"Can you feel, Yume-chan?"
//+//
She winced slightly as she held her left hand palm forward, brow furrowed in concentration. It was glowing, as well as the long wire that protruded from her palm. "Ah..." Ignoring the burning sensation in her palm, she pushed forward and watched in satisfaction as the wire, which from her hand had been wrapped around a tree trunk tightly, slowly began to cut into the trunk.
"Nn..."
She inhaled before slowly closing her fist around the wire. "Waia Kire!" Abruptly, the wire dug into the tree trunk, cutting it in half in one clean sweep.
//+//
"..."
//+//
She barely winced as the wire retracted back into her palm, leaving a small black mark behind. Blankly, she stared at the man on the sand; she watched as the red began to slowly trickle from his chest to the golden sand below.
Tainting it.
She touched the headset that she was wearing and moved the small mike towards her lips, "Mission complete."
//+//
"Ah. I see...So, that is what has been done to you...Poor child..."
//+//
"Yume..."
She stared blankly ahead at the body that was pierced into the wall by kunai. Its face was deformed, but she knew who it was.
"She'll need to be stabilized again." A voice whispered behind her, trying not to be heard. She had once thought of the voice as a friend; a companion. Now, the person behind the voice was nothing but a piece of loathsome meat. An insignificant other that only wanted to hurt her.
She turned on her heel with her hand outstretched, dark eyes vacant. Immediately, the innocents backed away, leaving the guilty there in plain view. "Yume, don't be rash-"
"...Waia Kire."
She was going to hurt them first.
//+//
"You sorrowful thing...To have no reason, no purpose...You know...I can give you a purpose."
//+//
She stared down at the sand below from atop a roof. It would be a long drop.
She rose one foot over the edge, paused, then proceeded to fall.
//+//
"Work for me, Yume-chan. I'll lodge you, feed you; give you life. All you need to do is be obedient to me."
//+//
The air rushed behind her, and she sighed; soon, she would slip into unconsciousness. She wouldn't have to feel a thing.
But, she then felt something warm around her back. Blinking, she looked back to see a smiling face.
"Silly girl." The face said lightly, in an almost teasing manner, before pressing her close to his chest and pushing himself away from the building so that they fell feet-forward. The entire time during the fall, until he finally landed, she stared at his face. At how fake it was; how his true emotions seemed to be deeply pressed into the center of his body so that they couldn't show.
She wanted that.
"Come; I have things to converse with you after you rest."
Fake, fake, fake....
She nodded her head anyway.
//+//
"Well? Will you gain a purpose, Yume-chan?"
"..."
"Hm...Well, you are still a child; only eight. I suppose you can sleep on it-"
"Yes."
"Hm?"
"I...I want my purpose."
"You do? Well, that's good, because...I have your first order right here."
//+//
Years Later...
//+//
Get up, get up.
Yume stared intently from her seat atop a roof, watching as Koji and Zai slowly pushed themselves back up to their feet on the roof across from her. She smiled slightly in relief and waved, "Zai, Koji, you alright?"
Zai scowled, brushing off dirt from his clothing, "Strange, how happy she can act." He mumbled, blue strands of hair falling into his equally blue eyes as he glanced over at Koji. "Don't you think?" He questioned while moving his left arm in a wide circle. Koji shrugged, the Suna sun glinting off of the metal from his headband that he kept tied around his eyes.
"I suppose." Koji said back quietly, merely stuffing his hands back into the pockets of his light coat that was zipped up to his chin.
Zai looked at him, "Guh, how'd I get stuck on a team with you?"
"I'm guessing you're alright if you're strong enough to chit-chat." Zai almost jumped in surprise while Koji merely looked over his shoulder; sure enough, Yume was standing behind them, hands on her hips and head tilted. "Come on, guys. We leave tomorrow; we should be getting ready." She added when Zai rolled his eyes, exasperated.
"Yume, what's the point? It'll take some time before it's over anyway; we can wait." He stated, trying to reason.
She just shook her head with a grin, "No way. Now, suck it up. Koji, scenario-five." She added, looking over at Koji who sighed.
"...Fine." He replied, obviously indifferent to the 'scenario'. Yume, however, smiled brightly and pumped a fist into the air.
"Okay! Action!" She said before disappearing in a puff of smoke, leaving Zai and Koji to stand on the rooftop alone, the evening sun beating at their backs.
Zai spread his feet slightly and raised his arms in a defensive stance while Koji merely let his hands fall from his pockets and to his sides. Zai glanced around; there were a few sparse people walking around in Suna's roads, but otherwise it was empty. He then glanced back over at Koji, staring at the headband over his eyes. "Ready?" Zai asked with a smirk; this was his favorite scenario in training.
Koji sighed, again, "Yeah."
In an instant, both were sprinting across the rooftop, both at the same length. Expertly, they jumped in unison onto the next rooftop and so on for a good five minutes before Zai looked over his shoulder.
"Hey, do you think she forgot?"
Koji frowned slightly, jumping to a rooftop parallel to the one they were already on. He paused for a moment, brow furrowed in thought. Zai jumped beside him, looking at him with a cocked eyebrow as Koji's ears prickled. Abruptly, Koji's head snapped up, "Above." He stated, easily taking a step to the side when Yume suddenly dropped from the sky, firing a ray of shuriken at the two. Zai bent backwards, watching idly as a shuriken flew above his face.
"Stay alive, gentlemen." Yume all but taunted as she landed easily in-between the two, sliding her left leg over to Koji who jumped over it before pushing himself off of the rooftop and into the road below. Scowling, Zai followed suit, except he did a back flip off of the roof, smirking over at Yume with a wave before disappearing over the edge.
"Stay alive, Yume-chan." Zai teased, emphasizing the chan just to watch her face twist into a grimace.
"I'm giving you a five second head start before I rip out your spinal chord." She said lowly, and Zai's face paled.
As soon as he hit the ground, he sprinted.
//+//
Eyes closed, he walked at a leisurely pace, knowing he wouldn't bump into to anyone. His arms were crossed over his chest loosely, and his sandals made a slapping sound against the hard earth that was covered in a thin layer of sand. The sun was close to setting, and many were returning to their homes.
So he was agitated when another boy sped past him, causing him to stop. Slowly, he opened aquamarine eyes and glanced over his shoulder to see the boy come to a slow stop. The other boy glanced over his shoulder as well, and he was faintly surprised to see that the boy had the Suna headband covering his eyes.
Before he could even try to match a name with the face, something else whizzed by him, the air blowing his clothing around slightly. "KOJI! She's going to kill us!" The new boy exclaimed, running past the blinded one in frenzy. He watched as the blinded one turned his head slightly before sprinting to catch up with the loud one.
He blinked before turning back towards the way he had been walking and continuing on, arms still crossed, but eyes now open. He had only walked about a yard before another person sprinted by him.
But this time, the person's shoulder slammed into his own.
"Ah, gomen!" The voice belonged to a female, and he glanced over his shoulder just to steal a glance at her face. Something pricked in his head when he saw that she was also looking back at him with a curious expression. Scowling, he grabbed his head in one hand before raising his other, the sand already pouring out of the gourd placed along his back. However, in a flash, she was already gone, most likely with the other two bigots that had dared to disturb his walk.
But, by the time he had walked to the edge of Suna and had placed himself atop a solitary roof, he had already forgotten about the three with the amazing speed.