Demons Of Konoha

Chapter Two

Departure

Uzumaki Naruto was a dreamer. Always had been since he was a kid. He was full of fond hopes and aspirations. Imagining the possibilities in his life. Even after all that had happened he was still the hopeful dreamer.

He had two dreams that kept him going no matter what.

The first was his dream to be Hokage. It was to succeed Tsunade as the next leader of the leaf. His training had prepared him for the title mostly. When he returned to Konoha he could possibly achieve his dream. Except there was one little side trip he needed to make now.

Naruto stared at Aurie's sleeping form quietly. In the moonlit room she seemed older. World weary really. He never had a real chance to examine her in her sleep. She looked different from the perky exterior she displayed. He shook his head and turned to leave. He didn't want her to know he was leaving.

He seemed to forget that she always knew when he was up to something...

That's why the ground suddenly rushed up to meet him. Naruto cried out on impact. Then struggled to get to his feet when he heard a pop from the bed. Out of the corner of his eye he saw a poof of smoke on Aurie's bed. Moments later he felt a pressure on his lower back. Then fingers swept his bangs out of his face. He knew what had happened. A shadow clone in Aurie's place had deceived him. His greatest trick used against him.

"Doppelgangers are useful indeed for catching you in the act of mischief..." Aurie's voice chuckled. She had trapped him knowingly. She knew him well enough to stop him from doing something she decided was wrong. Going after his now homicidal companion was wrong and stupid. "Leaving are you?"

Naruto growled. He tried to get her off by emitting chakra but it seemed the fox was involved in this as well. He couldn't summon up the necessary chakra to throw the shadow nin off. He kept trying. Highly aware she held herself in place with her chakra flow. Finally after a few of the fox's taunts he gave up.

"Going to see him." She stated softly. She was glad the fox had helped her in preventing him from bolting. She sounded in no way exhausted from trapping him so effectively. "Not the greatest idea..."

"I have to..." Naruto whispered finding his voice. He relaxed and shut his eyes. "I need to..."

Aurie was silent momentarily before getting up and releasing him. She was fairly certain he wouldn't bolt on her now. She looked at her hands. "He will not be the same person who left you..."

Naruto stood warily. If he tried to run away from her now he'd loose. He knew well enough that at night Aurie held more power than him. The shadows were everywhere. "Aurie... I have to go... I made a promise once... To bring him back..."

"That promise means nothing to you now..." She whispered. "You just want your best friend back..."

"I'm leaving Aurie... I have to go..." After a thought he stared at her pleadingly. "I need to go..." He hissed softly.

" I understand..." She whispered, moving g past him slowly to the door. Her eyes locked with his. "I've never seen your eyes this bright... This determined... I really understand..."

Naruto frowned. Aurie's voice sounded full of sadness. Her eyes seemed red too. Like she had been crying earlier. Was she upset that he was going to be leaving? Or was there something else about the situation that he was missing? "Are you going to stop me Aurie?" He asked cautiously watching her and the shadows around her. She could do anything at this time to keep him here.

"No..." She smiled. The door creaked open. "I'm going with you..."

Naruto absorbed this before reacting. "You can't Aurie! This will be dangerous! He killed Itachi! He killed a shinobi who practically was a god to Akatsuki! Sasuke's dangerous!"

"Sasuke's not the real danger..." She whispered. Her eyes narrowed. "Which is why I can't let you go on your own..."

"You have no reason to go!" Naruto pleaded. He didn't want her in danger. At night the girl could take care of herself. After all there was nothing she was afraid of in the dark. Although she had told him once she had been terrified of the dark. "I have to go because he's there!"

"She's there..."

Naruto froze up. His jaw hanging open. His eyes wide. Aurie had just given a gender to her target. She had always been careful not to. He stepped up to her so he could see her clearly. Tears were cascading down her cheeks. She was trembling slightly and her fists clenched. "Aurie..."

"She's there... She's always been there... Aurie smiled sadly. "But I couldn't ever go alone... I'm frightened of her..." She shook her head. "Of what she's capable of..."

Naruto looked down at the floor. He listened to her and everything made sense. She wasn't scared he'd fight Sasuke. She was scared he'd run into the person who ruined her life. Scared he'd lose to her and she'd lose him. "Is she..." He couldn't bring himself to ask.

"Yeah... Once my best friend..." She smiled sadly. "My only friend... Who understood everything about me... Then..." She shook her head. Naruto could tell that she had decided she had said enough. No one could keep a secret from Aurie for too long but she hid hers well. A fear kept her silent. "She'll be right there next to him... And compared to him, she's much worse off... Her mind is completely gone... That thing at Akumu is not my friend anymore... It's a lustful and deceitful creature... I can't even consider it a demon... It's definitely not human... It looks like one though... It parades around like her..."

Naruto sat down cross-legged on the floor. "I'm a little scared to see him..."

She leaned against the doorframe. "I know..."

Naruto chuckled darkly and shut his eyes. "What if he hates me now? What if he has forgotten me?"

"They never forget..." She murmured. She pushed her loose hair out of her eyes. "We never truly let them... We haunt their memories... That's what she said once... They can loose themselves to insanity... Because they can't forget..."

"Are you going to end up killing her?" He asked. Feeling certain he knew what she was feeling. He dreaded feeling like that if it came down to it.

"Would you be able to kill him?"

He stared at her and frowned. "I wouldn't be able to... I'd have to kill myself first..."

"I'm prepared to die... To kill her I know I'll die afterwards..." Aurie stared up. "But I hesitate... Afraid she's still within that monster... I try... And I try... But I can't do it... I still see her..." She pulled her hair up into a high ponytail and turned to the door. "I can't fail again... Every time I do she kills countless more..."

"You have to kill her..." He echoed her thoughts. Joining her at the doorway. He could see the pain in her eyes clearly. He smiled at her sadly. If it really came down to it he'd have to be around to help her. But she knew the person and Naruto couldn't fight them if Aurie was worried. Who was this person?

"And I'm going to end up killing both of you if you step out that door..."

Aurie and Naruto yelped meeting dark green eyes across the hall. Short light brown hair swayed as the female figure moved out of the shadows into the moonlight. The shinobi who stood at Naruto's height glared. Aurie hissed and scowled. "Great... The Anbu Captain..."

Naruto frowned. The girl before him led the village's Anbu. She was another tenant in the building. A sparring partner to him at times. Jiraiya spoke to her directly about matters. If she was here then Jiraiya knew he intended to leave. He should've left the day he found out about Sasuke. It took him a week to decide he had to leave. Obviously Jiraiya had caught on like Aurie had. "You're up late Illia..."

Illia was a low-level fox demon. A very trusted member of the community. She had lived in the village for a long time. She made captain some time before Naruto arrived. She had yet to have a casualty on the squad. She smiled a toothy grin at Naruto. The Kyuubi chuckled darkly at the intervention in his plans by one of his kind. Just a much lower level than him and not overtly dangerous. She pushed the two into the apartment and slammed the door shut. Her slitted eyes focused on them intently.

Naruto growled. Prepared to fight her if it meant getting to Sasuke. He knew Aurie was running down the same reactions.

Till Illia moved to the door to the balcony and opened it. "The rest of the Anbu are awaiting you down there under orders to not allow Aurie to leave the village..." She smirked. "Jiraiya asked me to escort all of you to Akumu safely and assist in any way possible in your objectives... Then I am to bring you to Konohagakure as a messenger from here... To establish good will... And stable communication... He will meet us there..."

Naruto blinked. "Huh?" He turned to Aurie who seemed equally confused.

"Illia..." Aurie moved slowly to the demon's side. "Why?"

Illia smiled. "I know the route that's safest... Plus with such deep connections as Naruto and yourself to the targets... I can prevent any mistakes..."

"Why?"

Illia shrugged. She had reasons for everything she did. "Friends help don't they? I've seen you suffer... And Naruto... I want to help... If Jiraiya came along like he had intended you would've never made it to the Syndicate without some nasty fights... I can get you there safely..."

Naruto looked to the two quietly. Both wanted to help him. He hadn't known either for very long. He had hid a lot about himself from them. Yet there they were willing to help him no matter what. For that he had to be thankful really.

He had two dreams that kept him going no matter what.

The first was to be the Hokage of Konoha.

The second...

"Thank you..." He murmured before moving for the exit. He stared up at the sky as he walked onto the balcony. Staring at the night sky that reminded him of blue-black hair and dark obsidian eyes. "I'm coming for you… Sasuke…"

The second was to be with Sasuke...

-

Haruno Sakura always had accepted reality after Naruto and Sasuke left. Right now she was not too fond of accepting it. She was fine with denying it. She preferred to dream rather than accept the nightmare her life was becoming.

She also wasn't accepting the village's Anbu Captains decision about the team...

Rock Lee watched his girlfriend helplessly as she screamed at Shikamaru. The taijutsu specialist smiled at the beauty he had landed himself. He was unsure if he was completely certain Sakura didn't just rebound off Sasuke to him. Yet it did take two years to get her to go out with him. He still looked eerily like his teacher. Hearing Shikamaru cry out for help made him laugh. The poor Anbu Captain should've expected Sakura's violent reaction when he didn't put her on the team. He turned to Neji smiling.

Hyuuga Neji turned to him slowly seeing the eyes on him. He smiled slightly. Years ago he wouldn't have casted such a glance at his former teammate. Then a certain blonde made him re-think life. Now he could safely say he had a good solid friendship with Lee. The rivalry was still there. He wasn't too thrilled with the mission that just appeared a week ago. It took him away from his other teammate TenTen. She was an instructor now who seemed to enjoy her little soldiers.

"Ino!" Shikamaru cried out for help finally. He wasn't very good with women. Never really had been. Dealing with Sakura was still something he couldn't quite handle. He always gave up on reasoning at some point and relied on others. He was still a lazy bum.

Both Rock Lee and Neji glanced across the room to the blonde female on Anbu. The infiltration specialist was laughing hysterically at her boyfriend's obvious predicament. Her blue eyes filled with such joy. She was the only girl on the team and not because Shikamaru wanted her there. Quite the opposite. He wanted the average woman and children. When Tsunade made him Captain of the Anbu none of that seemed possible. He couldn't settle in those times with that title. So he dealt with it and tried to keep his love interest safe.

It was after he lost the average girl that he tried for the one he always wanted. Above average Ino had a thing for the Uchiha that had kept him away. Yet she also liked her teammate. A fact he somehow had missed. Ino was no damsel in distress however and against Shikamaru's wishes joined the Anbu. Now he couldn't seem to rid himself of her. Considering that the two young adults also intended to get married that following summer they already acted like a married couple.

"Oh just shut up already!"

Ino's smile vanished and her eyes ceased to be bright. A lethal expression crossed her face as she glared into the opposite corner. "Stay out of it you..."

Black eyes returned the expression. Dark green hair swayed as the last member of the normal Anbu came forward into Sakura's view. He glared at the pink haired female now. He could feel Lee's glare and ignored it. "Shikamaru said no and that's that..."

Sakura frowned. "Kyu Yanno..."

Kyu tilted his head and smirked. "You wouldn't be able to help in the fighting anyway... You would be unable to fight... You have a huge nervous breakdown last we mentioned the Uchiha..."

Sakura flinched.

Shikamaru rolled his eyes. There was always some problem in these meetings. Of course a woman started them. Horribly troublesome. Then you had Ino who was always a problem. He couldn't win.

"Damnit!" Ino moved to Sakura's side and glared. "Leave her alone! She wants to help!" She pulled Sakura out of the way and came face to face with the elder member. She was fully aware that he had been on the team five years before anyone else. Had been there while they had become genin. She didn't care though.

"How?" He scowled. This was getting really annoying. "Shikamaru's word is final..."

"The safety of the team would go up!" Ino hissed. She was still a bit too quick to anger but she could remain levelheaded. "By twenty percent or so this low success mission would go up... We'd stand a better chance!"

"Then why doesn't Shikamaru want her here?" The black eyes flew to the captain. "What's wrong with her then?"

Sakura stared at the floor. She knew why Shikamaru didn't want her to come along.

The Nara winced feeling Ino's eyes focus on him. That meant trouble.

"Well?"

Shikamaru frowned. "The success rate would go up ten percent with any healer... A healer of Sakura's rank raises our success up twenty percent... But... The fact she might freeze up at any time is a problem and with such a connection to Sasuke the success of completing our objective goes down thirty percent if she gets involved..."

Sakura nodded in conformation. She had been informed of this in the scroll Shikamaru rejected her request in. It was nothing personal in reality. It was for the safety of the team. Yet she took it personally because Shikamaru assumed she wouldn't raise a fist against her first love.

Ino hissed angrily.

Kyu blinked and stepped out of striking range. He grumbled and made his way to the rest of the team.

Sakura giggled. She knew Ino just lost all her temper and Shikamaru was in serious trouble. The blonde female always won arguments with the captain because she was scary. Ino always became horribly frightening when she cracked.

Shikamaru murmured a curse as Ino advanced.

"Always with your stupid percents Shikamaru!" Ino barked. "You estimated a low chance of success in asking me out and me accepting right?"

Shikamaru glared at Rock Lee. Someone had a big mouth. That was the last time he'd go to someone else for advice. He knew he shouldn't have asked for another's opinion

"Right!"

Shikamaru frowned. "Yes I did..." Ino was yelling again. He hated when she yelled. He was grateful that now that she had long stopped ranting about her first crush. That she had stopped pretending to not be Sakura's best friend. He wished she had stopped being bossy though. He just had to accept what he got though.

"How low was it?" She sneered. "You said there was a ten percent chance I'd say yes to going out with you... Am I right?" she was really enjoying this. She liked making him squirm. She wasn't really upset with him. There was no point in being upset because he saw a bad situation. He was prone to seeing the worst.

Shikamaru scowled. "Yeah I did..." Gah! He really hated this situation. Ino against him recently made him loose. She knew things others didn't.

"There was an even lower percent that I'd say yes to marrying you right?" Ino advanced till face was inches from his. He had backed up into the wall. Trapped by her now. "Why do you always think the worst? Think of the best damnit!"

Shikamaru frowned. The two times he was wrong and she was waving it in his face yet again. He could hear the rest of the room in hysterics. "But Ino..."

"There's a chance you are wrong about Sakura too." Ino growled. "She wants him back here as much as everyone else does and maybe even more. She wouldn't be capable of killing him but no one else here in the room would be right? He was our friend once... None of us here could kill him..."

"I would..."

Shikamaru winced as Ino whirled around to glare at Kyu again. He was the only one with no real attachment to the Uchiha. Which is why it had been essential for him to come along. Didn't mean the rest of the team had to get along with him.

"Because you're a heartless prick." Ino hissed. Her blue eyes flew back to Shikamaru. "Well?"

"Ino... Lis..." He tried before she leaned forward and whispered something to him. His face flushed red and he muttered angrily about women and how they were troublesome. "Alright... Sakura can come... But if we all die it's on your head!"

Sakura brightened immediately. She could go! She smiled gratefully and made her way over to Rock Lee. Sitting next to him and shyly gripping his hand. She couldn't let them down. She had to do her part and she knew it. If she really couldn't help against Sasuke she'd personally remove herself from the fray.

"Alright... Now that's settled..." Shikamaru wrapped one arm around Ino. "I know as well as anyone here no one wants to die... We have a very low chance of success here... According to Tsunade Akumu has many S-Ranked Criminals like Akatsuki. There will be no difference in strengths in the Akumu and Akatsuki. Except for the mass murderer Tsunade's concerned about and Uchiha... She wants both here alive if at all possible..."

Sakura smiled. Tsunade didn't want to accept Sasuke was completely evil as of yet it seemed.

"A mass murderer?" Neji frowned. "Why would the Godaime want that one alive here?"

Shikamaru shrugged. "Can't answer that one sorry..." He smiled at Ino. "It just made everything harder... So to prevent Casualties all my orders are to be obeyed... If I'm incapable of giving out orders the task will fall on Ino and Sakura collectively..."

Sakura blinked in surprise. Ino seemed equally stunned.

"My first order is that Uchiha is in no way to be killed... He takes priority in returning alive..." Shikamaru turned to Kyu at that. "Is that understood."

"Yes..."

"Now when we travel I want Sakura in the center of the group. As the healer she will need our protection..."

Sakura finally tuned out Shikamaru. She stared at her fingers that held onto Lee. She closed her eyes. Years ago she would've never given him a chance. The same as Naruto. He had been persistent though and eventually won her over. She was just worried. Years ago she gave herself to Sasuke practically. If he returned as he left. Would she fall for him again? If she didn't would he hold her to her words? She was worried.

Reality was cruel...

-

Uchiha Sasuke had become a nightmare.

Common belief once believed spirits that haunted and suffocated sleeping people were nightmares. Then nightmares became known by frightening dreams accompanied by a sensation of oppression and helplessness. Yet any frightening experience in life could be a nightmare.

Every experience in his life had become a nightmare. Therefore he had become a nightmare in his own right. At least that's how he saw it.

He saw him now at all times. It didn't matter if he was sleeping or not. He saw his battered body. Heard him gasping desperately for air. His eyes a graying black as life escaped him steadily. His pallid skin was drenched heavily in sweat from the fear of an oncoming death. There he lay. Calling out in pain for help. Seeming like the person inside the monster he always had cared for. Yet somehow he always lost him. Somehow Sasuke managed to kill him every time. Plunging a kunai deep into his chest and watching life fade away. No matter what he tried it always ended the same.

It was obvious that such thoughts weren't healthy. They drove him up the wall. Made him feel like dying. Like finding a high cliff and just plummeting. He'd do anything to rid himself of the haunting images. Yet he was still there. He was still seated there breathing. Blood still pulsed in his veins.

As much as Tsuki watched to make sure he wasn't about to kill himself she really had no reason to be concerned. Every time he drove dangerously close to the edge he pulled back. There was another image that haunted him.

Intensifying slightly with each passing day. He had seen the pictures. Had seen the face he longed for so desperately and it had awoken something inside him. A hunger he couldn't quite explain just yet. He knew it had to do with the smiling face he was staring at right then. Knew deep down that it would change what he had become.

He wanted to feel like back then...

When he could smile and laugh in secret. Spend his time staring at the reason he felt so wanted. What kept him alive was a feeling he had buried so deep. Deeper than the love he had for his brother.

"Naruto..."

He traced the picture lightly, closing his eyes and picturing the blonde clearly. He wanted to see him. Yet he knew he couldn't. He might do something he'd regret. Maybe the next one he'd kill would be him. He didn't want that.

Faintly he heard a light knocking. He looked to the closed door and frowned. No one besides Tsuki ever dared enter the room. Tsuki was not one for knocking last he checked. Or was she actually listening. He shook his head. Certain he had imagined the sound. Maybe he wanted to hear knocking.

Maybe he wanted to go investigate. Fling the door open and find the only thing he really wanted but could never have standing there. Maybe he wanted all of that.

He stared at the picture again. Ignoring the sound he was sure he was imagining. Just like the words he could hear at times and the people he glimpsed. He ignored the foreboding feeling that was steadily growing. Focused on his thoughts. Gathering them carefully. He hated the time it took to think things thoroughly.

He was used to just acting. He naturally liked to act on his emotions. Yet the last time he had it had ended all too badly. He tried to stop. Yet he couldn't.

Anger was a dangerous thing. He had no control when his actions were ruled by anger. It was like he was suddenly blind to the events around him. He ignored everything and just directed violence at something. Till something stopped him and brought him back he continued to go with the anger.

He never really did change in those many years. He still had the cool exterior outside of the scared child inside. The scared Sasuke was breaking through steadily. He had no control of it now. The lines were blurring. Which Sasuke was the real one now?

The noise from the door hadn't ceased. Now Sasuke was staring at it curiously. The knocking became a constant banging. He picked himself up and moved slowly to the door. Sliding it open cautiously.

It was one of the last people he expected to see, only because he had earlier ruled her out.

"Which one is it Uchiha? Do you want me to knock? Or just enter? Because it sure took you some time to answer the damn door." Tsuki hissed. She pushed past him and entered the room. She watched him slide the door and caught his expression. "Did I interrupt you?"

Sasuke shook his head and sat down at the desk again. "No… What's wrong?" He noticed her nails tapping irritably. Something she only did when worried about something.

Tsuki blinked and stared at him blankly. She frowned. "Nothing serious... Just this real bad feeling..." She sighed and sat on the desk, fingers tapping silently on the wood. "More concerned about why you summoned me here though..."

Sasuke suddenly lit up. He grinned. "Oh now I remember... I did ask for you to come here..."

Tsuki flinched. She didn't like that tone. "Right..."

Sasuke closed his eyes and leaned back. "What do you know of the Island of the Shadow Dragon?"

"Yami Ryu..." Tsuki frowned. Some unpleasant images flittering through her head. "It was where I was born..." She smiled slightly. "There is one major advanced bloodline family on the island..."

"Irulan right?" Sasuke muttered. Listening to Tsuki carefully. He was waiting to spring his trap on the unsuspecting female. He just needed to get her all nostalgic first, if she was capable of such emotions.

"Yes..." Tsuki narrowed her eyes. "Why so interested in a dead island?"

"A dead island?" Sasuke raised an eyebrow in amusement. He opened one eye. "Thanks to you right... You were twelve and you suddenly with no warning killed the majority of the population and left the survivors to fight amongst themselves... Twelve years old and you were a mass murderer... That got you into Akumu right?"

Tsuki scowled, leaning back and staring the ceiling quietly.

"I'll take that as a yes..." Sasuke muttered. Then he kept his Sharigan gaze on her waiting for any changes in her chakra flow. Now he could spring his trap. "Auriah Hecate... Name mean anything to you?"

She tensed up automatically. Her violet orbs slid to meet the Sharigans. An absolute silence descended as the two kept their gazes locked. Tsuki got up slowly and moved for the door. She hesitated at the door before turning around and glaring at the Uchiha. "It's not nice to go through all my history... And then dangle it in front of me..."

Sasuke got up and as Tsuki reached for the door he appeared in her way. Leering at her. "Something wrong Tsuki... You guilt ridden by something as well?" At her angering expression he smiled sardonically. "Or is it someone? That makes you tense like that?"

His response was a low hiss. "Back off Uchiha."

"No I make the rules here Tsuki and you have to follow them if you know what's for your own good." Sasuke replied nastily. He shoved her back, away from the door. "Answer the question."

"No."

Sasuke smiled before vanishing. "In that case..."

The impact was invisible. She couldn't see it happen. Yet she knew it had. After all what other reason was there for suddenly feeling like her jaw had been broken and her body being thrown into the wall. Before she could straighten completely both her hands were slammed up into the wall and Tsuki saw blood then.

Her own blood running down her arms from the place where a kunai had stabbed through her palms. She cried out from the pain. She wasn't used to that sensation. Only one other person made her feel such pain. The one Sasuke was asking her about.

"You bastard!" She hissed trying to move her hands free. Yet the kunai slid against her delicate flesh and only wounded her more. She hissed as she found she couldn't pull herself free. She dragged her gaze upward to analyze the damage. Her eyes widened seeing the blade. "That's..."

Sasuke had stopped to stare at the same blade he had slain Itachi with. Then crouched down before Tsuki, another kunai in his hands now. Suddenly he didn't feel so horribly attached to that blade. Must've been because Tsuki's blood was on it. Like the kunai in his hand would be stained with soon. "Answer the question..."

Tsuki growled and tried to move to hit him. The result was the immediate pain from her hands. She hissed and curled away from the Uchiha. He had inflicted quite a bit of pain on her. "She never hurt me this badly..." She managed between her gasps. It was hard to breathe now. Uchiha's eyes were watching her coolly. "Aurie..."

Sasuke grinned. "That's better..." He reached up to grab the blade and twisted it. It released a delightful scream from her as she curled away again. "I figured out something about you... You never come back hurt from anything..." He pushed the blade in deeper. Listening to the screech she emitted. "You're not used to pain... Never actually felt it until you took this form... Right? Tsuki Shinae was the latest victim to you... An entity that always picks up the shinobi lifestyle as a mass murderer..."

"Entity isn't the word I'd use to describe myself..." Tsuki snapped. She pulled against the blade ignoring the pain. As she nearly freed the blade Sasuke slammed the back of her head into the wall. She heard a distinctive crack and cried out. Sasuke released her hands and stepped back. She curled up hands clutching her head, blood running through her hair and dripping to the floor.

Sasuke was certain he cracked her skull and broke the skin. He was certain it wouldn't kill her. She was much harder to kill. He walked into her view, half expecting to be lashed out at. Yet it seemed Tsuki really hated pain. She was fragile. Not something many could see. They saw a tough murderer. Sasuke saw a weak psychopath.

Tsuki choked on her own blood as Sasuke kicked her into the wall. He wasn't letting her recover. Tsuki's defenses were down when she was in pain. She moved to get out of range when he kicked her again. Finally it was too much and she gave in. "Alright I'll talk!" She shuddered. She had underestimated him when he became angered.

"Great." Sasuke sat down cross-legged in front of her. "Now Tsuki Shinae isn't your real name right?"

She nodded. Turning herself around till she was lying on her back facing the ceiling. She sent healing chakra "It was the name of the human I was born in..." Seeing his curious expression she continued. "I was not sealed up like the Kyuubi... I chose of my own free will to enter a human body... The host body is useless to me until it can take a shinobi lifestyle... Age twelve is always ideal..."

"So Tsuki Shinae..."

"Idiotic creature... She had many friends... Surrounded herself with stupid things... Didn't care much for being a shinobi..." Tsuki closed her eyes. "Then there was her..."

"Hecate Auriah."

"Yes..." Tsuki chuckled darkly. "There was something about that human... I made my presence known then... I befriended that girl... Tsuki slept while I made friends with a girl who none pay attention to..." Tsuki sat up slowly. She touched the back of her head glad to find it healed.

Sasuke stared at her quietly before getting up and wiping the blood from the blade. He drove it into the desk and sat down again.

"Then Tsuki started getting annoying…" She smiled darkly. "I got rid of her… But Aurie found out…" She sighed. "The moment my defenses were down…" She touched her chest. "She drove a katana through my chest…"

Sasuke winced. Sounded painful.

Tsuki got up slowly. "Anytime I've seen her since then she tries again and again to kill me…" She frowned. "I've given up on getting her to listen to me…" She smirked. "She's just fun to toy with now…"

Sasuke shook his head and pointed to the door. "Alright that's enough… I don't need anything else for the rest of the day so get out…" The Sharigans faded from his eyes slowly and he gazed blankly into space. "Unless…"

Tsuki winced. "No thank you…" She moved to the door shaking her head. She leaned on the frame and glanced back at him. "I'd like to avoid an experience like that again…"

Sasuke grinned. Watched as Tsuki left before he broke out in laughter. His sides hurt as he looked over the blade stained in blood. His eyes traveled to the picture of Naruto. His laughter stopped as he leaned forward and stared at the picture. He crossed his arms and rested his chin on his arms.

"I really do want to see you…"

Except what would the blonde discover in the place of his friend?

Uchiha Sasuke's very own nightmare…

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