I laid down on the roof feeling everything below me as I make sure they aren't fighting. "I hope they'll choose to return to the village." I mutter more to myself. My plans were successful, Sasuke hadn't attacked Itachi. So why do I feel so nervous? "It's still difficult to believe." Kakashi's voice comes from next to me as I feel him move away from the window. "You knew when you first came to the village what was going to happen to them." He speaks quietly as he crouches down into a squat. After everything, I told him I had almost thought we would be done with his questioning my knowledge. But, I guess there's nothing like seeing it for himself. "As I've said, I have a soft spot for family. Especially family that wants to be there for their children." I set up with a sigh even though he was still watching me. "You say that, but there is more to it." He comments making me roll my eyes. "You're right though." I mutter looking up at the sky, the sun was setting giving off the warm evening colors.
"Kakashi." I say getting a grunt out of him as I look at him from the corner of my eye. I found myself biting my bottom lip a moment as I watch his gaze move to them. Kakashi doesn't need words. He can understand everything well enough without them. So maybe it's me that needs to voice the thoughts that have been weighing on my mind most this last week. Sighing I stand ignoring how he was still watching me, waiting for me to speak. Which is nice, he wouldn't try and push someone to say anything at all even if he is truly curious. "I don't know if I am saying this for you or for myself." I shrug looking out over the trees around the building. "There are three people who matter most to me in this world. My feelings are mixed up and confusing but I do know." I finally look at him and give him a smile. "I would die for any of you without regret." I turn away from him and go to the window. Looking through it letting my eyes linger over Sasuke and Itachi. "There wasn't a big scheme, a point to turn the tide of the next war, this wouldn't even help prevent it. Their chance to be happy... is why I did it." I breathe quietly to myself as I reach forward and rest my hand on the side of the windowsill. Leaning forward on it as I watch the four of them talk amongst themselves. The small usually hidden smile on Itachi's face easing my worries about my plan for today. -See Itachi? You didn't have to die. You can finally let the guilt go because your family is back together.-
Aphrodite appears next to us in a small puff of smoke. Her eyes reflecting the moonlight like stars as she smiles. Moving over to me even though she was supposed to be reporting to Kakashi. She flings an arm over my shoulder with a giggle. "Plan, perfectly executed my dear cousin." She giggles lightly even though I could tell it was rather forced as if the very action is now foreign to her. I found myself nearly frowning at my own thoughts. Almost as if I feel guilty that the bubbly and overly happy Aphro had spent possibly years since the last time she felt true emotion. "So they are returning to the village?" Kakashi thankfully asks for me. "Yup! They just have to go to Kanzuku to get their little sister and some things from the house. Itachi and Sasuke are going to go with them. Mainly to make sure their journey is safe but also Sasuke is dying to meet Mitsuki." Hearing this I close my eyes and smile. Silently thanking Aphro for what she has done as I feel my worries slip away from me.
Kakashi had wanted to ask what she had meant by confusing. Though he had realized he didn't need to. It pains him deeply seeing the tenderness in her gaze every time she looked at Itachi when they had entered the main room of the Hideout. Kira had claimed to him before that she didn't love him but every flit of Itachi's hand over her back, every touch he made out of sight of everyone else, didn't escape his eyes. Itachi was protective of her, ready to fight his own brother for her without any hesitation. Kakashi could tell that even if Kira said she didn't love the man, Itachi had long since possessed those feelings for her. While she went into greater detail about what had happened with the Uchiha and Danzo than she had when she explained it to Lady Hokage and himself she had stepped closer to Sasuke than was absolutely necessary. Itachi's eyes had been on her the entire time as she showed absolutely no fear of being attacked by her previous teammate. When all was said and done, Kakashi himself was left confused. Sasuke had grabbed her hand something he knew Kira would normally brush off and slip away from. Instead, she had reached up and cupped his hand with hers welcoming the contact. Itachi's stance had become slightly more rigid than usual at the sight of this as well. Kakashi found himself wondering what had been going on with his students before everything went so wrong. He knew they had grown close, but how close did they really get?
Her own words plagued his thoughts even when they were on the way back to the village. Leaving the Uchiha to retrieve the final member of the family and their parent's belongings. He watched as Kira moved with the group in silence. Her dark eyes set ahead of them. Pain lingering in the depths of her gaze even while everyone who had been assigned the mission to safeguard the Uchiha hideout while Sasuke and Itachi worked things out were overjoyed with the results. Especially his two other team members. At first, they had tried to get Kira to tell them everything she knew about what was going on, wanting to hear from her that Sasuke was really going to come home. She never uttered a word. That same gaze rooted in her eyes. There are three people who matter most to her. Who those three people are is painfully clear to Kakashi. Soon, all three of them will be in the same village together. Not exactly ideal for Kakashi himself. As they reach the outlying trees just before the village Kakashi's chest tightened with his thoughts. "Kira. Stop a moment." He spoke quietly as he jumps down from the trees. She landed next to him causing the other ninja to stop as well.
"Kakashi what's going on?" Sakura was the first to ask as Kakashi looks past her towards Shizune and Yamato. "We will be right behind you, I just want to talk to Kira a moment." He explained reaching up and setting his hand on Kira's shoulder. "Alright." Yamato comments before turning and jumping back up into the trees. Without needing further explanation the others follow behind him. Though Naruto looking over his shoulder towards them didn't miss him. "Kakashi, what's wrong?" Kira asks quietly once the others were out of earshot. He just stands there his own thoughts on the surface of his mind, watching the other ninja until they were out of sight. "Kira." He sighs and looks down at her meeting her charcoal gaze. His entire life he has buried his emotions. Put up a guard around everyone when his father had killed himself. At first, he didn't want to care about anyone who could die on the next mission, but then he had been given his own Genin team. Feelings stirred within him for them, and before he knew it, he cared about them. Even now as he stands next to the one who caused most of those feelings, he feels overwhelmed. His logical thinking telling him to just let her go. To let her choose on her own.
"Kakashi?" She asks filling him with that familiar desire he's been getting every time she says his name. Turning to her he finds himself reaching up and brushing his hand over her cheek. Her eyes widen briefly before she reaches up and curls her hand around his. Covering his hand with hers. "Kira, forgive me." He speaks quietly leaning down towards her as he slips his mask down. He presses his lips against hers muffling the gasp that had escaped from her. Her Kiwi scent fills his senses as he slips his tongue into her mouth. The sudden taste of strawberries mixed with kiwi rushes into him nearly shocking him out of his own actions. Everything about her is a surprise to him he realizes as he catches her hips with his spare hand when he feels her go to step away from him. Keeping her in place as he finds her tongue with his, not yet ready for her to break their contact. It wasn't until she curls her fingers into his vest that he feels her tongue wrap around his. -Kira.- He thought to himself as he brushes his thumb lightly over her cheek. -I love you. I don't want anyone else to have you.- She pushes up onto her toes further pressing her lips against his.
Kakashi keeps his hold on her as he walks her slowly backward. When her back becomes flush with the rough bark of a tree she nearly gasps as the new sensation sends her body into a heightened overdrive. She can hear his heart hammering in his chest as it races. His thumb on her cheek may as well have been coated in a humming electrical current from the contact. In her life, only one man has been able to bring her to this state with very little effort. Kira releases Kakashi's flak jacket before she wraps her arms around his shoulders. A part of her wanting almost desperately to let go. To feel this intoxicating fire that is building in her veins. The other part wants to let this man go. To let him live his life in a way she could never offer him.
Little did they know, someone was watching from the trees. His back presses against the bark of a tree as he pulls his eyes away from the two who thought they were alone. Reaching up he grabs the clothing over his chest as a silent tear drips from his chin. Kakashi's request for forgiveness echoes in his ears as he glances back towards them. Seeing the silver-haired ninja finally raise his head and pull his mask back over his face. He can feel his emotions boiling inside of him, threatening to break loose, and having him running over there to ram his fist into the side of Kakashi's face. He pushes away from the tree and leaves them on their own. The scene he had witnessed plaguing his thoughts and his heart. -Kira-
What Kakashi had done and the brief sight I had gotten of his face lingered in my mind. His every action when he had kissed me spoke more words than the silent ninja usually voices himself. He knows about Itachi and Sasuke and he wanted me to know exactly how he feels before they get back to the village. He wanted to confess his desires to me in a way I could easily understand without him having to fight to find the words. It wasn't until his primal scent had completely overpowered me did I get that familiar feeling again. Leaning back on the roof of my building complex I look up at the dying sunlight. "Is he even human?" I ask quietly aloud, the very question that keeps popping into my mind every time his scent reaches me. A part of me wants to get a sample of his blood and compare it to my own. The other part of me just wants to believe that scent is pure Kakashi. Yet, his actions also left me wondering, if he finally fell victim to my spell. A thought that ironically never crossed my mind when Sasuke had kissed me.
"There is a simple test." Aphrodite's voice comes up suddenly a mere foot from me. Looking up I very nearly sigh seeing her. Old feelings trying to come back to the surface even though I told her I would forgive her if she followed my instructions, which she did. "And what's that?" I found myself asking if only to cover the slip in my emotions. "Your blood." Huh? Standing I turn so I was now face to face with her. Looking into her bright eyes watching the emotions within their depths. "My blood, makes people go insane and become rabid animals." I inform her as I sigh seeing no deception in her gaze. "That's humans." She pointed out as I turn away from her. "If he isn't human it won't affect him the same way." She continued causing me to stiffen. Does she actually know what my blood does? This isn't from me suddenly telling her either. No, she's known this. "And you expect me to take the risk?" I snap at her. I feel her stiffen before her eyes fall onto the shingles at our feet. "Then. You drink human blood regularly. You know the taste. Taste him." She suggests as she raises her head to look at me. "How will that make a difference? As you said I drink human blood. Blood is blood isn't it?" I ask turning back to face her. Only now seeing her bottom lip give a slight quiver. Sighing I put my right hand on my forehead, touching my temples with my fingertips. She's trying to explain something and once again. She sucks at it.
"Then taste mine." Her sudden words had me dropping my hand to look at her. Determination takes place over the pained frustration that had once been on her features. "You need a reference right? I'm not human either. If you taste me you will understand." I couldn't help but lightly laugh at her sudden offer. It's nonsense. "That would be rather silly wouldn't it?" I comment causing her shoulders to stiffen as her usually warm gaze hardens. She steps up to me unclasping the fabric she wears over her shoulders before pulling it off and moving her hair over one shoulder. "Kira. You need to get over your squeamish perceptions. You aren't human so stop acting like it." Her voice flows with a venom I've never heard come from her before. I found myself subconsciously step back away from her. My eyes widen watching one of her hands move to her neck. Her finger visibly contorting and changing just before she drags a claw into her skin. Fresh blood slipping freely from her neck and down her shoulder.
"Aphro..." I breathe feeling my heart race even as my vision hazes over. "I'm not like you, Kira. I don't survive off of blood, I don't always look human. I am ruled by the very emotions you want desperately to deny. But I am inhuman. I know the difference between myself and the humans you put yourself around. It's time that you learn the difference too." With that, she grabs my shoulders and pulls me close. Her bone-crushing grip proving to me exactly the difference between our physical strengths. "You're instincts are telling you to not waste it. For once, listen to yourself." Even as she speaks I feel my head lower to her neck. The intense desire to drink taking me over as I find my hands latching onto her form. Inwardly I am screaming at myself. Stop, don't. But my body won't obey as I feel my lips parting baring my fangs.
My fangs plunge into the already healing wound on her neck. With a ferocity, I don't recall feeling before. Her warm blood flowing into my mouth has my eyes closing. The usual warm sickly sweet taste was more radical. My veins hum in response at higher vibrations than ever before as if her very being is circulating through me. It's as if her taste was more of an electrified tangy fruit with the hint of wood and dirt that I couldn't help but swallow greedily. My hands cling to her soft form as my nails prick through her clothes and into her skin beneath, drawing newfound blood. The haze takes over as I grip her stilled form against me. Her soft squishy front against mine was a new sensation I couldn't even think about. "Kira.." She breathes into my ear as I feel her arms move from around me. Now curling her fingers over my shoulders and pushing me. My grip on her tightens, digging my nails further into her soft skin a growl rumbling through my chest at her actions as I find myself biting harder into her neck. The painfilled whimper escaping from her made me inwardly dance leaving my body desiring more. "Stop, Kira!" She calls out as she fights against me again. The electricity surging through me is intoxicating. A rush I've never felt before... Even as I could feel her heart slowing and her fight becomes weaker all I wanted was more. Stop, Stop! Stop! I shout inwardly as her arms fall to her sides. Kira, Stop!
A newfound force of electricity ignited my body painfully as a flash of light stings my eyes through my lids. "Kira.." A low voice reaches my ears just as a new surge of pain wracks my body forcing my fangs from Aphrodite. Dropping her I try to open my eyes as my legs quake beneath me. A warm dampness running down my steadily numbing body. Looking down my eyes widen as the lightning ceases showing a fingerless gloved hand sticking through me. "I'm sorry." The voice breathes as the hand is pulled from my side only to catch me as my legs finally give out. Being pulled against the chest of the one who had attacked me to save Aphrodite. Looking up I peer into his dark pain-filled gaze. Reaching up I lightly touch his masked face as my sense of self begins to come back. "Thank you. I couldn't stop." I breathe only to watch him mournfully shaking his head. "Don't worry, Kakashi." I found myself smiling. "I've been hurt worse than this." Moving my gaze from the dark eye that looked like he was inwardly crying I look towards Aphrodite. "Get her to the hospital, Kakashi." I tell him as I try to move out of his hold only for him to grip me more firmly. As if he was hesitating to let me go. "I'll be here. Don't let her die." It's not like I could really go anywhere until the hole in my torso heals anyway. Unlike with Hidan's spears or Kakuzu's threads. Even Fishface's Samehada where it shredded my skin if I couldn't block. Nothing has left such a wound in my body like Kakashi's lightning blade. I lied to him to make him feel better and his hesitation was almost as if he knew it. Trusting me he lays me down on the rough shingles and goes to Aphrodite. Picking her up in a cradled position he glances down at me before disappearing.
Once alone I move my arm, running my hand over the wound. Feeling the hole as the cells are quickly repairing themselves. At a rate that left me wondering if this was the effect of inhuman blood. Aphrodite's strength that had coursed through me when I was drinking. It was like she was the one healing me right now. Raising my arm I cover my eyes thinking about what had just happened. Unlike in the Deathnote world, or even a few times in this one, I didn't blackout. I can remember every moment of what had happened. The fact I was screaming at my body desperately wanting it to listen. I had absolutely no control of myself and that... scares me.
When I regain feeling in my body I sit up slowly, touching where the wound had been as if to make sure that I was healed. Only further reminding me of the real difference between human blood and inhuman. I soon found shaking my head at my thought was a bad idea. My head feels like it's splitting open, reminding me of what Light explained to me as the effects of too much alcohol the night before. A hangover, as he called it. It took me a moment to gather myself enough in order to stand. I found myself stumbling a bit but strong hands catch me around my waist, pulling me against a bulky vest, grounding me. Leaning back against him I close my eyes and take in a slow breath through my nose only to find that primal scent surrounding me. "How is she?" I ask in barely a whisper as my own voice sends pain shooting through my head. "She will be fine." His words vibrate around me as if they were made up of energy reverberating against my very being. I couldn't help but smile. "When you kissed me, I thought you had been captured by the curse." I admit as my eyes half-close. "But to strike me with your lightning blade, I see now that you are still you and that makes me happy."
