'Lies of the Beautiful People' by Sixx. A.M.
Last time on Lost Kit:
"Oh, but kitling. You already know who I am. You have known me your entire life."
I feel the fear and dread finally settle in my stomach, replacing the curiosity and wonder at my little 'discovery'. Splashing in the somehow waist-deep water, I back up, gazing widely up at the crimson-eyed thing.
"Kyuubi."
As I listen to the fear coursing through me, I watch the enormous demon fox stand and come closer to the cage doors, his deep fire-orange fur rippling with no wind, it's gleaming surface shuddering beautifully. He growls slightly, but there is no menace in it.
Swallowing, I decide to ask.
"Why...have you come back?"
"Back?" he smirks, two long canines coming out and poking his big, black, bottom lip, the top curling into a wild smile, "But I never left, brat."
Never left?
"But then why-"
He interrupts, and his eyes widen, pupils dilating to survey me, "I have been resting."
"Resting?"
He makes an affirmating noise, and sits back down, nose tip just barely protruding from the bars of the cage. I draw a tiny bit forward, and notice that the water has lowered back to my ankles, swishing around my feet warmly. The edge of a brush of fur appears swiftly, and then disappears, from above his head, winding back into the shadows. A tail. One of his nine.
"Yes," and I draw my attention back to his eyes, feeling oddly at peace and distant, "Asleep. I was...sealed a long time ago." He refused to elaborate, and we stayed in silence, even though I had a million questions.
I finally settled for one.
"Why now, then?" He raised what I assumed to be his eyebrow, and cocked his gigantic skull, the fur on his huge ears quivering with the movement.
He growled, and closed his eyes, lips shutting tightly.
"Why have I only just now found out, Kyuubi?" I hightened my voice a little, and got closer.
He rose, and suddenly more tip and threads of fur began to dart around from inside the darkness behind the bars. A louder snarl ripped through the large, cavernous room, and his crimson eyes snapped open once more, "Careful how you address me, brat. I am no house pet or kitty cat with which you can take such a tone!" By the time he was done, he was panting and roaring, shaking the whole place with his quick rage.
I swallowed, but resolved myself.
"Then why? Answer me!" I backed up even as I said this, prepared or the worst.
But the monstrous fox just let his breath hiss out and muttered something about going soft in his old age.
"All the stress your body and mind have endured has worked to wake me." His voice was softer to the end, but soon he snapped at me through the bars once again, and snarled hugely, "Begone! Your mate awaits you!"
Suddenly I was falling, and then jolted awake, my eyelids fluttering open. But all I could see was black. Oh my god.
"I'm blind!" I screamed, and sat up, my forehead colliding painfully with something rock hard.
"Ahh! What the fucking hell?" A familiar voice shrieked and I landed on my back, blinked and crying out, my forehead aching in pain.
A tree's limbs sway overhead, and I blinked again, now rubbing that spot on my head, looking around without moving, because moving would mean my head just might fall off, due to me knocking it out of socket with whatever the fuck had smacked into me. Suddenly though, in went black again.
Well, onyx, to be precise. A dark shade of coal, with little flecks of crimson flitting about inside the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen in my life.
"Begone! Your mate awaits you!" Echoes back to me, and I blink just once more, before murmuring softly, eyes still connected, "Sasuke?"
He scowled, and I smirk. A red mark is practically glowing in the center of his forehead.
"Dobe."
Sasuke POV
He looked so peaceful. His lids had stilled again, and his pants had ceased, his breathing smoothening out until he looked like a beautiful, golden, dead boy, with patterns of sunshine flicking across his skin. As I stroked his cheek, I thought about my feelings, and gathered myself. I would do it. I knew I had to. For my sanity, and for his sake.
Also...I was getting worried about what Sakura and Kakashi could accomplish if they teamed up. On me.
Swallowing just thinking of the possibilities, I let my hand fall, and I bowed my head, eyes scanning his perfect face. I knew this was more important than me telling him I loved him. Just being with him. Just being able...to be like this. To have him near me and always make him smile.
Suddenly though, in the midst of me googly-eyeing him, his eyes flashed open and he blinked, crying out and sitting up right into me. Surprise! I cried out loudly, letting him go and clutching at my now searing forehead.
"I'm blind!"
"Ahh! What the fucking hell?"
I let him roll off me, and I ended up falling over onto my side and slipping down the small hill we were seated on. When I managed to get the pain under wraps and struggle back up the hill, I put one hand on the other side of him and leaned over, and upon seeing the now glazed look in his bright cerulean eyes I looked at him.
"Sasuke?"
Then, fighting my blush with all my might, I glowered down at him, frustrated. The little smirk that grew on his face made me want to stop being irritated and kiss him, but I forced the impulse down.
"Dobe," I muttered gently, reached over with my other hand, stroking his ckeek, getting him nice and stunned, before pinching it a little. He yelped and shoved me off, pouting.
"Meanie-teme!" I just laughed.
"Ah! Revenge is sweet!" (A/N: Ironic, ne?) I chuckled, sitting back and helping him to sit up. Seeing his matching forehead glow, I had to fight the bark of merriment down. He could be so careless.
Finally, after a little while, we decided to give up on Kakashi getting there, and stood, proceeding to go to fourth period, seeing as we'd missed third already. Or most of it. The bell rang loudly overhead just as we strolled into the hallway and we both started a little. Hundreds of teenager poured into the wide space like animals, racing to get somewhere or do something.
"Sasuke!" I turned in the huge bundle of people, to find Naruto being carried away by the tide. He was reaching out, and I tried to race after him, as fast as a person in molasses can do so, and failed miserably, calling out for him as he disappeared fro my view.
Shoved from one person to the next, Naruto was almost in tears, seperated from the raven. He panted and a hand reached out a snatched him into an empty classroom. Resting and smiling, relieved, he turned.
"Thank you so..much," his voice wavered and died, fear coming into his gut, as he saw Mizuki not two feet away, stepping closer yet to him. He swallowed dryly, throat suddenly parched, and backed up into the now closed door. He tried the handle. How convienient. Locked.
His eyes widened, showing more white than blue, and the hair on the back of his neck stood on tip.
"What is it, brat?"
Stiffening, he thought, Kyuubi? Is that you?
No. Slap some wings on and call me the tooth fairy. Dumbass. Course it's me.
Naruto huffed to the fox, There is a nice way to say things, you know. I could've finally snapped, for all I knew. You could've been the Tooth Fairy.
Naruto had been so absorbed in his Fairy Fox, that he'd presently forgotten about the matter at hand. It came back to him full force, and he began to hyperventilate, trying to crush his body into the wall. Mizuki was saying something, but he couldn't hear anything past the roar in his ears, blood pumping and seething a fear so fierce his vison was starting to go red.
And suddenly-he was nearly completely passed out on the floor of the classroom, the dirty silver passed out, a bruise on the pressure point on his neck. Small cuts were covering his arms, but he wasn't bleeding heavily.
"Ergh...what..?" he tried to get up, and noticed the strong hurt in his hands. Looking downs, he could faintly make out his nails, pointy and sharp, dull back down and return to normal. His teeth were poking his lips for a moment, before the stinging was relieved, and he could speak easily again.
What...happened?
Naruto POV
When the room stopped spining, I sat up woozily, and couldn't stop staring at my hands. More like my fingernails, really. And once or twice, I reached up to feel my scars and 'fangs'. What had happened back then? Why couldn't I remember anything? Had I just imagined my body...changing?
I thought of something.
Kyuubi?
Suddenly, I am back in the green light, looking up at the giant cage doors once again.
There is no movement, only the deep rumble of him sleeping. Maybe I was mistaken after all...
Blinking, I look around at the empty room, and stand, going over to the door, noticed a bloodsmeared key-shook my head to stop the spaz freak out- turned the icky key in the door's lock, sliding it open. Oh good. Whatever did happen-I'm not going to freak out about it right now-took up at least a good five to six minutes, and I have about two left to get to class. (A/N: They have seven minutes between classes)
So, I turned nonchalantly down the hall and proceeded to history with Ibiki. As I got closer, I spotted a mop of raven hair bobbing up and down right inside an open doorway.
Realiing something, I paused.
"Well. I seem to be taking this rather well, I must say. Oh well," I gave up, sighing, "Karma will kick my ass for it soon enough, I suppose," and I scooted to the open doorjam, peeking inside, to find Orochimaru looking back, glaring at my Sasuke.
Yep. That's karma just a callin' my name, alright. Good ol' pale skined, molester McCreeper Karma. I can honestly say...I wish I could be surprised by this little turn of events. That might've made up for the fear I suddenly felt in the pit of my stomach.
But they were speaking, and it is very rude to mind ramble when people are trying to speak.
"...but Orochimaru-"
"That is Mr. Sannin to you, Uchiha. Mr. Sannin. And i don't see what the big deal is. So what if the little beast got taken by an axe murderer?" his brows snapped together, and he spat out 'the beast'. I cringed and shut my eyes a little.
"Oro-Sannin,"Sasuke spit the word out aswell, and kept going, "I have to find him! Just let my teachers know I won't be there until later! P-p-p..." he mumbled something. The McCreeper put a hand to his ear and yawned, beckoning.
"Didn't quite get that, Sasuke dear, could you repeat?" Sasuke glared at him and muttered it louder.
Getting a glint of cruelty in his face, McCreeper stood and walked saucily over to the raven, reaching out and taking his chin his his long, skinny fingers. I held back a little vomit, biting down on the edge of my tongue to stop the gag. Eww!
He just touched Sasuke.
My Sasuke.
He. Touched. My...Sasuke.
I nearly stepped out right then, ready to snap his arm into forty three pieces and add salt for the geese, when Sasuke whipped out is hand, grabbing Orochimaru's wrist and twisting it. The McCreeper's eww eyes widened, and he got closer, a smirk on his face.
"Finally going to let me, Uchiha?"
Up until then, Sasuke's eyes had been shadowed, but now I could see them. They were so black they were the opposite of light. More like miniature black holes than his normal, gorgeous eyes. They swivled, and stared at the pale Creeper above him, tightening his hold until his knuckles were white. The man went on.
"If you find him, you could even ask the little monster to join us. He's so cute, even for a motherless bastard. I've been meaning to-"
And that was as far as he got. Suddenly, he was on the ground, Sasuke's face right next to his ear, whispering harshly.
"If you ever lay one finger on Naruto, I will not have mercy. I will give you pain so true you will wish you had never heard the name Sasuke Uchiha. I will break every bone in your body and break the fragments in four pieces each. I will pierce your fingers together. Then your arms. Your fingernails and toenails will be ripped off your fingersand toes, and your stomach will by pumped full of battery acid. Your legs will be bound together and sawed at, but never sawed off, and I will let flies lay their eggs in your wounds as they fester. You will have your teeth ripped out and screws driven into the soft flesh of your gums, and your tongue will be sewn to the top of your mouth. I will drives nails through your eyes, over and over again, and into the back of your skull, pinning you to the railroad tracks, and watch for days until I'm satisfied that you're sufficently ground up enough to be shark chum, then see ho many sharks die as I feed them your poisonous remains. You will not be forgiven for anything you do to my Naruto."
My breath almost stopped right then. Yes, I was choking on the horrific details but...his Naruto? It stopped me in my tracks. But I wanted to laugh too. Orochimaru didn't look like he knew which to do. Piss his pants or punch the pale teen over him. Sasuke rammed him down into the floor and said loudly, "Screw you. I don't care if I'm counted absent. I'll find him regardless. Remember what I said, Mr. Sannin."
I backed up and ran down the hall, going around the corner. When I heard the door shut, I stepped out, and pretended to only just now see him, and he called out, waving to me and running up, smiling at me as if what I'd just witnessed had never happened.
But I wasn't supposed to have seen it.
We walked down the hall, me neglecting to tell him about Mizuki until I could at least come up with what could pass as a clue about anything that had happened today. For example. I couldn't get the words, "will not be forgiven for anything you do to my Naruto," out of my mind. They kept replaying, and soon it was constant reruns of, "my Naruto, my Naruto, my Naruto, my Naruto" I was confused, to say the least. But unbearably happy too.
Even if it didn't mean what I wished it did...it wasn't possible.
Was it?
Soory guys. I just wanted to get that out of the way. I tried my best.. Sorry if it came out crapish. I needed to get at least a tinsy bit of a confession out there to appease the mob outside my apartment window, and this seemed best, since I'm not ready to put the whole thing out yet. I doesn't seem...right, yet. Sorry. But know for sure. It will happen before the end of chapter 2o or 21. I might add something for fun in chapter 19. Maybe some ShikaKiba or NejiGaara? You vote in your reviews and take hold of the future! *waves crash behind Lawlie and she gives you a teary-eyed, "YOUTH!"*