A few years earlier

A flash went by the frightened tourist as he washed his face in one of the famous waterfalls of the village he visited. He carefully stepped back from the big and intimidating man in front of him before he started running into the forest. The black haired man chuckled and cracked his neck before walking after him. It was fun to see the old man try to run away. After a few minutes of chasing the male he jumped up and landed on his back.

A scream and a loud crack echoed through the forest and the stitched man grinned underneath his mask. "Tell me before I kill you" He grumbled and leaned down. "Do you know what happened in that mansion you left not too long ago?" The terrified man quiviered under the male's gaze and opened his mouth slowly. "I-It was popular for being a brothel a few decades ago... I just knew that a beautiful lady that didn't age served the men that came from far towns to see her."

"What happened with the lady and the mansion? What was your mission there old man?" He clicked his tongue and his gaze darkened making the elder squeak. "I-I used to be a visitor when I was still very young but I got really sick and wasn't able to travel that far. W-When I heard that all those years ago the lady suddenly vanished and only the corpse of her late husband was left I knew I needed to get back there when I could. It took me four months with my condition to travel here and the ten years I stayed here to get treated didn't work out as planned. But at least I was able to see the house. It was all true. The dead man's corpse is still there" He whispered and Kakuzu grinned. "Well thank you. Let me help you with your pain."

The old man closed his eyes ready to die by the cold blooded hands. The strings pierced through his skin and wrapped themselves around his heart. Within a blink of an eye the old man's heart was in the criminal's hand. "Your heart is not even strong enough to be near me. You perverted geezer. You must have touched her too. You disgust me" He grumbled and leaned down opening the dead man's mouth and stuffing his own heart inside.

"I don't think you even bring me any money in the bounty book" He said as he flipped through the pages. With another grunt he flickered away on his way to the mansion. As soon as he got there his eyes fell upon the untreated garden and how nature took over the once beautiful mansion over the years.

The floor was coloured with a few dried blood stains, some holes in the roof let in barely enough sunlight to cover the whole room. His gaze went out to the dried out hot spring where he and his lover shared some sweet moments together and he caught himself reminiscing in memories for a few minutes.

As sigh left his covered lips as he flexed his arms and went upstairs on the broken and unstable stairway. He rushed to her old room just to see everything the same. It collected a lot of dust but unlike the other rooms it was free of plants and insects crawling around. He went up to her table and spotted an old book. Kakuzu reached out for it and flipped it open revealing her notes and thoughts.

'I am now four months pregnant. He still wants me to serve men and he still rapes me regularly. His excuse is that it would be good for the baby. I am scared of it dying it is the last piece I have of Kakuzu. I miss him. I want him to come back for me. But he is stuck and I know I am not powerful enough to save him myself. I am stuck here myself and everywhere I go is a guard. The check on me all the time no matter if I am sleeping, peeing or changing. They are always there with there weapons and cold gazes that turn into animals when the see enough of my flesh. The baby is showing itself and I can feel the small bumb when I stroke over my stomach. I don't want to loose my baby because of them..."

Kakuzu sighed again and closed the book before sliding it into his pocket. It would give him clues about her whereabouts and it would show him what he missed. He wished he would have been able to see her in a pregnant state. Walking around with a big stomach. It would have been enough to see her face again and to see her smile because she could smile. Together with him.

He went out of the sacred room into bigger looking room that beared a foul smell and hundreds of insects and spiders. His eyes fell on the bed where he spotted the remains of Aito's dead body. Bones and some flesh sculptured the passed man and a rotten knife in his head stood straight proudly. The man went over to the bed and smirked down. Dried blood painted the once white sheets and a sarcastic laugh erupted from the stoic male.

"Serves you right. It definitely serves you right. It is the price you pay for doing these things to her." Kakuzu said with a terrifying grin and stepped back. He performed some hand signs and his fire mask began spewing flames around the room. The criminal left the house and watches the whole mansion got engulfed in flames within a few minutes.

A few last glances at the burning mansion and a bitter laugh were needed for him before he left the scene and went on with his path.

"I know it has been a lot of years since I have seen you but never once I forgot about you. I hope you also didn't."

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Haaaa *claps hands together*
Finally something out of Kakuzu's perspective. We are still before Naruto's time and even before the Akatsuki was assembled with Kazu's timeline. In the next chapter we will finally found out how Kakuzu became a member of the Akatsuki (which was some years after the part of the burning mansion btw)!

Thank you for reading!