Itsumo

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Chapter 12: Revealed.

March 24th

"Uke uchi? What?" he turned to me. Confusion almost replaced the crazy sorrow I had seen a few seconds ago.

"Ino's note had a few... well, flaws if you looked at Shikamaru as the guilty one. Ino wouldn't have put such a useless clue as 'sharing an apple'. Apples are usually red, right? Sharingan - Red. You see? Also, Shikamaru couldn't make a fire like the one atmy house. Yoiu, as I know for a fact, is the only genin who can do it, which made me think trhat it it was any Genin of the villlage, it'd be you. Also, it was WAY too conveniant that you were there jsutas we were in danger to save us. The biggest, however, was Sasha, and Uke Uchi. SASuke uchiHA, you see. Sasuke, it's over," I concluded.

Sasuke, looked up at me. "I-I didn't-t m-mean too... but..." His eyes I had looked at e were something I didn't recognise. "I- I remember now... But something happened, and their gone... No, you won't hurt him, you WON'T!" he screamed at himself, finally pulling out a kunai and stabbing himself in the leg. "Sorry Kiba-san, but... they're gone..." With that, the pile of sobs I had seen minutes before collapsed into an unconcious lump.

"God... What's happened to him?" I said to myself, kneeling down to pick him up. I swore. "What the hell happened to him..."

Sasuke, the pillar of strength, had crumbled, and I, Kiba, had been the one to see it. I wouldn't think I'd see it during my lifetime, or his. At least not to this degree. The rain that poured in the background didn't improve the feeling either.

"Of course it would be raining. 'Least it can't get any worse.." I said to myself, trudging to Kakashi-san's house.

The hill seemed huge and steep, and I couldn't use my hands to stay up. The path was all muddy, impossbile to stand on, so I walked up the grass. 'This'll be one killer storm,' I thought.

I finally made it to Kakashi-san's house, falling to my knees when he opened the door. "Kakashi-san... Take him" I said, holding him out. As Kakashi-san took him, I went into a blank state...

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"Kiba, wake up..." Kakashi-san's voice woke me. Suddenly it all came out in a rush, about Shikamaru's innocence, and Sasuke, and how Ino and Lee weren't there...

He seemed bewildered, by what I told him... Finally he held up his hand for silence. "Kiba, I know you're not usually excitable. Sasuke hasn't woken up, we'll arrest him, and-"

Kakashi was stopped by my flow of protests, "No, he didn't know what he was doing, he couldn't remember, he- No I will not shut up, Kakashi! Not until you promise he won- Mmmph!" I said as Kakashi-san put his hand over my mouth.

"You are hysterical, and remind me of my mother when I miss Thanksgiving. If you insist on talking so that I can't understand you, go back to sleep," he said, glaring at me in annoyance.

Well..." I eventually explained Sasuke's innocence, even though I wasn't completely sure of it myself. "If you saw what he was like last night... he finally stabbed himself in the leg! I think... you should check to see if he's okay..." I said, then stopped. I heard Sasuke stirring.

He, I realised, was on the other couch. He pulled up a hand to draw back the blanket from his head, and sat up. "Kakashi-sensei, I have someythingto confess. I know Kiba has explained it, but you might not know the facts. I, myself, didn't know until last night," he looked at us, his strength back, but sounding... sorry? guilty?

"The story actually starts the weekend a few weeks back, when I went to train in a different area of the country. I didn't notice anything wrong, no blank spots in my memory... But they were there. I'd always thought I'd slept well there, but really my memories of sound sleep were actually holes in my memory that I didn't realise. When I got my memories back yesterday, I found out why.'

'A group of nins, I don't know where from, had performed tests on me. Finally, the did something to me that I can't describe. Ever since then, 'Inner Sasuke' was born. He seems to be created out of all the hurt, coldness, anger, fear and jealousy in me, even though it sounds like something stupid that wouyld happen in a story. Not to say I don't have it left, it's just... He's like a parallel me, only without the goodness. I could hear him whispering at me. I thouht I was going crazy. '

'When Sakura kissed Lee on the cheek that night at Ichiraku, he went insane. He swore to make Lee pay, so he destroyed the training site Lee loved so much. Then, copying Naruto's Kage Bunshin no Jutsu and using a diguising jutsu he captured Lee. Then, Ino learned too much, and confronted him. He talked calmly with her, then took her too. He set flames to your hose, Kiba, to warn you not to poke around about me. He also wanted to make sure Hinata was taken, but to avert focus from him, to show that I wasn't to blame. He was planning to take last night, but she slept at someone else's house. Hinata, he worried, would talk to Sakura, and warn her away from me. Sakura was known to keep her friend's felings to heart. She was to be kidnapped last night, but...I got my memories back, and I remembered that I took them to the cave... but they were gone..." He put his face in his hands. "I can't believe..."

By this time, Kakashi had a look of disbelief on his face, and I was so shocked...

I fainted.

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It all comes out! In Chapter 13, Sakura and the rest head out to save their friends... And is Sakura having more dreams?

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