After a whole day of walking aimlessly around, Rin had meet only a handle full of people which she was not very eager to have met…atleast some of them. She walked in the house of the Third, lying on the hard wooden floor with no blanket, she felt goosebumps rise on her skin. She hated goosebumps. It brought back too many memories. Memories she wanted to forget…before she gave up.
She looked around for a blanket and found it in a cabinet, smiling at her accomplishment she lays back down, more warm than before. It's not real warmth. It's artificial. But it still gave her comfort and security. Her eyelids slowly closed, but she didn't want to sleep. But she was already slipping into the dark abyss that seemed so cold and faraway. So cold.
Two small blurry, red-stained hands came into view as they seemed so dirty. Soon a close-up face that is also blurry, only shows a shining white smile. Two different boy faces overlap each other as they both had the same farewell, blurry smile…but both different at the same time.
The whole scene blacks out and soon replaces with a wall and shadows. There was three huge man shadows with a small shadow away from them, curled up. One began to grab the girl's long hair, the other grabbing a kunai and slashing at the little girl's hair, the girl's precious hair. Majority was cut off, only leaving it above her shoulders. Then they began to throw blows at her continuously.
The scene blacked out as broken glass covered the floor, some with blood on it, two bigger, clearer hands than before, covered in red, came into view. She saw a faded women figure lying on the floor overlapping with the original real man figure, both spilling blood from their bodies. A cruel uncaring laughter echoes throughout the room.
Rin gasped and shot up instantly as sweat rolled down her forehead. She wipes it off with a trembling hand, tears began to roll down her frozen face. She got up, not wanting to go to sleep, she went outside in the night. No one was out so it must be in the middle of the night, she climbed up the roof of a building only to find it already occupied. She looked at the shadow figure then sat to look at the glowing moon. "What are you here for?" She began with a soft voice.
"I could ask you the same question." The figure slowly came into view. The voice belonged to no other than Gaara.
"I can't sleep…or else it'll just tire me out more than it does if I just stay up." Rin whispers, her voice gentle and fragile, as if in a trance. "You and Naruto have a kyuubi in you don't you?" Gaara's eyes narrow at that statement. "Must have been tough…" Her eyes were more understanding and gentle than before yet instead of the coldness they retained an unusual sadness. She looks at him with no pity yet understandment, he seemed surprised at the change.
"…If I sleep…the kyuubi would take over me… so I have to stay awake." He said it with such certainty that it hurt. Rin edged closer to him, her aura different from the morning. It was wanting, wanting love, wanting care. She looked so fragile that if you touched her she would break. Gaara didn't know why he wanted to touch her. He wanted to break her.
"I know how you feel…if I sleep…I'd be taken over by death." Gaara looked into her faraway eyes. "Death of the old me…the me that is still somewhere deep inside me, sleeping. I lost her and made her go into a slumber, a slumber she must not wake up from…until I reach true peace inside myself…which will never happen." Rin eyes slowly close as she mumbles the last words, "I…want…someone…to be there…when…. I wake up." Her head unconsciously rests on Gaara's shoulder. He seems uneasy but soon gets used to it as he continues to look at the moon, for the first time to have someone with him.
The next morning, Rin's eyes slowly fluttered open. She looked around sleepily and snuggles closer to Gaara, her eyes snap open as she realizes what she was doing. She pushes Gaara away with a sour scowl and takes in her surroundings, thinking back to the previous events. "Hey, how'd I end up here?" She gets up and crosses her arms over her chest.
"…You don't remember?" he gets up also, faces her head on.
"….I don't-" her eyes close sleepily as she begins to fall to her knees, Gaara catches her from falling. He lifts her up right and looks at her skeptically. Fear grows in her eyes as she staggers backward, hand to her face. "Oh no…" Her hand begins to shake, she immediately jumps off the roof and runs toward the forest.
"…." Gaara's mouth opened a bit in confusion but closes it as he sees her retreating figure disappear as the trees provided protection.
Gaara stares at the sleeping Rin, wondering about this strange girl. Rin begins to shiver rapidly and her eyes open with lifeless, dead eyes. Gaara looked in horror and confusion as he tried to wake her up but it was no use. She woke up by herself and had tears stream down her face. This was one of many.
She was ducking, jumping, running through tree branches as she had one objective in mind, running away before they find her. She tripped in her desperation, her face slamming against the grassy floor. Her expression was pained as she gripped and pulled on the grass in frustration. She pushes herself up as she staggers to take off running, she sees the one thing she intended to avoid. A ninja in a leaf jonin outfit landed infront of her. The man's sea blue eyes iced over with hate as he looked at Rin, his messy brown hair falling over the Leaf headband.
"I came to deliver an order from the Xion. He expects perfection." Rin snorts rudely, sending the ninja's eyes to narrow. "You ungrateful-"
"Let me guess, you killed a jonin you happened to pass by just in case if you had to go in the village to look for me. You always think of these things don't you Sora?" Her mocking tone and attitude sent her a big hard slap across the cheek. Her face showed no emotion as the man was shaking with extreme anger, tears forming in his eyes.
"You killer! I thought Goku and Fai meant something to you!" He put his head down to cover his hateful eyes, "I will NEVER forgive you!" One of his eyes shot a nonwavering, terrifying glare. He turns his back to face her, he throws a scroll to her feet. "I am humbly sorry hime-sama." His teeth gritted as he spoke that last sentence, he disappeared in the trees. Knees fall to the scroll, it shows Rin's tear-stained face as she bangs her fists on the floor. She chokes down sobs as she lets out a scream, sending birds to fly.
"…" Tsunade looks out the window, seeing the birds fly up. "Hey…is this Rin girl really that powerful?"
"…She's so powerful that everyone calls her hime-sama even though they all secretly detest her…she grew up watching her back…just like her mother did. You see…Lily seemed such a gentle nice girl that everyone thought she didn't earn to be so powerful, that it was all luck…that she had everything easy. Jealously was aimed all over this village and it didn't help that she was beautiful like a doll…she actually lived a brutal hard life but didn't let it get her down…that is until they-" Tsunade lands a punch against her desk as her eyes fill with anger.
"UNTIL THEY RIPPED HER LAST FREEDOM THAT SHE HAD! THAT CURSED VILLAGE OF CORRUPTION!"
"…Tsunade calm yourself…I know how you feel…but we can't do anything…they even managed to corrupt her daughter…"
Rin stopped crying and sat up to look at the sky, she dug her nails into the ground. She gets up slowly, she looked so empty. So broken. She grabs her head and bangs it against the tree trunk, true craziness forming in her eyes. "I…didn't do it!" she staggers backward, blood dripping down her forehead. She wipes it off and darkness covers the wound. After the darkness disappears the wound is healed, like the wound her eyes turned back to normal as she picked up the scroll. She rips it up and throws the pieces to the ground. It shows the word 'kill', 'doll', 'kyuubi' in three of the small pieces. She walks away, her demeanor returning to the way it was. The same overpowering, unhesitating demeanor. The scroll erupts in small flames as the evidence vanishes away in the wind. "One day…when I'm powerful enough, I'll kill everyone on this Earth and then everyone will not to have to live with pain, hate, betrayal, sadness, abandonment, and all these ugly feelings…but I won't be that powerful so it'll never come true. Just act and be a doll…that must be your favorite saying since that's all you say to me." she stuffs her hands in her front pocket, trudging towards town.