Chapter six; Apparent-Lee Intelligent
I stared at the sand Kazan in shock. It resembled the Kazan that I was used to. Dark clothes, lighter hair, the tattoo on his forehead.
"We need to get out of here…"
My eyes jerked away from the sand Kazan, and stared at the new person beside me. This Kazan looked terrified and was rocking somewhat.
"I need to get away…" He mumbled. His eyes were huge. He seemed to have seen the scariest thing on earth. And he probably has.
"Gaaaa…raaaa," a voice growled.
My eyes darted back to the sand Kazan. It had moved from its original place. It was crawling slowly by pulling himself with his arm. He moved as if he had broken his legs, and perhaps his spine for that matter.
"No…" The boy besides me breathed. "I won't."
I stared from the sand Kazan to the one besides me many times. What was going on? Why were there two Kazans? Why was this lighter Kazan afraid of the sand one? Was my vision of the giant raccoon true? I had no idea what to do… Only two options what to do now…
I stood up slowly, knowing the light boy's eyes were glued on me. I reached down, and grabbed his hand. He protested slightly, but gave in. I took one last look at the sand boy. He was rising to his leg slowly to stand.
I whipped around, and darted away with the light Kazan in tow.
A few miles away, I finally slowed my pace, till I completely stopped. I looked back at Kazan, and saw that he still looked terrified. Every few seconds he would look over his shoulder, as if expecting something to come out and kill him.
"We're not safe here…"
I stared at him in confusion.
"Why? We are away from the other you. You should be-"
"You don't understand…" His eyes stared into mine. "That sand is only a shell of the real terror. The actually terror is much much bigger and… Travels with me…" His eyes shinned with regret before he let his head hang in defeat.
"It travels with you? How?"
"It's… sealed inside of me…" He paused.
He stared shivering like there was a freezing wind. He then stopped suddenly and looked up at me. His eyes had changed. "GAARA! WHERE ARE YOU?!" Kazan screamed.
He shivered again. "Away from you!" He yelled back at himself.
"YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM ME! I'M INSIDE YOU! JUST WAIT TILL THE SAND COMES! Ohhh boy, are you IN FOR IT!"
So it was true. This boy really did have two people in one body. I thought Tsunade was joking when she said this, but she said was the truth. This boy really needed some help. From himself. I knew it was an insane idea, but I knew who could help him… Me. And one of my trusted friends. Hopefully she would be alright with this unexpected arrival.
As quickly as I could, I grabbed the self-arguing teen, and leaped into the trees.
"YOU CAN'T HIDE HIM LEE! HE'S MINE! ACCEPT HIS FATE! I'M GOING TO KILL HIM!"
"No!" He yelled at himself.
I have heard of people with a split personality, but this was truly ridiculous. The concealed… Whatever it was seemed to be murderous, the thing that probably destroyed the grocery store. But the outer boy seemed to be relatively innocent.
So I thought of a plan. A plan that could give this boy some piece from the torture of his… terror.
"…"
A couple minutes later I realized that there were no voices coming from behind me. I knew I was technically dragging him along, so I didn't leave him behind. I knew he was alive, because I could feel the pulse in his hand. There could be only one reason for his silence. He had a question. As politely as I could, I looked behind me with a smile. Just as I expected, he was looking straight at me with a confused look in his eyes.
"Here are we going?" He asked.
I knew that his other self was listening, so I could do nothing but hide the exact truth from the boy. I nodded my head at him shyly and muttered,
"Some place safe."
His cool gaze suddenly turned into a glare of rage. "SAFE!? HA! Don't even bother Kido, I WILL find out were we are going, and when I do, oh ho, YOU TWO ARE DEAD!"
I smiled.
"Even a place without any sand?"
He opened his mouth to protest, but my comment had seemed to caught him off guard.
His eyes changed back to green, and twinkled with happiness.
"Thank you."
We traveled for the rest of the way in silence.