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Chapter Thirty-four◊
Keeping a Promise
(Tami's POV)
The Akatsuki understood my reasoning, after explaining the notes twice, because the first time we'd only gotten half of them to come in because most of them were doing something they called "important". Itachi is staring at one of Adiera's books, Deidara is looking at a note in his hand, and Hidan was doing some sacrifice to his god! So confusing!
"Now do you understand it?" I looked up and found everyone there, except Kakuzu, which wasn't very surprising.
"You're smarter than you look bitch." To my surprise, sarcasm, Hidan was the one to state that. However I smiled.
"There's this stereotype that the prettier you are the dumber you must be, so I guess you just gave me two compliments at once!" My response made Hidan mumble to himself and I returned my attention back to the note. "Now onto what you have to do?"
"Once Adiera wakes up," Uro continued without me even taking my first breath. The younger ones in our group, which was everyone besides the two of us, had no idea how we could do that since we were not related nor had any relationship of that matter. It confused us at first when he could suddenly know exactly what I was thinking, but we soon got over it. "You guys will have to train her to defend herself."
"That won't be possible," Sasori spoke up. "Adiera's wounds are not easily healed and once she has awakened she will not have enough stamina to endure any sort of activity."
"And besides why should we train her?" Zetsu's white half spoke. "She may come from a shinobi bloodline but she is extremely weak." At that remark I couldn't help but laugh.
"You think, Adiera, is…weak?" The words stumbled in between the laughter and it was once again time for the Akatsuki to give me a strange look. "Our Adiera weak? What has she been lying to you about?"
"Seth, Gina, got get them." Uro muttered. They nodded and ran from the room, almost coughing at the laughter infusing all of us.
"But I'm serious, what has given you that perspective?"
"She's unconscious because of a mental attack."
"It wasn't a mental attack, hm." The bomber finally spoke, glancing up from the note in his hand, which was getting me to wonder exactly what was it.
Blood drizzled, once, twice before the pain entered my body. Running up to my head where I felt it rushing quickly, my eyes widened and a grin formed on my face. No one was around to see it, well, no one alive, so I could enjoy it, or fear it, however long I needed to. I had all the time in the world and no one could take that away.
My eyes opened and I stood, letting out a sigh before looking up to the sky. It wasn't blue, like most would think to be cheerful, yet it wasn't cloudy, nor raining or snowing. There was neutral in the sky that couldn't be described as I smirked before whispering.
"I promise to please you throughout my life."
(Narrator)
In Seth's hands was a book, a black border that smudged in here and there on the maroon cover, and in Gina's hand was a necklace which had hung around someone's neck. That someone being Adiera. The content, Adiera had stated, had something to do with the book that her parents left, yet had told her that she could not unlock the necklace, someone else could. However Adiera had asked many people to open it, from teachers, students, who now looked at it with great fear of their pricked finger, to shopkeepers and random people on the street. No one had opened it, but had been rewarded with a prick in their finger. And that prick burned, bringing only her friends to try every other month or so.
"Okay," Tami took the necklace from Gina as Seth set the book on the table. "You all have to try and open this." She let the pendant run from her grasp into the closest one to her, which happened to be Tobi. His hand went to the edge of the thing and tried to break it, but it pierced his flesh making him let out a fake cry of pain. In truth his skin turned red and blood drizzled from it, not as the other pricks given to those of Earth. He gave it to the person sitting beside him, Zetsu.
The bipolar member let his white side go first, and it was given the same result, yet not so gore as to only a scratch and blood. Then the black side tried, proving that both of them were one of the same as to results, blood dripping slightly.
My hand lay on the tree's body. The wood prickled the flesh of my hand, but neither blood nor splinter came to. Slowly I came to notice that the sun had rose, pushing a gorgeous colors against the grass and trees. It was truly amazing to be a witness to such a beauty that could only happen once every day. Not even before the sun set could the beauty be seen, no, only in the earliest of the dawn.
I felt uneasiness and stared at the ground, feeling the vibrations quivering throughout the world. Sighing I lingered my hand higher to the branch and felt a tinged smirk roll on my face as I spoke aloud.
"I promise to protect you."
(Narrator)
"What is this supposed to even do?" Itachi murmured, placing the locket into the hands of his partner, who was given the same reaction.
"A few months before Adiera's parents were killed they gave her this locket and book. They told her once in her life someone would arrive that could open it. So we thought maybe it could be one of you guys!" Gina grinned.
"But Adiera, being the shy and weird one of us all she didn't want to ask you herself." Tami rolled her eyes and giggled. "It's amazing how you guys have changed her to be so quiet."
"Anyway," Uro continued, groaning. "Inside this book is said to hold how powerful she can be, or what her parents said. We don't really know that much of it, since we've only been friends with her for three years. Anyhow if one of you can open this then you would be able to train her."
"Because she is not weak, trust us on that." Seth stated as they nodded in agreement.
Kisame handed the locket to Pein.
He showed neither strain, nor emotion as he felt the pendant prick his finger. The pendant slipped from his hand into Konan's who was given such.
Eyes did not water, for the tears would not come as I lifted my hand to their bodies. Dead, gone from the world, forever never to breathe, a sad ending, to be murdered. But why? Why did my parents have to be murdered, what purpose did it serve? No temperature was on their bodies, except a chill, only after a moment had they become so cold. I stood, wondering what to do with them, for I'd never been witness to murder.
I couldn't believe what I had just done, it didn't seem right to just leave them lying on the floor, blood coating them, so I'd placed them in the ground. The rain was beating down, raising fog in the air. My legs felt weak and I fell to the now coming mud, staining my pants, though I truthfully didn't care. Hands together I closed my eyes and whispered
"I promise I will live."
(Narrator)
I hope you know what you're doing Tami. Uro glanced over at the girl, who was grinning. She turned to him and nodded, knowing exactly what she was trying to get at as Konan passed the amulet to Deidara.
Of course I know what I'm doing. She shot back and watched as blood trickled down bomber's finger, dripping softly on the note he held. His eyes widened at this, not the cut, but the blood, yet relaxed as his hand ran over it and found he could still read it.
Then he placed it in the hands of Sasori, who stared bored at it. He placed his left pointer finger at the top of the pendant and his Akatsuki ring finger at the bottom, and then squeezed them together. Most were surprised when they heard a soft click and the locket opened, revealing a folded key the color of blood. Gina took it from him and pulled back the key ever so slightly to allow light to shine on what was written on the inside.
Powerful.
Weak.
Nothing.
No one.
Never.
Again.
The fire engulfed the building, making me slightly grin at the beauty of the flames, tossing in the night sky. However, what made me cringe at some points were the screams. People were in the building, before the fire and now. They screamed because of the beautiful flames, they could never understand it. That's what I hated about them, all of them.
Someone tried to escape; they jumped out of the second floor window of the burning window. They landed with grace, yet as soon as they did the flames grew and even from the distance I could see it. More screaming as the flames pulled at their flesh, burning and melting onto their bones, the skeleton slowly showing as they fell into the flames. After such a scene I turned and began walking away from the fire, the screams echoing, yet no one seemed to care. I looked up at the moon, the full moon, glistening through the empty night sky and I grinned before speaking aloud.
"I promise never to let anyone stop me from being me."
(Gina's POV)
Placing the key in the lock I heard a soft and it finally opened. The first word that appeared was "Powerful" and underneath it was a quote. "'One is not known to have power at birth, they must work for it, yet even through work one shall never become powerful enough to kill everyone in the world in one instant, only a few thousand can be killed. This book is not to show how to become powerful enough to murder over and over, but to become how powerful you can be.'" I turned the page and my eyes widened as I dropped the book on the table.
You're weak and you will die, Adiera.
Signed,
As you may know me as now
The shadow
(Adiera's POV)
My eyes were blind, because of all the blood in my vision. The pain surged through my body and ran up to my head, the blood rushing around like bees in a hive. Laughter left lips, not the torturer, but my own letting the blood dribble down as if spit.
"Do you enjoy pain?" The voice spoke numbly, twirling the katana in their hands.
"Why would someone enjoy pain?" I coughed up, not stuttering in the least bit as I felt it plunge into my stomach, and my eyes shot wide and turned blank. Had I lost my vision? No, no I couldn't have I can still see.
"You seem to be enjoying your time with me."
"No, it is time that I wish had never happened."
"Then why are you smiling and laughing at every piercing."
"I'm use to it by now, the pain is numb."
"Oh so it has nothing to do with that promise?"
"Of course it has something to do with my promise."
"Now why don't you tell me, to humor me, what your promise was?"
"You should know if you keep referring back to it."
Blade to my throat.
"Humor me before I humor myself further by tasting your blood."
"You've already tasted my blood quite enough."
Blade to my arms and legs.
"You're much spoken when you're supposed to be dying in agony." They grinned. "Now tell me your promise."
"Okay then," I glanced up at the "sky" though it was nothing more than darkness engulfing darkness. "I promised to never scream or allow myself to give up in any matter, especially to pain and suffering of this world. I'm powerful, in my own way."
A chuckle went through the air.
"You're weak and you will die, Adiera. Now it is time to leave behind blood and go for a more 'beautiful' torture."
** That's that for chapter thirty-four and I'm sorry for not writing in a while and I'll try my best to update quicker, because I'm working on the next few chapters over the next few days, so you can hope for an update tomorrow of sometime, hopefully! ^_^
Anyway…how was this person able to get into the book if it was said to not be able to be opened? What does each word mean in the locket, besides the obvious? Why was Sasori the one who could open it? Will you ever find that out? How is the torturer going to torture her now? Who made all of those promises, was it Adiera? Are you going to find out next chapter? Heh, I can answer that one right now…nope!
And the common questions of this story…who the hell is the "evil person"?
Don't worry, you're getting closer and closer and the plot will become extremely perfect! Well I would guess you'd know that you'd son figure out who the "evil person" is because I'm not mean enough to leave you on a cliffhanger and then never write again! That's just cruel! I'm not that cruel!
Hope you've enjoyed this chapter of "I am" and don't forget to review or message me! I will respond quickly if you message or review two or three hours after I've posted this. But if not I will, not may, respond to you the next day! I enjoy hearing from you and I will respond, so don't forget to review and message; you'll get yourself on the list and maybe even give me an idea for a new chapter! **