Summary: Who says you have to be a shinobi to change the world? In the darkest corners of Oto, the Seer resides. And a single drop can dwarf even the greatest of waves. AU, SI-OC, Realistic OC.
Warning: Slightly Dark themes, realistic OC, and civilian OC.
Chapter 1: Echoes
A cloaked figure slips into the Rusty Kunai. Men and woman alike drink, dance, and kiss to the steady beat of the music. The air is thick with the reek of alcohol. Many people give him strange looks, but their stares slid off his back like oil over water. He roughly shoulders past a couple, earning indignant squeaks and a annoyed huff, then sits down heavily on a tattered chair. The bartender's purple head pops up from behind the counter and offers him a silky smile.
"Anything you want, pretty boy?"
He turns towards her. Emerald eyes gleam in the dark. And he whispers,
"The end approaches, and the sky shatters."
She pauses minutely, but answers.
"The raven takes flight, and lands on the roots of the tree."
He tilts his head, a few white strands falling down.
"The darkness comes. The great roots support the tree and the leaves thrive."
She stands abruptly, purple hair whipping around. "Oi!," She calls. "Can you take over for a sec, Ryuu? I got to go." Another bartender stands, grumbling resolutely. And she grabs his hand, leads him through the busy crowd and to the storage room door. She presses a hand against it, and channels her chakra into the fuinjutsu masterpiece. The door clicks open with a ominous hiss, and she hisses into his ear. Her voice is laced with killing intent.
"Ground rules. No more than ten minutes, I'll come get you. If you hurt her…"
The unspoken threat hovers in his ear for a moment before he nods, the cloak falling and revealing a head of white, along with two red dots on his forehead.
He silently slips into the room, and the door clicks shut behind him. He turns.
A young girl, no more than 9 years glances up at him, her sharp gold eyes narrowed. Green-white hair frames her face falling over her dark blue kimono. In her hair, several orange-white lily flowers somehow braided into her hair, along with a single white feather. She stares, then finally speaks, her voice smooth and soothing and her hair seemingly changing color from light to dark green.
"You have finally come, Kaguya Kimimaro."
The bone-wielder nods, the action jerky.
"I suppose it is time for me to go, hai?"
"Yes," he answers. "Orochimaru-sama has sent me to retrieve you. Will you come peacefully?"
Her pale pink lips pull into a bitter smile. It doesn't suit her, unlike her smi-STOP.
"I will come peacefully. It is about time I stopped bending to Root's wishes." The last words are said with a slight hiss.
Kimimaro nods again, a much smoother action than last time. She stands up.
"When I leave the room, the fuinjutsu will detect me. Root will come. I trust the you can hold your own."
He frowns. "Yes, but the rest of the Sound Five are outside. Shouldn't you know this?"
Instantly killing intent floods the dark room, so thick and dangerous that Kimimaro chokes. It's nearly on the same scale as Orochimaru's.
"I know. Do not doubt my abilities. You can take them all on, but Orochimaru was concerned because of your disease, and sent them with you."
She glances at him, and stands up. The killing intent disappears, but she's made a lasting impression. The Kaguya strides to the door and opens it. Darkness is all that is seen. She steps out and into the gloom, with Kimimaro right behind her.
The second he steps out he's forced to use his kekkei genkai. The bones shot from his arms and form a protective barrier around them. The sound of senbon, kunai, shuriken, and even a tango hits his barrier. The bones slowly recede back to his arms with a sickening squelch, and he pauses and scans the bar. Every single patron there is staring at them, eyes dead and empty. They're all Root. Then they lunge, and he spins into motion. Bones fly out and he twirls around in a deadly dance, blood spurting. When the first wave is finished, not even a fifth of the shinobi there have died, but he's bathed in crimson. The girl stares, and slowly smiles. Her killing intent floods the bar, and ohkamipleasestop because Kimimaro can feel it, feel the pent-up years of anger and resentment and hatred and sadness and sorrow and agony, and it's too much. But Root is frozen as well, and he has to make his move, as she's starting to tremble with the force of holding it over so many people and for such a long time. So he snarls gutturally, but before he can make his move the rest of the Sound Five burst in, and it's a bloodbath from there. By the time they've wiped out half of Root, she can't hold it any longer and the killing intent dissipates, but it's enough.
Kimimaro lunges, using Dance of the Camillia and pulls the bone sword out before crashing into the fray. He ducks, dodges, weaves through the crowd and uses Ten-Finger Drilling bullets, five of those which lodge themselves in someone's head and the other five that find a nice, comfy home in a person's chest. His bone sword clashes against a katana, and he fights someone skilled at last. The enemy's katana swings right over his head, and he drops down so that only a few strands are cut off. But he lashes upwards with his sword, under the enemy's guard and his enemy drops like a stone. Tayuya is spewing a endless river of curses, but her demons are beating more and more to death. Kidomaru's summon stomps around, poison dripping from its fangs
Spiders have fangs?
Kimimaro pushes that thought away and stabs his sword through another person, whilst catching sight of Sakon and Ukon fighting…well, not really back to back, seeing as they're joined, but it's the same principle. Jirobo is pounding people into the ground as usual. And suddenly he realizes that the only enemy left is one boy, shaking in fear and sobbing helplessly. The rest are dead. It's a massacre, and as Kimimaro surveys the bodies, he feel a tiny bit of remorse at the young children killed. But he's pulled back to reality when Tayuya cackles in glee and charges, going to break the sole survivor's neck, but then the Seer's there.
Her hand catches Tayuya's, and her face is twisted into something. Something more than human. And then, he sees it. Her chakra rises up to form a intimidating blue-green monster. She's snarling.
"You. Are. Not. To. Touch. Him. Is. That. Clear?"
And Tayuya growls, wrenching her arm out of the Seer's grip and scowling.
"Fine, bitch. But Orochimaru-sama is gonna know that it's your fucking fault when we get killed, you whore."
The Seer ignores her and turns to the little boy, the cloak fading off.
"Hey, hey." She whispers. The boy looks up, his eyes red and puffy and his nose leaking. "Don't cry. Come on, how 'bout we make a deal?"
"A-a-a d-d-d-de-dea-deal?" His voice is shaking with fear.
"Yes. Don't attack us and I won't tell them to kill you. Don't follow us either, okay? Stay here, please."
He nods, paralyzed with fright and she smiles.
"That's a good boy. Goodbye, Sai!"
The boy freezes, but she's stood up already and regards each of them, her expression unreadable.
But he knows what she's thinking.
"Let's go."
Monst-
He smashes that unfinished thought, slams it into the ground until all that's left is a mush on the ground. There were children in that.
For Orochimaru-sama.
He nods and grabs her in a bridal style. She doesn't protest, even when they leap out of the bar and run across Konoha's rooftops in a speed meant for shinobi. They leap off the wall, out of the barrier, and are off into the gloom.
She is lost. She is the One. She is the Seer. Her name is Eliza-Midori.
Shatter
Elizabeth was a happy person. Elizabeth had many friends, a fiancé, and a steady job. Elizabeth had a home, a cat, a life. All of that was taken away from her.
The
Elizabeth woke up in a strange land being called Midori. Elizabeth was not Elizabeth anymore. Elizabeth is Midori. Midori is a quiet girl. Midori has dreams. Midori sees things. Elizabeth was normal. Midori is abnormal.
Sky
Midori is Elizabeth. Elizabeth is Midori. They are one. And they are the Seer.
Fly, my dear, and shatter the sky.
AN: Okay, Chapter One is up. Pretty good so far. In case anyone is wondering, the Sound Five were able to slip inside the barrier unnoticed, because, much like Itachi, Orochimaru was a Konoha Shinobi. Therefore, he would know the password to the barrier. Also, Kimimaro knew the code because Orochimaru betrayed Danzo, but stole the code before that. Finally, this happens around the time Naruto failed the Graduation Exams a second time. He graduates on the third time.
~Torch