A/N: Hello again! I just wanted to take the time and thank all of my reviewers and followers! Arigato! It means a lot to me, it really does!
I do not own Naruto.
Dim Mak=Touch of Death
Warning: Slight gore! Not a ton, but there will be a little bit!
Dreams.
'This can't be real.'
It's like my mind was on overload. Pictures, scenes, emotions, just flying at an alarming rate in front me.
Drowning.
I felt like the memories where suffocating me. Pulling me under and holding me captive.
My parents.
I could see them, and then, they were gone.
My brother and I.
Alone.
Awake.
Wind was rushing past my face. I looked up to see Kisame with a very serious look on his features.
"We were ambushed."
I pulled Kisame's cloak tighter around my body and felt him land on the ground.
"Do you have enough chakra to hide yourself?" he asked.
'Enough chakra?' I thought.
My body was surging with it. I could feel it rushing through me just begging for release. I looked up at Kisame and nodded my head.
He stared at me for a moment and then turned to look at the trees behind us.
I noticed a group of people coming towards us.
"ANBU." I whispered.
"Yeah, a lot of ANBU this time." I heard Kisame say.
I saw him wrap his hand around Samehada's handle and pull it over in front of his body.
"Now would be a good time to start hiding girl."
I glanced at Kisame and stepped forward to stand beside him.
"I can fight this time." I said looking up at Kisame's eyes.
He looked at me with a very confused expression.
"Look I'm going to have enough trouble out of these….."
Kisame started to lecture me, but I turned my attention to the group of ANBU in front of us and sprinted towards them. I could feel my chakra screaming for release and I wasn't about to deny it.
'This is amazing!' I thought as I made my way towards the ANBU.
My mind raced through a few hand signs and then my fingers quickly followed. Soon, the chakra was oozing around my hands and I felt incredible. I lunged forward and grabbed one of the men in front of me, the expression on his face was stupendous. I could tell he was terrified, especially when I reached for his throat. It felt so warm between my fingers. I applied a small amount of pressure and saw the man's eyes grow wide with terror. The emotions that were flooding my body were strange, but I loved it. I decided to take the next step and apply just a little more pressure. A small crunching noise escaped for the man's body. His eyes rolled back deep into his head. I dropped his lifeless form and turned to look among the countless other ANBU who would meet the same fate.
"My turn girl." I heard Kisame say from behind me with a laugh.
Kisame raised Samehada and began to slaughter the group of people in front of us.
I could feel everything returning to me. My abilities. Dim Mak. All I had to do was touch the men that surrounded us and it sent them falling before our feet.
'What is this feeling?' I thought.
I started out feeling an overwhelming amount of blood lust curdling through my body, but now I was feeling something new.
'Remorse?'
This was confusing.
I stopped and turned over to face Kisame.
He was pulling Samehada over his head and securing it onto his back. He turned around to look at me and started to close the distance between us.
"The memories are back aren't they?" he asked looking down at me.
I pulled the cloak tighter around my body and hung my head.
"Y-yes."
"Then why do you look upset? Are you not happy?"
"I-I don't know…." I said as I looked around at the bodies that surrounded us.
Kisame looked at them as well and then back to me.
"Let's get out of here."
Kisame picked me up and carried me over the bodies.
Blood was the only thing that I could smell and it was making me sick to my stomach. I buried my face into Kisame's chest and I could feel the tears start to fall.
"What is wrong with me?" I said as I started to cry.
I felt Kisame stop and hug me tighter to his body.
He leapt into the air and pushed our bodies away from the nightmare behind us. The wind started to pull my hair around Kisame's arm and I could feel it waving through the air.
I looked up towards the tops of the trees and tried to see what time in the day it was.
'Night.'
I felt Kisame's footsteps slow and I noticed that we had landed.
Kisame sat me on the ground in front of a large tree and moved his hands up and over his head. He put his fingers around Samehada and removed it from his back, placing it against the same tree. He leaned against the tree and laid his head back, letting out a sigh.
"We will head to Takigakure in the morning." He said.
I looked down at the ground beneath me and then pulled my knees up to my face, wrapping my arms around my legs. I pulled the sleeves of Kisame's cloak down my arms and looked at the palms of my hands.
'How many people have I killed?' I thought, starting to feel sick to my stomach.
Kisame began to speak, breaking my train of thought.
"Those people were out for blood; sometimes killing is the only option left. You can't feel sorry for them now."
I winced at his comment.
"Is life really that dispensable?" I paused for a moment and asked another question. "H-how many people have you….killed Kisame?"
He looked up and ruffled his hair.
"I don't keep count. I fight, it's what I enjoy, and only the people who remember that, live." He said with a small smirk.
I turned my head to look out in front of me. I closed my eyes and sorted through the memories that were clouding my mind. Everything was starting to piece itself together.
Hunter nin. Yin is a hunter nin and from what I was beginning to put together; a damn good one. Strong, confident, and very powerful, but I didn't feel like that.
'Why?'
I pulled my hands over my head and ran my fingers through my hair. I pushed through more memories, and slowly, I unraveled the secret behind all of the power I had.
'My brother. He was responsible for this. He kept me away from everyone, slowly detaching me from humanity. Training me. Teaching me. Controlling me. I was a full blown atomic bomb and my brother had built me from the ground up.'
I could feel my body start to shake. I heard Kisame clear his throat and my thoughts ceased.
"The gravity of your past life is too much for you to hold onto isn't it?"
I looked up to meet Kisame's eyes. I could feel the tears stinging my eyes.
"Ni-san raised me to be some type of war machine."
I saw Kisame look away from me. He looked as though he was trying to keep something to himself.
"That's all Ni-san needs me for isn't it? My memories were all he wanted, not the actual sister that he lost."
I stared at Kisame as he continued to avoid eye contact.
"Kisame." I said as I crawled closer to him.
I inched my way up to Kisame and stopped in front of where he sat.
"My brother doesn't care about me, does he Kisame?" I hung my head.
I felt fingers grab my chin and guide my face up.
Kisame's eyes, his glare was so intense that it made me shudder. My cheeks started to heat up and I could feel my head spinning.
"K-Kisame….?" I whispered.
He said nothing and continued to stare. If his glaring had gotten any more intense, my eyes would have burned right out of their sockets.
"Kisame?" I raised my voice a little higher.
I felt him release my chin and I watched him lean back against the tree behind him. He never broke eye contact with me though.
"Your brother is a broken man, and a broken man will do anything to get back what left him broken in the first place. If there are any ulterior motives, I am not aware of them."
I pulled my self onto my knees and straightened my back.
"Why do I not feel like the Yin I was before? I can remember and do things that she could do, but my emotions are not the same."
I pulled my hands over my heart; it felt like it was tearing into.
"My brother will not love me; I am not the same Yin. The Yin that he wants!" I could feel my body heat rising and my voice started to crack.
"He will just cast me to the side! I'll be nothing to him! Nothing to anyone! I don't want to be 'nothing', but h-how can I share this life with someone else if I don't even know what I am." I said, squeezing the fabric of Kisame's cloak in my hands.
My eyes were closed tightly and I could feel the tears trying to escape. All of a sudden, I felt my body being pulled. My face slapped against something warm and hard. My eyes shot open and I got a glimpse of the bluish-grey skin that I had landed on. I felt Kisame pull me up into his lap and hold me to his chest. I looked up to see his face, and saw his head leaned back on the bark of the tree, his eyes closed. I laid my head back down on his chest and listened to his breathing. It was so steady and calm. After a while, I found it difficult to hold my eyes open and decided that sleep was the only remedy.