BONDS • k. hatake

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I couldn't breath.

I felt like everything was caving in and I was powerless.

I clutched my stomach as I tried to hold in my breaths, keeping quiet.

"Breath.." I heard a voice call.

I tried that but a strangled sob escaped instead. My hand flew to my mouth, covering it as I shut my eyes tightly, the tears falling freely.

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Kakashi and I walked to the Hokage's office.

Danzo sat there, feeling powerful and cocky.

"Akiara. Are you ready to start?" He asked. My eyes narrowed. The door opened showing lord third, Sakura and Naruto.

"Now we are." I glared, I crossed my arms.

The council members looked around the room.

"Are they not here yet?" The male asked.

"We will start without them, we may not need them." Danzo said as he looked towards me.

"We could turn you into any village and the village would become rich, you do realize that right?"

"No, not really." I said.

"Akiara Haruno. The Siren, the woman who kills her victims with her voice and draws them in with her looks. A dangerous one you are." His hands laid on his lap. "You should be executed, but was pardoned for a year because you helped save the village. You were in a coma for 11 of those 12 months and your pardon recently expired."

"Without Tsunade, we cannot pursue the full trial and that leaves us with the question. Do we place you behind bars until Tsunade wakes up- if she wakes up or do we leave you be?" The old woman questioned

"Seeing I've done nothing wrong, I chose the second option." My voice rang.

"Nothing wrong? You've killed over a million people. The highest kill count in the world."

"You forget, I killed men who killed others. Who abused their wives and children, who raped women and treated them like they were toys. Those aren't innocent lives, those are souls as black as night with a bounty and I killed them for it." I said as power raided off of me. "And, I remember Tsuna placing an order for me not to be tortured, guess what? I was, and I was raped there. You nor the higher ups have the right to throw me back there." I glared. People winced behind me as I said raped so casually

"You don't have the right to raise your voice at us-!"

"And you don't have the right to abuse me! Or accuse me of things you don't understand!" I slammed my hand on the table, startling everyone.

"Do not speak of my rights when you are not aware of your own." I growled, I turned around to see the door opening and 4 men stood there.

My eyes widened in fear as I recognized the men.

They were my rapists.

"So we meet again, little beauty." The tallest one grinned. He was the leader of the other two ones who drugged me.

"You look more beautiful than you did before." The one saidwho raped me while torturing me.

I couldn't move. Kakashi walked up to touch me, I flinched harshly and then ran out of the room.

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My breaths got shorter and shorter, I was unable to speak, unable to breathe properly.

"Akiara..." I heard. Kakashis voice rang in my ears.

"I-I'm s-sorry." I whispered, my words broken.

"Shhh.." his arms wrapped around my shaking
body. "You have nothing to be sorry for."

My tears stained his shirt as my arms wrapped weakly around his torso.

Thankfully no one was seeing this as we were in a secluded part of the Hokage tower.

"Onee-chan!"

"Akiara nee-chan!"

I quickly wiped my tears away and faced the others.

"I-I'm Fine." I said. "Is Danzo waiting for me-"

"Lord Sixth is waiting. He says he will make a decision on your behalf if you don't return immediately." AN ANBU says. I scoffed as we walked past them and back into the room.

The four men stood the opposite side of me and my 'party'

"That was incredibly rude towards our guests. The federal Lord and his brothers." The men looked at me like I was bait. I stood still, but still full of confidence.

"I could punish you, I would have every right." He smirked.

"It seems that no one in the room are clear of their rights, so here. Let me explain." I walked to Danzo.

"Temporary Hokage. Your job is to do what a Hokage would do, with the exception of imprisonments, torture and/or execution. You have no right to make a decision on Tsuna's half, especially when she has freed me and stopped all torture and interrogation." I circled the lord and his brothers. I reached about their shoulders, they dwarfed me like most men in the villages did but I wasn't afraid of them, at least I didn't show it.

"The Lords and his brothers. The men who took advantage of many, many women by drugging them. How should I start?" I spat. "The only reason you rape women is because you will never convince a woman to lay in bed with you willingly. You 3 are disgusting creatures and your rights do not apply to people more powerful than you, examples, a princess, an empress, and it is FORBIDDEN to touch noblewomen before marriage. I happen to have all those women in contact. The women you raped, so.. how does this apply to your rights to punish me?" I clicked my tongue.

"I am the first and second hokage's great-great-great-great-great niece, the fifth hokage's second cousin, a princess of Konoha, the fifth hokage's pupil, the head of the Konoha hospital and The Siren. None of your rights, any of your rights apply to me. Therefore, I can place all of you in prison with a snap of my fingers. I wouldn't need the hokage's permission or the elders. I would need proof and a motive, which I all have. So have fun, rotting in prison." I smiled before walking out the door, slamming it shut