Mine Alone
A Yang Production
I…failed? Is that what was happening? Kyuubi-sama was gone and Naruto had returned to the physical plane from the dream world. Everything seemed to drift far from me as I was drowning in a sea of blood. Drowning in my own sins…I was beyond forgiveness.
No one dared to draw a breath, the figure seemed to quiver as they still lay huddled on the ground.
" Naruto!" Tsunade rushed to his side and threw her green jacket over his naked body. She took one of his hands into her own and he gripped it tightly.
" Baa…san?" His voice was so quiet. He looked up at her his eyes full of tears. "Baa-san, Baa-san! I…I hurt them all didn't I! They all died because of me! I killed them all!"
" What are you talking about Naruto?"
" Sakura-chan! Ino-san! Kiba-san! All of them! It was my fault! It's because of my existence!"
"Shhh." Tsunade placed a finger on his lips to silence his ramblings and placed her head on his. " It's not your fault. We lost people, but it's not you Naruto. It never was you…"
He sobbed silently into her chest. " Baa-san…but they were killed in my name!"
" Hokage-sama is right Naruto." A voice added. " You have nothing to do with all this. It's their fault." They jerked a thumb at the person who was muttering insanely to themselves. " They lost themselves a long time ago, their world came crashing down on them and they tried to find a light. They failed." Naruto looked over to the person that was talking to him. Through the slits in the mask he could see two eyes staring back at him, kind, warm eyes that understood his pain and accepted him. " They lost themselves, and they let out that frustration on innocent people, do you understand Naruto?" Naruto nodded his head. " It never was you. You are to kind…you're too pure. Your love for this village is too great for you to harm anyone…so please don't blame yourself." They reached for their mask and leaned in towards Naruto. The mask slid away enough so that their identity wasn't revealed. Warm lips covered Naruto's. This wasn't like the other kiss…this was…was…well Naruto didn't know how to describe it, but it sure beat the other one!
A scream broke the kiss.
Noooo! I watched in horror as they broke apart. Naruto blushed and placed a hand to his lips. This can't be happening! It just can't be.
" I failed…I failed. I failed…heh heh…I failed…I failed to turn this village against Naruto. I bloodied my hands for nothing!" My hands were dripping with blood. " Look at this blood that I spilled! LOOK AT IT!" I raised my hands to the sky. " BLOOD! RED BLOOD ON MY HANDS! I killed them all! All of them! I did…I did…" My hands dropped to my side. " I did. Every last one of them…" Lee's body was carried to where Tenten and Neji stood with Gai. Tenten let out another sobbing scream.
" LEE! LEE! No! Not you! Anyone else but you!"
" Heeh Haha! Another life broken! More blood on my hands." I laughed. " I failed…"
" It's over." Tsunade said calmly. " There's nothing for you now. Nothing."
"Nothing?" The word caused me to drop to my hands and knees. " Nothing at all? Am I alone? Am I alone AGAIN?" Slowly sand made it's way towards me. It crawled up my arms and legs. " Have I fallen that far? So far into my hell that no light can find me?" The idea was insane! Me, alone?
" Should we kill them right now Hokage-sama?" Gaara's voice asked.
" No, we'll take them to Konoha and hand 'em over to Ibiki. He'll take care of everything. Afterwards…they'll rot to death in a cell." There was poison in the words that the Hokage spouted.
" Me…in a cell?" I whispered as the sand started to get tighter. " Away from Naruto? Away from my only important person? I won't allow it…" Placing my hands flat on the ground I thought of one thing: THE DESTRUCTION OF KONOHA. " I WON'T LET YOU KILL MY DREAM!" The ground shook violently as I poured out my chakra. I could hear everyone scampering trying to avoid what ever it was that was happening. Everything calmed down as I let myself fall to the ground exhausted. It started with a small crack, then the crack grew bigger and divided. Jagged towers of earth shot up into the sky, surprising many shinobis. Ground gave way when some shinobis tried to land on them, their screams echoing into the dark nothingness. The ground beneath Gaara shot up and the sand that shackled me fled to save its master.
Now the fun begins…The ground split open and let loose a wave of mud that swept away any inexperienced shinobis. Those who were able to escape the waves found that spikes shot forth from the towers that they sought refuge on. Another earthquake rattled the small village as the ground broke apart and the land became unstable, it would rise up in areas or give out completely and leave a giant void in it's place. Shakily I rose to my feet. Tsunade had Naruto on her back as she was making her way to Konoha.
" Come back! You won't take Naruto!" I brought up my hands palm out. Two snakes shot out and made their way to where Naruto was. They wrapped themselves around her waist and around her neck. I wrapped my hands around the two snakes and was about to pull when a giant Shuriken came out of no where and cut my line. SHE had to come back and avenge Lee.
" I don't have time for this Tenten!" I screamed at her. She didn't even flinch as she stood in the tree with her hands full of weapons. As I avoid wave after wave of weapons I thought Where the hell that she hide all that! By mere chance I looked up to see that Tsunade ripped off my little pets and handed Naruto to her own masked friend. " Get out of my way bitch!"
The tree that Tenten stood in suddenly jerked awkwardly and then it shot towards the sky. Tenten grabbed on tightly as she watched the earth crumble away from the tree till the roots were exposed. From the sky she saw the devastation that they had made. She saw Earth Dragons, Fire Dragons made from the free flowing magma underneath the ground, people were running and screaming and the earth was cracking, splitting, all this done by one person. Losing her grip she began to fall. Weightlessness over took her, she felt the wind against her, then needles running down her arms. Opening her eyes she grabbed hold of a branch.
" Ugh, more trees." She muttered as she began to climb down. Something struck her from behind and she crashed to the ground. Strong hands were wrapped around her neck.
" You took him from me!" They yelled over and over again as they began to hit her head against the ground. " You can't live anymore! DIE! ROT IN HELL YOU STUPID BITCH!" Tenten reach for her pocket and pulled out a kunai, but she wasn't able to use it. " Oh no you don't!" They ripped it from her hands and kept choking her. " Now I can't be with him! You all should have left him to me. Now I have to kill my only love!" They raised the Kunai above their head and started to sob. " I have to kill Naruto!" Tenten was starting to blackout, she almost didn't see them bring that kunai down. Pain spread through out her body, followed instantly by more and more. They…were stabbing her multiple times…and still they held their hand around her neck. Darkness was spread itself over her. It was so inviting, it was warm and calm, and there was no pain. Yes, she could even see Lee in the darkness holding out his hand.
Come with me Tenten, over here there is no pain, no sadness, no suffering. Come…come to me Tenten.
She extended her hand and took his as she stood up from were she was laying. Even as she heard the last echoes of the living world she never looked back.
" Oh, crap! What have I done!" I shouted as I looked at Tenten's open lifeless eyes. "No! You had to die! YOU JUST HAD TO!" I wiped my hands on the grass trying to get the blood off. " Get off! Off! OFF!" Satisfied with my hands I worked on how to get rid of her body. " Earth…swallow her!" The ground rose up around her and came crashing down, but through a gap I could see her eyes starring back at me, drilling into my soul, messing with my head. " STOP IT! LEAVE ME ALONE!" I backed away as she disappeared into the ground.
You killed me…
"STOP IT! GET AWAY FROM ME!"
What did I do to you…?
" You hurt Naruto! You destroyed him!"
We're coming for you…
" SHUT UP! YOU'RE DEAD!" I lifted my hands and a wall of earth rose up then came crashing down on the small forest wiping out the trees and any living thing.
You can't escape from us…murderer!
" I'm not! I'm not!" I tired to block out the voices but they were inside my head.
Murderer!
" You had to die! I'm not a murderer! I'M NOT A MURDERER!"
MURDERER!
Naruto slept soundly as Tsunade placed him in the spare room that was joined to her office. He would occasionally mutter the words, "It's not my fault."
" What are we to do now?" She stroked his head in order to calm him down.
" I don't know. I really didn't expect them to explode into such a rage. We lost half the village." Outside the window, smoke rose up in large clouds. Houses lay in ruins, some still burning. Half of Konoha lay intact, the ground around it was not affected by the earthquake. " But the calm that we have now won't last. They most likely will rest and attack again…but this time we might lose everything."
" Or we might win everything." Naruto turned in his sleep. " You did good. You kept your promise."
" Mm…"
" You really care about Naruto…even if you never showed it before."
" Excuse me?"
" You so shy about your feelings."
" Oh shut up."
" Someone's blushing."
The awkward atmosphere was cut short as a low rumbling sound swept through out Konoha.
" Hokage-sama…we have company. I'll meet you out there."
Among the ruble that was half of Konoha stood two people dressed in black with a fox mask hiding their face. Each one had a reason to fight for, one that they would die for. The battle was far from over. Both of them were equal in power, both equal in defense.
" Stop this! You can still come back!"
" I can't! They won't let me. Can't you hear them? They keep haunting me! Calling me a murderer! I'm not!"
Both jumped into the air and landed a punch squarely on their opponents face. As they landed the mask shattered. Sharingan met Byakugan.
" Sasuke-san, I love Naruto more than anything."
" As do I Hinata-san."
" Heh…Cough I will fight till I die… Cough...ThoughI may not last very long."
" You are sick are you not Hinata-san?"
" Cough A side affect of my love. Cough. Cough."
" Please stop and let me take you back! We can treat you!"
" No! They're here." I shook in fear of THEM. " No! I'm not a murderer! I had to kill you! You aren't real!"
" What's wrong!" Sasuke looked on as I fell to her knees holding my head and yelling.
" I KILLED YOU! I KNOW I DID! STOP HAUNTING ME! LEAVE ME ALONE!" I swatted at imaginary hands. " LEAVE ME ALONE!"
This time the earthquake made the last one seem small and gentle. " I have to kill everyone." I laughed. " This time…Naruto has to die also!"
Yang-chan: Forgive the late update! I'm so busy with work and stuff!
Ferret-san: Stop making excuses!
Yang-chan: But it's all true! Anyway, you better figure out who the killer/stalker is now. Thank you! Please continue to review!