A/N-Yeah...Here's the next chapter! Thanks to Dog of the Dead, Seyann, ShadowPrincess-Shekailaia, Loku and Duckichan87 for reviewing the last chapter! Read and Review!
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Chapter 43
It felt as though someone had stolen the very breath from Mika's lungs. Her lower jaw fell open and as she struggled to form words. Finally, she closed her mouth and attempted to calm down. However, even after regaining her ability to breathe, all she could do was stare at the one who looked so much like her lost son.
"Kenji…." She said, finding her voice at last, but only able to manage a harsh whisper. "What has that bastard done to you?"
His blue green eyes flared with rage. "What did you call Itachi-Sama?" hissed the red haired assassin, making to leap forward. Michelle and Seyann tensed in front of Mika ready to protect her, knowing that she would never fight her own son for fear of hurting him. She however, shoved them out of the way and when the one who called himself Luka sprang forward, towards the stunned woman, Mika merely let her hands hang at her sides and allowed herself to be ploughed into the wall. A wince passed over her face as the fingers at her throat tightened.
"Never…call him that in my presence. Itachi-Sama did so much for me." Mika gasped before saying "What did he do for you?" He smirked. "I see no harm in telling you. I was an orphan in Oto that he took in. He trained me and I am his assassin now. If he hadn't I would've been killed eventually…I owe him my life. He says that I can pay him back by taking the lives of those who have wronged him."
"No Kenji." His fingers tightened even more and Mika gasped for breath. "My name is Luka…" he snarled. "No. It's Kenji. You're my…" Luka/Kenji threw her into the wall. "Don't. Say. It."
When she said the word 'Son' something didn't sit right with him…as if the lies she spoke had some grain of truth to them.
Trying to change the subject, he smirked. "You don't fight back…pity, you're a grade A Kunoichi from what I heard…but Itachi-Sama did say that you wouldn't be fighting back…" Mika took a shaking breath and winced, pressing a hand to her rib cage. "I cannot…" she managed "Fight my own son. And I will not stop calling you that." The assassin walked over to her prone figure and picked her up. "This can be easy or hard. Right now you are making it very hard on yourself." With that being said, he threw her into the dresser. Little objects showered over and around her body having been knocked off of Sey's dresser.
In front of her fell a souvenir that Sey had gotten on one of her trips to Suna and had brought as a tribute to her relations there…
A small vial of Gaara's sand. It was tempting to reach out her hand and break it and save herself…but if she was threatened…
Gaara's policy was kill first and ask questions later especially when it came to her or their children…and she had a hunch that that was Itachi's goal.
She struggled back to her feet and faced her son, bottle lying forgotten on the ground.
"You call me 'Son' and 'Kenji'." He said mockingly. "Can you not see these words mean nothing to me? You're not my mother."
Seyann and Michelle were only just getting up from where Mika had shoved them out of the way. They were stunned that she was allowing him to kick her around as she was doing…they thought she'd at least defend herself.
She wasn't even raising a hand against him.
Seyann scanned the room for some sort of weapon to get them out of this situation. Her eyes fell on the vial of sand that had fallen from her dresser.
Backup.
Her feet responded to her instincts before she could process it in her brain.
Mika landed in a heap by the door. She sat up weakly and began coughing, leaving spots on the carpet.
She was coughing up blood.
Luka/Kenji was at her side in an instant, hand back around her neck. He rose her to her feet by her neck and shoved her back against the door, knob digging into her back.
A glass bottle shattered on the wall by his head, sand falling onto the patch of carpet where Mika's blood had absorbed. Her eyes widened in horror and she looked up at Seyann panicked.
Instantly the sand reacted-and violently. Almost as soon as it sensed the blood it seemed to multiply, forming a branch of sand that slammed into the red-haired boy, tearing him away from Mika and wrapping entirely around his body. Luka/Kenji released Mika almost instantly and she landed on the carpet right next to a patch of sand that was writhing like something was in it…only to have Gaara rise out of it. She screamed some wordless nonsense that Gaara took for a 'he threatened me…kill him…' and turned his furious gaze on the assassin in his grasp.
Instantly Seyann knew why her cousin hadn't been summoned earlier.
Itachi smirked as he watched the combat from the tree branch outside the window. He would've preferred if the son had killed the mother but the father killing the son would work too.
Gaara held out one hand to perform the Desert Funeral…wanting no better than to kill this person who threatened his love. However, before he could do so, his love was on her feet and hugging his arm. "Gaara no!" she said softly. "Don't kill him…" she looked as though she was about to collapse again so Gaara wrapped his other arm around her for support. "Why?" he demanded in a cold murderous voice.
"Gaara look at him." wept Mika. "Look at him…that bastard…Itachi…I don't know what he did to him…that's our…that's…" The Kazekage looked at his wife, startled, before looking at the boy caught in his trap.
It only took him a second longer than his wife to detect the similarity between his captured son and the one in his trap.
Instantly the sand released him.
"My son…Kenji…" Kenji/Luka struggled to his feet and looked at the two people in confusion and disgust. "I just went over this with that woman. I'm not your son. I'm…" he smirked "Well I was going to say I was sorry for whatever happened to him but I guess that would be a lie…but I will say that I'm not your kid."
The words felt clumsy in his mouth, confusing him. He wasn't their child…so why was supporting his claim feeling like a lie?
Itachi had always taught him, that in situations where you are confused, you should leave immediately before you lose your upper hand. As such he leapt out of the broken window before they could get to him to much more than they had.
"Why didn't you kill her Luka?" demanded Itachi. "Forgive me Itachi-Sama." Said Luka/Kenji remorsefully. "She had backup." Itachi merely grunted and turned away with a slight smirk on his face, one that Luka/Kenji couldn't understand…
Like his feelings about those two…
The faces he couldn't erase from his memory…
A voice he couldn't forget…they sounded so familiar.
"My son"
A/N-For those of you who didn't pick up on it, Luka and Kenji are the same person...
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Oh...and just so you guys know, I am posting a one-shot at the same time... it is NOT a 'Pieces of an Altered Reality' one-shot, but it's a Cardcaptor Sakura one-shot that I wrote a while ago and am just putting up now...if you like CCS read it, if you don't...don't.
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