-I don't own Naruto- I also don't own any lyrics or songs out of this chapter
Chapter 7
-Nine months later in the Akatsuki base-
Kyaserin had given birth to a set of twins, one looked exactly like Deidara but didn't have multiple mouths. The second was a little girl with red hair that had mouths on her hands. Deidara and Kyaserin couldn't have been happier at that moment.
-Zetsu's P.O.V.-
It has been one year to the day since I have seen Kerushii. As far as I was concerned for the first few weeks she had betrayed me and I couldn't stand the mere thought of her. Then it occurred to me that I would never see her again. That she was probably dead. That I left her to die. In the months that followed I sunk into a deep depression and was more or less useless for a while. I see Kyaserin's children every day and wonder what could have been.
There is a festival later that we will be attending. I look at everybody with either their partners or their mates. It almost sickens me to think of what I was like and what I've become. Still I have to get through every day, living with what I've done and I've almost learned to forget.
Regular P.O.V.
The Akatsuki members that didn't have children decided to head into a bar where they heard there was musical entertainment. They walked in, soon afterwards realizing that the musical entertainment would be out at eight that night. It was seven thirty now so they figured they would wait to see if the band was good or not. In the year he had been alone, Zetsu had grown a herb when after taken once allowed him to control his flytrap. Basically he could retract it or bring it forth. Right now he had it retracted and was in a gray dress shirt with dark blue jeans. He was sitting at one of the booths on a corner with the other Akatsuki members.
The room was set up with booths lining the walls and a round stage in the center. The bar was in a separate room with no door. Zetsu watched as people brought Amps, microphones, and instruments onto the stage. Then the band came in. They all wore jeans with frayed tears in the knees but they all wore different colored shirts. The guitarist and bass player both wore dark red shirts, the drummer wore a dark green shirt, and the lead singer wore a flowing black dress-resembling tank top.
Zetsu probably stared at the lead singer on stage longer than need be her eyes were closed as the music started. She had shoulder length black hair except for at the very front where two white streaks framed her face. When her eyes opened Zetsu thought he was seeing things. Her eyes were a deep green with a cat iris in the middle. Then she started singing.
(Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, paper flowers) X2
I linger in the doorway
Of alarm clock screaming
Monsters calling my name
Let me stay
Where the wind will whisper to me
Where the raindrops, as they're falling, tell a story
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby (flowers)
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me (flowers)
Don't say I'm out of touch
With this rampant chaos - your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
The nightmare I built my own world to escape
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby (flowers)
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me (flowers)
Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming
Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights
Oh, how I long for the deep sleep dreaming
The goddess of imaginary light
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby (flowers)
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me (flowers)
(Paper flowers)
She sounded so haunted, like there was something from her past. Zetsu flinched inwardly. The band played for two hours straight, taking requests from the crowd, and then ending with this song.
I tried to kill the pain
but only brought more
so much more
I lay dying
and I'm pouring crimson regret and betrayal
I'm dying, praying, bleeding and screaming
am I too lost to be saved
am I too lost?
My God my tourniquet
return to me salvation
my God my tourniquet
return to me salvation
do you remember me
lost for so long
will you be on the other side
or will you forget me
I'm dying, praying, bleeding and screaming
am I too lost to be saved
am I too lost?
my God my tourniquet
return to me salvation
my God my tourniquet
return to me salvation
I want to die!!
My God my tourniquet
return to me salvation
my God my tourniquet
return to me salvation
My wounds cry for the grave
my soul cries for deliverance
will I be denied
Christ
tourniquet
my suicide
Once that was finished she simply talked to the bartender for a minute and left. He followed her home. Peering in through the window he saw her now in a somewhat baggy white long-sleeved shirt with a blue apron on and her hair up in a bun with the two white streaks framing her face. She still moved gracefully like she used to but when she turned around to pick up something he saw how emotionless her eyes were.
She walked through the house and into a room with a pale blue door. Zetsu moved to a window that showed him what was in that room and he saw a Kerushii holding something. He leaned a little closer to the window and gasped slightly as he saw…a baby. She looked just like Kerushii but had the start of petals growing on her. Zetsu wondered to himself what Kerushii named her he in fact was so lost in thought that he didn't notice the person sneaking up behind him.
The songs mentioned were in order from first to second, Imaginary by Evanescence, and Tourniquet by Evanescence.