Author's Note: Here is chapter 2. I have added a little content, but not a whole lot. Remember from the original the first few chapters were backstory.
o----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Chapter 2: Remembrance------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------o
It was decided that Kin would stay with Naruto. Obviously he'd be taking the floor. Naruto had suggested having her stay with Sakura but Kakashi refused. "No Naruto...not until I speak to the council..." The copy-nin groaned and slapped his forehead. "Of all the times to be without a Hokage..." He shrugged it off. "Nothing we can do...get going Naruto."
For once Naruto left without protest. Kin followed shuffling her feet. Her mind drifted back to the coffin...
OoFlashbackoO
It was dark...very dark. Everything was...closing in...tight. So close. Darkness everywhere. Her rapid breathing was echoing around the inside making the inside seem to be squeezing her to death. She had to get out. Had to get out. She started scratching at the inside of the coffin. Her nail broke. Her nails were now jagged and broken.
She changed to banging. She screamed herself hoarse. Then the crying came. The hopeless desperate tears. 'Why? Why me? I...I...Do I deserve to die like this?' She cried some more.'I do...I do. I followed him. I deserved this.'
Salvation came the next day. In the sound of a voice screaming. It came again five minutes later when a blond haired boy opened the coffin. Salvation came when he held her in his surprised arms after she rocketed out. For the first time in ten years she felt almost safe. Almost...not quite. He was safe. The village was not.
OoEnd flashbackoO
Kin looked over at said boy. He seems kind of goofy...whisker marks? But...I have to admit. I saw him fight in the exams...he's STRONG! Well atleast stronger than we were. And kind of...cute? Cute? Where did that come from? She sighed a bit at how odd supposedly normal thoughts were for her. Naruto glanced at her from the corner of his eye when he heard the sound. Kin knew that girls her age weren't supposed to be freaked out by thinking someone was...nice. Then again normal had been torn away from her. The final rip had come recently...
OoFlashbackoO
She was in the hospital with a concussion. She'd just lost the Chuunin exams prelims. Orochimaru walked in. She slowly muttered an apology. "O...Orocimaru-s...sama...I'm sorry..." The Snake Sannin smiled in a way that chilled her to the bones. "Don't worry little Kin-chan...I still have use for you..."
The next day she was put under stasis and had no memory between that and awakening in the coffin.
OoEnd FlashbackoO
They arrived at Naruto's apartment and he helped her to a seat on the small ratty couch. She hadn't noticed his looks of concern. She was too deep in thought.
OoYes...another flashback...few more to go...oO
They had barely escaped the raging Sasuke. Her teammates glared at her. "What the Hell Kin? You weak little girl you let that pink haired BITCH back there beat the snot out of you!" They keep on verbally abusing her. Both Zaku and Dosu. Yelling. Screaming. Some team mates they were...it was these things that had forced Kin to become cold. And force down all the pain and sorrow.
OoEnd flashbackoO
After a few minutes of what he saw as awkward silence Naruto led her to the table and sat her down. He fetched some ramen. "Kin-chan? Did anyone care about you in Otogakure?" He asked. She looked down in shame.
OoAnother flashbackoO
They were training for the Chuunin Exams. Kin was tired. Dosu and Zaku had been using her for sparring practice all day. They kept shattering her genjutsu with sound waves and then used their own specialties to send her flying. The Melody Arm and Sound Cannons kept bruising her more and more.
"You're weak Kin! You'll never pass! Nobody cares about you because you're weak!"
Then came the best day of her life. A big zombie picked up Zaku and threw him into Dosu. "Hey! You shithead punks! That's no way to treat a kunoichi!" It was Tayuya...
OoEnd flashbackoO
"M...maybe..." Kin stuttered quietly. "What was that?" Naruto was surprised to get an answer.
Kin answered again. "I...m...might have a friend...one...just one..." Naruto smiled. "That's great!"
OoFlashbackoO
Tayuya and her had met at the Otogakure Ninja Academy. Due to the amount of orphans it was a live-in academy.
They were almost happy. They never left each other because kunoichi were looked down upon for some reason. They had to stick together. The cruelness directed at them was the first step to their emotional...icy-ness.
Tayuya was much more talented at Genjutsu with her flute. Especially once she learned to Summon the Doki. So Kin was again alone when Tayuya became a Genin early on and quickly rose through the ranks to find a place amongst of the Sound Five.
OoEnd FlashbackoO
Naruto continued. "You know Kin-chan...I could be friend number two..." Kin looked up in shock. "R...really?"
Naruto nodded with that big smile of his. "Of course! I mean...you seem nice enough! And you need a friend too-" He was cut off when Kin spontaneously hugged him. A friend...
Naruto broke the silence with the worst question imaginable. "Are your parents in Sound?"
OoFinal FlashbackoO
Kin was five. Her family had always been poor. But they got along fine. It was her dad and her mom. In the Smoke Village the made a living. Her mother ran a shop selling musical instruments. She specialized in custom bells and chimes. Her father was a Chuunin. But then...
Then her mother died. Her father no longer took missions. He was grief stricken. He shunned his own daughter because she looked like her mother. She had to feed herself. She struggled to run the shop. But the stock soon ran out. Her father would beat her...then...then he sold her.
To Orochimaru. To that bastard, that two-tongue, two-faced, snake man with the twisted promises!
OoEnd flashbackoO
Kin finished her ramen. "No...they're are dead..."
Naruto gulped. Naruto baka!!! Why'd you say that? She must have had a horrible life. Poor Kin-chan. A fire appeared in his eyes. I swear on my Nindo that I will protect you and be a good friend and help you have a happy life from now on Kin-chan! While he was thinking that the young kunoichi yawned.
Naruto stood and ran over to help her up. "You can sleep in a bed tonight! I'll be fine on the floor!" She was too tired to protest as he led her over to the bed and tucked her in. There we go Kin-chan! Sleep well! And I will do my best to keep my word! Erm...thought! A future Hokage must do his best and keep his word!
After he left Kin looked out the window. Thank you Kami...you have given me another chance. And thank you for sending Naruto-kun to help me. He is so kind... She drifted off to sleep.