Yo, everyone! Hope you all enjoyed the holidays. As an extra gift then before, I'm throwing out another chapter!
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Amaya: Can we hurry it up please? I want to see what happens next!
Kara: As do I, Amaya-sama. What do you have to say BlackCat-chan?
BlackCat: Well I feel very happy that people are enjoy-
Amaya: Yeah yeah, HURRY UP ALL READY!
BlackCat: -humphs- Fine.
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My head was hurting like a bitch in heat and from what I could guess (which wasn't a lot at the moment), Someone was trying to shake me awake. As my bleary eyes opened, I was greeted by a gorgeous magenta pair of eyes that I didn't recognise. I jumped awake and would have screamed, had it not been for the hand over my mouth. The man who I now recognised as Hidan glared at me a little with a sneer marring his face. Thank Kami-sama he'd stopped me from screaming. As the thought crossed my mind, he leant forward so his mouth was by my ear and whispered huskily "It's 'Jashin-sama'. Not 'Kami-sama'." I could feel my face beginning to heat up slightly as a light blush started burning in my cheeks, though apparently I wasn't the only person who could feel it, as Hidan was smirking viciously.
I sighed dispite myself and looked away, trying to figure out where we were. It was dark. And annoying. And I was still laying down, with Hidan crouched above me. My eye gave an involentary twitch as a growl started to form in my throat.
He blinked as the growl started to form louder and got off of me, effectivly ceasing the oncoming animalistic sound. Something sounded in my mind that made me stop moving all together, barely even letting me breathe. As I was pulled into my subconsious, my sharingan flared, bleeding red through the near black of my eye.
I looked around the scape of my mind and gasped. It looked like a graveyard, with red skies and purple clouds. What caught my attention about the place, however, was the black grass flecked with red. I looked like a battle had comenced here.
A laugh whispered through the non-existant wind, slowly coming to a thundering sound that made my ears ring. I jumped around, looking for where the voice was coming from until I looked over towards a dead tree shadowing over a grave. I uncertainly walked towards the shadowey grave to read whose it was for some reason.
As I reached the headstone, my brows were drawn together to show my confusion. 'Karasu Kurō? I don't know anybody called Karasu.' I thought confusedly at first then turning bland. My mind went blank as I translated the words in my mind while the whispery laugh echoed again. 'Karasu is Raven and Kurō is Crow. Someone's name is "Raven Crow". How strange.' I shuddered as something was drawn down my back, or that's what it felt like, and turned slightly to the right to look right at the tree. I stumbled backwards and feel as I was greeted by a pair of truely glowing blood, red eyes. There was a low, evil, calculating laugh that flowed throught the air at that point.
"I see you finally found me then, Young Shadōurufu(1)." It said in a voice with such presence I felt smothered. I held a hand up to my throat as if that would help me gain the ability to breathe again. Though I felt as if I should move my eyes elsewhere, I couldn't tear my vision from the tree before me. I blinked then swallowed slightly.
"You're a tree?" I tried to keep my voice steady as I asked the question but my composure was shattered as it let out a howling laugh that made the thing open it's mouth. In the light of the bloody sky, I saw glistening teeth shaper then any canines, and was reminded of the Kyuubi's teeth. They looked so much alike, it was impossible. I blinked and scooched back a little more when the shadow before the tree writhed around gently.
As the shadow slowly raised upwards and writhed more, I rolled over and crawled away in fear, hopeing that this demon couldn't see my horror.
When I felt something kick me in the side to roll me back onto my back, I kept moving away, until my back hit a crypt wall. I looked up behind me as I was beginning to feel trapped and frantic. I turned my eyes back to the creature in time to see the shroud of shadows break away to reveal a pair of jet black, feathered wings with a span of about fifteen foot. My eyes widened in horror as the chakra suddenly enveloping me become sickeningly dark, and the wings folded in slightly, drawing my attention to what they were attached too. It was a man. His hair looked like Gaara's but it was black and longer. His eyes, so much like mine, a deep crimson red, until a blue swirl worped through them turning his eyes a very unique purple. They were almost alive on their own. His body structure was a mix between Hidan and Gaara, yet what caught my attention there was that he was topless and had some tribal wolves tattooed on his abdomin, like they were dancing. The more I concentrated on them, the more they seemed to dance and move. I was enthralled by this marking, yet so scared of it's owner.
I slowly shifted onto my hands and knees and started to crawl to him. He looked highly amused and began to realise why I'd freaked. That shadow work was like none I had seen before, and I'd seen quite a lot. Slowly, his enchantingly horrorfying wings began to retract back into his back. As the wings did this, a look of sheer agony crossed his face and yet he didn't even flinch. When the wings had completely gone, he walked forwards a few paces before going to Karasu's grave. He lifted a hand and lightly feathered it across the top of the headstone.
I cocked my head to one side and blinked twice before I slowly, carefully stood and walked over. He stood with his back to me and as I got closer, I slowly got freaked a little bit more. Across his shoulders, in the same place as mine, there were tribal wings, in the same design (give or take a little bit mor of intracacey), and they were bleeding. That was where he had his wings! I gasped lightly and blinked as I gentley feathered my fingers overs the bleeding design. I didn't want to hurt him and I felt a connection when I'd touched him.
He looked over his shoulder to see me and I suddenly felt guilty for this and the need to cry. He looked back before him and sighed. "Shadōurufu, You needn't feel guilty. This isn't your fault at all. I've been dorment for years within the Uchiha and Nara clans. Only when one born of both came would I be released at the right time. Obviously the time came when you were healing that Akatsuki member." I looked away from him and let my guilt cross through me with a sigh. " Yeah, your father was supposed to be the one to receive me, but he never needed me, and so I was passed on to the next generation." I looked back up and he caught the guilty look in my eye.
"Is that your grave?" I asked quietly. He nooded lightly and turned to face me. "How can you tell me not to feel quilty? It's almost like I gave you those cuts myself." I whispered as a single bloody tear leaked from my left eye. He sighed and shook his head, looking off to the east (as I guessed) towards the slowly blueing sky.
"I'm not dead, that's just my seal." He explained as he took my hands in one of his and wiped my tear away. "And you're not to feel guilty because this is how I've always been. I come but only leave in death, though sometimes not even then, and I will always be," he paused as he gestured to himself with his free hand "This." He finished quietly, almost loathingly.
My jaw trembled slightly before I smiled gentley and nodded. "I'm here to help you." he said putting emphasis on the last word.
"Why do you keep calling me 'Shadōurufu'?" I asked genuinly curious. He sighed as if I was stupid, and in this case I think it was fine to do so. He shook his head with a light roll of his eyes as if to say "figure it out yourself". I laughed lightly as I translated it and blushed in embaressment. He thundered a laugh and ruffled my hair lightly. I huffed lightly and turned away from him slightly with crossed arms. "Be thankful you don't have family to get in you way." I said bitterly and from seemingly nowhere. He sobered immediately and the skies returned to how they had been as his eyes also changed to a disturbing red and his grip around my hands shifted to my wrists with painful pressure. I thrashed lightly as that omnious chakra returned to strangle me.
I shook from fear and started thrashing wildley when all of a sudden, the young man before me disappeared and in his place was a giant form of what looked like chakra in the shape of a raven. What made it worse was the blood curdeling eyes and caw. I released it's sound of death and I screamed and fell to my knees with my hands still being held. I closed my eyes and started crying.
I was thrashing around wildly while Hidan tried to pin me, I was sweating and crying though so his grip was horrible. Suddenly I screamed and sat bolt upright, shaking in fear, and almost knocking him out as I shot up.I pushed myself up and back so I had my back to the wall with my knees bent up in front, wrapped up by my arms. I shook a little more before I bent my head to my knees and just sobbed heartily. I felt like I couldn't stop crying once I started though and so I kept thinking back to being with all my friends from the Uchiha clan before the massacre and how horrid they'd looked after they were murdered. One scene was played out before my eyes so many times it hurt, however. Hikari's death. Her blood on my hands. My eyes shot open again, still leaking the tears and I suddenly grabbed the side of my head as if to stop the memories from playing out and locked handfuls of my hair between my now cold fingers.
Hidan looked on at me in pity and Kara whined beside me. Kakuzu was nowhere to be found. I was trying to even my breathing when I heard whispering on the lower floor of the house. I froze. My breathing was suddenly so even and quiet that I could have thought that I myself had died. My dōjustu was active again in seconds and I sunk into the shadows, bringing Hidan and Kara with me.
We moved as silent as the grave through the house untill we got to the bottem floor, where the intruders were. I looked carefully. For ANBU, they weren't very well hidden at all. I unsheathed my sword silently and let some of my more animalistic qualities take control. I slowly inched myself further into the room, telling the other two to stay put under the jutsu of shadows and slowly slid out of my own shadow hiding place behind them all. I stood tall, any evidence that I had been crying and such gone, with my sword being used as a leaning post at the minute.
What gave my presence away was me stabbing my sword through the floor.
They all jumped around to face me and one slowly stepped forward, taking in my exposed weapon. I could hear the snarl and feel his glare as he spoke. "Nara-Inuzuka, Amaya." I nooded "You are to come with us for punishment for breaking the law at least three times in one night. Hokage-sama has ordered that you be apprehended at all costs." He finished. I nodded and looked around at the four of them.
"I understand," I spoke evenly, measuring myself "But there's a problem there, 'cause I'm not going anywhere with you assholes." I snarled viciously, ginning ferally at them. They moved into position to attack but I was quicker. As they moved, I sped over to them and spun out with my sword, slicing them all through the gut, letting large amounts of blood pour from them. I looked over the deep cuts momentarly and noted happily that they were clean but angry looking. That meant my poison was working. I backflipped back to Hidan and Kara, sheathing my sword while I was in the air. While I was in ANBU, I'd never had a codename. But now I did. I was Shadōurufu to all of Konoha. The thought of that made me quiver from excitment.
The shadow jutsu over the other two broke from my shattered concentration and Kara shook her head and sighed lightly. "Come on." I ordered them lightly. Kara came without question but as Hidan opened his mouth to protest, I silenced him with glare. "Hidan, if we don't move now, then they're really going to hunt us. Besides, you backchat me and I'll rip your entrials out, feed them to you, decapitate you and them get Itachi-ani to Tsukyōmi your ass." I growled out. He closed his mouth and nodded with wide eyes. Kara snickered, knowing that I'd probably make good on that promise.
I sighed and shook my head, leading us all out off the old house and walking straight into an amuzed looking Kakuzu. "Where are we headed?" He asked. I shrugged and put a finger to my chin before jumping to the right to look at both the Akatsukis.
"Hey, wasn't Akasuna no Sasori in Akatsuki?" I asked. They nodded. "And didn't he die in Suna?" I asked again. They nodded again. I nodded in return. "Okay, we'll go to Suna and bring Sasori back before we go to..." I trailed off. They blinked numbly and I sighed. "Oh Ka-" Hidan looked at me oddly and I changed my words "Umm...Jashin-sama," He smirked in triumph "Where is the Akatsuki base?" I finally finished.
Hidan and Kakuzu looked at each other, before both speaking at the same time "Amegakure." I nodded and we were off to Suna, leaving the village quietly and through a secret way through the Uchiha district. We snuck through the shadows the whole way out of Konoha, though, for fear of getting caught.
At some point some time after we'd got out of Konoha, Kara looked up at me and our eyes met. She sighed lightly, "Amaya-sama, When are you going to turn your sharingan off?" she asked slightly worridly. I sighed and shock my head.
"As soon as we're out of immeadiate danger, I guess." I answered her honestly. Hidan was being all jittery so I turned to ask him what was up with him but before I could even get the words out, he beat me to the point.
"HOLY SHIT!" He shouted while Kara and I winced at his volume, "That fucking dog talked!" I sighed and rolled my eyes, while Kakuzu slapped him upside the back of the head and Kara growled at him.
"Yes, she did, Hidan. But did you have to shout that to high heavens?" I asked in a low growl with closed eyes. We were currently taking a small break, but due to Hidan's volume, we all hopped back up into the trees and started tree hopping again, with me on Kara's back.
After two days of non-stop running, we finally reached the destroyed base that had become Sasori's grave. We could all see Sasori in the mid-mornig sun and we walked slowly over to where he was laying in the arms of two puppets. I cared not for those ones but for the red-head between them. After I had disentangled him, I rolled him over onto his back and did to him what I did to Kakuzu.
All the while I was working the jutsu I could hear Karasu whispering to me, guiding me. There was a difference this time however, unlike before with just a small shroud behind me, there was now a dome, encasing us all. Hidan, Kakuzu and Kara were kneeled across from me on Sasori's other side as if they were trying to figure out how the jutsu worked. My mangekyō was activated and, like before, my eyes were bleeding.
After a few minutes like this, and just as I was bringing my hands away, Sasori gasped to life before me. His body morphed into his previous puppet one with the coil. And we were shocked. As Kara informed him about everything that had happened to him and the spy he had for Orochimaru-teme, I wondered off a little ways with Hidan by my side.
"Hey, you never gave me your name. And are you alright?" He asked me. I wasn't feeling good, and it showed apparently. Karasu laughed and nodded. I sighed a little and looked at Hidan. He really was very handsome. Dispite what Shika had said, he seemed very nice. Caring. But that could only be because I was the one to save him. As I stood there looking, I started to sway a little and my eyes grew a pained look.
"Sorry." I appoligised. "May name is Amaya. I'm of the Uchiha, Nara and Inuzuka clans, so my surname is some combination of those. It used to be Uchiha Amaya, but people in the village don't really know about the Uchiha blood so I'm a 'Nara-Inuzuka'. And Since you asked, I'm feeling really. Really. Shit." I told him informativley before promtly turning around and coughing up blood.
My eyes closed in pain and before I knew it, I was unconcious again. But I know that we were now on our way to Amegakure.
(1) Shadōurufu - Shadow Wolf.
Hello everyone! And thank you for reading this far and staying with me!
My brain is slightly boggled at the minute so... Anyway... YAY! Dead Akatsuki's are being brought back! YAY!
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