A Fine Fine Line | By : eksimenrol Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female > Naruto/Sakura Views: 5904 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Quick
notes: Wow I’ve been inspired, so I’m
back at it. No new spoilers and this is
during the events that takes us to the morning of the 4th day.
Chapter
Fourteen: The Mind’s Eye
Soon
after I heard her voice, my world went black.
I was trapped in a bare room; each wall glowed faintly with an evil red
tint. In the center of it all was
Sasuke, his red eyes blazing. His please were stronger now, more forceful. Almost demanding that I let go of my feelings
for Sakura.
I
could faintly hear Sakura’s voice in the back of my mind. She was calling for me, but where was
she. Try as I might, I couldn’t remove
my eyes from Sasuke’s. What had he done
to me? Why was I frozen here?
I
could hear the pleas coming from Sakura, each one more frantic than the
previous. What did she want me to
do? I can’t make it out, and the more I
try to focus on her words, the more my head seems to ache. Something isn’t right here.
I
felt an odd wetness against my lips, pleasant and yet awkward. I would have sworn someone had tried to kiss
me, but no one was here. I then felt
something force its way beyond my lips, entering into my mouth. But try as I might, each time I searched for
it, there was nothing there. What was
going on?
While
I tried to debate what it was exactly that I was feeling I heard a sound that
froze me to my core. Sakura was
crying. I faintly heard her say
something, it almost sounded like an apology.
I
felt a tremendous impact on my cheek, almost as if Sakura had hit me, but this
was far worse. I went flying towards the
nearest wall, watching as it opened up before I reached it, revealing a large
chamber with thousands upon thousands of doors.
I fell for what had seemed like an eternity in that dark chamber before
reaching what I assumed to be a ground of some sort.
That
was when I noticed how much bigger everything was. Looking down I saw a small orange t-shirt and
blue shorts. I look like I did when I
was six. I’m a little kid. This has to be a dream or genjutsu. This can’t be real. I tried as hard as I could to wake up. It was no use, try as I might; I was stuck
here, in a hellishly black limbo, as a six year old.
I
stayed there, surveying my surroundings, hoping against hope that at some point
I would wake up from this damn nightmare.
That was when I heard it. It was
faint at first, but every time it repeated itself it got stronger. It was a voice. A familiar voice too. And it was getting closer. I could almost make it out. “Hey Naruto?
Are you in here?”
It
was Ino! I’m saved! She can help me get out of this
nightmare. I ran in the direction I was
hearing her voice from, and soon I came upon a bright light surrounding a large
circular seal on the ground. The seal
was in the shape of a leaf. “I’m here,
please help me.” Oh god my voice was so
high pitched, I sounded like a little six year old too. “Please I don’t know how to get out of here.”
There
was a mighty flash; I had to turn away before I could look back at the giant
seal. Slowly from within the large seal,
Ino rose. However there was something
different about her. She looked older,
more mature. Her breasts were much
larger than normal, and her hair seemed to be coiled around her many times,
with the tips blowing to some unfelt wind.
She was beyond beautiful, and yet, not beautiful at all. Almost like she had tried too much to be
beautiful, and the result showed it.
Nonetheless
I was glad she was here and ran at her with all the glee I could muster. Abruptly colliding with and latching onto her
right leg I began to cry my eyes out at seeing her. “Please Ino; you have to help me get out of
here!”
“Naruto?” She was looking at me funny. “Is that really you?” She pushed me off her leg and gave me a long
hard look. “Yup you’re definitely
Naruto. Okay listen up, this is what’s
going on. Sakura said that something was
affecting you, but she couldn’t be sure what or how. So I uh, I sort of entered your mind to see
if I could help you fix the problem.”
“Help
me? How?” Wait, did she say she was in my mind? That we are in my mind? “Um... Ino, how did
you get inside my head?”
“I
used a new jutsu I made. Now listen up
Naruto, I need your help with this. What
the hell had happened to you, the way Sakura told it, it seemed that you had
been trying to scare yourself to death.”
Looking
over her shoulder as she bent down too look me over I froze. He was here, in my head. I was seeing him in my head. “Please Naruto, don’t take Sakura from
me. Please don’t take the only woman I
care for.” I froze as I stared deep into
his red eyes, instantly he seemed to multiply, becoming two, then eight, then
thirty. How was he doing this?
Ino
heard him. Her reaction was sudden; she
shot up staring towards the Sasuke that had said those words, a shocked look on
her face and a loud gasp coming from her lips.
“Sasuke? What the hell?” Ino was looking around at him, all of
him. “You did this to him. You tormented him! What the hell is wrong with you?”
He
seemed unfazed, staring only into my eyes and pleading with me. “Please Naruto; don’t steal the only one who
has ever loved me. Don’t steal Sakura
from me.”
Ino
just stood there, staring off towards the Uchiha, the look on her face never
changing. I was trapped, deep in my own
mind, and the only one who knew the way out was unable to help me. She walked towards the nearest Sasuke clone,
staring unbelievably into his eyes.
Then
she slapped him. “You bastard! How could you? He was your friend, hell he’s the closest
thing you have to a brother.” Again she
slapped him. “And you ask him to give up
the only woman he ever loved?” Yet again
Ino slapped Sasuke. She was really
pissed off at the man.
However,
neither the words she spoke nor the blows she landed did anything. It was almost as if she had passed right
through him. “Damnit, why won’t you stop? Just get out of his mind already.” Each word corresponded to a punch. She was more than just pissed at the man.
Then
she suddenly stopped, the look in her face eerily similar to Shikamaru when he
finally understands what someone is hiding.
“He’s not the one who’s the cause of this problem.” She turned back to me and knelt down to my
level. “Naruto, think back to the last
time you saw Sasuke. Did he ever say
something, or do something? Did he ever
enter your mind?”
“Well,
sort of. But he didn’t really enter my
mind like you. He sort of talked to me
in my head. It was-”
“Naruto,
please, where was he when he did this talking to you?” Oh no.
Did she want me to take here there?
I can’t, I mean what would she do if she saw Kyuubi? Would she freak out? Would she try and kill me like the village
used to? “Please Naruto. I know this must be private for you, and I
know I’m a bit of a gossip queen. But I
swear to you that I won’t divulge anything I might see in there unless it will
help you. I swear that on my way of the
ninja.”
She
was serious. She wouldn’t tell anyone
what she saw. “Okay Ino, follow
me.” I took her hand and left towards
the only door that could possibly lead to the fox. It was large and red, with an eerie glow
about it. I stopped before the door and
looked up at her. “Okay Ino, you need to
be prepared before you go in there.
You’re going to see something that’s going to scare the shit out of
you.” The look on her face made me
realize how bizarre it would be to have a six year old telling you you’re going
to see something scary as hell. I couldn’t
help but laugh at the look on her face.
“Wow, that sounded weird, didn’t it?”
She nodded trying to fight her urge to laugh. “But seriously, behind that door is the one
secret I’m afraid to let get out. Some
people know about it, but still it’s very private. So try not at let him scare you.”
She
must have been questioning who it was I meant when I said him. Because the look on her face was very
inquisitive. I pushed open the door and
was shocked at what I saw. The cage was
bent and twisted. Contorted into even
smaller proportions. And leaning against
it in all his glory was Sasuke. The
fucking bastard himself.
“So
you figured out what happened to him, didn’t you?” Sasuke wasn’t looking at me, he was looking
at Ino. “And you came in here to help
him, how touching Ino. How selfish,
helping Naruto get Sakura all to himself so I’m available for you.”
I
looked over at Ino, fearing how she would respond. The loud snort that came from her was quite
unexpected, almost pig like. “If that’s
what you think I’m doing Sasuke, then go ahead and think it, whatever floats
your boat. But you should know I’m over
you, and I have been for at least a year now.
I’m not the stupid little girl I was when we were kids Sasuke. You never deserved my love, and you sure as
hell don’t deserve it now. So get out of
here before I have to pull off the gloves.”
The two of them seemed to glare at each other for hours, neither moving. “Let go Sasuke, you’ve lost. There’s no used in trying to torment him
anymore.”
“Hmm,
you’re right Ino. There is no use in
messing with him anymore. I’ve grown
tired of playing around with the fool.”
Sasuke seemed to stand up straighter as he looked over at me with an
evil smile. I wasn’t exactly sure why
but I cowered behind Ino’s leg as she stared him down.
“Get
out of here Sasuke, and don’t come back.”
A tear seemed to fall down her face as she looked deep into his
eyes. “You’re not welcome here anymore.”
There
was a very deep and evil laugh the seemed to come from him then. Almost crazed as it were. And the world seemed to spin as he stared in
at me with those red eyes of his. He was
still laughing manically as he started to fold in on himself. The room seemed to be distorting itself and
sucking in around him a torrent of wind and purple-black chakra lashing out at
us.
Ino
ran towards the door, barely grabbing hold as the wind picked up. I tried to join her but the wind was too
strong. It was drawing me in, deep
towards the core of the typhoon. The
closed I got to it, the louder and more terrifying Sasuke’s laughing became. I was quickly becoming trapped staring deeply
into a single eye of the sharingan. He
was trying to kill me. There was nothing
I could do about it; I was trapped, being sucked in to my doom.
Then
it stopped. The wind, the power behind
it, even his eye, it all ceased to exist.
It was entirely all too black in the dungeon. But the laughing, it never ended. It seemed to come from both nowhere and
everywhere. I was in the eye of the
storm, and it had changed directions.
Ino had done a 180, now holding on to the door frame to prevent herself
from being blown off to who knows where in my subconscious.
I
was trapped in the center of a maelstrom of swirling evil, and Sasuke was
starting to form in the center of it, sword drawn and ready for combat. “Heh, now Naruto, it’s time to correct the
mistake I made all those years ago.” I
couldn’t look away from his eyes; the glowing red orbs were bearing into my
soul. Each second that passes caused my
head to hurt more and more.
He
was killing me. Slowly and painfully he
was killing me. I couldn’t move and he
was drawing closer. I barely had the
strength to hold myself off the ground, I was an easy target.
And
yet he didn’t kill me, he was standing over me, and odd smirk pasted on his
face. Almost surprised at how easy it
was probably. I couldn’t take it
anymore, I surrendered. I closed my eyes
and accepted my fate.
“No!” My eyes flew open as the pain ended in my
head. Ino was standing over me, her hand
on a kunai embedded deep within Sasuke’s chest.
His look of silent surprised unusual for his face. “How?”
His question seemed to die as he fell to his knees and started to fade
away again. This time he was alone, no
wind, no chakra. Just nothing.
“I’m
sorry I didn’t make it sooner, the wind was too strong for me, whatever that
red burst of chakra you used was, it saved the day Naruto.” She let out a deep sigh looking down at
me. “I think we found the root of the
problem and fixed it, so after some sleep, you’ll be good as new.” She moved towards me and placed her hand on
my forehead and gently cupped my cheek with the other.
As
I was slipping out of consciousness I glanced behind me and saw a faint outline
of the fox in his restored cage. “Damn
fox, saved me once a-” Before I blacked
out completely I would have sworn I had seen Ino look towards me with shocked
respect.
But
then again I was so tired I could have been seeing things.
Author notes: I’m BACK!
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