Author's note: Special shout outs to Meg and Shi for reviewing! And of course! To my wonderful girlfriend, Sammy-chan who always reads my work!
"Well waddya know! You actually passed, Kazuo!" His dad came over and gave him a respect knuckle. Kazuo's mom ran over to her son and gave her a hug with a smile
"Good job, Kazuo… you make us so proud…" Kazuo smiled and held his mom back as the forehead protector shone on his face. Right at that moment, the testing had ended and The Kazekage's family was exiting the school, Kazuo noticed Gaara walking by himself and said "Hey! Gaara!" Gaara leaned his head over to see Kazuo and stared at him blankly, Kazuo's parents stared at Kazuo blankly as he addressed Gaara like a commoner! What went on in his mind!? What did the Kazekage's teaching do to him!? Kazuo then yelled out to Gaara
"Mind if we chill sometime, little guy!?" Gaara stared at him with sharpened eyes and then walked away blankly; he didn't know who to trust at this point. Kazuo's dad grabbed Kazuo and ran away as the Kazekage was walking towards them now, his mom stayed behind and the Kazekage talked to Kazuo's mom
"Your name is… Mitsuki Kiriyama, is it not?" Mitsuki nodded and bowed to the Kazekage
"Kazekage-sama… please forgive my son… he knows not of… Your child's condition…" The Kazekage shook his head
"First your husband becomes a dropout and he must be allowed to pass by the Scorpion on a leash, Sharasa, and now your son is trying to become my monster's friend… tell your son to never get close to Gaara again, if he values his own life… and you should know what I mean by this, Mitsuki…" Mitsuki nodded and responded
"Of course, Kazekage-sama…" The Kazekage then turned around and responded
"Very good then, I expect Kazuo to be better suited with knowledge for the future…"
Mitsuki nodded and left his side, Kazuo and his dad were having another argument over who he was and what had happened, Mitsuki then sharpened her eyes and yelled out
"KAZUO! SOUSUKE! ENOUGH!" They stopped dead in their tracks from arguing. Mitsuki had a terrifying ability when she was angry enough, after receiving such a tongue-lashing from the Kazekage and seeing them argue was putting her close to the edge. She took in a deep breath and walked over to Kazuo
"Now listen, Kazuo… that boy, Gaara, is not a boy you should get yourself involved with… he has a monster inside him… and if you can't tell already, his father, the Kazekage, is a complete jerk… so let me tell you this, Kazuo… just please stay away from that boy… I couldn't bear to lose you…" Sousuke stayed silent as he watched this and Kazuo nodded
"All right, mom… I gotcha…" Mitsuki then said
"Your father and I will prepare a feast for you, and we should go buy the ingredients now, please go home and get ready, Kazuo… we'll be having guests, as well. Kazuo nodded and charged on home, the scorpions were riled up by the time he was already home, and that same feeling he had before was creeping up on him, becoming more powerful by the time he had reached the doorknob, the scorpions on his front yard were even leaving now! He didn't notice that, but he still slowly opened the front door to see… nothing… not a single thing was there in his house, but the murderous feeling with the knife on his back would not go away, he shut the door of his house… and felt a presence… Who could be there!? Was someone playing a trick on him!? Did someone want him dead!? Was this real!?
"Kiriyama… Kazuo…" Kazuo then spun around and his eyes widened as he laid eyes on him for the first time. A tall, pale-skinned man, with long black hair, eyes as yellow as the strongest of venoms, and a smile that made Kazuo speechless and motionless… accompanied with an inhuman chuckle… Kazuo couldn't move… he couldn't feel a thing… he was too scared… too scared… too scared…
WHACK!
Too… scared…
Kazuo then awoke to the sounds of the wind and sand slapping his face, he was being held up by one arm and he looked to the left, he noticed a smaller, wider, man wearing a bamboo hat with bells, he was in the arm of the tall man and he yelled out
"Hey! Where am I!? Let me go! HELP! SOMEBODY HELP ME!" Sasori grunted
"Orochimaru shut him up… I don't get what usefulness you see in this kid…" Just as Orochimaru was just about to move his hand, a kunai flew towards them and was blocked by Hiruko's tail. Sasori then grunted and turned around and said
"I told you we should have killed them back at the village…" Orochimaru turned around and chuckled
"Sousuke and Mitsuki Kiriyama… how amusing…" Sousuke and Mitsuki both wore their ninja outfits and were standing right in front of the three of them, Kazuo yelled out
"MOM! DAD! HELP ME! PLEASE!" Mitsuki yelled out
"Relax, Kazuo! We'll get you home!" Sousuke charged Orochimaru and had hundreds of scorpions behind him, Kazuo gasped as the scorpions hissed behind his father to attack Sasori, while his mother was slowly losing her temper, she was already pissed off enough… chewed out by the Kazekage, stopping two arguments and now her son was kidnapped!? She was losing it! Sousuke ran over to Sasori and had thousands of scorpions surround him, Sousuke pulled out a special dagger with a unique design on it and stabbed Sasori's head, upon doing so, the scorpions jumped off Sasori as he disintegrated into sand, Sousuke tried to turn around, but it was already too late. Sousuke had the tail of Hiruko impaled through his body.
"M-Mitsuki… no…" He then fell as soon as Hiruko's tail exited his system. Kazuo screamed out loud with tears in his eyes, but to him, everything, even his scream was silent.
"DAAAAAAD!" He couldn't believe it! His father was just murdered! Kazuo saw the body fall and remembered the last conversation they had…
"Kazuo! How are you going to expect me to get closer to you if I don't get the benefit of the doubt!? Don't I deserve it!?"
At that precise moment, Kazuo wished he had said yes.
Mitsuki had enough and she bit her own thumb, and performed the proper hand seals
"Summoning Jutsu!" A middle-sized scorpion showed up and Mitsuki rode on it
"Let's do this, Leviathan!" Mitsuki said in the most determined voice she ever made, the scorpion responded
"You'd better be ready to pay me, Mitsuki!" Mitsuki's goal was simple enough; grab Kazuo and run the hell out of there, so she pulled out her dagger which was identical to Sousuke's and yelled out
"DIE YOU GODDAMN BASTARDS!" She rushed ahead, full force, Leviathan hissing and roaring while charging, Orochimaru took off his hat and drew his sword with the free right hand he had, Orochimaru then used his infamous striking shadow snake Jutsu which stopped Leviathan in it's tracks and held Mitsuki tightly, making her unable to move, she couldn't do a thing now as she struggled to break free. Leviathan then said
"Looks like I'll see you on the other side, Mitsuki! I'll keep our promise, though!" with that, the scorpion left, and the snakes were retracting while still holding in Mitsuki, moving her back to the path of Orochimaru's sword.
"Kazuo, the world isn't going to end if you're a few minutes late…"
"You make us so proud, Kazuo…"
"Please try to forgive your father…"
She gasped as she was impaled, looking over at Kazuo who was squirming in Orochimaru's arms, not being able to move… with her final movement… she put her finger as close as she could to his mouth... inches away… and it fell short.
"I'm sorry… Kazuo…" were her last words, Orochimaru then threw her into the desert sands, dead. Kazuo wanted to scream even louder now, but Orochimaru's blade handle moved quickly to his head and knocked him out. Sasori grunted
"And you said the clan had their share of contenders… what a lie…" Orochimaru chuckled evilly
"Only this boy… otherwise we would have already fought their parents in the sand village…"
-Later-
Gaara was knocking on the door of the Kazekage's office, no one answered, but he let himself in, this boy wanted to make a simple request of his father… to see Kazuo again.
Gaara was watching through a crack of an ANBU report
"Here's the situation, Kazekage-sama… A few hours ago, Kiriyama Sousuke, his wife Mitsuki, and son, Kazuo all left the hidden sand village, we discovered the bodies and weaponries of Kiriyama Mitsuki and Sousuke, but Kazuo is nowhere to be found. Should we give chase?" The Kazekage responded
"Of course not!" Gaara's eyes widened at this as he heard it and heard his father continue. "They left they village without my consent, or informing any ANBU agents, we were lucky to have found them out there in the wasteland! And forget about that boy, Kazuo! He was nothing more than a nuisance and a fool! He would have been nothing more than some idiot who died on the battlefield if he lived, better sooner than later, I say!" The ANBU agent nodded, "What should I say to their next of kin?" The Kazekage chuckled some
"Nothing, because they have no next of kin, return to your duties, soldier!" The ANBU agent nodded "Understood, Kazekage-sama!" Gaara then turned around and left… someone killed Kazuo's parents… someone had captured Kazuo… was he alive…? Was he dead? Was he using this as an excuse…? Yes… that had to have been it… Kazuo was terrified of Gaara, just like everyone else! He didn't get kidnapped! He was hiding from him! Hate… Kill… worry only about yourself… because no one else… is going to help you… only you… can protect who you are… and what you live for… NO ONE ELSE!
Author's note: Well holy shit, this must have been one of the more darker things I've ever written. O.o fuck, man, even I wasn't ready for this… Anyway, enjoy! Keep an eye out for chapter four!