Porcelain [Sasori]

Puppet #14

Porcelain

Puppet #14

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Ai gently stroked Eirin's forehead. She was to stay in the hospital until she was discharged properly, much like Hana as well. Chiyo and Sasori had sustained light injuries, so they only needed to go for a check-up. Hana was in a different room and thus, Ai offered to look after her.

"Eirin, how much have you seen with those eyes?" Ai murmured. She placed her hand back onto her lap, stretching her fingers and adjusting her sleeve. The maid's eyes looked to the ceiling, wondering how long her mistress would be there.

She stood up and loomed over Eirin, adjusting her hair and clothes so that she could sleep more comfortably. It was a habit hard to erase. Ai smiled at the cuteness of Eirin, seeing that she had grown up well.

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Sasori stared at the puppet he had finished in one day. He stared at it for a long time before frowning and placing it onto the table with a sigh.

This isn't right.

The puppet was supposed to look like Eirin, but no matter how much he tried, even if he replicated the hair, eyes and skin perfectly, it was missing something. He did love eternal beauty and wished to make everything in relation to that, but the object right in front of him, even though it was eternally beautiful, he disliked it.

He imagined Eirin's smile and bursts of happiness, finding himself smiling. He shook his head and wiped the smile off his face the minute he realised, rubbing his temples in frustration.

The hell?

He got off the chair and went straight to the hospital to check up on her. He found it better to have the living embodiment rather than the puppet.

He didn't even bother to knock on the door. He strode in easily, but his eyes widened and he stopped abruptly when he saw the scene in front of him. His gray-brown eyes went so wide that it looked like plates.

"You...!" Sasori hissed through his teeth.

Ai had her a hand right through Eirin's chest, electricity pulsing through it. Ai's previous warm aura had been replaced with a coldness that could freeze the room over. Blood spilled onto the bed and Eirin was still, her face showing a mixture of pain and shock.

"Oh whoops...looks like you saw me." Ai pulled out her arm, throwing the child back onto the bed. She licked the blood and stared at Sasori while doing so.

Sasori immediately wrapped his chakra strings around each limb so tightly that it looked like the life was squeezed out of them.

"Who are you?!" He lost his normal cool levelheadedness and growled lowly. He was beyond angry.

"Why are you so angry? She wasn't even your friend, was she?" Ai shrugged and chuckled.

Sasori didn't reply to her verbally and instead he sliced it. No blood came out, but rather, the clang of metal dropped to the floor after being cut.

"Metal...?" He stared at the woman, but realised that she was laughing, her voice changing from feminine to robotic. She emitted a heat from her body, breaking the chakra strings as well as burning off her clothes, face and body – but under it was a metal body.

"I'm a robot, you see." It spoke with a chilling laughter.

"A robot...?!" Sasori clenched his teeth.

They have inventions like these already!? He realised that he didn't have any puppets with him at that moment since he had just come from the puppet lab. Tch!