The small group of three continued walking toward the lake. The female among them was having a small heart attack. I've been to that park since I was a kid! I know every inch and cranny of it! How the hell did we end up here?! Now that I think about it, the park was never this huge either. It was never connected with a forest. It's a freaking city park! Where the hell am I?!
She decided to ask her captors.
"Where the hell am I?!"
"She's got a sharp tongue, ne Danna?" Commented the grinning blonde. Sasori turned his head to look at his partner then focusing his gaze on his prized possession. He noticed her eyes seemed to turn darker.
He tugged her hand, bringing her closer to him. With one swift movement he swiped his hand to her pressure points, effectively knocking her out. Without another word, he lifted the unconscious female in his arms as he began walking over the water.
He could hear Deidara laughing from behind.
"I'm going to enjoy seeing the look on her face when she wakes up from that, hm."
The room was dark and dank. There wasn't much to see. If you squinted hard enough though, you could see the small silhouette of a figure lying on the floor. It stirred for a moment then groaned. Slowly the young female sat up. She blinked her eyes open and squinted not making out much of the room.
It was really dark in there.
Another thing she noticed was that her hands were bound when she tried rubbing at her sore neck. She made a face at that.
Slowly getting up to her feet, Kimmy felt around for the wall, touching it, and began walking slowly around the room feeling around for the door.
When her fingertips brush up against a smooth surface of what felt like a doorknob she quickly wrapped her fingers around it and pulled at the door.
"Of course it'd be locked," Kimmy muttered to herself. She raked her brain for an idea, any idea really. Here she was in a dark room, her hands bound, in a foreign place she did not know of. It still irked her that she hadn't noticed when they left the park. It didn't seem possible that they left when she was unconscious. Even if they had, why would they go to, of all places, the forest? From the timeframe that she was out, it just didn't seem like they had that much time even with a car. The city was a good hour drive from the mountains. Let alone a forest...
She sat back down against the door propping her chin up with her bound hands.
"Maybe I was out longer than I assumed..." She glared.
Lost or not, she wasn't about to let her predicament get the best of her. She needed to get back home and report this to the police.
As she shifted in her sitting position she felt something in her pockets. Blinking, she reached her hands and slowly dug in her pockets to pull out whatever was inside.
She nearly squealed for joy when she felt her iPhone. Gripping it in her hands she pressed the home button and watched the screen turn on. The time read nine o'clock in the evening. She stared at the screen before switching the flashlight built in it to turn on.
The bright light illuminated the otherwise barren room. Quickly with the new help, Kimmy pulled out whatever else was left in her pockets.
Debit Card
Some gum
Her car keys with her house keys
And a bobby pin
Kimmy stared at the bobby pin, a grin slowly spreading across her face.
"Thank the Heavens I dated a delinquent!" Filled with determination set in her mind, Kimmy sat her phone on the floor in a way so its light would shine on the opposite wall. She stared at her bound hands before grabbing her house keys and began trying to saw the rope through with them.
It wasn't easy. If anything, it annoyed Kimmy with how difficult the knot was. But she wasn't going to let that stop her. So she continued to hack at it with her keys.
Scratch, Scratch
The rope was really sturdy; she couldn't imagine how long this was going to take her.
Saw, Scratch, Saw
It few minutes passed by and she was excited seeing the arduous rope being thinned out as she continued to hack at it.
Scra-
Snap!
She stared at the rope and started pulling at it with the tips of her fingers before it finally came off. She rubbed at her reddened wrists but excited with the freedom of being able to move them freely again.
Now to commence Phase Two of her escape plan. Picking everything she had taken out she immediately jammed everything else back into her pockets minus her phone and the bobby pin. Shining the light back to the door, she noticed and groaned inwardly when she saw the doorknob needed a key to open it.
"That one's harder to do... Now how did my ex explain it again..?" She thought back to the time when she and her then delinquent boyfriend were both locked out of her place and Derek was off doing who knows what at the ungodly hour. There were times he wasn't home and one of those times happened to be when she had forgotten her house keys in her room. She was about to go grab the spare key hidden from eyes' view when her ex had called out to her, wanting to show her a trick.
"Just in case you don't have your keys on you or you wanna come over but I'm not home." He had mentioned nonchalantly as he pulled a bobby pin out of her hair. He motioned her to come and watch as he stretched it out then putting the bobby pin in between his teeth and twisted around until he had it just the way he wanted. Pulling it back out, he showed the bobby pin to Kimmy letting her get a good view on how the bobby pin was supposed to look before pressing it inside the keyhole turning around listening carefully before he heard the desired click, quickly working on the bolt as well before opening the door.
She threw herself at him before pressing her lips against his.
"You're awesome!"
Looking at the bobby pin now, Kimmy tried imitating what her ex had taught her. When she was satisfied with how it looked, Kimmy crouched down to eye level with the doorknob focusing the light on it pressing the bobby pin in. Sending a quick prayer up, she started jiggling the pin around listening for the desired clicks. When she heard them, her heart skipped a beat.
Ok, focus.
She switched the light off and slid her phone back into her pocket. She decided to slip the bobby pin into her shoe just going through extra precautions. Inching closer to the door she pressed her ear against it to hear for any footsteps. A few minutes passed by before she heard one set of footsteps walking. The brunette panicked and stepped away. She quietly but quickly made her way back to where she was when she first woke up remembering to grab the rope with her as well before she laid down and played dead... Well unconscious... For short words so to speak.
She waited.
And waited.
And still waited.
She finally breathed a sigh of relief before making her way back to the door to listen for anyone else that may be passing by. When she heard nothing this time she pulled the door open and stepped out closing the door behind her.
There were two ways one could go. Forward and right.
She decided to take the right side since she heard the footsteps came from the opposite direction. Kimmy started to walk down the long hallway every so often taking a peek back just to make sure there was no one coming from behind.
How odd though they didn't bother taking my things... My phone should have been the first thing they take. Kimmy couldn't understand her captors' motives.
Maybe I'm being pranked... And Derek's behind all of this... The thought comforted her but also fueled her anger against her roommate.
She prayed it really were a prank.
Staring ahead she saw the hallway break into a cross path. She looked both ways wondering which way to go. One wrong move could get her even further away from the exit, or worse, bumping into possibly another psychopath. For all she knew the exit could have been the way backwards.
She decided to go left.
Or had she been kidnapped for some other ulterior motive? Maybe due to her profession?
She had graduated early at the top of her classes in University and got her degree as a Neurosurgeon at the age of twenty three. Some had seriously wondered if she cheated her way through university that the Head Council even called for an investigation. To become a Neurosurgeon took roughly around eight to nine years at most. She had finished in five years. She enjoyed every minute of it when it was finally proven that she had actually passed her courses with hard work, determination, and a lot of studying. Though it did help that her dad is a Neurosurgeon as well. She had spent a good deal of her childhood around him whether it was in his study room or at his work when he wasn't due for another surgery.
Now why was it, that a young woman so smart such as herself became so dumbstruck when she made another left in the seemingly endless hallway?
Why it's very simple actually.
The hallway she was in led to an opening of a very large and spacious cave. And on the other side of that was the exit to the lake she had seen earlier. Looked pretty dark out there with only the moon being a source of light.
But was it really that easy? Could she leave without anyone noticing? She stared, almost too excited to believe it. She didn't want to ruin her chances of escape when it was so close. So, quietly and very carefully she went down the hall and entered the very spacious cave.
She covered her mouth to muffle a surprised "Eep!"
A… statue
A really big creepy looking statue and ginormous stone hands were inside the cave as well. It startled her. How had she not noticed that thing earlier? It could have been as tall as the Statue of Liberty!
"Who the fuck are you bitch?"
...Well damn
Glancing back around the cave, she finally noticed a very tall and built man dressed in the same weird cloak on top of one of the fingers of the stone hands. He had silver hair and magenta colored eyes. He looked young she noted mentally. She practically squeaked when she saw the three-bladed scythe on his back.
Psychotic lunatics the lots of them are! Without thinking twice she ran for the exit as fast as she could.
"Kakuzu, the bitch is fucking escaping! Don't kill her yet!"
They were going to kill her?! She screamed as she ran to the edge jumping into the water. The shocking cold pierced her against her skin as she tried to swim to the bottom but felt something tug one of her feet upwards.
Soon she found herself dangling in the air.
Kimmy stared at her foot and saw a black cord wrapped around her ankle. It looked kind of like a whip. She turned her head and saw a scary man that made her blood run cold. He also seemed to be wearing the weird getup like the other three. Are they the Mafia? She felt very intimidated by him.
Her eyes widened as she felt the cord wrapped around her foot pull her closer to the scary man known as Kakuzu. She was still dangling in the air as she stared up at him from her upside down position. This guy screamed danger. Could he be the one behind all of this?
The cord flung her upright before she felt a hand grab her by the neck, none too kindly might she add.
Instantly her hands flew up grabbing at the mans' hand trying to no avail to make him let go. Kakuzu held her, examining every inch of her face.
She stared back at deaths' face.
"Under different circumstances I could've used you to work in one of the Geisha houses."
Fire flared in the young woman's green eyes. She knew enough from studying different countries and their cultures that working in a Geisha house was a more sophisticated version of a prostitute.
"Go to hell!"
He narrowed his eyes at her. "I get enough of that comment from my partner. Watch your language,"
He threw her at the feet of his partner.
"Or I'll kill you."
She didn't dare make a comment.
Kakuzu's footsteps echoed in the cave as he ventured inside, leaving the two alone.
Hidan chuckled, picking the female up by the waistband of her strange pants. They were very tight on her, leaving little to the imagination. He smirked crudely down at her noticing she angled her face to look back up at him.
"Sasori already told us about a fucking prisoner but he never mentioned it'd be a sexy bitch like you."
She glared daggers at him. Before she could speak a single word, Hidan walked in the direction his partner had left, still dangling the poor brunette by her pants.
"Put me down!" She flung her arms about, trying to grab at anything all the while watching with a heavy heart as a rock wall sealed the open view, as well her ticket to freedom, shut.
"Oh I'll put you down, you don't gotta worry about that bitch. I could use you as a fuck toy to release my stress after having to deal with that bastard Kakuzu every fucking day."
Kimmy's' face dropped, fear squeezing at her heart. Rape… He was going to rape her.
She immediately stopped struggling. She had to figure a way out of this meaning she had to put her full focus in getting away from him at all costs.
"Ah, did that get you excited bitch? You're already turned on by the idea," Hidan cackled at that.
He moved with ease through the Akatsuki lair knowing his way around. As he continued to walk, he entered one of the Akatsuki's main living lairs.
The space had some seating arrangements and a table off to the side but there wasn't really much else to it. And there seated was a familiar blonde sitting.
Without even thinking about it, Kimmy dug her feet into the ground forcibly pulling herself away from Hidan to jump next to the blonde grasping onto him for dear life and, hopefully, escape from the rapist.
Deidara stared in bewilderment at the brunette before turning his head to look back at the Jashin worshipper. Hidan glared pointing a finger at her.
"Oi! Sasori said nothing about us fucking the bitch up so long as she wasn't physically scarred!" Deidara couldn't help the corners of his lips pull up into a twisted grin.
"Seems like she chose a better partner then, hm."
"You ass wipe! I got her first!" Hidan yelled, his face coating a light pink from anger.
"I was the one who brought her in. Besides, she ain't your property."
"Like hell she's yours you fucking pansy-! Agghhh, Kakuzu! The fuck- Lemme go..!" Hidan yelled as he was dragged away from the neck with those same cords Kimmy noticed from earlier. She hadn't even noticed when the other male had stepped in.
She sighed with relief when he left without a word dragging the cursing male behind him.
Silence followed as Kimmy realized she was still grasping onto the man. She made a move to get up but his hand reached out and grabbed her forcing her to stay seated.
Oh great. I moved onto my next tormentor.
She looked back up to see him and that same damn smirk now directed to her.
"Seems our little prisoner is smarter than we gave her credit for, hm. Now, you do realize, I'll have to keep my eye on you right?"
Kimmy scrunched up her nose at that.
"Can't I get a freebie?"
"Nope, hm."
"I thought so... Hey!"
She yelled in surprise when he stood up pulling her to her feet before picking her off the ground still keeping her in his arms as he walked down a different hallway. "I just want to go home!" he laughed when she started to pummel his chest with her fists.
"Should you really be hitting someone that could easily overpower you?"
"Are all the guys here rapists?!"
"Hmmmm... I wouldn't say all."
Slowly she stopped pummeling her fists against him to stare up at him with fear then bit her lip.
I'll figure a way out of here one way or the other...
He noticed her silence as she stopped her actions. Now was a better time than any to ask her.
"What's your name?"
She didn't want to answer him. She wanted to be spiteful and have control over what bit she did have.
It was laughable how she thought she could play the stubborn card with him but he enjoyed it. It meant he could get her worked up until she gave him a satisfactory answer.
"Okay, don't tell me. I can give you a nickname instead, hm."
"I go by Kimmy," she answered rather quickly.
"Kimi? Short for Kimiko, hm?"
"No," She looked at him rather oddly. Why would he mistake her name for a Japanese one? She surely didn't look Asian at all.
"Usually it's short for Kimberly but I just go by Kimmy."
"Strange name, never heard it before," Deidara murmured before entering his room setting Kimmy on her feet as he closed the door behind him. When she turned away he placed a seal on the door effectively sealing the room so she wouldn't escape. She hadn't noticed a thing though for she was lost in her own train of thought.
Never heard it before? Last time she checked, Kimberly was a very common name especially from where she lived.
"Then again it suits you just fine seeing you're not really from around here judging from your clothes, hm."
"My clothes?" She stared back at him giving him questioningly. "I'm the one dressed normally here. And what are you talking about 'not from around here?' You guys were the ones who kidnapped me from the park!" Kimmy suddenly felt an edge of panic seep into her.
"Park? Seems you must have run out of one of the small villages' parks without noticing it. Maybe someone pursuing you earlier, hm? You were running away like you were being chased before running into me."
Kimmy felt that small ball of panic growing bigger inside of her.
"Where am I?"
Deidara tapped her nose with his index finger, grinning. "Not answering that, hm."
Kimmy watched him intently wondering to herself if she would have to resort to killing someone to get out of here.
Food, check.
Drinks, check.
Windows closed, check.
House not destroyed...
Derek looked around the living room and checked the kitchen before returning back to his list.
Check... For now
He ran his fingers through his now black hair going over his plan once more. It's too bad he had to leave the city. He really liked it and this world when he first stumbled upon it some odd years ago. It seemed like it was the creator so to speak compared to all other universes that existed. Without anyone ever seeming to know it, they held information on every single universe that ever existed and had turned it into entertainment.
When Derek had finally figured out how, he would visit the other universes and enjoy himself for a while in each world but always came back to this world. He held a deep liking for it.
For Derek, it was easy making money in this world. People here paid very well to get rid of others. They never wanted a trace left behind.
It only seemed too good to be true for him, a ninja, to carry out such simple tasks and get paid far better than he could have ever gotten paid for in his original world.
He could have lived on his own and still have lived grandly, if not even better.
There was something about her though when he had first met her that always drew him back. He never could place his finger on it. Maybe one day he'll understand.
He smiled softly seeing a picture of them both together at an amusement park. He remembered off-handedly they had a blast that day. Derek took the picture from the frame, placing it inside his jacket.
He had to leave quickly before anyone noticed. But then again, being a ninja made it easy for him to move stealthily.
Everything was dark when he left. He stuck close to the shadows and headed in the opposite direction of the city.
He would return. That much he knew. But for now he had to stay away. Derek had already sent a notice to Kimmy's work through her email that she wouldn't be able to come in due to a personal emergency she had to take care of. He didn't have to worry about anything there. It's her co-workers and friends that are going to be poking around. Derek was able to buy some time by posting on her social media accounts that she was going to be dealing with personal problems and wouldn't be around for the time being.
He decided to head for Hawaii. Lots of people like going there to relax. It wasn't too far from the Los Angeles City he lived in.
"Hawaii sounds perfect. Maybe I'll tell Kimmy all about it some time."
So... Now what? Escape didn't seem likely now that her every move was going to be watched. Does this mean she had to go to sleep now? It was dark outside after all and it was most likely about to be ten by now. What else could she do really?
Deidara wasn't going to be telling her anything anytime soon.
She really wanted to check her phone but she didn't want to do it in front of Deidara either. He'd take it away if he saw it.
She looked back around the room. It was pretty simple with just a bed, drawers, and a desk in here.
"You can do whatever you want," Deidara spoke, passing by her as he went to go sit at the desk. She stared back at the door. Either he felt confident she wouldn't try to escape with him in here or from the others roaming about in this place. Who knows, maybe it was both.
Well since I won't die on my first day here...
She felt weary of the blonde man, even though he was acting tolerable she knew he wouldn't have a problem with harming her.
Kimmy kept her eyes on Deidara's back before she cautiously made her way to sit on the edge of the bed. She still held her doubts about him.
The Deidara glanced at the woman with amusement. Civilians didn't act the way she did. He did see some similarities of her attitude compared to a kunoichi's. The strange part was that he didn't feel any chakra on her at all either.
There were just too many questions that surrounded her with not enough answers. He was going to figure out why.
"Feel free to come over here anytime," he snickered when she glared and stuck her nose in the air with a loud "Humph,"
He could figure that stuff out later. If it's one thing Deidara seemed to be enjoying rather lately, it was getting on this young woman's nerves.
