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Lies I Told Myself
Key
S.S: Sick Shit (not suitable for the weak-minded or squeamish)
thinking
"talking"
thoughts progressing into speech"
'substitute for italics' (in certain places, like emphasizing something)
/telepathy/
:scene change: (more for my reference than anything else)
POV (automatically Naruto's if left unspecified)
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Summary: I was a cold, callous individual. I was sarcastic and witty, not a pleasant person to be around. I cut you down with biting words every chance I got and smiled so frighteningly that I made children cry. I was, simply put, an asshole. I never cared what you thought of me. And one day I got bored, so very bored, so I decided to snap.
A/N: Okay, I'm aware it's later than I said (and kinda short, and not very epic), but I didn't like the way the first two versions turned out so I scrapped and rewrote the entire thing.
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So
Sad
I
Apologize
I've
Failed
You
Little One
Knaji
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Chapter Seven: I Walk Among The Waters: Final Stage
:Bridge:
Irritation.
Severe irritation.
The false Oinin was no challenge at first.
But then she...changed, for lack of a better term.
Karasu was dead so that raised my ire, how dare she kill one of my experiments/teammates. Did she know how long it would take to get another?! On the other hand, should I manage to subdue her, I could study her bloodline at my leisure.
It was that fact alone that consoled me as I pulled my kusarigama from behind my ear and unlocked my legs, loosening the Living Chakra in my arms for a more serious battle.
My tenant warns me to be wary.
I smile.
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I grab the end of the chain still within the seal and pull it taut around the false Oinin's torso, she grunts before melting into water.
"You cannot keep it up forever Kiri Oinin-san, I see the amount of chakra you've left in your body. Soon you won't be able to use much more for fear of death." I grin, appearing in front of the mirror she resides in and slamming my foot into it as hard as I am able. I watch as the chakra inside the mirror (Living and normal) spiderwebs, breaking the ice into shards and revealing the false Kiri Oinin for a split second before she jumps into another mirror.
I look to her reflections, noting the tremble in her frame.
"You look...shaken." I murmur softly, a smirk overtaking my features as she shakes her head in shock or disbelief. "Something the matter...Kiri Oinin-san?"
"T-that's impossible...they...they can't be broken..."
I let a grin spread across my features, surely one full of malice.
"Nothing is 'impossible' under the right conditions, Kiri Oinin-san."
My tenant was...antsy.
She wouldn't come out of this unscathed.
...I felt I could deal with a few scratches on my new experiment.
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Haku
At least five of my ribs were already broken before I hit the ground, he was toying with me now. I could feel the bones shifting in my shattered jaw as a groan of pain makes it past my lips. I barely had enough chakra to keep my mirrors active (much less myself alive) and he knew it, but I couldn't give up, not here, not now. Zabuza needed me. I was his tool and I would not be thrown away so easily.
"Tsk, tsk, Kiri Oinin-san. And here I thought you could give us a challenge. Why, I even let my tenant come out to play for once and you still didn't live up to our expectations." he murmurs over my futile attempts to push myself to my knees. I could feel blood bubbling up in my throat and a painful cough sends the crimson splatter to the ground beneath my face.
He was walking over to me now and I roll over onto my back to relieve the pressure on my chest, not being able to support myself with my weak arms any longer. I take in shallow breaths, letting my head fall to the side on my uninjured cheek so that I don't drown in my own blood.
I couldn't die here.
I won't die here.
"So pitiful you are..."
This boy, this demon with red slitted eyes and a sword wrapped in green flames would not kill me here, not now.
"...Kiri Oinin-san."
Then everything turned dark for me, his voice fading in and out of my ears.
"We would kill you,"
And I realized Zabuza had been killed.
"But you're just too, too interesting."
A bone chilling laugh rings out from the demon at my side. He'd grown more grotesque, like a dog with seven thin spider arms and spider legs and curling goat horns and sharp, sharp teeth.
Maybe I was hallucinating.
Of course I was hallucinating.
I really hope I was hallucinating.
Kami-sama, he made me want to retch.
"Look at your face, Kiri Oinin-san. It reminds us of a frightened rabbit. Cornered. With nowhere to go." he tells me, his mouth stretching impossibly wide to reveal every one of his teeth, sharp and pointed like the tip of a kunai, as I fade in and out of light and dark. "Well seeing as we are your predator, you poor girl, we shall put you out of your misery and shame. After all, it is your fault your master is dead."
Such cruel words from the demon at my side.
I cannot take them.
"Go ahead and sleep, you'll be awoken soon. We cannot guarantee that it will be a pleasant awakening, but awoken you will be."
I listen.
Anything is better than a world without my master.
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"Disappointing." I sigh, my voice smooth and deeper with the taint of my tenant's chakra as I begin first aid treatment on my new experiment, finishing quickly and sealing her into a stasis scroll. I had no doubt that her bloodline would allow her to survive the cold temperature. "She will be in need of severe conditioning before she is of any use to me."
I tilt my head to the side to look at Karasu, nodding.
"Yes. He's not as injured as I first thought, pressure points, superficial damage. Mild paralyzation for a few days due to what appears to be a temporary death state." I nod to myself. "Debilitating, but in no way fatal. Did you at least get a clearer look as to the workings of her mental state tenant?"
I shake my head, a slight smile making its way to my face.
"Wonderful, I've always wanted to experiment with a schizophrenic. " 1
Now, where was my third teammate, the useless sack of flesh that she is?
"Sasuke-kun!" she screams, coming into my field of vision as she throws herself over his motionless body. "Sasuke-kun, please wake up!"
Ah, there we are.
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Sakura
Oh Kami-sama, pleasedon'tbedead, pleasedon'tbedead, pleasedon'tbedead Sasuke!
"Please move, Momoiro-san." I hear a voice behind me murmur quietly but firmly. I turn to see something making its way towards me. It sounded like Naruto but that was it, it didn't resemble my creepy teammate in any way, shape, or form. It was all I could do not to faint on the spot. "Well, Momoiro-san, are you going to move so that I might provide aid to Karasu-san?"
I can't do more than stutter, which causes it to give me a steady look of annoyance before realization dawns on its features and it shifts into Naruto.
"Genjutsu. Now please stand aside, Momoiro-san, he will become permanently paralyzed if left in that state much longer." he states as he pushes past me and begins to pull the needles from Sasuke's body with a precision only seen in the most focused medic nin. He was so cold, so fake, but he acted as though he actually cared about what happened to us when we got hurt.
Even when Sasuke lost his arm he went through the trouble of making him another, but when he wasn't healing us he was being sarcastic, mean and downright creepy. Actually he was all of those when he was healing us to be honest, he just seemed to care a little more.
I just didn't get him.
"Why are you like this?" I ask absently before slapping a hand over my mouth as I realize what I just said.
He doesn't pause in his work but I notice a twitch that shows he heard me.
"Like what, Momoiro-san?"
I explode, not caring what he thinks now that I can speak my mind.
"Like this! You're an asshole to us at the best of times, you have this air of complete disregard for what we might think or do until we get hurt and then you're all over us like a mother hen! You even went so far as to fix his arm!" I scream, pointing to the arm attached firmly to Sasuke's shoulder as though it were the original. "It was severed through the bone and you went and made him-mmmph!"
I start to choke on my own words, literally, unable to say anymore as my throat seems to seal shut. I watch as Naruto pauses in his work to come over to me and lean down to my ear.
"You, Momoiro-san, need to watch what you say." he murmurs softly before going back to tending to Sasuke-kun.
I didn't understand what he meant, but I stop trying to speak and my throat unsticks itself.
"What the hell was that Naruto no baka?!"
Yeah! What the fuck?!
He doesn't reply or stop what he's doing and I frown.
"I'm talking to you dammit! What the hell did you do to me asshole?!"
Kick his ass now, he's been begging for it since we met!
He continues to ignore me, even as I go to punch him in the back of his egotistical, over-inflated head.
I don't get the oppurtunity though before I am grabbed from behind by a pair of arms.
"Sakura, why are you about to launch an unprovoked attack on your unprotected teammate that appears to be 'helping' your downed teammate? Hm?" Kakashi-sensei asks me calmly, a hint of anger in his voice. I gulp, starting to explain before Naruto cuts me off.
"Oh, she's not doing anything wrong, Kakashi-sensei, that's just her nature. It's basic programming, you know? That primal instinct that lies in all animals, once they feel threatened, they lash out. That's all she's doing, though I haven't threatened her at all so I cannot imagine why she's attacking me." he states matter-of-factly, pulling the final needle from Sasuke's body and hoisting him up onto his back. "Either way it is of no conseqeunce, just as long as she doesn't make the same error as a former teammate of mine, all is well, ne? Now shall we return to Tazuna-san's home? I need to provide proper care to Karasu-san, and I'd rather it be in a more sterile enviroment. I trust we are done here, unless I could be allowed to gather Momochi Zabuza-san's head for the bounty? I fear his accomplice fell over into the water and drowned after I caught her in a Genjutsu."
I was torn between being pissed that he called me an animal and grateful that he covered my butt.
Kakashi-sensei nods to him and I speak up as Naruto goes out of earshot.
"What happened with his old teammate?"
Kakashi-sensei frowns as he lets me go and answers in a tight tone.
"He was given to Naruto as a slave because he beat him within an inch of his life."
Notes of the Footed Kind
1 . I actually considered ending this chapter right then and there, but I figured it'd be very cruel after taking so long with the update in the first place.
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Anaki: Short, and Sakura's kinda nutso at times.
RC16: Yep
Anaki: They'll be back in Konoha next chapter.
RC16: Uh-huh.
Anaki: Are you even listening to me?
RC16: :| Not really.
Anaki: Because...?
RC16: Damnit woman, shut up! God, you're ruining porn time!
Anaki: ....Oh.
RC16: -.- Yeah.
Anaki: ....What kinda porn?
RC16: -sigh-
RC17: Review!