Hey. How are you? Sorry for the late update~
I'm saying my secret to thinking of what will happen next. I listen to music! O.o No I mean I listen to a and or a few specific songs that I think fit the story...
This story, to me, is inspired by "Unravel" by Unknown Songbird, Sweet Sacrifice By Evanescence, And "Will the circle be unbroken" from the Bioshock Infinite OST. Listen to them! Plz?
To me...I feel like Temari would sing "Would the circle be unbroken" to her little siblings...its so touching. Sorry! I'm rambling...
Anywhosits! Here is the new chapter! Enjoy~
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"...What happened after?...What is this 'IT' and 'THAT' Orochimaru was talking about?" Sasori asked as he looked at the book with intent.
"It's just a bunch of useless experiments..." "...Wait...what's this?" Konan looked through the book till she found the very last entry.
Entry #160
"We've done it! We have done it! WE-... She's gone. I can't move. She's broken through several rooms with that form. I don't know how long it's been since Lord Orochimaru and had I passed out but several rooms of the hideout are either covered in sand or destroyed. Sasuke seems to be gone as well. I hope he went after her..."
The rest was unreadable.
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Naruto seethed, clenching his fists, wanting to hit Kabuto so hard. Deidara wanted to blow his hands off and bury him in a mound of clay as well. Pein...had an expressionless look on as he stared Kabuto down.
"...A little more than a month ago. She ran away." Kabuto confessed.
"What?!" Naruto shouted.
"Explain..." Pein said, poker-faced.
Kabuto sighed.
"Lord Orochimaru and I saw that, over time, Kaiten had been getting less and less sleep but at the same time having more and more control of her...power..." Kabuto explained.
"...We got her to transform into a partial tailed beast. She rampaged. Kabuto and I were too injured to go after her." Orochimaru explained further.
"I went after her...She was fast but I managed to injure her enough to reverse her transformation...But I...lost track of her after that." Sasuke said, furthering the explanation. Itachi could see in his kid brothers' eyes that he lied. He let her go. Which made an unnoticeable smile form on Itachi's face.
Gaara's and Sakura's face were lit up with shock and speechlessness. Gaara then spoke.
"You have two options Orochimaru. You can either come with us back to Konoha and answer for your crimes. Or I can kill you right here and now, along with your henchman and Sasuke. Your choice."
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As Sasori and Konan stared at the book, they saw a flap on the back cover and a key inside it. They both saw a fairly hidden door at the back of the room and walked towards it. Konan used the key on the door and heard a click. They tried to open the door but it was too heavy for one person so they forced it open and turned the lights on. The lights flickered like a creepy abandoned hospital. Konan and Sasori both were shocked. They saw mounds of sand and dried blood everywhere. To their left they saw a massive hole in the wall. Parts of the wall were cracked and crumbled onto the floor. Sasori was speechless. Konan was in awe.
"Well...we found what "IT" meant." Sasori
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"Chose..." Gaara said, loosing his patients.
Orochimaru sighed. He slowly got up from his bed and laughed.
"There is no fighting you, is there Kazekage?" Orochimaru asked as he approached Gaara. Gaara just stared at him emotionlessly. Orochimaru sighed.
"Fine. Arrest me. I don't have the energy to fight anyway."
Gaara wrapped sand around Orochimaru's hands, making handcuffs. Itachi looked at his kid brother and walked up to him.
"Am I going to have to fight you?" Itachi asked as he stared Sasuke down. Sasuke sighed as well and threw his sword down on the ground.
"I won't fight you Itachi..." Sasuke mumbled, lowering his gaze to the ground. He walked past Itachi and to Gaara than held his hands up. "Go on. I'd rather not fight."
Gaara understood and cuffed Sasuke as well.
Sasori and Konan spit up to find the others. Konan took the book and the both of them ran through the layer trying to find them.
Konan eventually found Pein's team and was panting. She gave the book to Pein and for once Pein showed emotion.
Wide-eyed he scanned the pages and gave it back to Konan.
"Where's Sasori?" He asked; Returning to his emotionless state. "He went to find the Kazekage's team." Konan said in between breaths. "Well then we take this one and find them." Pein said, grabbing Kabuto by the collar of his shirt, practically dragging through the dimly lit cave.
Sasori had found Gaara's team by now and informed them of the previous events. They, in turn, informed him of what they learned. Sasori had to take a step back. They just had to wait for the others to show up.
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"...Hey...I'm sorry." Sasuke said to the others suddenly as he, Itachi, Gaara, and Naruto rode on one of the flying clay birds. Pein, Konan, and Orochimaru on another and Deidara, Sasori, Sakura, and Kabuto on a third. Konan sent a note to Lady Hokage before they left.
"We're not the one's you need to say that to..." Gaara said as he looked ahead, trying to steer the clay bird.
The rest of the ride was quiet as toddlers taking a nap.
When they got to the outskirts of the leaf village, they landed and headed towards the gates.
Lady Tsunade, Shizune and more than their fair share of ANBU were waiting for Gaara and Pein's teams to come back.
Everyone was in total surprise when the team brung back Orochimaru without a fight.
Orochimaru and Kabuto were handed to the ANBU. Sasuke was about to be hand off to the ANBU when they all heard voices coming their way.
"...Wait! Fuck she's fast." Someone yelled. What they saw in the distance was Kaiten running towards the gates with Hidan and Shikamaru running behind her.
Kaiten was stopped by a shadow possession jutsu but it wasn't Shikamaru's jutsu.
"...Why...can't I move?" Kaiten said, begging to turn on the waterworks.
Shikaku sighed. "She is a troublesome child." He said, letting his jutsu dissipate.
Kaiten turned to Shikaku with tears in her eyes. Shikaku raised a hand to her and patted her head.
She then turned to find a red head amidst the crowed and ran towards it. She then hit Gaara so hard that it knocked him to the ground. Gaara, in turn knocked Naruto down who was holding onto Sasuke and knocked him to the ground as well.
"Ouch..." Is all Gaara could say as his head hit the ground along with Naruto and Sasuke.
"You guys alright?" Sakura asked, holding in a laugh.
"Haha...very funny Sakura. Now help us up." Sasuke said, sarcastically; Holding out his sand-cuffed hands to the pink haired.
As she helped her teammates up, Gaara sat up and patted his twin on the head as she curled her head into his chest.
She sobbed in her brother's embrace for what seemed like forever. Sasuke was eventually brought for questioning along with Orochimaru and Kabuto.
Kaiten woke up back in her room. She looked out the window. It seemed to be close to dinner time. She sat up in her bed and saw that she was alone with her bear.
She saw that there was a light coming from the hallway so she scooted off her bed and grabbed her teddy bear and hugged it close as she opened the door and looked down the hallway. She whined a little and held her bear tighter as she made her way down the hall.
Kaiten walked around the corner to find Shikamaru and Gaara talking to Itachi and Konan in another room. She couldn't hear what they were saying at all so she sat down by the door and hugged her bear in her knees and waited.
When she opened her eyes again she saw a familiar face.
"Big brother?..." She asked as she looked upon a tall figure in a black sweatshirt and black pants. His hair was spiked like big brother Gaara but its a different color. A brown-ish color. She smiled when he touched her hand.
"It's Kankuro, yea. It's understandable that you wouldn't remember my name. At least you remember who I was. It's a start." He laughed. He then eyed a small puppet-like doll on Kaiten's nightstand and picked it up.
"Where did you get this?" He asked as he saw that his sister was sitting up and looking at the doll as if it were a dead dog.
"...M-mister Sasori...he gave it to me. It's important to me." Kaiten said as she took the puppet and set it back were it was before her eldest brother took it. Kankuro thought it was weird seeing almost the entire Akatsuki was in one place. He had heard from Temari that Gaara teamed up with the leader of the Akatsuki to bring down Orochimaru.
"Where's big brother?" Kaiten asked, asking for Gaara.
"Gaara and Temari are a little busy." Kankuro confessed. "...but why not spend some time with me?" He asked with a goofy smile. Kaiten laughed and nodded.
"Alright. I'll be right outside the door." Kankuro said, putting an outfit down on her bed and leaving, closing the door on his way out.
(A/n: It's the same outfit that Temari wore when she was introduced in the chunin exams...with a few minor changes.)
Kaiten unhooked herself from her leads and was about to unhook herself from her I.V when she saw that it wasn't hooked up to anything. She then went to the clothing on the end of her bed and unfolded it. It looked a little big for her but she thought she recognized it somehow. She put on her underclothing and netted shirt and small shorts. Than her shirt-type dress. It was actually a dress on her. Kaiten buttoned the dress and tied the red sash around her waist than combed out her hair with her hands and pinned the shirt where it needed.
(A/n: She looks like a mini Temari with bleached, shorter hair...)
Kaiten smiled and looked at herself and ran to the door but was about to leave when she forgot her necklace. She put on her necklace and went outside to meet Kankuro.
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Kankuro took his little sister's hand and was about to walk when Kaiten spotted another familiar person. She ran over to the person and started to talk to them. When Kankuro came over Kaiten introduced the person as Konan. It was weird for Kaiten not to see Lady Konan without her Akatsuki uniform. She was wearing a shirt, Like Ino's, but it was blue and the back was longer and the inside was red. She was also wearing black pants. At least she was wearing her signature paper flower in her light blue hair.
While little Kaiten was talking to Konan; Kankuro went over to a pink haired kunochi, telling her that he was taking his little sister out for a while. The pink haired responded to Kankuro that he had to bring her back by sundown. Kankuro came back to the two girls and Kaiten asked if Lady Konan could spend some time with them. Kankuro sighed and allowed it and Kaiten still held onto her elder brothers' hand.
Kankuro and Konan walked through Konoha with Kankuro's little sister. The little child swung her hand that held Kankuro's as they walked. She looked as though she was having fun.
Kaiten let go of her brother's hand as she found a shop that sold flowers and went into the store. Kaiten looked at all the beautiful flowers when she stopped at a small bunch that reminded her of her mother.
Kankuro was behind her at this point; Staring at the snowdrops that dangled.
"These flowers looked like tiny fairies with pretty dresses. Uncle said that they didn't grow very much at home. But when they did, uncle would always give me a few of them and I'd always put them on momma's grave. I thought that the fairies would protect momma from anything bad that happened to her, even though she is gone. I...feel like its my fault that momma's gone. I...hurt momma...I-"
She was cut off my Kankuro turning her around and hugging her. "It's not your fault Kaiten. It's not your fault." He said to his little sister.
"But I hurt momma. she's gone because of me..." She said, burring her head in her eldest brother's chest. She hadn't cried like that in a long time.
"Why don't we get some for mother? She'd love them. You said it yourself that the fairies would protect her. Kankuro said as he held his little sister. Kaiten nodded, her face still buried in his clothing.
Kankuro bought the snowdrops and carried Kaiten in his arms as she held the flowers. Kankuro then heard his little sister's stomach growl and laughed. Kaiten blushed then giggled.
"I guess it's time for lunch. Where to go though?" Kankuro smiled as he thought then spotted a small shop with a familiar person in it. The familiar person had a gored beside him.
"Big brother!" Kaiten yelled as Kankuro let her down and Gaara got down from his seat and hugged his smaller twin.
"Big brother look! I got fairy flowers for momma." She showed Gaara the snow drops to him and he smiled back at her. "That was very nice of you Kaiten. Mother will love them." The red-head said to her, hiding his tears.
Gaara, Kankuro, Konan, and Kaiten sat down at Naruto's favorite eating place; Ichiraku Ramen. Naruto was also there and had already ate three bowls of ramen. Gaara sat next to his sister on the smaller table and talked with her till he had to leave. He and Naruto left the ramen shop and a little later Konan left as well. That left Kaiten and Kankuro.
After a two bowls of pork ramen with miso and Naruto fish cakes, Kaiten told that she was full and left with her eldest brother. He allowed her to sit on his shoulders.
Kat liked seeing the leaf village from a higher stand-point. She pointed out every little thing and then saw that Kankuro was headed to the front gate. Kaiten saw that Sasuke and Itachi were at the gate. Kaiten smiled and was let down and she ran to the Uchiha brothers and hugged them both. She then saw a tall man with orange hair and piercings next to Lady Konan. Lady Tsunade, Gaara, and Temari were there as well as Shikamaru and Naruto.
"Am I in trouble?" She asked in her small and innocent voice.
"No you're not. But we have to ask you something." Temari said to her smaller sister. Kaiten nodded, waiting for the question.
"The leave village and the Akatsuki had made at temporary truce so the leaf could save you...-" Pein started. "...But it was only because of you that the Akatsuki stayed true their words...-" Tsunade continued. "-...What they're trying to say is that...you have to chose where you go.-" Kankuro said in a sad voice. "-...You're almost completely healed and that's why were asking you this question.-" Konan pointed out.
"So...I have to chose where I go? Why do I have to chose?" Kaiten asked, becoming teary-eyed. "I don't want to chose! I LOVE ALL OF YOU! I WON'T CHOSE!" Kaiten yelled and throwing a temper tantrum. Gaara went down to her level and hugged his twin sister as she cried.
"It was the agreement we settled on when we were saving you from-...ow...!" Shikamaru exclaimed as he got hit on the head by Temari.
Kaiten looked up at everyone as she dried her tears.
"okay...I...chose...-"
Cliffhanger! Where do you think Kaiten should go?
Should she go with her siblings back to Suna? Stay in the leaf village? Or go with the Akatsuki?...
Let the ranting begin!
I may know where the story will head but I want your opinion!
-TWCH! =^w^=