Hi! Here's the 11th chapter.

"Mother?" a small child's voice asked timidly. "Father?"

There was nothing but the continual dripping of water from somewhere in the distance. The night swallowed up the surrounding environment. The child's eyes grew huge and frightened as light shone through a crevice in the dark cave. Her hands...blood covered them. Her tattered clothes had two holes in the back and were stained with blood. The child's face twisted with fear as she saw the gruesome sight before her as the light spread.

"Mother...Father..." tears fell rapidly as she realized what happened. Her parents lay sprawled before her, dead. Suddenly knocked to the ground by by an invisible force, she winced as two wings sprouted from the places where the holes were. Screaming, she threw her head back and rose into the air, flexing her claws.

Prey...

"NO!" Kikyo sat up suddenly from her cot. Sweating and breathing heavily, she covered her face with her hands. It was a dream...

A dream of her past...

A clang startled her and she dropped her hands quickly. Orochimaru and Kabuto entered the room, carrying a black case. Kikyo said nothing, staring suspiciously at the case.

"How are you, Kikyo?" Orochimaru asked, smiling a fake smile.

Kikyo glared and remained silent.

"Now, now...we all know you're not feeling too well." Orochimaru smirked. "And we all know why: the crescent moon is tomorrow."

Kikyo gestured quickly; the glass and bowl flew from the floor and at Orochimaru, who caught it easily. "Not your usual level, Kikyo..." he hissed, opening the case.

Kikyo's eyes widened. It contained a needle with a liquid injector that she knew all too well. This was her monthly shot that she gave herself every time a crescent moon came. This way, she would transform but still retain her original mind and remain herself. However, if she was to have the shot, she would not be able to kill...and Orochimaru and Kabuto would be free to capture her once more.

Orochimaru's eyes narrowed cruelly. "Do it." he snapped, and Kabuto obeyed instantly. Grabbing the shot, he filled it with the purple liquid. Striding over to Kikyo, he grabbed her arm, ignoring her screams. He plunged it into her arm, and Kikyo fell silent.

Orochimaru sighed. "You brought this on yourself, Kikyo. Perhaps if you had only done what I had told you the first time, then none of this would have happened. But..." he paused for a second. "I am willing to forgive you, Kikyo...bring me that Uchiha boy."

Kikyo shook her head furiously. "What? Why should I?"

Kabuto sighed. "A second chance, Kikyo. Not many get it."

Kikyo rubbed her eyes wearily. She knew that...in fact, she was the one that had assassinated many of Orochimaru's betrayers. Besides...she and Sasuke were over. Yet, she still didn't want to kill him. However...she had a plan.

"Fine..." Kikyo slowly stood up and stared at Orochimaru with unhidden scorn.

"Uchiha Sasuke, right?"

Sasuke looked up from the dirt path he was walking on. The owner of the ramen shop that Naruto always went to was grinning at him. Sasuke nodded slowly, unsure of what he wanted.

"Where's that black-haired girl that's always with you?"

Sasuke flinched visibly, and he became speechless. Desperately trying to think of something "cool" to reply, he shrugged lamely and walked quickly away.

"Ugh...what is wrong with me?" he sighed, sitting in the clearing where he had found her...

Kikyo...

Sighing, he buried his head in his arms. After a minute, he stood up, his eyes filled with new determination. Kikyo was nothing..."their relationship" was nothing...

it was time to move on.

"Your parents...is that what you were dreaming about?" Kabuto said silkily.

Kikyo winced. She was...that dream was her first crescent moon...her first time to transform and kill...her first time to realize she was a monster. At her second moon she had met Orochimaru and Kabuto, who introduced to her the purple "cure". The liquid was the juice squeezed from a special flower that Orochimaru had discovered and grown for his group of warrior half-demons. In exchange for the liquid she agreed to join the group and become Orochimaru's servant.

"We're almost at Konoha...are you ready, Kikyo?" Kabuto drew a kunai and ducked behind a tree.

Kikyo flexed her claws and slowly became invisible until only her eyes remained, staring creepily at him. "Yes, Kabuto. I will not fail." Her red eyes narrowed and they, too, disappeared.

A while later, she materialized inside Sasuke's apartment. It was night, around 12:00. Kikyo sighed. She was lucky; Sasuke was usually asleep by this time. The sound of the door opening startled her, and her wings brushed the table as she shot out her claws...

and froze.

"Shhhh..." it was Kabuto. Relaxing, she withdrew her arm and turned back around, taking a deep breath. "Let's go."

"Kikyo?" his voice resounded painfully in his head. He suddenly became aware of a kunai pressing painfully at his neck...it was Kabuto.

He looked up and saw Kikyo holding a bow...pointed at him.

"Don't move..." her voice was quiet but hard and decided.

"AH!" he sat up on his bed. It was just a dream...

Meanwhile, Kikyo and Kabuto were right outside his door, readying themselves for their attack. Kikyo clenched her fist and then opened it, a shimmering cloud of dust weaving through her fingers. It took the shape of a bow and arrow and hardened. Kabuto watched as Kikyo took the arrow and strung it on the bow.

"Are you ready?" Kikyo flexed her fingers. Kabuto nodded. She gestured quickly and the door blew open.

"Kikyo...even in my dreams you still haunt me..." Sasuke fell back on his bed.

Then...

The next series of events happened so quickly, Sasuke didn't even have time to blink. Just after he realized two people were in his room, his dream became reality.

"Don't move." Kikyo stood before him, her bowstring aimed at him.

Sasuke stared, speechless and unable to move as Kabuto hit him hard and fainted. Kikyo raised her hands and netting shot out of them, eveloping Sasuke tightly. She raised one hand higher and the ball (Sasuke) levitated before them.

Kabuto smiled. "Good. Now to go back and deliver this to Lord Orochimaru..."

DIIIIINNNNGGG!

"Ugh...who is it?" Naruto stumbled sleepily to the door. He opened it, and squinted at the girl in front of him.

"Naruto?" Sakura asked timidly.

"Huh...zzz...huh...what-?" Naruto jolted awake. "What's wrong, Sakura?"

"I keep thinking...Sasuke and Kikyo..." Sakura sighed.

Naruto snapped to attention. "What about them?"

Sakura shrugged sadly. "I dunno...but Sasuke...I have a really bad feeling about him...like he's in danger."

Naruto laughed. "Sakura, it's 1:00 in the morning! You're just tired."

Sakura flinched. "No, I'm not! I really do have a bad feeling!"

Naruto relented and sighed. "All right. Let's go and check on him."

Ten minutes later, they were standing speechlessly in Sasuke's room. The windows were open, and the curtains blew into the night creepily. The sheets were messed up, and signs of another intruder in the room was evident.

"What happened?" Sakura gasped.

Naruto was speechless, but Sakura grew frantic. "Naruto! We have to go after them!"

Naruto stared. "Wait...look..." he picked up a piece of cloth. "Kikyo..."

"We...have to go after them...there's no one else..." Sakura said, her voice breaking.

Naruto's eyes hardened and his mouth tightened grimly. "Then let's go."

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