Ugh…took me longer to write this than I wanted to…I'm such a procrastinator! lol…
Well, here it is, one day later than I wanted it up…xD
"Let…me…go…"I choked as Sasori's grip came to where I could barely breathe. Tears continued to run down my face.
He just completely ignored me and looked over at Hisui with his soulless, red-brown eyes. "Hisui…I commend you on breaking the so-called 'curse' and bringing Kagami this far." His eyes narrowed. "But now you both are going to die."
"NO!" I screamed. "I'm the one you want! Leave Hisui alone!"
"Kagami…" I heard Hisui say sadly, nearly inaudible.
Sasori sighed. "Such selfless actions…Emotions make you weak. Never forget that, Kagami."
That made my "never-seen-or-heard" anger spike. "You're wrong, Sasori. Dead wrong. Emotions make you stronger. You know, my past is a lot like yours. Wanting your emotions to just…disappear."
He flinched when I made the reference to his past like I knew he would. He also unconsciously loosened his grip around my neck.
I kept going, now that I could talk without choking. "My parents were murdered when I was seven. I was forced to watch their murderer kill them.
"Like you, I wanted to banish those unwelcome emotions from myself. After about a year, I accomplished that…for two years after, I felt nothing. Nothing at all.
"But then, one night—the night I ran away from Kumo—I thought, 'Mom and Dad wouldn't want me to live like this.' Since then, I've pushed myself to my very best; giving myself the reputation I have now. I wanted to make my parents proud of me."
I looked up at Sasori as best I could. "So, tell me, Sasori. Would your parents be proud of what you've become?"
He clenched his teeth and threw me face first into the dirt, the hard ground underneath the thin layer of soil scratching my face up. I could feel the warmth of my blood beneath my cheek. I sat up, the slight wind stinging my wound.
And I saw ten or more puppets coming straight for me.
I made a quick set of handsigns.
The venomous needles hit.
When the dust from the soil cleared, there were nearly one hundred needles…
…shot through a large log.
Ah. The all-powerful Sasori was thrown off his game by a simple kawarimi no jutsu.
I came up behind him with a kunai in my right hand, my left grabbing his hands and driving them into the ground, severing his puppets' chakra strings. I pressed my kunai to the area on his chest where his heart container should be.
I sighed. "Nagato should really think things through…he should've sent more than just one fifteen-year-old sized puppet master. And…I didn't even use any ninjutsu… You're better than that, Sasori."
I struck directly next to his heart container and got up.
"But…I'm not going to do what Nagato wants."
Sasori looked at me with widened eyes.
"That's right. He wanted you to die. Yes, he wants me to die as well, but he was getting sick of you trying to kill the other members. He wanted me to kill you and then he would kill me himself. So I'm sparing you. Never again will I commit to something Nagato wants."
I walked over to Hisui. "Let's go."
And we continued walking to Tsukigakure, leaving Sasori in the soil and dust.
Sasori's POVDamn it…I thought as I tried to stand up. If my spinal chord got damaged…
I was able to stand, indicating that Kagami had made a clean blow.
I thought of pursuing Kagami to Tsukigakure, see if she had been telling the truth. Honestly, couldn't see Nagato wanting me dead. I'm a valuable member of Akatsuki. And I don't make death threats that often…
Dismissing the thought, I made a handsign, causing my puppets to disappear back into their scrolls, and I walked off in the direction opposite to the path Kagami and Hisui took.
After walking a little ways, I heard Deidara's clay bird land behind me. I stopped walking and turned to face him.
He sighed. "There you are, Danna. Nagato sent me to find you, un."
I nodded. I figured I would stay in Akatsuki…
…And rebel when the time was right.
Deidara's bird took flight once again, and I followed him back to headquarters in the cover of the mist.
Kagami's POVWhen we got to our hotel room in Tsukigakure, Hisui, sighed and glared at me, annoyed. "Why didn't you tell me that you could fight Sasori?! This could've ended a long time ago…"
I looked down at the floor and spoke calmly. "I don't want to kill him, Hisui, just as much as you don't want him to be dead." She clenched her teeth as I said this. "You never severed your bond with Sasori, even though you hardly remember him from when you were three years old."
I sighed and looked up at her with a smiling face. "I understand, you know… No matter how much you hate someone, you never truly hate them. They've had their good points in life, as well as the bad. No matter how bad their actions are now, their good ones always rule out those bad ones." I was thinking of my father as I said this to Hisui.
She nodded. "Well…if you could fight him all along…why were you so scared of him before?"
I sighed and answered a moment later. "The reputation… that the other members of Akatsuki give him…was part of it…I'd only seen a small piece of what Sasori was capable of…not to the full extent…and wasn't sure what to expect. The other part of it was…my strong instinct against killing. I thought…I would be vulnerable, because, even if I were about to die, I still don't think I could fight against that instinct. I'd just end up an easy kill. So I decided to flee…"
Hisui nodded again. "So, what you told him about the Akatsuki leader…Nagato…that he wanted Sasori dead. Was that true? Or were you just giving him a reason to quit taking Nagato's orders?"
"…It is true…been true for some three years now. I just chose now to tell Sasori since Nagato's plan was beginning to play out."
I rolled my eyes. "Nagato really wants all of us to die…except for Konan, his little whore toy…and he's given each of us the pleasure of killing a different member or ensuring their death. I was supposed to kill Uchiha Itachi, which I immediately decided against… Itachi had always been the nicest to me in Akatsuki…as if he were my older brother… And, as you've guessed, Sasori had the pleasure of killing me, but was really a fake assignment. As I told Sasori, Nagato wanted me to kill him, and then Nagato himself would come after me.
"But, I remember that when Nagato was sparring me with the Rinnegan as well," I pointed to my eyes as I said this, since Hisui probably didn't know about the Rinnegan, "mine counteracted his. However, his didn't counteract mine. So I'd have the upper hand if it came to that."
"I see…" Hisui pondered all I had said for a few minutes.
I sighed and stood up, bored. "I'm going to go for a walk… I'll be gone for a while…"
She nodded, and then I left the room and sprinted out of the hotel.
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