Unbreakable (Book 1) #Wattys2015

Kekkei Genkai- Katsu

A dull, aching pain in the back of her head overrode the rest of Katsu's senses. Eventually, after what felt like hours, she was able to conclude that the floor she now lay face-first down on was hard like stone, and damp. Slowly, ignoring sharp stinging stabs in her her temples, Katsu braced her hands in front of her.

She couldn't open her eyes. It hurt too much. But eventually, with some effort, her breathing ragged, Katsu forced one eye open. The dull pain throbbed in her temples like an extra heartbeat, making it almost impossible to focus on anything.

Pushing past a wave of nausea, she observed her surroundings. She was in a circular hollow, cut roughly into the wall of a tunnel. From what it looked like, the tunnel was underground, or at least within a mountain. As her vision slowly adjusted, Katsu noticed that the dimmest of lights filtered into the small, cave-like room she lay in. But it wasn't a clean filter. The light was disrupted by bars on the open end of the cave. This wasn't a cave at all, she concluded. It was a prison cell.

Suddenly the memory of her encounter with Sasuke Uchiha swarmed her sore head. He  had somehow found them. And he had brought her here.

Shakily, Katsu pushed herself upward, off of the moist ground. Looking around, she registered that her cell was empty. Don't worry, Sasuke had said. Your friends are coming with you. Where were the others, then?

"Kakashi Sensei?" she asked warily into the darkness, her voice cracking. "Naruto?"

"KATSU!" came the blonde boy's response from somewhere down the tunnel, his rich voice resounding across the barren walls. "It's about time you answered! Are you alright?! He didn't hurt you, did he?!"

"Shh!" came another voice, sounding somewhat closer. Kakashi, she recognized with relief. They were both alive. "Don't shout like that!" he hissed. "Someone will hear you!" Then, in a softer tone he asked, "Katsu?" He wanted her to answer Naruto's questions.

"I think I'm alright," she informed them, ignoring the pain she was in. Whatever Sasuke had hit her with, he had done it hard. "Where are we?" she asked, partially in order to distract herself.

"One of Orochimaru's bases," Kakashi answered, sounding mildly annoyed. "It's still dark. Using my sharingan, I have concluded that this place has six chakra sources; you, me, Naruto, and three other prisoners. They are all in the same cell. They look to be only children. The rest of this place is empty."

"What?" Katsu asked in confusion, sitting up slowly, one had on her bruised head. "There aren't any guards?"

"No," he responded. "Sasuke trapped both me and Naruto in a new kind of sharingan, one I've never seen before. It was different somehow. It blurred my senses to the point where I didn't know which way was up and which way was down. But his hold on me broke when I was thrown in here. Naruto's had too. I knew because he wouldn't shut up," he added as if that fact explained itself.

"He had two others with him. Both unrecognizable. They left almost immediately after throwing us in here. Most of the murders Tsunade wanted us to investigate occurred at night. Whatever's going on, she was right that it has to do with Sasuke and Orochimaru. And they clearly have faith in these cells to have left us completely unguarded."

Katsu's hands went to her waist where she discovered that her weapons were gone, her medical pouch also nowhere to be found. She drew her fist back and punched the bars in order to test the durability of the metal. They didn't budge. "The bars on my end won't give," she reported. Now that she could see with both eyes, Katsu registered that cells similar to the one she now crouched in lined the tunnel wall opposite her. More cells probably lined the walls on either side of her own cell.