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Chapter 9: Second Death

It was dark to Autumn, the blinds were closed. She had been in her house for five days in a row now. Hours after the Akatsuki left, Autumn regained her sight, but her eyes were sensitive. She could roam about her house, but she couldn't go down the stairs very quickly, because she might trip, and fall down all seven flights of stairs. She had kept all of the blinds closed, much like Orochimaru did when she first came there. May had come to visit her a few days ago, but she had to leave very quickly. She didn't seem very happy, so Autumn was going to find out what was wrong later. Currently she was in the library looking at some old scrolls. She was trying to learn another new jutsu, hopefully this one could help keep the akatsuki out. So far she had found scrolls containing different kinjutsu, fuuinjutsu, and ninjutsu but none of it was to be of any use. It also didn't help that she couldn't read in Japanese, and that her eyes were in constant pain.

Autumn put down her laptop, which held the translation of the scroll she was reading, and walked back up to her room. She was going to be alone for a while, so she kept her life as simple as possible. She knew that she should sleep, but if she did, who knew what would happen. After she got over her temporary blindness, she had marveled over the sharingan that she now possessed. She looked so cool with red eyes! (Not the point) Autumn wasn't able to use it yet, and she wasn't quite sure how to turn it off, but she did find that it was very useful. Early that morning she had almost fallen down the stairs. As she did, everything seemed to go in slow motion, and she was able to grab onto the rail before she tumbled down to the ground floor.

"I hate daytime televison..." She muttered to herself. (There is never anything on!)

Don't get her wrong, she was extremely curious about what her sharingan could really do, but her eyes would have random waves of pain, causing severe headaches. Because of the pain, she hadn't bothered going to school. Even though she could go through the tunnels, she would have to surface eventually, and facing the sun would be suicide at the moment. Autumn sighed, her life was just going down the toilet, along with her perfect attendance.

Itachi had finished packing different scrolls, he made a promise to Autumn, and he was going to keep his word. He really didn't want to, he found a scroll that could reverse the effects, but then Autumn would lose the sharingan, and she would be killed either way.

Autumn glared at the closed window. She wanted to go outside, but she knew she would be blinded, the second she stepped into the light. Most likely permanately. Autumn closed her eyes. She had tried to go outside at night, but it was getting close to the full moon again. The moonlight had almost blinded her as well.

After getting bored, Autumn did something she tried not to do often, she went to explore the west side of her house. Except for in her room, and down stairs, Autumn stayed away from the west wing. But not today. Autumn walked down the hall on the sixth floor. With every step she took, she heard another weird sound. It sounded a bit like a... snake.

"Who's there?" She asked, this wing was darker than the rest of the house, even with the blinds closed. Autumn walked down to the farthest door, and opened it. It was another study much like all of the others on that floor, but this one had a library.

"Oorochiiimaaru?" Autumn gasped as something in the room seemed to moan that cursed name. In the corner of her eye she saw something move. Coiled on the floor was a huge snake. The snake's head slowly rose up, and looked Autumn in the eye.

"Yooouuurrrr nnot Oorochiimaaaru," it hissed at her.

"No... I'm leaving!" Autumn turned around and tried to run, but before she got anywhere the snake caught her with it's tail.

"Whooo aare youu?"

"A-a-autumn," The snake pulled her closer to it.

"Aaautumnnn, sssuch a prrreetyy nnnaammmme," It pulled her even closer and looked into her eyes.

"Uuuuuchiiiihaaaa," It hissed. Autumn did her best to act like Itachi, and show no emotion when she asked,

"Who are you, and what connections do you have with Orochimaru?" The snake seemed to smile at her.

"Myy naame is Cleeopaatraa, I am the sssisster of the loyaal sservent to Oorochimaru, Maanda, aat yourr ssservice." Autumn smiled, at least she wasn't alone anymore.

With May...

May was quickly going into depression, without her hamster, she was a mess. Slowly an interdenominational vortex appeared, and disappeared just as quickly. May was unfazed, but unknown to her something came out of that vortex. It was... a super Emo cloud.

With Itachi

...

Two more days. He couldn't stand the thought of leaving her all alone in her current condition. He made her a promise, and he was going to keep it. Itachi really cared for Autumn in his own sick way. He was going to kill her, and put her out of her misery.

With Autumn again...

She was talking to Cleopatra, she had found out Orochimaru's original plans for her, and why he had come there in the first place. He wanted Autumn's unlimited chakra amount, and was working on a way to extract chakra through the cursed seal. According to her brother, Orochimaru was looking for a way to re-enter Autumn's world. If this was going to happen, then Autumn was going to need to perfect her sharingan before he was able to find a way back.

Monday, day seven of being stuck in her house. Autumn was bored out of her mind, but at least she had Cleopatra to keep her company. Cleopatra was a shape shifting snake, one minute she was big enough to pick Autumn off of the floor, the next she was a python sized cobra. Autumn's eyes were getting better, but she still didn't know how to deactivate the sharingan. She had tried looking it up on the Internet, but that was little to no help. Cleopatra had suggested that she check some of the scrolls in the library, but Autumn claimed that there wouldn't be anything on the sharingan in there. Cleo decided to check anyway. Autumn was still checking the Internet, when she sensed Cleo coming toward her.

"Cleopatra?" She called out to the giant snake that was slithering toward her. "Have you found anything?"

"Noooo, goomeennnnaaasssssssssiii," Autumn sighed and kept at it, she had quickly learned that Cleo would sometimes slip back into Japanese when she was talking, and she had learned even quicker that much like her brother, she had a zero tolerance for impoliteness.

"It's not your fault, you were just trying to help," Cleo slithered to where Autumn was sitting, and wrapped her long body around hers, finally resting her head on top of Autumn's. As she did this, Autumn twitched a few times. She still had this thing about snakes ever since that incident with Sai a few weeks ago.

"Youuu sssshhhooouuld geeet ssome sssssleeep. A younnng chiiiild like youuu neeedssss their ressst," Autumn closed her laptop, she was getting absolutely no where with this.

"I can't sleep, if I do then something bad will happen,"

"Aasss iiinn?"

"You really don't want to know," Cleo uncoiled herself from Autumn's body, and slithered in front of her as she got up.

"Wwwheeerreee aaare youuu goooing?"

"I need to train, who knows when they might come back."

"Youuu aare goooing tooo reeesssssst," she said in a 'don't test my patience' kind of way. Autumn backed up a bit, and fell onto the bed.

"But Cleo!"

"Beeeed!" Autumn gasped, right before her eyes Cleo started to change... Into a human! Cleo turned into a tall slender woman, her eyes reminded Autumn of Orochimaru, and her hair was about the same as his. The only differences were that Cleo's skin wasn't as pale, and that she was a girl. She was wearing a green leaf patterned kimono, with a blood red obi.

"Autumn, do as I sssay." She hissed at her. Autumn backed onto the bed, and sat there.

"H-how did you just d-do that?" Cleo smiled and sat next to Autumn.

"As I sssshhhowed you beffore, I'm a ssshhape sssshhhhiffffter," Autumn backed away from her, but she only moved closer. Cleo moved close enough that Autumn could feel her breath on her face. She tried to move backward even more, but she couldn't move.

"Eep!" she squeaked, and right before her eyes Cleo turned herself into a very small black kitten. 'You have got to be kidding me.'

"Scarrrred you didn't I?" she asked stretching her body out.

Was all of that really necessary?" Autumn asked picking up the extremely cute kitten that was now Cleo.

"Noo, but it wasss funn,"

"Let's see how much fun it is after I have a heart attack," Autumn muttered, knowing full well that Cleo heard every word she said. Autumn held Cleo to her chest, and let her get comfortable. Cleo soon fell asleep, and Autumn just sat there.

With Itachi...

Today was the day. He could only imagine what type of hell Autumn was going through. It must have been hard for a person who had been able to see all of their life to suddenly lose her sight within the blink of an eye. He was going to stop her suffering once and for all. As the darkness of night fell, and the full moon shone, he made his hand seals, and disappeared into the night. (That was a bit poetic)

Back with Autumn and Cleopatra...

Autumn sighed as she felt the coolness of night fall over her house. Cleo was still asleep with no signs of waking up, and Autumn was even more bored than she was in the last chapter. Autumn had spread her body out on the bed, and Cleo was sleeping on her stomach. She was just about to go to sleep herself, but a loud bang caused both her, and Cleopatra to be wide awake.

"What wasss that?" Cleo asked jumping off of the bed, and heading toward the door. Autumn snatched her off of the floor, locked the door, hid under the bed, and quickly concealed their chakras.

"It's them,"

"Who?"

"Akatsuki!" Autumn braced herself as she sensed a familiar chakra approach the door. She heard the door handle jiggle a few times, then silence.

'BAM!!' The door was kicked open. Neither Autumn nor Cleo dared to breathe. They cringed as they saw a pair of sandals right next to the bed.

'Please don't find us!' Autumn thought to herself, closing her eyes. She froze when she felt Cleo gasp. 'Please, no!'Autumn opened her eyes and almost screamed at what she saw. Red eyes. She did scream when Itachi grabbed her and dragged her out from under the bed by her shirt, forcing her to let go of Cleo. Itachi threw Autumn on top of her bed, and raised the katana he had with him up over his head.

"No! Aniki stop!" Autumn watched in horror as in slow motion Itachi thrust the katana down over her heart.

"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" Cleo watched in horror as the bed was quickly covered in blood. She was too late. Cleo quickly transformed herself into a snake and went at Itachi. He just left the katana and threw Cleo into the wall. Itachi looked down at Autumn. She was still alive, but bleeding heavily. At the last minute she had rolled out of the way, and got stabbed through the shoulder instead. She was crying also. And it wasn't just because of the pain.

"Aniki! P-please stop!" she cried out, was he seriously thinking about letting her bleed to death? Itachi just stood there not moving, he just watched her bleed.

"I can see! After you left my sight came back! I can see!" Autumn looked straight at him.

"Please!" Autumn was breathing heavily now, she had lost so much blood.

"Cleo-," Autumn took one last breath before her vision blurred...