A/N: Hello! I wanted to let everyone know that I made a few adjustments to my last chapter. Not major ones, I just added a little more detail.
I do not own Naruto.
Warning: This chapter gets intense! No profanity or gore though. It just gets heavy!
My dreams were vivid.
I could see my life playing on fast forward from the very beginning. Soon, everything started to make sense. I started to see everything so clearly and realized that I wasn't just the behemoth that I had previously become during the fight Kisame and I had had with the ANBU. I could also be gentle and soft. The memories kept unraveling and unfolding themselves until my mind went blank. I remember seeing my brother and a man whose identity was hidden behind a blanket of darkness, and then, past that; I couldn't see anything. I felt Kisame shift a little underneath me and I opened my eyes.
He was still sleeping.
I looked up past the trees above us and noticed that it was still dark. A cool breeze blew past my shoulders and I saw that Kisame's cloak had fallen down to the bend of my elbows. I quickly pulled it back over my shoulders and snapped my neck up to look at Kisame's face. His eyes were still closed. I let a soft sign pass my lips and turned my attention to the shirtless man's chest. With my index finger, I ran it across his neck and past his chest to his stomach, looking up every so often to make sure that he was still asleep. My cheeks were starting to feel hot and then I heard Kisame chuckle.
"Heh, do you like what you see girl?"
I snatched my finger away from him and pushed myself up onto my feet, pulling the cloak around my body tightly. My whole body felt like it was burning up.
"I-I'm sorry." I whispered towards him.
Kisame stood up and ruffled his hair.
"I guess we should make our way to Takigakure. We've traveled too far from our original position for your brother and Tobi to find us now."
I looked up at Kisame and nodded my head.
"How's your chakra doing? Will you be able to make it or should I carry you?" he asked while grabbing Samehada.
"I think I will be fine, thank you."
I made my way next to Kisame and turned up to look at his face.
He did the same and we both nodded towards each other and pushed upwards into the trees.
My sudden chakra surges made it incredibly easy for me to keep up with Kisame. I matched his every step as we sprinted through the tree tops. My body was so energized and I felt like I could keep going forever like this. An opening was coming up and I noticed that Kisame had begun to slow down and descend to the ground below us. I followed, and landed behind him.
"Someone's following us." He said quietly.
Snap!
We both turned our bodies towards the sudden noise behind us.
"Yin."
'That voice.' I thought, as I strained my eyes to look for the person calling my name.
I saw the bodies come forward from the shadows of the trees and immediately recognized the bright orange mask that was coming closer. My brother was right behind Tobi and I felt my body twist with so many different emotions.
"Yin, are you alright. Did it work?" my brother's voice was starting to sound frantic.
I couldn't move. What was I supposed to feel for my brother now? Happiness or resentment? My mind started to race and I felt my knees give in. I hit the ground below me and realized that my body had started to tremble.
A large hand grabbed my shoulders and I jerked my head up and noticed Kisame holding my body still.
"T-this h-hurt won't g-go away!" I said, unable to control the shaking in my voice.
I heard footsteps moving closer to me.
"Yin…." My brother said. "What's wrong with you?"
I felt Kisame's hands wrap around my arms and pull me to my feet. He spun my body around and pulled my head up to face the man in front of me.
My brother.
"N-ni-san…."
The tears were flowing freely now and I could see the disappointment in my brother's face.
"I-I thought this was supposed to work. I thought this was supposed to bring you back Yin." His voice sounded hurt and confused.
"I am Yin!" I shouted at him this time.
He looked towards me and his expression changed from sad to loathing. His eyes were gleaming with hatred and his body started to shake. He raised his hand up in the air and swiftly brought it down to me.
I cringed and braced myself for what was about to come.
Nothing.
My eyes shot open and I saw Kisame's back.
He was standing between me and my brother. He had a solid grip on my brother's arm and his eyes were glaring into my brother's. They stayed like that for a moment until my brother's body stopped shaking. Kisame released his arm and my brother turned his attention to me again.
He stepped around Kisame and made his way back to me. The expression on his face was unreadable.
I felt him grab my shoulders and turn my body around. He pulled Kisame's cloak down off of my body and touched my back.
"Release!" he shouted.
I felt my back start to burn again, but the pain was not as intense as it used to be. I could feel him run his fingers over the burning sensation on my back and then, I heard him sigh. I heard another set of footsteps make their way towards me. I looked back and saw Tobi standing beside my brother.
"The seal's not completely gone?" Tobi said curiously.
"No, I didn't want her to remember everything that happened during the accident. I sealed it along with her other memories." My brother's voice sounded so broken.
My brother removed his fingers from my back and turned me around to face him. His head was hung and I could see the tears falling from his face.
I heard him take in a deep breath and pull his head up and look down into my eyes.
"I'm sorry." He said and then backed away from me. "I'm going to fix you Yin."
He lifted his hands and pulled out a scroll from his kimono top. He unrolled the piece of paper, tossed it onto the ground, bit his thumb, and kneeled down to the ground next to the scroll.
I saw black ink bleeding from the scroll and onto the ground. It was heading towards me, and in an instant, it completely consumed my body.
Black.
Darkness.
'What is this?'
My memories started to play on fast forward again. Everything meshed together and then I saw the mystery man with my brother again, but this time his identity was clearer.
'N-ni-san?'
Two of the same person; standing in front of me.
Identical.
The men in front of me were exactly the same.
'W-who are you?'
Suddenly the men were fighting. They tearing away at each other and all I could do was watch.
I could hear myself screaming for my brother, but I couldn't figure out what was going on, and then it stopped.
One man was standing on top of the other and I saw him raise his sword in the air. A loud slicing noise filled my ears and a scream worked its way from the pit of my stomach and out of my mouth.
I saw more men walking towards the man that was lying on the ground and swiftly picked him up, dragging him towards me. The other man was following them and I noticed that he was laughing.
I felt my knees hit the ground and something sharp stab into my neck.
"Just give her enough so she won't run away!" I heard the man shout in my direction.
'Who are the people?' I thought as I felt my head start to spin.
They injected the wounded man as well and pulled him over next to me.
"Now then, you two won't be going anywhere."
I saw the man who also looked like my brother walk over and bend his face down to mine. His smile was sick and twisted. I felt sick as I saw him bring his hand to my face.
"What a shame. A pretty face like yours shouldn't be in this predicament. I can't tell you that I'll feel bad when I smash your skull in, but I promise" he buried his head into my hair and I could hear him take in a deep breath "I won't forget you!" he started to laugh and pulled himself to his feet.
My face was plastered with terror. I looked over to the wounded man and saw his chest moving up and down.
'He's still alive?' I thought in shock.
I couldn't help the tears that started to fall down my cheek. This man beside me looked exactly like my brother. He was my brother. There's no way that this maniac who was wearing my brother's features was my actual brother. No way!
"Tck, it sure took you a long time didn't it honey." The man standing above me said.
"How old were you" the man tapped his chin "I think about seven maybe?"
I had no clue what he was talking about.
"W-what?" I asked.
"Oh that's right!" the man shouted. "I guess that you still can't put two and two together so I'll let you in on my secret. I kidnapped you and placed into a training camp. I disguised myself to look like your brother. Man, you really are stupid! You believed everything! But you were one of my best students, and you made me a lot of money. Ha!"
I tried to put the pieces together, but my memories were blank.
"I-I don't understand…."
The man pushed me to the ground and stood over my body.
"That man over there" he said as he pointed to the wounded man "he's your brother."
I felt bile start to rise from my stomach. I pulled my head to the side and felt everything spew from my mouth.
"Disgusting." the man spat at me.
He walked around my body and stopped right behind my head.
I leaned up and saw him looking down at my face.
His lips were twitching into a ferocious grin.
"Now this may hurt a little."
I saw him lift his foot over my head and then pain took over, but it wasn't long until the darkness took me under.
I woke up to someone shaking me and I could hear someone calling my name.
"Yin. Yin. Wake up please Yin!"
I sat up from the pallet underneath me and looked up to face the person who had woken me up.
"Tell me Yin, what do you remember?" I looked at the man in front of me who was gently holding my face.
"W-what is this place? Who are y-you?" I asked him.
I was starting to tremble uncontrollably.
He held me tightly in his arms and said, "I-I will spend the rest of my life making this right, for you Yin. I will bring you back."
This man was my brother, and now I understood everything.