Chapter 8

The Forbidden Memory

DISCLAIMER: I wish I could own Naruto...then I'd get reviews from all over the world! -cheers-

Sokitou stared at his comrades sleeping, anxious to finally finish what the previous Akatsuki could not do. There were only three people left over from the original organization, Deidara, Sasori, and Tobi, one of which is a complete bonehead. Letting a sigh escape his mouth, he stood up and kicked Tobi. "Get up…" he muttered, and kicked him again. When the Akatsuki member didn't react, Sokitou bent down and screamed, "GET UP YOU LAZY-ASS!"

Tobi jerked up and slammed heads with Sokitou, knocking them both back to the ground. Complaining, the obnoxious member rubbed his forehead in pain, muttering a string of curses. "What do you want, Sokitou-san?" he asked the leader, his tone spiked with and angry tone that is rarely heard. "Can't you see I was sleeping?"

Watarishita stirred from all the noise, and lifted her head off of the ground. "Is it time to go?" she muttered drowsily. Her blonde hair waved freely as she stood up, hiding her clouded expression. As Sokitou nodded his head, she turned to the exit of their small cave. "I'll go out first and scan the area for any shinobi. Their bound to be looking for us after our little ambush."

"Hai." Sokitou answered, bowing. "I'll knock some sense," he pointed to Tobi. "Into this idiot over here."

Agreeing with him, Watarishita left the cave, but not to scan the area. Well, in a sense she was. But she was also going to think over everything that was going on in her life. It had only been about two weeks she had been in Akatsuki, and remembered everything oh so clearly, even if she had left her village over nineteen years ago.

Before Kyuubi had attacked the village, Watarishita had been a Jounin shinobi from Konohagakure. The reason she left was kept hidden within her, only allowing the Yondaime Hokage and a few others know why. As the harsh memory seeped into her mind, she clawed at it, trying to push it away.

"Nani?" Watarishita gasped as she saw her father hanging up at her doorstep, dead. Softly, her hands grazed his cold skin, shivering. "Tou-chan…" As the tears crept down her face, Watarishita ran past her dead father, bursting through the door. Greeting her, her mother lying on the floor with several kunai lodged in her body. "Kaa-san…" she cried. "Kaa-san…not you too…"

Her mother stirred, and looked up from the bloodstained floor. "Watarishita? Is that you?" she said faintly. Watarishita looked up, and ran to her mother. "Watarishita…get out of here…he'll get you too…"

"Shut up! Don't talk!" Watarishita yelled, tears falling down onto her mother's face. Watching where she placed her hands, she channeled her chakra down to her palms and began healing her mother's wounds, getting her Jounin shinobi attire bloody. "What happened, Kaa-san?"

"He came…" her mother answered. "He came and killed your Tou-chan. Then he came after me…" Watarishita watched as tears filled her mother's brown eyes. "Luckily, your onii-chan was here. He saved me…he should still be chasing him…"

"Who is this guy?" Watarishita demanded, still concentrating on healing her mother. "Who did this?"

Instead of an answer, her mother just stared at Watarishita, sadness dwelling in her gaze. "I don't have much time left, Watarishita." She muttered. "Please listen to my final words."

"Kaa-san!" Watarishita cried, desperately trying to heal her. "Kaa-san, you won't die!"

"Just listen." Her mother ordered. "He came, out of the blue. Your Tou-chan fought desperately, but it was obvious he wasn't trying to fight his hardest. In the end, he set up a trap for your Tou-chan, and he fell into it, hanged." Slowly, tears made its way to the floor from Watarishita's mother's face. "Please, go save your brother…from him…"

"What is his name?!" Watarishita demanded, angry. "Tell me the guy's name!"

A chuckle escaped from her mother's lips. "His name…he wanted to save that 'till the end…" she chuckled coldly. As the light faded from her brown eyes, her mouth moved for the last time and let out her last sound, "Hanicha…Raiboti…"

Coldness swept threw Watarishita's body as the name echoed through her head. "Raiboti nii-chan?" she repeated, and stared at her mother in shock. "Raiboti…nii-chan…did all this Kaa-san?" But her mother did not answer; only just silence answered her question. She was dead. "Kaa-san!" Watarishita shouted, tears creeping down her hardened cheeks. The green aura faded from her hands, and she folded them between her arms. "Kaa-san…" An image of her mother flashed through her head. "Tou-chan." The same with her father, an image sweeping through her mind. "Why…why did Raiboti nii-chan do this?" she choked, and stood up harshly. Her soft, sad gaze faded and was replaced with hardened, frightening gaze. "Raiboti nii-chan…you will die today."

With intense speed, she rushed out of the bloodstained house, looking for her brother. "Onii-chan!" she called, her voice slightly altered. "Onii-chan, where are you?" A flash of black flashed in front of her, and she noticed the back of her brother. "Onii-chan!"

Her brother flipped around, anger in his cherry-red eyes. "Nee-chan, what are you doing here? Save your…" he stopped abruptly when he noticed that Watarishita's brown gaze had been replaced with pitch black eyes. "Nee-chan! What are you thinking using that power?"

Watarishita shook her head. "I must avenge Tou-chan and Kaa-san." She answered, her soft voice replaced by a cold, harsh one. "Using this chakra, I can defeat Raiboti nii-chan without fail."

"You know the effects of that, nee-chan!" her brother shouted.

"Shut up, Kagemaru!" Watarishita snapped angrily. "Just go away and let me take care of this."

Kagemaru nodded, and left the area. "Be careful, nee-chan." He said, and ran off.

"Yosh, come on out Raiboti nii-chan!" Watarishita shouted into the sky. "I know you've been tracking me!"

A man hopped out of a nearby tree, his red hair hanging down unlike normal. As his amber eyes glared at Watarishita, glazed over with the desire to kill, he inched closer. "Watarishita-san…" he chuckled evilly. "I've been waiting for this. You're next."

Watarishita clenched her fists, digging her fingernails into her skin. "You are so dead…" she growled, and brought both of her hands up to her chest. Quickly, she swiped her hands across two clips, two blue scrolls popping out. She caught them as they fell down, flicking them open. Out of them came a gigantic shuriken, which she grabbed hastily. Despite her long blonde hair flowing in her eyes, she kept her cold gaze locked on Raiboti. "Take this!" She flung the two shuriken at the redhead in front of her.

"Keh." Raiboti muttered, and stepped to the side, letting the shuriken whiz past him. "I can't be defeated by someone like you. Give up." Watarishita growled at him, a dark black chakra seeping off her skin. "Oh, calm down. Just because you inherited the sacred power of the Hanicha Clan doesn't mean you can use it at your will without a cost."

"Against someone like you that doesn't mean anything!" Watarishita retorted, angrily. "I'm going to kick your ass!"

Raiboti sighed, and turned away. "Geez, you're annoying. I'm leaving."

"Are you running away?" the angry blonde demanded, the black chakra covering her left leg. "You coward!"

"Knock it off," a warm, soothing voice ordered. "Watarishita-san, Raiboti-san."

A wave of blonde hair flashed in front of her, blocking her visage. "Who are you?" she demanded, clearly angry.

"Watarishita-san, is this what had become of one of our greatest Jounin?" the mysterious Jounin asked. "You're terrible."

Watarishita's black gaze and chakra disappeared as she stared at the blonde in front of her. "That…way of talking…" she said, surprised. The ninja turned around, revealing teasing sapphire eyes. "Atsuiiki-san?"

Finally, Watarishita was able to push the memory away, but her mind still wandered on her lost friend, Shikyo Atsuiiki. "It's been about twenty years," she muttered to herself, imaging Atsuiiki from all those years ago. "I wonder what's become of her…"

"I wonder what's become of you, Watarishita-san," a warm voice replied to her statement. "Are you still loyal to Konoha or what?"

Watarishita looked up, her brown eyes glazed over with shock as they met with a sapphire gaze. "Atsuiiki-san?!"

Ooh! Atsuiiki returns to the story! And you'll hate me for what happens next. Anyways, please review, and I'll see you in a week. REVIEW GOOD!

Yamahato Yokimoko-san