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The small coma Baby had put herself into wasn't as peaceful as it may have looked to Naruto. The moments the helpless soul could remember were her tormenting. Circus Baby replayed the feeling of her claws inside the young girl's body and trapping her inside her gullet. She reminded the child of her father and mother, Micheal, Vinny. The young girl despised it. The young girl had spent years underground blocking these painful memories out but she couldn't stop replaying their voices.
"Elizabeth! Darling, can you go get your brothers? It's time for lunch."
"Elizabeth! Come play dolls with me! Freddy says he misses playing with you.""Elizabeth! Get out of my room! Go bother someone else."
"Elizabeth! Come here Sweetheart! What do you think of Circus Baby. She is all yours."
She hadn't been called Elizabeth in a very long time. While their voices rang, so did their screams.
"Oh my god! Vincent! No!"
"How could you let this happen Micheal?! Are you that fucking stupid?!"
"Oh my babies! Dear god..."
"Elizabeth! Get away from her!"
What the monster replayed the most wasn't their voices or screams or cries. Instead, it was the sickening crunch of bones, flesh, and blood as each member of the infamous Afton family lost their lives. Elizabeth's mother was a god sent for her children. Their psychopathic father, William, doomed them all to a life of endless torture as their spirits refused to pass on due to the injustice. Elizabeth spent most of the years she was trapped in Circus Baby wondering what had become of her dysfunctional family as of late.
Was her mother still dancing away in that dark room or had she finally decided to rest? Was her father still praying on young children in the suit he was doomed to rot in or had he been cast down to eternal damnation where he belonged? Was Micheal still wandering around, sick and frail, or had he finally died from monsterly interventions? Had Vincent moved on to a better life or was he still trying his hardest to protect the children?
Elizabeth craved such answers, but here, in this historical ninja world, she wouldn't find them. Although, when she had woken from the nightmarish sleep, she didn't push away those thoughts anymore. Instead, she listened to what Naruto said. She heard Zabuza's forgiveness and breathed a sigh of relief even though she wished she had the chance to say goodbye to both him and Haku. Then, came the question she was dreading.
"Baby...what happened to you?"
Elizabeth sat in silence for a while. Once again, the only noise was that of outsiders and their teammates wandering in the house. Naruto stared at his girlfriend and saw the trouble coating her face. Her lips opened and for the first time in three days, he heard her voice.
"Elizabeth..."
"What?"
"My real name...is Elizabeth..."
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Tsunami stood at her kitchen, preparing what lunch she could for the soon departing team. The trip back to Konoha was long, and most of Team 7 did not feel safe traveling with Elizabeth. She knew this as a fact. So now, to clear the air of the tension created by fear. They held a small meeting.
Each teammate sat on one side of the table. Naruto sat next to Elizabeth with his hand on her thigh for comfort while Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi sat around them, rigidly and on edge of the creatures in front of them. "You said you had something to explain?" Kakashi said coldly. Elizabeth could tell she had damaged some of the already fragile trust with her team and that crushed her. Elizabeth nodded and lifted her head, which had been hung in shame, with false confidence. Out of all her teammates, Sasuke held eye contact the longest.
She figured the best place to start would be how she did with Naruto. Her lips quivered in fear and she shook. This moment, despite all the horrors she had faced at such a young age, was one of the scariest things she had ever been through. For some odd reason, seeing her younger brother's skull being crushed by metal jaws could not match up to the feeling of possible rejection. Even feeling Circus Baby's claws dig and pull apart her adolescent body could not match to the sinking feeling in her heart.
"My name is Elizabeth Afton and I am not human anymore."
Her words held more weight then it seemed. Sasuke only seemed affected by her name as he was well aware of her inhuman status. Kakashi and Sakura, on the other hand, were stunned into shocked silence. Naruto proceeded to give Elizabeth's thigh a squeeze. A reassurance to continue. Naruto himself was not aware of the full gruesome story and he wasn't aware that her past was darker than his.
"My body is robotic. I'm made of wires and bolts and metal. Most importantly, my mind isn't alone. What you witnessed on the bridge was not me. It was a monster named Circus Baby. She killed me when I was 7..."
"Killed...you?" Sakura's voice was filled with disbelief and a hint of anger. It was like she thought Elizabeth was making fun of them. "Do you seriously think we will believe that?"
Elizabeth's eyes flashed to the pink haired girl with sadness and offense. "I'm not joking. I remember very vividly as her claws tore me apart. I remember my father standing and watching. I remember him warning me to leave his workshop. But I didn't listen." Elizabeth sunk down and leaned into Naruto. "My spirit is trapped in the body. She takes control sometimes and her bloodlust is unquenchable."
For the next hour, Elizabeth recounted the killings of her father, the accident of her little brother, her death, the death of her mother, and finally, the death of her older brother and how Circus Baby caused it. The silence was deafening. It only increased when she described her many years in the underground. The story of her isolated torture brough tears to Sakura's eyes. Naruto and Sasuke had made eye contact and promised each other, no matter what, Elizabeth Afton would not be subjected to such horrors as long as they can live.
Kakashi as stunned that, to think one of his students, had faced worse torture that a jinjuriki was hard and sad. He then shuffled over to the young girl, who had started crying not long before, and wrapped his arms around her. Now that he looked, her skin was cold to the touch and had a metal resistance to it when pushed on. Kakashi's warm embrace was the closest to a fatherly love Elizabeth had felt in the longest time.
And when Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke had joined, Elizabeth never wanted the feeling to end. And for the most certain, she would not forget the feeling ever again. This was her family now, and Elizabeth hopped one day, she can be reunited with her brothers and mother again.
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