Wowz! I'm surprised so many like the Corpse Titan. I'll be sure to bring it out again soon. Pinky promise.
Anonymoose: It wasn't exactly an "asskicking" but, I was snickering to myself the entire time while writing it. I'm glad you liked it.
Midcore: Not very talkative are you? Lol, I'm teasing. Thanks for the feedback. xD
WARNINGS: Descriptive language, psychological torture, blood, depressing thoughts, gore, child violence, foul language, and bad attempts at horror.
I don't own Naruto. Enjoy...?
Naruto opened her eyes groggily.
"Ugh..."
Vision fuzzy, she rubbed her eyes, wanting to freeze at the tiny unfamiliar hand that carried out the action instead of her own. Only, her body didn't seem to want to listen. It was on autopilot.
Naruto flinched violently, finding herself lying on a stone cold floor. She looked around carefully, trying to ignore the peculiar amount of panic welling up in her stomach's pit. She couldn't calm her heartbeat, or her harsh breaths.
Her eyes were wide, darting around the pitch black surrounding her, not a sound or shape distinguishable within the darkness.
She couldn't even see her hand when she held it in front of her face.
'What's wrong with me? Why can't I calm down? What is this... this fear!?'
It was like her body was not her own, and her mind was trapped within it.
"I see you are awake, Uzumaki."
Naruto's body froze at that low gravelly voice.
'Danzo...!' The redhead inwardly gritted.
"You!" Her mouth blurted on it's own, startling Naruto at how childish her voice sounded. "It's you, isn't it? The bandaged old man from the alley! Where the heck are we? What did you do to me!?"
"Cease speaking, child." Danzo ordered.
A single light flickered to life above Naruto, its reach only forming a small circle around the redhead's body.
Naruto's eyes squinted, trying to determine where the old cripple could possibly be hiding.
Though, it was for naught.
His voice seemed to be coming from everywhere at once.
"Don't tell me what to do old man!" Naruto spat. "You said you'd give me power! So why the heck did you knock me out as soon as I grabbed your hand!?"
'Fuck. FUCK!' Naruto cussed. 'I just realized why I'm so small... and why I can't control what I do... I'm in a memory...!'
"Of course I'm going to give you power, foolish child." Danzo's disembodied voice said. "But not for the naive reasons you wanted. No. This is for the village's benefit. You will become my weapon, and I will wield you to smite all of Konoha's enemies."
Naruto's eyes stung with helpless angry tears.
'I cried... but... I don't remember ever... wait... wait a damn minute...!'
"I knew you were a liar..." She hissed.
Danzo chuckled cruelly.
"Then why ever did you agree to my proposition?"
'This is one of the memories from Danzo's training. The first memory..!'
"I... I was just hoping..." Naruto murmured truthfully. "Hoping that you could help me... but it was never about me... was it?"
"Of course not." Danzo nearly scoffed. "You do not matter. You are my weapon, one that I will hone into an indestructible and sharp blade."
"Thats not true...!" Naruto shot back. "I do too matter! I'm somebody. Right...?" She finished quietly, slightly uncertain.
'Was I really so insecure...?'
"My dear girl," Danzo droned. "Of course you don't. The truth of the matter is, Minato will never love you. You are just a constant reminder of Kushina, and all he lost on the cursed day of your birth. He hates you."
"That's... that's not true!" Naruto yelled defiantly. "Dad is just confused right now... He'll love me! You'll see!"
"All I see is a weak little girl." Danzo stated coldly. "But that will change. Starting now."
Naruto's young face twisted into a scowl, her eyes stinging persistently. But even all those years ago, she was too stubborn to shed tears.
"Shinobi do not cry." Danzo stated. "That is for spineless children. You are a weapon, and will behave as such. So stop your sniveling and stand, Uzumaki."
"Dang it..." The redhead gritted. "Dang it...!"
Naruto shoved herself to her feet, if only to contradict Danzo's declaration of her being weak.
"You awakened your Bloodlimit. And that has made you arrogant," Danzo began. "I will beat that out of you. Arrogance is unbecoming, so I will teach you fear. And then you will overcome that fear, or you will die, and I shall find a new weapon."
Naruto felt a rampant fear swell inside her at the word "die". But the part of her outside the memory recognized Danzo didn't want another weapon. He wanted, and needed Naruto. He had just used that to force Naruto's old self onto the path he desired.
'Was I really that weak? I allowed him to so easily manipulate me... damn. Damn it all...'
Naruto felt a wave of chakra, recognizing it to be a powerful genjutsu.
Though, her younger self had no idea what it had been, and her breath hitched when a line of torches lit in a straight line down a thin corridor.
Naruto stared down the long hallway in bewilderment.
"Find your way through the maze, and escape your pursuers, or perish." Danzo commanded, voice fading away to nothing.
"Wh-what?" Naruto stuttered. "What pursuers? Where am I? Let me out!"
Nothing.
"Hello...?" She called experimentally.
Danzo's voice did not return.
She was alone.
Seconds turned to minutes.
Panic began to eat away at Naruto.
Her knees began trembling, and her hands started shaking uncontrollably. So, she began ringing them roughly to distract herself.
"Naruto..."
The redhead flinched at the croaking raspy voice echoing behind her.
Slowly, she turned around.
Her teary eyes bulged.
"M-Mina-chan...?" She whispered carefully.
'Kami what was I thinking? It's obviously a trick!'
Mina-chan was a ragdoll made out of a recycled beige knitted scarf, with baby blue button eyes, a lopsided stitched grin of black thread, and bright yellow yarn sticking out in short uneven tufts for hair atop his big, droopy, circular head.
Naruto had made Mina-chan when she was like, six. She had been feeling awfully lonely, and sad that her Dad was busy with work, and the girls at the Academy didn't want to play with her. Naruto still had the doll, and kept it hidden under her bed back home.
'Danzo must have had a ROOT Yamanaka invade my head to find out about that doll... and then he created a genjutsu to use it to psychologically torture me... that filthy sonofabitch...'
"Naruto you never play with Mina-chan anymore..." The doll croaked, stitched smile never changing. "Mina-chan is sad... play with Mina-chan again..."
"Wh-what the heck?" Naruto muttered. "You're just a doll Mina-chan. What's going on? You can't talk... you shouldn't even be here... That bandaged dude is doing something, isn't he?"
Naruto looked around in wobbly anger.
The only light came from the one above her, and the torches illuminating the corridor behind her.
"Come out you old mummy! I know this isn't real! What the heck are you trying to pull?" She demanded, gathering her wits.
She received no answer, though, that only served to infuriate her.
Naruto looked back to where her doll had been standing, alarmed to find him not there.
In his stead, was a slip of yellowing paper.
Knowing it wouldn't be there if it was irrelevant, she shuffled over, and snatched it up.
"You can't scare me you freaky mummy..." Naruto muttered angrily. "I'll play this stupid game... and prove you wrong. Daddy will love me. I'll make him proud, and become Hokage one day, DATTEBAYO!"
'Huh. I wonder whatever happened to that silly dream?'
Naruto's younger self read the old page, which was titled in unsteady chicken scratch, 'Hide and Corpse Seek'.
'That's not clever at all Danzo.' The present redhead thought spitefully.
"'Rule number one'..." Naruto murmured. "'Never look behind you'."
Her nose crinkled skeptically.
"Why the heck would it matter if I did that?"
Shaking her head, she continued reading.
"'Rule number two, don't question the rules'."
Naruto scoffed, rolled her eyes, and looked back down.
"'Number three, find a place to hide'." The redhead shrugged. "Seems simple enough... 'kay Rule four is, 'Don't make a sound'..."
Naruto's blood stopped in her veins at the last rule.
Rule number five: Don't die.
Thoroughly spooked, Naruto dropped the paper, whirling around, and shooting off down the torch lit hall full speed ahead.
Her heart beat thundered and stuttered harder and faster, as every torch she passed, was a torch blown out.
The shadows chased her.
Her stomach twisted with potent anxiety.
What would happen to her was uncertain, and that was truly petrifying.
The corridor seemed to never end.
She quickly grew tired, and slowed.
That's when she heard it.
Rasping breaths.
Like an old man with rattling lungs, and a lost soul moaning for an unseen salvation.
She was afraid.
She tried to move faster.
She was too tired.
She turned.
It was just for a second.
Just an innocent glance.
Naruto screamed.
The entire corridor was stuffed with life sized ragdolls, all made of knitted beige material, limbs flailing lazily, reaching out to grab her.
Their presences were positively sinister.
Some of them were missing button eyes, holes in their plain faces hanging with destroyed human tendons and bare muscles. Others had torn open heads, instead of stuffing, rotting gray brain matter fell to the floor. Gnats flew around them, burrowing, and steadily feasting on their reeking flesh. A few had split abdomens, guts spilling out, dragging behind them sloppily, and dirtying the stone floors with rotten blood.
Naruto gagged at the odious stench of decay weaving itself into her nostrils, clogging its way down her throat and tantalizing her gag reflex to rebel violently against her.
"What the heck...?" Naruto breathed weakly, appalled. "Wh-what is this!?"
Her chest heaved with the force of her tired breaths, and she turned fully to face the dolls.
'Why didn't I run?'
One of the ragdolls wiggled itself free from the traffic.
'Oh. I see now. Paralyzed with fear...'
It flopped wetly face down to the floor, missing both its arms and legs, bleeding all over the place. The doll began squirming slowly over to the frozen redhead, its blank face only distinguishable by a drooping stitched mouth.
It looked utterly miserable.
"Why... why are dolls bleeding?" Naruto croaked, knees rubbery at the monstrous amount of blood and innards visible.
She had never seen such carnage, and it was unimaginably frightening.
Naruto wanted to vomit, but she couldn't remember the last time she had eaten.
There was nothing to throw up.
"I w-want to go home..." Naruto murmured, knowing that Danzo couldn't care less about her desires. "I should've never agreed with that slimy mummy..."
Something beneath the doll's mouth rippled.
"Just remember it's not real Naruto." She muttered to herself. "It's not real it's not real it's not real it's not real it's not real..." She chanted.
'If I knew that, why the hell didn't I- oh yeah... By then... We hadn't learned how to dispel genjutsu in the Academy yet...'
The limbless doll spasmed, its mouth jerking out as if something inside was trying to bust free.
Naruto, frozen with a mixture of morbid curiosity and anxiety, watched.
Something dark bloomed across the doll's mouth, viscous blackened red sludge oozing between the holes of its knitted design.
The thick fluids spilled onto the floor, full of gelatinous chunks.
Naruto's upper lip curled in disgust.
"What the-"
Finally, the doll's mouth ripped open, a mass of wriggling white maggots pouring out, and speckling the floor, bumbling about in the nastiness there.
The doll slithered closer through the fly larvae. So close, the redhead could touch it.
Naruto stumbled back.
"Kami that's sick..." She mumbled.
At the sound of her voice, the ragdoll cocked its head to the side.
Naruto realized her mistake.
It lunged.
With a terrified scream, Naruto dived, sliding harshly on her front. As a reslut, the ragdoll soared over her head, landing with a sickening squelch behind her.
The redhead rolled to the side and sat up, finding her feet with the help of the wall she leaned against.
Naruto ignored the maggots on the floor, and the horde of dolls before her. Pressing her back against the torched wall, she slid past the limbless doll that blindly began searching for her.
She realized it had heard her tired panting, and that's what lead it to her. But her voice had told it exactly where she was. The others were stuck, and couldn't reach her. The free doll was an entirely different matter. Naruto forced herself to calm her erratic breathing.
She quietly shuffled past the maggot mouthed doll, and took off once again down the hall, ignoring the ragged wheezes of the dolls following too closely behind her.
It would seem they only moved when she did.
Creepy.
Finally, finally she spotted a new route, and sharply curved left as she reached the end of the hallway, coming to a dead end.
"Oh crap... crap! There's nowhere to go!"
Panicked, Naruto turned around, coming face to face with the horde of decaying dolls.
Her breath stuttered in her chest desperately.
Her pupils dilated.
They were so close, she could smell the pungent scent of their rotten breath. So close, that their joint rattling wheezes were almost deafening.
"Why didn't you follow the rules Naruto-chan...?"
That voice allowed air to once again enter the redhead's lungs.
She gasped for breath like a dying man.
"Mina-chan...?" Naruto croaked.
Her little ragdoll squeezed from in between the wriggling toys, blue button eyes somehow managing to seem disappointed.
"You should have followed the rules..."
"Wh-what...?" Naruto glanced at her toy, and then up at the grisly mass way too close for comfort.
She shuffled backwards, back pressed against the ice cold stone.
"If you don't follow the rules, you'll fail... and if you fail, you're useless. You'll be nothing. And you'll have to be thrown away."
Naruto, shaking so intensely in immeasurable anxiety, lost the strength in her legs, and half fell, half slid to the floor. Blue-green eyes wide, and her pupils nearly swallowing her irises.
Naruto had never wished harder to see her father.
"Wh-what do you m-mean fail? What rules? Wh-where is Danzo? Why is he d-doing this t-to me...?" Naruto stuttered.
"1. Never look behind you. 2. Don't question the rules. 3. Find a place to hide. 4. Don't make a sound. 5. Don't die."
Naruto's breath hitched.
She remembered the list.
"Y-you mean..."
"Shinobi obey their superiors. You will obey. Or you will be punished."
"Mina-chan...?" Naruto called uncertainly.
"You will learn to obey. You will concede. And you will not question orders."
Wide eyed, Naruto watched her doll walk back to the mass of knitted carnage before her, becoming engulfed, and pulled out of sight.
The redhead didn't have the courage to call out, or reach for her childhood comfort.
'There's that feeling again... so utterly empty... an abyss that eats me from the inside out...'
She was alone.
'Loneliness, a never ending wound that grows larger and larger with every breath I take...'
Naruto slapped her hands over her mouth, feeling wholly helpless, and alone.
'I never wanted to remember this miserable feeling...'
The redhead flinched when the dolls convulsed violently.
There was no where to run.
She wondered what would happen to her. And hoped fear would stop her heart forever to avoid it.
'It would be better if I never knew the truth... Maybe then I wouldn't be suffering this all over again...'
A doll fell from the mass, flopping before the trembling redhead, its mouth ripped away, leaving nothing but a dangling tongue and mutilated gaping hole where its jawbone should've been.
Defenseless, Naruto watched as it dragged itself over to her, leaving a trail of blood in its wake.
"No... stop..." She said feebly. "Get away... from me... d-don't c-come any cl-closer..."
She squeaked when the doll stopped, unnaturally warm as it pressed against her.
Naruto clenched her hands in either side of her hair, curling up into a tiny ball to become the smallest target possible.
"D-Daddy..." She whimpered. "I'm scared... I'm scared... I want to go home...!"
The doll keened, and Naruto trembled.
"Daddy... please help me..."
Her Daddy didn't come.
She had known logically that he didn't even know where she was. But still, it utterly crushed her. Devastation made tears spill from Naruto's once stubborn eyes.
Blood dribbled on to the back of her neck.
The doll's breath ghosted across the back of her head, and Naruto choked on a sob.
"I don't want to play anymore..."
"Obey..." The doll gurgled, tongue flapping, dripping saliva and blood. "You will obey..."
Naruto trembled harder.
"Concede." The others spoke as one, voices soulless and cold.
"Do not question orders."
"Obey. You will obey."
"Concede. You will concede."
"Do not question. Question nothing."
"Obey-"
"Okay!" Naruto screamed, teary eyes squeezed shut. "Okay I get it! Just please...! Don't talk... SHUT UP!"
"What did I tell you?"
Naruto's trembling stopped.
The wheezing disappeared.
The stomach rolling stench dissipated.
She couldn't feel breath on her nape, or blood dripping on to her skin.
In fact, nothing was there.
And there never had been.
"Danzo...!" She hiccuped.
Wack!
The cripple's walking stick slammed with a bludgeoning force atop her skull.
Naruto's head felt as if it split, and she howled in pain as the stick forced her face to smack into the stone floors. Her nose crunched, gushing geysers of blood.
The redhead held on to the top of her head, wincing immediately as her fingers touched the fresh wound there. Her face was smooshed into the floor as the blunt end of Danzo's cane forced her to submit. Her wound wept streams of crimson, the wood of Danzo's stick grinding into it, making it sting all the more. Whimpering, Naruto felt blood leaking down from the top of her skull from all sides, some trickling into her eyes.
"That is Danzo-sama to you, Uzumaki." The cripple corrected menacingly, staring down with his lone dead black eye, the magnitude of his cruelty slicing through Naruto's skin.
Naruto went utterly cold.
She couldn't see him.
But she could feel it.
That glacial remorseless black void of an eye.
"I said..." Danzo lifted his stick, and forced it back into her wound.
Naruto grunted.
"What did I tell you?"
'What an egotistical sonofabitch...'
Something inside of Naruto snapped.
"I knew it..." The blood spilling from Naruto's skull hardened. "You were screwing with me this whole time... how the hell did you know about Mina-chan?" Naruto snarled, spitting coppery liquid from her bruised nose out of her mouth.
Something destructive slaughtered her fear.
"You think you can just get away with making me cry you wrinkled fucking douchebag pedophile!?" Naruto roared.
'So that's when I started cussing...'
"I'm not gonna let you get away with this!"
Her blood shot up and out, curving like scythe blades, intent to rip the elder to ribbons.
Danzo simply leapt back.
"I'm gonna KILL YOU!"
Naruto got up, and whirled around, gathering the blood on her fingers and curving from her head, flinging it at the cripple.
Danzo moved like the wind, untouchable and silent, unpredictable, yet purposeful.
Red blotches splattered across the stone wall behind him as he dodged.
The redhead cried out in helpless rage.
"Die! Fucking die! I'll show you I'm nothing once I make you a stain on the floor!"
Naruto's blood ate through the wall from several places, having missed Danzo.
"Che!" Naruto spat, even as her shoulders drooped, as if saddled with a sudden heavy burden.
She panted, pale as death, hair matted with blood, and eyes shadowed with fatigue.
"That blood lust is admirable." Danzo offered. "Though, you are much too hasty."
He tilted his head, evading the scythe blade that shot out to skewer his eye socket. "But that is a lesson for another time." He continued on as if nothing was amiss.
Infuriated, Naruto snarled like a wild animal, her blood falling to the floor as she lost control.
"I told you, Naruto Uzumaki. Your Bloodlimit has made you arrogant. And I will beat that out of you."
The elder flashed before the exhausted redhead, burying his fist in her gut.
Eyes bulging, Naruto heaved, globules of blood spurting from her mouth as she was sent flying back.
She crashed into the opposite far wall, crumbling to a broken heap on the floor.
Groaning, she rolled onto her back, finding Danzo standing over her once more.
'Why hadn't I gone to Dad or Jiji for help?' Unfortunately, present Naruto knew the answer to that. 'Deep down... I didn't believe he would care. And I convinced myself Jiji couldn't save me... And maybe... maybe he really he couldn't have... Heh. It's way too late to be thinking this now... what's done... is done...'
"I will beat you until you can no longer move." Danzo informed her solemnly. "And when you stand again, you will kneel. And you will obey."
"F-fuck you!" The redhead spat, baring her bloodied teeth.
Danzo's cane crushed her mouth.
That day she discovered what hatred was.
Naruto choked on blood and screams.
Naruto ran through the maze-like hallways of her personal training grounds. An underground place hidden beneath Konoha's red light district.
It was so close to her home it was almost funny.
In a really convoluted sort of way.
It took an entire month for Danzo to literally beat sense into Naruto. And her hatred for him grew larger and larger each passing day.
Nothing but a red streak in the dimly lit stone halls, Naruto maneuvered with savage grace, the black blindfold around her ocean eyes irrelevant, as she knew the underground better than the back of her hand.
Seven mindless ROOT fodder chased endlessly after her, spamming dangerous jutsu after jutsu.
With her hands behind her in tight bondage, and orders not to touch them, she had no choice but to dodge, duck, and run.
It was the cripple's twisted idea of speed training.
If Naruto was too slow, being burnt to a crisp was her own fault, wasn't it?
The redhead snorted sardonically, running up the side of the wall, and taking off again with blurring speed. She back flipped, and cartwheeled, and rolled time after time with frightening skill.
They never touched her.
"Enough."
Naruto somersaulted from the wall, landing elegantly on one knee, and with her head bowed. Kneeling. She pulled the blindfold off, and tossed it to the side somewhere, never lifting her head.
Danzo stepped from around a bend, looming over the redhead in that almighty way of his.
Naruto bit her lip to keep from snarling something snarky.
She ended up snarling anyways when Danzo's stick slammed into the back of her skull, forcing her to faceplant.
"Ow! What the hell!?" She growled.
"Watch that tongue Uzumaki." Danzo bludgeoned her again.
Vision swimming, Naruto clenched her fist in restraint.
She would not scream in pain for him ever again.
It only seemed to make him want to hurt her more.
"You were thinking something disrespectful again, child." The cripple said, lifting his stick.
Naruto frustratedly wiped away the fresh blood trickling into her eyes.
"Leave us." Danzo ordered.
The ROOT fodder wordlessly left the way they came.
"Come along Uzumaki." Danzo called, silently returning back around the bend from which he'd come.
Naruto dragged herself to her feet, keeping herself from attempting to behead the insufferable cripple with a blood blade.
He always made it a point to make her bleed, and then beat the ever living shit out of her to show her, even with her bloodlimit, someone was still capable of utterly dominating her.
Naruto hated him.
"Che." She bit out, grinding her teeth so hard she swore she could hear the bones groan.
Everyday she stewed in insatiable rage.
And every day, it eroded the barrier between sanity and insanity.
Naruto thoughtlessly followed the cripple as he lead her on what seemed to be a wild goose chase.
Patience burned down to a deadened stub, Naruto nearly demanded where they were going. The genjutsu with the rag dolls had made Naruto believe the underground was just endless hallways, but truthfully, there were doors stretching down every hallway.
Danzo suddenly stopped before a door, and bit his thumb, wiping blood down the sealing array he had Naruto create for him. She could enter any door, as she designed the locking mechanisms to keep outsiders out. Though, she honestly didn't want to see any of the atrocities Danzo had hidden in the rooms of the underground.
She didn't enter any underground room unless Danzo walked in first.
He had to be first doing everything.
He was just petty like that.
Naruto snorted under her breath, and dodged the cane that move to crunch her nose into the back of her skull. Though, she just received a shattering jab to the solar plexus immediately after she avoided the first attack. A jab in which sent her to the floor wheezing as she choked on blood.
"Rise, Uzumaki."
Glaring murder at the back of the elder's bandaged head, Naruto stumbled to her feet, spitefully spitting crimson onto the floor.
"What do you see?"
Naruto reframed from grumbling 'a decrepit ugly bastard'.
She stepped around Danzo, going pale at the sight before her.
It was a large room.
A single light shined dimly down from above.
Twelve people sat in a line facing the entrance, tied to chairs with seal inscripted chains.
They were all wearing blindfolds and gags.
But that didn't drown out their terrified whimpers.
They were all male merchants, save for one, who was a snow top, curly haired old woman. She still wore a floral bathrobe, and blue fuzzy house slippers.
She seemed perfectly at home chained to the chair, and was patiently humming a calming tune around her black cloth gag.
"Wh-what the hell…?" Naruto choked.
She really should have expected the blow she received to the back of the head for that.
Picking herself back up, Naruto was still too shocked by the sight before her.
"What is this…?" Naruto murmured, appalled.
"They are Sound spies."
"What the hell is a Sound?"
"A village founded by Orochimaru of the Sannin, foolish child." Danzo told her, sounding almost spiteful. "He is this village's greatest shame. And he has been keeping tabs on us. Though, for what, I am not sure. At least… not yet."
Naruto repressed a shiver.
Danzo was one creepy fucker.
She didn't ask him why he had brought her to the spies. He had already let it slide when she asked what Sound was.
"I want you to make them feel as miserable as possible. And then kill them." Danzo deadpanned.
Naruto's blood froze.
She could not find words.
She fumbled with the item Danzo tossed to her.
She lost all color when she realized it was a pair of rusty pliers.
"You will accomplish this feat with that tool alone."
Naruto found her voice.
"I don't want to."
She expected to be hit.
Honestly, she had, but she didn't expect the cripple take hold of her neck with his single good hand, and lift her entirely off the ground.
Danzo squeezed.
Naruto sputtered, red flooding into her cheeks as her breath was stolen from her lungs.
The white of her eyes webbed with veins as they widened for more than one reason.
His other eye was unveiled.
Naruto gaped at the fully matured sharingan that glared at her through loose bandages.
'Oh yeah… the cripple stole Fugaku's sharingan...'
"I could never kill someone so thoughtlessly!" Naruto spat.
"Tell yourself it's a game then." Danzo ordered coldly. "You will take these people apart with those pliers, you will like it, and you will obey."
"I-I couldn't do that to someone… I wanted to get stronger… but not like this!"
Danzo tossed her to the floor as if she was less than trash.
Naruto curled up on the floor, clutching her bruised neck, and hacking violently.
"Would it help if I informed you that they have all killed children?"
Naruto stiffened.
"Children have a way of stumbling in on things that they should not. Say… a meeting on what to inform Orochimaru about the Leaf first?"
Disgust swelled within Naruto.
What an entirely despicable man.
Naruto clasped the pliers she had dropped when Danzo had began strangling her.
She stumbled over to the first captured person.
The old woman.
Naruto's heart almost stopped when she realized it was the old lady from the Laundromat that always chased her off with a broom, as if she was an unwanted rodent.
Naruto, with shaking hands, pulled the gag from the old woman's mouth, and the blindfold from around her eyes.
The woman's deceptively kind lavender eyes crinkled with a smile as she instantly recognized the redhead.
Her cracked lips stretched into a sagging grin.
"I always knew you were a monster, Naruto Uzumaki."
Naruto smiled miserably.
"I dont want to hear that from you, you goddamn hag."
She rose her pliers.
Danzo's eyes slipped closed, expression pleased.
Drenched in blood, Naruto laughed uproariously, surrounded by mutilated corpses missing teeth and toes and fingers, and even ears.
Danzo watched aloofly as Naruto lost it.
'I've had enough... I don't want to see this anymore...'
She laughed as something streamed down her blood covered face.
'I don't want to remember what despair feels like...'
The walls were stained with blood.
'Kami how could I have done that?'
Her shaking hands were stained with blood.
'It smells like death... it's overwhelming...'
Everything was covered in blood.
"I'm dirty now." She gasped between guffaws. "I'm a killer. You made me a killer."
Naruto folded over at the waist, tears speckling the floor she had painted with blood.
"It's a game. Break Naru-chan! The silly brain game~!"
Danzo watched as she began trembling with something other than laughter.
"Hehehehehe~ it's fun!" She lied. "SO MUCH FUN~!"
'Kami help me...'
Naruto fell to her knees.
"J-just… just a game… The Brain Game… Naruto's got a broken brain…" She rambled.
Naruto looked around at the bloodbath created by her hands.
She thought of her father, who was a hero.
And she sobbed.
'I wish I was dead...'
Lying on her back, Naruto jolted awake.
"I see you're awake."
Forcing her heartbeat to calm, Naruto flipped through the catalogue in her brain to identify that deep smooth voice.
"Kakashi-Sensei?"
"We have a few things to discuss, don't you think, Naruto-chan?" He asked cheerfully. Though, Naruto could feel the grave undertone.
She would have answered with something completely smartassed just to get a rise out of the Copy Nin, but, she noticed how parched she felt. How utterly drained of life her body seemed. Her lungs felt like dried prunes in the chamber of her chest.
'What the hell…? Why do I feel so shitty…?'
'It has to do with why you were so unfocused while fighting the browless ape, as well as you not having enough time to recover from your anemia.' The Fox imputed helpfully.
'Thanks Fox.'
'I am a wondrous specimen, aren't I?' The beast gloated.
Naruto ignored Kyuubi, focusing on the matter at hand.
She swallowed dryly several times, finding her voice.
"First Sensei, can I ask how long I've been out of it?" The redhead rasped.
Kakashi sighed.
"Two days." The scarecrow supplied. "Just don't think you're getting out of talking to me. This is very serious, Naruto."
'Shit! Two days? I need at least two weeks to be okay from anemia if I don't drink blood from a scroll or someone else!'
Naruto blinked sluggishly, stiffening as Kakashi's woodland scent tantalized her sense of smell.
But, that wasn't all that caught her attention.
The sclera of her eye flooded with black as she recognized the warm coppery scent flowing beneath his skin.
Naruto began to salivate.
'Jailor, you mustn't succumb to madness. It will only make your condition worse. You still have not let me explain what happened during the browless ape incident. Because of your condition, you are remembering things you should not.'
Glowing red irises took on a deranged gleam.
She was too far gone to take note of the slightly panicked tone Kyuubi was addressing her in.
'Dinner time!' Naruto inwardly cackled.
'Curses!'
Welp, nothing to say here. Well, unless you want to know that I felt like a total douchebag while writing this?
*Cricket noises*
Guess not...
Poor Naru!
Thanks for the support guys, you're all beautiful. T^T
'Til next time.