Raven's Dusk Chapter 6: I wish I had an Angel, a naruto fanfic

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Chapter Five

I wish I had an Angel

Deep into a dying day
I took a step outside an innocent heart
Prepare to hate me fall when I may
This night will hurt you like never before

Old loves they die hard
Old lies they die harder
I wish I had an angel
For one moment of love
I wish I had your angel
Your Virgin Mary undone
Im in love with my lust
Burning angel wings to dust
I wish I had your angel tonight

I'm going down so frail n cruel
Drunken disguise changes all the rules

Old loves they die hard
Old lies they die harder

I wish I had an angel
For one moment of love
I wish I had your angel
Your Virgin Mary undone
Im in love with my lust
Burning angel wings to dust
I wish I had your angel tonight

"Sharingan," Sakura gasped right before the comas began to spin.

"Who are you and what are you doing here?" he hissed. Oh his voice was so dark and so deadly. It was as if the night it's self had been harnessed into a verbal weapon aimed at her.

The shock overtook her, letting her eyes fade back to green, her nails shortening to their original length. The chakra bubbling inside her settled down and the raven's power all but faded away. She would always be able to feel it in the back of her mind, like a nagging though that would never leave. However, she soon flared up with life as her feisty ways returned to her.

"Let go of me you sneaky thief. This is my home now, you are the one that should be answering that question!" she hissed, struggling against his hold, making little progress. He was really strong.

"This place is a hell on earth. I have no qualms about killing anyone who dares to associate themselves with this God forsaken pit," he hissed with much anger in his voice, squeezing her wrists tighter. She would have sworn they were about to fall off in a few more moments of such a grip.

"I'm not too fond of the place either, but it's all we have right now," Sakura hissed surging chakra though her body, giving her the strength she needed to push this man off her.

He quickly retaliated with a swift kick to her abdomen that missed, his swipe at her throat with his kuni, however, landed a few inches below the collarbone, pricking her lightly. Regardless how small the wound was, the blade stung against her skin, causing her to screech out in pain. It was a wild banshee scream that pierced the night and all it's inhabitants, including the man attacking her.

"Damn you..." she hissed, covering her small wounds that hardly bled, her eyes now a golden color.

"I was just about to say the same thing about you."

Before Sakura had a chance to say anything back, the hurried footsteps from inside her room greeted her ears. Her scream must have attracted more attention then she thought. This was bad. She didn't know if her opponent had any qualms about killing children, but she wasn't about to risk finding out.

Flipping through a few hand seals, Sakura summoned a poisons smoke cloud around her, cutting off his access to her or the window. It would dissipate not long after summoned, but it gave Sakura enough time to scurry over to the window and jump through it. Tumbling awkwardly onto the floor, she almost knocked over one of the little ones, standing in her bedroom.

"Sakura nee chan! Was that you who screamed?" Hitome asked, with fear in her quivering voice, as she looked up at Sakura with her wide red eyes dotted with black. Her twin brother Yani stood beside her with a fear in his coal black eyes.

"I'm fine, but you all need to get out of here, quickly before-" A smoke bomb landing in the room exploding into a cloud of lifeless gray that choked out all sight.

"Sakura nee chan!" one of the small children cried in fright.

"Ryuu, get the kids out of here!" Sakura screamed, trusting the oldest boy to herd the rest of the kids out of her bedroom than had converted into a small war zone in a matter of minuets. Hopefully, he would be able to do that.

Sakura readied her lips to form another set of commands but were silenced by the cold steel against her throat. He was standing before her with a hand behind her head and a blade ready to kill. She only hoped he wouldn't kill the children if she did indeed fall, thinking nothing of herself until the very end.

"Why don't you kill me now?" she asked with contempt in her voice.

"I want to see the face of my opponent before I dismember it from the rest of the body," he hissed back.

Sakura snarled darkly, realizing she didn't have a chance from the beginning. She was too emotional and not really ready for a fight after coming out of operation so soon. She was just released five days ago, not even a full week from the bloodbath she brought to pass. That was a great deal vexing on her part and she was still recovering.

"Curses be upon your name then."

The smoke cleared and Sakura's eyes went wide at the sight before her.

"Sakura?"

"Kakashi?" she breathed in hushed amazement.

"Sakura, what are you doing here? I almost killed you-wait. You're suppose to be dead. You were dead! I went to you funeral. I saw them sprinkle your ashes into the wind!" Kakashi exclaimed with surprise in his voice, as he stumbled backwards in surprise.

"What? My Funeral? I was at yours! What are you talking about, and why are you even out here? Do you even know how far from Leaf this place is?" Sakura quickly replied with rabid breaths, climbing to her feet.

"Yes, I do happen to know how far from Leaf I am and I really don't give a damn what the distance is, I'm never going back there again," Kakashi answered, pointing to his scarred headband.

"Y-you betrayed Leaf?"

"They betrayed me. I found out about some things I should not have and was excommunicated from the ranks of ninja. I guess what they say is true, there are some secrets better left undiscovered."

"I don't like the sound of that," Sakura replied.

Kakashi grinned from behind his mask and waved his hand shortly in the air. "Don't worry yourself with stuff like that now. I'm just really glad I didn't kill you. You can't believe how happy I am to see you."

"And I you. But tell me, how do you know about this place? When you were trying to kill me earlier you said, "This place is a hell on earth. I have no qualms about killing anyone who dares to associate themselves with this God forsaken pit," or something like that. Did you have any encounters with the people that used to work here?"

"Used to work here? You mean they're all gone. I have a hard time believing they would abandon so much valuable work."

Sakura laughed sheepishly, rubbing the back of her head. "Well I guess you could say that, but the truth is they're all dead now. That it it's self is a long story and I don't want to get into it right now. It's really late. But getting back to my question, did you know any of the people here?"

"Hai, Tsunade sent me on a mission here and turns out I was a test subject on a age reversing drug. It worked somewhat and I feel and look maybe ten whole years younger that I once was."

Sakura narrowed her eyes in observance and noticed that Kakashi did look younger, not that he looked old before, but now he looked a few years older than her. Maybe four or five. "I'm guessing that wasn't a very happy time in your life. They don't numb you for any drugs do they?"

"No they don't."

Sakura was about to say something else when a knocking on her door brought her back to the reality that surround her on all sides. She still had her kids to look after.

"Sakura nee chan," one of the younger girls called, peeping into the room.

"It's okay Aoi, everything is settled, this man is not our enemy," Sakura answered with a warm smile the put the young girl's fluttering heart back into a smooth steady beat.

Kakashi looked quizzically at the young girl as she slipped into the room, followed by a pair of dark haired twins and a taller silver haired boy with dark clouded eyes that stared back at him with hate and contempt. That young boy was the first to speak to him.

"Why were you trying to hurt Sakura nee chan?"

"Pardon?"

Thankfully, Sakura stepped into explain. "Kakashi, these are some of the children that were liberated during the...um...incident. I am the oldest of them so they look up to me as a older sister, for you younger ones, as a mother. "

She then walked over to Ryuu and placed a hand on his shoulder since he only came up to her elbows when slouching.

"This is Ryuu, he is the oldest here and sort of the leader of all the kids next to me. Don't be mad at him for being overly protective. You can't blame him for that.

Ryuu glared at Kakshi all the same. "You still haven't answered my question. Why were you trying to hurt Sakura nee chan?"

"Ah, that's my bad. I didn't know it was her and mistook her for one of the workers here. I though this place was still crawling with those lab workers and scientists. My bad," Kakashi answered with a sheepish chuckle, rubbing the back of his head.

"Baka, how old are you? You're an adult, you shouldn't be making mistakes like that when you're such an old man."

Sakura snickered to herself behind her hand, trying not to let him know she was amused by the young boy's comment. "Sorry Kakashi."

"What? I don't like that old. If it's only the hair, it doesn't count. I've always had this kind of silver colored hair."

"Mine looks better," Ryuu commented brushing a stray moon light bang out of his eye. His hair was more of a white compared to that of Kakashi's.

"Well it's not my fault I mistook Sakura, it's been years since I last saw her and she looks so different with the..." Kakashi let his words trail off as he took a moment to actually look over Sakura for the first time. When they were fighting and talking, he never really noticed what she looked like in detail. All he saw was black and pink hair and a opponent before him.

Sakura noticed Kakshi starting at her and looked down at herself to see what was bothering him. She blushed a deep color of scarlet, seeing herself dressed in only a short ivory robe that had fallen apart a bit during the struggle, to expose a bit more flesh than she was used to. The fact that she was still wet made it even worse, since the robe was clinging to her body in such a way that would make any sane man loose his mind.

"Oh," she whispered in embarrassment.

Kakashi being the gentleman that he was, turned away and allowed Sakura to slip a larger, dark green rob around her body, covering herself in a more modest way. Oh he was going to need a cold shower soon.

"Sorry, Sakura chan."

"No, it wass my fault as well. I am Sorry you had to see that."

'I'm not'

"I'm okay. Just what are you doing here anyway? In this room, I mean."

"She was trying to get to sleep before you came along," Ryuu interrupted taking a steep to stand between the two old friends. "And how do you know Sakura anyway? You said it's been years."

"It has been, I was Sakura's old teacher when she was a ninja back in the hidden leaf village."

"Then you're an old man."

Sakura grinned at the stressed look on her former teacher's face. It was priceless. If Sakura didn't know any better, she would have guessed that someone took away his treasured books and burned them in front of his face. "Dragon kun, that's not something you say so bluntly. It's rude."

The young boy didn't look sorry as he looked over at Kakashi, but when he turned towards Sakura, he became a beaten puppy with looks that would put Bambi out of business. "I'm sorry Sakura nee chan. I didn't mean to be rude in front of you. Please forgive me."

"Aww, that's okay, just be more kind with your words next time."

"Anything for you, Sakura nee chan!" he chirped in a bubbly voice.

'That little punk has it coming.'

"I'm sorry if it's not in your time frame, Kakashi, but the kids are tired and I must confess, I fell wearisome myself. I should be in bed by now. Do you mind if I find you a room and continue this talk in the morning?"

"What's wrong with this room?"

Sakura's eyes narrowed and her kind smile dropped. "It's mine."

"So."

Insert evil death glare.

"Ryuu, would you mind finding Kakashi a room for himself to stay in while he is here?"

Ryuu smirked and Kakshi made a face that resembled a pouting child. "No problem, Sakura chan. I think we have one empty room down a few dozen hall ways."

"D-dozen? Sakura, I know they're rooms closer."

"Do you? Maybe I have plans for those rooms. Now be a good boy and follow Ryuu," Sakura chuckled with a sly smile. Kakashi knew this was payback for his comment earlier.

"Come on, old man."

"But Sakura!"

"Goodnight, Kakashi."

Sakura dragged the bamboo comb through her long hair once more, repeating the process for what felt like the thousandth time within the past twenty minuets. Sure she told Kakashi that she needed to get to bed, but that was only a partial lie.

"Hai, Tsunade sent me on a mission here and turns out I was a test subject on a age reversing drug. It worked somewhat and I feel and look maybe ten whole years younger that I once was."

"No they don't."

"So, they really were cruel monsters to all, not just myself. Why am I not surprised?"

Sighing lightly, she placed the comb down on the beauty stand she was sitting at. A pair of half lidded green eyes staring back at her with thoughts clouding over the color into one a shade or two darker than the original. And true to her visual aspect, there were a great many thoughts clouding her through and taking up room in her over worked mind.

Looking behind her she watched the great black libs attached to her back unfold and stretch out behind her, scattering a few loose feathers on the floor beneath her. She moved the bones attached to her back and watched her wings rise and fall, flap and fold. The looked so easy to move, and they were easy to move, but they were just like an extra limb. It wasn't effortless to move them around or ride the wind upon them. What would Kakashi think if he saw her now?

Flapping them once more, she folded them back up and shoved such thoughts out of her mind. She didn't care what anyone thought of her anymore. Only the children mattered to her.

Pulling her hair over one shoulder, she began to rapidly braid away, preparing for bed.

This time she would be true with her words and actually go to bed. Little lies like the ones she told Kakashi a few minuets ago always seemed to bother her inside. That was a fault that made her a terrible ninja worth of giving up on. Though, Kakashi said they gave her a funeral... Did they look for her at all, she wondered.

She remembered the village doing little to look for the old man that was beyond his prime and less than useful. Was that all she was, a piece on the chess board in this game of life? A pawn to be sacrificed?

A knock on the door startled her from her thoughts. "Who is it?"

"Sakura nee chan it's me, please let me in."

'Hitome'

"Come in, dear."

A tiny girl with ruffled black hair and red eyes stumbled into Sakura's room, hugging a pink teddy bear tightly to her chest. Sakura was a bit confused. She normally would sleep with her twin brother, it was rare to ever see them apart. Sakure didn't know what could be bothering the young girl so much that she wanted to leave her brother's side.

"What's wrong, hun?"

"My eyes hurt, but I don't want to tell big brother."

"Why don't you want to tell him?"

"Because then he gets sad cuz he can't protect me."

Sakura smiled softly and held out her arms to the small girl. "Do you want to sleep with me while I look after your eyes?"

"Muhuh," She mumbled into the fabric of her teddy bear."

Sakura picked up the small girl and carried her over to her queen sized bed, pulling back to covers. Sitting the young one down on her lap, Sakura placed her hands over the red colored eyes of the young girl. She frowned as the chakra that glowed green from her hands found something she didn't like.

Her eyes were decaying...crumbling away.

'This much be because of the forced activation she was put through. I never though I would see another one with eyes like these, but I guess it's true. The Mangekyo Sharingan will eat away at your sight if used too much."

Greatest thrill
Not to kill
But to have the prize of the night
Hypocrite
Wannabe friend
13th disciple who betrayed me for nothing!

Last dance, first kiss
Your touch my bliss
Beauty always comes with dark thoughts

I wish I had an angel
For one moment of love
I wish I had your angel
Your Virgin Mary undone
Im in love with my lust
Burning angel wings to dust
I wish I had your angel tonight

I wish I had an angel

I wish I had an angel...

Author's Note: 13th hour, thank you for your reviews and your PMs asking me to update this so much. You really motivated me to come back to this story and start writing all over again, even after my original chapters were lost. I meant to dedicate the last chapter to you, but I like this one better, so this goes out to you, cause if it wasn't for all your comments one a desired update, I don't think I would have found the drive to sit down and type it all out. Thank you, 13th hour!

I think this update took last time than the last one. Kudos to me on that. I'm going to be going away on a mini vacation in...two weeks I think. It all depends on when this comes out. So, there will be a rather large gap of updates during that time. Before that, I hope to drop a bombshell of updates on you guys. So, yeah, good news and bad news here.

Ja ne

-Vesper chan