Back at Akemi's apartment, the two men shinobi sat at the dining room table discussing random things. They had placed the unconscious Akemi on the couch. Kakashi placed a blanket on top of her, he wasn't sure why that idea came into his head but he just did it anyways.
Slowly the young woman started to stir, and slowly opened her dead eyes, she sent out one small pulse just to see what her surroundings were. She slowly got up and started rubbing her head from the dull pain being there. She walked over to the small table and sat at the end of it to face the two men. There was silence as she put both her elbows on the table and placed her head in her hands. The pain in her head started to throb more in defiance to her moving. The men just looked at her lazily, not bother to ask what was wrong. But Kakashi couldn't get the slight ping of worry out of his mind. Being this worried about someone so often was troublesome to him, he knew she was his best friend, and he had the right to worry about her, but this much? It was strange to him.
Kakashi got up to grab her a cup of water. Yamato simply leaned on one of his propped up hands staring at the youngish girl.
"Could you not stare, it's unnerving" she stated 'feeling' his eyes on her with her pulse. He sat up real fast and got defensive.
"I didn't even realize I was doing it, my apologies" he gave a slight bow in her direction. Without looking up from her same position, she lifted her hand slightly to give a little wave of 'whatever'.
"It's alright, just try and keep your eyes to yourself" she tilted her head so he could see the small smile she had on her face. It disappeared when another wave of pain hit her brain. Kakashi brought over her drink "thanks" she said before she brought it closer her to her, she wasn't sure how she was going to drink it without moving her head. All of a sudden a straw appeared in the cup. The masked shinobi sat back down at his same spot at the table. She gave another thanks to him and slurped down the water slowly.
"So is it normal for you to pass out like that after using your ability?" Kakashi asked taking out his book. She finally lifted her head so she could face them, more for their benefit then hers.
"No, it really isn't. But I don't think that the problem" she turned her head away. But they didn't, they wanted her to continue, but knew to stay silent until she decided to talk. She finally looked back at them. "Yamato, I'm sorry but I need to speak to Kakashi alone please" she gave a small smile to the man in apology. He just nodded in understanding and said goodbye to Kakashi and left. Then it was just her and the masked man. He silently waited for her to begin; she knew this and slowly took in a long sigh. "Kakashi, I passed out from fear" he slowly put away his book and looked at her directly knowing this was serious talk.
"Why?" he asked it softly. But I had a pretty good idea why. Must be from her years in captivity, what else would it be? If she could see anything, then she would be looking at her knees.
"Well my slave 'masters' would drain my chakra so I couldn't escape. But over time I learned to suppress chakra and let it grow. Well they found out one day and took that away too. Well a few years passed and I met a man on our journeys. But I knew him before all this…WE knew him. I was really surprised when I saw him." Kakashi looked at her skeptically. Who did they both know, and yet that person wouldn't try to save her? "It was Itachi." He was shocked at this, but then again wouldn't be too surprised. They both were missing, and missing people always go where no one can find them. And there can't be that many hiding places.
"And he's the one that told me of my family and Genkai."
It was night and the group of slave masters had already gone to bed for the night after locking me and the 2 other women in our cages. By this time I was already used to the whole idea of sleeping in a rusty ratty cage. But what I still couldn't stand was the feeling of being a slave and OWNED. The two other girls had already passed out from a hard day's work. So it was just me with my thoughts. In the past couple years I've found it really hard to sleep, even after working for hours on end. My chakra was still being slowly zapped away with the special shackles they kept on my ankles. It was hard to explain how they worked, but basically it's made out of the same material that chakra blades are made out of. But instead of you controlling the amount of chakra you put in them, they controlled how much chakra you get to keep. They are illegal and had to get, but these bastards knew all the right people. While in my thoughts I did what I did every night, try to slide my ankle out of the stupid shackle, even just getting one off would give me enough power to get out. When I pulled up my pant leg, my ankle showed raw skin from multiple attempts to get it off; it was so raw that it hasn't been given the chance to scar yet.
After about 30 minutes of doing this, I felt a presence, I couldn't use my pulse, but the air around me felt different. And I could smell someone too, a man. His footsteps were like shadows, no sound to them. I quickly stopped doing what I was doing and laid down; hopefully fooling him into thinking I wasn't doing anything. I heard a rustle of fabric like he was kneeling. Then his voice came like silk "I'm not her to hurt you Akemi Niji, I thought I would just stop by" and the only thing that went through my mind oh the irony.
"Open your eyes and then we can speak" he said softly, I understood completely and took of my blindfold and did as he asked. Instantly I was in his world. The Sharingan world. And there he stood, my old friend from what felt like forever ago, Itachi. It took me awhile to get used to the fact of seeing again, but I ignored it, I was more happy about the fact that I got to see a familiar face.
"How did you find me?" I asked with a smile.
"I saw you walking in the forest with those strange men. It seems to me that you've found yourself in a bit of a predicament. You're the last person I expected to get caught by such trash." His face was solid like always. But I saw right through him. He's missed old company as much as I have.
"Mission went wrong a few years ago. I was captured and sold as a slave. And what about you? You've survived a long time on the run. And I see you've found a new group to play with. All the other kids at home will be jealous" I said mockingly. He smirked slightly.
"More like dead in the future, but enough of that. I will help you out of here. But this can only happen in the future. You need to become stronger first, much stronger. And these people will help you"
"You haven't really been known for riddles my friend, so don't start now. As you have noticed, I'm bound to a chakra sucking piece of shit. So how do we go about this?"
"You need to learn something first" I sat and waited for him to continue. "I have heard whispers, of a village hidden in the caves. But this place was wiped out completely 20 years ago…" he looked at me.
"But that was around the time I was born"
"Yes, you are from that place. Only you and one other escaped"
"Nana…she was the one who brought me to Konoha"
"Yes. But that not all. There is said to have been a special clan who lived there. The Niji clan, who had a special Genkai. And you Akemi are the last one that has this gift." I looked at him in disbelief.
"Wouldn't I have seen signs or felt something if that were true?"
"Not necessarily. Some people don't feel anything until later in life, or never. And if you know about it then you can train yourself to use it at a really early age. But this isn't all; it's also the reason for why you're blind." I held my head; this was so much to take in. "this Genkai can only be given by the parents. The parents have to make the ultimate decision if they do decide to give their child this power."
"Oh? And what's that?" I said sarcastically, feeling the horrible news coming.
"They have to choose between 3 things. Either takes away the child's sight, hearing, or vocals. This ability of theirs would be sacrificed to the great being that cares for all the elements."
I just looked at him with a you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me expression. "That's ridiculous, there's only one god. There are no more."
"You never know until you see it for yourself. And you have that ability. Your parents chose to give you the Genkai, but at the price of your sight" and with that his world was gone from my sight, and I was back in reality. My muscles were so tense, I quickly relaxed them. Then he bent down to speak in my ear again. "You must learn to control this ability, and get stronger with it. they already gave you the tools" he touched my ankle "now fight against it, but only wait until I return to free yourself, or it will never work" and with a gust of wind, he was gone, and I was once again alone.