Wow, the big 5-0. Well, I thought Taro needed a soft side so here you go. Thanks for understanding why I am not able to update like I did when I started this series. My mother is sick so I have to take care of her along with going to school so it's great! Well this is for all of you.
Esp. 3DG Girl...whose comments are extremely hilarious...
Chapter 50: Miyuki
Amarante looked at the girl in shock. Who was she? The girl's eyes were flooded with tears and her hair was blowing in the wind. She looked mad. No, mad wasn't the word. She was pissed. Amarante clutched her kunai and calculated her position. She was eight yards from the girl and 45 degrees to her. She'll deflect the kunai. The girl fell to the floor.
"Are you okay?" Amarante asked putting her life online. A few of the jounin members came running to the aid of the new Hokage's daughter. "Are you hurt?" Amarante asked looking over at the jounin who was behind the girl.
"Amarante-chan," Someone whispered in her ear. Amarante turned to look at Goro fully recuperated.
"Goro." Amarante said and then looked back at the girl. Taking a step forward, Amarante looked down at the girl. "Are you okay?" The girl started to cry. Her face was a mess and her hair looked dead against her pale face. This girl seemed like an animated corpse. Amarante crouched down in front of her. "What's wrong?" She asked. Amarante looked up at the jounin members who were ready to attack. She nodded her head no signaling them to retreat.
"Why did he lie?" Amarante looked at the girl who had finally spoken. Why did who lie?Amarante wanted to ask but she noticed the girl was bleeding from her wrists. Did she try to commit suicide? Activating her mystical palm technique, Amarante healed the girl.
"Okay, we're going to take you over to Konoha Hospital. Come on, let me help you." She helped the girl up and towards the hospital. "Takuto. Renji!" Amarante called for two chunin. "Can you please get some one to clean up the mess that has been made? Tell me if there are any casualties, if not, help those who are injured in the blast.
"Hai." The spoke and then ran away from Amarante and the girl.
"What's your name?" Amarante asked making sure the girl talked so she didn't faint. The girl strained herself to speak but she spoke.
"Miyuki." She stated looking at Amarante. "Why are you helping me? I tried to destroy your city."
"Ssshhh, don't worry about that Miyuki-chan. My name is Amarante. I'll be taking care of you at the hospital." Amarante watched as a medic team ran towards her with a stretcher. "You're in my care now. You have nothing to worry about." Amarante tried to pacify the girl who looked dead on the stretcher.
"Thank you but please. Kill me." The girl begged. Amarante stared it her in shock. "Please. I don't want to live."
"Hush, you don't mean that. Come on let's get you into bed." They were in the hospital by now. Amarante turned to one of the medic ninjas and spoke. "Take her to the third floor. Make sure a nurse is with her and also a ninja. I'll be up there once I ask the Hokage what we should do. She is a threat to us though I doubt it." Amarante watched as they took the girl to a room on the third floor.
Amarante ran over to the Hokage's tower. Once inside, she realized Taro was in there talking to his mother about the recent attack.
"Mom! We don't know what the hell this is! Medic teams were there before us!" He yelled. Taro was tired, you could tell. Naina had been keeping him awake at night because of her pregnancy urges. "We don't know what level of attack it was!"
"It wasn't anyone but a girl who wanted to end her life."
"A suicide attack?" Taro asked shocked. He looked at his sister who had blood all over her uniform.
"No, not really. She looked angry. I think it was just her emotions that caused her to be irrational. She's weak and she's broken. I don't know why."
"What do you know about her?" Sakura asked from her new Hokage table.
"Well, she's in her early 20s. Probably my names. She's medium height. Looks like a ninja but I don't know from where. Her eyes are brown and her hair…medium length. Up to her shoulders. Black. She has a scar on her throat. It's probably 1-2 years old. Another few scars running along her arms and legs as if she were in long battle. She's pale white. Looks like death. Her name—"
"—Is Miyuki." Taro finished. Amarante looked over at him. "Her name is Miyuki isn't it?" Sakura looked at her son. "I knew she would do something like this."
"Like what?" Sakura asked.
"Mom, Amar. Miyuki…was a ninja I fought a while back. She was forced to fight because of the warlord in her nation. Basically, in the ice country, the warlord owns the ninja. They must do what the warlord asks. I promised Miyuki I'd save her from this life. And I did…I think. I took her away from there and brought her over to the Land of the Mist. And I left her there hoping she'd be taken care of. I don't know why she's back…but I want to be the first to talk to her."
"Does Kakashi-sensei know all of this?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah."
"Yo." Kakashi materialized out of no where. "Why can't I stay live my retirement in peace?" He asked.
"Kakashi-sensei, you know Miyuki?" Sakura asked looking at the aging man.
"Yes. I remember her. The girl we took from the Ice Country. What about her?"
"She attacked the village." Amarante spoke.
"Hmm…yare yare." He looked tired. "I do not think she means harm. It's obvious that she was in love with Taro."
"WHAT?" Taro yelled at Kakashi.
"She loved you…or rather loves. Didn't you think it was obvious? She probably assumed you loved her too."
"That doesn't make sense." Taro spoke.
"You saved her. She fell in love with her knight in shinning armor. I think I remember reading an Icha Icha about that…hmm…let's see…the girl falls for the guy after he saves her and then they…" He looked around the room. "…never mind."
"Still, I'll be the one talking to her." Taro walked out of the building.
"NO! TARO!" Amarante ran after her brother. Taro turned around to look at his sister. "She's under stress. Remember she want to kill herself. Do not say anything…negative to her."
"Do you think of me as an idiot?" Taro asked looking at his sister. "Amarante." He walked towards her. "You need to give me some credit. I know I've changed but some times I'm the same old Taro. You need to trust me." Amarante looked at her brother. She noticed he was really young in looks yet he had ages of strife and pain. "I know you think I'm a bastard, and I am but I do have a heart." Amarante stared at his shocked.
"I…never thought that."
"No…you never believed it. You have thought it though. I've seen it on your face Amarante. I have to be a bastard. It's the only way I can protect you. I have to be rational all the time and not have my emotions flow all over."
"Taro?"
"You, mom, oja-san, Naina. You are the ones I need to be the most rational with. And trust me, I'm not going to be a hard headed asshole. I've dealt with women all my life." He gave her a helpful smile.
"Hai…nii-sama." She smiled and then together they walked towards the hospital. Taro couldn't stop thinking about the girl. Had she loved him? He didn't know what to think anymore. She was devastated. He knew that. How should he break it to her that he was happily married with a child along the way?
The hospital was bustling with many medic ninja. The recovery from the Akatsuki and Orochimaru attacks were still progressing but there were many ninja out. "She's on the third floor." Amarante stated as she and Taro started to walk up the stairs.
"Okay." He replied. Amarante walked into the room to find the girl looking out the window. She looked over at Taro who looked at her. Shock was across his face as he tried to make out the girl he had met. She used to be so full of life. Happiness would gleam in her eyes and now she was dead. She was just flesh, blood, and eyeballs that looked at the happiness of others.
"Miyuki?" Taro asked, aspirated. She slowly turned her gaze to him. Her eyes filled with tears. "What happened to you?" He walked up to her and looked down at her. His eyes scanned the new contusions on her face.
"I…hate…you." She slowly seethed.
"I…I'm sorry. I didn't know." He replied. A tear dropped down his face. "I'm sorry Miyuki…that I can't give you what you want. If I had known earlier…I would have made sure that you knew my true feelings. I love Naina…my wife." She stared at him. "And the mother of my child. I…I'm really sorry."
"You left me." She began to speak. "At least you could have taken me with you. He found me there. He was going to kill me. I just wanted to die…so I came here to die. At least I could die in peace. I have no one…no one." She fell to her knees crying.
"You have me. I'll be your friend Miyuki. I promise, you're not alone." Taro told her. Amarante was silently crying by now.
"No. I don't have you. You belong to another. I couldn't tell you my feelings and because of that I lost you. I don't want to live Taro…not with out you. You saved me from my hell and I fell for you. How blind were you to not notice that? I just couldn't say it."
"Why couldn't you say it?"
"Because I was scared of you rejecting me. I was scared of rejection. I have always been rejected all my life. My parents…rejected me. My friends, everything I have ever know, my sensei, rejected me. I didn't want that so I was scared. You don't know what went through me when you left. I felt like I was just a useless piece of shit."
"You aren't. Miyuki, I can't love you. I love Naina. But I can be your friend and maybe, just maybe you'll find that there is another you love. My mother always told me, there is someone out there who loves you."
"After all of this…I still hate you."
"I don't blame you." He led her to the bed. "Regardless, I am taking care of you. I want you to sleep. I'll come by tonight with some dinner. The food at this hospital is shitty."
Amarante smiled as she helped the girl into the bed. "I'm your friend too you know. Anything you need, please ask me." Miyuki looked at the medic nin and then nodded her head. Covering her up, Taro said good night and then walked to the door.
"Amarante-chan." A male nurse came running to her.
"Hai Takuto-kun?" She asked.
"Ryo-san asks to be discharged."
"Tell him he has to stay one more night and then I'll take him home myself."
"Hai."
The twins walked back to Sakura's old medic nin office which was now Amarante's. They sat down on the couch trying to figure out the day's events. Amarante looked at her brother who sat in deep thought.
"Taro?"
"Amar?"
"I have a question to ask you."
"Spill."
"If she had told you she loved you…would you have married her?"
"Yes."
