Dancing Upon the Puppet Masters Dreams
Once upon a dream story by:
LCR
It was hard to imagine or even comprehend what had just happened before my eyes. Was this just a dream? Or is this something much, much more then what's on the surface. My newest friend Hikari was defending my teammates alongside some one that I had killed five years ago. My emerald eyes spared a glance at my teammates in disbelieve of the amount of wounds they had suffered. Naruto, Sai, Kankuro, and Saskue; they all were in bad shape and so was Hikari and I for that matter. I was healing them the best I could for what I had to work with while she and a very human puppet master defended the sea's gates. The fury from the two still fighting was beyond frightening to even behold as they used their skills just as she had with Chiyo-baasema to defeat the puppet master, and with much better skills then she could have ever come up with in such short of time with the old lady. The demon that had been summoned to Kairu's flower gate was too strong for just them to handle and the amount of damage must have triggered the silver haired women's powers to come out in full bloom. Her cold blue blind eyes death glared at the demon while her body was covered in patches of dragon armor scales. My pink locks fluttered in the sea's gusty wind while I did what I could but the four could only watch the rest play out as the cinnamon eyed man used his master puppetry to guide the blind women as if she was a dancer on the floor. His lips curled into what I could figure to be a smirk while he moved his other hand sending chakra strings to Kankuro's puppets using them as well as Hikari; though his eyes stayed on the silver haired girl before him that now started to dance away from the demon with a fanged grin and then she had it pinned down with glowing blue blades that was now continually being created and swirling around her torso. She sent twenty or so into the monster's heart and more into his skull while Sasori danced her away from swipes and slashes. The thing just fell bleeding out a few last words to the blind women. All that fighting and now it ended so quickly?... This can't be right, yet there it was fading away slowly turning to ash.
"You will bend to your fate before long, girl. Then your world will suffer your defiance just as you wi-…" Sasori used the puppet of himself and thrust a poisoned blow into the demon with malice embedded in his eyes while he pulled the girl back to them as well as the puppets he once owned. The girl flinched when the puppet master clinched her tight to his frame. I wonder what might have happened between the two once upon a dream with them. Her body tenced visably, while the tail that had come with her transformation swished and flicked stiffly. Hikari head was tipped to the dark sky with silvery tears slipped down her cheeks while Sasori's face nuzzled her neck as he spoke sad soft whispers against her tender skin.
"Please…little dragon…remember me" his breath must have been warm because she shuttered in his arms.
"Sakura?...where is…that bastard!" my body jerked towards the unruly blond that now was fuming mad that a S class rouge had a hold of his beloved sister. I tried to restrain the fox boy but he moved just fast enough for me to miss. I couldn't do much else to restrain the blond so I just watched him go. The blond growled while he ran with a random kunai aimed at the red head's back, and then he was tripped by the Sasori puppet. I tried to get up again and hobbled towards the three. Angry cinnamon eyes glared at the two while Naruto screamed to let his sister go. I got closer to the real Sasori and Hikari close enough to reach out and touch them, and then I spoke calmly to them
"Hikari needs to come with us… You should come with not that we can force you seeing as we are all injured." I said while I touched the angry puppet master's arm softly. Now what happened next was shocked even the girl trapped in the grip of the red head's arms. His angry eyes sputtered out tears and he loosened his grip to bring his hands on her shoulders. He looked lost and surprised at what was spilling over his cheeks. I watched as Hikari stepped back with a dull look in her eyes as if she wasn't really there. Her hand moved to make seals faster than I could ever had read in my life time and then she took one hand and touched her heart and the other hit the ground.
~~~~ normal pov~~~~
The strange group of shinobi made their back to Konoha fast because of Hikari's dragon counterpart. She had summoned the creature with the last of her strength leaving her hardily able to stand let alone walk. Her skin had reverted back to its moonlight color. Kankuro had never let the other puppet user out of his sight as did the rest of the males while they were on the back of the dragon while Sakura had to pry the dragon user way from the cinnamon eyed man just so she could treat the poor girl, and even then he had watched her like a hawk would its prey. They must have some sort of history was thought by everyone there but the two who knew what said history was. Well it didn't matter now because Sasori was in Konoha's interrogation cells. Tsunade was determined to understand what the S-ranked rouge was up to as well as his reasoning for aiding in the mission that was well how to say compromised?... yeah we will leave it at that. She had sent in the best of the best to extract said information and all has failed; even Sakura who had gather Intel from the man before couldn't even get a word out from him. The blond was more than frustrated by this fact. She had called the gang in so she could get her little dragon flower back in her office. Seems that she has become quieter then before and she rarely ever talked then! The knock at the door signaled that she had all her guests in at the door waiting to come in. The busty blond smiled as Naruto, Sakura, Kankuro, Sai, Saskuse followed in behind the blind dragon user. Her silver hair curled while it was pulled back in its normal high ponytail fluttered around her simple light blue tank top, her long bangs *that needs a good trim so they were the proper langth again* were drifting over her bright blue eyes that always seemed glazed over yet it was just her blindness, she wore shorts that were white with her belts that held her swords and scrolls a' plenty.
"I want to know just what happened back at the flower city..but before that I wanna know what Sasori was doing there and why he seems so avid on staying near you, little snap dragon" Tsunade said as she moved from behind her desk and then placed a reassuring hand on the blind girl's shoulder. Her head snapped down with a look of twisted pain while she felt around for a chair. Hikari took a deep breath while she sat down and let it out as a sigh.
"…" her head came back up with a sad smile while she heard the others take a seat and the hokage sit on her desk.
"it was a long time ago…when we were kids.. I was only I think four at the time when he was sent to my homeland on a peace treaty escort and they were staying for a few weeks… my father had just been killed and my uncle was taking over his job as kage. That was the first time we meet. I wasn't blind then and could plainly see that Sasori wasn't happy so I tried to cheer him up despite my own feelings. After that we had become very close. I didn't talk to anyone other than my brother, uncle and him…a few times my brother and I traveled to Suna and stayed for a while. He showed me things that were cherished by the both of us at that point in time. Chiyo-baasema often said that he was a lot happier when I was around so I suppose that he was sort of a handful. Well the day came when he disappeared and the attacks started to happen on my home. Suna naver came and promises were broken. My village lay now in ruin and only the shattered remains of the most loyal stay in such a land, sad fact but true." She said while feeling the groves of her sword's hilt. She had left out so many things that had happen between them. Like how she was even alive now. Her brother and uncle had sacrificed themselves and sealed her away in a diamond shell for years and then she started anew in Konoha with Naruto and Sakura and the rest of the gang.
"He won't talk will he?" the silver haired women asked with a sad smirk. She knew him at least a little bit still.
"Most likely he won't till he knows that I'm ok… that's how he was when we were kids. Over protective and sometimes over barring…" 'and we never got our dance did we...' she said while she thought about one of the many promises the man in question had made to her as a child. She heard some of the rooms occupants move about and some of them made slight sounds of various reasoning's. Kankuro didn't believe the girl fully but then he remembered the old lady saying that her grandson had always had a love for the sea's dragon. He had never known what that meant till now. The he spoke up
"why not let the girl, sorry, Hikari ask Sasori what you want to know." Tsunade looked deep in thought. She had considered that but she could use her as bait as well.
"Snap dragon, please will you do me a big favor? Find out how he is alive at his moment and why he came to find you ok?" she looked at the girl then at the others after receiving a nod. They all went down to the cells and Tsunade along with Hikari walked in. The blond lead Hikari to a wall for now till she came and got her. The puppet master had been abused rather badly for his silence. He was hung up in and 'X' like manner. Blood flowed in rivers down his tattered body while the stench clung in the air like a foggy morning's mist. The hokage lowered him down and healed some larger wounds while speaking to him.
"It has come to my knowledge that you have a history with this little flower now don't you?" she got no response from the man that slumped down leaning against the back wall. His eyes were closed this whole time till Hikari blindly stepped forward. Sasori's eyes snapped open and he looked right that the girl with unreadable eyes. He watched her trip over some of the instruments used in his torment, but the guilt was more then what ever this village could muster. It was almost a sick joke.
"I suppose that you wouldn't want anything to happen to her now would you?" the busty blond got the reaction she wanted at her last comment. Anger filled the eyes of the man and his body tenced for what seemed to be an attack.
"you would use one of your own for such a task? And here I thought that I was in Konoha…you know the tree hugging and peace loving hell hole…your sounding more like that Uchiha every time we meet, Miss Tsunade" the battered puppet mast said with pure venom dripping on every word. He knew that it was what she wanted but you don't go putting someone in the middle that had nothing to do with anything. Even he had morals.
"your right I wouldn't Sasori but I would like to know how you are alive seeing as I know that Sakura had killed yo-" she was cut off but a curt and dark chuckle from Sasori.
"Kari, little dragon…five steps left and ten forward then you will be next to Tsunade…five more after that then you will be next to me. You want to know something that was bluntly obvious don't you. I had perfected a new puppet that looked just as I do then I placed a fall back trigger within it so that if by any chance it was defeated that I would return to my human body. You want to know more then give me a real reason to give it to you."
LCR~ yeah I know I need to update other things but my thoughts are jumbled
Revv~ she needs reviews to help her continue, bark and she no own naruto