There was a floor crawling with snakes. They crawled onto my legs until they consumed me. Why am I not fighting back? Have I seen this before...? I feel like this is very familiar. I just don't remember where I have seen them...
"Wake up."
I could hear the snakes talking to me in one voice. It was making me do things I didn't want, and it was making me kill.
"WAKE UP."
My eyes slowly opened, I could feel my head hanging down, my black hair covering the front part of my face. What happened to me and why was I hanging with my hands bound?
"Stay calm, they can't do anything to us. They won't do anything to us." The voice calmed me down. I still couldn't decide if the voice I was hearing was a monster or something else entirely. Is there even an actual voice? Am I crazy? Am I the monster?
"Kaname, are you awake?" I heard a familiar voice say. The tan, wrinkly old man stood before me when I lifted my head. Where were we? Last I remember we were... I mean I was home...? "This is just a precaution... you panicked and you didn't seem yourself. The Anbu took action and restrained you. We brought you here for your own safety."
"He means for the safety of others..." What? What did I do?
"It's okay Kaname. I know you're scared and confused."
"Can you let me go? Or am I too dangerous?" I started tearing up. The time I woke up in the forest, regaining some memories in my home, this voice, and that dream... What's going on? "This isn't normal..." I whispered under my breath.
"Kaname?"
Who can I rely on? Is it this man in front of me? What can I even prove to be true? I mean... everything he has said so far seems to be the truth. Though, at the same time I wouldn't really know. Is someone trying to mess with me?
"Calm down..." I am calm. "No... you're not." Was I just fighting with myself or with another person? I guess the voice sorta sounds like me... I took a deep breath, then I remembered.
"Gaara... where's Gaara?!"
The Hokage looked surprised. "He's probably in the middle of the chunin exams right now." How long have I been out? I thought they weren't doing anything for a few days... I took another deep breath. It was so hard to stay calm. There was also Sasuke... He was taking the exams too. Can I trust him? Would he just shove me away or kill me like the monster I am? I hate this... I wanted Sasuke to save me.
Though, every time I tried to picture Sasuke's face with my own memory... I only saw our older brother, Itachi. Did I need him... Itachi? I just want this all to be over.
"He's out there causing trouble... You need to leave."
I can't... "Can you let me go... I just want to go home..." I cried.
"I don't know what happened to you while you wee gone, Kaname. Your powers have increased exponentially. You're even stronger than Sasuke."
"So you mean to leave me here like a prisoner and have people watch me like I am guilty?!"
He looked at me, shocked. He didn't know what to say. He looked guilty, he didn't want to do it, but he needed to keep everyone safe.
"I just want to go home... but I have none."
He sighed. "Alright, but if you get out of control..."
"I understand..." The restraints disappeared. "Thank you..."
"We also have a place for you to stay, come find me when you're ready."
I smiled. "Okay." I left, having the voice direct me toward Gaara. When I found him he was on a rooftop and a body was already drenched in blood. The ninja was dead. Gaara did this... Gaara looked angry, wanting to kill more. Why is he like this? "Gaara..." I reached out to him and touched his face. "It's okay... you don't have to keep killing."
Gaara's eyes went wide and he stared deeply into my eyes. "You're touching me..."
"Yeah... I am...?" I said unsure, then I saw specks of sand on my shoulder and around me. Would he kill me? Was he trying to?
"I need to kill, it's the only reason I am alive. Why else would I be born this way?" His voice, it was low and threatening. "I have been killing since before I was born. Why should I stop now?!"
"I found myself in your village knowing nothing but death... I remembered my family being murdered. The first thing I remember doing was killing men in the forest I woke up in. I took their food and supplies, I didn't even know what their true intentions were. I just killed them because I felt threatened."
"Why tell me this?"
"Because even if I was born in blood, I met you and I don't feel like I am a monster."
"Even so... I fight the one with the same eyes as you. They tell me he's your brother. Would you think I am a monster then?"
"You won't kill him. I won't let you."
"You'd get in my way?"
"Yes, if it means showing you another way to live."
"What do you live for?"
"We can't find ourselves trapped."
"I'm finding that out myself... We're sixteen, and we can't find ourselves trapped."
Gaara just glared at me. "That doesn't sound right..."
My eyes widened. "What do you mean?"
"That's enough." Baki yelled and appeared between us. "Gaara, you need to go back. You're already causing too much trouble here. And you..." he looks at me with the revealed eye. "We brought you back to your village, your ties with us are done."