Takara woke up – nameless – in Amegakure with no memories of her past at age seven. Fast forward a year living on the streets, barely surviving, she is approached by a masked man and taken to God's Tower, where she is experimented on.
When she awakens, she learns she's the only survivor of the experiment and that she was to train to become a shinobi. Training under the masked man who brought her to God's Tower she learns that the shinobi world is a harsh, cruel world and that the experiment will bring out abilities that she shouldn't have.
Chapter One
I shivered as the rain pelted down on me and the cold, winter air shook me to the core. I curled up into my hoodie, watching as the world passed me by as I sat on the edge of the footpath. I watched with pistachio-green coloured eyes as no one payed any mind to me. I was just one orphan among hundreds in this village, and they knew it just as much as I did.
I knew that I probably wouldn't survive for much longer in this village. How I survived for so long in the first place is a miracle. You see, I had no memories of my past, only my age which was eight. I have been on the streets for the last year, when I woke up in an alleyway not too far from where I was currently situated.
"You, are you alone?"
I paused in my shivering, looking up past my hood to stare at the man before me. He wore a mask – not so unusual in a village full of shinobi – and a black long-sleeved top with black shinobi pants and matching black shinobi sandals. Despite what he wore, he had no headband and I was weary of him. Was he from this village? Or another? Was he an enemy?
"Well?"
I bit my lip and nodded wearily, knowing that this could either be a good or bad thing depending on the person talking to me. He grunted and turned his back on me, looking over his shoulder at me.
"Come with me."
I paused before wearily standing up off the dry spot that was where I had been sitting. I followed the man through the crowed cautiously. One thing I learnt living on the street was not to trust anyone until they give you good reason to. And people rarely give you good reason to trust them.
He led me to a large building in the centre of the village, making me hesitate even more. This was the home to God and his Angel. Why would the man bring me here? What use did I have to be here? The man paused at the door of the tall building. He turned to face me.
"Behave."
I nodded and he walked in as if he owned the place. I followed him through the building until we entered a room where a woman with lavender-coloured hair and amber coloured eyes stood. She looked at the man in interest.
"What did you bring now?"
"Not a what, Konan, a who," the man who led me here replied, pushing me forward. "Can you not sense the chakra wafting from her? She may be what we've been looking for."
"You mean what you've been looking for," the woman stated, looking at me with a well-schooled face, not showing her true thoughts. "Pein-sama will not be happy with you bringing another child here for this," she added, and I winced.
"Now that's my problem isn't it?" the man questioned simply, and the woman's eyes narrowed as she turned on her heels and walked through a door that I hadn't noticed was behind her.
The man pushed me forward and I followed her, with him behind me into a room where I saw a man with straight, red hair. He looked up when we entered, and his gaze landed on me. He frowned.
"Another one?" he muttered as he stood up, walking past the desk he had been seated at and looking at the man behind with something akin to disdain in his strangely ringed eyes.
"This one's chakra levels might be just what we need," the first man replied.
"That's what you said about the last one," the second man stated simply before turning to me. "What's your name?"
I shrugged. "I don't know."
He frowned.
"How can you not know your own name?" the woman questioned in annoyance.
"I woke up in this village a year ago with no memories but my age. I am eight," I replied, holding up my fingers to prove my point.
"No memories?" the second man questioned before facing the first man. "Did you know this when you chose her?"
"I suspected, Nagato, nothing more," the first man replied with a shrug.
"Fine, we will try the experiment. But this is the last one. If it fails, no more," the second man stated turning his back as the first man chuckled.
"Of course, Nagato," he stated and bent down, picking me up and leaving the room with me on his hips. "Come on, little one, we have something that can make you stronger. Won't you just love that?"
I knew whatever he was planning wasn't going to be good, but I didn't really have much of choice now did I. "Will it hurt?"
The man chuckled. "I'll knock you out so you don't feel a thing. But I will tell you this," he paused as he opened a door leading in a medical-like room. "You will probably die."
I whimpered at his words but didn't fight him. I was a weak nobody. There was no way I could fight my way out of here alone. The man placed me on the medical bed and rummaged around in the room for something. He returned with a needle and I whimpered again as he didn't give me enough to time to react as he stuck it in me, pushing the liquid in the needle into my system.
Quickly I felt myself starting to get dizzy, and then the world started to fade in and out. The man laid me down and buckled my arms and legs to the bed as I groaned.
"Goodnight little one, I hope you survive this," the man stated as I felt the darkness take me completely.
...
I gasped as my eyes shot open and I found myself in a darkened room. I looked around, my eyes adjusting quickly to the world around me as I took in the large room. It had a wooden floor and I was on a futon in the middle of the room. I slowly sat up, wincing as pain rushed through me before looking around further, seeing the room was bare except for the futon and a set of drawers.
I winced as pain shot through my body, settling on my eyes for a brief second before it disappeared. My blanket slid down revealing my naked form. I wondered briefly where my clothes were, but I wondered even more what was going on and where I was. As if to answer my question the door open and the woman that I remembered briefly meeting (is meeting the right word?) entered.
"You're awake," she stated simply kneeling next to me as I nodded. "I will admit, I was surprised that you survived the experiment, but you did, and now you are the most valuable person in all of Amegakure."
I frowned. "W-what do you m-mean?"
"We will explain to you soon enough," she replied and stood up, walking over to the chest of drawers and opening them, grabbing somethings out and walking back to me. "Follow me. You need to bathe."
I stood up on shaky legs and followed the woman next door to a bathroom. She set up the bath, showering me in the shower first before placing me in the bath.
"Relax," she soothed as she started to massage my shoulders and back.
I winced at the brief pain but did as instructed and soon enough she had me out and dried, dressed in a thick winter kimono that was deep blue with light-blue butterflies painted on it. She led me through the halls and into a room where I saw both men from earlier sitting and talking quietly.
When we entered, they looked over at us and the red-haired man stood up, walking up to me and leaning down.
"How are you feeling?"
I thought for a second before responding. "Confused."
He nodded. "To be expected. Are you in any pain?"
I thought for a minute and explained to them about the brief pain I felt when I woke up but that I hadn't felt any pain since. He nodded again and stood back up, turning to face the masked man.
"She's seems to have adjusted well to the procedure," the red-haired man stated and the masked man nodded.
"I suspected she would. If I'm too be honest, I've had my eyes on her since the beginning, but she had so much potential. I didn't want to risk her life unnecessarily," the masked man stated before facing me. "I gave you a gift. One that if you had failed would never have been passed on to another."
"W-what g-gift?" I questioned.
"A gift that took lots of experiments to complete," he replied and I frowned, not liking the answer but I wisely held my tongue. He turned to face the woman. "Konan, when do you think she'll be healthy enough to start training?"
"She only just woke up. Give her a week at least, preferably a month. She'll need all her strength to handle the training," the woman replied board.
"T-training?" I questioned and she looked at me.
"You will be trained as a shinobi. The gift given to you is a shinobi skill, one many would – and have – killed for in the past," the woman explained and I nodded, accepting things.
"W-will I s-stay here?" I questioned and this time the red-haired man responded.
"Yes. This building will be your new home, and you will rarely be able to leave it."
I whimpered at the thought of being trapped in this building with these strange people. I may not understand much, but I understood that whatever was done to me, it could've killed me. I understood enough to know that up until I survived the experiment, these people cared little for me.
"Which reminds me. We need to give you a name, little one," the masked man stated.
"A n-name?"
He nodded. "Your name, little one, shall be Takara."
"Treasure? It fits," the woman muttered and the masked man nodded in her general direction.
"Ta-ka-ra?" I sounded out the syllables of me new name before nodding, giving a small smile. "It's pretty."
"Good, because it's your name from now on," the red-haired man stated, walking back behind his desk and sitting down.
"W-who are y-you?" I stuttered out and he frowned.
"The people of this village call me God, but you can call me Pein-sama," he replied and I blushed bright red, having not recognised God.
I turned to face the woman. "Are you Angel then?"
She nodded. "My real name is Konan."
"Konan-san?" I tilted my head and I she nodded in agreement as my gaze fell to the masked man.
"I go by many names, but you can call me Tobi, little one," the masked man answered my unasked questioned and I nodded.
"Tobi-san!" I announced and he chuckled.
"Konan take her to get some food and then summon our best medic. I want her looked over and a proper dietary plan planned out. Make sure this isn't leaked and that the medic doesn't know anything," Pein-sama ordered and Konan-san nodded, taking my hand and leading me out the room and throughout the building till we came to a kitchen.
She gave me a plate with rice and curry on it, grabbing some for herself and we started eating, me a little clumsily as it had been a long time since I last used utensils to eat. After our food she took me back to my room and told me to wait for her to return and then left.
I sat on my futon wondering what she was doing, then remembering Pein-sama mentioning something about a medic. Was I getting a check over? Are they still worried about my health even after the experiment? These thoughts swirled through my head as another pain racked my body and lasted on my eyes. This one lasted a bit longer than the previous one but went away quick enough.
Soon the door opened revealing Konan-san and an awed looking woman watching her. "Angel-sama is this the child?" the woman asked as they entered the room, her eyes looking over me.
Konan-san nodded. "Basho-sensei, this is Takara. She is very precious to God and me, and we want you to make sure she is as healthy as she can be. She will be trained as a shinobi and I want the best dietary plan made for her so she's fit enough to handle tough training."
The medic nodded and knelt next to me, giving me a kind smile. "Hello, Takara-chan. I'm Basho Tomo, and I'm the head medic at the Amegakure Hospital. It's nice to meet you."
"N-nice to meet y-you too, Basho-sensei."
"Now then, Angel-sama told me you had a medical procedure and that she wants me to make sure you are fit as a horse. Can you tell me if you've had any pain since waking up?"
I explained the pain that shot me a couple of times and Basho-sensei nodded writing some stuff down on her clip board before she went about a variety of tests, including weighing me, checking my height, and taking – what she called – my blood pressure. She explained the reasoning behind each test to both me and Konan-san, though I suspected Konan-san already knew, before showing me a couple of needles and explaining that I was to be – what she called – vaccinated.
I flinched as my heartbeat increased as the needle came closer to me, but before I could react even more Konan-san was holding me, the sleeve of my kimono was up and the needles had been injected into me. I gasped, feeling faint over the act and leaned into Konan-san for support.
"You were very brave, Takara-chan," Basho-sensei stated with a smile as she put the empty needles in a yellow container. "Now I have to check your chakra pathway system to make sure it is developed properly and then I can make up a dietary plan. Is that alright with you?"
I nodded as Konan-san let me go and Basho-sensei lifted her hand, it turning a faint green colour. She waved it all over my body before nodding and writing down a couple of more notes on her clipboard. She then faced Konan-san.
"Angel-sama, she is a little bit underweight but overall healthy. Her chakra system is developing along nicely and it is at the right stage for her age group. I will write out a dietary plan for her once I'm back at the hospital and send it over by the end of the day. Will that be alright with you and God-sama?" Basho-sensei questioned and Konan-san nodded.
"That will be acceptable, Basho-sensei."
Basho-san nodded and faced me again. "It was nice to meet you, Takara-chan. I hope we can meet again. I will take my leave now."
Basho-sensei stood up and bowed to us before leaving, and Konan-san turned to face me.
"Get some rest. I will be back in a few hours to check-up on you," she stated before leaving and I got undressed to the underlayer of my kimono, hopping into the futon and going to sleep, finding that I was exhausted from the events that happened over the last two hours.
(Hey, so I'm writing this new story, trying something new and all that. I don't really have a planned romance for this story but hey, any suggestions and I will consider it. Anyway, please review and tell me what you think ^_^)