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Ch 14
"Hey wake up!" A deep voice drifted into the darkness. "Akatenchii- Chan wake up."
"Nnnn." Akatenchii groaned pain filled her senses. Who wants me to wake up...? I'm asleep... When did I go to sleep, how long have I been sleeping?
"Akatenchii can you hear me?" The voice caught her attention again, she could feel something tapping her cheek.
"Hnnn." Who's touching me...? Why can't I wake up?
"Akatenchii… WAKE UP!" There was a sound in the voice she could not place. "I'm sorry."
Sorry, sorry for what? Slap Pain spread through her jaw. What the hell? Who hit me? She coughed her eyes drifted open, settling uneasily on a masked dark figure kneeling over her.
"Hey, wow Hidan Sama did a number on you." Tobi muttered looking down at the wounds covering her naked body. "Hehe seems the only pieces of your clothes that survived were your cloak and your gloves."
She blinked and breathed out softly her eyes were unfocused in the darkness. "What are you doing?" She closed her blinked trying to focus.
"Well I am going to help you." Tobi murmured still scanning her body looking at her wounds. There is so much blood that I can't tell where she is injured and where she isn't, what hell did you endure at the hands of Hidan?
"Why would you do that?" She settled on the eyehole of his mask, making contact with the sharingan.
"Well, it is the right thing to do, but if you don't want me to I will leave and you can wait for someone else to come to you." He frowned behind his mask. "You reek of blood, and it won't take long for either Zetsu or Kisame to smell you if they don't smell you already."
Akatenchii blinked. "They don't concern me." She tried to sit up and groaned; as dizziness hit her she laid back down.
"They should, Zetsu is a cannibal although he has been ordered not to kill you the smell of your blood and the fact that you reek of sex will no doubt make you smell appealing to him, he may lose control violate those orders and kill you, or he may rape you." Tobi warned with a nonchalant shrug.
"What about Kisame?" She raised an eyebrow she had heard that name before and when she was younger she had had a few encounters with him, although at the time she did not know it till she told her master.
"Kisame has excellent control, but in the state you are in if he found you and you gave your usual honest answers he might get agitated and the smell of your blood is just going to make that easier, he might kill you just to get you out of his sight, cause I don't think his morals would be low enough to rape you when you are in this deplorable of a state." He looked down at her. "I really advise against doing this to yourself."
"How will you help me?" She asked. I know the odds aren't in my favor if I don't get help.
"Well first off I will take you to a shower and help to wash off the blood, then I will be able to properly assess your wounds and after I assess your wounds I will take you back to your room and heal them." He gripped her chin and tilted her head to the side looking at the wound going down her neck.
"Ok." Akatenchii looked to the side, she felt his fingers leave her face. Hey what about clothes?
Tobi placed one hand below her shoulders and the other under her knees, he lifted her gently, holding her to his chest, wrapping her cloak around her body.
She laid her cheek against his chest as he released the seal and carried her out of the room and down the hall; her cloak covering her body from view, her eyes half lidded and her arms laid limply between her stomach and his chest.
Shit you really are fucked up. A shudder raked her body when she tried to move her arm. Well hell, so this is what happen to your nerves when you get a kunai shoved into your wrist. There was a dry humor in the voice that rang through her mind.
You have a worse sense of humor than Okami… on second thought no you don't you don't think eating people is entertaining or good. Her attention was brought back to the person who was carrying her as she felt him shift her body to one arm and reach out with the other watching as he opened a door.
The room was warmly lit, a black marble sink sat against the wall adjacent to the door, the faucet and knobs were silver, there was a silvery cabinet with a mirror hanging above the sink.
The bath tub was black marble with red lines running through it, the faucet was a silver eagle, the knobs were silver stars; the shower head was broad taking up about 2 feet of the wall.
Tobi sat Akatenchii gently on the floor; he pulled her cloak off of her being careful not to twist her wrist as he pulled it from her body.
Akatenchii watched as Tobi walked over to the bath and turned on the water. "Can you stand?" Tobi asked not bothering to look back as he adjusted the water temperature.
"I don't know." She muttered bending at the waist into a sitting position, blinking as the skin where she had been stabbed in the hip strained. Well this is uncomfortable.
She looked at her wrist. I can't support my weight on my hands to push myself up, and if I stand using only my legs I'm going to tear the wound on my hip open again.
The blood was dry as she shifted her legs to where she was sitting on her knees; she started pushing off the floor with her legs ignoring the pain as she started to push up.
A grunt left her mouth as she lost her balance and started falling foreword, taking in a sharp breath as a hand caught her before she hit the floor.
"If you need help all you needed to do was ask me, I'm trying to heal you not hurt you." Tobi chided pulling her back into his chest holding her to her feet. "Now, do you think you can be stable on you own and bathe or will you need assistance?" He chuckled
"I can bathe on my own thank you." She breathed out, shaking her head.
"Are you sure you aint gonna fall over?" He asked releasing her.
"I'm sure." She assured him. Ok here is your first challenge…take a step and don't fall over.
Tobi looked at her and shook his head; a small grin curled the corner of his lips under his mask.
"Ok, I'll be here if you need help… have fun walking cause unless you realign your knee caps it isn't going to happen." He murmured walking over to a shelf and grabbing a rag and towel, he placed the rag on the side of the tub, then turned off the water, he put the towel on the back of the toilet, then he turned to leaning against the sink, while he watched Akatenchii bend over and realign her knee caps.
Akatenchii sighed and started walking to the shower. Man how fucked up is this, that masked freak is going to watch you take a shower… he even offered to help you clean yourself if you can't.
She shook her head as she reached the bath tub, it was about half full of water. Wow you can walk, now here is your second challenge… lift your foot over the side of the tub. Her mind seemed content on picking out every little challenge it could.
She breathed out and placed her hand against the wall and stepped up, blinking as she felt the wound on her hip split a little. Don't say a word, your humor and other useless emotions are not needed.
Tobi watched as she stepped into the water and blood stared running down her leg. All you need to do is ask for help. He watched her attempt to sit down and moved, catching her with one arm around her waist before she fell.
"I told you to ask for help." He muttered lowering her into the water. He looked at the lacerations and stab wounds on her wrist. So Kakuzu's tendrils had some adverse affects on you. He grabbed her arm and gently ran his fingers over the wounds. Damn it goes through the bones to. His eyes focused on the hole that went straight through her wrist.
"Move your fingers." He muttered watching her hand twitch as she tried to move it. "I thought so."
He grabbed the rag with his other hand and released her wrist, grabbing a bar of soap and soaping the rag.
"What are you doing?" She blinked as she felt the rag rubbing down her back.
"Well you can't move your hands, and you are covered in blood so I am washing the blood off of you." Tobi rubbed the cloth down her back, watching the dried blood start to run and flake off of her body.
Akatenchii looked at her wrist as they sat uselessly in the water; the blood running off of her body was rapidly turning the water a deep reddish brown.
Her eyes went wide as his hand came around to her stomach; she blinked as he brought the cloth up her stomach, and continued upwards missing no area of her body.
He brought the rag to her neck, cleaning the wound that stretched down it, he looked down and frown, he reached up and pulled the plug watching the deep rusty water as it drained out of the tub slowly.
Akatenchii's hands rested across her abdomen on her thighs, covering her lower body from view as Tobi ran new water into the bath.
She shut her eyes as he continued to wash her neck; she opened her eyes as she felt his hand traveled across her shoulders and down her left arm.
"I see you figured out how to get the tendrils off." He muttered washing the wounds on her wrist then moving to the other.
Her eyes went wide as him release her wrist, letting it lie gently in her lap.
His hand then moved down between her legs and he could feel her tense as he started washing her inner thighs.
This is totally awkward; the masked freak is now washing you like a pet and you can't do anything about it.
She took in a breath and held it as he continued to clean her, releasing the breath when his hand moved away from her inner thighs to the kunai wound on her hip.
"This is deep." He murmured as he washed the wound, he worked his way down her legs making sure all blood was off of her body.
He pulled the plug letting the water drain once more. "I'll help you get up and out before you hurt yourself." He muttered shaking his head as he looked at the pale grey eyes of the woman, he grabbed her around the upper arm with one hand and pulled her to her feet also providing her balance as she stepped.
He looked at her wrist and sighed. This could take a while. He grabbed slid his hand to her forearm and pulled her closer to him. "I'm going to heal one of your wrists here so you can hold the towel."
Akatenchii blinked then nodded, watching as he started to heal her wrist, using chakra to make the cells grow.
Well he doesn't seem like the rest of the people here. She sighed as she could feel the rapid healing and the pain that came with it.
If he aint like them what the hell is he doin here? That was actually a good inquiry for once.
"Try to move your fingers." Tobi's voice drew her eyes upward, then she looked at her wrist, she tried to close her hand into a fist but it was a jerky movement.
"Keep flexing your hand." He murmured watching her hand as it jerked unsteadily the first few times she balled it into a fist. "Does your hand hurt?"
"No." She shook her head as she balled her hand into a fist again.
"Is it numb?" He asked taking it in his hand making her flatten it as he squeezed in the center on the palm, then released and moved to the heel, then to the wrist where the kunai went through doing the same thing.
"No, I can feel everything." She watched as he released her hand.
"Good." He turned and grabbed the towel handing it to her. "Now let's go so I can finish healing you." He muttered watching her wrap her body in the towel.
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Kisame walked into the kitchen, a look of annoyance played on his face, he had asked everybody he came in contact with if they had washed the prisoner in his bathroom; most of the people contended that they had not even seen the prisoner, let alone taken her to shower in his bathroom.
Hidan's response was he had fucked the sinful woman, and then took a shower in his own bathroom, and Itachi the only person who had permission to go in the bathroom because they shared it told him he was wasting his time by asking because he had not even been around her, and would not waste his time.
Kisame reached the liquor cabinet and pulled out a bottle of sake, he walked over to the tabled and sat down; he pulled the cork from the bottle and raised it to his lips taking a big swig.
He looked over his shoulder as he heard people walking down the hall, Tobi was walking next to the prisoner, and she was wrapped in an orange towel.
Akatenchii stopped looking over her shoulder making eye contact with the blue man; she could plainly see the annoyance and agitation on his face as he stared back at her.
"Come on Akatenchii." Tobi's voice made Kisame and Akatenchii shift their vision away from each other.
"I want to ask her a question." Kisame muttered standing up.
Akatenchii watched cautiously as he walked up to her.
"Your hair is still wet." He muttered brushing the wet hair from her face with his fingers. He gazed upon the mark for a moment. "Was today the first day you bathed?" His eyes locked onto her light grey eyes once more.
"Yes… why?" She inquired her other injured hand rested limply at her side.
"No reason" He muttered. So they weren't lying. "What bathroom did you bathe in?" He asked.
"She bathed in my bathroom, look at the towel." Tobi interjected.
"Oh yes, sorry." Kisame muttered walking back into the kitchen as the two walked away.
"That woman is a fool." A voice drew his attention up, his eyes coming to rest on the sharingan of his partner. "That she is." He muttered in agreement.
"She knows vaguely who we are, and she knows the dangers we present." Itachi muttered sitting next to Kisame at the table waving his hand as his partner offers him the sake bottle. "Yet she has refused the offer that leader has made to her, and she is currently with one of the most dangerous people here."
Kisame tilted his head it is true Tobi was possibly one of the most dangerous people in the organization, he took another swig from the bottle. "I wonder how long it is going to take for Tobi to lose his patience with her." He chuckled at the thought of Tobi losing his pleasant edge and no longer being Tobi, but be his true self Madara.
"Even if he lost his patience, Madara wants her to get Orochimaru's ring, he would stay pleasant to her for that purpose alone, and he wants her to join the organization; he would not be being this pleasant to her now if he didn't." Itachi muttered grabbing an apple from a fruit bowl in the center of the table. "And besides that according to Kakuzu the Mizukage is offering a lot of money for anyone who can bring that woman back."
Kisame blinked he knew that Anbu were special to the Mizukage, he also knew that the Mizukage was strict and once a person who was missing was returned to him, unless there was a damn good reason for their absence he would kill them for abandoning the village.
"That is odd." He muttered.
"What is odd?" Itachi inquired taking a bite of his apple and looking at his partner.
"You said the Mizukage is offering a money reward for the return of the woman." Kisame looked at his partner.
Itachi nodded and swallowed. "Kakuzu had a poster with her info on it; he got it from a traveler from mist."
"Why would a tool matter so much to the Mizukage, he will just replace her?" The question was more for himself than Itachi, but it came out anyway.
"Well think about her skill level, if it is what people say then if I were the Mizukage I would offer money for her return also." Itachi muttered taking another bite of his apple.
"Do you know how much the Mizukage was offering?" Kisame asked almost jumping as Kakuzu's voice came from behind him.
"He is offering 20 million Ryu for her safe return, and 10 million for the return of her body." Kakuzu snickered. "If it weren't for the fact that Madara wants her here I might be tempted to take her back just for the money."
"Hehe, very funny." Kisame shook his head and took another drink of sake, then he offered the bottle to Kakuzu.
Kakuzu shrugged and took the bottle; he pulled down his mask and took a drink and sat the bottle down in front of Kisame, and sat across from him and Itachi.
"Kisame didn't you say you had previous interactions with Akatenchii?" Itachi asked taking another bite of his apple.
"Yeah, I met her for the first time about a month before I left mist, and after that I had a few run ins with her, the main one was at the last chuunin exam I went to." Kisame muttered grabbing the bottle and taking another drink.
"Ten years ago, so that was right before you left your village." Itachi muttered thinking for a moment.
"Then she would only have been a small child, around 9 or 10 years old." Kakuzu stated. "That also means she took the exam before mist changed and joined with the other villages." He murmured thinking about their bloody initiations where only the true shinobi became shinobi and the rest perished.
"Yes she was with a team and all the kids seemed to be at least five years her senior, she was the only one from that little group who lived, and after every event she always met up with a white haired child, the Mizukage and an Anbu." Kisame muttered.
"Did you watch the entire exam?" Itachi asked taking another bite of the apple.
"I watched most of it, I did not get to see the beginning of the exam, not that I would want to, watching children fail at cheating off of each other is not my thing." Kisame muttered. "Her group work consisted of pointing out how the other people around her were missing obvious things, and it was her who got the item to complete their group mission, she is a very good thief she stole what she needed from a person while she was face to face with the person."
Kakuzu reached over and grabbed the sake bottle. "And out of her group she was the only one to survive?" he took a drink from the bottle and sat it back on the table.
"Yeah, when it came to the blood competition where they turned the children against each other and made them fight to the death, they would put them in two or four at a time, and in a group of four every once and while there would be two that survived, but usually it was just one." Kisame stated grabbing an apple.
"Well it is obvious that she was victorious." Itachi muttered taking another bite of his apple.
"Yeah, her match was a match of four, and everyone in the arena with her was at least five if not six years her senior, so they decided to work together and take her out first." Kisame took a bite of his apple.
"Three on one, that should have taken care of her." Kakuzu muttered taking another sip of sake.
"That girl didn't even bat an eye she dodged all of the attacks that came at her, she made her opponents look unskilled." Kisame muttered. "She acted like it was a game, at first all the hits she landed were not fatal, they were just high impact Tai jutsu to the joints of the shoulders, and knees"
"Oh so she completely disabled her opponents ability to move." Itachi blinked sitting the core of his apple down on the table.
"Yeah, and she did this to two of her opponents." Kisame snickered softly.
"What has amused you?" Itachi asked looking at his partner.
"After she disabled the two she totally ignored the third person in the battle, she ran circles around the two who could not move, she had a blade of some sort because she cut them to ribbons." Kisame muttered taking a bite of his apple.
"And what about the other person in the battle?" Kakuzu asked, he actually had mild interest now.
"That person tried to trap her in a water prison, he missed her and she got a hit to his knee." Kisame smirked. "The girl did something I had never seen before, she made three clones, the clones and her surrounded the other kid and held out the left hand to the opponent, and the right hand to the side to the right."
Kakuzu blinked. "So she made a continuous flow of chakra and focused that chakra to the center."
"Yes, but she use the water prison attack and the concentrated chakra created extremely high pressure and it crushed the kid." Kisame muttered. "I had never seen that attack used like that, nor had I thought of using the attack like that."
Kakuzu chuckled. "So she used a simple attack for bloody purposes." It was simple and effective. "She became one of how many chuunin that year?" He asked.
"Out of 30 genin she became one of ten chuunin." Kisame smirked. "She was covered from head to toe in blood, but she hardly had a scratch on her."
"So this is what amuses you." Itachi muttered.
"That and she killed without batting an eye, it was almost like she did not feel anything for it, all other genin from her group showed remorse and some feeling." Kisame took another bite of his apple.
"Ah that is the source of your amusement, she was an assassin at a young age and she did not have the weakness that the others had, she did not feel remorse for killing." Itachi muttered standing up and leaving the room.
"That is interesting." Kakuzu stated taking a swig of the sake before handing the bottle back to Kisame, he stood left the room.
Interesting indeed, I wonder how much she has changed. Kisame grabbed his apple core and tossed it in the trash; he then exited the room walking silently down the hall.