20th chapter! The final battle begins! You'll also know what were Nerezza's plans!
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I walk inside the room, leaving my three teammates behind me. I know it isn't such a good idea, but I can't stay with them. I have to end this madness, to end this curse. In order to do that, I need to kill the first person that has been cursed: Nerezza. The room is quiet and a little eerie, but not as much as the rest of the building. Big windows are open at my left and a gentle breeze blows by them, passing on the crimson coloured curtains. A desk sits in front of me, with a man sitting before it on a chair, his back facing me. The last remnants of the rays of the sun still taint the sky a soft orange colour.
Even though I know Yuki's feelings for me, I can't love her in that way. My lover is and always will be my dear Naruto.
"I see you haven't transformed yet, Nerezza." I say to the man on the other side of the room, taunting.
"Neither have you, Uchiha." he replies without moving. "It is usually the moon that triggers our transformation. Even though there are exceptions. Like the Uchiha's. Or even Yuki. But in her case, it is more like a side effect of taking the formula during a long time."
"What do you wish to accomplish with all this? Why do you want us?"
"A long time ago, I loved a woman." He chuckles. "Guess Yuki already told you the story."
"So you're trying to bring back Yuki's mother." I guess.
"In a way, yes. But our love story is just like yours, Uchiha. She didn't love me the way I did, a bit like Yuki and yourself."
"Even it you bring her back, she still won't love you the way you do, dumbass. Why bother?"
"I may not be able to change her true feelings, but I can control her. And that way I'll bring her to love me."
Brainwashing.
He stands up, still facing the wall. "But for that, I need ingredients."
"What kind of ingredients?" I ask, frowning.
He chuckles darkly and looks at me with his golden eyes. "First I needed a body for her. Someone that would be able to live by my side for eternity. I guess you can figure who I chose."
"Sakura…" I gasp, wide eyed.
"Exactly. Your pink-haired friend was simply lovely. She looked so much like my dead love!"
I gritt my teeth and throw some shurikens at him. He dodge, a smirk on his lips.
"Second, I needed something of the afterlife."
"The ghosts you sent Itachi to get."
"You're pretty clever, boy. Sealing these ghostsin blocks allowed me to control them, in a way.And offering these spirits as a tribute would allow me to keep Anima, my love, for eternity on the land of the living!"
"You're a madman!" I growl.
I charge to hit him in the face, but he catches my fist.
"Third, I had to find some of Anima's blood." He says, still smirking.
"You chose Yuki, bastard."
"Yes. She is Anima's only daughter, her flesh and blood. With that blood, I would have been able to control her body. She wouldn't have been able to leave me, even if she wanted to."
"What's the fourth, usuratonkachi?"
"I needed the blood of her love."
My eyes widen. "Or the love of her daughter, Yuki. That means me!"
I try to punch him with my other hand but he catches my fist.
"I needed your blood to break her mental barriers and control her completely."
"You mean brainwash her!"
"I wouldn't exactly call it brainwash, but if that's the way you see it, then yes."
"Tell me why you needed Naruto too!"
"The fifth and final ingredient needed was the blood of a demon or a jinchuuriki, to seal the ghost in its new body."
My blood is boiling. I make a roundhouse kick and hit him in the ribs. He let go of my fists and flies in the wall. He stands up quickly, a smirk still on his lips.
"Did I hit a nerve by talking about the blond boy, Uchiha?"
"Shut up!"
I make some hand signs and then I blow fire at him. After a couple of seconds, I stop and search around for his remnants. To my astonishment, there are none.
"Were you trying to hit me?" comes his voice from behind me.
I turn around quickly and just in time to block a heel drop. He jumps back, still smirking.
His nails grow a bit and become claws. He charge to attack, but I put my arms to protect me and his claws scratch my arms instead of my chest.
He continues to claw at my arms and I can feel his claws digging every time farther into my flesh.
He aims a roundhouse kick that I block and he takes the opportunity to start scratching at my chest and face.
Blood is trickling from my arms and other wounds.
Then he puts his hand on my neck and lifts me off the ground before pinning me painfully to the wall. I can't do anything. He is faster and stronger than me.
His sadistic smirk still adorn his thin lips.
"Any last word?"
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End of the first part of the combat. Hope you guys liked it.
Yuki: Yay! Battle! Blood! That's awesome!
Sasuke: (sweat drop) But it's my blood, not his.
Itachi: Told you that guy was a madman!
Naruto: Why did you call him "Nerezza", anyway?
Me: (smile) I was out of ideas for a name so I went on google and searched "darkness" in other languages. Nerezza means darkness in Italian.
Naruto, Sasuke and Yuki: (sweat drop) Figure.
Itachi: Then how did you end up with "Yuki Suikitsu"?
Me: Yuki means snow, in japanese. I thought that it was a good name since she comes from the land of waves... And Suikitsu... I don't know, it just came up in my mind that it sounded great for Yuki.
Yuki: My name may be snow, but I am nothing like it! Except maybe the fact that it's cold...
Sasuke, Itachi, Naruto and me: You're not cold, Yuki. Far from it.
Yuki: (sweat drop) Forgot about that...
Itachi: (reading other hand-written papers) Hmmm... this fight is gonna be good...
Me: (shocked) How did you get those? I hid them in a secret place!
Itachi: (huge grin) Oh? So that's why that stupid box had locks all over!
Me: Idiot...
Yuki: Can you two stop it? I wanna know what'll happen in the second part of the battle!
Me: Ok. But I want at least five reviews for this chapter. Next chapter, there will be a little werewolf fight. But that won't be the end of the final battle! Action over action for the next two or three chapters, guys! So review, please!