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Chapter 3

Capture the Girly

Today would be the last day that the little girl stayed in The Land of the Waves. In total they had stayed there for about a month and she was now very low on cash. Over the month she had managed to dissolve her entire body into leaves for two minutes, which she thought was a huge improvement from what she could do originally. Ashi thought different, and kept saying that she had a long way to go.

'There's no room for mistakes girly, if you aren't fast enough in battle bad people will come after you and hurt you, do you want that?'

"No Ashi, but it hurts! I haven't had any good sleep at all for a while, and when you added the weights it got worse!" She whined, her arms falling from their original position as she sat down against a tree.

Ashi had been pushing the little girl much harder for the past weeks than he had before. He could tell that by staying in the same place for a month would draw all the wrong people to the girl. So he had been pushing her harder and subtly teaching her how to escape in between the training schedule.

'Listen girly, bad people are going to come after you to get to me, you need to be able to get away from them until your strong enough to defeat them' He lectured, trying to get her to see his point.

She sighed in understanding, Ashi had been much more jumpy recently and the little girl could feel his unease. She wanted to help, and she promised herself that she would get strong enough to protect Ashi.

Even though he was the one who had taken her from her only home, with every passing day she forgot more and more. All she had now was Ashi and if he disappeared there was no reason for her to keep going.

'Girly I want you to promise me something'

She looked up at the sky as she always did when speaking with Ashi "Of course, anything big brother"

'Don't tell anyone about me, no one but you can hear me, so whenever you're with someone else don't speak to me'

The girl had an idea of why he would ask that but still didn't quite understand. She promised anyway.

"I won't tell anyone one about you, I pinkie promise Ashi" She smiled at the sky while holding out her pinkie.

'Alright then, back to training girly go through the twelve basic hand signs again and then practice A Thousand Dancing Leaves'

For the rest of the day they worked on how long the girl could stay as leaves while minimizing the amount of chakra used. She was only able to extend the time by five seconds by the time that lunch came around.

"Is it lunch time Ashi? 'Cause I'm really hungry, I think I only have enough chakra left to do that jutsu one more time, it's soooo exhausting" The little girl complained, her arms hanging limply by her sides and her back hunched forward.

'Fine girly, go replenish your energy but remember to be aware'

"Yes! Thank you big brother Ashi" Her mouth broke out into a smile as she lifted her arms in victory and started running towards the village with her meagre amount of money.

As she got closer to the village she slowed down to a walk and dropped her arms while humming happily. Like Ashi had said she kept herself aware of her surroundings and continuously checked any funny chakra she found. Because she was not originally born with chakra she was much more sensitive to it, so she could distinguish the difference between chakras.

She was almost back at the village when she picked up seven interesting chakra's she had never felt before. The little girl dropped her smile and stopped walking immediately. The chakras were coming from just up the road in a bunch of the trees.

"Hello? Why are you people hiding in the tree's, are you playing hide and seek?" She tilted her head to the side and walked up to the bunch of trees.

'Don't get any closer girly, those are bad people' She stopped moving and her eyes widened slightly, so these were the bad people that Ashi always told her about.

Slowly she could see two people come out of the trees, one had long silver hair in a ponytail with round glasses that the light glinted off, and the other was very pale and had long black hair that fell past his shoulders. He reminded the girl of a snake, everything about him screamed danger from his chakra to the way he looked.

But she was just so hypnotised by him, he was so interesting in her eyes, like a new toy she could play with. Without realising it she started moving towards him, she didn't even notice Ashi growling in her head to turn around and run away. Both of the two strange people seemed shocked, but they hid it well.

The little girl still hadn't snapped out of it and when she was close enough she reached out and grabbed his hand to inspect.

"You're so pale mister, are you sick? You should probably get medicine" The curious girl said.

To say that Kabuto and Orochimaru were shocked would be an understatement. They were baffled and slightly amused that a child, someone who would usually run away at the sight of them, would walk up to them and start examining Orochimaru's hand.

In their eyes she was innocent, naïve, easy to fool and easy to crush.

"Hello child, would you mind if I could have my hand back?" The snake-like one asked looking down on her with amusement.

Only then did the little girl snap out of her trance seeming shocked by her actions she let go of his hand quickly and stepped back.

"Oh I'm so sorry mister that's never happened before, oh and I didn't listen to Ash- Oops never mind" She giggled nervously and scratched the side of her head.

This only seemed to make the men even more amused.

'Girly, get out of there. Now' Ashi growled in her head for the second time, making her eyes widen again.

She slowly started backing away keeping her eyes on the two until she ran into something. She looked up to see the one wearing glasses behind her.

Now she was panicking, she started sprinting towards the village with enhanced speed, but when she saw people in front of her she decided to use her special jutsu. It wasn't perfect yet and would only last for a little over two minutes, but if it helped her escape she would use it.

"Thousand Dancing Leaves!" She quickly went through the hand signs before feeling herself dividing and being blown towards the forest by a gentle wind.

An advantage of this jutsu, in the girl's opinion, was that she could see everything around the leaves, like 360 degrees vision.

She could see the two men looking towards the forest with narrowed eyes and five others looking towards the forest confusedly.

'One minute left, I'm blocking out chakra girly so they can't find out where we are until the jutsu ends, hopefully by then we'll be so far away that they can't sense us'

Suddenly the five other people started running through the trees, they seemed to be following the bunch of leaves that the girl had turned into.

'Disperse the leaves in different directions, thirty seconds left'

She did as Ashi said and tried to disperse the leaves in different directions, but by doing that it ate up the rest of her chakra and made the leaves smash back together and turn into the girl again. She fell down through the trees with the five others following her.

Half-way down the girl re-gained her bearings and flipped so she would land on her feet. The five others landed soon after her.

'Use what I've taught you' was all Ashi said before the girl started moving again. Two came at her at the same time with some kind of sharp thing in their hands. They were fast, but as soon as she dropped her weights, she was faster.

She removed the nine inch knife she had removed from the man that had attacked her before and used it to clash with both of their knives at once. She swept out her leg quickly after and caused both of the strangers to fall to the ground. A third person came up behind her to try and surprise her.

She ducked underneath his arm and launched herself backwards so that her head was propelled into his gut, winding him. By then the other two had gotten off the ground and were now running towards her while she was distracted.

At the same time they drew back their fists and punched her in the face, causing her to sway backwards.

The pain hit her full force but it only encouraged her to fight back more. She stopped herself swaying backwards and moved herself forwards, punching the two with twice the amount of force causing their necks to snap. The other guy regained his breath and threw one of the sharp things at her. It barely scraped over her shoulder.

She turned and ran towards him, spearing her own knife through his ribs and into his lungs.

The other two strangers that had been observing the fight were now on both sides of her and restraining her.

"It's hard to believe that this little girl defeated three Sound ninja that easily" A dark pink haired girl said, she had bandages covering the top of her head and one of her bangs fell in between her eyes.

"She's nothing special, just a little girl trying to act like an adult" A boy with pale blue hair and dark turquoise lips sneered. He seemed to have a second head dangling from the back of his neck.

"Let's just take her back to lord Orochimaru" The read head replied and they went jumping back through the trees.

The little girl was panicking in her head, Ashi hadn't come back yet and she'd been taken by the bad people who were after Ashi.

'Calm down girly, as long as you don't tell them about me you'll be fine' Ashi calmed the girl. At the sound of his voice she stopped panicking and relaxed into the hold of her capturers.

They eventually got back to the road where the other two were.

"Good job, Sakon, Tayuya, I take it that the other three are dead?"

"Yes lord Orochimaru" They said in unison while bowing. The one with silver hair pushed his glasses up.

"What is your name child?"

A name? Do I even have one anymore? Ashi only ever calls me girly and others just call me little girl or child.

'Your name can be Akumu'

Doesn't Akumu mean Nightmare?

'Shush girly, we don't have time'

"My name is Akumu"

"Hm? Interesting. My name is Orochimaru, this is Kabuto, Tayuya and Sakon" he gestured to each person as he said their name.

"You will be staying with us from now on, and we will train you and take care of you"

Akumu tilted her head to the side. She didn't understand why he would do that for her if he was a supposed bad person.

'Don't worry girly, just go with him I'll tell whether he's safe or not. And he's offering to train you isn't he? You'll be fine'

The girl trusted Ashi deeply and believed him when he said she would be okay, and if he was offering to train her it would be okay, wouldn't it?

Wouldn't it?