Chapter 20: Kamui
"What an interesting turn of events, is it not, my dear child?" Cooed Lord Voldemort. Destiny could've sworn that the room grew darker once everyone had left, the threatening danger radiating from her father's mere presence was not to be explained with words; for any words were too weak to grasp the tension. The girl gulped, pressed herself against the couch but said nothing, her gaze was empty, her heartbeat rapidly increasing but oddly slowing down, beating against her chest loudly, firmly even - as if anything that belonged to her did not want to be here with him, the most powerful dark wizard that the world knew.
"And there is indeed nothing you wish to say to me, I see. I see." He murmured with a nod, circling around the couch. Destiny did not turn her head to his direction, not even when he lowered himself down directly in front of her face, his inhuman eyes searching hers, but she looked past him, her lips pressed together firmly, nostrils flaring in attempts to remain calm and collected.
If she had to die, she wanted to die with style.
As soon as Destiny's eyes caught onto the slightest movement, her head turned to the right after a loud BANG was audible. The flat of Lord Voldemort's hand had collided with the skin of her cheek, the stinging sensation overwhelmed her. Destiny turned her face back, feeling the warm liquid of blood streaming down from her nose, the impact made her dizzy already.
"Where have I gone wrong with you." He asked, but it was not a real question, it was more like a statement. Destiny did not respond when he bent up again, staring at her, as if he could not decide how he wanted to make her suffer next.
"Crucio." He whispered, aiming his wand at Destiny. She instantly clung to the couch, nails digging into the fabric, she groaned in pain, her head bent over, muffled screams pressed through her lips, until she couldn't take it anymore and screeched up in agony, no Cruciatus curse was comparable to her father's - not even Bellatrix Lestrange's.
"STOP IT! MAKE IT STOP!" Destiny yelled, her face was red from the pressure, eyes widened, she looked insane. Lord Voldemort did not stop, he kept his wand aimed at the girl despite her desperate screaming. He stopped only when he thought she was close to pass out, not granting her the absence from his disciplining.
"LOOK AT ME!" He suddenly thundered out and Destiny, maybe even out of old habits, instantly looked up to him. He knelt down to her balled up self on the cold floor, running his hand along her cheek, his eyes soft, but cold, his thumb caressed her split lip, before another snack made her head turn, blood flew out of her mouth. He grabbed her hair, ripping her up and back onto the couch, where Destiny clung to, breathing unsteadily, her eyes widened in panic when she glanced to her wand on the floor all the while Lord Voldemort laughed at his daughter's misery. With a flick of his wand, he caused her another Cruciatus curse, this time without saying a single word.
"Hnn..." He mused, closing his eyes, enjoying Destiny's crying of pain. After a short while he had to notice that his daughter's voice was not audible anymore, he glanced down, seeing that she had fainted. Snarling up his nose in disgust, he stared at her for a while, narrowing his eyes, but a grin spread across his thin lips when he walked off, leaving her behind.
When Destiny blinked her eyes open, she was tucked in a comfortable and warm bed. She sat up, glancing around, trying to see where she was. The room was familiar, dark and expensive looking, exquisite objects of dark magical sorts. But of course. This was the room of...
"You're awake." Said Draco. Destiny's head shot over to him. He was standing in the back of the room, in front of a tall window. Destiny said nothing when their eyes met and said nothing when he asked her questions that she could not process. She felt empty.
"And why did you leave me...?" He asked with a shaky voice but Destiny kept on looking into another direction.
"I asked WHY!" Draco hissed angrily, rushing over to the girl and Destiny stared at him with eyes wide open.
"Why..." He whispered again, holding her face in the both of his hands.
"You were the one telling my father that I dated the muggleborn. He had to die because of your jealousy. And you dare ask me why I left you..." She shook her head, freeing herself from his grasp. Draco started breathing heavily, shaking his head.
"I did not kill him! Your father did..."
"You disgust me." Is all Destiny said before she looked away. Her tone was clear and firm, the naked dislike was audible and hit Draco like a train.
"But you are my wife." Draco frowned and Destiny shot him a death glare. "I ran away when I was asked the question. I am not your wife, by any legal means."
Draco smirked. "But you are. Your father said so. Said he will make it official when you're back, what do you think? That HE needs your permission?" He asked with a devious grin that just awakened Destiny's scorn.
"You're not even worth my comment, Draco. A ring on my finger and a fake document won't make me yours. If that's your ideal future, so be it."
"There is no future without you by my side. It's time you start accepting it." Draco glowered, rubbing his hand through her hair. "You're mine..." He whispered.
"She's not." Said a cold voice suddenly. Draco whirled around, Destiny's eyes widened when she saw Sasuke standing in the back of the room, as casual and cool as ever. How did he do that?
"You again." Glared Draco, aiming his wand at him but Destiny was faster, she snapped it out of his hand. Draco frowned, turning his head towards Destiny, then around, but backed away because Sasuke was standing right in front of him by then, his Sharingan activated.
"Don't kill him..." Said Destiny gently. Sasuke turned his head to the girl, his harsh glare hit her hard.
"Give me just one reason why I should not." Cooed Sasuke, having his hand clamped around Draco's throat firmly, making it impossible for the blond male to call out for help.
"Because living in this kind of prison is worse than death. Maybe Draco will understand. And giving him the chance to understand is all we can do." Said Destiny softly, resting her hand on Sasuke's shoulder, whispering. "Please..."
"Consider yourself lucky that she has got the better heart of us." Sasuke glared at Draco, letting go of him abruptly, causing him to fall to the ground.
On an instant, Sasuke caught Destiny in something she had never seen before, she almost fell over. It was a completely white place, as if she flew up into the sky and walked on clouds, lights of pastel colors reflected from their glowing contours of their bodies. Destiny instantly ran over to Sasuke, throwing her arms around him, nothing mattered for the moment, nothing mattered now while they were embracing each other. She could feel his unsteady breathing against her chest as he clung to her.
"Where are we?" Asked Destiny after a short while, letting go of Sasuke as she started to walk around but almost fell over Hidan, who lay on the ground motionlessly and obviously asleep. Sasuke still seemed out of breath but he managed to answer her.
"Kamui..." He said, but Destiny did not understand.
"I...wasn't able to use this before...but..." He coughed. "The thought of...if they had taken you, the thought of, I couldn't, I...I couldn't let them, not without me...my fear must have activated the technique, I can't be sure..." He stammered out and suddenly fell down to his knees and rolled over. Destiny instantly rushed to him, leaning down, hastily checking his body.
"Sasuke! Sasuke, are you okay?! This new technique takes up most of your chakra, doesn't it?!"
"It does...you were right earlier. It takes a lot of energy to-", he coughed, "teleport into a dimension that cannot be found by anyone..." Sasuke sighed but he looked into Destiny's eyes, wiping away her tears when he saw them.
"You're always such a crybaby..." He said softly but his eyes narrowed when his hand brushed along the wounds, she flinched a little when he touched the still irritated skin. Destiny forced a chuckle, but she couldn't be happy.
"But Sasuke..." Destiny sighed. "What if...if everything was in vain...we are in the future...I have no single clue how to get back into your dimension! The time turner couldn't complete the sixteen years, what if our souls are now...ripped or, or worse, what if your clan is still dead, what if nothing changed, what if..." She pressed herself against his chest suddenly but Sasuke shook his head while rubbing her shoulders. He sat up and pulled her onto his lap.
"It's important that you are okay..." He whispered softly and Destiny looked up, her eyes were as round as marbles.
"You should hate me! It's all my fault! I shouldn't have pulled out the tent, it wouldn't have happened had I not packed it, they wouldn't have been able to use the floo network...I should have read the whole book, should have done so much more to prevent this stupid mistake, I...I'm so sorry, Sasuke, so sorry..." She got up, feeling too ashamed to look at him.
"You didn't plan on running into me when you escaped, you couldn't have known these things before you met me..." Sighed Sasuke, brushing some strands of hair behind Destiny's ear and she just could not understand why he was not devastated or outraged. It was all her fault, and she would forgive him if he agreed to that.
"It's not your fault, Destiny." Said Sasuke sternly. "We can't lose our minds now. You are a powerful witch. And I am not so bad at what I'm doing either. Together we can solve this. We should not be losing our heads now. Don't let emotions distract you."
Destiny, even though not completely convinced, nodded after a while, then looked to the snoring Hidan on the floor.
"Well...he seems fine." She couldn't help but giggle a slight bit as Sasuke shook his head with a raised eyebrow at the albino, his lips twitched slightly as well.
"He is. He woke up, I explained where he was, then he screamed around for a while because he didn't understand it, and finally fell asleep from exhaustion again."
"We are not at Malfoy manor anymore, right? We are basically gone, right?" Asked Destiny.
"Correct. They can't find us here. Don't worry about that. We need a plan, something. You used a portal to get into my dimension, you said. At some kind of ministry. We have to go there, find the portal and get into my dimension. The regular one. I need to see if my clan survived."
"Yes. Yes. Okay. What we need is...concentration." Destiny sighed, she looked around for her bag but remembered that it was still in the tent.
"There was so much more to read about portals. Again, I didn't...I should have..." Sighed Destiny, looking to Draco's wand that was still in her hand. Sasuke looked at her in concentration.
"What do you remember?" He asked.
"When a person jumps into a portal, the portal will randomly choose a dimension. That's why Bellatrix didn't jump after me because she would have ended up somewhere else, maybe never to return again. But I am almost one hundred percent sure that it makes a difference when a person already comes from a foreign dimension and wants to go back. I believe the portal will throw you into your original dimension. Unfortunately...we only have one attempt. And we have to get into the ministry as soon as we can. Nobody is allowed to see us." She sighed.
"My father knows I'm back now...everyone knows I'm back...it will be difficult to go undetected. Damnit if only I had my bag! It's in the tent, there's the book about portals and a polyjuice pot-" though she gasped when Sasuke pulled out Destiny's bag.
"Sasuke! You're almost as surprising as your brother!" She said in joy and Sasuke chuckled.
"I absorbed it with my new technique when I broke free from that body binding curse or whatever it was, back at the tent. I brought Hidan and the bag here and I thought I caught you too but Bellatrix pulled you away and was almost gone in the fireplace without me..." He shook his head, his head lowered but Destiny caught him and smiled.
"Hey, what did you just say? It's not the best time to lose our heads now!" She repeated his words full with enthusiasm. Sasuke inhaled deeply before he nodded, not able to suppress a slight grin when she kissed his cheek.
"And if we fail. So what. We will just start over new. I still have the time turner." Destiny brushed her hair over her shoulder as she spoke these words so nonchalantly.
"You...you would go back again? Do everything again? With...me?"
"But of course!" Destiny frowned and whirled around to Sasuke, looking into his eyes deeply, there was no sign of sarcasm or anything else that could have led Sasuke to think Destiny was not sincere, and as he stared, his eyes started to glisten again; he pulled her against his body and kissed her dearly.
"Go get a room." Grumbled Hidan when he sat up, running a hand through his hair. Destiny gasped in joy upon hearing him, she leaned down and hugged him tightly.
"Hidan! Are you okay?" She asked and Hidan chuckled, rubbing the small of her back.
"Of course I'm okay! I'm being hugged by a gorgeous girl, I'm in heaven, look." He grinned and pointed around as Destiny let go, but he sighed when he saw her face. His hand stretched out to her cheek, gently brushing along the wounds.
"I'll make them pay for everything." He uttered but Destiny shook her head. "It's pointless. But we made a plan. Well, we started." She said and looked up to Sasuke, who sat down the next moment.
"I brewed a polyjuice potion in advance and added it into my bag. Which is really good because...the potion takes a whole month to brew. I have enough for us three but you don't really need it anyway, you can just use a transformation jutsu to turn into-"
"Wait, wait. Start over new, chickadee. What does that potion do? Why do we need it?" Asked Hidan while rubbing his temples.
"The potion allows me to take the form of a known person, but only for a short while. In my case, I will transform into Bellatrix because she's a respected and feared person. Hidan, you will turn into Lucius, the tall blond man, and Sasuke, you have to turn into Draco, you're the only one who saw Draco, Hidan couldn't do it." Said Destiny, seeing Sasuke's eyes narrowing slightly. Before he could retort something, the girl went on.
"We need to get into the ministry of magic and find the portal that I used to take me into your original dimension."
"With original you don't mean the past, right?" Hidan asked and Destiny nodded.
"That's right."
"Ahh! What happens to the tent then, eh?"
Sasuke rolled his eyes when Hidan asked this. Did that guy ever worry about anything?
"As pretty as it was, it caused us nothing but trouble in the end. And well, how are we supposed to grab it? It's probably disconnected to the floo network by now, anyway. That means we cannot use the fireplace anymore to get there..." Mumbled Destiny.
"Oi, that means some lucky fuckers will find the tent and such?!" Hidan groaned and Destiny sighed. "That's nothing we should worry about now, Hidan. The past is...over." She exhaled and lowered her head a little, still feeling guilty.
"What about that time turner?" Asked Hidan then. "Can't we simply make this whole shit undone? Like you did before?"
"We could, but we are in the future now, this is a chance for us to avoid going through the sixteen years we would have had to live together in secret from everyone. Our first plan is to check if changing the past as much as we did was enough to make sure that the Uchiha clan was never destroyed. If...that is not the case...if his clan is still..." Destiny sighed, not wanting to finish the sentence.
"Then Sasuke and I will use the time turner again, and well, things will start over new. But you can stay at the Akatsuki then, Hidan. This is the future. The time went on since we are back. That means...they must have realized by now that the three of us are missing. Who knows what they will do to find us..."
"Fuck, yeah, they will go crazy. But oi, what are you expecting?! Want me to stay with those fuckers while you two make yourself a home again sixteen years in the past? Nawh. We started that shit together, we're gonna end it together, got me on that, chickadee?" Hidan smirked and Destiny looked into his eyes, then over to Sasuke, who seemed particularly surprised but he knew no comment to make. Destiny smiled, kissing Hidan's cheek before she hugged him. He hugged her back but sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, yeah. Just hug me, kiss me, alright. You would've castrated me if I ever done that to you without permission, eh?" Asked Hidan, smirking at Destiny.
"No, but I would." Commented Sasuke lazily and Hidan grumbled a little when Destiny let go and crossed her arms. Hidan glanced at Sasuke, then around, then back at him, trying to be as casual as possible.
"Soooo. You brought me here...even though you could've let me rot in the past." Said Hidan.
"Yeah. Who knows, you might've attacked my clan, it's best if you're not in the past." Huffed Sasuke, crossing his arms, looking away. Destiny smiled softly at Sasuke, even having to suppress a chuckle when he tried everything to remain cool. He threw her a slight glare and she quickly stared elsewhere, acting as if no muscle ever twitched.
"Lord Jashin, I'm so fucking hungry!" Groaned Hidan the next moment. Destiny shrugged. "Can't make food appear out of nothing."
"What's magic for, damn. How did you even feed us in that fucking tent?"
"There was food in the fridge, it was there the whole time. It continued to replicate itself whenever you closed the fridge and opened it again. Did you never notice?" Asked Destiny but seeing Hidan's puzzled expression told her that he had no clue of that sorcery.
"And you can't summon anything? I mean, you know where it is..." Mused Hidan. Destiny glanced at him, and even though she was sure it wouldn't work, she tried it for him.
"Accio apple!" Destiny exclaimed with her wand pointed into the air, but nothing happened.
"Is that another wand? And DA FUCK! Who wants a god damn apple anyway?! Of course that won't work, don't even bother, try it with some roast beef!" Hidan huffed, causing Sasuke to shake his head in annoyance. It didn't take a miracle to see the unamused expression on Destiny, and she surely didn't try again, much to Hidan's growling stomach's discomfort.
"I'm a real mess when I'm hungry. Let's get this shit over with, I'm ready to kill some fuckers." Murmured Hidan, and the three of them started debating about their infiltration of the ministry of magic. Destiny's heart started beating faster. Would Sasuke's clan live? Would things be okay?