Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ I failed you daddy blue eyes ❯ Chapter 8
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By: Kaitiiro 
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / / Romance / Hentai / Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 07.25.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.5K | Visits: 199 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / / Romance / Hentai / Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 07.25.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.5K | Visits: 199 | Status: Completed
AN: I've been off lately,.... I apolo... ok... nevermind that.... Just enjoy...
Disclaimer: I know you know we all know and that's a no, which means that I don't own, just so you know.
Chapter 8
Kazuo sighed as she awaited her team mates. She had many things on her mind, and seeing that this day was the anniversary of her daddy blue eyes death, she was depressed. Though her team mates understood this, that didn't mean that she wanted to burden them with this. She had been feeling lost... and alone. Though to be honest, she was used to being alone. Or she had been used to being alone. "Ka-chan, good morning..." said Kimi. She smiled at him, one of those fleeting smiles that last a mere moment and seem to come rarely. "Have you seen Jiira, Ka-chan?" asked Kimi in a plight to actually get her to talk, but Kazuo only shrugged. Kimi sighed.
Kazuo walked away from Kimi as she sensed their sensei near, and Jiira was no where to be found. "Kaka-sensei," said Kazuo with a slight tilt to her head. He gave her a sad understanding glance before he spoke, "You two are to work on retrieval skills, and to test out your team work I've decided to have you two find Jiira. She's one of the best trackers that we have, but she can also be pretty hard to find. You must find her..." said Kakashi. Kimi gave a short nod, but Kazuo seemed to be deep in thought. Then she took off. Kimi was right behind her. She motioned for Kimi to go the other way and around the five or so large trees in front of them, and she would go in the opposite direction. As she neared the other side of the tree, she tensed. Someone was watching her, and it wasn't either of her team mates. She shook it off, it didn't ma- She frowned. But then that oddly familiar sensation was gone. Something was definitely not right, but nothing was terribly wrong either.
Kazuo smirked slightly. She said nothing as she turned the other way and made her way away from Kimi's area. She was almost away when someone blocked her path. "You can't just leave your partner... Desertion is troublesome..."
Kazuo looked in surprise at Shikamaru. "Where did you come from?" she asked. She was used to being able to sense someone who was near-by. "Near," He said simply. She smirked before leaning forward. "You know where she is. Don't you?" she said. He gave her a look before turning away. yes, she knew it. He knew where Jiira was, but he wasn't going to tell her. In all honesty she knew where Jiira was as well. With a semi-defeated sigh, she walked back to where her team mate was. "She's on the other side of the tree, eating Ramen." said Kazuo simply. There was a silence that followed, before a snort of amusement, and a moan of displeasure met the ears of the other two team mates. Kazuo frowned as did Kimi. Kazuo sniffed. She gave an odd look to Kimi, who was merely quirking an eyebrow. "Well... this is... unexpected." Murmured Kazuo. "Sorry, Kazuo... I really didn't think you guys would find me.. I mean, I was eerily close, yet far. I mean you guys thrive on the complex, so I figured that if I made it simple you'd be confused. Hmm... I must work on my observation skills..." Jiira jumped out of the tree, and landed on the ground with the grace of a feline. Kazuo gave her a look. "I know that you were not alone in that tree." said Kazuo. Jiira gave her an amused look before walking passed her and towards the village. She seemed a tinsy bit smug. A little too smug for Kazuo's tastes. "Who was it?" asked Kazuo subtility be damned. Just because she was mourning didn't mean she would back off.
"Please... I'm not telling, and he's gone so drop it," said Jiira. "Oooh... It's a male," said Kimi in a sing-song voice. Jiira merely growled. "It's no one you know..." she said. Kazuo stared at her for a moment before nodding. The girl deserved some kind of privacy. "Does Shika-kun know?" she asked softly. "Yes," said Jiira. But the girl looked guilty so Kazuo deduced that she had lied. Though she would have been able to notice the lie in the air. Well, not the lie precisely, more like the change of scent. Kazuo gave her a meaningful look before walking off. "I have to go," She said, as she remembered promising Neji that she would buy groceries and treat him to a dinner. Though she hadn't said that it was a treat for his birthday. She had deemed it odd that his birthday was the day that her daddy blue eyes had died, but at least it was a way to cheer her up. OoO... She had almost forgotten. She had promised to see Auntie Tsunade. With a sigh, she redirected her position to face towards the hokages' office.
She walked briskly into the building and then into the Hokages' office. The ANBU guards had long since given up keeping her out of the hokages' office. Therefor, her destination was unhindered. The Hokage looked the same as she had for several years, but the weariness in her countenance was apparent. Even if the woman would never admit it. She was old. She was fit, but she was old. "Auntie Tsunade, are you ok?" she asked the over used, cliched, trite, redundant question that all ask when not knowing what to ask.
Tsunade sat up in her chair and sighed. "How was your day?" was the question that she asked. Kazuo stared. A question, for a question. Kazuo could play that game as well, and she knew the underlying meaning of said question, which was 'I hope you are coping with the anniversary of his death well'
Kazuo sat in the chair in front of the Hokage. "How can you stand this job?" she asked. The hokage sighed, Tsunade knew what that meant. 'It's as well as can be. You were going to choose him as your successor, How are you coping?' Tsunade gave a very put upon sigh, but didn't say anything. Ah, well... Beating around the bush was not a specialty that should be wasted, but Kazuo didn't feel like it. "I love you, Auntie Tsunade, but I really must go. I promised Uncle Neji that I would make him something today, but I also need your help to get some people together for his birthday... part... I mean gathering" said Kazuo. All this had to be done in secret of course.
Kazuo smiled. It had been a very long while since Kazuo had really smiled. Non-the-less, she was smiling. Not because she was particularly happy, no of course not. She was smiling because her surprise had gone well. Though he hadn't reacted verbally, his eyes had widened, and thankfully he said nothing of fate. For this, she was grateful. She loved her Uncle Neji dearly, but his constant talks of Fate had her on edge, and resigned.
These thoughts, she pushed them to the back of her mind, as she watched her surrogate Aunties and Uncles have fun. Her Uncle Neji was content, and she felt happy with this. Sighing, she walked out of the apartment and towards the Hokage monument. As she was nearly there, she found that she had company. Frowning in consternation she tuned into her surroundings. She paused in her treck to the Hokage monument.
Her tense shoulders eased as she realized that once again Shikamaru had came upon her without her realizing it...AGAIN. "Are you stalking me or something?" she asked in annoyance. "No," Shikamaru said simply. She narrowed her eyes before continuing her treck to the Hokage Monument. Once she reached the top, she sat atop the head of the fourth Hokage. "Why have you been stalking me?" she asked. " I haven't," said Shikamaru. "You followed me almost everywhere I went today... what is going on?" she asked. He stared at her for a moment, before sitting down. "Life is troublesome, and For once in my life I was bored...ne?" said Shikamaru in a dry tone.
"You stalk when you get bored... why wasn't I aware of this?" she said with amusement. "I always thought that you would sit on a hill and watch clouds lazily roll by..." she said in an airy tone. "Ka-chan." said Shikamaru softly. "Is it that boring to sit and watch clouds without me?" she asked amused. "Tche. Troublesome women." he said. Imitating his dry tone of voice she said, "Tche. Troublesome men." Then she laughed. He gave her a small smirk before he turned to look out over the village.
"The view is beautiful, ne?" she asked. He turned to her, watching her eyes taking in the view of Konoha Village, and smiling. He gave a 'hn.' and she looked at him oddly. "How is Aunt Blondie doing?" she asked suddenly. He quircked an eyebrow at her, as blondie could be a number of people. "I mean, Aunt Ino."
"I haven't seen her much all year, but the times I did see her, she was all over the Uchiha." said Shikamaru in a lazy fashion. She sniffed before glaring at him. "Don't insult Sasuke-niisan, I heard that tone mister!" She said mock angrily. "Maa... I'm sorry," he said raising his hand in defense. "That's better," she said smirking. He sighed before muttering under his breath.
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"You have a mission, The Village of the Sound wishes to sign a peace treaty, however they have specially requested that your particular team run this meeting. Kazuo, you are well versed in conversing with possible allies this will be your job, you are also well versed in the geography needed in this mission... You lead this team there for the mission." The Hokage had called them in. Being fourteen year olds' and Chuunin, well on their way to being Juunin, worked well as a team. The Hokage was proud, Hinata was proud, Neji was proud, but none were as proud as Kakashi, as he was their Instructor and friend.
Kazuo gave a nod. "Yes, Hokage-sama." She said bowing respectfully. As they got away from the Hokages' office Kazuo begin to speak. They were headed for the north gate. "Flame, you're to be the one who keeps watch, and if we're ambushed you're to do your special jutsu." She said this to Kimi. "Wolf, You are to track any trouble that comes our way and if we some how leave a trail, cover it.." She said looking to Jiira. "Both of you will back me when we get to the sound village, show no weakness, ignore all taunts unless they needlessly insult our home, I'll handle the conducive operation," she said as they finally breeched the north gate and continued through the forest. Leaving naught a spot nor dent in their path to follow, as they travelled toward their destination.
They paused to camp for the night. "Do you feel something off?" asked Jiira, as they sat near the camp fire. Kazuo was silent. The flames seemed to be intertwined in an hypnotic dance. Wave after wave of extroneous heat energy passed from the flickering light as Kazuo stared. It was as if she were stuck in a trance of sorts. "Something is 'off' as you put it, yes." she said indifferently. Her eyes never left the flames. Kimi stared at his two team mates concernedly. "Are you two ok?" he asked.
"The flames talk to me." said Kazuo in a whisper, three hours later. "Really?" asked Jiira amusedly. "Yes," said Kazuo. "I'll take that as a no to my previous question then," said Kimi with a sigh. The flames suddenly flickered wildly before darkness fell amongst them. The fire was out. "Not good," muttered Kimi worriedly. "No, what was your first clue?" asked Jiira agitatedly. Kazuo was silent. Oppressively silent. This sooo was not good.
"Leave," said Kazuo suddenly. Her voice was as cold as ice. A chill entered the clearing. Breaths materialised into vapor as Jiira, and Kimi exhaled air. Kazuo was the only one not affected. "You two need to leave," she hissed angrily. The air was filled with familiarity to her. Kazuo was scared. Not for herself, but for her team mates. She was ready to face what would happen to her. She was very aware of her impending doom. However, she was worried about them. She wasn't afraid of death, she welcomed it.
There was a faint tingling in her cursed scar. She hoped her Sasuke-niisan didn't feel a tingling as well. She sighed as she noted that her team mates had remained at her side. "You knew it was a set up didn't you? There was no peace treaty was there?" said Kimi accusatorily, while Jiira acknowledged it with an air of contemplatence. "Please, leave. You two are more important than me, you need to leave NOW" she said commandeeringly. They stared at her before simultaneously shaking their head in the negative. "We are family, we are team mates, we don't desert each other." said Kimi.
She glared at them, her chakara was flaring around her body. Pain coursed through her veins as the cursed seal carved into her back activated. "You thought you could excape, little demon." said a whispery voice. "But, master has commanded that you come home... you thought you could save your 'family'... But we ARE your family..." The hissing voice laughed eerily.
Flashes of the man her biological father always had near came streaming through her mind. Memories of times with and without snake face... where she had seen this man, maybe walking through the village... sitting in the window of a resturant... standing at the counter in the market... Random memories of seeing this face. Suddenly a hypnotising voice whispered through her head. You are worth nothing. No one is left who actually cares... Master wants you. You know you can;t fight the call of your father... You want to please him. You would do anything for him. Come to me. Come to me so that I can take you to master. Then, the snakes will see Konoha fall! Looking up through her haze of pain, she realised that her friends had stayed. Friends... she had friends... she had to be strong... and protect her... friends.
Konoha will not fall. Not on her watch. Hissing in pain she stood and began to run towards the man. "You'll pay for spying on me... On my home." she said angrily.
She was nearing him when she heard a cry. Turning she sucked in a sharp breath as she realised that the shadows had her friends. The horrified look on their faces stayed her hand. "You will come with me or my shadows will slit their throats. You know they cannot escape the shadows..." said the man.
She glared at him. Rage coursed through her, even as the pain continued it's track through her system. She calmed herself. She didn't want the cursed mark to run over her skin. Even though it was carved instead of her being bitten, it still did the whole 'mess up your good looks with ugly swirly lines' thing. The shadows'... Shaking her head, she attempted to call on her powers. Bend to my will, shadows... bend to my will... She thought frantically. The shadows shook, yet they did not relent their hold on her friends. "Pity, you've lost your intelligence it seems. Did you really think that your puny magic tricks could stand against my prowess?" said the voice. The man in front of them appeared to not have moved his lips, but the person speaking... or hissing in this case, was him.
"You are pathetic... to betray your own master.. your father... is despicable. Especially when it is a lost cause." said the man. "That thing is not my father... He was never my father.. he was a master that I wanted nothing to do with..." she hissed at him furiously. "All the work we put into you being perfect, and you fail even that. All master ever wanted was a perfect daughter. An heir, and what did he get? A blasphemous wench, who betrays..." growled the man. "Blah, blah, blah... My father was a sadistic bastard who always wanted his way and killed when he didn't get it. He didn't want a perfect daughter, he wanted a weapon and a toy, to control." She hissed. She had thought that she was over the thought of making her father proud.
She had always wanted to please her father, but... no... nothing was worth the pain that he had put her through. Replacing her with some kid he intended to play with...No.
She was beyond the illusion that he actually cared about him, she had gotten a real father, a daddy who showed concern, care, and love to and for her. Her daddy blue eyes, and her father took that away from her. She was happy, never mind that it was with the supposed enemy, she was happy and her father took that away. But she was expecting that. That was why she had wanted to leave earlier... leave her daddy. So that something like this would not have happened.
She had been fooled. Tricked into thinking that her daddy blue eyes was infallable. That he could bounce back from any problem alive and only moderately hurt. Look where that got her. She knew that something of this magnitude would happen to her family if she stayed. She should have left like she had tried to do many times. She should have forced herself to actually want to leave... maybe then all of this would not have happened.
"Are you quite done feeling sorry for yourself? In that case. Come with me to your rightful place, and maybe master will be lenient on you." said the man derisively. She sneered, and made no move to do as he said. No matter how accepting of it she was, she was not going down without a fight. "I am in my rightful place." she said impassively. "No, you are not." said the man. He hissed something unintelligeble and she felt her stomach drop. Pain, that she had been ignoring for the past couple of moments, came back full force. She doubled over at the intensity of it all. She had to save her friends though... "Let them go..." she choked out as she realized that he was using the shadows as a conduit for her friends to feel what she felt. They shouldn't be in this situation. This was not good, not good at all.
The man laughed, a rumbling dark laugh, that made her think of a mix of crimson pain, and the dark grey abyss reserved for death. She welcomed it, but only for her, not her friends. "Let them go," she managed to say this in a stronger voice than before. The pain was growing... largely. It was unlike any pain she had felt before. This pain was not by the cursed scar... It was something entirely different. "Let them go..." she repeated once again.
"Come to me and they are free." He said with a smirk. She knew that the moment she came to him that even though he would let her friends free, the ones from the village of the sound would attack her home, and she would be left in the clutches of her father and his henchmen. Not an un-usual situation. She could handle it. Couldn't she? No. She couldn't leave her family alone could she? No. She had to manage to get free and warn the village. There were enemies that could attack her friends in her absence and they may not make it to the village in time. Since she could not control the shadow of the man, she sent her own shadows to follow them when they were set free, and protect them. She had to be strong. Her daddy blue eyes was strong, she could be too. He fought fate all of his life... she... she...
She could only do one thing...
"Come to me and they are free..."
AN: I was planning on making this chapter muuuuuuch longer, but I thought that this would be better. The next chappie will be out two to three weeks...
Disclaimer: I know you know we all know and that's a no, which means that I don't own, just so you know.
Chapter 8
Kazuo sighed as she awaited her team mates. She had many things on her mind, and seeing that this day was the anniversary of her daddy blue eyes death, she was depressed. Though her team mates understood this, that didn't mean that she wanted to burden them with this. She had been feeling lost... and alone. Though to be honest, she was used to being alone. Or she had been used to being alone. "Ka-chan, good morning..." said Kimi. She smiled at him, one of those fleeting smiles that last a mere moment and seem to come rarely. "Have you seen Jiira, Ka-chan?" asked Kimi in a plight to actually get her to talk, but Kazuo only shrugged. Kimi sighed.
Kazuo walked away from Kimi as she sensed their sensei near, and Jiira was no where to be found. "Kaka-sensei," said Kazuo with a slight tilt to her head. He gave her a sad understanding glance before he spoke, "You two are to work on retrieval skills, and to test out your team work I've decided to have you two find Jiira. She's one of the best trackers that we have, but she can also be pretty hard to find. You must find her..." said Kakashi. Kimi gave a short nod, but Kazuo seemed to be deep in thought. Then she took off. Kimi was right behind her. She motioned for Kimi to go the other way and around the five or so large trees in front of them, and she would go in the opposite direction. As she neared the other side of the tree, she tensed. Someone was watching her, and it wasn't either of her team mates. She shook it off, it didn't ma- She frowned. But then that oddly familiar sensation was gone. Something was definitely not right, but nothing was terribly wrong either.
Kazuo smirked slightly. She said nothing as she turned the other way and made her way away from Kimi's area. She was almost away when someone blocked her path. "You can't just leave your partner... Desertion is troublesome..."
Kazuo looked in surprise at Shikamaru. "Where did you come from?" she asked. She was used to being able to sense someone who was near-by. "Near," He said simply. She smirked before leaning forward. "You know where she is. Don't you?" she said. He gave her a look before turning away. yes, she knew it. He knew where Jiira was, but he wasn't going to tell her. In all honesty she knew where Jiira was as well. With a semi-defeated sigh, she walked back to where her team mate was. "She's on the other side of the tree, eating Ramen." said Kazuo simply. There was a silence that followed, before a snort of amusement, and a moan of displeasure met the ears of the other two team mates. Kazuo frowned as did Kimi. Kazuo sniffed. She gave an odd look to Kimi, who was merely quirking an eyebrow. "Well... this is... unexpected." Murmured Kazuo. "Sorry, Kazuo... I really didn't think you guys would find me.. I mean, I was eerily close, yet far. I mean you guys thrive on the complex, so I figured that if I made it simple you'd be confused. Hmm... I must work on my observation skills..." Jiira jumped out of the tree, and landed on the ground with the grace of a feline. Kazuo gave her a look. "I know that you were not alone in that tree." said Kazuo. Jiira gave her an amused look before walking passed her and towards the village. She seemed a tinsy bit smug. A little too smug for Kazuo's tastes. "Who was it?" asked Kazuo subtility be damned. Just because she was mourning didn't mean she would back off.
"Please... I'm not telling, and he's gone so drop it," said Jiira. "Oooh... It's a male," said Kimi in a sing-song voice. Jiira merely growled. "It's no one you know..." she said. Kazuo stared at her for a moment before nodding. The girl deserved some kind of privacy. "Does Shika-kun know?" she asked softly. "Yes," said Jiira. But the girl looked guilty so Kazuo deduced that she had lied. Though she would have been able to notice the lie in the air. Well, not the lie precisely, more like the change of scent. Kazuo gave her a meaningful look before walking off. "I have to go," She said, as she remembered promising Neji that she would buy groceries and treat him to a dinner. Though she hadn't said that it was a treat for his birthday. She had deemed it odd that his birthday was the day that her daddy blue eyes had died, but at least it was a way to cheer her up. OoO... She had almost forgotten. She had promised to see Auntie Tsunade. With a sigh, she redirected her position to face towards the hokages' office.
She walked briskly into the building and then into the Hokages' office. The ANBU guards had long since given up keeping her out of the hokages' office. Therefor, her destination was unhindered. The Hokage looked the same as she had for several years, but the weariness in her countenance was apparent. Even if the woman would never admit it. She was old. She was fit, but she was old. "Auntie Tsunade, are you ok?" she asked the over used, cliched, trite, redundant question that all ask when not knowing what to ask.
Tsunade sat up in her chair and sighed. "How was your day?" was the question that she asked. Kazuo stared. A question, for a question. Kazuo could play that game as well, and she knew the underlying meaning of said question, which was 'I hope you are coping with the anniversary of his death well'
Kazuo sat in the chair in front of the Hokage. "How can you stand this job?" she asked. The hokage sighed, Tsunade knew what that meant. 'It's as well as can be. You were going to choose him as your successor, How are you coping?' Tsunade gave a very put upon sigh, but didn't say anything. Ah, well... Beating around the bush was not a specialty that should be wasted, but Kazuo didn't feel like it. "I love you, Auntie Tsunade, but I really must go. I promised Uncle Neji that I would make him something today, but I also need your help to get some people together for his birthday... part... I mean gathering" said Kazuo. All this had to be done in secret of course.
Kazuo smiled. It had been a very long while since Kazuo had really smiled. Non-the-less, she was smiling. Not because she was particularly happy, no of course not. She was smiling because her surprise had gone well. Though he hadn't reacted verbally, his eyes had widened, and thankfully he said nothing of fate. For this, she was grateful. She loved her Uncle Neji dearly, but his constant talks of Fate had her on edge, and resigned.
These thoughts, she pushed them to the back of her mind, as she watched her surrogate Aunties and Uncles have fun. Her Uncle Neji was content, and she felt happy with this. Sighing, she walked out of the apartment and towards the Hokage monument. As she was nearly there, she found that she had company. Frowning in consternation she tuned into her surroundings. She paused in her treck to the Hokage monument.
Her tense shoulders eased as she realized that once again Shikamaru had came upon her without her realizing it...AGAIN. "Are you stalking me or something?" she asked in annoyance. "No," Shikamaru said simply. She narrowed her eyes before continuing her treck to the Hokage Monument. Once she reached the top, she sat atop the head of the fourth Hokage. "Why have you been stalking me?" she asked. " I haven't," said Shikamaru. "You followed me almost everywhere I went today... what is going on?" she asked. He stared at her for a moment, before sitting down. "Life is troublesome, and For once in my life I was bored...ne?" said Shikamaru in a dry tone.
"You stalk when you get bored... why wasn't I aware of this?" she said with amusement. "I always thought that you would sit on a hill and watch clouds lazily roll by..." she said in an airy tone. "Ka-chan." said Shikamaru softly. "Is it that boring to sit and watch clouds without me?" she asked amused. "Tche. Troublesome women." he said. Imitating his dry tone of voice she said, "Tche. Troublesome men." Then she laughed. He gave her a small smirk before he turned to look out over the village.
"The view is beautiful, ne?" she asked. He turned to her, watching her eyes taking in the view of Konoha Village, and smiling. He gave a 'hn.' and she looked at him oddly. "How is Aunt Blondie doing?" she asked suddenly. He quircked an eyebrow at her, as blondie could be a number of people. "I mean, Aunt Ino."
"I haven't seen her much all year, but the times I did see her, she was all over the Uchiha." said Shikamaru in a lazy fashion. She sniffed before glaring at him. "Don't insult Sasuke-niisan, I heard that tone mister!" She said mock angrily. "Maa... I'm sorry," he said raising his hand in defense. "That's better," she said smirking. He sighed before muttering under his breath.
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"You have a mission, The Village of the Sound wishes to sign a peace treaty, however they have specially requested that your particular team run this meeting. Kazuo, you are well versed in conversing with possible allies this will be your job, you are also well versed in the geography needed in this mission... You lead this team there for the mission." The Hokage had called them in. Being fourteen year olds' and Chuunin, well on their way to being Juunin, worked well as a team. The Hokage was proud, Hinata was proud, Neji was proud, but none were as proud as Kakashi, as he was their Instructor and friend.
Kazuo gave a nod. "Yes, Hokage-sama." She said bowing respectfully. As they got away from the Hokages' office Kazuo begin to speak. They were headed for the north gate. "Flame, you're to be the one who keeps watch, and if we're ambushed you're to do your special jutsu." She said this to Kimi. "Wolf, You are to track any trouble that comes our way and if we some how leave a trail, cover it.." She said looking to Jiira. "Both of you will back me when we get to the sound village, show no weakness, ignore all taunts unless they needlessly insult our home, I'll handle the conducive operation," she said as they finally breeched the north gate and continued through the forest. Leaving naught a spot nor dent in their path to follow, as they travelled toward their destination.
They paused to camp for the night. "Do you feel something off?" asked Jiira, as they sat near the camp fire. Kazuo was silent. The flames seemed to be intertwined in an hypnotic dance. Wave after wave of extroneous heat energy passed from the flickering light as Kazuo stared. It was as if she were stuck in a trance of sorts. "Something is 'off' as you put it, yes." she said indifferently. Her eyes never left the flames. Kimi stared at his two team mates concernedly. "Are you two ok?" he asked.
"The flames talk to me." said Kazuo in a whisper, three hours later. "Really?" asked Jiira amusedly. "Yes," said Kazuo. "I'll take that as a no to my previous question then," said Kimi with a sigh. The flames suddenly flickered wildly before darkness fell amongst them. The fire was out. "Not good," muttered Kimi worriedly. "No, what was your first clue?" asked Jiira agitatedly. Kazuo was silent. Oppressively silent. This sooo was not good.
"Leave," said Kazuo suddenly. Her voice was as cold as ice. A chill entered the clearing. Breaths materialised into vapor as Jiira, and Kimi exhaled air. Kazuo was the only one not affected. "You two need to leave," she hissed angrily. The air was filled with familiarity to her. Kazuo was scared. Not for herself, but for her team mates. She was ready to face what would happen to her. She was very aware of her impending doom. However, she was worried about them. She wasn't afraid of death, she welcomed it.
There was a faint tingling in her cursed scar. She hoped her Sasuke-niisan didn't feel a tingling as well. She sighed as she noted that her team mates had remained at her side. "You knew it was a set up didn't you? There was no peace treaty was there?" said Kimi accusatorily, while Jiira acknowledged it with an air of contemplatence. "Please, leave. You two are more important than me, you need to leave NOW" she said commandeeringly. They stared at her before simultaneously shaking their head in the negative. "We are family, we are team mates, we don't desert each other." said Kimi.
She glared at them, her chakara was flaring around her body. Pain coursed through her veins as the cursed seal carved into her back activated. "You thought you could excape, little demon." said a whispery voice. "But, master has commanded that you come home... you thought you could save your 'family'... But we ARE your family..." The hissing voice laughed eerily.
Flashes of the man her biological father always had near came streaming through her mind. Memories of times with and without snake face... where she had seen this man, maybe walking through the village... sitting in the window of a resturant... standing at the counter in the market... Random memories of seeing this face. Suddenly a hypnotising voice whispered through her head. You are worth nothing. No one is left who actually cares... Master wants you. You know you can;t fight the call of your father... You want to please him. You would do anything for him. Come to me. Come to me so that I can take you to master. Then, the snakes will see Konoha fall! Looking up through her haze of pain, she realised that her friends had stayed. Friends... she had friends... she had to be strong... and protect her... friends.
Konoha will not fall. Not on her watch. Hissing in pain she stood and began to run towards the man. "You'll pay for spying on me... On my home." she said angrily.
She was nearing him when she heard a cry. Turning she sucked in a sharp breath as she realised that the shadows had her friends. The horrified look on their faces stayed her hand. "You will come with me or my shadows will slit their throats. You know they cannot escape the shadows..." said the man.
She glared at him. Rage coursed through her, even as the pain continued it's track through her system. She calmed herself. She didn't want the cursed mark to run over her skin. Even though it was carved instead of her being bitten, it still did the whole 'mess up your good looks with ugly swirly lines' thing. The shadows'... Shaking her head, she attempted to call on her powers. Bend to my will, shadows... bend to my will... She thought frantically. The shadows shook, yet they did not relent their hold on her friends. "Pity, you've lost your intelligence it seems. Did you really think that your puny magic tricks could stand against my prowess?" said the voice. The man in front of them appeared to not have moved his lips, but the person speaking... or hissing in this case, was him.
"You are pathetic... to betray your own master.. your father... is despicable. Especially when it is a lost cause." said the man. "That thing is not my father... He was never my father.. he was a master that I wanted nothing to do with..." she hissed at him furiously. "All the work we put into you being perfect, and you fail even that. All master ever wanted was a perfect daughter. An heir, and what did he get? A blasphemous wench, who betrays..." growled the man. "Blah, blah, blah... My father was a sadistic bastard who always wanted his way and killed when he didn't get it. He didn't want a perfect daughter, he wanted a weapon and a toy, to control." She hissed. She had thought that she was over the thought of making her father proud.
She had always wanted to please her father, but... no... nothing was worth the pain that he had put her through. Replacing her with some kid he intended to play with...No.
She was beyond the illusion that he actually cared about him, she had gotten a real father, a daddy who showed concern, care, and love to and for her. Her daddy blue eyes, and her father took that away from her. She was happy, never mind that it was with the supposed enemy, she was happy and her father took that away. But she was expecting that. That was why she had wanted to leave earlier... leave her daddy. So that something like this would not have happened.
She had been fooled. Tricked into thinking that her daddy blue eyes was infallable. That he could bounce back from any problem alive and only moderately hurt. Look where that got her. She knew that something of this magnitude would happen to her family if she stayed. She should have left like she had tried to do many times. She should have forced herself to actually want to leave... maybe then all of this would not have happened.
"Are you quite done feeling sorry for yourself? In that case. Come with me to your rightful place, and maybe master will be lenient on you." said the man derisively. She sneered, and made no move to do as he said. No matter how accepting of it she was, she was not going down without a fight. "I am in my rightful place." she said impassively. "No, you are not." said the man. He hissed something unintelligeble and she felt her stomach drop. Pain, that she had been ignoring for the past couple of moments, came back full force. She doubled over at the intensity of it all. She had to save her friends though... "Let them go..." she choked out as she realized that he was using the shadows as a conduit for her friends to feel what she felt. They shouldn't be in this situation. This was not good, not good at all.
The man laughed, a rumbling dark laugh, that made her think of a mix of crimson pain, and the dark grey abyss reserved for death. She welcomed it, but only for her, not her friends. "Let them go," she managed to say this in a stronger voice than before. The pain was growing... largely. It was unlike any pain she had felt before. This pain was not by the cursed scar... It was something entirely different. "Let them go..." she repeated once again.
"Come to me and they are free." He said with a smirk. She knew that the moment she came to him that even though he would let her friends free, the ones from the village of the sound would attack her home, and she would be left in the clutches of her father and his henchmen. Not an un-usual situation. She could handle it. Couldn't she? No. She couldn't leave her family alone could she? No. She had to manage to get free and warn the village. There were enemies that could attack her friends in her absence and they may not make it to the village in time. Since she could not control the shadow of the man, she sent her own shadows to follow them when they were set free, and protect them. She had to be strong. Her daddy blue eyes was strong, she could be too. He fought fate all of his life... she... she...
She could only do one thing...
"Come to me and they are free..."
AN: I was planning on making this chapter muuuuuuch longer, but I thought that this would be better. The next chappie will be out two to three weeks...