Overcoming the Odds.

Chapter 11

Chapter 11: In Your Dreams I Have Warned.

Weeks Later.

The water and sand felt good under her feet. She couldn't remember the last time she felt anything so soothing.

She was at a beach shore and walking along the sand where the short tides would come in and wet her feet occasionally. She was dreaming, of course, although she opted to make the most of it while she could. It seemed that only in her dreams could she find a way to escape her prison cell.

Earlier in her dream, she remembered her escaping the cell by using a teleportation jutsu, but somehow she ended up here. Now she just aimlessly walked along the shore.

Suddenly she heard someone calling her. Karin's head jerked up at the voice. It sounded strangely familiar, but-

There was something very off about it. She knew the voice but couldn't remember who it belonged to. Looking ahead of her she saw a white figure manifest itself off in the distance.

There was something about it that she couldn't help but be drawn to, and so she walked towards it. Then she jogged. Soon she found herself running towards the white figure. The voice that called her beckoned her closer, and soon she found herself running endlessly towards it, but to no avail. No matter how hard she tried she could never seem to reach the white being.

All of a sudden she felt a great tremble within her body. It resonated throughout her entire being and made her stop in her tracks. She felt it again, a deep and pronounced 'bang' within her very bones. Karin looked around herself and found that her dreamland of beaches and relaxation rudely came to an end, and was replaced with utter blackness as far as the eye could see.

She felt the vibration once again, but this time she could hear it as well as feel it. She turned around upon hearing the sound of something slamming on metal and was horrified to see a gigantic and great fox with nine tails caged behind bars much like her. The fox didn't look at her, didn't even face her as its back was against the enormous metal bars. It moved away slightly, only to once again slam itself against the cell, creating an incredibly loud echo of flesh and backbone hitting metal while creating tremors that traveled through her body.

The fox continued to do this without interruption while she stared on at the beast, and out of nowhere a terrible feeling overwhelmed her senses. An unbearable sadness made her drop to the floor, where she pulled at her hair and cried tears of blood.

"Wake up!"

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"Wake up!"

She woke with a jump and opened her eyes. She was uncomfortably warm, and she swore she could still feel the vibrations in her body. She made out the familiar shapes of her cell and breathed a sigh of relief, and was thankful to have finally awakened.

"About time," a male's voice interrupted her thoughts. "Get up! You have a hearing."

Karin shook off her drowsiness upon processing his words.

'A hearing?' She thought surprised. She never had one and was starting to worry they had forgotten about her after all these months.

She reached below her bed and scooped up her glasses that were placed on the floor, putting them on. Karin got a good look at who the guard was that rudely awakened her. He had black short hair and was issued in a chūnin outfit. He, however, wasn't the only one present. Looking beyond him she could make out two ANBU standing outside of the opened metal door.