(Gisei, Age 50/ Jin, Age 14/ Tayuya, Age 13)

Years flew by, Grandpa had taught us everything he could.

I had fought in the pit on multiple occasions, Grandpa had pushed us to do it when he thought we were finally ready, he had told us that this place would force us to kill, and if we didnt do it, it is us that would get killed.

I still hated it, killing is probably something I will never get used to.

Us Three had earned a reputation of sort, after a few years, no one wanted to face us.

Gisei was known for crushing his opponent with overwhelming Earth jutsu. Always leaving the arena with minimals injuries, and also that if you wanted to not die slowly, you shouldn't insult me or Tayuya.

Tayuya herself was nothing to scoff at, While her chakra reserves were on the smaller side compared to me or Gisei, it never bothered her when fightning, using everything at her disposal. Its even her strongest point, since her chakra reserves are small, her control is almost flawless and even I have trouble knowing if she didn't stick me in a genjutsu.

I'm getting better at spotting them though.

I even gave her the idea of one piece Six powers, or at least the Moonwalk and Tempest Kick, her fights usually boiled down to her evading the opponent's attack while slowly robbing him of his capabilities with genjutsu, before beheading him with a Tempest kick.

So far she never had to use the Moonwalk since she learned it.

And then there was me, at the start, if you asked the prisonners, they would tell I was the one they would want to fight, My aversion to killing made them thought I was the easiest target of the bunch.

I had two 'favourite' method to kill my opponents, the water prison jutsu that zabuza had used against kakashi during the wave arc.

It was quite possibly my favorite jutsu to use, there's some kind of satisfaction to having your opponent's life right at your fingertips. And it was clean, no blood, just oxygen deprivation.

The second one was… more bloody. I had decided to learn how to use the Ketsuryûgan, it wasn't really used in the anime, but I do remember that Chino could kill anyone she touched by manipulating their blood.

So I tried, the first time, the man I was fighting, the lower half of his body had been the one of a snake, I had incapacited him with a Genjutsu, and placed my hand on his heart, I concentrated on the flow of his blood, and made it erupt everywhere inside of him.

He looked more like a dried tomato when I was done. A dried tomato with guts and brain matters everywhere around it.

A pain in the back of my head shook me out of my musings, holding the back of my head I turned towards the source of the pain.

"Stop daydreaming shithead. A guard is going to make an annoucement and Orochimaru-sama will be present." Tayuya had changed a lot during the years, she became more like she was in the show. Meaning, she had a much more sharp-tongue, though Grandpa had somewhat forced her to restrain herself.

But that isnt the only thing that had changed, she looked exactly like in the show, she had lost all her baby fat, giving her a slender build, really, the only real difference is that she didn't yet have her bandanna to keep her hair from falling in front of her eyes.

"Right. Let's see what the pedo-snake has to say Chibi-Yuya." Tayuya snickered, before slapping me again for the calling her Chibi-yuya and insulting Orochimaru.

That was one other thing that wasn't like in the show, I cant quite remember if it was ever really talked about, but right now, she hates Orochimaru, and only refer him as sama to make sure she doesn't get in trouble.

As for Chibi-yuya, well what can I say, I found the nickname cute and I'm almost Two heads taller than her.

Actually, I really want to meet my parents one day if they're still alive, They must've been excellent shinobis.

I have a great affinity towards water, the Ketsuryûgan, and I got great sensing abilities, so great in fact that by touching the ground with my fingertips, I am able to sense everything and everyone inside the prison complex, their affinity, chakra reserves, though, seals are blocking the way to the surface, so we can't know for sure how far I can go.

"I hope it'll be fun, I'm bored." She said. And I rolled my eyes.

"Unfortunately Tayuya, Your version of fun is probably not the same as Orochimaru." A hand appeared on my shoulder, and Grandpa's head popped up in between me and Tayuya. "His version is probably discovering new ways to experiment on people and torturing them. Yours is killing."

"I can't understand how you both do it so easily, take a life." I said.

"Well, it's actually quite easy we're not pansies like you." Tayuya retorted, a smug grin plastered on her face.

The guards opened our cell and everyone was taken down into different arena, Tayuya went into the 3rd one, while me and Grandpa had to get into the 2nd.

Once every prisonner was placed inside one of the five arenas, the guards instaured silence, by killing the loudest first.

The First door to the prison complex opened, and Orochimaru came in, a guard following him.

The guard in question looked exactly like a sound shinobi, he even had the headband.

So I guess Sound was created not too long ago.

They placed themselves in a temporary booth where the five arenas could be seen.

The Sound-nin advanced and cleared his throat.

"I have great news. Orochimaru-sama has decided to grace Five people with the chance of leaving the cells, becoming his personals bodyguards and trained by Orochimaru-sama himself. He said.

People became excited by this. A chance to get out? This is a dream for them.

Me personally, and other who knew how to use their brain understood the hidden meaning.

Only Five people will come out alive.

Orochimaru stepped up and judged the reactions, he smiled, but it was not a good smile, it was a dark one.

"Of course, I cannot have useless people as my bodyguards, So only the ones with the best potential will be chosen. As to how they will be chosen? It is fairly simple. They'll be the only survivors of their respectives matches."

There it was, everyone's excitement turned into horror. The doors all closed, and the guards disappeared, Orochimaru's word settled and people began panicking, inching away from each other.

Orochimaru just laughed as he went to sit in the booth. Sick fuck is enjoying this too.

I looked towards Grandpa, who had disappeared, where had he gone to?

It's really not the time for his jokes! We're going to have to fight to the… death.

The realisation hit me like a ton of bricks.

I am going to have to… Kill Grandpa, Kill Gisei. We are going to have to try and kill each other.

This can't be happening.

My fists clenched, I forced myself to calm down. No time to think about it right now. I sensed all around me, we are around a hundred people, grandpa moved to the furthest point away from me.

The lights turned on, indicating that the fights had started.

A man approached me, grinning, he surely thought I was easy prey.

Idiot, Who targets the only person that looks calm? That's asking to get killed.

"That's it, don't move. It'll be quick." He extended his arm towards my throat.

I grabbed his arm and crushed it, he screamed in pain.

I activated the Ketsuryûgan, "Ketsuryûgan: Human bomb technique." every major blood vessel exploded in a single second.

The man fell to the ground.

I moved, so fast that I left an after-image behind me, I dodged projectiles, punches, Bodies were thrown around by Orochimaru's strongest experiments.

Someone had thrown a kunai in my direction, not losing momentum I grabbed it mid-air and threw it back before moving to another target.

Others had started alliances, a group of five man targeted me.

Four of them rushed me, while the last one started going through handsigns.

Bother.

I ran towards the four men, dodging through their sloppy attacks. I wasted no time with them and stuck them in a genjutsu, they'd be taken care off by the time I finished that guy.

"Fire release: Flame bullets!" The man's cheeks swelled and little fire balls came in waves from his mouth.

It's impressive, not a lot of people know ninjutsu here.

Too bad for him I have a Water affinity.

I weaved through a series of handsigns of my own, "Water Release: Water sphere." I willed water to appear around me, creating a small sphere, the fireballs collided with it, extinguishing as they did. Other missed and hit other prisonners, who screamed as they started burning. I willed the water that had appeared around me into the form of senbons and threw half of them towards the man.

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The shock of me blocking his attack stopped him from dodging. He got struck by most of them and fell down, I quickly whirled, the four mans had gotten in a fight with another man, who had the body mass of a sumo, the genjutsu made them think it was me and attacked him. He crushed them one by one.

I used the rest of the water needles to kill the sumo, piercing his head as he was about to crush the last one.

The man breathed a sigh of relief, before noticing that the sumo's body was falling on him, also crushing him.

Needless to say, he will not get up ever again.

A giant fist made of earth sweeped through other prisonners, Grandpa was over there. I know where not to go then.

Time passed, I honestly couldn't even tell how long it had been since the start of this massacre, nor how many I had to add to the list of people I had killed.

It wasn't long before finally, it was only me and grandpa.

We stood accross of each other. Bodies laying around everywhere, Blood staining the ground. Tears were threatening to fall from my eyes.

Grandpa simply smiled, "Jin, Don't cry now."

"But I don't want to kill you!" I screamed. I forced the tears back.

"There is no way I want to either, that's why you will have to, but…" Grandpa took a fighting stance, "before I let you, you'll have to show me how far you've come. Come on Jin. Make me proud."

I smiled. "Right, here I come then Grandpa."

I pushed chakra to every muscles I could. And dashed towards Grandpa, the ground around my starting point caved.

"Water Style: Water bullets!" I shot out Dozen of waters bullets.

"Earth Style: Earth Wall!" An earth wall 3 meters tall rose from the ground and blocked the bullets.

I Jumped above the wall and pre-emptively spat another volley of water bullet towards the ground, but Grandpa wasnt there anymore.

I landed on the wall and looked around, trying to spot him.

I heard a cracking noise and my instincts screamed at me to jump, so I did, not a second too late, as Grandpa burst from under me, he threw kunais towards me. I skillfully Deflected most of them, but ultimately one hit me in the stomach and lost my momentum. I landed on my feets, and took out the kunai out.

"I guess the exercises to increase your tolerance to pain were too weak if that fazed you." Grandpa Taunted. He reappeared in front of me, ready to deliver another strike with a kunai, I blocked with my own and delivered a kick to his stomach, he blocked with his free hand, I tried to slash at his arm that was blocking me but he also caught it.

"What are you gonna do now?"

"Water release: Severing wave!" Grandpa's eyes went wide and he let go of me to duck.

I kicked him in the chin, he flew back and landed on his two feets, he spat a blob of blood on the ground.

"That was a good hit. I didn't expect you to know how to do ninjutsu without handsigns yet. Now..."He flew through handsigns and slammed his hands on the ground, "I am curious to see what you will do against this. Earth Release: Giant stone fist!" He created another fist that he had used earlier to sweep through the prisonners and launched it at me.

That jutsu created a giant fist the size of 2 boulders stacked on each other, it was a destructive attack, but also slow, which meant he had to combo it with something to trap his opponents.

Namely, the mud garden. I jumped in the air, the ground where I was becoming mud, the bodies laying around quickly got absorbed into the mud, effectively taking out my safe spots. Vines grew, trying to catch me mid air.

"Water release: Water Bomb!" I created a small water sphere, that fell towards the ground before exploding. The mud-vines promptly shattered. I quickpy put my hand on the floor as I landed and willed the water out of the ground away, turning the mud back into solid ground.

My reserves of chakra are dangerously low. And none of the water jutsus I know are strong enough to destroy the fist. And the moment I step into the mud, I'll get caught.

A dead end no matter what I do.

"Heh, fuck it. Why not try it now I guess." Taking a kunai, I sliced the palm of my right hand, blood started flowing down.

"Ketsuryûgan…" Blood coming from my wound accumulated itself under me, creating a small pool, I jumped towards the fist, putting as much strength as I could in my right leg, the blood following behind it, I spun on myself, the blood starting to take on a Dragon form."Blood Dragon tornado!"

My leg collided with the giant fist, the dragon right behind it, it powered through the boulder-sized fist, it slowly stopped moving, cracks appearing around the point of impact, before it finally cracked under the pressure and flew everywhere in tiny pieces.

I fell on the ground, exhausted and panting heavily. I've got no energy left.

Grandpa appeared in front of me, and placed his hand on my hand. "You did good Jin, I'm proud of you." I watched as he grabbed his scarf, before placing it around my neck. I was confused as to why he was doing this, it was his.

"You know, You and Tayuya call me grandpa, but we are not from the same family, so I decided to do this." He finished tying the scarf around my neck, and ruffled my hairs. "My name is Gisei Uzuki, and from today on, your name are Uzuki Jin and Uzuki Tayuya. When you see her, tell her me, ok?"

I nodded, and finally understood where he was going with this. Tears started streaming down my face, I knew what was happening next.

"Now, You need to promise me something, if you ever get the opportunity to go to Konoha, please tell my daughter what happened to me alright. Her name is Yûgao Uzuki, You can't miss her, she has purple hair, just like her mother." He was crying too.

"Alright grandpa." Despite the tears, he smiled and pulled me in a hug, I hugged him back.

"Thank you Jin." I wiped the tears from my eyes and steeled my face. Grandpa chuckled, "Eh, it's amazing. How much you look like him when you do this. I guess this is fate that I met you."

I looked at him, puzzled by what he said.

"Nothing, just rambling." He pushed me back, breaking the hug. "Now, please do it Jin."

Nodding, I grabbed the kunai tightly in my hand.

"Right, I love you Grandpa."

"I love you too Jin."

I struck.

A guard appeared next to me and put his hand on my shoulder, everything blurred, he had sunshin'd me to a new room. Tayuya was here, tapping her foot on the ground, when she saw me she stopped, she had a wound on her forehead, but other than that looked relatively unhurt.

I could also see sakon and ukon both sitting on a couch. And Kidomaru, he was easily recognizable with his six arms.

Jirôbô was nowhere to be seen.

"Wait here, another match is ongoing." the guard shortly told me, before disappearing.

As soon as he disappeared Tayuya ran towards me with relieved smile and hugged me. I returned the hug, and forced a smile.

We let go of each other moments later, "Hey shithead." She said, "Glad to see you could make it. Now we just gotta wait for the geezer to come."

I flinched, my smile disappearing. Tayuya noticed my reaction.

"Oi Shithead, what is it?" Her eyes trailed down to my neck, where Grandpa's scarf is. "Why… Why do you have the Geezer's scarf."

"I… We…" I couldn't find the words. Swallowing the ball in my throat, I found what I could say. "My name is Uzuki Jin, Son of Uzuki Gisei, who sacrificed himself so I could live. I have a sister named Uzuki Tayuya."

She processed my words, Tayuya gasped when she understood what I said.

"He's… Dead?"

I Nodded, "I had to… He was in the same match has me." I didn't dare to look at her in the eyes, I had killed someone precious for the both of us. She had all right to hate me.

Tayuya threw herself at me, I willed myself to move to grab her. For the first time in years, since the day she had to kill for the first time, Tayuya Silently cried again,"fuckfuckfuck."

Minutes passed, we had moved to one of the couches in the room, and sat, I spent my time buried in Grandpa's scarf.

Guess I won't sleep tonight either huh?

Finally, the guard appeared again, with another Kid, I recognized Jirôbô. His unique hairstyle and face easily recognizable (I mean look at his face! It looks so fucking small compared to the size of his head!)

He was worse for the wear, he was bleeding from multiple wounds, his clothes were destroyed.

"Follow me." The guard said. We did so, Sakon and Ukon were first, we were right behind them with Tayuya, followed by kidomaru and Jirôbô.

The guard led us into a corridor. There were Five doors, one right behind the guard, a sign on it saying 'lounge' and two on each sides of it, a sign with Bedrooms on it.

"This is your rooms from now on. There are place for two in each room, You can choose a roommate or go alone." He disappeared once again.

I entered the room that was on the left of the corner Tayuya behind me, Sakon and Ukon quite predictably went in the same room, next to us, Kidomaru took the one next to us and Jirôbô the one in next to Sakon and Ukon

The room we were in was larger than the cell for sure, the beds were also a lot bigger, and not made out of rocks.

One of the wall had sliding panels, which I assumed was the wardrobe. I opened it, Clothes of all size and color were sitting in it, in neat piles.

There also was another door in the room, I opened it, it was a simple bathroom. A shower on the left, a mirror and a sink.

Oh my god, yes.

"Wanna go first?" I asked Tayuya. She nodded and went in, locking the door behind her. Not long after the shower started running.

I walked to one of the beds, and sat next to it. No way was I covering the sheets with blood, even if it dried.

I sat there, for god knows how long, staring at the ceilling before Tayuya finally came out of the bathroom, wearing just a towel.

"Your turn, You look like shit, Shithead." She said, trying to lighten up the mood.

"I feel like it that's for sure." I responded, a small smile on my face.

I locked the door behind me, opening one of the cabinets, I grabbed a Towel, undressed, throwing the prison clothes I had into the bin and hopped in the shower.

It felt good, being under hot water, after years of cold showers in prison. I grabbed shampoo, scrubbing away at every little spot, making sure to be rid of the blood and dirt, I watched as it slowly poured down the drain.

Ten minutes later, I was out of the shower.

I got out of the bathroom, Tayuya was dressed, a simple grey shirt and grey shorts. But most importantly, she had put on a black hat with pipe like stripes. The same one she wore in the anime and manga, minus the bandages, that I guess she'll put on herself later.

I walked to the wardrobe, grabbed cloths my size, a black shirt, underwears and a pair of jeans, or what looked like jeans at least, dressed myself quickly and fell on the bed.

"This was a shitty day huh?" I said outloud.

"You can say it again. Last time I get fucking excited at something the bastard wants." Tayuya responded, wow, She insulted Orochimaru openly, guess she's more tired than I thought

"How was your side of the arena? Mine really had no one interesting, most of them didn't even take me seriously, I thought we had a reputation too." I didn't mention my fight with Grandpa, or grandpa at all, no need to make a shitty day any worse.

"Was alright I guess, the moment I started throwing jutsus around, they all fell like a castle of cards. Only the one at the end was tough to beat, and that's just because he could go underground, made it a bitch to kill him."

The sound of knocking on the door reached our ears, cutting our discussion short.

I got up and opened, Tayuya just sat up from the bed and looked past me.

Kidomaru's face greeted me.

"Yo. A guard just came, he said we were free to explore if we wanted, wanna come with us?" By us, he meant the other members of the sound four.

Or is it Five now that I exist? Or Six since Sakon and Ukon technically count twice. Ugh, fuck that.

I looked back towards Tayuya, asking her silently if she wanted to, she shrugged, indicating she didn't care.

So it's my choice then.

I sighed, "Sure. Not like I'll be able to sleep at this hour anyway." Not like I'll be able to sleep with what I had to do.

"Sweet, Name's Kidomaru." He greeted me.

"I'm Sakon, and this is my brother Ukon." Sakon said, pointing at his brother's head, who was currently inside of him.

Aaaaaand, there's an arm waving at us from a his shoulder. This is going to take time to get used to.

"I'm Jirôbô."

"I'm Jin, and this is my sister, Tayuya. Nice to meet you all I guess." I returned the greeting.

Sakon inspected the both of us, "I don't see the ressemblance."

I rolled my eyes, "Not by blood, we've known each other for almost 9 years. I don't remember when we decided we'd be siblings, or who did in between the both of us."

"Ah."

Tayuya joined me at the door. "So, are we going to stand here like idiots or are we going to look around?"

Everyone shrugged, before kidomaru spoke up, "Let's start by the lounge I guess."

A quick agreement from everyone and a second later we're entering the lounge.

It is positively gigantic, it looks like the room the guard had taken us to while waiting for the others 'winners' of each battle royale.

The room is big,There are a few couches, all for at least 3 people each, a table to go with every one of them, there's a kitchen fully equipped, the wall in front of the couches is fully stacked with bookshelves. The floor is is covered by a Dark grey carpet. In the middle of the room there is a dining table that has enough space for at least ten peoples.

"This definitely beats the cells." One of us said, I didn't catch who, I was too busy gaping.

Everyone scattered, I went to the shelves, Kidomaru with me, every bookshelves was stacked with different types of books, Fantasy, History, Picture books, Novels, for training, theory on seals and so on…

"Hey guys! Everything in the kitchen is full of food!" Jirôbô called out to us.

That particular comment got everyone in the kitchen in record time. It got us even faster to the table to eat everything we could grab.

There was everything, candies, fruits, Cereals, Chocolate, Jirôbô even grabbed a Strawberry cake from the fridge.

I love strawberries cakes.

"Well," I said, "Our idea to visit the place was rather short lived." Everyone chuckled. Before freezing.

"Uh? What is it guys? There's something on my face?" I asked confused.

"Kukuku, I am glad to see everyone is enjoying themselves."

I definitely didn't scream like a little girl. Nope, It was the manliest scream I ever did.

…

Fuck you guys.