Chp 2: Kill Me. Please?

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Darkness. It surrounded her. Always has been, always will. Kitsune should be used to it be now. Why should she care. She was…

Dead.

A bright light appeared, small yet strong. Kitsune floated towards it. Her body was suspended in the black abyss. Suddenly, she woke, coughing. 'am.. am I dead…?'

"No. You're alive." A male voice said as if reading her mind. Kitsune looked around, still lost in the confusion and darkness.

"you killed me." She glared at the direction the voice was coming from. It was night, she couldn't see anything in this damned cave.

"I know," the voice approached her with a small candle.

"I brought you back to life," he continued ever so calmly.

"Don't think I owe my life to you!" She growled. In a blink of an eye, he appeared in front of her. The same mysterious man that 'killed' her.

"hn? But you do," he lifted her chin, making her face his red flamed mask. Kitsune still had her wrists tied behind her back. Although, her ankles had three feat of rope on it so she would be able to walk.

"What makes you say that?"

"the seal," Madara said coolly, "the seal that Danzo put on you so that you couldn't betray him. It only leaves one's body once dead." He held up the syringe that he stabbed her with.

"Sasori's poison can stop the heart in a heartbeat." Another needle was in his hand, "this can start the heart again."

Kitsune looked at him with a conflicted expression. " wh- why did you take it off?" She finally snapped. Madara grabbed her neck. His long spiky hair was dangled on the sides of her face.

"Freedom." Kitsune coughed in confusion, and lack of air.

"W-What makes you… th-think I am not content with serving the man who saved… my life?"

"You weren't ready to die for him," He stated a matter-of-factly, letting go of her neck.

Gasping for air, Kitsune fell to the floor and thought of a response.

"w-what makes you think that I would help you guys?" She was annoying him with all the questions. Kitsune could tell. Madara bent down and grabbed her red shirt; bringing her up to his face.

"because I always get what I want," he said arrogantly. It sent shivers down her spine. i'w-what is up with this man? I-is this really Uchiha Madara?'/i Her eyes flashed with terror, but she tried to hide it.

Number one rule for surviving in the Ninja world; never show weakness.

In attempts of calming herself down, she inhaled a deep breath.

"sorry to disappoint but, I won't give in," her voice and eyes was so confident, yet her heart was beating erratically. Once again a red glow shined through his mask.

"hn. I like a challenge," he removed his mask only to let his right eye show. His long spiky mane framed his face well. Kitsune tried to look away but was too late. Her eyes were caught in his gaze. He let go of her shirt and put his mask back on.

Eyes terrified and fixated on something in the distance, she tried to close her them. The genjutsu Madara put on her wouldn't let her. She screamed in agony. Each time she screamed, it seemed more painful and agonizing then the last, she tried to bit her lip to make herself stop. Coughing, she started to whimper. All of a sudden she sat up, panting, like she woke up from a bad nightmare.

This was only a taste of what he was going to do to her.

"t-torture me. Be-beat me.." she panted, "I. Don't. Care… I will not break to you of all people."

" 'To me of all people?'" He quoted, "have we met before?" He asked innocently behind his mask.

"fu-fuck you!... you know what I mean!" She yelled, "You killed my clan! No way in hell I would obey you!"

"hn. You have a good history for someone orphaned at that of a young age." Kitsune gained composure. "Who am I?"

"Uchiha Madara," she hissed.

"Don't forget it," he said in a commanding tone.

"… You killed my clan! For no good reason! How could I forget your name?" She blurted out. A deadly aura surrounded the masked man. Kitsune swallowed but did not want to stop now.

"Arrogant! Selfish!" He approached her as she yelled. "Low life bastard!" Madara choked her after those words.

"You have some nerve."

"at- least I don't kill innocent clans…!" choked Kitsune.

"Innocent?" Madara asked sinisterly, "you have no idea how iinnocent/i your clan is." Kitsune looked a little surprised.

Throwing her down at his feat like trash, he said, "If you value your life," slowly, he leaned down and looked deep into her eyes, "and I know you do, you will obey me." She was trapped inside another genjutsu.

He left her screaming on the floor.

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Hours past before Madara went back to check on her. He woke her up. It was torture. Being beaten, stabbed, cut, you name it; Madara was merely toying with her mind.

"Pathetic," he spat. Kitsune didn't even flinch.

"Drink," he shoved a glass of water in her face, "or I will shove it down your throat." Kitsune ignored him.

"tsk… don't think that starving yourself will set you free from me." She shot him a dirty look.

"what do you want from me?"

"the Hokkyoku clan's abili—"

"Don't give me that bull shit!" She snapped.

Being tortured can either soften someone until they plead; or harden someone until they fight back.

"there are lots of other capable ninja…"

There it was again. A murderously dark aura that made her think twice for saying those words.

"Do not talk back to me," he threatened, "Be grateful."

"For what…?" She didn't want to yell, he was too dangerous right now.

"I'm not using everything I've got." Kitsune was shocked. 'Grateful that he's not torturing me to his full potential? This guy….!'

"Fine. Starve yourself." Kitsune looked up at him with a blank expression.

Bad mistake, his eyes met hers. More agonizing screams filled the room.

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It's been weeks and all she's been drinking was water. The average human can go almost three months without food. Three days without water. Less than a minute without air. Kitsune was becoming malnourished.

The ceiling was crying on her. Rain was pounding above ground. Her face was blank, emotionless. She had enough, enough of this. All she wanted to do was die. Madara untied her wrists and ankles days ago. All she did was lay flat on the floor, extending her legs and arms like a starfish. He knew she couldn't fight back.

Footsteps approached her. A sweet fragrance followed.

"Eat," a male voice demanded. Kitsune weakly turned her body over still lying on the ground. It smelled so good.

Real food.

Slowly she sat up, partially drooling. He sat on a wooden chair a couple feet away from her. Placing the food on the floor in front of his feat, he signaled with his hand for her to come to him.

Kitsune didn't know what to do. Cautiously, she stood up and walked over to him. She was starving, and it's been years since a good meal. Being under Danzo's command didn't let her enjoy the best things in life, like food. And it was her favorite; Katsudon, plain rice with fried pork culet.

"Eat," he commanded again. Kitsune gave a suspicious look but then bent down to reach the food. Madara all of a sudden grabbed her and pinned her to his lap. He was twisting her arm behind her back so she couldn't move.

"Show some gratitude," Madara demanded, "I'm sure Danzo taught you that."

"There wasn't a lot to thank when working for Danzo-sama," she stated. She had a point.

"I should teach you more manners then," Madara threaten twisting her arm into an impossible angle.

"ugh-! Th-Thank… You!"

"You're welcome," He pushed her onto the floor. Kitsune got up and rubbed her shoulder then looked up at the Uchiha. She reached out to grab the food. Madara stepped on her hand, softly.

"Ready to cooperate?"

"If I say no, will you take away the food?" Madara put more pressure on her hand. She gave a small twitch but kept looking at him with that cold hard expression.

"No," his foot got off her hand, "eat it. I'll be back in five minutes." Madara got up and left.

She waited until she was sure he wasn't there. Kitsune grabbed the bowl of food and examined it. Did he poison it? Why did he suddenly do this? The smell was so good, mouth watering, she didn't think about any longer.

She downed that bowl in a flash. It was delicious. Kitsune couldn't help but feel a bit of shame. This was a sign of weakness, for her… and for him.

What was he up to?

After five minutes, she started feeling faint. Her body became heavy. The last thing she saw was the masked man, chuckling.

"bas… tard…"

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The ceiling was still crying on her.

Drip.

Drip.

Drip.

Her eyes slowly opened to the water dripping on her cheek. When she woke, she only saw a puppet, blonde haired man and the leader.

"Get up," the puppet commanded, "I said get up, don't keep me waiting!" The puppet's poisonous tail grabbed her dirty clothes and brought her up. Being suspended in the air didn't help her confusion.

"tch… She doesn't look much like a spy, hmm."

"Are you sure this brat is good?" The blonde and puppet looked over at the leader.

"Are you questioning me?" The leader crossed his arms. The new partners looked away from their leader's deathly glare.

"tsk… fine," the puppet tossed her onto the ground, "let's see what she's got... Deidara."

"heh, finally a chance to show my art, un." Little white spider were crawling towards her. She stared at them with a straight face. Kitsune was still weak from the torture, but in the ninja world it's kill or be killed.

"katsu!" They exploded inches away from her. A large cloud of dust and small rocks formed. None of the men coughed, their leader glared at the blonde.

"tch, that was easy danna, un."

"brat, she's not dead. You just let her escape!"

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Kitsune was outside the base, hiding in the forest. Rain was beating down on her body. Weeks being mentally tortured and malnourished, it'll be tough to fight.

Wait, she was free. She needs to return back to Danzo. There's no other place she can turn to.

Kitsune ran. Jumping from tree to tree, she hopped as fast as she could.

"Don't think I'm just going to let you escape," a man with long spiky hair and a mask with a flame pattern said. Madara. He appeared at on a branch in front of her path.

"Screw you!" a bolt of electricity went flying towards him. Madara was surprised behind his mask. The element of lightening was an unpredictable one yet she was controlling it with ease. He blinked as the bolt of lightning went through him.

'what the hell!'

As the lightning went towards him, she had to follow through the attack. The moment the bolt of electricity went through him, Madara made himself tangible again before grabbing her neck.

"hn. You're element is lighting…"

"L-let go of me!" she kicked him in the stomach. Madara acted like it was nothing.

"hn. I still need to teach you more manners." He threw her against a tree. She got up and tried to run away. Again, he appeared in front of her.

"You can't run away from me." He pinned her to a tree and looked into her eyes. Blue eyes that weren't terrified of him but there was an underlying plead hidden in those eyes. She didn't want to go inside his genjutsu again. The pain, the torture; a person can only handle so much but she hasn't broken yet.

He teleported away before he could do any damage, leaving her confused. Right after he vanished, a bomb went off, knocking her off the tree on to a fairly clear space of forest.

"There you are, un!"

'so… Madara only distracted me long enough to let them catch up to me. Why is he hiding?' Kitsune thought.

Another bomb went off causing her to stop pondering. The blonde was high in the sky on top of a giant white bird. Kitsune jumped into the trees to get as close as she could to him.

Rain seemed to beat harder down on them. She used it to her advantage.

"lightning style: Shockwave jutsu!" her hands lashed out shockwaves of electricity. This jutsu was wide spread and couldn't reach far up in the sky. But being a shockwave, it did not damage but shake and disturb.

Deidara was having a hard time trying to dodge something he couldn't see. After all, they were electric pulses. He started dropping more bombs over head. She shot lightning bolts at them so they couldn't explode. Since there were so many of them, Deidara had distracted enough of them to attack from behind.

Smaller white birds flew behind her blowing up once a couple inches away from her. Kitsune jumped deeper into the forest, trying to use the braches to blow up the birds. Apparently, he made the birds pretty smart since they were hard to trick. She knew being within a certain range would make them explode so there were only a couple options.

Turning around, she went towards the flying bombs. Deidara watched stupefied. Was she an idiot? Before the birds had time to explode, they were shot by a bolt of electricity.

There was only one electric rod flowing in the air. While she ran through the forest, the bolt flew around her destroying all the birds. As soon as all the birds were gone, she ran to the top of the highest tree.

The lightning bolt dispersed into the sky. Kitsune looked up at her target. 'if I kill him, then I'd probably have a chance at escaping.'

"Lighting Style: Heaven Strike." The young kunoichi brought her hand up at the sky. Swiftly, her hand made a downwards motion like it was slicing Deidara in half. The clueless bomber stood still on her bird.

-CRACK!

A burst of thunder roared through the crying sky. Deidara looked wide eyed and started to fly away. Bolts of electricity started stabbing the earth, trying to hit the blonde bomber.

The Hokkyoku clan has the ability of controlling their element so well. Back during the war days, everyone knew not to mess with them on their elemental days. The skies were filled with tears which meant that her lightning jutsu's would be enhanced tenfold.

"This is the end…" Kitsune raised her hand one more time. Before she could bring down her hand for another attack, the rain stopped. The clouds were still dim and the wind was still blowing wildly. It was like a storm without rain.

"what the he-!" A burning sensation flowed through her veins. Before the pain got worse, she jumped down to the ground. The puppet and leader were waiting.

"w-what did you.. nhu… do to m-me?" Kitsune painfully breathed through her teeth.

"I just got this brat as my partner. I don't need him dead now," the puppet spat. Each minute passing, the pain grew stronger.

"Relax. The pain can't kill you unless it's unattended for months," the puppet reassured.

Needles were flowing through her body. Every muscle and bone in her body burned. All her sense were being overloaded with pain. This was nothing compared to the torture in genjutsu world.

"s-stop…" Kitsune pleaded. Her nails dug into her arms, in attempts of embracing herself. She couldn't move.

"let's wait for Deidara join so I can explain something…" their leader said coolly. A gust of wind breezed over them. Footsteps were approaching her.

"tch… I could've handled her, un," he announced scornfully. They all ignored him.

"as you saw, she is very well trained. She is an ANBU root agent specializing in assassination and infiltration. More information here," the ginger tossed a book of some sort in front of the tortured spy.

"use her well, you're going to need her for your next mission," he finished.

The new partners looked down at her agonizing in pain.

"What wrong with her? We can't use her in this state, hmm," the blonde went towards the spy.

All of a sudden, the pain stopped. Inhaling deep breathes, Kitsune tried to compose herself. She slowly sat up. Eyes piercing through Deidara as he reached for the book.

"Oy! Don't look at me like that, hmm!" he snapped. She turned her look towards the puppet.

"tch, this brat couldn't harm a fly. While you were unconscious, I had to place a poison bug on you," the puppet picked her up with his tail once again.

"It releases a liquid into your blood stream, targeting your pain sensors, making them over load with pain. And like I said before, it doesn't kill."

"If you even try, no, if you even think of escaping I won't she mercy to a brat like you," the puppet master spat. 'that must be sasori… these guys are so cruel…' Kitsune thought.

"Unfortunately, the longer it's in your blood, the more time it takes for it to wear off and for you to get control of your senses. Which means you're going to have to ride with that brat over there."

"Danna? You can't possible let that girl ride on my a—"

"shut up!"

"tch… fine, put her here," Deidara pointed on the bird next to his feet. Sasori flung the spy onto the bird.

'Bastards… I can't wait till this is all over. Danzo-sam… must think I'm dead if they did take off the seal…' She stared blankly into the sky, 'where would I go if I ran…?'

In the distance, she saw someone. Raven hair, red mask, cloaked body. Madara.

I go… Far… Far away from here… that's all I know right now…

Hate. Anger. Darkness.

She wanted to be free. All these emotions would be the only thing helping her through this hell. The puppet master got onto the bird as well.

Lifting in to the sky, Kitsune had a strong urge of rolling off the edge of this bird. Despite that, she likes the feeling of flying.

The same feelings clouds have; drifting in the sky, with not a care in the world, going where the wind would take them.

"We have to go to the Hidden Water Village. There's a powerful man there with a special scroll there with important information. Female brat there needs to seduce and steal that scroll for us," the scorpion said.

"Then why do we need to go, hmm?"

"I was getting to that, brat... One; we have to make sure she doesn't betray us. Two; we have to make sure she doesn't screw up."

"So we're just baby sitting her? I don't want to waste my tal—"

"Don't interrupt me," Sasori cut off, "While she's doing that, Blondie and I need to do something else."

They both waited for the puppet to elaborate. Kitsune carefully rolled over, getting a better look at the puppet and blonde.

"… so what are you going to do…?" She drawled weakly.

"None of your business, brat. I'll tell you, Deidara, once we arrive"

Kitsune sighed. Seduce. Why did this have to be her first assignment?