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"We get along just fine, I say everything you like to hear. It's funny how much I feel like I'm looking in a mirror." - VocaCircus (Copycat)
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My name is Kuroba Kaida.
I am a kunoichi of Konoha.
I am the vessel for the last of the dragons.
I am from another world.
YoU Do Not BeLong HeRe.
My name is Kuroba Kaida.
I am a kunoichi of Konoha.
I am the vessel for the last of the dragons.
I a-
YoU Do Not BeLong HeRe.
My name is Kaida.
I am a kunoichi-
YoU Do Not BeLong HeRe.
My name is…
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Kabuto wondered why Orochimaru even bother with the girl.
She was unresponsive. Silent. Almost like a doll.
She did nothing, but stare at the wall.
She would not respond to the torture they put her through.
Yet Orochimaru kept her alive. 'She is special.' He told him, 'She must remain alive.'
Kabuto stared down at the mess of white that was the girl. Her hair, though it was originally pure white, was fading and falling out from the drugs Kabuto used. He had cut it even shorter than it already was. That was the first torture. To ruin her vanity.
But she did not care.
Her hair was unevenly cut, longer on one side and shorter on the other. Her skin was paler than how it was when she came in. So pale, you could see her veins. Her eyes had lost their fight to them, with dark bags underneath. Bruises, puncture marks, and whip lashes scarred her skin.
But she did not care.
When she became completely unresponsive, Kabuto believed it was because she had shut her own mind down to stay sane. She didn't eat, didn't sleep, didn't drink, didn't respond to pain, nothing.
But one of the prisoners in the cell next to her had said she would sing for the other prisoners.
So Kabuto decided to see it for himself. And when she was responsive, strike hard like Orochimaru would do.
It was late, and she was still in her unresponsive phase. She wore a dirtied white rose as clothes, for hers were taken away when Orochimaru decided to let his men rape her. Kabuto remembered how horrified she was in the beginning. She cried that day, begging them to stop. But they were Orochimaru's men. They did not succumb to sympathy.
After that, Orochimaru began to experiment on her body. Kabuto was by his side, naturally.
Orochimaru told him that anesthesia would not be needed. So Kabuto watched as the girl screamed and cried whilst Orochimaru and him dissected her.
When the interrogation process began, Orochimaru allowed him to be the leader. Kabuto asked all the questions Orochimaru told him to ask. But even after being threatened with death, the girl stayed mute.
She was loyal, but why to this extent?
Kabuto could empathize with her on that level. He was loyal to Orochimaru til the end, even with being threatened. He would last through the torture for Orochimaru.
So as he examined her, curled into the corner of the dark, cold, murky cell, he began to admire her spirit. Her loyalties.
Her body stirred, making Kabuto's eyes snap towards her face. She looked dull and unresponsive for a moment, before something flickered in her eyes.
He recognized it. The same passion she had when she came in was flickering in her eyes.
"Kaida...chan?" Her heard the prisoner in the next cell whisper. He had been a Konoha shinobi Orochimaru had kidnapped to get answers out of. He was scheduled to be executed soon.
The girl, Kaida, managed to form a small smirk on her chapped lips. "T-Tora…" She whispered out. Her voice was raspy, quiet, and cracked.
"...Good… You're alive… After the last… torture… I was afraid…" He coughed. Kabuto noticed the blood that came out of his mouth.
"Mm… Don't worry.. I'm tough." She said with a grin.
Kabuto couldn't believe how young she was.
According to Orochimaru, she was nine years old. Her birthday was coming up, and Orochimaru said he had something special planned just for her.
But the girl in front of him was in no way a child.
"C-can… you sing?" He heard Tora whisper.
"I can…"
"Can you sing.. That song… the really pretty one?"
"Yeah…"
Kabuto made a move to stand from the place he was leaning on. He was prepared to strike, just like he had planned.
But then she opened her mouth,
And Kabuto couldn't help but listen.
In the early morning,
The darkest dawn.
Hear the trumpets sounding,
Love's final song.
Kiss me, fade away just far enough I'm drifting.
Touch you so I know that I'm not dreaming.
Safe until the night is gone.
It was in some language Kabuto had never heard before. But it was beautiful, even if her voice was cracked an in barely a whisper. It was hauntingly beautiful, just like her.
When Kabuto looked at her again, he could safely say that she was beautiful. The scars over her body just… made her look so…
Kabuto took a step forward, the singing stopped.
He entered the cell, closing the door behind him. He stared down at her.
She looked up, those blue eyes filled with nothing once again. She was going back to that place. She was turning back into an emotionless, silent doll.
Before she could, he reached down and took her chin in between his fingers, pulling her towards his face.
The way she looked… it made him so..
He smiled, "You have a lovely voice…" He whispered. He heard Tora begin to bang against the cell bars, yelling at him to get away from her.
But Kaida did not move.
Kabuto grinned, staring into those barely lit eyes before leaning in and pressing his lips roughly against hers. She did not move, but let him do to her as he wished.
It was disappointing. Kabuto enjoyed the reactions she gave him and Orochimaru in the beginning. He bit her lip, hard enough to draw blood. The metallic taste flooded his mouth.
Soon, he just decided to take her. She had no choice in the matter, and the way she looked just drove him over the edge. Hauntingly beautiful. Those were the only words he could use to describe her anymore. She was so much like him, but more.
And that made him want to keep her like that forever.
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"Itachi,"
Itachi Uchiha's head snapped up, his eyes glowing with the mangekyou sharingan. But he soon deactivated it, realizing who was in front of him.
Kakashi Hatake, a well known shinobi in Konoha. With his ANBU mask on, all black clothing, and a katana on his back, Itachi soon realized what was happening.
"So my father and the Hyuugas had finally come to an agreement?" Itachi asked. The silver haired ninja simply nodded.
"We are to leave immediately. The Hokage said it must be in a group of three, for he does not want this to be an attack mission. A simple rescue mission." Kakashi informed him. Itachi nodded, taking his ANBU mask from the living room table.
The Uchiha household was quiet. Mikoto was grieving for the loss of a girl she claimed to already consider her 'daughter'. Sasuke was with Naruto, trying to cheer him up while Kaida was gone. Itachi.. Couldn't focus on his duties as an ANBU and devoted his time to figure out ways to get Kaida back.
The Hokage did not launch the mission immediately.
The Uchihas were determined to get her back, knowing who she was and what she was capable of doing. They did not want to lose a valuable asset.
The Hyuugas were interested after the Hokage admitted who she was. Just the dragon part though, nothing that would make her even more desirable.
So then, a meeting was held.
Who would go and save her? The Uchihas or the Hyuugas? They fought for a week. Itachi sometimes thought they had forgotten about Kaida completely, for they were just yelling at each other out of rivalry.
It was Itachi who convinced his father to cooperate with the Hyuugas.
"She saved our lives! She saved my life! We would all be surely dead if we didn't have her and you decide to bicker with Hyuuga-san because of pride?" Itachi had snapped at his father for the first time. His father was furious, of course, but then his mother defended him. Sasuke even told his father how meaningful Kaida was at this point and not just an asset.
"If it was me," Itachi had remembered vividly saying, "taken by Orochimaru, would you not go after him immediately?"
When his father finally dropped his pride, he decided to negotiate with the Hyuugas. He said that Itachi, someone of the Hokage's choice, and a Hyuuga would go on this mission.
Finally, the choices were made.
Itachi, Kakashi, and Hyuuga Nakumoru.
Nakumoru was a well built guy, with long, black hair, lavender eyes, and pale skin. He wore a black ninja attire, with an ANBU mask over his face and a scroll on his back.
Kakashi summoned his ninja hound, giving the dog a lock of Kaida's hair to get the scent. The dog was clever enough to find it almost immediately.
"Pakkun has her scent." Kakashi confirmed.
All three were running off, following a small dog, with small hope.
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Chapter End.