Akiera woke up with a pounding head. Her head was killing her and she was dizzy. But that was the least of her problems. The first thing she discovered was a stinging pain around her wrist and the cold metal floor of some shady looking van. She was lying on the ground, her hands and legs tied behind her back. Her body felt too heavy and her vision was blurry. She tried to look around, asses the surrounding. She could make out the honking of speeding cars in her background and the platinum blonde hair of the person on the driver's seat. He turned back to look at her.

"Glad you're awake Akiera hime. Don't worry about the stuffy surrounding. Soon we will reach our destination. Then it wouldn't be so bad anymore." He smirked creepily adjusting his glasses.

A hand from behind reached out and pressed a rag to her face. She struggled a bit but it was subdued soon as the effect of chloroform took over her senses again.

***

Obito ran down the stairs out of breath. Now he was regretting making Akiera climb up all those stairs. It wasn't easy. But he had bigger problems in his mind then exhaustion. Akiera was no where in the entire building. As he reached the basement floor, his trepidation increased. Madara is going to kill him for sure if Akiera disappears. And yet still, his life isn't what he was worried about. He lost Akiera Uchiha. God knows where she is? Who took her? Is she hurt? Is she in trouble? Did she ran off?

A million questions were going through his mind. How could he be so stupid? He had ONE JOB. Keep Akiera safe. And now he has no idea where Akiera is. He looked around the basement, there wasn't a single trace of the girl. Maybe she did go off on her own.

Stupid girl. She doesn't know a thing about this place or how much danger her life could be in if she is found by the wrong people. How could she just run off on her own because of a joke?

Yet for some reason his guts told him otherwise. He punched the elevator door in frustration. The banging sound echoed throughout the basement. Something caught his eyes, the CCTV camera just above him at the corner.

There is only one way to know if she went of on her own. Or worse, she is infact taken. Though it was unlikely. The Akatsuki building is one of the safest places in the town thanks to its compulsive co-executive. Not even a bug can crawl in this place without Nagato knowing about it.

But he cannot just walk upto Nagato Uzumaki and ask for help. One way or another, he will get into deep shit if the words of Akiera going MIA goes out. And Nagato will definitely rat him out, and become the hero. Thanks to his sharingan, he doesn't need to ask for his help.

Obito morphed into his dimensional justsu and reappeares in the security room. To his luck, or misfortune, the guard on duty was passed out on powered donuts. If only this idiot did his job. He cursed the man in his head.

He walked through the guard and checked the footage back when he left Akiera at the elevator. He was hoping to find some answers, but to his dismay, he found that just a second after the door closed, the recording showed some static and the visual was gone. For a good fifteen minutes too before he could see the view of the basement again. And wait, is that a...

Well, Obito did find something. He was confirmed that Akiera was, in fact, kidnapped because of his stupidy and carelessness. And that the one who did it, was good.

He smirked in triumph, But not that good...

***

The next time Akiera woke up, she found herself tied to a chair. It was dark, it smelled bad and there was only one light bulb that was hanging just above her proving her with the effect of a spotlight. She was gagged and still dizzy and nauseous. She felt like she was in some cliché kidnapping scene in a movie. But the only difference was that, SHE WAS KIDNAPPED and IT WAS'T A MOVIE.

"Good morning Akiera hime. What a nice way to wake up, isn't it?" Kabuto comes into the scene. His smirk still as creepily plastered on his face. The snake bastard was proud of his recent accomplishment. He did something that even the great Orochimaru failed at. He captured Akiera Ryuuketsuki Uchiha, alive, and right under from Akatsuki's nose.

Akiera struggled through her constrains, glaring daggers at the motherfucker. The profuse words she yelled at him got turned into gagged noises because of the dirty rag stuffed in her mouth. Her metal chair was bolted to floor, and her feet were submerged in water, as she was placed in the center of a tank with salt water. There was a black metal coller on her neck and both her hands and feet were cuffed, while she was chained by her waist. Therewasn't room for any kind of movement. And to top it all, the light pounding in her head now turned into full blown tortures ache. Like a bolt searing through her skull.

"Apologies for so many precautionary methods hime. You see, I have done quite some research on you beforehand and you are one formidable adversary if provoked according to your Sensei's letter to your mother." Kabuto pulled in a housekeeping cart with a lot of weird tools. And a car battery. "I had to ensure that your genetical prowess is accessible by me at its best, and for that, you need to be...well... a little cooperative." Kabuto ranted while connecting wires to the battery and then testing them to create a spark. "So, Akiera, will you cooperate with me?" he asked with that sick-ass smirk and creepy tilt of head.

Akiera was stubborn. Too stubborn for her own good, as her mother told her many times. Maybe now wasn't the time to be stubborn. But then again, she cannot just let this guy have his way. If only she was a little less careless, absentminded, or stubborn before.

She shook her head no. A muffled scream tore through her when she tried to use her sharingan. She was stubborn even now. But that only pleased the sick fuck more. He loosened his grip and let the wire fall into the tank.

***

Obito was driving like a mad man. He had broken a hell lot of traffic rules, in the middle of the night. To his luck no police were trailing him. So far.

He knows who had taken Akiera. There is only one person that stupid to break into Akatsuki residence and kidnap the Uchiha heiress. Kabuto was desperate for Orochimaru's recognition ever since the snake enthusiast turned his attention solely on Itachi's baby brother. What better way than giving him another, more valuable specimen that he had his eyes on for a long time.

Obito showed all the signs of anxiety, stress and anger. Maybe this is why he was assigned to this job by Madara. He was supposed to protect her not serve her to some creep on a platter. But it wasn't just about a job. It was her.

Obito was lying on the field watching the clouds above. The pre-teen boy always felt some peace in the vastness of the sky, all the various shapes and colors of the clouds. He couldn't do much or otherwise his implants could be affected. He needs to heal for it to work. Also, Madara rarely let him out in the open and he wanted to enjoy this time away from Zetsu's and Guruguru's relentless pestering. Thanks to Madara and Amaya, he atleast have a chance.

He felt some weight on his stomach. Surprised, he craned his neck to see what it was.

"Helloww" two big blue eyes stared back at him. Their hue was the same as the sky above.

Obito shook his head as the picture of that innocent face and that annoyingly ticklish red ribbon-bow floated in front of his eyes. Those eyes...

He needs to get her back home, safe.

***

Akiera felt miserable. She felt like she had ran hundreds of mile where as she hasn't even moved an inch. She was still strapped to the metal chair in the middle of a water tank which was used to electrocute for the past hour. She was shivering from cold when Kabuto drenched her with ice-cold water and dropped the temperature of the room. Her lips were turning blue and her skin lost its luster with every passing minute. Her body felt heavy, her head hanging low and her eyes burned as the drug was at its full effect. She felt nothing.

She heard mild splashes in the water. Kabuto held her chin and lifted her face up. He checked her eyes with a small flashlight. Reassured that Akiera could indeed not do anything, he let her go.

"You must already know this Akiera san that blue eyes like yours does not run in Uchiha blood. The genes are so strong that even those who are distantly related to this clan take up after their particular features. Pale skintone, raven hairs and onyx eyes." He stepped out of the tank and went to the table nearby to get some syringes and sample containers. "You got all of those features except for your eyes. You are the only Uchiha with blue eyes. That's why I knew immediately who you were when I saw you in forest dimension. But unfortunately, you were not alone at that time. But for the best of my luck, even smart men sometimes do stupid mistakes. Like how Obito sama left you alone to climb all those stairs. Such a childish prank. Isn't it?"

Even though she was paralyzed, Akiera was completely aware of her surroundings. She felt everything, saw everything, heard everything. It was sick, how much Kabuto took pleasure in such situation of what could be considered as one of the strongest living creature of this time. He was making her suffer, a girl whose powers were parallel to a bijuu, as some believed, a spawn of the Devil. Hashirama was stupid to seal away such magnificent power. But he is not as stupid. He wishes to see it at its full glory. To be able to control such a beast will be a feat on its own. One that would earn him a place among the gods of Shinobi world. Even Orochimaru sama couldn't get his hands on such power. All that was left were to complete the serum and then Akiera Ryuuketsueki Uchiha will be his puppet.

"You will bring the world to my feet Akiera san. They will recognize my worth, what a genius I am, after this." Kabuto got back inside the tank again. He went to her and undid her restrains. "YOU ARE MY GREATEST DISCOVERY." he smiled sadistically scooping her up in his arms and then walked to the surgical table on the other side of the room.