Hearts and Strings (Sasori Love Story)

Chapter 1 - Sasori of the Red Sand

Chapter 1 – Sasori of the Red Sand

[Ina's POV]

I really needed a partner right now. It was so hard to work alone and I still got dozens of people to kill in my bingo book. Ugh, why didn't Tsuchikage-sama paired me up with someone? Being a lone ninja assassin was very difficult. Knowing the past because of touching it didn't really help me in fighting situations. Didn't he know that?

Or maybe that small old man was just plain stupid. With his height, I didn't know how he became Tsuchikage. No. I was just speaking nonsense. He was a strong shinobi. He deserved to be Tsuchikage.

I stumbled into a deserted place. Great, just what I needed. I touched the ground and saw that a fight happened in this place with blood and explosions. I was sure of it.

I searched around for living things but found none.

Wait, is that a puppet?

I immediately jumped and landed beside it. It looked so real. Well, the middle one looked real but the other two surrounding it didn't have reality in them.

I touched the puppet and realized that it was really a person who made his own self a puppet on purpose so he would be able to cast away his own feelings. He looked young because of the puppet. He was a skilled puppeteer from Sunagakure. I still didn't know what his name was though. The memories were muted like the other memories.

Now that I'd found a partner, I wouldn't let the opportunity go. This was just a rare opportunity. Surely, nobody would go with me once I invited a ninja to come and kill criminals with me, right? As I said, this was a dangerous mission. Even though it was my choice to be a ninja assassin, I hated my job.

I touched the puppet with my right hand and raised my left hand in front of me. I absorbed all the memories and the feelings of the puppet. I made a hand seal to perform the jutsu, "Fukkatsu!" (復活 -Ressurection)

Green chakra was surrounding my left hand. A figure was appearing in front of me. Soon, a redhead more lively and real took form in front of me. He had grayish brown eyes and he was wearing what he usually wore in the past.

He had a cloak on.

A member of the Akatsuki?

He wouldn't come back to them, I was sure of it. I revived him and that clearly made me his mistress. He needed to obey me. It was a must to be obligated to be with me.

"What's this?" he touched his body and I bet he was confirming if he was human again. "Why didn't you revive me in my puppet form?" he completely ignored the two other puppets and focused on his puppet one.

"Your puppet form is useless now," I stood up and kicked the puppet. "See?"

"I can still make it work,"

"No you don't, puppeteer," I told him. "It's going to creep me out to have you controlling you puppet form,"

"Who are you?"

"Ina Hanamichi," I said. "You?"

"Sasori of the Red Sand," he answered. "Am I human again?"

"Yes, you are," I responded. "And you have feelings and don't even dare to make yourself a puppet again. You should follow me. I'm your mistress,"

"But I can make another one right?"

"Of course," I told him. "You're going to be fighting side by side with me after all," and with that, I explained to him that I was a ninja assassin and I revived him to help me get my job over with.