Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Wake Me Up Inside ❯ Frozen ( Chapter 16 )

Wake Me Up Inside - Chapter 15

Disclaimer: I don't own anyone but Kit.

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I tried to kill the pain

But only brought more (so much more)

I lay dying

And I'm pouring crimson regret and betrayal...

Tourniquet

-Evanescence

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Kit woke up to an immense pain. It was so much that it was all she could do was not to scream. It was just like that time she tried to open her wings but worse. There was blood on the floor, and she looked at it. `Is that my blood?' She touched it and it slipped into her skin, and she felt better. Slightly better.

Kit looked beside her, and saw a body. It was - Orochimaru? She touched his skin. It was cold. `He's definitely dead. But who - ' Kit looked up and saw Itachi, and the red sharinigan in his eye fading. He looked at her for a moment, and then stalked out of the cave.

"Itachi-san! Wait!" she called, and tried to stand up, but only got as far as on her hands and knees. Her hands weakened, and she fell. "Wait.."

Itachi stopped and looked at her again, and his eyes softened for a brief second, then returned to their normal hardness and emptiness. He turned away, and started walking again. A tear rolled down her face. "Wait.." she squeaked out.

Itachi disappeared around the corner of the cave, and more tears rolled down Kit's face. She collapsed on the floor, in her own blood, not caring, and started to cry. The sobs echoed around the cave, and shot out the entrance, but she didn't care who heard.

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Itachi walked outside the cave, and sighed. That stupid girl was slowly getting to him, and he didn't like it one bit. She was slowly getting past his stone wall defenses that he had worked so hard to build. That forbidden place between them. He wanted to go there, but something was holding him back and he didn't know what. He turned, defensive, sensing someone. That girl stumbled out of the bushes. Sakura. She looked up and spotted him, unfortunately.

"Itachi-sama! Where's Kit?" she asked frantically.

"Inside." Itachi replied, against his better judgement.

Sakura started to run inside, and then stopped. "Why aren't you helping her, Itachi-sama?"

"Should I be?"

"Yes. Since you love her, it would be the right thing to do, ne?" Sakura smiled slyly. Itachi didn't say anything, and she continued. "You know, it's incredibly obvious of your feelings to one another."

Itachi didn't say anything, but Sakura swore she saw his face sadden. She smiled softly, but then ran inside to help Kit, leaving Itachi standing there. `She doesn't get it..' Itachi thought, and then, taking one look back at the cave, took off to Akatsuki Headquarters.

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Sakura ran inside to help Kit, all the while wondering what happened. When she arrived in at a small clearing in the cave, she saw the most horrendous sight. There, kneeling in a pool of blood, hands hugging her stomach, was Kit. White feathers, now covered by blood, lay around her. Two deep gashes on her wings were crusted over with dried blood. Sakura flinched. `Kit.. I didn't know feathers bled, let alone wings.' She crept over to Kit, and squatted down in front of her.

"Kit?" she asked, placing a hand on her shoulder. "Let's get you cleaned up." Kit didn't move, she just kept rocking back and forth, more tears pouring down her now nearly white face. "Kit? Kit? We have to get help. Please come with me?"

Kit stayed silent. Sakura sighed and stood up, supporting Kit on her shoulders. Kit was surprisingly light, but when she lifted her all the way off the floor so she was standing, she gasped. A bloody gash lay across Kit's stomach, and she gasped and lowered Kit to the floor again, and Kit grabbed her stomach again.

"Oh my god! Kit, I'm so sorry! I had no idea.." Sakura fumbled in her shuriken pocket and pulled out a set of bandages. "Here.. Let me help.." Kit didn't say anything, she didn't move, and Sakura sighed. "Kit, please talk to me?! What's wrong? What did he do to you? And.. where is he?.."

Kit stayed silent, but pointed over to the side of the cave. There lay the corpse of Orochimaru. His green, snake-like eyes were open, panic and chaos swirling through them. And a tinge of.. fear?

A white light appeared behind Sakura, and she whirled around, only to find a girl standing there. She looked like a smaller version of Kit, only her piercing blue eyes showed years of experienced wisdom. "Who are you?"

The girl smiled. "I am Naoru, Kit's sister. I am here to help you." Sakura took a cautious step towards Naoru. Naoru looked down at Kit and gasped. "Good God! We had better get help. I'll go get some help. Can you bandage her wounds?"

Sakura nodded. "Yes. Thank you."

Naoru smiled, and as quickly as she disappeared, left. Sakura sighed and walked over to Kit. She pried Kit's arms off her stomach, and, lifting up her top to just above the wounds, skillfully wrapped the bandages around Kit's stomach. "There you go."

As soon as she stood up, Kit's arms flew back around her stomach. Sakura doubted it hurt, but she knew when she did that to her wounds, it helped her, made her feel better. Now, all she had to do was wait for Naoru to come back with some help. Sakura sat down on the closest rock and waited.

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AN: Sorry that took so long, but I had sort of a writer's block. I have the chapters all planned out, I just need to write them. ^__^ Please review!

Oh, and to the spammer reviewing my work saying `Fuck You' over and over, please stop. As much as I love reviews, that's just stupid and immature.