Based of both the Anime and Manga. May lead to a second book for Shippuden.
I do not own Naruto. Any OC's that may make an appearance in this Fanfiction, however, are mine.
Rights to my OCs are mine.
The mention of facts from Tokyo Ghoul that will be incorporated, are not.
.Mentioning of quotes.
Zet-su-mei Se-kai : Pronounced Zet - Sue - May Say - Ki
The OOCness of a character is dependent on the view of the reader itself, this can or may not apply to the writer. Please note that all writers of fanfiction view characters differently and see another side to them that can be developed over time. Fanfiction is not meant to be exact. Fanfiction is purely for entertainment purposes.
I guess I don't really have inspiration for this chapter. I just felt... yeah, a little more passionate (?) I guess. Writing style towards the end shows it. I've been reading too much cheesy manga.
Again, I appreciate any advice, reviews, anything to keep me knowing how you'd like this story to go, if you like where it's going so far or if I get any information on Ghouls wrong. Sometimes I might not notice it till it's pointed out. Save me from having an OCD moment.
Reviews: To all those who've reviewed Development Stage, Thank You. All the positive feed back does contribute to me continuing this fanfiction. I have to admit that although it seems good there will be some bumpy parts because combining Tokyo Ghoul and Naruto is a bit of a challenge, but all the more, I'm willing to take that challenge. Sekai, if you haven't noticed, will be a bit like Kaneki, a bit, she's not him. I repeat, Sekai is not Kaneki, she'll go through the same experiences as him but she's not him.
**Update*** See these are why reviews are important, just found out I kept putting a 'U' at the end of Shinobi essentially spelling Shinobu, a completely different word. -_-
Stage 3.1
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Passion
The biological event of puberty unleashes a powerful set of changes in the adolescent body that reflect themselves in a teenager's sexual, emotional, cultural, and/or spiritual passion. Adolescence passion thus represents a significant touchstone for anyone who is seeking to reconnect with their deepest inner zeal for life.
"No matter how much it hurts, you have to keep going."
"You don't have to be here Kono." Sekai told the young boy as they stood in a room in the Hokage Tower.
Sekai had been dragged here by Konohomaru who enthusiastically wanted her to play with him, a new game that he had found. Something about Hide and Seek.
"I should be saying that to you Sekai." He frowned at her weird response to him bringing her to the Hokage Tower. "You haven't played with me in weeks. Anyways, you've been here before, why are you so worked up now?"
Raising her shoulders defensively, Sekai couldn't help but frown and bite back, "I am not defensive, Kono."
"Then why are you acting like this? You're more rigid than normal, Sei." His face consorted, looking like he was in disgust. "It's weird."
"I promise I'm not. I just have a lot to do." She answered back hoping that he'd just drop his questioning. For a young boy he did pry in other peoples business a lot.
"Like what? You don't ever do a lot of things. Weren't you sick, too?" Konohomaru mentioned looking at her again, he focused on the trail of sweat that built up and trailed down her cheek, the pale complexion she gained and the quietly labored breathing, "You are sick."
"I had to train someone." She answered his previous question, although reluctant, she liked that he cared enough to ask her.
"Who?" His eyes grew wide, curiosity beaming through his eyes. Never once had he seen Sekai fight, she never trained anyone, and always kept her ability as a Shinobi quietly to herself.
"Uchiha-san."
"Uchiha?" Konohomaru muttered in awe, voice raising in pitch, "Sasuke Uchiha?" He took a break between his question and stared at her curiously, though his eye brows were raised and body language, well, strange. "Mr. I-Too-Good-For-Anyone-Uchiha? Wow. There must be something else going on." He leaned in closer, glanced across the room once before looking back at her with a raised eyebrow. "Are you sure something else isn't going on?"
"Kono." Sekai reprimanded the boy with a frown, feeling an odd feeling in her chest and heat rising to her cheeks. "Stop being so weird."
Let me start again with you.
He hated her.
Sasuke Uchiha couldn't deny his undoubtable hate for the deep green haired girl. He couldn't lie when saying that it wasn't hard to remember her name, there was the fact that he really hated her and the fact that her name was unique in a way. He guessed it matched her appearance though.
But the name itself World, absentmindedly left him imagining two parents similar in features to the quiet girl, huddling around a small bundle, peeks of deep green and murmuring the word Sekai, their world. Had they known that Zetsumei Sekai, was the equivalent of saying World of Death?
Sasuke grimly sighed and brushed the thoughts away with a finale, yes. World of Death fit her just as much as her name alone did.
Kami he hated girls. They were just too complicated. Of course they only girls he had the privilege of meeting were pubescent ones who wanted to rip the clothes off his back and use it in one of their shrines.
He shivered, and just for comfort, looked around the streets just to make sure he'd be safe. When he was sure there was no one, his shoulders slumped and his hands were stuffed in his pockets.
He was making his way back to that same empty clearing they had been in two days before. He wondered why she hadn't gone to the training grounds, but after thought he disregarded the thought, he didn't really care.
"Good morning, Uchiha-san." There was the uncharacteristically present curve of her lips, it was an uncomfortable one, like she was straining to find the real thing.
Uchiha-san? Why did she have to be so polite?
He opted for grunting in recognition to her greeting, lips thinned when he was brought back to his early thoughts.
He really hated her.
"We should-"
He cut her off before she could finish what she wanted to say. It was something that he wanted to do the moment her intelligence shone through, the moment she was able to have him emit stronger chakra with only petty questions.
"Fight me."
Her lips fell open, it was the second time he saw her shocked. Even that expression didn't seem right, she held it on her face for far too long for it to be considered real.
"I don't think that's a good idea, Uchih-"
His fingers curled in anger. Again with the Uchiha-san. It spiked his anger, his frustration wanting to be taken out in the only thing he knew would allow him to be calm, dueling. He wanted to know what made her so special, what made her have to be taken in by Kakashi.
There had to be something.
His previous thoughts of her were vanished the moment a reluctant nod was made. A smirk curled onto his lips, it was an uncomfortable one, but it was good enough.
"Good." He made the first move, his blood pumping and hands craving to feel the chakra pulse through. There really was only one way to relieve his anger.
Her chakra spiked. Sekai hadn't moved from her original spot but the second he was by her side, leg swung in the air ready to hit into her rib cage, she moved back letting his leg swipe the air where she had previously been.
It continued on for longer than Sasuke would have liked, his anger did admittedly fuel his movements, they may have been calculated in some part in his mind but they were sloppy from his anger.
Genius. Kakashi had once claimed her to be when Naruto asked what was so special about her. Tortured Genius.
Without realizing it, his sharingan activated and his gaze sharpened again, coping every action she made in the back of his mind, but he didn't need them. They were the obvious dodge, swipe, turn. There was no uniqueness and it annoyed Sasuke that it looked like she didn't even need to try.
Letting his chakra center around his hand, Sasuke swung forwards only to have his fist clenched in her hand. A shiver went down his spine when the chakra started to retract itself and they were left in the same position.
Sasuke breathed deeply, trying to breathe in as much air as he could so he could shake the exhaustion he felt while she was slightly panting, a tired gaze in her eyes.
At least he made her tired.
No second later, a look took over the tired gaze she had, something akin to hunger and her hand that gripped his own threw him backwards. Without any warning she jumped onto him.
Sekai could feel a fire burning in her stomach and an intoxicating smell reaching her nose, before she even knew it, she had tackled Sasuke to the ground.
She was starving.
Her head lowered and mouth watered, their was the exposed flesh of his neck that smelt better than any raw animal meat she had ever seen. Letting her eyes wander they caught themselves in a blood red trap, Sharingan blaring and past that was wide eyes.
Her own eye, the left one, sharpened without her consent. Her surrounding area more sharper, she could both sense the heat escaping him, it was a detector. A human detector.
"Stop." The command rung out of his mouth and oddly she found herself doing just that. It was something in the back of her mind that commanded her in the same voice, an echo?
A confused look covered her features, when his own grew tired and the Sharingan stopped spinning widely disappearing in the next second.
"You can get off now, I give up." Though he didn't sound like he gave up his gaze told her otherwise.
Slowly, she slid off him unsurely, the hunger she felt disappearing for a moment but the sharpness in her left eye didn't. She wondered how she might have looked that second.
Pitiful?
Tired?
Hungry?
She waited patiently for the angered look, the turn of disgust but it never came. Did her eye not scare him, the red pupil surrounded by a black, the red veins? The third always warned her, but her eye refused to go back to normal.
She never told the Hokage about her suspicions. The fact that she wondered why her left eye was like this. She knew he wouldn't take it well. She had seen the look in his eye.
Sasuke mused that the feral look in her eye was almost too natural, it was wholesome and true, something that most of her actions and expressions, were not. His hands patted the pants he wore, their dark colour returning back to normal and his hair tickling his cheeks. His hair had grown, that was another thing to muse about.
When his pants didn't need to be patted clean anymore, his eyes averted back to her own, his silent thoughts looked like they brought her on edge.
He wondered if it was typical of her to be this way. He could seemingly read those expressions she displayed easily but hated it when they were directed at him.
Patience is a virtue. He quoted in his mind the longer the two stood face to face. Too bad it's one I, unfortunately, don't carry.
"Stop looking so uncomfortable." He growled out impatiently, only to chaste himself in the back of his mind. Whatever happened to being virtuous?
Sometimes, he amused himself too much.
"I-I can't help it." She stuttered, her left eye, he realized, was still inhuman. "Just don't tell anyone." She demanded. "Don't tell anyone about what happened, just think my eye is normal, Please?"
It was the first time she begged for something. Her fidgeting hands, curled lips, parted in surprise, at her own words? Sasuke realized he was overthinking things too much.
"Hn." He spat out, trying to distract himself. "Whatever." Turning his head away from her, body spinning as well, he stuffed his hands in his pockets. "I don't care anyways."
Some might say he was running away, but a great Uchiha, no matter the size or age, dares to run away. So, essentially, he was walking away because there was nothing left for him.
Maybe he'd go back to Kakashi to finish his training. It would be easier without all the distracting thoughts.
I'll keep my promise. Sekai thought to herself sluggishly. A promise is a promise.
As he left, the sky darkened a deep blue. Only then did Sekai realize how late it was, how tired she was, and how hungry she felt. She raised a hand to touch her left eye, delicate hand moving gently across her closed eye, then the pulsating red veins.
Her eyes teared up, she couldn't control the fear that she had never felt, it was too foreign to feel natural. Her eye only burned, kept burning, and never stopped reminding her that it wouldn't leave.
Then it came, the fresh smell of succulent, tender, flesh. Sekai reached her limit, the feeling of hunger overpowered her common sense.
No remorse, no regret.
She stopped being hungry that night.
D-E-V-E-L-O-P-M-E-N-T Ah~ How I love it.
Remember to review/comment anything you need to ask. I'll be more than willing to answer. And yes, Sekai did eat a human and for the sake of ratings I can't necessarily put all the gore, so I have to be vague about it. In later chapters there might be one solid horror scene. This is like a Kaneki moment, seeing as Rize was a binge eater, he does lose control when hungry and continuously eats. Of course, it isn't going to be one of those moments when the character wakes up having no idea what happened, Sekai will remember and being the quote on quote "Tortured Genius" she is, will put the pieces together. The fact that she's a ghoul will not cause her to run away as stated in the prologue, it's actually something else.
Stay tuned for more.
