Yahoo, I am so happy that you guys liked my story. Yeah it may be a little long or short, but I t depends on your perspective, I am going to try and make each chapter roughly the same length, depending on my time and energy and schedule, some may be shorter and others longer. I will make the spaces between dialog more noticable, as well i forget this in the first chapter, but I don't on Naruto or its charaters.
Warnings for this chapter, Rape and Child Abuse - you have been warned. so don't flame me about it if you still read it.
Alessandria stopped, frozen in fear as she felt all the eyes of the forest on her. What ever had attacked her village had found her.
Chapter Two "I'm not afraid of you!"
"Look at what we found, Lyle" came a squeaky male voice, followed by a high pitched laugh, that rustled the birds from the trees,
"Silence, Volex," hissed another male voice, this one lower and more deadly then the first, there was a five second pause then the second voice, Lyle spoke again,
"Child, why do you run from us? We wish only to help you."
"Then help me by leaving me alone" Alessandria yelled into the dark forest, eyes darting in ever direction searching for the source of the voices, but they seemed to becoming from every direction at once,
"Such a harsh tongue for one so young, you only just turned ten, did you not, Alessandria?"
"How is it that you know my name?" she demand, fire growing in her eyes and voice rising,
"Such a temper, Lyle you really shouldn't push her, or she will put up a fight"
"Answer me, how is it that you know my name!"
"If you must know, it is because we have been watching your village from the forest for the past four months, studying everything there is to know about you, your mother, and everyone else around. Did you know that your father is dead, and that you mother was having a child with another man?"
"Lies!" she shouted, "Father is not dead, and even if he was, mother would have told me, and she would never have had a child with another man!"
Lyle stepped out from the shadows, his flaming red hair outlined his pale face perfectly, and it fell to his shoulders, he had a headband with a sign she had never seen before, it was shaped like a music note, "Listen, Alessandria, did it ever cross your mind that she didn't tell you because she didn't want to upset you, and that she was moving n with her life? I mean come on, your father has been away for over a year, not a single letter, and all of a sudden you mother is with child?"
"LIAR!" she screamed and ran in the way she thought and hoped was south, towards Konoha, she could take no more of Lyle and Volex's lies. She knew that they where playing with her mind, her father was alive; her mother had not been bearing the child of another man … unless … Alessandria stopped running, and stiffened when a hand was placed on her shoulder,
"Do you see now? Your mother wore her famous smile, because she was going to tell you about it. But unfortunately for her, we killed her, and the last thing she saw, was the unborn baby. Congratulations, you would have been the elder sister to a younger brother."
Alessandria shook her head, tears threaten to fall, but she would not shed them. Not in front of her enemy. She turned to run, but the hand on her shoulder tightened its grip.
"You will run no where, you insolent brat. We don't know how you managed to survive the night, but you will die now and join your whore of a mother."
"Never!" she shouted, the want to cry evident in her voice, and it made Lyle smirk, he slapped her across the face and left finger marks, Alessandria raised her hand to the purpling welt on her cheek, and the sting making her eyes water even more. But she refused to give the men what they wanted; she refused to cry, to scream. Not for them, and not now.
Volex was laughing as he walked out from behind a tree, and hit her across the back of the head, knocking her out cold. Both men looked from each other to the unconusise girl, and their smirk grew. Sure it wasn't in their orders, they where only told to kill the girl. But they decided to wait until she awoke before they killed her, in such away that death, would be the warm blanket you turn to on a cold night.
It was well into the night when Alessandria awoke, the weight of blankets on her petit frame, was questioning enough, but the mild fact that her cloths where neatly folded on a bedside chair, and she was dressed in a silk nightdress, had her brain forming questions at light speed.
The door on the left side of the room, the only door, opened, and Alessandria sat up, in walked a young woman, with a look of sorrow, when their gazes met, the young woman rushed over to the bed side. Her voice was calming and soothing; she spoke as a mother would a babe,
"It is nice to see you awake child, my name is Amelia. I am the house maid in the Paradox brothers' house. I'm sure you have already met them, they brought you in. told me to fix you up, and to be quick about it. Can't see what they want with a child like you… what happened anyway? What where you doing in the forest, that far away from the nearest village?"
Alessandria held her breath at all of Amelia's questions, they where innocent enough, and she could tell by looking in her eyes, that she had no idea what her masters had done, and she didn't want to think on what they where going to plan on doing.
Letting out her breath, she explained everything to Amelia, leaving out the parts that she was certain that the young masters had taken part in, such as the beating in the woods. Amelia fell silent and her eyes held pity for Alessandria, and she wanted none of it,
"Please, Amelia, if you could do me but a favor, I am trying to reach Konoha, my father is there doing business … at least he was last time I heard. I am praying that he is still there and that I can catch him before he leaves."
Amelia held up her hands, and with an apologetic look she sighed,
"I am truly sorry, Alessandria, but I can not help you to escape, if you truly are being held by your own wishes. Unless the young masters say that you may leave, it'll be my head if they find out that I helped you leave. Not only that, but this is my home, if I'm caught, I would have no place to go, and the other villages don't look too fondly on those that come from Sound."
"Sound?" Alessandria asked with a tilt to her head, indicating that she was completely and utterly lost.
"Aye, Village of Hidden Sound, we make home in underground caverns, so it is no wonder that you haven't heard of it in your studies, but we mostly keep to our selves, unless you are in with the ones that take up being a ninja. We slave women stay out of the main stream and pick up and share gossip at the well above ground. Other then that, it is just the men that concern them selves with other countries and villages."
Alessandria nodded her head, as she absorbed all the information that she was receiving from the maid. When the front door opened and slammed with a loud bang, Amelia jumped up and placed the sheets she was holding on the dresser,
"it was nice to talk with you, Amelia" she said as the maid opened the door, Amelia looked back at Alessandria with a sad smile, "Aye child, it was nice to talk with you" when she closed the door, Alessandria, couldn't help but wonder if Amelia knew something that she didn't.
A squeaky laugh echoed through the house, Volex. He was making his way in the direction of the room. She ducked under the covers and pretend to fall asleep, making her breathing go in slow steady paces. She felt the covers pulled back and fought the urge to shiver against the cold wind. Volex let out a yell, and Amelia came running into the room, "Yes Volex-sama" she asked, head low and eyes on the floor, there where footsteps and a loud 'smack' as Amelia fell to the floor,
"That's for lying to me, wench. The child is still asleep"
"Then she must have fallen back asleep, because she was awake not ten minutes ago" there was another smack,
"You idiotic bitch, no one can fall asleep that fast! Now, get back to work before I really hit you!"
"Yes Volex-sama" she whispered, tears brimming her words, she glared at the still form on the bed, and left the room. Volex exited after her, rubbing his hand in pain. Shortly after he left however, Lyle entered.
"You pulled one hell of a stunt, brat." He said sitting on the bed, "that little stunt of yours cost Amelia a days worth of food, because Volex is convinced she lied to him."
Alessandria pulled the covers closer to her as she sat up to look Lyle in the eyes,
"What do you want from me? Why did you bring me here, have you not ruined my life enough as it is?"
"Ah, naïve child, we want nothing more then your innocence, and then, we will let you die in broken peaces."
The look of shock, horror, disgust, and hatred all piled into one mixed picture on her face, which caused Lyle to laugh, he stood up and ran his fingers through her green hair, and traced it down her tan face, across her blue eyes and rested it on her lips.
He saw the fear in her eyes as he stared into them, his eyes reading right into her soul, or so she thought that was what he was doing. Lyle licked his lips as he got off the bed, and left the room.
"I have to get out of here" she whispered to her self as she looked around the room, there where two doors, one to the hall and the other was a closet, the room held no window, save for one that was in the ceiling, which was a good fifteen feet high. The only way out of the room was through the door, and she had every little hope that she was lucky enough to have a room on the first floor.
Foot steps came, the sound of two separate beats, two people, Lyle and Volex. They came during the night, and stood at ether side of her bed, watching her sleep with as intense a gaze as a wolf watching its prey, waiting for the right moment to strike. Within the hour, Alessandria had managed to remain asleep, however when the first movement to the bed was made, she woke, with a startled yelp, that was quickly silenced by a mouth devouring hers, a rum soaked tongue forced its way into her mouth and violated every inch it could reach, while wandering hands removed her clothing.
She tried to shriek, she tried to bite the intruding tongue, and fight against the prodding hands. But it seemed that the more she fought, the harder the invading forces moved on her. But she was not going to give in. she was going to protect what was left in her life, the one thing remaining that she held dear, her innocence. She was told that it is the one thing most in her life that she has to keep and hold on to, it was not something that she should let just any man have. But the man she married, and only being ten, she was no married, and especially to these two.
A prodding finger brought her out of her memories, and she struggled to move, but only ended up hurting her self, she could feel the tears flowing down her cheeks, and try as she might to hold them back, they only fell harder, she knew in the back of her mind she was fighting a lost war …
Just like Father … he is dead, mama is dead, and Gerardo-sensei is dead …I am dead …
She closed her eyes and went limp. She felt nothing, not the penetration of her invader, and not the man after him. Lyle and Volex took turns pounding into the petit frame of Alessandria, but she felt nothing, made no sound, and did not cry. After what seemed like years of dieing over and over again, the men stopped their activates and left the room, leaving a broken child on the soiled bed, in nothing but a ripped nightdress.
In the morning, when Amelia entered the room, she held no emotion, Amelia said nothing about the night before, but her eyes held pity towards Alessandria, as she helped her clean and dress.
"Lyle-sama, has informed me that I can lead you out of the city, and allow you to go to Konoha, on the condition that you don't come back"
"That wont be a problem, I will die before I ever step foot in this house again"
Amelia nodded and helped Alessandria out of the underground city, she then blindfolded her, explaining that no one is to know where they are hidden, and Amelia also assured her that no one was going to harm her, anymore.
When they where a safe distance from they passageway, Amelia undid the blindfold and pointed in the direction east, "Konoha is about 10 days due east" she explained, Alessandria nodded and turned to Amelia,
"Thank you, Amelia, you have been the closest thing to a friend I have had sense …" she trailed off, her eyes wandering in the estimated direction of her ruined village, Amelia nodded in understandment,
"As where you, child. I hope that you find who you are looking for"
"I do too Amelia" with that she gave the slave woman a hug and took off towards the east, with no hope and broken dreams as her guide, she wondered if going to Konoha was really worth the while?