The Uchiha's Shadow
"Understood." Izumi replied severing the link she had formed with the blonde. She then felt movement beneath her feet. Her eyes burned with harsh red glow of her Sharingan. She stared down at Mizuki's lover, Tsubaki. An unforeseen predicament, but it wouldn't matter if she killed them both. She had originally been tasked with murdering Mizuki. She didn't ask why, and she didn't care why. Either the white-haired man had become a liability which needed to be eliminated, or he had simply outlived his usefulness.
"M-Mi-Mizuki-kun!" Tsubaki gasped out, her breath ragged and her lungs filling with blood. Izumi frowned before she stomped on the woman a bit harder. She heard a growl which came from the white-haired chunin. He casted his most vicious glare upon the Uchiha, but it might as well have been the threat of a fly to an electric zapper. It wasn't like Mizuki was in any condition to stop her. Not with a missing arm and leg anyway.
"Leave Tsubaki out of this! Why are you...ugh...even doing this? I...did...everything," Mizuki snarled out. He clutched his open wound with his other hand which had still been attached to the rest of his body.
Izumi didn't respond for a moment. She stared at them both, two kunai in her hands. "Because...you are too weak," Izumi replied. She then kicked Tsubaki across the living room floor. If both were praying for a rescue then it wouldn't be happening. Everyone was much too distracted by the fire to even think of looking for anything else. Thus this left Izumi with more than enough time to deal with her assignment.
She approached Mizuki. He had nowhere to escape to. It had been a surprise attack and he had not the time to counter before she engaged him. It was brief combat, but she had quickly overpowered him. Tsubaki had come home to warn him of the fire, but she had quickly been disarmed as well. Crap, he could feel his consciousness fading away. "I hope you rot in hell," he said.
Izumi was not fazed. "A small price to pay for getting what I want out of this life that was taken from me." She said and she threw her kunai at his skull. It sailed through the air with expert force just waiting to pierce itself into the wall behind him. However, this surprised them both when another kunai clashed with Izumi's sending it clanging across the floor.
A frown, Izumi turned around to see Tsubaki barely standing to her feet. The chunin slammed her hands together. "Doton: Dotakujō no Jutsu (Earth Release: Earth Table Top Technique)," Tsubaki called out before she then followed by placing her hands on the floor.
Almost instantly, the entire house ushered in a large crash as the ground beneath them pushed the building and all adjacent to it into the air. It then came crashing down with an explosive force of destruction that shook nearly all near it.
Tsubaki grabbed Mizuki and both coughed as they walked out of the house. Well, more to say that Tsubaki supported her lover in his newly formed frail and weakened body. The former then stared back at the house that she had lived in with Mizuki for over a year. She grabbed a kunai and strapped an explosion tag to it. "That...ugh...that won't kill her," Mzuki claimed.
Of course it wouldn't. Tsubaki already knew that. "But it might slow her down long enough for me to get you medical attention," she said. She threw the kunai with expert precision into the pile of wreckage that had been their house. Three seconds passed and both felt the ground rumble at their feet from the massive explosion which had engulfed their abode in righteous hot flames.
Tsubaki carried Mizuki through the barren streets of Konoha. By now, no doubt people were in a hectic frenzy. No one was able to assist them yet. Tsubaki cursed as she felt her leg stiffen. Her earlier combat with Izumi had done more damage than she would have liked. "Tsubaki, that's enough! We both know I won't make it!" Mizuki said.
"Stop it, Mizuki-kun. You'll make it. We'll make it! We always do. I hope this has taught you to stop doing those...activities. Please, you remember the dream we had?" Tsubaki asked. Mizuki struggled to keep his head awake. He was so tired. He was very tired. He lowered his head down.
Tsubaki grunted as she felt Mizuki's body slouch downward. She gave a cold chuckle. "Ah, You must be dreaming about it right now. I remember it too. A nice house, two nice kids, and maybe even a little dog. Are you...d-dreaming about that? I know I'd like to," the dark-haired woman said. She kept walking. She kept dragging her fiancee despite the fact that she knew he had long since departed for the afterlife. As she dragged him, Tsubaki wondered...whatever Mizuki had been doing, was it worth it? What had he done...to earn the ire of this mysterious organization?
"Do you have...have dreams like that too? Or is your heart just as dark as those eyes of your cursed clan?" Tsubaki asked. She stared forward with a harsh snarl at Izumi Uchiha standing in the middle of the street. The only evidence that her attack had slightly worked had been the burn marks on the Uchiha's face and her charred clothing. Aside from these things, Izumi was unfazed.
"You know nothing of dreams. This despair you feel, what I have experienced is worlds above whatever you're feeling. By Konoha, by the Uchiha clan, by outside forces which make this very structure of society turn, I have felt each sting of their influence on me. I do not have dreams for everything that I desire will be a reality. Would you like to know what I see? I see a village torn asunder and razed to the ground. Its diligent protector watches as I slaughter each and every single last living, breathing two-legged creature that he had sworn to protect at my expense, AT MY MOTHER'S EXPENSE. I will make him lose them all, just as he made me lose all of mine! All because of my disgusting love for his ideals!" Izumi fired back, venom dripping from her teeth.
Tsubaki released a breath. " I pity you," she replied. No sonner than those words escaped her did she fall to the ground along with Mizuki. A kunai to her chest and forehead for a very quick death. Both Konoha shinobi passed away without another word. Izumi stared at them and quickly began to burn the bodies. Her red eyes stared at the flames without remorse.
"I hope that pity will keep you warm in the cold belly of the Shinigami. I don't need it," she claimed. She then turned around. Now then, with her current assignment finished Izumi was finally allowed the first step to her revenge she hated waited on for so long. She would savor this moment. She would savor this moment that Uzumaki Naruto had given her. Itachi, Izumi was going to let you bear witness to the path your "selfless" actions had wrought. Perhaps then, she could show you a dream...just as you had showed her. Then she could show you...the crooked reality that comes from being awakened from that dream.
It turns out to be...a lie!
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