Village Hidden in the Dark

[Sakuto]

"Limbo" I shouted with my rinnegan activated hitting the mysterious figure back with a huge force as i pulled the kunai out of you healimg your wounds automatcially and auddenly the wnemy is wiped out.


"What the...the enemy.." i say confused.


Sakuto had appeared isntantyl whiping out all the enimes and making sure no one got hurt.


"Sorry im late, theyre have been toher attacks like thes" he explains

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

**Ooc: Do you think you can keep Zero from healing my characters so often? It's no fun if no one can be wounded T-T**


I search the blackness under the hood, trying to make out any facial features that could give my enemy's identity away. A hand shoots over two Kunai, his palms pressing them farther into my shoulders, making the skin tear. I let out a faint cry, biting down hard on my tongue to keep the noise down. His boot comes bearing down on my chest, making my ribs whimper. He leans down towards my face, his breath a sour puff of sake and decaying flesh.


"I don't want anything..." he whispered, his mouth so close I could see his lips... or what were the remains of them.


Blood was trickling from his chin dropping onto my forehead as he continued to speak. "....no no Shiho we can't be eating the little... oh yes. Just a taste..." a long red tongue lapped out from the ninja's mouth, his lips a mesh of torn meat. As if he'd been chewing on them. Saliva coated my cheek as the organ raked across my face making me wince and grit my teeth.


How can you be so helpless?


I was frozen, facing death....


Everything happened so fast my head almost spun.


The ninja is gone.


One, two, three Kunai are pulled from my body making my jolt. I wince loudly and silent tears are falling from my lids.


Suddenly my pain is replaced with a warm sensation, them cold.


Vision blurring back into focus, I'm met with those strange eyes and silver hair once more...


And Sakuto is standing next to him.


Rinn and the nameless girl have races towards us, their faces covered in grime.


All three of them are sporting bathingwear, and Rinn is struggling to breathe.


I refuse any help, and get up slowly, my face smeared with blood and my body aching. I stare at them in disbelief.


I have nothing to say.

 

[Sakuto]

"heh, you came just in time sakuto" I said breathing hard.


Sakuto looks over at us.


"You all are some powerful Shinobi" Sakuto says smiling As he teliports all of us to a safer placr putting a thick barrier atound the whole village as we are in his house.


"Tsukimi are you alright???" I ask whiping up the blood wih a towrl

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

Ir takes me a few moments to get my bearings. The home of Sakuto is small, built for housing one- maybe two- persons. The floor is wooden, and the open doors in the back show the ocean. The clouds had melted away, leaving a light blue canvas above the village.


A towel is brought to my face, and I almost jump away before Zero's voice filters in.


I stare at him while he mops up the unknown shinobi's blood from my skin.


I take a deep breath, trying to focus.


"Yeah..." i finally say, words shaky.


"Your technique involves your blood, you could have taken him down easily" Yuuno says, almost as if she were talking down to me.


My stomach flips, and anger swells in my chest.


I say nothing, though, because she's right.


I'm weak.


"Shut up Yuuno." Rinn snaps, leaning against the wall.


"You're lucky though, Tsukimi. A few seconds later and that.... thing..." he paused, staring at something on the floor for what seemed like an hour. "I saw one.... just eating...."


His face goes pale, and without warning the red-haired Genin doubles over and vomits.

 

[Sakuto]

Sakuto cleans it up.


"Those things are man-eating demons. Creatures that can be summoned by anyone with their blood contract and the only one with it is a man by the name of Zaku. He was once a proud shinobi from the village of fire but betrayed his whole village to practice dark magic to one day rule over all shinobi. He was sealed in hell once. But some one broke him out and now hes causing mass genocide.. im guessing you have all ran into his demonic beings?" He asked his blue hair covering one of his eyes after he cleans it up looking at all of us

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

"Gross" Yuuno scoffs, backing away from the mess slowly while Sakuto cleaned it up.


We all seem silent after he speaks.


Rinn is laying on his side, shaking his head slowly and wiping sweat from his brow. "Oh we've seen them...." he whispers.


"They burned our village to the ground. You can't undergo an attack like that without catching a glimpse of your enemy." My voice is void of emotion, and the small sharp tone makes me feel... unfamiliar to myself.


Mei's face flashes before me, broken, bruised, and blood-soaked.


I set my jaw, glancing at Sakuto with... determined anger. "The one who pinned me wanted a taste. A taste of what?"


"You... us... everyone." Rinn blurts out, black eyes wide. "I saw one... eating a little girl." He's shaking, sitting up and grasping handfuls of his own hair. "Who-- who would do something like that?" His voice rises, and tears are spilling from his lids. He looks defeated, deflated, and tired. Afraid.

 

[Sakuto]

Sakuto speaks.


"Zaku, he met with the hokage..demanded that hed have people from your village either follow in his cause or be killed..we all know how that ended" he sighs then look at me.


"Zero, your one of his main objectives considering you have both the Sharingan and the Rinnegan, two eyes he definitly fears. He will do anything to break you to make him join you" he looks over at me as yunno speaks.


"Why cant he just take Zero's eyes?" Yunno asked.


"Because, Zaku cant weild their unimaginable powwr, plus he forsnt have the blood of either the senju or uchiha, so it will reject him" Sakuto explained.


"I sense great potintal in both Tsukimi and Zero. I can train you both to unlock your full potintel as of the rest of you" Sakuto adds

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

**OOC: Yuuno is my character, I'm okay with the small godmoding that just happened because it was tiny and didn't bother me, just please ask before controlling Rinn and Yuuno, I have plans for them both later on ^-^


They might not be main characters but they're still my characters you know?? *hugs**


I stare at the elder for a long moment trying to absorb what he'd just explained. And a million questions popped into my head at once. Without thinking, my tongue and teeth began to work.


"Why Zero? He can't be any different from the rest of his family. Why are they eating other shinobi? Who released him from hell?" I pause... my lungs taking advantage and sucking in as much air as they can. " Potential?? For what? I almost got killed!"


I stare at Rinn, who has begun to glare at the Sage.


"You're saying I'm weak?" He growled, getting to his feet quickly. "You won't train us too?" His teeth were clenched so tightly they threatened to crack.


My hand flies to my right cheek, feeling where the dark ninja's tongue had grazed just moments before.


The thought makes me shiver and pull my arms in close to my body. My clothing is torn, and I can't face the others.


Sakuto is an idiot if he thinks we have a chance.

 

[Sakuto]

"Everyone hush" Sakuto said as his chakra quickly flared showing he has an unbelieveable chakara level.


"You all have special potential, Its only that Zero and Tsukimi's have greater potential and after I put you under my training for 2 weeks, you will all be at level's that would surpass hokages!" He adds proudly

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

I stare at Sakuto for a long moment, lips pressed together. We're all tired, and my stomach has begun to growl and rumble.


"Hokages?" I ask, bitterly. "Maybe if you'd taken your place as a Hokage long ago we wouldn't be in this mess!" My fists are balled tight, and the blood under my wounds has hardened, making shards that threaten to break the skin.


"Why would I train under you?"


Rinn has moved to the north staring out at the waves crashing onto the docks.


"Flaking out on your responsibilities to travel. Leaving your village to the dogs, under the care of an old Hokage that was losing his mind!" I'm so furious I ignore his chakra, ignore every one else in the room.


Without warning my fist collides with a support beam, causing it to splinter. My knuckles break the skin again, reopening wounds from before.

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

**OOC: if you ever need me to edit just ask**

 

[Sakuto]

"Because, I wasnt apart of the village, I was also burdednd with the false charge of traitor due to some action's I did under the Hokage's orders to protect the village, If it wasnt for me, you would've all died from the gruesome attack made by the village of Ice 3 years ago" he sighed. "I Gave up my own dream to protect the village I loved" he adds

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

I'm silent, his words cutting deep.


We were all taught the false truth. Sakuto was made up to be a coward, a strong one at that. I shift my glance to my feet, cheeks burning red slightly.


"Forgive me." I say quietly and give him a low bow before passing Rinn onto the back porch.


A lie.


We were fed lies.


I'd never even heard of the attack from the Village Hidden In The Ice, let alone been taught the Hokage had given orders to the powerful Shinobi that had caused him such griefs.


"Still a coward." I muttered under my breath, perching my arms on my knees and resting my chin along my forearms. "Treason or not. I'd never leave my home." I said to thin air, only to cause Rinn to clear his throat, indicating he was within earshot.


"Give him a break, Tsukimi. He saved your--"


"He shouldn't have." I broke him off, refusing to look back at my peer.


Truth was, I stared into the mouth of a monster, and the thought of death at that point had almost been welcoming.


Fire. Ash. Wind. Blood.


Mama?


Poppa?


The sudden flash behind my lids caused me to almost choke on my own breath.


Yuuno stood a few paces from Zero, her striking eyes gathering as much as she could as she studied the Genin and the powerful Sage.


"My grandfather was of the Ice village." She said softly, eyes suddenly changing into a deep violet. "Old man is dead now."


She pushed from the wall, closing space between her and Sakuto. "He was running from something, never could get a straight answer out of him." She narrowed her eyes slightly. "Why did they attack?"

 

[Sakuto]

Sakuto has everyone sit down so he can reveal the horrid truth


"The reason the Ice Village was attacked...was...for power" He said.


"I know that sounds crazy, however, they found out that the Village of Darkness had housed not only the trust of the Senju and the Uchiha...The clan of Tskimi's family and the only person known alive to have the rinegan...Zero. They thought if that they could bring the village to their knees the senju and Uchiha would join the Ice village and beable to have Tskimi's family and the rinnegan. But it backfired thanks to me, Theyre true intent was to kill Zero's family to steal the rinnegan from zero inorder to use a possetion techqunice to posses Tskimi's family and put them under their control to work for the Ice village. They were afraid that we would use this power for evil intentions which wasnt true..then one day the Ice village took it too far and Murdered Zero's father" Sakuto said before I intrupted him.


"Wait I was told he died from an accident?!" I said with confused rage.


"Your mother told you this to keep you safe, and to prevent you from going after the Ice village because thats what they were planning" Sakuto replied.


"Hence, The hokage gave me orders to go off and destory the Ice village and brand me the false charge of murder and traitor. I accepted to protect every single one of you from total Anilation. The Ice village had a secret weapon that could turn the whole village into a pile of ashes so I took on the mission and exciuted it perfectly then dissapeared but to protect the village from the shadows. The only reason I was unable to stop the demon Invasion was because Zuki had planted me under a genjutsu trap and headed there" Sakuto says.


"Zero And Tskimi Are two most powerful shinobi" he finishes


 
OOC (I tried to make it as dramatic as possible making it so they know it wasnt his fault and everything and knowing how important we are)

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

(I likes it! Tsukimi's family name is "Akane" and her only remaining family member was her uncle, Hideaki Akane, since before she can remember, just reminding you ^-^ )


I listen intently from afar. Slightly awestricken. My gut churns at the mention of my family, and the worry sets in.


I can't remember the features of my mother, or the voice of my father. I can't see the silhouette of their figures, even if I dig deep enough. My uncle explained to me long ago that our clan wasn't originally part of The Village Hidden In The Darkness, when I asked him where we were from he would distract me with chores or a paper doll.


I stand, shuffling towards Zero and planting my hand gently on his shoulder.... a rather awkward attempt at comforting him.


"Why the Akane Clan?" I blurt out once everything has been heard. It's taking most of my energy not to continue to question him. Too many questions could cause him to drop the subject completely.


"My clan has been mostly wiped out, and our blood techniques are hardly something to boast about."


I take a deep breath, noticing my anxiety has risen above levels I could ever comprehend.


My fingers have curled themselves over Zero's collarbone, my knuckles glistening with hardened blood and embedded with a clutter of slivers. "I'm hardly a high scoring student."


I find myself trying to communicate excuses. Because this just doesn't make any sense to me.

 

[Sakuto]

"Once you realize the full potiention of the Blood style..youll realize how deadly the jutsu can be" Sakuto explains.


"If mastered completly, you can use the blood of your opponent against them and that is what the Ice village also wanted to gain power"

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

My stare has become almost a hazed look. It takes the rest of my strength to keep my jaw from dropping. I drop my hand from Zero's shoulder, and stare at the red on the back of my hands, watching as my blood hardens and softens slowly pushing thin splinters of wood from the wound.


"No." I said suddenly, making Rinn's ears perk.


"No!? You can't decide if a rogue shinobi wants your techniques or not!" He exclaimed, cheeks burning with slight jealous anger.


"I don't believe you." I say, ignoring my peer... but pause, staring at the floorboards. "Is that--" I want to continue. I want to know the truth about my parents, about their village, my clan. I want to know their names, scent, voice, presence. . .


But I'm afraid he won't have any answers. No one ever has.


"You can't tell me anything about them, can you?" I asked, already knowing the horrid answer.


Before uncle Hideaki took me to The Village Hidden In The Dark I had just barely turned two years old.


"Zero..." I whisper, my voice cracking. "Do you believe anything he's saying?"

 

[Sakuto]

"I Do, because there is proof behind it all, and it anwsered all my unanswsered questions" I reply.


"Tsukimi, your parents were the best caring parents I've ever meet in my life, Strong, courages and just gentle hearted" he smiles.


"Your clan, was a peaceful clan who only wanted peace and truth within the world, however thats not what the village of the Ice wanted. They wanted to use the Blood Style for power, corruption and fear which is why your clan moved over to the Darkness village because we were the most peacefull and loving. Also the mages of the Ice villages knew forbbiden jutsu to force others to teach them their jutsu types" Sakuto explained telling you all anwsers you wanted to know


Zero clenches his fist. "My father died...my mother kept it from me to protect me from seeking revenge...in which the Hokage sent you to exterminate the people of the Ice village for wanting to kill all of us...You branded the false Charge of traitor and was banished because of it but promised to keep close tabs on the village and keep warn of any enemy targets." I say softly.


Sakuto awnsers "Correct, Zaku was a threat I tried to warn the village about but I was too late, Zaku wants both you and Tsukimi for your powers and to have you join his cause which is only to kill all who dont believe in him because he considers himself the God of hell" He adds.


Zero sighs punching the floor board hard and his hands bleed as the board cracked. "I can see the truth that you tell, If it means killing this zaku...and hopfully bringing back our freinds and family ..I will train under you to protect my friends" I say proudly

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

I glance from Sakuto to Zero, listening intently but not making any effort of intervening.


"So, the Ice village and this Zaku guy both want their hands on Zero and Tsukimi's techniques?" Yuuno asked, her stance becoming rigid and slightly askew. I searched her face, small lips and big eyes, with a strong chin and a slightly crooked nose. It was obvious she was tough, scars and bruised littering her pale skin.


Rinn was muttering to himself in the corner, arms crossed over his bare slightly tanned chest.


He was the only shinobi I knew who had the sense of smell of a dog, with earth and fire style jutsu. An odd collection of powers, but he'd come from a mix of bloodlines.


"I feel like a kid all over again." He steamed. "If our village hadn't been attacked, we'd all still be in the dark."


I nodded slightly to his comment, agreeing. It seemed that, unless faced with death and despair, we'd have lived the rest of our lives in ignorance.


I don't know how to feel about any of this. The clutter of unknown feelings had been building since Mei's death. It was as if she had been repressing most of my emotions, most of our lives.

 

[Sakuto]

"By the way...Is a little girl named Mei alive? She was my little sister, I always visited her during the times I was allowed and she was the best little sister ever and always understood me" Sakuto explained

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

I froze. Heart leaping into my throat. The room went still, as if the air was holding its breath.


My legs gave out under me, and I sank to the floor, scraping my knees against the hardwood surface. Yuuno and Rinn both glanced at one another, then to Zero, a look of nervousness on their chests.


"Mei...." My voice was a whisper, body shaking as her face half covered in blood stared at me from behind my eye sockets. My hands balled into fists, resting along my knees as I struggled to form words. "...Mei Tsukino died at the hands of Zaku's shadow demons." I finally say, staring up at Sakuto with tears threatening to fall from my lashes. I blink them away, but the trembling of my lip gives my agony away... and my multi-colored eyes dance with the overwhelming sense of dread. "I could have saved her..." my tone falters and cracks. "Zero could have handled the attack, he didn't need me." My chest tightens, making the lump in my throat feel like shards of glass. "I should have followed her outside the village... I knew something was wrong... I knew...."


I stop talking, because the feeling of everyone's gaze on me is making my head spin.

 

[Sakuto]

Sakuto Walks over to you placing his hand ontop of your head


"You mustve been an amazing friend to her, and don't worry I can bring her back..When we deafeat him leave him alive so Zero can possess him with the Rinnegan and with it he can force Zaku to preform the Rinne Rebirth" Sakuto Explains

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

I swipe his hand away from my head quickly, teeth gritting. "I was her only friend, Sakuto." I explain, anger obvious in my voice. "You say you're her brother?..." I look away from him. "Her only family... didn't even know her full potential." I stand, so roughly it almost makes my blood rush from my head. "And you weren't even there when she was broken and dying."


My brows furrow, eyes glowing now. "I'll train under you, not out of respect, but out of desperation."


I turn towards the north, walking to the back porch to stare at the ocean. "I'm going to surpass you, and defeat Zaku. I'll train until I vomit blood, I don't care."


I shoot a glance over my shoulder, towards my Sense. "--I'll finish what you couldn't."

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

**OOC: sorry if you don't like how she's treating Sakuto, he's just her scapegoat right now. Too much anger and emotion, she has to take it out on someone who can actually TAKE it. You know??**

 

[Sakuto]

OCC: OH no Its understandable


Sakuto Sigh's "Your mislead, I wasnt her only Sibling, She understood why I couldn't be in the village and Like I told you I tried to rush back but was Stopped by Zaku himself. I sunt a clone to try and save her but...." he stops the tears in his eyes overflowing.


I walk over and hugs you from behind.


"We will all train togeather and avenge our freinds and family and hopfully bring Mei back, you cant blame everything on Sakuto because Zaku's a cold headed killer" I explain. "No matter what happens, I will not let any of you die or get hurt" I Say my eyes teared up then my sharingan activates.


"When do we start" I asked Sakuto.


"We can start In the morning everyone needs to rest, Since you two dont have a home yet you two can share the bed here" Sakuto explains