Mortaseraph
Chapter Three: Mortaseraph
I died.
That's where everything started. I was dead.
I stood over my dead body watching my parents bleed out, it was curious. I don't know who killed me, or us. They came in so quick and I couldn't get a good look at them.
In that instant, I knew everything. I knew what I was. I knew how I became. I was given the answers to all the questions I didn't know I had. I was a Nephilim. The two people who raised me weren't my real parents, they were humans. They had no idea who they were raising.
A figure showed up. They didn't have a face, they barely had a shape. It hurt to look at them.
"Sasuke, it isn't your time." They said. "But we needed to speak with you. We need to call you out to watch over someone for us. You need to be a guardian angel for him."
"What are you talking about?"
"Itachi is going to be framed for their murder. You need to leave when you wake up. There's too many people that want you dead and right now you're more useful to us alive. We need you right now."
"Shouldn't I help my brother?"
"He'll be fine. You can get to him later. Right now this is more important..." So I listened.
Itachi came in like a bat out of hell.
It was strange to see him from this vantage point. I could see his aura. I saw his panic even without seeing his face. My big brother. He was freaking out. I wanted to help him. To tell him it was okay. That everything would be fine. He tried to heal our "parents". He held my body and cried. The being I talked to gave me a pulse. Just enough to let me slip back into my body and be brought back by Itachi.
I'll never forget his tears.
I should've went after him. He's my older brother, but I was given a mission. I needed to find someone. I would find him and then get my brother back.
Once the cops were out of the room after they escorted Itachi away, I slipped out of the house and took off. I had powers that I needed honing and a charge I needed finding.
***
Sasuke sat on the top of a roof several years after, watching. He could see his charge. He followed him often. He wasn't sure what to do after he found his charge, just that he needed to be saved. One day the moment would come where he could use his powers to save him.
There was a feeling of disturbance in his immediate surrounding area and Sasuke sent out feelers until he could feel the other person.
Female. About his age.
"I don't know who you are, but what do you want?" Sasuke asked and turned to face the person.
"You're the brother of Seraphim, aren't you?" She asked, with a hardened voice. Seraphim, yes. That was Itachi. Deemed an "angel" by all the people he saved. "You're Mortaseraph, right?"
"Why do you want to know?" When she stepped out of the shadows, Sasuke was able to read her aura better. She was a good person. A bit of danger in her, but her aura was pure blue. After Sasuke died, it damaged his eyes, they were always red now and he could only see aura.
"He saved my life, I'm here to help." Sasuke frowned and stepped closer to her. He sniffed the air, she reeked of poison. "I've been training for years because he saved my life. I want to help him. He's still imprisoned, right?" Sasuke nodded and his curiosity got the best of him. He grabbed her shoulder to read her. "You're the last person he saved." Sasuke frowned at her. "You're why he was gone the night we were murdered." That statement saddened her.
"I was the last person he saved. He didn't kill anyone, no one will believe me so I decided to help him myself. Why aren't you helping him?"
"It was always the plan to help him after watching my charge." Sasuke said and stepped onto the ledge of the building where he saw his charge's familiar green aura. His green aura made him a lot easier to watch.
"Then when will you have time for Seraphim?" Ino asked.
"My brother will be saved once I save my charge." Sasuke said tonelessly.
"When will that be? Why don't you just take him with us?" Sasuke blinked.
"Us?" He stepped off the ledge, back onto the roof. "There is no us. I have no use for another person."
"Well good, because I have a partners anyway. So it's the four of us. I'm going to be with you until you help me save Seraphim."
"Why do you need my help to save him?"
"Don't you want to save your brother?"
"Of course I do! That isn't the point! Why do you need me?"
"Not only are you the only person with powers I know, but Seraphim could tell where someone was, couldn't he? So can't you?" Sasuke paused and sighed.
"I've tried to find him that way for years. I can't sense him anywhere." She looked heartbroken.
"I'm not going to give up."
"It's your funeral, Yamanaka Ino." Sasuke said darkly.
"Belladonna." She corrected.
"What?"
"My name. I'm incognito. My name is Belladonna."
"Nightshade?" She nodded. "Very well. Whatever suits you." He stood back up on the ledge and looked down. Ino walked over and looked down with him. "He's the one on the corner there." Sasuke pointed and she made a noise of notice.
"What are you supposed to be saving him from?"
"Death."
"When?"
"I'm unsure. I've been watching him for years."
"What's his name?" Sasuke sat at the ledge and turned to face her bright blue aura.
"Uzumaki Naruto."