Chapter Two: Song of the Night

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Lynn hated the night patrol. Konoha was so painfully still in the darkness, it was easy to get jittery. Something about Domino City never slept and she had grown accustomed to the noise, the lights, and the crowds. The dense green of Konoha offered none of those things. The moon was high and bright and eerie.

Lynn felt his presence before she saw it. Felt the creeping darkness that began to bleed from the shadows around her.

"Let's stop playing games, shall we?" Lynn sighed into the night air.

"You misunderstand me. I don't merely want to play."

Lynn's honey colored eyes settled on his silvery shape as it emerged from the darkness.

"I want you to come play with me."

Lynn snorted, "I decline."

"I sense something in you, my child."

Lynn shuffled the cards in her hand absently and glared at him. "Are we going to finish this or not?"

"I sense darkness in you. Great darkness. And desire. A fallen lover, I see."

Lynn flinched before she could stop herself. The image of Itachi's bloodied body flashed unwelcome across her mind's eye. She remembered how hot his blood was as it flowed between her fingers.

"I could give you that power, my dear. The power to bring him back. The power to bring him home."

Her hand shook. The cards dropped from between her fingers just like his blood had...The seal ached horribly. Her breath caught in her throat. If she could accept the Seal, control it...just long enough to bring him home...She had been a double agent before. She had been a triple agent. Every time, every damned time, she had come home stronger, had made her home stronger. This wouldn't be any different. Accepting his offer would make him more likely to trust her...She was doing it for Konoha. For everything...

She stepped forward to accept the card in his hand. Green light flooded the forest.

Sakura cut through the trees, a sharp, lithe, panicked figure. Four laps. Four laps around Konoha and not a single sign of Lynn. Not so much as errant chakra on a tree leaf. Nothing.

She swung herself down to the ground. Kaiba and Yami were waiting. She couldn't quite bring herself to look Kaiba in the eyes.

"I can't find her..."

Kaiba made a noise full of his disgust and his distaste and told her, "Then I'm going."

"I don't think so! Dartz is dangerous! We're asking for trouble if we don't play this right! And you know that, Kaiba!" She yelled back.

"Try and stop me."

"Don't make me hurt you, Kaiba."

Yami grabbed his lover's arm and drew her close. "If it was you out there, my love, I wouldn't be stopped..."

Sakura bit down hard on her lip. The taste of blood grounded her. Lynn was gone. Kakashi was in a coma. Eighteen more nin had been reported as downed before they had so much as left the Hokage's tower.

"Yami, you know we can't do this-"

"Together, my love, we can do anything. We're never truly alone. Not here. Not now."

Kaiba spun to leave. Sakura grabbed for him.

"I won't try to stop you..."

"As if you could."

"But you bring her back to me, Seto Kaiba. Don't make me come and get you, too."

Kaiba said nothing as he cut back through the forest. The dawn was coming, Yami realized as he looked up.

"We have work to do," He told his lover.

"We do."

Something skittered behind him. Sakura somersaulted over him and he heard her fist slam devastatingly against bone. A creature, its forehead glowing with a green symbol, toppled and fizzled into nothingness. Behind the trees, he heard more gathering. Yami called forth the Dark Magician. Sakura charged into the green.

Hours later, he would tally the numbers of Duel Monster undead and filth he had put down. Hundreds. And dozens, if the stretchers of unconscious bodies of nin were any indication, of downed warriors. Picking through them was Tsunade. She stopped to eye him. Yami dropped his own gaze respectfully.

"This menace is spreading."

Yami glanced up long enough to acknowledge her remark.

"Yes, it is."

"And what do you intend to do about it?"

"Everything I can. Starting by finding beating these creatures back."

Tsunade's glowing hand floated above a patient. She nodded at the nurse beside the downed shinobi.

"You've done a good enough job already. This man will live because of you."

"If I can free his soul."

"Don't make me doubt you."

Yami nodded. Tsunade stepped away. Sakura passed him, squeezing his hand affectionately.

Yami stared up into the sun.

TBC