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Stage 8: The Downfall of Us All

Finally, we both found the strength to stop crying. Elfi stood up and offered a hand out to me. "Tsu-sama, no more tears!" Elfi said with a smile.

I smiled back. "It's hard to take you seriously when you're still crying yourself!" I exclaimed, taking her hand. She helped me up.

"The tears of sorrow are gone! These are tears of joy!" She explained to me. I nodded my head in understandment.

"Well then my tears are tears of joy too!" I said, crying again.

"Well then it's ok to cry!" Elfi yelled. We both began to laugh. Suddenly, we both felt the presence of something very evil. We stopped laughing and crying at that moment.

"What is that?" I said in a gasp.

"I think I may know." Elfi replied, staring off into the mist. I hadn't noticed it but the mist was actually much thicker now. Had Zabuza really needed to make the fog this heavy? Elfi pulled my arm in the opposite direction of where we felt the 'evil' coming from. "Trust me you don't wanna see what's going to happen," She said in a serious tone, dragging me with her.

"Why?" I asked, yanking my arm free. Just then, the presence became stronger and stronger until it reached its peak. I had a bad feeling about this.

"Come on Tsu-sama let's go!" Elfi said, grabbing my sleeve. I was about to go with her. That was until I heard a smashing sound. I stopped dead in my tracks. "Refi come on!!" Elfi said, trying to move me. I stood there, frozen. I heard smashing noise after smashing noise until I could hear it no longer. This really worried me.

'Could they have found a way to break Haku's mirrors?!' I wondered. I broke away from Elfi and broke into a sprint into the direction of where I felt the presence. A wall of fire blocked my path and Elfi stood before it.

"Refi I'm sorry but you can't go that way trust me it's for the best!" Elfi tried to convince me. My mind was too wrapped around the idea of Haku for me to listen to her. My hands began moving again but this time I wasn't doing it voluntary.

"Water Vortex!" This time, Elfi jumped out of the way as the vortex created a hole in the wall of fire. "I'm sorry!" I screamed as I ran through the hole. My legs carried me to where I felt the pretense. I looked with horror. Fragments of ice lay scattered on the ground. "Haku's mirrors...."

Suddenly, a thud sound brought me out of my thoughts and back to reality. I found myself running once more to where I heard the noise. I stopped briefly and looked around.

"Strange...The fog has been slightly lifted," I noticed. I began hearing the sound of what sounded like a group of dozens of birds. I looked in the direction of where I heard this noise. I saw a faint blue glow. I began walking forward to it to only be stopped.

"Refi please listen to me," Elfi pleaded as she stood in front of me, blocking my way. "If you see what's over there well...I don't know what you're going to do once you see it!"

"Elfi please let me pass," I began pleading to her. I could tell she was scared. What was it that she didn't want me to see? "I'll be able to handle it. You can trust me."

Elfi gave me a skeptical look but then began to speak once more. "I'll let you see if and only if I come with you, understand?" I nodded my head in understandment. I could now see fear and worry in her eyes. This was getting me scared too. We walked forward and as we walked, the fog began to clear more and more. Finally I was able to see almost everything. Kakashi and Zabuza were still fighting but Zabuza was banged up pretty bad. I knew he was finished. I saw Sakura standing in front of the bridge builder and Naruto standing a little bit farther from Sakura. Sakura looked as if she was going to cry.

Suddenly she raced past Naruto and past Elfi and I. I looked back to see where she was running but Elfi had the same expression on her face as Naruto did. I shrugged and turned around. I scanned the area more. At that moment it felt as if my heart had stopped. I began sprinting forward, Elfi sprinting right behind me. I stopped and looked at the ground, horrified at what I saw. There Haku laid, not moving, not breathing. Panic washed over my body.

"Haku!" I cried out as i dropped to my knees beside him. "Haku! Come on Haku! You can't die! You can't leave me!!!!!" Tears fell from my face more and I cried over Haku's body. Elfi put a hand on my back and began to try to comfort me.

"I'm sorry that this happened Tsu-sama," Elfi began. "But you can't change what's been done. Haku's gone now..."

My hands began moving swiftly once more. "Prayer jutsu!" Water from the river shot up and encased Haku's body with water. The water dropped from Haku's body moments after it touched Haku's body. "It's not working!??" I screamed at myself. I didn't give up. I did my prayer jutsu again and again and still it had the same effect. Elfi grabbed one of my hands, stopping me from attempting anymore.

"It's not working Refi," Elfi spoke to me in a serious but soft tone. "I'm sorry Refi but not even your healing powers can bring back the dead..." We both began to hear sobs coming from back in the distant. We turned our heads to where we heard the sobs coming from. "Sakura..." Elfi mumbled. Just like Sakura, I wept over Haku's body, wanting him to come back more than anything at that moment. Elfi looked at my back as I continued to weep. "You still got me here Tsu-sama, and I'll always be here for you, I promise."

This didn't make me feel better. I cried and cried for what seemed to be eternity. I didn't want to face the truth.

"Naruto! Sasuke's alright!" Sakura exclaimed as she ran to where Naruto was. Naruto turned and looked as Sasuke held up a had, indicating he was ok.

"Sasuke," Naruto uttered as he began to tear up, glad to see his friend was still alive. Everyone began to notice that the fog was starting to clear.

"You're finished," Kakashi told Zabuza. Zabuza looked over at me, knowing there was nothing I could do to help him because I was too preoccupied with Haku. Zabuza looked at Kakashi with neither fear nor despair but looked upon him with hatred. He began cursing Kakashi, myself and even Haku. Just then, the man that Zabuza and Haku was working for, Gato, showed up out of nowhere. Everyone but me looked at him with his new group of thugs. Everyone tensed.

"Looks like Kakashi beat you good Zabuza," Gato began. "So much for the big bad demon of the mist!" Gato walked over to where Haku's body was. Elfi glared at him, her eyes burning him, damning him to hell. Gato looked at Haku's body and smiled. He began kicking Haku's head. "You little brat! You broke my hand!"

I swiftly grabbed Gato's leg and I squeezed it. He let out screams of pain and began hitting me with the stick cane he was carrying. I squeezed his leg until I could hear cracking of his bones. I sunk my nails so deep in his skin that his bone began showing a little.

"If you so much as ever look at Haku again," I began. ".," I promised him menacingly emphasising every word. I released Gato's leg and he limped back to the front of his thugs. Terror filled his eyes. He never looked away from me.

"You want us to kill her boss?" A thug standing next to him asked.

It took Gato a second to snap out of it. He smirked and looked back at Zabuza. "As of now Zabuza, you are fired."

"Tsu-sama..." Elfi whispered, grabbing my shoulder.

I turned and looked at her, still glaring. She flinched back. Her face became filled with terror as well.

'That look...I've never seen that look...'Elfi told herself. 'Never in my life have I seen such a....bloodthirsty...menacing...hating look.....What's going on with her?'

Something didn't feel right at all to me. I felt as if I were...slipping. I was too angry, too hurt to think clearly. This was something I never felt before. I was frightened too. But somehow, I couldn't control it. I felt as if something was taking over me. I looked at Elfi's face. She looked scared beyond belief. Just what is so scary? I tried to speak but when I spoke, they weren't my words.

"Just what the hell do you want?"

Elfi flinched again. 'Something isn't right at all! That....'

"You're not Tsu-sama......"

This time I flinched at hearing this. I flinched, yet my body didn't move. Just what the hell was going on here? I felt myself smirk.

'Strange...I don't feel like smirking...Why am I smirking??'Elfi gazed at me. She stared deep into my eyes, her eyes burning as if trying to burn into me.

'Those eyes....They're definitely not Tsu-sama....There's...There's no light in them at all! Where did Tsu-sama's light go?!'

"Stop him! Kill him!" Both Elfi and I looked over at Gato. He seemed scared out of him mind. Zabuza had removed his bandages that covered his mouth and had somehow gotten a kunai knife in the process. We watched as Zabuza plowed into the huge mob. Surprisingly, he was killing more than we expected. Finally, he broke through and had Gato cornered. Zabuza began stabbing Gato. He was saying stuff to him but we couldn't really tell what it was he was saying. Zabuza pushed Gato off the bridge. Then Zabuza was stabbed repeatedly in the back. He dropped the kunai in his mouth and began to limp back to where Haku was the best that he could. He fell before he could reach Haku.

Kakashi walked over to Zabuza and they had some kind of conversation. In the end, Kakashi ended up picking up Zabuza and carried him over to Haku. Elfi and I just stared at Zabuza. I was smirking, as if happy to see him dying. But I didn't feel happy.

"Girl...I am sorry for everything I have done to you. My time has come to an end." Zabuza told me as he stared at Haku. I said nothing but my smirk increased.

Zabuza said his final goodbyes at Haku and that was it. He was dead. I began laughing.

"Tsu-sama??" Elfi asked confused

'Why am I laughing?? I'm not happy!' I yelled at myself. I tried to regain control of my body but somehow I wasn't able to. 'What?? Why can't I-'

'Control your body??' I continued laughing. This new voice scared me. 'Who am I? Why am I here? That's what you want to ask me don't you?' I stopped laughing and was smirking. Everyone was looking at me as if I was crazy. My mind went blank. I had no idea what to do. 'Who I am is not important. You're too weak. You're weakness drew me out and now I'm here to stay! Things are going to start changing and I'm going to start calling the shots!!'

Gato's thugs began making threats. All the towns people and squad 7 all were ready to fight the thugs. They got scared and began fleeing.

'Witness my power!'

My body shot up and charged after the thugs. "You won't escape!" My body yelled. I was scared. I had no idea what to do. All I could do was watch. My hands began moving swiftly. I clapped my hands together and reached out and grabbed the first victim I could reach.

"Ah! Let go!" The man pleaded. I began laughing, menacingly. The thugs who were still on the bridge turned as watched what I was doing to the man I grabbed.

"Life-Drain jutsu!" The man began screaming in pain. He screamed louder and louder. His body looked as if there was a raging whirlpool inside him. The thugs became horrified and fled faster than they came. Others were too much in shock to register what was going on. The man exploded. Blood showered over my body. I held in my hand a glowing white ball no bigger than a small water balloon. I held my hand out and gazed at it, ass if I was trying to get the image in my head.

The smell of blood was sicking. I wanted to vomit but I couldn't. I laughed again. The ball began to sink into my hand until it was fully gone. I looked up at the other victims. I grinned a wicked grin. As I was about to make my second charge, something hard hit my head, knocking me face first into the ground.

"Run!"

They didn't have to be told twice. Soon all the thugs were gone. I slowly got to my knees and looked at my hands.

'I can move my hands. I'm back in control.'

"Tsu-sama..?"

'I'm not gone,'I froze as I heard this voice echo in my head. I looked around frantically. Elfi looked at me, concerned. She bent down and was saying something to me. I couldn't hear what she was saying, I could only see her lips moving. 'I will forever be here and trust me..I will be in control again!'

I clutched my head. "Shut up.."

"What's wrong with you Tsu-sama??" Elfi questioned, shaking my body.

"Shut up and go away!!" I screamed. A dark chuckle rippled through my head. It became too much. I blacked out and felt pain. All I could do now, was smell the blood that surrounded me.