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Chapter 41
The liquid of the portal drifted over her arms and mingled with the tears from her eyes. For some reason it took her longer than normal to pass through the portal but the pain she was feeling made it so that she didn't notice it. Finally she came out of the passage between the worlds and landed on her hands and knees on the carpet of the training room.
Her brown-blonde hair cascaded over her face, hiding her eyes and therefore her inner emotions. Tears dripped off of the tip of her nose and landed on the carpet. Her body visibly shook, and she slammed a fist into the floor, leaving a slight dent.
Cautious footsteps approached the prostrate girl. Seyann felt a weight drape on her shoulder…a hand. "Sey?" she asked cautiously. Michelle.
Seyann looked up at her friend her eyes burning with a red-blue fire. While the emotion evident was clear-fury- there was a sort of look in her eyes, something that no specific color could define. Betrayal. Utter loss. Hurt. "I…saw him…" her voice trembled as she looked at Michelle. Michelle wrapped her arms around Seyann, feeling the girl shake in her grasp. Seyann looked back down at the floor. "It was worse than when I found him on the beach." Michelle made a sound as though she had been punched in the stomach and gathered Sey into her arms. "Oh Sey…" she whispered into her friend's hair.
"Seyann are you okay?" Her eyes shot open as this other, obviously concerned voice penetrated her consciousness…
Her.
Fierce hatred broiled up in Seyann's gut…fierce hatred and an incredible bloodlust.
Mika reached out a hand to comfort her friend and was taken aback when a feral snarl stopped her. "Don't you dare touch me." Mika froze in mid-reach.
A fierce chakra began to pour from their friend's body, driving Michelle away from her comforting position. She lowered her head so that her bangs were hidden, but not her mouth. Mika could visibly see incisors lengthening and her fingernails lengthening and digging into the carpet as her friend clenched her hands into fists.
"Does Gaara know?" Her voice was almost unrecognizable. They had only seen her in true Celina form once before when Sienna had been threatened and they had been terrified that their friend had been lost to the demon permanently but once the danger had passed and the threat had been dealt with Celina had willingly surrendered control back to Seyann.
"What?" said Mika uncertainly, not wanting to aggravate the demon anymore than she was but this confusion just seemed to intensify the demon's fury. "I asked you…does my cousin know?" Mika took a step towards her friend, reaching out a hand. "Does Gaara know what?"
Seyann looked up at Mika, hair positioned so that only a single eye was visible-a single, red, Neko eye…
Celina was released.
"DOES GAARA KNOW THAT HIS BELOVED WIFE IS A LITTLE CHEATING SLUT?" She half growled, half screamed swinging her razor sharp claws at her friend, leaving three jagged claw marks on her friend's outstretched hand.
Mika withdrew her hand quickly and clutched her bleeding hand to herself. She barely had time to tense as Sey gathered chakra into her feet and leapt at her. Mika sidestepped the attack, astonished to the point where she released her bleeding hand and simply gaped at her possessed friend. "What are you talking about Seyann?" She said in true confusion.
"Seyann!" said Michelle in an attempt to quell her friend's demonic anger. "Calm down, come to your senses girl! You know that Mika would never cheat on Gaara, you know it!"
Seyann was too far gone to listen to reason.
"I saw them 'Chelle. I just walked in on them making out in Kakashi's office." Her voice was nothing more than a snarl at this point and her gaze was steady on Mika, whose anger and annoyance were growing at the insinuation presented. Her hazel eyes flashed as she ground out angrily "How dare you…"
Suddenly Michelle sensed something. It was faint…and she wondered how she never felt it before but she felt…Uchiha chakra.
Itachi. This had something to do with him.
As she came into this realization Seyann was already at Mika's throat, gleaming claws only held back by Mika whose strength was no match for Celina's.
"Mika! Something's wrong…I think Itachi did something. Can you hold her off for as long as it takes me to get Kakashi?" Mika struggled, holding Seyann's wrist just above her neck before twisting away, which caused Sey to plunge her claws into the carpet. Nodding to Michelle, she tensed and prepared for the next attack.
Sliding past the spot where her friends were battling, she reached the portal and poked her head through. Catching sight of the ANBU guard who was watching the mirror, she said quickly "Is the Hokage in?"
The ANBU stepped forward and she saw him tense. "No he's in Suna…. what's wrong?" Michelle groaned and swallowed before saying "Ok. Send the fastest among you to Suna right away. Even if he's in a top secret meeting you are to fetch him and bring him back here…bring Gaara too if you can… tell him that Seyann has lost control of Celina." The ANBU gasped and was gone before Michelle could blink.
Going back into the training room, Michelle became even more acutely aware of just how much of a life-or-death struggle this fight was. Mika had lost whatever slight upper hand she had been granted and was lying on the floor, pinned by Seyann, claws cutting her throat. Michelle threw herself forward and tackled Seyann off of Mika but at the same time succeeded in getting herself
A creak alerted her to the presence at the top of the stairs. Michelle turned to look at the top of the stairs, head spinning so quickly that her black hair whipped her face. "Sienna." she said quietly. The little girl stood at the top of the stairs, foot poised to come downstairs. "Mommy? Is she okay? Celina is saying things…"
"She's fine Sienna, hon, go back upstairs…. make sure everyone stays upstairs." Sienna looked confused but she obliged her 'aunt'. Michelle, meanwhile circled so that her back was too the
Seyann wiped blood off of the corner of her mouth, product of slamming into the wall from Michelle's blow.
"So…are you on her side…did you know all along? Why…" something, however, made her pause. She narrowed her eyes at a spot over Michelle's shoulder. "You."
Michelle glanced over her shoulder and saw, much to her relief, Kakashi and Gaara standing there, eyes wide open. "You bastard." Hissed the enraged neko demon vessel. She made a leap for Kakashi, shoving Michelle out of the way.
Instead of defending himself, Kakashi welcomed Seyann with open arms. Gaara left the Hokage's side to tend to his wife who was sitting up, hand on her throat.
"How dare you?" snarled Seyann/Celina. "How dare you cheat on me?" Kakashi's eyes widened in surprise and pain as his wife's claws dug into his upper arms. "It was an illusion, I believe." Said Michelle tersely. Kakashi nodded and turned back to his wife. "I saw you with her…" she pointed a clawed finger at Mika and growled at her cousin "Are you sure Kenji's yours?"
Gaara new better than to reason with someone under the influence of a demon. "He has red hair." He said simply.
"I would never cheat on you Seyann." He murmured softly to his wife, his breath brushing her ear. This always had had a calming effect on her and today was absolutely no exception. The next time she spoke, she was less Celina and more Seyann. "Really?" she said in a small uncertain, insecure voice. "Really."
Seyann slowly came down from Celina form. Her claws retracted and she slowly started to almost deflate into her husband's arms. "It was Itachi's doing…I'm thinking as a diversion..." Michelle trailed off.
Struggling was heard upstairs. Keiko screamed…
Gaara and Mika were upstairs in a second, transported by Gaara's sand, to check on the children. Keiko and Sienna they found unconcious in the kitchen but when they proceeded upstairs…
In the basement Michelle, Seyann and Kakashi flinched as they heard Gaara's howl of rage and Mika's scream of grief and they knew…
Kenji was gone.
A/N- I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter…I'm actually going away…again….on Friday afternoon but this time I can take my computer and hopefully where I'm staying has internet access…(ducks head)
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