This is the next chapter. Thanks to black55widow, kawaiiitahina123, KakeruTenshi, and HeartBrokenHinata for your reviews! I'm so glad that I have such cool reviewers. XP

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It was odd, but she woke up to the light.

Tentative eyes open, and she sat up and looked curiously around, memorizing the scene.

Is this Hell? She wondered. Hell seemed so bright in its splendor. Hesitantly, she held out her arm and touched it. So she was solid, too.

Hell seemed friendly.

There was a swoop, a clang of metal, and she turned around quickly to face the noise.

It was a man, far too familiar, his posture giving her an aura of unbalance, danger. His eyes were so familiar too, hypnotizing and suckering. She stared at him and he looked impassively back.

It took a while to find her voice.

"Are you the Devil?"

Something like amusement flickered onto his features. "Something like that."

There was a long silence, and something akin to dread suddenly filled her. What if—what if she was dead after all? What if she was still alive? She struggled with that painful thought.

"I'm not dead, am I?"

He said nothing. He seemed as emotionless as a rock.

She stared at him, the fear growing stronger. She wasn't dead…her life still continued. A waste. The silence lengthened between them and she sated at him even harder, trying to figure out who he was. The eyes were so familiar…like…like…

"Are you going to scream," he said tonelessly.

She gaper, open-mouthed, still trying to figure it out. His eyes reminded her of…Uchiha. Suddenly, it came to her, and her eyes widened and she opened her mouth to screa—

There was a kunai to her throat. She shivered at the cold surface of the metal.

"You scream," he hissed, "I'll kill you." The kunai had already stolen drops of blood. She forgot how to breathe. She stood as quietly as she could, but the nervous darting her eyes and the violent trembling gave it away.

He sighed, and there was something like irritation in his voice. "Weak." He spat out the word like it was a disease. "Not amusing. Not fun to watch at all."

She had no idea what he meant, nor did she care. She closed her eyes, leaving her very easy prey for the predator. She took short, shallow breathes as his body pressed closer to hers. "Boring. A Liability." His voice was calm, cool, calculating. "I should kill you."

She stayed the way she was. It was just dying a few moments later than planned. It would be painless…and who knows? Maybe it would be better this way.

She did not welcome it nor did she beg it to stop. His kunai cut into another layer of her skin and she winced.

He stopped and threw her a disgusted look. "Liability," he repeated. "You're annoying." He paused and gave her an undecipherable gaze. She trembled under his Sharingan. "Oh well." He turned away. "You live another day. Treat it as your last."

And she was alone again.

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This chapter is a little short...so I decided to post longer chapters. Thanks for reading as always!