In Sunagakure's Hostipal, in its ICU laid Kai. Hooked up to a few machines to monitor his vitals, supply his body with the proper nutrients, and among many other things.
There the jonin level medic-nin, laid unconsciously clinging to the life that was barely there. His chest heaved up and down slowly. Each breath was just as painful as the next. The damage done to his body, left him in a state of doubt by many. He had around the clock care to ensure his survival, which not for the assistance provided by Tsunade's two apprentices he would surely die. They had managed to keep him alive and instructed those in the village's medical field on what was needed to be done.
And it was done, all that was left was for the results on whether or not Kai would pull through. Having gone through multiple surgeries to do what they could. Kai slept if one could call it that, in the room on his medical bed. The only noise, this lonesome room provided was nothing but the sound of the equipment attached to him. Very little light was allowed in, feeling it would be best for the man.
Over at the closed door, it began to open slowly a figure slips in. Tiptoeing their way over to the, sleeping man. Their green eyes look up at him sadly. Their lips shut tightly, but trembled slightly. Raising up a small, to lay upon Kai's. Their hand was smaller compared to his, yet thought it didn't move. It still offered what it was they were seeking, squeezing it tightly along with their eyes that started to leak steady tears.
Neji steps down carefully upon the incline of rocky side of the hill, he holds out his hand towards you."Be careful."he warns you.
Adjusting your strap, nodding your head, taking his hand grasping it tightly. He leads you down the side, the terrain of the hillside was rocky and rough with very little vegetation, a couple of suburbs stuck out from the ground. Though you could easily fly, if you had the bit of strength to do so. Walking was just as fine, your eyes couldn't help but wonder around at the area around you both.
Getting caught up in its wonder, delight and glee brighten your eyes more, the skies cleared and open. Fresh air filled your lungs, a sweet smell that it was for you. Though nothing really, but slight dry land around the both of you, leaving the two of you open and easy targets should anyone try to ambush you and Neji. But, you highly doubt that would happen, plus Neji informed you that in this area, it was safer because of its openness.
So caught up in everything around, and with your feet. Until it was too late, a protruding rock stuck out and became your down fall. Tripping over it, ramming right into Neji, knocking him over as well. The both of you begin to tumble down the rocky path. It lasted for a few a seconds, the two of you end up at the bottom of the hill. A few scratches here and there upon the two of you.
Rubbing your shoulder just a bit, Neji stands up, dusting himself off."Are you alright?"he asks, helping you up.
You stand upright, dusting yourself off and shake the dust out of your hair."Yes, I am fair."you assure him smiling, when you noticed something about him.
"Good."he looks in the direction the two of you still needed to go."We should be just a few hours aw-"
He stops talking, feeling a soft touch on either side of his face along with a warm sensation throughout his whole body, looking down, he finds you. With your hands, one on each side of his face using your energy to heal him. Though from someone afar it would seem like you and him were staring intensely at one another, but he knew the look you had in your eyes, was focused on his injuries. That he felt starting to heal.
You kept eyes upon his injuries, Neji noticed the exhausted look in your eyes. Trying to push passed it, for his sake. Feeling you healed him well, and his scratches were gone upon his face, you smile happily.
"There..."you remove your hands from him."How do you feel?"
It took the Hyuga a few seconds to snap out of the slight fixated trance, he was in."I'm fine."he tells you."Thank you."
"You are most welcome."you tell him, moving your eyes passed him back to the way both of you tumbled. Guilt filled your eyes quickly, this never would have happened if you would have paid much more attention. Luckily you were able to heal him, still...
Neji could easily see what you were thinking, he opens his mouth to say something. Stopping when, you turn back around and began to walk in the direction of the destination.
A strong, ominous feeling jolts Gamarmaru, the Old Sage Toad from his slumber. A cold sweat upon the toad, and cold it was indeed. He felt something amiss, reaching for his orb, waving his web hand over it, a dark thick smoke shrouds the crystal ball. It was becoming bigger and bigger, fear opened up his closed eyes slightly.
Gasping in the sharp air, something was not right. Looking harder, staying focused upon the dark smoke. He did not pay attention to Shima and her husband hopping in frantically, fear and worry mixed upon their faces. Though Shima showed it more so than her husband.
Both of toads get ready to tell Gamarmaru alarming news. Stopping seeing the old toad was already aware of what they came to inform him.
Gasping, Shima looks to her husband worried about to cry."Fukasaku..."she trembles.
After a few hours passed, you and Neji managed to reach area. It was an old desolated looking place, a temple it seemed. Or maybe an old looking town, but whatever it was, one thing for sure. No one seems to live here anyone more, the wood was rotten and decayed. Flaps hung off the doors and windows. Nature seems to have taken over it, making the place its home.
Everything was quiet here, while you walked slowly through the place eying everything. Neji took the job to keep his guard, activating his eyes encase of any sort of surprised visitors. Surely this had to be place, from the information you heard, by those two passing shonibis back in the village. Remembering the map, and charting it...yep, this had to be place.
Yet you didn't sense anything of the Kraang, Shredder or the others. Not wanting to believe that the intel was wrong, and you came out here for nothing, not to mention that Neji came with you for no reason. Which added more to your guilt.
Staying strong, you begin to look into each home and place you could. For any sort of thing that could link you to Shreeder and Kraang's whereabouts, Neji watched you frantically search for something or anything diligently. Trying hard not tear things up or add more damage to the place. Leaving no stone unturned, yet you found nothing. Nothing in these little homes, the last place you could think of was the temple that sat in the center of this place.
Yeah, that had to be it. Rushing out of the last home, you race towards the temple, when Neji saw something that horrified him and was sure to damage you.
"May! DON"T!"he yells for you to stop, but it was too late, he wasn't sure if you didn't hear him or just decided to block him out. Either way, he hurries after you only to be too late.
Pushing the doors open to the temple, excited and hoping you might find something, only for it quickly vanish and be quickly replaced with twisted horror, disgust and sadness. Your eyes widen in horror at what befell you, taking everything in. Your mind processed it, holding onto it. Copying the images from what your eyes took in, if you could cry, God you wished you could right now. A gripping feeling grabbed hold of you, not sure what it was but you seem to feel its boney fingers grip hold of something that seem to be cracking more and more inside. It was hurting, and burning all at once.
This couldn't be the information that you heard, this just couldn't. Your legs started to feel wobbly, in fact your whole body was feeling... Was it numb... Yu were not fully sure. But it petrified you that you couldn't move, eyes stayed fixated upon the horror in front of you. If you could gag you would, though your stomach felt like doing so, it just would not come up.
If guilt could manifest itself, it surely would feel like it was here with you. Its claws digging more into you, what horrors have you brought to this world? Why did you have to be brought to this world...why...
Everything around you just was not in stence, only what befell your eyes now. Not even the almost silent whirling noise that started up.
"...MAY!"Neji, grabs hold of you quickly. Yanking you away, out the door just in time. He tucks you under him, as massive dark energy emerges from the bottom of the temple. And begins to swirl rapidly, spreading out further sucking in anything within its wake. Luckily Neji had speed on his side, manged get some good distance between that strange anomaly or jutsu.
That only lasted, for a few seconds at best. Stopping,he looks at what use to be the small down, that dark energy swallowed it up and next thing he wasn't expecting it...it explodes unleashing a powerful blast. Blasting Neji and you back, separating you both. Thinking quickly, Neji managed to get himself right up, and deflect the debris that came in his general direction. Getting in a stance to perform one of his clan's moves, stopping when he felt something warm on the left side of his chest. Looking down to see looked like kanji form in that spot, in a golden energy. That shot out, outlining him.
Astounded and confused by this, he realized whom this energy belonged to. Before he could fully process it, he returns back to defend himself against in the incoming debris. Extending his palm, ready to strike only to feel nothing at all. Nothing hits him, dropping down to the ground looking at himself, the energy faded away after just a couple of seconds.
Looking at his hands, wondering why...he remembered you. The blast had subsided, activating his eyes, he looks around for any sign of you. Wanting to call your name, but choose against it because there as a high possibility that the enemy might be around. So he stuck with the old fashion way. Racing back to the area of the explosion, finding nothing but a gaping hole in the center of the place. Not to mention two things. One, a sprinkle of disembody human parts that stained the ground and trees and...
You.
Not too far away, on the ground with your back to him. Covered in a few body parts, wasting no time he hurries over to you, moving the body parts off you."May...May...can you hear me?"his voice remained calm and tight. He didn't get any response from you, gentle and carefully as he could. He picks up your blood stained body, stopping when felt your body was stiff and heavy. Becoming alarmed, he quickly puts two of his fingers upon your throat. Waiting till he felt a pulse, it took him a while, but it was faint. Sighing with relief, you were alive.
Scooping you up all the way, in his arms. He couldn't tell if you either fainted or passed out. But one thing he knew was that you were traumatized, how far though...he wasn't sure. Looking back at the place, he mentally reminded himself of the location. But right now, he had to get back to the village and report this horrendous find.
Not too far away, the man in the mask watches Neji take off with you. He couldn't but smile nefariously.
Everything was dark, just dark like a haunting. All those people...all those bodies strung up like a butcher shop swinging there freely. Their blood dripping from every part of them, mixed in with that same ooze. The smell of rotten, decaying flesh filled your every senses. Suffocating you, with their toxic scent. A scent that could never be washed off, your skin still cringed upon the feeling of the warm yet cold blood, that stuck to you.
No, it covered you, feeling yourself falling into nothing but a pool of twisted blood. Hands coming up and dragging you down, the screams of the helpless and unfortunate victims of Shredder and the Kraang. All of them cling to you, in agony and pain. You could feel their pain, and see the horrors of which they had been forced to endure, though vague it was some how was visible to you.
Gripping your soul and heart, it felt like something or someone was ripping it apart. Tearing them shreds, twisting something inside you, filling you up with with unseen fear you could not place your finger on.
Why? Why was all this happening...those poor cries echoed in your mind like a Banshee. Tearing you up, and burning. Gravity had become your enemy now...adding more pressure upon you, that was becoming painful and dark. Those boney hands reached out for you, gripping around your throat, hands without a bodies...without faces...
The chilling sensation from their touches gripped you, and cut your screams before they left your mouth. Forcing you to look upon the endless void, the endless dark void...one you were all to familiar with. Having no choice, and forced to look wishing your eyes did not look. This scared you, the only light/s you could see belonged to the eyes that haunted you...those yellowish green eyes of the Kraang, the eyes of the Shredder and lastly those red eyes belonging to that boy.
They stared right into your soul, freezing every part of it. Their eyes commanding you, no demanding you to look at them. They had the power, the power of control and obedience upon you. Your eyes look up at them frightfully and submissively. Pleading with them, but their eyes closed and cold showed no pity. Everything felt so cold...so cold.
An outline of the Shredder's gantlet rises, and slashes across you, you felt felt no pain...but you did feel something else. It was wet...it was warm...it was thick. Coming down from above you, droplets falling upon you. Feeling its sticky thickness roll down your skin, droplets landing upon your hair. Shaking your head, refusing to look up both the hand around your neck forced your eyes to look up above you.
And there hanging like those bodies back in the temple, to your horror and fear...Everyone...everyone's lifeless bodies hung there aimlessly. From your family and friends back home. To everyone you have met here in this world...there they hung. Blood dripping from everyone single one of them...like a shower of rain.
This couldn't happen, it just could not. Your mouth opens wide to scream only to be silenced instead.
A wet warm, soft cloth, pressed gently upon your brow. The person, notices the tingle upon your closed eyes tighten painfully. They stop, looking at you confused and sorrowful. They continue to apply the water upon you to help, once done, they leave it folded on your brow. Picking up the bowl of water, just as someone comes in.
"How is she doing?"Hinata asks. Walking over to your bedside. Looking too the young woman, they bow in respect to her.
"She's doing fine."they assure her, looking back you. Your face now somewhat peaceful. Hinata looks too, you were still sleeping, which was good. She looks to your helper.
"That's good...to hear."Hinata says in relief. Yet her eyes didn't reflect such. She was more so concerned not on how you were recovering physically right now, but mentally. She looks over to the one sitting next to you by your bedside.
Neji.
She could easily read his stone face, his eyes reflected the same amount of concern she had. Both Hyuga cousins could do nothing really, all they could do was just sit and wait.