Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters. All I own is Sonki, Akito, and the original plot I have hopefully submitted into this series. I do not own Sunday, Bloody Sunday, it belongs to it's company that recorded it and the wonderful band U2.

Naruto

Chapter 17: Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Saga: Death and Rebirth

Sonki sat in her room once more. Her eyes falling on nothing of interest, this was to be the last time she would enter this house. The last time she would sleep here, eat here, and possibly have other people in here.

Nothing was left for her now.

She had to go.

She needed to go.

She let out a deep sigh and pulled her jacket on over her shoulders. All she would need now were the clothes on her back and her CD player to keep her going, but even that was begging to run out of batteries.

Soon she would have nothing left to remind her of the old, world she used to preside in.

Opening the door in front of her she closed it for the last time. Making her way slowly down Konohagakure Village, trying to soak up as much of it as she could.

This was the last time she would ever see this Village; this was the last time she would ever stroll down its streets.

This was the last time anyone from the Leaf would see her again.

She stopped at the edge of the village. Sasuke was no more than a few feet away from her, and amazingly had not noticed her presence.

"What are you doing here?" Sonki asked, her voice sounding annoyed at his presence.

"I should be asking you the same question," he spat back at her. "And besides it's none of your damn business."

"Of course not, how thoughtless of me," Sonki hissed back at him.

They stood starring at each other in a silence, only to be broken by Sonki's foot steeps heading away from him, heading away from the village.

"Don't tell me you're running away because we found out your little secret, are you?" Sasuke called out to her, a little fear in his voice. "Are you leaving then?"

"I don't belong here," Sonki answered stopping dead in her tracks. "Besides nothing good has come of my stay here. Nothing."

"Where will you go?"

"I don't know. But where ever it is, it will never be as good as this."

"Than why leave if you don't want to? It's not like anyone is forcing you too."

"That's what Naruto told me…"

A smile spread across her face.

"But you still haven't told me why you are doing here?"

He glared at the back of her head, trying to burn a hole through it.

"Are you leaving also? Going in search of someone maybe?"

"There you go again with that bullshit Sonki! You wonder why I and that boy from the Sand resent you at the moment! You wonder why we're so angry with you! You know everything about us, you know the actions we are going to make…"

"And you wish for me to tell you then don't you Uchiha?"

She tuned around to face him, a frown placed upon her face.

"Well the fact is I can't. But I will say one last thing before I leave…"

"And what would that be?"

She glared at him with all of the malice she could muster.

"Touch Naruto and I'll tear you to pieces."

Sasuke looked at her taken back by her statement.

Turning away from him once more she walked away, disappearing into the forest that surrounded the village.

"She's left!" Kakashi screamed as Sasuke stood before him. "What do you mean 'she left'?"

"Sonki… She just walked out of the village last night. Saying nothing more than she didn't belong here, that she was just nothing," Sasuke answered, boy did he hate being the message boy.

"This… This isn't good," Kakashi said musing over the thoughts that were running through his head. "Nothing good will come of her departure… I'm sure he'll find out and be after her…"

"He?"

Kakashi looked at him gravely.

"The same man who is after you… Orochimaru."

"DAMMIT!" Naruto screamed out punching the wall in front of him.

Shinkamaru stood at his side, and let out a sigh.

"Are you sure this is true? Are you positive that she left!" Naruto screamed turning to his friend. He had just received the news of Sonki's departure. Let alone she hadn't even come to him to say good bye before she had left.

"I over heard the news when Sasuke was telling your sensei this morning," Shinkamaru answered shoving his hands into his pockets, a dull look was on his face. "Don't think you're the only one unhappy about this Naruto, I'm sure everyone she knew is going to be sad."

I don't want to leave… But I have to.

His face twisted up in rage as he slammed his fist into the wall again.

"We have to go find her…"

"How are we supposed to do that?" Shinkamaru cocked an eyebrow at him.

"Well get a party together and we'll go out and look for him… I don't care how, but… We just have to find her! She said she didn't want to leave… So why should she!"

Shinkamaru smiled at him.

"You're a weird kid."

"Explain to my why exactly I'm here?" Kiba asked looking at them with a cocked eyebrow and a confused expression. "I've only spoken to her once and I don't see how that would incline that I was her friend..."

"Does it really matter?" Shinkamaru asked shooting him a nasty look. "Its not as though you're doing anything important at the moment are you?"

Kiba rolled his eyes at him as he scratched Akamaru behind his ears.

Shino turned to face Naruto who was looking at the group that was gathered annoyed.

Shinkamaru had assembled the group for him, stating that they were the best out of Konoha Village that weren't above the Chuunin level.

Shinkamaru, Kiba, Shino, and Chouji stood in front of him.

"Kiba's right," Chouji spat out at Naruto. "I've never met Sonki in my life. I don't see what this has to do with me at all!"

Shinkamaru let out a groan of resentment at the position he had placed himself in as he slapped his hand over his forehead. Rubbing his temple with his fingers he attempted to make his oncoming headache retreat.

"WILL YOU ALL JUST SHUT-UP!" Naruto screamed. He was glaring at each and every one of them with the same hated look in his eyes that the villages had given him through out his whole life. "I DON'T CARE ANYMORE! IF THIS IS SUCH A BOTHER TO YOU THAN JUST LEAVE ALREADY! I DON'T NEED LOSERS LIKE YOU ANYWAY!"

"Calm down you dolt," Kiba shot back at him, with the same glare. "If I really resented being here this much than I already would have left…"

Naruto frown back at him.

"Do you think we could actually get this started anytime soon?" Shinkamaru asked still rubbing his temple, his headache had already come. "By now she could already be out of the forest…"

A worried look spread over Naruto's face.

"But I dought she has," Shinkamaru replied to his expression, laughing nervously.

A positive grin spread over his face again, slamming his left fist into his open palm he called out, "All right! Let's get going then!"

"Where do you think you're going?" an annoyed voice called out.

Naruto spun around to come to face Jiraiya.

"Oi! It's you again! Ero Sennin! What do you want!" Naruto called out pointing an index finger at him.

"This is quite an organized gathering…" He starred at the men around him, a sweat drop running down his head. "What's the occasion?"

"Didn't you hear? Sonki left the village," Naruto said rolling his eyes at him.

"Left?" he asked sounding a bit confused.

"Yeah like walked out… Never to return," Naruto shot back at him, now annoyed.

"Dammit!" Jiraiya spat out, eyes closed as he rubbed his temple, an angry look was starting to spread across his face. "This messes everything up!"

"Huh?" Naruto asked raising an eyebrow at him.

"I'm on a mission…" he replied. "At this point it was supposed to compose of you, that girl and myself. We're going to look for the sixth Hokage."

"Sixth Hokage?" Shinkamaru asked, now interested in the conversation.

"Yeah…" he said nodding his head. "But now it looks like its just going to be you and me…" He was now looking at Naruto.

"I can't come."

"What do you mean you can't come!"

"I'm already on a mission. We have to bring Sonki back."

"Naruto! Don't you understand! This is much higher than Sonki! If we don't get the sixth than this village is open to attack at any given time. We don't have a leader! This village will crumble!"

"Get someone else."

"You don't have an option…"

Jaraiya was now frowning at him.

"If you reject this mission now I will have you forever revoked from the Shinobi World."

Naruto's face twisted up in anger as he stared at him. Hands turning into fists at his side.

"Just go Naruto," Shinkamaru said letting out a sigh. "We'll bring her back. I promise."

"Uh…" his face relaxed as Shinkamaru let out those words.

"Besides… It's not going to be too hard. Just go. He's right. The sixth is more important that Sonki. When we get her back I'll make sure you're the first person to know."

"Thank you…" Naruto said, letting out a sigh also. He then turned to face him, his eyes set at his. "Make sure to tell her… That I was supposed to come too. Make sure to tell her that I want her back in this village."

"Can be done," Shinkamaru said clapping his hand on his shoulder, a determined smile on his face. "Goo luck."

"Right!" Naruto said, smiling back at him.

"DAMMIT!" Sonki screamed out, her voice echoing through the woods as she threw her CD player away from her.

The batteries had just gave out.

"What am I supposed to do now! What am I supposed to do?" she screamed, sinking to her knees, hands clasped over her head as she begun to let out all of her anger, through tears.

Breaking down?

SHUT-UP! DON'T YOU DARE SPEAK TO ME NOW OF ALL TIMES!

I can't resist. After all, I feed on your suffering Sonki. When you are dying I am living!

"SHUT UP! GO AWAY!" Sonki screamed, slamming her hands on the ground in front of her. "I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANYMORE FROM YOU! I'M TIRED OF THIS! I'M TIRED OF YOU ALWAYS PUTTING ME DOWN! SLAMMING MY FACE INTO THE GROUND! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANYMORE!"

"Sonki?" a soft voice called out, foot steeps approaching her from the right. "Is that… you?"

"Kisei?" Sonki asked, raising her head to look at him tears still in her eyes.

"It is you!" he breathed out relived, a happy smile making its way across his face. "I never thought I'd see you here again… Here of all places… What are you doing here?"

"I ran away… Again…" she answered standing up, her vision now on the ground, to embarrassed to look at him.

"I see you are the same as always." He clapped his hand on her shoulder, leading her in the direction of his house. "Would you like to stay with me again? Or are you going somewhere this time?"

"I am going to nowhere," Sonki answered smiling. "Where ever my feet take me. That is where I shall go."

"We need to find you some happier phrases." He smiled at her wider this time, happiness radiating from his face.

"What have you been up to since the last time I was in your presence?" Kisei asked her, taking a drink from his tea, as he looked across the table at her. She still continued to look down, always adverting his eyes.

"I've mostly been training…"

"How did the exam come along?"

"It was canceled," Sonki answered. "An ambush was made. They killed the Hokage. No one graduated to the next level."

"Is that so!" Kisei said sounding startled. "I'm sorry to hear this."

"So is everyone else…"

A silence fell, the only sound that could be heard was the both of them picking up or setting down their cups.

"How is your summoning coming along?" he finally asked.

Her eyes lowered even more.

"To be honest… I haven't summoned anything. Since Jiraiya told me what was going to happen to me… I've put them as far away from my mind as they could possibly come…"

"Than it was worthless for me to have taught that technique to you?"

"No! Not at all!" She said, finally looking up at him. "It's just that… If it's true about them… I don't want it to happen! I don't want this to become!"

"Who ever said that it had to be that way?" Kisei asked her. "Do you not think that if I knew they were going to kill you that I would have wasted my time teaching them to you. That I would teach you something that would be of no use to you?"

"No…"

"Than why do you believe him? He is a man prone to abide by the laws of the Shinobi world. Everything he may say is not always true. Do not let your efforts go to waste. Did you not tell me once that what you were in search of was more power?"

"I did…"

"Than don't let that power go to waste… If you master them, than you will be the most powerful Shinobi to have ever existed. You will be even more powerful that the Fourth."

She shot her eyes back at the ground, her gaze hardening. "I'm not even sure what I seek is power anymore. I don't know what I want anymore."

He smiled at her. "Don't worry. It will come to you in time. Time is on your side. You are young unlike me, you have your life to spend wandering what you want."

She laughed. "You can't honestly be that old!"

He laughed with her. "I'm already pushing fifty… I don't have much time left…"

"Time… left? I don't understand…" she answered, her laughter dying along with her happy expression.

"He was right about one thing," Kisei answered. "They will feed on your life force. I'm surprised I even made it this far.

"On your life force?"

"You signed the treaty, they have as much of a right to your body as you do. As it is with all summoning. Do not tell me you knew nothing of this. Do not tell me you don't understand…"

"I have the Dragons… And Garou inside of me now? I have two beings trying to take over my body… Two beings that are trying to kill me! Is that what you're telling me!"

"Do not fear! As I have said before… If I did not think you were capable of handling this sort of power I would have shown none of it to you. I have done what I think is right, and you have accepted what you want."

"Than I have an even lesser time than you to live…"

A frown came upon his face.

"Three beings can not live in one body. One body can not have three heartbeats."

"I can't believe the news today. Oh, I can't close my eyes and make it go away…"

The boy with the hair color of dried blood slowed down his foot steeps, eyes narrowing as he heard the song flow through his head.

Where was it coming from?

Straining his ears he listened to the next oncoming set of lyrics.

"How long... How long must we sing this song? How long, how long... 'Cause tonight... We can be as one. Tonight..."

"Sonki?" he asked, his voice sounding a little hopeful, but was quickly covered by the look of anger on his face. He wasn't about to forgive her this easily. She'd betrayed him.

"Broken bottles under children's feet. Bodies strewn across the dead end street. But I won't heed the battle call… It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall…"

Dammit… Where is it coming from? He strained his ears, closing his eyes; still trying to find the area the music was coming from.

He opened his eyes; the sound was coming from his left.

"Sunday, Bloody Sunday. Sunday, Bloody Sunday. Sunday, Bloody Sunday."

Taking a few steps to his left he noticed her CD player resting against a tree, it had a scratches randomly played upon it, and was almost entirely coveredin mud. As though she had thrown it away, cast it out.

"And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters
Torn apart

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

How long...
How long must we sing this song
How long, how long...
'Cause tonight...we can be as one
Tonight...tonight...

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
(Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
Oh, wipe your blood shot eyes
(Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

Sunday, Bloody Sunday (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
Sunday, Bloody Sunday (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die

(Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

The real battle just begun
To claim the victory Jesus won
On...

Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sunday Bloody…"

The batteries finally died out. He leaned over and picked it up, placing it in his pocket he looked up at the sky above him. Clouds were starting to appear in the blue sky dark clouds of rain.

What am I doing here? Why am I here?

He lowered his eyes, a wave of depression rushing over him as he begun to walk once more.

Sonki stood outside, enjoying the feeling of the rain falling down on her skin.

I'll give you time to think about what you want to do… Tomorrow morning if you would… have your mind made up. If you wish to continue to summon dragons I will continue to train you, if you wish to abandon that power… There is nothing I can do for you.

Still musing on the left over thoughts from her conversation with him.

"This isn't going to work…" she said quietly as she let her hair fall down around her neck, soaking up the falling water.

This was peace. This was harmony.

What isn't going to work?

Now you're concerned? That's a laugh.

Come now Sonki. You can't just believe that all I have for you is hate? After all, you're going to have to like me at some point. I am never going to leave you after all.

I don't have to do anything for you. The day I trust you will be the day I die.

Such harsh words.

Leave me alone. Just leave me be.

Pathetic girl! You always ask this of me! Will you not fight back! Will you not back up your words against me! Just how weak do you want yourself to become! Just how weak are you Sonki! I saw murderer and you cringe!

Her face twisted up in rage, fists at her side as she tried to keep her mind stable. Trying to keep it in Eden.

I cringe because it is lies! I cringe because it is false! I cringe because that is what I must do! So what if I am weak! I am here now, am I not! I am here trying to become stronger! I do not need you to fulfill my dreams! I do not need you at all! You are just excess luggage! Something that needs to be thrown away! YOU'RE JUST A THORN IN MY SIDE!

Believe what you must. Soon you're frame of mind will crumble… Soon you will die, leaving nothing but a husk that you call flesh.

What do you know?

Silence.

GAROU?

Silence.

"He's gone…" Sonki said, a true smile spreading across her face. "He's left me! Can this be true!"

She laughed madly; falling to her knee's as tears begun to well up in her eyes.

"A wasted husk, huh? A waste of flesh…" She gripped the hem of her coat, eyes shut tightly as she pulled herself into a ball on her knees. "Waste… I am a waste!"

Her tears turned into sobs as she cried harder and harder.

"N-nothing is left for m-me now! All I d-do is cau-use pain and suf-fer-fering where ever I go…" She moaned this out, trying to pull her body into a tighter ball. "I-I can't do this… a-anymore! I c-can't do this alone!"

Arms wrapped around her, a face laying on top of her head as the voice spoke out to her.

"Who ever said you had to do this alone?" the voice asked, eyes showing signs of a long deprived sleep. A sleep that was never going to be fulfilled. "Why do you say such sad things?"

She twisted her face up, only to meet his chest.

"Gaara?"

Bah! Sorry for taking so long! This was not what I had planned to do! It's been a little over a month now since I have last posted and I am deeply sorry to have not. I know characters are starting to become something else, something they are not in the series and I apologize for this. I'm trying the best I can and that is the best I can give you. Criticism is probably needed, and I do hope I could get suggestions or commits about what I should do next or what it seems like I am doing. Otherwise thank you if you continue to read, and I am sorry if you do not.