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A/N: After this chapter I will be busy in trying to get this story and the other stories going. I'm Inspired and I will not stop until I am blocked again! Enjoy!
Revealing Life's Hard Choices
The sun over the horizon showed the entire village in its light during this afternoon warmth and I am perched on top of the wall, far from any entrances or day shift Shinobi's and breathe in the air that can only be described as one thing: Konoha. Using an illusion jutsu, I have no problem with blending in with the light and that made me smile, just a bit.
The bustling of the market place people made me remember a time when we used to walk those same streets, laughing and hanging out. The restaurants are at a reasonable crowd for those who had missed their lunch and are having it late.
The noise level of the village is as soothing for me as I watched and listen for a good few minutes.
I walked the tops of the wall, one step at a time and enjoyed the sincerity of the village I once called home a long time ago. Circling the whole village, I took my sweet time and absorbed the calmness I felt at just watching…that is until I came close to the Hokage's office and could hear yelling, arguments fill the air in a 100 feet radius and I am glad there are no living complexes nearby or we all will be hearing the complaints.
Coming closer to the building, I looked up to where the Hokage's office windows are and saw a couple of them open. Smirking, I jumped up and hidden myself against the wall by one open window and listen to the chaos that is labeled: Naruto's bitching.
"BUT why can't we go and look for her? We just saw her and just HAVE to bring her back, grandma, we just have to!" Waving his arms around above his head like a weirdo and yelling at the Hokage, whom seems at the moment, about to get pissed the fuck off and will probably stomp on Naruto just to shut him up.
"Naruto for the last time, and I really hope you get this through your thick stubborn skull, we already did a search for her, for 2 years and came up empty handed every single time. She is GONE and I don't care if you just saw her, what makes you think she wants to come back if she already hasn't? It has been 6 years, 6 YEARS, since she left and hasn't stepped one foot back in this village. Will she come back NOW? I don't know. Will she listen? I don't know. What I do know is we have wasted good resources just to try and find her for 2 years. We will not waste more man power just to find someone who probably doesn't exist anymore. So PLEASE, Drop it!" Slamming a hand down on her desk, Tsunade made her final words and nobody moved, except for Naruto.
"But…" The words were cut off when Naruto and everyone else, except for KE#O and Tsunade, felt a sharp blade at their throats and at their ribs. The hand holding the blade to their throats had an arm around their throat so if they tried to move or escape, the blade will plunge right in their esophagus and they will choke on their own blood. The other hand that held another knife to their ribs is long enough to go right through to a lung and that too will make them choke on their blood.
Tsunade's eyes widen in surprise and silence is deafening in the office, with the breeze coming through the windows. Nobody moved or said anything.
"You know, for a bunch of highly trained Shinobi's of Konoha, both in the Chunin and Jonin variety, you are awfully LOUD and distracting. Distracting enough for me to sneak in and almost slit all your throats in one swell swoop" All eyes came onto me as I sat on the sill of the open window I was standing next to earlier, my tail laying limp behind me as I leaned against the ledge and stared outside. My outfit changed colors from beige to blood red and that is how I felt at the moment.
"Roxanne…" Naruto tried to move but the blade held firm and a small cut formed as little blood seeped down his throat.
"I wouldn't move if I were you, Uzamaki, or any of you, if you value your lives" one leg over the sill I stood up and brought the other over. Walking up to the 4, they stood still and I looked them over from head to toe. Naruto once again tried to move or talk but the blades again tighten and more droplets of blood came down his throat.
"Ah, so Uzamaki doesn't value his own life as it would seem" Standing face to face with Naruto and he tried to speak but Sasuke beat him to it. "Naruto, Stop moving or else you are seriously going to get hurt"
"Yes, listen to the younger Uchiha as he is making perfect sense in light of the situation. Stop moving and your blood will stop flowing" I smirked.
"Why are you doing this Roxanne?" Kakashi didn't move except for his lips so no blades are penetrating his flesh and so I turned to him.
"Just to prove a point: after all these years, none of you learned anything of value when it comes to training as I have" Turning back to Naruto "Still incompetent as the last time I saw you"
Turning around I walked over to Tsunade's desk and picked up a cup filled with tea and sipped. Tsunade sat looking at me with a calculating look but I dismissed it.
"I heard through the grapevine that you are looking for a one Itachi Uchiha: whom I have in my possessions, and am willing to sell for the bounty on his head, of course" having another sip, Tsunade and I stared each other down.
"Of course but I hear that you have both Itachi and Kisame, I want both and you will have yourself a deal"
"No, Kisame is promised to the Hokage of the Water nation, you want him, you have to ask that Hokage and I doubt he's willing to give up what is rightfully his anyways" Finishing off the tea, I set down the cup and smiled at Tsunade.
"Hmm, you may have a point there Roxanne. Ok then, how about…" Tsunade gets cut off by Naruto's scream.
"Why Roxanne, why did you leave and didn't come back? Why, when we were so happy together?" Turning to Naruto with the best known glare I could muster.
"Hmm you tell me: why DID I leave? Why all of a sudden I was not there anymore? Why would I leave since I was, as you called it, so happy? You really have no idea what you have done, have you?" Slowing making my way over to where both Naruto and Sasuke are.
"No idea about what?" Sasuke ask
"I'll show you what" Quickly I put my hands on each of their heads and closed my eyes, concentrating on what I wanted to show them through my mind's eye what had transpired those many years ago. Flashes upon flashes of memory came and flooded both their minds, the feeling of betrayal and grief that I had to endure from their abuse. Their words cutting through me then as I am cutting through their minds now.
On the outside, they were struggling against their restraints and the blades slowing cutting them but not too deep, just the skin top. And they were screaming in denial that it was not true, that they didn't say those things and that it didn't happen.
I let go of their heads and minds before the last part shows as I didn't want them to know just yet the extension of my power and stepped back. Blood trailed down their throats and soaked through their shirts. I smirked at this.
"We didn't mean it; we were mad at each other and took it out on you. We didn't mean it Roxanne, you gotta believe us!" Tears unshed in his eyes as Naruto begged and Sasuke nodding in agreement.
"Hmm, there's only one thing I believe now" As quickly as I said that, I made a clone and both of us, at the speed of lightning, punched them both square in the jaw and a mighty kick to the chest that had them sailing through the air towards the wall, and all the clones holding the blades poofed away when we did. "I don't give a Fuck anymore!"
A Crash and a Slam later, Naruto and Sasuke are knocked the fuck out on the outside of the office, with a big gaping hole to prove they went through it. All the occupants in the remaining office stared in utter shock that I would have the audacity to actually hurt my former boys. Kakashi then turned to me to give me a piece of his mind but I held out my hand to stop him and with a glare to match his.
"Do NOT try and salvage what had just occurred here, Hatakei. Back then you wouldn't give a fuck about me or Naruto as you were too transfixed in training your precious Uchiha to care about what we did and now, they don't even remember what happened because you were too chicken shit to tell them. Why don't you just fucking save it and see if your 'boys' are breathing" I turned away and both Kakashi and Sakura ran to see if the boys were ok.
When they left, I snapped my fingers and the wall rebuilt itself, while putting a privacy shield up and whipped my tail out to grab hold of a nearby chair to sit on. As I seated myself, Shizune is visibly shaking on her spot behind the Hokage, from fear I'm guessing, and Tsunade is glaring at me with her hands clutch in a tight fist.
"What gave you the authority to do what you did, Roxanne" She growled out through gritted teeth.
Unfazed by her aura of killing intent, I examined my nails and sighed in boredom "Tsunade, do you remember our last encounter? What did I say was going to happen if I decided to show up?"
She looked at me in confusion and tapped her fingers on the desk when she no longer clutching them with all her might.
"I said and I quote: 'then it will be like Hell has taken over and there will be no mercy when I'm finished here' and I meant every word of it, Tsunade. Every. Single. Word."
Tsunade then growled at me and slammed her fist on her desk that resulted in it falling to pieces, with me chuckling at her ill use of power. She glared at me more and that made me laugh more. When I calmed down, I flicked my wrist and the table fixed itself to its former self. Gasps from Tsunade and Shizune made me smile as I put my feet up on the desk while they sat still in shock.
KE#O came over and poured a good amount of alcohol in the empty tea cup I just used, which he picked up off the floor and cleaned it. Pouring himself a cup also, he went back to his seat to the sides and we sipped in silence.
"You can control wood" wasn't a question but a statement and I nodded in confirmation.
"Hmm. Okay then, what were we talking about before this fiasco happened?" Tsunade reached into her robes and took out a big flask to pour herself a good amount and stashed it away again.
"Payment, when and who?"
"Ah, yes, well as I was saying, I'll take Itachi off your hands as he is a former Shinobi of this village and you can take Kisame to the Water nation. Payment will be the amount of the bounty on his head but you will have to wait until tomorrow because I have other business to attend to today and the finance person will be busier than normal" She sipped while Shizune's eyebrows raised in surprise that Tsunade willing agreed instead of arguing to have both. I just smiled.
"Morning it is then, Good day Tsunade, Shizune, KE#O" getting up and setting the empty cup on Tsunade's desk, I turned to the window I came in from.
"One more thing I must ask, Roxanne before you leave for the day" I gestured for her to continue.
"How hard did you train?" I chuckled at that and turned to her.
"I've trained until I dropped, I trained until I almost broke, I've TRAINED until I've reached a level so far up that it is impossible for anyone, even a holder, to reach and I've tamed it, and I've molded it to what I am now. That is how hard I trained, Tsunade, Good day" I turned back to the window and jumped out, disappearing in mid-flight.
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