Emi started to come round as they entered the hideout, her head was throbbing badly. A boy in an orange mask came running at them.
"Kichi-chan! Kichi-chan!" He shouted while Itachi pushed past him. His shouting wasn't helping Emi's head either.
"This isn't Kichi, this is her sister." Kisame explained as he felt Emi shift her weight on his shoulder. Kisame felt slightly sorry for the man in the mask, he poor man wouldn't be able to understand that she wasn't Kichi. Then again why was he even in the Akatsuki? The man is an idiot. "Looks like someone's awake now." He said with a smirk and placed her down on her feet but kept his hand on her shoulder. Emi sighed, she couldn't get away now, and she had to make a plan.
The three men lead her to a large room, she was a little unsteady on her feet up refused to take the offer of being carried by the masked weirdo.
"Welcome to the Akatsuki." A man with orange hair greeted her as he walked up to her. "Well you do look exactly like Kichi-chan. A twin perhaps?" He asked her as he circled her, taking in her appearance. Emi nodded and looked at the floor. "You will look at me child and you will address me as Leader-sama." He added as he lifted Emi's face to look at him. She head-butted him in the face. He growled holding his nose and slapped her face hard enough to knock her to the floor. "Itachi lock her up, a few days without food or water that should teach her. Although if she's anything like her sister she will need to be scared into obeying." He hissed as Itachi helped Emi up. She tried to get away from him. She managed to throw him back with a sound wave before passing out from using too much chakra.
Itachi hissed in pain as he got back up from hitting the wall. He went to pick her up when their leader spoke again. "Put charka restrains on her. We don't want her running. I forgot how powerful their sound jutsu is." He ordered before leaving. Itachi sighed and put the restraints on her.
"Why is does she wear a mask un?" A blonde male asked getting closer to her and Itachi.
"Why don't we find out?" Kisame asked and reached out to pull her mask down. Itachi smacked his hand away.
"No, she will show her face if she wants too." Itachi said walking away with Emi in his arms. If they saw the rest of her face they would know for sure she was Kichi, even with the scar there.
"What's wrong with him un?" The blond asked Kisame who just shrugged his shoulders. Itachi was behaving rather oddly, his normally stoic approach was cracking.
Emi woke up a few hours later locked inside a dark room. The door creaked open to reveal a red haired man holding a tray of food. Emi quickly curled up in the corner of the room.
"Don't be scared." He spoke softly and moved closer slowly, trying not to startle her. Emi tried to push him back with a sound wave but nothing was happening. Emi started to panic, why couldn't she do her jutsu? "It won't work." He said once he worked out what she was trying to do. "We've put charka restrains on you." He added moving closer again and kneeled in front of her. She saw the food and looked at him confused.
"I thought I wasn't allowed any food or water?" She asked quietly and scared. The man smiled. What was going on?
"I felt sorry for an old friend's sister." He said placing the tray down. Emi looked up at him and cowered even more. "Why do you hide your face?" He asked curious, if she was Kichi sister he was sure she would be beautiful, a rival to his art.
"You should know, you're the one who did it." She hissed at him angrily. The man looked at her confused.
"I haven't done anything to you." He said as Emi pulled down her mask. He saw the scar that started at the left corner of her mouth and ran up her cheek. "I would do no such thing to a beauty like you. You resemble your sister so much." He said with a sad sigh.
"I am Kichi." She muttered looking away. The man gasped, he hadn't expected that.
"Kichi-chan?" Emi nodded and looked at the floor. The man reached out to touch her causing her to flinch. "I would never hurt you Kichi-chan. Why would you think that?" He asked as he cupped her right cheek, lifting her face to look at him. As he did her fridge moved and allowed him to see another scar on the top of her head. "You have amnesia don't you?" He then asked with a sigh. "Who told you I hurt you? Why do you hate all of us?" He added looking into her eyes. Maybe someone knew she was part of the Akatsuki and want to hurt them by turning her against them.
"No one told me, I remember it all." She hissed back at him. The man sighed and left, she wasn't going to tell him anything.
Their leader was sat in his office when there was a knock on his door.
"Enter." He called and watched as red haired puppet, Sasori come in. "What is it Sasori?" He asked looking back at his paper work, slightly annoyed that he had been interrupted from his work. But also confused, it wasn't often the puppeteer would come to his office.
"The girl is Kichi-chan." Sasori said calm and watched as their leader froze.
"Are you sure?" He asked looking up at Sasori who nodded. But she was dead wasn't she? Itachi said had seen her die, that there was no way she could have survived.
"Yes, she has amnesia and I think someone tampered with her memories so that she thinks we did things to her, bad things." Sasori explained. "She seems to think I cut her cheek open, that's why she wears the mask." He then added.
"Get Itachi, he will be able to reverse any tampering and maybe help with her amnesia. Get me once it's done." He ordered quickly and Sasori left.
Sasori went straight to Itachi's room and knocked on his door. Itachi answered the door looking very worn out and annoyed.
"Itachi, the girl is Kichi-chan." He said but noticed the lack of surprise on Itachi's face.
"You knew!?" Sasori asked annoyed. Itachi shock his head, he didn't want anyone knowing he already knew and helped her leave. Sasori knew something was up when Itachi came back that day and told everyone she was dead. Itachi was too good to let his comrades die, especially one he had a soft spot for. He wasn't too sure how much Itachi really did like her but it was enough for her to get special treatment from the normally stoic man.
"No but I thought she might be, I couldn't find her body that day." He said quickly and sighed. "But why are you telling me this?" He asked, the last thing he wanted was to go see her, she would be scared of him, he gave her the worse memory he could think of. The last thing he wanted was her feelings to come through and cause her to come back of her own free will. She needed to stay away, it was for her own good.
"Leader-sama sent me, he thinks someone has tampered with Kichi-chan's memories, that's why she was so hostile towards us." Sasori explained. "He wants you to see if you can reverse the tampering and maybe help with her amnesia." He added with hope in his eyes. Itachi nodded and went with Sasori to see Emi. He knew she would freak out when he walked in. This was the last thing he wanted to do.
Emi hadn't touched the food left for her, she didn't trust them not to put something in it. The door opened again and she saw the same red haired man but this time Itachi was with him. Emi cowered in the corner again, her mask still down. Sasori sighed and looked away, he hated seeing his friend like this. Itachi hated seeing the scar he gave her. She had insisted he did it, make the whole thing more believable. Emi had done something to herself to make it look like she had been sexually assaulted. She told him that this was the worse thing she could think of to make her never come back to him. He kneeled in front of her only earning him a kick in the face. He should have expected that.
"Stay away from me!" She screamed at him. Itachi held his broken nose and looked up at Sasori annoyed.
"Kichi-chan he's trying to help you!" Sasori stressed to her as he tried to get closer to her but Itachi stopped him.
"Kichi-koibito." Itachi called her calmly. Emi froze and looked up at him. Even Sasori was taken back by what he called her.
"Koibito?" Sasori asked in a mutter. Itachi nodded and sighed, now Sasori knew their secret. He hoped that he would keep that secret.
"You raped me!" Emi screamed at him. "And you call me koibito!?" She stood up quickly and ran out the door, Sasori was too caught up with taking in the recent information in to catch her.
"Sasori get her!" Itachi ordered as he got off the floor, trying to set his nose back into place.
Emi ran down the corridor only to run into someone's bare chest. She looked up to see a sliver haired man, smiling down at her.
"Look whose back Kakuzu!" The sliver haired man shouted happily and went to help Emi up, only to get kicked in the chest. Kakuzu frowned as he watched her get back up and start to run again while the sliver haired man cursed. It was unlike Kichi to behave this way. He thought she was dead anyway.
"Kakuzu stop her!" Sasori shouted as he ran round the corner. Kakuzu threads grabbed Emi and pulled her back. She screamed in frustration.
Their leader's office door slammed open.
"What is all this noise for?!" He roared at them as Itachi walked around the corner, still holding his nose as blood poured out. Emi smirked at the sight of her handy work.
"They've trained her more in taijutsu, she managed to brake my nose and run." Itachi explained and the sliver haired man laughed at him.
"Kakuzu take her back to the room with Itachi and don't mess it up this time!" Their leader ordered and slammed his door again as he went back into his office.