Dying Moments
I looked up at him. His chest heaving up and down, trying to catch his breath. I flinched a bit. I didn't like to see him this beat up. He had again asked me to spar with him to see how far he's gotten. I winced again as he coughed up a bit of blood. The raven haired boy still looked as if he wasn't even ready to give up.
"S-Sasuke. We shouldn't keep on going. Master Orochimaru will be back soon, and if he finds out that I hurt you this badly," I turned my head away from him. "Who knows what he would do."
"F-Fine."
I looked back at the Uchiha with surprise. He had actually listened to me without an argument. I hated seeing Sasuke like this, but he wasn't gonna change his mind anytime soon. We were only about 3-4 miles away from Orochimaru's hideout. It really did feel nice to be out.
My name is Kyomi. I don't know my clan's name, all I know is that they must have been very skilled, because they were all killed and hunted for their strength. According to Orochimaru-Sama I was the last survivor. I have been here with Orochimaru for 7 years living as his experiment. He kidnapped me after I found my family dead. He had originally wanted for me to become his next vessel but I was too young and so he decided to wait. Since other's had caught Orochimaru's attention I was allowed to live longer. His interest has been directed at the 16 year old Uchiha standing in front of me. I feel scared for Sasuke, who knows if he'll be able to get stronger than Orochimaru... I see Sasuke fall to the ground. I run up and catch just before he hits the ground. His head is in my lap and were both lying on the grassy floor.
"You should be more careful..."
"Hn."
I laugh a little and roll my eyes. Sasuke was truly funny when he was pretending not to care.
"Do you want me to heal your wounds now, or later?"
"Later."
We sat in silence for a few minutes until Sasuke broke the silence.
"If I do kill my brother, and Orochimaru, will you actually come with me?"
I looked down at him in surprise...
"Of course... I said I would."
He sighed. His head was now on my stomach, my hands were outstretched beside me and his on his chest. He placed one of his hands on mine.
"S-Sasuke?"
He sighed again but didn't move his hand. I shouldn't be taking this so seriously, he was like my little brother, he was just doing this 'cause...'cause.... I don't know. I looked down at our hands.
"Do you miss your friends Sasuke?"
His calm face hardened.
"No. I cut all bonds with them. They are only nuisance that stand in my way. Bonds wont help me accomplish my goal."
"Am I a nuisance that stands in your way? We do share a bond..."
Sasuke took his hand off of mine and got up. He started walking away. I just sat up straight and watched him leave.
"I have to be there when you get back to the hideout Sasuke."
"Then come."
I hated his mood swings, he was worse than a pregnant lady. I jumped in front of him and we made our way back to the hide out.
TIME SKIP
"Get some rest, I'll check up on you later."
"Hn."
I went away to my room. I wouldn't bother Sasuke to try and find an answer. I walked into my room and sat soundlessly on my bed. I hated being here... I wonder what my mother would do now... Surely she wouldn't sit here and do nothing as her life was being cruelly controlled by a messed up man. I took deep breaths. If I didn't calm down my 12 tails could strike. I didn't want to hurt anyone again like how I did with my family. Tears came into my eyes. I killed them all, being here is my fault, I deserve all of this. I killed them all with no remorse. Now I'll never see them again and I'm stuck here. How I wanted a chance to change... just to see people again.
B-B-BAMM! (Sorry..... I felt like it...)
I looked out the hall way to see the roof caving. What happened. I ran out to Sasuke's room. I hoped he was okay.
"SASUKE! Sasuke are you ok-"
I stopped when I saw the picture in front of me. Sasuke was standing off in front of 4 people. A blonde, pink haired girl, a black haired guy that resembled Sasuke, and Kakashi, the copy-nin. I felt chakra coming from the Blonde. He must be a jinchuriki... What do they want with Sasuke?
I looked at the scene before me. None of them had noticed me. I decided to stay in my spot and watch until I was needed. I couldn't hear what Sasuke was saying, but I heard the blonde boy, whom I now knew was Naruto, and the pink haired girl, who was Sakura, loud and clear.
"YOU! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU AFTER? HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU PLAN ON STABBING US IN THE BACK BEFORE YOU'RE HAPPY!" She was clenching the black haired (Sai's) boys neck.
"Ah, it's Sakura." It was Sasuke's voice I heard from way higher.
He was intentionally speaking louder so that she could hear him.
She looked up slowly. I could tell she was shocked.
Everyone had gone silent and was now staring up at Sasuke.
"Sasuke-Kun..." She said while a small tear slipped down her face.
The blonde boy now ran up trying to get closer to the scene, but tripped and fell. He looked up at Sasuke as well. There was no doubt about it. These must be the people who had bonds with Sasuke. I looked at their faces. The blonde also looked as if he might cry. Sasuke continued to stare down e motionlessly.
"Sasuke." Naruto whispered.
"So. Even you're here Naruto... Is Kakashi here as well?"
The wood style user (I could feel the [1]chakra) took a step forward.
"Sorry, no Kakashi, but I'm substitute. As Kakashi's group we'll be taking you back to Konoha."
It was another moment before Sasuke said.
"It was him who filled my absence? Saying something like protecting my and Naruto's bonds. Once again another tepid guy has come into this."
"I don't know you Sasuke-San, but Naruto's bond with you... It's strong, and I feel it. I have to protect it. The bond that you two share are very deep and important." Sai continued.
"That's exactly why I chose to break them off. I only have one bond, and it's one of hatred between my brother and I.
Having many bonds lead your strongest ambition astray. It weakens your important feelings."
Naruto's look of shock had turn to anger. I entered his mind (Kekkei Genkai) and saw he was remembering past memories with Sasuke.
It seemed Naruto had lost control of the Kyuubi and was holding Sasuke's neck against a wall of rock while shouting. I saw Sasuke the marks of his marks from the curse mark Orochimaru gave him were all over his body. His sharingan was also activated. They were both pretty beat up.
'You who have no parents or siblings know nothing about me.' I winced. It was Sasuke speaking. He was talking about his family being murdered... about his older brother Itachi.
'YOU WHO'S BEEN ALONE FROM THE BEGINNING! HOW CAN YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!? HUH?!? I winced at Sasuke again. He truly was dealing with pain. The next time we were alone, I would talk to him about it.
I popped out of Naruto's head and listened to what he was about to say.
"Then... Then why at that time..." Naruto's look of pain had turned again to anger. "THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU KILL ME? DIDN'T YOU PLAN ON BREAKING THOSE BONDS?!?"
So this was what Sasuke did. He... so I should just stay away from him. He'll just have to either almost kill me or kill me to break our bond and kill his brother. I looked down and felt an ache in my chest. I grabbed my chest to try and ease off the pain I knew was building up. Why was it that he could hurt me like this? I shouldn't be so affected by his words... they're just words....
"It's a simple reason," Sasuke started with one hand on his waist. "I didn't fully cut myself off from you because it was a way to follow what I had heard from him. It was only a measure to get power."
I put my hand over my mouth to stop myself from gasping. This Sasuke scared me. I knew he always acted cold, but now I knew that he wasn't doing it to make people back off from him. He had truly abandoned these people who cared about him so much. I looked up again to see Sasuke draw his sword to the neck of Naruto. No... Not Naruto. Something about him, just the fact that he was here now, trying to get back his beloved friend showed how much he cared. How dedicated he was to his friends... I couldn't let Sasuke kill him. Even though his eyes held anger and pain, I knew that they could, and usually did, hold joy and happiness. I wasn't going to let Sasuke hurt someone like him. I ran up to the scene from my hiding spot and stopped the sword from coming down on Naruto's neck with my hand. Blood was seeping down from my hand and down my arm. Sasuke's eyes widened for a second but returned to normal. Naruto seemed to still be thinking about something, because he didn't react.
"W-who is this Sasuke?" Sakura said
"Go back into the hideout Kyomi."
"No." I said mimicking his now cold blank face.
I saw out of the corner of my eyes that Sakura was now staring at me with shock. Sasuke growled when I felt something wrap around me and felt hot breath on the back of my neck. Sasuke had jumped back to make sure he didn't get caught in whatever was happening. I looked back slightly to see the wood style user had wrapped wood around my body. I looked back at Sasuke and heard him cuss under his breath.
"You're much to advanced to get caught in something as simple as that Kyomi."
"You're much to advanced to think that I would change my mind... [1] I said what I meant and I meant what I said."
There was silence as I felt the black haired boy race towards me with his sword held high. I closed my eyes. I wasn't going to inflict pain on any of Naruto's friends. I was sure of that. I stood there, preparing for the pain that would coming from being stabbed by Sai's sword. Only it didn't come. The wood that had been holding me were no where to be seen. I opened my eyes to see Sai on the floor clutching his stomach, Yamato with a big wound in his chest, and Naruto and Sakura standing there. Too shocked to help their friends.
"If you dare hurt her... I swear."
And with that he grabbed me by my stomach (It was like folded in two my stomach balancing on his arm.) and jumped up to where he previously was before Naruto and Sakura had come. He placed me down gently and stared in my eyes for a second before turning back to the four shinobi below him.
"Looks like you're still holding a bond there Uchiha." Yamato said.
Sasuke gave him a glare. He looked down at me then do the tiger [2]hand seal. (If you want to know what hand seals are go to the bottom of the page...) I got up immediately as he readied his hand for what I knew was coming.
"Sasuke-"
But my words were unnecessary, Orochimaru had arrived along with Kabuto to hold back Sasuke's hand.
"Don't you think that would be wasted here my dear Sasuke?"
"Hn."
"Come now Kyomi. It's time to go. I have an even greater [3]jutsu to show you as well Sasuke" Orochimaru looked down at Naruto.
"Oh look, Kabuto! The nine tails... seems he still has an interest in Sasuke. It is truly futile."
And with that we disappeared from there in a cloud of smoke. I looked at my surroundings. We were at another one of Orochimaru's hideouts.
"Come one Sasuke... Kyomi, go get some rest... we'll be... 'practicing' some things later on today."
I walked blindly to my room. If Orochimaru actually gave me a heads up that I would need sleep, it was best that I got some sleep. Who knows what he was planning... I fell into a deep sleep, dreaming of Naruto, Sasuke, and my 12 tails.
----------------------------------------------------
I woke up to someone giving me a violent shake. I looked up groggily to see Sasuke leaning over me with an urgent look in his eyes.
"Get up Kyomi."
"O-okay."
I threw my blankets off only to be pulled harshly out of the room by Sasuke. His hold on my hand was tight.
"Ow, Sasuke you're hurting me."
He loosened his grip ever so slightly but his pace didn't slow down.
"What's wrong?"
"Just c'mon, Orochimaru wanted to talk with you."
"Talk?"
"It's about the Akatsuki."
I nodded and sped up my pace so that I was beside him, that didn't seem to matter to him because he still held my hand as we ran. We arrived at a door and Sasuke barged in.
"You should teach him some manners Orochimaru-Sama. He shouldn't be allowed to go on like that."
Kabuto's voice rang out from some corner of the room. Kabuto had never liked Sasuke because of how arrogant he would be.
"All in due time Kabuto..." Orochimaru's voice sounded from directly behind us. Sasuke and I merely turned around to face his cold voice.
"We're here, so you can start." Sasuke said in the cold voice he had.
"Very well," Orochimaru was laughing slightly. "It seems the Akatsuki would like to make me an offer. They have
offered me the power of a tailed beast in return for one of my best specimen. I think we all know who was the most successful."
My gut dropped and I realized he meant me. They would be giving me away. I was stronger than Sasuke now, who else was? I looked up at Sasuke; By the confused look on his face, he hadn't realized who it would be yet.
"So who will it be?"
"None other than Kyomi."
Sasuke froze and looked down at me icily. I returned his gaze, Sasuke could give anyone else his attitude, but right now, I wasn't in the mood to humor him.
"There isn't anyone else?" Sasuke asked nonchalantly.
"Silly boy, who else could there be?" Orochimaru slid closer to me and took out his long tongue and let it rest on my collar bone.
He placed both of his hands on my shoulders. I didn't move or shake, why would I? I had gotten used to Orochimaru invading my space, and he wasn't all that scary. I looked up blankly at Orochimaru's smiling face.
"When shall I leave Master?"
"So eager to leave?" Orochimaru spoke in an amused tone.
"Eager to do your bidding."
Sure I wasn't really eager, but if kissing up to the snake meant less pain, I would kiss up for the rest of my life.
"Go pack. We're going to make the trade tonight."
I nodded.
"Is that all?"
"Yes Kyomi."
I nodded, bowed, then left the room. I had to pack, but what would I really pack? It's not like the Akatsuki wouldn't just take my things away from me to search through. I sighed and entered my room again. I looked at the walls. Sure I didn't like my stay here, but at least I was familiar with it. I could slide my way out of certain experiments and I learned a heck of a lot of new jutsu. I wouldn't miss it here, I knew that. So why was there a tugging at my chest? I rubbed there and walked over to the bare wall. It had no pictures on it as other prisoners' walls had. I had no pictures or memories. No memories except for the ones with Orochimaru and Sasuke... Sasuke. That's what I would miss, his ego, his smirk, his tendency to always want to be best, and above all, how he would always try and protect me. I smiled at the wall and continued thinking of all the memories. I would never forget them, I didn't want to ever forget them.
"What are you smiling at?"
I turned to see Sasuke with a desperate expression on his face.
"Memories..."
"You're starting to remember?" Sasuke asked taking a few steps closer to me.
"No, I'm trying not to forget all the memories I already have." I turned back around to face the wall. I gasped as I felt heat from Sasuke's body pressed against my back.
"I need to do something."
"Wh-"
I was cut off by his lips pressed against mine. Sasuke's hands were cupping my face to move my head in sync to his. What was Sasuke doing? His hands drifted down to my waist, when I still hadn't moved my hands he put them around his neck. This was my first kiss, what was I supposed to do? I saw this happen before, but I hadn't done it yet. I heard that you had to be in love with the person... I have feelings for Sasuke but love? I don't know, something in me says no, he's not the on. But something else says kiss him, but just remember that you're not going to end up with him. I really couldn't come to a decision, but just as I was, Sasuke broke from the kiss. His eyes were hungry.
"What was that?"
Sasuke was huffing from the lack of air.
"I... Still have... bonds with you."
I stayed silent, that wasn't an answer.
"I could abandon my friends that I've known for so long, I can completely turn my back on them, but I can't seem to do that with you. I can't ignore you. I'm hoping that satisfying my lust will help me ignore you."
And with that his lips were on mine again. I pushed away when I felt his tongue enter my mouth.
"I'm not here to 'satisfy' anyone Sasuke. If you like me you kiss me because of that, not because you want to satisfy your needs." I turned from the door and walked out in the hallway. Sasuke caught my arm and pushed me against a wall. I could feel his breath against my collar bone.
"Please Kyomi, you're leaving soon, I might never see you again. You know how important killing my brother is to me.
Just let me get you out of the way then-"
"No. I said you can find me after wards. I do understand how important it is to you, but I'm not bending my morals because of how you feel."
Sasuke stared wide eyed at me.
"How could I possibly see you?"
I sighed. How was I supposed to know? Suddenly I remembered. Kabuto had taught me a jutsu not too long ago. If you got the right amount of blood from two different people, you could see them and hear them, as if they were right there. The way it worked was that if I had Sasuke's blood and he had mine in a scroll and we did the correct hand signs, we would be able to talk with each other. We would be able to see and communicate with each other. You would see a type of 'hologram' except you could touch this person, they just couldn't touch you. The only people that could see the 'person' was whoever was there when you opened it. In short it was like summoning the person there, except only a replica of the original person came. I explained this to Sasuke and we agreed to do that. I performed the right seals and showed it to him. He touched my face silently and kissed me on the cheek.
"Remember me..." he whispered silently in my ear.
"Good bye Sasuke."
I watched as he walked down the hall and out of my sight. I felt a piece of me leaving as well. I shook my head at the thought, Sasuke could wait. I heard a crash from above and two men in black cloaks with dark red clouds on them appear above my head. I looked up at them silently. I saw Orochimaru appear beside me in a second.
"So this is our new prisoner?" I saw a black haired man standing beside a shark looking guy.
"Yes, and where is my tailed beast Itachi?" Orochimaru asked.
Itachi, Itachi... I know that name, my head is beating me up, telling me to remember. Itachi's onyx colored eyes land on me and I think I see a slight smile appear, but was quickly changed to a scowl.
"Do I know you?" I asked hesitantly...
"Hello Kyomi..."
How he said my name... an image kept on tugging at my mind. I had to find out. I let my head drop so he wouldn't notice the bored look in my eyes as I tried to enter his mind. I got in quickly but just as quickly as I had entered, I was thrown out. Not just a mental throw, a physical one to. I fell from the push and landed on my butt. A small bit of blood dribbled down my lips. I wiped it off quickly and looked up at this guy. He knew me, and I knew him. That was sure, and he must have been pretty close to me to know how to defuse my jutsu. I entered into the fish guy's mind I didn't find anything special, all I learned was his name: Kisame Hoshigaki.
"You should be glad Sasuke's not here..."
It hit me suddenly, this was Sasuke's older brother, the one he hated so much it was possibly dangerous, but... That's not where I know him from.
"We have not finished collecting the tailed beasts, so you'll have to wait. But we also need to know how valuable she is.
So again it's not unfair we are keeping our side of the deal."
With that I felt myself being pulled up towards Itachi. I didn't struggle or try to pull away I just let myself be taken up. Itachi had me in his arms, chained with chakra in a second. He had also put a cloak on me. I hadn't said a word, just looked at Itachi trying to figure out where I know him from. About 40 minutes had passed and we were now traveling through dense forest. Kisame was glancing at me from the corner of his eye from time to time. I didn't pay any attention to him I would find out who Itachi was.
"Are you in love or something?"
I looked at the Kisame person. What was he talking about? He saw my confused look and continued.
"You've never taken your eyes off of Itachi, I've been meaning to mention it but... you don't seem colder than Itachi over here."
"No. I've never been in loved neither have I been lov-" I stopped my self. Was Sasuke love? No... If he was I would have kissed back earlier.
"What your remembering a guy who had a crush on you?"
"No. I have never been loved."
Itachi scoffed. I guessed that my conversation with Kisame was over and began staring at Itachi again.
"See. You're doing it again!"
"I realize that."
Itachi hadn't payed us any attention and just continued jumping from branch to branch casually.
"To silence Kisame's talking answer my question. Why do you stare?" Itachi had finally said something, but it was still
in a monotone voice that told you he didn't care in the least. I wouldn't completely tell him my reason.
"Where do I know you from?"
"Answering a question with a question... Just like Itachi." Kisame said amused.
"Looks like they didn't completely erase your mind." Itachi said under his breath.
"So you're from my past?"
Itachi looked at me shocked, Kisame looked at us in confusion, he hadn't heard what Itachi had said.
I looked down and buried my head into his chest to pretend that I was going to sleep so the Kisame would drop his guard. When his guard was dropped I continued my questions.
"So it's true?"
"Yes."
"But where do I know you?"
"You'll find out on your own in due time."
"Tell me."
"No."
"Why?"
"Because I said so."
"Give me a clue."
Itachi looked at me squarely.
"Think about it."
We stopped talking because I could sense that Kisame had heard something, not our conversation but noises, and his guard was now up again.
I thought over what Itachi had said.
This was the man that I had waited for my whole life, the one who could tell me of my past... and now all he could do was tell me to wait.
"Kisame go get some water, I can sense a lake not to far off."
Kisame gave a exasperated huff but did as Itachi said. In a few minutes, Itachi and I were alone. I threw my arms around his neck and buried my head into his chest. I felt his hands wrap around me as well.
"Wh-who are you?" I whispered more to myself then to Itachi.
"Why don't I remember anything?"
Itachi sighed deeply before continuing.
"After I killed the Uchiha's I had to make you forget, you couldn't go around remembering every thing... It was too
dangerous."
I looked at him thoughtfully.
"What? You have feelings for me or my brother?" Itachi questioned with a sly grin.
I looked up at him slowly and raised an eyebrow.
"No. Actually it's the other way around... Earlier today Sasuke kissed me..."
"Where do you stand on him doing that?"
Finally the question.
"I don't know..."
"But for your own good, make sure people think that you're cold and unreachable."
I looked at him curiously.
"Just trust me about it."
I nodded silently as I heard Kisame coming. I pretended to be fast asleep.
"So I spent all that time looking for the 'lake' that was somewhere around here to find that she's asleep?!?"
I tried not to laugh at Kisame's temper tantrum.
"I'll wake her up."
Before he could touch me, I felt the wind building up and flapping of wings above our heads.
"Why it's Gaara, the Kazekage of Sunagakure, also the jinchuriki of Shukaku."
Itachi didn't say anything.
"You are on our territory, if you do not wish to die, I suggest you give me the girl you are holding hostage and leave."
Kisame unsheathed his sword and crouched into a fighting position.
"Kisame, stand down, we should carry out our mission not waste our time fighting them."
Kisame grumbled about it but ended up putting away his sword.
"Let's go Kisame."
"Very well."
They left and were soon out of reach.
"GO AND FIND THEM, KILL THEM IF YOU MUST!" The redhead in front of me shouted to the leagues of shinobi
behind him.
"HAI" (YES) Were their replies.
He bent down beside me and studied me carefully. I gave him the same blank expression which I gave to everyone. He
threw me over his shoulder and begun to make his way... home? I let out a sigh.
"My name is Gaara I am the Kazekage as you must have heard."
"Hn."
He laughed a bit.
"You're supposed to tell me what your name is."
"Kyomi."
"Clan?"
"I don't know."
"Hmm. We'll change that."