Grrr, stupid fanfiction . net, screwing up chapter 9. I will never use my laptop to post chapters again...
~*~*~Black Ice~*~*~
Chapter 9
My eyes fluttered slightly as my vision began to dim.
I looked up and into Kakashi's Sharingan as the Chidori sunk further through my stomach.
I gagged on the blood and pain and felt myself slip more into the black.
So many people say that when they die, their life flashes before their eyes. This was my second turn at dying, and I still was not allowed such a gift… no, I was forced to keep inside my pain and suffer…
The only thing that flashed in my mind was… well, it wasn't exactly a picture, not exactly a memory, either. More of a… sensation.
I remembered back to the very first time I had used my chakra. The sensation of pushing it out was overwhelming, overpowering in fact.
I was brought roughly back by the pain and frowned. If I was going to die, I wanted to feel that amazing sensation one more time.
I let myself fall limply onto Kakashi as I relaxed past the pain. His chidori faded and he began to pull his arm from my front.
Just as the lightning faded, I concentrated on pushing my chakra do the surface, and it shot out in tiny needles.
My mind relaxed into the feeling. I felt Kakashi's presence sink back as he darted for cover in the trees. I wasn't sure why he was retreating…
I felt that tickling sensation wrap me in its arms and whisper for more. I smiled and gave in to the power.
I lifted my arms and hugged myself tightly as it rushed out without a stopper.
I heard several pairs of gasps from the direction of Konoha and smiled.
My eyes were closed and I could see nothing but the bright blue glow of my chakra. I breathed out a sigh of happiness and felt my power wane slightly.
I let it go and opened my eyes.
Terror met my eyes as I looked around.
A giant indention was in the ground around me, in a huge crater.
My eyes were huge in surprise and confusion.
What had happened while my eyes were closed? Who had done this?
Suddenly, a man appeared in front of me. His arm was lifted with a kunai to my throat.
His face was set in a snarl and his eyes in a glare.
Kenji shouted, "DIE!"
I was so afraid.
I didn't want to die!
That was when I realized… my pain was gone from the place where Kakashi had stabbed me… it was healed, my foot was healed, the kunai shot to my shoulder was gone.
I was… perfectly healed.
I gasped and, in my shock, my concentration on holding back my chakra snapped. It seemed to be bustling against my skin in wait for me to let it go once more.
I watched in muted horror as a single huge spike of blue chakra from my chest shot out and straight through Kenji's chest.
I screamed as his eyes scanned my face and he dropped to the ground.
With a wave of realization of what I'd done, my eyes widened to their utmost, I lifted my hands and looked down to them where my chakra still glowed.
They were shaking so hard… so very hard.
My heart pounded in my chest in fear and confusion and pain.
What was happening to me?!
Kakashi jumped in and retrieved Kenji. I was still in my shocked condition as twenty more ninja surrounded me. They all seemed cautious of me.
I screamed, "DON'T COME NEAR ME!"
Tears streamed down my face as they all ran at me in the same instant, except for Kakashi who was carrying Kenji away.
I pulled my hands to cover my face as a last attempt to hold myself together, but the chakra just acted on its own and shot from me.
I screamed, "NO!"
I heard Kakashi bellow, "NO!" a second later.
I heard several thumps and opened my eyes.
Twenty dead ninja lay around me in a circle, like a massacre…
Kakashi dropped Kenji where he was and charged me.
I screamed out, "LEAVE ME ALONE, KAKASHI!"
He just held that chidori in his left arm as he ran at me.
He dodged the first spike of blue and ducked under the next. And just as his hand was about to reach my face a spike of chakra shot out from me and into Kakashi's hand.
It was caught in the spike and he was thrown back and into a tree, where he was pierced to the tree by my chakra.
His hand was pinned there and he was as good as a dead, caught, just as I had been before. But now he had lost… to me.
I walked forward and used all the strength left in me to hold the chakra back.
I reached him and demanded… I wasn't even sure why I was doing it but I demanded it of him, "WHO IS HIDORI MORINO?!"
Kakashi looked utterly shocked by this as tears ran down my cheeks.
My chakra made a move to hit Kakashi as it left my chest and aimed at him.
I screamed in exertion and held the spike a millimeter from his chest. The spike drug across his vest and ripped it through. From its depths a folder fell out.
I shoved back my chakra with shaking limbs and picked it up.
The file read 'Hidori Morino' on it. I gripped it to my chest and turned from him.
I began to run. And as I looked back to the crater I cried out, "I am so sorry, Kakashi!"
And I ran straight into the night.
~Konoha, around 6 a.m.~
Women cried, children screamed beside coffins, and people mourned.
Kakashi stood above a certain ninja's coffin and stared down numbly.
Sakura arrived at his shoulder.
"Kakashi-sensei… They have a right to know how their men died. We need to know who did this…"
Kakashi watched as Ino looked up at him from beside a coffin, seeming to beg him for an answer.
Shikamaru and Choji stood at her shoulder trying to comfort her.
Shikamaru and the others knew nothing…
Kakashi and the Hokage were the only two in the village who knew, and he agreed with Sakura. They deserved to know.
Kakashi stated, "Hidori Morino."
Everyone looked utterly confused.
Shikamaru seemed almost desperate as he demanded, "Was Morgan caught up in the battle too?!"
Kakashi stated, "Yes."
Everyone waited.
Kakashi stated after a moment of thoughtful regret, "But Morgan goes by another name. Her real name, and the person responsible for this massacre, is none other than Hidori Morino."
Every eye in the building widened and Shikamaru spat, "What are you talking about?!"
Kakashi stated, "Morgan killed every man here single handedly."
Ino burst into tears anew and screamed, "She was right in front of me! I could have stopped this! This is all my fault!"
Kakashi looked away, "We all fell for her tricks…"
Shikamaru looked down as he clenched his fists. "Where is she now?"
Kakashi stated, "On the run."
He growled as he turned and walked from the building.
He walked past the others waiting to hear from Ino outside. Kiba, Neji, Lee, Shino, and so many others who had met Morgan. Kotetsu and Izumo demanded, "IS MORGAN HURT?! PLEASE SAY SHE'S NOT! PLEASE!"
Shika looked away. "Morgan… is a traitor…"
He turned away from their horrified stares. Sakura walked over and explained everything.
A wave of pain and heartbreak hit them, and they fell to their knees.
Shikamaru only heard one thing. "Just like Sasuke… never coming back."
He flinched at this and growled under his breath, "She IS coming back, even if I die trying!"
