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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She is supposed to remember someone... someone very close to her... but why... Sasori's binding jutsu is powerful and when she is exhausted, Izumi stops fighting and her memory fades almost completely. Moth's howling stops reaching the surface of her consciousness./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Emotions were becoming difficult to control, a part of her still not giving up on the fight. Changing day by day, Izumi was confused about her feelings towards her ambiguous sister, Itachi and that uncertainty would drive her crazy. She tried to submit herself to that temporary captivity, certain that after the extraction ritual that awaited her soon, she would be free. Able to run away as far as possible and find Sasuke. That was supposed to be her reward for patience, wasn't it? Sasuke… sometimes she remembers that there is such a person, but why he was so important to her… this question would seem to have no answer, especially after the medicine Sasori has been giving her daily. Memories would fade replaced by sweet oblivion. However, despite all that, something deep inside her would keep her restless. She's supposed to remember… but what? Sasori's binding jutsu seemed to have all control over her. Moth's howling stops reaching the surface of her consciousness./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Graceful stamping of bare feet on the stone floor echoed off the walls of the empty hall where Akatsuki members sometimes gathered. In recent weeks, however, they had not had much opportunity to gather, occupied with jinchuriki hunting missions, while the Seven Tail's host, unaware of anything, killed the boredom and long days with training. It's been 2 long years spent in Akatsuki and she barely remembered the world without rain./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She is supposed to remember someone... someone very close to her... but why... Sasori's binding jutsu is powerful and when she is exhausted, Izumi stops fighting and her memory fades almost completely. Moth's howling stops reaching the surface of her consciousness./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Emotions were becoming difficult to control, a part of her still not giving up on the fight. Changing day by day, Izumi was confused about her feelings towards her ambiguous sister, Itachi and that uncertainty would drive her crazy. She tried to submit herself to that temporary captivity, certain that after the extraction ritual that awaited her soon, she would be free. Able to run away as far as possible and find Sasuke. That was supposed to be her reward for patience, wasn't it? Sasuke… sometimes she remembers that there is such a person, but why he was so important to her… this question would seem to have no answer, especially after the medicine Sasori has been giving her daily. Memories would fade replaced by sweet oblivion. However, despite all that, something deep inside her would keep her restless. She's supposed to remember… but what? Sasori's binding jutsu seemed to have all control over her. Moth's howling stops reaching the surface of her consciousness./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Little Moth suddenly loosened her grip, pushing back while she grabbed his left wrist and pulled the white cuff to reveal what she anticipated to see there. Her face lit up. Involuntarily, she looked up to realize that Sasuke, flustered, automatically looked up as well, directing his eyes to the piece of red ribbon tied tightly around one of her ponytails. He blushed, quickly withdrawing his hand and covering his wrist./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Sasuke frowned, unable to read the girl. Angry thoughts swirled in his brain, old memories of pleasant family life returned, scratching deep wounds. Izumi finally raised her hand above her head to signal a break and crouched on top of the roof, steadying her breathing and wiping the sweat from her forehead. She ran her fingers through the locks of thick hair, combing them with difficulty./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"'Apart from Chomei, I am also the reincarnation of the old seer Otsutsuki, Huranaishi... as you can guess, I didn't choose this for myself. Controlling both of them is not the easiest thing... So far, members of our clan have helped us with this, but…' she paused, looking for words. Sasuke waited patiently 'Orochimaru helped me, although it had its price, but more on that later. So I started learning how to talk to my demons.'/p
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