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Chapter Thirty-five◊
Burning
(Seth's POV)
I could hear them yelling, again. Gina's parents and we were neighbors. But they were arguing with each other, no, they were yelling at Gina to pick up the work she does around the house, like looking after her little sisters. The thought of those three devils made me shutter, for I'd had a bad encounter with them when we'd had a get-together at her house when her parents had left. Let's just say I fell asleep during one of the movies and woke up upside down on the couch with my toes glued together.
A slam and I knew that Gina had been defeated, as I would have expected. Sure she could punch anyone and break whatever connected to her fist, but her parents were another thing. They annoyed Gina to the top of her head and then spilled out, gore as that may seem.
"Ow!" I rubbed my head and picked up the stone she'd decided to throw at me through the window, which was thankfully open. We were side by side, a yards length apart, yet we could still talk, like in some of those movies where they could talk across.
"I told you to freakin' duck!" she yelled over and I rolled my eyes, knowing that she hadn't. "Grounded like hell because those damn devils decided to fake some shit about me!" Slowly, every day, her language got worse and worse, sometimes I wonder if a conversation with her in a "G" rated show would just be tons of beeps.
"You seem angry." I walked over to the window and dodged another rock.
"No fuckin' duh! Ugh, anyway it means I can't go visit Adiera!" She growled and tossed another rock in her hand. This made me wonder where she was getting them from, and why she kept tossing them at me.
"No one's visiting Adiera, 'cause our parents think we're not spending enough time with them so we've got to spend 'quality time' with them." I rolled my eyes as I heard my mom yelling downstairs for me to hurry up. "I'm coming!" Quality time, ugh, a forced activity provided by parents so that they can weasel into every kids life and bend them to their will. Well that was my view on it. Almost the same as Gina's, though she thought it was so parents could show how terrible their children were when they said no on the first attempt.
"Lucky, I've got to…let's see look after them, clean up my room, take out the garbage, clean up the kitchen, clean the dishes by hand, vacuum, dust, and some other shit I'm not going to do." She giggled as my dad yelled for me to get downstairs now. "Looks like you've got to go, hope you don't choke on your soda!" I chuckled, knowing only two people who could actually do that. Meme, who scared the heck out of us when she did it, and Adiera, who laughs so hard that it just chokes her even more and she falls on the floor gurgling and laughing.
"Seth get down here!" She yelled once again and I shut the window, just in case a raccoon or something tried to get in, again. I really didn't feel like having another bite mark in my CDs and then puke in my bed.
(Third Person *he, she, them, it* Sasori's POV)
He sighed; looking over the girl's wounds and noticing a quite difference from most of her others. Blood still trickled from her arms and legs, but with each of them applying their healing chakra to her wounds they should have been healing correctly. Yet here he was, scanning over her wounds, finding that they looked the same, or possibly worse. The girl was beginning to annoy him at how many times her body had been scratched, though he really shouldn't of cared at all. However he couldn't not care, maybe it was because she'd saved his life.
Sasori's eyes widened as he lifted his hands from her arm, which he had been trying to heal, and just stared at her. Heat flowed throughout her body, as if she was…on fire. It could be a possibility. Closing his eyes he held out his hand and thought of ice, pure blissful before pushing it to her arm.
However the cool was taken over and the heat slowly crept up his arm, almost engulfing it entirely before he pulled back. The puppet master checked her chakra and found that it was looking like flames, bright orange, like a Jinchūriki's chakra.
Once more he placed his hand over her, this time her shoulder, and pressed a freezing chakra at her. This made her mouth open and frozen air lingered in the air, yet as soon as that reaction the heat seemed to grow immensely. This is a new type of torture.
(Seth's POV)
Please don't make me do this, why, why does the world hate me? I groaned as my mom nudged me, smirking.
"Leave. Me. Alone." I growled and tried to walk away, glaring harshly down at me.
"Oh come on Seth, it'll be fun!" I'd rather eat dirt and three cricket seventy-eight times than this! "Seth, come on!"
"No way, you'd have to pay—" She wrenched me back and I sighed.
"Come on, try it!" She grasped my arm and pulled me toward where my brother was waiting, on a merry go round, in the middle of a freakin' zoo. Why did she think this would help anything? Does she understand that I'm seventeen freakin' years old? "Isn't this going to be fun Tyler?" My little brother, of the age nine, nodded and I wondered why exactly he would want to ride a ride like that. Then again…
"Yeah!" Tyler giggled and smiled up at me, which got my bored eyes a bit lighter. Both of us knew I wasn't doing this willingly, but our parents were clueless as always.
"You enjoy torturing me, don't you?" I raised an eyebrow when he nodded.
(Third Person *he, she, them, it* Sasori's POV)
This time her body rejected his chakra, making her cough up blood. Thankfully he sat her up to do so and it only stained her sheets. After taking a moment to study the nature of her heat he took into notice of something as burn marks began showing up on her skin. They were burn marks but other than that her skin was not melting due to intense heat.
"Let's try this." Sasori placed his hand over one of her reopening wounds, at the tip of her shoulder, and let his chakra grow there. What he was doing was having his chakra enter her flow to make her chakra slowly cool. It wasn't as easy as most thought it would be to enter chakra into someone's self, especially since he was providing a specific type of chakra instead of just any chakra.
The chakra laced around her glowing orange and restrained it from pulsing through her. Heat throbbed in her chakra, trying to pulse past his own, yet failing as it slowly became cooler. However not all of the heat had left, he knew that well enough, for if he took all her heat away it would be the same as giving her too much heat.
After doing so he tended to the rest of her wounds, some hovering from her shoulder to her knee or all the way to her ankle. He wondered how she was reacting to all this pain. Deidara had explained to everyone that she hadn't screamed at all during their visit into the shadow's realm, only a whimper at the first before she passed out from the pain. Along with this her friends enjoyed saying that she always laughed at her moderate pain off falling not here and there but everywhere.
She was as strange as Sasori had stated on their first day with Adiera. It had been three weeks they had spent with her and two weeks they have known her friends. However, to most of them, it felt like they'd been there longer than that, possibly because they spent every moment there. Yet he knew that they would only be staying for a bit longer, the jutsu to return to their world was almost done and they'd soon be leaving.
Finally he was finished, pulling the bandages tighter around her thigh, where new blood was coming. Blood drizzled from her lip, but this time she didn't cough on it so he left it as is. He stood and walked toward the door, only stopping when he thought he heard her voice. Turning he found her still lying unconscious, eyes closed and chest rising slightly to just show that she was alive. It was possibly just her voice escaping from wherever she was and nothing more. Since, of course, she had no idea how to use her chakra voice correctly so it could travel as it please, with a mind of its own actually.
With that he closed the door and began down the hall, still wondering what was happening to her do to the words that had been sent out at random.
(Adiera's POV)
"So how did you enjoy those flames?" The shadow laughed as I sighed outward, feeling the pain overlap each strand of my body.
Those flames had burned me, singed my hair, and now sweat was rolling down my entire body. Ugh it hurts. I cringed as I tried to move my arm, resulting in the burnt marks restraining. The pain was worse than when the blades had dug into my flesh and twisted, almost like it had been peeling it off. That idea made me shiver at the thought.
"How sad that you didn't scream, yet I am surprised that you can keep your promise." The flames lingered in the air, biting at my cheek, teasing me, enjoying doing so. "Why must you be such an annoyance?"
"I don't know, why don't you ask my friends?" I weakly smiled, hating at how it pushed back my blood stained cheeks and sent pain throughout. Laughter came as a hand rested on top of my head, ruffling my hair slightly, as if a child to an irritating adult.
"I enjoy having the honor to torture you, so why don't we get past these beautiful flames and do something a bit more exciting?" A grin bearing fangs showed and I nervously laughed, fear trying not to build up in my system and stop the progress of my promise. "This'll be fun…you probably won't scream yet it will be enjoyable to see this…" The hand ran from my hair to my cheek and my eyes widened as I felt what would be my next torturer's idea.
** Yes, I've gotten better at updating, one yesterday and today! Also I'm working on the next chapter right now! Seriously!
Okay so what shall Adiera's next torture be about? When will she wake up? What had she said at random to Sasori? Why does Seth's brother like merry go rounds? All these questions and none will be answered in the next chapter! Get it? They're not going to be answered in the next one! Heh, isn't that funny? *cricket* Okay then…
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 tighter than normal! Be thankfully that I'm not one of those people who get right to the part and then stop writing for seven months and then come back with no idea what was going on! That's just cruel! I'm not that cruel!
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