I refuse to put a disclaimer here cause everyone should be bright enough to know that I don't own Naruto. I'm pretty sure that's why this is called FANfiction.
├Part Thirty-Eight┤
"You're fighting better than usual," Kabuto commented. He was standing in a tree not far from where I was.
I smirked at this, "Really? I wouldn't have guessed," I said sarcastically.
His eyes narrowed a fraction from what I could see, "Motivation?" he asked, "Did you find any?"
I shrugged slightly, "You never know," I said sounding lazy.
"Should I even ask?" he asked, pushing his circular glasses up his nose some more.
I grinned at this, "Nope! Cause I'm not gonna tell you!" I said happily. I was in a rather cheerful mood that day, especially it being the day right after meeting Sasuke once again.
"Eventually you will," he said, a smirk of his own spread across his face, "Eventually, I'll know all."
I shook my head firmly, "You'll never get it out of me," I said with an eyebrow raised.
He stood up a little straighter and replied with, "From what I can tell, you seem abnormally happy. So something you must have liked happened. I'd reason that whatever it was happened last night. How I know this? You yawn constantly and your movements show that you are tired. So you must have been awake last night. But I just don't know what."
I tilted my head to the right, smiling mischievously, "And you'll never know. But shall we continue with our lovely training?" I asked.
He nodded, "I will get it out of you, one way or the other," he said, "But yes, let's continue."
I rolled my eyes at what he said but jumped off the tree branch and landed on the ground below.
"Same as usual?" I asked sounding bored.
He smirked, "Actually, no," he said, "We'll be doing something a little different today…"
"So what happened today?"
"Nothing spectacular, you?"
I giggled slightly, "Nope. Man, we're running out of things to talk about," I said, leaning back against a tree.
He nodded, showing he agreed, "What did you do for practice today?" Sasuke asked looking at me with a tired expression.
I shrugged and closed my eyes, "The same as usual," I said, not telling him everything, "Kabuto's getting suspicious though. What about you?"
"I'm still practicing on working my Chidori into the sword," he said, "It's pretty much completed, though."
I nodded and opened my eyes to look at him, "Are we going to stay here forever?" I asked, "Because if so, I think we'll both go crazy."
He stayed silent.
"Are you sure this is safe?" I asked, my eyes shut tight.
"No," he admitted, "But do you want to get stronger or what?"
If my eyes were open, I would have rolled them.
There was a moment's silence.
"Anything?" I asked as I felt a familiar rush of warmth flow through me.
"No," Kabuto said, "Keep trying."
Groaning quietly, I continued to stay like I was, concentrating with everything I had.
"So what do you do every night?" Kabuto asked, sounding amused.
I felt a small smirk form on my face, "You'd like to know, wouldn't you? I'm afraid I don't feel like telling you. Although, I'm surprised you haven't tried tailing me yet," I said. I knew I wasn't giving him any ideas since I knew he was pretty smart.
"How do you know I haven't?" he asked before sighing, "But of course, I haven't. I've presented this question to Orochimaru but he said not to worry about it."
"Really now?" I asked, frowning as I tried to go back to concentrating.
"Yes, but he says that Sasuke is also being very absentminded even though he fights even more brilliantly. He's getting MUCH stronger now," he said, the amusement evident in his voice more than ever now, "All thanks to you, of course."
That's when my eyes flashed open and I saw the triumphant grin on that dork's face. Ok, so he was slightly good-looking, but still a dork!
"Hit the spot?" he asked.
"I've been getting a feeling you haven't been telling me everything."
"What gives you that impression?"
"I was watching…" Sasuke admitted, "Apparently Kabuto figured it out."
I nodded, my dark eyes wide.
"But I saw you training," he said, not looking me in the eye, "And it wasn't like what you told me before."
I shrugged slightly, "Well…I finally managed to blow up a fish…" I said.
He looked at me as if I were stupid, "That's not what I meant. The markings on your skin have turned almost black now," he said, "Didn't you say sometime that the colors meant something?"
Surprised, I frowned slightly, "Did I say that?" I asked stupidly.
He chose to remain silent.
I smiled weakly and said, "Well yeah, but it's not a problem. It's nothing to worry about."
Sasuke gave me a look, "I hope you're right," he said, "Otherwise…"
"Way back, I used to hate Sasuke…But once I got used to being with him I realized he's really a lot of fun…to be around…" I heard someone say.
I know I probably wasn't supposed to be sneaking about…but to hell with that idea!
"He's the person that, more than anyone else, accepted me and my existence," the person, obviously a guy, said.
Why did that voice sound familiar?
"Sasuke is my friend…and he represents bonds that I wanted so long to receive, so that's why…" he said.
Then I heard someone mutter the word 'bonds' before the guy talked some more.
"…Even if it means getting torn to pieces, I'm going to take Sasuke back from Orochimaru no matter what!" he exclaimed.
My eyebrows were both raised in surprise. Oh how I hoped they would succeed! Well…sort of…so long as I got to come.
I heard them shuffling and I decided that was about the time for me to leave.
Sitting up straight in my bed, I looked around wildly. The whole place shook as though there had been some sort of explosion.
"What the hell?" I grumbled. Orochimaru and Kabuto allowed Sasuke and I to get some sleep after training, especially since we had stayed up all those nights before just to talk.
He better not have done anything stupid.
Grabbing the large robe that I was now accustomed to wearing, I ran out in the hallway.
Then I started running in the direction of Sasuke's room. That's when I saw the debris. There were huge parts of the stone wall scattered on the ground. I couldn't see any way of getting through it besides a tiny crack of light.
After seeing that small amount of daylight, I turned around and ran in the opposite direction. He must have blown the whole freaking room up and out!!
I quickly put the robe on over my normal clothes, trying to run fast without tripping over the hem.
Why they forced me to wear it? No idea…Finally I reached the exit and had to squint as the sunlight was blinding.
Well at least I didn't have to look very far to find the huge hole in the ground…Plus, he was standing there, all by himself. Sasuke…
I rolled my eyes and shouted, "You idiot! What the hell did you do this time?"
He only glanced at me, giving me a slight, amused, glare. Curious, I ran to where he was.
"What is it?" I asked and looked down in the giant ditch he created. That's when I froze, my jaw gone slack.
"Sasuke?" he asked, "And…who are you?"
I felt tears start to form as I tried not to smile.
He squinted a bit when his eyes widened, "M-Miya? Is that you?! What the…" Naruto asked.
I sat down, unable to say a thing, my legs over the edge, and watched as they talked.
Only I was probably able to see the sadness in Sasuke's cold eyes. He managed to prevent anyone else from seeing his emotions, but not me. Of course, I was with him ever since…
I wasn't quite paying attention to what they were saying besides hearing the word 'bonds' again…
But then, in a flash, Sasuke was up against Naruto. He whispered something in his ear, something I couldn't hear, and started to draw his sword.
"Like there's any chance someone, who can't save a friend, could become Hokage. Don't you think…Sasuke?" he asked.
Brilliant choice of words, I must say.
And then…I zoned out for most of it…it wasn't really too exciting. Although I DID jump down to where Sakura is.
"So how's it going?" I asked, cocking my head slightly to the right.
She looked at me incredulously, "What's happened to Sasuke? Why is he acting like this?" she asked, tears forming in the corners of her eyes.
I glanced at Sasuke, who had his sword piercing whoever the man they were with, and was staring at Naruto for some odd reason.
Then I turned back to her and muttered, "Because he's putting on his tough guy act," I said quietly, lowering my gaze to the ground.
She looked confused but decided to change the topic, "What's up with your skin?" she asked, staring at my face.
"Oh this?" I asked and took off my robe, revealing my everyday outfit which consisted of a pair of black shorts and a black midriff tank-top with a net shirt underneath. I grinned, "I guess you can say something my family gave to me," I replied.
"Miya," Sasuke said suddenly, "Stay out of this."
I sighed and jumped back to where I was sitting previously.
After a moment, Sasuke nearly got trapped in some sort of trap. Yeah, I know I'm smart. But he escaped and landed a few feet away from where I was sitting.
"Sasuke…WHY DON'T YOU GET IT?! YOUR BODY'S GOING TO GET STOLEN BY OROCHIMARU ANYTIME NOW!!" Naruto shouted up at him.
Everyone was silent for a minute.
Then Sasuke said, "If that happens…then it happens."
Yep, and then he went on about what he only wanted out of his life was to get revenge. Upon hearing this, I flinched slightly. So he still had his mind set on revenge, huh?
Suddenly Orochimaru was there, stopping Sasuke from doing whatever he was going to do…zoning out is bad…especially when you miss a lot of important details…
I shrugged slightly to myself, I must be really tired…
"It's time we leave, my darlings," Orochimaru said, releasing Sasuke's arm, and we vanished in fire.
Kabuto sighed when we reappeared somewhere else, "Now we've got to change locations again," he said tiredly.
"Let us rest a bit," Sasuke said, sounding angry for some reason.
"Yes, of course," Orochimaru said, "I need to speak with Kabuto privately anyways…"
They left where we were sitting and I turned to Sasuke.
"Hey what was that all abou- Sasuke?" I asked, confused.
He was shaking slightly, and I thought he was laughing.
"Hey! What's the big idea?" I asked, glaring at him, "That was really mean you did and you're-"
"Do you know…how hard that was?" he asked, his voice shaky.
"…Sasuke?" I asked, kneeling down beside him, brushing his long dark bangs out of his face, and feeling his forehead, "You ok?"
The whole image looked rather different, wrong, like he wasn't supposed to cry. Like he wasn't allowed to.
He didn't have a temperature…
"It's alright," I said, stroking his raven colored hair oddly. I wasn't one to comfort much…"Shh," I said calmly.
How was anyone supposed to know how he felt when he himself didn't allow anyone to see his emotions?
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-Jen-