Sorry for the, uh wait. some personal business came up that had to be dealt with.
Then there was the fact that Isra just kept bugging me to read Tokyo Ghoul..
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I love it, but I am just so fucking sad! Dude, that ending...Just...Urg.
Chapter 4: Bloody play day
Age: 6
It was strange how fast someones life could end in just a matter of seconds. How someone just couldn't care that they just took a life, because hey, someones emotion's can overrule their logical side and not even feel anything about what just happened.
Just as it did to mine.
They were a threat to Yagura, so why the hell should I feel guilty about gutting this pathetic piece of trash like a pig?
The same went with his little friends that wanted to get rid of Yagura.
I looked around, the moist green grass- yes, grass can you believe it?!-was now covered in such a beautiful colored red. Organs that I've seen in books scattered everywhere, I didn't know who's organs were who's, and I didn't care. The blank eye's- to those who still had theirs- staring up in terror, mouth's agape in silent screams of agony. Their please of mercy still rang in my ear's as they tried to flee, their screams, howls and crying were all drowned out by that one smooth voice, the voice that gave me an order and I would fulfill with everything I had.
"Shiki, eliminate them, no mercy."
Their fates were sealed from that moment on.
My first day in the outside world, and it was the first time I have ever killed someone.
Today was one of the rare day's that I got to be with Yagura-nii all day, and as a treat for my progress in training he had decided I was ready to go outside. Yes, it was for training- water walking and underwater combat training to be exact- but it was outside!
The streets had surprisingly few people in them, in the books that I had read they showed pictures of streets full to the brim with people, and I had been dreading trying to move about in such a place.
Should I have been disappointed in the lack of people? Or pleased?
The few I saw looked at me in varied expressions. The ones that don't have such a strong signature of chakra looked from me, to Yagura-nii, and back in bewilderment that he was walking with a child. The one's that were obvious shinobi either had a look of feared, or curled their lips at me in disgust. I ignored them all, only a passing glance, as I fixed my eye's on nii-sama so I would not get lost. I stayed close to his leg, clutching the fabric, and inhaled his scent. He smelled so much nicer then anything else in this place.
When we arrived just outside the village wall's near a fairly wide lake surrounded by trees, he explained to me about what to do so I could water walk, then showed me before telling me to try it. I tried.
I fell, not even a step inside, causing both Yagura-nii and Isobu to laugh a bit.
On the bright side, Isobu told me I could breath underwater without the standard kiri breathing mask, another quirk I got from being his host.
Yagura was so pleased by the news.
It wasn't until late afternoon that I had a good enough grasp to be able to stand and stay atop the water. Yagura-nii immediately said he wanted to see how long I could last on top while fighting, that was when a group of chunin and a few jounin's came out of nowhere and surrounded us. They had tried to order me to stand aside, as I was the Jinchūriki of the village, a weapon, thus automatically was suppose to follow the order's of my betters. Said something about the mizukage ordered Yagura's death-
(Iwon'TAlLOwITiWoN'TaLLowiTiWon'tALowIT-)
-as he was a 'traitor' to the village, and I had a duty to get rid of the threat to the village, for the village.
...'suppose to'...
Keywords that did not fit in this situation.
I had stared at them. Why the hell were they telling me this, like I gave a damn about what the mizukage said, or about this village that I never really knew about? Yes, I've read the history of it, but that didn't mean I cared about what those words on a page had to say.
Yagura-nii seemed amused by what they were saying, giving a small chuckle, while shaking his head at their stupidity.
"You obviously don't understand the position you're in right now, do you?"
He had said.
"The fact that you think shiki would listen to you is foolish."
And then, he turned to me with his order. Then, it was like nothing else mattered but to eliminate them.
(SuchApreTtyColOroFReD~)
I didn't understand why the ninja looked furious, yelling some garbage about my 'betrayal of the village' and the kage.
"But, I never said I was loyal to the village or the mizukage."
That was my answer when they kept spouting about my so called betrayal.
"Yagura-nii is all I need. Yagura-nii is the only one I follow, he's my everything."
He's the only one I will ever be completely and utterly loyal to.
"Is it as you imagined, shiki?" I heard. I turned, seeing Yagura-nii walking up to me with a small smile on his face. I tilted my head in though, yes, it was everything I imagined, but the joy and excitement was slightly dampened by the attacked.
"Ah..." I nodded, sniffing the air. "But, it smells funny, and not because of the blood funny, but everything smells different then from inside my room...Different from what I imagined." I commented as I stared down a severed head near my foot. Glazed dark brown eye's met my own, I bent down and picked it up, studying it before looking back to Yagura for instructions.
"Shiki," Yagura he said softly, "Good work." he praised, causing my heart to flutter and warmth to spread though my veins. My face also seemed to heat up for some strange reason, I shook my head a bit, trying to get rid of the feeling. I heard the grass crunch, looking up I saw him walking over to me, a raised brow at me in question to which I blinked at, tilting my head in question as I still held the head. He held his hand out, "Give me the head." he said softly.
I stared, before handing it to him, he examined it in disinterest before letting out a small hum. It was then that Utakata appeared before us, he blinked at the mangled bodies around us. "Oh," he mumbled, taking everything in. "What happened here?"
"...Looks like the Mizukage made his move, it's honestly a little later then what I would have expected." he stated. The mizukage really was trying to get rid of Yagura? I thought, a spike of anger washing through me as I glared at the head. I had hoped the guy only said that to be more dramatic, since a lot of people in this village do things in the name of the Mizukage. Yagura seemed to have noticed and chuckled, "It's alright Shiki, there's nothing to get mad about. After all, I'm trying to get rid of uncle as well." he said with a shrug and stood up, head still in his hands.
"Looks like we'll have to rally everyone ahead of schedule." Utakata sighed as he crossed his arms. He looked questionably at the head in Yagura's hands, his answer was a shrug of the shoulders and a pointed finger in my direction. "You know, I'm actually impressed with how many shiki took down." he commented, looking down at the body's. "A few of these were jounin class."
Yagura smirked, putting a hand on top of my head proudly. "That's because my shiki is just that good." he stated. I blushed and felt my heart beat pick up to the point where I thought I was either having a heart attack, or that everyone could hear it. I was reassured by Isobu that no one could, and that no, I was not having a heart attack. "And to think," Yagura stated with a sigh, "that Zabuza is out of the village and is going to miss all the fun." he muttered, a small smirk adoring his face. He was obviously planning on rubbing it in Zabuza's face later when he got back. "Hmp, his fault for deciding to go on the mission early."
"Although, we're lucky that Kisame and the seven swordsmen aren't in village for another month or so." Utakata commented. "It's pretty stupid to send out all of your best defense on some missions to gather money."
"Uncle is so arrogant." Yagura-nii scoffed, rolling his pink eye's, before he glanced down at me. His face scrunching up in though for a moment, before asking, "Shiki, how much of the sanbi chakra can you handle without loosing control?"
"I can go up to the second stage now with all three tails, but not transform into Isobu himself yet. He said I can't do that until my chakra coils develop more." I answered.
"And what about what you were working on, about sprouting one of the sanbi's tail's without transforming?" Utakata asked. Yagura raised a brow at this, silently asking Utakata what he meant. "Ah, well, shiki had an idea a while back about transforming single body parts to that of the bijuu we had for fighting." he explained, "It sounds useful, especially if he can use the sanbi's-"
"Isobu." I corrected.
"-Isobu's," Utakata amended with a smile. "Shell for defense, or sprouting coral from his back to catch enemy's off guard. It would probably also help with his chakra control."
Yagura looked impressed by what he heard. Honestly, Isobu told me about this when he looked into my memories and saw Yagura-nii do it. He decided that it could be useful and, seeing as I was now the his Jinchūriki, that the possibility of such an ability shouldn't go to waste.
I grinned up at them, stepping back a few feet then concentrating on drawing out Isobu's chakra down my spine. Okay, Isobu, let's show Yagura-nii and Utakata what we can do! I thought. Ready?
Nh. He grunted, Ready to go, shiki.
I closed my eye's, feeling my spine extending and clothes shifting before feeling the familiar weight of the tail. I opened my eye's, looking behind me and saw the long gray tail. I loosely wrapped it around my form before looking up at Yagura-nii.
I felt like I was in cloud nine when I saw the pure pride and approval radiating off of him. He extended one of his hands and ran it through my hair, scratching slightly, in a relaxing pattern. I practically melted as I leaned into him.
"Impressive, shiki." he murmured, before I felt his hand leave my head, and instead pick me up. He settled me on his hip, his other hand still holding the decapitated head. He tossed it up and down lightly like a ball, I watched it. "...You seem fixated on this head. Do you like it?" he questioned curiously. I looked up at him, sheepishly and nodded. "Hoo~?"
"Can I keep it?" I questioned, he quirked a brow at me, his nose slightly scrunching up. "I want the skull. Zabuza said that I should keep something from my first kill, so I can proudly display it to my enemy's, to show that I can and will kill them." I explained. He made a small 'ah', before nodding his head. Utakata groaned.
"Was it really a wise idea to let Zabuza, of all people, to teach shiki?" he questioned as he stared at the head. "He's rubbing off some weird shit onto shi-chan." he muttered as he watched Yagura-nii seal the head for later, he then tossed the scroll to Utakata for safe keeping. Utakata scrunched up his nose, but pocketed it anyway before we started for the village. It didn't take long to get there, and I was curious about the strange whistle he did as he walked down the street. The same tune was echoed back multiple times, and Isobu said he felt people from all over the village coming towards the kage building.
Nh? What's this about? I thought, a little amused by the uncomfortable looks Utakata and I was receiving from civilians. Me more so because I left Isobu's tail out, so I decided to wave it at some people and snickered when they freaked out. Utakata's lips twitched into a small smile, before sending me a look with his eye's. He didn't seem to care about the negative attention he got, but I guess he just got use to it and decided to ignore them.
Who knows, Isobu mumbled sleepily. But what ever it is, it's going to be big and it's gonna be interesting.
"Neh, Nii-sama?" I questioned, gaining Yagura's attention. "Whats happening?"
He smirked, shifting my weight in his arms as we arrived at the building. "We're going to get rid of my uncle."
I blinked, "Oh, okay." I said with a grin, before cuddling closer to him.
"That was really blunt of you." Utakata sighed out, before coming over and taking me from Yagura's arms. I pouted at him, but the teen just snickered as he cradled me to his chest. "Don't look at me like that, Shiki, Yagura needs to have his arms free."
But couldn't he have waited until we got closer to the office?
Ever since he could walk, Naruto Uzumaki knew he was different. It wasn't because of the glares he got, at least not all of it, nor was it because of the way people treated him. No, it was because he knew normal people couldn't know exactly where someone was by seeing their chakra.
He would close his eye's and focus, and within a few seconds he could see everything within a mile radius. They would light up like bright blue flames sometimes, other times they would outline the body along with their features. He was able to read that funny scrip on his stomach, not all of it but some, and that same scrip he would occasionally find around the village. They were helpful, especially when he was running away from villagers who wanted to hurt him. All he had to do was push a bit of chakra into them, and then boom, they would either explode or spew out some smoke for him to get away. Sometimes they could even transport him from one location to another, and that was pretty neat! He didn't get to choose where he went, but it didn't matter as long as he could get away from the villagers.
Naruto also realized that he had a better sense of smell then most people, it helped when he could remember the scent of people, that way he could have a head start in running away when he smelt one of his better known tormentors coming his way. It didn't always help, ninjas were faster then a child after all, but it was enough to save him from patching himself up. It also helped when the food that was delivered to him started to smell funny sometimes, warning him not to touch it and instead eat the things that didn't have that smell on them. His hearing was also something that was far more better then most, sometimes it was good, and most of the time it was horrible since he could hear everything! He overheard some men talking about something called ramen once, and he was curious about what it was and what it tasted like.
Sadly It was a curse when fireworks went off during celebrations. His ears would ring for day's after the events.
Currently Naruto was laying on a tree branch, he had just ran away from a group of adult men who decided to torment him today, thus he climbed a tree when he broke their line of sight of him. He lead them through certain ally's where he had rigged traps and the like, they were helpful and he was very good at it so far. He just can't seem to remember if those specific ally's he lead them through were the ones with the deadly traps or not...
Oh well, he'll probably find out later regardless.
It was one of those day's where his mind was clear, and he was tranquil, that the empty feeling in his heart would make itself known. He really didn't understand it, why he felt so lonely and incomplete sometimes.
There were occasions where he would wake up, and for some odd reason, expect someone else to be there with him. He would close his eye's and imagine a dark and comfortable place, someone would kick him, letting him know he wasn't alone, and he would respond with his own kick. Sometimes when he dreamed, he dreamed of a red-haired boy with the same colored eye's as him swimming in the ocean he read about with a giant looking turtle. When he had those dreams, he could swear that he heard a rumbling voice around him mumble 'Isobu' in recognition, and then he would get the sudden irrational urge to-
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Naruto didn't understand why that happens, but he had an idea that it would have to do with the red chakra he felt inside of himself.
And wasn't that an odd thing?
As far as he could tell, he was the only one in the entire village that had red chakra. But, in the dreams about the boy, he could feel red chakra also coming off of him, and Naruto wanted to meet him for it. The boy was familiar, he had red chakra, and he seemed to be the same age as himself.
As it was, it seems he had dozed off again since he found himself in the ocean where he would occasionally see that boy. Maybe I can try to talk to him today before I wake up? Naruto thought to himself, looking around for mentioned boy. He actually really liked this dream place, the coral was colorful and pretty to look at, and it was relaxing to just float in the water, maybe not as relaxing as feeling the wind through his hair, but he still liked the water against his skin. As he searched, he faintly wondered what to talk about when he found the boy? Maybe he could ask if he could sense chakra as well? Or if he could read the funny script?
He was so excited by the prospect of someone to talk to who was similar to him, that he didn't noticed the body that had come up behind him.
"Who are you?" a soft monotone voice called from behind. Naruto jolted and quickly spun around to see that it was the red-haired boy. Seeing the boy up close was startling, they had the same blue eye's, but the boy's looked a bit lighter then his own. His eye's were a bit more sharper and half-lidded in boredom, and his hair...
He remembers seeing that hair before. From long ago. And he could honestly say he loved how red it was. It reminded him of-
(SuChPRetTyredcOMiNgOUTofHiSskIN-)
Actually, now that Naruto got a good look at him, he noticed that they looked similar, but different at the same time. And how strange was that?
"I'm Naruto." Naruto introduced himself. "Whats your name?"
The boy stared at him, tilting his head to the side,and stayed silent. Naruto became nervous, would the boy call him a monster as well? Even though they had the same chakra? Would he turn his head away in disgust and fear?
Would he hate him before he even got to know him?
"...I'm Shiki." The boy, Shiki, answered.
(HeaNSweRedHeDOesN'THaTeME-)
Naruto grinned.
