"What happened?" The Hokage asked her for what could have been the 20th thousandth time already.
"I don't remember!" Rin insisted. "I already told you! I knew that the other candidates surrounded me, and that they were trying to get rid of me. Someone caught me from behind. I tried to use my kunai to attack him, but it didn't work. I saw someone else come at me from the front, and I threw my kunai towards him and I think it nicked his jugular. I felt the blood splatter on my face and the next thing I knew, I was here!" She was getting frustrated. She was being interrogated, again, and again, and again, and again. No one had told her what had happened that made her deserve an interrogation like this. In fact, she had only been conscious for 4 hours and the questioning was relentless. Now she felt what it was like to be the one that was interrogated. Of course, the fact that Hokage himself was interrogating her, meant that this was something big.
The Hokage sighed and turned to leave the room. He muttered something to the guards outside, and the door closed. Guards? Why are there guards out there? What happened? There was a knock on the door, sometime later, and someone came in.
"Oni san, what happened? Why is the Hokage questioning me like that? What about the exam? What's going on?" Kakashi looked like he always did, unimpressed, and that was something that was getting on her nerves now, considering that what happened had the Hokage interrogating her from the moment she woke up. He took a seat next to her bed before continuing.
"You mean you really don't know?" Kakashi asked, and Rin shook her head. She NEVER lied about anything to her brother, and she didn't intend to start now. "All the Jounin candidates were found dead. You are the only survivor."
"Huh?" Rin was confused. "How could that possibly be? There was no way that ALL the candidates could be dead?!"
"That's why the Hokage has been asking you all these questions. The other countries are wanting to know what has happened to their elites." Kakashi told her.
"How long have I been unconscious?" Rin asked him.
"Almost a week," came the reply, and Rin didn't know what do or say, and could only look confused.
"But I was quite sure that I didn't meet ALL the candidates at that spot. There must have been someone who survived, right??" Rin was getting a little desperate. Kakashi just shook his head.
"We have searched the whole village, there aren't any," Kakashi told her. "But the strange thing is about how they died."
""Huh?" What did he mean by how they died?
"They were either drained of blood or they had bled out. There were also those that were ripped to shreds. There were also some that were a little…different from what they once were." Kakashi tried to tell her calmly, but somehow, Rin was feeling anything but calm. "When we had found out about it, 2 Anbu squads were dispatched."
"What happened to them, the Anbu?" Rin was afraid to ask.
"Half of them are dead. The other half are still fighting for their lives." Kakashi said, and Rin felt her heart sink to the floor. How could this have happened?
"What kind of monster could have caused this?" Kakashi had seemed very reluctant to reply, but Rin insisted. "Tell me!"
"From what some of them could tell, you did." Rin's eyes immediately widened with shock.
"But how is it that I don't remember? If I had slaughtered them, then I would have known! I would have remembered!" Rin was on the verge of tears. How could she possibly have done such a thing? She knew most of the shinobi here, and would do nothing to hurt any of them. Not now, not ever! "But… why can't I remember?!" She shouted, but there was no answer. No one could answer that, except for her. But as if it were not bad enough, the next piece of news made her feel like killing herself there and then.
"Ibiki was leading one of the teams…" Rin stared at her brother, challenging the truth of his statement. "He managed to stop you, or so they say, but not before he attained some serious injury."
"Liar! That can't be true!" Rin said, and the first of many hot tears started to escape her eyes. "That can't…be…true."
"I'm sorry, Rin," Kakashi said, trying his best to sound empathic. "But I'm only telling you this because we need to find out what happened."
"I don't remember… I don't remember! I DON'T REMEMBER!" She shouted at her brother while she sobbed. He tried to comfort her, by hugging her, but it only seemed to make things worse. It took what had seemed to be hours, before she could finally calmed down a little. "Where is he?" Rin asked her brother.
"In the intensive care unit. He's one of the last few who has yet to wake up from the coma." That statement just made Rin feel even worse, and she wanted desperately to go to him. She would have insisted on seeing him, but she knew that she was probably under watch by the Hokage and whatever Anbu was available for prisoner duty, which would have made it impossible for her to even get out of bed without anyone knowing. It was only after she had no more tears left, that she asked Kakashi to leave.
"Are you sure?" he asked her. "Rin?"
"I need to be alone," Rin said, and turned to face the window. Kakashi took that as a definite sign that he had to leave, and headed towards the door. "Oni san, arigatou…" Kakashi nodded and left. Rin could only crumble back onto the bed and sobbed miserably.