Chapter 10: Dark Chakra

A/N: Hello peoples haha!

Well first off, for all of you who have been keeping up with my story: thank you and also I had to re-write my last chapter (chapter 9) because it was horrendous. It was not what I needed for my story. I re-wrote it, and even though it is not as satisfying as I wish it could be, it is kind of important for later chapters. I know, I know that I should not be asking for this, but it will be greatly recommended to go back and read the last chapter IF you are OK with it. If not, then I guess if you have any questions ask. After this chapter, new and unexpected things will come and I tried to drop some hints in my last chapter and there are key points that are rather important. So yeah…

Also Thank you White Hair and Violet Eyes for your review, it brought so much inspiration.

Anyways, I hope you all like this chapter, because it will lead to a series of interesting events. Also this will come as a surprise because the first part of this chapter is in Wind's POV! Awesome, isn't it?

Can't wait! XD

So on with my marvelous story haha

I do not own Naruto

I feel numb with fear.

I feel like putting a knife to my throat to make this feeling stop.

It feels lonely.

It feels so dark.

It feels like death.

Run. Run. Run.

Get away from here!

My legs are shaking. My mind wants to shut down. Can't let it happen. I try to concentrate on anything from my grip in Naruto's shirt which drags him behind me and on my other hand the tightly holds the metal and rusty kunai just in case, as well as pain in my legs.

Blurs of green and brown and black rush past me. The branches and leaves hit my face constantly leaving a burning sting. I can already feel various lacerations on my exposed skin and the fresh and dried blood covering my body. The enormous trees block my way making my fist tremble in anticipation to splinter them completely for being in my way.

A silent roar penetrates the area and my ears ring with its dominating silence. I look back quickly to only see pure darkness coating amongst the forest ground and trees. It is not like any normal darkness of the night nor when falling asleep, instead a dark substance full of emotions overpowering anybody with fear and anger.

And it is coming for us.

Before turning back, a grayish cloud-like substance sprouts from the center of the dark cloud and a foul stench begins to invade my senses. My mind fogs rapidly and leaves me a world of mist, but no matter what I still don't stop running. Quickly, startling me in the process, a set of images rushes through my vision, and everything around me disappears.

My body is numb and I feel disoriented. I see nothing but darkness. Everything is cold and hard. The dripping of the small droplets of water rebound the walls drilling the sound in my head. The faint sound of footsteps catches my attention from my throbbing head and the increasing thumping of my heart. Light appears so suddenly that blinds me completely. Even with my eyes closed tight, I can still see the red-ish color burning me with its brilliance. Everything hurts.

A voice, I hear a voice. Can't hear what it says nor from who it comes from. I try to open my eyes, but they hurt so much. But my curiosity grows stronger and finally beats the pain, and I forcefully open my eyes. Pain explodes behind my eyes, but I try to ignore it. Light. Way too bright light. Can't take it. Before shutting my eyes, I catch the outline of something. Hands. They are coming closer. So does long dark hair. I wait for whatever it's coming. And I wait and wait. Then pain.

The burning feeling of running pain burns all the way, just when I'm about to let out a choking scream, a sturdy branch slaps my face with such force that I falter on my sprint. The blurs of green, brown and gray fill vision blinding me for a moment. My grip in Naruto's shirt shakes tremendously and the pain still burns in my veins.

What the fuck is this?

I need to get away from here. I can feel it. I can sense it. It's coming. It is reaching for us. It's closer.

Run faster. Legs, you have to move faster! We can do this. We got to get away. From this.

C'mon.

Run.

My legs are cramping. My chest heaves from my heavy sprint. The fear shakes my core. I tighten my grip on Naruto's shirt and haul him up on my shoulder to run faster. If this gets any closer, it can get Naruto first. I cannot allow that.

Once again the putrefying stench invades the area that comes from this Thing fogging my senses and burning my nose and lungs. It appears that it is trying to subdue us into their play...again.

Shit!

With the agonizing fear creeping through my whole being and the overwhelming gush of air hitting my face painfully turns this situation even worse. At this time, I don't really need the upset and angry voices proclaiming their anger. With just the ugly darkness coming for us is enough to make my skin crawl.

Please legs, don't give up on me. Naruto don't give up on me either. We can get away. I promise. I won't let this thing get us.

I don't even know why it is here, but I won't stop and find out why right now. I have Naruto to protect.

Run. Damn it!

My feet get tangled with the heavy mess of roots sticking out from a humongous tree, tripping me to the ground face first and Naruto a few feet in front of me. I use whatever strength I have left to untangle myself as fast as I could and run with desperation and grab the heavy, freezing body of Naruto over my shoulder and start running once again. Regrettably, it was enough time for it to barely graze the tips of my hair. A terrible feeling crawled all the way to the roots of my hair. The hairs of my back stand to an end. My eyes glaze with unwanted tears of pain and anger. The worst freezing chill runs over my body.

Run.

It is coming.

The voices from the wind scream in my ears. They are screaming in pain. They are warning me. They are also getting hurt by this. And I can't do anything about it.

I need to run. I need to outrun whatever the hell this is. I can't let Naruto get trap in this obscure darkness.

It is drowning me. Us.

I need to help Naruto. If I can't help the needy voices from the wind, then the least I could do is save Naruto from this.

Run.

With renewed strength, I speed faster away. By blocking the overwhelming darkness chasing us and the screaming voices, I manage to hear the busy streets of a nearby village. I'm heading there, but perhaps I shouldn't. If I go there and this cloud of darkness does not stop, it will reach the villagers and might hurt them. No! I would never forgive myself if they get hurt because I drove this thing to them. But if I don't get somewhere, I won't last long. My previous fight with the Kyuubi drained me completely and I'm still low on blood.

Run shit!

If I don't decide now, it may cost me Naruto's life or other people's lives.

Shit!

I have to use it. There is not another option. I got to use it, even if it cost my life. I can't put others' lives in danger.

Clasping my grip more firmly on Naruto's shirt, and focusing everything in me, I lift my kunai and slice.

Run.

It is now or never.

~ OoO ~

I can't run. I can't move. It feels colder than usual. Can't think. Can't feel. It almost feels like when I was before I met Wind, but only worse. I hate this feeling. I hate it. It's foul. It makes me feel dirty. So dirty. Please, make it go away. Make the darkness go away.

Small warmth grabs me. A little spark of warmth began to make its way through my body, warming my lonely and dark core. I see light once again. I crave for it. I want that light. I don't want to be stuck in this darkness again. It's suffocating. It's lonely. Makes me want death.

Naruto.

Please help me sweet whisper. I don't want to be here.

Naruto.

Take me with you.

Come with me.

Yes, just take me away from this solitude.

Come.

Yes.

It's gone.

Forever?

…for now…

The light expands even further lightening this abysm. I want it. I reach for it. I wish to grasp it with my only dead-hand. I want to feel it. I want to feel that gentle warmth. Please give me light. Take this darkness away. Don't leave me here. I want to live.

"Naruto, come back!"

Eyes snapping open, arching my aching back, arms reaching for something immediately before it goes away, I grasp light. It is warm and makes me feel secure.

I'm out. I'm out of the darkness

…for now…

"Oh, thank whatever is up there that you are fine!"

Wind.

I breathe. I feel. I see. I hear. Good.

I feel my whole body tremble making my teeth rattle. Wind is also shaking. She is clinging to me too. Whatever the hell that was, it affected Wind as well.

I hug her for dear life, and she hugs me as well.

After what felt like hours, which it could might as well been, since the sky has darken already, we unclasp from each other's arms.

"You alright?" the still very concerned Wind asks.

"I don't know, you?"

"I believe so." Of course she has to be the strongest one of us. We untangle completely and she gives me her hand to stand up. As I grab her hand, I take notice of the barely visible massive wall that we have been reclining ourselves in. The last thing I remember was the being in the middle of nowhere. There was not a wall nearby that I remember.

"Where are we?" I wonder at loud. "What happened?"

"I'll explain everything… let me just rest for a second." She slowly sits back down with her knees bent in front of her and rested her arms and head on top, closes her eyes and lets an almost inaudible sigh. She looks tired, more than normal. Feeling guilty because of my lack of control, I sit on my bottom crisscrossing my legs beside her and just sit there like nothing happened…yeah right.

Taking a look at my surroundings, well what I can kind of see from this darkness, there is a rather large amount of trees surrounding the whole area a couple of meters from the wall. It seems like we are on the outsides of a village. Even though it is almost midnight, my sensitive ears can still pick on the voices of people from within the walls. A busy city, I believe.

I recline back to the wall and somewhat feel the cold slipping through my thin orange almost black shirt and navy blue sleeveless hoodie. It would've frozen my back already, but guess what? I'm dead and can't feel, so that's a plus. Smirking to myself at my idiotic jokes, I realize that the wall is made of concrete but it could also be made of steel from the freezing texture. Yep, a very important village that needs a strong protection from attackers, I wonder what village though.

A shift from my left catches my attention making me tense from the unexpected. Nothing. There is nothing, but I can still sense something dangerous. Not as terrible as what we just experience but something bad. Whatever we found in the forest was not something to joke about. I can still feel the agonizing fear and overwhelming darkness.

I clench my fist tightly. My hands begin to shake at just remembering. Another noise to my left and soft growl tenses me up and I ready my fist for anything. A cold hand clasps my trembling fist, startling me senseless. Looking up, I see Wind with a worried expression on her face. Her face has paled and sunken considerably. Her hair looks almost burnt and even untamable than ever. She looks… spent and wasted.

"Wind," I begin staring off into space. "whatta fuck was that?"

"I don't know," was her honest answer. We stay silent for a couple of minutes trying to compose ourselves from this whole thing.

Letting out a soft sigh, I turn to her again, "Tell me."

"I don't know what it was, I… it was something so different than what I have ever witnessed." Just the fact that Wind says it was different then whatever that was must have been something different, with her and her rare gift and alll, but really who am I to call different. An almost dead boy, with and almost dead concealed monster, yeah who am I to call her different. Rambling, I know. I can't help it, I'm scared out of my mind.

"I carried you over my shoulder to run faster, but the Dark Chakra was reaching for us. It was chasing us. I didn't know what to do, so I just kept running." She takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly wrecking multitudes of shiver throughout her whole body. She is shaking! I notice as her shoulders shake with emotions, fear perhaps, and her arms are covered with sweat and goosebumps along with several bleeding cuts. I have never seen her in such estate and it is causing me to fear this Dark Chakra even more. "I ran as fast as I could, but it was not enough. I needed for us to get away, but I didn't know how. Even…even the voices were scared. I couldn't decipher what they all said, but I knew that they were warning me and wanted me to help them…, but I couldn't. I couldn't save them…

"Off into the distance I heard a village a couple miles away." Another deep breath and she stares off into the trees unfocusedly. "I could've just run to a different direction hoping to sidetrack it so that we could escape safe and sound or… I might as well exhaust myself and let it catch us and do whatever it wanted." Thank the gods she didn't. I really do not want to think of the possibilities from getting caught by that.

"My second option was to run towards the village and hope for the Dark Chakra to just…I don't know… stop because of the amount of people. But there was also the possibility that I could risk everyone by bringing the Dark Chakra to them."

I look behind me and the wall is still there. The wall. No. Dread pours buckets all over me. She chose the village.

What happened then?

"Wind, where are we?" I close my eyes in dreadful anticipation. This people may be… is that why she looks so miserable? I try to control myself before jumping into conclusions. I tend to do that a lot and I always make a fool of myself.

"I chose to come to the village instead." No, please, don't tell me they are… " –after I managed to keep It back." Damn it! I thought…

"So the villagers are…"

"Yeah, chill about it. They are fine. I would've never come here unless I had made sure the Dark Chakra was no way near." Oh gods, nothing happened to them. A silent sigh escapes me, but the relief is heaven. "I needed to save you."

Her next words bring guilt into my system. She was so worried about me that she probably decreased her life span by the way she looks, and I did what? Dead-faint and let her slow her pace down while she could've saved herself sooner. The idea that I'm a huge burden for her makes me want to tear up a bit. What a shame, really. I have always heard that males have to protect their female companion no matter what. In my case though, she has to protect me. Her. The girl with half her body in the grave by the way she looks, maybe almost up to her neck! Seriously, and me? The dead boy who does 'feel' and can endure more 'pain' faints while the alive human runs to save us both. Pathetic.

"I'm sorry," she apologizes…for whatever reason.

"Why? I think I should be the one saying sorry here!" Indignation and humiliation filling me. How could she say sorry. She saved my dead life and hurts herself and she says sorry. Damn with that girl. I know I'm being a little irrational, but I can't help it. I can't do anything. I'm useless.

"I –I –"

"What?"

"We are at the nearest village." She looks at me with pleading eyes. Like if she did something wrong.

"So..." like if I care where we are. "Wait… the nearest village you say?" I say calmly, realization drugging me slowly. She nods timidly.

Too many trees. Concrete-steel wall. Oh gods.

"Oh shit."

"Sorry."

"Me too."

Konoha.

A/N: SORRY! I apologize for being gone a few months. I was just lacking inspiration and so many things have happen since. For one, I started college already! I quit my housekeeping job. First ask me to be there assistant manager, and then they were kicking me out temporarily. The majority of rooms that I cleaned had bedbugs and I unknowingly brought them to my apartment. I told them and they said that I could not go back to work until I had a paper sign by my landlord saying that the apartment was bedbug-free. So I was like, "You know what? I quit!" and I left. Well, I could not afford an exterminator, but I did do a treatment that cost me less than 20 bucks and helped a lot. Which now my apartment is bedbug-free!

Anyhow, OMG they are in Konoha! That was actually not meant to happen, but it eventually did. So I decided to keep on writing and let my mind take me to wherever it wants to take me.

Well, I hope you could forgive me for making you wait, and I hope you like this chapter, and Wind's POV. Please review and tell me what you think. I'm trying to make this story as interesting as possible, so feedback would be very well appreciated!