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Warning: I don't own Naruto. Rated "M" for LOTS of language, adult themes and situations. You are now going to enter (Cue creepy music) "The Drama Zone"
Chapter 59: Shattered Hearts
Myra unlocked her door and set her keys on the side table. Her apartment was dark, but far from empty. She sighed heavily, set the briefcase down and flipped on her living room light. Myra didn't look at him. "I'm kind of tired Naruto, why don't you go home." Myra sat down on the floor to take off her boots.
"I tried to catch up to you after you stormed out of the club." He had been at her apartment for the last four and a half hours. Naruto had called seventeen times and left as many messages. He was not happy at all.
"That's nice to know. I'm sorry I missed you." She answered flippantly.
"You didn't need to run off like that… again." His voice was clam, quiet and hurt.
"You know what? Screw you…" She chuckled and shook her head. "I don't need this bullshit. I heard very clearly everyone's concerns. I'm a fuck up… I get it… Now leave." She tossed her boots off to the side and pinched the bridge of her nose.
Naruto sat there fuming at her and she could feel it. He was half tempted to walk out the door, but that wasn't going to solve anything. "Damn it Rabbit! Give Teme a little slack… Geez, we walk into a club thinking we were going to have a good time with our girls and we have to save them from a bunch of assholes." He stood up and walked towards her.
She stood up and glared at him. "You say that like we're a burden."
Naruto clenched his fists and growled. "You're not a burden." He kicked himself mentally. "Did you even think for a minute that maybe WE were worried? That I was worried?"
"I KNOW everyone was worried, scared, freaked out, mad, pissed, and let's not forget, angry as Hell. I'm empathic Pretty Boy, it's why I know these things." She tried to push past him towards the kitchen.
Naruto wouldn't let her pass. "A good leader should know when to fall back."
"Shit didn't go as planned, so I stalled for time. You know why? 'Cause I trusted you, Gaara, and FUCKTARD to come to the rescue when I realized that Sakura and I couldn't handle it on our own. Did that make a FUCKING bit of difference? No, I still got my ass handed to me cause someone MIGHT have gotten hurt." She side stepped him and walked towards the kitchen.
He looked at her completely dumbfounded. "You selfish spoiled BRAT."
Myra stopped dead in her tracks. "EXCUSE ME?" She turned to look at him with her eyebrows raised.
"You heard me… I called you a SELFISH. SPOILED. BRAT." Naruto was beyond pissed.
Myra just laughed at him and pointed at the door. "Get. OUT."
"What you can't take the truth?" He glared at her.
"What part of GET OUT did you NOT hear?" She was on the verge of tears.
"No, you are GOING to listen to me. I don't think you care one bit that your BEST FRIEND and SAKURA could have gotten hurt. You played a game with them and it didn't go YOUR way. So when times got tough you expected someone else to bail you out. It's what your good at. You get someone else to do your dirty work for you."
"Fuck you." Myra said very calmly as a tear slid down her cheek. "I have NEVER asked ANYONE to do MY dirty work for me." The apartment went cold and her eyes went just as cold.
"Then what happened?" He crossed his arms.
Myra looked at the ceiling and closed her eyes. "Tell you what? I'll leave if you're not going to." Myra started to head for the balcony.
"I am not going to let you run away!" He put a firm hand on her shoulder to stop her and nearly recoiled at the cold coming off her skin. She was icy to the touch and now that he was getting a better look at her, the only color on Myra's face was the makeup she wore.
Myra turned her eyes to him. He has seen that look before. Sasuke had given him that look at the Valley of the End. Her eyes were empty of all emotion, like all her life had been drained away and any reason to continue to breath was gone. Myra was a ghost of the person she was not thirty seconds before. "Let. Me. Go." Her voice was barely above a whisper and there was something in her tone that sent an eerie chill down Naruto's spine.
Naruto took his hand off her more as a reflex than because of her request. Myra turned and started to head for the balcony again. Myra stopped in the kitchen, and turned a very sad look to him. "For what it's worth… I'm sorry."
"Then tell me what happened." He took a few steps into the kitchen.
Myra took a deep breath and swallowed her tears. She wanted to tell him everything, but there was only so much she could say. She couldn't tell him it was supposed to be a recon mission to study a potential target. Myra couldn't tell him that she had to play innocent normal to keep the secret life she had been living for the last three years. The secret of being a paid assassin was looked down upon, even in the world of elite paid assassins. Her resolve to keep those secrets from him was fading fast. She took another deep breath and her resolve shattered like a crystal vase hitting a concrete floor.
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Naruto sat on the couch with Myra's head in his lap. She had finally fallen asleep after letting everything out. She didn't tell him everything and Naruto knew it. There were parts of her story that didn't add up. Myra told him about the club being something fun she had planned for all of them. Someplace they could be normal couples, just having a good time and how she wanted to have some girl time with Sephie and Sakura. Myra explained that Mr. Nakahara had recognized Myra from an article in a "Fourtune 500" magazine about Ravenheart Industries.
The Ravenheart talked about how Mr. Nakahara was going kidnap her and use her to extort mass sums of money from her father. She sobbed about how she knew Naruto, Sasuke and Gaara were on the way and kept Sephie calm. Nakahara was going to take Myra and let Sephie and Sakura go, then he changed his mind right before the boys had arrived. By that time, Myra had realized people were going to get hurt no matter what happened. She was very glad it was the Yakuza men and not innocent people at the club, Sephie, Sakura, Naruto, or Gaara… And even Sasuke.
Naruto had been concerned about the mention of Yakuza in Konoha, but he would mention that to Ba-Chan when he had the chance. Myra was so relieved to see that boys. She was proud of Naruto and Gaara… And even Sasuke. Myra chuckled tearfully when she said it was a huge turn on to be rescued. Myra confessed that she wasn't upset about Sasuke being an ass. She was upset because Naruto had taken his side of things before even hearing her side of what happened.
Naruto had twitched a little when she mentioned it. They had this fight already, and he thought he had learned from it. There were always two sides to every story, especially when it came to Myra. He apologized and stroked her hair, urging her to continue.
The Ravenheart girl continued to tell Naruto about going to the Uchiha temple and finding the diary. And she had confessed about seeing Madara, the offer, being scared out of her mind, and half tempted to accept the offer. The mere mention of Madara's name made Myra queasy. Naruto didn't like it either. By this time Myra was slowly falling asleep in his lap. She had drifted off halfway through a sentence about talking to her dad. And that was it for her.
Naruto figured she had about an hour and a half or more missing from her story. Then there was the briefcase she had brought home with her. She neglected to mention where she got it, and what was in it. Naruto wanted to talk with Sasuke, but Myra needed him more than he needed to talk with Sasuke. Myra was still cold to the touch and that bothered Naruto as well.
"Warm bath..." Sneezed the Fox.
"Bless you..."
"Put her in a warm bath, Brat."
"I don't think this is the right time to think about that."
"And you call me the gutter brain." The Fox shook his head. "A bath will help warm up her body temperature. I doubt that she is going to wake up much, she's exhausted."
The blonde shook his head and chuckled lightly. He realized he was going to need some help with getting Myra in the tub. A team effort was going to make things easy. A hand sign and a series of pops created three extra Naruto's. One headed into the bathroom to start drawing the bath water. Another hit the bedroom to find Myra's bathrobe and a towel for him. The third helped the real Naruto undress the sleeping Myra, who hardly made a noise and didn't move while she was passed back and forth.
Myra was very much awake and aware of what Naruto was doing. Myra just didn't have the strength to resist, nor did she really want to resist. A bath sounded like a nice way to relax. Once she was undressed, Naruto scooped Myra up and carried her into the bathroom. The other two clones had dissipated when their task was complete, but the last of the clones stood in the bathroom waiting. The real Naruto passed the naked Myra to the clone, while the real blonde disrobed.
The soaking tub was about four feet wide by six feet long by four feet deep and filled almost to the top with water and bubbles. The real Naruto glared at his clone. "You get to clean up the water later."
The clone rolled his eyes. "What ever…"
Naruto shook his head. There was no point in arguing with him self. Naruto slipped into the water and it was a little warmer than Naruto had expected, but as cold as Myra was, the water wasn't going to stay hot for long. The last of the clones placed Myra in the water on top of Naruto, splashing water onto the floor. The clone smirked and disappeared in a puff of smoke. Naruto grumbled about being a lazy bum.
Myra snuggled into him and chuckled sleepily. "Do you always bitch at your clones like that?"
"Yeah, why?" He looked down at her. Myra's eyes were closed and she had a smile on her face. There was some color coming back in her cheeks.
"No reason, just asking." She relaxed into him. Naruto pulled her close and started to relax himself. She buried her face in his chest and he felt warm tears falling from her eyes. "I'm sorry." She started to sob again.
"Hey… Shhhh… It's going to be okay."
She looked up at him. Her color had returned and her eyes were full of life again. But there was still a sad look to them. "I almost lost you."
He gave her a big Foxy grin. "No… You said it yourself. You can always find me."
She sniffled again. "You would wait for me?"
He kissed her on the forehead. "Always Rabbit… Always…"
Myra finally smiled at him. The bathroom became a bright place again, and she started to pulsate with that warm energy that could warm him even on the iciest of days.