Heartless

Chapter 9

It had been a couple of weeks since Kirin had made it into Sunagakure. She had planted her paperwork and laid low. She was currently walking into the Kazekage tower to learn about what the Kazekage wanted to see her for. After the short walk to his office, she knocked on the door. "Come in," Came the cool, calm and collected voice of the current kazekage. She took a quick breath and walked in.

"You wanted to see me, Lord Kazekage?" Kirin bowed slightly in a polite greeting. She could feel four sets of eyes on her, and glanced around taking a quick note of the three extra people in the room. Temari, Kankuro and Matsuri were watching her as they did their current tasks. Gaara looked up from the paperwork on his desk and made eye contact with Kirin.

"Yes. I haven't received the mission report from your last mission, Hikari," He stated as he looked into her blue eyes. His frown firm, his voice cold.

Kirin resisted the urge to roll her eyes at him. She forced herself to shiver like most Suna shinobi and citizens would despite knowing he wasn't the same ninja he was a few years ago. "I…I'm sorry lord Kazekage," She stuttered slightly. She glanced down at her sandals as if she was ashamed and slightly frightened.

"Please look at me when I speak with you," Gaara stated, the cold tone in his voice lightening up a little bit. Kirin looked up and nodded.

"Sorry sir," She mumbled. "The report will be on your desk by tomorrow morning," She stated. He nodded and she slowly made her way out of the door. She closed it behind her and quickly made her way down the hall. She quickly made a shadow clone and sent the clone out the front door and passing everyone in town. She knocked out one of the people working in the tower and stashed him in a nearby closet and took on his form.

She made her way down to the file room and quietly started her snooping. First into future missions, she smirked when she realized it would be even easier to snoop the next day when Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro would be traveling to Konoha for a meeting with the Hokage, to plan the next Chunin exam. She made her leave after freeing the worker and sitting him against the wall. She had a feeling he wasn't going to remember being knocked out from behind. She quickly made her way back to her apartment and made her shadow clone disappear.


A day later, Kirin found herself back in the file room. She had found all the information she needed for her 'family' and now she was looking into past cases and missions. She dug through files and stopped when she saw the last name, Makoto. She felt her body tense up. She pulled the folder out and started reading through it. She felt her anger rise when she noticed her file had the word deceased stamped across her picture. She shook her head and took a deep breath. This folder would have all the information they had about her family's murder.

She flipped through the folder until she got to the case, and slowly read through the pages. It labeled her parents and brother as murdered. They were murdered by Orochimaru. There were notes claiming that they wouldn't give something up and that was why they ended up murdered. The item's name was crossed out and the file was too old to be able to find a way around it. She flipped the next page and frowned at the ripped page. She went over to the door to the top secret files. Only top level ninja were allowed in the room. She managed to make her way into the room and started snooping around.

After about an hour she managed to find the missing page. She felt her face pale and clenched her fist tightly around the paper. The Kazekage had lead Orochimaru to believe that her family had whatever it was that he wanted. And also gave all the information on their kekke genkai, which lead Orochimaru into wanting her brother to join him.

She remembered him telling her to hide and putting a genjutsu on her so the snake bastard couldn't find her. She then watched her older brother lose his life for refusing to join Orochimaru. And then Orochimaru placed some sort of seal on his neck and as he fell to the floor in pain he swore out loud that he would never join the man.

She felt herself shudder at the words she remembered coming out of Orochimaru's mouth next. "That's fine. It just means I'll have to find your sister after you die," His tone was sadistic, and she had nightmares about the smile on his face for years. She shook her head and wiped at her tears. Her brother had gone on to gauge his eyes out with kunais to make sure that if he did die, there was no way Orochimaru would be able to come back for them.

Kirin let out a shaky breath and tucked the page into her pouch. She put everything back where she found it and snuck out of the file room. She made her way up to Gaara's office to double check that there weren't any important notices of any sort hidden in his desk. She rolled her eyes when she saw Matsuri asleep at his desk. Baki was laying on the couch against the wall, snoring. She took a quick look around before climbing out the window and heading back to her apartment.

Once she got back, she quickly wrote about all of her findings. She summoned a crow to take her findings to Itachi and quickly sent it off. She quickly went to sit on her bed. She wasn't sure how much longer she could take this. Especially after finding out this new piece of information. She reached into her bag and pulled out the necklace that Hiden had given her. She felt her chest tighten again as more tears fell down her cheeks.

To think that most of her pain and heartache could have been avoided if she had completely stayed away from Gaara no Sabaku.


A/n: I know it's been awhile, and I know this is slightly short. But I need to get back into the hang of things. I'd like to give a special thanks to Lumi yoshinigama for her review. I felt like no one read this story, and that I wasn't doing very well. Thanks for the reviews, hopefully the story is still interesting. And like I said, special thanks to Lumi yoshinigama for her review and reminding me that I have a story to finish. Hopefully this chapter was decent and I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things.

Also I'd just like to throw out a warning that I do have a job, and I am going to be starting college full time next week. So as much as I'd love to keep a regular update schedule, it's not going to happen. Thank you for being understanding. Plus I've found that if I force myself to write, it comes out much worse than when it comes to me naturally or when I want to write. Once again thanks for reading, and let me know how I did.