Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Life for a Life ❯ Origins and Secrets Part 4 ( Chapter 50 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

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Moiya Hatake… Well, your enthusiasm definitely shows. Anyway easy to read, is simply experience from reading a lot of books and knowing a lot of big words.

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Chapter 50

History has always had a set path. It was Fate's way of making sure all went right in the world….

Sometimes History needs to get a swift kick in the ass to resume its natural course again…

Sound Village…same day…

Sasami whimpered in pain as Kabuto-Sensei stopped her `punishment'. Although the little girl had held her own, and managed to heal 90% of her injuries, during most of it. These last few minutes had been torturous for her…

She had run so low on her own chakra, that she could no longer stand. Instead she had curled into a fetal ball and prayed…just prayed for it all to end soon. When she had seen the youth with the glasses, she had figured that this was it. She was going to die.

Instead, her tormentors were pulled away and the older man was healing her of her injuries. It had taken some time, but he had done it with the relative ease as she could feel a little strength returning to her legs and body. As he gently pulled her up, she was allowed to stand with relief somewhat.

“Come with me Tanaka…” He had voiced almost to softly for comfort. “HE wishes to see you about the scroll…”

Frightened as she followed him, Sasami knew that to flee now would surely mean her death. She had heard about Orichamaru-sama and his experiments, and the little girl had thought that she was to be taken to him for her punishment.

So she resigned herself, to this being her last few minutes of life. She found herself walking down the halls of the Sound Village's academy. As moments of her far too short life, flashed in front of her eyes.

Therefore as Kabuto opened a door, and gently pushed her in, she found herself confused and puzzled. Instead she was in a room with a youth who was not much younger then her sadistic sensei…

“Sasami-Chan, this is Uchiha-sama. He wishes to speak with you…”

Beckoning to her, the little girl approached the young man warily. Her dark amber eyes guarded, it takes seeing the edge of the once sealed scroll she held for her to realize what had happened.

Happily smiling now, she looks up and it disappears as a cool and impassive face stare at her.

“Where did you get this?”

“An Angel Lady had given this to me, Uchiha-sama…”

“Angel lady?”

Nodding her head, the girl told of her arrival in the cave. Hearing the musical sounds, that she couldn't help but follow, she did so with the natural curiosity of a child. Describing her looks and everything that had transpired, the pale skinned man looked at her with his cold expressionless eyes as she finished….

“So you do not know what this scrolls says?”

“No, the Angel lady told me as I left, that I wasn't supposed to read it. Just to take the one who opened it to see her when he or she read it. Because she said she has answers to many questions.”

Listening to the child, Sasuke thought carefully as he looked the scroll over once more. Never once feeling the need to trigger his Sharingan eye, he knew that the small girl had to have been telling the truth concerning the scroll.

Reading the words upon its slender page once more, he can once again hear the faint music as it plays in the back of his mind… Short and to the point, it had indeed peaked his interest…

I had once asked the six tailed dragon, why it and the other Biju were here. The dragon simply looked at me and smiled.

It is because we were told to come here. We Nine Biju are the guardians of the Immortal Shrine Maidens.

That was all; the scroll had said…an enticement. The Nine Biju were the Guardians of these Immortal Shrine Maidens? Considering the young girl had stated that the person who had given the scroll to her was an Angelic Lady, he could only assume that, the girl had stumbled upon one of these temple shrines, and it's Maiden.

Gathering Kusanagi, and a few other items he may need, he gestures for the young girl to get up.

“You want to go now, Sasuke-sama?”

Nodding his head simply, Sasami bounced forward, her dark hair swinging behind her in a familiar ponytail. The young girl out of habit finds herself reaching for the Uchiha's hand. Grasping onto it, she starts chatting about the area around it, never realizing the look of surprise on the older youth's face.

She was holding his hand? About to pull it away, the young girl clutches only tighter as they approach Kabuto, standing further down the hall.

Understanding dawns upon him, as for some odd reason, the girl is unwittingly giving him her trust. To protect her from monsters…

“Where are you going Sasuke-kun?”

“Out…and she is coming with me.”

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A few hours later outside the village….

Watching as the girl runs ahead, Sasuke observes as she points at something excitedly.

“Sasuke-sama! Here! Here is where I entered.”

He strides forward as he spots the small cave, for which only a child could crawl through, hidden by the rocks and the bushes. He pulls out the Kusanagi sword…

Respecting the hidden value of it, the youth holds the sword tip right against the stone. His free hand making a sign in front of him, the sword sinks in and begins to slice the stone. Slow and hard at first, the youth concentrates still, on widening the opening…

Finally after about half an hour, the chunk falls away and as Sasami crawls in, he follows right behind her.

Able to stand up a few minutes later, he is about to make a jutsu to light a torch he had brought with him, when an ethereal maiden appeared, shining before them. Staring at her radiant beauty, he could see the little girl run forward and hug the woman who had seemingly come from nowhere.

Yes, you did good Sasami-chan, you brought the hero who had lost his path here…

Grinning happily, the black haired girl ran towards Sasuke to pull him forward. Allowing himself to be yanked somewhat by the enthusiastic little girl, he can't take his eyes away from the shining woman in front of him.

Observing as she stops, the young woman glows brightly and begins to sing. Her voice echoed by others, the cave lights up, to reveal that they were in fact inside an ancient Temple shrine.

My name is Amaretsu, lost one.

“Why do you call me that?”

Because that is what you are. A hero, who has lost his way....come, let me show you.

Following the woman and Sasami, who skips happily alongside them, she shows Sasuke a painting that triggers some painful memories for him.

Two familiar statues alongside a river and a waterfall are in the image. Shown clearly, is the figure of him as a child and the blonde fighting one another. He in his cursed form, and Naruto is his one tailed Fox form...

“You are crying Sasuke-sama, why?” Sasami asks curiously, as she stretches up to dry his cheeks. Startled as he feels her wipe something wet off of his flesh, he looks to the woman, with questions.

My lord painted these images eons ago, Sasuke-sama... The woman replied before he even asked.

“What do you mean eons ago...?” The youth replied. “And why did that scroll give me hints of the Biju? You know about them don't you!”

Yes I do. After all as you read they were created to protect me and my sisters from him arising again.

“Him?”

Pointing to a painting at the far end of the hall, one that even from this distance feels malevolent and evil. Sasami stays close to the woman and shivers in fear. Sasuke, sensing the evil activates his Sharingan out of habit. His eyes providing him protection, he approaches this painting.

A dark winged being stands there in the image. Many tails flashing behind him, the redness in his eyes is the color of blood.

He is D'Eskel...he is not a demon nor is he a Biju in your typical sense. A voice speaks to him soft and musically.

“What is he then?”

He is for a lack of a better term...a Demon God.

Startled by this, he just listens as the woman speaks.You know how our world is infused with what humanity calls Chakra. It is quite true, but when he came, our world was out of balance. He was sucking the very life of our home into him.

Through a ritual that my sisters and I had done, we had accomplished what most could not do. We had contacted our world's gods and they taught us a ritual using these temples as focal points.

We succeeded in sealing D'Eskel, within the land, using the power of the entire world.

“This thing...is alive?!”

Yes, all living creatures walk upon some aspect of his body and draw life from him. Some more then others...

Confused for a moment by her statement, Sasuke pales as a dawning realization hits him.... “You used all the chakra the world had to offer to seal him didn't you...”

Yes, this world is technically dead; the only thing keeping it alive is D'Eskel himself. And he is breaking free...