Wake Up

by 2018217

"I'm dead," said the body. Lifeless eyes bored hard into his. "I'm dead!" the blue lips repeated, this time more forcefully. "There's nothing you can do about it! So get over it! Why would you want to help me anyway? It's not going to work. Give up already." More blood soaked his hands. "I'm never going to wake up again, and you know that." Warning: Many character deaths.

11. Chapter 11

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

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Middle Height, Kikai Heights, 20 Hours After Bandit Raid

Temari stared at the gigantic pillar of chakra rising up in the distance.

Chakra. Poisonous chakra.

Her thoughts wandered to Shikamaru.

He was supposed to be the smart one, the careful one. He was supposed to be the one who got other people out of trouble, not the one who dragged them into trouble.

She remembered the instructors of the Academy.

"The mission is the first priority. Even above comrades. So what do you do when your comrade is in trouble, but the mission is in danger?"

She remembered the answer she blurted out.

"Abandon your comrade!"

Temari stuffed a chakra pill into her mouth.

"Idiot. I already saved you once. I didn't do it for nothing."

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The Festival of the Ten-Tails, Kikai Heights, 20 Hours After Bandit Raid

"I sense someone approaching," the King of the Beasts rumbled.

"I foresee her death. I lie in wait."

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Kazekage Tower, Sungakure, 20 Hours After Bandit Raid

"So what about the Ichibi?"

"It should be destroyed, sealed into the moon like the rest of the tailed beasts."

"Then how come you believed what that note said, about the Ichibi being released upon the village?"

"Well," the professor looked uncomfortable. "I've heard rumors….about a ritual, that if performed correctly, can summon a portion of the chakra from all the tailed beasts in the moon...for a short period of time. However….that ritual can only be performed at one place."

"Where?"

"Kikai Heights."

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Ascension, Kikai Heights, 20 Hours After Bandit Raid

The monster's voice came out of the shadows, startling Temari.

What is that?

"No one passes."

I don't have time for this!

Temari moved forward.

"I said, no one passes!"

Four hours! I need to find Shikamaru—

The monster leapt in front of her, and she stared, hypnotized, into its massive eye.

Don't I remember that from somewhere?

Where?

I think…it had something to do with the Fourth Shinobi World War.

A war against Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Obito.

They both possessed the Rinnegan.

The Rinnegan could be used to control the Tailed Beasts.

I heard this story once, about a hero named the Sage of Six Paths, who possessed the Rinnegan. He defeated some monster named-named-

Then it hit her.

Ten-Tails.

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I think this chapter is random.