Section1: Strings Attached [Naruto]

 Chapter1: Strings Attached [Naruto]

‘Take my hand, it’ll be alright.’ Tch, cliché and yet...I fell for it. ‘You’ll be safe, I’ll protect you.’ Stupid. Stupid, stupid! ‘No one we’ll ever harm you again, dear…No one.’ It all rushed right before me; it echoed…no one…Why; why did I listen, why did I not see it coming, why! ‘See? It’s alright, you can trust me.’ I couldn’t stand it…those words, were nothing but an immense lie. ‘Dear, such a young pretty face you’ll do just fine. Now, come on, don’t want to keep them waiting.’ Liar! It’s all because of him… how could he? He said it be alright, he said I could trust him, he…said he’d protect me.

I gave out a sigh of defeat, it didn’t matter anymore. Nothing could change what had been done and nothing could get me out of this death hole. I laid my bare back against one of the four stiff walls surrounding me, the one thing I was able to look at for what seemed like a decade. No windows, no furniture, not even a glimpse of light for god sakes! That monster seemed to have forgotten all about my existence and it seems till he was reminded I’d be stuck here…alone.

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I waited patiently but no matter how much patience I held it didn’t have an impact on the frustration that boiled within me. I was about to rise to my feet just when the solid steal door burst open. I immediately shut my eyes closed from the concentrated light that pierced through the room, or what I’d call it through the cage. As my eyes got adjusted to the light I focused on the two figures that stood before me. Once my vision became clear enough, my eyes widened in realisation that hewas staring down at me alongside a man I never laid eyes before.

‘An innocent beauty, don’t you think Kabuto?’ He said staring deep into my eyes as a smirk was fixed on his thin lips. ‘Indeed, however it won’t matter if she turns out be of no use to us at all.’ The man I assumed was Kabuto monotony replied. ‘Now, now Kabuto no need to scare the child. She’d be of great use if put under the right training which is exactly what my plans are for her; she is the last Takeshi after all which were supposed to have died in the last ninja war, yet here she is alive right before us.’ The last Takeshi…what was his point, he couldn’t possibly know anything about my past…not him of all people. That’s when I saw Kabuto tense up, staring at me as if I were a piece of art…a miracle. ‘How is that even possible; Lord Orochimaru, are you certain of this?’ He spat in confusion towards…Orochimaru still the very flow of his name gave me the creeps. ‘Quite certain and even if she isn’t a Takeshi, we’ll find out soon enough won’t we…’