A/N: Ohhh guys, Tooru breaks. And I changed the interactions a lot in this chapter since Shikamaru is not there. Ohh no. And I mean, I would totally be scared of Tooru. She can be pretty scary. Not to mention you guys get to learn more about her! Yay.

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Chapter 34: Breaking Point

Tooru:

He is late. I do not like people who are late. I look at the clock, he is one minute late, pushing two minutes. My face is neutral, but I know that I am mad. I even told the smart one what time and where. I can feel the emotion annoyed coming. It's not like I will ever act on it though. One thing about being me is that I have to not care about things. Emotions come in huge waves when something happens. So I bottle them up and forget to feel. But there are times when I can no longer hide behind the wall, and maybe today will be the day I burst. Although, I don't think that will happen.

I cannot let that happen. Not in front of Lord Sixth. I have to remain in a state that I can accomplish things. Emotions will not get the best of me.

I look around again, I spot something in the distance. I lean against the wall, something that I see people do all the time. I don't understand what it does, but it is kind of nice to do.

"Yo, sorry," Lord Sixth says, walking up to me.

I bow to him, "It is okay, You are a busy man."

"Can you not bow in public. Loosen up a little," Lord sixth states.

I try to, but my body remains on alert. I cannot 'loosen' up as he request. But I cannot disobey. I try though. If anything it's making me more tense. I know I wanted this.

"Explain to me why," Lord Sixth asks.

"I wanted to gather information. Mako could know something about the group." I answer.

"We don't know anything about this guy though. For all we know he is the newest member of the group and knows next to nothing. Therefore, he would be useless to us right now, maybe if he could possibly know more it would be fine. But we don't know how long he has been a member," Lord sixth counter.

I ponder this. True, but what other options do we have? The way I see it this is a great step for us. A ninja should always clue in anyone else that they are working with what the plan may be. If there is no time than brief them on the important points of the plan. We now have a primary source of information!

Shouldn't that be enough? For me it is a good starting point and we can learn about some of their codes that they used. That could lead us to more options than before. Having Mako will do more good than harm right now.

"Still, this is better than nothing. When you guys were fighting the Akatsuki you learned of each person as you went, yet they all knew who they were working with. So by reason this guy should know everyone he is working with. Even by code name if they do that. Besides, Mako is in the bingo book. I looked at faces, I just want to confirm it. So that should lead us to others in the bingo book as well," I explain.

"Fair, but we never asked them who they were working for though," Lord Sixth interjects.

"That would be my fault." I counter, "My apologies Lord Sixth. I wish to make up for the lost time and

There is a pause, "Aren't you too smart for your own good?"

I look back at Lord Sixth. I wouldn't think so. No one has ever called me smart or indicated that I am intelligent in anyway. No one has ever said anything nice to me. I thought it was something to do with me, but I know that has nothing to do with anything.

That made sense.

My thoughts are jumbling up. I should go train than, that could help fix some of the issues I am having. Right now I need to focus and I can't do that with my thought going from one place to the next.

We enter the building and walk to the desk.

I look at the guard.

"Tooru," I flash my ANBU card.

"Any reason regarding why you are here Tooru?" The guard asks.

"To speak to our guest we have here today. I would like to question him." I say.

The ninja narrows his eyes at me, glancing around. His eye land on Lord Sixth.

"Lord Kakashi," He bows to Lord Sixth.

Hopefully we can get through this soon. I would like to start the questions sooner rather than later. I want to get this over with so I can get on with planning. Everything about being here is weird.

For some reason I want to call out to mother in these dark hallways. But there is no way I should let my voice betray me like that. My mind does though. I want to run away, I want to turn away and leave. It isn't the first time I have been in this area. But every time I am here, for some reason I want to leave.

Normally I would. But right now I can't. I have a job to do. I will not let Lord Sixth see me so weak.

"Tooru here is allowed by me to go see Mako. I will not be walking down with her, but she is the prime person looking into what happened. Please allow her down there," Lord Sixth explains.

There is something different about the tone of voice that he has. I cannot tell what it is though, maybe it is an annoyance, or even anger at me. Either way I don't care. But, he never said he trust me.

The Hokage should trust me the most in a situation like this. I would like to know why he said those things. But, I suck at reading people and their tones. I hate trying to do that, I watch and repeat. Nothing grand. I mock the tone and move on with myself.

I want to know what he meant by it though.

I can't tell what though, this is a serious situation that we are in right now. Unlike I should care. This group is starting to cause trouble that no one needs at this point. I have to be better about this than I was before. Working on this is what I must do for the village.

The ANBU member is working on something and I can feel that Lord Sixth has already left. He probably went back to his office. Good, that is where he should be. I caused trouble and this is my chance to redeem myself.

"Alright," the guard looks at me, "Everything is in order Tooru."

I give a slight nod as I wait for the doors to open. Even I am unable to sense or track where we are going at this point. But this also prevents anyone else from finding people. I would expect nothing less from an ANBU prison. Someone is on the other side and begins to lead me though the maze. I don't keep track, at least it's not in the front of my mind. They lead me to a room and nod at me.

I nod back, knowing where they are going.

Now we wait for probably my favorite person in the whole world to show up.

There is a silence. A very long silence. Before I was captured I would have thought nothing about what Mako was trying to do in the cave, it had happened too many times before since I am small and when they were assassinations; so people took advantage of a small child who did not know any better. I stopped caring about it so much, but this time was different. I shake my head, all of this is trivial that I figured out a long time ago. It is all part of being a ninja.

Doesn't mean I didn't have time to think it over. I can think it over, when my body was screaming in pain… I should have been more alert. I hate myself for that. But there is nothing I can do about it. I am a ninja. A ninja that has taken the headband and has given myself completely to the village.

Nothing in the ninja world is ever truly yours Tooru, I can hear lord thirds words ringing through my head.

It took me a long time to figure out what he had meant by that. But I know my life and body are not mine, they belong to the village. No ninja has free will; free will is only an illusion that was created so people would still enroll their children in the academy. People and bonds that are made are not mine. Nothing has ever belonged to me, I know for a fact that these interactions are forced by the village. All the things happening are just a strategy for lord sixth in a big shogi game. I am a pawn, nothing more and nothing less.

I know I have been defeated by the ninja world, and giving up is not my choice. And that choice will be made by the hokage or death. I have no say in the matter. And that disgust me. I have nothing that I can do for myself. Everything has to be approved and taken into account. I want so freedom. But I will forever be a trapped animal.

I tilt my head, maybe the vile is stronger than I thought.

Isn't that the life of a ninja though? We have nothing that we truly have. Lord Third taught me that when I was very young and questioned why I had nothing. After that, I gave up trying to find the full meaning to my life. I only serve and protect the village. Nothing more and nothing less. No one who is younger than myself even knows who I am. People only see me around the village, even then they never truly see me. I hide in the shadows and am a mystery, even to those who know about me. My life is not mine, my choices are not mine, and even my body is not mine. So I have no need to be vocal about what happened to me on missions, people buy ninjas and that includes their minds and bodies. None of this belongs to me, all of these things belong to the village. To the land of fire. What is the point of even thinking of myself when none of it is mine, I think of the village because I belong to the village.

I shake my head. I am done with all of this. I have no reason to even be in here. I should have died with he rest of my clan. I should have never come to the village. This place gives me the creeps. As though I have been somewhere similar before. But it wasn't this space. I know this because mother would cry in a corner. I know this because one day father was taken away. I don't remember father. I only can hear mothers cries and pleads with the guard's. Asking for food and water for the children.

Were there other children with us? I don't know. I think there might have been. I wanted to see mother happy, not sad.

The darkness was too much. We had a candle and the chakra was constantly drained from us. The adults were powerless against them. Who ever them were. I want to find them, see if anyone is alive. No, I doubt they are. No one could have survived. I thought I heard Uncle die that night.

I hate everything that Mako is standing for. I hate what Lord Third did. A promise that was broken. A promise that would not go over well. I wanted to know. I wanted to know what happened to everyone. None of that happened. I was alone in the world. I was kept hidden from everyone.

Why am I getting so… so… angry?

The door opens and the first thing I see is Mako. And suddenly, I feel the urge to kill him.

He is tied up and the guard ties him down to the chair. People know how I work and they also know that I will get any answers I want from people. I am standing in front of him. I lean against the wall, ready and trying to not let the emotions get the best of me.

But I don't know how well that will work. I want to kill him. I want to take my anger out on him.

But I know I shouldn't I need to make sure that he tells me things. I don't care, I want to hear him scream. I want him to feel the way I did. Right now he is powerless. I hold all the power.

A nice change, isn't it?

"Well look at who it is," Mako begins, "The little girl I wanted to have fun with. And frankly still do."

I lean against the wall. I should be careful with showing him how much power I really have. But, he did try awful things. Nah, I want to have some fun for once. And, the urge to kill him and torment him is really strong.

Fun, what a strange word to come into my mind. The person who brought him in left. Not it is just me and Mako in the room.

I hope this turns out to be informative.

But I also hope he turns into a puddle of blood. I want to see the terror…

No. Calm down. Nothing good will come out of this if I am not focused. One wrong move and I could be punished.

So? I can have fun for once.

"Well Mako, today I want you to answer a few questions for me," I finally reply.

I hear him snort. I look up and make eye contact with him. I refrain from using any eye powers I have, but I would love to. I tilt my head, should I be nice first and mean later or mean first and brutal later? I want answer now. I can put him in a genjutsu. That would make for something fun. I mimic eye powers to intensify the look, I don't have one, but I figured out the mechanics of it.

I feel myself wanting to play. Ii want to play so badly with Mako that I don't know if I can control myself. I look Mako in the eyes again.

"What, where are we…" Mako says.

The landscape is black, a light is on Mako. Nothing else. I stand in the shadows. I go here first to push boundaries. Boundaries, those he tried to push with me. Boundaries that people break all the time. Maybe it's time for a taste of what people enjoy so much about messing with people's feelings.

"Answer my questions," I say.

A pause, "No"

I smirk, I know that this guy is going to be fun. I can already feel myself itching to play with his mind. But one thing at a time. I want to just get to the fun already, but I know that I need to wait a little while before the fun starts.

"Lets start with a name, you must have a clan," I taunt.

Mako looks around trying to pinpoint my location. I am ready to have some fun.

Mako

I close my eyes, man this little girl thinks she is so smart. I know how to get around this. This isn't the first time I have been through this. I just need to annoy her enough and be short with her. She will give up. Everyone before her has.

"Mako," I reply.

I haven't talked yet and I don't think some little girl can get me either. Ikbi could not get me to say a word, and he is supposedly the best of the best to get information out of. Like this helpless little girl could do anything. She really is in way over her green hair. I would be cautious if I were her. I really hate little girls who don't know their place.

She thinks she is so smart with this. She doesn't know.

Useless.

Helpless.

"Helpless?" Her ghostly voice echoes, "Who said I was helpless?"

"Clearly you have no idea who you are dealing with," I snap.

How dare this girl think she can get the better of me right now! I should have her head. If I remember her name was Tooru, the one Kenaki could find nothing about. And here I am, having the ability to get the information that we need. I know the leader will praise me for doing such a good job.

Meaning I can make Kenaki do whatever I want in the village. I can do so many good things for us. I want to be able to do everything for us.

"And you have no idea," Her voice it too innocent. It is haunting.

It sends a shiver down my spine. We know she is powerful, but we don't know how specifically. If I had to guess she is an illusions specialist. And illusions cannot hurt you as long as you don't fall into the casters trap. Which I never do, I have more power than she does in one hand. That was proven when she tried to escape from the cave. She had to have people come in a rescue her. She hides in the shadows and plays with peoples minds, which is why no one could find her. But now I know her trick. She cannot longer have any power over me. I will dominate her.

"But wasn't I at a lower level of chakra?" A voice asks from behind me.

I turn around and find that no one is behind me. I turn forward to find a sickening smile. I stare at it, I know I should look away but I can't. It is a sweet smile at first, but it turns blue. The teeth begin to rot. The smell even comes at me, as though I have chocolate and a kid with cavities is coming at me. The tongue sticks out and it has maggots coming out. The maggots fall onto the ground, beginning to burn holes through the floor.

It is all an illusion, I think to myself. There is no way a thing like this could happen in real life. Maggots don't do that.

"Just an illusion is it?" The mouth asks.

Another sickening smile. The mouth comes closer to me. There is foam forming at the corners of the smile. It bubbles and begins to boil. It drips on the floor, killing the maggots on the floor through flames.

"Tell me, do you always try to overpower a little girl? If so that is pathetic. You have no business being a shinobi," The mouth mutters.

The smell, I feel like I will throw up. I watch as it comes to my arm and bites down on it. I want to scream but I feel like I would eat the smell if I do. I look down and there are rotting teeth left on my arm. Black at the top and holes everywhere with maggots coming out.

I move away from the mouth. I look up and it is gone. I whip my head around, looking down at my arm, the teeth are still there. They are freezing my arm, and it is burning. I need to get out of here. No, snap of it!

There is no way this girl can be powerful. She is a teenager, no one can overpower me.

I feel like gagging. The mouth is gone but the smell is swirling around me.

I try to release. But when I open my eyes, it is still there.

There is ghastly laugh.

"Now, lets try this again, what is your name, really?" The girl asks.

Should I tell her? I shake my head. Hell no! She is only playing with my emotions. I need to get a grip, I need to tell her to get away, I am scared.

Wait…

No… I am not. Little girls terrify me.

"I'm waiting," She laughs.

"Makoto Yoshida," I blurt out.

I freeze, what did I just do? I just gave her important information. I can be traced back to my village. No, she cannot know any of these. After days with Ikbi I gave away my name the first five minutes I am talking to this pathetic little girl. Why is she scaring me so much? The illusion I am under! I need to break it.

I open my mouth but nothing comes out.

"Makoto Yoshida…" She pauses, "If I remember correctly you are suppose to be one of the luckiest fighters in the whole world. Your name is ironic though, truthful. You are lucky, lucky to have never been caught. Lucky Mako; ah that is your name in the bingo book. I personally think you have finally run out of luck here though. You come from the village hidden in the clouds"

She sounds so, bland. Almost like she doesn't care.

I need to get out of here. I look around, I cannot see past the vile of light she had granted in this world. I don't know where she is. Her voice seems to be coming from everywhere at once. I cover my ears. I close my eyes.