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Part 15

Kita pulls your head by your soaking wet hair out from the barrel of water he'd dunked you in. The blindfold's come off, and your hands are tied behind your back. You gulp as much air as you can before your head is slammed back into the barrel, left to drown for who knows how long, until Kita felt the need to bring you back up.

"You know, Risa-chan, you should feel lucky. This pain is obviously nowhere near as painful as what Azuma went through, don't you think?" Kita speaks, but as your head is fully underwater, all you hear are a few faint noises. You try not to let out any air, but your lungs are screaming in protest at the lack of oxygen.

Why don't I tell them that I'm not Risa?!

The thought comes to your mind as you stand on the brink of passing out, or simply drowning. Then you shake it away, realising that they wouldn't believe you anyway, and if they were always planning on doing this to your beloved older sister, then you'd rather have them make you suffer than Risa. Just as nothingness begins to cloud your mind, you feel your head get yanked up, out of the water. You're too limp to do anything, though; Kita had been relentless with this whole torturing thing, and you were sure he'd been dunking your head in water for nearly an hour.

"She's really pale," comes Nishi's unfamiliar voice. Your eyes are half closed, and you're leaning on Kita for support, unable to stand still on your own two feet.

"We should move on from this, so she doesn't die early," comes Minami's voice. Your vision is blurred by black dots, and you feel Kita kick you forward towards Minami. You stumble and fall flat on your face, the room spinning. You cough up some water with a little laugh as Minami crouches by your head.

"You... you call that... torture?" you grin weakly, trying to make a positive out of this whole situation. He gives you an equally bright smile.

"Oh no, dear, we've barely started." You feel one of the other two yank you by your hair again, and the now familiar pain of being dragged along a stone cold floor by your hair reappears. The world around you spins, and for a brief moment, you pass out.

"Hey! Wake up!" A slap across your face brings you back to your senses. You feel a strain in your shoulders and arm sockets, and when you look up, you find that you're suspended from the roof, a rope bound around your wrists. You manage to open your eyes, and see the three brothers grinning at you. Your feet are more than a foot off the ground, and you internally groan, rolling your eyes.

"Say, Minami, my shot's been off for the last couple of days, don't you think?" says Nishi, pulling out a couple of shuriken from his back pocket. Your eyes widen as Minami and Kita follow his lead.

"Yes, absolutely terrible," drawls Minami, sharpening his shuriken. "What say we have a little practice, huh?"

Kita's malicious eyes meet yours.

"Agreed." You look for words.

"Wai-" Before you can even finish speaking, Kita throws his shuriken at you, and it cuts through the top of your arm, lodging itself in the wall behind you. You wince in pain as the cut begins to burn.

"Darn! I have such a terrible aim!" Minami steps forward.

"Let me try, brother!" He takes aim for you, obviously goofing around, and when he sends his shuriken flying, it lodges itself in your left thigh. You let out a cry of pain as you feel the point of the shuriken embed itself in your flesh. When you look up, you see Nishi's single visible bloodthirsty eye as he sharpens his own shuriken.

"My turn."