ok, at the end you gotta read some stuff, it'll explain something that i dont want to explain here...k, thanks
Amaya's eyes flutter open to a blinding white light. 'Am I in a hospital again?' Amaya thinks, but then she quickly answers herself, 'No, I can't be in a hospital, I'm not lying down,' Amaya tries to move her arms and legs but they are restrained to the arms and legs of a chair.
"Amaya, Amaya, wake up," Makoto pleads in a tired raspy voice. The black haired girl blinks several times before finally coming to her senses.
"Otousan? Otousan, what's going on, where are we? What the hell happened to you?" Amaya shoots questions. She observes her father's physical conditions. It looked as though someone took a metal baseball bat that had tons of spikes and beat the shit out of him; Amaya's thinking really wasn't all too far off.
"Amaya we were taken hostage by some thieves from my past. They're gunna torture you in order to get me to talk about something you know absolutely nothing about. They put a collar on us to make sure that we aren't able to use raikou and you won't be able to use your water kekkei genkai," her father explains hastily. The two were sitting directly in front of each other in a dirty white tile room with a two way mirror behind Makoto. From behind the blue eyed girl, a door opens and shuts, several men walk in, surrounding the small family. There were five ninja with an assortment of simple looking torture devices.
"So, this is your kid, ne?" One of the masked men asks. Amaya's father stares at Amaya's bare feet in response. She just noticed that her father was in his mission uniform while she was in her pajamas, which consists of a navy blue tank top and black pajama pants with neon colorful smiley faces and Kin was completely exposed to them all. 'Maybe they haven't noticed, or maybe they just don't care, maybe not everyone cares about some random black markings on my arm. Maybe father has just been overly protective' Amaya thinks. One of the men with a mask of a clown, which was starting to really creep out the child, grabs her by her cheeks and examines her roughly.
"She's a real cutie, ain't she? Must've gotten it from whoever the woman you fucked, cuz yous uglier than shit Makoto," he chuckles. The man half turns around and nods to the other four masked in similar masks. They all step back and the next thing Amaya knew was that she was being beat to a pulp.
"So, Makoto? You gunna tell us where the tapestry is?"
--
Kakashi strolls into the Hokage's office with a mission report. He hands the papers to Iruka.
"So, Kakashi, how's Naruto been doing? I haven't seen him around lately due to the missions, for both him and me."
"He's…doing, ok…? Uchiha Sasuke is on the same team as him so he sees him as competition, so Naruto is progressing well." Kakashi says lazily.
"Oh, that's good. Oh, and could you do me a favor?" Iruka asks from behind the desk. Kakashi puts his hands in his pockets as he looks down at Irula idly.
"Sure,"
"Could you stop by Yoshitake Makoto's house and give him his new mission papers? We've tried calling his home but no one's been answering." Kakashi scrunches his eyebrows in confusion as he take's his superior's mission papers from Iruka.
"Sure thing," Kakashi casually leaves the office out into the hallway, down the staircase into the village. 'That's odd,' The handsome masked ninja of Konaha wonders, 'One: Makoto is never late to report for a mission, and two: if Makoto isn't home for whatever reason, then Amaya should answer the phone, shouldn't she?'
Kakashi walks up the steps of the large blue house and rings the door bell. A few minutes pass before he knocks on the door. He waits again but still no reply. 'Something's not right' he thinks, 'it's eerily quiet.' Kakashi summons his ninja hound, Pakkun.
"Yo" the small brown pug greets,
"Tell me what's in this house," Kakashi says. Pakkun obeys by sniffing the air and base of the door.
"Nuthin,"
"Nothing?"
"Nuthin, there's no one in there, at the moment at least,"
"What do you mean?" Kakashi asks as he opens the front door and walks in with Pakkun following closely at his feet.
"Well, I smelled Makoto-san's scent but it's a couple of days old, then there another scent. I'm guessing it's another resident here cuz the scent is all over the house." Pakkun explains as they walk cautiously through the house.
"What does the scent smell like?" Kakashi asks as he examines the dark house,
"Hm…I can't really say, it smells like some sort of flower mixed with some berries and vanilla…it's like a spicy strong sweet, I like it a lot actually," Pakkun smiles and gets flushed by just smelling the scent. Kakashi rolls his eyes at the silly mutt.
"That's Amaya's scent," Kakashi says while picking up a picture frame of a younger Amaya and Makoto together.
"Your student?"
"Hai. Are there any other scents in the house?" Kakashi asks.
"Ummmm…yeah, actually, three unknown ninja." Pakkun trots to the room where there's a grand piano. "Yeah, Amaya's scent is really strong here for most likely two reasons, one: she was just recently playing it, and/or two: she plays it a lot. But I smell Amaya's scent then the unknown ninja in this area." Pakkun follows the scents to the door. "Yeah, Amaya's scent and the three other unknown scents leave the village." Kakashi looks off into the distant.
"So you are saying that Amaya was kidnapped" Kakashi states,
"Yeah, and since Makoto-san hasn't returned from his previous mission, which I heard was a simply one, you're saying that he was kidnapped too…" Pakkun inquires.
--
Amaya groans as she spits her blood from her mouth onto the cold floor. Her groans filled the obnoxiously bright room. Someone then picks up Amaya's chair, the one that she was still tied to, and sets it upright. Amaya contorts her face to try to make her head cease its pounding.
"Makoto, come on now, we need to know where that tapestry is, you know that it's worth millions and our leader wants it,"
"Eat…shit…" Amaya's father gasps, 'How long has he been here to make him sound like this?' Makoto's daughter thinks.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, you know that you're really not in the position to say such foul things," The clown masked man punches the dark haired father in the jaw. "And you really shouldn't be using such vulgar language in front of your daughter," The clown turns around and does a few distinct hand signs and water shoots from his hands directly at Amaya's face. The surge of water was painfully cold and hard, like a bunch of little iron pellets were being shot at her face. Amaya's chair got pushed over and was slammed onto its back; the man never stopped his water attack for a second. "Come on Makoto, tell me where the tapestry is, you wanna see your daughter drown to death? Cuz that's what's gunna happen if you keep your mouth shut," The same interrogator says. Amaya turns her head in all directions to try to get away from the raging water as she runs out of breath.
The masked man stares at Makoto, waiting and expecting him to tell him to stop, but nothing. The Leaf Ninja was completely silent as he stared at the floor. The clown masked man stops his jutsu and looks at Amaya who was coughing and struggling to breath. The clown tells his comrades to pick up Amaya and sit her upright. The girl's face, neck and shoulders were bleeding from the force of the water, but the injuries themselves weren't all that bad. "Oi, Makoto, maybe you're daughter knows where the tapestry is?" He then does the same jutsu he did on Amaya and does it on Makoto. Amaya's eyes widen, "Tell me girl! Where is the tapestry?"
"I don't know! I don't know what the hell you guys are even talking about! Please stop! Stop, don't kill him please!" Amaya pleads. She struggles with the ropes that bond her to the chair; she desperately wants to save her father. She can't stand the thought of her father of being killed. The thought killed her, she already had her mother and best friends taken away from her, she couldn't stand it.
"If you knew where the tapestry was, would you tell me? Would you tell me in order to save your father's life?" The clown asks.
"Yes! I don't care if it's the ninja way or not, don't take him from me!" Amaya begs. The clown ceases his jutsu and stares at Amaya. Amaya looks from him to her father, who was glaring at her with the intent to kill. Why was he scorning her? It wasn't like she knew where the tapestry was, and she still didn't know the big deal about it, and even if she did know, she would have just made something up and lied to their captors. Makoto shakes his head and looks away from his daughter. The clown masked man punches Makoto in the face again, but this time it was fueled by emotion.
"Continue interrogating Makoto," he instructs to the others while he untied Amaya's feet and wrists. She goes to attack him, but it was useless as his superior strength bent her arms behind her back and tied them tightly there. He then pushes her to the door and down the corridor to another door.
"Where are you taking me?" Amaya asks.
"To another interrogation room,"
"Why? I don't know anything, and with me in another room you can't use me to try to get information out of my father by torturing me," she reasons.
"…" He opens the door and flicks on the lights to reveal an almost identical room that she was in earlier. The man pushes Amaya to the other side of the room while he takes a seat in one of the two chairs in the room. He crosses his legs and crosses his arms over his chest. He gestures to the chair opposite him and Amaya obediently takes a seat. "This is nothing personal against you," he starts in a smooth voice,
"Heh, what? Are you trying to make it seem like you're the good guy or something and this is just business?"
"What's your name?" Amaya gives him a questioning look about his change of subject.
"Amaya," she says, but she felt so strange. She was expecting to get that chill that goes up and down her spine that tells her when something is wrong, but nothing like that was happening.
"That's a beautiful name, Amaya-chan. Why were you willing to give up information on the tapestry to save Makoto's life?"
"He's my father, what was I…"
"He didn't try to save your life," The man interrupts her. Amaya falls silent, "When I was drowning you, I said that if he kept his mouth shut, you would drown to death, and he kept his mouth shut." Amaya still remains silent. "And when you tried to save his life, he disapproved of your judgment,"
"I want to see who I am talking with," Amaya says sternly,
"Iie," she knew that would be his answer so she decided to ask for something else,
"Then tell me your name," The man is silent for several minutes.
"Atsumori," he says, "Where is your mother?" He asks. Amaya stays quiet. "Is she dead? Because when I kidnapped you from your house, no one else was there." Amaya blankly stares into his masks eyes, but Atsumori feels as though she's looking into his soul.
"Why are you doing this?" Amaya asks, 'Yeap,' Atsumaori thinks, 'she's got those special eyes that can see through a person,'
"Orders," he replies,
"But why are you doing this?" She asks again.
"Because I didn't like that Makoto was going to let you die because of a tapestry that he stole and hide from the owners years ago."
"Why?"
"Let me tell you something about your father when he was a thief, Amaya-chan. He was ruthless. He not only stole priceless antiques and crappy silverware, he murdered anyone who got in his way. That's why he was the most famous thief of all time. Thieves usually aren't murderers. I can tell you that because I am one and I know just about every thief out there. Murdering ain't our job. We go in and get whatever is valuable, no mess. Stealing is an art that few people can perfect. He would kill anyone who caught a glimpse of him, whether it be the police, ninja, men, women, and even children. That's why he found it easy to just let you die,"
"I don't believe you," Amaya says,
"You don't have to, but it is the truth,"
"Even if it is the truth, it doesn't matter to me,"
"Why is that?"
"Because I don't judge people by what they did or didn't do in their pasts. I judge them by the actions they do in the present. People change, and they might want to forget about their mistakes in the past. I give them the benefit of the doubt."
"That's very noble for a…how old are you?"
"……12"
"Well, that's very noble for a 12 year old, and I respect that. But still, for a father to think that the whereabouts of a tapestry is more important than the life of his only daughter…" Amaya glares at him.
"Why are you doing this?" She asks, Atsumori knew what she was talking about.
"Just because I'm a thief doesn't mean I don't have morals, unlike your father. I don't see it right to kill an innocent bystander, such as yourself. Makoto is hated in the thieving industry all because he tainted our profession with his blood lust. Thieves used to be looked at as performers. People used to say, "Wow I can't believe so and so stole the boat right from under the feudal lord's nose! I wonder what they do next!" but now, all they say is "The law enforcement's gotta catch this punk! He should be put to death!" All of us don't like this negative attention. It's the same thing as in the shinobi world. All of the other ninjas don't like it when a ninja abandons the shinobi way and taints all of ninja-kind's reputation. Am I wrong?"
"….iie," Amaya mumbles. The conversation dies into a silence.
"I'm not going to let them kill you," Atsumori says suddenly. Amaya looks at him with puzzlement.
"Why? How does it benefit you if I live?"
"I was friends with your mother," Amaya's jaw drops slightly.
--
"I see," The Hokage says.
"Give me a squad and I'll have my ninja hounds follow her scent." Kakashi says. The Hokage studies him closely. 'He's in a much less blasé manner, so he's very worried. I've only seen him like this a very few times before.' The Hokage thinks.
"Kakashi, I'm sorry but we need to wait 48 hours,"
"Nani? Why?"
"Kakashi you know the protocol. Under the circumstances, we don't know if Amaya and Makoto were kidnapped or if they are doing something else,"
"That's bullshit!"
"Kakashi!" Kakashi realizes that he slammed both of his hands on the Hokage's desk, and he straightens up.
"Gomen, Hokage-sama," The 3rd sighs,
"Look, there's nothing I can do about it, the village elders already hate it how much I bend the rules, I can't do it this time. Look, I'll only make it 24 hours, then once that is up, I'll let you have whatever you need."
"Hai," Kakashi reluctantly agrees.
--
"You…You knew my mother?" Amaya asks in shock.
"Hai, I was a childhood friends of hers,"
"She never talked about her childhood…"
"She hated her parents; they were very abusive to her. She would spend tons of time at my house to escape them." Atsumori says, "Then Makoto moved into the village for a while. Your mother fell in love with him because he was a rebel, and she wanted to annoy her parents. I always thought that Makoto was bad for her, but she liked that 'bad boy' type, so nothing I could do or say would change her mind,"
"What's my mother's name?" Amaya asks, he could be lying, he didn't mention her name at all.
"Hanabi," 'Oh, so maybe there is some truth in what he says,'
"…You liked my mother, didn't you?" Atsumori stares at Amaya through his mask. "You loved her…" 'Yeap, she has those same eyes as her mother, the ones that could see right through me,' suddenly there was a knock on the door.
"Oi, Leader-sama wants the girl back in the interrogation room that she was in before." Atsumori stands up and escorts here back to the room. Makoto looks at the room; Amaya was in for a rough night.
--
Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto watch their sensei approach the bridge. They all seemed to notice his lack of lazy pep. When Kakashi finally approaches them he sighs.
"I have something to tell you all about Amaya," he says.
"Oh, yeah, where is she? Shouldn't she be here by now?" Naruto asks.
"She's missing," Kakashi says calmly.
"What the hell do you mean by missing?" Naruto asks.
"Where is she?" Sakura asks.
"Well, Sakura, if we knew that, we wouldn't be calling her MIA, now would we?" Kakashi says, a little on the harsh side. Sakura shrinks her head in sorrow.
"So do we have a mission of going to find her? Do we have any leads?" Naruto asks eagerly.
"No, not yet anyway." Kakashi says,
"What!? What do you mean?" Naruto explodes.
"There's no reliable evidence that she's been kidnapped, although that is my theory, her and her father have been taken hostage. One of my ninja hounds found her scent in her home and three other unknown scents and the for scents lead from the house out of the village." Kakahsi explains.
"Then isn't that evidence enough?! Why can't we have one of your ninja hounds follow the scent and we can go and get her?!" Naruto yells angrily.
"The Hokage says that we have to wait 24 hours…"
"If she was kidnapped she could be dead by that time!" Naruto yells,
"I don't think so," everyone looks to Sasuke since it's the first thing he's said on the situation. "If they took her and her father captive then they wouldn't kill them, not yet anyway, they are probably being interrogated or something, so she'll be ok for the mean time, well for the most part," Kakashi already knew this, but knowing about Makoto's past and his old "friends", an interrogation could end up fatal for the both of them.
"Look, we just have to sit tight for the time being ok?" Kakashi says.
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ok, the border thing is being retarded...;.
wow, i think this one's the longest one i've written...
ok, the whole '48 hours-24hours' stuff is total bullshit. If amaya was kidnapped then Kakashi would have informed the hokage right away (well, he did inform the 3rd right away. It was still at night. It's the following day at this sentence... "Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto watch their sensei approach the bridge.") and gone after her with a squad or whatever. But when he went to go give Makoto his mission papers it was like, real late in the night...like 11-12 ish. And if he would have went after her right away, Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura would have never found out about Amaya going missing and they wouldn't be involved in the rescue mission. So that's why the whole 24 hours stuff, i couldn't think of any other way for team 7 to get a mission to go save Amaya and her Father.