Secret Eden Chapter 2: Cursed Ruins, a naruto fanfic

Blackeclipse: And here comes the second chapter! :D :D

The first chapter, I had introduced my friend's OC, which is the weird-cheery-bubbly-and-some-times-serious-when-explaning-something-weird-girl.

She's serious when she needs to be, but that's only on her account, she just speaks her mind and is very cheery. That's Mizuumi Hino, Mizuumi means Lake, while Hino is something like Day.

The first part of Chapter one, was a text coming from a weird story book Gaara had read, that disappeared when Yashamaru and him walked out of the small library they were in. at that time, perhaps something happened that made the book disappear, who knows? :D :D keep reading to find out!

Summary: Gaara had found something that could either be a clue, a survivor, or the cause of the disappearances of the Village.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTOOOO~! DX DX DX DX DX.

Just the OCs and the concept of the weird information~

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Chapter Two: Cursed Ruins.

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"?" he flinched as he blinked, looking up at them who were now looking at him, his sister and brother looking at him with concern. "Sorry…I was in thought…"

"Huuh…" Temari sighed as she placed her hand on her hip, "Well then, let's get going…you sure you're alright?"

"Aah." He nodded to her, before Kankuro said anything, he walked up to them, taking his place infront of the two, and almost ahead of their guide, Mizuumi. "I would like to go and investigate the village….is that fine?"

"Yup, but be careful…I haven't been around these ruins but I guess you can handle the trouble you run to!" she gave a cheesy grin, that was weirdly, similar to Naruto.

He looked at her, making sure this wasn't Naruto in a disguise, and then turned to his siblings, delivering his orders. "Temari…you had brought the camera correct?" he received a nod from her as she showed him after taking it out of her string bag. "I want you to capture the ruins….the gates…fences…pillars and any traces that seems strange…" she gave a nod again.

"Got it, Gaara." She said as Gaara moved his head to the eldest.

"Kankuro…you and I will investigate this ruins…however in a different direction as I am….when you find anything….I want you to tell Temari or I, if I may ever be near by…" his voice was filled with authority that Kankuro nodded in affirmation.

"Yosh! BOSS~ BOSS~! GIVE ME AN ORDER!" this girl had sparkly around her with fully determination that Gaara ends up staring with an emotionless face, his sibling sighing, as this girl had ruined their serious-ordering-cool moment.

Gaara turned away from her as a sweat dropped fell from her head, "I will go on ahead." And there he goes disappearing and is now seen far away from them inside.

"He's cold…" she pouted as Temari gave a chuckle, she pouted twice.

"That's our brother…he's always like that…" Temari grinned, knowing Kankuro was agreeing with her. "Anyhow, you, girl, GO LEAD."

"YES MA'AM!" she saluted and marched right in like a soldier, "THIS WAY!"

"ALRIGHT!" weirdly enough, Temari was suddenly influenced and walked with her with her arm up and her hand on her, girlish muscle? Whatever you might call the upper part of her shoulder.

Only I and Gaara aren't infected… Kankuro stared at them, shaking his head as he snapped out of it. "Alright, I should do my work too…" he placed a hand on his puppet scrolls, adjusting them slightly as he made a step.

"…?" there was a weird feeling that surrounded him, it was like a wave, but when he blinked and looked around, it's as if it never happened. "Must be my imagination…"

+++Somewhere within the Cursed Ruins+++

The place was really a waste land, a ghost town to his perspective, the rusted metal that used to have supported in walls by the inside is bended, the walls of houses and old shops from the sides of the 4 way intersection he was in was very hollow, it almost looked like a horrifying event happened.

Houses were crushed, the old tables that used to have held crops and food are now crushed and being eaten by termites, webs were formed at woods that must have fallen by a powerful force, once a stand for the shade of the market place.

Yet the ground was hard and dry, it was almost sound like from the color, he knelt down and placed his hand on the ground.

…

It was fake.

He stood up, rubbing the dirt between his fingers, the dust was mixed. There were evident mineral particles of the real soil, foreign soil and now the fake one, fake because it didn't feel like dirt, it felt like particles of plastic or metal.

The foreign soil must have brought here years ago by the shoes of travelers or by the wind when an occasional tornado comes.

He looked around again, there have been signs that a tornado has hit, and causing some weird designed English houses to have turned their roofs, the wood on it crushed to bits and decayed, a wasted lumber.

Glass and plastic were also around the crushed homes, anywhere he went, it was almost the same thing, some taller buildings had a strong structure, since only a few walls have crumbled and crushed with cracks, but the root was still there.

The door though was made of dark wood, was simply hanging from the rusted metal that held it together, the knob was lost.

He remembered the reports of it; it was if the people around the place had simply disappeared.

When some Investigation Teams came from other villages, they found nothing, no bones, no skeletons or any signs of footprints back then. There was no blood splatters, there was nothing but the ruined buildings, it's as if people evacuated, but if that was the case, why was there so many house supplies left in houses?

Usually houses will be stripped of belongings when evacuating or moving, but nothing was ever removed, unless it had been knocked over.

The one hundred citizens of Tornado Village had disappeared.

It could be that the Tornado had taken them away, but, everyone to be exact in one night was highly impossible, and they would have been thrown away to villages, savannas or parts of the deserts, if there were survivors, the teams from the nearby villages would have saved them.

The Village heads and other officers had even computed and search in places where people would most likely be thrown, whether a dead body or not, but there was nothing, if there were Shinobis in this village, there wasn't a slight chakra trace or essence left…

There was nothing, no evidence into leading where the villagers had gone, not even their Village Head, nor the so called scientist or alchemist that the rumors have once told, existed somewhere within the village and settled there.

The reports coming from this place gave Gaara a headache; he never knew he would have to looked back to it again, reading through it after huge chunks of paragraphs had paid off.

But what disturbed him, was the rumors rather than the facts.

Illegal experiments…

The mysterious metal within this area, fake grass and soil, weird said rituals and advance technology.

It was also rumored that a different kind of "Transfer" Jutsu was enhanced and only used here.

But before it was even taught or grew popular, one night at the twilight of the world's New Year, an unknown disaster fell upon them, and the next morning, as people in different places celebrated the New Year.

The town was now dead.

+++Temari and Mizuumi+++

"I think I'm nearing the limit of this film…" Temari sighed, after snapping the pillars with a flash of the camera.

Temari and Mizuumi went to the Plaza, where the said lighting bolt that recharges the energy reserves of this village used to strike.

Temari went to the middle of the 4 pillars that were made of silver, at the middle was just a symbol of a moon, and 6 wings, one wing was white, the other black, and around the symbol were crosses or swords pointing to it and an X was at the top, bottom, right and left side of the, what she now thinks, used to be a crest or a unique seal she hasn't seen before.

She made sure to capture it as she traced the design lines that lead to the pillars, she predicted that perhaps, when the lighting had hit this spot, it lit up these lines into the pillars, and perhaps pillars were actually some kind of machine that charges the barrier that might have protected the village.

Noticing the poor gate and fences, even though if they were in their best state, she couldn't imagine that defending the village, the village wasn't that big after all, it's rare to expect a Shinobi.

"Hey, Temari!" a rough voice came, recognizing it; she turned her head to see Kankuro at the steps of the plaza.

Wait, steps?

This whole plaza was elevated like a stage at his side, from her side, it was flat.

It had to be slanted by an inch.

She looked and went to him as Mizuumi stretched to wherever pillar she was looking at.

Kankuro and she looked off from where they were standing, there was a small part of a dome, and unrecognized walls that must have been like a building to cover something infront of the half dome, but there was nothing there.

"Perhaps the Lighting coming it was like some kind of ritual the old elders did here…" Kankuro muttered, looking at it and try to make out of its purpose."From the evidence here…and the poor walls and fences they built around this place…perhaps it was made to create a barrier for defense."

"You think so too huh?" Temari tiled her head with a tired look as she sighed, "This whole village is freaky, and nothing in their structure is making sense to me…nothing at all…!"

Kankuro scratched his head, pushing the pointy hood slightly to his discomfort, "Geez….another weird place…..There's not a single sign of any human activity anymore, so I guess not even the travelers passed here…"

Temari shrugged, "Gaara did say there was also Akatsuki activity…." She shook her head, her eyes glaring at something unknown. "At any rate…we mustn't let out guard down…..not to mention."

She suddenly gave a chibi bored look to him, "…You have Sasori as your puppet…"

"It's not called Sasori...It's now SCORPION...!" Kankuro sweat dropped, "What's with that look!-WHAAAT!"

+++Gaara+++

Gaara sighed, he looked at the tall tower, which seems to be where the Elders or the Village Head had stayed for a meeting, well, and it perhaps must be taller before, since half of the tower was gone, but it was still a bit tall for him to see, the debris was covering the top.

*buzzzzzz*

"!" he took a step back one, what was that weird feeling? It came from the ground.

It was within arms reach if you were standing infront of the two rusted sealed doors, where the area had been silently vibrating.

If it is vibrating, there must be something active going on.

He took another step, and this time he removed his food quickly when it begins to ground him by a few volts.

He looked at the tower again, when he was walking towards it, the sound of the ground changed and got even stranger when he came to this spot.

He begins to flick his wrists, making the sand platform, form beneath him, enough for him to float, avoiding the ground as he approached the doors.

He placed first his finger tips, and till he was convinced that it was a normal rusted metal door, but from the structure, it was very strong to prevent anyone in…

Or out.

One ball of sound begins to float around him, and slammed to the door, making a huge

*CRASSSHHHH*

It crumbled.

Well, Gaara had been expecting the door to fall off, but it had crashed to bits, no it wasn't because of the small sand ball that hit like a bullet out of a gun. But the metal had lost its durable structure to the eaten rust and moss.

He looked further inside, entering the tower; it was just a lobby and stairs…

Well, he expected to be one but, either there isn't at all, or it had crumbled like the stones around the place and broken tables, chairs and desks. Closets, drawers that perhaps fell from where the 2nd floor was located. The papers were now too old to make off the writing and what it was about.

He knelt down on his sand platform, and felt the ground, it was normal from the inside, was it like a small warning for people not to try and approach the tower, like some kind of defense left on?

If so, then perhaps the Elders were still here when they disappeared.

Gaara made his platform break down and return back to his gourd, looking around for more clues.

Just when he was walking around the place, deciding he should leave, he paused when he stepped on something that made a *klank* sound.

Like metal being stepped over, he turned back to it and commanded the nearly like sand particles to move away, revealing a metal cover, and the handle at the opposite it.

Around the square floor door was scribbles, perhaps it was some kind of seal.

His hand gripped onto the curved metal handle, strangely, he sees no signs of rust, but only dirt because of the dust around this ruined tower.

He then lifts it, making a huge eerie sound as it slams open when he pushes it away, revealing a stairway to the darkness. He reached into the small bag he had belted on him and also held by a sash, he took a flash light, remembering also to thank his sister for forcing it to his pouch.

He pressed the switch and pointed down there, about 20 steps until it reached to a floor, and he could see a metal wall or a part of a door, he can't make out of it much. Something has been hidden here… He looks around first, seeing if any of his siblings had passed by or the girl. Before making a decision to go in, his gourd releases lots of sand infused chakra, slowly forming his sand clone.

"Inform them." Gaara commanded it, and it began to walk leisurely out of the tower. Gaara looked back down and then finally heading down the stairs, carefully entering whatever underground p—

*CREEEAAAAAAK-BAAAAAAAAMMMMM!*

"!" Gaara's eyes widened when it turned darker, he flashed his light to where he entered, the floor door had slammed shut automatically.

He walked back up, trying to push it open but it wouldn't budge, he tried using his sand, but it wouldn't even flinch. That was when he saw the seal scribbles around it.

He mutters and sighs, perhaps that was a one way entrance. He turns head, pointing the light to 15 more steps, Perhaps the exit is somewhere here… he began to walk down, it was dark, a bit cold and but dry, the smell of earth that should be there, was replaced with metal and other scents he doesn't recognize.

He finally reached the last, pointing the light to the metal door infront of him, it looks like it is input with technology, a sliding metal door, he looked to the side, seeing a switch with buttons around it.

He walked towards it, pressing it, but there were no sounds nor light, it must have stopped working.

What is beyond this door…? He thought to himself while sand had tried to go to any small space to enter, there was none. He looked at it again, the sand now encircling him and then went to the side, trying to whatever it can to move it, and then it budged roughly, he made an harder attempt, finally slamming it open to the side, he shined his light to the room, the sand returning to the gourd.

It was hard to see, his light flashed, some kind of machinery, screens, then he moved to his right, seeing a button there that could have been the main switch or the lights.

He decided to gamble as he pressed it, and a various of sounds was heard, an electric sound.

The floor begins to glow, and a light making a passage way more visible, the placing lit a few light, but some were still broken, but enough for Gaara to turn off his flashlight and looked around.

He saw a place that held hangers, lab coats, gloves and boots were on the floor, as if people were hurrying to remove them, some coats and goggles were scattered around, even paper that might have been reports.

The dimness of the light came from the circular wall lights, he counts only 4 in each wall, and the room wasn't that big, about on 5 out of the 8 were working.

He saw tables, a control panel and drawers. He walked towards one of them, and saw a board, having a long paper clipped onto it.

Experiment no.: 01. X

Date

He tried to make out of the date, but it had been smudged from the dirt.

He continued on.

Heart rate: Normal.

Condition: Healthy.

Development/Improvement/Changes: Irises had changed in color from the right eye.

Regression: Abnormal color growth of the Foundation's wings. Unstable Psyche.

Status: Merging.

-Still in progress.

Type: Human Being.

Project: Eden's Key.

Eden's Key? Gaara's eyes lingered on the word, what kind of project was that?—and also, the other words had disturbed him, the unstable, abnormality in a source which is still unknown to him. However, the paper had another date, it was dated a few years ago. No wonder it had the hue of pale brown yellow, and the ink was weird.

He turned the paper over, there was another paper there, with an even older date.

Experiment: 00 X

Date: Januar-

At least he knew that month now from this paper, but it is older than it is, the date beneath the Experiment's name was when it started. Perhaps the date at the lower corner shows when it was taken.

However there was another name as well, it was more of a 'type'

Status/Purpose: Source.

-Panic.

Type: Fallen Angel.

The information above and below was nor in a blur and covered by dirt, some parts were chipped away.

But he paused at the type, Fallen Angel….

"She is now, a Fallen Angel."

"!" His eyes widened when a part of a long forgotten book had reappeared in his mind, his own voice reading it when he was a child. It can't be.

He looked further, but there were no more papers that was readable, he turned back to the board in his head, reviewing it.

Status: Merging.

-Still in progress.

"The soul somehow changed when combined with the other,"

His eyes looked through it again.

Regression: Abnormal color growth of the Foundation's wings.

"…and the wings turned black.".

-Unstable Psyche.

"…and everything was collapsing, their soul was unstable."

It's matching…these reports, and that book….it can't be, it can't be real. He shook his head. He looked at the control panel he was standing infront of, and scanned the buttons and controls.

That was when he noticed a red light, a small red light blinking under the web of a spider, a few torn pages and dust, he took a step approaching it, leaving the board at the turning office chair that was standing beside him.

There was a small switch, and he pushed it as the screen before him glows, sounds and light all in a static appearance, till he recognize the sounds.

They were screams.

[Video on Screen]

There was a scientist infront of the screen, at the background was black and white, but it looked like a more furnished lab than what it is now.

But behind him, the people were panicking, but sooner or later, lots and lots of people were blocking or helping, doing something to someone at the man's right, which to Gaara, looks like the left from where he was standing.

More and more people screaming as some ran away, some came back with guards.

"Hello! I-is it on Hiko!"

"Yes Sir! It's on!"

"Alright!" the man named Fuko had himself turn to the screen again, he had a small military cut, and glasses, he looks middle aged and in a panic state. "This is a message coming from me, Iraiku Fuko-san. I am a scientist ordered to document everything that happens in this Lab. The Experiment 00 X was a success to the Soul Merging method….However, test subject, Experiment 01 X, once soul had made contact had gone berserk and now in surge of having too much power….Some of us had ran to contact the Elders to aid us as we restrain it."

"Fuko-sama!" another person yelled in the background, as some waves of wind was seen passing the man, a sign that the Elder, one of the Elders were helping, the background sounds were very noisy and static, that Gaara can't make out what they were saying.

"Just as we thought! We can't continue to experiment when the test subject is awake! It's going completely berserk—for the time being we are going to operate, "Coffin Rest", to conceal and seal the powers of 01X, which is what they are doing now!"

There was a huge blast from behind as people were thrown, the man before the screen was trembling in fear. But he continued, "We are to seal half of the unstable and destructible power to one eye until the subject is fully aware to how to control it….For the time being, we are also going to put her to "Rest"—This is a part of the operation "Coffin Rest" wherein as the Experiment will be unconscious till we activate her to awaken so we can observe 001 X without any harm!"

Then the screen suddenly went blank, and black and white static pictures were too static that Gaara doesn't know what was going on, perhaps it was another video loading up, but it went clear again as the man's hands were on the controls, perhaps to make the video's duration in the recording longer.

"We are able to operate Coffin Rest successfully….And Project Eden's Key is to be now on the go!..." behind him, the people seemed to have calmed down, and walks towards, perhaps, a door to another room that is unseen in the video.

Soon the man was alone, and he made sure of it as he looked around.

He looked back, sweating. "I want to say this to whoever sees this….it's only a matter of time before this Experiment 001 X is able to give this village too much electric charge that it needs….the Experiment 001 X in all honesty will end up as a Failure and a mistake!"

Gaara's expression had suddenly gotten darker from the words.

"This Experiment should never happen, in my own opinion…we have created a Being that has fallen from grace and turned into a monster….that is beyond any comprehension and is highly unstable in any rates…..This Monster, this isn't the first time it had went berserk…It had killed my wife and my brother….and my children, and some citizens around town with those demonic wings that is no longer the "Source's" wings like we've seen then….. We have created a monster that is uncontrollable and should be executed!"

Even back then, you adults are so selfish, and only see to it that…. He didn't finish, he was too angry at the words, he was used to it, but, he somehow felt so angry and the urge to destroy the screen.

But he can't, he need more information, he just has to endure it.

"Even though he had placed a seal, who knows what will happen?—we cannot be so sure, so please, whoever gets this hidden message-"

Hidden?—I see, he must have hidden this portion so the other scientist won't be able to see it…and then deactivated it when the time was right. He thought.

"—DO—NOT—RELEASE EXPERIMENT 001 X!"

The sounds starts to get static. "NOT ONLY THE EXPERIMENT I—S-D-DANGEROUS-B—UT-IT'S—E—XTREMLY POWER—FU-L—I—F-FA-LLEN—TO—T-TH-E—W-RO—NG—HA—ND-S-W-HO—K-NOWS—W-HAT WILL HAPPEN!" even the voice was already being cracked.

"S-SHE WAS –MA-DE TO BE-L-LIKE—A-N-J-JINCHUURIKI—A-AND-A-LS-O—A—HYBRID—OF—HUMANS—AN—D-A—N-GE-"

The screen then went permanently blank, signaling the end of the broadcast, leaving Gaara to reflect on the words.

A hybrid, a result of merging humans and angels, their souls.

"They had her into her own vertical coffin. For her not to wreck havoc."

Gaara flashed back at this,

"I want to say this to whoever sees this….it's only a matter of time before this Experiment 001 X is able to give this village too much electric charge that it needs….the Experiment 001 X in all honesty will end up as a Failure and a mistake!"

"It was a failed experiment, and everything was collapsing, their soul was unstable."

Gaara looked away from the control panel, looking around at the place that it was now after the events on the screen. Trying to put his own feelings down for awhile and focus, the video had shown the people going to this direction. His back facing the control panel, it means to his left.

He walked there, but it was a wall, he placed his hand on it, and rubbed the dirt off, revealing a bigger metal door, he turned his head till he found a box on the wall to his right, his hand reached for it, and it opened it's cover, revealing a button that could be an emergency button for it to close.

He hit it with his fist, and the ground felt like shaking as the huge metallic door creaks open, and slowly opens as the dust made a small cloud of smoke at the two openings, the air hitting his face as it revealed a badly lit lab, which perhaps used to be so lit with all the broken light bulbs and glass shards around, he took a step on the floor path, and the path lit up automatically.

He looked around and saw more control panels, he approaches the one far off in a corner that had 3 seats and turned like a circle extending control panel, he saw a paper on the ground nearby, and decided to pick it up.

Experiment: 001 X

FAILURE

A big red boxed word was stamped across the paper, something must have happened here, he looking around, but nothing was deemed to any connection of it, but he was wondering about the broken lights.

Perhaps the part about "too much energy" was this, causing an over rid of power.

He looked back at the paper, and flipped it again, then putting it down as he walked around.

He was about to walk out when he found nothing, before his foot kicked something.

He looked down, seeing a small book, was it a diary? An observation notebook?

He bent down, his pale white fingers holding onto the torn leather of the notebook, and flipped through the pages, it was an observation notebook.

But the pages were ripped, everything except for one page that had writings,

We had tried to activate it, even I tried to but some force is preventing us to open it, the person who can open the official seal has disappeared…!

Even though she was an experiment, she was a human girl before we did this….I didn't want to leave her, but we had no choice, we had to evacuate. We had to leave her, for t—

The pen seemed to have slipped, perhaps someone had knocked over him causing the broken line, he flipped through the pages, they were blank, at least someone was there who didn't think ill of the Experiment victim.

"…Switch..?" he muttered, as he turned his head around, he thought again. Perhaps the capsule said in here is under there. He began to walk towards the wall, when he stepped on an uneven flooring, he crouched down, and also grinned, he was right.

There was a line forming a circle, something was there, some wires were around it as well and tubes, and when he looks at the circle's center, there was a broken rusted chain, he looked up, and saw the hook, and a wheel that had a small rusted chain left hanging.

There is something here….He told himself, he looked around, wondering where the switch was, he decided to follow the tubes. That were surrounding it at first before leading to the black wall before him, he walked towards it.

It was black…

Because of an ash…

He looked at it closely, and saw a form protruding the wall, he looked at it hand placed a hand on it, he pulled his hand back, now all dirty with ash, placing it near his nose to smell, it is ash.

Was there a fire? He looked around, there were no melting metal results, like deformed metal, bending, nor any burn marks or ashes around, only on this wall.

Why was it?

Perhaps something was going on with the wall then…. He reasoned in his mind, looking back at where his hand had held, it was metal, but it seemed to be deformed, the burning must have come from this wall.

It looked like a lever, he decided to push it down, but it wouldn't budge. It was stuck.

He tried again, with more force and it finally snapped., it was a good thing it snapped once it was already down.

Gaara threw the broken handle to the side, nothing had happened. "…." He felt himself sigh, it was a disappointment.

He looked around, nothing had worked.

He walked back to the circle, it wasn't moving.

That was when he listened carefully, there was a hissing sound from below.

He looked up at where the chain was, there was a square cut behind it, perhaps it backs up to pull whatever was in the circle.

Maybe that's why it wouldn't move.

It was worth a try, his sand starting to move and morphed into a chain.

*CRACK*

SHIMATTA! Gaara's eyes widened when the small hook had broke, it had aged to the point that it would break at any force. He grit his teeth, what was he going to do?—If the experiment, was here, and perhaps, still alive—he can't afford to abandon it.

He stood up, trying to control the frustration he had, he pulled his hand out in an open hand gesture, pointing to the wall as the sand rushed it covering the wall.

Then he jerked his hand for the sand to retract, the ash had gone with it, revealing a wall full of buttons and switches, small bulbs that used to give off light, wires that traveled across the wall like a web.

He looked at the lever, he wondered if that lever had a different purpose, but that doesn't explain the buzzing he had heard at the circle metal form on the floor, with the empty space forming the line which forms the circle.

The Kazekage wondered, if there was something more, something more to it than just pulling the damn lever, but what?—He walked to it, examining it, there were numerous of switches surrounding it, he's not sure what to do.

He turned away, and picked up some papers for clues on how to operate this thing, but all the papers had that he gathered, were just reports and maintenance checks, some lists of doctors, medication, officers, guards, orders, and scientists that deemed no importance to the activation here.

He turned his head and now stands before the place where the capsule is said to be, and yet he can't reach it….

But then he wondered, why were there symbols around it?—It was like scroll writing symbols, was it to support it more?

Support in its sealing…Gaara added in his mind, he looked back to the lever, and saw the writings on it as well.

He looked back at it and looked up, there were also the symbols surrounding the pulley, the big mechanical pulley. …was chakra used as an activation key?

He knelt down, it was worth a try, he began to clasp his hands together to call out the cancellation. His hopes went up when the symbols had lit up. But still nothing worked. Why?—Why wouldn't it work? He was sure he did it right, he felt his chakra transfer into the symbols, he knows because it was glowing, but it wouldn't go up.

Why wouldn't it go up?—was 'it' trying not to come up?...did it know he was here and doesn't want to come out?

"Xirelle is doomed to be all alone".

He winced at his memories of those paragraphs.

"With no one with her…

With no one who will come to her."

He sighed, looking at the circle and now the fading light of the symbols, was it going to be like this?—Does this experiment, no—does this girl, do not wish to be rescued?

Aren't you, alone…all these years…? He thought in his mind, even though this maybe the girl from the book he read, was it possible?, but that wasn't important whether it is a fact or not, he need to get her out of there, and he will not leave this girl.

He was alone too, terribly alone, he didn't feel needed, not even by his siblings…

Until Naruto came…and smacked it in him.

It was his turn, to do the same for others.

His eyes, softened, something people wouldn't see him do normally, he felt sympathy now. "….I came here….to you…." He began to say, looking down. "….You will not be alone….anymore." he said to the air, not caring if the person beneath this place was listening or not.

He looked back again at it, the symbols were hidden Japanese kanjis, but he can make out of it slightly.

Since it was glowing faintly.

'Koe' it meant 'Voice'

'Namida' 'tears' it could also symbolize a cry.

The rest, he couldn't make out of anymore.

….

…

Password? He begins to think, Voice, must mean a voice call…cry out, or tears isn't taken literally as a symbol. In other words, what could the password possibly be? Could it be a number? And access code within the lab data?—or a name?

"And Xirelle, was now called, the Fallen Angel."

Was it Xirelle then?

No, it wasn't, because on Earth, they do not know her name.

Then….perhaps it was.

He clasped his hands together, his spindrift eyes glaring. "Unseal: Fallen Angel….!" A huge gust of wind blew from below.

*-!*

The Kazekage jumped back from surprise as the whole place shook, so much in that area that it made him lose his balance and fall back on his back, his elbow preventing him from laying down there.

There was smoke, steam that came from the opening circle lines, it had fired so much to the wall, he wondered if the ash was made to be there as he saw it slowly melting the wiring there, electric currents buzzing here and there as the something begins to rise up from the circle, the symbols, below and above it had glow to the fact it was like forming a light bars around it like a cage, he stood up as the shaking subsided, puffing the dust out from his clothes.

The green light shined on his shocked face expression, looking what it was before him.

The capsule was huge, the cylinder though seemed to be in perfect condition, wires were here and there, the sound of noisy machinery was heard as well, inside was green liquid.

And a girl….

Looking more like a teenager from the body structure, it had black wrapping of black cloth, like some sort of sealing cloth because there was chains all around the chest and abdomen, covering the sex organ as well and extending to the legs, there was a collar on her, and a chain that binded her arms and hands behind her, there were 3 black wings on each side, but they were small in size.

There was a black blindfold on her eyes, but he could see a bandage being covered by it and messing up the hair when it made a cross way in the wrapping. It was on the right eye, perhaps the seal the earlier scientist, Fuko, had talked about and the reports he had read. But why was there a blindfold?—to prevent her from seeing what?

She was floating in the huge and tall cylinder of green liquid, bubbles were here and there, some parts were red, must be coming from her monthly cycle, indicating she was still alive in there, but Gaara thought it was from old injuries that was inflicted.

From below her collar bone, he could see the tattoo symbol 01X.

He walked towards it, especially at the face, the mouth was partially open, her hair was short and messy, with long side bangs floating making the bandage and the blindfold more visible, but he could count 2 sets of lock that was left from her long hair when she had before this happened to her, perhaps she was struggling when they cut her hair?—it was obvious, the hair cut was very messy, even the two locks of hair that was thick enough to be considered a pig tail, was also badly cut, some parts were short, some were long, but what disturbed him was the way they wrapped her body.

The black cloth had small etched symbols from an unknown seal binding, it had wrapped hard around her chest and body, but it only covered her points on the breasts, it was wrapped side ways down missing her belly button, then covering her abdomen and torso, making it look like a short now, and chains were evident, even its hooks, perhaps she had broken them?, he looked up to see the black wrapping led to the collar, and the chains around the collar was binding something behind and it lead to the arms that was also binded by the black wrapping.

It was painful to look at, she was tortured wasn't she?

He didn't notice, but he was gritting onto his teeth already.

His hand slowly went to touch the glass wall, it was vibrating as well, and almost automatically, a screen grid had appeared, showing a heart rate, it was still normal.

He had to get her out of there, but how?

*Swish*

"?" He blinked, the girl, did she just moved?

She had reacted to his touch on the glass? He saw the head tilt slightly, she was alive, the wings on her back had flapped slightly, then dispersing till only 2 were left, the feathers floating around her.

He tapped it, and she moved again, her shoulders moving as if she was trying to break free.

"Can you hear me…?" He begins to call out to it. And his eyes widened when he watched her mouth move, but he can't read it well. Gaara looked around and found a red switch, he bent down and pressed it.

*BEEEEEEEP! BEEEEEEP! BEEEEEEEP!*

"!" His eyes widened when the girl suddenly moved around violently, like she was in pain, the sound around him wasn't pleasant either.

This wasn't good, what has he done?

She was moving widely as if she was trying to break free.

***Activation: Denied….Commencing Execution of the Subject…***

Gaara's eyes widened, Execution! Why was the activation denied?—was it programmed that when someone tries to activate it again, the subject would be destroyed?

He did recall the words of the scientist, if it were to fall in the wrong hands, it would be disastrous, so that it would fall into the wrong hands, they had it to be eliminated before it awakens.

BUT THAT SORT OF THING! Gaara's sand encircled him as he glares at the capsule, enraged, even more as he watched the girl inside thrash in pain, in such pain that he even saw the chains breaking from her wincing, when her arms were free she grabbed herself as she shook her head in a refuse gesture. The sand had grown bigger as he flicked his hand before him, and sand following its master as it crashed into the capsule, that was slowly, and slowly cracking, the black liquid slowly forming around her. I WON'T LET YOU DIE!- He yelled at himself as he let out his other hand, the capsule was harder than he thought.

"HAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He cried out as more sand began to crush the glad completely, the liquid bursts out as the girl fell head first, he acted quickly, coming to catch her before she clashed into the glass.

She was breathing breathlessly, and her whole body was cold, the skin was pale. He let her lay on his lap as the sand beneath them lifted them up for elevation, preventing the harmful liquid and glass from staining them any further.

He removed her blindfold, revealing the face that was hidden, even the markings it held were still there in red, they must have tied it forcefully and angrily making it too tight, it revealed a beautiful face that was wet, her wet bangs plastered on her face, her eye lashes were wet and a bit long. The bandage was made from a weird frabric material that must have been water proof.

His hand went for it, but he had heeded the warning of the seal, he can't afford to do it now.

He let her lay on his sand platform, the sand making the space for them to sit on wider, bringing out his kunai, he swiftly cut the collar on her throat letting her breath heavily, the wings on her back was now covered in sand because of the liquid.

He begins to unfasten and removing his gray vest, putting it down beside him so he could unzip his maroon long coat, revealing a black turtle neck, there was a net sleeve visible at the end of each long sleeved that extended only until his wrist, he moved to put the coat on the girl, letting her wear it as he zipped it up.

"Who…"

His eyes widened when the picture of her lips moving to form those words began to flash with every movement of her lips made.

"..are…

…you..?"

His eyes seemed to relax now, "…My name…Is Gaara…a Kazekage."

Slowly, he could see her eyes slowly opening, and his widened again slightly, her eyes were so mysterious, even though it was half opened, it seemed like it was glowing, it was dark royal blue, with light blue lines forming rings around her pupil, it was beautiful and deep, it was almost similar to the Water Country Shinobi's eyes, but these eyes were different, it seemed go deeper and deeper, he felt like he was sinking into it.

"Gaa…" her eye moved to look at him, "…ra…?"

"I will bring you somewhere safe…I assure you…" he told her.

She moved her head, looking around the place that she was used to be binded to for ten years, "…Where exactly…is 'safe'…?"

He seemed to be taken back.

"Either way….since you awakened me….people won't stop anymore…." She looked sad, staring at the ceiling. "…You should have left me in the capsule to die….along with this place."

At first Gaara didn't say anything, but then he lifted her, his arms under her knees, and his other arm behind her back, "If that is true the…" he moved his unreadable eyes to her, "…Why did you struggle?"

Her eye widened slightly at his words, a sign that he got through her.

"Why did you break the chains that binded you?-why did you fight back…?" he continued as he turned around. "…..Is it because, you wanted to get out of there…and live…?"

"…" she didn't know what to say, and decided to look away from him, her bangs covering her eyes, she really didn't know what to say. The past of hers, she knew was full of torture, yet it was so vague that she can't remember all of it.

They began to move, passing the machinery as he finally found the door he forcefully opened with his sand, into the dark space.

Before Gaara sighed at the dark, the door that led to the outside opened up, revealing the stairs, the light, his siblings, the girl and his sand clone.

"SO there you are, Gaara!" Kankuro and Temari both grinned, in the background, Mizuumi was creep out by the sand clone as it slowly goes back to the gourd of Gaara.

He blinked at this, until his mind recalled that he had sent his sand clone there to inform them.

He began to walk up the stairs. Not minding the gasps and expressions of surprise when he rose from the hidden passage way from the floor, with the experiment 01X in his arms.

Well here's where I'm going to end the 2nd chapter XD XD XD XD XD XD

I think I was torturing Gaara there in how to make that damn thing work.

Gaara: *sighs*

And so that girl T A T is my OC, she's just 15. It was, again, very hard to describe her body in the capsule, if you know Persona 3 FES and see the Persona named "Angel" her body looked like that there, but with more chains and black wrappings around her body.

Anyhow please stick around for the next chapters! :D :D :D

Blackeclipse: Gaara, you're no good in machines after all! You nearly killed her by pressing the RED BUTTON—REMEMBER,-RED BUTTONS ARE EVIL!

Gaara:…At least I got her out.

Blackeclipse:…=_=;;….You did know…there was a switch with the label 'Release' at the lower left side of the capsule?

Gaara:…*facepalm*….

Mizuumi: *POKES* COME OOONNN! I KNOW U GUYS WANNA PRESS THE BUTTON! PRESS IT! IT~~~! XD XD