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I was about to say "I forgive you"". In the meantime, here's chapter 8 of Uzumaki Akiko: A remake! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I own Akiko, Hiro, Ame, and all the made up jutsues and characters in this story.
--------------------------------------Chapter 8- Everything about You-----------------------------
Akiko looked around her. It was a dark, cold place. She shivered, and then sat down on the ground. How could she be so stupid as to land herself in a place like this? Why couldn't she just fight that scary looking guy and then just book it out of there? She sighed. She was pathetic. She shouldn't have listened to that old man and woman. How could they just tell her to leave like that anyways?
'Oh well' she thought. 'Nothing I can do about that now…' She suddenly heard a giggling sound from behind her, and she got up and turned around.
The little girl was staring at her with big, round eyes. She was smiling. And this time…she had no cuts on her either.
"You're funny," she said. Akiko just stared at her. The little girl shifted uneasily where she was sitting. "You know…You shouldn't worry about silly things like that. It's not worth it," she began playing with the dirt on the ground, making gruesome pictures in the floor.
"How…how do you know what I'm thinking?" Akiko asked. The little girl looked up at her and smiled.
"I know a lot of things." She said. She stood up and dusted herself off. "My name is Masumi Mutou,"
Akiko took a step back. This was strange…
"What's your name?" asked Masumi. Akiko hesitated a bit. Should she tell her her name? Then again…what's wrong with just telling someone your name?
"Uzumaki Akiko,"
Masumi smiled. "Uzumaki, huh? You must be that other guy's sister then…" Masumi sat down on a rock and continued to smile and stare at Akiko. "Sit down,"
Akiko sat down on the ground. What the hell was going on?
"I think you've met my dad already…he's the…the one with no legs," stated Masumi. Akiko gasped.
'Her dad!'
Masumi happily smiled. "Yep, it's true. I know it sounds a bit weird…but it is true,"
"So…um…your dad…what does he want with me?" asked Akiko. Maybe if she got on Masumi's good side, then maybe she could get out of this place.
"It sounds really silly, and I've told him many times to just forget it, but he doesn't listen to me…he wants to come back to life…so he can complete his work," said Masumi. Akiko looked at the ground. What work?
"Some things are just not meant to be said to people," said Masumi. Akiko looked up at her, Masumi was smiling. "I know what you're trying to do…it won't work,"
Akiko sighed. Well, it was worth a try…
"Who's that boy, by the way?" asked Masumi. Her smile was gone and she looked confused.
"Boy? What boy?" asked Akiko.
"The one with red hair. He's wearing this huge gourd thing…I think he's pretty cute," at this, Masumi smiled. "He's not your boy friend is he?" she asked.
But Akiko didn't even listen to what Masumi said at the end.
'Gaara…is…here? He's here…?' Akiko thought. She thought she was about to cry. Suddenly, a pack of dirt slammed into her face. She was on the floor of the cave, coughing out dirt. She looked up at Masumi and saw Masumi looking very angry.
"I thought I asked you something!" yelled Masumi. Akiko coughed some more.
"Wh…what?" asked Akiko.
"Well, you better listen this time! I was asking you if that boy was your boy friend!" said Masumi. Her anger was receding. Akiko sat up and dusted herself up. She glared at Masumi.
"No…he's not," she said. She saw Masumi gloating happily.
"Good, you probably don't deserve him anyways…" trailed off Masumi. "Anyways, it's a good thing Papa and Hisaki don't know he's there…"
"So…what is he doing there anyways?" Akiko asked. She wanted to know why Gaara always seemed to show up whenever Akiko was in trouble.
Masumi faced Akiko, a look of jealously was on her face. "Nothing, he's just standing there, I bet he's deciding whether he should come rescue you or not,"
Akiko threw Masumi a dirty look, and then turned around. Was anybody else with Gaara? No…probably not…
Shikamaru and Naruto continued to search for Akiko. They met up with Neji and Tenten and they saw Sasuke and Sakura. They all explained what they were doing.
It turned out that Neji and Tenten were on a mission, they were searching for Akiko as well. They spilt with Lee and Gai and went a different way. Sasuke and Sakura went looking for Akiko as well, but they couldn't find her.
Naruto sighed. Hinata was chatting with Sakura; they were trying to think of places where Akiko could have been. Hinata managed to stay with Naruto the whole time, she didn't even seem tired.
Tenten went over to Sakura and started talking to them as well. Naruto looked around the street. People were already starting to walk around, as if nothing was happening. Naruto looked at the ground.
He felt someone tapping him lightly on the shoulder, and he turned around. Hinata was looking at the ground; a light blush crept up to her face.
"U-um…N-N-Naruto-kun…w-we think that maybe he could…t-try the forests one more time…be-because Shi-Shikamaru-kun thinks that we might h-have missed some..thing..."
Naruto turned around to look at Shikamaru. He was explaining something to Sasuke and Neji. Naruto looked back at Hinata and nodded.
"Thanks," he said. Hinata walked back over to Sakura and Tenten.
Shikamaru walked back to Naruto.
"Ok, I've got it like this. Neji and Tenten will look around their training ground, I'll look around mine, Hinata'll stay with you, and Sasuke and Sakura claim they've already looked in your training ground, so they're coming with you,"
Naruto nodded. Shikamaru really thought this out…
"Alright, let's head out!" Shikamaru called to the others. Everyone nodded, and then were disappeared in a flash. The only ones who were left behind now were Sasuke, Sakura, Naruto and Hinata.
"Well…let's go!" Naruto yelled. A few seconds later, they were gone as well.
Gaara stared into the cave. It was a cold day, the air was restless. Leaves rustled in the wind.
Suddenly, he heard a noise behind. He slowly turned around. No one was there…yet.
Naruto, Hinata, Sakura and Sasuke searched most of the forests in Konoha so far. They were all very tired, and needed a rest, but Naruto said that they needed to keep on looking. The jounins and some chunins were looking on the outside of Konoha right now.
At this moment, the four were running through the trees in a forest, and by the looks of it, they didn't seem to be near Konoha anymore.
Suddenly, Naruto, who was in front of all of them, stopped.
"Naruto, what is it?" asked Sasuke, he was completely out of breath. Naruto didn't face any of them. He was looking at something on the ground…someone…
"Naruto! What's wrong?" asked Sakura. Suddenly, Naruto leapt off the branch, and landed swiftly on the ground.
"Where's Akiko? Where did you take her?" Naruto asked, darkly.
Sakura, Sasuke and Hinata couldn't see who Naruto was talking to, nor did they hear anyone else say anything. Whoever Naruto was speaking to wasn't saying anything.
"So you think it's funny to just stand there, when you know something is going on?" Naruto asked again.
"Naruto! What's going on? We're coming down there!" Sakura yelled out. Sakura, Sasuke and Hinata jumped off the branches they were on and landed on the ground behind Naruto.
In front of them, they could see who Naruto was talking to. Gaara was standing in front of Naruto, smiling.
"Bringing your friends to help you out?" asked Gaara. Naruto narrowed his eyes.
"I know about you and Akiko. I found her letter…What are you doing to my sister!" yelled Naruto.
Gaara chuckled lightly. Naruto ran forward towards Gaara, with his fist outstretched.
"Naruto! NO!" Sasuke yelled out. Before Naruto could hit Gaara, a wave of sand engulfed him and threw him aside. He hit a tree hard and fell on the ground. He glared up at Gaara.
"Naruto…don't waste time on this guy! Akiko could be anywhere, and who knows what's happening to her! We can't afford to fall apart," stated Sakura. Hinata was already kneeling by Naruto, looking slightly worried.
Akiko was sitting on the hard, cold stone floor all by herself. Masumi already left a while ago. From time to time, Akiko could hear voices whispering to her. She couldn't make out what they were saying, and she thought she was going crazy. She paced the cave back and forth, pressing her ear to the walls, listening to all the voices calling out to her.
She must have lots of blood so far from all the cuts she had on her arms and legs because she was feeling slightly dizzy. Just as she thought she was about to pass out, she could see some light reflecting off the floor a little bit ahead of her. She slowly blinked and tried to think clearly. Surely she would have seen it before; she must have walked around the cave hundreds of times. She slowly got up and walked towards the light. She looked up at the ceiling and saw a little gap through the roof of the cave. Sunlight was streaming through the hole. Akiko just stared up at the hole. How could she be so STUPID that she didn't even see that!
Akiko looked around at her surroundings. There was no way to get up there, no holes in the wall which she could climb up. She bit her lip and thought. She couldn't do any jutsus because she didn't have any chakra. For some reason, ever since she got here, she couldn't bring up any chakra at all, like it was sucked out or something.
Akiko tried to summon up chakra, but she couldn't. She could feel a sharp pain build up in her chest. She gasped and clutched her chest.
"What the…why can't I…?"
"You know where she is…right? You know where they've taken her; I bet you're in all this!" Naruto yelled out. Gaara just stared at Naruto. They were wasting his time…Akiko could be dead by now…
"Look Naruto, He might not know where Akiko is," Sakura said. Naruto narrowed his eyes angrily at Gaara. He knew.
"Fine, but we're coming back here; I don't care what you say!" Naruto yelled. Sakura nodded. Then, the four of them disappeared into the air.
Akiko fall down hard on the stone floor. She had been trying to climb up out of the cave, but it was hard. She must have fallen down at least a hundred times that day, and she was starting to get blisters on her feet.
"This sucks," she said. She looked around for more openings in the walls. She sighed and sat down. "Hello! Is anybody up there? It's me, Akiko! Somebody please—OW!" Akiko rubbed the back of her head. Something hit her hard on the back of the head. She turned around, and saw Masumi looking angrily at her, holding a rock.
"Don't yell!" she hissed. Akiko looked angrily at Masumi, and mouthed "Why!" to her. "Because you're gonna make Papa mad!" Masumi replied. She sighed and sat down on a rock nearby. "If you really want to get out of here, I'll help you," Masumi said.
Akiko stared blankly at her and instantly forgot about the pain that grow in her head. "R-Really? But…why do you want to help me?" Akiko asked.
Masumi looked gloomily at the floor. "Papa wants to…he's going to do something terrible, I can't say. And…well…I was being a brat earlier today…and you've been so nice to me, and I've never really had….a friend before…" Masumi trailed off. She looked embarrassed.
Akiko stared at her, and then she smiled. "Well then, let's go, shall we?"
Masumi looked up at Akiko and smiled. "Ok, see that hole up there? The reason you can't get out is because there's a seal on it. And since you can't do any ninjitsu or genjitsu in here, there's a hidden rock in here that releases the jutsu, try looking for a huge rock that has markings carved into it,"
Akiko nodded. She walked around the cave again, looking for the rock.
"My Papa moves the rock every 3 weeks…" Masumi said. "So that's why it's hard to find."
After twenty minutes of looking, Akiko spotted a rock with markings carved into it, hiding behind other rocks. She showed it to Masumi and she nodded.
"That's it," she said.
'What does it say?" Akiko asked. She stared strangely at the rock.
"Oh…it doesn't say anything…I accidentally carved pictures in it when I was little…I didn't know that it was Papa's…" Masumi said.
"Oh…good job then," Akiko said. "So…how do we do this thing?" she asked.
"Um…I don't know…." Masumi said.
"YOU DON'T…oh my God…Ok, um…how about this…" Akiko held the rock up and threw it up into the hole. The rock came racing back into the ground and hit the floor. "Or…not…"
After many attempts at trying to open the seal, Akiko was about to give up.
"Why don't you…um…try to…throw it?" Masumi asked. Akiko turned around to face Masumi.
"We've already tried throwing it! It must have been hours so far…looks like the sun is setting…the light is fading," she said. She nodded towards the light streaming into the cave.
"No…I mean…try throwing it…at the walls or something…" Masumi suggested.
'Well, I really have nothing to lose…' Akiko thought. "Here goes…" she sighed. She threw the rock hard at the wall. Then, as if the rock had done something special, the hole in the ceiling of the cave opened up wider and Akiko could feel her chakra coming back to her.
"Whoa…that was…so weird…" she said. Masumi was smiling.
"I knew it!" she remarked. Akiko turned around to look at Masumi.
"Thanks a lot Masumi! Now I can get out of here!" Akiko looked up at the now setting sky and smiled.
"I have to go now anyways. It was nice meeting you, Uzumaki Akiko. I have a feeling that we're gonna meet each other again…" Masumi smiled darkly, and then, faded into the air. Akiko stared at the spot where Masumi was.
"I gotta go…" she said to herself. She jumped high into the air, and left the cave. As soon as she was out, she looked around her. Trees surrounded her, and it was cold that day. The moon was already high in the sky, and the sun was gone. Akiko looked down at her clothes and noticed that all her clothes had rips and tears in them. Her arms and legs were enveloped in blood, and had cuts all over them. And her feet stung with blisters. She pushed a strand of light brown hair out of her face and sighed. Where to go now…?
She noticed that she wasn't at the entrance of the cave either. Or at least, it didn't look like the entrance. The hole that she escaped out of was already going back to its original form.
Akiko glanced at the ground, and saw a kunai knife laying the grass. What it was doing there, she didn't know, but she needed to defend herself, because she didn't know where she was. She picked it up and observed it. There was blood covering the kunai.
'Was there a battle here…?' she asked herself.
She silently crept in the grass, and hid behind some trees. It was going to be hard going back to Konoha in the dark…No, wait. Why Konoha? Why not home?
YAY! Chapter 8 is done! I think I like this chapter…lol. I like the end. Anyways, here's this chapters question: Do you think Temari does all the housework? I also like the Devdas music...like "Dola Re Dola" and "Maar Dala". In fact, I'm listening to it right now...Anyways! R and R!
