Bold-Dream
"Where am I? Hello?" I called out in my dim surroundings. I couldn't see anything, and wondered why I wasn't in Sasuke's room.
Then it hit me, I was dreaming.
"Hey! Answer me!" The only time I couldn't hear Kyubbi was in my dreams. It was a corner of my mind that was locked and out of our mental range.
The dim, unable to see in surroundings were suddenly clear. I was outside somewhere, and it was very dark. I could see little, the moonlight was the only light source.
I was in the woods, deep into them It seemed. But nothing moved. Then I started to hear shouts, and wind began blowing.
"Hold it back!"
"It's too strong! It'll destroy the-"
It was all very faint, but I followed it to the source, It took a long time, before I felt the tremors. I knew I should have been feeling them a while ago, but they had not materialized in my dream until now.
The ground shook and I lost my balance, falling on my butt. I heard loud roars, and screams of more people.
Then it turned into a nightmare.
The screams were those of people right before they died, and the roars were coming from the beast killing them.
Kyubbi.
I was still far away from all of this, but I could still feel the earthquakes when he lifted a paw and slammed it back down. I could hear the screams as if they were next to me, an effect of the dream.
"Kyubbi! Stop! NO!" I screamed at him, partially in the real world, partially in my head, so I might break through the mental barrier and speak to him, and partially in the dream.
But he couldn't hear, much less the people. I was miles away.
I felt tears roll down my face, and voices fill my head. All more effects of the dream. I screamed again. "Kyubbi, NO! don't hurt anyone! STOP!"
Then I gasped an it was over, and the scenery changed. It was warm and bright. I looked at my hands and body, I was smaller. Younger. I was around seven years old, maybe.
The voices in my head were clear and rang loudly.
"He's nothing but a monster."
"I don't see why we have to let him live."
"He killed all those people, horrible beast."
And as much as I wanted to think Kyubbi was the one who had did that, and it was just my body, I couldn't. I was harboring the creature with my body, that HAD killed all those people.
It was like I was a monster, as they said.
The scenery changed again, and it was dark. I couldn't see anything. I tried to open my eyes, I thought they might be closed.
They WERE closed. They grazed against fabric. I was blindfolded.
"I don't care what lord Hokage says. We kill the monster now."
With those words, I forgot I was dreaming. I thought I was no longer in Sasuke's house, but back at my own home.
And the tormentors from before were ready to stop tormenting, and kill.
I screamed and cried, and I even managed, "Sasuke! Help me!" Even though it hurt my pride a fraction to do so.
"Not so tough now, are you?"
I realized my arms were tied up, so I tried releasing Kyubbi's power.
In dreams, I couldn't. I had thought this was reality now, so I still couldn't form a link between us.
I heard the footsteps now, then suddenly, someone grabbed my hair and pulled.
"You're nothing but a monster, and no one loves you. No one ever will."
That was Sasuke's voice.
Then I screamed, ear-splitting,
And woke up.
I woke up in a cold sweat, panting. My face was wet with both sweat and tears. Sasuke was looming over me, starring with concern, then he noticed I woke up.
Remembering his voice in my dream, I blinked and held still, though my panting racked my body. I hope I still wasn't dreaming. The dream may have been a side effect of the fact I was in the house where Sasuke's parents were murdered.
Sasuke stroked one side of my face. "Calm down. It was just a dream. It's over. I'm here. It wasn't real…" He continued with his assurances, because I wouldn't calm down.
I don't think I had ever had a nightmare that bad.
I noticed when he got up, that he was kneeling on the bed in front of me. When he got up, I almost pulled him back, but just waited. He left the room, and came back a minute later.
He had a washrag dipped in cold water, an a glass of water. He kneeled back in front of me, and laid the rag against my forehead. He held out the water, and my hands shook when I reached for it. I shook harder when I tried to drink it. "Try to relax." He said gently, my panting starting to slow.
It took a long time for me to erase the thought of the dream, and for my breathing to be even. After I was calm, he let a while pass before he spoke.
"Are you okay now?" He asked first, gently removing the rag.
I nodded, then pulled my body out of the blankets. I was unbelievably hot and sweaty. More then anything I wanted to hug him, or something, but I would rather not overheat. I sat on m knees as well, facing him.
He probably caught on to the fact I didn't want to talk, so he did. "I heard you screaming. I've been trying to wake you up for a long time. It didn't matter what I did, you wouldn't stop."
I just starred at him, unable to speak.
"You called my name a few times, and yelled for my help. You screamed amazingly loud and woke up."
I nodded. I tried to form words. "Sc-ary."
He reached behind me, and ran one hand up and down my back. "Try to tell me what happened."
I breathed in and out once, then I started to somewhat talk. "Kyubbi was killing people. Then they wanted to kill me. You-" I stopped. There wasn't any need to tell him.
He didn't egg me on to tell him, either. "Can you go back to sleep?"
"I don't know." I shook my head slowly. "I don't want to have another nightmare." I mumbled.
"I know. It's hard. After something happens, it haunts you forever. It's impossible to make it go away." He brought his hands higher, wiping my forehead some more.
I leaned into the touch, then eventually got off my knees and laid against him. "Stay up here." I mumbled. I thought if he was closer, I might not have the nightmares.
He wrapped his arms around my shoulders and flipped us over so we were both lying on our sides, facing each other. I snuggled closer, gripping the sides of his shirt. "Sure," He muttered in response.
It took me a while to fall asleep, the dream still fresh in my head, but Sasuke helped immensely.
Nothing to say but the usual thank yous!