Disclaimer: I donotown any of the Naruto characters.
A/N: Constructive criticism is welcome, English isnotmy native language so don't flame about the grammar, thank you very much
Chapter one
My breath stocked in my throat as I saw my brother walking into the house covered in blood – again.
"Hidan! What happened?!" His frown turned to a grin and I was able to let out the gasp I'd held in. "Jeez, don't scare me like that".
"You shouldn't be scared for me at all, woman, I can take care of myself you know".
Of course I knew. Hidan would come home covered in blood all the time since he joined that weird-ass cult. Jashinism was it? I'd told him from the beginning I really wanted him to come home again, leave that stupid cult that was getting in his head.
"So what's for dinner?" His question dragged me back to earth, wanting to answer right away, only to find out even I didn't know.
"What do you mean 'what's for dinner'" I almost shouted at him. "You've been gone for days again and now you come back, expecting a whole buffet or something?!"
He just stared at me with a bored look, claiming he'd take a shower before dinner and – indeed – expecting it to be done once he got out of the shower.
I sighed, but my sigh turned into a smile quickly as I realized he was still Hidan. Even a weird cult wasn't able to change him.
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After his usual complaints about the scarce amount of dinner and me explaining to him food was hard to come by as it was he started telling me about this jashinism thing. The cult, or religion as he pressed, had designed some kind of experiment and he was going to be the test subject.
"I don't know about this, Hidan" I said as worry took over my face.
"Don't bitch about it, if it works we'll never have to worry about food or anything ever again" he explained.
Of course I was worried. Who knows what kind of experiment that cult had been thinking of? If Hidan died, I'd have no one left.
He put his fist against my cheek and softly pushed my face away, telling me with a grin he'd make sure it was all gonna be all right.
That night I woke up to some noise in the hallway. My bedroom door swung open and a handful of ninja scattered across my room and soon everything went black.
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The smell of wood and herbs burning was what woke me up again. My head hurt and I felt as if I'd been sleeping on a pile of rocks. I tried to turn over, only to find I wasn't able to. My eyes shot open and then closed again against the hard light of fire. Tears welled up in my eyes from the bright light and I steadily tried to open them again. I noticed I was tied up against a hard wooden plate and saw people circling around me, chanting words I couldn't understand. Fear overcame me as I took in more details of what was going on and then I heard a familiar voice.
"Is the sacrifice in place?"
Hidan?! What was going on? Was I going to be sacrificed? By who, and… Oh my god. Was this the experiment Hidan had been talking about?
I tried to scream, but couldn't for some reason. My throat felt dry and I saw people closing in on me as I heard the sound of more chains behind me. I prayed this would all be over soon as a hooded man with a spear closed in on me, spear pointed at my chest. My scream filled the night's sky as my blood splattered across the ground.
I heard some men saying how perfect it was to have a sacrifice related to the subject and how lucky they were with Hidan around before everything went black once more.
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I could feel how the shackles around my ankles and wrists were loosened and I was lifted over someone's shoulder, a muscular arm wrapped around my waist. I opened my eyes only to see the same men as before, only now scattered in pieces across the open area of the forest.
I was too tired to react, so decided to just close my eyes again.
The minutes, or maybe hours after that I could feel myself being stripped down, washed and dressed up again. I thought I was being hugged after that, maybe caressed. It might have taken me a day or two to open my eyes and feel energized.
Surprised I found that I was in my own bed, hoping that this all might've been a really bad dream, but when I walked to my mirror I was shocked to see that my hair had turned white and my eyes had turned from a deep brown to a more red hued brown.
I ran down the stairs of my own home, but it was empty. I shoved some leftover bread down my throat and took a run for it. Once in the forest I felt renewed. My body was surging with some kind of new energy and I was able to run faster, jump higher and who knows what else I was capable of. Scanning the area I tried to find Hidan's chakra, but failed. Damn, there might be some restrictions to this new energy.
I kept running and discovering myself all over again, being able to do things I was never able to before until I finally caught a hint of a familiar energy. I ran over to the place where I had sensed it, jumping up in a tree, to see Hidan bent over a stone someone had decorated with flowers.
I took a moment to realize he was actually still alive and felt so relieved before I decided to disrupt the moment "Well isn't this depressing".
Hidan jumped at the remark I made, probably not expecting anyone to be around. When he recognized me he stared in disbelief.
"You didn't actually expect me to be dead, did you? How could I possibly leave my brother all alone?" I smiled.
"How..? How are you still alive? Those bastards sacrificed you to complete the ritual".
I looked down at my hands, as if for the first time I noticed there were actually fingers on them before I reacted I didn't know. Jokingly I added "Maybe I'm just Justin's gift to the world".
The joke hadn't landed as one as Hidan hissed "JASHIN!"
I jumped off the branch and walked over to Hidan. "I'm so glad you're alive" I smiled as I pulled him into a hug.
Hidan breathed out as his mouth turned into a smile "How many times do I have to tell you, you don't have to worry about me".
For once I actually believed him. With this new energy I felt invincible, maybe even immortal. Well, I was about to find out how immortal I actually was…
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Let me know what you think. I was inspired by the 'Creation of Akatsuki' episode of Ultimate Ninja Storm: Revolution. I'm not sure whether to continue this story or not.
Constructive criticism is welcome.
R&R please!