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Between Love and Death	By : stephfarrow94 Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 1206 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, nor the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story

Chapter List
- 1-Between Love and Death
- 2-2
- 3-3
- 4-4
- 5-5
- 3
- 4
- 5
A/N Get your tissues ready; this chapter gets very sad at the end
It had been two weeks since Kisame and Zetsu left Tobi at the abandoned house. Zetsu visited Tobi every day he could, bringing him food and new play toys and books to read so he wouldn’t be bored and stayed with him for as long as he could before having to return back to base.
Kisame sometimes joined Zetsu when he did this and it had helped Zetsu get to know Kisame a little better. Zetsu was able to trust Kisame enough not to harm him when they were alone together and often stayed with Kisame at the base, talking to him and telling him little things about himself.
But something was about to happen that would change Zetsu's life forever.
Tobi tossed and turned in his makeshift bed almost three weeks later, a bad feeling taking over him. Looking at the little clock Zetsu had bought for Tobi, it was three-twelve in the morning. Groaning in annoyance, Tobi closed his eyes, trying desperately to go to sleep. Zetsu had promised to take Tobi into town so he could get some new clothes and things to play with and he wanted to get as much sleep as he could so he could be as happy as possible.
The scraping of the door being opened made Tobi jump and hide under his blankets. Zetsu nor Kisame would visit him at this hour... someone must have gotten in.
"Please be another rat..." Tobi whispered to himself, reaching out from under the blankets and grabbing the kunai Zetsu had given him for protection.
He heard the sound of footsteps and Tobi wanted to run and hide; it wasn’t Zetsu; he had spent so much time with the older male that he knew exactly how Zetsu walked.
"W-who's there...?" Tobi had poked his head out timidly from under the blanket and called out in fright.
The footsteps stopped for a minute before laughter sounded around the abandoned house. Tobi squealed, hiding under the blanket again. The footsteps followed Tobi and as Tobi shook and trembled, crying from his fright, he heard the footsteps stop right beside him.
"Trying to hide, are we?" Tobi heard a man laugh from beneath his faux protection. "Well, that's not going to work!"
Tobi screamed as the blanket was ripped from over him and someone grabbed him by the throat, picking him up and pinning him to the wall, choking him. From what Tobi could see, it was a male, and he had a mark on his arm. Zetsu had told him about this mark, and even showed him a picture of it; it was the automatic mark of an escaped criminal.
Tobi screamed for Zetsu desperately, screaming out louder as he felt something stab into his stomach viciously. Blood dribbled out from his mouth as he choked on the blood, and he cried and moaned from the burning his stomach gave off.
The criminal laughed, beating Tobi viciously with his bare hands, bringing a weapon into it, but when he felt that Tobi was nearing his end, the criminal stopped and relieved them both of their clothes. Tobi screamed as he felt something hard penetrate his area, but more than anything else, Tobi could feel himself dying.
He choked on his cries, begging desperately for Zetsu. "Z-zetsu... Help..."
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Zetsu woke up with a start. He felt something was very wrong with Tobi and no matter how much he tried to shake the feeling, it just got worse.
Glancing over at the corner where Tobi had once slept in, he gulped, knowing he was risking his life for what he was about to do. Jumping out of bed, Zetsu chucked some clothes on before fastening his robe. Forgetting about his footwear, he ran from the base to Tobi's hideout. He could have cared less that Pein would probably kill him if he knew Zetsu had left without permission but none of that mattered; Tobi's life was much more important than his.
Zetsu ran with all his might but a presence soon caught up to him. "Hey, Zetsu, wait!"
Zetsu turned to face Kisame. The older male looked concerned. "Are you running away, Zetsu?"
Zetsu shook his head. "I think something's wrong with Tobi; I've gotta make sure!"
Kisame nodded, knowing that even if Zetsu got to Tobi and found Tobi fine, he would still come back next time even if he felt the tiniest thing was wrong; that was just how much Zetsu loved and cared for Tobi.
They travelled in silence for a while before Zetsu broke the silence. "Why are you out here, Kisame? You know Pein could kill you for leaving without telling him."
Kisame shrugged. "He knows I'm out here; I asked to have a while out before everyone went to bed and he said to be back by dinnertime tonight."
Zetsu nodded, not saying anything else, but Kisame understood. Zetsu wasn’t really concerned about Kisame -- he was just trying to take his mind off of Tobi for a few seconds.
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Tobi screamed and thrashed under the criminal, trying to get away, but the criminal had stabbed Tobi through the shoulder, keeping him on the ground and under slight control. He rammed away into Tobi's virgin opening, loving the blood that dripped from the child -- the sounds of pain he made.
He came from the fact alone that Tobi wasn’t enjoying this at all, and as he sat up to clean himself off, he heard someone slam the front door open, a blur of black, green and blue and a sudden pain in his side as someone ripped a kunai from his ribs down to his waist.
"Check Tobi, Kisame!" Zetsu screamed, his face full of anger.
Kisame did as he was told, hearing Zetsu tearing the stranger apart, and as he checked Tobi he found the child to have stopped breathing.
"Shit." he muttered under his breath, taking his cloak off and wrapping Tobi tightly in it, seeing Tobi was bleeding buckets of blood.
As he looked around, he saw the scene, and Kisame shivered. There were bloody handprints everywhere, Tobi’s toys were knocked everywhere, some of them splattered with blood, his orange and black blanket was stained in it, and there was so much blood on the ground in puddles that Kisame was surprised he hadn’t slipped over in any of it.
He laid Tobi on his back, trying his best to remember how to perform CPR. Pumping the boy's chest, he heard some of the bones crack under stress but when he breathed into Tobi's mouth, the boy began breathing again.
Kisame looked over to Zetsu to find he was done with the person who had done this to Tobi. "Zetsu, Tobi needs help, ASAP!" he said. "Get Tobi's things and I'll get him back to the base as quick as I can; I can travel faster than you."
Zetsu nodded, gathering Tobi's things and placing them all in the plastic bags Tobi liked to collect, making sure he had grabbed everything that belonged to Tobi before chasing after Kisame as quick as he could go.
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Kisame smashed the base door open, screaming for help, and lights flickered on from every bedroom, but the only person Kisame wanted to see was Konan.
He threw Tobi into Konan's arms the second she left her bedroom, and Konan, seeing how badly beaten Tobi was, rushed him into the medical ward. She laid him down on the bed, and the only person she allowed in the room with them was Kisame. She didn’t even let Pein in, though that might have been a good thing; Pein would have made Kisame into sushi if he saw that Tobi was back because of him.
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Zetsu made it back to the base as soon as he could, throwing Tobi's belongings into his own bedroom before running to the medical ward and opening the door. He stepped in, ready to ask how Tobi was doing, but he stopped as he saw the entire base in there, heads hung low, and sensing the gloomy atmosphere.
"K-kisame..." Zetsu stuttered, almost too scared to ask anything. "T-tobi..."
Kisame glanced at Zetsu and Zetsu could see the concern in the shark-man's eyes. Kisame sighed before getting to his feet and walking Zetsu out of the ward.
"Kisame, please..." Zetsu begged; the silence was killing him.
"Zetsu..." Kisame didn’t know how to say this. "...Didn’t you see the sheet over Tobi...?"
Zetsu gasped, feeling as if his heart had just shattered and his life and one motivation for living had been ripped cruelly away from him. He dropped to his knees in shock, not knowing what to say. What could be said, really?
Kisame knelt down next to Zetsu, bringing the younger male into a tight hug, knowing no words could have soothed the pain Zetsu was feeling right now. Tobi's last words before the boy had died rang in Kisame’s head. Please tell Zet-san that Tobi loves him... Tobi doesn’t blame Zetsu-san; he loves Zetsu-san too much to ever hate him.
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Zetsu had been so distraught by Tobi's death that he had locked himself away in his room, not eating, drinking, not even showering or going to the toilet anymore. Kisame had done all he could for Zetsu but it just wasn’t enough; Zetsu didn’t care about anything anymore – especially about his wellbeing.
Zetsu, the day after Tobi's death, had gone into the medical ward, picking up Tobi's stone cold body from under the sheet and hugging him tightly, cradling him as if the boy was sleeping, and he shed tears. He hugged Tobi, sobbing into the dead boy's hair, stroking his body as if his touches would wake him up from a deep sleep.
"Tobi, I'm..." Both sides of Zetsu whispered simultaneously. "I'm so sorry I failed you, Tobi... I failed you... We failed you... please, forgive us, Tobi... We love you so much...! We're just so sorry!"
Kisame stood in the doorway, knowing it was best not to separate Zetsu from the corpse so soon. Instead, he watched as Zetsu broke into hysterics, rocking the body back and forth as he eventually cried himself to sleep.
The day after that, Kisame knew something had to be done. He had never seen Zetsu like this before. Tobi's belongings were stored neatly in Tobi's corner of the room and the poor male wouldn’t even leave the medical ward, and when Pein tried to take Tobi's body from him to throw out to the crows, all hell broke loose. Zetsu had gone crazy, threatening to kill Pein if he dared leave Tobi's body to just be eaten like some feral rabbit.
Kisame thought about what he could do for Zetsu, and he approached him just three days after Tobi's death with a special offer.
"How about I help you bury him?" Kisame had said gently, putting a hand on Zetsu's shoulder.
Zetsu nodded reluctantly, crushing the body against his chest. "Where...?"
"Where did Tobi like it best? Or have any particular happy memory?"
"... In my greenhouse... He loved it there... And that's... where Tobi finally let me approach him... Where we made friends... It's special to both of us..."
Kisame nodded, smiling softly at Zetsu. He extended a hand, waiting for the younger to take it, and he grinned when the younger did. He didn’t try to take Tobi from Zetsu and he understood completely when Zetsu asked Kisame to dig the grave himself; Zetsu knew this was his last time to see Tobi's face, to hold him, to touch him, to just know Tobi had once existed and was his friend.
When the grave was dug in a corner of the greenhouse, Zetsu lowered him in, crying, but not trying to hide it. Kisame knew Zetsu wanted Tobi to know how much he was going to be missed.
Zetsu stood up straight after gently stroking Tobi's cheek, helping Kisame to pile the dirt on top of him. They sat there, looking at the grave, before Zetsu wandered off for a minute. Kisame watched as the younger man cut an assorted bunch of flowers from his plants before coming back to the grave and placing them on top of it.
"They were his favourite kind of flowers from my collection..." Zetsu explained softly to Kisame.
Kisame nodded, reaching down to grab hold of Zetsu and pull the man into a tight hug. He allowed Zetsu to cry into his chest and when he knew Zetsu was done, he smiled gently, tilting Zetsu's head up carefully and placing his lips on Zetsu's.
Zetsu looked surprised, but he didn’t try to stop Kisame. Instead, he softly asked what that was about.
"Shh..." Kisame replied, closing his eyes and leaning in for another kiss. "Let me try and heal your pain... I love you, Zetsu..."
Zetsu blushed slightly as he allowed Kisame to kiss him. He knew Kisame was trying his best to help, and that Kisame wasn’t lying about this. Well, Tobi was gone, but Kisame was here now, and Zetsu knew, in the deepest part of his soul, that Kisame wouldn’t hurt him; he would love him in a way that Tobi had been unable to, and would help Zetsu heal.
They say time heals all wounds, but Zetsu didn’t believe that for a second. No; what he believed in was love; love he had never experienced before, and if anyone tried to tell Zetsu he was wrong, he would use Tobi as an example. Without Tobi, Zetsu would be dead. Without Tobi, Zetsu wouldn’t have gotten so close to Kisame. Without Tobi, Kisame wouldn’t be sitting here right now, giving Zetsu something he had never had before.
Yes, time healed physical wounds but love mended wounds of the heart, and both Tobi and Kisame had proved that already to Zetsu.
A/N So sad at the end :'( In the last few sentences I was trying to do something sad but yet beautiful, like you see in some of the movies, but I'm not sure if I did it as well as it was in my mind. The way I pictured it in my head was so hard to put into words but at least it turned out somewhat okay.
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