Well, i hope you're in for a kinda long and a little emotional chapp...

I just now realized i haven't put up a disclaimer! Wait, did i do one in the first chapp? ...Hmmmm....Oh well. I dont feel like checking so I'll put one here. Sound good? Thought so.

DISCLAIMER: I dont own Naruto, any of his friends, or the Paramore Songs. I just own Luna, her friends, The Agency, and this awesome plot line. So there. No stealing.

Enjoy.

Luna didn't know where she was going, she just knew she was whacking branch after branch out of her way.

Punching things felt good.

Very good.

She finally had to sit down, exhausted, and for a while just kept her head lodged against her knees as she calmed herself.

Well, by calmed herself, she meant just thinking of words to express how completely blown away she was.

And then she found the perfect song in her mental music library. The emotions formed the right music and lyrics in her fast-working mind, and she played the chords as if she had played this song all her life.

"Well, she lives in a fairy tale,
Somewhere too far for us to find.
Forgotten the taste and smell
Of the world that she's left behind.
It's all about the exposure, the lens, I told her.
The angles were all wrong, now,
She's ripping wings off of butterflies.."

"Keep your feet on the ground..
When your head's in the clouds."

"Well, go get your shovel,
And we'll dig a deep hole
To bury the castle, bury the castle.
Go get your shovel,
And we'll dig a deep hole
To bury the castle, bury the castle.
Ba da ba ba da ba ba da!"

"So one day he found her cryin',
Coiled up on the dirty ground.
Her prince finally came to save her,
And the rest you can figure out.
But it was a trick,
And the clock struck 12,
Well, make sure to build your house brick by boring brick,
Or the wolf's gonna blow it down."

"Keep your feet on the ground...
When your head's in the clouds."

"Well, go get your shovel,
And we'll dig a deep hole
To bury the castle, bury the castle.
Go get your sho-vel,
And we'll dig a deep hole
And we'll bury the castle, bury the castle."

"Well you built up a world of magic,
Because your real life is tragic.
Yeah, you built up a world of magic...."

"Well, if it's not real,
You can't hold it in your hands.
You can't feel it with your heart.
And I won't believe it!
But if it's true,
You can see it with your eyes,
Oh, even in the dark.
And that's where I want to be, yeah!"

"Go get your shovel,
And we'll dig a deep hole
To bury the castle, bury the castle, yeah.
Go get your sho-vel,
And we'll dig a deep hole
To bury the castle, bury the castle..."

Ba da ba ba da ba ba da, ba da ba ba ba da ba ba!"

She played the last chords, then threw her guitar down and rested her face in her hands, panting angrily again.

"...No emotion. Totally."

Luna didn't dare look up. "Go away."

"Why would I listen to you, EVER?"

"Naruto, I mean it."

"No you don't."

"Leave me alone, please!"

"Nope."

Luna let out another frustrated yell, and there was silence. She was pretty hopeful that she had scared him off.

But, alas, he was still there.

"Luna...Who was on the phone?"

"Why should I tell you?" She mumbled.

"Because I asked nicely."

There was silence again, and she heard Naruto shift feet. "Nice job, by the way. 'Brick by Boring Brick', by Paramore, right?"

Luna's mouth twitched, almost forming a smile. Good thing Naruto couldn't see it, she'd never hear the end of that one. "Correct. I didn't know you listened to that. How long were you standing there?"

"Ummm...About around the verse 'It's all about the exposure, the lense, I told her'."

"Oh."

"But anyway, no more changing the subject. Who the hell was on the phone?"

Luna sighed heavily. "Jeez, Naruto, why do you wanna know so bad?"

"So I know who's ass to kick."

Normally, she'd laugh at this, but instead she felt like crying. "You can't."

"Why? You think I can't take whatever douche made you all shaken up like this?"

She shook her head. "No. You can't because it was Alex. And he's dead."

There was total silence. No birds or anything. "...What happened? How'd he die?"

She sighed shakily, and she felt tears welling up. "Me. I killed him."

More total silence. Luna felt angry again, and she looked up at Naruto. She expected him to look disgusted at her, or scared, or something along those lines.

He just looked curious, sad, and surprised. Not much of an improvement.

She continued to look up at him. "That's right, yes, you heard me correctly. I'm the reason he died. And not because he was protecting me. I literally killed him."

"...Why?" He asked shakily.

Luna looked at her hands, currently locked around her knees tightly. "It might take some extra explanation. Do you know what I call The Agency, Naruto?"

"A living hell?"

"No, but close. I call it The Fishbowl. Because it's like being stared at all the time by people with eyes full of wonder or...amazement...or even fear. Mostly scientists. And no matter how much you bang on the bowl, you can't ever get your freedom until you die. Only...I don't believe they will flush me down a toilet.."

Naruto nearly cracked a smile, but not quite. "The Fishbowl," he repeated to himself as if committing it to memory.

"Yeah. And...I was on a mission. I loved missions, still do most of the time. It's the only way I can leave The Fishbowl. Before I hardened my emotions, I used to 'snap' during them a lot. I met Alex on one of those missions. He turned out to be useful, The Fishbowl kept him around, one thing led to another, you get the idea."

Naruto nodded.

"Well...I'm not quite sure how it happened. I'm pretty sure he turned out to be a double agent- someone who pretends to be on our side but's loyal to the enemy. And...the job fell to me, Becs, and Will to detain him by any means necessary."

"Any means necessary.."

"Which, in his case, ended up to be extermination. We...I...tried to get him to just let us arrest him, but he just kept right on shooting at us. As if he hadn't been one of our trusted allies twenty-four hours before. And when he shot Will in the thigh, I knew I had to do it. I had to. I couldn't let him damage the only family I had. So..I did it," she concluded, her voice quivering.

Naruto was silent.

"...Y'know, I still remember how he begged me to spare him, to run away with him, things like that. But his eyes...looking back now, I knew he didn't mean a word. The only thing that puzzles me is that...I can't remember anything concerning Alex and I before that incident."

Her anger came back.

"You may not have been able to notice, but I hate The Agency. With all my heart, what little heart I still have after fifteen years of their authority. I have good reason, in my opinion. Not only did they do experiments on me without my knowledge OR consent, but they gave me pills after the Rogue Situation, as they called it. I believe those pills have caused my partial memory loss, so I stopped taking them the first night of my stay in your residence," she confessed quietly.

"Wait...what do you mean by 'experiments'?"

Luna sighed tiredly. "I mean, they poke and prod me. They hook me up to machines and monitor my heart rate and reactions to certain tests, usually painful ones. And they've even done at least one surgery in which they took something, I think bone marrow. They never told me, they never even told Tara."

She looked down at her feet as she felt the tears threatening to spill. "Can I admit something to you, Naruto?"

"There's more you've been bottling up?"

"Dozens. Remember what I told you about emotions? I...I can't even follow my own principles. I kill Alex, and somehow he calls. And as soon as he does, I lose all self-control. Yet I am certain that if any of my other victims were to suddenly call me, I wouldn't act this way. I don't love him, I really don't, but...dammit, how come he's still doing this to me?" She asked the ground, her voice cracking towards the end.

"Why is this happening? Why can't I remember? In my nightmares, I see horrible things involving him and me...Or me and him...Him and I...argh, who gives a shit? I don't like this, I don't like not having control of what memories I can and cannot keep. How am I supposed to learn from my mistakes, or laugh at old times, when I can't even remember them? The Agency's never done anything for me; I might as well have died out on the street when I was nine. Why not let me have just one thing for myself?"

By the end of her rant, she was practically yelling, and a quick blink told her she was crying.

Luna lifted a hand to wipe them away, but she couldn't find the will to do it. What was the point? She was dead anyway for telling a civilian all this.

Why not totally lose all control on top of it?

So she did. She just ran a hand through her hair and continued to let the tears fall, not even able to tell if Naruto was still there or not.

If she were him, she would've left her there to herself.

Luckily, she wasn't Naruto. It didn't entirely surprise her as he crouched down to her level and planted both hands on her shaking shoulders.

"Luna?"

"Mm," was her intelligent reply.

"Look at me."

She hesitantly did so, and couldn't look away no matter how much she wanted to.

"You want to know why he makes you act this way? It's because you knew him personally. Whether you loved the guy or not, you had to kill him. That tends to cause a bit of guilt. Honestly, if I had been you, I would've had a lot worse of a time controlling myself if he called me. I probably would've shat twice and ran around in circles yelling 'ZOMBIES!' until I finally passed out."

The corners of her mouth twitched again, and that made him smile a little.

"I saw that. You could see it so vividly, couldn't you?"

She nodded shakily.

"Well, anyway. No matter what they've done to you, don't ever say you're better off dead. If you think that way, Orochimaru and whoever else's after us will be able to kill you with one hand tied behind their backs. Besides. 'I've seen you cry, far too many times, when you deserve to be alive'."

He smiled smugly in spite of himself as Luna gaped at him.

Naruto Uzumaki just quoted "Emergency" by Paramore. Did I just imagine that?

His grip on her shoulders tightened. "No matter how many times he calls you, don't answer. We'll break your phone if we need to. Got me?"

She started to nod, but then the past ten minutes just hit her like a set of waves. Everything just crashed down and sunk into her, and she felt almost separate from her body for a moment.

So Luna just did a sort of half-nod before lowering her head, starting to cry even harder.

No matter how annoying Naruto could get, no matter how many times he might've picked the lock in the bathroom while she was taking a shower, and no matter how many times they fought over stupid things, Luna would always remember this.

She would always give him credit for this one moment where she fell apart and he rested against the tree with her as she cried against him.

....Well...THAT sucks.

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