Chapter six

I hate you.

Sakura and Eden were in the library, looking up stuff on all the other villages.

"I have bad news." Sakura spoke up, breaking the silence. Eden looked at her curiously.

"Like what?" she asked, her eyes not leaving some copies of previous peace treaties between Konoha and Sound.

Sakura cleared her throat. "Orochimaru is sending Karin and her pals on this surveillance mission instead of going himself, Kabuto has also given up on getting her to spy on us."

Eden's jaw dropped. "Fuck that!" She reached over to Sakura's side and picked up another document.

"Orochimaru thinks I'm up to something, so he's just trying to trick me. He keeps putting off his leaving to see if I'll freak out."

Sakura looked up at the door and glanced at Eden. The other girl turned to see who was there and quickly stood. Apollo quickly made his way to them.

"What are you guys up to?" he asked, genuine curiosity in his voice. Eden glared at him and left.

He looked at Sakura with a confused look. She smiled apologetically.

"It's not really you, she hates that you're related to Kabuto." She explained to him.

He just shrugged it off. "What exactly did he do to her to make her hate him so much?" Sakura looked down at the floor.

"He does things to her Apollo, she's never been treated right."

His eyes darkened. "You mean he rapes her." This was a statement not a question.

Sakura nodded. "She's so afraid of letting people close, we've been roommates for nearly a year and it was only earlier this week she made any efforts to be friends. She still thinks I'm annoying."

He shrugged at this. "My brother ran away about a year ago, I needed more training to become a medic, and my cousin was the only person I could think of to help me."

"Who's your brother?" Sakura asked.

"You'll laugh."

She shook her head. "I promise I wont."

Apollo took a deep breath, "His name is Adonis." Sakura smiled.

"You both are named after Greek gods? That's creative." Apollo looked at her sheepishly.

"My mom thought we were perfect, hence the names." He paused. "Look if it helps her any, I know a lot about my about my cousin that could be of use to her."

Sakura thought about that. Orochimaru kept putting off his mission. If Apollo could get into their circle, he could give them the pointers that even Eden would never been able to get.

"I'll talk to her but don't hold your breath."

He smiled and began putting the scrolls and documents away until he came across an older scroll.

Wonder what Eden would want with these dark jutsus; she doesn't know how to use them does she? He wondered as he looked over the scroll. His eyes widened as he saw the stuff it required to master the arts.

"Sakura, come check this out real quick." She wandered over there. Her eyes widened as well when she saw.

"You don't think she was actually going to use these do you? I mean would she even be able to? Don't you have to be from that religious group in the Mist to use these kinds of jutsu's?" Sakura sounded worried.

Apollo shook his head. "The can also just be descendants of them. If her parent or parents were really loyal to the religion, they probably went through a ceremony that affected her Jutsu abilities."

The pink haired girl looked down.

"Lets go, we can keep researching in my room, Eden will come back shortly."

She and Apollo headed to her room.

After hurrying from the library, Kabuto pulled Eden into his study.

"What the hell do you think your doing?! I have to go." She freaked when her pushed her against the wall.

"Hey! Be careful of the baby asshole!"

he smirked.

"Actually it was false alarm."

She glared at him. "Good, I didnt want to have your stupid child anyway! Now let me go!"

He punched her hard in the face. She slumped against the wall as the shock took over. She shook her head. "Let me go!" another punch.

He slammed her against the wall again. She cried out and sank to the floor and curled up into a ball.

He kicked her repeatedly. After he was finished, he yanked her up by her hair.

"Now wasn't that refreshing?" he asked her darkly.

She spat in his face. "Fuck you!"

He hit her hard once again. She slumped to the floor.

A few hours later when Sakura looked at the clock she became nervous.

"I wonder where Eden is, she's never been pissed off this long before." She looked at Apollo.

"Maybe she's still just walking around." He suggested. As soon as he said these words she walked into the room. Sakura gasped. Edens lip was bleeding again and she grasped her ribcage.

"What the hell did he do to you?!"

Eden looked at her defeatedly, "He pulled me into his office, told me I wasn't really pregnant, and proceeded to beat me til I passed out. Stupid bitch ass mother fucker!" She screamed as she threw a book at wall.

"Why the hell are you here?!" she screamed at Apollo.

He looked at her. "I was researching with Sakura, you really had her worried." She glared at him.

"Why the hell do you care?" she crossed her arms.

"I'm not like my cousin Eden, I can actually act like a human."

She looked at him. "That doesn't mean a thing to me, I'd probably still hate you even if I trusted you."

He smiled good heartedly. "I could deal with that."

Sakura looked at Apollo with a curious look. She was starting to form an idea.

"Well Apollo, I'm tired and Eden really needs rest, so we'll meet with you tomorrow." He waved to them and Eden caught herself waving back as he left.

When he was gone Sakura turned to her.

"You know he likes you Eden, I can tell." Sakura sat on her bed. Eden looked away.

"Well good for him." Sakura looked closely at Eden and laughed.

"I can't even mention him without you blushing! You like him too."

Eden looked down.

It was true. She liked him but it could never work. He was nice, she had to give him that, but she didn't think she could ever fully trust him. Besides he could do better. Orochimaru made it a point to tell her how much of a failure she was all the time.

"So what? Sure he's cute, but it won't work so don't even think about it." She gave Sakura a meaningful look. Sakura just laid on her bed.

"Go to sleep Eden, you need to rest so you can heal."

Eden laid back on her bed and closed her eyes. For once as she fell asleep she didn't feel afraid of what tomorrow would bring.