Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, never have and never will…except in my mind crosses arms and nods head (Pictures a grown-up Naruto in her head -;;)
Kit: grovels before angry readers I'm truly sorry I took so long
Author's Note: This will be extremely short, just to help clear something's up. This chapter is divided into two parts; the present and another section, you'll just have to wait eh?
Does anyone else go cross-eyed over the 'legend' on what to remember (ex. Blah or #Blah#)? I'm trying, but probably won't be able to fix that problem.
Oh and as for my original character 'Haruke', I'm trying to make her as non Mary Sue as possible. I have nothing in common with her and I hope to keep it that way. She's apart of my imagination…If she was a Mary-sue, I don't think anyone would be here …one of me is enough for this poor world shudder.
Warnings: PG-13- contains blood, gore, violence, swearing, and suicidal thoughts and/or actions. You have been warned, read at own discretion. This chapter is disturbing (even to me) if you have a weak stomach for descriptive gore, I strongly advise you to NOT read this story. This is what happens when I listen to 'Deftones'.
This chapter is dedicated to my friend Kaiyuga. Sheesh I hope you happy! tries to keep straight face Hope this chapter is up to standard for you. turns to readers READ HER STORIES!!! THEY'RE FUNNY AS HELL!! XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD
Also read one of my editor's stories! X2Darklord!!! Awesome story, already has 98 reviews and only 3 chapters up :Sniff: He's beating me...
Legend:
"Blah"- Talking
'Blah'- Thinking
'Blah' -Talking in Flashback
/Blah- Inner self speaking
x x x x x x x x x-New scene (since the new format doesn't except those stars I'm using a different one :twitch:)
(Blah)- Kyuubi speaking
Blah- Naruto speaking to Kyuubi
#Blah#- Action
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Twisted Sight
Chapter 8: Tears of Blood
Hateful Will
Hatefulness is a sad, exquisite thing.
Look at all the bitterness and remorse it can bring.
Revenge and blood, tears of sorrow-
Can't always be put up for the dawn of the morrow.
Deal with it how you feel you must.
Just don't forget in whom you put your trust.
Listen to the ever fleeting, ever changing breeze.
The whisper so cold, sometimes you could freeze.
In harmony it speaks with the sound of the hills.
Bending anyone's, and everyone's, hateful will.
By Crimson Storm (Cursed Mist)
Here you go Crim!
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Recap:
She broke through the underbrush, the proud walls of Konoha towering above the trees like the fortress it was.
'Leave me alone! I don't like you! I never will!' The pink haired shinobi never noticed the lone root sticking out of the ground at an odd angle…but then again most wouldn't in the first place. A cry choked from her lips just as her body heaved to gravity. She closed her eyes waiting for the impact, knowing she wouldn't get up again.
'I never got to say I'm sorry,' …A warm body cushioned her fall instead.
"Sakura?" She clutched the dark fabric in her small fist and looked up at the face of her rescuer. Burning red and sky blue, one of sinful anger, and the other holding the innocence of a child's wonder.
"N…Naruto?" The face of a teenager, one that had been through and seen too much in his short life slowly faded from her sight and turned to black.
'I never got to say sorry…'
"Sakura?" No answer…
"Sakura?!" He shook her limp body gently, not noticing the blood soaking the front of his cloak, morphing the once beautiful indigo to a gruesome colour of unknown origins.
"Sakura!" The missing-nin watched with growing horror as a trail of blood rolled down from the corner of her mouth and trickle past her chin.
"Sakura!!"
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Part One:
#Beep, beep, beep#
The noise echoed in the white-washed room, always at a unrelenting pattern.
#Beep, beep, beep#
Everlasting…
The only tincture within that bland room, was arranged on a uniformly white bed. Roseate hair fanned out from all angles on a simple pillow, creating a blossom-pink halo around an ashen face.
'This is my fault.'
A oxygen mask was fitted to the youthful looking woman's oval face. Pushing the life giving substance into her lungs.
'It's all because of me.'
A young man regarded the woman with sorrowful eyes, pressing his forehead to the glass which separated him from his old friend.
'She's dying because of me!'
The blonde sighed.
"I'm supposed to hate you." The condensation from his breath hitting a slightly chilled glass, fogged his sight for a few seconds. " I'm supposed to hate all of you, be able to kill you without a second thought." He pushed away and straightened, rotating away. He looked at the name tag one the door, before walking away slowly. "But why can't I?"
"Haruno Sakura"
There was other things to do, he could do nothing, just wait and have…hope.
'Stay awake bastard! Come on man don't die on me! Stay the fuck awake!' Blood slicked the hands and arms of a blonde youth. His hold slipped once he finally had a strong grip on his companion's hand.
Naruto tried to ignore the smell of burning flesh, how his hand had plunged into the chest of his enemies, grabbing the still beating heart and then sending waves of chakra outward.
Tried to ignore the fact that not a scratch, not a single fucking scratch was on him, that vital fluid was in his hair, clothes, under his toenails and fingernails and it was not his.
He hadn't ripped Haruke's shoulder, breaking it into four different sections…No, he wasn't the one who felt sick pleasure when he smelt her fear, tasted the coppery red substance as he tore her right leg open, exposing the pink membrane that coated every bone.
'Come on Isamu! Stay awake! Don't make me get Ren!' A small smile curved Isamu's cracked lips.
'R-ren?' Tears swelled up in Naruto's eyes.
'Yeah, Ren. She'd beat the crap out of you, remember?' The boy's brown eyes glassed over, tears leaking out of the corner of his eyes. 'Isamu?' Naruto looked down at his friend's face, fear and worry filling his sky blue eyes. 'Isamu? What's wrong?'
'Ren is dead.'
"Uzumaki Naruto?" The blonde snapped out of his dark thoughts and momentary looked over. A Leaf chuunin stood off to his left, when he was younger, he used to call chuunins, the messengers (slaves) of the 'honorable' Hokage…of course, Iruka hit him over the head for that. "The Hokage wishes to see you."
'Well speak of the devil.'
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A small droplet hit the dry soil, darkening the one spot a deeper shade.
'He's gone…' A small bouquet of sallow flowers was clutched in insipid hands. Sobs rattled the young woman's lithe body.
Neji watched his cousin mournfully, everyone else already left leaving the two relatives alone. He'd only seen his cousin like this only one other time. Her fragile heart was shattered after the Hokage-sama announced Konoha's number 1 loudest ninja…was gone. The foolish boy unknowingly broke Hinata's heart to pieces. But… she never seemed to give up, when Miruto asked Hinata for her hand in marriage, they all finally thought that she was moving on, forgetting the blonde. That is…if the fake happiness that seemed to dull her pale eyes wasn't apparent, why hadn't they tried to stop the engagement? Didn't they know the shy woman would live a loveless marriage…stay unhappy? Neji sighed and went to his cousin's side.
"Hinata." Eyes of pale violet, so similar to his own stared back at him except with unshed tears.
"Why?" More silver droplets in purest of forms blotched her sight. Her body started sagging towards the ground, Neji catching her before she fell completely to the ground. Gently as if she were made of glass, Neji picked her thin body up in a bridle style. "He's gone." A single flower was clutched to her chest.
You know that old saying?
"I know, Hinata." The boy looked down at his broken cousin, finally getting a good look at the single flower in her grip. A single sob raked her body before she fell into an exhausted slumber...
But not before murmuring a single name.
"Naruto…"
A flower…the colour of pale sunshine, fell from Hinata's fingers to the ground.
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The blonde man couldn't help, but be slightly dumbfounded, then again who wouldn't upon seeing the mass of papers and people shinobi and workers alike running like madmen to different destinations.
"Finally!" He could just make out a blonde head in the midst of large piles of paper. The Hokage scowled at the missing-nin in front of her. "You know how bloody hard it is to find you?!" She glanced down at a paper handed to her. "Shizune! What the hell is this?! Why would I want the newest copy of 'Icha Icha Paradise'!"
'Tsunade, reading ero-sennin's books?' Instead of speaking his question out loud, the blonde waited patiently. A small pulsing vein popped up on the older woman's head.
"That's it." Looking around her, she glared darkly. "Everyone out! Now! OUT!"
…A small flutter of paper was her answer. The Godaime fell back into her large chair, a sigh escaping her lips. "Finally."
"You wished to see me, old hag?" Amusement flickered in his eyes briefly before being banished behind his mask.
"Naruto…" She sighed again, rubbing the bridge of her nose. "You haven't told me everything have you?"
'Shit' He narrowed his eyes, posture becoming rigid. He shrugged non-chantingly putting a cocky look on.
"And if I haven't?" Tsunade stood swiftly , slamming a fist angrily down on top of her oak desk.
"Damn it Naruto!" She advanced towards Naruto staring up at him with the nastiest glare she could muster. "I need to know what's going on! Now!" It wasn't until now that she noticed how much the teenager had grown since the last time she saw him, six years ago. He'd gone from being the shortest boy of his age group to a 6'3" adolescent. "The longer we wait, the more chances one of my people will die."
Something sparked to life in his mismatched eyes before dying again.
"Please Naruto," desperation filled her voice. "I wish for no hostility to be between us, please I beg of you, tell me." The Godaime held her right hand up. He stared at her open hand for a second then gazed into her eyes.
"The truth?"
"The truth." He smirked and clasped the Hokage's hand…she might as well have made a pact with the devil himself.
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No…not again.
Slender, elegant hands were replaced with slightly chubby fingers. Wide wild eyes looked out at the scene in front of her.
I'm not supposed to be here! Not again! The words continued to flicker through her mind, repeating…destined to be there for an eternity. Fear oozed from her being, tainting the ground with its dark slippery fingers. Her senses, heightening, growing stronger from instincts which usually lay dormant amongst humans.
A pungent smell, one that she'd come to recognize filled the air, burning her sensitive sense of smell along with other whiffs of the usually; smoke, dirt, burning substances, blood…
Taking several yawning breaths, the thin twelve year old started to trek deeper into the ruins of probably a once prospective city.
The constant buzz of insects was the only thing that held silence at bay, besides the sound of the child's bare feet hitting foul, broken paved road. A body lay in the middle of the road face down, dried blood pooled at the abdomen.
A lump formed in the young girl's throat, she tried to turn her eyes away from the dead body.
If the child had dared to approach the "shell" , she would have noticed the normal signs of the dead. Pale white larva squirmed in their rotting haven of flesh inside the small puncture wounds, hollow eye sockets, and gaping mouth. Flies fluttered their see threw pennon, searching for a place to clean and rest.
A shutter coursed through the girl's thin body, but not from the cold. To make matters worse, rain began to descend from angry dark clouds, smothering the last of greedy flames which licked the air. Goosebumps speckled her pale, rosy skin, something deep inside of her now child-like body bubbled to the surface, before her world went black.
The small bundled form sat curled up on the muddy ground, her hair and clothes clung like a second skin to her body. Sobs raked her body, the sound muffled by a cloth given to her before hand. Lying on either side of her, face down, were the people she once called family. She clamped her eyes shut, not wanting to believe any of it, wanting and waiting for her parents' happy, smiling faces to come from the gloom. To hold her twelve year old body and tell her everything would be alright, that it had all been just a nightmare, a bad dream.
That was…before the faint sound of a clothed foot hit the ground behind. Fear gripped her heart, she did the only thing any reasonable person would do…she ran. Adrenaline pounded in her veins, her heart pounding her in ears. The same simple thought burned in her mind, repeat like a mantra.
Run, run as fast as you can. Run away!
From the monster behind her, from the bodies of her dead parents, away from the missing body of her brother.
She skidded around a sharp bend knowing it would help lose the creature behind her. Instead she crashed headlong into something.
The world spun, pain erupted from her ankle and head. She gazed at the blurred object slowly watching it come into focus.
A mop of golden hair flopped into the sky blue eyes of a young boy. Both of the youth gawked at each other, their large frightened eyes taking in the appearance of the latter before the little girl looked away. The world fell silent with the exception of the rain.
At first…it sounded more like paper being crumpled, till the area seemed to vibrate with the static.
Eyes widened in realization…but it was too late.
A scream erupted from her throat as she fell to her hands and knees, the smell of burning flesh blinding the world in pain.
Haruke's body jolted, her dark eyes snapping open. Sakura blossoms fluttered in a phantom wind swirling from the trees she lay under. Her senses sharpened, a brook bubbled playfully near by hidden almost the whispering branches of Konoha's massive trees. The feel of rich grass and soil under her calloused palms, the smell of spring and early summer leaves and flowers, of cherry blossoms.
Such peacefulness hadn't existed in her life since…
She shook her head, golden brown locks twisting and waving like it had a mind of its own.
"It had all been a dream…" She stared down at her fingers, watching them spend out, letting the blades of grass slide outwards before standing tall again. "All…just…a…dream." She sighed dragging a hand across her face, letting it drop. "I know you're there." The twitter of a bird nearby mixed with the stream was her only answer, Haruke glanced around, her eyes hardening lightly. "You can come out now. There really is no point on hiding from me."
The faint almost nonexistent of a body landing next to her didn't startle her in the least. Haruke looked up as a shadow fell across her.
Who ever said a shinobi must always expect the unexpected never met a member of a clan before.
Coal black eyes pierced her.
Penetrating her barriers…
Staring into her soul now bared to the world.
Her heart pounded rapidly, watching as red leaked into his dark eyes.
Her limbs froze, fear taking control of her body.
Three comma shaped markings flickered to life.
"Sharingan." His eyes narrowed when the single word was uttered past her lips. "Uchiha…Uchiha Sasuke."
"Who are you?" Haruke's body stiffened.
"Yumazike…Yumazike Haruke." Lifting her head definitely, she closed her eyes. "Commanding officer under the legion of Uzumaki Naruto, the Kyuubi no Youko.
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Tsunade stared off into space, forgetting where she was and who she was with, then again… Most people would do similar things, or just lose their minds in shear panic, knowing that something was coming for them and the man who had stood in front of her mere minutes before. She tried to swallow her fear, with shaky fingers the Godaime pushed herself upwards and headed for the door. The hallways were empty by now, only the odd Anbu or worker whispering around a corner.
"Hokage-sama." She jumped slightly, perceiving the soft spoken Anbu. His ivory-bone mask glinting in the dull hallway lights.
"Sasuke?" Confusion obscured her vision. "What are you doing here?"
"I…I have a few questions…"
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He always did feel a certain satisfaction when things were done correctly…
He gazed out at the demolition before him, such weak beings these creatures. They infest and reproduce like vermin, small and useless except for the odd few. You squish them once, they double in numbers twice as fast.
The beast he rode quivered beneath him, impatient, anxious, wanting to kill and eat…or maybe the other way around. The scent of blood could make any creature, human or animal, and the odd hybrid…go deranged with the need to feel the blood lust…Well that was true for the beings in his dark army.
A smirk flickered across his usual stoic face, hearing the sound of a woman's shriek mixed amongst the roar of men's laughter.
"Ssssirr." A raspy tone of voice, sounding more like a lizard hissing than a man, whispered next to him and his steed. He skimmed over the hunched over, man cloaked completely in black. "It'ss been done." A pale pair of spheres gleamed in his hand like precious stones, at first glance one may think such things by the way the man held them in his sickly hands, but then again. What stone would have blood on it?
The rider drew one of the objects from the strange man's grasp, who in turn flinched briefly, afraid to touch his master's pale skin. The 'master' held the sphere gently turning it slowly in his hand. The only flaws on the treasure's perfect surface stood out. Pale lavender almost white in colour shined with a light all its own. "Aasss requested, masster. The eyess of a Hyuuga of the main houssse." With a small bow, the man disappeared in a puff of smoke, taking the eyeballs with him.
The man frowned , he would have to get rid of that snake soon, his voice was beginning to annoy him. He smirked again.
'Speaking of snakes.' He glanced towards the two men tied to a nearby pole. Both had long hair, probably very silky at one time, now in pieces stringed together by grease, dirt, and blood after long days and nights of no bathing. Their clothes and skin torn to shreds, the massive amounts of torture bringing them to his mercy. They hung , their wrist raw and blue from the abuse afflicted on them. The pale, sneaky snake should have known better than to try his crafty tricks on him. It was simple really, torture the leader in front of his legion, make them fear, and they will follow like the mangy mutts they were. He sneered, it was best to place them in the frontline, kill them off and not waste the few men who had some talent, destroy the weak and the strong will survive.
A man dressed in black, kneeled down in front.
"We found the location of the target, sir."
"I already knew." He stared through the smoke and haze, past the great barren desert, to the darkening green trees of Konoha village. "Kyuubi."
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Hinata walked silently through the halls of Konoha Hospital, her eyes always on the check board held in her hands.
"Okay, lets see here-" Her sentence was cut short as she felt a presence behind her.
"Hello Hinata."
Pale lavender met the mismatched eyes of crimson and azure.
End of Part One
Kuroi's notes: :Stares blankly at chapter just written: …damn…Must write a…humour…next :crosses arms and closes eyes, as she nod slowly to herself: yes, humour…
Thank you minna-san!
Kaiyuga: :perks up: POCKY CHUUNIN!!! WHERE!! WHERE!! :pops strawberry Pocky into mouth: thanks for the review, WHEN ARE YOU PUTTING THE NEXT CHAPTER UP FOR YOUR NARUTO FIC?! :starts crying: Why?! Why leave me stranded! :strikes a dramatic pose with a light shinning down on Kit: WHY?!
Angie-chan: :sweatdrops: I got to agree with you there…he is…err…a angry teenager, just like me! :spins in circles on wheelie chair.: no…wait…I'm more insane than angry hehehe…THANKS FOR THE REVIEW!!
Hell Devil: :shuffles feet: I guess I should feel kinda…honoured? :scratches back of head sheepishly: I found out about Naruto awhile ago, one of my favourite artists posted a Naruto picture on her website, I got to admit when I first saw the whisker-like scar marks on Naruto's face, I was just like "What thee 'ell it dis?!" :speaks with accent: Now it's my favourite anime…speaking of anime, I have to watch the latest Naruto Episode…:pulls popcorn out of nowhere.: Thanks for the review, glad you like my story!
Shadow Eclipse: sorry about that last author note thingy, I really hope there's no more. See!! I updated!!
SilverKnight7: Sorry I took so long, major plot bunnies :grumbles darkly: more like plot cows…Plus school was killing me…umm about little note saying 'I would write no more stories after this?' …that was a lie, that's what happens when I get depressed, I say …err write things that I don't mean. I already have outlines for other story ideas. Thanks for the review!
SoulRetriever13: Silly? Yes, that is me =p, I was actually in Anaheim, since we had to play in Disneyland…could get as many fast passes as we wanted hehehe. Thanks for the review, hope this chapter makes more sense…all of my editors said it was great, and found no spelling mistakes. Ya for me!!
RavensHaelo: Cool name, I was planning piecing it together…ssllloooowwwlllyyyy though :grins darkly: I got to admit writing the characters out was pretty fun, I try to keep them as in character as possible…well…except for Naruto, I pieced him together using the elements around me. He's angry just like how my siblings used to be when they were teens …damn…my brother's getting old…he's ten years older than me and I'm 15...:ehem: Anyways, he's apart of my mind, and what I feel around me. :scratches head: damn…that really confused me…Thanks for the review!
Akki: …Very forgetful now aren't we? :grins: I think the reason why that chapter made sense to only the two of us, is A) I'm the writer, it would be very sad if it didn't make sense to me.
B) You're insane, and can understand things that most people can't comprehend.
C) We're both crazy, and it makes sense to us only.
Or D) We're the only sane people on the planet and the rest of the world is insane.
…I like D
Karu-san: :stares blankly.: ummm thanks?
Daniel of Lorien: Why does everybody think I killed Sakura? :ponders over question.: Weird…:shrugs: Ah well, I actually like Sakura now, I used to think she was a …:ehem: but anyways! :starts bouncing up and down: I have a lot of things figured out, now I just have to write them out! Thanks for the review!
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Silvermist 91: :sweatdrops: I'm sorry about earlier, I found out that there were two Silvermist, and got kinda confused…which isn't very hard…0.o your from Australia! Damn it must be hot, I would turn into a crispy fried lobster :notices blank looks: What?! It's true! I glow under black light!! :turns back to writing: Thanks for reviewing! P.S. If you do write a Naruto fic I would so read it, just…if you left Cliffhangers, expect death threats from me…I don't like them…
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