Chapter 14: A Letter, Konoha's trick?
[I guess we finally get to know how Yasha's gonna kill Suigetsu! And yes that entire scenario was actually made up on the spot without even thinking! xD Oh mother, what kind of child have you raised…? Lol, for everyone who reviewed on that last chapter…ohhh my gosh so many of them made me crack up xD NO WHATEVER DRUG SHE IS ON, YOU DEAR FRIEND ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE ANY! ITS MOST LIKELY ILLIGAL! O.o stay in school kids…: P ^-^ sorry for taking so long to post (how long has it been anyways…? It could only have been like a week and I wouldn't remember T.T) School's now begun and I don't have a lot of time on this lovely contraption we call the computer! That and major writers block. I mean I had the idea's but I couldn't get them down O.o OH AND I ALREADY WROTE THE ENDING FOR THIS, BAWHAHHA, IT'S A SURPRISNG TWIST THAT ENDS…WITH A SEQUAL! xD sorry, I have this need to blabber on and on when I get excited…anyways, cha, Enjoy!
Sleep was something I was never so fond of, particularly because of my untrustworthy views towards others around me and what could happen during the duration of time I am not able to defend, so I was indeed surprised when I slept soundly until mid-day not even stirring the slightest until that time. What was even more surprising was how tightly I was being held to the sleeping Uchiha's own body back underneath the sheets, still injured from the bomb explosion.
Most odd about this situation was I remembered falling asleep over by the window, but I had no recollection of being hugged by Sasuke. In fact, I was most concerned about why I had slipped away into my own world in such instant when on a usual basis it would have taken me much longer for such a thing to occur.
A small sleeping breath emanated from Sasuke as he shifted just slightly so he was almost on top of me, the warm hand wrapped around my bandaged torso tightened its grip just by a bit. That tiny breath caressed my cheek in a puff of warm air nudging some strands of hair up into the air and in the opposing direction. The way it so gently brushed my face had me closing my blue eyes in enjoyment, I supposed that is what I felt.
I couldn't help how my body inched itself much closer so it was pressing right up against Sasukes', my head resting comfortably against him although I was just slightly pressed between him and the floor. I was not used to this kind of contact, I wasn't accustomed to the warmth. Though it did cause a bit of strain on my delicate wounds I just did not care in the least.
The one thing that did bother me however was this sickening feeling in my stomach. It wasn't like a tickling sensation, but more of like something was jumping around inside threatening to burst out. It made my face feel really hot and my throat feel really tight, and I caught it just in time. I slightly puked as a warning yet i kept it in, giving me enough time to tear out from underneath Sasuke and sprint into the bathroom as quickly as my weak legs could carry me.
BLECH
The disgusting substance came spewing out into the toilet and it actually caused a ripping pain through my throat. I haven't been sick in that way for years so it was alarming to suddenly have it come out like that.
"...Yasha?" Sasuke asked weakly from the doorway, but I couldn't look up at him, I felt too sick. As though he was acknowledging this, Sasuke slowly made his way over to my side. Luckily I had stopped puking long enough to speak.
"... I am sorry... I do not know why..." It came up in my throat again and I let it out into the toilet. Disgusting.
However, though I couldn't finish my sentence Sasuke did look mildly concerned and appeared as though his did know what the matter was. He placed a hand on my back and stared at me, though I wished he did not. It was unsettling, this stare.
"...Did you eat anything last night...?" He asked after a while and I was able to speak without anything coming out of my mouth.
"Yes...why?" My face was still hot from the sickness, but it was gradually fading as my stomach began to calm down. There was just the slightest bit of sweat that had formed on my forehead but that was only a result of the heat.
"...Do you remember what you did last night?" Sasuke asked yet another puzzling question.
"...I remember falling asleep by the window..." I stated calmly, staring back at him in my usual plain way that only he was able to ignore. Anybody else would have been uneasy by the blankness and I was so grateful that he was not bothered by it.
"...nothing else after that?"
"...I do not believe so..." Clear answer, simple enough, but even with this Sasuke closed his eyes and averted his head downwards as though he were in deep thought, and when he looked back up at me there was a bit of an explanation I wasn't too keen on receiving.
"...Last night you had gotten drugged, I'm not sure if it was by Suigetsu or not, but you went partially insane..." Sasuke informed calmly, hardly blinking when I squinted my eyes by a fraction of a centimeter at him. This did not change even after he went off in a tale about all the things I had done only last night. From yelling about the Zombie Apocalypse to Karin's sex life, each little thing he told me did not earn much emotional response, but I felt the growing need to slice Suigetsu in half. By in half I mean brutally murder him by castrating him, then slowly peeling back every layer of skin until there was nothing but blood and bone, then take each of his 206 bones and snap them in half, stir them in his blood and mash in whatever else was left. Then burn it and feed it to some stranger... Then I'll do it again if he survives after that. If that doesn't work I'll just take the simpler route and use Nekomata's chakra to boil him until all the blood in his body implodes from the pressure.
"...If you will please excuse me, Sasuke," I said collectedly, standing up though shakily and walking out of the bathroom. I scanned the area quickly, spotting Suigetsu curled up in the corner sleeping like a baby. One very large baby about to get its sleep unfortunately disturbed.
"…hn," I made a curt hand sign that brought the air in a swirling vortex at the tip of my finger. Without a second thought I created yet another sign which sent the tiny vortex towards Suigetsu. The instant it brushed against his skin it ruptured in a flash of light which was meant to evaporate every last molecule in his body, but I was most certainly not counting on him turning into a puddle.
"What the…? A simple good morning would have done just fine!" Suigetsu snapped as his figure formed from the water on the floor. Not letting this phase me, I teleported over to his side of the room, wrapped my hand around his throat and slammed him against the wall with a tremendous "bang."
The only thing that really happened was his back turned into water as his front stayed normal human.
"You don't have to be so vicious first thing in the morning!" Suigetsu complained as I stared him down blankly, though inside I wanted to tear him apart beginning from the inside and slowly working my way to the outside. I hardly even noticed my undermined body, though that was to be expected. I had a tendency to heal quicker than most.
"…" I didn't need to bother with speech, sending shots of Nekomata's chakra into his body was good enough for a response. For anyone that would do immense damage, and so it did for Suigetsu. The balance of chakra had been upturned from this simple jutsu and his body split apart so water floated separately in the air, unable to be joined back together for quite some time.
"…So is Suigetsu now just floating in the air?" Juugo asked, poking one of the water bubbles.
"…Encased with Demon chakra… If I were you I would refrain from touching that," I informed plainly, turning away to sit back down as Juugo pulled his hand out of the water and stared at his fingers like he was expecting them to incinerate and melt off.
Of course they would do no such thing, however I could not ensure the safety of Juugo's chakra network once it had been exposed to that chakra. It couldn't do serious damage from the split amount of time his hand was within the sphere, but any longer it could have.
Watching with little interest at the floating orbs of water I lay back down on the ground feeling my head start to spin a bit. Though Nekomata did cause me to heal quicker, I was not fully revived and so it might not have been the most intelligent idea to stand in such a state.
"…You shouldn't start a fight in your condition…" Sasuke advised when I placed myself beside him and just stared at the ceiling as though my eyes were tied invisibly to this one spot. He didn't do much after little response, only to follow in suit at my actions and lay down as well.
Minutes passed before I finally opened my mouth a tiny bit, "I would rather avoid such conflict…however it is vital for some to know their limitations. Suigetsu is no exception."
There was nothing to follow up on the conversation and to tell the honest truth I did not mind the utter silence. I could only presume that Sasuke had once again fallen asleep and Suigetsu had not been formed back together. Juugo I could not tell as to what he was doing as my eyes were closed in hopes of coming up behind Sasuke's lead and drifting away as well.
"Sensei, is Momma coming back home yet?" a younger version of myself stood questioningly in the middle of the small room, calling out a window where sunlight was flooding in brightly.
"Yasha we've gone over this… Your momma is not coming home," A calm, brown haired shinobi informed as he stepped through the wooden door with a little frown on his face. I stared at him quizzically for a long time before I thought of another question.
"What about Dad?" I squeaked, eyes lightning up happily once more not understanding that I had to be separated from the two.
"Neither one of them is going to be back, you need to understand that!"
Of course I couldn't understand it, how could a four year old little girl know that her power was so intense that it was actually a hazard to have people living in the same home as she? That the demon could react to the parents of its host and try to kill them both?
"But they will come back, sensei, you said anything you lose will eventually come back! You weren't lying…were you?" My eyes flashed the light disappearing quickly in a squint. Oita smiled a bit and walked over to where I was standing, kneeling down so he was at eye level with me.
"I wasn't lying to you Yasha, but neither one of your parents can be here right now… Maybe you'll meet up with them again when you're older," Oita turned out the possibility but I didn't lose my hard glare.
"But what if I don't get older? What if I'm forced to stay like this for the rest of my life, and then what? I won't see them!"
Oita chuckled at the innocence of such a little neko girl, tiny blue ears poking up, just barely visible over the white hair, bent back. "If you train really, really hard then you'll grow up to be as old as me, and older!"
"EW, NOT OLD MAN SENSEI EW, EW!" I ran around screaming with my eyes clamped shut just before slamming into the same wall several times as I tried to find the exit. Oita chuckled again, shaking his head.
"23 is not that old, kid."
"SENSEI YOU'RE PRE-HISTORIC!"
"…How do you even know what that means, Yasha?"
I giggled, finally opening my eyes to stare sheepishly at my Sensei who seemed shocked that I knew such a word at age four, "You left your books open… and your front door… and your fridge!"
"…You took my pudding, didn't you," Oita sighed, dropping his head not even thinking about the fact that his front door had been unlocked and that people could easily sneak into his house.
"…It tasted good, by the way sensei…"
"Yasha… Wake up…" Someone rocked me back and forth, a hand on my shoulder trying to shake me awake. No, not yet, I wanted to stay sleeping. If possible I hoped these dreams could pull me back into the past when I was actually happy. The days when I was so oblivious to the difficulties that life had already given to me and when I had no thoughts on what the moments before could hold.
"We need to leave, let's go…" I kept shaking due to the hand until I finally caved in and got out of the bed, rubbing one eye as I did so. I did not bother with speaking, I simply stared ahead into the midnight black eyes of the Uchiha.
"…Its time to leave…I guess you can stand?" Sasuke stepped back a bit as I pulled myself to my feet pulling my neko ears back up.
"Yes..." I didn't bother to ask why we were leaving, it should have been relatively obvious as to why we were, so in a matter of a few minutes Juugo, Sasuke, Karin, Suigetsu and I were making our way out of that little village. Sasuke explained how we were going out to find some of the Akatsuki bases that Juugo had located and that because I was here it would make it all the harder to complete a thorough search to find Itachi Uchiha again.
"…are you sure you want to come along for this…?" Sasuke asked as we began to travel to the nearest one to this village.
"…If you do not want me to come I will have no objections," I stated simply, staring straight ahead not bothering to make eye contact with Sasuke, still in a small mental boycott against him for what he had said about me back in the hotel.
He sighed a very quite one, "Do you think you're in a well enough condition to fight, if we get into one?" I glared at him through the corner of my eye.
"I am fine," Clear cut, straight answer, also implying that I did not want to be engaged conversation any longer than this. Sasuke understood my intentions straight away and did not try to pursue my speech any farther, something in which I was highly grateful for.
I am not sure how much time passed through this bright forest, shadowed by bunches of trees, but clearings were letting the sunlight through to the cold ground. It seemed as though we were never going to cease walking, and granting that it did not bother me, it appeared very much to bother Suigetsu who had finally re-formed. He kept requesting breaks along the way, irking Karin very much. They would not quit bickering about whatever little thing they could find.
"—Well hey if no one else has noticed the bird that's been stalking us for the past half an hour, then maybe it's a good thing we stopped!" Suigetsu argued, pointing up in the sky at this very large, crimson and brown colored bird. It had two long tail feathers that flowed out behind it, and just above that was a miniscule silver canister strapped to its back.
I only stared up with little interest at the bird as the others decided whether to kill it, or see what it wanted. Well by the time they figured it out, the bird swooped down and landed on my shoulder. I glared at the little beast.
"…May I help you…?" I questioned as the bird bent down, showing me the canister.
"It's a message for you," Juugo said as he too stared at the bird. Cautiously I opened up the silver cylinder and took out a tiny piece of paper indicating that it was indeed for me. I was slightly confused for I had never gotten a letter before, especially not one sent by a messenger hawk.
"…Who is it from?" Sasuke asked, looking back at me through the mere corner of his eye.
"…Hn…It is from Konohagakure," I informed earning a very long strip of silence from the group around me.
"…What do they want…?" Sasuke asked again, turning around to give me his full attention. From what I could presume after Sasuke told me about the Uchiha massacre, he was one of Konoha, but something about this weird look in his eye made me feel as though he wasn't too excited about this. I really did wonder about his past.
I looked back down at the letter.
Yasha Satou, Though it was a long time ago, we were informed that you had the rare capability of being able to control the bijuu sealed away inside of you. This may or may not be something you are aware of but we too have a Jinchuuriki inside our village, and due to the circumstances in which we are facing we think it would be best for him to learn how to have complete control over the bijuu. We would appreciate it if you would come to our village and assist us with this goal.
The Fifth Hokage, Tsunade.
After reading it for myself a few times, I was not sure what to make of this so I handed the letter over to Sasuke to read. He read it over once before closing his eyes in thought.
"…They want you to train kyuubi…" He said, somewhat crumpling the paper in his hand. I stared inscrutably at him and this little piece of information.
"…It appears you have some ties with the Jinchuuriki…" I pointed out nonchalantly. How else would he have known the number of tails residing in the demon that the boy held? Sasuke released his clamp on the paper by handing it back to me, but had this sour look hidden in his eyes.
"...Are you thinking of going?" Sasuke seemed to challenge something that did strike a bit of interest.
"…I have been waiting to be able to meet another jinchuuriki, so yes I may just end up going if it does not mess up your plans…" I let out softly, holding tightly onto the paper.
"…It's your choice."
I thought about it a bit longer, and I didn't really know what I wanted to do. Should I leave for Konoha and train kyuubi, or should I stick around Sasuke and the others until his mission to kill Itachi is over and done with?
Sasuke stared at me, and I stared back.
Should I go?
[CHA! Sha-chan is gonna leave for Konoha? *super loud gasp inserted here* ... hm maybe she will, maybe she wont =3 what do you guys think? T.T apologies for my complete fail at writing a letter lol, this is why I am not skilled with the post office! Well, time to stop blabbering on... Bye!]