Disclaimer: I own the OCs in this fic, the rest is Masashi Kishomoto's. Sorry for any spelling mistakes.
Character age:
Akane, Itachi: 18
Naruto, Sasuke: 12/13
Shisui: 21
Kakashi: 26
"Hey you, you're familiar with her medical file?" Tsunade asked Dai, who was still staring at her in awe.
"Yeah, I am."
"Has she ever done that with her Ice Release?"
"Once, but it was localized in her hand. I unfroze it with my chakra but it left internal chakra burns."
"Your chakra control is not good enough to deal with particular cases of a kekkai genkai. I've seen some Yuki shinobi do that in the wars. They freeze the inside of their bodies to block any kind of injuries, but if it's not controlled enough like for her, it can be deadly. If you had not put her in stasis like you did, her heart would have been frozen and then...she wouldn't have died, but waking her up by force would have been way too dangerous. Unless she trains, she shouldn't use it."
"That's what I told her, but would she listen?" Dai muttered with crossed arms next to Akiko, who patted his shoulder. "Nooo, she never listens, she's so used to chakra exhaustion and pushing herself missions after missions and...that moron!"
"Shizune, go get the operating room number five ready with four medic specialized in the chakra network. You," Tsuna turned to Dai, who was still mumbling things and curses under his breath. The young medic stopped and looked up at her. "you did everything you could, you're coming to assist the one who'll take care of the limb she had frozen before. Follow Shizune." He nodded and left after the woman with a pig. The soon to be Hokage glanced at Akiko. "So, that seal Jiraya told me about?"
"She'll be angry that one more person knows about it."
"It messes up with medical ninjutsu, I need to know."
"Shinigami. If Jiraya-san told you about it already, just know there is the Shinigami's chakra in the seal, or rest of it at least. I think when Sandaime-sama summoned him, Akane felt it and it emptied her of her chakra. It happened once in the past, when the half of Kyuubi sealed inside Minato was trying to come out, it was burning her. She scratched her stomach until it bled. That technique...she must have used it..."
"To ease the pain of the burn," Tsunade finished with a nod. "Alright, I'll get to work, your daughter will be fine. I'm not gonna let a relative die on my watch."
"Oh right..." Akiko whispered, light gray eyes following Tsunade. The Uzumaki side of Ushio's family tree was related to Uzumaki Mito. Well, it slipped out of her mind. When she left her daughter's room, she found her nephew pacing in the hallway. "Hey Naruto, Tsunade-san is taking care of her, she'll wake up."
"Oh! Oh great!" She frowned at the fake smile Naruto gave her. "I'm worried about Sasuke too, he has that weird mark in the neck...Itachi-nii and Shisui-nii were speaking with Fugaku-san and..."
"Is Jiraya-san with them?"
"Yeah, but Pervy Sage says he can't really do anything because the Uchiha clan already has a Seal Master and it should be up to...nee-chan actually."
"But Akane is...oh, so complicated!" Naruto nodded sharply.
"It totally is 'ttebayo!"
"You know what you should do though?"
"What?"
"Tell Hinata and Sakura Akane is gonna be fine. They have been visiting her with Ko quite a lot. Kakashi-kun will be fine once Tsunade-san is done with your sister, I need a medical ninja with me for precaution."
"Okay! I'm off then!" He ran out of the hospital, apologizing to people he ran into.
Akane was back to her room after three hours of intensive care, her skin getting back to its original color. Pale, but not as paper white pale as when she arrived. She was breathing on her own, her chest rising softly with each breath she was taking.
"Akiko-san...Tsunade-sama..."
"Thanks Dai-kun, take some rest would you?" she said to her daughter's friend, who was clearly exhausted. He nodded and went to a cupboard of the room and pulled a blanket from it, wrapping it around Akane. He let himself fall in a chair nearby and planted his face in the mattress, falling asleep almost immediately.
It had been...intense. He learned a lot, that was for sure. Maybe he would thank her once she was awake for almost dying.
After all, he learned a lot when that stupid Uzu was on the verge of death.
Huh...
It was hella dark around here.
Like...it was black all around me. Until it wasn't.
Where was I? Didn't I just die?
Wait, what happened before I got here?
I was with...
Who was I with?
I remember something burning on and inside my stomach, and pain.
So I died?
There was an Uchiha.
Sasuke? No, he...or maybe?
I couldn't remember.
Oh, I was in a forest now. I recognized that path, it was near the border of the Land of Fire and the Land of Earth. How did I get here? It wasn't far away from my house...old house?
How old was I anyway?
But the house. The one I somehow got by helping an old widow, who passed away in her sleep and left me with that small house in the woods because she had no relative left. They all died in the wars.
Wars...I lost in the wars too...
In the Third.
And the Fourth.
Wait, was there a Fourth Shinobi War?
I couldn't remember, everything in my mind was foggy.
Yet, my legs took me to that house. I tried to open the door, but it was locked. Why would it be lock? I looked around and searched in my pockets, but the key was nowhere to be found. I went to the window overlooking the living-room near the door and my eyes went wide open at the sight of the person in the couch. I knocked on the window but he didn't look at me, staring at the ceiling, his arms on the back of the couch.
Why did he look so relaxed whereas I...
God dammit, it was Itachi!
I tried to scream his name, but nothing came out. I grasped my throat, desperately trying to make any sound but I couldn't.
But he turned his eyes to me. He was looking right into my eyes with a frown on his face, a small crease between his brows. His frown deepened when I smiled happily at him and his lips moved. He was saying something but I couldn't hear him. I squinted and focused on his lips.
N...not...
Yet?
Not yet?
What did he mean by 'not yet'?
But...
It...Itachi was saying 'You can't come, not yet.'
I blinked sheepishly and placed my hand on the window, tears at the corners of my eyes. His eyes softened and he put his hand against the window too and mouthed words to me. Words that made me shake my head.
'I wish you would remember seeing me.'
A shiver went up my spine when I felt pure dread crawling under my skin. Purple fingers softly grasped my shoulder, a necklace of red pearls dancing around the arm, the long and sharp nails threatening to pierce my skin at any moments. I summoned all of my courage to peek over my shoulder, gaping at the yellow irises over black. It was...demonic. Not the bijuu type, but the real, paranormal demonic shit that human beings should never see. However, here it was, a smirk showing his sharp teeth as he sensed my fear. I yelped in pain as its claws dug into my shoulder and threw me down, the ground under my feet vanishing out of sudden. I screamed as I fell, the yellow eyes of the Shinigami staring down at me from above.
Oh.
I remember.
I summoned him.
And died.
I screw my eyes shut when I felt my fall coming to an end. And then I could hear voices and I was pretty sure they were muffled by water or something.
"...soon...wake up..."
"Okay...maybe...moves..." There was something warm around my hand, holding it tightly. It was comforting, there was someone I knew in death then? But it didn't feel like I was dead. I could smell the clean odor of antiseptic, feel the warmth of a sun ray on my face...and something warm holding my hand. With the little strength I had, I twitched a finger. The voices stopped. "Akane? Akane you're awake? Try to move your finger." I did it again and I could feel the joy radiating from next to me.
"Hey Uzu, try to open your eyes for me okay?" I...knew that voice, and he wasn't dead. I was alive? I groaned quietly at how heavy my eyelids felt, how my whole entire body felt weak. Every single muscle of my body were sore. But I opened my eyes, to close them right away because of the sun. There was sun, and Dai? But Dai was in Kiri, and Kiri didn't see lots of sun during the year, so what? "Don't you dare be weak against the sun Uzu, open your eyes and look at me."
"...ut'up..." I grumbled, blinking slowly to adjust my poor eyes to the sunlight. Dai snickered and turned on a small flashlight in my eyeballs, which made me glare at him.
"Alright, you seem to be alright on first sight!" I blinked at Dai. He was...so young. Where was his stubble? "Uzu, you've finally realized how good looking I am?" Someone scoffed next to me and Dai glared. "I didn't ask you Uchiha.
I froze. Uchiha? Who except Sasuke, Sakura and Sarada had this name? Slowly, I looked on my left side and widened my eyes at the black curls, onyx eyes, broad nose and relieved grin before me. What...was that some kind of sick joke? Was I in an illusion? Did...oh god, was that Infinite Tsukuyomi never stopped and the past fifteen years had been an illusion!? In any case, I felt a murderous need to kill that man who thought he could pretend to be Shisui when Shisui died jumping off a cliff with two empty eyes sockets. I wouldn't be lured by the confused expression on his face when I bared my teeth at him, ignoring the dull pain in my muscles when I sat up.
"A...kane?" Even his voice was the same, how dared this person tarnish Shisui's memory by copying him!
"Who the fuck do you think you are..." I ignored my hoarse voice. I ignored my throat begging for water. I ignored the way blood spurted from my arm when I pulled out the IV and his alarmed face, his eyes going to Dai to know what I was doing. "How dare you tarnish a dead man's memory by stealing his identity and showing yourself to me?" Something flashed through his eyes and he took a step back, his chair scrapping against the floor. I grabbed a syringe on the nightstand, taking slow steps toward him. "Don't you dare use Shisui's face like that you piece of shit! Stop that henge now so that I can kill you for that! Stop it now!"
"Aka..."
"DON'T SPEAK WITH HIS VOICE EITHER! LEAVE THE DEAD ALONE!" I screamed from the top of my lungs, pouncing on him with speed I didn't remember having. He grabbed my wrist easily and I thrust my knee in his stomach. He leaned toward me at the blow, his eyes still in mine with a worried glint in them. I felt arms trying to take me away from behind and I fought back, nausea and dizziness engulfing me. I started making hand seals when I felt something puncturing my neck. I peeked at Dai over my shoulder with a puzzled look on my face.
"Sorry Uzu," he told me apologetically before my legs stopped supporting me.
I blacked out.
"That...was unexpected, she must have had a vivid nightmare," Dai stated, placing her back in bed. Shisui noticed the blood dripping down her arm, the hole where the IV was wider than before and he wondered if she felt any pain at that. "I'll hum...please leave for the moment I need to...put the IV back in and fix her arm so..."
"Yeah...fine," Shisui muttered, ruffling his hair as he left the room.
Akane had looked right into his eyes and attacked him. Even if she managed to actually hit him in the stomach with more strength he thought she had by chance, because he didn't think she would be able to move like that after being unconscious for three weeks straight.
But the look in her eyes...
Shisui leaned against the wall in the hallway, near the lobby, and took his head in his hands, almost pulling at his hair.
He had never seen such hatred and such coldness in her eyes. That woman he just saw...was the woman that came out of the Bloody Mist, he saw it now. Yet, he saw the panicked and terrified glint in her eyes. She really thought he was dead, she thought Uchiha Shisui was dead and that he stole his own identity. A selfish part of him was so happy to know his death had...such an impact on her and how she seemed eager to keep his memory intact, but...
But she thought he was dead. When she saw Dai, he spotted some confusion in her eyes, as if she recognized him yet not really.
Shisui's breathing became labored, different scenario playing in his head.
He should have pushed her to tell how her seal worked, because he was not going to accept she forgot the past five years and what she changed! It was not...what happened before Itachi and Mangetsu got to her anyway? There had been the warm body of an Uchiha and two guys with Akatsuki coats, one of them used poison but...Akane had not been touched by it, had she?
They said she seemed to have inhaled some poisonous gas and that was the reason it took her so long to wake up but...five years of her memories gone like that?
Did she forget how she had lived in Konoha with them and how he and the Uchiha clan were not dead?
"Shisui-kun?" He raised glassy eyes to Akiko. Yeah, she would...she would know something, right?
"Akane attacked me," he whispered quietly and Akiko frowned. "She...she kept saying I was dead and...she forgot..."
"Maybe it was an episode. Sandaime-sama...used it too..." she said more quietly, looking around her to make sure there was no one. "Don't think she really forgot, who knows what she saw when she was unconscious, okay?" Shisui nodded absently, mad brown eyes carved in his brain. "She attacked you you said? Are you also shocked that she actually can throw a punch?" Shisui didn't laugh at that. He...was. He knew she was a kunoichi but...
But he couldn't bring himself to think Akane would be good or put a lot of effort into something she didn't like to do.
"I know you care about her, but if you keep denying this part of her any longer, reality will only come crashing down harder. I'll go check on her. Think about it." But he didn't want to. He didn't want to imagine a girl who hated the shinobi system with a kunai in her fist and blood on her hands.
I knew what was happening.
Fucking powerful genjutsu. Maybe someone pulled an Izanami out of nowhere on me. So here I was, in the middle of the afternoon, in a corner of the fake hospital room, hugging my knees against my chest. I heard other voices, seemingly worried over my mental state, but I knew there were not real.
Mom was dead.
Shisui was dead.
Jiraya-san was dead.
Mikoto-san was dead.
Itachi was dead.
There were all dead but it was voices I recognized. Weird knowing the last time I saw Jiraya-san and Mikoto-san I was five and I shouldn't remember their voice, but I did.
Where were my children anyway? Why didn't they come already? And Sasuke? They had to be fine!
"Everybody is worried about you." I heard Itachi's impostor say as he was standing in front of the door. He was smart enough to leave a safety distance between us, good. It wouldn't be hard to find another syringe. I didn't get Shisui's impostor with it, but I'd get Itachi's. "Akiko-san and my parents don't want to let the kids come and see you in that state." Lies, lies, lies. What kids? Who was he talking about? My kids? "We don't know what happened but Dai-san is harassing Godaime-sama to have a psychiatrist take a look at your head." And they'll fuck me up even more. I leaned my head on the wall, focusing on the coolness of it. It was a powerful illusion, no doubt about it. "Two jounin from Kiri arrived yesterday and the Mizukage wants you to leave Konoha as soon as you physically can, we're not gonna let that happen. Tsunade-sama is talking about it with Terumi-san." Mizukage? I wasn't fighting for Kiri anymore, what did he smoke? And Terumi-san?
"Sen...sei?" I mumbled and I was sure I heard a quiet gasp behind me. I screw my eyes shut and tried to remember sensei's features, her full red lips, her long and thick brown hair, her kind emerald eyes...I squeaked and banged my head on the wall when yellow eyes and a demonic grin flashed in my mind. And again. Again until warm blood ran down my face. I went for another one but my forehead ended up in a hand.
"Stop hurting yourself," Itachi's impostor whispered in a pleading tone. "See us and hear us Akane, please. You can't...you can't keep pretending we're not real."
"Shut up impostor, shut up!" I pushed him and glared at him. I made him fall on his ass and his eyes were almost begging me to believe him. Ha! Did they all think I was crazy!? I wasn't stupid enough to believe dead people were suddenly alive! They were the crazy ones!
"Uchiha, out." The impostor's face went from broken to emotionless in the blink of an eye and he obeyed Dai. As if the real Itachi would obey him, or show that much emotions on his face.
"I know, get into bed," I grumbled and crawled back under the creased white sheets. I glared hatefully when the impostor shot one last look above his shoulder and found myself enjoying the broken glint in his dark eyes.
I let Dai, or 'Dai', examining me. He told me his sister was there, that the Mizukage sent her and Naoto here and a dry chuckle escaped me, making him stare at me with worry. Sensei was the old Mizukage, she didn't really take orders from the Sixth to come here, and Naoto died in the war.
They were all full of shit.
I shut myself to the world and stared outside, hearing the sounds of the hospital or people trying to talk to me merely as background noise. The afternoon sun turned into a beautiful pink sunset to a cloudless night with hundreds of stars illuminating the sky. My eyes were locked on the mountain though.
It was missing three rock faces.
Huh, interesting.
"Are you sleeping?" I froze at the familiar voice. It was...more high-pitched than expected, but it was Sasuke's voice. I turned my head to him with hope I wasn't alone in the end.
"Sasuke!" He started at my yell of pure glee and happy grin. I jumped out of bed, my legs barely shaking and hugged Sasuke tightly, my nose in his hair. "Sasuke, I'm sorry, I'm sorry you had to endure that again, please forgive me, please..." I begged him. I noticed I was shaking like a leaf when he hesitantly returned my hug, but it was okay. He told me he promised his brother he'd take care of me and I used a suicide jutsu in front of him. He saw another member of his family died in front of his eyes.
"It's...I forgive you nee-san..." he mumbled uncomfortably, as if he was dealing with a wild animal. I blinked and dropped my hand in his back. He was...
"Did you shrink? You're so...small..." I said quietly. I grasped his shoulders and moved back, taking in his features. The moon was the only source of light but...
He was...so young.
"Nee-san?" When did he start to call me that and not 'Akane'?
'Thank you nee-san!'
I widened my eyes. My mouth was moving but I couldn't speak.
"How..." I managed to say in a hoarse and tight voice. "How old are you?"
"I'm thirteen." I dropped on my knees and Sasuke's face morphed into a worried one at my glassy eyes. He turned to a corner of the room and someone else appeared, wearing hospital clothes. Like Sasuke. Like me. The silhouette stopped next to me and knelt, taking me in their arms and rocking me back and forth. I touched my cheek and blinked at the wetness on them.
"Ka...kashi?"
"It's me yeah," the silhouette responded and I noticed his scarecrow-like hairstyle. One of my hand weakly grasped his shirt and I buried my head in his chest. "Are you back?" I died, I died Kakashi, but I remember. I died and was sent back here and...
Oh gosh I relived my death.
I relived my death.
A choked sob passed my lips. I didn't bother trying to hold it, hold them back.
"Akane, it's okay, you're back, you're safe," Kakashi whispered to me, like he used to do after Fubuki's death. "Do you want some fresh air? We can get you to the roof." I nodded weakly and felt him picking me up like a bride. "Sasuke, you're coming?"
"Yeah," he muttered and we went to the rood in silence. I shivered at the cool breeze outside and Kakashi put me down, Sasuke and him sitting on each sides of me. I blinked slowly, processing the four Hokage sculpted in the mountain. Kakashi seemed to notice.
"Akane, please tell me which Kage is in each village at the moment." I looked up at him in silence. The Sixth Mizukage, the Fourth Tsuchikage, the Fifth Raikage, the Fifth Kazekage, the Seventh Hokage. But...it wasn't what he wanted to hear.
"The Third Tsuchikage," I started mechanically, "The Fourth Raikage, the Fourth Mizukage, The Fou...rth Kazekage? The Thir...no, the Fifth Hokage? I don't...I'm not sure for the last two...people have been talking..."
"Suna does not have a Kage at the moment, Rasa-sama was killed by Orochimaru, like...like the Sandaime," he informed me with hurt in his voice.
"Oh." I was on auto-pilot and I was scaring myself.
"Nee-san," Sasuke called me quietly next to me, staring in the distance too, "what...do you think you can tell us what is the last thing you remember?" I pursed my lips in thoughts. Dying, I remember dying in front of Sasuke, but it wasn't that. I was...eighteen, arrived here at thirteen so...five years. In my episode, I skipped over the past five years.
"You don't have to if you don't feel like it Akane, Inoichi-san will probably examine you later," Kakashi said.
"You didn't show up at the Chuunin Exams," I drawled slowly, "I was worried your tardiness was rubbing off on Sasuke." Said Sasuke scoffed next to me and Kakashi scratched his cheek with a sheepish grin under his mask. "There was...a genjutsu. The four of us broke it, Ko arrived and I asked him and Dai to go and get you, because of the Forrest of Death." Kakashi nodded, seeing the logic in that. "Fights broke out all around us, Mangetsu went to get his brother to fight whereas Haku and Chōjūrō followed the Sand siblings with Naruto. Then...genin from the Exams arrived, there was Sakura, Shikamaru...Hinata, Kiba...Neji and Tenten? I think that's it. Yasuo gave orders and we followed them with the genin. I left them back to join Naruto, and we engaged Gaara...Temari swapped sides to stop her brother and Chōjūrō was behind fighting Kankuro. I...another party attacked us and I tracked them outside of Konoha borders, and then I was in pain and Yasuo arrived and I was burning so I used that kinjutsu and..." I widened my eyes and stared into Kakashi's calm and sad eye. "Yasuo, his name is...Uchiha Yasuo, I remember now. We fought in Kumo, I almost lost but...but we helped each other during the Second Exam, he..." I gulped and didn't need to finish my sentence for Kakashi to understand my trail of thoughts.
"His name was added to the memorial stone, he died quickly because of an unknown poison. Itachi and Mangetsu found you, and then Dai arrived with Sasuke, Sai and Shin." I tilted my head on my shoulder. Sai? Like...Ino's Sai?
"I see. How long was I..." I trailed off and was surprised when Sasuke's quiet voice answered me monotonously.
"We spent five days to bring Hokage-sama back to the village. She took care of you immediately, Naruto dragged her and yelled at her to speed up anyway. You've slept for three weeks and you woke up four days ago. You...you attacked Shisui when you woke up." I stared into space with hollow eyes. I...remembered that part...partly, I remembered being mad and hitting him. Gosh, I was such a mess...
"I arrived in Konoha two months ago? Almost three?"
"Yeah, Mangetsu went back with your team not long after they went to look for Tsunade-sama," Kakashi filled me in. I quirked a brow at him.
"Okay? I think I remember Dai telling me his sister and Naoto-senpai were in Konoha too. Why are they here and not them?" Kakashi looked away and when I glanced at Sasuke, he looked down. I frowned. "Something happened? And why are the both of you in the hospital anyway?"
"Kakashi is a moron," Sasuke hissed next to me. I grasped his shirt and pulled it down a little bit, earning an offended grunt in return.
"What's that? A tatoo?"
"Something you'll have to deal with once you're fine," my friend said in a sigh. "Orochimaru..."
"Ah," I replied, checking quickly my chakra reserves. They were...incredibly low knowing I slept for three weeks, but I did inhale some poisonous gas. I made the tiger seal and blue chakra covered the palm of my hand. I placed it above the mark without touching it. I barely started to examine it that I stopped and retracted my hand. "I'll tell Jiraya-san to take care of it, I can't do anything."
"But Father said you were the Seal Master of the Uchiha clan," Sasuke refuted with a frown marred on his face.
"Yes, but it is not a seal but a mark and it ranks Orochimaru and..." I gulped and gazed at Kakashi. "It's senjutsu, I don't use it and if I messed it up..." Kakashi nodded in understatement.
"Senjutsu?" Sasuke repeated.
"Yeah, natural chakra or something like that. Jiraya-san...will know what to do, hopefully." I stretched and got up, flexing my legs to check the strength I had in them. I wasn't in Izanami or in the Purgatory, I was...alive.
I shuddered and peeked over my shoulder, next to the exit of the hospital to the roof. Here, in the shadows, I spotted yellow eyes watching. A cloud moved and the moon lighted the shadows, showing a man with wild short red hair and honey-colored eyes, a playful smirk on his lips giving me...thumbs-up? He mouthed words and my left eye twitched.
"Nee-san?"
"I'm...fine..."
The fuck did he mean by 'back on track, good luck!' that...clown? Somehow, he made me think way too much to old Naruto and his grin when he wanted me to do something I wouldn't like but I wouldn't have any other choice than doing it.
I yawned and rubbed my eyes. Getting back on Earth was exhausting.
"I'll go back to my room, I'm tired and...I'll have a lot of explanation and apologies to give tomorrow."
The first thing I saw when I woke up in the morning was Sasuke eating an apple next to my bed. I raised a brow at him and he shrugged, saying that in case of another episode he would 'work his magic on me'. Hanging out with Naruto made him lose some brain cells apparently, but he was not old Sasuke, so I let it go. However...
"You can't seriously be reading that too, right nee-san? You just...you stole it from Kakashi!" Sasuke almost yelled, completely horrified. Wow, if he was like that with my taste for smut books, who knew how he'd react if it was Itachi. Gosh, that would be fucking hilarious!
"Actually," I started with a smirk, showing him the first page of the book with Jiraya-san's autograph and message, "I was asked to review it. It's pretty good y'know. I'm so buying the next one." Sasuke's face went as white as a sheet of paper and I burst into laughter. I destroyed his bub...
"U...Uzu?" I wiped away a tear from my right eye and looked up at Dai, Sasuke moving aside to throw his apple in the trash. I grinned at him and waved.
"Look! My sanity finally decided to come say 'hi' to me!' Oh, hi Mom!" They looked at me blankly barely blinking. "Sasuke, do you think I broke them or what?"
"Possible. Hey nii-san." I raised a brow at the head poking out behind mom, staring blankly at me too.
"What happened?" Mom finally asked, taking big steps toward my bed.
"Basically, Sasuke happened during the night." Sasuke puffed up with pride at that. For someone who had the Curse Mark from Orochimaru, I'd need to put on paper what I remembered about it, he seemed fine. "Oh, Sasuke, don't forget to tell your father that I'm letting Jiraya-san handling your mark. And would you stop looking at us like that all of you? Kakashi sneaked in my room too last night!" I swore if Itachi was used to show emotions, he would be gaping. But no, instead his closed face came back and he left.
Okay...?
"Please, could I have a moment with my daughter?" With that, I was left alone with Mom. She sat down where Sasuke was moments before and engulfed me in a hug. "You have no idea how horrible it was to see you like that." I closed my eyes and hugged her back, apologizing in her hair. She let go of me after a few seconds and took a deep breath, a huge smile gracing her features. "Do you know what happened?"
"Yeah. Sandaime used the jutsu right?" She nodded. "Well during my fight I sensed my seal acting up and draining me from my chakra. It was burning, I used a kinjutsu. When I was out, I...saw some past memories of mine and the last one was...my..." She took my hand in hers, silently telling me I didn't need to finish that sentence, that she got it. "After that I...I think I was somewhere but I can't remember except...
"Except?"
"I think I saw the Shinigami Mom," I whispered quietly, a shiver running down my spine. "I remember his yellow eyes and...anyway, when I woke up I didn't remember I died, I thought I did but I was in the hospital and..."
"You were disoriented, you didn't know that...if you went through your death a second time, it's logical you were in distress," she summed up with a sigh of relief, a hand on her heart. "And because a lot of people were dead you..." I swallowed with difficulty, the lump in my throat getting tighter. "But Sasuke?"
"He was...there when I passed away. When I saw him but younger it...it just clicked in my mind. Kakashi asked me questions about current stuff after and everything came back to me. Sorry for scaring everyone."
"You'll have to apologize to Shisui and Itachi specifically, they're the ones who got the most violent reactions out of all of us."
"Aren't they the ones who came the most?" I paled at her nodding with a small smile. Fuck it, Shisui would understand, but Itachi?
"Naoto-kun and Mei-chan will be happy to know you're okay!"
Right...
Why were they even here to begin with!?
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