Rated for grossness…{.}... {.} Can't help it…

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Sikuliah cackled, seeing Kage's horrified expression as she screamed.

"WHAT ARE YOU?!" He grinned, pulling Aki's lips so far back that the ends touched her earlobes, revealing an ongoing set of shark teeth.

" "What" am I?" He vanished.

"Huh?!" Kage looked around.

A hot breath that smelled of sulfur slithered down the side of her neck. A smoke black hand went over Kage's shoulder, gripping her chin as a blue tongue slid up the side of her face.

"I am Aki…and she is meeeeeee…" He kicked her square in the back, tearing her chin on his claws.

She fell on her face, sliding across pieces of stone gravel. She slowly got up, and stared at the person she once saw as her closest friend and now as a possessed demon. Sikuliah bit down on one of his black claws, tasting blood. Saliva dripped from his mouth, drenching his claws.

"You're sick." Sikuliah chuckled deeply.

"I'm just me." He looked down at the dead cat.

"So, that is what set me free? Aki actually had feelings for that thing!?"

"Like you have feelings to start out with."

"OoOoOoOo, icy, aren't we?" Sikuliah felt along his right arm, "Hmm? What's this?"

He pulled up Aki's sleeve and saw it was bandaged near her shoulder.

"Oho…smart girl." He tore off the bandage.

"What the-?" Pinched at the end of his foot long talons was a small red leaf the size of a quarter.

"Using an anesthetic to keep me at bay…Clever indeed." He flicked it away, "But alas, it wasn't enough."

"You know, Aki blames you for releasing me. If you hadn't killed the creature, I would still be inside, biding my time. But you unlocked the door. It's your fault. And she won't forgive you for it."

"We'll see about that!" Kage charged, pulling out shuriken.

Sikuliah sighed, shaking his head slowly.

As Kage was coming closer, Sikuliah drew his hand over his shoulder.

"GIVE AKI BACK!!" Kage was slapped so hard in the face that her cheeks were scratched from the claws and blood flew from her mouth.

"I worked too hard for this day!" He extended his claws three more inches, "AND I'M NOT GIVING HER BACK ANYTIME SOON!"

He gripped his shoulders with the opposite hands.

"I want to breathe…" He started to squeeze his claws into her flesh, "I want to know I'm alive…"

He shredded cloth and skin from Aki like a wolf trying to get out of a trap, roaring as murky swamp green scales were revealed under the flesh that he had torn off.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING TO HER?!" He grabbed her already torn face.

"What am I doing to her? No no, the question is, what has she done to me?" And with that, he ripped off the rest of Aki's face.

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"KAKASHI- SENSEI!!!!" Sakura pulled away in disgust.

Naruto stared, not wanting to believe it or being able to.

"What's wrong with her?!" Sakura turned her face to the wall, hearing the squelching sound of wet flesh.

"I- I don't know." Liar. He knew exactly what was wrong.

…………

He let Aki's face fall to the floor as he covered his own. Aki's back arched to the floor, the sound of bones cracking inside echoing in Kage's fear. Sikuliah released a primal squall, pulling his hands from his face. Kage could see a snout grow from Aki's face, and Sikuliah brought his head back, gripping the top of Aki's head.

He panted, his voice growing a roar as his snout grew longer and longer. He shrieked again, vibrating in power and pain as his jaw forcefully turned sideways. Aki's hair wavered into a merciless black, growing wilder and pointer at the ends. Two blue tongues flailed out of his new mouth, dripping corrosive purple saliva. He curled inward, positioning his feet to support himself as his back trembled. With a screech, black bat wings tore from Aki's back, splattering flesh everywhere around him.

His abdomen stretched out while a thick, trunk like tail elongated and poised around his bony ankles. Aki's feet were extended, making the demon balance on the balls of his feet, the heel sprouting out bone spikes. Sikuliah fell forward, resting the back of his right fingers on the stone while pressing his left.

Kage froze; she knew that stance. Ever since Aki introduced the Final Fantasy series to her, she had been hooked on FF X. And she had taken a personal liking to one of the aeons in the game. And the creature that crouched in front of her was imitating the stance from none other than Ifrit.

And if that was so…Oh shit.

Every step that Sikuliah took towards Kage erupted small red fire around his lizard like feet.

"NOW LET'S PLAY!" Sikuliah's hands were covered in fire, and he threw it at Kage.

(This…This is…"HELLFIRE"?!) The fire enveloped her.

It didn't burn her, it just stung really badly. But that was only the first phase. She felt herself being lifted up into the air, and saw as a huge fireball crashed into the flaming tower. Now it started to hurt. Sikuliah landed back on the ground, and pulled out a section of the ring, and flung it at Kage. Now it REALLY hurt. Kage felt herself helplessly slam into the stone, knocking the wind out of her and possibly cracking a bone or two.

Sikuliah cackled, purple spit flying from his mouth. His feet were surrounded by fire, but this time, when he took a step towards Kage, ice crystals sprouted like flowers from underneath his padded feet.

"Anything that Aki imagines…"He tapped his forehead, "I use as my weapon."

Kage wheezed, blood fluttering from her mouth.

If that was true…oh, God, if that was true…!

Kage, however badly her body was smashed, leapt to her feet, trying to back away from the advancing dragon demon. He grinned, showing mismatched fangs as he let his blue tongues limply hang out in taunt.

He slammed his fists into the ground, sending rushing threads of ice towards Kage. Spires of crystal blue ice spiked towards Kage like a timed domino explosion, each getting sharper, thicker and bigger as they closed in on her.

All she could do was lamely dodge them while gripping her left arm in pain.

"What'sss wrong?! Still holding back?!" He maniacally laughed, and for once, it worked, "This isn't Aki anymore! You can go "full out" on me…Though I doubt you could by now…" Even if his jaw was sideways, Kage saw him grin.

"You…you might not be Aki, but you're still inside her."

"So…" Sikuliah sized up to Kage, "Turn the other check, then?" He smacked Kage backwards.

"Aki will never forgive you. You betrayed her. Just like everyone else."

"SHUT UP! What do YOU know about AKI?!" Sikuliah gently guffawed.

"Everything." He waved his hand in an arch in front of Kage.

"She's a paradox to society. She says she lives for tomorrow, yet she clings to yesterday. A hypocrite to the friend, and a danger of herself to the foe. She tried; oh, how she tried, to accept us…" He paused, flexing his fingers inwards.

"But NO!" He slammed a fist, breaking the stone around him as it froze in ice, "She lied! SHE LIED!! As she always has! To me, to you, to all that lay witness in here." He waved his hand around to emphasize "all".

"And what are we to tell them, hmmm? That she doesn't belong here?! That she doesn't ex-"

"YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH RIGHT NOW!!" Kage pulled out a kunai, and amazing for her speed, shoved the kunai through his jaws, locking his mouth shut.

He screamed, staggering back. Black blood seeped from the back of his lips. He froze. And then he laughed.

He laughed so hard that tears fell from his red eyes.

"HOW NAÏVE CAN YOU BE?!" He snickered so hard he had to cough a bit.

"What?"

He wrenched out the kunai from his lips.

"DON'T YOU GET IT?!" He flung it back at Kage, this time incased in electricity.

She dodged it, but the kunai struck through her shoulder, shocking her system. Sikuliah stomped his feet into the stone, caps of indigo electricity scuttling outwards and vanishing. He opened his large wings and roared, shaking the Statue of the Ram seal. A huge explosion of electricity struck Kage head on, overloading her brain and making her unable to stand.

Sikuliah's wide eyes narrowed as he trudged towards her, electricity screaming under his feet.

Kage, after her body had stopped trembling, put a hand to her head and winced. She opened her eyes, and saw the shadow that swallowed her up.

"I guess you don't know and shouldn't know…" He raised a claw up for the kill.

"Die knowing you betrayed your friend." He brought his claw down, the madness livid in his eyes.

"This is a dream. I can't die. Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, WAKE UP!" Everything literally stopped.

Kage's screwed shut eyes opened slightly. Then they popped out of her skull.

"WHA?!" She stared at what was positioned in front of her.

"N- no way…" Sikuliah snarled at what appeared to be a wolf.

"It can't be…Fen?"

What was once laying dormant in her dreams now stood in front of her, snapping it's jaws at the demon. Fen had been a creation to comfort Kage every time she moved; a reminder that nothing was lost forever. Now he was going to live to that purpose.

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"Sensei! That's cheating, right?!" Naruto never gave up in his justice streak.

"I'm afraid not."

"WHA?!"

"Listen." He hoped nothing would get out of hand at this moment.

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Kage was baffled on the floor, question marks littering her mind.

"But how-?!" Then she noticed it.

Buried in its fur were tiny black stitches.

"Heh…placing your chakra in a doll to animate on it's own…I didn't think you'd result to that type of weakness…" Sikuliah rose up on his hind legs, and flapped his wings a couple of times, causing the air to swirl around the two of them.

Kage stared at Fen, marveling at how he looked. His head reached Kage's height, making him a build for a tiger. Fur as black as the shadow of the moon covered his sleek body, blood red stripes lining his back as well as behind his arms and legs. Retractable claws fired from his wide paws, digging into the stone. He snarled at the dragon, fangs resting on his canine lips. Sikuliah cowered only for a nanosecond, but fought against Fen's remarkable eyes.

Fen's eyes glowed slightly, the irises in a shade of jade green, like grass in the dawning mist. Sikuliah's blood red eyes countered them, and their threatening glares were cancelled out as the wolf lunged and Sikuliah grappled him.

Kage could only helplessly watch has she let her wounds settle in.

Roars and howls were exchanged as each took a hit and swiped at each other. Fen bit into Sikuliah's arm, clawing into his sinew. Sikuliah swung his arm, smacking the dog off with his tail. Fen's fur stood on end, and he leapt into the air, latching himself to Sikuliah's upper body. Sinking a set of claws into Sikuliah's shoulder, he swiped Sikuliah in the face, four deep scratch marks running through his right eye. Sikuliah retaliated by chomping his fangs into Fen's ribcage.

Scales and fur were shredded off each other, blood splattering on the floor. Fen lunged and hooked to Sikuliah's back, clawing scale and sinew from his wings. He grabbed Fen by the ruff of his back, and threw him off and forward, smashing his body into the ground.

Sikuliah fell to a knee, resting an arm on his thigh as he sucked in breath. Fen had clawed him so badly in the side a rib was showing. Claw wounds were scattered all over his body, black blood oozing from a deep, deceased purple muscle. One of his eyes was swollen shut from the claw attack to his face. Blood sagged from his disfigured lips, plopping against the stone and steaming. He grinned though, and saw what condition Fen was in.

He struggled to get up, his muscles shaking from exhaustion. Blood was meshed with his matted fur, shaves of it missing. One of his long wolf ears was half bitten off. His once flawless tail now lay at his back feet, muscle and fur missing. He got up, fell to one of his paws, and slipped while getting up a third time. Sikuliah cackled, blood spraying from his jaws. He rose to his feet, and faltering a bit, suddenly changed.

"FEN!!!" The wolf looked up, and his pure green eyes were stained in red.

Sikuliah had one hand gripping Fen's ruff with the other hand went right through Fen's ribcage. He claws went right through his spine, covered in blood and other substances. He released Fen, and snagged fur with both hands, tossing the limp wolf into the air.

"NOOO!!" Sikuliah slapped Kage back with his tail.

"Heh heh…Bed of Claws." Sikuliah slid onto his back, and positioned both his hands and feet at Fen's back.

His tainted claws now extended an extra foot, waiting to taste fur and flesh. Kage slowly regained her wits, and as she looked up, Fen made contact with the talons.

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Everyone above turned away in disgust before contact, all except Kakashi, the Hokage, Orochimaru (in disguise) and Anko. Kakashi had a small sweatdrop leave his left temple in horror, Hokage's face stayed indifferent, Anko swallowed so hard she could have choked and Orochimaru was grinning.

"Aki…" Kakashi didn't know what to do in this case…for the first time in his life, he panicked.

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Sikuliah grinned, letting the blood drip onto his face and body. He suddenly gripped the wolf's barbed body, and twisted his claws through the wolf.

"NOOO!! STOP IT!!!" Kage's tears mixed with Fen's blood.

Sikuliah stopped, and his slits focused on her.

"Oh, I'm sorry…Does it bother you?" His voice could poison the sweetest flowers.

He swung his torso sideways, and the wolf's body flung off the spikes. Fen limply bounced against the floor, stopping at Kage's feet. He mustered a whine before his eyes rolled up in his head, blood trickling down his torn snout. Kage tries to hold back tears as she placed a hand on his face. Sikuliah gurgled, and spat a glob of blood on the dead creature's face.

"Even you disrespect the dead."

"What respect is there if you're dead?"

There was a sudden explosion of smoke, and a torn wolf plushie lay at her feet, drizzled in blood.

"Now…can we please get serious?" Sikuliah drove his claws into the stone, ready to charge.

"No."

"I'm sorry? I didn't hear that."

"AKI, STOP THIS!!" Sikuliah chuckled, running a claw through his black hair.

"Deaf to the world, aren't you? A daft one, you are. You still don't get it…" He guffawed once or twice.

"WHERE IS AKI?! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH HER?!" Sikuliah tapped against his forehead.

"She's in here, screaming in her sleep. She begs for you to stop, but it's hopeless. You're too belligerent to give up. And too stupid to understand..."

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?!" Sikuliah laughed, but placed a fist over his mouth to cover his coughing.

"A simple yet effective truth." He paused.

"JUST TELL ME!!"

"Anything you do to me," He pointed at the rib wound in his side, "The same is done to her."

The horrifying realization thrusted through Kage's mind like sword. Sikuliah laughed out loud, flinging black blood onto the ring.

"I'll kill you."

"I'm sorry?" His eyes were squinted in a laugh.

"I'll kill you!"

Sikuliah held up a finger.

"Using context from Aki's memory of song lyrics, in one called "Duality" from Slipknot, it says, "You cannot kill what you did not create"."

"I DON'T CARE!!! AKI, PLEASE, WAKE UP!!!!"

"She doesn't hear-"

"AKI!!! PLEASE!! WE BOTH HAVE SUFFERED!! COME BACK!!!"

"Shut your mouth, girl!" Sikuliah kicked against the ground, launching him into a lethal charge.

Kage walked towards the center of his charge, and spread her arms out, leaving her wide open and vulnerable.

…………

"What is she doing?!"

"Is she insane?!"

Naruto, even though Kage wasn't on his team, worried for her. Sakura didn't want to see anymore. Kakashi's mental cogs were jammed with too much thought.

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Sikuliah's eyes were locked onto Kage, bringing his claws up for the thrust.

"Aki." Kage's voice suddenly changed.

It wasn't scared, it wasn't fearful, it wasn't hurt. It was commanding.

"I know you, Aki. And I know you would never hurt me." Sikuliah kept on coming.

"Never." Sikuliah jammed the brakes, his feet digging into the stone to stop him.

His claws were millimeters away from Kage's heart, trembling as Sikuliah's eyes narrowed and widened.

"K- Kage?!" A dual voice spoke, Sikuliah's gruff dry throat and Aki's timid, silent cords.

"Aki?" She furrowed her brow, "Aki! You can fight this off!"

Sikuliah backed away, holding his face.

"N-NO!! I WILL NOT LET HER BACK- AUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" He writhed on the floor, gripping his scales.

"COME ON, AKI!! BREAK OUT OF IT!!" Kage's commands sent Sikuliah into an epileptic rage.

His body literally vibrated as he gripped his shoulders.

"NO! NOO!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" He started to gnaw off scales, tearing skin from his back.

He flung himself in circles, biting and ripping off scales. Halfway through it, he fell to his knees, his head raised to the ceiling as he shouted out a final "no". His twisted jaw retreated back into his face, the fangs vanishing from his lips. His jaw disconnected as white started to come to his eyes, his tongue fizzling out it horror. His black hair started to turn back into the autumn hazel, the claws retracting. With a hideous squall, he torn his face off, revealing human flesh underneath.

"THIS CAN'T BE HAP- AUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!" Bones cracked inside of him.

Kage watched, with horror and amazement, as Aki started changing back into herself. The wings dug back into her skin, the tail slinking back into nonexistent bone. Aki fell to her knees, her head bowed.

"Aki?" Kage warily approached her.

"GUH!" An overflow of crimson limply dragged out of her mouth.

"AKI! Someone get a doctor!"

"No…" Aki wheezed, shaking her head.

She slipped her fingers around her forgotten staff.

"What?!" Aki stood up with the help of her staff.

"This…match isn't…over…" Kage shook her head.

"Aki, it is."

"NO, IT IS NOT!" Aki cut her finger open and formed a hand seal too complicated and too fast to comprehend.

"JANKKEN SENBON!" She slammed her palm on the stone.

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"WHAT?!"

"What is that jutsu, sensei?!"

Kakashi shook his head and shrugged.

"I don't have a clue."

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Nothing happened at first. Then came the rumbling. Out of the blue, senbon flew into the ring, dropping in a growing circle that went around the two fighter's ankles.

"Now you've done it, Kage." The ring now circled their knees.

"What?!" Kage tried to get out, but a senbon cut her in the thigh, "OW!"

The ring now came to their waists.

"You made me summon a forbidden jutsu." The ring came to their shoulders.

"What the hell is it?!" Kage was losing it.

The ring swallowed their heads out of vision, and continued to climb.

"Well, since I'm not at full power…"

The ring was now five feet taller above their heads.

"This jutsu's true title is "Seppuku Jankken Senbon"."