Try Me On For Size, Boyz! {Naruto Fanfiction}

Chapter 21 : If I was one without a heart

Sorry!!!! It's been long and it's a bit/ lot shorter than I wanted it to be. But I wanted to update it now since I had time! Didn't want to procrastinate.
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Aoi PoV
How could I be such a baby; so inattentive; so cruel as to let such a thing happen to the most precious person in my life?

I held Tsubasa near and wouldn't let go no matter what anyone said.

Kisame knelt beside me. I knew he was there but I could even think or see anyone else. It was just Tsubasa and I. I sang to her slowly hoping she would show me some kind of reaction but she didn't. She didn't, no matter what I did.

"Tsubasa. Please wake up!" I said weeping into her hair. " I need you Tsubasa"

When people would say these things and cry in movies and shows it would work but I knew it wouldn't be like that even if we are in the naruto world because we were of the real world. If things were always like movies and shows in the real world He would still be around.

I was stuck in my sadness with no way out until I heard Kakashi call out Tsubasa's name. I turned to look at him and my stomach burned a bit.

It was his fault.

I kept hearing those words in my head but I didn't react on it. I was alone now. Without my dear Tsubasa. Even if our friends are here, I was alone.

" Aoi, shall we bring her to the den?" Kisame said.

I nodded in reply.

Something was burning and building in the pit of my stomach. Worst than butterflies. I felt sick; like I could faint at any second.

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At the akatsuki den, everyone was reunited but it was not a happy event. Everyone crowded my dear Tsubasa whom laid on a bed emotionless and empty. I could no longer feel her heartbeat but Garaa with the help of his sand informed everyone that she was still alive. Kakashi, the girl named Tsukiko and Orochimaru ( seemingly against his will) tries to heal Tsubasa with their chakra but she wasn't showing any signs of improving.

I wanted to cry and let everything out but the tears wouldn't come. I gazed at my face in the mirror which was left with a seemingly permanent scowl.

Kisame tried his best to make me happy just as I had tried to do with Tsubasa just moments ago but it didn't work. Without Tsubasa I didn't belong here. She was my reason for everything and despite the way Kisame makes my heart race and my body tremble with happiness I couldn't possibly live with Tsubasa gone.

I prayed with all my heart that Tsubasa come back to my side. Selfishly. But that was irrelevant. I wanted her here. What is my life without Tsubasa?

" Nothing." Someone from withing the room said. My heart skipped a beat and almost dropped straight into my stomach.

" W-what?" I said turning to see who had spoken.

Up. Floating above Tsubasa was a young looking girl. Her hair in one big pink braid. A yellow halo rapped around her neck.

" I said nothing! It's an answer to you're question! You know the one about Tsubasa. Duh!" She said to me as she playfully floated around the room.

"Who are you?!" Naruto said rudely to the girl.
Tsukiko glared at the girl suspiciously. "What are you?" She asked as she tugged on both Orochimaru's and Kakashi's shirts.

The girl giggled. " I am Ushio."

We were all confused.

" that doesn't explain anything!" Tsukiko screamed at the girl.

" I was created from Tsubasa and Aoi when they first came to this world. I am an extension of their souls. I am the bridge that connects them but I am also your world in its whole but I am unable to change anything." Ushio said.

No one understood what she meant. Most certainly not Naruto who was trying to make sense of it all.

" So you're saying that Aoi and Tsubasa are the same person?!" Naruto screamed which made most people in the room facepalm.

I ignored his comment and spoke to Ushio. " If that's really what you are then why don't you wake her up! Help her! Please. "

Ushio smiled at me dimly. " I'm afraid I can't. She's beyond my reach. I'm not even sure if she's in this dimension or her own. Those are the only two places where I have power over certain things."

"Why are you even here then." I said turning away from the young girl and started pacing the room. Ignoring everyone in sight.

Suddenly someone pulled me back. I saw Kisame flinch. He tries to grab me and pull me back to his side. "I'm here for you, Aoi." Said Ushio and she held me from the back of my shirt. My belly button being revealed to the world.

" what's do you want!?" I said to her, anger lining all of my words.

" Unlike you, Tsubasa had seen me a long time before. She had taken her fate and true self into her own hands but as for you, you are still void inside." Ushio said. Her expressions looking more and more childlike by the second. No one spoke. They just listened to Ushio. " I might be part of you both but I cannot help you if you don't accept that you have been shielding yourself from the truth. You are part of the problem for both Tsubasa and yourself."

My blood boiled and my arms shook. I couldn't even breath.

She let go of me, then she said some parting words to us.

"Aren't you going to help us save Tsubasa?" Kakashi asked. His face full of angst.

Ushio nodded and disappear into Tsubasa. But before that she whispered to me. "If you do not fix your deepest vice you will never be able to get rid of the darkness inside." And disappeared.

Tsubasa PoV

I woke up to a cloud smoke. My lungs almost collapsing from the lack of air until I realized I didn't need to hold my breath.

I gazed around and saw a place full of fog. No one by my side and frankly for a moment I felt relieved. When the emptiness set it I took a breath then started walking into the abyss.
There was no one but fragments of, I guess, memories. I saw myself as a child, another girl by my side, which was obviously Aoi; I mean who would forget that dumb looking bowl cut she had! Looks cute on some but not her!

I cracked a smile.

I gazed at these times until I saw the same memory repeating itself ( or so I thought) until I realized that that's how it had been. Me, alone. Eating at a table fit for six... Then again. Why were there six places. I have only one brother... And even if we add Aoi someone should be missing.

I thought and thought and thought but couldn't figure it out.

Suddenly my head turned and I then fell.

I was expecting to feel the cold ground beneath me; hard, but instead I fell on something more or less squishy.

I looked up to a familiar face. My heart jumped out of my chest because of his demonic looking self.

He smiled. I felt creeped out. But most importantly, Grossed out

He brought me to my feet.

" What the hell, Sasuke?"