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This is my first attempt at a cross over involing two specific mangas/anime and even I'm not 100% sure just where it's going! XD

WARNING- This story will have lots of gore and violence and possible swearing and probably more. Read at your own risk!

I'm mostly using the anime for Elfen Lied as I haven't had time to read the manga yet, but I've done some of my homework and I know the anime and manga have several differences. I'm using some reference from both of them and I'm creating a bit of my own bit for her. ;)

I also mostly only read the manga with Naruto, but I get a lot of my information off of (lots of spoilers on here! Look at your own risk!).

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Death Lied – An Ending and a Beginning

I couldn't believe it. I had actually gotten away. I was free.

But judging by the gunshots and the metallic twangs and pings I might not be for long. Still, if I had a choice between death and being captured again I was more than ready for my life to be over and done with. I didn't have anything to live for anyway.

Stupid humans, just because I'm different, just because I'm not the same as them, just because even, they feel like they have to lock me up, they have to study me, they feel like I'm dangerous. Well, that last part is actually true.

I smirked at that as my feet pounded against the ground as I raced down the deserted street lamp lit street. I didn't even know the name of the miserable, sticking city I was in. I didn't really care unless it happened to be the city where what remained of my pathetic family lived in. Then I might have to make a side trip to finish them off.

Perhaps the desire, the need to kill off one's family is a bit strange, disturbing even, monstrous some might even call it. I may not be human, but they were the real monsters though. They were the ones who handed me, an eight-year-old kid, over to a bunch of scientists out of cowardice, fear, and spite.

But mostly fear.

Most people were afraid of me. My parents, my older sisters, my classmates, my teachers, and most adults I had ever met. They were all afraid of me.

It wasn't without reason though; I did kill them all in the end. It wasn't their fear that made me kill them, it was that they didn't bother or even make an effort to understand why they were afraid or even if they needed to be afraid.

It's like when I was little. Just like every kid I was afraid of the dark, I was afraid of monsters under my bed, I was afraid of spiders and bugs. It's perfectly natural for people to experience fear, but only the ones with courage rise up to meet and conquer it.

I have yet to meet one of those people in life, but I've read about plenty of them. When you're always alone it give you plenty of time to read.

Still, I remember the main character in a book series by Tamara Peirce was afraid of heights. She'd been afraid of them since her older brother had dangled her over the edge of a tower and it came back to bite her later in life, but she rose to meet it and conquered her fear. I remember that she said that she'd never like heights, but she wasn't afraid of them anymore.

People were afraid of me because they didn't know how to understand, how to cope with me being different; with me not being human. The humans even gave my kind our very own name.

They call us Diclonius.

I'm definitely not the only one, nor am I the first. I came about from a Diclonius before me touching a human male and infecting him with the Diclonius 'virus' and he passed it on when he mated with a human female. What makes me different from other Diclonius is that, unlike all other Diclonius resulting from an 'infected' human male, I'm not sterile. I can have children. I know because, not over a day ago, I gave birth.

Pain clenched in my chest at the thought of my baby. The baby I never got to see, the baby I never got to hold, the baby whose first cry was cut short by an injection of poison.

Trails of hot tears flowed down my cheeks as I clenched my jaw and hands, running all the harder. I had to get away. I had to live. I had to live so I could wipe out every single stupid, stinking human on this miserable, dirty planet.

It would be fitting, all of their lives for the life of my child.

I blinked and I raised my head slightly as the tug of my other senses told me something was coming at me hard and fast. I didn't slow my pace, but reacted by reaching out as only a Diclonius can and swatting the offending object. It exploded on contact with my hand, or vector as the humans called them, making it a bomb.

All Diclonius have vectors, though it varies from Diclonius to Diclonius how many arms we have and how far we can reach. I have twenty-two altogether and I can reach anything under eight meters away. From what I discovered it's a fairly large number, but there has been at least one Diclonius before me who was stronger. Hers were even visible to the human eye she was so strong. Mine aren't visible, but humans seem to be able to detect them sometimes.

Or maybe they can sense their death since they usually only seem to be able to sense them right before I kill them.

I was coming to the end of the street and it just happened to be a railing separating the sidewalk from a drop off with trees beyond it. It looked like it was a fairly far drop since if I stood at the railing I would be looking at higher than the upper half of the trees. This would be a perfect place to lose the stupid humans at.

I picked up speed even as I swatted a few well aimed bullets away from hitting my back with a couple of my vectors. I used another two to push myself up and over the railing and into the trees. I used my vectors again to start swinging myself through the trees and to catch myself before my feet touched the ground. Then I was running again.

I was wearing down. Being locked up so tightly I couldn't move and being fed through a tube had weakened my body considerably. I gritted my teeth as I forced myself on. I couldn't give up now!

I ran on as fast as I could for several minutes as the sounds of the human soldiers faded from my hearing. I slowed then to a jog, then a walk, then a complete stop as I braced my hands on my knees and panted heavily. Pale pink hair fell to the sides of my head, shielding my red eyes from the surrounding forest as I tried to catch my breath.

I stayed like that for several more minutes before my breathing slowed, but I still felt like I was ready to collapse from the strain on my body. I finally straightened and brushed my hair out of my face, tucking a few strands behind my ear. My hand brushed the ribbon I'd tied around my horns to help disguise I was a Diclonius.

I scowled to myself I as grasped the ribbon and untied it before throwing it on the ground and grinding it into the ground with my bare foot. I wasn't ashamed of myself! I would no longer hide what I was! I raised my head proudly so my horns could be easily seen rooted in my shortish, springy light pink hair as I scanned the surrounding forest with dark red eyes.

Pain suddenly blossomed on the left side of my chest and I cried out at the sudden force of it. I clutched at the place with my hands and they quickly became coated with the warm stickiness of my own blood. I stared down at my hands in a mix of shock and horror. One moment of inattention and now I was finished!!

A broken sob escaped me as I tried to keep moving, but only succeeded in falling. On hands and knees I crawled while gabbing anything and everything I could with my vectors to drag myself forward.

I dragged myself along after being shot, but I found myself on a paved country road. The road was still warm from being in the sun all day and it felt good against my skin. I paused for a moment, I would just rest for a moment. I wasn't going to let the humans get me after all…

I don't know long I laid on the concrete, before I realized I needed to be moving; before I realized I couldn't move. I gritted my teeth and tried to will strength into my exhausted limbs and tried to use my vectors to at least drag my body along. I still couldn't move. I was completely out of strength.

I laid there for a long time, still trying to move and getting weaker by the minute before they found me, the human soldiers. At least it wasn't the scientists and I would be granted a small mercy. The soldiers would kill me now, that much I knew, the scientists would have kept me alive for more experiments.

I gritted my teeth and refused to cry out at the sudden pain as something heavy struck me in the side of my ribcage and onto my back. Dark shapes moved around the edge of my vision and I could hear what sounded like people talking, but I couldn't understand what they were saying.

When my vision cleared enough for me to see, I found myself staring at the end of a gun barrel. I knew this was my death and I was glad for it. I would finally get away from these stupid, stinking humans even if it meant I was dead. I didn't know if I would go to Heaven or Hell or if God even cared about my kind. Maybe my kind went somewhere else…

I heard the click of the trigger being pulled and a brief sting of pain on my forehead, between my eyes, then blackness...

Nothingness…

There was no more pain.

If this was death, I couldn't say I really minded. It felt like I had just barely fallen asleep somewhere perfect. It wasn't too hot, it wasn't too cold, it wasn't too comfortable, or too uncomfortable. I felt myself relax for the first time that I could ever remember. It was a nice feeling…

It stayed that way for a long time. I'm not sure how long, time didn't really matter here, where ever here was.

All I knew was that suddenly, everything wasn't perfect anymore. I was laying on something that wasn't as soft as it had been a moment ago and there were several small somethings poking me slightly painfully in several places. Then there was this annoying brightness on my closed eyes before I blinked them open…

Why was I looking up at the sun shining through the leaves of a tree?

I'd been laying on a road before… Wasn't I supposed to be dead?

If I was supposed to be dead, why was I waking up?

Yes, I really did just leave a cliffhanger on the first chapter. It's a bit of a hobby of mine and I have fun with it.

Now, was it any good?