A/N: Yay, Chapter 1! I bet you were all thinking to yourselves: if SFA ends this, I will end her! Luckily for you I love happy endings, and so here's the sequel along with a warning for you all: Gaara will be hardly mentioned for the next few chapters. There, I said it! I'm sorry. Please don't wish more death upon me.
Alright, reviewer love time!
Flatwaffles29: Uhhh…Thanks please don't kill me? I like that you were up at three in the morning for little ole me though. Makes me feel special, maybe you'll feel better by the end of this chapter…or worse once you find out who the new master is. I wouldn't know, it depends on your preferences really.
Night Kaminari: I think you're confusing my vague description of Miyako for a vague description of the new master. Let me make it clear to everyone that I gave out no hint as to who the master was save for his gender…if you haven't guessed he's a guy. Good guesses though.
Kuesuno: Thank you for your very mild death threats, Miyako and I appreciate that you don't have enough drive to main us and thank you for your obedience.
TMC-Yuki: Did you want it to be done? Well too bad, it aint over till Gaara gets some lovin! At least enough for me anyway, although right now he may get more angsty than anything…
jus4theheckofit98: Yeah…right, I need to finish the story remember, so I'll just drag it on for a while…that way you won't have time to kill me!
Red X17: Happy? Sad? Non-murderous? That last one would be great. :/
Waterflygirl: You and I need to have a PM session…because you're great.
Guest: At least you won't murder me.
Guest2: Uh…the second option?
Alyce DreamEater: I just looked over it…and realized that I did indeed put "the seventh wish". Sorry if that confused a lot of people, I will fix that along with the thousands of other problems in this story sometime soon. You get a cookie for catching that :), it makes my job so much easier. As for the guessing of the new master thing…if I'd given you guys a hint that would've been too easy :). But if you guys disagree, think of it this way, I gave out a vague hint of his disposition, or at least I thought so.
GMNASAI: Sorry, no sequels…although if I really wanted to I could pronounce "The Wishful Thinker" over huh? And then make another story with a separate title…actually…
And now on with the story, oh Miyako?
Miyako: -miserable- Yeah, SFA doesn't own Naruto. She'll never own Naruto because Naruto is an unattainable dream for her, okay?!
SFA: O.O I feel like Miyako isn't talking about me anymore…
Inside the thought quotes, the bold is Miyako's master's implanted voice and the regular print is her own thoughts.
The bold italics are memories.
Oh well, onwards!
Altered Perceptions
Gaara's ninja skills were certainly lacking at the appearance of Miyako Maki, and just when he thought he had regained some sense, her ever fading figure and gentle but searing forehead kiss had sent him right back into a frozen state where he'd started.
It was only lucky for him that Temari and Kankuro were much faster in their recovery.
"Kankuro, gather the nearest Jounin or ANBU and pursue her, now!"
The man didn't even bother to ask the obvious questions of where she had gone or even how he was to track her, he just mechanically carried out his orders, mind still reeling.
"Gaara-" Temari implored when the teen still wouldn't move from his frozen state.
It took the touch of her hand to his forehead to snap him out of his trance, the cool feeling of her skin a sharp contrast to the burning that still lingered on his love scar where Miyako had given him his parting gift.
"Temari have a letter written to Konoha demanding the unearthing of Maki Miyako's grave immediately."
"Of course." She hastened to carry out his demands, internally sighing with relief at the reappearance of his old nature, but a thought stopped her at the door.
"Are you going to be okay?" She murmured, turning back to him expectantly.
He almost replied too quickly, "Yes", something that translated into "don't push the topic any farther." She didn't, but that didn't mean that she couldn't really decipher what was underneath that tone.
"Miyako, what have you done?"
G/M
"Miyako-chaaaaan~!"
The woman stopped in her trek through the hallway to look for said man, waiting patiently until he grew ever closer and steeled herself enough not to be knocked over by his tackle-hug.
It was amazing how being Gaara's master prepared her in shielding her annoyance, it wouldn't do well to piss off her new master after only being with him a few days, although his new continuous antics were not appreciated.
"Tobi, just because Miyako-chan can stand your obnoxious racket doesn't mean that I will, un!" And the child-like male was then sent sprawling to the floor sporting a large knot on his head courtesy of his blonde-haired partner, who was right behind him.
Miyako was also glad that she could rein in all of her other emotions as well, lest her new master be annoyed with her twitch of a smile.
She obediently helped Tobi up as he whined at Deidara; and rubbed the bump soothingly to shut him up, instantly healing it.
Deidara grumbled lightly at the show, but was gladder that Tobi shut up than anything. He couldn't hide his curiosity for long though and began to question the stoic looking woman.
"How did you get stuck serving a brat like Tobi anyway Miyako-chan, un?"
Miyako looked at Deidara upon his inquiry, but didn't answer straight away, only looked boredly at him and then the ever-distracted Tobi before shrugging noncommittally.
"Well at least you don't talk much, un. If only your demeanor could rub off on Tobi, yeah."
Tobi came back at the mention of his name and gleefully latched onto Deidara's arm. "Deidara-sempai~, you're so mean to me! We have to stay close to each other on this mission, which means that we should be best buddies, Deidara-sempai!"
Deidara growled and shook the obnoxious man attached to his arm until he fell once again on his rump. "Not going to happen Tobi, un! I'd rather spend days locked up with Miyako-chan, at least she's useful and doesn't talk, two things you should learn from her yeah!"
"Sempai's so mean! Miyako-chan does talk, don't you Miyako-chan? In fact you'd like to know what the mission is, wouldn't you!?" Tobi cheered excitedly.
"What is the mission, Tobi-sama?" Miyako asked quietly as expected of her.
"See Sempai! I told you! My Miyako-chan does talk~."
"To answer your question-" Deidara groused as Tobi began to prance around Miyako in a stupid little victory dance. "We're supposed to go and capture the Sanbi, un. More importantly you're idiot of a master is supposed to capture the Sanbi in order to prove himself, yeah."
Miyako nodded to Deidara before Tobi consumed all of her attention again. "So let's go Miyako-chan! You can help Tobi capture Sanbi-chan~."
With that being said he grabbed the emotionless girl's hand to tow her away, Deidara right behind them protesting about Miyako's assistance in the matter with lots of 'uns' to punctuate his frustrations.
G/M
Gaara was sitting in his office filling out paperwork and giving orders mechanically, his thoughts in other places, more specifically on certain un-dead people.
Was it natural for one's forehead to tingle even days after a kiss? Gaara had to wonder what sort of jutsu Miyako had placed on him that could alter his every thought in her direction. It might've been acceptable if he were solely thinking thoughts of betrayal, but more often than naught he found himself lingering on the almost apologetic look on the fading face of his former guardian. Questions sprung from this one millisecond, why did she look that way? Could she have really used Gaara as he was really debating? And if she really had used Gaara, to what end did she strive for?
It proved to be a subject that brought on a constant headache to his already tingling head, and he only wished that someone was parading around as Miyako if only to rid himself of this confusion.
G/M
"Deidara-sempai, Deidara-sempai~, Deidara-sempai!"
"TOBI-"
'I wonder how Gaara is doing,' Miyako thought to herself, completely filtering out Deidara and Tobi's fighting, again.
'It shouldn't matter to you how Gaara is doing,' A darker, more hardened version of herself berated, 'you belong to Tobi now, Gaara's wellbeing means nothing to you anymore.'
'But still, I feel as if I owe him at least an explanation. It was cowardly of me to…kiss and run.'
'You cannot doubt the decisions you have made now!' The voice, which was rapidly starting to take on a darker and more masculine purr, snapped unrepentantly. 'Everything has fallen into place, you cannot change the past. And why would you want to? It's not as if Gaara shared the same love for you as you previously had for him.'
She did not miss the similarities between that dark, sinful hiss and her master's voice when he wasn't playing the fool. She also did not miss its poignant use of the past tense, Tobi…or rather Obito had made it very clear the day she was bound to him that Miyako was his property. Being that she was his property she was not allowed to think of things, fondly or otherwise, that reminded her of her past, specifically, Sabaku No Gaara. But since he couldn't "control her womanish emotions", as he so put it, forcefully or within his own desires, he claimed to be a generous man, he used his first of thirty wishes to instead make her face physically emotionless.
This might've worked out for the better if she hadn't dazedly looked off into space for the first fourth of their trip to Ame. Obito was perceptive, she expected no less from an Uchiha of his insane caliber, and quickly realized that Miyako was purposely being silent not just because she despised him in more ways than one, but because she was thinking about Suna, Konoha, all of the people she betrayed and mostly Gaara.
Uchiha's, she was quickly reminded, were possessive when it came to their possessions. She was also quickly reminded of how much she hated them when Obito tried to order her to stop thinking about Gaara and then others. Foolishly, she tried to rebel only to result in Obito wishing that she followed his every command and then proceeded to order her into a mindless state of being for a half of the trip.
When he ordered her back into conscious thought she made sure not to displease him into any rash decision for the rest of the journey to Ame, where she met Pein and Konan.
G/M
"I don't like this, Obito." Pein had grunted after Miyako had civilly bowed following her introduction and then deigned to look at scenery while pretending she was deaf as Obito ordered.
"I didn't come here to get your permission, Nagato." Obito chuckled in dark humor. "Only to inform you of her presence so you're not taken by surprise, as is common courtesy."
"How do we know she can be trusted?" Konan mumbled softly, darting her eyes to a melancholy looking Miyako briefly before regarding Obito dubiously again.
"Trust me," he purred, giving the two subtle shivers, "I've got her wrapped around my finger."
"Miyako!" He snapped before the two could question him further.
"Hai Obito-sama?" She droned obediently.
"Teleport us to the base near water country, and you'll avoid loopholes if you know what's good for you."
"Hai Obito-sama." Miyako stretched out her hand and clasped it firmly onto Obito's arm.
"You will call me Tobi from now on." He was addressing all three in this statement, his tone warring between amusement and warning.
"Hai Tobi-sama." And then the two were gone.
"I have a bad feeling about that girl, Pein." Konan looked fretfully at her partner's blank looking face.
"I am less worried about her, and more worried about "Tobi"". He sneered, but as always, the two resigned themselves to the puppet master's grip.
G/M
Meeting the other members, dangerous S-ranked criminals, was not as nerve-wracking as the façade of Tobi had tried to make it seem.
"They must be so upset Miyako-chan~, after all Sasori-kun, Kakuzu-kun and Hidan-chan have all just died and Tobi-kun and Miyako-chan~ are replacing them. What if they hate you Miyako-chan?! Just like all of your former friends and Gaara?!"
Her countenance did not betray her feelings of guilt and rage. Although on some level she felt she deserved this cruel punishment, Tobi was being unnecessarily cruel to the point where her former loathing of him was turned to full blown hatred. Wasn't it enough for him that he was inherently hated and feared for being evil? But no, Uchiha's were control freaks and since he couldn't win any positive emotions from her he had to instill in her negative emotions to feel empowered, and it was working, at least in his head.
"…having hatred for your masterwill make you less powerful."
That was the only comfort Miyako had in this situation; that Obito wasn't aware that her hatred for him made her magic below her potential. And the more she hated him the more her power levels fell beneath her master's.
'Karma's a bitch.' She thought humorlessly.
In any case the first person she met was Deidara, the only other person on the face of the earth who hated "Tobi" with as much bane as she did, although not for the same justified reasons. The introduction went something like this:
"DIEDARA-SEMPAI~~!"
She felt sorry for the blonde haired man at first meeting; anyone who could cause "Tobi" to use two affectionate squiggles after their name and to yell must have the worst luck in the world, that is until he opened his mouth.
"TOBI, STOP SHOUTING IN MY EAR, UN!"
And then she realized that they belonged together.
They heedlessly argued about pointless things for a few minutes, giving Miyako time to properly brood over her situation.
'Well let's see, one I am no longer Gaara's genie. Two, I am no longer Gaara's genie and I never even told him in the first place that I was his genie. Three, I lied to Gaara. Four, I am now under the servitude of a madman who is bent on ruling all the nations by killing nine people in order to resurrect the Ten-Tails. Five, this madman is an Uchiha. Six, he has already killed half of the nine Jinchuriki, including Gaara. Seven, I just realized that this goddamn Uchiha is the reason Gaara was killed and now I'm going to be responsible for the deaths of other people. Eight, specifically I am most likely going to be somehow responsible for the death of all of my precious people, including but not all inclusive to Gaara, Naruto and Kakashi.'
That was when the mantra of "fuck my life" was born and was repeated over and over and over in Miyako's head.
"Ah, I almost forgot about you Miyako-chan~! Deidara-sempai, this is my servant Miyako-chan, Miyako-chan this Deidara-sempai!"
Since she still wasn't allowed to talk she just nodded curtly at him while he looked quizzically at her.
"Servant, un? How unfortunate for you to be serving this idiot Miyako-san, un."
While she couldn't say anything out loud she did cackle mischievously in her head while Tobi complained loudly.
"You're so mean Deidara-sempai~!"
'If you think he's so mean then why do you still use that stupid squiggle at the end of his name?' Miyako snorted to herself.
"GO SOMEWHERE WITH YOURSELF BAKA!"
"Waaaah!"
Miyako dragged Tobi away when it looked like Deidara would violently attack him and into a living room where several people stopped what they were doing to stare at them.
She observed one with strange blue skin, a fleeing half white half black man, and..
'No fucking way, you've got to be shitting me!' She cursed inwardly, and she knew without question that her carefully placed indifference was slipping as she felt her left eye twitch.
Why do you ask is Miyako twitching? It's because she had to deal with another effing Uchiha!
'Isn't the entire Uchiha clan supposed to be dead? So why the hell are three still running around and ruining my life?!'
"Miyako-chan, this is the rest of the Akatsuki! The shark looking man is Kisame-kun, the oreo looking one is Zetsu-chan and the grumpy looking one is Itachi-chan!"
Kisame waved at her cheerfully before turning his attention back to some program on sharks that he was watching, Zetsu hardly made eye contact while Itachi couldn't stop looking at her. And it was freaking her out!
"You might want to stay away from Itachi-chan, Miyako-chan~" Tobi stage whispered dramatically into her ear.
"Well then everyone, ja! We're going into my room to play games! What do you want to play Miyako-chan~?" He yelled cheerfully as he towed her away. "Whatever you want to play Tobi-sama." She answered back dully as they walked into a shadowy hallway.
He said nothing as they made their way down winding dark pathways until they arrived at a door. He flung it open to reveal a plain room with toys that they probably weren't even going to play with scattered aimlessly around the king sized bed.
It wasn't until he shut the door that he spoke.
"Zetsu." It was his deep voice, his real one and the "Oreo" looking man as he had described him heeded his call, appearing from the floor as if he was a part of it.
'I get the feeling that we're definitely not going to play games.' Miyako thought gravely.
G/M
That was a week ago and now she Deidara and Tobi were trekking through the forest that would take them to a lake that would allow them to capture the Sanbi, who was apparently host-less and swimming around in this lake living peacefully with the other creatures.
Why they felt the need to disturb the monster was beyond her comprehension, but then again she had never attempted to look at things on the eviler side of life, so…
"Miyako-chan~ let's get dango!" Tobi cried in her ear, effectively breaking her of her thoughts as she suspected he intended to all along.
"Hai." She replied, following her energetic master at a slower pace.
"Oi, Tobi you don't even look exhausted un." Deidara grumbled to himself as the two sat down to eat.
A kind old lady came out smiling and received a blank look, a swirly mask and a grumpy look respectively. "I'll just bring out some dango, would all three of you like some?" She offered.
"Miyako-chan would not, she doesn't like dango, right Miyako-chan~?" Tobi exclaimed before looking at her expectantly.
"Yes, I do not enjoy sweets."
'The biggest lie I've ever told in my life if there was one! Stupid Uchiha bastards and their bastard-ish ways!' She raged inside her head.
So the lady brought out the prepared dango and placed it beside them, and that is when she noticed Deidara looking intently at Tobi, almost as if-
'He's trying to catch a glimpse of the face hidden underneath the mask.' She thought mirthfully, and although she hated Obito with a passion she still had pretenses to keep up and responsibilities to uphold. So she sat down in the empty space between them while Tobi happily munched on his dango. Miyako could see that Deidara was miffed.
'Trust me, if I had the chance I'd let you expose this guy, but alas…'
Tobi meanwhile said something stupid to rile Deidara up yet again and forced Miyako to scoop him up and run off with him to avoid being hit.
"What did you say to him?" She droned as they ran at a break-neck speed away from the shouting Deidara.
"Only the truth." He cackled viciously and Miyako didn't' bother to question him any longer.
G/M
They were halfway there when Miyako froze suddenly in their journey, her heart beating wildly in her chest as she detected several presences near the lake, familiar presences
"Miyako-chan~?" Tobi sounded worried, but in reality he was really asking what she'd sensed.
"No, it's nothing…" She answered expectedly, because it would look suspicious if she said it with Deidara around listening, so she'd have to wait until they made camp.
'No, no, no! Kabuto and Orochimaru's thugs I can deal with, but the Leaf ninja as well, and not just any Leaf ninja, but Sunshine and Kakashi-nee? Obito would assuredly take advantage of this rare opportunity and force me to fight them under the guise of the ignorance of Tobi. I can't bear to face them now, not ever. I can just picture the looks of betrayal on their faces…'
She had apparently agonized over it for so long that she didn't even notice when they'd set up camp, Tobi was just all of the sudden towing her off into the woods to catch fish in the stream nearby.
"You seem more out of it than usual today, which can only mean that you've discovered great news about Sanbi. So tell me Miyako-chan~, who is it exactly that's at the lake?"
This was all said in his natural, dangerous voice, and Miyako could hardly suppress a shiver at the way it caressed her name, or more like suffocated it.
"Kabuto-" She started, but was cut off at a vicious laugh from her master.
"You know I could care less about Kabuto, you could care less about Kabuto." He chided jovially with a dark snort at the end. "No, I want to know who you really care about. I want to know the names of the people that made you stop short in the middle of the forest and almost break that beautiful indifferent mask I have given you."
'Fuck my life.' She groaned once in her head before her mouth complied with his demands.
"Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino, Hyuga Hinata, Yamanaka Ino, Tenten, Rock Lee, Sai, Haruno Sakura, Tenzou Yamato, Hatake Kakashi," she winced as his name left her mouth, but that made the experience that much more exciting for Obito.
"And Uzumaki Naruto."
The evil chuckle that left Obito's mouth made her want to crawl in a hole and just die a million times over.
"So Orochimaru's thugs verses the Leaf ninja, huh?"
She said nothing in confirmation or in denial, she just hoped that for their sake she and Obito didn't catch them in their journey.
G/M
"Kazekage-sama."
Gaara looked up to find Fox and Weasel in front of him, a scroll from Konoha in their hands.
'That is the answer to all my questions, the scroll that will determine Miyako's validity.' Gaara thought.
"Any other news?" He grunted as the scroll was passed over to him.
"Hokage-sama expressed confusion at your motives of digging up the body again, but otherwise had no other objections." Fox reported.
This would be the second time, he recalled, the first being when Temari had made him to do it with no clear explanation. Now that he remembered this particular instance he'd have to question his sister on what she knew; he only hoped that it wasn't anything particularly important that she'd neglected to inform him, out of protection or otherwise.
Meanwhile as Fox reported this Gaara had read over the scroll and after interpreting the code at least ten times, was brought to even more confusion and turmoil.
'Her body is missing from the grave.' The sentence seemed to echo in his head.
There were suggestions from the Hokage of what the cause of this might be, but Gaara didn't' have the heart to read them at the moment.
'Miyako…' He thought as his scar tingled anew, 'what happened to you?'
G/M
"Tobi your information was false, un."
It was midday near the lake containing the Sanbi, and Miyako was praising God and jumping for joy inside her head, unbeknownst to the rest of her party.
"Ah, well it seemed to be a reliable source." He pretended to look apologetically at the two, but mostly he was glaring at Miyako when he'd turned to her.
"But anyway Sempai, this is good now we can collect our quota without any interference!" Tobi cheered optimistically.
Deidara scoffed, obviously looking for a good fight, but resigned himself to doing his job.
"Shut up, un! You're not going to be giving me orders, baka!" Deidara growled before making a giant clay bird to hop on top of.
"Wait sempai! What about the hallucinations?!" Tobi yelled after him, feigning concern.
"Baka, don't underestimate my art, un!" Deidara yelled and flew over the mist.
The two watched him fly away, one still thanking the heavens in their head and the other scoffing at the boy in his head.
"Tch foolish child." He turned to Miyako who regarded him blankly.
"So it looks like you got lucky, what with your friends escaping before we arrived, but Miyako-chan~" He purred in his real voice, making her eye him warily.
"Your hopes have only managed to momentarily prolong their lifespan. When I'm done with these preliminary plans, you'll be wishing I had killed them here."
Obito talked more of entertaining himself with his normal shenanigans of irritating Deidara, and for her to play along with it, but she barely registered it over her own beating heart.
G/M
"Did you see that Sempai! All I had to do was one jutsu and BAM, Sanbi was out like a light!" Tobi cheered from atop the giant three tailed turtle.
Miyako stood expressionlessly next to him as he bragged unnecessarily.
'But really when I think on it, I think he derives great pleasure out of causing other people pain or irritation. I don't think he can function unless he threatens me at least five times a day and irritates Deidara at least twenty. Poor us.'
"Baka, un!" Deidara screeched from atop his bird as they tugged the monster along as if he was a tugboat, "You forgot that my art and Miyako's vigilance in serving your idiotic ass did most of the work, un!"
That was true, Obito was having too much fun pretending to be the fool to be competent enough not to get himself "drowned" and so Miyako had to keep darting him around and saving him while Deidara had to keep throwing bombs.
Although she could also admit that what they'd done was child's play compared to the powerful jutsu "Tobi" had used to knock the monster out. Deidara may not have seem it's magnitude, but she had and if anything it had succeeded in instilling even more fear into Miyako's heart.
And she was allied with it; she would be right there beside Obito as the whole world fell into ruin unless she thought of something, anything that could save them all.
'That would take a miracle.' She thought bitterly as she looked upon the dramatic "sleeping" face of her master, who she could feel was smiling nastily at her as if he could read her thoughts.
G/M
Whooo sequels! Many things to address here at the end so here we go!
1: Yeah, I made a sequel even though I said I wouldn't, but it's not like you guys had to wait forever, right? So there's no need to even be angry.
2: Congratulations to the winners of the master guessing contest:
Alyce DreamEater
GMNASAI: You said Uchiha, so I'm going to give it to you.
waterflygirl: Seriously, about the rest of your review…we need to have a chat, lol. :)
Night Kaminari: Luckily you put the Uchihas in there.
and
TMC-Yuki
3: That means all the aforementioned winners get to submit an idea to me, see chapter 17 in The Wishful Thinker for the rules!
Well, I think that's it, I hope you guys enjoy The Dream Makers!
Bye bye!
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