An Escape From Pain (Naruto FanFic)ON HOLD

Chapter 17: The Thin White Line

Hey guys! I'm going to try to update as often as I can but it is going to be super difficult because I just started my senior year of high school. But please be patient with me, I'm not abandoning the story! :)

~Kayla

-------> Curse mark

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Kaori PoV

It was dark with a single line of white leading to a white door. What is with all of these doors?! I thought, irritated. I opened the door and found myself in a never ending room that was half black and half white. I slowly blinked and when I opened my eyes I could see myself standing on the black side of the room. At least...I thought it was me. I looked wild, my eyes were crazed and I was smiling in a way that chilled me to the bone. My katana was covered in blood. Around me were bodies that had been torn up and the tracks of tigers. I radiated a dark and powerful energy. I hate to admit it but I'm drawn in, the power is seductive. I know that nothing, not even Orochimaru, would stand in my way if I became like this apparition. There was one big thing that bothered me...

Where were all the people I love?

At that thought, the shadow me looked over and growled before shattering into multiple pieces and disappearing.

A bright light filled my vision and I saw me laughing and walking down the street with my team, Sasuke's arm was around me. Just looking at this image filled me with warmth. This was me now. If I chose this path would I only be this powerful? I'm not strong enough now to reach my ultimate goal.

The image faded and I was left in darkness.

Blood. There's blood everywhere. I shut my eyes as tight as I can so I don't have to look at it. But I can still smell it in the air. It's everywhere.

"Kaori.....Kaoriiiiiii...." A haunting voice calls to me from all directions.

"Kaori. Come to your father. You wouldn't want to make me mad would you?" I open my eyes to see my foster father grinning at me, holding a knife. Behind him my dead family is stacked in a heap. The blood runs down them and is starting to come towards me. I look on horrified as my foster father's face contorts with rage.

"No...N...no. NO!" I grab for my katana, but it isn't there. Neither is my weapons pouch. It's getting harder to breath and the blood has started to lap at my ankles. I choke out a sob as My foster Father creeps closer. No. Not again! He's gone! I'm gone! This is over! I close my eyes, willing these images to leave.

The blood is almost up to my knees. I can feel breath on my face and I open my eyes to see his face in front of mine. His hand is around my throat, but he isn't squeezing yet. I can't feel my hands.

"Do you know what you did! Do you know! Answer me!" He yells in my face, spit flying.

"No...I didn't...I didn't do anything..." I try to shake my head but his grip on my neck tightens until i'm gasping for breath.

"Yes you do! You damn know what you did! You killed her! You killed her! You killed my little girl you monster! And you're going to pay!" He squeezed until I couldn't breathe anymore. He brought up the knife that would end me.

Before his arm could fall I felt something stir. It was familiar and powerful. I reached for it and looked at my foster father with the purple eyes of a tiger. I lifted a dead arm and ripped his hand from my throat. I don't need weapons of steel, I have my fangs, my claws! I have no reason to be scared anymore!

"You can't hurt me anymore!" I growled at him. His face drained white before becoming angry and red.

"I always knew you were a monster! How dare you wear her face!" He came at me with his knife and I simply smiled before grabbing it and flinging it away. I heard a pop as I hit his hand. I must have broken something. He looked really scared now as I approached him with all of the grace of a predator.

"For too long have I been afraid of you. For too long have I lived in your shadow. No more! I'm not weak! Tonight I end you forever!" I yelled before striking out and breaking his neck. As I saw the life leave his eyes I grinned and watched him be ripped apart into shadows, everything went black. The rage was not gone, but it only fueled my power.

I opened my eyes and clenched my fists. I breathed in and out. I could feel the tension in the air and sat up. Looking around me I could see Sasuke holding the arms of an enemy ninja. He was giving off an evil aura of power that matched my own, he was covered in flame-like marks that I knew were caused by the curse mark. I bet that I have similar marks covering my body. I look at my arm and see marks that looks like celtic knots covering it. Yup. I'm cursed too apparently. That must be what this power is.

"You seem to be very proud of these arms of yours....you must be very...attached to them." Sasuke's voice traveled to where I'm sitting.

The ninja screams and there's a loud crack as The ninja's arms snap. I run to where Sasuke is. It only takes a second with my new power flowing through me.

"So, You took all the fun for yourself Sasuke?" I ask, my mouth right next to his ear. He turns around quickly and glares at me with his crimson eyes. He looks at me for a few more seconds before his eyes widen. I nod.

"I've also been gifted with this curse." I tell him. I can hear people gasp behind me.

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And four months later.......

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