The Lost Shinobi

Nightmares Can't Go Away

*Dream*

Akiko was sitting on a swing. She was currently seven, and she turned to her left. She saw a smiling Scar. "Hey Akiko, do you know what you want really badly?" Akiko smiled back, "To be the Hokage!" Scar tilted his head, "You do? But Naruto says it's always going to be him." It was true, so why was she lying?

Her smile faded, and it turned into a frown, "That's not true. What I really want, is a Mommy, and a Daddy. I want a family. I have Naruto, but, that's not a lot." Scar grabbed her hand and stared at her, "I'll be your family! I'll be your family along with Naruto, it'll be great!" She smiled, and felt tears stream down her cheeks.

Scar stood up and dragged her towards the playground. She ran along with him, laughing and smiling. Then, they were walking into the darkness. Scar looked back and smiled at her. He let go and she tried to catch up. "Scar! Wait up!" "Catch me if you can!" She heard him yell. She managed to catch up, but he looked different, he looked older. Battle-worn.

She saw him only stare at her with stone cold eyes. Watching her. She stopped, and walked over to him. "Scar?" She asked. He didn't say anything. She felt someone else's hand grab hers. Naruto. He pulled her by the arm and towards Sasuke and Kakashi, she felt herself smile. She turned back to look at Scar, to see if he had followed her, but he didn't.

Instead he was walking back. She stopped and felt Naruto tug on her arm. She pulled away from Naruto and ran after Scar. "Scar!" She yelled. He didn't stop, he just kept walking. She saw Naruto walk off with Sasuke and Kakashi. Akiko kept running and noticed herself getting older. She was running through a dark place.

Tired, she decided to walk. She looked around and saw people crowding her. They were hitting her, smashing things on her like broken bottles, even throwing shards of glass at her. They shouted, "Go away monster!" "Freak!" "Beast!" "Monster!" "Get out you outsider!" "Faker!" She felt her tears stream down quickly, she ran past the crowd. She felt blood run down her face, apparently her temple was right temple was bleeding.

She was still crying and looked up. Naruto was back, "Come on Aki! We'll be left behind!" He looked so, commanding. He didn't look like his normal, cheerful self. He offered her his hand, and she felt something sting her in the back. She turned to see a woman in an ANBU gear. She had a sword, but it wasn't as big as Kubikiribōchō. It had sliced Akiko from her left shoulder blade to her lower back.

"Die!" The ANBU shouted, before Akiko had pierced the lady with a kunai through the chest. Akiko pulled the kunai out, shivering. The lady had pierced through Akiko's stomach, but she didn't mind. She looked back and saw Naruto, fully conscious and scared of her. She saw his eyes grow wide in fear. Akiko pulled out the sword and fell to the ground.

She didn't black out, instead, she woke up somewhere else. A woman with curly blue hair with glowing red eyes smiled at her and ran a hand through Akiko's hair, "You're safe now." Then she brought Akiko to a yard and all Akiko could do was follow her. "Akiko! Lunch is almost ready!" "Okay Mom!" She shouted. Mom? She ran into a house, it looked creaky and old, leaving the blue curled haired woman behind. She walked in and saw a woman with scarlet red hair like hers in the kitchen. "Mommy?" "Yes honey?" The voice sounded lovely to her. "What are we eating?"

"Mom" laughed, "Don't you remember? We're eating ramen, only for today." Then, she turned around and Akiko's eyes widened in fear. Mom had no eyes, only empty sockets, that used to hold happy sapphire orbs. Her skin was cracked, and from her waist down, her legs looked crushed. "Go get your father and tell him lunch is almost ready."

Akiko nodded, and walked up some stairs. There she saw her father, Zabuza. "Dad? Mommy says that lunch is almost ready." "I'll be down in a second sweetie." His voice sounded so gentle, and what she saw scared her even more. Haku had come by, "Zabuza, do we sit down already?" There was a hole in his chest, bleeding, his mouth covered in blood as well. "Yes, just give me a moment." Nobody had eyes, only emptiness. Their skin was cracked although Zabuza's back seemed to be bleeding but spreading across the floor.

Zabuza's back looked stabbed, just like how he died. Akiko backed away and seemed to have ran to her room, scared of her parents and Haku. Why? Zabuza looked at her, "You couldn't save me. You didn't care about me." She was shouting, "That's not true! I tried my best to save you! It tried my hardest to save Haku, I-I..." Haku had a face of disappointment. Then he choked her, "If you truly cared we would still be alive." Akiko felt his hand around her neck, causing her skin to crack and split open, she screamed in pain.
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Akiko woke up with a start. She reminded herself that it was only a dream. Still she cried, cried because she had done terrible things, leave her friend alone, be a monster, and let her family die. She cried until she decided to close her eyes and let the tiredness consume her.