Yes, yes, I see the reviews! I'm workin on it dang it!
(Okay ya'll, some of you have been asking questions about how Naru was captured at the beginning of this story- and to be frank I hadn't thought much about it since that particular information was to come out later in the story.
Well I've finally figured it out. And with Naru beginning to have flashes from the rape, she's going to have a lot of questions that will need to be answered. So without further adou- Here is Broken Dolls.)
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The next day-
Naru sat in the floor of the guest room where she had spent most of her morning cleaning, and moving everything aside so that she and Kakashi could turn the room into a nursery for the baby when she found a most curious thing. Her old shinobi belt, the one with the pouches where she carried her gear when she needed to travel light. The one that had vanished without a trace back when she had mysteriously lost her memory.
Reaching under the musty smelling old cot that Kakashi had used to sleep on, she pulled the belt out and frowned. What the hell was her old belt doing shoved under Kakashi's bed? She wondered in dismay as it occurred to her that it hadn't even been emptied of her shinobi supplies. Why the amount of paper bombs she kept inside of this thing alone could have killed her and Kakashi both ten times over!
Muttering about damn men who're part squirrel, she quickly decided to dump everything out of the pouches sewn onto the belt and put everything away. Just in case she ever decided to resume her shinobi career. First she emptied the pouch with the paper bombs and then noted that they had been ripped, not enough to completely destroy them but enough to keep them from blowing up for no good reason. Which meant that at some point Kakashi had taken care of them. Sighing in relief she set the damaged papers aside, even though they were ripped and couldn't be used at the moment, she may be able to salvage them later by making them smaller at the corners.
Next she moved on to her kunai pouch, and dumped out the twenty or so blades that were in there and frowned again when she found that at least five of her extra kunai were missing. How odd. She thought as she moved on to her rations pouch were she dumped out a few ration bars, soldier pills, and her canteen. Blinking at the sight of the shiny metal canteen she made a low happy chirping sound and picked it up.
"Man am I happy to see you." She said to the canteen as she used her shirt sleeve to remove some dirt clinging to one corner of the bottom. And she was happy to see it. The canteen had been a gift of sorts from the Third Hokage when she had become a ninja. He had said to be careful never to lose it. That it had belonged to her late father. Which made it an irreplaceable family heirloom.
Something that she may one day give to her child.
Giggling at the thought she lightly shook the canteen and stopped when she heard the soft sloshing sound of liquid coming from inside of it. Her smile faltered for a moment as she tried to think, when was the last time she had used this? And why did it still have liquid inside of it? Didn't she usually make a habit of drinking everything in it and then setting it aside for future missions?
And even though she hadn't gone on any mission recently- she still would have either drank all of the liquid inside or at the very least poured it out then set the canteen aside. Making a humming sound she popped the top on the canteen intending to drink whatever was left but the moment the lid was off she stiffened and froze with it half way to her lips as she smelled something like decaying meat coming from inside.
The smell was so strong that she nearly flung the canteen across the room as her stomach lurched and her mind practically screamed, Danger! Danger! A mere moment before she heard Kyubbi speak, Put the canteen down!
Reacting more out of self preservation instinct than out of fear from the tone of the nine tail's voice, she automatically set the canteen down and quickly moved away from it over to the nearest corner in the room and stared at the container, her mind a flurry of activity as Kyubbi spoke again, this time her voice a rumbling growl, Well, that answers a few questions.
Questions? What questions? Naru thought, suddenly feeling slightly panicked.
Do you know what that smell was, kit?
Naru was silent for a moment as she slowly nodded her head. Of course she knew what it was. She had been given some as a small child by the Hokage- as a lesson so that she would know what it did to people like her.
It was a non lethal poison that had been discovered shortly after her birth. It had been found by Jiraya and she had been dosed by nurses and doctors until she was old enough to start the academy. The purpose of the poison wasn't to kill, but to weaken chakra coils in the body and cut you off from them while also weakening you physically to the point where even holding you're head up was a difficult task.
But for someone like her it caused a great deal of problems.
Unconsciousness, labored breathing, fever like symptoms, trouble moving and instability in chakra flow through the body.
Taking a shuddering breath she stared at the canteen for a moment and tried to figure out how Demon's Breath had gotten into her water. There was only two ways that it could have happened- well okay, three if you counted the fact that there could be someone in the village trying to weaken her to the point where they could just kill her. Something that she wouldn't put past some.
But the only other two ways were 1) If she had put the herb in her water herself while on an under cover mission. After all in small doses it would delay many of the symptoms and merely weaken her... Make her seem more like an ordinary person. Which would also mean that she would have had no means to defend herself. And then there was option number 2) Someone had learned of her habit of flavoring her water with mint or lemon grass and had decided to drug her without her knowledge since the poison itself was undetectable until it sat in liquid for several days.
Which technically fell into category three depending on what the person/persons responsible's true wishes were.
"Demon's Breath." She muttered, finally answering Kyubbi's question as she sensed the demon thinking.
Why would such a thing be in you're water, kit?
"I have no idea. " Naru said honestly as she felt a curious shifting inside of her body a moment before Kyubbi's menacing growl rippled through her mind,
Then it's time to find out...