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Butterfly Kiss by: Yonekura Chihiro
I've worked for him for my entire life...
There was not a disturbance in the routine...
As one of us passes,
The offspring replaces the parent...
My mother served under him...
I will served under him...
And they say my child shall serve under the tyrant...
It was sunny, the birds flew from tree to tree and the flower buds were just beginning to spread. Within the deep forest you could hear the song of the birds, rustling of branches, the singing or a girl...
--
The intense darkness is a beautiful sleeping butterfly.
Do you even know you're in the deep blue sky?
The fragile world is like building blocks;
It wants to fly away.
For the one who had only one wish
And loved it...
The dice were thrown.
"Paradise" rises from the future.
You and I unite in the far away dream,
And we'll get across this blood red river.
If I can return all of your tears back to the sea,
Will the sins and pain be forgotten too?
Warmth was given to a lonely wing
By that precious kiss.
For the one who had only one promise,
And kept it...
A flower embraces a cross with uncertainty.
With that, bloomed a fickle angel.
If, someday, love that's far away is found,
Then paradise will be given to you.
In search of true light,
We live innocently.
For the only one who now believed,
And love it...
The dice were thrown.
"Paradise" rises from the future.
You and I unite in the far away dream,
And we'll get across this blood red river.
A flower embraces a cross with uncertainty.
With that bloomed a fickle angel.
If, someday, love that's far away is found,
Then paradise will be given to you.
--
As it ended, the verses were hummed, blending in with the surrounding music of nature.
This was her only freedom, her only escape. Those rare moments when she was able to relish in the sun and watch the butterflies pass.
She was forever confined to the dank darkness of the underground fortress of the Snake Sanin, Orochimaru. Through out the generations of her lineage, they were rather in servitude or prison. Not a very promising future for the up-coming generation, nor her...
A man came out, eyes unreadable as he strode over to a barked skyscraper. The maiden had not bothered to look down to meet the figure at the base, but merely reached out to have a butterfly land on the tip of her finger. The humming had stopped.
The man gave a scoff, adjusting his mirrored glasses.
"It's dangerous to be outside these days, Tsukiko-san," the silver haired man stated, but was never acknowledged. The man gave a smirk, "Orochimaru-Sama is not well. He will need Sasuke-kun here-"
"And you're telling me this... Why...?"
Voice deadly cold, there was nothing in her eyes anymore. The butterfly flew away, back into the trees for sanctuary. The person she sang with, was not the same one she spoke with.
His face remained the same mysterious smile, "I thought you can read minds, Tsukiko-san."
"I'm an Oracle, not a telepath! I get visions of future events at random times."
She made sure to include the last part, because not only is it true, but then people would expect you to have visions ever time they ask. It is already tiring enough having them ask once a day, but anymore would just be overkill.
"Either way, Orochimaru-sama wishes to have your presence at the moment," the man stated, giving a sigh in both disappointment and annoyance. She got to her feet before tumbling down to the ground bellow. The man made no movement as the girl landed a few inches from his side position.
"You know, Kabuto-san...," There was a brief pause as it seemed hesitant, almost playful, "you should really get inside. It's about to rain..."
A small smirk, or was it a smile, appeared on her lips. Tsukiko's braid trailed behind her as she made her way into her prison.
--
She was now trecking through the forest. She was right, the clouds have moved in and it was already beginning to drizzle. She didn't really want to be out here, but she had to... She was on a mission...
--
Eyes widened as everything in the room seemed to tense. She looked up, but she did not notice the new expression etching itself on the snake ninja's face as his lips tweaked into a twisted smile. Tsukiko 's eyes were glazed over with a new color, her mind filling with images of different backgrounds.
As her body began to shake, they all knew what would soon happen. It always happened, but most of the time it wasn't this noticeable.
"Tsukiko-chan... Tell me, what is it you see...?"
Heavy breathing, her eyes had yet to return to their empty nature.
"Kah-... Sako. Blood, dogs, wolf, rive-Ah! Ukon, terminated... Tyuya, Jirobo, K-kidomaru, chakra... Blood, sound, music, barrier..."
Tsukiko's brain was almost frying with all the visions and data, it took a few minutes to process all the raw information passing through her eyes
"Sound Five, deceased..."
--
"Tsukiko...!" Such a pained voice rang through the stone cold corridors. She appeared out of the many shadows without so much as a flinch when a chair came hurdling towards her. Of course, the wooden object hit her dead on and she fell to the floor, for it was Orochimaru who had caused the wound. Tsukiko picked herself off the ground as if nothing had happened, sure her leg stung a from where the chair's legs had swooped her, but the snake man was in no mood for impudence.
"Don't keep me waiting...! You have an assignment, bring Sasuke-kun here now before..." he stopped himself in mid sentence, coming in with a coughing fit. Blood could be seen at the edge of his mouth, but he had no intention on remove it.
Tsukiko felt no pity, it was Orochimaru's own fault for own actions, his own jutsu.
"Would that be all?"
There was only a wave of a hand, a dismissal, and she left without another word.
--
Leisurely, Tsukiko made her way from branch to branch. Sure, Orochimaru was in a messed up position where time mattered, but like she would care.
'It's inevitable, Orochimaru will not have Uchiha-san in time for the transference. Why waist energy...'
It was actually quite enjoyable, the action of tree skipping, but the only fact was that she was slowed down by the heavy drops of rain water. She had to be cautious as to not slip.
Didn't she speak to Kabuto something along the lines of that when it was once sunny...?
'I'm getting close...' Tsukiko continued to make her way tree to tree, the falling rain outlining the shell of her cloak. 'By the next few yards, he should be there. That is, if my timing is correct...'
And there he was, a slow moving boy making his way through the dense forest. Fresh wounds of battle scattered across his body as he had just been through a parting battle. He was weary, ready to go into the state of unconsciousness.
"Uchiha-san..."
A voice rang like a bell through the falling rain's roar. He slowly looked up, but his eyes clouded. It was hard to see, but he saw a figure in front of him. A tall, hazy figure slowly made their way over towards him. Was he to trust this... person?
Something told him that it was fine, but even it that was not there, his fatigue caught up to his state and darkness overtook his site. However, before his body became numb, warmth surround him.
"Sleep well, Uchiha-san... This might be the only restful sleep you'll get for the next two years..."
Tsukiko hoisted the unconscious boy on her back, careful not to disturb his slumber. Covering him under her short raincoat, and made way for shelter, rain poring upon then heavily under the gloomy clouds and pathetic tree coverage. She made her way through the drenched foliage, dragging him into the darkness of the forest.
--
Tsukiko waited or the rain to pass, a sleeping Uchiha at her side. Earlier that day, when she had first found the cave as a refuge from the rain, she had cleaned and dressed his wounds. Now all he needed was rest and food.
At the moment, there was an internal debate at which was to wait the rain out or go out now and search for some usable wood, or flammables, that could be used. The thought of food was just another burden on her mind
'It may only take a few hours to the layer, but with the state Uchiha-san is in...' The dark haired girl looked down to the dark haired boy currently resting on her lap. 'Not to mention the amount of chakra he's burned... He won't last too long...'
Subconsciously, she pushed back Sasuke's bangs, but as she did so, that feeling came once again. Tsukiko shook it off, yet is still came and the scene unfolded within her mind, storing it in the file.
After a few minutes the rain had ceased and the full moon illuminated the forest bellow.
--
The morning sun awoke, peeking above the treetops and with that, coal black eyes awake.
"Well, it's good that you're awake..."
Peering to the side, Sasuke caught the gaze of a girl beside him.
"I'm Tsukiko, Orochimaru sent me," she stated the last part in disgust.
Sasuke sat up, removing a coat that seemed to take the place of a blanket. Tsukiko handed a steaming fish that was caught earlier that evening.
"You'll need your energy..." She smiled.
--
"What are you to him?"
"Nani...?" She eye him, as his pace was even with hers. They were currently walking back to hideout after a small meal of fish. She had originally taken lead, but his curiosity must have token the best of him and he now walked along side her. Both matching the same velocity.
"What asset are you to him...?"
As much as Tsukiko knew she should answer him, a tick had been hit. There was a deep sigh as she turned her gaze to the ground.
"That would be like me asking you about your brother..."
There was silence...
--
She watched silently as Sasuke enters the room. He was out of the other ragged clothes and put into 'suitable' attire.
A hand was placed on her shoulder, she stiffened. "You completed the assignment. Very good, Tsukiko-san." She saw past his polite gestures and forced facial expression. She had yet to even spare him a glance since she and Sasuke had arrived a few hours ago.
"Welcome, Sasuke-kun," a crease in the bandages were evidence of a sick grin upon Orochimaru's lips, "I do hope that the trip was not too rough on your body..."
She thanked that Kabuto's hand released her shoulder as he went to stand by the snake nin's side. Tsukiko kept her position on the far-side wall of the room. Silent and still as a perfectly, well-behaved statue.
"Come, walk with us..."
We were heading down further, into the dungeons where the thousands of prisoners were kept. Here, they were no lights.
'It could be me in one of those cells...'
Tsukiko shook her head, trying to rid herself of the musty smell, and invading memories that were not hers.
"Saskue-kun, you are the chosen man-"
"It doesn't matter how, just give me power!"
That omen's feeling again... Orochimaru gave a slight glare. He never liked to be interrupted.
Kabuto shifted a bit before whispering something to Sasuke. Whatever he said, there was a massive amount of chakra released from him.
'It's only a matter of time...'
Orochimaru began to laugh again as they disappeared in the darkness of the lair.
This is going to be a short series, I'm telling you now. Only five chapters, or something... This idea wouldn't get out f my head and I had to publish it! Pictures of Tsukiko are on the picture account and in the next chapter, it will be some-what of a time skip.
Please review and tell me what you think!
-Sin
