Different
~Chapter 14~
An Unexpected Saviour
Last chapter but there is still an epilogue. VOTE!
Disclaimer: I don't own naruto.
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"Raiga, help me!" Anzu cried clutching her wound and gazing up through the hole in the basement ceiling. He was looking down at her with narrowed eyes and a scowl. She coughed up blood and she wretched up more soon after.
"Please! Help me!" She called up. There was panic in her eyes. What if Shoda continued to wait for her? He'd get caught! She needed to live, for him, even if that meant begging the angel of death himself!
"No." Was his cold reply causing Anzu to flinch and stare at him wide eyed. She was over come by rage and she ground her teeth.
"You'll regret it!"
"No. One day I may feel guilty, but I will never regret leaving you here to rot!"
"Traitor!"
"Hn, I have no problem with being a traitor among traitors." Then he walked away. She lay there for awhile, listening to his footsteps as he walked away. Betrayed her. The woman who raised him for a good portion of his miserable life. She couldn't help but smiling, chuckling as she did so.
"I guess you won't, but for the record, I regret saving you now."
Anzu blinked once, and then closed her eyes again. They hurt like hell and she had a head ache. Though, strangely, she didn't feel pain elsewhere.
Was she dead?
"What's that over there?"
"It's Anzu Yamato."
"Is she alive or dead?" Anzu held her breath and slowed her heartbeat to an undetectable level, something she had learned to do after she had joined Anbu.
"Dead. But judging by the body heat she hasn't been long."
"What about Captain Makkeo" More footsteps and the sound of leather grinding as someone crouched down. The sound of someone shifting to stand. Anzu tried not to cough up more blood.
"He's dead."
"Well, let's go get Captain Hazuki, I'm sure he'll want to know we've got a body. Take her sword as proof." She resisted the urge to smirk as one of them screamed in pain.
"What's the matter?"
"It burned me!" There was a sigh.
"Fine then just leave it. It's not like either of them are going anywhere."
She tried opening them again, this time successfully opening them half way. She groaned and shifted then observed her surroundings. She was in a dirt burrow, somewhere underground. She started to breathe in the damp air slowly, savouring each breath. Sharp, piercing, real air filling her num lounges.
No, she was not dead.
She tried to twitch her fingers, smiling as she felt them move across the rough ground. She began to regain feeling in her body and she slowly began to sit up, shifting her weight so she could clutch her head. While looking down she noticed bandaged covering all her wounds and noted the slight tingling sensation that accompanied medical balms at work from underneath the newly changed wraps.
"So you're awake huh?" Blinking she looked in the direction of the voice to find a young girl of about 12.
She had chest length blond hair that looked messy and dirty. Her bangs fell into her face and were long enough to reach her cheeks. Her pale, milky skin was soiled in some places by black dirt. She had bright, unusual neon green eyes that made the girl stick out as more then just an average girl. She was dressed in a ratty black pair of pants that appeared to have sewn patches on then and a red kimono top that had several rips in it and didn't appear to fit properly.
"I found ya lying up against a tree, bleedin' to death an' bein' chased by those masked shinobi, those what'cha ma call its…" She trailed of and put a finger to her lips in thought.
"Anbu." Anzu muttered.
"Yeah! Those guys! Wow, you must be pretty strong ta' survive bein' chased by those miss…" Her bright eyes searching Anzu's silver, blue ones.
"Anzu. Anzu Yamato." She said before wincing in pain at speaking too loud. The girls eyes widened.
"Oh here! Drink this! It's a natural tea I made with kingsfoil and marigold petals, it's a natural pain killer. If you have a headache it will help." Anzu nodded and took the cup from her hands carefully sniffing it, causing the girl to laugh at her.
"What'd I have to gain by poisonin' ya Miss. Anzu?"
"You could probably turn me in for a high reward, which by the looks of you, you need." She snapped at the girl causing her to flinch and look at the ground.
"If I was goin' to turn ya in Miss. Anzu, I would a done it a long time ago." She said quietly. Anzu's eyes widened.
"I'm sorry dear, I didn't mean to be so harsh…" She soothed. She really hadn't meant to sound that way, she was just finding it hard to trust people.
Especially after what Raiga had done.
The girl looked back up flashing still pearly white teeth.
"S'okay." Anzu stared at the greenish liquid before staking a cautious sip. She moaned as she felt the warmth slide down her dry throat and into her stomach, suddenly sending calmly waves of heat through her body. She finished the rest quickly, the girl watching her from the side. After she was done she placed the small cup on the ground and looked back over to the girl. If someone paid attention to her, fed her, clothed her and took care of her, she would probably be a very gorgeous girl.
Like Anzu always was told she was. Anzu brought her legs under her and into a more comfortable position, getting ready to question the girl.
"Did you heal me?"
"Yeah."
"Why?"
"I don't really know why. But, my mama always told me to take care o' people, weather ya knew em' or not." Anzu nodded satisfied, her eyes softening slightly. She had often told her sons the same thing.
"How long have I been here?"
" 'Bout two weeks." There was a pause as Anzu mulled this over, the search for her would have died down by now.
"What were you doing here?"
"Wanderin'."
"Where is your family?"
"I got none."
A pause.
"Are you a kunoichi?"
"Nah. I wanna be, but I'm not a citizen of a village an' I got no family history so they wouldn't lemme in, let alone be in an academy. My mama wanted me ta be a kunoichi but she died 'fore we could move to a hidden village." Anzu thought this all over.
"Alright kid, I'll make you a deal. I'll train you as a shinobi in order to thank you for saving me." The girl looked up in excitement.
"Really an' truly?" Anzu laughed, she was just so cute.
"Yes. But I have another condition before you become my ward."
"What is it Miss. Anzu?"
"Alright, 2 conditions; first, just call me Anzu. Second, the people of Kirigakure still have something very valuable to me. A sword known as Yamasota. I'm going to get it back and I need help. What do you say? Are you in or out?" The girl thought for a moment, her neon eyes becoming dull with thought.
"I'll do it…Anzu." Anzu smiled at the girl's determination.
"I have one more question kid."
"Yeah?"
"What's your name?"
"Rikuya Kimura."
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Bwahhahahahahaha! ANZU IS NOT DEAD! SHE LIVES!
And what's this. Rikuya Kimura. Hm, I seem to remember a conversation between Kisame and Anzu a couple chapters back about and old comrade of theirs a certain BOTAN KIMURA who had two mystery children and was Anzu's exiled swordsmen partner.
Anyone remember who the second child was…?
And what happened/is going to happen to all the children of the swordsmen? Shoda went with Kisame…but what about Mangetsu, Suigetsu, Minoru Hozuki's sons? Dai (who is a full grown Anbu now), Toshiro and Noriko, Captain Toshirou Saito's kids? Akihito, Kenji and Akemi, Sachio Nakamura's kids?
Will I write a sequal to answer these questions? That's up to your reviews!