Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters. All I own is Sonki, Akito, and the original plot that has hopefully been inserted into this work of fiction.
Naruto
Chapter 15: Failure
Saga: Death and Rebirth
The first match had already begun. Uzumaki Naruto vs. Hyuuga Neji.
Sonki had her back pressed up against the wall behind her, trying her best to make herself become invisible. As she had done and been her whole life. Her face remained blank as she starred forward, the only through running through her mind"I have to fight Gaara."
"What's wrong with you" Shinkamaru asked raising an eyebrow in her direction. He walked over to her; leaning up against the wall beside her he crossed his arms over his chest.
Everyone in the room was looking at the two of them.
"Nothing" she muttered, embarrassment showing on her face. "Nothing at all."
He sighed, and begun to walk away from her. "Come on… Let's go somewhere more private to talk alright"
"Huh" Sonki asked looking surprised. This was the first time the two of them had had a more than five-word conversation. Even when they used to go to the Ninja Academy together.
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Sonki stood inside of the new room, her hands in her pocket and a confused look on her face.
"Why all of a sudden are you wanting to talk to me now" Sonki asked him, narrowing her eyes. "This for some reason seems… odd"
"I don't know" Shinkamaru said shrugging his shoulders. "You looked distressed so I thought I might give it a shot to help. After all I do want you to beat him."
"Him" Sonki asked raising an eyebrow. "Who is 'him'"
"Sasuke" Shinkamaru replied laughing. "It's not like I hate the guy, but I would like to at least see his pride damaged a little…"
"CAUSE IF YOU DON'T WIN THEN SASUKE WON'T LOVE ME!"
"Wait a minute" Sonki replied looking him dead on. Arms now crossed over her chest. "Don't tell me Sakura put you up to this, did she"
Shinkamaru laughed nervously. "Caught me." He put his hands in his pockets. "Not like I wanted to, but hey, she was crying. I hate it when girls cry." He made a disgusted face. "She wouldn't even tell me why she was crying. All she said was 'Make sure Sonki beats Sasuke!'" He mocked her voice. "So, what's that all about"
"She's depressed" Sonki answered truthfully. "She shows up at my house one night, screaming at me. Telling me to do more training, to stop sitting around and do nothing. Acting as though I wasn't even taking this tournament seriously."
He looked at her confused. "What would she care if you lost"
"Seems Sasuke went and screamed at her in the Forest of Death, when me and Naruto were out. Told her to act more like me. Said that if he ever liked a girl she would have to be sort of like me" She laughed nervously, sticking her hand behind her head. "Silly huh"
"All the Sasuke groupies are going to hate you for that one." He laughed with her. "Well, at least this is going to bring a big change to Konoha for a while. Things have been quite interesting with you around. Before you showed up I guess you could say there wasn't much going on in Konoha" He laughed again.
"What are you talking about? You would have been like four or something when I showed up" she narrowed her eyes once more.
"Whatever, this is to much effort. I give up. Unless you got something on your mind I'm done here."
"Well…"
He was halfway turned around before he stopped to listen to what she was going to say.
"Yes"
"I guess you could say I'm a little worried about what's going to happen in the future…"
"Like what"
"I don't want to fight Gaara in our match… And if I win I really don't want to fight Naruto."
"Fight Naruto" He looked at her utterly confused. "What are you talking about? Naruto's not gunna win. He's strong, but against Neji he's nothing"
"You're forgetting his other face though."
His demon.
Her eyes downcast. "Don't you remember that he has that fox imprisoned inside of him? He has two charkas. Not one, but two. And both are maturing very, very fast. In fact, I wouldn't even be surprised if he was strong than me."
Shinkamaru just looked at her, lost at what he should say to her. She looked as though she were going to cry.
Oh dear God, don't you start crying to Sonki! Wait… Can she even cry? A tough girl like that?
"Don't worry about it" Shinkamaru said. "Take it easy like me." He grinned. "How about if I win the tournament you take me out to lunch or something"
"You win the tournament" She was laughing hystarically now. "Not in a million years Shinkamaru"
"Well, if that's how you see it, if you win. I'll take you out to lunch"
"You're a weirdo" Sonki said still laughing. "You got some bad idea's on pick-up lines Shinkamaru! If you think I'm just a normal girl, then you're dead wrong" She winked at him. "Good luck though"
She walked out of the door, leaving him looking at where she used to be standing, mouth open.
She saw right through him.
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Sonki sighed; Shinkamura's match had just started.
As she had predicted Naruto had won his match against Neji, though she had received the strangest look from Shinkamaru when he was announced the winner.
After Naruto's match it was Kankuro against Aburame Shino, which was easily predicted as well, if this point of the battle was the same, then it should be the same as she read it in the Manga right? Seemed to be because Kankuro surrendered without a second thought.
So the plans were still the same.
A grim look fell across her face.
The assassination of the Hokage was still going to take place.
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"Uchiha Sasuke and Dosu Kinta" a man announced stepping in the room. "You're up next. Hurry it up will you"
Neither of them gave a reply or a second look as they left the room.
"Wait" Sonki said to the man. "Who won the last round"
"That girl from the Sand, Temari" he replied. "That boy just gave up halfway through the battle, though he did put up a good fight, as weak as he was."
Sonki laughed.
"Of course! Taking the lazy way out of it that bum"
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She was now leaning on the railing above the arena. Sasuke and Kinta were standing below in the ring, trying to stare down each other. Sasuke seemed to have the upper hand in this department.
"What are you watching this for" Sonki asked, as Shino appeared a few feet away from her.
Unlike Naruto or Shinkamaru, he had not had the chance to fight in a battle, let alone lose any of his Chakra to be put in the hospital for recovery.
"I was going to ask the same" Shino answered, the first time speaking in front of her.
"Eh, Sasuke is going to win, but Hell I might as well come out to watch, right" Sonki said laughing.
"You're so sure of him"
"Of course. I mean look at the guy… He's got power, but not enough. Even Naruto could blow him away"
Shino frowned; she always just had to be so sure of herself.
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Sonki stood at the other end of the ring, fear running high.
Sasuke's match against Kinta had just ended. Sasuke of course the victor as she had said.
Now… Now it was her turn. Her match. Her match against Gaara of the Sand.
"You two kids ready" Hayate asked, and then coughed.
Neither gave a reply, Gaara seemed to be the only one out of the two that was keeping cool. Sonki on the other hand seemed to be throwing a fit inside of her head. Sweat was now beginning to run down her face and fear was showing in her eyes.
She didn't want to be here.
"Alright then" he answered for them. "Begin"
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"Hey, isn't it Sonki's match now" Naruto asked, looking over to Shinkamaru who was in the hospital along with him.
"Yeah, last match, right" Shinkamaru answered yawning, though he was not seeing the point to his question. "Why you ask"
"Though we should go watch her or something" Naruto said shrugging. "After all she is fighting that one creepy dude. Should be an interesting match, right"
"Yeah, got nothing else to do…"
The both slide of the edges of the bed's they were sitting upright on and touched down to the floor. Naruto opened the door and exited, followed by Shinkamaru as they left the building.
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No, no, no, no, no, no! I can't do this! I don't want to do this! Her face was twisting up in agitation as she starred back at Gaara's plain face.
"What are you doing Sonki" he asked her, his form relaxed. "Don't tell me you don't want to fight? I thought you said you weren't going to hold back on me…"
"I don't want to" Sonki muttered. "Do you? Do you really want to fight me"
Gaara looked at her, his face full of frustration. He gritted his teeth and flung the cork off the top of his gourd.
"Take me seriously, or you're going to get hurt" he hissed at her, slight agitation in his voice.
The sand slid out of the gourd and came to a stop around his feet. As soon as it was all out he placed the cork back into its original position.
"Sonki…" He frowned at her. "Are you going to fight me? Or are you going to back out"
"I don't want to do this" she answered. "I don't want to do this"
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"Is she going to win" Shinkamaru asked, arms over the railing in front of him as he gazed down at the fight that had still managed to have been stalled by Sonki's denied requests.
"I don't know" Naruto replied. "If she keeps going with the same attitude she has at the moment, she's not going to make it anywhere."
"Then she's going to lose."
The first punch was thrown.
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Sonki fell backwards, catching her falling body with her hands. Gaara's shadow was looming over her body as she looked up at him with tears in her eyes.
"I don't want to do this" she repeated.
"Tough luck" he spat at her. "If you're not going to take me seriously then I'm going to have to make you take me seriously." A wicked smile formed over his face. "If you don't fight me now, I'll sleep Sonki. I'll put myself under a spell and I'll sleep. Than you will have to fight me, yes"
She shook her head. "I don't want to fight you."
"You don't have a choice" Gaara screamed at her. Sand was whirling up around his body. "If you don't find me now Sonki than you will have no chance at all of surviving"
"Why? Why do you want to fight me so bad"
He gritted his teeth, more anger showing itself.
"Do you think I really want to fight you of all people Sonki! Do you really think that I want to fight someone I love"
His words echoed through out the ring.
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"Love" Sakura whispered to herself from the stands. Ino was at her side.
"Who's this boy" Ino asked looking down at the two of them confused. "Sakura? He just said he loved her right"
Sakura nodded her head in disbelief. Did she really have a chance with Sasuke now?
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Naruto held his stomach as he fell on the floor laughing.
Shinkamaru was looking down at Gaara a little agitated. Damn… I guess she isn't just average…
"Did-did-did you hear tha-that" Naruto breathed out between gasps. "A scar-scary guy like that saying he loves that piece of work"
"Don't be an ass Naruto" Shinkamaru replied, a smile on his face also.
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The words hit Sonki like a hurricane. She blinked at him a few times, as though her mind wouldn't let it accept what she had just heard.
"Love me"
Gaara looked down at his feet, eyes narrowed and a small blush coming across his face. "Yeah…"
She smiled at him. "Thank you."
He was then slammed to the ground.
She stood several feet away from his shocked body.
Finally… He picked himself back up, the sand now going wild. A lot faster than I would have expected. Almost faster than Lee.
He vanished from sight, a smile on his face as Sonki starred at his body. She was then slammed into the nearest wall that enclosed the ring they were fighting in.
"Try harder"
Sonki picked her body up from the rubble that was around her, a smile on her face also. Dragging the back of her hand across her mouth she removed the blood coming from her mouth.
She reached into her shrunken pouch at her side and removed several, kunai. Holding them in front of her body as she engulfed them in a black flame with her Chakra.
Sand flew up around Gaara's body as he blocked the throw kunai. Sand blew where the kunai had hit his sand shield. Heh… Just to think what if I didn't have this shield? She'd be playing dirty yes?
He threw his body forward as soon as the shield had lowered itself, fist ready as he aimed for her face. It was captured in her own hand as he threw a leg down to block the kick she had thrown at him as soon as they had made contact.
Their eyes were interlocked.
"See you latter."
Her head smashed into his, sending his body flying.
She clapped her hands together as he stayed down in the new hole she had created in the arena walls. Stretching her arms forward she yawned as she slowly begun to walk over in the direction his body had been submerged in.
"Oh…" Sonki said, her eyes growing a little as she saw shrukien being hurtled at her. Steeping to her left she dodged them, easily, maybe a little too easily.
What's he playing at…
It hit her; several of them slammed into her left shoulder. Gaara stood no more than twenty yards away, a satisfactory grin on his face.
"You're bad at this Ninja thing Sonki! Pay more attention"
"You're telling me…"
The figure in front of his vanished, the real Sonki standing behind him, her sword out and at his throat.
"Where bad at this" Gaara said laughing at her.
She groaned as she slide the edge of her blade at his neck, the clone of him in front of his vanished also.
"You need a new strategy" Gaara hissed in her ear as he slammed her to the ground, his body over hers. "How do you expect to kill me by this"
"Kill you"
"It's not like I'm going to judge you for becoming a murderer in this tournament Sonki. It's all fun and games right"
"Murderer"
Her voice collapsed in her throat, melancholy eyes sliding out of conscious as she looked up at his face.
"NO! I'M NOT! I'M NOT A MURDERER!"
"Huh"
His body was flung backwards. Sonki was on her feet in less than a blink of an eye. Her shoulders hunched inwards as she breathed out deeply, her eyes hollow as they cast a looming look at Gaara.
"I'm not… I'm not a murderer. Stop saying that. WHY WON'T EVERYONE JUST STOP CALLING ME A MURDERER"
But you are…
GO THE HELL AWAY!
In a bad mood Sonki? Do you want me to help you?
Garou! GET OUT! GET OUT NOW!
And if I don't want too?
I'll make you.
I'd like to see that you pathetic waste flesh.
Her face twisted up in rage, her body now erect as she hissed out her final reply.
"Garou… Leave now. I'm in the middle of a match and the last thing people need to know is that I'm fucking losing my head speaking to you."
"Sonki"
Gaara picked his body up and begun to walk towards her, her eyes were following his every movement.
"Is he trying to get out again"
She gave no reply, just a heavy weave in breathing.
"What's wrong with you"
No answer.
"Sonki. Why aren't you going to answer me"
Her eyes starred holes into his.
"Sonki"
"Get the fuck away from me before I tear you to shreds."
His feet moved back a few steps, this was the first time he had ever even thought about retreating from a battle he was placed in. The first time he felt fear.
His hands turning to fists at his side as he starred back, matching her glare with his own.
"I can tear you to shreds to Sonki."
Only the same glare met his statement.
"Heh, so I'm taking this as 'I'm going to fight you' now, right"
She starred at him.
"Is this what it takes to get you to do this"
He lunged himself at her, leg cocked and ready to slam down against her face. A quick movement of her hand caught him around the ankle, leaving him halfway in the air and halfway on the ground.
She flung him into the air a second latter after theirs eyes had met, and then back into the ground. Submerging his body in a hole as she stood over him, a wicked grin on her face.
Are you going to kill him Sonki?
What are you talking about…? Kill him?
You have that look on your face. The same look you gave Akito before you plunged that knife into him, committing murder.
IT WASN'T MURDER! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU!
Denial.
I DIDN'T MURDER HIM! IT DIDN'T HAPPEN LIKE THAT!
Just admit it Sonki! WHAT YOU DID TO HIM WAS MURDER! STOP TRYING TO COVER IT UP WITH PITTIFUL EXCUSSES!
"HE WAS THE ONE WHO KILLED ME FIRST"
Tears were now running down her face. She was chewing on the bottom of her lip, her own conscious now sliding back into place, replacing the horrid one that was before.
"He killed me first… What I did was just self-defense…"
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Akito stood in front of her, a smile on his face as he slammed his hands down on the desk in front of her.
"Sonki…" His voice sounded nervous.
"A-Akito" She blinked at him several times, as though to make sure he was actually standing in front of her and not some sore of hallucination.
A boy such as him talking to her like this, it was, impossible.
"Will you go out with me"
"Huh" Sonki asked, blinking once more. "What"
"I asked if you'd go out with me."
He smiled at her.
"Unless that is, you don't like me"
"What? No, no! I never said that"
She smiled back at him nervously.
"Of course I will"
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"So how far have you guys gone anyway" one of Akito's friends asked.
They were leaning against the walls behind the school, which had just let out for the day.
"Far as you can go…" Akito answered, shrugging the question off.
Sonki blushed at the way he calmly talked about the subject. She would have barely been able to spit it out.
"Lucky bastard, Akito" he said frowning at him with amusement and then punched him in the shoulder playfully. "So what's next"
"What do you think" Akito answered laughing. "I'm still sticking to the plan! It's been a week, so pay up"
"Huh" Sonki said looking at the two of them confused. "Pay up"
"What" Akito said looking at her a taken back. "Did you really think I'd ask someone like you out"
"I… I'm not following what you're saying…"
"I want no more part in this… See you around Akito" his friend replied waving a hand over his shoulder as he walked off. "I'll pay you next time I see you"
"Pay you"
"He owes me money for getting into your pants…" A wicked grin spread across his face. "What else would I want with you? To actually think I'd like a reject like you? Please! You've got a nice body and that's about it Sonki! Might as well leave now before I crush your ego any more…" He patted her on the shoulder. "You're noisy too…" A wider grin appeared.
"FUCK YOU" Sonki screamed at him, hands now fists as tears streamed down her face. It was just a bet. The reason he had asked her out was all for a bet. "I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU LOVED ME"
"How else was I supposed to get a tight ass like you into bed" He laughed at her. "Everything I've told you is a lie Sonki, so just drop it already and leave. You've been used, so get over it."
"I'll kill you…"
"Whatever…"
He turned his back and begun to walk away from her.
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Sonki shock her head to clear up her thoughts. This was something that didn't need to be brought up now of all times. Placing a confident look on her face she starred up at the crowd. A few Anbu were littered through it.
"Shit… So everything is still functioning…" Her frown deepened.
Gaara looked at her face, unsure of what she was talking about.
"Gaara" Sonki begun, a pleading look now spread across her face. She flung herself at him, pinning his body into the wall around the ring, her hands pinning his arms. She edged her face closer to his and begun to speak. "Something really bad is going to happen… The Hokage is going to be murdered… Orochimaru is going to kill him. We have to stop him."
"Why does this concern me" He flipped his body out of her grasp and flipped her over onto her back; he was now pinning her.
"If you really love me than you'll help. I can't stand to let my village get destroyed." She saw his face wince. This wasn't her village, nor was the Sand. She didn't even belong in this world. "Attack the Anbu with me… If we don't kill them now, than the Hokage will surely die. Kabuto is disguised as one of them, along with other Ninja's of the Sand… Tell me" she looked into his eyes. "Did you know about this"
No reply.
"Please Gaara, just help me. I'll do what ever it takes to repay you."
"Will you now" He grinned at her.
"Pervert! You're as bad as Ero Sennin"
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"What the hell are they talking about" Naruto asked looking down at the two of them confused. It seemed as though they were now toying with each other; the only words he or anyone else was able to pick up were 'Ero Sennin'.
"Ero Sennin" Shinkamaru said looking at Naruto with a raised eyebrow. "Who's this? Another one of her admirers"
"Just some pervert, who trained me" Naruto answered leaning further back of the rail, a gloomy expression now taking a hold of his face. "Nothing important…"
"What the…"
Sonki and Gaara were now both on their feet, standing side by side, glaring up at the crowd.
"What are they trying to pull" Shinkamaru said regaining his words of speech. "Don't tell me they're both forfeiting! This is bullshit"
"Huh" Naruto mouthed out as the two of them disappeared from sight.
"Naruto…" Sonki said her hands gripping his shoulder's so he wouldn't flip out. "Take out the Anbu or you'll never get the chance to fight the Hokage! Kabuto is here to kill him"
"What are you talking about" Naruto yelled jerking his body away from her grasp. "What the hell are you doing Sonki"
Sonki's face twisted up in rage. "FINE! DON'T HELP ME THEN"
Her eyes filled up to the size of dinner plants as she collapsed to her knees.
An Anbu stood behind her.
"Sorry to trouble you. She broke the rules, now she has to be disqualified…" The Anbu starred at Naruto through its mask.
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Sorry this took so long! I've been so busy as I've said before! Hopefully this is long enough for the moment! Tell me if you like the direction this fic is headed! Suggestions are helpful! Again! Apologies for the long awaited update!