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"Ho…" Scoffs the old woman. "So this is the host of the 'seven-claws'…"
"Seven claws?" I ask slightly intrigued.
"Hah! Not even the host knows!"
"Er…well are you talking about Tatsuko?"
"Tatsuko? That demons name is not what you have said child! It's Garou*!"
"Garou?" I ask shocked.
"Yes! Do you not even know about the 'clawed beasts'?"
I try to hide my blush of inferiority and shake my head, "No."
"Stupid child! I'll teach you!"
"Er…well…" A scratch my seal and innerly frown, where was the fear she had just sensed from the group? "I can simply ask her!"
"And you think she'll tell you the truth? Those who lie even about their name tend to do the same with their nature."
"Shut up hag!"
"No!" Shouted Naruto infuriated. "Not only do you join the Akasuki you hunt down and kidnap Gaara! I thought you loved him!"
Tears well in my eyes as I watch what is happening at the cave right now. "So…I don't care if he dies…" I lie and the tears flow.
"Bastard… I knew something was off about you…" Naruto said now quivering with anger.
"You're one to speak Fox Boy." I feel the water in the atmosphere around me begin to boil. "You can't begin to understand…" I feel the fiery water cling to my skin burning it.
"Oh no…" Sighs Chiyo.
"Futtouten!" I shout, the water that's seared my body now moves to my enemies. I hit Sakura foot and smell her flesh boiling away.
"Gyah!!!!" She screams.
I get an Idea, "Suihou ori!" The water forms a boiling bubble around Sakura.
"If the old hag teaches me about Ta- I mean Garou, I will let her go with her current injuries other wise the water burns of her flesh and then I freeze her dead."
"Fine." Says the hag's voice clear and proud.
"Begin." I say looking at Kakashi and Naruto suspiciously.
"Well…The 'clawed beasts' are born inside their hosts, they unlike the 'tailed beasts' choose to be sealed. But the do not ask permission they just choose randomly. I really don't know much, but they are rare and before they find a host they are well almost are worse then the unsealed Kyuubi."
"Tell me more."
Sakura's bubble becomes smaller.
"What more would you like to know?"
"I want to know why Tatsu-Garou chose me! I want to know more about her! And…that's it!"
"No one knows why they chose who they do it just happens! You are unlucky Garou is the worst of them all…that is the extent of my knowledge."
"Lies, there is more I see it behind you're aged eyes! I see your knowledge!"
"Fine, Garou is a horrible trickster and grabs hold of her prays heart in this case it's you, be careful and barley believe what she says."
I look through her wise eyes once more and see nothing that's useful to me anymore. "Fuck you old hag, I appreciate your compliance but you really knew nothing…Sakura is a medic Nin her injuries do not matter, but Naruto's…no his fox bastard senses Garou already…we'll meet again…only next time let's meet under a starry sky of truce." I say this looking at the old woman, but it is directed at Sakura and they all know this. "Become stronger you are an incredibly weak nin I could've killed you." I continue I snap my fingers and mutter 'release' allowing the water to disappear.
"So why didn't you?" Sakura's voice trails after me.
"Because…then Sasuke would never return your love." I answer in monotone still walking away.
~Gai!~ pronounced: Guy not Gay
With every kick, Gai delivers Kisame blocks with his sword. Kick. Block. Kick the other way. Block. Kick form up. Block. Kick from side. Block. Punch. Block.
"Now!" Shouts Gai, and three of his students Tenten, Lee and Neji all jump into battle for an attack. Kisame does a seal and three other Kisames appear. Each clone facing an attacker, except for Rie.
Rie sighs and nods to herself. She reaches for the fan on her back nonchalantly and opens it, the blue swirls seemed to move in the gentle breeze, which to her luck was moving west in the same direction Kisame is. She smiles and nods at a watching Neji she pulls back on her fan. Whistling west winds! The fan thrusts forwards wind comes off of it and little needle like bits of chakra all blew at Kisame. It was too late though. A large bubble of water swallowed Lee Tenten and Neji drowning them at least Ruby's bubble had been an air bubble!
"Hey!" Rie shouts at the Fish-man. Kisame looks at her. "Yeah you sushi boy. I will not tolerate anyone harming Neji-san or any of my teammates for that matter! So Sushi Boy let them out or else you'll deal with me you stupid, stupid, stupid shrimp!"
Kisame was a peaceful baby fish, oh er… child, he played, shared, and was happy until one day he realized how ugly his little mug was. People commented on it all the time it was different with small children who had run away from home and people in the Akasuki, but for this girl to call him those names in that tone of voice he gets reminded of way back when, when his mother sisters, classmates had used the same tone.
So he does the sensible thing for anyone to do, he allows Neji's head out of the bubble to breathe and points his sword at his neck.
"Cocky little bitch, stay back from this or he dies." He says slightly cutting the Hyuuga's throat.
Fury pulses through Rie's veins she knows she couldn't do anything now, the thing that makes it worse was even if she could, and no damage would be dealt. Sure, she had defeated a demon cat once upon a time but the host was fighting the cat too, the weather had been a good time, and she had been lucky. No such luck was visible now.
"Now without anything getting in the way I can finally take you out." He says smiling at Gai.
Kisame holds his sword and Gai pulls out a pair of orange nun chucks. (A/N: Are they called nun chucks because you're supposed to through them at nuns? That seems a little rude…jeez Gai!)
"Well," Kisame smiles. "Shall we begin?"
~With Ruby~
"Hmm…" Mumbles Pein, "It seems Kisame jutsu has been released…Ruby yours remains would you terminate it?"
"B-but that means that that sand-nin will…"
"Die?" Offers Konan.
"Yes…die…"
"Everything takes sacrifices do as Pein-sama says."
"Ye-yes…" I sigh and the other me that had encountered Sakura dies, her body turning back into the unknown sand Nin.
"It bought us a considerable amount of time." Pein continues, "Good work Ruby, Kisame."
"You say that so bluntly," Says Sasori trying to hide his accusatory tone. "For the sacrifice of your jutsu the two bodies that died were both my subordinates."
"Humph." Sighs Pein. "With my jutsu they became Akasuki members even if just for a short while, I think they'd be thanking us but…." He pauses and looks at Gaara's almost corpse. "It's almost done isn't it?"
I sigh and stare at him. I don't know why but I remember the silliest thing, the time everyone though I was Gaara's girlfriend.
"Zetsu dispose of the bodies would you?" Pein says, which means, 'Okay Zetsu you've been a good man eating plant you can eat them now!'
"Understood." Zetsu says a smile in his voice. Which means: Yummy!
"Ruby?" Pein says my name and knocks me out of my memories.
"Yes Pein-sama?"
"How many and who are they?"
I pause.
"Well?"
I stare at Gaara.
"Ruby."
"Four."
"Now answer who they are." I gulp. "From Konoha, Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi and…" Gulp. "The Jinchuuriki Uzumaki Naruto."
"And the fourth is…?"
"An elderly woman from the sand named…er…Chiyo?"
"I see…" Mumbles Pein. Everyone goes silent for a while and the chakra stops out of Gaara's eyes it's only his mouth, he's almost dead.
"Almost finished…" Pein says. "Good work…"
~Gaara's POV~
There is a hand, Whose is it…? This hand…What is it? Is it my hand? I try moving it and it moves. Have I ever become…a needed existence to anyone?
I close my palm and see a figure in front of me he is wearing my clothes. What…what is that? The figure comes closer, the face looks familiar. Is that me?
That is the me…that wanted to be needed by someone…why…why did I want that to come about?
Why do I… want that?
Those eyes…that nose…that mouth…why is that Gaara…? I was inside that. No… what was I originally…?
It just… shared a conscious with me…shared a love…for a girl…
…What is it…originally? A mere…small…
Sensation…
~Ruby~
His body falls to the ground, he is gone, forever, he is dead, but I feel no relief no sensation at all. I'm empty.
"It is done." Says Pein.
The technique is done and the stopwatch has stopped.
A/N: Well???? How'd I do? Good? Bad?