Shattered Ice

Chapter Seventeen

The man in the orange mask tutted, shaking his head. "Now, now Amara-nee! Is that anyway to treat your brother?"

Amara bared her teeth at him,  her orange eye glinting furiously. "Up are not my brother, you wretched man!! I am in no way, shape, or form related to you, you are just a delusional psychopath!!"

Tobi sighed, as if speaking to a spoiled child, who was throwing a tantrum because they weren't getting their way. "Amara-nee, you should clam down, we don't need you getting worked up after all..."

He gestured to the snow swirling around her dangerously, and as he did that something in her snapped. She let out a furious scream, the snow pushing forward against her restraints, lashing out at the man as it slammed him into a tree.

She glared at him with utter loathing, blue beginning to mesh with the orange in her eye, a valid sign at Tenshi's chakra was beginning to take her over. Still, the man of her nightmares continued watching with an eerily calm look in his red eye, which only further her ferocity.

"You think I would listen to you?! After what you've done to me?!" She laughed, the sound dry and bitter. She glared at him, the ice beginning to creep up his body, while part of the right side of her face, where her visible eye was located, was beginning to show signs of her transforming. (i.e- like Gaara when he was beginning to transform into Shukaku )

Tenshi could only watch helplessly from inside of her cage, knowing that this was exactly what he wanted. Tenshi found herself paralyzed by this mans eye, unable to do anything as her host succumbed to her rage..

Half of her teeth morphed, sharpening into fangs, while her orange eye turned into blue, a slit black pupil boring into Tobi's red one, and she snarled. "You think I would bother hearing a single word that came out of your pitiful mouth?!"

"Well, yes. After everything we've been through after all-"

"AFTER EVERYTHING WE'VE BEEN THROUGH?!" She roared, the utter fury behind it causing a flock of birds to flee in terror, her voice shaking the forest to it's roots. The ice tightened around him, and he winced in slight discomfort.

Suddenly, Amara flinched, reaching up to clutch her head, Tenshi having no choice but to attack her mentally.

'Amara, snap out of it!! He WANTS you to transform!! You've already lost control of the ice, how long do you think it will take for your team to notice something's up?! What about Naruto?!'

Amara immediately froze, before gritting her teeth. She forced her mind to go blank, blocking out any emotions that would make the next thing she was going to do harder than it already would be.

"You're not worth it..." She spat, her voice slightly mixed with Tenshi's, as the blue retreated from her eye, her teeth also morphing back to normal. Now, though Amara kept her posture as neutral as possible, internally she was screaming in pain.

After being in a half-shift, retreating from it was much more painful that just giving in and allowing it to complete. Eventually, however, Amara was once again completely normal, her orange eye boring into his skull.

"You're going to leave me alone." She said calmly, though her eyes were furrowed in concentration.

'Tenshi-'

'I know. It'll be more difficult in controlling it from here on out. I had been trying to avoid this, but your shift had caused any control you had over the defense to snap.'

Amara scowled, displeased. She struggled to bend the ice and snow to her will, forcing it to release the masked male. The snow strained against her, but somehow she managed to contain it.