Darkness is absolute. Darkness is complete.
Darkness is.
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Ginaki awoke in darkness. The only thing around her she could see was a single full length gilded mirror that was in a spotlight about 50 feet away from her. She sat up clutching her head and wincing in pain. She no longer felt like she was on fire but was extremely sore. She looked around for something familiar, or something at all. Far away she could see a light coming towards her piercing the darkness. She rose up from the ground and walked to the mirror. She gazed into it with wide eyes. Her appearance was completely normal except for the two blue eyes staring back at her. Her right eye was no longer golden or dragon-like but absolutely normal. She smiled and admired her crystal blue right eye. But not for long as she noticed in the mirror that a small silver dragon began to wrap itself around her leg. She quickly looked down at her leg in a panic but saw no dragon. Only her mirror-self had that silver dragon.
The mirror Ginaki smiled back at the real one and turned around. Kiba was there with her mirror-self. He smiled and hugged her, they were older, but only by a decade. Then a third person showed up in the mirror that wasn't on her side. A small child with shoulder length brown hair, two red stripes on her face like Kiba's and the same eyes as Ginaki. Finally a fourth person tagging along with the small brown haired girl entered. He was the same age as the girl and looked around 4 or 5 years old. He resembled Kiba with the same eyes as him and the red stripes but had black hair. "This is..." Ginaki began; her voice was scratchy and quiet.
"It's our family." A voice from behind her said. She recognized it immediately and wheeled around throwing her arms around Kiba.
"Ginaki. Giii"
She screamed and backed away from him bumping into the mirror and knocking it down. His voice was distorted and the glowing image of him began to change. The mirror hit the ground and shattered. She could hear the screams of the mirror family when the pieces scattered across the ground. "N-na-naaa-ki-ki-kiii" His voice was skipping like a record repeating her name in skips and jumps. He stumbled towards her with arms out stretched and a cold desperate look on his face. She backed up in panicky unstable backwards steps. It was like a nightmare or a bad acid trip or something. She tripped over a piece of the mirror's gilded frame and fell back. But instead of landing on the ground she began to fall. Slowly at first but soon she gained speed and fell fast into the darkness. She didn't scream but only outstretched an arm and grasped the air in hopes of someone to grab her hand. She watched at the light of the mirror and Kiba faded and she floated into nothingness.
"This is what happens when you lose yourself in your own soul, I guess. I didn't think things would spin out of control like this"
She spoke softly in a hopeless monotone. Ginaki closed her eyes and embraced the dark feeling of falling and the cold blackness of the strange place she was in.
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"Ginaki"
Kiba gasped as Ginryuu in Ginaki's body tightened it's grip around his neck. Orochimaru was motionless on the ground and was probably close to dead. 'What the hell happened to make her freak out'
The dragon thrashed on the ground with it's eyes closed tight. Something was happening to Ginaki and Kiba was unable to help again.
'This kinda sucks... yeah. It isn't getting me anywhere. Just waiting, it's going to get me killed'
He slipped a kunai out of his pocket and stabbed Ginryuu's arm. Blood spilled onto the ground and Ginryuu recoiled letting go of Kiba's neck. "Bastard!" It hissed at him.
"What're you waiting for? You've been standing here for 5 minutes doing nothing! Are you going to kill Ginaki and everyone else or what?" Kiba egged on the already furious dragon.
'What was it doing? It was just standing there with a cruel face on laughing maniacally'
"If you're so interested in what I'm doing why don't you join Ginaki in her soul and you can both be tortured by the unending darkness?" She dragon shot back. Chakra wind encircled it and started to raise Ginryuu into the air.
"Join her"
The dragon screeched and Kiba felt himself be lifted into the air. He doubled over in pain. He felt like he was on fire... "Gladly, you bastard"
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Ginaki stopped falling. She was suspended in air and still hopeless. "I'm sorry, Kiba. I'm not coming back..."
How had something so small broken her will power?
Why was she so hopeless when she was hardly past her breaking point?
She opened her eyes. Something was different.
Ginaki had changed into a dragon. "What next..." She sighed and floated around trying to find a way out. At least she had that going for her. She was mobile again.
The sound of a dog's bark made her turn around. She could see a rather large brown dog running towards her. Under it's eyes it had red fur in two triangular stripes. 'Well if that's not a flashing red light I don't know what is.' She thought sarcastically. 'But this may be another nightmare mode thing so I won't keep my hopes up...' she rolled her eyes. 'I gotta keep strong! Strength'
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Kiba smiled and ran faster. There was a dragon ahead... that had to be her. "Ginaki!" He shouted but it left his mouth as a bark. 'I'm drowning in symbolism...' He thought sarcastically. 'Grrrreeeeaaaaaat'
He slowed down as he neared her. "Ginaki, are you alright?"
'Again with the barking'
"Everything is alright," she replied "Oh, beside the whole nightmare mode. Which I'm not quite sure I'm out of but... you know"
Kiba lifted an eyebrow.
"Yeah, about that. What're you talking about"
"Ah screw it. I'm blow'inthis Popsicle stand"
"You know how to get out of here"
"Well, no. But I'm working on it. Wait, why am I telling you this? You could be another distortion thing"
"A what"
"Ugh, never mind"
"What happened to you and Orochimaru that made you like this"
"That's a long story. You see... Orochimaru found this way to gain the use of his arms back and- don't get angry at this but- you have to use one human life... But there is another way that he was trying to teach me. I have to let Ginryuu take over my body and it's blood would heal his arms for good. So I"
"WHAT? Hokage DIED because he was trying to stop Orochimaru from using jutsu's and you're undoing that? He'll massacre more people if you heal him"
"But it didn't work Kiba! I know it wasn't right but I could become a better ninja if I learned jutsus from him and"
"Bull! He'd make you kill people"
"WOULD YOU JUST SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO ME"
"...Gi"
"No. No more "Ginaki's". I know what I was doing was wrong but I began to summon Ginryuu anyway and it spun out of control. I'm not as strong as my mother so he took over. Because I was weak." Ginaki and Kiba's feud ended with her sitting down in normal form again hugging her legs to her chest with a guilty look to her face. "I'm going to have to stop this heart; that's what Orochimaru said, and frankly that's who I'm going to listen to." She pulled a kunai out of her pocket. "Sorry." She shakily turned it on herself and stabbed herself. She choked at first but then opened the wound and ripped at her heart. "Damn Dragon. When I get my hands on it..." Blood gushed from her wound. The only way she could still be alive was if... This was the dragon's heart. A swift pull and Ginaki held the beating heart in her hand. "This is seriously sick." She said tossing it away. The blackness began to fade into light; the sounds and sights of the village hidden in Sound began to appear around them. Ginaki stared at her arm which was has stopped bleeding and her the whole where she had ripped out the dragon's heart was non existent. Her skin color was normal once more and her eyes were their normal gold and blue.
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"That was so effed up." Kiba said looking around. Ginaki looked over at Orochimaru and choked back tears. "Kiba," she spoke in a quiet fearful tone "I think I... killed him"
She let her hair fall over her face completely and let a tear slide down her face. "Stop crying, I'm not dead." the drawling bleak voice of her Uncle sounded in the cold silence. She looked up and the wind blew back her hair. Her eyes were already red from crying and she didn't look too happy to hear his response. "THEN WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU SAY ANYTHING!" She stood up and stomped over to him lying on the ground. He was staring straight into the sky bored and bloody. "What? Gonna kick me when I'm down?" He said cruelly joking with her. "DAMN RIGHT YOU BASTARD!" she shouted and rose her foot to stomp on his stomach. Before she let her foot fall she looked him in the eye and said "Get your pale ass up." he opened his mouth to speak but before a sound left his mouth she shouted "DO IT!" Fire in her eyes glared at Orochimaru as she shouted even though her voice was hoarse.
Kiba snickered in the background and without looking at him she threw a kunai straight past him. It flew uncomfortably close to Kiba's face, and would have hit him had she wanted it to. "Shut your mouth. BOTH OF YOU." She smiled and as Orochimaru got up she glanced at him angrily. "You can't use your arms anymore. That's a blessing not a curse. If you begin killing people again I swear on the Hokage's graves I'll hunt you down. C'mon Kiba. We're going... Send me my things later, Orochimaru. Good bye." she turned her back to him and they left.
((Oh my Lord was this a long time ago. I truly am a lazy bastard. I mean, I was still in school when I wrote the top message. Me oh my. Well, it's only going to get more sarcastic, stupid and sappy. So let's start the next chapter.))