Chapter 21:
Jealous Stranger
Announcement at the End.
Previously-
"A world that should have been your home." A deep voice spoke from within. My eyes finally closed and I emerged into darkness.
I woke up to my head buzzing. Great a hangover...what happened last night? Did I make it out?...Did I escape? I looked around the foreign room. Is this a hotel? Did my drunken self get away and make it to a hotel. I sat up in bed to get a better look at the room. The walls and floor where the same dark grey stone. What hotel has Stone walls? Hmm, must be expensive. There was two doors in the room, in front of me and to the left. The exit and bathroom doors I assume. In the corner of the room was a dresser made of black wood. The ceiling held a rectangular light in the middle, but it wasn't on. A candle, on my bed stand was lit and it illuminated brightly. Brighter than any other candle I've seen. Hmm, I wonder what brand the candle is? And for a hotel room, this place is pretty small and gloomy.
Sitting up made my head rush, so I laid back down. Where am I? And what happened last night? I thought as I looked up at the ceiling. I remembered being at the Club and having to escape through the bathroom window. Then I got to the car and stuck the key in the driver's door... and got away, I guess. I couldn't remember anything. I drank way too much than I had intended but I didn't care. I was out! I survived!
My celebration was shortly lived when the door in front of me opened. I looked up to see Itachi walk in holding a tray.
"Sorry I didn't knock, I thought you were still asleep." I watched as his eyes changed from red to black as he deactivated his sharingans.
"What are you doing here?...Where am I?" I was so confused and the hangover wasn't helping me think straight. Didn't my plan work?
"Your at the Akatsuki base."I couldn't believe it... I failed! It was my only chance to live and I failed. He walked over to my side of the bed and set the tray on the night stand.
"How are you feeling?" He asked taking a seat on the edge of the bed.
"Like shit." I replied.
"I brought you some water and something to eat. It should help make you feel better." Nothing he brought could make me feel better... because nothing he brought could save me.
"Kami," he spoke quietly, "Last night, you told me that you believe you'll die if you came here. Why do you think that?"
I wanted to tell him. I trusted him. But before I could answer his question, the door opened and my mother walked in. I noticed Itachi look at her with his sharingans activated.
"Good, your awake." She said but there was no excitement in her voice. "Itachi, do you mind leaving? I need to talk to Kami." He stood up and left the room silently, shutting the door behind him.
"Your very lucky," She spoke taking Itachi's previous spot on the bed. "Obito wanted to extract the Bijuu upon arrival after Sasori told us you tried to escape. After me and your father begged and pleaded for hours, we were finally able to persuade Obito to change his mind. " Suddenly she stood up and smacked me hard across my face. The shock hit me harder than the pain. My mother has never been abusive with me before. I rubbed it quickly to alleviate the pain.
"ARE YOU CRAZY!?" she shouted. "Ha,you thought you could have escaped three ninjas?... You thought you could escape your faith?" She grabbed me by the collar of my neck and pulled me close to her face, "I've been cherishing the Moon's Eye Plan' for the past eighteen year. DO NOT TRY TO FUCK IT UP!" She threw me back down to the bed. I could not believe my mother was treating me like this. I felt as if I was a tool she was forced to create and look after, until ready to be used. Not someone she cared deeply about.
"Then why?... Why didn't you let Obito sacrifice me last night?"
"Your father asked me to help him beg for your life?" Dad?...Dad still cares about me? "I'll tell you something about your father. For some stupid reason he grew deep attachments to you, knowing you were only a vessel. I swear I think he loved you more than he loved me...Anyways, he only postponed your death for another year since the Akatsuki don't plan to capture the Bijuu's until then."
Oh my God,.I can't stay here. I need some way to leave!Then I remembered something that I foolishly failed to realize before. I'm a Fen. I am just as capable as my parents to perform the 'Portal Jutsu.' I can teach myself how to perform the jutsu and return back to my world. I didn't know how I would learning the technique but it seemed like I had a year to master it until the extraction.
Great! Now I had a second Escape plan,until...my mother spoke again.
"Oh, and Kami... after we heard about your little stunt of trying to escape, I marked you with the 'the Flying Thunder God Technique.' So nowI will be able to teleport to your location, at anytime and anywhere. So no matter where you go... or how hard you try to hide. I will find you." She kissed my forehead and left the room, along with any ounce of hope I had of escaping. I was defeated. And for the first time in my life, I felt as though I was raised by strangers.
Well Kami is pretty much screwed...
***There is no longer an Announcement at the end****