𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐨 𝐔𝐳𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢 𝐗 𝐅𝐞𝐦!𝐔𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐡𝐚!𝐎𝐜 ── ❝ 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 ❞
── Following the plot of Naruto when he's younger, Uchiha Misaki is the twin sister of Uchiha Sasuke...
this was a double update so check the previous chapter unless u have already read it
Sasuke and I exchanged a look; time to get out of there. The unconscious weight of Sakura quickened our retreat from the woman, who was becoming increasingly hostile. We dodged behind the nearest sturdy tree, lowering Sakura gently to the ground as we tried to protect her from further harm.
"Sasuke, Misaki," she groggily uttered in a worried tone, her eyes squinting
We drew the kunai from our bodies in silence, the pain a rough reminder of what was in front of us. I flung mine away with a firm toss, Sasuke's were slower, his every movement betraying strain.
"Are you all right?" Sakura's voice cut into the air, but Sasuke stilled it with an uplifted hand to her lips.
My eyes widened in alarm as I pushed Sakura behind him, shielding her from the danger approaching. Sakura's eyes were wide with fear, like the ones etched on my face, as she muttered frantically against Sasuke's palm.
My eyes followed Sakura's trembling gaze then, and my heart dropped at the sinister shape of the snake approaching. I had instinctively activated my Sharingan, and another rush of adrenaline pumped into me as I ready myself to fight.
"Sasuke! Snake!" I yelled, my voice laced with urgency, bracing myself for the attack. Then, the snake zoomed in toward us, its jaws open and ready to bite.
We scattered only just in time, a split-second decision, and barely missed the deadly bite of the snake. The fangs sickeningly sank into the thick bark of the tree with a thud, barely missing us. It was Close Encounter, the near-miss made my blood run cold, me cursing myself for not acting sooner.
As the snake turned its eyes toward Sasuke, he turned to it equally fast and with purpose, showering the creature with streams of shuriken; razor-sharp blades bit deep into the snake's eyes, cutting through the air with an agonized recoil.
But the sinuous shape of the snake made a chill creep into my mind: an image of the woman, overlaid with the snake, intertwined in some grotesque fusion of human and beast; how had she ever managed to exercise so much power over these creatures? I felt a little disturbed and unsettled by this thought.
"Never be surprised, not even for a moment. A prey has got to be tense and struggle a lot before a predator." How the lady emerged from this snake's flesh sent shivers down my spine because it was such an awful, distorted exhibition of their powers. But even as she slithered toward me with unnaturally great speed, I still remained paralyzed by fear, unable to move a muscle as she closed in on me.
A scream was to leave my mouth when, just as I had braced myself for the inevitable, a shower of shuriken and kunai intercepted her, stopping her further advance toward me. Relief washed over me as it dawned on me that Naruto had saved us both from the clutches of this deadly woman through his timely intervention.
"Sorry, Misaki, Sasuke, Sakura," Naruto's voice echoed from that tree nearby.
He's always there to catch us whenever we slip. Honestly, I do not know what I would have done without him.
"Naruto!" Sakura exclaimed hoarsely with relief as our friend suddenly appeared before us.
While Naruto confessed to having forgotten the password, a small smile tugged at my lips against the lingering fear gnawing at my insides. After all, it wasn't hard to miss the fact that he stood for unwavering determination and limitless optimism, very much away from my apprehension in that moment. I mean, I have always known that inner strength and inborn resilience like his were just some of those attributes as a person.
That is all I aspire to in those eyes.
"That's all right, Naruto!" Her voice rose relieved to cheer him. "You did great!"
"Naruto, Your intentions were pretty good, but don't intervene! Get out of here!", Sasuke's voice rushed so as to get Naruto's attention.
"Naruto!" My voice cut through the cacophony, urgent in my tone to drive home the gravity of our situation. His look of worry was a mirror to my inner turmoil, struggling to find a way out of this predicament. "This. woman, she is beyond anything we have ever faced, but—"
She suddenly cut in, raising the tension in the air with a taunting emphasis on just how much danger we were in. "Seems like you handled that snake quite well, Naruto."
Obviously, our friend's arrival hadn't made anything easier; it only had complicated things in ways we hadn't thought of, if anything. The stakes were up from this charging-in-to-save by Naruto, and now it seemed more perilous than ever.
But Naruto is a boy who, with all his might, won't lose to anything. He won't lose to this woman. No way.
"Hey, hey, hey! You've been feeling like you're pushing my friends around, right?" The tension was finally cut through by Naruto's voice; his resolution steadfast, he faced our adversary squarely. "Well, now that I'm here, Uzumaki Naruto, I'm not going to let you get away with it!"
What should I do to help him?
Sasuke did something so unprecedented that it sent a shockwave across our group. The scene of him offering our scroll to our enemy left each of us standing literally frozen. The tension hung thick in the air as we awaited this woman's response, quite literally hanging by a thread, for anything could have happened.
"Sasuke! What are you doing?" Naruto protested. In immediate return came the fierce rebuttal of the young Uchiha.
Frustration and desperation laced Sasuke's voice as he yelled, "You, shut up!!"
"What?!" Naruto sounded in disbelief-in fact, an exclamation which fueled this hotheaded situation brewing here, his confusion completely synchronized with our very own.
The woman only retreated further, her voice high with an inkling of mirth while watching Sasuke's antics. "I see, you're sensible. The only thing the prey can do is offer other prey to the predator and pray for mercy, isn't it?"
Quick, Sasuke flung the scroll to her. Seemed a sure step to take us all by surprise, it did. "Take it."
But before the kunoichi could get to the scroll, Naruto sprang into action and, in mid-air, with a determined look on his face, intercepted it.
It was all at once, a blur, and still, this was in shock. Tension was electric, snapping like a buildup before an electrical storm; Sasuke's anger finally boiled over. "You! Don't you understand how serious this has all become?!" he roared at Naruto-the sound of thunder almost in that heavy forest.
But before any of them could do anything more, Naruto's fist came in with surprising strength and connected quite solidly with Sasuke's jaw. The blow sent Sasuke backward, his body crashing against the rough bark of a tree; the blood split on leaves-a stark reminder of the violence of that moment.
Stunned, Sasuke struggled to his feet. His eyes, afire with anger and confusion, blazed. "What in the world are you doing?!" he asked, his raw voice shaking with emotion.
Naruto's expression didn't change as he stood his ground, eyes locked on Sasuke. "I forgot the password," he said flat-out. "But you, Sasuke-you're not really Sasuke, are you?"
That accusation hung in the air, heavy as fog, casting a shadow over our already dire situation. "Naruto!" I gasped. My heart raced wildly in my chest while my mind was racing frantically to keep up with all that was transpiring before our eyes.
Sakura parroted mine, her voice shaking. "What. what are you saying?!" Her eyes raked his face for any minute sign of hesitation and came back with nothing but steely resolution.
Her words were teasing; a nipping breeze sent a curl of wind down my spine. "Cute prey," she purred, sinister amusement oozing from the tone. My heart sank at the sight of Naruto hurled through the branches by the snake's tail, his body thudding into the unyielding wood. "Finish him off," she ordered the snake with a stone-pitiless voice.
When all hope was almost lost, Naruto's eyes snapped open, and a fire no less fierce than the crimson glow within his irises blazed therein. "Not today!" he roared, lashing at the snake with amazing punches and kicks.
Sakura's voice boomed amidst the cacophony in disbelief. "Naruto. how is he that strong?!" she exclaimed, eyes wide open in disbelief.
Yet the woman raised only a gush of flames from her palm once more, sending Naruto into being a huge torch. That sent a run of shivering down my spine and a helpless wave of energy surge.
As the flames engulfed turnismo-bound Naruto, the next point of interest for this woman became Sasuke. "Now it's your turn," she said in rather sadistic tones, charging at him in truly fearful velocities. Danger closed in on him, and Sasuke stood, unable to move.
The loud crack tore through the air, and the branch holding Sasuke was about to give. With quicker reflexes, Naruto moved in between them, covering Sasuke to protect him from harm.
"Are you all right?" Naruto asked, sounding genuinely concerned as he looked Sasuke over. "Come on, scaredy cat! This isn't like you at all!"
But before Sasuke could speak, the woman's evil tongue darted serpentine round Naruto, then was out again, clenching shut behind him as air left in a whoosh as she held him aloft one-handed in a hold of pure iron. "Let me go!" Naruto piqued at the restraints which he strained uselessly against.
She exposed his torso-to reveal some odd mark on the skin-and for me the riddle thickened: What could that arcane symbol have denoted?
This woman flicked her fingers, using some technique unknown to me, and purple energy surged through Naruto's body. His unconscious figure went lax, just sort of dangling in the air, and my lips parted.
How could that woman have such an easy effect on Naruto?
"Help Naruto!" Sakura's panicked voice snapped me out of my daze. I drew two kunai from my pouch and, with sudden urgency, flicked on my Sharingan as if ready to act.
In a flash, I flung one Kunai at Naruto, nailing him into the tree trunk so that he would not fall, and readied my other Kunai, targeting the woman atop the snake. Just at the right moment, I launched the weapon. The blade cut through the air as it swished by, cutting deep into her face, and a pained hiss escaped those lips.
"Sasuke! What's going on?!," she exclaimed in desperation, staring at Sasuke with worried eyes. But Sasuke did not budge; his face remained still and silent.
"Sasuke, Naruto's definitely different from you," Sakura continued in frustration. "He's a spaz and sort of gets in the way. But he's not a coward by any means!"
Just as Sakura was about to say something, the angry voice of the lady cut her off: "You little shit!" she said, and in that very moment, she just vanished, leaving all of us shocked, rigid.
No sooner had a moment passed for me to realize she was gone than she reappeared behind me, looming over me like some dark shadow. Her voice slid into my ear then, and it caused me to shiver. "I think you would be just the right subject," she whispered again, malice in every word. "Just the right Uchiha blood."
In an instant, her pointed teeth lodged into the skin between my neck and shoulder, razor-sharp pain running across my body like a fire. I bit hard on the bottom lip, warm blood trickling down the skin, but I kept fighting to hold my wail of agony at bay.
In that chaos, with that much pain racing through my body, time itself seemed to stand still. Sakura's frantic cries, Sasuke's frozen form, all faded into the background as I wrestled with the agony tearing through me.
Mean words replayed themselves again and again in my mind, poisonous whispers still echoing in my ears. But out of the anguish, out of the fear, I did hear it: that voice resonating in my memory, steeped in regret and sorrow—my brother's.
It was then that I could hear the last words my brother had said to me before he left the village-the memory smashed its way to the surface. "Hate me, resent me, and cling to your utterly miserable life. Continue to live your ugly life.".
Itachi's painful and resigned words now echoed in my mind, harsh reminders of the burdens I bore, those scars that had never really healed. Yet, even as resentment and pain stirred inside me, I could never bring myself to resent him, to hate him.
"That's right, Big Brother," I whispered to the air, my voice no louder than the fighting going on outside my door. "My life is wretched and ugly, thanks to you. But I would never blame that on you, Itachi."
The waves of pain pounded upon my body as a whole, without discrimination. It was as if every single nerve in my body had flared to life and was screaming at all its fellows in agony. I ground my teeth together, attempting to choke back the cries that felt as though they wanted to erupt from my throat, but there was nothing I could do.
I reached toward the source of the pain with a shaking hand; my fingers came away slick with blood. The wound seemed to sear like a brand, a fierce reminder of something in the dark. The pain surged higher yet, and I was shaking with the effort of containing it.
I hit the ground on my knees as the earth met me. A guttural cry ripped from my throat, resounding through all the chaos around. The torment flailed about, was to consume me—devour me by the very essence of my being, leaving me hollow and in shreds.
I knelt there, writhing helplessly in agony. The pain seemed to come like an entire enemy to subdue me, as if unrelenting and fierce. And with all the darkness coming in at me from every side, the only thing I could do was pray for strength to bear up.
(a/n) ── i wasnt planning on giving her the curse mark but it gave a like 100 ideas for shippuden, misaki will not be going rouge while sasuke goes rouge.
do you guys have any suggestions to what weapon misaki show wild in shippuden or should she just focus on taijutsu? I was thinking maybe war fans (like kitanas from mortal kombat) or a katana/chokutō like sasuke?
please tell me weapons you'd like to see her wield and ill do a vote next chapter.
(❀) ── wc; 2.5k+
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