AFTER DARK | naruto

69 | into the dream world

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"You can't move, can you? You've already suffered enough, so you should just lay down and die already!" You were far, far away from the actual battlefield. So far, the important news that spread around in seconds could never reach you. It was coming to your realization that they must've been simply distracting you and fending you off all this time so you couldn't provide the support that you had been that entire time. 

Though, no matter how far you were--you felt the horrible rumble from an unknown source. His walking back toward you was wobbly provided the shaking, but he managed to have big talk. "Scared yet? I bet you are!" He cackled, "Yeah, yeah! I bet he was too. Could you tell me how it went? The last words my best friend said... Before you killed him?" 

"Him?" You repeated, "Like a boy?" You asked, or maybe you were assuming? "I've killed plenty of boys in my life," You admitted. Although you only actually killed one, and the others were all attempted. "Was he dear to you? Sorry." You said.  

"Dear to me? Are you mocking me?!" Sting scoffed. It wasn't meant to be a jab, but it was easy for him to take it as one. After all, he was under the impression that you were the one to take the life of his best friend. He only knew that you had a Lacrima put in you, but not which one of the two it was. So his bitterness made him assume it was the one close to him that you had killed--considering you had the 'Poltigan' to his knowledge. 

" The guy from the forest of death, maybe? I barely remember him. The crazy guy from the Akatsuki? To be fair, I only roughed him up, the real killer isn't me." 

The image of your sister's face crossed you by as you looked back at him, letting out a sigh. "Those are the only people I've killed." From a logistic standpoint, it was true... Your sister, in the eyes of everyone else, never existed.

"But... That's no one near the greatest sin I've committed." You felt a hand placed on your back, no doubt he was placing another seal--or just amplifying the first one to work faster. It was painful, far more painful than getting something placed in you instead.

"..." Sting was speechless at whatever you were spouting out. "An Akatsuki freak? Forest of death?!" He nearly sounded offended at what you were saying. "Rogue! Rogue Cheney! The one you killed for his power of the Black Dragon?!" 

"Rogue Cheney?" You repeated back. "Ah, my brother..." 

Brother...?! He thought to himself. It made even more sense now--although he didn't believe for a second you were actually his sister, on the off chance it was true, you just had to have murdered him in cold blood for your Poltigan. 

"I didn't kill him. I got his power through a Lacrima placed in me. Of course, I did take it willingly." You admitted.  What was this?! A confessional?! "Maybe, in your eyes, that's the same as murder?"

His cheeks went red in anger, as he clenched his jaw. "Is lying on the dead something all [Lastname]s do?!" He yelled angrily. He dug his nails into your skin, he must've taken off his glove to cast a seal on you. "He's not a part of that rancid clan! Even suggesting him having been a part of those... Freaks... Is a horrible insult on the dead!"