The moment we got back to Konoha, I was placed in the hospital. I also sensed two guards at my door. I sigh, sitting upright and uncomfortable on the hospital bed. I sensed the Hokage entering the hospital, storming up to my room.

I stood as she entered the room. "Sit," She commanded. I obeyed. "Now, I am glad to see you safe," She began, "I am going to attempt to heal your eyes. You will be unconcious during this. Also, while your under, we will have people probing your mind,"

Even though I questioned nothing, she decided to explain herself. "We still don't know if you're a rogue nin. Orochimaru could have set this up to get you into Konoha," She seems slightly perturbed by my lack of response.

"If you don't mind, we will begin immidiately," She told me. "If you'd lie down..." I do as she orders, and an I.V is rolled in to the room. Two ninja I don't recognize also walked in. "These two ninja will be probing your mind," She explains as she attaches the I.V. I don't flinch in the slightest.

"Here's my warning," She says as my head begins to feel fuzzy, "Anything seems to go wrong with searching your memories, and I stop the surgery halfway through. You won't have your eyesight,"

She seems dissapointed by my lack of fear at her threat. My eyes begin to slowly close. The last thing I heard was Tsunade's voice echoing, bouncing around my head,

"Remember my warning,"

***

I woke with a start. Why did I sleep, I never sleep, where was I, where was Orochimaru, what--

Oh. That's right. Konoha. Surgery. Blind.

My eyes are open, and I see nothing.

"You made two full grown men break down screaming by looking through your mind. I had to Yamanaka-san himself to come look through your memories," I turn my head towards Tsunade's voice.

"And you know what he said?" She asked. I just turned away, not caring. "He said that there wasn't a single trap within your mind. That it was simply your memories that made those men scream. Thanks to Yamanaka-san, I decided to continue on with the surgery," She informed me.

Why was she telling me this? "And the surgery was succesful," She announced happily, reaching towards my head. "Keep your eyes closed," She warned. I complied. I felt her slowly unwrapping abandage from my head.

"Open your eyes, slowly," She ordered. My trembling eyelids hesitantly parted. I saw nothing.

Blackness.

Darknesss.

Nothing.

I was blind.

Bt slowly, ever so slowly, I saw the dimmest light possible. I looked around the gloomy room. Was it the room that was black, not my eyesight?

"Your eyes will be very sensitive to light for a bit, so I had them dim the room down. Your eyes had to adjust to the darkness," She explained. I nodded. "Now tell me... What exactly did those men see in your memories?" She asked.

"Matters how far back they looked," I reply.

"Two and a half years ago," She said. Seeing my look of confusion, sh added, "When you first went missing,"

Ah, okay. I didn't exactly keep track of time after a year in that place. "Well, he kept me in a cell for two weeks. I got water once every two days. Food every five. He really didn't do many experiments on me during the time I was there. But after two weeks, he came in, and gave me a proposition,"

Footsteps echoed down a corridor. I looked up, one eye swollen shut. The man who fed me, so I wouldn't have to be unchained, punched me when I spit on him. The door swung open.

I stared at the man who walked in with pure and utter loathing. I hated him. "Keira-chan," he hissed, "Would you like some food, and water?"

Against my will, I nodded yes. Even if my mind was screaming "No! Don't give in to this b*stard!" My body was screaming, "YES! Feed me, feed me!"

His smirk grew wider. He walked over, unchained one hand, then put chakra cuffs on it, then unchained the other and also restrained it. I glared at him, that defiant gleam still in my eye. He unhooked the collar from the wall, then began walking towards the hallway, tugging me along.

He threw me inside of another room, bigger this time, and the door clanged shut behind me. The chakra cuffs fell off me, though the collar stayed on.

I turn and survey the room. Heavy footsteps sound down the hallway, and a door on the opposite side of the room opens. A large man is shoved inside.

"Now... fight," Orochimaru's voice said.

I turn towards the door. "Wait, what--" But I'm cut off by the mans roar as he charges me. I lightly jump over him, and he slams into the wall. Baka.

"Whoever wins gets a meal," Orochimaru announced. The mans eyes grew desperate. I didn't want to do what Orochimaru wished and fight this man, but the man wasn't giving me much of a choice here.

He charges me again, and I jump over him, but this time I kick the side of his head. He falls to the floor like a sack of potatoes. Well, that was easy. I stand victorious over the man, but I'm jerked backwards by my collar suddenly, falling to the floor. I look up to see Kabuto's smirking face as he snaps the chakra cuffs back on, giving the collar an extra tug for good measure.

"You didn't kill him," Orochimaru hissed, "No food for you,"

I stared after him with shock and hatred and hunger as I'm dragged down the hallway.

Next time, I killed.

"How did you become blind?" Tsunade asked.

"Experiment went wrong," I replied.

"Mmm," She hummed. "Well, thank you for telling me. How many experiments did he do on you?"

"Well... maybe... three. Yes, he did three on me," I mutter emotionlessly.

"Okay. Well, I'll allow visitors now," She sighed, then walked out of the room. I tried to stand, only to realizes I was cuffed by one hand to the bed. I easily broke the cuff, rubbing my right wrist with my left hand..

I look up as three people walk in. Naruto, Sakura and... Kakashi. Yes, that was his name, Kakashi. He used to be my sensei. Kakashi looked tired, injured. "H-hello Keira-chan," Sakura said hesitantly, gently. I looked her in the eye. "We heard that you surgery went well," I nod curtly.

They all sit on stools beside my bed, ignoring the dim lighting.

It didn't used to be this awkward, Sakura thought.

Keira is so different, Naruto sighed.

I failed my student. We shouldn't have given up on her, assumed she was a rogue, Kakashi guiltily admitted.

Naruto suddenly sits up straighter. "Oh! Yeah, Keira, we have something for you!" He pulls out a small leather book. I recognize it from somewhere. "Your songbook! I kept it so I could give it back t you!"

He opened it to a blank page, setting it in my hands. I stare down at the book, feeling nothing, and allow it to slip through my hands to the ground. Everyone stared in shock. "I no longer feel the need for possesions such as that," I say monotonously.

I look towards my former teammates with emotionless eyes. Naruto held my old songbook, having saved it from the ground. He dusted it off slightly, looking anywhere but my eyes. Sakura was staring at me with a mix of sadness, guilt, and fear. Kakashi's one eye held sadness and imense guilt.

You all deserve it, I think. You all deserve this pain you feel for not saving me. Because I felt this pain tenfold.

A buzzer sounds, and they all look up, then begin to troop out of the room. "We'll visit you later, Kei--" Naruto is cut off as the door slides shut. I sit in the dark room, which is gradually growing lighter as the doctors adjust my newly healed eyes to light.

About half an hour later, The door opened again. The room was regularly lit. "Well, we have diagnosed you with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder," Tsunade began. I cut her off.

"Nothing is wrong with me," I said quietly, "I am simply not the same as people remember me. I'm no longer the old Keira. I honestly feel quite bad for that girl that once was me. She was weak. She felt pain. She felt betrayal. I don't feel those things, because I feel nothing," I murmured.

She stared, eyes wide with a mix of confusion and understanding, the two emotions clashing together like waves on a stormy day. She stood up and walked out of the room, looking deep in thought. "Get me a messenger hawk!" She yelled before the door was completely closed.

I sat in the room for three more days, no visitors coming and no nurses entering. They slid food under my door, and I would stand, eat robotically, then slide it back under the door. I was good at waiting by now. Orochimaru would sometimes leave me alone for days before coming for me.

The door opens, and my old teammates come in. "They wouldn't let us visit, Keira. I'm sorry," Naruto murmurs as they all sit down. Kakashi is looking a little better then last time.

"Um... Well," Sakura began slowly. Exasperated by her slow speech, I read her mind. Huh.

"You're planning on sending me off to Suna because you don't think that I can handle being around Konoha. You people used to be close to me, so they sent you in to tell me the news. They hope I can rehabilitate there," I list off from her mind monotonously.

Sakura cringed back in her chair. She used to avoid reading our minds. She said she didn't want to invade our privacy. Now she does it without hesitation.

"Yes," Kakashi said, "You are going to be sent to Suna for rehabilitation. Lady Hokage believes that you will recover better in an environment you don't recognize as well, and therefore won't trigger as many memories,"

"Hey, but Keira went to Suna for a mission once, remember Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked.

Kakashi waved an uncaring hand, "Lady Tsunade doesn't believe she was there long enough to remember clearly," He explained.

Naruto nodded as a buzzer sounded. They all glanced towards the door in unison as it opens. They stood, a sigh escaping Sakura's lips. "We'll see you later, okay Keira?" Naruto called to me as he walked out the door.

After the door slid shut, the sound of Sakura's sobs reached my ears, though they faded as Naruto walked her out of the building. The door opened again, a faceless Anbu standing in the frame. The Anbu held a pack in their hands.

"Come," he intoned, holding the pack out to me. I take it, slinging it over my shoulders and followed him outide.

Guess I didn't have much of a choice.

But I was used to that.

Suna, here I come.

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Chapter Two!

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