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3 Weeks later
Quickly, they realized, playing along with Karin's game was how they would avoid being hurt and bidding time until It was possible for an escape. They would play her game. Her sickly twisted game.
They quickly learn the woman's schedule and quirks, what makes her tick, what types of things make her angry, how to act when she was angry. Both Naruto and Sakura remain in the concrete basement, locked away. Karin obviously didn't trust them still, despite their acting.
"How did you like my burgers, children?" Karin asked upon returning into the basement, her dress depicted her mood as always, a light green dress with yellow flowers.
"It was seriously awesome," Natuto commented with a practiced smile, easy. He and Sakura had spent nights practicing smiles with each other as mirrors, needing their plan to work. He licked his fingers free of ketchup.
"Really?" Karin questioned. "Were they the best you've ever had, my dear?" He understood not to say no. Karin was like that. The woman craved attention and nothing but compliments and praise from them.
"Yeah," he nodded quickly, glancing towards Sakura. "The best I've ever had." Actually the burgers were burnt and disgusting. "Thanks, momma." But food was a rare thing in Karin's household, a privilege for good behavior. Naruto and Sakura were happy with any food Karin would offer.
"What about you, Lilly, did you like my burgers?" She questioned the girl. Sakura nodded, folding her paper plate in half neatly setting it beside her.
"Yes ma'am." She agreed. "Thank you." She was sure to add, lip still spilt from forgetting to have 'manners' yesterday when Karin had let them use the bathroom.
"My children are always so polite now, I hope you aren't trying to trick your momma."
"No, momma," Sakura shook her head, "Really, they were very good."
"Well, I thank you then." She brightly smiled. "I love you guys, I'll see you both in the tomorrow." The woman, walks to Naruto first, lightly kisses his forehead before also kissing on Sakura's. She left.
"Tonight?" The blonde questioned, stretching as she got to her feet.
"Tonight," He nodded, biting his lip but also obviously determined.
They had learned a few things while living here and one of those things were, that Karin always left on Thursdays and didn't come home until sometime Friday afternoon. Kisame worked at night until the early morning hours of Friday and hunted for hours on Fridays, sometimes he came home and sometimes he wouldn't. They're hoping for the wouldn't.
They were going to try to escape again, at least get to someplace with a phone. This time they would be careful, this time they would make it.
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They make it outside, everything is covered in darkness and not another house is in sight. They want to follow the narrow road leading to the house, but are too afraid Kisame would see them.
Somehow they get lost and lose track of the narrow road.
(O)
"I'm tired of your attempts at escape." The woman hissed.
Sakura moaned lifting her head from the wall in attempt to catch a glimpse of Naruto. She could just make him out on the other side of the woman who called them her mother. His eye lids were half-lidded, sticks and twigs are still entwined in his hair from their fall, it had been a long painful fall down a incline in the woods. She was certain she had broken her wrist, if Kisame hadn't found them in the woods, later on that night, they may have fallen victim to a nighttime animal.
He was breathing and awake now, but obviously in pain.
"I'm sick of it!"The woman paced in front of them. "I'm tired of not getting respect from you two!" Her gaze lands on Sakura, she quickly stalks towards her. Sakura flinched away, fear bubbling inside of her. "It was your idea wasn't it?"
The girl swallowed dryly, unsure what to do. If she admitted it was her fault, her punishment would be harsh, if she blamed it on Naruto, his would be worse. The woman was really big on boys being tough, boys being strong. She constantly called poor Naruto a sissy and other names which questioned his manliness. "It... It was me."
Behind 'Momma' Naruto lifts his head, frowning, his head shaking.
"Oh?" Momma asked.
"Yes ma'am." Sakura nodded, avoiding looking at her friend at all costs. "All me... I came up with it all by myself. I - "
"That's not... true..." Her friend said loudly, desperately. "Stop lying, Sakura. It was me."
"Sakura?" Karin hissed likely an angry snake, turning around and facing Naruto.
Naruto straightened his back. "Lilly," he quickly modified. "Stop lying, Lilly."
Karin nodded, satisfied. "Now, Hidoshi, my dear..." Her shoulders relaxed. "You're not bright enough to come up with a plan like that. I believe Lilly." She was also always discrediting Naruto's intelligence.
"No, I came up with when Kisame went to work and used... used..."
"No," Sakura cut in. "I figured it out." It was the truth, she had. "I figured out when you went away... Thursday evenings to Saturday afternoon, Momma," she added stare the woman down. "It was me and I'm sorry."
"Stop lying!" Her friend shouted out again angrily, even though it was the truth.
Karin crossed her arms. "I don't give a fuck which one of you it was." She glared at both of them. "I want to hand out a warning, a promise I'm going to give my children, and I keep my promises..." Her attention snaps to Sakura. "Your fake father, he has a new baby doesn't he, you have a baby sister don't you? A pretty baby sister with strawberry blonde hair and big blue eyes... say, four years old?" Sakura stiffened. "In my thirty-two years of life I've met all sorts of people, a few of them are truly sick sickos who would love to meet your very pretty baby sister."
Sakura snapped. "Leave her alone... If you hurt her I swear I'l - "
"Shut up!" Karin hissed dangerously. Sakura lips slammed shut. "As I was saying, I can make that happen. Even if you get away from me, my child, it won't be easy. I'll get you and if I can't get you... I'll get who you love. Now," she turns away from Sakura, gaze landing on Naruto. "You have quite a few little brothers don't you. My whore of a sister simply cannot quit having children." Naruto lids shut, his body shook with anger. "So many fake little brothers your parents likely wouldn't even notice if one went missing." She backed away from Sakura. "I have my ways, my children. Why do you think you've been here for so long without any rescue... I have my connections, so many, that even if I go down, someone will handle my dirty work for me."
"You..." Naruto finally opened both eyes, staring at the woman who claimed she was his mother, "won't get away with this."
"Kisame!" She called out, grinning at the boy, "Bring your belt, the children need a whipping."
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Sakura's body throbbed underneath a dark hoody, her gaze lifts to the bedroom door on her left. It had been two weeks since the woman had moved both teens from the basement, a bold move considering how recent there attempt at escape was. Though there was bars on her bedroom window and her bedroom door was always locked, it was odd.
It was a simple bedroom, with a simple bed and other furnishing, including a small desk. Naruto's bedroom was down the hall, beyond Momma's and Kisame's. She truly missed having Naruto so close by, maybe that was why momma had separated them, so they couldn't conjure up plans of escape.
Though honestly, Sakura was beginning to fear attempting to escape, her failures and Karin's threats fresh on her mind. A sigh left her as her stomach grumbled, she hadn't been fed in days.
She carefully slides from the bed, shutting the book in her hands and placing it on her bed behind her. She then creeps silently to the bedroom door, pressing her left ear against the wood. She hears nothing in the halls, which means Karin and Kisame were in bed. She quietly backs away before moving to the nightstand, pulling out the bottom drawer and reaching behind it, hands grasping a thin spiral notebook which she had found in there on her first night.
Her writing utensil was a small pencil barely the length of her pinky, she began writing a letter to Naruto, one the girl would hand over sometime while they did chores tomorrow.
Dear Naruto,
I can only see the tin shed from my window, it's rusted and dented like it's been shot at a few times. I wish I could see the front of the house like you can, at least you're entertained by the comings and goings of Kisame and 'Her'. No, I haven't gotten anything to eat yet but the woman promises tomorrow. I hide my notes from you behind my bed. What about you?
- Sakura
She hadn't a lot to say, at least not enough to write in a letter. Instead sleep was gently calling her and she folds her letter up after ripping the thin page from the notebook and shoved it into her pocket. The girl re-hides her notebook and climbed into bed, still in her bloody torn clothing. It takes hour for sleep to claim her.
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When Momma wants them up and out, working on chores, their bedroom door is opened and fifteen minutes is all that is allowed for washing up in the bathroom. She exits just as Naruto does down the hall, they share a look, he nods. She goes into the bathroom first, carefully handing him the note as she enters. He waits outside for his turn.
Sakura quickly goes about washing her face and attempting to relieve her body of the over-all grime and dirt with water, no soap was provided. At least the water was warm. They weren't allowed showers, something about a water bill...
She finishes in seven minutes, letting her friend have what was left of the fifteen minutes. He nods as she glides out and slides by her. Without faltering she quickly heads downstairs, her beaten body unhappy with that.
The girl instantly begins cleaning the big stack of dishes in the sink, attention not lingering on left-overs from Kisame and 'Karin's' breakfast. Her fingers work diligently, becoming wrinkly and sore as she worked. She can hear Naruto in the living room, the vroom, vroom of the vacum cleaner like white noise, only stopping when Kisame yells at him to stop for him to watch TV. Then there's a sports game, loud, blaring in the background.
Sakura moved upstaris after finishing with the humongous kitchen, moving into Kisame and Momma's bedroom, beginning to clean up. Her jade eyes falling on the locked nightstand beside the bed a countless number of times. She thought of the keys inside, the ones which unlocked her bedroom door, her's and Naruto's. Karin exits the master bedroom's bathroom, in a pink robe, flesh flushed from a shower, her red hair in a bun. A wonderful smell follows the woman out.
"Good morning, Lilly."
Sakura smooths out wrinkles from the covers as she finishes. "Good morning, momma." Sakura automatically said. She began picking up stray clothing from the floor.
"Do not forget to do the hall bathroom."
"Yes, ma'am."
"Have you thought about your wrongs?"
"Yes ma'am."
The woman began to change into a yellow sundress. Sakura adverts her gaze, focusing on dusting a rag quickly across the nightstand.
"Do you love your momma, Lilly?"
Sakura frowned, hesitates, glancing at the woman. "Yes ma'am..." Saying no won't a good idea.
"Do not lie to me." The woman snapped. Sakura's body stiffens. "If you loved me you woldn't have hesitated in such away, you awful girl."
"I'm tired," Sakura blurted in hopes of wiggling out of her predicament. "My hunger pains have been keeping me up at night." The girl fidgets with the ends of her over-sized sweater. "I'm sorry, Momma, I do love you, very much." She glances up at 'Momma', finding the woman still watching her. "I'm tired, Momma." She let how truly tired she was sink into her words.
"If you love Momma, come give me a hug." The woman says.
Sakura hardly hesitates this time as she quickly moves to the woman, wrapping her arms around Karin's body. She felt the woman lightly pet her.
"Oh my daughter, you must be hungry..." Sakuras said nothing.
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When 'Momma' goes off, Sakura had long since figured it it was some type of probation thing, and Kisame went to work, instead of being locked in their bedrooms, a closest becomes their homes for a little over Twenty-one hours.
It not too bad because even though they are locked in separate closets, there is a vent that carries there voices to one another.
"Naruto..." Sakura quietly says, her body curled up beside the vent in the wall. It was barely as big as a shoe box. The boy doesn't actually respond, but the girl is pretty sure he's listening. "She's really our mom... I think"
A moment of silence wiggles between them. "I..." His low, restrained voice filters through. It was such a different voice to how it was all those months ago. "I think so..." Tears spring up in the girl's eyes and she takes a shaky breath.
"Yeah... me too." Her face is pressed into her arms, a few tears seep from her irises, wetting her arms.
"Don't worry, Sakura." Naruto says after nearly ten minutes. "I'll protect you..."
Sakura frowns, because there was something oddly familiar about those words. A memory, small and weak lights up in the back of her mind. Sakura squeezes her lids shut, trying desperately to capture and hold onto the memory. Like a blurry image it begins to play across her mind.
She's not exactly sure how old she is but her limbs are tiny and bruised, she's afraid. Her small body shivers and hurts, but her body is moving. She's running. Her legs are achy and small and awkward as she trips and falls, legs not long enough to keep up. Her left hand holds on tightly to filthy doll, while the other is held onto tightly by a slightly larger hand who's pulling her along.
She whimpers and falls again.
"Come on, Lilly." The voice is small and out of breath, he lightly tugs her up. "She's gonna find us. We gotta go..."
Her small body is spent and she can go no further. "I tired, Hido." She looked up finding a tiny, dirty, four year old version of Naruto standing there, fear dancing in his blue iries. He looks around briefly before his light eyes land on her, a smile belonging to someone much older falls onto his lips, filled with patients and affection.
"You can do it," He encourages.
"Momma's gonna be mad..." She finds herself whispering.
He lightly shrugs, a smirk falling to his lips. "When isn't Momma mad?" He bites his lip. "Now come on, Lilly."
She finds the energy and finds her footing. Her brother wastes no time tugging the younger child along, slower now, weaving around huge trees and down inclines.
"I'm scared, Hido." She whispered.
"Don't worry, Lilly," he looks back at her with a eye crinkling smile, "I'll protect you."
The memory fades with that, leaving her shaken. "Naruto..." She calls. Before the odd hair colored young woman could say anything else, heavy footsteps. "Naruto..." She whispers again, this time in panic.
"Could be Kisame..." He finally says something. The girl frowns just as her door is opened, letting light in, revealing a glassy eyed Kisame.
"Kisame..." She hesitantly said. Kisame's hand reach for her, grasping onto her arms painfully. "What are you doing?" She yells. "Let me go!"
"Sakura!" Naruto's voice filters though the vent, this time alarmed. "Sakura?"
Kisame yanks her from the closest, his free hand instantly going under her sweater. "No!" She loudly shrieks. "No! No! Stop!" A scream escapes her as the large man's hand fills underneath her shirt and bra. "Why are you doing this? What are you doing?"
Kisame ignored her and yanks her across the hall to the bedroom he and Karin shared. Sakura is faintly aware of Naruto's yells and his closest's door rattling. Kisame literally throws her onto the bed, already unbuckling his belt. Confusion hit her like a blow to the gut, quickly being replaced by fear.
The girl bounces right up on the bed, backing away to the wall on the other side of it, her gaze flickering around for a weapon. Kisame follows her, grabbing hold of her bruised arms, forcing her into a laying position on the bed as he lays his body on top of her.
"No!" She tires hitting him, but her body is weak and her mind fogged, not of her hits work. Soon he back-hands her, her world spins and pain explodes in her head. She actually loses conciousness for a few seconds. When she comes to, the man is yanking her pants down and her panties.
A scream leaves her.
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When she comes around again, she's still laying on Karin's bed, lower half completely bare. Her body hurt. Bad. She whimpered into the flowery comforter. A sob rumbles inside of her but...
A crash is heard before a yell before the girl sees Naruto's body smash into the floor outside the open bedroom door. He gets up quickly, but he's hurt, his face a bloody mess. Kisame's laugh is heard next, loud and mocking.
Naruto attacked with an enraged yell leaving him again but Kisame's hands grasps him and slams his body into the wall across from the bedroom, face first, arm painfully behind his back.
"What?" The large man hissed. "You think you can beat me up, you pussy? What you mad I fucked her?" Naruto growled like an angered animal, struggling. The man punched him in the back of the head. "Silly priss..."
"You're one to talk, you get off on raping little girls!" Naruto hissed. Kisame huffed, throwing the boy into the bedroom like he was a sack of potatoes. Naruto hits the ground hard in front of the bed. He once again springs to his feet and rushes Kisame.
Kisame very easily hits the clearly starving boy back onto the ground with a right hook. He then spits out blood onto the floor. Sakura struggles to sit up, her gaze on Naruto.
"Naruto... stop..." She whimpered quietly, the man was going to kill him. "Sto - Stop."
He ignored her again, struggling to his feet. Kisame doesn't give him enough time before hitting the boy once again, his beaten body smashes into the floor.
"Naruto!"
"We're going to go over what we tell your mom." Kisames gaze lands on Sakura, who stiffens, frozen, he lightly smirks. "Nothing. You tell her nothing."
Naruto laughed brokenly. "Why... Wh - Why would I - "
"Because" the man interrupted, "she won't believe you anyway. I'll tell her I caught you two kissing like the inces filled heathens she thinks you are, I'll say I gave you both a nice beating for it."
The boy glared at him. "Then why can't we tell her, if you think she won't believe us anyway?" He's been struggling to his feet as he talked.
Kisame sighed. "It'll be bothersome... The woman would beat you for lying... I already feel sort of bad..."
Naruto scoffed. Kisame smirks.
"What am saying is, children, do not tell your mother, it'll only make things worse for you."
Sakura wraps her arms around herself, bringing her legs to her. She flinched when Naruto attacks again.
His body flies into the bed as Kisame once again punches him.
Kisame sighs again. Naruto begins getting to his feet again, only for Sakura to quickly move forward, quickly taking hold of his left hand. He quickly turns, glaring back at her.
"Please..." The girl whispers.
"But he..."
Her green eyes bore into him. "Please... He'll kill you. Then what?" His lips press thinly together, his body shakes. "You can't be alone in here." He heatedly stared at her before nodding once with a scowl.
"Good..." Kisame lightly commented. "She's smart then..."
Naruto's gaze cuts quickly to Kisame, but the girl's hold on him only tightens.
"Now, I want you two to clean up in here. Wash my sheets, all that."
Neither of them say anything. "You understand don't you?"
"Yes..." Sakura whispers.
"Yeah..." Naruto bites out.
"Yes what?" The man's smile is purely sadistic. Her hold on Naruto tightens more.
"Yes, sir." Sakura answered.
Naruto looks towards the ceiling and shakes his head. She can see tears in his iries. "Yes, sir." He finally said squeezing her hand back.
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Sakura shoved the comforter into the washing machine, adding the washing solution before turning it on. She leaned against the washer as it's rhythmic sound fills the basement. Her stomach churns her and her hand presses into her face. Tears rumble inside her.
Her hands cover her face. Then Naruto joins her a moment later, she can tell it's him without looking. He leans against the old dryer.
"I could have washed it..." He quietly said.
"No." She gently shakes her head, still not looking at him.
"He won't get away with this,Sakura." He blurted, beat face a mask of determination. "I'll... I'll..."
She leaned into his shoulder, removing a hand from her face to find his. He quiets, body stiff.
"I said I would protect you and I didn't." He finally said after a long time. He laughed an unamused laughed, "I couldn't even land a hit on him. A lot good I am."
She blinked, pressing herself further into the boy. "As long as you're here..." The girl whispered, "with me." Her head lifts from his shoulder, she lightly glared at him. "Stop attempting to make him kill you."
He blinked, unsure what to say to that. Her gaze falls to his left arm, as if she cannot look him in the face. Her body trembled. He yanks her back into a hug.
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