Here is chapter number 9! Wooooooo ^_^ And its finally time for the last part of the exam. But Riku is still in a coma? :O you'll have to read and see what happens. I was looking at the story traffic for this one and im really happy so many people have read this! It makes me a happy happy writer. But I do wish more people would review, that gives me a special boost to get my fingers typing.
Anyways hope you enjoy reading! x
The evening came and went and I was still comatosed. It was roughly around 6am, I could feel the sun rising as the light poured through the window and onto my pale skin. I had about 2 hours before the first match began, which would be Naruto's. I would feel so guilty if I missed it, he wanted to prove to Neji that people can change..Something I wanted him to prove to me. I heard the door slide open and someone walk over to me.
"Pour Riku-sama, she's gonna miss the matches." I recognised the nurses sickly sweet voice as she got closer to me. I had just about enough of this bitch, talking down to me just because im in a coma. She giggled slightly before sitting on the edge of my bed. Her rough hand pushed some of my hair behind my ear, before tilting my head to one side.
"I still dont get what Orochimaru-sama see's in you.. You're nothing special. Then again this stuff Kabuto gave me certainly made an improvement on your appearance."
'What the fuck has it done to me?' She sighed before rusling round in her pockets, only to pull out another load of that 'special medicine' Move body MOVE! It was too late though, she had already plunged the needle into my neck. It started to burn as she pulled it out, she didnt make a move to leave she just sat there waiting for something.
"In a few hours you'll be more than willing to sucumb to Orochimaru-sama's will. Then he will reward me greatly." She whispered excitedly. I could've thrown up if I werent pitching a fit due to the injection in my neck. I couldnt keep my head straight, my whole body began to burn once again but it had never been this intense. It literally felt like I was burning alive.
'STUPID BITCH, WHEN I WAKE UP I SWEAR IM GOING TO KILL YOU IN THE WORST WAY I KNOW!' I screamed in my head, hoping she could hear me.
"Its 9:30 Riku-sama! You've already missed the first few matches. Sasukes should be starting about now! And you wont be there to see him. What a shame." She began to poke at my face. I cannot stand poking. Poke. Poke. Poke
"Its a shame Orochimaru-sama has planned to use Sasuke in such a horrible way, he would grow up to be such a gorgeous man. Like Itachi was." Poke Poke Poke Poke.
"Now he was a nice piece of eye candy, sure im a few year older then him but it didnt hurt to look...Well until he killed your clan." Poke. Poke. Po-
"SHUT THE HELL UP!" I screamed sitting up suddenly and leaping at her towards the wall. She just stood there, her eyes filled with fear as I began to crush her throat.
"How dare you talk about my family you ignorant bitch!" She began to gasp for air as I stood there unmoving while she tried to slap my arms away. What was I doing? She was dying yet I couldnt stop.. I never harm someone who is unarmed. It felt like some sort of force was keeping me in place as I choked this woman.
"What the fuck have you done to me?" I shouted trying to pull away from her throat. She tried to speak but I continued to suffocate her, if i wanted answers I had to let her live.
Slowly but surely I managed to pull myself away from her falling back onto the bed while she fell to the floor coughing. It was the first chance I had to look around the room I had been in for the past few weeks. It was extremely plain, with white walls and grey floors. There were a few machines places at the head of my bed, probably to help me breathe while I was asleep. I looked down at my hands, they were no different but what about my face?
I slowly raised my hands to my face and felt for anything out of the ordinary. Nothing. I went to grab my hair only to find it wasnt at my hips like before. I very slowly reached up my sides only to find my hair had been cut to chest length. Sure it saved me going out to get a hair cut, but something still felt different. I picked up the mirror on my bedside table and pulled it to my face.
My face was paler than before, and my skin completely clear of any blemishes. My hair was still the same Uchiha black, with the exception of a single white streak down the right side of my hair. But my eyes, there was something different about them. A look of...fear, rage and hate. So cold, dead. This wasnt me
"Why did you do this?"I yelled throwing the mirror at the nurse on the floor, and just managed to duck as it hit the wall behind her.
"I was only following my orders." She said in fear.
"What did you and that bastard do to me?" I said as I walked back toward her. She backed up against the wall ignoring the broken mirror until I crouched down infront of her face. My dark eyes staring into her blue ones.
"H-He increased the power of your curse mark. And I was told I had to keep giving you this medicine to help the process speed up. Kabuto said there might be some weird side effects." She said trying to avoid eye contact with me. I grabbed her by the front of her uniform this time and stood up with her once again against the wall.
"You were just following orders? Do you have any idea how much pain ive been through in the past few weeks? How that stuff made me feel? YOU'RE LUCKY I DONT KILL YOU!" I screamed in her face. I was surprised no one had come in at this point, with how many times I had yelled at this woman.
"Im sorry! I-I was scared you dont know what he would've done to me if I hadnt of done it!" She began to cry, at this point I had no patience for tears.
"Stop crying before I do kill you." I said glaring at her. Her eyes widen again as she tried to stop the tears. I dropped her to the floor and turned my back on her.
"Get out of the village right now, and I swear if I see you again." I turned and looked down on her. "I'll be the last thing you ever see." She nodded and immediately ran out the door leaving me alone in the room. What gives them the right to mess with my life? I could feel my shoulders begin to shake as purple chakra started to flow out of my body. I quickly dashed to the bathroom attached to my room and went to the mirror. Black flame like markings were painted across the left side of my body as my eyes turned in to the red sharingan.
I looked in the mirror to see a changed I did like however, I was noticable slimmer, but I had more curves where it counted. I couldnt really complain at that, I never really liked my body before. I was wearing a white shirt and grey pj bottoms which seemed to hang off my new frame. I'd need new clothes before I got the arena. I was going to make it to Sasuke's match, I had a feeling id find Orochimaru there..
Kakashi's POV
"Hey Gai where's Riku? I didnt think she'd miss Sasuke's match." I asked looking around the stadium in confusion. Sasuke and I had arrived only minutes ago but Riku had been noticably absent. I turned to him and saw a sad look at he stared at the floor infront of him. He still didnt answer. Something must of happened. I turned to Sakura and asked again.
"Where's Riku?" She had the same look about her but at least she answered my question.
"Sensei...She's in a coma. She was attacked a few weeks ago." She said sadly. My heart dropped, why had no one told me? She had been in a coma for weeks and I didnt even know about it. I couldnt let them know how I felt, I nodded and turned my attention back to Sasuke's match. But my mind was still on Riku, laying asleep in her hospital bed.
'Please wake up.'
Riku's POV.
I managed to get home undetected seeing as the streets were deserted due to the matches. I entered through my window and quickly headed to the bathroom for a shower. God knows I needed one. I had some how gotten the curse seal to withdraw before I left the hospital incase I did run into anyone. But I couldnt help but feel like it was still on my left side. I jumped in the shoer and began to scrub intensely at my skin until it was red.
'Why does everything in my life have to go wrong?' I punched the tiled wall causing cracks to appear. I leant my head against the wall under the shower and closed my eyes. Just when things were starting to become reasonably good for me, he has to come back into my life. Isnt it enough that he marked me for life when I was only 12? I hurried and finished in the bathroom, only towel drying my new hair and leaving it down. I quickly changed into my normal outfit and headed out the window again toward the stadium. I jumped from roof to roof, with no sign of anyone. Strange, there should be a couple people atleast still in town.
I listened out for any sign of life but nothing. It was like everyone had disappeared, atleast thats what I thought until I saw the smoke arise from the stadium. Shit. I was about to continue on when a kunai was thrown directly at me. I quickly ducked and turned to face my attacker. I activated my sharingan as I saw a small platoon of sound ninja. There must be an attack on the village, why else would they attack me...
"You guys better leave now before these roofs are painted red with your blood." I said looking at them with a blank face. A couple of them tensed but their leader stood firm.
"Like we'd listen to you, attack!" The man shouted, they quickly began to run at me with kunai but a simple attack like that isnt really going to have much effect on me. I smoothly diarmed them before following through on my promise. I left their unmoving bodies and continued on toward the stadium.
' What the hell is going on? I need to find Sasuke' Just as I arrived at the stadium I noticed a single ANBU standing infront of a group of sound ninja. I couldnt see who he was talking to though. But it sure as hell didnt seem like he was one of our ninja. As he was talking I appeared behind him on the railing in a crouched postition. He carried on talking not noticing I was behind him, but I recognised the voice clearly.
"Kabuto if you're going to attack people dont stand there talking about it. Thats just boring." I said making him jump in surprise. He and the other ninja jumped onto the roof and kept their gaze on me. I looked toward the seats to see who he was talking to only to see Kakashi and Gai standing there while the genin had fallen asleep under the genjutsu, minus Sakura.
"Anyone wanna explain whats going?" I asked jumping off the rail and walking toward the two jounin. But they both stood there just staring at me.
"What?" I asked raising an eye brow. The still said nothing, well not like they could anyway. Just then the ninja who had been with Kabuto began their attack on the leaf shinobi who remained awake. Kakashi and Gai immediately sprung into action fighting them back while Sakura ducked and tried to stay out of the conflict. It wasnt really the time for a child to be involved anyway. Few of them tried to attack me for some reason but when I saw a sound ninja leaping toward Sakura with the intent to kill. I lost it.
"DONT YOU FUCKING DARE!" I screamed as I threw my fist into the guys spine, earning a blood curdling crunch as he hit the concrete wall infront of him and passing through it leaving a nice gaping hole. I noticed the black ripple marks spread across my skin as I went on the hunt for others like him. I leaped past Kakashi and Gai, grabbed onto the railing and threw myself across the stadium toward a new horde of enemy ninja. Grabbing one guy by the shoulders as I landed, I threw him with an unknown amount of strength into some of his buddies then turned my attention to the remaining men. Two came at me while one seemed to disappear into thin air. The taller of the pair came charging first with a kunai ready in his hand, he tried a straight forward attack but I simply ducked and twisted my leg upwards, kicking him in the throat knocking the wind out of him.
The second was more cautious, jumping back and making hand seals. I moved in a blink behind him and quickly moved his head to one side, breaking his neck in the process. I had no idea where the third guy had gone but at this point I didnt care. I was still breathing heavily with rage. I ran back round the arena to Kakashi and Gai who were just about finishing up on the enemies that were there, while Sakura had woken Naruto and Shikamaru up and were heading out the hole I had created. Kakashi came over to me after finishing a guy and placed his hands on my shoulders in an attempt to calm me down.
"Riku. This isnt you. Please stop this." He pleaded quietly. To anyone else it would just look like he was trying to grab my attention, but he has using his sharingan to calm me down. Slowly the seal retracted and my body went weak. I fell forward into his chest, with him just managing to catch me. A sudden wave of exhaustion hit me making it hard for me to get to my feet. I grinned up at Kakashi who breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thanks for that." He nodded and put my arm arround his shoulder supporting my weight. The remaining Jounin looked up to where Hokage-sama previously stood to see a large purple barrier appear, preventing the ANBU from getting anywhere near him or Orochimaru.
Please say he's alright.
I stared up at it intently, looking for any sign of the Hokage. Kakashi noticed this and griped me tighter reasurringly. I looked to him with worried eyes before turning my vision back upwards. This was going to feel like the longest wait in the world.
Time ticked by slowly, each second feeling like a year to those who waited. I had regained some strength, but still leant against Kakashi who refused to let me anywhere near the barrier, knowing I would try to break through. That seemed impossible after watching an ANBU member jumped towards it and gets horrificly burnt by a simple touch. It must of been a good 30 minutes before the barrier disolved and Orochimaru was carried away by his followers. We instantly head up to the roof, looking for the alive and well Hokage. What we found was a different story. There he was, lying on the floor, with a smile across his face. The third Hokage, slain. It was hard to understand that he was gone. It was a similar feeling to when Minato-sensei died, you can believe someone so strong could fall.
Asuma couldnt look down at his father, he stood beside Kurenai who looked like she was about to cry. I turned to see Kakashi staring down sadly at the fallen man, it was hard for me to focus my vision. I leant my face into Kakashi shoulder, blocking out all that was around me. Feeling his arms wrap around my shoulders I knew he understood I couldnt look.
The day of the funeral came sooner then anyone had hoped and it was as if the world sensed he had died, the sky was dark with rain clouds which would no doubt rain upon us all. The village was half destroyed from the assault and many ninja had died. My only relief was that all Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura were alive, despite the encounter with the Ichibi. I was extremely proud of Naruto for taking him down and slightly disappointed with Sasuke for relying on the curse seal to help him. But I had better thing to worry about that day.
I headed out in the early morning to the rememberance stone. It had been awhile since I visited Obito and today seemed fitting. No one was around when I arrived. I gracefully sat on my knee's infront of it placing down a bouquet of flowers and his goggles.
"Its been awhile eh Obito-nii san." I mumbled, tracing my fingers over his name. "Im sorry I have come in some time. Ive been having some trouble keeping things on track. You know, the usual me." I joked, closing my eyes and imagining him standing beside me.
"You must of seen what happened a few days ago, or even Hokage-sama himself surprised you in the after-life. Its strange for him to be gone aswell. Days like these make me wonder why I bother sometimes." I could feel a lump rising in my throat.
"But then I remember the promise I made you." Tears slowly dripped from my eyes. "When ever things get rough, you're the one that keeps me going. Thank you for that Obito. For living on inside my heart, giving me reason to live." I whispered before giving a silent prayer. I sat there for a few more hours before a female ANBU member appeared, she too was coming to see someone she had lost. I nodded to her before standind up and turning to leave.
"I thank him everyday." A deep voice said beside me, I stoped in my tracks as I reached the path. Turning, I saw Kakashi standing in his dark trousers and shirt.
"For what?" Came my strained reply. He walked up and took my hand.
"For giving you that reason to live. For saving my life, and yours." It was silent for a moment before we began walking quietly toward to funeral, hand in hand.
Sorry Sorry Sorry it took me forever to write! I kinda gave up on this story but I think im gonna start writing it again :)
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