Nuriko groans as he wakes up, the first thing he notices were the chakra cuffs on his hands. Where was he, and why was it so dark? He let his eyes adjust to the dark and looked to his left. There laid Sorey, unconscious on the floor, he let out a gasp and attempted crawling towards her. He let out a small groan as he remembered his arm had been broken. Instead he opted to kick her.
"Sorey, wakeup! We need to get out of here." He called out, kicking her in the shin. Nuriko's tongue clicked in annoyance when Sorey didn't wake up. "Shit, how long has it been?" Nuriko asked, questioning himself. He looked around the room surveying his surroundings, but he couldn't see much as he was in the dark.
But then he remembered who could see in the dark. He looked over to Sorey once again and bent over and screamed into her face. "Wake up you mole rat!!" Nuriko got what he wanted and woke Sorey up..but not without a headache, literally.
Sorey woke up with a jolt and immediately sat up and knocked heads with Nuriko. Both of them groaned from the pain. "Gosh, what the heck is your head made of? It was as hard as a rock." Nuriko said, now sporting a small bump on his forehead, as was Sorey.
"Shut up, wannabe lady." Sorey said, trying to concentrate on her surroundings. She let out a small sigh in defeat as she realized the room they were in was not made of earth property but the floor was made of wood. If only she didn't have the chakra suppressor cuffs on her she'd be able to spread her chakra on the floor to be able to see.
"The floor's made of wood, so I can't see where we are. But first we need to break out of here, and then we need to find Mizuki and the kids." Sorey said. "You have abnormal strength so break free from those cuffs Nuriko, then break mine. After we'll-"
"You'll what?" A voice interrupted Sorey. Both froze and turned to where they heard the voice. Nuriko was surprised, he didn't know there was someone in the room with them the entire time. Sorey though..was frightened, she recognized that voice right away. It belonged to councilman Danzo, and Kakashi had warned her of him. She knew right at this moment something was terribly wrong.
Danzo smirked as he stood up, two torches lit up as he walked down two small steps from his chair (Throne). "There won't be any escaping, not you, or those damned beasts." He spat, speaking of Mizuki and her children.
Sorey growled at the man. "Don't call them that!! They're not beasts!! If anyone here is a beast it's yo-" Sorey's head was turned to the side, her mouth wide open as a red mark was displayed on her cheek. Danzo had just slapped her.
"Shut up scum. Don't you dare speak to me like that." Danzo spoke calmly, turning around to walk back to his seat. "Not a peep from you two, or I will have to cut off that tongue of yours."
Both Nuriko and Sorey nodded at the man and waited for him to speak, whatever he had to say, was important. "As I am sure, you both want to know what's going on. Well it hasn't been long since my subordinates have taken you here. But the Hokage has died at the hands of Orochimaru." He chuckled to himself, he finally has a shot to become the next Hokage now that Hiruzen is out of the picture.
Nuriko's eyes welled up with tears. "Fuck.." He whispered to himself. Sorey glared at the floor, her thoughts were haywire, what happens now that Lord third is dead. What if-
"As for you two." Danzo spoke darkly. "You two have gotten in the way, you should be glad your lives were spared. But I can't have you blabbing about what happened here and out there can I..?" With just a snap from his fingers four anbu came out, two anbu were on each side of the genin holding them back. Danzo stood up, and first walked to Nuriko.
"Open his mouth." He demanded. The anbu on the left side of Nuriko harshly opened Nuriko's mouth for Danzo. With a few hand signs a sign appeared on the back of Nuriko's tongue. A symbol of three solid lines at the back of his tongue and two broken lines at the tip of his tongue. The jutsu was now completed.
At first Nuriko didn't feel anything, and then it felt like his tongue was on fire, like it was burning. It then spread to his whole body, it felt like he was burning alive. Nuriko let out a scream as his body collapsed and seized on the floor in pain.
"Stop! It burns!!"
"This is necessary, if you two should ever talk about what happened here in any shape, way or form, the seal will activate and paralyze your whole body." Danzo said darkly, walking over to Sorey.
Sorey flinches at the sounds of Nurkio's screams, afraid for what was to come. Only seconds later Sorey was on the floor screaming in pain, as tears leaked from her eyes. She had never felt anything like it. Nuriko's screams had soon quieted down as he passed out from the pain. Sorey looked up from the floor, at Danzo. "You'll pay for this..you'll get what's coming to you one day. I'll get stronger..and I'll save Mizuki and her kids!" She grunted from the pain. "Don't think for one second that you are safe, because you aren't. You better watch your back.." And with that Sorey Haruno had fainted, just as Nuriko.
Danzo frowned as he saw the two on the floor unconscious, he looked to the anbu. "Rabbit, Ox. Take these two back to the village. Make it seem like they got trapped in the wreckage." Danzo turned away exiting the room. "Afterall people would become suspicious if they were gone for so long."
The two Anbu, Rabbit and Ox nodded their heads and took the kids before disappearing with a flicker. They flickered back into the village and set the two kids into a house that had been somewhat destroyed. Once they finished they flickered away, back to the root headquarters.
Hours later their bodies were found by some medic ninja who were looking for any possible survivors in all of the wreckage. When they arrived at the hospital, Nuriko was taken first and treated for his broken arm. Sorey had minimal injuries, just chakra exhaustion. Both were placed in the same room together.
It had been three days before the two had woken up, when they had woken up Tamahome and Hotohori were waiting in the room, both standing by the door. Although they should have been happy to see them awake, their faces said otherwise.
Tamahome handed Sorey and Nuriko a change of clothes. "Here. You both should get changed, the Hokage's funeral is today." Tamahome walked out of the room, leaving the three inside.
"Is Tamahome okay?" Nuriko asked, concerned for his brother. "He seems to be really affected by this." Hotohori sighed and shook his head. He sat down in a chair next to Tamahome's bed, as Tamahome took a closer look he noticed dark circles under Hotohori's eyes. His hair was disheveled and that was very unusual for someone who was usually really well kept. Overall, he just looked...tired.
"With the attack on the village, there was great loss..we've lost a few members of our family..my father he.." Hotohori choked over his words. "He passed away valiantly in battle."
Nuriko looked at Hotohori in shock. "Uncle..." The grip on his clothes tightened, so many things had happened all at once, it was too much for Nuriko to take. He looked over to Sorey's bed which was empty. Indicating she had gone to change into her clothes.
By the time she changed and came out of the bathroom, Nuriko had finished changing and Tamahome and Hotohori were both waiting outside of the room. "...This feels like a bad dream.." Sorey said, putting her shoes on while Nuriko waited.
Nuriko nodded, "Especially after.."
"Yeah..my tongue still slightly stings..how about you? Are you okay?" Sorey asked, standing up after putting her shoes on. Her voice laced with concern as she walked towards Nuriko.
"I'm..I'll be okay. We should head out soon, the funeral will start soon." Nuriko said quietly, opening the door and gesturing for Sorey to go out first. Sorey headed out of the room first with Nuriko following behind.
The entire team headed out to the funeral for the fallen shinobi as well as their hokage. Everyone was lined up together on the top of the hokages tower, the sky was cloudy and gray just as were the hearts of the people. Nuriko looked straight ahead, looking at each of the pictures of the shinobi who had fallen in the attack on Konoha. He had noticed that two out of three elders had shown up, it was obvious who hadn't shown up, Danzo.
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"Alright guys today we are going to do some community service!" Hotohori said, clasping his hands as he smiled. "As you all know there are a lot of people who are in need of homes. So we are going to help the construction workers with rebuilding."
The three genin nodded their heads, as long as they were able to do something they would be okay. Because there was no Hokage there were no missions being assigned to anyone, the council was in charge until the 5th Hokage would come back.
Throughout the days of helping with construction it was obvious to both Hotohori and Tamahome that something had changed with Nuriko and Sorey. Sometimes Tamahome would see the two standing away from the rest of the group whispering to one another with dark looks on their faces.
On the days Tamahome and Nuriko would stay over with Hotohori, Nuriko would act like he was fine..But when night came Nuriko would keep having recurring dreams. It was the same thing each time, he could feel the tingling on his tongue after he would wake up screaming. Hotohori would always go check up on him asking him if he was okay and if he wanted to talk. But Nuriko would always put a smile on his face and lie. "I'm okay." He would say.
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It was another day of busy construction, many of the workers there were so grateful for the help of team 3. "Hey Sorey!" Hotohori said, waving his hand nonchalantly. "You're needed in the Hokage's tower, the council said they needed to talk to you about something." Although he looked fine, he was very concerned about what they needed to talk to her about. He also didn't miss how Sorey had slightly flinched at the word council and how Nuriko had stopped working to listen in on him.
"Alright." She put down a beam of wood she was holding and bid her team goodbye as she made her way to the Hokage's tower. As Sorey walked to the Hokage's tower she let her mind wander. She thought about the Chunin exams, saving Karin, Sorey along with her two teammates offered Karin a place to stay in the leaf village. But she had politely declined, saying she would be fine on her own. Then there was that whole attack and the death of the hokage, not to mention the whole ordeal with Danzo. A lot of things seemed to be happening these past two months.
When Sorey had arrived at the office, she was relieved that Danzo wasn't in the room with the other two council members. "Sorey Haruno." Homura spoke, with a soft voice. "As you know there is to be a new Hokage. They will be informed of your circumstance, we have also called you up here to remind you of the rules."
Sorey internally groaned she had already known all of the rules, so instead of listening to them she ignored them. When they had finished their lecture Sorey was allowed to leave. Shoving her hands in her pockets she walked out the tower. "Honestly, what a waste of time. I could have been helping rebuild instead of listening to two old wrinkly hags lecture me."
As she was heading back to her team she couldn't help but overhear a conversation that had caught her interest. "Let's hurry to Kakashi's, I'm not sure what happened..but for him to be injured it must be bad."
Luckily being Kakashi's student for a few years she knew where she had lived and started walking to his house. As she was walking she noticed another person was walking in the same direction as her. Sasuke. "I see you're heading to Kakashi's too?"
Sasuked looked at Sorey then looked back ahead, stuffing his hands in his pockets. "What's it to you?"
Sorey sighed and nudged Sasuke a bit. "Hey..thanks for..saving Sakura back in the invasion."
"It was no big deal." He said, opening the door to Kakashi's house.
"Whatever you say duckbutt." Sorey spoke, walking into Kakashi's house and heading straight to his room, Sasuke glared at the back of Sorey's head but followed her nonetheless. When they walked into his room Sasuke was surprised to see the amount of jounin in the room, Gai Asuma, and Kurenai.
"Why is Kakashi asleep, and why is this room full of jonin? What are you doing?" Sasuke asked, confused and frustrated. "What the hell is going on here?"
Sorey stepped forward putting her hand on Sasuke's shoulder. "Calm down Sasuke, I'm sure there's a–"
The door to Kakashi's door banged open and Aoba ran in. "Is it true Itachi has returned? And that he's come here to get Naruto?"
Sorey froze in her spot as soon as he mentioned that Itachi was after Naruto. Sasuke froze too, but for a whole different reason, his brother was back. Sasuke's face darkened, he slapped Sorey's hand off of his shoulder and ran out the door.
Sorey silently apologized for what she was about to do. She ran after Sasuke following him with only one thing in mind. To save Naruto.
Oh wow its me I'm back!! And now its time to disappear for another 5 years!! I've been working on drawings of the characters but I'm so lazy and get art block so easily woebkwvgiqvei anyways. Remember to eat and drink water!!