"Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come into your life to show you what is right and what is wrong, to show you who you can be, to teach you to love yourself, to make you feel better for a little while, or to just be someone to walk with at night and spill your life to. Not everyone is going to stay forever, and we still have to keep on going and thank them for what they've given us."

~ Emery Allen

Her screams of agony are what rouses Gaara from his unconsciousness. He looks around in clear alarm at the distraught sound. Like a dying animal. What he finds is Mitomi gripping at the fabrics of her shirt, clawing a mess into her exposed skin. Her breathing is erratic, she seems to be suffering, in real pain. She locks eyes with him. Hyperventilating.

"One.. of… my…. tags. .. jus..t...died…" And at this distance she doesn't know who it is. But someone in her family is dead. She can't risk Kurama though.. She can't ask him if it's her brother.

Obito appears out of a swirl, mask still in place, but this time he is not alone. Mitomi sees red. THIS WAS ALL THEIR FAULT! All previous thought of playing it smart, careful, flies out the window. She wants blood, and she wants it now.

Yin Kurama breaks through her barrier. Killer intent so strong floods the cell, it forces Obito to his knees. Mitomi flies past him, a golden and red cloak shrouding over her entire form. A mix of controlled and enraged tailed beast transformation, eye dilated and narrowed in the marking of sage. Black chakra bubbles and builds rapidly in her hands. In a swift move that should have not been possible she rips the Zetsu in half, Obito tries to get up and stop her but he's never experienced killer intent of this level.

This wasn't normal KI. It wasn't even tailed beast KI, he was familiar enough with that to know. Was this just her? How? She's the weaker of the two! She barely escaped the last time they fought! Impossible. How was this happening right now!? Why couldn't he move?!

"You should be dead! Mother killed you already! I saw you die!" Black Zetsu cries, Mitomi lets out a maddening cackle. Like a deranged feral beast.

"THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE WRONG WORM. I KILLED HER." The black bubbling substance dripping down her arms eats the incarnated will of a goddess alive. Then in another swift move she slams her other hand palm first into the other half's face. White Zetsu dissolves into a clear mist, the acidic nature of this seal allows for nothing less, it will completely sever his connection to any other white Zetsu's on this planet. Mitomi turns her attention to Obito then, eyes glowed with a purple tint, the seal on his heart fades.

As anti-climatic as it is he passes out. She almost felt bad. Mitomi walks over to him carefully, she plants her own paralytic on his shoulder before hoisting his unconscious form off the ground. Gaara is working on pulling himself off the ground, sand sifting in warning around his body. Her killer intent shouldn't have affected him, because she aimed it intentionally.

She smiles at him.

"Come one, let's get out of here. We have family to check on." She needed to know who died. Needed to know whose blood was she responsible for now.

The cave explodes behind them as they walk away.

Sasuke keeps Naruto at his side. The village may have forgiven Itachi but he hasn't, his brother is dangerous, sasuke didn't want Itachi to take anymore of his people. He places a hand on Naruto's shoulder as they shake… Sasuke understands what it's like to lose family members.

"What are you doing here Itachi?" Kakashi questions as he pulls himself up to stand, directly putting himself in front of his students. Asakimi shuts Chiyo's eyes and then seals her body away in a black scroll. Sasuke watches as Itachi looks around, pensive, he never could understand what his older brother was thinking.

"We were merely in the area. Let's go now Kisame." Itachi and his partner vanish. The ground shakes under their feet. In the distance clouds of black ash rise above the treetops.

Naruto wipes his eyes, a look of absolute determination crosses his face. Eyes set and hard. "We need to go, Mitomi has Gaara." By the urgency of Naruto's tone Sasuke has to wonder if something else has happened. He may not like his teammate's sister, but she hadn't been wrong, and he still had a score to settle with her so he would hate for her to be dead.

"Let's go."

"Wait just a second, we have backup in range." Because while the boys could probably keep going, Asakimi and Kakashi were both at their limit.

They'd both fought S-rank threats one on one. If there were anymore of those out there then they were going to need back up.

Naruto doesn't look pleased by that order. He grits his teeth.

"Why spare him?" Gaara asks once they are far enough away from the cave. Mitomi gets the feeling that he didn't agree with her choices, she shrugs, he wouldn't understand. He eyes her cloaked form warily. How long could she hold that? Could he do that with the one tails. She considers him for a moment, her eyes still have a slight illuminating effect, Mitomi signals for them to stop.

"He's not our true enemy here." The true enemy was now disposed of.

She lays the still unconscious man down, checks over the seal she placed on him and checks where Zetsu's seal used to be. Madara might have believed he was the controller of this seal… but he was wrong. Mitomi clenches her first at her side. She could not stand by blatant cruelty, cruelty for sake of being cruel.

"Because ultimately he's just another victim. The creature that I ripped in half was really the instigator, the true villain. This man is just another sad pawn, in a plan that can now no longer take place." Mitomi had sixteen years to come up with a way to kill Zetsu permanently.

Fuinjutsu really was the ultimate fail safe. The god card of all specialties. It's no wonder why the rest of the world feared Uzu.

"Do you always make it a habit to save people?" Mitomi laughs, but it's weak. She can feel the effects of walling off Kurama starting to hit. The effects of using that technique. Unlocking the ultimate Uzumaki kekkei genkai. While she would never have the Uzu vitality or be able to heal others with her chakra alone… Mitomi could see seals, and understand them on an intimate level.

She could look at a seal and know how to undo, recreate, unravel, adapt, remove, and destroy. Just by looking at it. Even if it wasn't visible to the naked eye. She could see them. Her great grandmother had been the last noted person within Uzu who possessed this rare bloodline limit. When they made it home she was going to have to go to Uzu to find all of her great grandmother's records… she would need to learn every aspect of this ability. Mitomi blinks, Kurama's cloak falls.

Limit reached. Not good. She knew that they weren't out of the woods yet, it was likely that Nagato would send someone after them… he still believed the lie.

"I wouldn't really consider this saving him." Obito wouldn't consider himself saved once he came too. Once he could look at his past actions and life with an unclouded heart. She was certain this would be a punishment to him, he would consider it a fate worse than death.

Death would have been too kind.

So you're talking to me again?

Your brother is on route, I thought you would want to know.

Thank you… I am sorry.

But Kurama has nothing more to say to her, Mitomi's mindscape is eerily quiet. Just as she is about to let out the breath she'd been holding, because Naruto was still alive, deranged cackling surrounds them.

"Look at this Kakuzu, they really escaped! Do you think Leader-sama will let me sacrifice the fucking idiot who let them escape?!" A scythe comes flying out of the woods.

Mitomi barely avoids losing her head. The blade nicks her cheek.

XOXOX

And I think I will leave this here…

Thank you for reading!

~LaRae