Reapers

Reapers

Ch. Two

It was him. Tears filled her eyes and spilled down her cheeks, there wasn’t even any pain anymore, only her brother standing right in front of her, and he was alive.

Tsunade closed her eyes to the sight in front of her. She remembered always leaving him alone, and she simply hated doing that, but she joined the army for one purpose, to give him a better life than what she could earn with a normal job.

Her mother had died in an accident and soon after so did her father, although he died from much different reasons, he died for what she known to be a broken heart. She resented her father from leaving the family, for dying and leaving them alone to fend for themselves.

Two years earlier after she left the army, she came home, to give her little brother everything she could. But one day, her brother was playing with his favorite red ball. The ball bounced into the street in front of their home and a car passed, she didn’t remember much after that only that everything was much slower at the time. She saw it happen, she yelled for the car to stop, but it was too late, it hit her brother.

She ran after the car, for some reason it didn’t stop, but after the car hit her brother his body had gotten caught underneath the car and began to drag on the ground, his flesh grinded against the cement and a pool of blood leaked from the car as it drove away.

“Stop!” She remembered screaming till it hurt her throat, begging, hoping, preying.

The car managed to stop at a light and the driver jumped out. “I’m so sorry,” The man cried, “He just ran out and I didn’t even know…I hit him.” But she didn’t listen to the man who killed her brother.

Pulling on the car, she tried to get her brother out herself, but it was useless, she wasn’t strong enough. The rest is a blur now, when she saw the mingled corpse of her brother, everything went blank.

no...

White, everything around her was white.

The jacket around her body that held her arms together was white, the padded room around her was white, and the nurses and doctors always wore white. She was in the loony bin, she knew she wasn’t crazy and yet she was there till time had passed for another year. Nothing matter after her brother had died, everything was pointless, and living was a pointless act.

“Then why don’t you join us?” a man was staring across at her in the visitors room, she had no reason to be there except that this stranger had taken her there. He wore a long black cloak and gray velvety gloves covered his porcelain skin. She didn’t know who he even was or why he was talking.

“You are here because you have lost meaning in life, correct?”

She nodded even though he didn’t deserve her response, no one did.

“Then why don’t you join the Reapers? I can guarantee you wont live for long, and you will die with a purpose, or would you rather wither here and die alone and forgotten?” The man never shifted in his seat as he stared her down, waiting for her answer.

The notion was a good one; she could do something if only just for a little while. “No, I want to do good, at the very least, one last time…”

“Then welcome!” He extended his arms out with utter happiness. “I am glad to have you join us.” His tone of voice never changed from the stiff business tone that he had given her the offer with.

Tilting her head a bit to the side Tsunade looked at him with just a bit curiosity, “What’s your name?”

“I don’t have a real name, what’s a secret organization worth if you knew who we are?” he gave her just the slightest bit of a smirk.

She stared at him.

“I do have a code name, its Hawk. And I am pleased to meet you Tsunade, welcome to a world that is dead, welcome to the Reapers.” He held his hand out for her to take.

Tsunade fell to her knees, the vision of her past had stop flashing before her eyes. The demon had let her go and she was an arm reach from her rifle.

“I want to tell you who I am, Kidomaru is my name and to kill me you have to kill my heart. However, I never keep my heart in one place, I am a demon and I know that my existence is a treat to every human on this planet. You see—“ He pointed to her brother— “every year I hide my heart in the fresh corpse of a body, but every year I have to change the location of the corpse, now, I am sure you figured it out by now. It was by chance that I came across your brother’s body...”

“Bastard!” Tsunade screamed; she knew that her being there was no coincidence but Reapers plan from the very beginning.

“I will give you a deal. If you can kill your brother, you kill me, sound good?” Inside the demon knew that the woman Reaper wouldn’t have it in her to kill her little brother all over again, and when she fails, he can use her body as a new vessel to hold his heart. Now die and join your brother!

Her brother, half of his face was missing, began advancing to his sister, ready to kill.

Tsunade raised her gun to her brother, she had every intention of killing him, this thing wasn’t her brother, he had died a long time ago and now she needed to free his body from this demon. The gun was shaking so much she wouldn’t have gotten a good shot even if she wanted. The tears never seemed to stop, she grinded her teeth so hard they bled and as the blade went down, the innocence of her brother, the face of him before he had died flashed in her mind, it was only a moment but it had decided her fate…

-o0o-

Itachi followed the same path he took leading out of the hospital. When the metal smell of blood hit his nostrils he began to sprint in the direction of the battle. He hoped he wasn’t too late to help the woman.

Breathing hard he followed the shrieks of laughter that flooded the air; he glanced at his watch, three hours till sunrise, not much time left. The horizon was starting to light up the sky.

On the left field of the park there were three figures. On the ground in a big pool of blood was his comrade, she was occasionally twitching and standing over her body was a boy about fourteen smiling like a loon.

There were slashes all over her and she was leaking more of her blood as the seconds passed. Itachi ran to her and lightly taped her leg with his foot. “Are you still alive?” he whispered, and without waiting for an answer, Itachi set his sights on the kid, reaching around his left pocket for his last knife.

“N-no.” Stunned that Tsunade was still alive Itachi swirled around to look at her.

“Let me do it…”

Bending down, Itachi handed his only knife left to her, she shook her head and pointed to the gun. He bent down and handed the weapon to her; she was so pale and had to of lost a lot of blood from the attack. She took it with trembling arms, and slowly dragging her feet, walked to her brother.

“You can’t do it…” whispered the voice in the trees, Itachi stood back, he knew when he had needed to battle but this wasn’t his to fight, but he would intervene if she proved un-useful.

Pulling the trigger was the hardest, when she shot the handgun, her arm flew back and she managed to hit her brother in the shoulder. She reached in her pockets and jammed another clip into the gun, locking, loading, and aimed once more.

“What are you doing?” It was Kidomaru, he was shocked that Tsunade was actually shooting at her brother; this wasn’t how he has planned it at all. He didn’t think his little game would have been this risky. He ran from the sanctuary of the trees and to Tsunade but someone had knocked him to the floor and held him down with his boot.

“What are you doing?” The demon withered under Itachi's boot and yelled in blind fury. No mater how hard Kidomaru tried to escape and pull himself up, Itachi would over powered him. He glanced up at the impassive man who stared at Tsunade. Who are you? No…what are you?

“Just watch.” Itachi answered and turned his attention back to Tsunade. “It’s not everyday you get to fist hand see yourself die. You’re lucky.”

“No! I don’t want to die!”

Tsunade shot again, this time at her brother’s head. The second time corpse fell to the ground, twitching but still alive. Kidomaru could feel the bullet rip into his flesh as if he had been shot himself. Not wasting any time, Tsunade shot again, this time in the chest of her brother and the twitching stopped and it feel at a pile at her feet, laying still.

“Hey, do you think…I killed my brother twice?” Tsunade mumbled more to herself than to Itachi.

Itachi glanced at the demon Kidomaru, who was now dead with his purple tongue hanging out of the corner of his mouth and his black eyes rolled in the back of his head. Although fresh, his body still smelt like a rotten corpse. He lifted his boot and watched as the demon disincarnated into dust. “No, he is gone, and had been gone for a long time.”

“I’m happy then.” She fell on one knee and wrapped her arms around the many wounds that the possessed brother had inflicted on her. “Itachi was it?”

“Yes, that is my code name.”

“Itachi, do you think you can sit down with me and watch the sun rise? Its so beautiful today isn’t it?”

“I suppose.” He walked over and extended his arm to her, carefully he led the wounded Tsunade to the shade of a tree. They sat down and he grimaced when he had disturbed his own wounds, the demon was lucky, it was rare for Itachi to receive any wounds. But unlike Tsunade, they would be gone by morning.

The sun rose covering the earth with blinding pale light, with the light the birds started chirping. Everything seemed alive and full of energy. Looking onto the sunrise Itachi wondered if he could become apart of the life himself, or would he forever be submerged in the darkness?

“It’s so bright,” Tsunade said in a dull whisper. Her skin had lost all traces of color. She licked her chapped lips. "I’m just going to rest my eyes for a bit, just until the helicopter arrives.”

“Yeah, it should be here soon.”

He never cared for the mornings but today really was a beautiful day as she had said. Why does it feel so empty? Why does he feel so alone? What is he missing?

“Hey, are you alive?" Itachi put his hand on Tsunade’s shoulder and shook it lightly; she was cold despite the morning sun hitting her. She fell over without a sound. She wasn’t moving, or breathing.

“Of coarse your not.” He tossed his head back and gave a deep sigh, in the distance he could hear the helicopters engine roar.

“No one is ever alive.”

Moments later he used the last bit of his energy to drag Tsunade to what was left of her brother’s corpse. It was after all, the least he could do.

-o0o-

Naruto rolled of his bed and fell face down in his carpet. Rubbing his sore head he glanced at his clock. 7:00! He was late! Hinata his next-door neighbor hadn’t woken him up, like she usually does.

He ran into the bathroom and tossed cold water on his face and found his fresh clothes in the hamper on the floor, he was kind of glad he didn’t fold them and put them away. He glanced at his underwear, one more day wouldn’t hurt he wondered, hopefully no one would smell him.

“Wow, it’s a nice day today!” he couldn’t wait to see his teacher Kakashi, and show him the work he did over summer break.

To be continued…

Next Chapter,

Nothing is new, yet something is…different. On the bench, the boy sat, he seemed to be waiting for someone. He smiled wide and stupidly stared at the people who walked near him, but his ocean blue eyes were the saddest things Itachi had ever seen.

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