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Sorry HimekoUchia-chan! hell didn't want her, they said she was to ugly! and that I need to make her her own special hell!
Oh and by the way I never did a disclamier on the songs i used before so here they are "River lullaby: Amy Grant" "Lullaby for a Stormy Night; vienna teng" "Billy Joel - Goodnight My Angel (Lullaby)" Ok I think that was all of them ok enjoy the ch!
Ch. 35 After Affects
A child is crying, Akira was sure of it, the sounds of scuffling and the soft patter of small feet against big ones, someone's running after a child, there was a soft yell of a childlike 'No' followed by a crash and a curse. She rolled to her back, her arm flopping over her eyes; that cry was Aiko's cry of "Get the Hell out Of My Face!" she was tired, the soft patter of feet had to be Kiyoshi running away, the 'No' came from Aika, who was probably being feed something that she didn't like and the crash was none other than Lelouch throwing a fit.
She felt her throat tighten, she should really get up, but she didn't want to open her eyes, she didn't want what was laying before her to be real, she couldn't face the reality of what happen, with her eyes closed she didn't have to face the truth of Gaara's death, she didn't have to see that she and her children were taken away, with her eyes closed everything was still ok.
"Ma, mommy!" Aiko's cried was turning into a hiccup, and that broke Akira's heart, she couldn't be a coward, women lost their loves all the time, especially ninjas, and she wasn't the only one who gone through this. Slowly sitting up, she opens her eyes and quickly covered her mouth with the back of her hand trying to keep the cry to herself.
Aiko was being held by a man, who was trying to make her laughed not seeing that she was rubbing her eyes from exhaustion, her face red from crying. Kiyoshi was running around the room trying to escape two men, who kept trying over mini sand walls. Aika was frowning at the man with big round glass as he glared at her for throwing food in his face, she hated her veggies especially mashed peas, and lastly Lelouch, who was in a wrestling match with a boy no older then her, little Lu had the poor boy by the hair, yanking and pulling, pushing his small foot in the boy's face. Her children never did well with strangers.
Getting up Akira felt weak to her bones, she could barely manage to stand and walk, seeing that she wasn't going to get any where she sat back down and deicide to get her bearings. "You're never going to get her to eat that." Her voice was hoarse as she spoke to the nerd with the harry potter glasses.
"Ah, I see your awake." He mused wiping the green mush off his face.
"You have to mix it with something to get her to eat it…" she swallowed her throat was parched.
"MA!" Kiyoshi screamed as he ran into her arms then pointed to the men chasing him. "Bad! No, No!" he told them shaking his head.
"Yes, running is a no, no." She smiled kissing his head. She back at the glass nerd. "They're tired, that's the only reason they're acting out."
"Well, then I should lead you to the room you'll be staying in." He spoke getting up and signaling to the men to follow him, before he turn and help her up. Akira leaned on him a great deal as he led her down corridor after corridor, down every twist and turn until her head hurt trying to remember the way back, where she woke up. I bet he's doing that too purposely, to get me lost!
They stopped at one of the many doors, Akira guessing it was the room she and the quad would be 'staying' in; the room was bear only consisting of four very small beds, one normal size bed and a large wardrobe closets, there was no other door beside the one that lead out to the hall. "Where's the bathroom?" she questioned.
"Ah, we have separate bathrooms that are located down the hall to the right, first come first sever rule. Seeing that you have four…" Akira saw that he wanted to say brats. "Little ones, I suggest that you get there quickly, before all the hot water is gone." With that said he and the other men left, but lucky for her only the twins boys were up, meaning Lelouch was still attached to the young man with long black hair.
Placing Kiyoish on one of the small beds, she went to the young man and Lu. "What's your name?" she asked quietly as she detangled her oldest child from him. Cold onyx colored eyes looked back at her through a glared as he gauged her question.
"Sasuke." His voice was deep and hard as he winces when Lelouch gave a forceful tug.
"So you're Sasuke." She answered. He looked at her, ok he glared at her but still, when she said that.
"Assuming you said that, you must have met the idiot and that annoy girl." He grumbled.
"By that if you're meaning Naruto and Sakura, then yes." Sasuke looked away from her, he couldn't stand to see her pain her eyes held, he wanted nothing more then to blot from the room if that meant getting away from her low sad voice. She was weak and he didn't need to be around her and her sob story he had better thing to be training for.
"They really miss you, you know." He scoffed at her.
"Just hurry up and get him off!"
"I'm done." She spoke after a few minutes. Sasuke glared at her then the child, he looked like Gaara at first glance but a second look the child was a split image of his mother, her lips, eyes, nose, ears, his skin was a slight darker then Gaara's, the only thing the child had of his father was the dark crimson hair and the rings around his eyes.
"He glares like his father." Sasuke spoke rubbing his head, though he didn't know why he said that.
"Yeah, actually they all glare like him but I think Lu here is more of a Naruto in the making." She gave a slight smile. "Well, goodnight Sasuke."
As Sasuke left he couldn't help but think how much had he missed? Gaara the psychotic kid, who would have killed anyone if they just looked at him wrong, had kids and a fiancée, who else had kids or were married. But the main thing that got him think was how strong, have they gotten.
Akira body shook as she held her children close to her, her eyes trained on the door. Screams of pain and horror filled the halls, there were shout of curses and weird trimmers that shook her little room, but what scared her the most were the yells and screams of someone wanting help or in pain. Akira felt small hands tighten their hold on her shirt as someone screamed for help and for the pain to stop, she pulled her children closer to her as she buried her head on their hair. Where the hell was she?
Aiko pushed her head closer into her mother stomach as the screams got loud, she didn't like this, where was her daddy and why wasn't he here with mommy, he could make the bad things go away, he always made the monsters go away. She whimpered when there was a loud bang on the door, she felt her mother go stiff and pull them closer. Aiko looked up when a hand grabbed hers, it was Lelouch, he pulled her to him, but even as he did this she knew he was just as scare as her, she looked over to her twin to see her brother had her tuck under him. Looking back at Lelouch then her mother, who had the boys tuck in her arms and legs trying to block the sound with her body, Aiko knew even if daddy wasn't here, she had her brother and mommy to always keep her safe and fight the monsters.
Orochimaru walked down the halls with Kabuto and Sasuke close behind, he was excited to the new addition to his collection, he wanted to introduce himself properly, it so much easier when his collections cooperate, but more fun when they don't. "Kabuto, what's the status on the Heaven and Earth curse seal and the five element seal?"
"There up and ready to be tested for the subject." He answered swiftly.
"Good, I also want you to check out the seal that the children possess, see what it does and try to duplicate it, found out why they have it."
"Understood."
"And Sasuke, that girls children will your students." Orochimaru looked at the Uchiha out the corner of his eye.
"What! Why I don't see how this has to do with taking down my brother by babysitting!" he yelled.
"Ah, but my dear boy your forgetting you kill their father." The snake laughed. "The Akatsuki." That got the young Uchiha to quite down a bit as he thought over how the little brats could possibly be of any use to him. As the trio turn down the hall that lead to the newest addition to the "family", they stopped, the hall was quite, so much so you could hear the person next you heart beating, there were a few test subjects in the hall but they all seem dazes, yet they had a calm and peaceful look on their face almost half asleep. That's when they hear it, a soft voice that echo through the hall, it sounded like a song, a lullaby almost; as they grew closer, to Akira's room, the words began to become clear.
Hush now, my baby
Be still love, don't cry
Sleep like you're rocked by the stream
Sleep and remember
My lullaby
And I'll be with you when you dream
Drift on a river
That flows through my arms
Drift as I'm singing to you
I see you smiling
So peaceful and calm
And holding you, I'm smiling, too
Here in my arms
Safe from all harm
Holding you, I'm smiling, too
Hush now, my baby
Be still, love, don't cry
Sleep like you're rocked by the stream
Sleep and remember this river lullaby
And I'll be with you when you dream
I'll be with you when you dream
Though the voice was clear and understandable, it shook and cracked, showing her fear as she tried to sooth her children's. Opening the door, they saw that Akira was hunch over with her legs drawn in and her arms wrapped around them, if it wasn't for the specks of red sprouting out from the inside of her arms, they would have never know she was holding her children. Her face was tear stained and puffy, fresh tears made their way from her eyes as she frown pulling her kids closer and started singing again.
"She's asleep?" Sasuke noted. "But she's singing."
"Well, I guess, if anyone can talk in their sleep then anyone can sing." Kabuto mused pushing his glasses back up his nose.
"Wake her up; I want to get started now!" Orochimaru ordered. Nodding the grey hair medic went to the mother, and was about to grab hold of her arm, when her eyes snapped open and a flash of purple crossed her eyes and her pulp dilated, then thinned; quickly Kabuto placed his hand on her forehead, once again sealing her chakra.
"She broke the five element seal." He mutters loud enough for the Snake nin to hear as he watched her eyes droop and slowly change back to neon yellow.
"Then I suggest we hurry."
Temari wasn't sure what to do, he just stood there calm, looking into the bedroom, like if he was watching the sun rise, completely relaxed. Playing with her fingers she didn't know how to approach him, what should she say? It was obvious that he was far from ok for being this calm! So what then, what do you say to a person who just lost everything that mattered?
"Gaara?" she hesitated before slowly making her way over.
"Where's Matsuri?" She winced as she thought of the student, damn how does she tell him that his student was tore to shears and at the moment is beyond recognition and hanging on to life by a very small thread.
"She at the hospital." She stuck to simple answers.
"Will she be alright?"
"I don't know she still in the ICU."
"How is Neko?"
"Fine, the jutsu wearing off, she's finally remembering who we are and Taku."
"That good." The two didn't say thing for while and when Temari finally open her mouth to say something he ask to be alone.
"Sure Gaara, just call me if you need anything…I'll be right down stairs." She gave one last look at he little brother before leaving.
Gaara grip his chest over his heart as he felt the back of his throat tighten and his nose start to sting. Gone, how can she, they, be gone? He shook his head as he pushed out his awareness, searching for her and the kids, why couldn't he find the bond? She couldn't be…he didn't what to finish the thought. This was his entire fault, if he was careful then maybe; maybe he could have gotten here in time to safe them. She told him to be safe but he die and now she gone! Was this punishment, for all the people he killed, all the love ones he had taken away from families? Now his family was taken way from him.
"Daddy?" Gaara's head snapped up when he hear his name being called, but it wasn't who he was expecting. She grown that was for sure, sapphire eyes looked back at full of worry and fear, her maroon hair was longer still in pigtails, now she look about the age of 5 to 8. Kaida stood on the window's ledge looking around the trashed room, her face was pain stricken wanting to cry but held it in. She and Kouji had been away on a very long mission, the Kazekage order when he was trying to get Akira alone...guess it worked, he thought bitterly.
"She's not dead." Her voice was soft and thick. "I felt a quick surge of her chakra, but it wasn't long enough for me to pin point." She hopped down into the room; Gaara saw just how much the little dragon looked like Akira, even though she was made up from his and Akira's chakra the child took on both appearances, her maroon hair was a mix of his red and Akira's white, but since Akira natural hair color was brown was the reason why Kaida hair wasn't pink, she also had his pale skin, but she had Akira's everything lips, eyes, nose, body shape, Kaida was defiantly her mother's twin.
"Why couldn't I feel the surge?" He watched her eye the large burn mark on the floor as she answered.
"Because you died…when a mate dies the other mate feels that pain, and the bond is cut not lost, so if by some chance the mate is resurrected like your case, they can find each other again, but Akira seem to cut her bond once she felt you leave. So when you died the bond was cut on both sides, that why you can't find her, if she just left the bond alone you would have been able to locate her as soon as you had woken up." She finished though still looking at the burn on the floor.
"So then why did she cut the bond?" Gaara was about to ask more but Kaida was quick to cut him off.
"It's painful to leave the bond open when an mate dies, it like living with a deep flesh wound in the stomach a constant reminder that your love isn't coming back. In the older days, when a mate left the bond open it was a way to show they were not willing to move on, but sadly they would die or kill themselves only after a few month after their loves death, and the ones that chose to close the bond had more of a likely chance to live but again it was very few. When a mate loses one another it is very likely if the other will chose to live, open or close bond…" she trail off as she sat on the floor.
"What are you saying!" Gaara snapped his head in her direction, his stomach turn into more knots then before.
"The only chance a mate has for surviving a lost of his or her love is if they had off spring."
"T-then Akira will be ok right? I mean we had the quads, right? Kaida?" Gaara was now being to panic, an emotion he never knew until he met Akira, now it was a common and familiar emotion he wish he never had to feel.
"I don't know…" her voice cracked. "I can't feel their life source; something strong is blocking it… I just don't know."
"There's nothing you can do?" Gaara was now shaking, as everything started to skin in.
"There is one thing, but it would be pointless if their not alive and it could take month, even years!" She looked up to at the redhead.
"What do we have to do?"
Kabuto wipe the sweat off his brow as he watched Akira's white hair dance in the soft current that flowed in the large cylinder, wires were attached all down her arms and legs, black symbols covering her body; it has been one hell of a night, her body rejected the Heaven and Earth seal, it wouldn't allow him or Orochimaru to put the cruse seal on her body without hurting her or his equipment!
So he had some how needed make way to put the curse seal on her without actually putting it on her, and that when he got an idea. Looking down at his hands he held a black thick ban that had a big circler gold medallion, with the combination of the Heaven and Earth seal on it, the three slashes of the Earth seal was between each tome of the Heaven seal, if his idea works Akira's body would allow the collar because it wasn't on her body permanently; when she has the collar on her, she would be under Orochimaru control knowing nothing but the command of the Sannin, and without the collar she would just be normal Akira, but there was a catch of course, only Lord Orochimaru's chakra would allow the collar to come off, no else not even Kabuto could take off the collar.
Yes, Kabuto grinned as he watched the young woman his idea was flawless. "My Kabuto, I didn't know think you could come up with something so useful." Orochimaru smiles as he looked over the report on the collar.
"Yes, well she's very stubborn, and has quite a fowl mouth, so why not make something that would cut out her mulish tendencies." He smirked.
"Yes, though I feel even with that collar she would still me mulish."
"Yes, I get that feeling too." The medic laughs. "She has a strong spirit."
"And what of the children?" The Sannin asked.
"They are very much like their mother, but unlike her they can only control one of the elements while she can control all four, though very poorly. The seal on the children locks away their chakra, which is controlled by their emotions, I think it wise if we leave the seal on them until they learn how to power their chakra, and if not well I don't think our hide out will hold up…they did quite a number in the training room, it going to take at least two or more month to fix those damages." Kabuto deduced handing the Snake sannin the collar to full his chakra with.
"Well then, it seems we have a lot to wipe into shape." Orochimaru smiles bring the golden medallion to his lips, slowly lick the edges. "It should be fun."
I do have to say the last two ch i didn't like but i like this one, i think it turn out great! and Sorry if Gaara was a bit OOC but losing a loved one is very hard no matter how strong you are. so yeah but i hope you all like it!
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