Sunrunner's Fire ~ Chapter Three ~ Imprisonment
~Three years after Academy. They are now eight years old~
The form of Taokishi hit the ground hard with a grunt. He lay there for a moment, catching his breathe before propping himself up on one elbow to glare fiercely at his sister.
Ty stood grinning down at him before offering a hand up. She always did that, always offered to help him up after beating him down into the ground. Tao still didn't think it was fair that she got all the power she had while he got nothing.
Tao actually growled at her this time and shoved her hand aside, at the same time he surged upward and delivered one punch squarely on Ty's chin. She hadn't expected that and flew backwards to land hard on her back.
Instead of stopping as Ty would have Tao fallowed Ty's flight and began kicking her in the ribs. A cry of pain escaped her lips as she instinctively brought her arms down to shield her already bruised ribs.
A hand grabbed her throat and lifted her up to hurl her partly limp body into a nearby tree. Ty gasped as the breathe was knocked out of her and she fell back to the ground on hands and knees coughing as she tried to breathe.
Tao gathered himself up and prepared to charge again when a figure appeared in front of him. Tao skidded to a stop to look up at the dangerously angry light blue eyes of his older brother Jiro. He had nearly stopped when Jiro slammed a fist into Tao's face, sending him flying backwards.
"What is the matter with you Taokishi? Are you trying to hurt Tyrin?" Jiro demanded, his voice dangerously soft. Tao stared fear in his eyes though it was quickly overcome by anger as he stood up, rubbing the cheek Jiro had hit.
"Yes. Yes I was. I'm tired of her beating me, she needed to feel how I feel for once" Tao snapped, a reddish tinge appearing in the depts of his deep chocolate eyes as he offered a grin that was any thing but friendly, "Wait until I tell father about this Jiro. You're going to be sorry!"
With that Tao vanished with more speed that he typically did. Jiro knew who had the Tailed Beast sealed within them now and the realization scared him. He remained frozen for several long moments when a hand on his shoulder brought him back from his thoughts.
"You should have let him beat me. We'll both be sorry now" Ty told him. She wasn't stupid, even before Jiro had told her of their father's experiments on the three of them she had known a great deal of what went on in her father's laboratory. She had even referred to it as the 'Monster Factory' within Jiro's hearing.
"I'm sorry" Jiro answered, closing his eyes and bowing his head. A ring of pressure around his middle startled him slightly, Ty didn't lightly touch any one unless she was fighting, so a hug was a surprise for Jiro. Her face remained pressed against his back for several long moments before she released him.
Moving up beside him Ty offered a weak smile that didn't fool Jiro one little bit. Tyrin almost never showed fear and on the rare occasioned it appeared on her features it was unmistakable, "It will be alright. Things always turn around one way or the other."
Jiro didn't smile back and his eyes were sad. He knew what waited for Ty when they returned home. As well as what fate awaited him.
Tao hesitated at the top of the stairs leading down to his father's laboratory. Despite the fact that his father favored him over Tyrin and Jiro, Tao was still afraid of his father.
"Are you going to stand there or come down Taokishi?" A dry, amused voice asked from seemingly thin air that was, in fact several cleverly hidden speakers.
Tao jumped visibly before descending the stairs mutely into his father's lab. The lab was very typical mad scientist lair, complete with a set of cells along one wall with a hallway leading back to more.
A protective mask concealed his father's features, though it was obvious that he was looking at Tao. Although he did his best not to show it outwardly Tao was nervous, he bowed respectfully to his father before speaking, "Father, Tyrin and I were sparring and when I was winning. Jiro appeared and hit me, saying was I pushing Tyrin to fast. He drove me away and I came straight to tell you."
The man was silent for a long moment and for a moment Tao was afraid his father wasn't going to believe him. Then... "Go back to the village. Tell them Tyrin and Jiro had an accident and will not be returning. Now"
Tao left. He went straight out the door and left for the Leaf Village. If his father was angry there was no telling what would happen...
Oh well Tao grinned to himself, Tyrin and Jiro will get what's coming to them...
Tyrin and Jiro arrived moments after Tao had left. Both exchanged a look before entering the 'White Tower of Death' as it was called in the village. They had barely gotten a foot in the door when they were seized by the guards their father had created.
The guards could most easily be described as minotaurs with their overly muscular, human-like bodies and bullish heads. Both Ty and Jiro struggled in the minotaurs' grips, but were unsuccessful in freeing themselves as they were dragged down the stairs into the lab.
The two were then separated with Tyrin being drug back to a dark cell located at nearly the end of the hall way. Just before she was thrown in, her father's pale, spider handed assistant snapped a silver collar around her neck and leered at her, "That keeps you from being able to build up any chakra or using any of the kekkei genkei the Master might have given you. Have fun experimenting!"
With that the minotaur hurled Ty into the cell and slammed the door. She hit the back wall and slid down with a soft grunt of pain, the walls were stone and those minotaurs had a mean throw... Rubbing the back of her head Ty growled angrily and reached for the chakra that had always come at her call.
Pain ripped through her body with the force of a lightening strike as the collar reacted. It sent the chakra back at her in the form of electricity that attacked her nerves. Ty opened her mouth in a soundless cry of pain as she fell to the floor.
No... Chakra... Wyrnstra...Ty tried to call out to the presence that had been with her in her mind since birth and there was no reply. Not even the evil black dragon Torak made so much as a peep.
"No..." Ty whispered and pulled up her left pants leg. The familiar green dragon that had always been there was gone... Sealed.
Ty corrected herself. She was powerless, unable to do a thing to save herself... A scream of pain in a painfully familiar voice interrupted her thoughts, but was quickly cut off.
Oh Jiro. I'm so sorry brotherTy thought silently as tears ran down her cheeks as Tyrin cried for the first time in a very long time. Ty cried until she fell asleep.
Tao stopped just outside the Village and put a hand to his ear as new orders from his father came in, "I have a change in plans my son. Tell them that Jiro was killed in a lab accident and that Tyrin has been drained of her chakra by another accident" A dry chuckled was given before the voice continued, "We don't need an investigation and if they are both dead they might see though my act."
Tao didn't reply simply because there was no mic for him to speak into. His father didn't like his orders being questioned. Tao then continued into the village, he now felt bad for the pain he had inflicted on the two people who cared for him, but the feel of victory that he would finally be better at some thing that Tyrin outweighed the feeling.