Hatred is Life to the Cursed
"Itachi! You can come out now! I think they gave up." I waited for his response. When it didn't come I sat down on a tree trunk. I figured if he didn't answer he was long gone by now. I became engrossed in the rings of the tree, it was so old, I was already at 201. A faint crunch of leaves tickled my ears. It was faint, somebody was obviously taking slow and quiet steps. My eyes narrowed and my hand twitched in the direction of my kunia pouch. I heard it again, and I had sent a senbon in a blur of movement. Not meant to kill, but to warn. Next time it would be a kunia.
All movement stopped, and the from the foliage I could see a blurry profile.
" Itachi, you're lucky I was about to kill you!" I said with a hard face but my eyes twinkled.
" My apologies Eri. I was using precaution because I feared that you were pranking me, again." I keep a hard face.
" One time! I pranked you one time and now all of a sudden I am not trust worthy!" My facade was unbreakable. My gray eyes hard and cold, my red lips set in a grim line. My purple locks flared making me look like a crazed woman. However Itachi face remained blank.
" Actually it was twice." He said teasingly. I smiled.
" I fool you once shame on me, I fool you twice shame on you, but seriously your fan girls are gone. This time." Itachi hard face broke and he was a faint smile was on his lips.
" You are ridiculous." He said and laughed softly. I laughed with him, but stopped abruptly. My face falling serious.
" Are you okay Eri?" He asked noticing my change of demeanor. I walked towards him. His thirteen year old frame, a mere inch taller than my own twelve year old frame.
" How did it go. Your meeting I mean." His eyes harden but I didn't let it phase me. I was more worried about what the meeting than the look on his face. It was with the elders, I knew it had to be bad.
" I am not to speak of it." He gritted out. My look sadden and concern flooded my features.
" Itachi, I understand, but tell me how bad is it." He turned his head from me, and it was quiet for a long moment. I grew more worried, and panic flooded my brain. My darkened skin was covered in goosebumps, and I actually feared his response. His voice finally filled my ears.
" Would you forgive me?" His question caught me off guard, and I stepped back.
" Forgive you for what Itachi! What did you do."
" I have done nothing yet, but if I left never able to return would you forgive me." My eyes harden.
" You are leaving your best friend. Itachi I don't know what the elders" I was cut of by Itachi's outburst.
" Just say you would forgive me Eri. Please." He dropped to his knees, and my eyes widen. Uchiha Itachi was on his knees, begging for my forgiveness for something that he hasn't even done yet.
Tears flooded my eyes, my arms wrapped around the sobbing Uchiha. I held him tightly, for this maybe my last encounter with him. Would he even be here for my thirteenth birthday next week. My wails had now become more uncontrollable then Itachi's and at this point I didn't care. I was losing my one and only friend in the whole world, and I knew there was absolutely nothing I could do about it.
Itachi's sobs had stopped and he looked up at me. I wiped what I could of his tears away and he did the same to me. This side of Itachi the side only I have seen, not even his brother or his mother have seen this side of Itachi. Maybe his cousin might have, but he it gone now. I am the only one alive who has seen his vulnerable side.
" I will forgive you Itachi. On one condition." I said seriously. He nodded his head.
" Anything Eri." I paused for a moment, watching the turmoil in his eyes.
" I'm going with you, not now because we both have things to figure out, and I know it is not the thought alone of leaving that was enough to break you down. So when you are ready come back for me. I'll be waiting." I final tear slipped out of my eye, and I notice that Itachi had a tear falling down as well. Simultaneously we reached for each others final tear. Our pact silently agreed to with that final action. He stood to his feet, but I remained on the ground.
" I promise." He spoke and was out of sight, before I had even blinked. I had stayed in that position, for hours. The sun had set, and risen before I had finally been able to pull myself to my feet. I walked out of the shallow forest and back into the town. I understood how horrible I must look, and the looks from the villagers didn't help much. Actually it was worse than usual. Their heated glares were even more intense than usual. I kept my head down, my curse was what brought this on, and I was not in the mood to be reminded of that. I was stopped, a lose hand had grabbed hold of my fore arm. I looked up a fierce glare coming from my eyes. It was my Kakashi. I fellow Anub. Sure I wasn't as good as him, or Itachi, but I was still up there, and I could hold my own against either one of them.
" Yo." He said. My glare intensified.
" Can I help you Kakashi." The older male looked at me blankly.
" The hokage would like to see you. Immediately."
" Thank you." But Kakashi was already halfway down the road. I mumbled a few curses that made the women around me glare harder or whisper about un-proper upbringing. I gritted my teeth and jumped to the nearest rooftop making my way to the Hokage's office.
I didn't bother going in through the door, instead going via window. I knocked and waited for the hokage to signal me in. He did and I jump through the window. The room was filled with a few other Anub, including my team. I took my rightful place at the front of my squad. Squad twelve consisting of Ito Haru age 21, Saito Kin age 19 and lastly Ieo Hikaru 24. The members of my squad and we all hated each other. Hikaru thought he was king of everybody and could tell me what to do, I am over him and he knows it. Then there id Haru who never talks but you can tell by the way he looks at you that he thinks I am beneath him. Finally Kin, the cocky arrogant bastard. I hated him more than the other two put together.
" Captain." They all said together. I nodded at them grimly before survey the rest of the rooms occupants. Beside me stood Kakashi with his squad. Then their was Itachi's squad, all present, except for Itachi. So he has already left.
" Eri, I am glad you have made it. When you didn't respond to the hawk we had thought the worst." The hokage said grinning in a every thing is fucked but I am going to pretend it is all fine. I answered him quietly.
" And what the worst be." I replied with an undertone, that sent my teammates shivering. It was quiet for a moment. Then the hokage spoke.
" We had thought that you had left with Itachi." My eyes widened, and my heart clenched as tightly as my teeth did around my bottom lip. My mouth became flooded with a warm liquid I soon identified as blood.
" I see. I have not, I wasn't even aware that he had left." As soon as the word had left my mouth Kin had spoken.
" Bull shit! You are his fucking whore, I bet you knew he was going to leave weeks ago." I snapped my head in his direction. His face became fearful, and he started backing away. Before anybody had noticed my movement, my hand was around Kin's neck and he was up against a wall.
" Who the fuck do you think you are." I hissed, my hand tightening around his neck making it difficult to breath. He clawed at my hand, but it went unnoticed by me, I was fighting the urge to bash his head in. My grip tightened even more and I could see him losing consciousness.
" Eri, that is quite enough. Stop now, that is an order." I gritted my teeth, but dropped him reluctantly. I'll deal with him later. I thought controlling my breathing quickly. I turned to the hokage a fake smile plastered to my face.
" Forgive my Hokage sama, my actions were inappropriate and uncalled for." I bowed slightly, my purple bangs covering the glare in my eye.
" Understandable." He said. I straightened out and looked at Kin who was still on the ground. I smirked and moved to the front of my squad.
" Now, I called all of you here because the entire Uchiha compound was massacred last night, aside from Sasuke, and Itachi is missing." The room tensed visibly, and I almost fell to my knees. Dead, is this what Itachi was talking about, he killed his clan. No it can't be.
" We suspect Itachi of this." My thoughts had been confirmed. " Squads Kakashi and ten are to go after him. Team twelve aside from Eri are to watch a hold of the village in case he tries to slip back in. You are to bring him back by force so his trial can be held, you are by no means to kill him until it has been confirmed he is guilty. You are dismissed, Eri I would like to have a word with you." I nodded as did every other ninja. They left and it was just me and the Hokage.
" Are you okay." Were his first words. Am I okay. The best he could come up with.
" I am fine. Like I said, I wasn't even aware that he left until five minutes ago sir." 'Keep lying to yourself, not like it matters anyway' Most people would call this a voice you conscious, however I don't have one. No matter how nice you think those words were, they were taunting and picking at me. This voice hated me more than I hated it. It was part of my curse, the reason my family is dead, the reason the village hates me, the reason I am here today. So I take that back, I hate this voice way more.
" Very well then, but you are not allowed to leave the village, I also want you to take the rest of the week off. No missions, or patrols."
" But-"
" That is an order." I gritted my teeth and clenched my jaw.
" Very well hokage sama." I made a symbol with my hand.
" Wait one last thing."
" Yes." I bit out.
" I think you should go Sasuke." I nodded my head stiffly. The kid didn't even like me. I closed my eyes and I had arrived in my small living room. I collapsed on the couch not bothering to remove my shoes, or do anything for that matter. I fell into a troubled sleep. Tossing and turning and at one point falling of the couch. I'm not really sure what I dreamed about, but I woke up panting and sweating. I calmed my breathing and made my way to my bathroom, taking a quick shower. There was one thing I did remember about my dream though and that was Itachi. I sighed getting dressed quickly before making my way to the hospital. To see Sasuke, a kid who hated me just as much as everybody else.
As I walked through the streets people talked. I don't mean whispered I mean straight up talked, hollered, and screamed things about me. Those that were brave or stupid shouted things at me. Calling me a whore, or something about Itachi, but all of them saying something about my curse
Three years later.
That was it the final straw. I killed them all of them. I watched as their eyes faded and the life left their eyes. I smirked, I've been waiting to do that for years. I had it with the three of them. Haru, Kin and Hikaru. Our mission, was simple, get a scroll and get out, but Kin fucked up as usually. So not only had they been bickering and what not for the last three hours, they all turned against me. Saying it was all because of my curse, so I snapped...their necks. Am I feeling any remorse, any regret, no of course not. I haven't felt anything for the past three years. I left their bodies there, when the leaf found them they would immediately think it was me, so I should get a head start, and alter my appearance. I am pretty sure people would notice a 5'3 teenager with dark purple hair, gray eyes and dark skin. I mean I know I would. 15 years old in a week. I smiled, thinking of my seventh birthday.
The rain was pouring down and I sat in an alleyway trying to stay dry. I was cold, so cold it was all I could think about. I felt sick, I couldn't move it hurt to much. I think I was crying but I am not sure. I was scared too, my eye was swollen and my ankle was throbbing, I think I might have even had a bruised rib. I had just been beaten by a couple of drunken men. I was so scared I was going to die. I begged them to leave me alone, but they laughed and said why should we leave you alone, it's your curse. I didn't know what curse they were talking about, but then it started raining, so they left me there, to die in an alley on my seventh birthday. I was on the verge of passing out, when I woman and a small child run over to me.
I had tried crawling away, but she pleaded that I let her take me home.
" What is your name?" The little boy asked . I whimpered.
" Eri."
" Hello Eri my name is Itachi, and I am going to take of you just like my mommy!"
I don't remember anything after that, except for him, Itachi. The memory was bitter sweet. I don't even know what my curse is. I had been running for hours, and I was sure I was somewhere in rice. It didn't matter anymore though. The rain had stopped, it had for hours, I just couldn't stop running. It felt so good, to run knowing I had no bounds. The only thing that made me stop was my final act of breaking all ties. With a kunia I scratched a perfectly straight line through my headband, and removed it from my forehead, and to let it hand loosely from my neck. I smiled for the first time in years, I felt happy. Like I didn't have to prove myself.
I leaned against a tree my body weaved between the large roots of the tree. I sighed, I felt kinda bad for killing Hikaru, his wife just had a baby. Or was it Haru. Oh well whats done is done, they are all dead now. I just have to wait for leaf to figure it out. 'It was fun though, killing them. Why don't we go kill an entire village of children now!' I ignored the voice in my head that has grown ever more present. ' I bet if you were old enough you probably would have enjoyed killing your parents.' My iris faded to a complete white. A memory that I think was mine took over.
" Eri come here!" My mother called up the steps. My two year old form tried running down the steps my self but I tripped. I screamed but stopped when I noticed I hadn't fallen. I turned my head to see my father, smiling at me. I wrapped my arms around him in a big hug.
" Thank you dad you saved me!" I cried gleefully.
" Well daddy's always protect their princesses." I laughed at my daddy looking into his gray eyes, and black hair. I didn't look anything like him except for his eyes. Then there was my mother. I looked exactly like her, aside from my eyes. Dark skin purple hair. My parents reached each other and held one another in a loving embrace.
" I wanna hug to!" I pouted. My dad laughed a bellowing laugh, and my mother a soft laugh as gentle as wind chimes in a soft summer breeze. I ran to them, barely reaching their knees.
" We love you Eri!" They said together. I giggled.
I snapped out of the memory, and looked around noticing that it was noticeably darker than before. I sighed and tried to decipher why that would come to me now. What could it mean? Did it have something to do with my curse? Was it the key to finding out what happened to my parents? Little did I know the answer was just around the corner.
A/n So that was the first chapter? Do you like it? Should I continue? This came to me on a whim as did my other two stories. I just have writers block on both of them, so I decided to write a new one! So what do you think?