The Broken Ninja

Chapter 4

It has been nearly a week since the incident with Lia. It is the final day of Kanami's vacation, she has been having bad dreams since the start due to the trauma she has been through. However she has started to become more comfortable. After Lia promised her that nothing bad would happen to her, it turned out to be true. Kanami has been living happily the rest of her vacation, enjoying the entire thing. Even the large town festival a day ago that she was skeptical of due to the first day of her vacation, but nothing bad happened and she was able to enjoy it to the full experience.

It was midnight and Kanami was just about to go to sleep. She was in bed in her comfortable sleeping wear. She closed her eyes when suddenly she heard footsteps in her room. She sat up slowly and looked around. "Hello? Is anyone there? Can I help you with something?" She started to become a little worried, however, maids came in and out during the night sometimes to do a little cleaning before sleeping themselves so Kanami thought it was just a maid who didn't want to sleep without getting the job finished. Kanami appreciated the maids who thought and acted like that, anyone who works past their normal hours because they aren't satisfied with what they have done already was worth respect in Kanami's eyes.

After she spoke she didn't hear anything so she probably scared off a maid who thought Kanami would be asleep by now. Thinking this Kanami lowered herself back onto her bed and closed her eyes. However as she did so she felt something cover her mouth. When she opened her eyes she saw someone dressed in all black, they said something Kanami couldn't hear before Kanami felt herself drift away into a deep sleep.

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Kanami woke, her head covered and felt herself being carried somewhere. She was too weak to resist. After a few minutes she felt herself be set down and the bag was removed from her head. A crowd of about twenty people clapped upon seeing Kanami's form. She began to get worried, but she looked down and realized she was still fully dressed in her sleeping attire which relieved her slightly. She then saw someone walk in front of her and begin to speak.

"This is our next offer! The precious ninja of the great princess! Bidding will start at one mil." The man said, getting a cheer from the small crowd. Kanami was confused, but upon realizing what was happening she quickly became worried again. She was being sold, likely to someone she didn't know, and likely to someone who would make her do things against her will. She knew there was a slave trade in the town, and with the current law it wasn't illegal, but she was kidnapped! That was illegal, she wasn't simply bought from Lia, or perhaps she was. Would Lia sell her for money? Kanami began to remember what happened a week prior and started to think that maybe Lia did sell her.

People bid over her, and she didn't even see who won, but she did hear the insanely high price she was sold for. She didn't know what to think, she would likely be abused but if Lia did sell her then there was nothing she could do, it would be completely legal. They put the bag over her head again and was carried off.

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Kanami woke up, it was early in the morning, the sun was shining in through the windows. She thought the previous night was only a dream, but she realized she was in someone else's bed and someone else's room. She sat up and looked around, but no one was there. She looked down and she was dressed, but she was in her normal attire, not her sleep attire. Had someone changed her in her sleep? She didn't want to think about that and hoped she had just gone to sleep in her normal clothes, how would someone get her clothes?