A/N: Here is the deal readers, I have not gotten much feedback from you guys, thus me not knowing if I should continue this story or not. I would REALLY love to know how you guys feel about this story! So I have come to a conclusion; if people don't start to tell me what they think of my story, I will not update. I am sorry, but I like to write to satisfy the readers (and just for fun, duh ^-^) and I can't do that without your guy's opinion. So, if you guys want me to continue, please, please review. This will be the last chapter I upload for this story until people review and tell me what they think. I am sorry, but I really want to know if I am wasting my time writing this story when I could be writing a different one. Anyway, I hope this chapter is okay!
Disclaimer: If you think I own Naruto that sucks for you. You must have gotten the wrong information because I do not own Naruto … which sucks for me because then I would be rich … and then I would be able to study abroad and go to Asia and –
Kupochan14: You are ranting again … and you would take me with you, right!
Me: Duh! We made a promise! And yeah, I guess I was ranting … my bad …
Kupochan14: So why aren't you getting on with the story?
Me: I'm getting there! Patience is not your virtue at all ^-^
Kupochan14: *Calls Tobi*
Me: Ahhh! Okay, okay, I am going!
"A lie is simply the truth stretched." – Me (probably read it somewhere, but I don't remember)
"Move and you will regret it." The ANBU said. He grabbed my arm and made me stand. I was dizzy, so I had to lean on the ANBU, even if I didn't want to, but my eyes hurt and I couldn't fight any more. We walked toward the other three. Sasuke was now awake, he was an Uchiha, and so my Mangekyo didn't affect him as much as it did others. Shisui and Kakashi looked at me as the ANBU held me in front of them.
"Let's go. We have a four day journey until we get back." The ANBU holding me said to the others.
"What about the girl. She is almost out of chakra." Kakashi said looking at my eyes through my mask. I looked at him with my dark blue eyes with no emotion. I did not care about them. I needed to get away from them as soon as I regained some of my chakra back.
"We will camp here tonight and tomorrow if she does not have enough chakra, we will knock her out and carry her." The ANBU holding me said as he sat me down and put chakra restraints on my wrists and took away my weapons. It's not like I needed them, but whatever. He then made a move to remove my mask, but I looked away.
"It's either I take it off with your cooperation and you eat or I take it off my force and you don't eat."
"Itachi, be nice to her. I know she tried to kill us, but I bet Orochimaru made her after he gave her the eyes." Shisui said. I glared through my mask at him, but he distracted me long enough for Itachi to take off my cat mask. I glared as he walked toward the fire that Sasuke made. I didn't follow and leaned against the tree that was behind me. They sat in silence for a while before one of them looked over at me. It was Sasuke. I paid no heed to him, but he stood and walked toward me. He sat in front of me and I glared at him.
"What's your name?" I just looked at him. Was he serious? He waited for me to answer as I looked at him like he was mad. I did not answer him and he sighed.
"Why did you kill Orochimaru? You are Sound after all."
"I already told you. You questioning me will not change anything and I will not tell you information that you seek." I said looking back at the fire.
"Sasuke, leave the prisoner alone. She won't say anything relevant to us." Shisui said getting up and laying out his sleeping bag. Sasuke got up and also laid out his sleeping bag, as did Kakashi. Itachi stayed where he was, I guess he was going to take first watch. I stayed up and looked back at the hideout. I did not care whether I slept in my bed or not, nor did I care if my father died by my hand. He was not helpful to me anymore and he never treated me like a daughter. He made me kill people when I was five. I looked back at the fire and saw Itachi looking at me. I stared back at him. We stayed like that for a while until my eyes started to get tired. I was almost out of chakra and it was starting to get to me. I fell asleep and didn't dream. I never dreamed about anything.
When I woke up, the four ANBU where eating breakfast. I looked over where Kabuto was lying, dead. He was a wimp, he could barely defend himself. The only thing he relied on was his healing and even in the end, his healing did nothing for him. Worthless bastard, the only real thing he did was give me my eyes. As I was pondering about Kabuto and my eyes, Shisui came up to me and sat down with food in his hands. I looked at him with no expression.
"He's the deal, your hands are bound too tight to hold any food. I can either free your hands if you cooperate and not try to escape or I feed you." Well, I could try to escape, but it would be futile because my chakra levels were not up to par yet and would render me helpless. I nodded at him and he got the message and untied my hands. The others were watching him and me wearily because I didn't have restraints on, but I ate and I didn't cause any trouble. Shisui smiled when I was done, but didn't make a move to get up. 'What now?'
"You know, you don't seem like a bad person. It seems like you just got caught up in some stuff." Was this guy serious? He was talking like he would a kid. I said nothing as I glared at him, but apparently he was not done talking.
"Why is your tattoo a black feather?" That was random.
"Shisui, leave the captive alone. Making small talk is not going to get her to talk. We need Ibiki for that." Kakashi said. Ibiki? Whatever. Shisui got up and started to help clean up their camp, but he forgot to re-due my restraints. I stood and everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at me. I froze and looked at them like they were mad. Like I was going to escape with under half my chakra back.
"I am merely stretching my legs. You need not worry about me escaping." I said bending my knees. Itachi walked over to me and stopped right in front of me. I glared. He grabbed my wrists and put a different pair of restraints on and walked back to cleaning up the campsite. Once they were done we started to move toward Konoha. Itachi had mentioned it was a four day trip back to Konoha and since I didn't have too much charka, the pace was slow and agonizing.
No one talked. It let me focus on my thoughts though, so I was thankful for the silence. Konoha would probably interrogate me about killing Orochimaru and Kabuto, which was fine. They would also ask me about my Sharingan. What they do after is the only problem. Would they leave me in prison? Would they let me be one of their ninja? Unlikely. The situation is unpredictable, Konoha ANBU and their Hokage seemed as unpredictable as I normally thought, but I did not help me with trying to come up with an escape plan. When I was just about to ponder about what I was going to do when I escaped, but Shisui came up to me again. Shisui was to my right, Itachi to my left, Kakashi in my front and Sasuke behind me.
"You never told me about your tattoo." He stated looking at me. I ignored him. Why the hell did he want to know about my tattoo so badly?
"You know, your crow technique is like Itachi's. It's almost identical." Where was he getting at?
"I can keep spouting things all day, but sooner or later you will have to get annoyed with me and answer me." He said. So this was his game. Hn, fine, I would talk to him.
"Jigoku." One word and he smiled. He smiled? I told him to go to hell and he smiled. Interesting. I heard a laugh in front of me.
"Kakashi! Don't laugh at me!"
"You did want her to talk to you. Well, she did." Kakashi said looking over his shoulder.
"Yeah, but I wanted information, like her name, why her tattoo is a black feather, why she killed Orochimaru, why she has Madara's Sharingan, and why she isn't trying to escape. She has had multiple opportunities to, but she is being … obedient." Obedient? I am not a dog. I glared and put my foot in front of where he was going to step and he tripped. We stopped and waited fro him to get up. When he did, he smiled … again.
"There we go! Some resistance!" Everyone except me shook their heads as we kept moving toward Konoha. After a few more hours, it was beginning to get dark, so we started to make camp. Well, I just sat and watched. When everything was ready, they sat down at the fire and started to cook. Sasuke said something to Shisui who said something to Kakashi and Itachi and then they all looked at me. 'What now?'
"You know you don't have to sit all the way over there; it's kind of cold, you can sit by the fire." Shisui said. I didn't say anything for a while, but got up anyway and sat by Shisui and Kakashi. They didn't say anything and then the food was done. We ate in silence until someone spoke.
"Why are you making this more complicated than it has to be? You did kill Orochimaru and Kabuto, so technically you are sort of on our side, but if you keep the information from us, Konoha will see you as a threat and lock you up." Sasuke said taking a bite of his fish. Was he actually being nice to me, a captive?
"I do not care whether I am seen as your ally or your enemy. I killed Orochimaru for my own, personal reasons and the same with Kabuto." I stated after I finished my fish and threw the bones in the fire.
"Why did you go to Orochimaru in the first place? You don't have the curse mark, I find that peculiar." Kakashi said.
"I did not go to Orochimaru." I said. This baffled them. So I specified.
"I am his daughter." Shisui spit his fish out of his mouth and looked at me. Sasuke was shocked, Kakashi remained calm and Itachi narrowed his eyes.
"He does not have a daughter." Itachi stated. I looked at him.
"That you know of." They continued to looked baffled, but if they didn't believe me, then so be it, I didn't care.
"Who is your mother?" Sasuke asked. I looked at him, not revealing any emotions.
"I do not know."
"How the hell do you not know?" Shisui asked me. I shrugged.
"I don't know. I remember a woman holding me, but the only memories I have are of my father." I said. I didn't like where this conversation was going.
"Weird. I swear you could be Itachi and Sasuke's sister." He said, but then realized something and looked horrified. The air suddenly tensed and Itachi and Sasuke didn't say another word.
"I am so sorry. I didn't mean…"
"Enough." Itachi said. I had no clue what the hell just happened, so I stayed quiet in my own thoughts, but then I felt a pair of eyes on me. I looked away from the fire to see Itachi looking at me like he was trying to decipher me. I stared back, neither of us looking away. We stayed like that until I got bored of it and looked back at the fire. After a while everyone started to set up camp and I made my way back to my tree. I looked up at the stars and realized that I was calm. I was never calm; I was either waiting to kill someone or for someone to try to kill me just for the hell of it. But here, I felt … safe? I didn't know why, but I couldn't think about it too in depth because Shisui came up to me then. I looked at him and he sat down.
"How old are you?" He sounded, puzzled and a little confused. He wasn't the normal Shisui that I was used to when we were traveling, he sounded desperate. So I answered.
"Sixteen." He looked like he was thinking about something and stared into space, but then his eyes became focused again.
"What's your name?" I looked at him. I didn't know what the big deal about my name was, but whatever.
"Hotaru." He suddenly glared and grabbed me by my neck and made both of us stand up. Kakashi, Sasuke, and Itachi paid attention to us, but didn't do anything because they didn't know what the situation was.
"You lie! Hotaru got kidnapped when she was one!" He screamed. Who the hell was he talking about? Suddenly his Mangekyo turned on and I was in his world. He obviously wanted to show me something, so I didn't fight back; it's not like I really could because of the restraints anyway.
I was in a house, pretty big I might add. It looked as if something had happened because ANBU were running everywhere. I took glance at one of the ANBU's Hitai-ate, Konoha. I suddenly started to move forward and I couldn't stop walking. When I did stop, I was inside the big house and saw a man with a baby in his hands and next to him was a woman crying. The woman suddenly looked up and spoke.
"Where is she?" She asked. I was so confused. What was happening? After a few moments of no one saying anything, the woman looked at the ground again and started to cry harder.
"You … didn't find her … did you?" She asked. The man next to her stood up and looked weary as he did so.
"Report." He said with a bit of a quiver in his voice as if he didn't want to hear what the people next to me had to say.
"There was no scent, no trail, and no trace that anyone was ever here. It's like they disappeared out of thin air. Sir, I don't know what happened or even how they were here without leaving a trail." The older of the men that were next to me said. Then I realized where I was. Itachi and Shisui were right next to me, but they were younger, six maybe. There were some other ninja there as well. Then I remembered what Shisui screamed at me.
"You lie! Hotaru got kidnapped when she was one!" I was in his past, when Hotaru got kidnapped. They had no idea who took her, but it obviously hurt everyone there.
"Who would want her? She is only a baby! She can't even say a full sentence yet!" The woman screamed standing up making the baby stir from his sleep. The woman took the baby and hushed him back to sleep. No one said anything for a while, while the woman got the baby back to sleep, but then the man next to her spoke.
"We can't do anything else; we can't even find a lead to where she is. We have to wait and let time tell." He said.
"What? Why should we just give up? Can't we go look in a different country, like Sound, they hate us and want the Sharingan. We can't just give up." Shisui said next to me. 'Were they really going to give up? If it was their baby, then they should try to do anything in their power to find her!' I thought.
"Enough." Itachi spoke for the first time since I had been there watching the scene play out. I couldn't wait to see what the stoic Uchiha had to say about the situation.
"He is right. Yes, she is my sister, but if we start to snoop around other countries, we will cause an uproar. We cannot let Konoha get into a war just because of one baby who happens to be an Uchiha. I hate the fact that we cannot save her and that she is most likely dead or will be dead, but I cannot risk the village's safety for her sake." I couldn't believe my ears. He was going to give up on searching for his baby sister! But even though I didn't agree totally with him, it seemed as if everyone in the room did. The woman began to cry again as her husband hugged her. Itachi and Shisui went up stairs and I followed unwillingly. Once in one of their rooms, Shisui spoke.
"You can't just leave this alone. She is your-"
"You don't think I know that." Itachi seemed just as pissed as Shisui was. He didn't want to give up the search, but he had to.
Suddenly, I was looking at Shisui; he had unshed tears in his eyes. He let me go and I almost fell to the ground. I didn't say anything, but I looked over at Sasuke and Itachi, they knew what I saw, but they didn't say anything. So I decided I would.
"I am not lying to you. My name is Hotaru, but I am not your sister. My father gave me the Sharingan; I was not born with it." I said.
Shisui walked back to his sleeping bag, but continued to stare at me. Kakashi and Sasuke went to bed and Itachi stood watch. I stayed awake, but I didn't bother to look at Shisui, even if he thought that I was Sasuke and Itachi's sister. So what if I had the same name as their sister and so what if I had Sharingan? I thought about who would taka a baby girl just for eyes and who would be so skilled not to leave a scent for ANBU to find, there were not many who could do that. The only countries I could think of who were capable of it were the Mist, Sound, and maybe Sand; Sand, though, didn't have a problem with Konoha, Mist and Sound, on the other hand, had quarrels with Konoha and could have taken the other Hotaru. But wouldn't I have seen Hotaru if she was taken by Sound? I got out of my thoughts as I started to get tired and lied down. Shisui had gone to bed while I was thinking and Itachi was staring off into space. I closed my eyes, to what I thought would be a dreamless night again, but I was wrong.
So, want to see what's next? Review! Please *puppy dog eyes* Dang, doesn't work on you, huh? Anywho, please review, I want to know if I am wasting my time or not! Thank you all! ^-^