A/N: A bit with our dear Akatsuki and also a bit action, I know I didn´t include much of that.
"bla" normal talking
´bla´ OC thinking
´bla´ OC inner
Chapter 3: Breaking Point
"Welcome in Konohagakure, Amekage Pain-san"
"It is a pleasure to meet you finally, Hokage-san" Pain returned in his usual flat tone.
´Hey, did you notice that his voice is really deep and...just right?´
´...I maybe accept such comments over Itachi and Shika, but please cut it out by other people especially that one that could be our dad!´
"I guess you want your special appointment before we both begin talking, right?" Tsunade asked without hesitation, she was always a person who was very direct and didn´t talk around the main point.
"Yes, if it is agreeable" He answered, the others beside Konan seemed to be surprised about it, but didn´t say anything.
"Then please follow me we prepared my office for that, Yuuki-san dear can you go ahead and tell them about our arriving, please" Tsunade said trying to get me out of here so that no one will know with who Pain had a date.
With a last glance over the group I just nodded turning around and hurried down the street to the tower, arriving at the door of the office I nodded at Itachi and Shikamaru and went inside sitting down on one of the chairs to wait.
I maybe just waited for 10 Minutes but it felt like eternity, then the door opened letting in first Pain followed by Tsunade who only went and sealed the windows and everything else so no one could see or hear what is happening inside this room.
Pain sat down on the other chair opposite from me, when Tsunade quietly left the room and sealed it from the outside.
"It has been a while, Yuuki-hime" Pain began bowing his head slightly, making me blink for a few times, not expecting that his behaviour from last time changed, back then he just saw me at the true age I was but that was it.
Seeing the question in my face he answered the unspoken question.
"I can see a lot of things with my eyes, I first didn´t knew what I saw in your soul, but after doing some research I found out about it."
´I hate cryptical or speeches that in the end they doesn´t tell you anything´
"What did you find Pain?"
"I searched deep in our past, even back to Kaguya, nearly nothing was recorded of that time but I found a legend how the Bijuus were created. In one legend Hagoromo, near death doors, left them a message, that someday a light will come to the world freeing them giving peace back to the world"
´This light thing is following us everywhere´
My eyes widened with disbelieve, remembering the word of the god But where light is, is also darkness you were befallen from darkness that ate at you, but still in the death you fought it, it impressed me, so I gave you a new live in a world that is in need of your light and in return will be able to erase the darkness in you´
´A need of my light...you don´t think that-´
´That would be a too great coincidence´
"You know something about that don´t you? You also reached the conclusion that you are that light don´t you?" Pain asked reading my thoughts from my ever changing face, giving away my emotions.
"I don´t want to believe it, I´m not such a person, no hero, no saint, I will deny it" I shook my head, not willing to accept this.
"I doubted it too, but being near to death for a really long time he finally showed himself to me, death and live-"
"And you were enlightened, great, but no" I said being irritated I stood up pacing up and down.
"I didn´t want to know about this, I don´t want to feel controlled, manipulated, but I also know that you speak the truth, I feel it deep inside me that some deeds still wait to be done, but I don´t want to...I just want to have a normal live for once, starting to date, to find a boyfriend, have fun with my friends, marry and so on...I don´t want any more to bear this duty" I stopped the pacing staring off into empty space.
"I don´t want to lie anymore to my beloved people" I said thinking of Itachi and my dear friends.
"I didn´t want this, I didn´t ask for this, but still I´m here needing to pay the price for something that I didn´t want" I looked away not wanting for him to see the upcoming tears.
"That is why I´m here, we, Akatzuki and I will help you, we will find a way to relive your burden."
"You told the others?" I asked not knowing what his statement about the Akatzukis meant.
"I told them nothing, for giving them a new home and purpose they agreed to help me to find a new way for peace. As soon as we defeat Madara I will free the Bijuus for you to talk with them and decide what we should do with them." I saw the seriousness in his eyes and gave out a defeated sight.
"When this was all you wanted to talk about, I would like to leave and think about all of this" I said massaging my nose bridge feeling the headache from stress forming.
"Yes, I think it is now time to talk with your Hokage" He said, and I took it as my cue to bust out of this suffocating room, startling Itachi and Shikamaru.
"Yuu!" Shika called after me but I ignored him and Itachi, needing some air, some time alone, but it seems like they won´t let me leave so easily.
A strong arm snaked around me stopping me in my movement, without needing to look up I knew who stopped me.
"Let go of me Itachi,….I need some time for me alone, please, utterly alone without being watched" I said down to the ground knowing that Shika heard me too.
"Wil you tell us what this was about?" He asked.
´I don´t want to keep secrets from them...why?´
´Shhh...it will be alright´
´But it hurts so much´
´Bear with it just a little bit longer´
´No...they only will get hurt´
´From what?´
´Knowing that I keep too much secrets´
´They will understand´
´But I can´t be in a relationship with anyone while keeping them, I can´t be with Itachi...or anyone else...even my friends will get suspicious and leave me slowly´
´Shika told you that you should believe in them´
´I think …..for this I maybe should cut my ties to end my task fully´
´Are you insane? You finally got a chance of happiness and you throw it away? Giving up just because fate decided it? What happened to you spirit?´
´Long lost...´
´You aren´t-´
"Itachi...Shika...maybe it was a mistake to grow so close to each other" I said devoid of emotions, breaking under the pressure put on me the expectations.
´Take that back!´
´I don´t want them to be hurt, I better leave as long as I can´
´Running away? You swear you never would do that´
´I´m not running away, I´m rushing to fulfil my task´
´You are running away!´
I didn´t noted that, when Itachis grip slacked I wretched myself from him and was now running down the streets blindly.
Arriving at my home I thought I would find some peace, but it only was worse to be here alone, I felt caged and torn.
´You knew a price was to be paid for your interference´
´But why this again?´
´He said you will be freed of this one day´
´When I die finally for sure´
I felt myself being clawed raw, with every pacing up and down I felt more like a caged animal.
3 rd POV
Pain saw how both guys ran after Yuuki, knowing what she must feel now.
"What did you say to her?" Tsunade asked him watching the scene.
"Maybe too much" Pain said with a guilty look on his face, he was so sure she would be happy to help archiving world peace, he wanted to help her with it, but now he wasn´t so sure anymore it was a good idea to tell her.
"Alright we better get down to business then" She said entering the office, after her followed Hiruzen, Inoichi and Shikaku.
With Kakashi
Backed up with some ANBUs Kakashi followed "Tobi", after he slipped away from Gais tour group, to the cemetery. He gave the sign for the others to hide and be ready when needed.
"Obito" He called the masked man out, appearing only some feet away from said man.
"Kakashi, how did you find out?"
"I would never forget the Chakra of a friend"
"A friend huh?" The air tensed.
"I think we both have to tell us a lot of things so, I think you won´t mind a change of scenery?" Kakashi gave his eye cringle before activating his own mangekyou pulling Obito with him in the other dimension to finally "talk things out".
3 rd POV End
I heard the click of the lock from my door, the only warning I got when it flew open to let in two really pissed friends, one who instantly bound me with his shadow and the other really had his sharigan out.
"Whoa-" To say they scared the hell out of me would be an understatement.
"You better have a good explanation to say such things to us." Shika growled.
"Somehow, I see a repeat of our fight in the Hokage office, you don´t trust us again, DAMM IT YUU!? WHY!?" He came near me, or better said because of him moving forward I did too.
´I will tell them´
´NOO!´
´There is no way out of this, maybe it will lift some of this pressure when you finally told them the truth´
´Noo-No-No-No, this should stop, I don´t want to´
´Stop it you are only breaking yourself further´
I don´t know what they saw but they waited quietly, until I manage to open my mouth to bring out only one word.
"No" It was more a whimper, I was fighting myself and with every minute my own strength faded.
´You wanted a family, don´t give up´ I lifted my gaze a bit from the floor looking at these two men with such longing, but it changed into something else knowing this longing will never be fulfilled.
Suddenly I felt a sting on my cheek and my head was turned to the side. Shocked I lifted a hand to touch the reddening place, looking at Shika who had hit me after releasing his jutsu.
"Awake now Yuuki? You weren´t yourself for a moment"
´Thank you Shika´
´...I´m tried´
"Ahh...you are right, I panicked"
"Why?" for the first time of this moment Itachi spoke up.
´Breath, yes, in and out, good, and now think, you can do this you are stronger than this fight for them´
Taking the advice of my inner, I calmed myself down.
"He asked me to join Akatzuki, while my stay at Ame we get to know each other, he was like a father to me after my own died. The only condition would be to leave Konoha...I want to have parents and a family...but I also don´t want to leave this place...I feel torn...pressured"
´Alright and now to the real problem dear. First you are strong minded, when you don´t want to deal with that shit personally take pains offer, for what else do you have your good damm brain, find a way, there is always one´
"And why not telling us right away?" Shika asked now a bit less angry.
"In broad day light were everyone could have heard us? While I was in a state of panic? I would have told you, when I would have calmed down, but you felt the need to break inside my flat to get your answer" I gave him a deadpan look at that he slowly cooled down and even a small smile graced his face.
"You will not go right?" He asked now.
"No, I won´t" I was now calm and could even smile at both of them.
"But please don´t make it a habit to break inside my flat just when I´m a bit upset."
"I thought you needed a reminder not to despair like that" Shika only said with a guilty look.
"Sorry that I slapped you, normally..." He trailed of not knowing how to phrase it without upsetting me.
"It is alright this time...I sorely needed one truth be told."
He cupped my red cheek giving it a short kiss.
"Never again, I swear" he mumbled.
We looked a bit at each other until I broke the silence.
"Don´t you have work to do?"
"!"
"Aaa~ how troublesome" Shika was the first one to stroll out of my flat, but Itachi still was here.
"We are here for you, I´m here for you, come to use when you feel like that" He pulled me into a hug and began to stroke my hair.
"I don´t know why it is so hard for you, but let us, me, enter your heart" he mumbled in my hair, resting his head atop from mine.
"You all are already there and that is what scares me" I answered feeling drained I relaxed in his hold and just closed for a moment my eyes, without warning I was overcome with sleep, being pulled from my inner into my mindscape.
3 rd POV
Itachi felt her going slack in his arms, knowing she was asleep now, so he swept her up in his arms and placed her in her bed, tucking her in.
He watches her, while she is sleeping and gives in the urgent to caress her cheek, he may didn´t have hit her but he would have shaken her until she came back to her sense, quitting to look so utterly defeated.
Something was eating away on her since a long time, otherwise she would have said what she did, to leave them, him. Her sentence hit him deeper than he thought, he felt a deep despair, a need to stop her it was the only reason that let him go after her. He knew that what she gave as a reason wasn´t all to this, it was much more, but he trusts her to tell them, him one day.
Needing to go back to his poste he slowly stood up giving her a kiss on the abused cheek and disappeared from her apartment.
In the Nara forest Shikamaru sat thinking over the whole situation, remembering the similarity to the one after she came back. Since she left she was a bit...different, he knew something ate at her. Seeing her being swallowed by something he...he didn´t know why his hand moved...he didn´t want to hurt her...but he needed to stop her to break away. There was more to all of this no one falls into a panic just by a propose to move away...not like this.
He knew he wasn´t the only one to feel like this, so he began to plan, he no, all of them even the Uchiha need to confront her after this fragile phase was over.
With his mind set, he searched first his...rival?...something like that, finding him on his post near the cemetery waiting for Kakashis or Obits return. He didn´t turn around, but knew the Nara was there.
"We need to talk"
"It looks like a lot of people think it is the right time to talk"
"We need all to talk, all of us friends of Yuuki"
"You want to corner her"
"So to speak, yes"
Both were now looking at each other, mustering, calculating until Itachi only nodded his head for the Nara to talk.
They discussed a few things until the signal came. Zetzu was in the area.
This situation was predicted so everyone moved according to the plan, only to falter at that what happened next.
Out of nowhere Kakashi appeared with his chidori in one hand, firing it at the tree where Zetzu was.
Said bicolored man evaded him only to run into another chidori from Obito.
It was planned to surprise Zetzu and seal him, but now everything was going downhill, everyone knew that. The fight made such a ruckus that a certain blond who was distracted by Jiraiya was attracted to the scene, the last thing everyone wanted.
Obito and Kakashi fought together against the true enemy, Obito trying to capture him in another world and Kakashi who tried to make him tried, were having a hard time, that bastard was elusive, evading every attack by merging with the ground or trees until the number one surprise ninja from Konoha showed his skill in surprising.
"Rasengan" echoed over the graves, while Zetzu was hit with it in his back and an idiot blond smiling at that, moving over to Kakashi.
"Kaka-sensei I will help you with the other one" Naruto said, ready to take out the next one, but Obito only lifted his hands in surrender.
"Don´t bother Naruto he is on our side" Naruto mustered the strange guy when he heard Kurama barking hat him that this was the guy who controlled him and killed his parents. For the first time Narutos normal cheer fell away and his anger came rolling off from him in form of the nine tails chakra.
"YOU!"
3 rd POV End
All the while I was sleeping, discussing with my inner about different things, first If she should tell her friends the truth.
´I´m scared to lose them, they will think I lied to them all the time, playing to be someone I´m not´
´Then so be it, you wanted to cut all ties, do you want it to be them...seeing you lying and not trusting you anymore or to be it you baring your soul and finally telling them the truth showing you final trust in them?´
´But what do I do when everything goes wrong?´
´Then we will as you planned we will leave and begin our task alone, but when everything goes right we don´t need to leave´
´?´
´We can use Pain to do most of the work, finding the remaining beast beside maybe the Hachibi in Bee they are good as they are, he can bring them to us and we will do or work...8 times and then it will be over, for the rest we will just pull the right strings from here, from our work place´
´Sure of that will work?´
´When they know of you and accept you...yes I believe they even would support you´
Suddenly a shiver shook my whole body awake, something was utterly wrong.
´It feels like...It could be...Naruto...Kurama´
I jolted up from my bed and out of my flat in high speed down to the cemetery already seeing the red stripes in the air signalling that Kurama was taking over Naruto.
My breath was coming short and I felt pain in my side, but I continued coming finally around the corner seeing Naruto with two tails attacking Obito and Kakashi who helped him to evade Naruto.
´When Kakashi helps Obito...then he must have talked him out of his ways´
´Kurama must have recognized Obito...we need to stop him´
Not caring about the danger of my surrounding I ran forward past the ANBUs who try to help containing the attacks of the fox without hurting Naruto, also past my friends that also arrived at the scene, past Shikamaru, past Itachi.
Naruto in his other form was fast, very fast so Obito who already was a bit out of breath after the fight with Kakashi was crouching on the ground not able to move anymore and Kakashi tried to block Naruto who just batted him away into a tree.
´For once I hope the gods and the others spoke the truth´
´I hope so´
I skidded in front of Obito spreading my arms out to protect him.
"Stop it!" Narutos hands or more like claws scratched my shoulder a little bit but he stopped instantly, his red eyes focusing on me, blinking a few times and then his Chakra spread a bit over me, puling me into Narutos and Kuramas shared place.
"You, I had my suspiciousness about you, but that old man told the truth to a degree" Kurama grumbled.
"It looks like that" I answered looking down on an unconscious Naruto, stepping past him up to the bars of Kuramas cage.
"Isn´t it tiering to hate so much? Do you even remember why you began to hate?" His answer was only growling.
"You must not like me, but I would like you to befriend Naruto, for that you need to let go of you anger" I stepped through the bars up to the giant head of the fox who bared his teeth at me.
"I could eat you anytime little human"
"You wouldn´t and even then...It would be sad to leave so early, but I´m not afraid to die" I smiled at him stretching out my own hand.
"I will show you" I mumbled, touching him, flashing him with my past, with their own past and former line of events and what I wanted to archive. I could show him the nature of humans and how he one day will come to understand Naruto a boy with his own bright light, the true light as I think.
He flinched away looking down at me.
"Why didn´t you decide to hate them?"
"It only would have brought me unhappiness, they were like they were" I smiled at him, while he only huffed closing his eyes and I went outside his cage up to Naruto shaking him awake.
"Maybe I will try to befriend him" a low mumble was heard from the fox making me laugh a bit at the old grumpy fox.
Naruto awoke slowly blinking only being able to see a bleary form of me.
"Yuu?" But right at that moment Kurama released me from this space and I opened my eyes only to see the orange chakra around Naruto fading and his eyes closing. I wrapped my arms around him catching him and together we went to the ground, me on my knees holding him in my arms and I closed my eyes again, to flee from the reality that everyone looked at us or more like at me. I could feel the angered looks of two certain guys and the curious stares of my friends.
I could feel myself begin to shake with my mixed feelings, the relive that nothing happened to anyone and the fear of what they now thought of me after seeing this, after everyone seeing this.
´Hole open up, please´
´There will be none´
"Yuuki" someone came closer and I slowly opened my eyes to see who called me.
Kakashi stood before me looking down on me with his eye cringle.
"Won´t you think it would be better to bring you two into the hospital?" Not trusting my voice, I only gave a short nod as an answer.
Kakashi took Naruto from my arms and poffed with him away and Obito took a hesitant step forward.
"Ahm..." I looked at him, seeing how unsure he was if I would trust him.
"I think we should hurry" I only mumbled so he picked me up carefully, feeling the heating eyes boring in his back.
At the hospital I was told that I was fine and Naruto too he needs only to rest a bit. Now being able to go home I knew my friends would follow me, hunt me down to their answer, the question was, did I want them to hear it in my home, in a street, or a place of my choice?
I left the hospital knowing that they would wait until Naruto wakes up, so I went to prepare myself as good as possible.
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