Greetings everyone! A shoutout to my muses - Asuma, Kushina, Zetsu_Akatsuki, and Uchiha_Curse.
I also have posted another story "Orange Masks and Chopsticks" - a Tobi/OC, Madara/OC story.
To my surprise, this story is coming close to ending and there should only be a few more chapters left in this story to tell.
I do not own Naruto or "In the End" by Linkin Park.
Chapter 18: Chasm of her Mind
Song of the Chapter:
In the End – Linkin Park
Reason: A mind that has been broken never can be put completely back together but we sure as hell can try.
Hidan burst through the door of the base and his lavender eyes narrowed seeing Kiyoko tied up in the interrogation room. Smirking, Yuki woke up and squealed seeing Hidan. "My my… aren't you the one to save me from my prison eh?"
Hidan frowned and looked at Itachi. "That's not fucking Kiyoko-chan. She talks less polite and this one's aura…" Yuki frowned and pouted.
"So… he actually has a brain. Too bad that Kiyoko's no longer awake nor will she ever be." This was too much for Hidan whose hand enclosed around the woman's throat. She smirked and laughed a horrible melody. "I have her body and it is mine to do with as I wish. Her wondrous kekkei genkai, this immortality, and a killer reputation make this the perfect host despite the flaws. Not being able to mold chakra well is a problem…"
"Get the fuck out of her." The Jashinist released her neck but was aching for a fight. Her laugh echoed as she glared at them.
"We made a teensy little deal. Because she had in the past had a desire to summon me for a wish, she is forced to make a wish even if she desires it not anymore. She decided to be noble and make it so that I can no longer tempt others with my wishes, but…" she smirked evilly and her eyes hardened, "My price was to have her body as a host." Hidan's eyes fall with sadness and he turns to Itachi.
"Is there a way that Kiyoko-chan can fight this bitch out of her?" Itachi looked thoughtfully before turning his Mangekyo on Yuki.
"Using Tsukiyomi I might be able to communicate with her the necessity to fight off this evil." The Jashinist nodded and Itachi looked deep within Yuki's eyes and his power began to activate. Yuki flinched feeling the raw chakra surge.
Inside of Kiyoko's Mind
Itachi never saw anything like it before when using his Tsukiyomi. Around him was a swirling mass of snow and he could feel the cold biting into his skin as if he had no clothing. Looking around the swirling whiteness, he saw there was a mountain in front of him and a castle at the summit of said mountain. "Hn… good think I still have 72 hours to make this trek." Itachi made a hand sign and upon gathering chakra to his feet, dashed up the side of the mountain, ignoring the winds that at times, were about to topple him over.
It felt like a near eternity before the Uchiha finally reached the summit of the mountain and the castle. However, the castle was very tall and imposing and Itachi frowned realizing how much time he spent. "65 hours, 35 minutes, and 23 seconds left…" Touching the door know of the castle, he managed to jump back just as ice spikes of chakra shot out from the door and they almost reached to the point where he jumped back. "Yoko-sama… what has happened to your mind to make you so… unreachable?"
Itachi looked up the walls of the castle and frowned upon feeling the chakra. "I cannot just run up the sides like I did with the mountain with that unusual icy chakra sticking to the walls like that…" He smirked at the prospect of a challenge and observed as the ice chakra spikes retracted back into the door. He tossed some shuriken at the door causing spikes to shoot where the shuriken came into contact with door. Itachi jumped and when his feet came into contact with the spike, more spikes shot off of the already extended spikes.
The originally extended spikes appeared to be unaffected by the weight of spikes constantly growing off of more spikes. Itachi looked up and seeing a balcony sighed. "Almost there." Hand signs going, he launched a fireball downward at the spikes not with the intention to melt the ice, but to project him further upward. He rose at a swift speed and soon, flipping around, landed safely at the balcony. "64 hours, 12 minutes, and 5 seconds left…"
One step closer and the balcony began to crack. Frowning, the Uchiha quickly dashed inside the room and slamming the door shut, looked around him. The chill that was outside was nothing compared to the searing frigidness of the fortress. Itachi took a step forward and felt a window swirl around his body and disappear around of him. Running, the Uchiha saw a spiral staircase running the length of the building going downwards. Without hesitation, he jumped down and felt as if he was falling for millennia. Eventually, the floor of the castle came in sight and again, he used the Giant Fireball jutsu to slow his descent downwards and landed gracefully on his feet. Looking forward, he noticed Kiyoko chained to a wall with cracks all along her body as if she was made of glass or porcelain. She looked up at him with hollow eyes. "'Tachi-kun…"
"Yoko-sama… you cannot give up. You still have your immortal life ahead of you to live. You must pull together for your friends… For me… For that bastard Hidan…" A crack appeared on her cheek and she looked at his eyes, the Mangekyo Sharingan still ablaze.
"It is dangerous for you to hold your Mangekyo so long, especially within the confines of one's mind… My mind is…" Her voice sounded hollow and dead to Itachi and he frowned.
"Danger means nothing if I have to lose one of my few true friends to a malevolent wish spirit." A crack appeared in her jaw line and a few ice chips fell to the floor. "Yoko-sama… are you aware how much time and energy I spent trying to restore the sanity that was ripped away by the weakness in desiring a wish?"
She looked at him and her empty voice pierced his soul. "You have 30 hours, 3 minutes, and 54 seconds left before your energy gives out. Then in the real world, you will be unable to use your Sharingan yet alone your Mangekyo will you…?" Her eyes acquired a stern light as she glared at him. "You fucking idiot! You know I am being held by a spirit and that normal rules do not apply! Your chakra drains far faster and with less restraint than in your normal Tsukiyomi. Chances are you really do not have near the amount of time you normally would have."
Itachi cracked a rare smile and looked at his friend. "Can I not do something noble like you?" Kiyoko looked down and Itachi could hear more cracks forming across the ice that held her.
"How are they…?"
"Scared more than anything of what could have happened to you. That fumbling idiot you cannot kill misses you." Kiyoko smiled as tears traveled down her face, wearing away at the ice.
"Tell them I miss all of them and please…" her eyes blazed with emotion. "Please tell Hidan-kun that I… I love him!"
Itachi smirked as he began to disappear into crows. "Tell him yourself…" He was completely gone before he heard more cracks in the ice.
Back at base…
Although only a second passed in real life, Kisame could tell just by looking at his partner that he had exhausted a great deal of chakra and the blue man effortless caught the Uchiha. He wiped the bloody tears that leaked from his eyes. "Itachi-san… how is she?"
Yuki shook out of the quite reverie she was in and laughed cruelly. "She is but a mere prisoner to my power. Your little weak kekkei genkai is nothing!" She shook for a moment and coughed up blood. She looked inquisitively at Itachi and touched the blood. "This… this is my blood but not hers?"
"Tobi thinks that Kiyoko-chan is stronger than Yuki. Kiyoko-chan is rejecting Yuki from her body." Everyone looked at Tobi with mystery but no one could deny the truth held within the statement.
Almost like glass cracking, Kiyoko's image fell and once again Yuki's appearance appeared. Her cocky voice trembled in confusion. "I… I don't understand. My form reveals itself when I am ready to take her over, but how is she rejecting me?" Before any of the Akatsuki members could ponder the mystery, Sasori's binding chakra strings snapped as a hand burst in a shattering of ice and out of the Yuki's left arm. The hand snaked up and started to choke her. "What the hell?"
Another shattering of ice later and Kiyoko's head burst from her back. "Get the fuck out of my body…" Her left hand glowed a dangerous black as it moved up to cover her mouth and Kiyoko's right hand also burst out of the ice body to take the spot of the left. Yuki's eyes started to haze up before her body started to crack around Kiyoko.
Her face cracked as started to fall. Before cracking upon impact, there was a smirk. "The minute you loosen up and forget… I'll be in control again." The snap seemed to enable Kiyoko to shatter the rest of the ice covering her.
She rolled her shoulder in irritation. She smiled at the other Akatsuki members and laughed. "No welcome back?" There were many cheers all around and if was not for her Death Touch, she knew she would have been glomped.
"You fucking scared me…" Hidan swooped her up in a hug and kissed her passionately on the lips. When he let her go for air, she smiled and leaned her head against his chest.
"I am sorry… I did not mean to scare everyone or cave into…" Hidan stopped her by pulling her into another kiss. "Well… I certainly missed this."
Hidan looked seriously at her and stroked her face. "I could feel it in my heart that something horrible happened to you and if you were locked away or dead… I don't know what the fuck I would do if you did not know how I truly feel. So Kiyoko-chan…" he got down on one knee and pulled out a small box and opened it. Kiyoko gasped seeing the ring: a simple gold band with a small diamond in the middle. "Will you join me in immortal marriage?"
Kiyoko's eyes widened as tears started to fall on her cheeks. Hidan at first thought he did something wrong but she silenced him with a finger across his lips. "These are tears of joy… Yes… Yes Hidan I will marry you." The Jashinist had a big grin as the kunoichi launched herself at him and kissed him.
Kakuzu smiled before his eyes widened. "A wedding eh… Oh my fucking god! That is going to cost so much money!"