I only own Nokoribi and Momi all other characters are from Naruto which belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.
Flashback
A small beetle crawled across her cell floor, she watched it intently the only thing that was keeping the small child entertained. There was the clicking of shoes and her mother appeared in front of the cell.
"Someone is visiting you today, Nokoribi. But you must not tell him your name or what you are," she demanded, "be a good girl for mummy."
She nodded and beamed delighted that someone was actually bothering with her. Both of her hands were wrapped with bandages. It had been a couple of weeks since the operation and she was now ready to train that new weapon of hers. Her mother unlocked the cell door and the girl timidly stepped out.
They walked down the corridor and entered a room filled with various obstacle courses such as swinging spiky flails, giant moving axes and beams bridging over terrifying heights. It was the training room. The place Nokoribi had spent the majority of her life.
Her grin widened as she saw the guest in front of her. It was the same man with pony tail from those weeks ago.
He came back for me.
I wouldn't be so sure, kiddo. He probably didn't have a choice.
"Do as he says and don't do anything naughty. You know what the consequences are," her mother said then left.
She fidgeted under his watchful gaze, Nokoribi wasn't used to being in the presence of people unless she was wrapped in chains. He bent down too examine her hands removing the bandages carefully. The wound was healed and the two eyes opened.
"Do you know what these eyes are?" she shook her head, "They are known as the Sharingan and they once belonged to a member of my clan who was very special to me."
"Was it your brother?"
He looked surprised that she had remembered, "no…it doesn't matter now. I've been told you have some control over your chakra and you can do basic manipulation. So let's start off with you trying to see through the Sharingan, yes?"
Pretty pointless upgrade if you can't.
"So how would I do that?"
"Concentrate you chakra into your hands, and if you they have connected your sensory nerves properly, you should be able to see through them."
Nokoribi outstretched her palms and glared at them. She imagined it to be like standing on water so she directed her chakra straight to her hands. Her eyes narrowed as nothing happened, letting out a frustrated sigh, she through her hands to her sides. She had wanted to do it in the first go and impress her new mentor but that didn't look like it was going to happen.
Nokoribi hung her head and as the young man reached towards her, she flinched expecting punishment. Instead he poked her forehead with his finger.
He smiled, "don't give up yet. It's difficult I know, but you will get there in the end."
The girl just stared at him. Not sure whether to cry or hug him. Nobody had ever smiled at her before or told her not to give up. She was used to much more brutal forms of encouragement. Even the voice inside her head was silenced.
Nokoribi raised her hands again and tried even harder this time. She could feel her chakra seeping into her fingertips but that wasn't where she wanted it to go. She concentrated again. And again. Until, her vision suddenly became blurred and her eyes twitched uncontrollably.
"What…what just happened?"
"It's alright, you did it. Those Sharingan are now linked with your own eyes," he paused and flung a kunai towards her, "now dodge this."
The immediate danger of being wounded frightened her and she shielded her face with her hands. But she noticed the kunai was flying through the air at an impossibly slow speed. She ducked and the weapon passed above her head.
"That is one of the perks of the Sharingan. It allows you to track fast moving objects," he paused, "I told you, you could do it."
She stared blankly at him still not sure what to say to his friendly words.
Thank him you idiot.
"Thank you…erm… What was your name sorry?"
"For now I guess you can call me Brother. What's yours?"
Nokoribi remembered her mother's warning, so she decided to go with nickname the prison guards called her.
"Monsuta."
Real time
"Itachi…I don't know what you're talking about," Nokoribi said, "now get off me."
"Don't play dumb with me. You have to remember, I trained you," it was almost a plead.
Nokoribi…you know what he's talking about.
No it can't be him, Brother died…no he must have put me in a genjutsu and seen my memories or something.
"You never trained me," she rasped trying to remove his fingers from her throat.
"My eyes can tell when you lie, though you should understand that pretty well, Monsuta."
Nokoribi was still she no longer tried to break free of his grasp. There were footsteps at the common room door but she didn't bother to look.
That's impossible.
"What in God's name are you doing?" Pein demanded, "Itachi get away from her."
He let go but refused to look at Nokoribi, who was now slumped against the wall. There were more footsteps approaching now as others entered the common room for breakfast. Itachi left the room, passing Kisame.
"Hey Itachi I see you've spoken to Nokoribi well before…"
As he walked he stared at his partner, "Tsukyomi."
"Seriously again…" Kisame trailed off.
But the genjutsu didn't last long before Itachi had disappeared leaving a confused and drained Kisame.
"I guess he has finally started his period."
The other members sat with their food and ate casually chatting but at the same time the eyes flickered over to Nokoribi.
"What happened?" Pein asked but she just shrugged her shoulders, "Itachi isn't one to attack people out of the blue. You didn't say anything about his family, did you?"
"No. He just thought I was somebody he used to know."
Kisame interjected, "he probably thought you were Sasuke. Jeez Itachi's eyes are getting worse, he's basically blind to think you look like him."
Yeah, his eyes are bad I bet he just beats too often. If you catch my drift.
Again Momi, stop the sexual references. I've already been groped and strangled I don't want to add vomiting to that list too.
Pein held out his hand to Nokoribi, "get some breakfast and relax for a while. I'm going to speak to Itachi."
Last time someone told me to relax, Kisame thought I was shark bait.
Stop being so depressing. Just talk to your colleagues and forget about it. Well, avoid Kisame…and maybe Hidan. Okay let's make that Tobi as well.
Nokoribi grabbed some food, although after seeing Zetsu was serving she was reluctant to eat it, then sat beside the two Akatsuki members she had met when she tried to escape the first time. She believed they were called Sasori and Deidara.
They both looked at her as if to say 'why the hell did you sit next to us.' But continued eating, now in silence.
Break the ice, tell a joke. Say something about her hands and what she really uses them for.
No, she's probably heard that one a thousand times over.
Nokoribi coughed, "so Deidara's quite a manly name for such a feminine young lady."
The room fell silent. Sasori looked at his partner curiously and then at Nokoribi with empathy.
"I. Am. Not. A. Woman! First Kisame now you," Deidara yelled, he unbuttoned his cloak revealing his chest, "does it look like I have boobs?"
The hand joke isn't sounding so bad now, is it?
"I just thought you had overactive testosterone or something."
Deidara yelled and drew out clay from his pockets, "prepare to witness my spectacular art."
"Playdoh?" then a familiar look of terror crossed Nokoribi's face.
Shit. I thought out loud again, didn't I?
It's time like these that make me glad I don't share my senses with you.
Sasori stifled a giggle at the remark whereas all the other members hastily vacated the room. Deidara looked as though he was going to explode with rage- no pun intended.
Looks like shit's going down. So yeah I'm going to have quick nap, night.
What? Momi don't leave me this is partially your fault. You knew I had a terrible sense of humour…but it was too late. Momi had gone leaving Nokoribi to deal with the infuriated Deidara herself, crud.
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