Recap
"Why hello Kisame-senpai, what could I do for you?" Tobi asked with his full on happy and playful tone back in his voice, how could someone's mood change that quickly. Then again, I didn't know Tobi that well to know.
"I heard a scream come from Yumi's room and when I went in there she was gone, Sasori said he left her out in the hallway. Did you see her?" I heard Kisame's deep voice say and before I could say anything to acknowledge myself Tobi beat me to it.
"Yea Yumi-chan is in here. But could I talk to you outside for a minute, Kisame-senpai?" Tobi said and not a second later I was left alone in the candle-lit room. As much as I would have liked to stay awake and monitor the room for anymore snakes, my eyes began betraying me as they started to close themselves. I soon found myself dozing off into a shocking but somewhat decent sleep. The memories still stuck in my head.
Forbidden
Chapter Five
"Hey brat! Wake up already!" I heard a deep rude voice yell at me causing me to open my eyes, I found myself being shaken roughly by none other than Hidan himself. Why was he here? I hope I didn't do anything wrong.
"W-what is it?" I mumbled in my sleep when he finally stopped shaking me after he noticed I was awake. I bring myself into a sitting position with my tired strength so I didn't doze back off, but the bed was so comfortable I almost didn't catch Hidan's words.
"It's time for your first day of training dumbass! And I'll be your trainer for the day since I'm the only one not fucking busy. Now get your ass up and get ready, I'll meet you in the training room in 20 minutes. Don't be late!" Hidan threatened before he turned and stomped out, slamming the door shut behind to give me some privacy. I looked around the room to notice that I wasn't in my exactly, the walls way to decorated for my liking.
Suddenly, all the memories of last night came flooding in and I immediately shuddered at the reoccurring memory. I tried to ignore my discomfort as I made my way off the bed and out of the door, toward my room to get ready. When I came to my still ajar door I froze on the spot, gazing inside to make sure the coast was clear. I couldn't exactly tell since it was dawn and the only light gone from its broken state off the floor. I wonder who cleaned it up?
After a minute or so observing the room and finding no threat I made my way inside to get ready. I gazed at my now neatly made bed to see a black and red bundle seating on top of it, making my way over I picked it up to find that it was one of the cloaks that the others were wearing. Under it layed a few sets of shinobi wear, which looked a little big but was still wearable. Along with the fact that next to it was a few pairs of underwear, thankfully in my size. I grabbed one pair out of the undergarment bundle with a set of shinobi clothes before making my way to the bathroom.
I opened the door while switching on the lights to bring light into the area, I observed the room to find nothing special like the other ones. So I went ahead and set my bundle on the sink counter before turning around to where the shower was placed and reached into to grab the cold knob. I turned the knob toward the hot section but fully so it wouldn't burn me. When the temperature was right for my body type I quickly shed my baggy clothes until I stood bare with only my bandages on.
I didn't know whether to remove them so I lightly pressed against one of my wounds that was near my ribs to see only for a sting to come from it, nothing to painful I guess. So slowly unwrapping the bandage and when it off I gazed down to see that it had formed into a huge bruise with a few cuts around it from my attempting fights. Doing the same with all my other wounds until I was completely shedded from them. Once I was, I brought back the curtain that hung in front of the shower to see stem already coming from it.
Stepping my body inside I felt the water immediately beating on my wounds and bruises causing me to whimper lightly but I ignored it, my hygiene a little more important to me at the moment. I watched as the dirt that had been caked on my body and hair slowly cleanse itself off me leaving me to see my pale white skin and brown hair for the first time in a while. I smiled to myself as I felt as if weight had been lifted off me, it was really nice to feel clean for once. When I was finally cleansed from the dirt I grabbed the box of soap in the corner of the tub and opened it.
I tilted my head slightly until the white hard object came landing in my hand, I wrapped my fingers around it before setting the box down back into its corner where it came from. Lazily lifting the bar of soap, I began soothing my body with it as I watched the suds trail on my body in circular motions. When I was completely done I rinsed myself off before stepping out into the now cold air, goose bumps instantly rising on my skin. I looked under the sink cabinet for some type of cloth to dry off with and to my luck I find a small stack of white towels waiting for me.
Grabbing one I started to dry myself off quickly knowing I had wasted a bit of time. When I was completely dry I grabbed my underwear and slipped it on soon followed by the baggy pants that thankfully came with a belt tie. I secured the pants tightly to my waist making sure it didn't sag before putting on my shirt, that hung slightly over my butt. I exited the bathroom in a rush knowing Hidan was probably waiting on me so choosing not to bring my cloak, I ran out of the room and down the hall only to come to a stop.
Which door led to the training room?
Looking at all the doors ignoring the ones similar to the bedrooms, I came a lighter looking door just on the right down the hall. Praying I chose the right one, I opened it to find sunlight starting to creek through the small opening. Walking through, I found myself in a some sort of green house, I must say it did look pretty. There was all types of plants in here, from daisies to roses, from lilies to alliums. It was absolutely beautiful. Getting caught up in my amazement, I stepped farther into the room following dirt trail that led through this practical jungle. I observed each plant, one looking more beautiful than the next when I suddenly felt a cold presence behind me.
"Oh looky here we have a guest. More like a snack." Two voices said and I whipped around to see a man, no wait, I think it was a man with its voice but his appearance was more plant like reminding me of a venus fly trap.
"What's your name little one. What's the point of asking when we won't be seeing her again. I just wanna know, she could be the new recruit Leader was talking about. Yea like Leader would recruit something like this, let's just eat her. I don't see why not.." It argued with itself confusing me even more than I already was, I was scared to the fact they were discussing me as a meal.
"I-I'm Yumi and I am the new r-recruit. I was j-just looking for the training room where Hidan is waiting for m-me." I stuttered hoping he would believe instead of making up a lie, he made his way over to me as if he ignored what I said and when I thought he was about to actually eat me the door swung open.
"Zetsu get away from the fucking kid! She's with me so you can't eat her ... yet." said a voice and I was actually thankful for once that it was Hidan's. I jumped from under the hovering fly trap, Zetsu, and ran over to Hidan without a second thought.
"I sorry Hidan. Whatever just keep her away from my greenhouse." Zetsu said in his different voices to which Hidan just shrugged in return before turning around to leave with me in tow. When we exited the room Hidan turned a sudden right down another hallway that contained a few doors, I of course followed.
"Why were you in there any fucking way brat." Hidan said all of a sudden with a bit of annoyance in his voice which made me jump since I was a bit fidgety with all this stuff that was going on.
"I-I was looking for the training room l-like you told me but I found t-that place instead, s-sorry." I stuttered once again noticing my fingers had begun fumbling yet again on their own, Hidan glanced back at me only for a millisecond before turning back around just as he opened a random door, going into it with me following closely. I looked around the room to see it was just an open grassy space with a few trees here and there.
"Come on already brat! I don't have all day." Hidan yelled at me and noticed that I was still in the door way with him already in the middle of the room. Collection myself, I jogged quickly over to him until I was a few feet away making sure to keep my distance from him. Didn't want to tick him off even more now did I?
"Okay brat, listen the fuck up. We are going to start with some basic ass training, like how to control your chakra along with learning how to use your weapons and how to defend yourself in combat, you fucking get it?" he told me with his arms crossed across his open cloaked chest. I nodded quickly in agreement that I understood to which he just grunted. I thought he was going to talk to me about it but all of a sudden I see a fist come flying my way, my fast instincts kicked in and I immediately jumped to my right only for it to graze my cheek.
"I see you have fast instincts, alright. Now lets see what else you fucking got." and with that he started sending fast punches at me which I barely managed to dodge, I kept jumping back trying to create some distance but he only kept getting closer. Finally, he had landed a hard punch on my none bruised cheek to which caused me to go flying toward the ground.
"That's all you got, jeez I don't know why Leader recruited you. Your fucking weak. Now get up! he ordered to my recovering body that laid injured on the ground from his powerful punch but I managed to bring myself to my feet, my head starting to feel dizzy with the taste of blood in my mouth. I touched it only to wince when I found that he had gashed my lip, but I ignored it and made my way to him.
"Well seeing you are shit in combat, I guess we can start you off with some chakra control. Now do you know how to do justus at fucking least?" he asked and I answered him with a shake of my, he groaned in response.
"Damn your worthless." he mumbled under his breath but I still heard him, it didn't affect me since I've heard it a thousands of times but I still didn't like when people still said it.
"I-I'm not worthless, it's just I haven't learned anything that relates to training. So m-maybe if you actually tried training me than I wouldn't be so worthless." I said quietly but with the same amount of anger in my voice, he glared down at me in return and to when I thought he was going to hit me his glare turned into a smirk.
"Alright then, let's see what the fuck I can do to toughen you up, brat." he smirked and my body felt a bit relieved at the fact he didn't kill me. And that's when he actually started training me.
"Well that's all were gonna do today, so go away because I'm fucking done with you." Hidan grunted after what felt like hours of training and I had to admit it did take a lot out of me as it soared every muscle in my body, but it felt worth it. I learned a few things, like how to control my chakra in certain places, how to defend myself with basic punches and kicks. Though Hidan was still rude during the training he was actually a good teacher.
Not wanting to be left alone, I followed him out of the training room not knowing where else to go, and continued to trail behind him as he walked down the hall.
"Didn't I say go away." Hidan growled with an annoyed glance behind me causing me to shutter in response as my fingers twiddled with each other. I gazed down in nervousness not knowing what to say, I didn't want to go off on my own since I was afraid I'd run into another person that wanted to kill me.
"I don't k-know where else to g-go, and I d-don't want to g-get lost a-again." I said with my head down watching my fingers fight in their own combat, I heard him breath out in frustration before he turned fully toward me.
"Well if your going to fucking hang with me until Kisame or somebody else gets back, you better not annoy me then or else I'll hand you over to Zetsu. He hasn't eaten brats in a while. And don't ask my any questions, I hate questions." he threatened to which I nodded quickly in agreement, not wanting to become plant food at all. I'd rather die a different way if I could. Without a second word, Hidan began to make his way down the hall with me again in tow and soon I found myself in one of the bedroom doors. I didn't notice I was standing their observing the room until Hidan growled at me.
"Come in dammit." Hidan snapped as he stood at the door waiting to close it after I came in to which I quickly did. I glanced at the floor when I noticed something wierd on it, I looked to see this large circle that had a big triangle in it with lit candles going around it. I turned to Hidan in confusion as he closed the door behind him with a grunt.
"W-what's this?" I asked him, stepping to the side as he walked past me. He gave me look of warning making me press my lips together tight signaling him I would stay quiet as promised. He looked away, after giving me another warning glance, and started lighting the candles around the wierd symbol.
Deciding to make myself a bit comfortable, along with resting my sore muscles, I climbed on to his not so neatly made bed and back up until I felt my back hit the wall connected to it and crossed my legs. I watched him finish lighting the last candle before he started to disrobe his cloak, me being me, gave him respect as I pressed my hands over my eyes to not see him.
"You don't have to cover your eyes, I was only taking off my cloak that's all." I heard him chuckle at me, I slowly lowered my hands from my eyes to see him now sitting in the middle of the circle. I rested my hands in my lap, watching him pull his hands together to perform a justu or something. He began muttering words under his breath to which I couldn't catch but out of no where I notice his skin starting to change color, to a black and white shade. I watched in astonishment as his skin starting to change into a rather unnatural pattern as he continued to mutter words only able to catch the word, "Jashin".
It was actually pretty neat, to me I suppose, since I don't usually see stuff like this in my village. That brings me to a question. What clan was he from exactly that could do that to his skin? I continued to stare at him, my eyes not leaving his body as he chanted his words over and over with his turning more by the second.
"Wow." I felt my lips say without my permission but I didn't care as my mind was to transfixed on his changing form, I noticed a smirk form on his face as if he heard me though I didn't know since he kept on with his chant. After a few minutes of this extraordinary event, his body started to form back to his original lightly tan skin tone. Once he was back to his form I immediately started dosing him with questions that had been stuck in my head for the past while.
"H-how did you do that? What clan are you from? Were you born like that?" I couldn't seem to stop myself from asking but when his glare landed on me I felt my lips go completly mute. I watched as he stood from his circle, blowing out the candles, before making his way over to sit next to me.
"If you must know, you nosy brat. I am a worshiper of Jashin, also known as a Jashinist. I must do a prayer for him every day to which I would have done this morning if I hadn't had to come train you." he growled at the last part making me feel a bit guilty in return, I mean I did interfere with his plans today so I did owe him an apology.
"I-I'm sorry, I didn't m-mean to disturb you. I apologize again." I said with sincerity in my voice causing him to look at me with a unreadable expression on his face. He watched me for a moment making me a bit nervous on the inside causing me avert my eyes back to his symbol circle on the floor until suddenly I hear him rumble out a chuckle.
"I don't get why your even apologizing, it makes no sense any fucking way." he said back with slight irritation in his voice, I didn't know why he seemed to have a grudge on me but I was willing to find out seeing I had a bit of a chance.
"W-why do you not l-like me?" I asked him, staring down at my fingers, I knew a lot of people hated me but they had reasons to. I've never met Hidan so I suppose he never met me either or knew that much about me to hate me.
"I'm not saying I don't like you, I just find little brats quite ... annoying to me." he said bluntly like he could care less, though it didn't look like it phased me I was a bit hurt. Not by the name calling but the fact that he judged me before he even knew me.
"W-well maybe if you k-knew me than you wouldn't judge me so quickly." I said back with the same tone as before in the training room. I didn't like to be judged quickly, though that happened all the time in every village. It would just be nice for once if someone judged me AFTER they got to know and if they still didn't like me then ... then they didn't like me. I couldn't do nothing about it.
"Alright then, tell me about yourself brat." he requested as he lied back on his bed with his legs crossed in front of me and his arms behind his back, I nodded just noticing that he still had no shirt on so I kept my eyes averted away from him.
"Only if you tell me about yourself, too." I said back at him in return to which he just shrugged to, taking that as an agreement I went ahead with my introduction.
"Well, um, m-my name is Yumi Nakamoto, I'm seven years old, and I l-like macaroni." I started with something simple that he already knew about from last nights dinner, I watched him shift around in his place a bit with a curious look on his face as if he was debating something.
"The names Hidan, I'm immortal, and I like killing." he introduced making me look at him in curiosity, what did he mean by immortal? Did he mean he could live forever?
"So you can live forever, how come?" I asked in confusion, why would someone want to be immortal. To live every day as a nightmare for the rest of your life? That was to much even for me to handle and I wasn't the one immortal here.
"Well I'm a Jashinist and when you become a Jashinist you become fucking immortal." he told me as if I were stupid but it wasn't my fault that I didn't know what the Jashinist's benefits were.
"I-I think it's cool, the whole skin changing thing but I'm not sure about the whole immortal stuff." I said silently, afraid of what he would do if he heard my opinion. I hope he wouldn't punch me with his hard fist, because they truly did hurt.
"Thanks I suppose, I'm used to people not really getting the immortal thing. But it has it benefits at times." he smirked, his eyes averted to ceiling and I watched him for a moment. A question popping into my head all of a sudden.
"Why do you enjoy killing?" I asked my eyes full on his waiting for a reaction, in return he gave me a confused look making me try to restate my question.
"I-I mean do you enjoy pain because ... well ... because you can't die ... and so you like watching other people die since it's something you can't do even if you wanted?" I asked again but realized it only worsened the situation, I gazed down at my lap uttering an apology at my rudeness.
"I-I'm sorry I apologize for my rudeness, I shouldn't have asked you something so personal." I disciplined my own self my shutting in embarrassment, why did I even say that? I bet he's gonna hit me for asking something so personal and not in even in my place to be said.
"Well I never-" he started to say but his sentence was cut short when a the door swung open without even a knock, their in the entrance stood an expressionless Itachi.
