YOU'RE INSANE!!
I'M INSANE!!
WE'RE ALL GOING INSANE!! XD
Something was sniffing his face.
"Muhhh…"
A tongue started to lick his covered nose.
"Whu?" Kakashi opened his eyes.
Two, deep brown eyes stared back at him, wagging its tail. Kakashi blinked, and the stray dog licked his face again happily.
"Where am I?" Kakashi slowly tore himself from the mud crater he had made when he collapsed last night.
The stray woofed at Kakashi's sudden movements and nuzzled up against his mud- drenched side.
"Huh?" He ruffled the matted fur on the dog's head, giving a small smile.
He gingerly got up, wincing from a pain in his side and abdomen. He swayed slightly as he stood up, holding the threshold of the door for balance. He turned the keys that hung in the knob, and fell into the building.
His arms were the only things that kept him going; his legs just dragged behind as they held Kakashi's torso up like stilts. He pulled his body up the stairs, and leaned his forehead against his apartment door as he fumbled with the keys. Slipping in the right one, his door swung open and he nearly collapsed again from the sudden motion. He caught himself and staggered to the bathroom, removing his dirty vest, shirt and pants as he got to the shower.
He stood there, letting the water run down his body as his thoughts ran rampant in his mind. Why? Why had Aki been possessed by this demon? His soaked gray hair stuck to his face as he slid it aside and blew the water off his lips. He looked up, staring at the tile as dark thoughts circled his rationality, red eyes sneering at him. His brows lowered as a glare creased his perfect face.
"Siku- teme…you really ARE a demon…" He turned off the water.
The color contrast in the room suddenly swapped over, a monochromatic of greens taking over the room, none of them pleasant. Kakashi's colors went into the negative.
{And what if I am?} Kakashi's head shot up, looking into the bathroom mirror.
The lines of light on his mirror grew, and in the blind white image, a dragon's face appeared.
{Ohayoo, Kakashi. Sssssleep well?} The dragon's lips curled in a demonic grin.
"Leave me alone, Sikuliah." Kakashi turned around to leave the room.
{You don't know, do you?}Sikuliah purred his words through closed jaws, grinning sterile white fangs.
Kakashi stopped.
{You've bound yourself to meeeee.} He wheeled around to face the dragon's head.
"What are you talking about?!" Sikuliah gave a deep and dark chuckle.
{You were right; we are merging. But we never expected you to interfere. Now you have bound a part of yourself to ussss. And vice versa.} A searing pain shot through Kakashi's head.
His body seized up as he gritted his teeth.
{Which gives me all the power to see through your eyes, to hear what you hear, to feel what you feel, and inevitably control you.} Siku licked his fangs with a blue forked tongue.
"Iie, Sikuliah. That's where you're wrong." Another pang slammed into his mind.
{Oh? How so?} His grin widened, {The way I sssssee it, you've been slowly withering away as soon as you touched her forehead.}
He cackled, a glare in his slits as the blood red eyes bore into Kakashi's obsidian and garnet ones.
"H- How can that be?" Kakashi looked at Sikuliah with one eye screwed shut.
{The tentacles have bound your chakra into Aki. Now, with that…} His eyes narrowed in a devious smile.
{Almost anything is possible.}
"I- IIE!" Kakashi shook his head.
Sikuliah started to laugh; a deep, passionate chuckle that burbled in his throat until it became a full out arrogant, almost psychotic jitter.
"I WON'T BE TAKEN!" Kakashi's fist slammed into the mirror, shattering the material as it clinked against the ceramic of his sink.
Blood seeped from his wounded knuckles, shards of the reflective glass impaled in his skin. His breathing was deep and slow, the cackling image of Sikuliah still chiseled in his mind. Kakashi slowly massaged his temples, ignoring the pain in his knuckles.
"I'm not going insane; my chakra's low, that's all." He kept on telling himself, but each one ebbed away at the lie he was telling himself.
He flopped onto his futon, his body still damp and his hair dripping wet. He pulled up the covers over his head, and was out cold in least than three minutes as the crimson dawning sun rose from the horizon.
A pair of bright yellow eyes slinked from a corner in his apartment, sniffing the wound on his hand. The kitten slowly licked the blood away from his wound, not like a ravenous wolf finding food, but like a mother cat cleaning her child. She gently clamped down on the shards and wiggled them out of his flesh, the skin healing over.
Karma purred and curled up on Kakashi's abdomen, sleeping soundly.
…………
She wished for death as she lay there. She was too sick to eat, and not eating made her even sicker. Her limbs ached; moving a finger took all of her energy to do. Kage grew worried. It had already been a week into the month the Hokage had given the finalists to prepare for the third installment.
"Aki? Come on, you have to eat." Kage smirked.
"Remember all those times you came home from camp and got online and told me you didn't eat lunch?" Aki coughed a weak laugh.
"Hai, I remember." Aki swallowed, her throat parched of thirst.
Aki whimpered, and saw that her knuckles were bleeding. She gritted her teeth as she felt Sikuliah's presence tear away at her insides, trying to get out. She lay there, dazed as her vision slowly darkened. She couldn't hear anything as the ryu's riling laughter consumed her ears. Was this true insanity? She could sympathize with Gaara if it was.
She blinked; green eyes? A pair of pale jade green eyes stared into hers, calming her body as it brought a warmth to her soul. Her mind had been on a more Disturbed set but when she saw the eyes, for some reason, she heard the song "Trouble" from Coldplay recede in her head.
{Rest, Aki} The green eyes lulled her into a rather peaceful sleep.
The pain that spiraled inside of her was slowly dissipated as a calm took over. And she thought the color green for some reason.
…………
He stood in front of his closet mirror, staring at the image that glared back at him. His wound had already clotted, the skin discolored and raw. He breathed slowly and heavily, trying to see past his reflection.
"What is this I'm feeling?" He rested a hand against his heart, the feeling of darkness clouding his mind.
He looked up at the mirror and jumped. His image grinned darkly at him, red eyes staring into his mismatched ones.
"Hello, Kakashi." He cooed softly.
His eyes narrowed.
"Go away, Sikuliah." A sudden pang ran up his arm, numbing his nerves.
"Oh, is this how you greet your student?" Kakashi's image flowed like water, and standing before him was Aki.
Her eyes were closed, her body covered in hot white gashes. Kakashi's eyes widened.
"What have you done to her?!" Sikuliah chuckled deeply.
"No no no, it is not what I did to her," he grinned slyly, "It is what did YOU do to her."
"Urusei, Sikuliah." Kakashi hissed, glaring at the ryu's voice.
"Iie, Kakashi. You're not in the position to command anyone." Another lightning pain spilt through his head.
He fell to his knee, gripping his head. His look- alike stared down at him, grinning darkly and chuckling as Kakashi suffered at his feet.
"Get up." Kakashi stood up shakily.
The image drew a set of claws, and he ran his blue forked tongue up them slowly, his red eyes glinting. He cackled at Kakashi's disgusted face.
"Oh yessssss, Kakashi. I too could take over you." Kakashi's brow lowered in a death glare.
"THAT will never happen." He growled, and with a quick movement, he slammed his closet mirror closed.
He looked down at his hands, his breath coming out in a tremble. The once surgeon- steady hands were now shaking slightly as he brought them to his face. He fell to his knees, tears slipping past his hands.
"Help me."