A/N: I apologize now for what you're all about to experience.
Gaara fan's the time has come! NaruHachi fans, brace yo self, taking a wrong turn. Jiraiya Lovers, Onsen Time.
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Twenty-One: Exchanging Dialogue
Training with Lady Suisei at first had been rather difficult. It was extreme meditation, sort of like senjutsu training, My mind had to be still and I had to mentally visualize my spiritual energy and form internally, a wall and get use to it until it became second nature. The problem was that I didn't want it to be second nature. I wanted so badly just to deal with the nausea and have my sensory back but Lady Suisei and Duelo-papa wouldn't allow it. For the three two days of training I had to grow accustomed to not having sensory. Those days were dreadful. I felt blind and had to bitterly accept that this way of living, was quite scary.
Clunk.
I grabbed my head and hissed at the pain. Lady Seisui let out a long sigh and put her bow down.
"Hachiko, you're thinking too much. Focus. I don't like having to hit your head but if you can't focus, then I will. Don't you want to move on to the next stage?" She asked and I nodded. The next stage was what I wanted, learning to deactivate the stupid seal, so that I could get my sensory back. Problem was that I couldn't do it until I had the first part down. Shielding my mind.
"How about we take a break, yes?" Lady Suisei suggested. I shook my head protesting and then jumped up as the sliding door flew open.
"I absolutely agree!" I threw Himitsu-obasama, who had entered the room, a small glare. Himitsu-obasama walked up and stood beside Lady Suisei.
"I see you noticed you didn't expect me. Can't use your sensory eh? Good that means it's working." I blinked and my eyes went wide.
'Himitsu-obasama knew about the seal?'
'Who else knows about this?' I asked and Lady Suisei smiled a little.
"The entire family." I clenched my fists.
"Hachiko, a scowl on your pretty face will give you premature wrinkles." Himitsu-obasama argued and I relaxed my face.
'I feel blind. I need my sensory to-' Lady Suisei shook her head.
"Get use to it. Normal people don't have sensory to use to their advantage and manipulate others. Consider this training to be a normal person. Who knows, you just might like it." Lady Suisei said.
"She's right. While you have a neat little trick to read and handle people, you must first focus on honing such a skill." Himitsu-obasama added and I huffed indignantly.
"Oh come on, we'll go out and treat ourselves at the hot springs, shop a little and who knows who we'll run into." Himitsu-obasama suggested and Lady Suisei nodded.
"Let's get you ready then Hachiko-hime." Yui beamed from where she sat quietly reading a letter she had received from Minamoto Chinen. Yui quickly drew out a set of hanbok down. A dark forest green chima skirt with gold leaves, a white jeogori shirt with gold leafs on the cuffs and teal butterflies embroidered on the shoulders and trailing down the front right side with tying ribbon a forest green.
'Fine.' I stood up out of bed and got ready with Yui's help. I decided to forego my usual side plait braid to leave my hair down and simply pin my bangs back with a blue-green butterfly pin. Once I looked myself over in the mirror, Yui and I joined Himitsu-obasama and Lady Suisei at the gates.
Himitsu-obasama had changed into a soft pink chima skirt with gold around the hems and she wore a very light yellow-white dangui-jeogori with gold on the shoulders, sleeve cuffs and a pink flowers going down the front of the shirt. Her hair I noted was out of its bun and instead gisaeng-styled atop her head similar to Yui's.
"Don't we look lovely today?" Himitsu-obasama teased and I didn't respond as I noted Mim and Kisaki-mama were missing.
'Is Kisaki-mama coming too?' I asked Himitsu-obasama and she shook her head.
"Kisaki-mama is busy with Mimori planning the party." Himitsu-obasama said.
'What party?' I asked and Himitsu-obasama laughed a little.
"What part? The annual Chunin Exams party of course. It's the only party where all the important nobles, merchants and Daimyo gather. This year, our Clan gets to host it, so it has to be perfect. Not to mention, Inzen, the new Daimyo that replaced Kisaki-mama will be there and we can't afford to look weak." Himitsu-obasama ended darkly. I didn't need sensory to understand that last part. Saying our clan was extremely infuriated at the new Daimyo of the Land of Honey was an understatement all on its own. My family was more along the lines of ferociously waiting for the right moment to humiliate the man, or so Mitsubachi had once mentioned. Uncle Mori, was right at the front of it all.
We did some light shopping at first, and let me tell you it was nerve-wracking walking about the streets with all sorts of people who's chakras, auras and feelings I couldn't feel. Himitsu-obasama must have felt bad for me because soon we were off to the hot springs, where she had reserved one of the private baths for our group. As we got close to the hot springs, I felt a tug and bit my lip. I didn't know who that tug belonged to.
'Gaara or Naruto? Wait, this is a no brainer. A bath house equals Jiraiya, who's Naruto's sensei, meaning… N-Naruto is here. Oh no. What if Jiraiya is peeping and what if he sees Himitsu-obasama? Yui… Lady Suisei, hang on, she's old. Wait. Focus Hachiko! Naruto isn't training. Did Jiraiya force him to take a break? What if Naruto see's me? No. He wouldn't peep, would he?'
-Jiraiya-
'IT PAID OFF! FINALLY!' Jiraiya cheered as he peeked through the small hole in the wall. He had known she'd come back at this exact date and time… He had asked at the reception desk for a private bath and learned she had booked another one, but this time she had more company.
'Bleh!'
An old lady, who, maybe in her prime was very beautiful, but now she was just an elderly woman. Then there a new beauty a younger woman than Himitsu. This young woman had dark brown hair piled up on her head and a slender figure but it had the curves in the right places. As the young woman sat down slowly in the water, Jiraiya shivered and quickly produced his notebook and started taking notes on this new subject. She was pretty and her almond shaped soft brown eyes only softened her delicate facial features. She was sunkissed and judging by her exquisite physique, had to be a kunoichi but Jiraiya had never heard of this girl. Surely, he'd of heard of her if she was a kunoichi, after all the male Jonin loved talking about beautiful strong women.
"Hachiko are you coming into the bath or not?" Jiraiya's heart throbbed as Himitsu entered the area wearing a very skimpy towel, barely covering her ass and had it not been for her hair, he'd had a nice little peek at her cheeks. Jiraiya waited for this next specimen who had yet to enter the bath. All he heard was jingling and all three women already in the bath laughed.
"Should I go for her?" The young unknown dark-brown haired beauty asked and the old woman shook her head.
"She'll come out eventually. She's just embarrassed because she's in nothing but a towel." Jiraiya giggled wondering if the next specimen would be as sexy as Himitsu. He really hoped she was.
-Naruto-
Naruto felt a tug but he wasn't sure if it was her or if his stomach was tricking him. It had happened quite a lot recently. He'd feel the tug but Hachiko was nowhere near him. Then when he finally got a clone over to her, to see her, the tug at random moments stopped. Shaking his thoughts away before he could feel anymore upset over the lack of Hachiko lately he remembered why he was here and not training.
"I don't see why we have to be here, I can train with out you ya know. I was fine practicing all through the- HEY! LISTEN PERVY-SAGE!" Naruto frowned as he spotted Jiraiya giggling off in a corner peeking through the walls into the next private bath.
"Hehehe." Naruto was about to smack Jiraiya when he saw the small opening through where Jiraiya was peeking through.
Hachiko in nothing but towel. Her hair was down and draped over her left shoulder. She had a small blush on her cheeks. She looked embarrassed. As she inched closer to the hot water, Naruto's heart started beating fast in his chest as she stepped into the hot water and her face relaxed and she let out a satisfied gasp. His face turned hot as he was reminded of her when he last saw her, it was a similar expression and they had been, well he had pressed himself against her and, and…
"Oho, Gaki, you like what you're seeing? Wait till she's 16, she's very pretty. She's got lots potential with those fine developing curves already, "Jiraiya waved his hands around making an hourglass outline.
"With me guiding you kid, you'll easily sed-" Naruto kept staring at Hachiko, ignoring Jiraiya. Hachiko's cheeks were still red and then his eyes landed on the shoulder where she had the mark, his mark.
'You mean mine.'
'No mine, furball.'
'BRAT, I seem to recall both our chakra pushed into her, mostly mine.'
'Fine ours… Ya Happy you stupid fox.'
'Hehehe. You're aroused gaki but you're not ready and she's not ready… Control yourself brat or you'll embarrass yourself.'
'WHAT?! I seem to remember you were purring wanting me to do more!'
'YOU LITTLE WHELP! That's because you were too far stimulated! If you had better control I wouldn't be tempting you to go further.'
"You know gaki, she keeps gazing this way." Naruto snapped out of his internal dialogue with his tenant.
'She's getting better. She knows.'
'She knows we're watching?!'
'Yes. Didn't you wonder why she kept blushing? It's not because of the hot water.'
'Sh-Shut up! And stop with the sarcasm fuzzbag!'
"Hmm, wonder how hot she'll be and if when she's older if she'll be willing to slee-" Naruto raged and screamed.
"THAT'S MY GIRLFRIEND YOU PERV!"
-Back to Hachiko-
"THAT'S MY GIRLFRIEND YOU PERV!"
I blinked twice and buried half my face in the water. I knew that voice anywhere.
"Ah, isn't that Naruto-kun?" Yui asked and she stared at me causing Himitsu-obasama's attention to fall on me. Lady Suisei too, but she seemed to be absorbing the name.
"While I should be concerned about perverts peeping, I have nothing to be ashamed of, and neither should any of you… Now then, Hachiko-chan, please do tell why you're so mortified?" I shook my head and eeped when Himitsu-obasama moved closer. Her arm delicately draped over my shoulder and her Cheshire cat smile made me cringe.
"So, care to share with the group about who this Naruto-kun character is?" I tried to move away but her very nice manicured hand held me in place beside her.
"Now, now Himitsu, if she's not willing to share we can't push her to say, but we can take guesses." Lady Suisei suggested. I stared at Yui who gave me a small apologetic smile.
"Oh come now. Is he your boyfriend? Wait a moment, Naruto… Ah! I knew the name was familiar. He's the genin who made it to the finals, shame he's facing the Hyuga boy, who I heard is a prodigy-" I clenched my fists and frowned.
'What shame? Naruto is going to wipe the floor with Hyūga. He's a great ninja, who doesn't know when to quit but that's what I love about him.' I signed and realized I was standing up. The towel was heavy on my body.
"Oooooh I knew it! You do have a boyfriend. I asked Mi-Mimori and she said it wasn't so but I'm never wrong about these things. Then 'Bachi, I asked him to pester you about it but he failed and, Hachiko-chan?" Himitsu-obasama asked and I shook my head.
'Ugh. I screwed up, I wasn't supposed to say anything to anyone else!' I explained and Lady Suisei stepped in as I shied down into the water.
"What? Why?" Himitsu-obasama asked and looked to Yui, who knew better than to talk.
"It's a complicated thing Himitsu. You know how it's for a matriach's heiress. You fall in love and," Himitsu-obasama's smile fell. I didn't even care that Lady Suisei had covered for me by using something personal to touch Himitsu-obasama right in the feels and get her to lay off.
"I see. Then it's settled." I blinked as Himitsu-obasama bounced out of her funk.
"I'm going to support you and this Naruto boy you're infatuated with." I couldn't believe it. She was supporting me. Before I could ask why she smiled sadly while staring at me.
"I myself know exactly how hard it is to hide a relationship you want to keep so badly… Being an heiress is tough shit. I'd know and I did a horrible thing too when word got out. I broke his heart, broke my heart, abandoned my title and well, what's done is done. You know why Hachimitsu women rear the clan?" I shook my head, she was being vulgar in her manner of speaking which meant she was talking with her heart. Himitsu-obasama grimaced.
"Because men tend to turn us into a force to be reckon with and the only way for a Hachimitsu Woman to channel that fierce power into something useful is by managing a large family on top of the family business. That driving force is what fuels us and the only way to know what I mean, is for you to experience heartbreak and I'm going to make damn sure you never do. Got it?" I slowly nodded. At least now I knew for sure why the Hachimitsu Women, just the women of Hachimitsu blood tended to have had large families, well large enough families to handle.
After getting back to the estate from the Hot Springs, I couldn't help but feel a bit sad that I was so close to Naruto and was unable to see him.
-One Week Before the Finals-
I had finally progressed with my mind shields and had started to learn the hand signs. Only that, I couldn't do it on my own, Duelo-papa had to sit in when ever the seal was down for me to practice my sensory shields, as I started to call the technique. Only twice did I get overwhelmed but other than that, I was able to keep the sensory shields up for a good 5 minutes and that to Lady Suisei was progress. Lady Suisei had learned from Duelo-papa of my speech therapy so while I was practicing to keep my sensory shields up, I was also doing exercises that consisted of breathing, Learning to make sound by being taught where my tongue had to be to make a certain sound.
In one week, I did the impossible just like I had done when I was five. I learned at a rapid rate vowel sounds and for that I was ecstatic! Duelo-papa had been shocked. Even Lady Suisei was taken aback by my fast progress. Technically I shouldn't have known how to make the sounds so fast, since it was supposed to be unfamiliar to me... Technically it was new to Hachiko the body not me, me. I had memories of past experience when I was…
'Don't, sad feelings usually follow. Focus. You're not anymore. You're Hachimitsu Hachiko. It's been years and you're not her anymore.'
Nodding to myself, I focused on Duelo-papa and the shields, making sure they were still up.
"Let's try something different. I think you're ready say your name." I nodded and instead decided to give Duelo-papa something better. He hadn't been there for my first steps, the first time I-
'They weren't yours. You weren't here then, back then, that was the real Hachiko.' I shook my thoughts as they started to get annoying. I focused on what I wanted to say.
"O-O-tou-sa-n." I managed to say and beamed when the right sound came out. Lady Suisei grinned brightly and Duelo-papa simply stared then I noted his eyes were glistening and a small smile made it's way out. He patted my head and bowed his head.
"Thank you, Hachiko." He whispered. I was about to beam smile when the thoughts emerged again.
'You're not his Hachiko. You're a liar.'
A clap snapped me out of my thoughts.
"I think we're over due for a break. Hachiko, the seal." Lady Suisei asked and I nodded. I went thorough the hand signs and activated the seal. I blinked and wondered what the heck was up with those thoughts.
"Hachiko?" Duelo-papa asked and I shook my head.
"Come, let's have some tea to celebrate your first words." Lady Suisei. I nodded and kept to myself that my first words actually had been Naruto's name… Not that they needed to know that.
"At the rate in which you're progressing, I give you a month to be able to speak in sentences." Duelo-papa gave me his conclusions based off today's session.
"Ah, Hear that, Hachiko, sentences. She's really a natural, as if she was meant to be talking. Her voice is quite unique, it has the softness of a child." Duelo-papa nodded.
'She's here you know and of course I was meant to talk. Aren't all humans?'
"Yes. In time it will loose it's soft pitch and mature into her true voice. Right now it sounds that way because it's the first time she's using it. Even so, when we were practicing, Hachiko it sounded like you were slightly singing, like a child does when learning nursery rhymes." Duelo-papa said with a small-amused look. I blushed.
'Maybe because of the breathing exercises? You said it was to learn how to breath from my diaphragm and you said to repeat after you.' I suggested and elaborated making him and Lady Suisei laugh.
"That's true. Well, we should finish this session here. I need to check up on Nanase and dismiss the genin team watching her." I perked up and nodded. Nanase-mama had been put on bed rest, carrying triplets was no joke. She wanted to carry them to full term, even though she was warned that 8 months at most she'd be able to handle. She refused and wanted to carry them as long as safely possible. So now she was currently at home, unable to do much, hence the team of genin watching her and assisting her.
After Duelo-papa left, Lady Suisei who wanted to take a nap excused me. After making sure she was okay, because lately she had been very tired, I ran off to find a staff member to keep an eye on her. As I ran about through the estate I decided to find someone who wasn't busy in the service quarters that were behind a small dense bamboo tree area near the kitchens and large entertainment room.
Mim had most the service staff with her and Kisaki-mama in the main reception area garden in the middle of the estate where the big fancy party was to take place. So anyone one left over had to be in the service staff quarters, at least that's what I figured. As I walked through the dense little bamboo forest and admired the small scenic view I felt a tug at my navel.
'He wouldn't now would he? Unless Jiraiya sent him again to clear his mind.' I blushed a little and decided to let him wait for a bit. I needed to find someone to keep an eye on Lady Suisei. As I arrived the service quarters I approached the white wooden building and knocked on the doors but no one answered.
'Kisaki-mama probably has everyone on deck today.' I turned to leave when I felt the tug coming from behind the building. I decided to give in and find Naruto. I reached the back of the building but froze. There was blood on the ground. I took a step back and hit something hard. The tug was from behind me. I slowly turned and my honey colored eyes met seafoam.
"G-Ga-a-ra." I quivered and his smile grew. It was a scary smile that made my knees go weak. I was about to step away when I felt tightening around my arms and ankles. Gaara's hand slowly opened and I stared at the teal ribbon in his hand.
"It wasn't enough. Uzumaki didn't lash out and it didn't help me sedate the need to- Mother wants me to, but I won't take it unless you willingly give it." Gaara's sand moved around him and something moved from my peripheral vision. I turned and gaped.
'YUI!' There was sand all over her torso and only her face was visible. She was pale, and tears marred her face. There was bleeding from somewhere but I couldn't tell where.
'Let her go.' I signed and he shook his head slowly. He extended his open hand and began to tighten it into a fist. Yui let out a small cry.
'Stop you'll kill her! Stop! What do you want?' I asked and saw a small glint in his eye. He relaxed his hand and smirked.
"It's simple. A kiss but you have to mean it. It has to be like the way you kiss Uzumaki, but better." I gaped.
'THE HELL! ALL THIS FOR A KISS?! THIS IS STUPID. I'M NOT GOING TO CHEAT ON NARUTO. NO WAY, NO WA-'
My thoughts were interrupted as Yui let out another whimper. Gaara's sand was tightening again.
"If I don't kill her, she'll bleed out." My eyes flew to Yui who was now very pale. I bit my lip and tried to find something, anything to figure how to save Yui, I didn't want her to get involved in anything messy, hence why I had kept her in the dark about many things.
'I can't. You know I'm with Naruto, his Girlfriend. Please let her go.'
"Titles are fickle, they don't matter." Gaara said and dropped his smile. I was starting to hate his little aloof attitude, the little shit.
"Maybe I should go after someone else after I kill this one. Ah, that woman, Nanase right?" He asked and his malicious grin returned. I began to shake.
'No. I can't let her get hurt, she's, my siblings… I can try and take him out… But I haven't physically trained in weeks and I'm not fast enough or strong at the moment… I'm so sorry.'
My eyes watered for so many reasons. I dropped my head and down and slowly walked forward.
"H-Hachiko-hime N-No." Yui managed to say. I turned to see her and shook my head.
"So is that a 'Yes' for me?" Gaara asked with a smug evil smile. I pushed back the tears turned to him, avoiding his eyes. I kept my gaze downcast and nodded. I slowly walked towards him, dragging my feet, trying to think of something else, anything but it was too late. I was already before him.
'It's not too late. I can figure somethi-'
I heard Yui's small cry of pain as she pleaded me not to.
"Well?" Gaara growled and I looked up at him. His sea-foam eyes challenged me, demanded, urged me to hurry up.
Gaara was taller than me by a whole centimeter. So I had to tilt my head up and lightly push up myself. My arms shook as I wrapped them around his neck. He lowered his face to close the proximity.
'Naruto, I'm so sorry.'
As my lips brushed against his, I felt a slight stinging that started to grow as my lips fully and firmly were upon his. I pushed the pain away and focused, if he found the kiss unsatisfactory, Yui would die and Nanase-mama would be next. I led him into it and felt the sand on my wrists and ankles loosen. His lips were soft but what took me be surprise was that his began to kiss back and fight for dominance.
'This is wrong. This is very wrong. I'm a horrible person.'
His lips left my lips and began to trail down my neck. I was about to pull away but his sand tightened around my waist, keeping me in place as his lips reached my neck. I felt his smile on my skin.
"Not enough." He growled and he moved his lips off my neck and stared into my eyes only to take my lips again, this time he bit my lip and when I gasped his tongue intruded.
'It's now or never.'
The past weeks bedridden hadn't been wasted. Those sleepless nights because of my thoughts weren't wasted. No, they were well spent thinking about how to place a seal over the current seal. It was all guess work and in the end the only solution was to place a different kind of seal, independent of his current seal. I figured the only fault in his current seal was Shukaku's chakra leaking out too much and influencing Gaara. The seal I designed would be like a vacuum and filter for raw biju chakra. Testing it hadn't been hard because I had used it on the mark, purifying Kurama's chakra from the first time Naruto marked me and it had worked. So now, Now I just had to play my part.
'Naruto will hate me when he finds out but, I have to. I'm already this far in.'
My hand slid down Gaara's chest. I kissed him with so much fervor, imagining it was Naruto to make it convincing. Once my hand reached the hem of his shirt, I slipped it underneath and he gasped at the contact. I traced his skin, making him shiver, not sure if it was of pleasure and I didn't care. His seal was more important. I dug my nail into my thumb and let out a small gasp, probably surprising him and delighting him further.
'I need to keep him into being still just a little longer.'
I pulled my lips this time and traced his jaw. He lifted his head a little to give me access to his neck. I wanted to gasp as his hands pulled me closer to him, squishing my bleeding hand. Once I made sure the blood was all over my palm, I lightly kissed on his sensitive spot and he let out a shallow deep laugh.
"Again." He growled in a very low voice. I raised a brow but didn't question it. Whatever get's him off and distracted, worked for me. I did it again only I lightly nipped the area as I summoned seishin energy into my hand and with it created the outline of the seal on my palm.
'I'm so sorry Gaara but it's for your own good… It'll hurt but you deserve it for putting me in a corner.'
I darkly thought and slammed my palm into his stomach. Immediately his sand flew out and threw me away from him, but it was done. I fell on my side and rolled on the ground. Yui had fallen to the ground and fainted, I could still feel her chakra so that was a relief.
'I CAN FEEL HER CHAKRA!'
I started to feel dizzy and nauseous as I frantically looked at my wrist and found the bracelet was gone. I sat up and to the side moved as bile rose up from my stomach. I wiped my mouth after I finished puking out my stomachs contents. I turned to where Gaara laid. He was unconscious and I feared the worst but Shukaku never emerged. I crawled over to him and with my hand shaking, I checked his seal on his stomach.
My seal was doing its job. Shukaku's chakra was sucked into the seal and it purified his chakra and re-administered into Gaara's stores. Meaning, Gaara wouldn't be influenced so easily. I then checked his original seal and found that Shukaku couldn't influence Gaara because my seal kept him at bay.
'If Shukaku tries to take over, all of him get's purified? How the fuck did I manage to create this? Biju can't be destroyed, but he's not going to be destroyed, the seal is just going to subjugate and curb his malicious intent and no one not even Biju want their true selves, be it good or bad, to be curbed… I hope he never get's out. He'll probably look for me and try to kill me.'
I sat back and felt nauseous again. I pushed it away and crawled over to Yui but didn't make it to her because my head began to pound.
'Bad Hachiko. Cheating on Naruto and then sealing away your lover's only friend, well mother-like figure. At this rate you're going to end up alone and miserable.'
I shook the thoughts away and found that they weren't going away. I sat and grabbed my head. Those thoughts didn't feel right, but they had a point.
'You'll never get rid of me. I am you. I'm the part of you that you desperately try to hide, that part of you that you constantly curb. I'm not going away. I'm not going to be quiet anymore and any and all thoughts you try and push away, I'll bring back again and again… Until you finally accept-'
'I know who I am and you're not me. You have knowledge of me but you're independent of me.'
'I know you're there.' I signed and became stiff as from the ground emerged White Zetsu that wasn't complete it was a half humanoid form.
"Ah, Doku Zetsu is going to be angry I revealed myself but I had to. You're too cute no to." I pinched my nose and as I felt another wave of nausea he grinned, half grinned.
"Good you're still sick. So it's not time yet. Pity. Oh but it doesn't matter. Now's a good time as any to take you." I narrowed my eyes but then widen them when he moved to fast and reached me. His one arm wound around me and I panicked. I flared seishin energy all over my body and then started the screaming.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" The White Zetsu began to curl around me and turn into wood?
'Right! Seishin energy, half spiritual energy, half natural energy!'
I began to pump more seishin energy and then that's when I screwed up. I pumped too much and White Zetsu sprouted into a tree with crazy branches. I should've stopped but I was too afraid that Black Zetsu would show up next so I didn't stop, even when the branches tightened around me.
I began feeling faint but didn't stop. As darkness swarmed into my vision, I picked up several chakras coming.
'Fū, Torune, Sai, Shisui'
-Black Zetsu-
He saw everything. She had figured out that they were influencing her thoughts. After he so graciously had her vocal chords healed to perfect condition, she dared do this? After so much effort put into influencing her and she repaid White Zetsu by killing him, turning him into a tree.
'Where did she even get such and idea from? More importantly she knew too much about White Zetsu and I.'
Little Black Flower had gotten rid of his half. She wouldn't be forgiven for that. Now Black Zetsu would be forced to put a target on her back, Obito would not let her run around especially after taking out White Zetsu so easily. Getting another White Zetsu wouldn't be the same, the new Harvested White Zetsu's would probably come to hate her for killing the original, the elder.
'Stupid Little Black Flower, you just couldn't come willingly. No matter. With more enemies how will you cope? When your precious Kyuubi Jinchūriki finds out you cheated on him how will you handle his fury? His breaking heart? Then again she doesn't react how a normal teen human girl should… No, she's too brilliant. Well then lets what more we can use to break her, after all, she didn't take well when the Ichibi threatened her family. Soon you'll be mine Little Black Flower and Mother will return.'
A/N: Before you kill me, FAN ART, if you haven't checked yet, go to my profile page and check out the links. Loveable Otaku did an amazing job that just blew my mind!
Okay you may now proceed to hate me forever and ever, but I swear all this has a reason.
I know this chapter was jam-packed too but I did say as we approach the finals, things will get worse. Now do you all see why I had to give this part it's own chapter?
It hurt to make Hachiko go thought the kiss but for the plot! I do anything for the plot.
Check out my commentary if you're interested link is on the profile page. I address the whole: Why is Hachiko suddenly came off as Mary-Sue. Thing.
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Until next chapter, if your not that furious with me and keep following along,
-Anbu