Sutures || Kakuzu

Ch. 1 - Indebted

A/N: Hello, Mira here! Before we begin, I must let you know that this is a sequel, so if you haven't read Stitched || Kakuzu, I strongly recommend you read it first!~ Okay, carry on!

The door to the house was barred shut. The windows were all boarded up. A single note was taped to the door with the word 'REPOSSESSED' in big red letters. How could this have happened?

"This is where you live, Nozomi?" A silver haired male spoke, resting his arms behind his head. "Looks shitty to me."

A female with sandy blond hair stared at the building in disbelief. To her, it hadn't been long since she had left her home to find her father, so this didn't seem right. She stepped closer to the house and tore off the note, staring down at the crumpled paper in her hands.

Her luck just seemed to be running out. She had a father who was using her body as a vessel to raise the dead, a brother who conspired to kill her, a bounty hunter and his partner that could separate her skin from her bones whenever they felt like it, and now she was being evicted from her home?

"I'm not sure what's going on." Nozomi turned around, looking back at the two males behind her. Hidan didn't seem like he cared, however Kakuzu looked rather upset. Sharply turning on her heels to avoid his eye contact, she tossed the note to the side and started pulling on the planks of wood that were blocking her door frame. "But everything is in here, I swear. I just have to get this settled, then I can pay you for your services, Kakuzu-san."

The wooden planks weren't budging, but Nozomi could feel every splinter pressing against her skin. She tried digging her heels into the ground and using her foot as leverage against the door, but her upper arm strength proved to be no match for solid wood.

"Move aside." A deep voice interrupted her. Glancing to her left, Nozomi looked up at Kakuzu and immediately let go, backing away from the door. In one swift kick, all of the planks of wood broke and the door flew off its hinges, breaking in half on the other side of the room. Imagining if the door was her face, Nozomi nearly had a heart attack. If everything didn't go right now, she was going to be next.

The trio stepped inside the home and paused. The entire house was barren. All of the furniture was gone and all of the pictures and decorations had been stripped, leaving only the frame of the house in their place. Cautiously walking around, Nozomi couldn't believe her eyes. Her family, her memories... everything was gone. With her eyes widening, she immediately ran up the stairs. Sure enough, everything was gone too - including the safe that she stored her savings in for the bounty. The plan to combine the savings she had with the funds from selling her home had completely gone out the window.

Memories of the past drifted around the blonde as she stood in what used to be her room. She used to sit in the small chair at her vanity and admire the only picture she had of her and her mother, dreaming of the things they would've done together if she were alive. Her dad used to come and wake her up for school every morning by tickling her when she was younger, telling her that laughter is the most important action of the day. She and Hideki would play fight in her room a lot since she had open space in the middle of her floor, which would often end up with her father yelling at the both of them to take it outside.

"So... Where's the reward?" Hidan asked, breaking Nozomi out of her thoughts. She visibly paled as she realized the situation she was in - she was going to die today...

"W-Well, I..." The female started out shakily.

"Nozomi Shidou." A loud voice called. Nozomi immediately jumped, immediately realizing who it was from their voice. The head of the Kirigakure Police Force, Misao Bushida, was here at her home. She began to run downstairs, but not before Kakuzu grabbed her wrist and yanked her back.