Chapter Three: Inazuma Strike
A/N: Third Chappy! Yay! XD
Gaara stood atop Sand Castle's roof as the sun set. He watched as the strange Cloud girl hovered up to her bedroom window. He squinted his eyes to see she was riding upon a small cloud. He concealed himself within the shadows of the roof and the night over took his shadow leaving him with a strange feeling. He disregarded the emotion and stood his watch atop Sand Castle's roof as the Kazekage-in-training.
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As nightfall hit, Sachiko gazed out her window to see a full moon. "Kuso," she cursed to herself as she pounded the railing of the balcony with her fists. The railing trembled with vibrations from her pounding and slowly disappeared.
'Why keep me at bay, foolish girl. Let me out to play a bit… It's a full moon… I have the need to—'
'SHUT UP! I know your special needs you retard! You will never come out again… you understand me? NEVER AGAIN!'
'Never…? That's a strong word my dear, a strong promise to fulfill indeed… Purr… You'll never be able to accomplish it…Purr…'
'I can do anything I want! Now, shut up you stupid beast!'
'Beast… Purr… Why my dear… I'm not the only Beast around here… YOU are a Beast… You think it was just I who murdered all those people in Cloud? You think it was just I that—'
"I said SHUT UP," Sachiko screeched in her mind as she curled into a ball, "I hate you! You make me wish… They ALL make me wish… sometimes I wish I'd never been born at all."
'Child, if you'd never been born then I would be in another vessel… probably one that would let me out more often… you really are worthless… I wish you had never been born either… It wasn't right for them to seal me away in such a spineless creature like yourself.'
"No Nibi Chihoko, it wasn't right for them to seal such a monster inside me… I'm already unhinged as it is…"
'You're such a foolish girl… Go use your Kekkai Genkai, you foolish girl. Go use your Inazuma and keep me inside you forever. You seal your own fate.'
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Everything had been pretty quiet and settled down during Gaara's watch. He had even let his gourd slide off his shoulder to lighten the burden but then a figure came out of Sand Castle that made him slide his gourd back over his shoulder. He looked down and saw that the girl from Cloud was in a rush to go somewhere. Normally, he would be rather uninterested in what she was doing but he felt strange about something. He had hesitated in following her because he knew it was a full moon and could feel his bloodlust rising more and more but he decided to follow her anyway.
Sachiko walked to the familiar palm tree she had laid herself out under earlier that day. She looked around nervously as if waiting for someone to fly out from no where. She sighed with sudden relief as she clasped her hands together in an unfamiliar hand sign. Gaara had been in his previous hiding place in which he had spied her littering prior that day. He tried desperately to remember what hand sign she was using but finally admit defeated because he knew he had never seen it before.
Sachiko placed her fingers out like a gun and pointed them directly at the full moon. Her fingers began to discharge miniscule sparks of electricity and the moon seemed to be jolting with electricity. Thunder seemed to be spinning out from beneath her feet and clouds surrounded her figure as she stood in her stance. "Inazuma," she breathed out and gritted her teeth as if preparing for pain, "Strike." She tilted her hand seal so it would be positioned at her own body.
Gaara was amazed at what happened next, his teal eyes wide with shock. The moon had sent out a single lightning bolt that struck the Cloud girl and sent her flying in the air. She fell on the ground with a loud thud as the clouds evaporated. Sand clouds took the place of the previous cloudy mist and disguised her figure.
Once the sand settled back to the ground Gaara could see her body lying there, somewhat lifeless. Sachiko started laughing to herself a bit and was saying something. Gaara strained to hear her nearly inaudible words.
"Gotcha," she said.
For a minute, Gaara thought he was caught and was prepared to fight her if she made a sudden movement but she began to speak again.
"You can't come out now after that, can you," Sachiko hissed to herself, "No, no Nibi… You're stuck inside now."
She slowly picked herself up and was turned over like a four legged animal. She began to pant heavily and wiped her brow from sweat. "I hate doing that… But I do it because you hate it too… That's where I get my satisfaction."
Gaara was very much confused about the girl. "Who is she talking to," he thought to himself.
"We're not alone vessel," Shukaku told him but Gaara wasn't exactly sure what he meant.
Sachiko finally got herself all the way up, standing on two legs finally. She began to walk slowly back to Sand Castle. Gaara ran up ahead of her and managed to get back to his spot on the roof just before she floated back up to her room.
At that moment, Gaara knew he had better keep attentive eyes on her if he wished to keep Sand safe from any threats. This girl was hiding something dangerous and he was going to make sure he would find out exactly what it was she was hiding. Gaara decided to invite the girl to train with him, Kankuro, and Temari for the Chunin Exams. There was no way he could leave her unattended after an event like that.
"Let's just kill her… I need blood," Shukaku whined to Gaara.
"You heard the stupid girl this afternoon… Cloud will wage war on us…"
"Who cares…? Since when did this village become important to you? You're getting soft, boy."
"Shut up Shukaku," Gaara hissed at the demon, "If Sand goes to war I cannot go to the Chunin Exams in the Hidden Leaf Village. I can prove my existence after the exams… or even during…"
"That's fine and dandy but I want blood this night," roared Shukaku.
"So be it then."
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Sachiko lied in bed still panting and sweating. Her brain buzzed still from the jolt. Chihoko hadn't spoken to her since the Inazuma Strike and she usually didn't, so it wasn't much of a surprise to the Cloud native. She lay there for a long time until finally Chihoko spoke.
"You may just kill yourself by doing that one day," Chihoko warned her in a grave tone. "You may not value your life but I do."
"Yeah because that means you would die too," Sachiko replied, "So I don't really see the big deal."
"Stupid girl," Chihoko hissed at her.
Sachiko shrugged, "So what… At least I won't die alone."
"Oh but you will," Chihoko scoffed at her, "You will have died without ever feeling what these silly little humans call love."
Sachiko laughed out loud, "This, Nibi, is something I have no use for."
The demon cackled inside of her and hissed, "It's something every human has a use for."
"Shut up now," Sachiko scowled, "You're beginning to irritate me now."
"Why, because I told you the truth? No little girl, you would not kill yourself… You want to become Raikage some day. That's a goal not even I can divert you from," Chihoko said in an almost pleased tone.
"That's right," Sachiko said aloud as she crawled underneath the blankets of her bed, "Nothing can keep me from my goal… Nothing."
A/N: Eh, so what do you guys think of it so far? Boring? Lame? Eh? Hahah. What can I say; I'm writing this with what little energy I'm running on because I'm really sick. I keep losing my voice and so yeah, I've really got nothing better to do but sleep…
Sachiko: What a sad excuse.
Author: Shut up. It's true. (Loses voice, whispering) see…
Sachiko: So now I can yell at you and you can't even yell at me back?
Author: (hoarse voice) Do that and see what happens to you in this fanfic.
Sachiko: Never mind, I'll keep my comments to myself then.
Author: (grins) Smart move. REVIEW NOW! YAY!
Sachiko: Hey what happened to your voice? You just lost it!
Author: Well it comes and goes… Especially when reviews are involved.
Sachiko: You're just weird.
Author: Anyways… I can't promise to update this fanfic as frequently as I update my Death Note fanfic… but once my Death Note fanfic is finished I'll spend more time on this one and start updating it often.
Sachiko: Then I'll be the star?
Author: (sighs) Yes… but please don't let it get to your head like my OC Sasume-san…
Sachiko: (grins) I am a ninja… emotions only interfere with that.
Author: You're telling me you won't be the least bit happy about being the star?
Sachiko: I lied… I'M A STAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Author: (heavy sigh) Oh great…Another pre-Madonna.