Immortal | By : SlowDeathJashin Category: Naruto AU/AR > Het - Male/Female Views: 2796 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Ok, so I had this story posted a while ago but I hit a snag on the plot and had to re-write a couple parts and tweak it a bit, so here it is, again. Sorry, to those of you who have read it before. I hope you guys like it and it should be appropriately tagged as of right now. Enjoy.
Sunshine beat down on Konoha as if it were a typhoon. Waves of heat floated above the metal roofs of buildings, putting too much strain on the cooling systems of the village. In the largest building, the place where the Hokage lived, a meeting had been going on for hours, now, not about the absurd heat driving everyone crazy but about a lost girl found wandering about the forest, apparently lost. Some people believed that she was, in fact, lost but others were less sure. Something didn't seem right at all about this whole situation. Or, that feeling could just be because of the heat messing with their heads. Either way, some important things must be decided.
There were six people inside of the Hokage's office starting with the Hokage, herself, the head of the ANBU Black Ops, Danzo, Kakashi, Shikamaru and the brown-haired girl they had found who was sitting in a chair in the center of the room. The thing they found strangest, though, was that she was completely relaxed. She even seemed to care less than Shikamaru on any regular day. The conversation had been confusing and heated but had now slowed to a near halt.
Tsunade sighed and then spoke with irritation lining her voice. She was obviously trying to keep her temper under control but the heat was nearly making her sick and she was tired of sitting here accomplishing nothing. "No one here really understands anything you've been saying..."
The girl interrupted very quickly, now bored with being asked the same things over and over again. "That's alright... the concepts I've laid out for you several times already are extremely complex and haven't really been proven in this... uhh... what's a more simple word to use this time? This world, I suppose."
Shikamaru then jumped in for the second time this morning, sounding way past irritated and confused. "Look... I have an IQ of over 300 and even I don't really get it."
And she interrupted again, "Well... if you're that smart I could probably explain it to you, then... if I hadn't already. I'm not from... here... and what I mean by that." The girl sighed and rubbed her forehead as beads of sweat rolled on her skin. "I'm... I'm not as smart as you, actually. I've just experienced what happened. Where I'm from things are substantially different. I guess, maybe I didn't really explain this well enough so let me try again..." And the room sighed, Tsunade glaring, angrily. Now she was really losing her patience.
She rolled her eyes and began speaking, "You know when you wake up in the morning and you ask yourself 'should I get out of bed or not?' Well... technically you do both. But by picking one you are altering the way you perceive those events by perceiving only one. You choose. And each of those choices lead to completely different events happening. Have I lost you, yet?"
She looked around and the room was expressionless, except for Shikamaru, who was in awe. "OK," he said, groaning and rubbing his head. "So... ughh... Are you saying that you're from another train of events?"
The girl happily laughed, giving a finally reassured nod. "Almost! Well, if you go back far enough, the consequences of those choices change the world around you pretty drastically and when you get back to the beginning of time, different things happen to make each world form differently, creating completely different and alternate universes altogether." The whole room was silent, dumbstruck by what they had just heard. "Where I'm from this is called multiverse theory... So... I should have just explained this to you, first. Sorry... I don't always thing about everything the way that I should. But, my point is... I'm from one of those different universes. One that started out differently than this one."
"That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!" Danzo exclaimed, glaring intensely at the young girl as his brow furrowed with the anger of a military man. She glared back, however, not in the least bit amused. "No one knows anything like this. Even if it were true, how could you prove it?"
"What she said does make some sort of sense, though. I mean... in a way. I think." Shikamaru thought aloud, his chin cupped in his hand, first doubting his first decision but then changing it back, his face in deep thought. The idea was so complicated and yet so perfect it was almost scary.
"Of course it does... and by the way, old man," she glared at Danzo, "You would know if you had been thrown between universes. It's not a natural thing, I'll give you that, but I didn't lie when I told you that it's possible."
Tsunade tapped her fingers on her desk, about to explode as sweat was dripping down her brow. "Let's say we give you the benefit of the doubt... and for some reason believe what you're saying... Why don't you start explaining how you got here? It doesn't seem like it would be such an easy task to just... move between universes..."
She sighed and looked at her feet, rubbing her hand through her hair. "If you want to sit here that long it won't be a problem... But bare with me... It's a long story and not something I like thinking about, much less talking about. And you're gonna have to deal with me at my own pace. Everything that happened is important." Tsunade nodded, then, the girl crossed her legs and leaned the chair, very nonchalantly onto it's back legs with a more relaxed look on her face. "The beginning... well... the very beginning is the hardest. A lot more so than now, even."
The chair legs fell to the floor and her face became grim and her voice darker. "I guess I survived as long as I did because our personalities are so... similar... I was interesting to him... Something about me just... attracted him in all the worst possible ways..."
"What are you talking about?" Kakashi asked with disdain in his voice, trying to better understand what she meant. "Who are you talking about?" He knew she couldn't mean anything good at all.
The room was buzzing with more energy than before. Most of it bad and distrust, though everyone's curiosity had seriously peaked. Tsunade spoke, again, "There are other people involved, then?"
“People from this world, I assume...” Shikamaru stated in a calm, more understanding tone.
She nodded, slowly, a strange grimace on her face that hinted at hatred and fear. "And they probably are well-known here. I mean... they have to be... I don't really see how they couldn't be considering this is where they were from. What happened to bring me to this universe happened to them on accident to bring them to mine. They wanted to come back... my home suited them about as well as it suited me... which wasn't good to say the least..."
Danzo growled with anger, obviously wanting to hurt this girl but he refrained with words, "Stop beating around the bush! There's no need for this suspense so just get on with it!"
She looked at Danzo, annoyed with the man. "Can you make him leave? He won't be of much help, anyway..." She asked directly at Tsunade.
The Hokage nodded and flicked her hand at him without saying a word. Just the look on her face was enough to convey her very stern meaning, his face crinkling up with disbelief. "Are you serious?" He asked, earning a glare from her immediately so, with an offended huff he turned and left the room. She smiled, turning to watch him leave as she waved, sarcastically.
"Now, if I remember correctly it was storming really hard the day this all began. Like torrential downpour and it was really amazing that I saw him from the corner of my eye the way I did. Later, they called themselves members of a group called the Akatsuki and..."
That's when everyone in the room began asking questions of 'What? Who? How?' And the girl sat there annoyed until Tsunade had forced them to end their panicked barrage. "Was it the whole Akatsuki?" Tsunade asked her as the rest of the people in the room quietened down.
She shook her head. "I don't think so. There were just two of them. And believe me when I tell you... I wish they had just killed me when they saw me... I know Hidan wanted to."
Shikamaru's eyes became wide and his facial expression suddenly lost it's carefree posture to something more furious and incredibly serious. It was like his eyes suddenly got tunnel vision and he couldn't think, anymore. "What did you just say? Hidan? The freaky religious guy that killed Asuma?"
The girl looked at him, confused but understanding. "I don't know the guy you're talking about but if Hidan's involved then that sounds right..."
But it seemed as if he had a sudden moment of clarity. "But wait... It's against his religion to not kill you, so... why are you alive?" His eyes held the most distrust of all. They even held glimmers of hate within, just from her association with him.
"I'll get to that. Like I said it's a long story and everything's important and that's pretty early in the story, anyway."
Shikamaru glared, impatience growing in his eyes. He remembered every word... every detail of that day. How could he not? The events were traumatizing to say the least.
~ ~ ~
A woman's voice echoed from a nearby radio that had been left turned on after the rain had began pouring down over a concrete parking lot for a large mall centered in the medium-sized city. Well, for people who lived in an actual city they would call this a small town but it was pretty good for someone who had never really left. The voice was announcing that there had been some flash flood warnings and that people in certain areas should be evacuating if possible.
The rain made the air so cold that people were hurriedly packing inside of the mall as quickly as they could run. So far, this area was not currently under threat of flooding so people were still going about their day-to-day business.
But, standing off to the side of the parking lot was a lone girl who had been standing still, staring off into the tree line, her hair covered by the hood of her jacket was a dark chocolate brown color while dry so now it was almost black looking. Her eyes were teal at this moment but they tended to change depending on a range of things and so very curious looking. They were deep set, large and full of worried thought.
She mouthed to herself, "What is going on over there?" and hesitated to take a step toward the two people gathered under the trees who, themselves, looked very confused. More confused than anyone she had ever seen besides children. Maybe that's why they got her attention in the first place. But, she also had theirs.
After standing for a few minutes, now just as soaked as the two standing under the tree, she sighed and walked forward, pretty much deciding that after standing in the rain until her underwear was wet, she might as well go see what was up. It's not like she wanted to go into work today, anyway. However, she would after this just a little late. Or very late depending on how long it took her to get home and change clothes.
She felt more hesitation build up once she got closer and realized that it was just two men standing, talking to each other in this downpour. But they stopped talking to each other and looked right at her once she got close enough to hear them over the rain, which was just a couple body distances because the rain was hitting the leaves and the pavement so hard that any further and she couldn't understand them at all. She was wondering if maybe she'd made a mistake by walking over here as she asked her question because these two men seriously reminded her of soldiers. Maybe they had been but their expressions put her on edge.
"Uh... Do you two need some help or... something?" she had, in her mind, changed what she thought she should be saying a couple of times as she was saying it so it came out stuttered and unsure.
They didn't look angry, just taken aback and surprised that she actually walked up to them. Well, one of them had his face covered like it was a costume or something and she could only see his deep, green eyes, anyway. The other kind of looked angry but that just seemed to be the way the features of his face were set, anyway. Her stomach was telling her to run away from them but her brain was telling her that that would be rude and she didn't want to be rude. That's just the way she was raised to be. To not make snap-judgments about people.
The man with the covered face was the first to speak in his deep, older voice. He seemed impressed but also wary of her. Wary of everything, actually. "What influenced you to come over here?"
Then, the other spoke in not quite a deep voice but something was more dark about him. Something much more abhorrent about that one but, still, she wanted to see his face a bit closer. "Shut up, old man. Ask a question that actually fucking matters like where the hell are we?" His question was directed toward her but the other man emitted an annoyed growl from his throat.
The dark-haired girl was confused but answered the best she could, as she took a step closer to them, realizing from their body language exactly how unsure of her they were. "Uh... well, this is the inner-city mall..." Her gut screamed at her as he grimaced at her, some evil feeling radiating from his whole body as the muscles of his bare chest tightened up.
She stepped back one step, intending to move more but she was stopped by the younger man's hand plopped on her shoulder, squeezing just hard enough to keep her from leaving. "I don't know if I sounded sarcastic before..." he said, sounding the furthest from sarcastic. He sounded malicious and violent and not willing to deal with jokes and the same feeling was emanating from the other man, as well. "But I'm really not fucking joking around..."
She gasped, an odd sort of fear coming over her that made her relax under his grip. "I don't know what you mean." Her eyes locked on his, for the first time realizing how strange it was that this man had dark amethyst eyes and an almost white shade of grey hair. Those eyes were flaming with malice, almost like the man himself had an evil aura surrounding him and she didn't understand where he could have possibly come from or if the fear she was feeling would ever go away. Was he thinking about killing her?
“I-I just want to help...”
The man holding her down laughed, looking back at the other one whose expression seemed no more humored than it had seconds ago. “Ha! She just wants to help... Fine. Let her help, Kakuzu.”
From the side of her eye she saw a thin shape as though it were whipping about. She had been so entranced with the young, white haired man that it took her a minute to realize what she was seeing the older man do... and she didn't believe what she was seeing.
Through the rain and forming mist she had not even noticed how scarred up he was and now his wrist was opening up and those string like things was circling around like they were intensely fast snakes. Her heart began beating so fast as an innate fear struck her, looking back to realize that there was no one else around them at all.
The younger man chuckled, his neon white teeth showing through his wicked smile grabbed her attention for a split second before there was suddenly a sharp pain on the back of her neck. After that, the world went black and she was out cold.
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