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Warnings: I do not own Naruto. Rated "M" for language and adult situations
Chapter 36: Parallels
There was a knock on the Hokage's office door. "Come in!" The blonde Hokage had been waiting patiently.
"Lady Tsunade! It is good to see you again. You are as lovely as ever." Rai bowed.
She smiled at him. "Please sit." Rai took a seat in front of her desk. "So what do you think if Naruto now that you have gotten to meet him?" questioned the Hokage.
"I think he is a fine boy. His father would be very proud of him. I want to know how you keep the secret from him. He looks so much like Minato it is uncanny. I am surprised he's never asked or figured it out himself." Rai frowned.
Tsunade let out a sad chuckle. "It's a lot more difficult than you think, but it isn't something that I can discuss. A few more months and it won't need to be a secret anymore. In the meantime, talk of the Yondiame is kept to a minimum. I had to forbid Myra from speaking of the transportation jutsu."
Rai's eye's lit up. "She did it? She actually did it? In combat?"
"Yes and no. It didn't blow up in her face, but it did more damage to her than it did to her opponent. It still needs a little work." The blonde Hokage chuckled. "I told her to keep it to herself."
"Myra is good at keeping secrets." Rai chuckled.
"That she is." Tsunade looked upset again. "There is something I need to ask. How good is she at Dream Walking?"
Rai took a deep breath. "Better than her grandfather or great grandfather. I believe it has something to do with Sharingan, but there hasn't been a chance to fully test those abilities. She doesn't like using her sharingan."
"I noticed that." Tsunade nodded.
"She says it is because it takes her to a very dark place. And she always has nightmares after she uses it. The more she uses it the darker her mood gets. While she was cramming for her end of term exams last year, she was a bear to live with. It was like something from the underworld had taken over. Of course I want to believe it was that she was an unruly teenager." Rai grinned. "Why the curiosity?"
Tsunade sighed "Well there is a situation in the resort village a few miles down the road. A man was brought to the hospital there about a year ago. He was badly maimed, wounded and not a single identifying mark on him. We were planning on transferring him to the secure unit at Konoha General, but according to the nurses at resort hospital, the woman that brought him in asked for him to be taken care of, but not moved. The old woman comes once a month with out fail. She does not speak to the man, touch him, or let the injured man know in anyway that she is near. She spends about an hour with him then leaves. We aren't sure who this man is, and we thought maybe Myra could…"
Rai interrupted. "That is known as Diving. There is an element of force that Myra is not fond of."
"Is there anything your daughter is fond of?" Tsunade chuckled.
Rai laughed. "Besides Naruto? You forget Lady Tsunade, Myra chooses to rebel against authority. Even my control over her is limited to her knowledge that I have no reservations about kicking her ass to the ground, repeatedly. And I can't do that much longer."
"Maybe that would have worked with Sasuke?" Tsunade mused out loud.
"What have you told Myra of Sasuke and the Massacre?" Rai asked.
"Nothing really. I am sure that Naruto and Sakura have filled her in on what they can. I haven't seen her in the library yet asking for the Uchiha archives." Tsunade tilted her head.
"Good. The less she knows the better. She doesn't need to think about going off on a wild goose chase." Rai sighed. "Now explain to me what I need to do about Hiashi-teme."
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Myra and Sephie sat at the edge of the clearing near the dojo watching Naruto, Neji, Gaara, Kiba, and Lee trying to kill each other. Or at least that's the way things looked like to Persephone. Akamaru sat next to Myra panting happily.
"So… They really are… Ninjas?" Sephie continued to stare.
"We prefer the term Shinobi." Myra was scratching Akamaru's belly. "Isn't that right Akamaru?" She was using a sing song cute voice. The large white dog barked in agreement.
Sephie took her eyes off the boys and turned to Myra, "You too? You're a ninja?"
Myra chuckled. "Yes, Sephie. I'm a ninja too. Haven't you ever once thought why the hell I have a huge gym in my house, and I don't play sports? Or why I never had to take a PE classes? Or why it took three days of moping and pouting to get Dad to let me join the cheerleading squad?"
"I did kind of wonder, but I thought all rich people had their own gym." The girls shared a laugh. Naruto's concentration was momentarily broken and he took a fist in gut from Kiba. Myra flinched.
"So why aren't you down there beating their brains in or something?" Sephie shrugged.
"Well because it wouldn't be polite for one." Myra gave Sephie a sideways smile. Naruto had been waiting for this since they had started walking to the dojo. He had to suffer through Sephie talking about her ex boyfriend. Even Naruto thought the guy was an ass, but Myra kept quiet and let Sephie ramble.
When the three had gotten to the dojo, Myra thought it would be easier to show Sephie, rather than try to explain the shinobi world to Sephie. Luckily Lee and Naruto helped out a lot. Myra could give Sephie a play by play of what was going on, and the boys could get the work out they so badly needed. Soon, Gaara and Neji had come back from a visit with the Hokage. Then Kiba arrived with Akamaru. Kiba wasn't talking to Myra.
"I'm guessing he's still a little pissed at me." Myra chuckled. "What do you think Akamaru?" The dog whined and ruffed out his answer. "Ok. So does that mean I'm off the hook?" The large white dog panted happily and licked Myra's face. "Sweet."
Sephie looked at Myra confused. "You can talk to dogs too?"
"I have gossip, but it won't make any sense until you meet Hinata." Myra nodded. Naruto took a break from the sparing and got closer to the girls so he could over hear what they were talking about, hoping that it would finally be juicy.
"That's fine. I want to know the dish about you and Blondie." Sephie eyed Myra. Myra started to blush furiously.
"What's there to know?" Myra continued to blush.
"Oh come on, that wonderful shade of red that you just turned tells me something about you Myra Windfeather Ravenheart. You've slept with him and it was good." Myra's eyes were like dinner plates, but so were Naruto's.
"PERSEPHONE! HOW DARE you accuse me of something… Damn, is it that obvious?" Myra couldn't be mad are Sephie.
"YES! You were this silly before that party with…" Myra cut Sephie off.
Myra looked visibly upset with Sephie and glared at the petite blonde girl making her jump back. "We don't talk about THAT PARTY, REMEMBER. I try to forget that party ever happened." Myra got up and hopped up on the roof leaving Sephie on the ground.
Sephie looked around and knew she had mentioned the one thing that could set Myra off. Sephie sat there a little confused about what to do. The large white dog curled up next to Sephie and whined. Naruto hopped up onto the roof. He could sense that Myra was angry. The temperature around her had dropped a few degrees and it didn't feel like the cheerful person Myra was.
"What's wrong?" He asked attentively.
"Nothing… Not a god damn thing." She turned a way from him.
"Don't do this Rabbit, talk to me." He wrapped his arms around her. She was cold to the touch, like her warmth had been sucked out of her. He knew that feeling all too well. Loneliness and despair, hopelessness and shame, it was a pit of darkness that he knew all to well. Myra wasn't crying, but she was very upset.
"There isn't much I can tell you Pretty Boy…" Her voice was icy, cold and heartless. "Cause there isn't much I remember about the party. I remember going, I remember having a drink. I remember waking up, naked, sore in places no woman should be sore, and a skull splitting headache. I got dressed and left the out the widow." She crossed her arms. "It took me about a week to get over the tearing, took me another week to face anyone at school again."
Myra's body started to get colder. Naruto held her closer in an attempt to get her to warm up. "The part that Sephie doesn't know, is why Dante, the guy… that… Well the guy that treated me like a party favor. He's in a coma." Myra started to nod her head. "Because I enjoyed ripping his mind from his body and leaving him that way. I turned him into a vegetable that has to be fed through a tube and pee through a tube. I left him with the ability to hear all around him, and no control over anything. I left trapped in his own mind for the rest of eternity. And I didn't bat an eyelash doing it." Naruto stared at her in shock. She pushed him away. "Keep an eye on Sephie for me."
"Where are you going?" Naruto looked at her with concern.
"I need to be alone." And she flickered out of sight. Naruto jumped off the roof in a hurry. "Not again" He thought.
Sephie looked at the depressed looking Naruto and crossed her arms. "If you could understand me, I would have told you not to push her about that, but Noooo… You had to push, and now she went off somewhere. I wouldn't' worry about her though. She'll blow off some steam, buy a new pair of shoes and she'll be fine. She has to be back in a few hours anyway. We are having an early dinner with her dad, Right?" Sephie smiled.
Naruto shook his head. He would let Sephie be the expert on this one and wouldn't follow Myra. He couldn't help but wonder where she was going though.