Friday (Dec 24) part 2
Black Zetsu had been sure when this first started out that his plan would work: get May so beyond pissed that the numerous chakra's inside her would slowly take over, making her lash out with them and allowing them to hurry the process of May's upcoming death. Yes, he was a little mad that the bomb hadn't worked, Stacey Rutter had been a loose end in that plan, but he wouldn't make that same mistake next time. Next time the Akatsuki would surely die, they'd already been completely useless in the ninja world, but now, ha! they weren't even on the same chapter anymore as him.
Black Zetsu did not fear the once dead Akatsuki. He didn't fear the villages. He didn't fear Madara or Obito, and he didn't fear this world. Black Zetsu wasn't one to look at the world with fear, he was one to look at it and scorn it for being too childish and weak. He didn't alarm himself over people because they weren't worth his time, his intelligence, or his mother's vision.
All were unworthy compared to mother.
For years, Black Zetsu had had pride in his lying abilities, the schemes, the tricks, everything; but now as he stood before May he realized that maybe, just this once, he should have thought up a different plan. Even so, it would still end the same, he'd just end up getting banged up a little more, a few bangs and bruises he could handle, just as long as she was dead.
Black Zetsu tightened his sharp teeth as his mind felt their sudden presence, even without their chakra he could sense the Akatsuki members and their every move on top of a hill outside the city. They had gotten here faster than anticipat-oh, they had the annoying Stacey Rutter with them, no wonder they'd gotten here so fast, even though he'd deliberately made sure that his and May's scents had vanished halfway here.
May's punch that had sent him barreling through numerous walls had been leaking chakra, it's massive amount tearing up the ground above and around them, the ceiling opening up to a cavern that eventually opened to the sky, bringing in moon beams. Black Zetsu sent a small glare up towards the moon, almost tempted to get out of its giving rays, that white ball in the sky was not mother. It was a heartless rock that only angered the black being.
Turning away from the moon Black Zetsu quickly dodged May's fist that nearly connected, the air surrounding the clenched hand licked at his cheek as it passed. There certainly was power in her, but soon that would wear off.
"If you let your emotions control you May, you will lose yourself." Black Zetsu stated baring his sharp teeth in a grin that split up his cheeks in a manner that no human could. The girl however didn't seem coherent, gaze hot with the desire for his death. Maybe that was the appeal that the Akatsuki saw in her, fighting spirit, or the carnal desire…. whether those were true, it did not matter.
"You're one to talk Black Zetsu," oh maybe she actually was able to hear him. "didn't you attack me in the cell for saying you had no one? What's that convey then?" The moon beams were bathing them both in moonlight as clouds parted the sky from the wind the releasing chakra was amassing. "You're fighting for someone too, aren't you?" She was smarter than she looked as well; these comments irked Black Zetsu as he stepped away from the moonbeams angrily, even in a fit of rage May noticed this.
To the black beings surprise May's hands flew into a hand-sign, the chakra was somehow conveying to her what signs to use; recognizing it instantly from the Uchiha fight Black Zetsu jumped out of the way only to see May materialize on the wall he was heading towards, standing on it as if it were normal ground and not an up and down wall.
More cold moonlight washed up Black Zetsu as the air whistled with chakra and the ceiling ruptured, creating a massive cavern above.
May's mouth gaped open and a red hot fireball the size of truck shot at Black Zetsu, her eyes glinting as she watched.
"Die."
Black Zetsu grinned back as he allowed his left arm to stretch unbelievably long and grasp the top of the cavern, clutching onto the cement of the top layer. Like an elastic, his body snapped out of the way of the blast and up into the split ceiling, landing delicately on the sidewalk of a road where idiot citizens were screaming while running down the street as the earthquake shook ferociously. Black Zetsu nearly lost his balance.
The chakra May was allowing to seep out was getting out of control, it was suppose to kill her and yet it was growing, and growing like-like...like a flame. Black Zetsu's eyes widened.
"May must be thinking that she's keeping herself alive just enough to kill me, but that isn't the case." The mass of chakra was building up, crawling from May's body like infants, darting to the sky while using May like a lightning rod to launch.
Black Zetsu realized that if he wanted to live, he'd have to get away from here as fast as he could. If all that chakra compiled in one place, this town was gonna light up; not even bothering to worry about the Mafia below them, Black Zetsu raced his mind for a new plan.
A blast echoed behind Black Zetsu, he turned to see May landing on her feet beside him, her hand swinging at him with Amaterasu that burned black across her bleeding fingertips.
With quick reflexes, Black Zetsu fearlessly grabbed May's wrist of black flames and held it two inches from his face with all his might, his stance shuttered for a second as May brought up her other hand that was a metallic color. Catching that hand caused Black Zetsu's feet to dig into the ground as he was pushed a couple of inches backwards.
Something bit into his hand causing Black Zetsu to twist his neck to gaze down at May's burning one, there was a mouth on the palm of May's right hand, trying to dig its teeth into the flesh of his own.
Black Zetsu met May's burning gaze, her teeth bared so hard that blood fell from pink pierced lips. It took a second to realize that another stream of blood was dripping from one of the girl's eyes.
Forget this, he could kill the girl after but Black Zetsu was not going to let this continue and die with her; even with him being immortal, a blast from all those chakra's combined would not be pleasant and would probably end in everyone's death, and more importantly, his death.
Knowing he'd have a second chance at her, Black Zetsu tightened his hold on the girl's hands and began, he could feel her chakra amounts slipping into his own body, absorbing it. If he could absorb enough of it he could then dissipate it, allowing it to disappear back into May and she would be weak enough to kill without hindrance.
Chakra rushed up into the black being, flushing down his chakra channels, wrapping around his core before Black Zetsu almost buckled, May's eyes were almost rolled into the back of her head as the chakra sent a massive counter strike against both Black Zetsu and her. Black Zetsu bit back a scream that came out a chortled yowl before trying to retch his hands away-the chakra slashed at his stomach and chakra veins-he coughed blood but could not pull away for May's hands that had gripped onto his wrists.
"Let go!" The wind was whipping around them, swirling around them like a vortex, forming a funnel for a tornado with them at the center. The moon shone down on them one last time before the top of the funnel closed off its light.
"Mother!" But his mother was not in this world.
Black Zetsu choked on his own blood, the ground surrounding them was falling apart, he could barely see outside the tornado blowing around them.
The last sight of the outside world was of the houses caving into the ground around them before the tornado thickened, collecting numerous pieces of carnage from around them and Black Zetsu's sight was cut off.
Across from a choking, fearful Black Zetsu, May was crying from her mind being retched apart from the powerful jolt that had attacked both her and him. Chakra flared between them as Black Zetsu tried once more to cut their connection, he couldn't take anymore chakra or it would destroy him too! With a deafening screech that barely rose above the wind, Black Zetsu yanked at his hands, May's nails dragging along and into his skin, blood fell from the claw marks.
No matter how much he pulled the black being couldn't free himself from the girl, flaming eyes widened in desperation. This wasn't possible, he was over one thousand years, a little kid couldn't kill him like this!
"No, I'm stronger than you! You're useless! A child, while I'm the superior one! I can't die like this!" Black Zetsu was nearly in a frenzy.
May wobbled on her feet for a second, final strands of chakra began to make its way into the sky as her eyes rolled back out from her eyelids to stare at Black Zetsu. It seemed to take May a second to realize who she was looking at, when she did her mouth bared a growl and tore one of her hands away from her bruising grip. Seeing this Black Zetsu pulled angrily on the other arm.
"Let me go! NOW!" Black Zetsu didn't even seem to realize that he wasn't speaking out loud anymore; May instantly wrapped her free hand around his neck, her tender loose fingernails wobbling in their fleshy holdings as they dug into the black skin. Black Zetsu choked and struggled, his free hand finding the back of May's hair and yanking on it with all his might.
"Why? You took everyone I loved, now I can repay the favor. Whoever is waiting for you on the other side will be happy to see you." Black Zetsu eyes snapped to May's and he stopped struggling as he felt the tendrils of May's chakra digging deep, taking root into his body.
"What are you doing?" May's eight different chakra's were drifting into his body and waving around like living beings.
"This chakra is too powerful for one body, and it seems too strong for two bodies. It pained both of us before in retaliation, and soon," May looked up at the top of the funnel, her other eye beginning to leak blood. "it will kill both of us when the rest accumulates up in the sky." There was a part of Black Zetsu that knew the chakra was somehow taking over the girl's mind; if she knew what was really happening outside this funnel, how many innocent were dying, she would be trying to stop, not that Black Zetsu cared about the innocent, they could all die for all he cared, but he wanted to live.
Letting go of her hair Black Zetsu stretched his free arm and wound it around May's neck like a noose, her bleeding eyes widened, but she did not fight him, only tightened her own hand as she waited patiently.
Chakra strands inside tore at tender innards as Black Zetsu strengthened his grip.
'Black Zetsu, stop this!' White Zetsu's high irritable voice rose inside Black Zetsu who lashed angrily at the presence.
'What do you think I'm trying to do you moron.' Black Zetsu had been trying to stop May for the past ten minutes, the annoying voice was only drawing attention away from the task at hand.
Realizing that there was a way to live, Black Zetsu grinned. This girl, would die alone.
As swiftly as he could, Black Zetsu allowed his body to meld with the ground and pull him down, morphing him into it. May tried desperately to keep him level with her but it was as if another stronger entity was pulling Black Zetsu into the earth. The ground seemed to snap at May's fingers, until finally she had to let go. When the black head of Black Zetsu disappeared into the ground, a blast of eight different chakra's slammed their fists into May's inner mind.
Black Zetsu smiled under ground as he heard the young girl cry in anguish, she would die alone, along with the Akatsuki who were somewhere in this mess, but Black Zetsu would live because Black Zetsu always survived. He was over one thousand years old after all, he could weather any storm even a chakra based one.
Above the ground May was hunched on the ground, her arms covering her head as if to protect herself from the pain inside and the battering winds outside that stormed around her like to clashing enemies.
"MMMM-" There was a voice yelling over the tornado surrounding May, the floor underneath was still shaking. Why care if there's a voice, the Akatsuki were dead and it was May's fault.
"MMMAAAA-" If she'd been stronger at the time, if she'd learned to control this power, none of this would have happened! The could have all just gone back home! "I'm sorry apart of me was selfish and wanted you all to stay! Maybe if I hadn't waited, and just jumped into practicing you all could have gone back home and lived!" There were tears mixing with the blood as May cried.
"MMMMAAAAYYY!" Her name rose above the screaming wind, blasting at all sides as May slowly allowed one eye to open and look up, her arms still protecting her head as a massive car went swirling around inside the tornado her powers had created.
"Hello?" May wiped one of her cheeks, smearing blood and tears on the top of her hand. That voice wasn't Black Zetsu, she couldn't tell if it was someone she knew or not. "Of course it's not someone I know. They're all dead."
'-No we're not May! We're alive!-' The wind wasn't what caused May nearly to stumble as she stood up abruptly.
"White Zetsu?!" May screamed out into the funnel, a circus of houses, cars, trees, dirt, and the occasional body swirled above May like a dial. Could it really be White Zetsu? Had he come to May? It made sense that he would still be alive, where was he? May searched around desperately but the tornado erased all eyesight to the outside world.
'-May it's ok, you have to calm down. This chakra will beat you if you continue to feed it!-'
"But I don't know how to do that! Last time, nothing worked! And it doesn't matter, they're all dead!"
'-May it will work! You have to trust me, this will only work once, it's growing stronger by the minute and if you don't stop everyone in this town will die. Mothers, Fathers, and children, May!... And the Akatsuki aren't dead, they're here with me.-' May stood there, torn pajama shirt ripping around her from the wind, bare feet ice cold. Was it possible? Could the Akatsuki truly be alive? Her heart began to thud loudly in hope.
'-Here, I'll be able to send some of their thoughts to you, just calm down.-'
There was a second of silence that seemed to last a life time as a bundle of emotions filled May's lungs, clogging it up until finally a voice came through to her mind.
"Damn May, you sure know how to make a riot don't you? Isn't that my fucking job though?!" May nearly choked as she grinned through her tears, never in her life had she been more happy to hear the familiar swearing of Hidan.
"Come on May, I believe in you. You can stop this if you put your mind to it. I'll always be here for you, un."
"Deidara…" The name was choked out from a dry throat as May coughed when dirt was inhaled.
"I may be leader May, but right now you're in charge, don't fail. Right now you have the power of a full blooded Uchiha, I would know, so put it to good use in there."
"May, lovely May. Don't give up, you hear me? I won't give up on you so you can't give up now or I'll turn you into one of my personal puppets-ow! Deidara I swear if you hit me again-"
May stood a bit taller, the chakra screeched and reeled its head like a dragon shouting out fire, she closed her eyes and began forming a wall around her brain, the chakra battered and the wall aching for access.
"Umm Hey May, listen I just have one thing to say before I allow someone else to go. I need to tell you, just in case anything happens. I respected you very much at the beginning of this, but as the days went on I realized that… it wasn't respect, I fell in love with you May!"
The message ended with the sound of a WHACK, concluding that the speaker had just gotten hit. Walls thickened inside her brain as May grinned, heart beating erratically as the chakra was slammed back down her spine, thrusting it back to the core where she could trap it effectively.
"They say that money talks May, it always used to, to me. It was the only thing I needed in life but when I came here, something else called out much louder, you."
The funnel above was slowing down, some of the cars dropping inside and outside of it, nearly missing May's body as she clenched her fists.
"If I remember correctly, you once told me I looked like a college professor in these glasses. Aren't professors usually right then? Then let me say this: I know you can do it. You will defeat this."
Another car crashed right behind May, almost shutting off her concentration.
'You have all our powers right now, besides mine, but that means that we're all with you right now even if you can't see us.' White Zetsu's voice was calm even though what seemed to be gritted teeth... he could also feel this pain, couldn't he?
"Listen May, I once had to lay my life in your hands when I got horribly sick, those days when I transformed back into this frail body. Now lives are in your hands again, more than one, more than us eight. These people of this city need you now."
"THERE!" May's mind screamed as she slammed her hand down on the ground, the chakra burning one last time before it sealed inside her core.
All at once things ended. The funnel around her did one final swirl before circling outwards and into the wind of the night, all the numerous pieces that had flown above May now came crashing down, one final car landed twenty feet away and exploded from leaking gasoline.
The moon poured its gracious light down meeting her stiff shoulders and the hell of a burning city and an earth shaken land.
Sasori watched as the tornado blew its last dust rings out into the night, final pieces of the city fell to the earth, creating their own dust clouds as they smashed into the ruptured earth. Never had Sasori seen such destruction, cities toppled into caverns, sunken roads, holes that gaped open like mouths to hell; and it had only taken twenty minutes.
One of the final cars that fell exploded immediately on impact, Deidara covered his face, Hidan stepping back while Sasori lunged forward into the wreckage, his legs skidding dangerously across the now steep ground the had risen and steeped down to where May had been in the tornado. Houses were dangerously tipping on this upheaval of ground, the large chunks of ground had risen like triangles, all their points to the middle. The other members were close behind, climbing over pieces that rose in their ways, each timid with their steps but Sasori rushed blindly across the steep terrain, he tore away from the group leaving them all behind as he nimbly jumped over a fallen car before stopping.
May stood in the middle of it all, turned slightly away from him staring at the moon as if it could tell her something she didn't know.
Sasori stood there, his breath heavy as he took a small step towards her.
With stiff movements May turned her neck slowly, first one eye met his, and when her face was completely turned his way, both eyes met Sasori's reddish brown ones.
The puppet master didn't move.
"Sasori." The voice was hushed and choked because of her crying, blood dripped down from her eyes. "You're alive." She whispered as if in a dream as her gaze swept over him.
May's eyes caused a small shiver to course up Sasori's spine. Her left eyes was that of a rinnegan while the other was the blaring red of the sharingan. "You're all alive." She blinked up at the other Akatsuki members still rushing towards them, May smiled before her body crushed to the ground like a dead heart.
"May," breaking out of his trance Sasori rushed over and held the poor girl to his chest, he cupped her cheek tenderly and kissed her forehead; the rest of the Akatsuki were suddenly there, each crowding around to help but Sasori just stared into May's closing eyes.
"You're... all…. alive…." Sasori kept his thumb pressed to her neck, feeling as her heartbeat grew slow...
Author: Goodness, I reread that last chapter… I didn't realize how intense and emotional that was! It was a good chapter, I am surprised that it turned out that good.
These two chapters were really intense, this chapter was actually written the same day that Chapter 50 was. Black Zetsu got away though, darn good bad guy he is, makes me want to kill him to!
Hope you liked the fight scene even if it was kind of small, I think the point was well dished out in the end. It was also a lot of fun to see into Black Zetsu's mind and write his side it put a different perspective (I had to study up a little on Black Zetsu to make him seem more like himself, but that was fun) and this chapter was really good in third person I think.
I hope known of you were confused on the mind talking when I didn't say the member's name, all of them had hints of who it actually was.
The new poll is up! Go vote three times for who you think is the most popular character in this story!
Fun fact: Personally I find the Rinnegan a lot prettier/cooler and better looking than the Sharingan.
Review if any of you got emotional during this chapter or the last!
Love ya, see ya all later!
-Jinx of the desert
May's Amaterasu black flames were from Itachi Uchiha.
Metallic hand was from Kakuzu.
Fireball from Obito.
Mouths on palms were from Deidara.
Telporation both from Obito and May's inner chakra.
