Forgotten Anger (ep. 32)

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 It took a while before the sun was gone from the sky leaving the night sky to start to peek around the corners of the clouds

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 It took a while before the sun was gone from the sky leaving the night sky to start to peek around the corners of the clouds. The sky went from rich pinks and oranges to dark purples and blues. Some stars began to show, but only the brighter ones. The duller ones were left in the shadows of the still remaining sunlight. It was just how life was meant to be. The ones who are in the shadows never get seen. Only because the brighter ones always snuff out the dull ones. 

Itachi stared at the door handle and took a deep breath. He tugged on the latch and sighed as it pressed hard. As he placed his forehead against the door, he let go of the handle dropping his hand at his side. Itachi looked up at the sky and watched the clouds pass by. He opened and closed his mouth multiple times and painfully put his hands on the wood of the door. He groaned and cleared his throat before letting the words slip out. But they weren't just words, he began singing quietly. "Tired eyes, barely open. Crippled by a promise broken. I have seen an empire falling. Hopeless, can you hear me calling? Turn away from all that I know. Burning this bridge behind me. Light the way and I'll follow. Where you go." he bit his lip beginning to kneel down to the floor. Itachi turned his head to the side and placed his cheek to the wall. "Can you tell me what is real? Cause I've lost my way again. Can you tell me how to feel? Cause I don't feel anything. Now that I'm down here again. I'm down with the fallen again." Itachi sighed and held his fist tightly against the ground. 

Inside there was some shuffling, and a small click.

The lock was undone and soon enough the door opened a crack. A quiet voice peeped through the crack. "What?" 

Itachi turned around a bit and smiled at the tear stricken face of Jynx. He turned back around and stared, "May I come in?"

"No. Let me be." She shut the door and leaned against it knowing he wouldn't force himself into the room anyways otherwise he would've already. 

Itachi let out a deeper sigh and bit his lip harder making it bleed. 

"Don't try and bribe me. You know what I can and will do."

"Go ahead, kill me. Just I know, you wouldn't." Itachi glanced over then closed his eyes.

"How the hell do you know that? You probably would've been caught. We all would've died. Even the children! They would not have saved anyone here." She opened the door violently and and was standing now. She looked down at Itachi, "If they decided to make sure that you were her uncle, and not just some random rouge, a damn missing nin that decided to walk away from his fucking family!" 

Itachi stared wide eyed and wiped the blood dripping down to his chin. Grabbing the doorway, he pulled himself off of the floor. Carefully he reached out to Jynx's cheek.

She pulled herself away and put her hands up to block him out of anger. "Just go hide. It's the best you do anyways." Itachi groaned once again looking away from her. "You know for damn well, that," Jynx started to shake and stutter slightly. "That, they. They would've killed every one here. I mean, probably Kana, Takeo, and Akane first. Then maybe Rose and Thorn because they have families that don't care for them. And maybe, just maybe they will save Shiru because she's the fucking Hokage's child. But maybe it would be better to kill her because it would be easier to hide her if she was dead. But that would worry the rest of the damn village since they wouldn't want a curse to reign down from 'Konoha's Yellow Flash.' But wait," Jynx was pacing back and forth and tugging on locks of her hair, "I'm not sure that he can even join us here in this world. Because the damn Nine Tails that your family brought into this world took away everything this Village had. It took away families and parents, and all you think about is to just ignore it like it never even happened!" She turned around and glared, "Maybe it's an Uchiha thing. Just being stubborn. Huh? Is that it? Too stubborn to admit when he fucked up. But it's all part of your act at everything, right? And, then what? After they killed the other children, they would go for the last two. Little Piper then," She hunched over and held her stomach nearly choking out the words, "The last one would be Raia. I helped deliver her. I helped her mother in the time of need and delivered that girl before I even was with child. Her mother died, but in desperate need of keeping her children safe, she begged me with her dying words to 'protect my girls.' Do you know how it feels when the mother of a child is dying and all she can think of is protecting her family?" Jynx stood up straighter and wiped her tears with a a cloth then pinched her nose with it after. She pointed at Itachi, "I guess, maybe you do. Oh, wait. You should. Dammit..." She started to laugh and shake her head. "Don't you get it? They would've killed everyone. That includes you and Kisame as well. Then me, if they can finally. They haven't quite found a way to kill me after you did. And after all said and done, they would've burned down this place like they did with the last one we had. You and I both know that." Jynx looked up at Itachi and smirked as she tilted her hips after placing her hands on her hips. "Never mind me talking about any of this to you. You wouldn't care anyways. You never did when they came after her in the first place. You let them murder our daughter and didn't even flinch at helping us until after the fire and I was on the ground bleeding out. A punch to the gut is not the best type of thing to have when you're pregnant. I can't believe you didn't do anything before my miscarriage! Now get out." Jynx looked away from Itachi, keeping her eyes off of him and pointed towards the door.

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