night sky that was the signal. I jumped out and ran at the camp meeting up with my team mates we entered the residence, we were ambushed by ANBU from our own village. We were out number and attacked from behind. A katana was drove through my side; the lightning for the sword numbing my body, I fell to my knees.

My team mates didn't stand a chance; the ANBU stabbed and killed my friends. My team mate reached and pulled me up, Wrapping his arm under my shoulders we ran. Tears running down my face, I had just seen my friends die. We fell into the grass; rolling onto my side, I sat up gripping my side.

"Daichi we have to go back, they could still be alive" I knew as I said it that they were dead

I looked over at him; the light had left his eyes and I knew he had died, but I just couldn't accept it. His wound in his chest was covered in blood.

"DAICHI! NO! Don't leave me, please..."

I started to cough up blood into my hands crouching on my knees; I couldn't stand up or stop coughing.

I was going to die here; my team and I will have died like shinobi. This small piece of truth gave me some peace. Someone was approaching I looked at the mask of the ANBU facing me, they were looking down at me, katanas were still in their hands.

"What about these two" the first one said

I glared at them in hatred. I started to violently shake and coughing up more blood uncontrollably, I hated looking so weak.

"The boy is dead; this one will be dead in the hour, let's go report back"

The other ANBU ignored her; raising his katana he stabbed me in the chest, leaving me for dead. My chest felt like it was burning, I wrapped my arms around my chest. My warm blood was burning my cold skin of my arms.

They had murdered my team... They were from my village, why had they assassinated us? Dying didn't feel right, pulling myself onto my feet. I was panting heavily, sweat beading my body. I clutched my side and chest; I said my goodbyes to my team, tears streaming down my face. Taking once last look at the house and the dead body of Daichi, I promised myself and my team to avenge their death. I limped towards the nearest village.

I woke up; drenched with sweat and blood, I clutching the pain in my chest my head was still hurting along with my shoulder and hands. I was against a rocky wall, trees surrounding the area. It was late afternoon and the weather was dropping. Shivering I tried to recall how I had escaped from the cave, the last thing I remembered was getting stabbed and falling.

"Are you okay?" the black haired guy moved to my side

"Yeah, where am I?" my voice sounding worse than before, I rubbed away the anger tears in my eyes

"On the border of Otogakure" he said sitting next to me

"How did we escape? What happened?"

"After you punched Karin, you passed out and I carried you here. We were lucky not to be caught by Kabuto." he explained

I leaned back against the rock to listen to the gentle hum of crickets; rustling of dry grass in the gentle breeze and the crackling sound of the fire, these simple noises seemed to calm me down. I had friends; an ANBU team and I was from the village hidden in the rain, small pieces of my life were coming together.

"So she's awake" the new voice made me jump.

I didn't even see the guy on my right. He walked up and rested against some rocks, he had white hair with a blue tint and purple eyes.

"This is Suigetsu" he gesturing towards the new guy "I'm Hideaki"

I nodded so many questions that needed question. What was I going to do now that I had escape? Where would I go? Could I hide for the rest of my life? I didn't realize that an awkward

Silence had taken place, but I could feel his purple eyes on me.

"Something wrong?" trying to keep the annoyance out of my voice

"No, don't you have a name" he added sarcastically

"I don't have a first name, my last is kurama"

"Huh, how can you not have a name?"

"I don't remember my name"

"We are going to the land of fire then to the mist, we leave tonight" hideaki interrupted suigetsu before he could interrogate me some more.

"I think you should come with us, but it's your choice"

I nodded my agreement; suigetsu walked over and offered his hand. He pulled me up.

"You have to clean your wounds or their going to get infected"

He took me to the river, resting waist deep in the water. There was no point taking off my clothes because they were covered in blood and sweat.

"Call me when you're done" he said walking over to the rocks.

Scrubbing my face and hair clean quickly, I washed the cuts from the scalpels. I pulled myself out of the water and rested on the grass for a few minutes, Suigetsu came and joined me.

"I can't believe hideaki carried you here" he teased

I scowled at him "huh, I have hardly any fat on me" I said defensively

"Sure, sure" he added smirking

"Shut up"

"Mak..."

I covered his mouth; his mouth opened about to bite my hand, until he heard their voices.

Author's note

I wrote this chapter quickly during class

Sorry for any spelling mistakes

Didn't like this chapter particularly

Thanks for reading and please review

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