Tamako came to with a thudding migraine, her eyes shut closed with sticky tears and the dull pain thumping with her slow heartbeat. Each thump had increased the excruciating pain that both her mind and body were trying to even out, each throb sending thousands of pain signals throughout her body. Her body dangled, suspended in the air, showcasing for all to see. Tamako's battered form, her limbs stretched out and each sporting a chakra rod struck through muscle and bone. Blooded dripped down, landing with a splat, a dark and large puddle forming beneath her shadow.
"Sta-statu..s..." Tamako groaned out once more.
[You cannot access the Status Page at this time]
"Load save f-file-" Blood spurted out her throat, dribbling down the sides of her chin.
[You cannot access the Save Files at this time]
[You are experiencing an event that cannot be skipped]
Each limb was pieced by hundreds of rods. Slowly, meticulously.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..!"
Pein took no heed towards the defeated girl's words and continue to stick more and more and moremoremoremoremore-
Blood gushed out each end of the rod, each and every one stuck out painfully, gravity pulling at the puncture wounds into a sharp throb.
It only has been ten minutes since Pein had stopped her plan. It has only been eight minutes since Hinata had died from blood-loss. It has only been six minutes since both Naruto and Sakura watched the former Akatsuki member go through extreme torture. It has only been three minutes and she'd already fainted nearly nine times.
"Well deceiver, I think it's time for me to depart you with a final name; deceased." Pein stuck another chakra receiving rod into her chest harshly, pain blossoming in the area.
"..you...you mig-might think this is peace...you-you're wrong." Tamako rasped out, groaning when the humming of her voice ached her wounds.
"Please..." She heard cries below her, the voice warped from the amount of screaming and shouting. "Please stop." The voice was feminine, worn, tired.
Tamako couldn't even remember who or why, but the voice sounded so distressed, so sad, so full of pain that her pain was momentarily halted to intake a new type of pain, failure.
Grimy periwinkle hair, matted with dirt, oil, sweat, and blood, clumps of Tamako's hair had already fallen and covered the girl's face, her vision was cut short beneath her darkened eyes.
"No matter. Your body will now be useful for the Asura Path..."
I'm sorry.
. . .
She regained her vision, her mind clear despite what seemed to be a fraction a second ago she could barely form any coherent thoughts.
Tamako raised an arm, yet no movement occurred.
Why can't I move?
Why can't I blink?
She panicked, her blind blazing thought questions as it was the only way she could react. Then, a familiar blue window popped in front of her vision in the vast dark.
[You have died!]
[You have satisfied the necessary means of obtaining the secret route!]
[Would you like to view?]
[YES] [NO]
Without hesitation, she picked yes to fully understand what the fuck just happened, and she was shown an image. A movie theater of images flowed as if she were watching a film that formed into memories.
Except these weren't her memories.
They were showing her, her.
She was dead, yet she was moving?
Tamako eyed at her moving form, gracefully dodging the attacks of the slow moving Sakura, the single chakra receiver that pierced her earlier was gone but Tamako knew that Sakura's reserve was almost out, then, she noticed familiar violet rings that replaced her former ebony ones.
Oh.
OH.
Pein had replaced the original Asura Path that she'd seen before, it was the first to be defeated.
The irony.
Pein didn't have the time nor opportunity to dye her hair orange, thank god, because Tamako knew that shade of orange wouldn't sit well with her pale features. Her body still sported her iconic periwinkle hair, however, it was matted with dirt, debris, blood and other bodily fluids. Her Akatsuki cloak was in absolute tatters with dry blood staining, almost dampening it a shade darker. Unlike the other Paths, her face was still free of any piercings, and rather it was her body that had the brunt of it in a grotesque way. Full of chakra receivers that stuck awkwardly through her body, littering it.
Prominent holes scattered through her cloak, it was incredibly obvious that Tamako did not die a quick nor painless death, it was her punishment.
Her body moved in a repulsive fashion, each dodge, each attack and each maneuver nearly flung her almost detached arm to the side, just barely holding on together with a string of muscle and chakra receiver. It looked like she was a movie zombie.
"Hate is born..." Her body spoke, using her light airy voice in a monotone voice. "... and we are able to know pain." She snapped to the side, punching Sakura so hard that her body contorted into an unnatural angle into the ground.
Chakra snapped from Naruto's body, all red and corrupted, pillaring around his body before shooting high into the sky. Her body tilted its head, eyes wide and unblinking in a way that deeply disturbed Tamako, deep purple rings unmoving. Then, it dug towards the now rampaging Nine Tail's Jinchūriki.
And her vision went dark.
. . .
She woke up with bleary eyes and the bright sunlight hitting them. Her whole body ached like she'd thought it was a good idea to skydive without using the parachute, her mind muddled extreme fatigue.
DING!
[+200 Relationship with P̶e̶i̶n̶ Nagato!]
[Nagato forgives you and understands your intentions!]
[Current Relationship: (90/100)]
DING!
[+200 Relationship with Konan!]
[If Nagato says he forgives, I will too]
[Current Relationship: 110/100)]
DING!
[Relationship with Konan has exceeded 100!]
[Change in attitude towards you!]
[...changing...]
DING!
[Konan sees you as her last ally standing]
[Current Relationship: (10/100)]
DING!
[+100 Relationship with Akatsuki!]
[Akatsuki doesn't know you had went against Pein]
[Current Relationship: (65/100)]
Tamako coughed wetly as she sat up, caressing her aching body as her vision adjusted. Her body felt strained with each movement, her chakra levels just barely enough to function right.
"How—how is this possible?" A voice whispered out.
Tamako blinked at the voice, her vision clearly slowly as she finally began assessing the situation.
Laying on a white blanket.
Tons of rods dirtied with blood on the side of stacked like a pyramid
Team Guy plus Sakura, Hinata and a newly alive Shizune two feet from her.
She's alive.
Wait, she's alive?
Tamako raised a hand forward, clenching and unclenching before clapping them together in a prayer. Her body was weak, her mind felt like hot molasses but she was alive. She'll probably need a few days to process that torture session but for now it was sitting in the back-burner before she snapped. Slowly, she wobbled to her feet, standing up straight and eyed the state of her clothing, or, lack of. Her clothes were pretty much rags at this point, barely clinging on to her body with so many holes and spots that she could clearly see the majority of her pale skin. Her cloak was tattered, bloody and smelled a bit off, but at some point, it was taken off and acted as a blanket, probably for her own modesty. Now, it laid abandoned at her feet.
"You—! Are you really..?"
The disheveled girl spun on her heels, rags flowing from the movement and slipping down her shoulder. She placed a hand on her hip, not bothered with her almost bare state. With a small grin, she nodded at the voice that addressed her.
"Hello, Sakura."
"You're a-alive. You were dead, and-and you were possessed by Pein but Naruto— Naruto beat you so badly that all the chakra just vanished like—like you were dead!" Sakura choked out, slowly inching towards her with an outstretched arm.
"Sakura, stop! She's still apart of the Akatsuki!" Shikamaru shouted before lunging towards the Pinkette, grabbing her arm and tugging her away from Tamako. He held out a kunai defensively, reading to cut her down. His eyes were focused on her face before trailing at the state of her clothes and snapped right back to her face, not even twitching. But she could see the slight widening of his pupils.
Right, she was still technically a world-class enemy.
"The second generation of Akatsuki is no more." She simply said, reaching down and picking up the battered cloak, "Fear the third." The cloak sat hideously around her form, and eyed the Nara. Shikamaru and his 200 IQ should've picked up the double entendre well enough. She reached into the hidden compartment of her cloak and bit into the very last soldier pill she had lying around, almost groaning when her pounding headache of chakra exhaustion swam away. With one last nod to the gaping group, she shunshin to the outskirts of the village before picking up speed into a sprint. Right back to her safe space, to her base.
. . .
Deidara had pounced at the sight of her, grabbing her shoulders and ripping off the cloak. He eyed her body with narrowed eyes before hugging her so tight that she'd thought she'd die again. Then, he slammed a fist onto her head
[-200 HP!]
"Stupid! You look like someone katsu-ed you. Why do you look like you died?" Deidara's face was tinted red with anger. He was tired of being lied to, and tired of the girl dodging his questions.
"Um." She replied back eloquently, giving him a cheeky smile before reaching forward for a sneaky hug to distract him.
Deidara grabbed her arms to push them to her side, clenching them between his fingers. "Don't try to distract me."
Tamako pouted for the first time in a while, feeling like a teenager again. It was nice to have someone worried for her. "Pein was a tougher opponent than I initially calculated. But I'm back! And unharmed!"
He raised an eyebrow, "You fought him? You said you wouldn't and you look like absolute shit."
And Deidara was not sugar-coating it, her hair was more akin to a bird's nest than her usually slick and smooth shiny hair, her face seemed a little too dull with no color to her cheeks, and her tattered clothes made her look a little too homeless. "Well, it just happened. And I'm in the need for a shower, a dip in the hot spring and some food!"
Her favorite blonde practically shoved her into the bathroom, promising that he'll treat her to an Iwa local specialty afterwards. Warmth spread through her body, her face turning pink. What cute brother she had.
The feeling quickly dissipated when she felt her ring buzz dangerously with chakra. Without a moment of hesitation, she sat on the cold ceramic floor in a lotus before accepting the call.
She felt a whoosh of chakra, her mind newly awakened and met Sharingan red-eyes. Tamako immediately crouched on one knee. "Tobi."
"Tamako." He replied back. "I felt your chakra disappear, only for it to snap back. What of Kyuubi? What is Pein's status?"
"It is a failure, Tobi."
"Failed, you say?"
"Hai, the Kyuubi has proven to be... stupidly persuasive with his ignorant ideals, yet Pein, or Nagato, has fallen for it."
"This is indeed troubling. We need the Kyuubi to complete our plans, however, the other villages would not have it..." Obito trailed off. "Declaring war would quicken our pace to obtain the Kyuubi." He concluded with the same tone of voice, as if he were just ordering the McDonalds Number 5.
Her brows pinched, "Sir, we only have Kisame and I under you. How do we proceed in war preparations?"
"You are either stupid enough to continue under my lead or loyal to our ideals. Interesting. Assist Uchiha Sasuke with his plans concerning the Rokudaime Hokage. If possible, weaken the forces in any way possible. I will have Kisame prepare in a surprise attack, you are to assist him later after our grand entrance."
"Hai. How should I address you? Leader-sama?"
"No, that title would only remind me of the failures of Nagato. Address me as Uchiha Madara."
"Uchiha Madara..!" She faked her surprise and widened her eyes, bowing her head even lower, "Of course, Uchiha-sama."
"Now go."
Character Status
Name: Tamako
Class: The Gamer
Age: 16 Years Old
Title: Momma's Little Gem
Status: Content
Level: 395
HP: 19,100- HP Regen: 4 per 1 seconds
CP: 18,670- CP Regen: 3 per 1 seconds
Strength: 433
Vitality: 424
Wisdom: 464
Intelligence: 425
Dexterity: 427
Agility: 426
Luck: 399
Fame/Infamy: -17200
Sunagakure no Sato is confused
Konohagakure no Sato is really confused
Yukigakure no Sato acknowledges you and hunting you
Kirigakure no Sato acknowledges you and hunting you
Iwagakure no Sato acknowledges you and hunting you
Kumagakure no Sato has named you #1 Public Enemy
Akatsuki accepts you (65/100)
Akasuna no Sasori is a bit weird. He is friends with you! (he thinks) (100/100)
Deidara cherishes you! (10/100)
Uchiha Sasuke holds high faith in you! (3/100)
Uchiha Itachi values you! (0/100)
Uzumaki Karin idols you! (30/100)
Jugo accepts you! (30/100)
Konan understands your true nature (10/100)
[DECEASED] Pein Nagato forgives you and understands your intentions! (90/100)
Money: 15,600,270 ryo
Unspent Points: 403