Chapter 3
Accusation
Lily first went to her room to see if she looked decent. She put on a swipe of lipstick and rouge. She noticed she had paled and her face was gaunt. She brushed it off and smoothed her skirt. She started the short walk to the main compound.
After her brother's death, she never sang. Tatsu loved for her to sing. In fact, most people came from miles around if Rose was celebrating and she was to entertain. She sang of nothing. When Tatsu died, it was like the canary's song turned into a crow's caw. It hurt in her heart to sing. Her voice was no longer young and high and happy. It was a low almost manlike. People no longer came to Rose.
Lily stepped down the stairs to his lair. Her stomach hurt and she had been spotting earlier that day. She knew that it was another miscarriage. Lord Orochimaru wouldn't like to hear that. She slowly opened the door. She didn't now these surroundings well but knew he was here. "I am here my lord. Why do you wish to speak with me?" "Come here, lily. I have heard some interesting news lately." She quickly walked to the face of the chair to look at him. "Has anything happened in Rose?" He looked at her with anger and another emotion she couldn't place. "No." was the course reply. "It deals with you." Her eyes widened in fear and confusion. "what have I done My lord that have so angered you?" "I told you that you were mine when you decided to come did I not?" "You did." She was getting more confused. 'I haven't done the act with anyone else ever. Why would he suggest…' "You have been going places without my permission." "What I haven't been anywhere in since..." "Silence Lily. Get out!" "Yes, sir." She said nearly inaudible. She backed away slowly until she got to the door. Then she ran.
She ran past the other buildings tears going down her face. Not even god really cared otherwise he wouldn't let all this happen. No one listened to her anymore. She lost every child she had. She was so far from home. She had even given up the hope that her brothers would some day find her. She finally stopped running when she got to her own quarters. She went in and really looked at them. The only things there were material. There were no sentimental objects except for that mirror and brush. She never realized what she had done until she heard the smash of broken glass. The mirror had shattered. She had broken the thing that mattered to her most here. She took a shard of the precious glass. She looked into it. It showed a broken reflection of a broken life. She turned it in her hand being careful not to cut her self. Its now hollow silver and platinum rim was dark. She was on her knees staring at it. She had broken something dear to her. She did it. Her life has been like that since He found her.
Lily was walking home from the grocer. It was starting to darken to night. Her long dark hair rippled down her back. A fourteen year old lily never knew that he had been watching her. A predator after the young girl who had been singing a slow mournful song. She never knew until he was upon her. He still had the cloak from the organization. She heard him before she saw him.
It hurt, her virtue being ripped from her. She didn't cry out. She stayed silent her eyes open but unseeing. She felt the warmth of his seed. "Don't tell anyone". Came the hiss from the man. He left as swiftly as he came not saying anything else. She fixed her skirt trying to figure what would happen if Shuichi had found out. She walked home like nothing had happened. Her brother asked why she looked so disheveled she only said that she had tripped. Then she went upstairs to her room and packed.
She caught up with her attacker. "So decided to follow me?" "The law of my village says that I am yours now. I am Lily. May I come with you sir?" "I have no need for you. You would just be in the way." "please sir" she started. "I have no where to go. My brothers would cast me out. I don't want to become a whore." "I hate crying. You may come with me. But you will still be a whore of some type. Come here into the light so I can look at you. She stood in the moonlight. He appraised her like he was buying livestock. "Yes you may come with me. You are not hideous but not a great beauty as well. You are too small. Your face looks like some one slapped it together. Your only attributes are your hair legs and eyes."
"My hair legs and eyes are my only attributes." She repeated. "That's no longer true." Came a voice from behind her. "Kabuto. You know that you are not supposed to be here. Go away." "Orochimaru-sama said that I am to keep an eye on you. You have disobeyed his rules he laid down just for you." The mate mark stung. He strode over. "for instance you have beautiful shoulders. He gently reached out to make the sleeves fall and was slapped by her pale hand. He went and did so anyway knowing she would obey him as well he kissed her collarbone.