Hello dear readers! Welcome to the newest installment of 'The Flaw of Mine'!
Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I don't own Naruto, or any of the rights to it. Like I have said before, if I did, the charactors lives and much more would be severly screwed up.
Amaya: BlackCat? Can we please get on with it now? I really want to find that realigious zealot hiding in his hole...
BlackCat: Amaya? You do realise that he isn't hiding... right?
Amaya: -shrugs- Oh well. He needs to get his ass up and moving.
Kara: I acctually don't think he can, Amaya-sama.
BlackCat: Anyway! On with the show! -bickering continues in background-
Previously:I smirked after my weapons were in their rightful places on my back or on my waist, and took off again out the window and into the Nara forest. "I have to know what happened in the detail of the eye." I thought with a determined look on my face, as I breached the entrance of the woodland area.
After running for nearly three hours straight I began to get fatigued. I was thinking that I would never find a deer. When I suddenly stopped, Kara had no choice but to stop as well. I decided that we should have a break, and so leaned against a tree. I thought I had only closed my eyes for a minute, but when I opened them, I found that I'd been asleep nearly two hours, making it now just after lunch.
I lifted my head in an attempt to wake up and to my surprise, I saw a stag looking at me while half hiding behind a tree. I blinked in amazement, and he blinked back. I was stunned. I slowly got to my feet and Kara was roused from her slumber beside me. We all stayed silent. Just the three of us. None of us making a noise.
After a while of just staring, the stag walked out from behind the tree and walked closer to us, being ever careful all the while.
When he eventually reached us, he dropped his head towards my hand. I blinked in surprise and lifted my hand as he lifted his head back up, and placed my hand over his head, making his chocolate eyes close.
I was compelled to close my eyes as well, and so, I did. As soon as my eyes were closed, the whole battle played out like a movie before my eyes. I was scared for my cousin and his friends while watching the encounter, and became more afraid when the memory showed the man in the whole in pieces and still alive. I was almost sick to my stomach, but I had to go on. I had to find this Akatsuki, this Hidan. My morbid desire for knowledge kept me going.
When the memory was over, my hand flew off of the stag's head and my breathing was deep and laboured, like I'd been diving for half an hour and only just come up for air when my lungs had been burning for it for what felt like years. The stag wasn't startled or anything like that, he just stood where he was and waited for me to recover. When my breathing was pretty much back to normal, I could feel the tears down my cheeks that I hadn't felt during the memory.
I couldn't think what could have caused them but I quickly wiped them away anyhow.
I looked back up at the stag, seeing as I had fallen to my knees when I had come back to reality, and spoke. "Do you know where he is?" I asked gravely. The stag nodded his head and looked over to the east. I thought for a moment, then asked, "Can you lead me there, please?" The stag nodded again, then helped me to my feet.
As soon as I was up, Kara had swooped under me and we were away. I could guess that we were headed north-east, further into the forest, towards our destination.
It took us over an hour to get to where the barrier was. The stag stopped suddenly and reared up a little, signaling that it could go no further. I jumped off of Kara and wondered over towards the barrier before I turned to the stag with a concerned look on my face.
"After I go through, what directon do I go?" I asked him. His mind linked to mine and told me to continue in the direction we had been traveling and to follow our noses. I took that to mean that Kara could come through the repelling shield as well.
I was proven right when the two of us breached the barrier, looking back and watching the stag prance back into the forest. Before he'd gone, he'd promised that no-one but he would know of my intentions. The two of us simoulstainiously looked back in the direction we had to go and charged headlong into the quickly darkening tree-scape. My Inuzuka blood was starting to take hold, making my senses higher, my teeth sharper, nails longer. My canines began to grow out a little as Kara and I began to syncronise in wolfish abilities. Suddenly, anything she could do, I could do too.
The two of us were darting through the trees at incredible speed, and yet barely anything gave away that we were moving. The wind was whiping through my hair, giving me an icredibly chilled vibe. Soon, though, we began to slow, using our incredible senses to help us find the Akatsuki member's resting place.
After fifteen minutes of using our noses to find our bearings, I smelt sulfer. 'Uh, the smell is so strong... There must have been more bombs then I thought that had gone off.' I thought almost viciously. I followed my nose with an almost unwilling Kara following closely behind me untill we really didn't need the enhanced senses to know that this was the place.
The grass had been blown away by the blast, as had some of the trees, and the ground was slightly uneven. The more noticeably uneven patch of ground was in the shape of a circle, covered in by rocks. 'This is it!' I thought. 'This has got to be the place.' I was desperate. Luckily for me, when I was like this, my strength was also increased. I immediately began to lug the small boulders up and out of the whole. 'This is one hell of a grave, Shika!' I thought animalistically, vengefully almost.
After an hour of digging and shifting, I'd only got a little way into the makeshift grave. I stopped a little as I heard something below the rocks. The voice sounded almost fearful. The fact that it was a voice made me stop as a look of rage, fear, sympathy and something I couldn't place crossed my face. I looked up at Kara for some form of support and found her looking fearful herself. I snapped out of it a little and ordered my faithful companion to find the Akatsuki's weapon... just in case he still wanted it.
It had been nearly two hours by the time Kara had returned with all the broken parts of the weapon in her mouth. She dropped them as I ordered and stiffened when we both began to feel the moon rise. I looked down and could see what looked like a hand, due to my suddenly enhanced eyesight that seemed still increasing in ability. I was nearly there. I smirked to myself and kept digging, finding a torso (very well defined, might I add), another hand, a foot with the leg still attached (luckily), the waist, and just about everything else except one foot and the head.
I sighed heavily and looked up to see the stars twinkling above. My ears began to change to a wolfs and I knew I had to hurry. All the body parts were up by Kara, who was looking between me and the moon worridly. I stiffend a little and sped up the digging pace when a tail grew out. 'Shit, I'm shifting!' I thought worridly. The second the thought was finished, I found the head and the other foot. I hurredly picked them up and jumped out of the whole in one fluid motion. Dropping the body parts carefully, I straightened up and let a howl rock through me as I released it into the night, Kara following my example. I was getting more wolfish so I did the only thing I could think of. I took a scroll out of my ninja pouch and sealed the body parts, weapon pieces, and my clothes in it, shoved my scroll in my mouth and made sure that my weapons and hitai-ate were secured and began the transention into a wolf.
This body took all of about a minute to get used to before Kara and I were running back the way we came. It took twenty minutes to exit the whole forest and reach the Nara compound, but as we emerged, we shifted directions and took off towards the Uchiha district. We kept to the shadows, being true ninja (even as animals), and carefully made it to the Uchiha district with only one person looking at us as they saw two ninja wolves running the the village, one oddly brandishing the ANBU tattoo. That one would be me.
We ran through the district untill I got to one of the houses I used to visit often. It was an old friends house. I could never visit Hikari again. That much was certain, seeing as my cousin himself had killed her and all the clan. She had been my best friend. Thinking back those eight years, it really did feel like so long ago. We were ten and knew nothing of what was happening within the clan or the village. I shook those thoughts out of my head and slowly padded into the house. I smiled as I remembered that I had even had my own room for when I came round. Our mothers had been great friends, and we were like sisters. I let that thought slip away as I felt a tear struggling its way through my fur. I gently padded all the way to my old room in the isolated house.
As I reached the room, the scroll dropped from my teeth and unsealed itself, letting everything in it out. My ears picked up a gruff 'What the fuck?' before the smoke cleared and I fell into a sleep filled with memories that I would be better off forgetting.
We sat by the small river running through the district. Our feet gently touching the water below, cooling our hot feet. I looked to my right, at my best friend and smiled. We were seven.
"Hikari?" I asked tentativly, "What does your name mean?" I continued after a nod and a giggle. She shrugged beside me, her icey white hair bunching on her shoulders as she did so.
"I don't know, Ane." She confesed with a slight sigh, her snow white eyes looking slightly lost.
I joined her sigh as my hair created a small blue-black curtain to my left. I smiled as I felt a familier chakra approach and Hikari laughed lightly, a heavenly sound that I found the current me missing with all my heavy heart. I went to turn to the left to see him but found my hair in the way. With an annoyed huff, I tried and failed to blow the hair away. Itachi laughed as he grew closer. I found myself missing my cousin just as much as I missed my friend. He sat down between us and helped me put my hair back behind my ear before laughing happily with us. He gently took his sandles off and put his feet in with ours.
"So," began Itachi, "What were you two talking about?" he asked lightly. I leaned into my brotherly cousin and told him my question. He laughed slightly as a grin formed. "Well, you're lucky that I know." He told us, slightly smugly. I gasped and begged him to tell us, Hikari nodding him on so that she might know as well. "Hikari." He turned to face the small girl. "Your name means 'Radiance', and I believe that it suits you well." He told us. I agreed whole heartedly.
Hikari and I were eight, and had just been made genin and put on the same squad. We laughed lightly as we pondered on who our instructor whould be. Our other team member, Daiki, was also wondering. As we made our way to the training field where we would meet our instructor, I saw my younder cousins Shikamaru, Kiba and Sasuke. Kiba had his new puppy Akamaru with him. I had a small Kara standing scaredly between my legs. My cousins ran over and we began making conversation.
"So," started Sasuke, "Nii-san has been made and instuctor of a genin group." He told us proudly. I gasped as a wolfish grin spread across my face.
"Really? Nii-chan is an instructor?" I asked. Sasuke nodded and grinned. "Wow." I breathed, "He really is something." I quickly asked if the younger ones wanted to come with us. They were six and all so light hearted, especially Sasuke. I missed him like that. They nodded excitedly and followed us, Sasuke holding my hand as we went.
When we got to the place to meet our instructor, we didn't see anyone untill someone tapped me on the shoulder. Sasuke and I whurled around to see who it was, only to see Itachi standing there. "Aneki!" we both chimed. He smiled down at us and told us he was our instructor. He was eleven.
Under Itachi, the four of us grew strong within the year.
When we were nine, the four of us were chunin. We where thrilled. Hikari was able to use her sharingan, as was I when we made a friend on a mission only to watch that friend die to protect us. We were strong. I used fire, water and lightning styles easily as I had already found that I had all three as chakra natures. I didn't know how I did it, I was just special. Not as special as Hikari, however. When testing her chakra nature, the paper turned to ice then snow, before it melted under the heat. She was the only Uchiha know to have this ability. Itachi was still training us in hopes that we'd get strong. We all new exactly how the others fought.
When we were ten, our dreams were shatered. Itachi was no longer our squad leader as he was made ANBU and things slowly began to fall apart within the clan. My parents started spending less time in the district, often bringing Hikari with them. She, like Itachi, never wished to fight, and so, was kept out of the way.
Later that year, the entire clan was killed by my thirteen year old cousin, Itachi. I had been made to help kill Hikari by Itachi, and so my mangekyō had been awakened. I was so afriad that night. But I didn't have the heart for vengance and Itachi made me swear to always look after Sasuke. I kept that promise to the best of my abilities.
I awoke the next morning naked and coved in sweat and blood. The blood was from my eyes. I jumped up and ran to the mirror that was hanging by my old dresser. Sure enough, my Mangekyō was activated and I could feel my blood broiling under my skin. I quickly shut the dōjutsu off and hurried around to find my clothes. To my delight, they had been unsealed, I tried to remember when, when all I did as an animal came flooding back. I was quite happy that I didn't maim or kill anyone.
I reached down to pick up the small scruffy pile of clothes when I remembered the Akatsuki I had liberated before I changed. I whurled around to find the man's decapitated head, smirking at me with a raised eyebrow. I scowled and crossed my arms over my chest and snappishly asked "What are you looking at?" I wasn't in the mood after all those memories. He grinned like I had just told him he was a god and I slowly remembered why he was looking, and began to blush.
"What's the matter, Sweet cheeks? Not like I can do anything to you." He said. The last part was venomous. I uncrosed my arms and folded them to sit above my sex. I leant forward as a bow and appoligised for my cousin.
"I am so sorry for what my cousin did to you." I told him sincirely. He scowled and muttered something about he didn't believe me, while I quickly got dressed again, putting all of my gear as it should be. He raised an eyebrow but said nothing when he saw my scythe. I noticed and told him that I would be back to explain later. I looked down at the wolf still sleeping on the floor and lightly kicked her shoulder. "Kara. Get up. We need to go get him." I told the beast firmly. She was up and ready in two seconds flat. I blinked the told the Akatsuki that I would return and I would bring help. I left before he could reply, Kara hot on my heels.
We made it out of the district fairly quickly, taking only a brief detour to home so that I could change my undies. That very little time and so we were on our way yet again. I was on the way to the hospital and I had to find a specific someone. I quickly got there and asked the receptionist where the dead Akatsuki, Kakuzu, was being examined by orders of the hokage. She quickly told me an I was off, flying down the corridors untill I got to the right floor. Only then did I stop. I slunk my way into the shadows, Kara with me, and we moved to the door, emerging on the other side in the otherwise empty room.
I look at the man on the table in morbid fasination. I quickly unrapped a scroll, sealed the dead man within it, and exited the way I came, telling the receptionist on the way out that under no orders was she to tell anyone. Also from the hokage. I had to hurry, I had just broken quite a few laws by doing that, but I didn't iintend on stopping anytime soon. I ran all the way back to the Uchiha district, all the way to Hikari's house, up to my room and unloaded the scroll on the floor.
Unfortunately for me, the dead Kakuzu was in his birthday suit. I quickly threw a blanket over his manly pride and set to work. The one in pieces was curently very quiet, watching in eager fasination as to what I was doing with his dead partner. I quickly activated my dōjustsu and set to work. Uttering not a single word, I worked the man back from death, healing his body as I went. When I felt the pull of death draging him back down, I looked up in Kara's direction and a shround of black chakra erupted from my back, I cried out then it slowly began to subside. Kara got up and looked at my back (my battle kimono had been shrugged down my body to lie around my waist), only to find a pulsating tribal wing design practically sewing itself to my being across my shoulder blades.. This chakra wasn't mine, or Kara's or anyone's in this room. Of that I was sure. I was scared and my eyes were begining to bleed again. Just as I was about to give in, the once lifeless body of Kakuzu gasped to life, coughing and grasing at his throat.
The decapitated jashinist was in awe. I could practically hear him thinking 'Holy Shit! She brought him back from the fuckin' dead!' I laughed despite myself before I hurried to the bathroom to throw up. All I was doing anyway was dry heaving, untill, at last, I vomited. I stood back up, flushed the toilet and looked in the mirror, only to see a blood streaked face. I scowled irritably and began to wash my face. I finished reasonably quickly and then put my outfit back together. My back stung, and Kara's mind was showing me what she saw. I'd had wings. Even as I thought it, there was a cackaling sound in my mind. I shuddered and ran back into the room to see Kakuzu only just starting to even out his breathing. He looked at me as I walked in with my normal sharingan on. He nodded to me in thanks before his threads grabbed all the pieces of Hidan and brought him to the stiched man.
I smirked in response and watched as Hidan was put back together, piece by piece. "Ow! Fuck, Kakuzu! Can't you be any gentler?" Whined the jashinist angrily.
"No. Now shut up. I'm sure the girl doesn't want to be in trouble just yet." He answered just as angrily. I smirked and left them to bicker while I looked for Hikari's dad's clothes. I found them and luckily found his ninja gear. He was about the same size as Kakuzu so I grabbed the necesery items and brought them back to the occupied room. Hidan was just having his head finished being put back on and was swearing up a storm. Poor Kara was on the floor with her paws over her ears. I winced slightly. As I cleared my voice and growled dangerously, the noise stopped.
Kakuzu nodded his thanks as I gave him the clothes and turned away, with Kara beside me, to give him some privacy. Hidan was moving around but Kakuzu growled at him to be careful or the stitches would break. I pondered on this for all of a minute then turned back to the now fully clothed Kakuzu and asked him to move so that Hidan could lay down. They both did as I asked and I walked over to Hidan an started healing him. Sakura was right to put me through medical ninjutsu traing. It was paying off. I cleaned, disinfected, and healed the wounds of the young man before me before slowly unstitching him and healing those incisions too. Before long there were no scars or stitches. I swayed a little as I realised that I'd used a lot of chakra before turning around and fixing the cable to Hidan's scythe. The last thing I remeber before falling into darkness was Hidan's smirk and a whispered 'thank you' from his lips, as threads wrapped around me to keep me from falling too hard.
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