Hey guys! I'm in a great mood right so sorry if I sound way too happy for you. I finally finished my Kakashi drawing! I don't know why it took me so long since usually, I struggle with facial expressions, and for Kakashi, all I had to draw was one closed eye. But it was still difficult. Like do you ever just feel like something's so hard even though you regularly do it? Yea I guess that's what happened to me. But anyway, on with the story!
Chapter Ten
Sasuke
I guess I'm dying then? It's not that bad. I mean, what else am I supposed to do? I accomplished everything I wanted. I made mistakes, I did my best to fix them. I don't feel whole though. Like I haven't done everything. I can't die when I'm not ready to. It's my life to control. Thinking about all the people I'll leave behind, after my family in Team 7, I think of Hina, the pale Hyuuga who's made me feel things I've never felt before. I can't just leave her, I can't leave Sakura, who's matured so much from the small pink-haired girl who chased after me into a brilliant kunoichi, and Naruto, who's now closer to becoming Hokage than I ever thought he would. Wistfully smiling, I slide out of bed and walk over to the small table in the corner of my room and see a blue bento box with a piece of paper folded on top.
I thought you would be hungry and made some rice balls with tomatoes, Tsunade-sama said tonight you'll be able to come back to your house, but on one condition, I'll have to stay and look over you. Are you okay with that? If not, you can always stay at the hospital and I'll understand. If you don't want to stay with me, you can always ask Sakura to come to your house or you can go to hers. I would invite you to mine if you were fine with it but I don't think that the other Hyuugas would appreciate it. Take care and get better soon!
With love from,
Hinata
Smiling, I sit on the soft sofa chair next to the table and open up the bento box. As I bite into the soft rice ball, I moan at the flavor and just look out the big window over at the city.
"Those rice balls must be good." I hear someone say, and I choke on one in surprise. After I dislodge it with a few coughs I look up to see Kakashi leaning against the wall. "Sakura told me to come see you."
"I know you don't want to be here," I say, Kakashi's never once visited me on his own, Sakura has had to always drag him to visit me and Naruto. Then Naruto in turn drags our sensei to visit Sakura when she's hurt.
"You make me hurt," he says, sitting on the bed. "Sakura told me about your new friend." I cock my head to the side and he laughs at my confusion. I don't have any new 'friends,' unless you count…
"She said the Hyuuga's making you happy." I fight a rising wave of pink from taking over my face.
"Hn." crossing my arms I look out the window, away from my grey-haired sensei. "Did you come here to check on me or tease me?"
"Why I'm ashamed you would think of me that way, dear student." I just snort, standing up and looking by the window. Screw Sakura's fear, I can tell Kakashi whatever I want to.
"Sakura said I'm gonna die in case you were wondering." At that Kakashi freezes and pales.
"Sasuke…" Kakashi says, "Don't take it so lightly. This is death we're talking about."
"I'm being eaten inside out, this thing inside me, it lives off of chakra, eventually it'll take over my whole body and I'll be it's puppet. It's obviously something evil so I'm going to end up hurting everybody."
"If it takes over?" Kakashi asks, as nonchalantly as he can with his pale face and wide eyes.
"Someone kills me." I say shrugging, I was prepared to die my entire life, ever since I tried attacking the village and failed, I realized there's nothing left for me. Well, I did until now. Why is it that Hinata, who I've only known for a week, has made me a different person? Is it because she's so much like my mother? She puts up with my attitude? She never fawned over me? I don't know, and I shouldn't care!
"Who?" Kakashi asks me, snapping me from my thoughts.
"No one said a word about it." I say, "Though if I died, I would rather go out in a fight. Send me somewhere where my skill isn't good enough." Kakashi nods. "If it comes to my murder, then that is the only way I'll go out."
"I-i'll see to it Sasuke."
"If there's no other way, I would rather go out fighting you and Naruto." There is no other way. I either die protecting my friends, or die fighting them.
"Naruto and I will have to work together to end you." Kakashi chuckles trying to lighten the mood.
"You think I won't go out with a fight?" I ask, rolling my eyes. The nerve of him to think I'd just go without trying. I'm Uchiha Sasuke for crying out loud. "Don't tell anyone whom you even think would tell Naruto." I say lowering my voice. "At least not until the very end." Kakashi nods, probably realizing how Naruto would react.
"Didn't you say you're only dying if they can't cure you?" Kakashi asks, I nod and he continues. "Why are you already preparing for your death?"
"Sakura and Tsunade have no idea what's going on. Sakura had said Tsunade was looking into old books, but Kaguya's sealed and Madara's dead. Either than those two, we're sure no one else has any idea of what's wrong with me. Plus I don't think we'd find anything in any books, this is Kaguya and Madara we're talking about, they wouldn't write down their knowledge for anyone else to use."
Kakashi just smirks. "I think someone is about to prove you wrong." At that Hinata flies through the door and almost falls to the floor, and while both Kakashi and I immediately get up to catch her, I smirk when I get to her first. Picking her up I set her on the hospital bed and I sit next to her while Kakashi sits on the sofa chair.
"I-i found something." she says, panting and out of breath but excitement shines in her eyes. "It's Madara's." she says, pulling a small battered book out of the bag she's holding. I take it from her hands and gently open the first page to see a name written in an untidy scrawl. Uchiha Madara. Amazing.
"Hina where'd you find it?" I ask.
"Y-your house," she says, putting her fingers together nervously. "I-i know I s-shouldn't have l-looked around, b-but I was cleaning up a-and realized Madara was an U-uchiha too-"
"Thank you!" I say, putting one arm around her and pulling her into a hug. She tenses up, then relaxes and hugs me back.
"I-i wasn't just going to stand back while you were injured S-sasuke-kun." Clearing his throat Kakashi stands up and grabs the journal from my hands.
"Amazing." He mumbles while looking through the pages. "There's so many different jutsu's in here."
"It's mine." I say, snatching the book from his hands. "C'mon Hinata let's go tell Tsunade we found this." She nods and walks over to my side. "Shouldn't you get to your duties Hokage?" I ask. Kakashi just laughs and jumps out the open window.
After walking in silence for a while, I ask Hinata a question. "Why'd you sound so worried in your note?"
"T-tsunade-sama made i-it sound like y-you'd complain and not like it." she says.
"I'd only complain if it was Sakura or Tsunade." I say. Well, actually I take that back. I'd complain if anyone did that. Except I wouldn't if Hinata did.
"O-oh." she says, "So you won't go into a rage and almost murder me?" She peeps up.
"I will murder someone." I say, of course the old lady would see fit to make me the scariest person on earth. I slam the doors of her office open to see her sitting at her desk with a bottle of sake.
"You'll be glad to know I've accepted Hinata's help." I say sitting down on one of the chairs in front of her.
"Really?" she asks, raising an eyebrow while pouring another glass of sake. I nod and she just throws the drink down her throat. "Good for you."
"Have you found anything like Sakura said?" I ask, knowing that she probably found nothing.
"Yes actually, I did find a journal." She just slides a book across her desk and I raise an eyebrow before picking it up. Opening it up, I look at the first page and immediately slam it shut, throwing the book out the window. Tsunade bursts out laughing, and Hinata, obviously thinking it's important, jumps out to go retrieve the book.
"W-was that really necessary?" I ask, putting a finger below my nose to check for a nosebleed. No wonder I'm probably all pink right now.
"Eep!" I hear a small squeal as Hinata drops the book on the floor. Looks like she got a look too.
"I think it's quite interesting actually." Tsunade says, leaning back in her chair.
"Pervert." I mutter, then I slide Madara's book across the desk. Picking up the small book filled with some not-so-great pictures, Hinata puts it on a small bookshelf behind Tsunade then comes and sits on a chair.
"Amazing." Tsunade says. "The stuff about you's probably at the back, because it happened right before he died." Nodding I look over at Hina and she smiles at me. "Hinata?" Tsunade asks, still looking through the book, "Will you go see if Shizune needs any help with the patients?" Hinata just nods and runs out. "So Sakura told you?" I nod, "And you told Kakashi?"
"Hn." I grunt, crossing my arms. Read the journal and fix me!
"We could try to have you control it." She says, obviously thinking about something, "That thing inside you has a lot of chakra."
"Pfft. Me control that evil thing?" I almost laugh, and right on cue there's a sharp pain in my gut and I can feel a massive amount of chakra slipping out of my control. Gritting my teeth I put a hand to my lower abdomen and Hinata looks at me with worry in her eyes. Raising a hand to wave her off, she looks satisfied and starts talking again.
"Well let's check that off the list. Hopefully Tsunade will find something in Madara's journal and we can figure out how to satisfy it's desires." Nodding, I turn left to cut through the Sakura tree park and Hinata follows. "I h-had another idea." Hinata says, suddenly quite nervous.
"Yea?" I ask, waiting for her to continue. She just stopped walking and is looking off to the right and as I stop behind her, I'm about to comment on how easily she loses focus when I see what she's looking at.
Naruto and Sakura.
Oh. No wonder, she looks kind of upset. I mean they're sitting under a sakura tree and making out. Plus she's probably hurt because of her crush on Naruto. I remember when I came back and first met Sakura and Naruto. They were both holding hands and everything. For a while I was confused, and kind of hurt. Sakura had chased me around all the time hadn't she? I mean Naruto had chased after her too. But still. It kinda felt bad, knowing that no one 'liked' me in that way anymore. Ino met my 'substitute,' the freaky guy named Sai, Sakura finally got together with Naruto, and then all my other weird fangirls didn't really care after all that time. Ugh, why should I even be thinking about this? All that did was hurt my pride.
"Shouldn't I feel jealous?" Hinata asks, almost emotionless after I put my hand on her shoulder. "I loved Naruto for so long. I started feeling for him that first day he brought me home when I got lost. But it's gone now. I don't know what happened."
"Hinata." I say softly, it kind of hurts to see her upset over how she used to love Naruto, I don't know why. But it's not my key focus right now, Hina's hurting and it's my job to help her. "Feelings change. You didn't see him for over seven years, and he's found happiness with Sakura. We don't want to hurt our friendship with either of them by telling them how we feel or felt."
"Sasuke…" Hinata starts, "I never knew you felt that way for Sakura-san."
"I-i didn't either. I guess I figured she'd be waiting for me when I came back to the village. But she wasn't and that's what hurt. She had made such a big deal of me getting back, that I figured she still wanted me here." After a while of silence I speak up.
"We should leave them and go." I say.
"Hai." We start walking through the park once more and make it back to the Uchiha compound.
"Sasuke-kun?" Hinata asks. "Is it a constant pain or?"
"Constant." I say, "But not too bad, sometimes it'll flare up but I'm fine." The only thing is that I can feel my chakra slipping away. Soon enough I won't even be able to make a small fireball. My chakra levels are really low right now. Like the after a hard battle kind of low.
"Come, let's go look through more books." she says grabbing my hand and dragging me through a part of the compound I never dared to explore after the massacre. I had moved my stuff to the front rooms and never gone anywhere else after. But Hinata's here today, I can't just tell her not to go here. She's trying to help me after all.
"I had been walking around and found this room." She says, stopping in front of a section of the wall. The only thing that's there is a small picture with the Uchiha symbol. Hinata drops my hand to remove the small picture and underneath it is a slate of metal with three small holes in it. "You have to put your fingers in it and provide chakra, we have one like this back at my house." Nodding, I first activate my Sharingan and see the outline of a door, with chakra pulsing through it. I recognize my mother's chakra signature, my father's, Itachi's, even Obito's. There's pain, as the mass inside me recognizes Madara's chakra through my sharingan. The chakra I'm using to control my sharingan is wrenched from my control as the mass takes it. Groaning, I deactivate my sharingan and weakly push a little through my fingers into the hole. I almost collapse from the effort and sweat stains my brow.
"Sasuke stop!" Hinata shrieks, as she uses her Byakugan to see the effect of my chakra use.
"I-i'm almost t-there." I say through gritted teeth. Finally the wall slides open and I collapse against the wall. "T-tsunade needs to find something fast. I'm getting worse faster and faster." Hinata pulls me up and we walk inside. In the room there's a shelf that fills up the entire left wall, and books line the racks. On the right there's a small shelf with scrolls, and then a bunch of ninja weaponry. "Let's look through them all." I say and Hinata nods. "Hey wait," I say, stopping her before she can go over to the bookshelf. "When will you train with your cousin and father?"
"I-i don't know." Hinata says, biting her lip.
"Why not now?" I ask, "I won't be able to train with you for a while, so I mean when I'm busy and don't need your help you can go train with the Hyuugas or help out at the hospital."
"Ok." she says turning to walk out. She pauses at the door and then looks back smiling "Arigato gozaimasu!" she says.
"No need for the formality Hinata." I laugh then shoo her with my hand. Once she leaves I sit down and open a scroll up. It's my mother's handwriting.
"Kaa-san?" I say, then lightly laugh. I read through the scroll and it's about a jutsu my mother developed. I never knew she had the capability to. Amazing. It's just an adaptation of the phoenix flower jutsu, but it still is something that my mother took the time to mold and make her own. It's more directed and is more of a signal than something you'd use in a fight but still. It's Uchiha Mikoto's very own jutsu.
I-i think I want to learn it. It won't be hard, I already know phoenix flower, and I just have to replace one of the hand signs and focus more chakra in center streams rather than spread it out. Picking myself up I walk outside into the front yard and look for the guards that I had employed. Oh they're gone. Probably because I never ended up paying them or even asking them to come to their stations after Hinata was introduced to the village. Once things get back to normal I'll call them again. Getting into a stance, I send chakra down to the mass, hopefully that'll keep it occupied while I try the jutsu. Then forming my hand signs I pull together the chakra and blow it, at first it takes shape, but then sputters out once my chakra slips from my control. It feels like my body's being torn apart as my dark purple chakra fights Marada's black. Feeling dizzy I fall to the ground and just lay there. Might as well wait here until Hinata comes back. I don't think I'll even be able to make my way to the house, closing my eyes, I lay on the ground, content with waiting.
"Uchihaaa!" I hear someone yell. I just weakly raise a hand and when I open my eyes I see Tsunade, standing over me and glaring.
"I'm guessing you were just using chakra?" She asks, an eyebrow twitching.
"Hn."
"Didn't I tell you to rest?"
"Hn."
"Get up." she says, looking away from me in disgust.
"I can't."
"Brat." She mutters, grabbing my arm and dragging me inside. Once she pulls me through the door I go sit on the couch and she comes to sit too. "I read Madara's journal." She says lazily, stretching out on my couch like she owns it. "I for one think you're screwed. Might as well go die."
"Then send me on a suicide mission, ask Kakashi and Naruto to fight me." I say.
"Suicide mission. No. Kakashi and Naruto. No." she says, "I will need your body." I just throw my head behind me until it hits the wall.
"I need to be able to seal Madara's chakra into you, it is evil after all. Considering what he wrote in here if it gets into someone else, it would be disastrous."
"Are you telling the truth or do you just not want to bother Kakashi and Naruto by asking them to murder me?" I ask, crossing my arms. The old lady would definitely be fine with just throwing away my dead body. Seal or no seal.
"Read the damn journal." she says, then reaches over for my mother's scroll I set on the coffee table. I just open Madara's journal to the page the bookmark's at and start reading. My eyes widening as I read more and more.
Gedo Mazo
Using the sharingan I can manipulate the chakra remnants and turn them to my will. If I end up not surviving, the chakra will still manipulate the Uzumaki. Though the Kyuubi and Six Paths might end up conquering it and turning my chakra at Naruto's will. Not him. Next best option? Uchiha Sasuke. My descendant will be glorious with my jutsu's, the Gedo Mazo's chakra, and his sharingan. The scroll in the Naka shrine shows how to preserve jutsu's in my chakra. The Gedo Mazo will effectively eat Uchiha's chakra away until his emotions are weak enough to manipulate, then his head will be filled with his past resentment towards the village and the gedo mazo and my chakra will submit to his control which will give him access to the jutsu's I put in it, and the Gedo Mazo's chakra. Then he will be unleashed upon the village. This process will severely weaken me, which is why I must be prepared to lose when I fight the two shinobi, as the fight nears I must start preparing the Gedo Mazo chakra. If I am still alive, then Uchiha and I will take the world, if not, his emotions should be enough for him to understand. I believe that until he gains control over the chakra, it can save him during a fight, like the jinchuuriki chakra can before the person gains control of it. As the chakra feels the need to preserve itself, so that should stop Uchiha from being murdered before I want him to be.
Slamming the journal shut, I throw it to the side and accidentally smash a vase. My bad.
"Why do you keep such fragile items in here if you get angry so easily?" Tsunade asks.
"Would you not be angry if you realized that soon enough you're going to murder your friends?" I ask, the venom in my voice as clear as day. Tsunade doesn't respond, instead she just looks at the shattered vase. "Tch. Thought so." I say and the old hokage just gets up and leaves. Closing my eyes I take a nap.
I wake up and rub my head, that nap wasn't great, It was plagued with nightmares and I feel worse. Plus, I didn't get any rest from that
"Hinata?" I softly ask, still laying on the couch.
"Sasuke!" she says, running over, and throwing her arms around my neck. I slowly pat her back and feel something hard underneath me next to her hand. Reaching my other arm underneath I pull out Madara's journal. She must have read it. That makes more sense.
"I-it's going to be okay." I say, reassuring myself more than her. She just weakly nods then digs her head into my chest and eventually falls asleep on top of me, her arms still wrapped around my neck. I close my eyes and let out a long sigh. I can only imagine how Naruto and Sakura would react. Though Sakura already knows. So I'm kind of invincible? Well at least until I become a monster. Then I guess I'll be able to die. Looks like I'll actually end up destroying the Hidden Leaf like I had wanted to. Though right now isn't the best time. I was looking forward to staying here. Why?
…
Maybe a certain Hyuuga who happens to be sleeping on top of me? Ugh, I admit it. I do have a crush on Hinata. What am I a school kid? I've never had a crush, well unless you count Sakura, but that didn't really count, I was just confused. Stretching my head back I groan. Time to go to sleep, I can already feel myself blushing.
Hey guys! Sorry for taking forever to update, my beta reader and I are currently going through all the chapters and trying to fix grammar mistakes, so if you didn't like reading the first few chapters with grammar mistakes, then you could always go reread them now. Other than that, thanks for reading!