Alex is now a prisoner of war. Even worse he is a prisoner of the lightning village and the merciless Raikage. Will Alex be able to escape with his life and return to the leaf village and his friends?
Chapter 10 Start
I slowly opened my eyes. I was in a dark, damp room. I went to rub my eyes and noticed my hands wouldn't move. I turned my head and saw my right wrist was shackled to the wall, my left wrist was likewise. Now I remember what happened. I gave myself up to save Kuna and Kiko, I was lead to the lightning village, and every weapon was taken from me. Great...I can't even feel my chakra, the shackles must be suppressing it, at least these ones are better then the ones I had on before, those ones drained my chakra. Looks like their is no way out at the moment.
"Giving up already kid?"
I jumped, startled "It's been a while since you talked to me."
"You've been busy and I didn't want to distract you."
"I haven't been busy the whole time, you could have talked to me when I was being led here."
"I could have but didn't, you can't change that now."
"Your acting a little differently now aren't you?"
"Of course I am! Look at where you've gotten us!"
"I'll get out soon."
"That attitude is your problem!"
"I'm not just going to change my attitude just because you say it's a problem."
"We'll see where that gets you later then."
"Wait...can't you leave me body and help me escape?"
"Nope."
"Why not?"
"I have already tried your shackles are suppressing my chakra as well, and that therefore holds me in as well."
"That sucks."
"It's your fault."
After an unknown amount of time, it's hard to know how much time passes when your locked up, A lightning ninja walked by and stopped in front of my cell.
"Look at this. How the mighty have fallen."
I look up "I have not fallen yet."
"You gave yourself up to protect two little kids, and you're said to be one of the leaf's strongest ninja." I didn't give myself up for just Kuna and Kiko, I also knew the leaf ninja, myself included, wouldn't be able to beat the Raikage and the eight tails.
"I gave myself up for a good reason."
"Oh? And what would that reason be?"
"If I allowed you to take the two kids, you could easily get information from them, but with me you have no chance."
"We'll see if you can keep that claim." He said walking away
"Don't worry I will." I muttered to myself.
Dammit...how much time has passed? I can't check my watch since my wrists are held by these damn shackles! I tried to get my wrists free but I just ended up cutting my wrists.
"Fucking things!"
I heard foot steps coming down the hall. Great another enemy. I heard the footsteps stop in front of my cell.
"Fuck off." I said looking down.
"You shouldn't speak to me like that."
I look up and see the Raikage and two other ninja standing beside him "I don't see a problem with it."
"You're in no position to be saying such things."
"I don't think it matters what position I'm in."
"I'm going to give you one more chance to give us the information. Will you give it to us willingly?"
"Nope. You also won't be getting it by force." I said smirking
"WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT YOU LITTLE BRAT!" He shouted very angrily "YOU TWO, GET TO IT ALREADY!" he shouted at the two beside him.
The two other ninja come in and put another pair of shackles on and then unlocked the other pair holding my wrists to the wall. My chakra was still suppressed. These shackles must have the same effect on me, but these ones are used to lead someone somewhere.
"What are these for?"
"We're taking you somewhere." One of the ninja told me
"Most likely somewhere with more danger then here."
"You'll see."
"I guess I will." I said as they took me out of the cell.
They led me down a long hall way filled with empty cells, it was like they were tying to isolate me, tying to break me like this, good luck with that, I like solitude. After another few minutes of walking, we came upon an iron door. The Raikage took a key out, unlocked it and told me to go in. I did as I was told and the two ninja and the Raikage followed behind me, closing the door behind them. The light in the room was dim so it took a moment for my eyes to adjust. When I saw what was in the room I knew I was in trouble. All around the room were devices and machines that looked like they were meant to hurt someone, which they were. This was the lightning's "interrogation" room.
"You still have a chance kid. Give me the information you have about the leaf and you won't suffer." The Raikage told me.
"Like I said before, I am not going to give it to you willingly and you will not get it by force."
"You won't be able to keep that attitude up after you've been here for a while."
"I'll die before I tell you anything!"
"You won't die, but you'll be wishing you did after we get through with you!"
They lead me to the far said of the room where what looked to be strait jackets made of metal, were hanging on the wall. One of the ninja took one off and put it on me. It was really heavy, even for me, but I managed to stay standing.
"What is this supposed to do? Make me carry it around and to make me exhausted?"
"You're not very observant are you?" The Raikage asked.
"I don't see anything in this room that could be combined with this...thing, to cause more harm to someone."
"You're in the hidden cloud village, in the land of lightning. You should be able to figure out the rest."
"All I know is you put this metal thing on-" I suddenly realized what he meant "Fuck..."
"Metal conducts electricity, and many ninja in this village can use lightning based jutsus."
"I'm aware of that."
"All right you two." He said to the two ninja.
They both stepped to my sides and one put a hand on my right shoulder and the other put his hand on my left shoulder. This is gonna hurt.
The shock came suddenly and my body went rigid, and I couldn't move any part of my body. The shock slowly disappeared and I fell to the floor breathing heavily.
"Hurts, doesn't it kid." The Raikage asked
"I-it's nothing I can't handle."
"It will get worse. That was just a sample of what you will feel with you do not submit. You two bring him over here." He said walking away. The two ninjas grabbed me and pretty much dragged me over to the Raikage who was standing in front of another iron door. He opened it and inside was a pitch black room.
"This is your cell from now on. I am giving you the rest of today to give me what I want, if you decide not to give it to me, well let's say you'll regret it." The two ninjas threw me in the room and the door closed and locked. The room was completely dark, I couldn't see anything.
"What have I gotten myself into this time?"
In the darkness of the room I couldn't tell how much time has passed or if I have even fallen asleep, but I must have since my body doesn't hurt as much as it did before. I can't give him the information, mostly because I am not told about important matters like that, but if he finds that out he'll still try to force me to join his army, and that is not happening.
"Are you going to be able to hold out kid?"
"I'll be fine..."
"You don't sound very convincing."
"There's a good reason for that."
"That reason is?"
"Because to sound convincing you have to be able to convince yourself as well."
"So in other words..."
"I don't think I have a chance of getting out of here alive."
Just then I heard a lock click and the door to my cell opened. The light that came in hurt my eyes. Someone walked into the room and I saw it was, who else? The Raikage.
"So kid have you made the right decision yet?"
"Depends...if you mean right by me then yes, but by you no."
"So you want to go through worst pain today then you did yesterday?"
"I'll repeat what I said before. I'll die before I tell you anything!"
"Fine it's you who will be suffering."
A another ninja came in and took me out of the cell.
"Why only one this time?"
"You're not much of a threat when you can't use chakra."
They took me over to a chair and strapped my legs down and my arms were behind my back still shackled together.
"What is it this time?" I asked
The Raikage stayed silent and the ninja took a box off a nearby shelf. He open it and I saw Senbon (These are what Haku used.) were inside. That isn't a good thing. The ninja holding the box came closer then took one out and placed the sharp tip against my arm. I always hated getting needles and this is going to be a lot worse. I closed my eyes and looked down. I felt pressure being put on the senbon then I felt it slide into my skin. It hurt but I had taken worse. I felt another sharp point about an inch away and I felt that one stab into me too. So they were going to keep doing this, and I bet like before they have something else planned with this and I'm sure I'm not going to be happy about it. They put a third senbon in then another then they kept going until there were 50 (I was counting) in my arm. I heard the ninja that had the senbon move to my other side, which could only mean one thing. He then started placing senbon in my other arm in the same manner, an inch apart. The pain was bad but I had been crushed by rocks and almost killed not even a week ago, I know I can handle this. Once he finished my other arm I expected it to be done until I felt a point touch my leg, dammit! They take a big step up when I decline to give them what they want. He started putting the senbon in.
He had finally finished placing the senbon in my body, but I refused to open my eyes. There are 50 in each arm and 30 in each leg, so in total I have 160 senbon in my body. Now I had to wait and see what they would do next. I felt the ninja touching each senbon, and without opening my eyes I couldn't tell what he was doing. After a while he stopped touching them and the Raikage spoke.
"Open your eyes."
"I refuse."
"OPEN YOUR EYES!"
"I refuse."
"YOU HAVE TO SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU REFUSE US AGAIN! OPEN YOUR EYES!"
I reluctantly open my eyes. The reason the ninja was touching the senbon was to attach something to each. A thin wire of iron or steel was attached to each one and the wires all mean at one point, the tip of a metal bar.
"...Going to use lightning style again huh?"
"I'll give you one last chance to give us the infor-"
"You are not going to get anything from me, I'll die before I'll tell you anything."
He looked at the ninja holding the metal bar and gave a nod. Here it comes.
I felt a sight shock from all the needles, and then suddenly the shock increased and went through my were body, my whole body tensed up and the pain shot through my whole body and I couldn't do anything about it. The pain was a lot worse then what I felt just the day before but this rivalled any other pain I have felt before. It felt like my whole body was continuously being stuck by lightning. It hurt like hell! After about 2 minutes they stopped the flow and my body was limp. I was breathing heavily and my breathing was also uneven. My whole body felt numb. The ninja that had place the senbon in my body pulled the iron bar and all the senbon ripped out of my body.
"Don't you wish you told me what I wanted?"
"You...will...regret...this...one...day." I said pausing to breathing
"I'll regret this? Look at the state you're in right now. Do I look like I'm sorry? This is war kid you can't give your enemies any mercy. Take him back to his cell." The Raikage walked out of the room."
Back in the pitch black room. Body in too much pain too move. I had to think of a way out of here or I'll die. But It seemed near impossible to get out of here, especially with these damn suppressing shackles on. After what could have been half an hour or 3 hours the door opened and a middle aged female walked in. She kneeled down beside me and looked at the wounds.
"Who are you?" I asked her.
"I'm a medic. The Raikage sent me down here to heal your wounds so you don't bleed to death, But he wouldn't allow me to ease your pain, I can see why he wouldn't." She placed her hands on my arm and started to heal the wounds
"It would be better if I died."
"War is a horrible thing. It makes kids think stuff they shouldn't, I mean look at what you just said."
"If I died I wouldn't have to suffer and there would be no way the Raikage would get information out of me."
"Still, if you died I'm sure many people would miss you and then they would be the ones suffering."
"I think it's worse for them not knowing how I'm doing, worrying about me and not even knowing if I'm dead or alive."
"But once you return they'll be happy to see you again."
"If I ever return that is."
"Well I did what I was ordered and I dare not risk staying here any longer. Stay strong." She left and I heard the door lock behind her.
She was nice but she is still a cloud medic, an enemy of the leaf. Suddenly an idea formed in my mind I just had to hope it worked and hoped I could be strong enough.
"Are you there?"
"Yeah. Why wouldn't I be."
"I don't know. Anyway take a look at my plan." I gave him time to review it. "So what do you think?"
"This could be very dangerous to you and even then we're not sure if it will work or not, you might just end up hurting yourself."
"I have to take any chance that shows itself. So I have to try it."
"All right but for now all we can do is wait."
"Looks that way."
Darkness...you can't tell how much time has passed, if you have slept, what you even look like. I hate it. I can't tell if it was morning, the middle of the night or neither. Now I could do was wait until my next torture session. Almost on cue the door opened and the Raikage walked in.
"Is it that time already?"
"Should I even ask?"
"If it's about the information you want then no."
"Will it make a difference if I tell you there's no guarantee that you will live through the next one?"
"I said I would die before I told you anything."
"Oh well your choice." He walked over to me and pulled me out of my cell.
My body was still in pain from the senbon torture the day before so He was mostly dragging me around. He put me on the same chair I was on yesterday and strapped my legs on it and took the shackles off and strapped my arms to the the chair. My chakra was still suppressed, dammit.
"No guards this time?"
"They are not needed. I am handling this one myself." This can't be good. Why would he want to handle this one himself?
"Tell me. Who do you think has the most powerful lightning style in the village?"
"I'm guess that would be you." I suddenly realized something "Which is why you said I might not live and why you are going to handle this one alone."
He gave me a smirk "I gave you a chance, you refused. It's time you learn what happens when you don't give the lightning village what they want!" He pulled a silver spear of a shelf "I am going to infuse my lightning style into this spear after I stab it into you. Guess what else?"
"I'm not in the mood just tell me."
"Silver is the best conductor of electricity. Which means this is going to hurt you a lot. This pain won't even compare to what you went through the last two days."
I stayed silent. I suddenly felt something I haven't truly felt in quite a long time, fear. For the first time since I can remember I'm actually afraid. Not for my family, not for my friends not for anyone but myself, I fear for myself.
"Ready for this elemental ninja?"
"Give me your worst shot!"
"Just remember you had a choice." He stabbed the spear right into my shoulder and hit the muscle.
I took a sharp intake of air.
"How does it feel to have your muscle pierced with a spear?" That means he aimed for my muscle. "Bet it feels pretty bad huh? It's gonna feel worse once I do this!" He sent his lightning style through it and instantly pain shot through my entire body. He was right about one thing, this doesn't even compare to the last two. This was without a doubt the worse pain I have ever felt in my life. No one I had fought so far could cause this much damage to me. Red spots were flashing before my eyes and I felt as if I was going to blackout any second. Just then he removed the spear.
"How was that?
My voice had left me, so even if I wanted to, I couldn't have responded.
"Last chance. Will-"
I gave a weak shake of my head.
"You're a very tough nut to break." He stabbed the spear into my other shoulder. The pain went through my body again and this time the red spots appeared instantly and so did the feeling that I was going to black out. The pain seemed to get worse and the red spots disappeared and faded into darkness.
I opened my eyes and saw nothing but darkness.
"Am I dead...?"
"No you're fine."
"Oh it's you. What happened?"
"You passed out and he threw you back in the cell."
"That's all?"
"Well except for the fact that he forgot to put the shackles back on."
"I don't have them on?"
"No. You can't feel that they not on?"
"Nope I can't feel anything thing from my shoulder down."
"Also without the shackles this means your plan has a better chance of working."
"Yeah. So let's prepare it now."
"You're still not in any condition for it but it might be the only chance we get so let's get it ready."
Our plan has been reviews now, we checked every possibility and only a few things we could think of could go wrong. After some time the door opened and the same woman that healed my wounds before came in again. She looked at me and then shook her head.
"He was to learn to hold back on a kid."
"I might be a kid but I'm also the elemental ninja of the leaf."
"Still, in age you are a kid." She started healing my wounds again.
"I might be a kid in age but I'm still stronger then many other ninja."
"That may be but a kid shouldn't have to suffer this much."
"Why do you care about me so much when I'm an enemy?"
"You might be an enemy but I hate seeing kids get hurt."
"So even through I'm an enemy you don't want to see me get hurt?"
"Exactly."
"You're making this harder then it needs to be."
"Making what harder?"
"This. NOW!"
Something came from the corner of the room and hit her to the ground. I force myself up and place my foot onto her chest.
"I treat my enemies differently then you do. Just like the Raikage said to me 'This is war kid you can't give your enemies mercy." The elemental beast walked to my side and grabbed the key to the cell out of her pocket held it in his jaws.
"Me and my partner here, came up with this plan. I may be weakened but he still helped me out. The Raikage made a mistake, he didn't place the shackles back on, but if he did I was going to get them off but it might have cost me my life this way is much easier."
Me and the beast ran out the cell and he locked it with the key and then shattered it. I might have got the beast to attack to early the wounds weren't closed, they were still bleeding a bit, and you could easily see I was wounded because my clothes got stabbed through as well.
"Good job. Now comes the hard part." I said to him.
"Doesn't matter even with you crippled we will still escape."
"I hope you're right. If you somehow get defeated I can do next to nothing to protect myself."
"Don't underestimate me, Alex."
The iron door that I had come through to enter the "interrogation" room was unlocked. The beast managed to pull the handle and we ran into the hallway.
"You're really useless right now you know." He told me.
"Why would you say that?"
"You can't even open a door."
"It's not my fault that they decided to stab my shoulder muscle and use electricity to numb my arms."
"Just remember if it wasn't for me you would still be in the cell."
"Don't worry I won't" I said mockingly.
We kept going through the hallway until we came up to some stairs leading up to a door. We went up the stairs and I placed my ear to the door.
"I don't hear anything." I told the beast.
"Give me a second." He smashed the door open and ran into the room. I heard surprised shouts, sounds of pain then silence. The beast walked into the doorway.
"Let's go."
I walked up and saw 5 guards, all dead and all covered in blood "That was really fast killing."
"We have to get out of here quickly."
"I agree we have to-Wait!"
"What?"
"I just remembered, my weapons, tools and the scroll were taken when I was capture. We have to find them."
"That scroll is better off away from you and can't you come back when you can fight to do this?"
"That scroll is dangerous it has many forbidden jutsu in it, if they decided to use them then they might lose a few people but they will kill many leaf ninja, we have to take it back now."
"Why do I even help you? Fine let's go." It seemed we were in the room where the guards are stationed so my weapons should be around here. It didn't take long before I found most of my things. I kicked opened a chest and found the sword, the two golden daggers and my tools but something was missing, the scroll.
"The scroll doesn't seem to be in here." I said to the beast who was out of my sight at the time.
"Come in here for a minute." I walked into the room where his voice was coming from and he was standing in front of a safe.
"Do you think it might be in there?"
"One way to find out." He slashed at it with his claws and they cut through the metal of the safe easily. I stepped closer and looked inside. I saw a few things but the thing that caught my eye was the scroll with a black string. With out use of my hands the beast had to pull it out. He opened and made sure it was the right one, luckily it was. He brought it into the next room and placed it near my other belongings.
"Now the question is how to get them out of here."
"You had a backpack with you right?"
"Yeah." I looked in the chest again and saw a strap. "That might be it." The beast pulled it out and we saw that it was. He placed everything into the bag except the sword which went around my waist where it was meant to be and he placed the bag on my back.
"I'm not sure this will work without use of my arms."
"Well it's the best we can do right now. Let's go."
"Right." We went out the door we thought would bring us out.
We finally got outside and I saw the building we were in was the same one where I helped Naruto, Sakura, Hinata, Kiba and Shino. I didn't know there was another floor to it.
"Stop daydreaming it's almost morning we have to get out before everyone wakes up and we're discovered."
"Right." He ran off and I followed as fast as I could.
He continued to run until we saw the gate and guards standing there, they hadn't seen us but we saw them.
"Looks like you get to do more fighting."
"Yeah. I'll be right back." He ran incredibly fast and dispatched the guards before they could even react. I walked up to the gate.
"That was...wow."
"You've never seen what I can do. Now come one we don't have time we have to go now."
"I know."
Going down the mountain that the village was on was very hard, I kept stumbling since my legs still had healed from the senbon torture, but we finally made it down after 10 minutes. We had no time to rest we had to keep going no matter what. I fell behind the beast a lot but he made sure he didn't leave me behind. The sun was up and the lightning village wold soon discover they had failed to get what they wanted. We were across the border but that wouldn't stop them from chasing after us.
"Only a while longer and they'll have no chance to catch us." I said
"We don't even know if they are following us."
"True but we can't be sure that they're not."
"Then let's keep going and then we can be sure they won't catch us."
After another hour of running the gate to the leaf came into sight.
"Almost there." I said smiling
Just then someone appeared in front of us. I looked at his forehead to see if there was a head band. There was...it was a lightning one.
"Fuck! How did you catch up to us!" I asked looking over his shoulder at the gate, we were too far away for anyone to notice us fighting, we were on our own.
"I'm faster then you. I'm one of the fastest ninja from the lightning village."
"You're not going to stop us when we've come this far!"
"Whose going to stop me?"
"I am." The beast said.
"You have spilt apart from each? That's different."
The beast didn't wait he ran at the ninja and swung his claws, the man moved and kicked the beast back!
"You can't hit me with such slow moves."
The beast attacked again and the man punched him. I wanted to help but I only had feeling in the very tips of my fingers, and I couldn't do much with that. The beast has getting frustrated. He ran and moved quickly behind the ninja but he easily turned and smashed him into the ground, he then placed his foot on his back to hold him in place. I couldn't just stand there and let him be hurt I had to do something, but what? A thought suddenly entered my mind, I couldn't believe I didn't think of it sooner it was so obvious. The ninja was facing away from me and was still pinning the beast down by stepping on him.
"I guess you're a lot stronger when you have a host huh?" The ninja asked him
"I don't need a host to beat you!" He snarled but still couldn't get free.
I had to do it now or I wouldn't have another chance. I ran towards him, he must have heard me running because he turned around, but it was too late. I jumped up and kicked him right in the face! He took a step back, which got his foot of the beast.
"Attack now!" I shouted to him
"I know!" He ran and slashed the ninja's throat open, the ninja fell and a puddle of blood formed under him.
"Are you all right?" I asked
"I'll be fine. I didn't need your help."
"You could at least act thankful you know."
"Fine. Thanks."
"We're a team. We have to work together. Now let's get to the leaf village."
"Should I enter your body again?"
"It's your choice."
"I think I will return to your body now."
"All right go ahead."
He ran and and jumped at me and entered my body again, time to head to the leaf now.
I walked towards the leaf village gate. It took me only about 8 minutes and when I walked through the gate a gatekeeper saw me.
"Could it be? Alex is that you?" He asked
I smiled "The one and only."
"Weren't you captured by the lightning?"
"Yeah. Look at my shoulders for prove."
He looked and gave a look of pain "Ouch that must have hurt. It's not healed completely you should go to the hospital."
"I have something else to do first."
"Alex the wounds could get infected if you don't-"
"I'll go but first I have to go talk to Tsunade."
"All right. Go ahead."
I walked towards the hokage's building and I noticed the surprise looks I got and the looks they gave when they saw the spear wounds. I didn't care about them at the moment right now I had to go and talk to Tsunade.
I stood in front of Tsunade's office door. Now how do I get in? My arms won't work so there is only one choice. I tap the door with my foot.
Tsunade's voice comes from the other side "Come in." I tap the door again "Come In!" She repeated. I tapped the door harder that time, and I heard footsteps from the other side of the door. The door swung open and Tsunade shouted "I SAID COME-" She stopped and got a surprised look on her face when she saw it was me "Alex? Is that really you?"
"Yeah. It's really me."
"But you..uh...how?" She was at a loss of words.
"I'll explain it." She went back to her desk and I walked in and pushed the door closed with my foot.
I had just finished telling her about what had happened.
"You managed to escape with the beast's help?"
"Yes but as you can see, not without injury."
"So do you have any feeling in your hands right now?"
"Only the tips of my fingers, and I have no idea how long until I have feeling back."
"So once again you are unfit to fight in this war." Fighting isn't going to end this war. Suddenly a thought hit me.
"Umm...Tsunade?"
"Yeah?"
"Umm...never mind." I decided not to tell her what I just thought of. At least not yet.
"Alex what were you going to say."
"Never mind. Oh yeah! How are Kuna and Kiko?"
"They've been blaming themselves for what happened to you. They think you blame them for what happened."
"They only think that because they were used as hostages. I don't blame them for anything. I blame the Raikage, and to be honest I would like to get even with the village, but now is not the time."
"You're right now is not the time to anger a village even more then they are already."
"The twins are at my house right?"
"How did you know that Alex?"
"It's the only place in the leaf village that they can call home. I am going to see them then I'm going to head to the hospital just to get these wounds checked out." I said getting up and walking to the door."
"I'll come check on you at the hospital later."
"Okay...Umm Tsunade?"
"Yeah?"
"I can't really open the door at the moment..."
"Oops...sorry about that Alex." She got up and opened the door for me."
"Thanks."
I was walking towards my house but I was also lost in thought. Could that sudden thought be true or is it just wishful thinking? If it is true then it would mean no one is at fault...I have to find out if there is a chance this could be true.
"What are you going on about?"
"You haven't seen my thought yet?"
"No I haven't."
"Then check it and you will understand."
After a moment he said "I see."
"Do you think it could be true?"
"I honestly can't say it seems like it could be a possibility, but then again..."
"That's exactly how I feel which is why I didn't tell Tsunade about it, not yet."
"So how are you going to figure out if it could be true?"
"I have no clue yet but I'm sure I'll figure something out...soon."
I stepped up to my door and stood there. Maybe I should have got my wounds checked first, once they see them and learn that I can't move my arms they blame themselves even more. Well might as well get it over with now. I kicked the door. After a few seconds I heard footsteps coming towards the door. Here they come. The door opened and Kuna opened the door but she was looking down like she was deep in thought, she didn't see who I was yet.
"Why don't you look up?"
At the sound of my voice her body straightened "That voice." She looked up "Alex! It-it really is.." She paused overwhelmed by her emotions "Kiko come here!" She shouted eagerly. Kiko walked out of the bed room rubbing her eyes, it was only 9:30am.
"What is it Kuna? Why are you so-" She stopped as she saw me "Alex! Your okay!" She ran up grabbed me and so did Kuna.
"I guess you two are happy to see me again."
"How did you escape from them?" Kuna asked
"Did you have to-" She stopped as she looked up at me "Those wounds...what happened?"
"...Well... you see..." I can't tell them I was tortured... "Well the Raikage thought I had valuable information so-"
"So he tortured to tying to get it out of you." Kuna said flatly.
"Well I wouldn't say-"
"It's out fault." Kiko said, great now they're blaming themselves again.
"Stop blaming yourselves! It isn't your fault!" I told them
"The Raikage said we were your weakness. We were used to make you go without a fight." Kuna said
"What he did was a very low trick so-"
Alex, me and Kuna have been thinking it over." Kiko started "And we think we should go back to our village and let you do missions without us." Those words hurt me. These two ten year old kids, are saying they will go to their village because they felt like they were the reason for all the pain I've gone through in the war.
"BOTH OF YOU LISTEN!" I shouted, the twins jumped from my sudden out burst, I lowered my voice "Now that I have your attention, listen to me. You two are not the reason I'm getting hurt in this war. If you two go back to Kyoto village nothing will change. I'll still be here fighting the war. The only difference will be that you two won't be with me. If you don't remember you helped me in the battle against the stone, if you two hadn't been there I would be dead and buried under those rocks and all the other ninja that were there would have been taken prisoner or killed. So by saving me you helped save others as well. Do you two understand now that it isn't your fault?"
Kuna spoke first "What about when our...father...attacked you? That was because of us."
They bought that up again "If I wanted I could have let him take you. I protected you because I wanted to. I wasn't going to let him take you from your village and your mother, I don't want you two to be unhappy, it's much better when you are both happy. So don't blame yourselves anymore because of my choices, all right?"
"Okay." Kuna said
Kiko nodded.
"Good...now this doesn't sound to good but I have to go to the hospital."
"Why?"Kuna asked
"Because of the wounds in your shoulders?"
"Yeah. I can't move anything below my shoulders. So you two can stay here or you can come with-"
"We'll coming with you!" They both said in unison.
I laughed "I don't know how you two always seem to do that. All right let's go."
We started on our way to the hospital and one thought crossed my mind. The elemental ninja had returned to his rightful place.
Chapter 10 End