I do not own anything from Naruto. I only own the Abare and all mentions to the Village Hidden in the Blaze.
"Samuru, I have a mission for you," Tsunade spoke as she sat at her desk.
It has been a week since the Abare Siblings has been rescued by the Hyuuga siblings and the sand siblings. Chii had left with Gaara and his siblings to see if she could regain any memories and Samuru wasn't worried because his jutsu couldn't be broken, not even by the strongest mind user.
"What's this mission?" Samuru asked as he slid his hands inside the sleeves of his Akatsuki cloak.
"A feudal lord needs an escort back to his property on the southern border. I want you to go with team Kurenai in this mission," Tsunade spoke as the office door opened and Samuru saw the Hyuuga princess followed by the boy who let bugs live inside his body then the boy who had the white dog and the woman with brown hair. "Kurenai, Samuru will be coming with you on the mission. Be at the gate in one hour and I'll escort the feudal lord down."
"Yes milady," Kurenai spoke and they all left.
One hour later everyone was at the gate waiting for the feudal lord and Tsunade. Samuru wore a similar uniform to what Kakashi Hatake wore face mask included except his forehead protector was tied to his thigh right above the kunai pouch on his left leg. Soon the older man arrived with Tsunade and they were on their way.
Chii got a few glares from the gate shinobi and frowned as she was led into the village. Temari had an arm around her shoulder and kept her from running off, but it didn't stop her from pulling a strand of hair over her shoulder and started to fiddle around with it. They got to the Kazekage manor and went inside. Chii didn't say anything but felt a small headache start to come on as she looked around the living room.
"Have I been in here before?" Chii asked, looking at Temari as she walked past her into the kitchen.
"Yeah, you stayed here for a while before you got kidnapped," Kankuro spoke.
"Why did those shinobi glare at me? Did I do something?" Chii asked and the siblings looked at each other.
"Kankuro, Temari, go out and get some take out for dinner. Chii, I'll answer your questions to the best that I can," Gaara spoke as he pulled off his gourd and sat on the couch. Chii sat down on the other end of the couch and turned her body so she could look at him. "Those men had gotten injured when your captors had gotten you because you are an Abare. It's nothing against you personally but towards your abilities. Just like how the Akatsuki want jinchuuriki, they thought they could get your ice abilities."
Chii nodded and sighed.
"Are you okay?" Gaara asked and she nodded.
"Just a small headache, probably from the heat," Chii whispered.
"Do you need anything?"
"Probably just some water," Chii whispered rubbing the sides of her temple. Gaara nodded and got up and walked into the kitchen.
'Let's go play Chi-Chi!' A voice echoed inside my head. 'Dei and the others are being mean to me.'
Chii could see a blurred figure in her mind, wearing a blue shirt and black pants. This person for some reason had their fingers and toes painted black. She couldn't see their face though it was completely blurred. Chii pressed her fingers to her temples and closed her eyes to try and focus.
'Yo, Chii, get out of there! You're taking too long!' someone yelled banging on the bathroom door. 'We don't have all day to wait for some bitch!' Chii opened the door and broke the nose of whomever it was, they were blurred too but she couldn't even make out what he was wearing, then she kneed him in the gut before closing the bathroom door.
"Chii, what is it?" Gaara called and Chii lifted her head and saw him in front of her with a water bottle in his hands.
"I don't know, I keep seeing blurred images as well as people talking but I can't make anything out. It hurts…" Chii whimpered as she closed her eyes and saw orange hair of six people and blue hair of another.
'When will you learn to stop defying me?' one of the orange heads spoke as the crack of a whip against Chii's back sounded. 'Sooner you learn to listen the sooner you won't be punished.'
"Chii stop!" Chii felt herself being shaken and snapped her eyes open to see Gaara kneeling in front of her. "Stop thinking about it, you'll hurt yourself faster than you can recover."
"I don't want to think about it," Chii cried. "I saw someone… they were whipping me… but it made no sense to what he said. Something about as soon as I learned to listen the sooner punishments would stop. What has being going on the past two years? I wouldn't get into something like that…"
Gaara wrapped his arms around her and she started to sob into his chest. Gaara didn't know how to comfort her with this. Samuru said she wouldn't remember anything and yet here she was remembering conversations and blurs of people.
'Is she remembering the Akatsuki already?' Gaara thought slightly panicked as he pulled Chii into his arms and carried her upstairs to a different guest room, hoping to stop the memories from coming back. He summoned a clone and sent it to the Kazekage tower to write a message to Tsunade about the situation. Instead of a normal three day journey it had taken six days because Chii didn't want to run.
"Take cover!" Kurenai yelled to the team as a kunai hit the ground in front of them with an explosive tag tied to it. Samuru grabbed Hodaini, the feudal lord, and pulled him behind a tree trunk as the rest of the team disappeared behind trees of their own as the tag exploded. "Shino, Hinata, get Hodaini out of here. Kiba, double fang attack, Samuru use what technique you have. We have to get these three taken care of and get to the others."
Samuru summoned his ice and stood with his arms crossed as the ice went forward and wrapped around the neck of one of the men and constricted, breaking his spine. Kurenai and Kiba seemed to be able to handle their own so Samuru dashed after the others and saw all three of them pinned down and there were 8 more men. Samuru lunged into the clearing, with twin ice katanas and killed the three men that had Shino and Hodaini pinned.
The sound of Hinata screaming alerted Samuru to see her being dragged off. Samuru dashed after her, sending ice kunai at the men around her. Soon there was only one man left and he had an arm wrapped around Hinata's neck as they stood on the edge of the cliff that over looked the water. Samuru froze slightly, seeing the fear on the princess's face and the smug look on the man's.
"Should have thought about that more," he smirked before he tossed the girl over the edge.
Samuru shot two ice kunai at him before diving off the cliffs. Hinata was trying to angle her body horizontally to fall slower so Samuru dove head first after her and pulled her into his arms and turned around so they were both going head first. Hinata buried her head in the crook of his arms as he wrapped his arms around her and summoned his ice around them to break the impact of the water.
"Where are Hinata and Samuru and Shino?" Kurenai snapped as she entered the clearing where Hodaini was sitting next to a freshly built fire.
"I heard a scream by the cliffs," the old man spoke calmly and Kurenai dashed in the direction he pointed and saw Shino on the edge of the cliffs.
"Shino, where are they?"
"it had been a diversion. We had been attacked by more men and one captured Hinata. Samuru was able to kill them all but not before one threw her off the cliff. He dove after her," Shino spoke calmly. Kurenai looked over the edge of the cliff and saw Hinata on Samuru's back as he was climbing the face of the cliff. "The water must have been cold, Hinata is paler than normal."
Soon they were close to the top and they could hear Hinata's chattering teeth as she shook. Shino and Kurenai reached down and pulled Hinata up and Samuru climbed up. Hinata was shaking badly as Kurenai wrapped an arm around her and pulled her back into the forest. Kurenai heard the other two boys following and soon Hinata was by the fire with several blankets wrapped around her and she was drinking some tea.
"Samuru, how are you not cold?" Kiba asked.
"I am an Ice User, I don't get cold," Samuru spoke calmly as he sat against a tree.
"Thank… you for… saving me…" Hinata forced out through her shaking.
"Don't worry about it," Samuru spoke calmly. "Just worry about warming up. That water was probably close to freezing temperatures."
"Samuru," a familiar boisterous voice called before the familiar blond haired hyper-active ninja appeared with his pink haired teammate.
"It's Chii…" sakura gasped and Samuru jumped to his feet and dashed out of the clearing to a ways away from the others. "Gaara sent a message, saying that she's starting to get flashbacks. She doesn't see any faces, only blurs but remembers some conversations. No names have been mentioned though she said she remembered seeing six people with orange hair as well as someone with blue hair."
"Damn, she shouldn't have been able to get past my jutsu," Samuru muttered. "Will you and Naruto finish my mission for me? I need to get to her before she remembers then get pissed at everyone for lying."
"Good luck, hope you can get those memories to stay locked away," Sakura whispered and Samuru nodded and dashed off into the forest.