Later on there was a knock on Emi's door.
"Enter." She called sitting up more in the bed. Kabuto entered and smiled while holding a tray with some food on it.
"I just thought you might want something to eat. You were asleep at lunch and it's now dinner time." He said walking towards the bed. "I didn't have the heart to wake you." He added with a small smile and light blush across his cheeks.
"Thank you." She smiled and took the tray from him, placing it on her lap. Kabuto sat down on the bed. "Kabuto-san why is my room so bland? It doesn't feel like my room. Was it just redecorated?" She asked tucking in to the beef ramen.
"Oh yes it was, it was only finished a day before you went missing. Only your clothes were put back." He explained, his nerves where getting to him. "Your father was going to let you chose how you wanted to do put everything back." He carried on explaining.
"Ah, that also explains the lack of pictures." She said eating. Kabuto nodded, being careful not to show the panic on his face.
"Why don't I go ask your father if he can get the rest of your stuff?" He asked, he needed to tell Orochimaru quickly so they could fix the problem.
"If that isn't too much Kabuto-san, you've been so good to me." She said with a smile as she finished her ramen.
"I'll take this with me seeing as you're done." She smiled and nodded, letting him take the tray and leave.
Kabuto quickly put the tray away and ran to Orochimaru's study, knocking. Someone else could clean up the food left over.
"Enter." Orochimaru called sounding annoyed. Kabuto entered and bowed, his features filled with panic and fear.
"My Lord, we have a problem with Hime-sama." He said with worry lacing his voice.
"What is it?!" Orochimaru asked worried. Was she hurt? Did she not believe them anymore?
"She's questioning her room. I told her it was just redecorated. She wants to know if she had any photos. We need to get some so she doesn't work this all out." Kabuto stressed. Orochimaru thought for a moment.
"We'll just have to make some, quickly. I have some surveillance photos of her while she was in Suna, we can use them." Kabuto nodded as Orochimaru got the photos. "We can make enough to distract her, then we can make some more." He then added.
The two spent the best part of an hour after Kabuto told Emi that they were just getting them out of storage. They had the altered photos framed and put some in a photo album.
Orochimaru knocked on the door holding the photos. Emi opened the door and he frowned. "You should be in bed."
"I feel much better now daddy." She said with a smile. Orochimaru smiled at her calling him 'daddy'. He just loved it, it warmed his usually cold heart.
"Well get back into bed. I have your photos here too. I thought we could look through them together. It may help your memory." He said sitting down on the bed as she got herself settled on the bed, pulling the duvet over her lap.
"I'd like that, maybe it would help."
They both looked through some baby photos that Orochimaru had taken when she was first born. She smiled happily when she saw a very proud and overly happy Orochimaru grinning as he held her in his arms. "When was that taken?" She asked.
"A few hours after you were born." He said with the same grin on his face. They carried on looking through the photos, Orochimaru telling her already planned out stories of their past.
"Dad, why don't I have any pictures of my mum?" She asked still looking through them. Orochimaru sighed, he had been waiting for this.
"That would be my fault my dear. You see I got very upset and angry at your mother for dying. I know it wasn't her fault." He took a deep breathe, watching Emi's reaction. "I just couldn't believe she had left us, she didn't even get to hold you." Orochimaru let fake tears run down from his eyes. "I destroyed everything of hers. I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking at the time. I didn't want anything of hers around, it was hurting me some much. I didn't think you wanted any of it." He added. Emi sighed and put her arm around him, hugging him.
"It's ok dad, I understand." She said with a small smile and kissed his cheek before wiping the tears away.
"Will you forgive me?" He asked taking her hands in his. Emi nodded and smiled.
"Of course I forgive you daddy."
Meanwhile, everyone was trying to piece Konoha back together. It wasn't until the evening when Kakashi noticed Emi missing. He thought the worse, rushing to the morgue, expecting to find her body amongst the dead. Once triple checking every single body he rushed to the hospital. Maybe she had been injured? That's when he remembered, she had been on her way to the hospital with Kabuto when the attack happened.
"Nurse, which room is Emi-hime in?" He asked the nurse sat in reception. The nurse frowned but still looked for Emi's name in amongst the paper work.
"She's not here, she hasn't been here at all." She said looking up at him.
"But she must be. Kabuto-san came to bring her here after the medics saw her with a nose bleed at the area." He stressed, worry flowing freely onto his face. "She has to be here."
"I'm sorry Kakashi-san but Kabuto-san had the day off today, you must be mistaken." The nurse told him confused, Kabuto had booked the week off. Kakashi was now very worried. He hurried as fast as he could to the Hokage's office.
He pounded on the door as hard as he could until Tsunade called him in.
"Kakashi what is the meaning of this!?" She screamed at him with an open bottle of sake in her hand.
"Emi-hime's gone!" He cried with worry and fear. "I can't find her and Kabuto-san wasn't sent to get her from the area, he wasn't even working today!" Kakashi shouted as he paced the room, he wanted to get out there and find her. Tsunade sighed. There was too much going in the village to warrant a search party for the two missing ninja. They had bigger problems. Orochimaru was the Otokage of Oto, not the Hemi masquerade. Half the village was distorted and they had lost the Third Hokage. He lay have been retired but he was loved by the whole village. He was Tsunade's old sense, it was an extra kick in the gut for her. The sake wasn't helping her pain. And now Kakashi was shouting about Emi and Kabuto, what about the others who were still missing? Most likely missing under the rubble of the village.
"We have more important things to deal with. I'm not letting or anyone else go looking for her." Tsunade said with a stern voice.
"But she's like a daughter to me!" He argued.
"Like a daughter Kakashi-san, she is not your daughter." She hissed back at him. Kakashi stared at her, that was a low blow.
"Was she nothing to you? Could you at least entertain the idea that she might have been takin' by Orochimaru? After all he went through all of that trouble to convince us she was his daughter." Tsunade thought for amount, he did have a point but what would Kabuto gain out of all of this.
"If he has kidnapped her, he has a very powerful weapon to use against us." She pondered making Kakashi frown.
"She's not just a weapon." He hissed at her. She nodded in agreement and apologised. She wondered what Kabuto could possibly gain from this.
"What would Kabuto-san gain from helping Orochimaru?" She asked, not managing to think of an answer herself.
"He did mention he had met this Hemi before. They seemed to know each other more than just a brief encounter." He said remembering the conversation between Hemi, Kabuto and himself. "They could have been planning this the attack for some time." He added. Tsunade nodded but frowned slightly.
"What about Emi-san? How does she come into this?" She asked curious if Kakashi had an answer.
"Well I don't doubt the attack on her at all. She could have happened to appear at the right time for them. Kabuto-san watches her, learns everything he can about her so that Orochimaru can pass off as her father. She was also a good distraction, using her to stop us from seeing what was going to happen." He explained, he could never believe she had anything to do with the attack on Konoha.
"The attack on her was real and I doubt Orochimaru is her father but I do believe he wants to be her father." She said with a small sigh. "It looks like she might not have a family after all." She added looking down.
"She has me." Kakashi interrupted before Tsunade could continue. She nodded briefly. She was sure that if Emi didn't have anyone, Kakashi would take her in with no issues. She was also sure he would keep any man from going near her, he was being that protective of her. If he was a father, he would be the most overprotective father you could have.
"Because of Orochimaru's letter I didn't follow through with my last hope of finding her family." Tsunade finally spoke, dragging her mind away from her thoughts.
"What do you mean?" He asked with a curious tone, he had thought that she had done everything to find Emi's family.
"I was about to have her blood tested against all of the ninja in the village, in hopes of finding a relative of some kind. But the letter had convinced me not to do the tests." Tsunade sighed and looked down. "If I had done the tests then she might still be here." Kakashi walked up to Tsunade and put his hand on her shoulder, trying to comfort her.
"Let me and a team look for her, at least track her, so we know she's safe. While you do the tests." Kakashi begged her. Tsunade nodded.
"Very well, you have a week to find out her location. You can make the team out of anyone you want. I want you back for the results. Now go." She said and Kakashi nodded and rushed out the room. He wasn't about to let her change her mind.