Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto of course. But I do own Akito and Sonki Ekibyougami.
Naruto
Chapter 1: It's Only the Begging
Saga: Death and Rebirth
The rain came down hard as a weak figure stood hunched over what seemed to be a body lying on the ground. The standing figure was a girl around the height of five foot three. Her pitch black hair clung to her body limply, a few inches bellow her collarbone. Her school uniform was soaked and stained with blood of the victim bellow her. Her cold distant red eyes surveyed the body bellow, at her feet.
A wicked smile spread across her face as she flicked her head back a little, getting her hair out of her eyes. Finally, she opened her mouth to speak.
"You deserved it Akito," she hissed at him angrily, but didn't show any sign of hatred on her face, just that wicked sinister smile. "Using me like you did. Then throwing me away when you decided I wasn't good enough for you. Saying that I just wasn't your type and that this was all a mistake. Just out of kindness. If this was just kindness then why did you ask me to go out with you in the first place? To sleep with you?"
The body was motionless. Dead. His dark blue hair covering his horridly scared looking deep blue eyes. His hands lying tweaked at his side. The uniform he was wearing still soaking up more blood as it oozed out of the gapping wound in his chest. The knife still implanted right where it had struck the tenth and final time.
"Stupid basterd, you deserved this… Everyone deserves to suffer and die such as you have," she said as the smile begun to slowly fade away from her face. "Just think, this would have never happened if you all would have just left me alone! YOU ALL CAUSED THIS! YOU CAUSED YOUR OWN DEATH!" Her hair flung around wildly as she shouted this words at him.
Slowly the hot tears fell down her face, her expression change now, from anger to a deep shock. Starring at the body bellow her she begun to back up, her hands now at her mouth. Starring at him in shock, the blood around him mixing in with the rain as it slowly followed the rain down into a drain.
"What have a done…" she chocked out, now gasping for air. She was in total terror at what lay before her, she had snapped back to her old self. The demon she had been possessed by before had left. She no longer felt the sudden urge to kill, the urge had left her.
Turning her back to the body she ran away. She ran as fast as she could, eyes shut tight, trying to get the horrible images out of her head.
Sitting down on her bed shaking she looked around her room scared. What she had just done to that boy was horrible. She had killed him, taken his life away. Taken what was most delicate and precious to the human kind. The will to live, the will to survive. She had just taken that will away from him. She had killed him.
Slowly she drew her hands away from her face and stood up again, in the puddle of water that lay on the floor below her. Scanning around her room once more her eyes fell upon her most recent update of a Manga she had been most interest lately.
Naruto. The volume lying on her nightstand beside her bed was Vol. 18 at the moment. Way ahead of the American releasing, they only had up to 3 released and in the Shônen Jump they were at least on book 4 from what she had last read. Being able to read Hiragana and understanding a lot of the Kanji came into great help, since after all, Naruto was something at the moment that she used to get away from the world. It was her savior. Whenever she was down she would just pick up a volume and get lost in it as soon as she was brought back into reality.
Sighing she starred at the cover of Naruto and Tsunade's who seemed to have an abnormal amount of cleavage, though then again… This was anime, just about anything was possible there. After all they did only defile gravity, using Chakara to walk up tree's summoning demons, or even having demons sealed inside of them.
That would be a life she would wish for. How much she wished to become a Ninja, to unleash all of her pain and suffering through fighting. To become strong, to beat some of the most fearsome bad guys out there. Such as Orochimaru. Most people that have read the Manga or watched the Anime series would probably refer to Gaara being the most scare some… But then again they never saw him from her point of view. He was just a lonely character, never knowing what it felt like to be loved.
Drifting her eyes away from it she looked over to her dresser. Sitting on it and as if giving it's own aura of light was a plain ordinary small raiser. Walking over it as if it where her savior she lifted it up gently, a small comfortable smile spread across her face as she walked back over to her bed and sat down.
"Is this really the way I want to go?" she asked herself. "Is this really the way I wish to end my life, leave this world? Do I really want to end my will to live? This will that the human race seems to be so enthralled with?"
Yes.
The smile stayed on her face as she put her wrist face up and held the raiser in her other hand over it.
"Finally all this pain will subside… Finally I will no longer feel guilty for being a waste of living flesh, taking up a soul that is no use to me…" she sighed deeply as a happy smile spread across her face, closing her eyes she put the raiser against her skin and was just about to start pulling down but stopped when she heard a sudden "thwack" issue in front of her.
Opening her eyes she looked ahead. Sticking in her wall was a four-inch big kunai, the raiser was being held against the wall by it.
"Huh?" she asked looking around.
You know you shouldn't do that. Throw your life away so easily…"Who are you!?" she shouted out jumping up from where she as sitting. "You have no right telling me what to do!"
"Death is not the answer yet child," the same voice said. This time it was not just in her head, it was in her room. Standing in the corner, it's face covered in darkness.
Though what she could see, she did not like. After being such a huge Naruto fan she could recognize whom the characters where just by their outfits and their voice actors. The thing standing in the corner was none other than Orochimaru himself.
He leaned forward a bit, his eyes piercing right through her very soul as he laid them upon her.
"This isn't happening," she said, you could here utter fear in her voice; in face she was even shaking at the mere sight of him. "You're not here. This is just some sort of crazy illusion. I'm just thinking this up. After all you're just an anime character…"
"An anime character drawn to your world by your wish of death," Orochimaru said smiling wickedly at her. "You want to leave this world right? Why not be reborn into mine? It's fairly simple if you're willing to take the risk…"
"Even if I did really believe you weren't a figment of my imagination I would still never trust what you tell me," she said, some fear had left but not enough to give her enough courage to stand up, or to stop shaking. "You're nothing but trouble. After what you did to Sasuke, and everyone else. I have to reason to trust you… After all, you did kill the Fourth Hokage of the Leaf Village. Just go away. Just leave me be."
"You want your pain to be suppressed so you instantly think of suicide," Orochimaru said pressing the subject forward. "There is another way out of this. Sure you will be alive in this world no longer, but you will be reborn into another. The World of the Ninja's. Isn't that your dearest wish?"
Her eyes twitched at what he had said and then she gulped. "What would I have to do?"
He smiled at her happily. Finally she was going with him. "It's simple. Give me arms. Since as you know from your reading that stupid old man stole mine from me. He destroyed them. Give me arms and you will be reborn into the realm you wish for so dearly."
She stood up and narrowed her eyes at him a little, fear was still there. "That is all I have to do. Give you arms?"
"Yes. Give me someone's arms. I don't care who."
"I killed a boy earlier…" Pain reflected on her face as one of her eyes twitched as the memories of his body were implanted in her mind. "Take his arms. They are of no use to him any longer."
A wicked smile spread across his face as he raised his hand. Another kunai was in it, flicking his hand it went flying straight into her head. She fell to the floor, blood running from her wound. Closing her eyes with a smile on her face she died.
"You will be reborn into my world. From the begging," Orochimaru said laughing a little to himself. "But of course this will be of no help to Naruto and the other's. Her coming will be the end of them all of she keeps going like this. She will stay with the darkness in her heart and she will be possibly even greater than Sasuke… She will be of a much greater use to me."
"HURRY! SEAL IT NOW!" a man's voice shouted out as a small baby girl sat crying. "SEAL THE WOLF NOW!"
Another man approached the crying baby and begun to perform the seal. Drawing Kanji and swirl on the baby's stomach. The baby finally stopped crying when it was done and starred around the room in torment. As though something was eating her from the inside.
"What's happening to her!? Didn't you seal it right!?"
"She will either accept it or reject it. If it is rejected the Wolf Demon and the baby will die. If accept the girl will live with the demon trapped inside of her forever," the man said starring down at the baby as it begun to twist around in pain. "Only time will tell.
-----4 Years Latter-----
A little girl with shoulder length black hair stood motionless as she watched the three boys in front of her being attack by sand. The boy commanding the sand was around her age and was screaming at the three boys no to leave and he only wanted to play with them.
The three boys were screaming for their lives as the sand slowly started to kill them.
"Gaara!"
The sand dropped from around the boys, along with the ball in his hand. The small red haired boy looked over in the direction that the voice had come from. He looked at her sadly as the boys ran off screaming past the little girl who stood their mesmerized at the sight before her.
"You have to control your power!" she said to him a little angry. "You could really have hurt them Gaara! You have to stop this!"
"I didn't mean too," he said, his voice was quivering a little. "That wasn't supposed to happen to them. It was an accident. I didn't mean too!"
"Just… Just don't let it happen again? Okay?" she asked him.
"Okay…" Gaara replied as his eyes lowered to the ground.
"And I want you home before the sun sets okay?" she asked as she turned her back to him, leaving.
"Alright," Gaara answered, he still had a sad tone to his voice. "I'll come home before than."
She left leaving Gaara starring at her disappearing figure. The little girl was still standing behind Gaara, starring at him.
She walked forward, the kimono she was wearing dragging on the ground as she moved. "Gaara? That's your name… Isn't it?"
He jumped a little in surprise at the sudden sound of his name. He spun around to come face to face with the little girl who had been watching him from afar.
"Yeah… Who are you?" Gaara asked sounding a little annoyed at her sudden appearance, especially after what had just happened between him and the three other boys.
"Ekibyougami Sonki," Sonki said smiling at him a little. "I saw what you did to those boys…"
His eye twitched as the subject was brought up again, he was starting to get a little angry. Was she only here to just make fun of him? For his wrong actions? For his mistakes?
"They weren't very nice to you," Sonki continued, the anger had left his face totally. "I mean they ran off when you got their ball for them. That was nice of you."
"Why didn't they think that?" Gaara asked her, he was now a little curious about this new strange girl. He had never seen her before in the village, let alone noticed her before watching him.
"They were probably scared of you, like everyone else in this village," Sonki answered looking at her feet a little and then went back to starring at Gaara's face. "But I'm not scared of you." She leaned in towards his face and then whispered in his ear. "Cause I have a monster inside of me too."
His eyes got big at the sudden mention of this.
She pulled her head away and then smiled at him. "Hey do you want to play with me? No one else will…"
He smiled at her happily.
-----1 Year Latter-----
Sonki looked around be withered at the huge gates in front of her. They were slowly opening before her eyes. A man and a woman walked out talking to each other excitedly. It seemed like they were traveling to the land of the Mist together.
The woman gave a gasp as she saw Sonki sitting on the ground alone, dirty.
"Oh my god!" she shouted out running over to her. "Are you alright!? How did you get here!? What's your name!? Where are your mom and dad?"
"Mom… Dad?" Sonki asked looking at her confused.
"What should we do with her?" the man asked walking over to the two.
"What else!?" the woman answered sternly. "We're going to have to reject the mission. We have enough money for now… This kid, she looks lost and hurt… We've got to help her!"
The man starred at Sonki intently and then spoke. "What's your name?"
"Ekibyougami Sonki…" Sonki answered looking at him confused. "Where am I? Do you know how I got here?"
"You don't know how you get here?" the woman asked. "Do you know where your home is? Where you came from?"
Sonki shook her head and then starred in the woman's eyes, scared. "You're not going to leave me… Are you?"
"Oh no!" the woman said smiling at her happily as she picked her up. "We're going to take you home Sonki! You'll live with us now!"
Sonki just starred at these two new faces blankly.
-----8 Years Latter-----
Sonki smiled happily as she held her headband in her hands. She had passed her Ninja test. She was now an official Ninja.
"The last Team… Team 7," Iruka said interrupting her form her train of thoughts. "Will be the only cell that has four students too it. The teacher asked for the last student specifically, since that student would have been asked to wait until next year to be put into a cell on the account of an odd number. This cell consists of… Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke, and Ekibyougami Sonki…"
Sonki blinked confused as the three of her teammates turned to look at her confused. As if this was the first time they had heard or seen her.
All of these memories flashed through her mind as she stood outside on the sidewalk. From the point where she was born, her first fake 'D Rank Mission' where she had to fight Zabuza and Haku, all up until the point of now. Where Kakashi had entered her and the others into this test. The test to become a Chunin.
Thoughts still lingered in her head as she followed Sakura who was chasing after Naruto and Konohamaru, for making fun of her forehead again. She knew she was in this Manga, she knew that she used to be in the real world. But why did she always hesitate to tell the others what she knew what was going to happen to them. It could have saved them all a great deal of trouble. Especially when Kakashi had figured Zabuza was dead. But she always held back, always held back from telling them what was going to happen…
A small frown came over her face and her black tinted glasses slide down her nose. She pushed them back up with her middle finger and then sighed. Today she would be meeting Gaara again, as if this hadn't already screwed up the story plot a lot. Orochimaru had never told her she was going to experience her whole life here… No wait, she hadn't really experienced it. After all she had just experienced her whole life up until now from a fast forward version.
But she had managed to get it all, remember it as if this were her life… But the memories from her other still remained. She was still her odd self, just brought up again, with two memories of being born, in two worlds. She had two lives basically.
Sighing once more she pressed forward and then winced when she heard the voice off Kankuro.
"One of the things I hate most… Midgets!" Kankuro said angrily as he picked Konohamaru up by the collar of his scarf. "And that really hurt when you ran into me like that!"
Sonki walked forward, now at Naruto's side she starred at Kankuro angrily. "I'd put him down if I were you…"
Kankuro looked away from the boy in his hand and over to the female voice that spoke out to him. "Shut-up girl. Unless you want to end up dead in a few minutes after this boy…"
"Kankuro," Sonki hissed at him, a wicked smile spreading across her face at the same time. "You can't threaten me. Drop the boy now before I decided it wise to fight against you."
"Fine with me, I need a warm up," Kankuro said wincing at her. He dropped Konohamaru, who then rushed over behind Sonki and Naruto.
"You're a loser boss! I don't want to follow you anymore!" Konohamaru spat out at Naruto and then stuck out his tongue at him as he finished. "Sonki's much cooler!"
"Shut your mouth! I'm much better than her!" Naruto barked back at him as he formed a fist in his left hand and then slammed it into a right open palmed one. "I'll prove it to you right here and now!"
Naruto begun to charge himself at Kankuro but fell forward instantly as Sonki stuck out her foot in front of him.
"Stop that Naruto," Sonki said pushing her glasses back up her nose. "No one's going to fight. And it wouldn't be wise to fight against enemies you know nothing about…"
"What and you do!?" Naruto retorted getting up from the ground angrily as he shot her a nasty look.
"After all… I used to live in the Village of the Sand eight years ago," Sonki said smirking at him. "So you'd know nothing of their techniques or what exactly happened there."
Naruto kept his mouth shut but just turned his attention away from her and over to Kankuro who was reaching behind his back for a body? wrapped in white bandages. All you could see was the hair sticking out over it.
"Kankuro, don't do this right now. We shouldn't get into trouble before anything starts!" the girl at his side exclaimed.
"Temari's right," Sonki said brushing the subject away with her hand.
She jumped at the sudden announcement of her name before she even introduced herself.
"I've been keeping up with what's been taking place in the Village of the Sand," Sonki answered before she even got the chance to ask the question. "So I know all about you two…"
"I don't care!" Kankuro shouted out now grabbing the body or doll by the hair.
Where's Sasuke!? This isn't supposed to happen! He should be showing up now! No he should have showed up when Kankuro had Konohamaru in his grasp! Dammit! Did I mess this all up!?
Kankuro wretched his hand back a second latter, flinging his head towards the nearest tree in the process.
Their Sasuke leaned back against the tree trunk from one of the branches calmly. His eyes surveying Kankuro and then Sonki before placing them back again on Kankuro.
"I wouldn't be fighting yet if I were you," Sasuke said coldly to him, frowning.
"I hate show off's even more!" Kankuro yelled back at him as both his hands turned into fists.
"Stop it now or I'll kill you," a cold voice spoke out. Hanging suspended upside down on another branch a few feet away from Sasuke was Gaara. He glared at Kankuro and then his eyes lied upon Sonki. Starring up at him blankly. He starred at her intensely, taking in her full appearance.
Her hair was still the same pitch black, but tied up in the back of her head, making it stick up at the top wildly. Small round black tinted glasses covered her eyes and her skin remained pale. She was wearing a un buttoned black high collared, short sleeve coat that went down to her knees. A dark blue shirt was underneath it with the insignia of the village's leaf in the center of it, the color was blood red. She was wearing over sized black capri's and the normal blue sandals. Covering her hands was cut off black gloves and finally a plain black leather backpack on her back.
A small smile appeared on his face and then he vanished, leaving only smoke behind him.
"What? Where'd he go?" Naruto said softly to himself as he looked around his surroundings carefully. He jumped when he heard the voice no more than a few feet away from him.
"It's been a long time Sonki… Have you forgotten about me?" Gaara asked, and then leaned closely by her ear. "I haven't forgotten about you. Not a day goes by that I don't think about your death."
Death? Wait… Since when did he want me dead!? Didn't I help him! Didn't I become his friend when he needed someone most!? Didn't I love him for who he was and not fear him because what was inside of him!?
Gaara leaned away from her head and then took a step back, his black outlined eyes starring intensely at her. "Why is it that I run into you now? Here in this village of all places? I've heard many rumors of your death."
"Well I mustn't be dead, since I am standing here in the flesh," Sonki replied
"Of course I didn't believe them, after all you were only so willing to be my friend," Gaara said crossing his arms over his chest. "I mean after all, you'd have to have some guts to want to be around such a horrible monster as myself…"
"Monster?" Sonki interjected spinning around to face him. "Who's been feeding you that line of bullshit? If you are indeed this monster… Than wouldn't that make me one also?"
"Maybe…" Gaara said. "Temari, Kankuro. We're going now."
"Leaving so soon?" Sonki asked, her voice sounded a little hurt, but only for a second before it was replaced with her usual non-caring type tone. "Don't want to kill me yet?"
"What would be the fun of that?" Gaara asked walking away from her with his teammates. "When I can do it tonight when you're sleeping?"
Sonki winced and then let out a deep breath she had been holding when she heard his tone of voice he was using as he left. It was utter hatred, the type of hatred she had never herd used towards her before. Not even back in her old life, not even from all of those kids that seemed to hate the look and sight of her.
"And who would that be?" Sasuke asked jumping down at Sonki's side.
"An old friend… His names Gaara, Gaara of the Desert," Sonki replied pushing her glasses up once again, sweat had already begun to form on her face as the last words Gaara had spoke to her finally begun to sink in.
"What did you do to him to get him so pissed off at you?" Sakura asked, speaking up for the first time since the event that had just happened.
"I don't know… I really don't know," Sonki said shaking her head. "But I've never seen him this mad before, not even when he was a kid…"
"So how close were you two anyway?" Konohamaru asked holding up his thumb [1] at her.
"You filthy brat!" Sonki screamed out slamming him one over the head. "Don't you dare ever think that again! Just keep your nose in your own business for once!"
"You know what… I don't think I like you or Naruto anymore," Konohamaru said sniffing a little as he rubbed the part of his head that she had slammed her fist down on. "You're both too mean!"
He ran off leaving Sonki to stare at the ground bellow her angrily.
Mean? Am I really that mean?[1]: When Konohamaru held up his thumb at Sonki he was referring to Gaara being her boyfriend. When the pinky is held up for a boy it is referring to the girl as his girlfriend. (I may have got this switched or not explained it properly so do not take this to be accurate information. If it was utterly wrong then inform so I can fix of course!)
This is the end. I apologize for skipping around in the year department, it was just the easiest way I felt I could write down my thoughts and I hope I didn't some how confuse you with it. I may have gotten some of the names wrong, yet spelled them wrong. If I have done this then please inform me straight away so I can fix it.