Village Hidden in the Dark

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

I shake my head. "Not you... I'm not afraid of betraying you." I whisper, closing my eyes and sitting on the edge of the bed, facing away from Zero.


"Though..." I continue, staring at the wall. "I'm afraid of killing someone who doesn't deserve to die."


I glance back at him, wiping the blood-like tears away and taking a deep breath to calm myself.


I want to tell him about the dream... the one that seems to pop up at any time. It's as if it's a memory, a broken one.


Mei...


"Zero?" I ask, staring into his metallic blue eyes.

 

[Sakuto]

"Yea?" I stare back the tension in the room growing as I dint know what question she is going to ask but It sounds exreamly important, he looks at his broken arm and his other hand.

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

"Kill me..." I pause, taking a breath to continue the question. "...If I lose control. You have to kill me." It was more an order, then a plea.


I knew, out of everyone I could trust, Zero could defeat me in battle.


Sakuto... I was going to surpass him. He might might not be strong enough. "Promise me." I demand, never ripping my gaze from his.


"Everyone's life is in your hands. You have to make the call... you have to decide when I've gone too far." I search his face for a long moment, trying to make myself clear. Make him understand.


"Promise me."

 

[Sakuto]

Tears stream down his face not knowing if he could accept such a heavy task, a girl who hes having feeling for is now asking to kill her if she ever goes to far with her powers.


"If you die...im going woth you" i say under my breath

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

I swing my hand back as far as I can my hand flat. My strength is built up just enough to leave a red welt upon Zero's cheek.


My fingers bleed against his face, wrappings along my fingers soaking through. His face is blurred through my tears, and I can't believe I just slapped...


"Zero." I say angrily, but my words are shaking with the lump in my throat.


"I told you to promise me."


I take a deep breath again, only to have it be trembling with my lips.


"Don't be stupid." I whisper, glancing away from him. Rubies falling down my face.


Dripping from my chin.


"Don't you dare be that stupid."

 

[Sakuto]

"I Cant kill someone I love" I say before covering my out my true feelings for you revealed as the room is silent, but glad knowing the others didnt hear,


"But...i-if I have to...I will but... i....I" Zero is shaking uncontrolably the words stuck in his throat and his emotions are everywhere unable to talk clearly and Looks up in your eyes, my Blue eyes sparkling from the tears. "I can calm you down, I can put you under my control for awhile to calm you down, Ill do other methods, I dont want to have to resort to killing you first unless there are other methods...if..not..then...." I Said softly, my heart sunk, depression sinking in as I lay back down on the bed

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

I pause, my heart ramming so hard against my ribs I think they might crack. "What?" I ask, my voice barely a squeak. I feel the ache again, the spreading poison that makes my cheeks warm and my stomach flip.


"I can't kill someone I love"


"...kill someone I love"


"...someone I love"


"....love"


It echoes.


Making my head swim.


I almost can't hear everything else Zero is saying.


"If I kill someone innocent..." I blurt once he's finished. "...And you allow me to live--" I try and keep my composure, but the tears won't stop and my throat is betraying me, coating my mouth in cotton.


"I won't forgive you." My voice is thick, but the anger in my words are clear.


I can't explain what I'm feeling, but he seems to be able to understand his own emotions.


Pain, anger, fear... those I can understand... but the ache.


The way his eyes look...


"Go to sleep." I murmur and bring my hand back, staring down at the bandages that clearly need to be changed.

 

[Sakuto]

"I wont let you kill anyone innocent, thats the thing," I say softly smiling softly. "Ill make..sure..you..." I had passed out before I could finish my hands slightly opend and my mouth slightly opened with little air coming out as my body begins healing itself again.

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

"Mm?" I turn around, about to ask Zero to continue... but he's asleep.


A sigh escapes my teeth. "You can try..." I mumble, grasping the blanket at the edge of the bed and lifting it up to his chin, tucking him in. "Mei did."


I stare at him for a moment, his body looking peaceful. Healing.


I plant my lips on his cheek, and sit on the edge of the bed again, thinking... all through the night.

 

[Sakuto]

I wake up 3am streching seeing you sleeping in bed next to me and I'm blushing and I rub your side.


"Ill protect you, yes..Mei did but she didnt do it the best way" I say as I look out the window

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

I wake up with a jolt.


Sunlight shining through the window, peering into my eyes. I had fallen asleep not long after Zero, my head crammed to capacity. He's sitting up in the small bed next to me, and I watch him for a few moments behind a wall of thick black hair.


It's moments like these that I miss Mei the most.


She was always talking... always blabbering about something non-important to me at the time. And her voice was always there, running in the back of my mind, like a song you can't get out of your head.


I bet if I wanted to talk to her about Zero...she would have shut up long enough to listen. She was always listening.


Even if she wasn't suppose to.


I wonder what secrets she kept locked i side of her skull.


"How are you feeling?" I ask, moving my hair out of my face so I can see him ckearly.

 

[Sakuto]

Alot better " I say smiling my silver hair in a huge mess and my eyes tired and I remove the bandages and my body Looks alot better.


"Shall we report back to Sakuto?" I ask

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

I nod once, trying not to stare at the shape of the muscles under his skin. His hair is a disheveled mess, but the way his eyes are shining in the morning sun makes my breath catch in my throat.


I unwrap my hands, a thick circular wound shooting through my right wrist. It's a miracle I can move my fingers still.


My fingers.


I stare down at the clutter of teeth marks along my hands, something swelling under my tongue.


Fear?


I'm not sure.


"We should get some food in you first." I say finally looking up from my scars. "You'll need it."

 

[Sakuto]

"You will too" I say laughing as I take the IV out and we go to a resturant near by to eat and we are sitting next to each other in the booth.


"I could hear you while I was unconcious, your wondering about Mei, werent you?" I ask looking at you my hair fixed and my blue eyes looking deep into both of your eyes as we wait for our food

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

The restaurant smells of Bacon, ham, and an assortment of foods, making my stomach groan. I'm staring down at my tea, the steam rising from it is brushing against my face.


I take a sip, glancing sideways at Zero.


"I wasn't wondering anything about her." I point out, placing my cup back onto the table. "I was stating a fact: Mei must have tried to keep me from losing control." I pause, watching a waitress place two plates in front of Yuuno and Rinn across from us.


One is a heaping pile of rice topped with beef and an assortment of some vegetables I can't recognize. The other, a raw steak.


Yuuno digs into her rice, listening to our conversation... whereas Rinn is lost in the hunk of meat he's trying to tear off with his sharp teeth.


"She used genjutsu." Yuuno points out, taking a drink of her tea.


"We've already established that." I say into my cup, the amber liquid bitter and sweet along my tongue.


"She must have been powerful" Rinn's words are muffled by his food, "Especially if Tsukimi is only now just losing control. I mean...think of how many times she could have snapped and ki--"


I glare at him, making his ears flush red and his jaw snap shut.


"Mei kept you in check during classes, that's why she was always around. Even during sparring matches." Yuuno chimes in, and the waitress returns with the rest of our food.

 

[Sakuto]

"She's proably been born with that ablility" I say as I look at the two kids eating their food.


"Tsukimi is extreamly powerful and stronger than sakuto sensei himself now, but with all that power comes a heavy price, control, that power could drive her insane which is what the genjutsu was for, to keep her mind calm" I add as our food comes and my plate has steak and ramen.


"Either way, I can do somthing similer and I will make sure everything is A-OK, also we could possibly bring Mei back" I Say smiling

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

Yuuno and Rinn stop eating once the information hits their ears. "I didn't know it would be that bad." Yuuno breathes.


Rinn nods, speachless.


"C'mon guys...." I say with a weak laugh, staring down at my ramen and pork. "I'm not going to hurt anyone." I say this as I glance out the window, doubt in my chest.


I sound convincing enough for the two shinobi sitting across from me.


But I'm not sure Zero believes it.


Even if he could use a similar genjutsu... who knows how effective it could be?


"Hurry and eat. Sakuto is probably waiting for us."

 

[Sakuto]

"Pshh he can be kept waiting alittle longer" I Say as I secretly am holding your hand under the table rubbing my thumb on your palm assuring you everything will be ok.


We all finish and I pay for it and we all walk back to Sakuto's house and IM holding your hand as we walk

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

My stomach is too uneasy for me to finish my meal. I slide my bowl across the table and watch as Rinn devours it, with room left for dumplings and a bowl of rice.


All the while, my hand is grasped in Zero's.


We walk together, out fingers still intertwined. The feeling of my scars pressing against his soft flesh feels strange, and his skin seems warmer then expected.


My cheeks flush, and Yuuno stares at us for a long while, Rinn walking close with his hands resting behind his head.


That feeling is coursing through my abdomen again, and I glance sideways at Zero.


His face is distracting.


Some girls walking past us stare and giggle at the Uchiha, word about his battle with Zaku spreading like a wildfire. As soon as they pass another group passes, all seeming to swoon.


Rinn whistles and winks at them, and with that unknown anger spreading under my skin I pull myself closer to my peer.

 

[Sakuto]

I sigh.


"I wonder how that rumor spread about so fast" I Look up in the sky with my arm around your waist.


We approach Sakuto's residence.


"Well word got out quick that you protected Tsukimi and got your ass handed to you" Sakuto says with his eyebrow raised.


"Well I didn't tell anyone obviously and neither did Tsukimi and I doubt the nurses would so who did?" I ask wodnering.

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

I glare back at Rinn who has stuffed his hands in his pockets and is watching girls pass us. He waves to them, and they try to catch a glimpse of Zero around his tall frame.


"I think I have an idea." I mutter, and pull myself away from Zero. There's a ghost of his arm around my waist, and the warmth is missing. It makes me feel slightly deflated but soon the mix of emotions is brushed aside once I reach for Rinn's ear.


"What are you doing?" I snap, tugging him back to Sakuto.


"Ow ow ow ow!" He repeats, flailing his arms.

 

[Sakuto]

"Are you trying to attract attention?" Sakuto raises an eyebrow at rinn.


"Anyways, Zero and TSukimi you get to spar with each other" sakuto says smiling.


"W-wait! I-I cant hit her!" I say flailing my arms around.


"Jeez calm down zero, its not like you two are fighting to the death" He looks at me suspicously

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

"N-no! I was just--" I cut Rinn off.


"You were just trying to attract attention from girls" I hiss, only to suddenly let go, out of sheer shock at Sakuto's statement...


Then Zero's.


"Oh, please..." I groan. "Zero, you can suck it up. Or are you scared to get your ass kicked?".


Yuuno laughs at this, wrapping her arm around my shoulders. "He's going to need the practice. Especially if he has to make sure you don't burn down a village."


The last statement makes tension rise in my chest. And I try to reassure myself.


You won't hurt him. It's only a sparring match. I repeat this in my head, over and over as I crack the joints in my fingers, determination on my brow.


"Don't hold back, Zero." I order, and cock my head to the side, feeling a satisfying pop.

 

[Sakuto]

"Alright!" I Say activating my 3-pronged sharingan.


"To make this fair, i wont use susanno or my Rinnegan at all" I say getting in my battle stance

 

[-.-.Lucifer.-.-]

A half smile breaks across my lips, and I meet his eyes as he activates his three-pronged Sharingan. "I said: don't hold back." I barely give him a second to reply, ripping my teeth into the pads of my fingers and allowing my chakra to build in my veins...


While my blood drips I strain my muscles, sending my shadow to stretch towards Zero in an attempt to seal him in his place with my shadow-possession justsu.