Chapter 3: Trying to make things better.
"Yes." She smiles lightly. She grab her purple glowing necklace as it shook a little. "No." Katsuya said under her breath then shook her head.
"Hmm?" He looked over at Katsuya.
"Oh nothing." She quickly looked up with a fake smile.
"Lies... What is wrong?" Zakari asked concerned like he always is when it comes to situations like this.
Akuseru chuckled and continued walking towards to ramen shop. "You'll need to get better at that fake smile. Katsuya.." Aku says calmly and looks back a little.
"... Shut it Akuseru." She frowned and kept walking.
"Sorry but after faking that smile for years... You can tell when a fake smile is different from a real one..." Akuseru said with no emotion. Akuseru continues walking towards ichiraku ramen and steps ahead of her.
"We all have our inner demons. Only by embracing them, then we can move forward." Akuseru says as his hair flowed with the wind that whistle through the trees.
She sighs and grabs her necklace tightly. After hearing what Akuseru said she felt kind of weird ,but never before she felt this way. Reaching ichiraku ramen he chuckles and looks back.
"C'mon let's grab a bite to eat!" He says happily.
She walks up to the red stools and sits down. "We all have inner demons, but only by embracing them, then we can move forward. " She thinks, looking at the wooden counter that her shoulders met up to when she was slouching down a little. Akuseru sits down next to her and waits for the others. Katsuya still has her necklace tightly in her right hand, and doesn't say a word. "If this stupid necklace doesn't stop shaking..." She thinks.
He looks up and chuckles. "I'll take some ramen with a Naruto cake!... No Menma cakes please.." He says to the old man and nods slightly.
"Actually, I don't want anything. Thank you." She said politely to the old man.
"Heh, that's not what you said a few minutes ago." He looked at Katsuya and kind of a frown, but was still happy on the other side.
Looking around for Ryunosuke-Sensei and Zakari but they had not made it yet. They were probably goofing around, maybe. Akuseru sets some Ryo on the counter and looks down.
"Another order of ramen for her please.." Akuseru sighs and then waits for the food.
"Listen. Whatever is going on, if you keep it bottled up you'll regret it. If you don't say anything now, it can affect others in the future." He says and silently taps his light tan fingers on the wooden counter.
She rubs her arm nervously and says," It's... Never mind. Just forget about it."
"I know that you have some pain you're going through. Even so it's nothing new to me. We all have it, how you choose to live with that pain is what defines you." Akuseru says with his head kind of tilted a little with a closed-eyed smile.
Finally Ryunosuke-sensei and Zakari arrived and sat down at the kind of tall red stools. After a few moments the ramen comes and he chuckles. "Ah! Here we are~"
"Thank you." She nods at the old man. "Here I'll show you something." She lets go of her necklace and raises it in front of her chest as the sun makes the purple crystal necklace glimmer. "I got this necklace from my mother before she died three years ago because of war. When I take off my necklace or if it gets crushed. I simply go insane, but she told me that one day that'll I would be able to control it." Katsuya explains.
"So it's a type of binding, or controller?" He asks quite understanding what she is saying.
"Hmm." Zakari said devouring a miso ramen and glancing at us two.
She sighs and looks away. "I really wish I could control this damn thing." She thinks as her eyebrow twitched. Chuckling lightly as Akuseru stands up.
"That necklace doesn't define who you truly are. You two eat up, I paid for another bowl for both of you... I've got some things to take care of." He says calmly.
Katsuya blushes lightly and covers her cheeks quickly then turns away from them. "Yeah... Whatever." She mumbled and crossed her arms.
"Katsuya? Be happy." He hugged her and grinned widely. She picks up the chopsticks and slowly eats the ramen. Akuseru headed out of Ichiraku Ramen and vanished before saying a word.
She looks back with a confused look on her face. "Where did he go?" She asked Zakari.
"Somewhere..." He responds back to her with a small shrug.
Akuseru appears a ways away, still observing the ramen shop before vanishing again and heading home. She looks back at her ramen and eats the rest of it. He eats one more bowl and gets up to leave after paying the last bowl. He walked around the village and tries to go to the library and get some scrolls to train with, but they kick him out instantly. "Dammit..." Zakari says then walks to the training grounds and he decides to train a bit more with jutsu's he knows. Akuseru is already at the training grounds with an ancient looking scroll, an Uchiha crest emblazoned on the back.
"Kon'nichiwa, Akuseru. How are you?" Zakari asked moving his light blonde hair out of his face.
Akuseru quickly seals the scroll and it vanishes. "A-ah why hello there Zakari, how are you?" He froze for second then asks.
"I asked you the same thing, but I am about to train. Would have some scrolls with me, but the librarians didn't allow me in..." Zakari says and rubs the back of his head with laughter behind it.
"Well it is quite late... I'm not surprised." He mumbled very low. Akuseru lays on the grass and looks up; his mind rushing with horrific images.
She gets up and stretches after eating ramen.
"Dang necklace won't stop." She says to herself. Katsuya heads home for a second. She arrived at her house. When she got inside the cold and clean house she wanted to test something out. Katsuya took off her necklace in front of a mirror. Her eyes turn a light purple as blood started to fill her eyes like tears.. Then she instantly put back on seeing her normal purple eyes again. "I'm the same in each side." She says to herself with a frown, wiping the blood away. Katsuya walks out of the house. She walks with her head down , heading towards the training field. She kicks rocks that were in her way as she walked.
"I'm the same on either side..." Katsuya softly says. looks up at the gate of the training field seeing Zakari training wind jutsu's. Katsuya sighed and shook her head, walking in the training field she sits under a tree and closes her eyes.
"Wind style: wind cut!" He moves his hands in a diagonal motion and the trees get cut into. "Not enough." Zakari thinks and breathes heavily.
"I want to try something out." She think and slowly take off my necklace. "My mom said that I would be able to control it when I get older, so I believe I could do it now." Katsuya think and took a deep breathe and started to focus her chakra. "This-this is-?" She stopped and looked at my hands as my eyes widen.
I am so sorry that I haven't updated this story in like 3 months! I am glad that I am back, even I think Katsuya likes Akuseru a little. I need some fan art for them two, but I need to find someone to do it. Any volunteers? XD