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Letting Go

A sweet and sad melody entered his ears. Weakly, he opened his eyes to find himself in a meadow. The dark red sakura petals were falling with the snow. Each one blending into each other. The pure white snow and the dark red petals. Kakashi felt his mind try to work. The more blood spent, the redder the petals. How much blood had to be lost for that shadowed red color. He forced himself to stand on weak legs while shoving that thought aside.

if you are lost in your way

deep in an awesome story

don't be in doubt and stray

cling to your lonesome folly

Kakashi began to look around for the source of the song, a woman. He stumbled several times as he wandered the meadow.

now you're too close to the pain

let all the rain go further

come back and kiss me in vain

mother oh do not bother

Part of him wanted to call out to the woman singing. But he didn't have the heart to disturb her. So he just tried to follow her voice. It was all he could do. But her voice surrounded him. A sweet angelic voice laced with sorrow and pain.

hear the chorus of pain

taking you back to proper ways

it's so easy to find

if you could remind me

Finally he saw it. She stood with her back to him. Her red dress clung to her body. A simle short red dress with short sleeves. She held her hands together, as if she was praying. Soft white hair was blowing in the gentle wind while her dark crimson lips sung.

now you are lost in your way

deep in an awesome story

so I will find you again

kiss you for lonesome folly

Her dark brown painted eyelids opened to reveal remarkable violet eyes. She slowly turned to him and gently smile.

"Who are you?" His voice echoed through the empty air. She let a hand drop to her side as the other reached out towards him. She gently held his face before leaned forward and kissing him through his mask. He stood there, startled, as she pulled back. Her lovely voice entered his ears as she spoke.

"Goodbye," She stepped away from him. He reached out as snakes began to come out of the ground and surround her. Snakes were covering her as a smiled with sorrow etched itself onto her face. "Kakashi-kun." Kakashi looked around frantically as the light the snow had radiated faded away, leaving him in the dark.


Kakashi shot up with a gasp in a cold sweat. His heart beat was a slur as he fought for his breath. The woman in his dream . . . he tried to shake it off before his last memories came flooding back to him. Uzumaki Setsuko . . . Kakashi looked around only to find himself in his room. He fell back onto his bed, hoping, praying, that it was just a dream.


Adonis pulled on his collar, scared of what was happening.

"Why are you doing this?" Setsuko opened her eyes, her mediation interrupted. She wore a black tank top and black baggy shorts. A red sheet had been loosely wrapped around her waist and thrown over her left shoulder. The toga covered most of her arm. Her damp green was pulled back into a pony tail. Incense hung in the air as it was burned all around her in a circle. The floor, a pure white sand, had black powder poured onto in strange designs, all coming back to her. She looked at Adonis over her shoulder.

"In order to win this battle, I must channel my powers." Her eyes closed again. "Until now, I have only been able to tap into them."

"I know, but this?" Her eyes snapped open again and a black fire burned, letting the flames escape her eyes. The flames around the room intensifed before calm as the black aura left Setsuko.

"I must harness the powers that Bensha had released all those years ago. She was a demon god. The powers of a god plus the power of a high level demon. She unlocked those powers. Now, to use them, I have to cleanse my mind." She closed her eyes once more. "Desire is power. And I desire nothing more than to annihilate the snake." Adonis looked at her with sad eyes before bowing and leaving, closing the doors behind him. Setsuko lifted her hand out towards a key out in front of her. With a steady gaze she focused onto the key. Sweat poured down her face as the black aura surrounded her hand. It slowly reached out and took hold of the key. The key began to be lifted up into the air. It shook as it went to the lock on the door. She willed the key into the keyhole and locked the door. With a calm mind she pulled the key out. It fell to the floor with a clatter as she relaxed. Her mind cleared itself again as she focused onto another object in the room.


Caelestis looked over at Adonis. The man had just came out of the room Setsuko was in and his eyes were full of fear.

"What is she doing?"

". . . learning to use her abilities to the fullest." His insides quaked at the thought of her power. He left the young woman as he went to prepare for when she left the room.

". . . she was not using them to the fullest?" Her voice shook as fear flooded her mind. The power she had when she attacked Konoha . . . that wasn't her fullest? Caelestis trembled in fear as she fell to her knees. Her powers would be mind boggling if that wasn't her best. Caelestis could only pray that she would never have to face Setsuko. "May god have mercy on their souls . . ." Her wide eyes turned to the room Setsuko was in. Already she felt power radiating from the room. Sweat trickled down her face as she attempted to grasp the mere idea of power Setsuko would whelm. ". . . for I fear that she will not."