A New Jinchuuriki
Chapter 7
Nikki: Hulloooz!!!!!! I think I'm running out of ideas for this intro thing. O-O That's not good.
Rachel: Pssshaw.
Ava: Magic flying rainbow donkey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone: ftw? O-O
Ava: Taht's what i am!
Everyone: -_-"
Nikki: I own nothing to do with Naruto or any lyrics used. I only own my OCs. Yay! Oh, btw, SSSSPPPPOOOOIIIILLLLEEEERRRRSSSS!!!!! Also, I'm highly aware that Yami didn't actually write the song she has in her letter. This one is called Vienna and it's by The Fray.
Everyone: EEENNNNNNNJJJJJJJJOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
Nikki: Yayz!
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"Yami?" Sakura asks, trying to peer under my hat. I duck my head lower to hide my face better from her peering eyes.
A kunai tings from the branch to my left and I look that way. One zooms towards me, I deflect it but it snags my hat, pinning it to the tree on my right. I look up at Naruto and Sakura and shake my head, my hair flying out. I look at them with my blood red eyes and they know who it is immediately.
"Wh... what have you done?" Naruto asks.
"Found truth. Found peace. Found pain." I answer, throwing him into a tree.
"Found friends. Found a brother. Found a partner." I continue, my voice raising as I turn on Sakura.
"Found almost everything I've ever wanted! That's what I've done." I finish. Sakura puts her gloves on. I smirk and close my eyes.
"Have your bandages grown, Yami?" I hear a deep voice ask to my right. I slightly turn that way and see the man I've been missing. Gaara.
"Now you show yourself, huh?" I laugh. He scowls. He rips my hat from the tree and tears it to bits with his sand.
I pout. "Aw, come on. Don't be like that." He glares. I sigh.
"What's wrong with you?" I ask sarcastically.
"What's wrong? Being wanted dead since I was a child, the one person I trusted attempting to assassinate me and the one girl I've ever loved has run off and joined the Akatsuki, that's what!" he yells.
I laugh painfully. "You think you got it bad? Try your whole damn clan being slaughtered, being left to practically fend for yourself, a brother running away to get more powerful so that he can kill your other brother, a boyfriend who breaks up with you just when you need him most and having painful marks all over your body. You think you got it bad? You know nothing." I spit. Sand moves to me, forming a spire.
I raise my hand and force the air around the grains of sand to explode around me, forming a slight dome.
This seems to be a signal for the attack. Kunai and chakra attacks are being thrown all around me. I widen my eyes and this hurts the bandages on my forehead. I hiss slightly and put my hand to my head.
Both Gaara and Naruto are advancing on me.
"I can understand Gaara's reason to "beat some sense onto me" but, Naruto, what's your excuse?" I smile tauntingly.
"I won't let another of my friends go." he replies, blinking more than usual.
"Oh, I see. So I'm some form of redemption?" I laugh, standing my ground as they continue to approach me.
"Just try to grab her!"
"We've got these guys preoccupied!"
"Just take her back!" Cries like this echo from the large group fighting.
"I still love you, Yami. Do you feel anything for me?" Gaara asks, attempting to open up an old wound. That wound has already been sown together and locked away in a metal safe.
"If want an answer, come at me!" I challenge, curling my hand in the signal for 'bring it!' Gaara closes his eyes for a minute so that he won't have to look at the almost feral, sarcastic, blood-thirsty look on my face. This angers me so I turn to Naruto.
"Fight for what you want to happen, Naruto. Dattebayo, right? I will sure be fighting for what I want. Just act like I'm Sasuke, your second chance. I'm sure that's what you really want anyway. Not a fight to bring me home, but a fight that you hope will, somehow, bring Sasuke back." I accuse.
Naruto shakes his head furiously, his eyes watering. "That's not true! I've cared about you, Yami."
"Don't lie to me!" I cry, glaring. "You never cared about me! I was just there. Sure, I'm a little special. But, I didn't have a team, no teacher, one friend, next to no family and I was shunned and rejected in every village I went to. You have everything. The village loves you, you have a team willing to do anything for you, a sensei, your friends act as a replacement family and you are at peace with most of the other villages. Why on earth should you want to be my friend? Why on earth should I wantto be your friend? You are completely different to me. You know nothing of pain, therefore you are full of chaos. You need to learn peace through pain." I finish. Naruto is shaking his head a bit and crying.
"That gives you no reason to join these people. We are actually more alike than you think, Yami." Naruto sobs.
"Are you kidding? It gives me every right to join the Akatsuki. They're, like, the only people who have accepted me, errors included." I scowl. "If you want me to come back, me, not Sasuke, then fight me. Fight me to show that you're willing to have me. Not as a replacement for the team mate you weren't strong enough to protect."
"I..." Naruto starts, not being able to finish.
"I didn't think you would be able to, Naruto. Your fight is not with me." I state, turning back to Gaara.
"Is it really a battle with me that you desire, Gaara? To feel my lifeblood flow through the grains in your sand, feeding the chaos inside so as to create your own inner peace?" I ask.
"No, a battle with you is not what I want." he admits.
"I-" I start.
"But, if that's what has to happen to get you home, than that's what I will do." Gaara finishes.
I laugh at him. "Don't act so self-sacrificing. If you truly cared about me, why did you break up with me when you did?"
"I thought is was the right thing to do." he answers quietly.
"Yeah, totally. Break it off with a chick just when she almost dies and desperately needs the support because her brother left her. No wonder girls go nuts for you." I say sarcastically, rolling my eyes.
"You went nuts for me." Gaara replies. I pause to glare at him.
"Emphasis on the 'went'. Go home, Gaara. Just leave." I order, turning my back on him and racing over to help Tobi, who is on the ground in front of Neji, Shino and Rock Lee.
"Leave him be!" I yell, raising a wall of earth just in time to protect Tobi from Rock Lee's attack. "Leave him alone!"
"Yami? What the hell?" Rock Lee exclaims.
"Get up, Tobi! Get up!" I call, reaching down and picking his arm up, heaving him onto his feet. "Don't you let your guard down again, you hear? To have you killed..." I state, hugging him a little, while still defending both of us.
"Don't worry about me, Yami. I have it all sorted." Tobi replies, not sounding like himself at all. His voice is deeper, has a hard edge to it.
"Alright." I finally say. I just get it out before sand wraps around my limbs and pulls me backward, into tree after tree. It releases me and I bounce onto the ground, coughing a bit.
"Yami, move!" Akuma cries. I roll to my left and Sakura's fist connects with the ground.
"Well, this is going to be interesting." I smirk, getting up and wiping the crimson blood from the corner of my mouth.
"At least a part of you isn't as dark as you think, Yami." Sakura states, gesturing to my blood. Gaara has a slightly crazy look on his face as he looks at my mouth. I smirk.
"Does that colour appeal to you, Gaara? Well, come on. Make me have more colour!" I laugh, opening my arms in some form of invitation. Sand immediately shoots towards me. I dodge using TaiJutsu. I'm very agile and quick on my feet. Yay me.
I'm laughing as I'm dodging. I jump onto a tree and have to jump off quick. The sand crashes into the tree, splitting it. Another part of sand comes at me, not giving me a chance to recover. Just the way I like it.
The look on Gaara's face is getting more crazed and blood-thirsty by the second. I decide to spice things up a bit. I cut my hand with a kunai and throw my hand out to the sand. Droplets of blood mix with the sand, stirring the monster within Gaara.
"Wakey wakey, Shukaku! 'Memba me?" I giggle evilly. Gaara grabs his head.
"Stop it!" he yells at me.
"Why? This is just to much fun!" I laugh. I admit to myself that I'm probably more than a little crazy. Nutso. Coo coo in the old head. Yeah. That's me alright.
"It hurts!" he replies.
"Good!" I scream.
"Yami, again!" Akuma yells. I summon water and hold it around me. Sakura battlecries at me as she punches through my water. I don't even look at her as I crowd the water around her arm and freeze it. She screams. I tighten the ice still, crushing some of her bones.
"Who will heal the wounded, if the Healer is dead?" I ask her, finally looking at her with a bored expression. She whimpers at me.
"Sakura!" I hear Naruto cry behind me. I look his way and see him running towards me with a Rasengan swirling in his palm.
"Rasengan!" he yells as he almost reaches me. I look into his eyes for a second. The once soft blue eyes have hardened, turning into ice. I feel a stab of pain in my already bleeding heart.
I let Sakura go and allow the Rasengan to hit me. He thrusts it right into my stomach. Instead of grimacing at Naruto, I smile at him.
"Thank you..." I manage to whisper before the Rasengan blows me across the field, into the middle of the fellow Akatsuki members. I land heavily and lay there for a second. No one really looks at me. I float in the middle of my own world for a few moments, the sounds of battle clouded and far away.
"Akuma, thank you. For always being there for me, no matter how many times I've screwed up. If I ever lose you, it will be unbearable." I say to Akuma.
"Same here, Yami. But, if you do lose me, keep going." Akuma insists. I say nothing. I tune back into the battle and jump back onto my feet.
I heal the wound in my stomach, barely wincing at the pain.
"Formation 7!" I call, taking smoke bombs out of my pockets. Deidara, Hidan, Ahira and Tobi grab hold of me, Kakuzu, Itachi and Kisame grab hold of Pain, Zetsu gets ready to meld into the earth and Konan gets her jutsu ready to burst into origami birds.
"Go!" I yell, throwing the smoke bombs on the ground. Just before the smoke covers my vision, I see Gaara watching me, with just a bit more sanity then before. The sane part, is horrified and sad and the insane side is still blood-thirsty.
"Goodbye." I whisper, sending the message on a breeze that caresses his face, then I become one with the earth, sinking into it's depths.
I shoot to the section of the forest where Tobi and I first hung out. The meadow with trees and a river rushing near by. The members that were hanging onto me let go. I stand where they left me, head down and thinking.
Gaara had looked changed. Before he'd caught a glimpse of me, his features were a bit softer. He'd adopted the optimistic, bright outlook that most of the ninjas seem to have done. He's just like the rest of the now.
I sigh and put my hand to my head. I feel my bandages half open. My eyes widen.
"Crap." I curse, pulling out more bandages and re-wrapping my forehead.
"You right?" Hidan asks behind me.
"Yeah. I'm fine." I answer.
"You took that fuckers shitty Rasengan well." he compliments. I nod my head in thanks.
"Yami, I know who that kid was. The one you were fighting, the freaking redhead. He's Gaara of the fucking Desert. Why were you so worked up about him?" Hidan questions. I look briefly at him.
"I was in love with him." I reply quietly.
"I saw the two of them together. We battled against the four of them. Naruto, Sasuke, Gaara and Yami. Gaara and Yami seemed to almost have a visible connection. Sasuke and Yami had the almost unbreakable bond of siblings. Naruto and Yami had the bond of friendship. She had so many ties that ended so abruptly." Deidara explains.
"Poor Yami-sempai! And you had to fight them!" Tobi cries, wrapping his arms around my middle.
"It's fine. Really." I state weakly, pressing my face into Tobi's cloak. The other Akatsuki members head to the backup hideout. I follow behind them. Tobi runs back to walk beside me and puts his arm around my waist in comfort.
"It'll be alright, Yami-sempai." Tobi insists, a serious tone to his voice.
"I know." I sigh. "You know, Tobi, your my best male friend."
"Thank you." Tobi smiles. Well, it sounded like he smiled. I couldn't actually tell because of his mask.
"You're welcome." I reply. We finish walking back to the second hideout and sort out rooms and everything.
"There's only enough room for one of you to sleep on a bed." Pain (Deva Path) states to Ahira and I.
"Ahira can have it." I answer instantly.
"You sure?" Ahira questions.
"Course. I don't sleep anyway, remember?" I reply, lazily pointing to the solid black rings around my eyes.
"Thanks." Ahira smiles. I smile slightly back as I watch her walk into her room.
"Thanks, Pain. For accepting me into the Akatsuki." I state, turning to Pain.
"You are a considerable attribute to the Akatsuki. I would have made the worst mistake of my life to not except you." he insists.
"Thank you anyway, Pain." I smile, turning and walking back outside, into the slowly disappearing sun.
I sigh and walk back to my meadow, knowing full well the risks of getting caught. For all I know, they could be surrounding me right now.
What an eventful day. Next to nothing happens in a year or so, then in one day, I see all the Konoha Ninja Trainees and fight with the single love of my life. Whoopee (notice my unenthusiastic tone).
"No need to worry about surrounding ninjas, Yami. I can't sense any presence of chakras or anything." Akuma states.
"Thanks." I sigh. I stand on the small mound in the center, feeling the light breeze sweep around me, lifting up my hair a bit. I summon a one tailed clone of Akuma to keep me company.
"You know, Akuma, sometimes I don't know why I keep living." I admit to the clone.
"What do you mean?" she asks, a little shocked.
"Well, my friends want me dead, all villages have abandoned me, Sasuke has stopped caring for me and Gaara wants to bury me under a mountainous pile of sand that thirsts for my blood." I explain.
"You keep going because you know it's the right thing to do. You have me and you have the Akatsuki, some of which I've noticed have a thing for you." Akuma replies, winking.
"I don't think I'll love again, Akuma. Not like I did Gaara. But, to him, it must've been just a fling. I was something that he could just get rid of after he'd had his fun." I mumble, letting a couple of tears fall.
"I don't think what you had meant that little to him. Otherwise, why would he have come to try and get you back?" Akuma asks. I'm about to reply when I sense Hidan's chakra in the meadow with me. I release the clone.
"Hey, Hidan." I greet, turning and giving him a bit of a smile.
"It seems you like this meadow, do you suppose it likes you back?" Hidan teases. I poke my tongue out at him childishly.
"Don't stick that out unless you're willing to follow through." Hidan orders, very serious.
"Wh-what?" I ask, looking at him like he's nutso.
"You fucking heard me, Yami. Don't you even fucking dare tell me you haven't noticed the attraction I've had to you." Hidan dares, walking quickly up to me.
"I don't know what you're talking about." I deny, lifting my chin up. I will not be bullied.
He growls a bit at me and then latches his left arm around my waist. I know what he's going to do. Sure, I could've blocked it with ease. But, maybe, I wanted to feel what it felt like to kiss someone again. I know that it sounds seriously selfish of me to say that.
He crashes his lips onto mine, invading my mouth with his tongue. I hook my arms around Hidan's neck, deepening the kiss. I tangle my fingers in Hidans silver white hair.
The kiss was nothing like when I kissed Gaara. When I kissed Gaara, I felt safe in his arms. It felt like my soul had known him from the beginning of time. It set of fireworks in my head and blocked out anyone else in the room.
But, with Hidan, it felt completely forbidden, dangerous and new. He was demanding and, instead of fireworks, it was like the temperature rising around us. It was brutal and unkind, yet caring. It was an entirely new feeling.
I find Hidan's remaining hand slowly running over my stomach. My breath hitches as his cold hands come in contact with my heated skin, raising goosebumps on my arms. A fog clouds my senses, all apart from what's going on with Hidan.
I finally pull away, only to feel Hidan's mouth kissing down my neck. He reaches my pulse point and I shudder. He bites down there, drawing blood. I gasp at the pain, yet the pain isn't unwelcome. It is a nice pain. He then starts to lick at the wound.
"Your blood tastes so fucking good, Yami." Hidan groans, grinding himself against me. My breath stops completely. This wasn't really expected. At all.
I try to get him off me, but he stays where he is. I finally manage to pry him away a bit.
He's panting, his hair is a mess and his eyes are dark violet and smoldering.
"I've now marked you as mine, even if just for a few shitty days. New marks can always be made." Hidan smirks. I suddenly realize what he must've done to make that mark. I raise my hand to touch the area around the bite-mark. My bandages are gone. I gasp and try to cover it up.
Hidan realizes what he's done the moment I do. He reaches out and rips my arms away from my lower neck, exposing my black diamond marks. He stares at the twisting pattern with awe.
"What the fuck are those marks?" Hidan questions, looking at the bite-marked tainted patterns.
"Well, you just gave me this one." I hiss, pointing to the bite-mark.
He smirks. "Yeah. I did. It looks fucking sexy on you, too. But, what I was talking about was the other marks." Hidan replies, tracing my black, shining marks on my shoulder with one slim finger.
I shiver and reach into the pack on my hip for another bandage to cover it up again. Hidan's hand snaps down to catch my wrist.
He leans down to kiss the exposed skin on my shoulder. He licks the mark on the crease of my neck, then works his way back up my neck.
"You know what? Stop." I order, voting not to use force on him right this moment.
His movements pause for a brief moment while he says, "And if I don't want to?" and then he returns to his ministrations.
"Stop." I repeat.
"What will you fucking do if I don't?" he smirks against my skin.
"I-I'll... um..." I stutter, too involved on his teeth lightly scraping against my skin. "Shit, stop it."
"You don't want me to fucking stop at all, do you." Hidan asks, already knowing the answer.
"I don't want you to stop, but you need to anyway." I manage to gasp out.
"I know I should." he states seductively.
He holds his lips just above mine, just so I can feel his warm breath on my lips.
"I know you want me, Yami." Hidan admits, looking into my red eyes with his own violet ones. They're not familiar enough to comfort me. I only need one pair of eyes, but those are out of reach now. Hidan guesses what I'm thinking and his lip curls up into a snarl.
"He's on your mind again, isn't he." he states, none to nicely. I keep my mouth shut and glare defiantly into his eyes.
"I'll make sure that little fucker is off your mind, Yami." Hidan curses, slamming his lips against mine in a bruising kiss. His tongue forces it's way into my mouth as he pushes me backwards. I stumble as his body presses up against mine, continuing to push me.
I suddenly feel wood against my back, through my cloak. Hidan presses his body so hard against my frame that it's hard to breathe. I can feel the contours of his chest and stomach against me. He drags my hands up and over my head and pins them there with one hand.
"What are you doing?" I gasp.
"Do you really wanna know?" he asks, answering my question with one of his own.
"You didn't answer my question." I gulp, watching as Hidan draws himself ever closer to me, if that's even possible.
"Well you never fucking answer any of mine, so we're even." he growls.
His spare hand fiddles with the tie on my cloak. He gets it undone and my cloak flutters to the ground.
"This is where we really stop." I state, daring him to argue with me.
"Why?" he asks.
"Just... no more." I reply, wrenching my wrists from his grasp and wrapping my cloak around me again. "Not now."
Before he can say anything, I disappear beneath the ground, reappearing in Ahira and my room. Ahira sleepily opens her eyes.
"Just me, Ahira." I states, walking over to the desk beneath the window. I bet she was asleep before I even finished the sentence.
I sit there for a while, just thinking about what happened. My hand absentmindedly feels for the mark Hidan branded me with. My fingers lightly brush over the slightly painful mark.
I need to sort some things out pronto.
I get out a scroll, a pot of ink and a pen. I open the scroll and start to write.
A couple of hours later............
There. Finished. I look down at the letter I've just completed.
Dear Gaara,
This isn't the first letter to you I've written and don't expect it to be the last.
Don't carelessly throw this out the moment you know it's from me, or, if you do, at least recycle it.
I'm going to tell you the complete and utter truth in this letter. I will not lie to you anymore.
I was forced to join the Akatsuki. They said they'd kill everyone I loved if I didn't join. I couldn't live with those deaths resting on my conscience for the remainder of my small, pathetic life. I just couldn't handle it.
Tell no one of this letter. I've placed a jutsu on it that the moment you let anyone see this note, or tell anyone about it, it will self destruct. I want no one to find out.
Knowing what I know now, I will never, ever go back to Konoha. They killed my clan in fear. They believed that the Uchihas would overthrow their perfect world, perfect belief system, perfect way of life. I will never admit to anyone that I was once friends with the people who defended that pathetic excuse for a country.
I seem to have no quarrels against Suna, unless you happen to be in league with Konoha. Then, I'm a little miffed, but not unendingly murderous.
I can't leave the Akatsuki. The moment I joined, forced or not, I betrayed the people of the clans. Ah well. No one accepts me anyway.
Nothing will ever be the same again.
I'm so sorry I hurt you today. I was out of my mind. I was just.... it was inexcusable.
I'll understand if you never contact me again. I just needed these things to be said.
You'll never know how much I love you, Gaara. The feeling is to intense to be put into words. I'll always love you, even if you no longer love me. I will understand that.
I wrote this for you.
I hope you like it.
The day's last one-way ticket train pulls in
We smile for the casual closure capturing
There goes the downpour
Here goes my fare thee well
There's really no way to reach me
There's really no way to reach me
There's really no way to reach me
'Cause I'm already gone
Only so many words that we can say
Spoken upon long-distance melody
This is my hello
This is my goodness
There's really no way to reach me
There's really no way to reach me
There's really no way to reach me
'Cause I'm already gone
Maybe in five or ten yours and mine will meet again
Straighten this whole thing out
Maybe then honesty need not be feared as a friend or an enemy
This is the distance
And this is my game face
There's really no way to reach me
There's really no way to reach me
There's really no way to reach me
Is there really no way to reach me?
Am I already...
So this is your maverick
This is Vienna
I love you, Gaara. More than you'll ever know.
Mitsukai-Uchiha Yami
I roll the scroll up and tie it with a black bow. I place the jutsu mentioned in the letter on the scroll and summon an Akuma clone with two tails.
"Akuma, let no one read this. No one must see you. Deliver this Sabaku no Gaara in Suna unopened and you unseen. Report back ASAP. Do you understand?" I order of the clone. She nods and I tie the scroll around her neck. She whines once before she leaves.
"Do you think I've done the right thing, Akuma?" I ask, watching the clone for the odd couple of seconds that she is visible before disappearing.
"I believe you have done the best thing possible. Wonderful choice, Yami." Akuma replies.
I watch as the moon slowly starts to go down. I stand up and head to the bathrooms to have a shower. Heaven knows I need one right now.
Once I'm undressed, I look down at the extent of my marks. They are a shimmery black colour and are like twisting diamonds. They run down most of the way down my arms and up my neck. I unwrap my forehead and see the same pattern there. I follow the marks down to the center of my chest and then keep following them down to my bellybutton.
I look down at my back and see a pair of folded angel wings tattooed there. Just in between my shoulder blades is my demon seal. I look down at my legs and see the marks going down to just above my knees. I sigh and continue my shower.
After being refreshed, I walk back to my room to watch the sunrise. To my surprise, my Akuma clone is already back.
"That was fast. Well done. Status report?" I compliment.
"The Kazekage received your scroll. I was not seen." she reports, giving a quick bow before disappearing in a puff of smoke.
"Now it's up to him." I sigh. "What fun."
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Nikki: Thanks for reedin!
Rachel: -gives cookeh and jellybeanz- mmmm... jellybeans... -drools-
Ava: -puts bucket under Rachel-
Yami: -laughs-
Nikki: Sigh. R + R plze! =D
