Explosion of Power

The basement in which they were holding me wasn't the best place in the world, then again I doubt it was meant to be. Damn it all, why had I let my guard down? How the hell had anyone gotten into our house? Let alone them?! Mom had made it clear to the clan, to Lord Madara how it was my grandparents felt about me and yet they had managed to get past all the guards and drug me? I sighed then, Hei was away from he, they had bound him and even though I could feel him close by there was no way for me to will him to me. My power was low, I needed blood and so far my captives weren't feeding me. Who knew how long I was in that place.

'Hei?' I called out, voice worried and unsure. So far the only information I had managed to gather was that one I was being kept in the basement and two there was no way I was going to get out of these bindings.

'Hai my lady?'

'Any luck with reaching Sakuno?'

'No my lady, I'm completely bound.' he said, his voice just as said and annoyed as my own was.

'Damn them, they're family and yet they're going to just...just...'

'My lady, calm down. We must stay calm.' He instructed and I knew he was right, of course he was right but the anger in me was just too hard to control. Mom's parents had been the one's who had taken me, had drugged me and bound me in this awful place.

'Hai, I know. Listen I...' but before I could send him my thoughts, a plan, a small plan but a plan, my grandparents walked in. Grandmother had a lang staff in hand, apparently that was his specialty while grandfather was good with knives. Neither of them had developed power, had taped into healing. That was one thing I was truly thankful for. The power to heal can just as easily be used to destroy and the offensive techniques, abilities that sometimes went with moms bloodline were just that. Offensive. Both of them looked upset, angry at the fact that they had to come down and seem me. As if any one had made them.

"We're sorry we have to do this to you but it's for the best honey. Once we've bled you, gotten rid of that vampire blood you'll be like us, you'll truly be family." grandmother spoke, her voice sounding as if though she actually cared, as if she actually felt bad. Again I felt anger, who the hell in their right mind would do this to someone, to their own family?!

"Then untie and let me go, you don't have to do this. Please." I begged, that time acting, adding some emotion to my words. Normally I'd hold back, I'd avoid from passing as weak but at this point nothing would hurt.

"But we must, you see we have to clean you so that your mother will come back to us."

"I don't need cleaning, please. Just let me go." I said, allowing some tears to fall from my face.

"We're sorry." was all grandfather said before he injected me with some sort of numbing agent. Once they saw it set in, that it was taking effect both moved to slowly untie me. This couldn't be happening, this had to be some sort of nightmare. Hie, Hei was mine, he was a part of me and a gift from my blood, my heritage. Was it really that easy to take him away, was turning, being forced to turn mortal truly this easy? Tears started to fall from my face then, not form acting or anger though but from sadness, true sorrow. I like who I was, what I was and having both bloods in me. Mom's was strong, it was what helped me stay kind and dads was just as powerful, just as helpful. Hell dad's blood was the only thing in me that I had to have some sort of connection to him for fifteen years.

'My lady....what's wrong?' Hei called out, his voice faint, worried. The sound of his voice was what made me look down, what compelled me to pay attention to my surroundings. When I looked down I found my self tied to a cross, being suspeneded above some sort of tube and Orochimaru standing beside my grandparents with a grin on his face.

"No...stop..." I spoke, I tried to scram but there was no energy in me left. I felt as if I should sleep, sleep and never wake up.

'My lady!' Hei roared in my mind, his worried and fear evident in his words. I was positive that if I turned to look at him I'd find my Hei, my fearless, strong, fierce Hei in tears.

'Hei...I'm...sorry...' I said before calling back the power I alway used to call him back. He wasn't in the physical world anymore, he would be in my mind, with me until the end arrived for both of us.

"Good job, you've done as you said you would do." I could hear Orochimaru praise my grandparents, his sinister grin making me feel worse than what I already felt like.

"Hai we have Lord Orichimaru, now will you do what you promised. Will you turn her mortal?" they asked, all the while my grandfather hold on to grandmothers hand. They were worried, truly worried, too bad they had a bad way of expressing it.

"Of course, Kabuto?" he called out and in a flash both my grandparents were bound and sited.

"What's the meaning of this?" grandfather demanded, anger evident in his voice.

"Well you see after we've drained her we'll be needing some blood to revive her, and the best blood to use is that of a family members." he said, voice taunting and malice. That bastard! He had planned this all along.

'Hei,...forgive me...'

'No need my lady..'

'I couldn't....I couldn't protect you...'

'It's I who have failed my lady....' Hei said, all the while mentally wrapping himself around me, comforting me as much as he could.

"Well then, seems it's time little half breed, too bad your mothers going to be dead by the time you become mortal." he taunted, all the while causing Kabuto to walk forward and ready a scalp.

"Bas...tard..." was my last word before I started to feel weaker and weaker. Kabuto had slit both of my wrist, angling my arms just right so that all my blood, every drop would fall into the tub they had set up. Once done fixing me into position the two left, leaving my grandparents to watch as I bled to death for them. Tears streamed down both of their faces, showing, proving that on some level they had truly cared for me. Soon it was hard to keep my eyes open and watch, all I could feel was the burning thirst at the back of my throat and the weakening in my mind. Tears were falling from my face as well, though I couldn't feel.

'Oh Hei....'

'My...lady......'

'Please...don't go! Don't leave me alone.' I cried in my mind, able to finally scream some how, some way.

'Never my lady, I will always be by your side.' Hei promised, causing my tears to take on a new speed, to flow even more. Why? Why had this happened? Why had the world finally blessed me with some sort of family, a loving family and then took it away. Why had I been shown a glimpse of happiness when in the end it was only going to be taken away?

"We're sorry Izakura, we never meant for any of this..." cried grandmother, her tears seemingly real.

"We simply wanted you to be normal...happy." grandfather added, he too was cried and yet he, unlike grandmother, had his voice under control. I tried shaking my head, telling them that it was alright, that I had always been happy with being who and what I was.

'My lady...' Hei called out again, this time his voice unusually soft, softer than I had ever heard.

'No...no oh god no. Hei!' I cried. He was fading, disappearing from my very hands, my mind and my blood. I didn't have to look to know that my body, my skin was a lot paler than what I normally would be. This wasn't fair, life wasn't fair! Anger surged through me then and yet no matter how much I wished, will or tried my body just would moved, I couldn't come up with power. Everything was getting colder and I could see a sort of light. I was about to walk toward it, to follow Hei when all of a sudden he and I both scram out in pain. It had happened so suddenly, so fiercely that neither of us had had time to think, as ask one another what had just happened. Instead we were just overcome with pain, it was like some sort of fire taking both of us order. Some distant part of me was happy, happy that Hei hadn't left me, that he was still by my side. However the part of me that was feeling the pain, that was aware of how much it all not only burned but hurt was less concerned with that at the moment. My eyes shot open as another ear piercing scream left my lefts and I found that both my grandparents were looking at me with fear.

"Izakura?! What's wrong?!" scream grandmother out while grandfather tried desperately to break out of his binds, to escape if only to help me.

"It...it hurts!!!!!" I scram out only to listen as Hei's roar not only took over my mind but the basement. Slowly, slowly he was starting to return to the physical world, to compose himself on his own.

"Izakura...oh god....." grandmother continued to cry out while grandfather continued to struggle to get him self free. Soon I lost track of time, of the amount of times I scram out in pain. Orochimaru and his minion hadn't made an appearance, I guess they just figured that death was painful. After god only knows how long Hei was finally in the physical world, he was on the floor, curled up as if though he would fall apart if he even tried to extend himself. As soon as I saw him I called out to him before instant screaming. It hurt to talk, to move, to do anything and what was worse was that it not only hurt but it had also woken a thirst so strong, so deep that it was worse than the pain that surged through my body.

"He's...he's back?" grandmother said, uncertain as to how I was willing him, summoning him without any power and so much blood loss. Soon after that everything went numb, nothing felt real, solid. It was as if I had lost my body and when that had happened I couldn't help but think I had died. Tears started to fall again but I couldn't feel them, I only knew because I saw them stain the floor.

'Hei I'm sorry, I left you...'

'My lady you haven't.' Hei called out, his voice stronger, gentler, and most of all closer.

'Hei?' I called out, unsure only to suddenly feel stronger my self.

"Izakura!" exclaimed grandmother suddenly causing me to snap my eyes open and look down. The wounds on my wrist were calling my blood back to me, healing and most of all giving my strength back to me. The fire that had taken me over, caused so much pain earlier surfaced though it more tolerable. Then, just as I was about to feel Hei some power my power exploded. The bindings that had been used to hold be easily broke, as did my grandparents, Hei stood tall beside me, ready to fight and his power increasing itself and my own. It was so amazing so intoxicating and most of all so over whelming.

"Grandmother, stay still." I said while walking and petting Hei at the same time. The more I pet him, the more my hand made contact with his fur the more power we each gained. A part of me was curious as to where all of this power suddenly came from, I knew I should be working on control and limits but the more I received the more I wanted to use.

"Izakura, what are you?..." but before she could finish her question I had my katana in hand and cut off their bindings. Grandfather and grandmother looked surprised and were frozen in place for the slightest of moments before each ran over to their weapons and ready to fight.

"Mom and dad should be looking for me right about now." I said, staying by Hei and sensing for any threat that might be close by. I was about to create a whole in the wall, to leave and go straight to where I knew mom and dad would be when all of a sudden I felt Lady Tsunade's presence close by. In a blink of an eye I was turned around and facing my grandparents.

"What have you done?! The lady is here? And hurt?!" I exclaimed, forgetting about the small fact that Orochimaru had no idea that I was alright or not.

"It was part of the deal...he needed her too." grandmother answered, her tone of voice soft and low, almost embarrassed. A sigh escaped my lips then before I turned to Hei. "Should we have them here or send them off?" I asked him.

"The less we are the easier it will be my lady." he answered causing me to nod before turning back to face them. They were family, they were my mothers parents and even though they had really messed up, they had betrayed my mom's trust I still needed, felt as if though I should protect them.

"Izakura, we're not going to..."

"Wrong, you're going to do exactly as I say. Orochimaru is strong, stronger than the both of you combined. Get out of here, I'll get you out but after that your on your own. Let mom and dad know what's going on and where I am."

"Izakura, we're not going to leave you." grandfather said, his tone of voice strong, trying to leave no room for arguing. Too bad for him that I wasn't about to listen to anyone other than my mother, my father or Hei.

"I'm sorry Mr. Haruno but I call the rules, I am the one with the higher title here."

"Izakura don't you..." but before grandmother or grandfather could try anything to stop me I send them away. Willing them, transporting them hadn't been all that hard. Huh and they had made it sound as if it were nearly impossible.

"My lady, shall we proceed?" Hei called out to me, snapping me out of my thoughts.

"Hai." and with that we took off, we went to where we knew Lady Tsunade would be.