Where It All Begun [PLOT]

He moved without sound through the landscape that was Ounougakure's Borders. Then, at the corner of his eye, he'd saw a silver haired ANBU, and his head begun to pound incredibly loud, and he stumbled ever so slightly before immediately recovering from the throbbing of his head and back into stealth mode. However, he was too late. He could hear the footsteps, and heartbeat of the Silver-haired ANBU. She...ARGH!!!!!!!!!! His head throbbed with the pain of a thousand suns. How did he know it was a she? Wait, why is he asking himself that question? It was obvious right, the body type, size, height, and color length, slimness of the waist, and other features.

Despite being prepared to slaughter anyone that had caught even a glimpse of his attempt to case the outskirts, he instinctively hid himself and his heart had started to beat several times faster than normal as if he was...afraid. "Are you alright?" His head swiftly turned to his right as his back leaned against a tree-trunk in hiding. His eyes that was once tense turned incredibly calmed and relaxed. Eri!  He thought of her name, and he wanted to speak but he wasn't safe. "Do you want to hide in the lake again? Maybe we can escape them there." Her words were so soft, and relaxed, just like before.

"There isn't a lake nearby." He whispered in his most quietest voice that could be released.  "Really? Perhaps we can go hide out in my hideout. It's safe there. Come on, I'll heal you afterwards." He couldn't help but stare at her silver hair, and flawless skin tone. She was beautiful. Beyond that, and he wanted to tell her, but the words wouldn't come out. "Too far. Also, I'm not injured." He said in his once again quiet tone, but turning his view from her and looking away for signs of pursuers, but forgot to utilize his hearing. Eri's hideout was his home, every time he would go back there, and sleep, and it was the only time he could sleep for the past 3 years.

"But you are..." Her voice turned eery and trailed off with a softness. Zaizen's head throbbed once more and turned around with the words, "Wha...?" He turned around to be directly looking at the ANBU with silver hair. How did she gets so close? She was but a few meters out, and at any moment she could spot him by simply looking to her left. He backed away, ready to leap away in silence when his head begun throbbing once more with the words "you are" repeating in Eri's eery and soft tone. His feet went back and cracked some leaves beneath his feet rather loudly. His eyes then turned to see the ANBU, his mask hiding his pain and fear, but what was he afraid of? Getting caught? No. Dying? No, he welcomed it, and wanted it. Why should he live while she, her innocent heart and kind words die. Then what?




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His eyes couldn't focus correctly. His very vision turned blurred and all he saw was the faint image of the silver ANBU with a blade pointed towards his form. Instincts were suppressed, he made no attempt to defend himself; no, to be more accurate - he couldn't. "Are you going to kill her, Zaizen-kun?" His eyes widened to the point of being horrendously strained, and his vision did not get any better in his action. He felt a build up in his lungs, and his head started to pound once more. He couldn't breathe or think. Blade pointed towards him, and all he could was stand there in fear...and he didn't know why. There was moments where he'd have cold shakes in the midst of the night as he slept in his home, but that's it. Never this severe.

Her voice was drowned out by the voice of Eri. "Just kidding. Just leave, Zaizen-kun. Just leave..." Her voice trailed out, and he went from highly agitated to surprisingly and disturbingly calm. Stepping backwards, he tripped on absolutely nothing and landed on his ass, his eyes looking at the ANBU with the blade pointed towards him. Why can't I? He wanted to, with all his might, feel alive once more by taking her life. Cherish the moment her light of life went out in her gaze. "No." Was his first audible word thus far in the past two hours. He could feel Eri's presence behind her, his mind producing steps and her scent as she leaned over his shoulder from behind and looked at him with her soft steel grey gaze. "Come on, Zaizen-kun. I'll heal you."

Her gaze of steel grey faded into darkness until the life was snuffed out of her and she dropped beside him. He stood to the right of him with fear, from the ANBU's point of view, he'd just looked at the ground in shakes and fear, whilst in his, he'd seen her dead body laying beside him. In seconds she turned into an horrific corpse, unrecognizable but he could remember her scent. "No!" His voice amped up in volume as he screamed out loud his dismay.

"E...ERI!!!!!" He shouted to the heavens, and in a split-second, his insanity state ended and he became calm, his hand reached into his pocket and shattered a smoke bomb at his feet. He jumped back onto his feet, and shunshin'd a few meters to the south. He was back to himself in a flip of a switch. I'm not dying until I kill her. Mitsuko, Rina...You will die before me.


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He'd stopped as he got a bit ways off after his jump with Shunshin no Jutsu. He was still within his own thoughts as he stopped, as if he was waiting for Eri to appear - not dead, just like Zaizen. However, he knew that wasn't coming to fruition. She was dead, and he was only fooling himself with thinking that she was alive. He just wanted her to be alive. He accepted that, and his goal. It was then that he'd heard her voice. Eri?!? He turned rapidly around and saw the image of Eri approaching quietly. "E...ri..." The image of her cute form disappeared and turned into the image of the silver haired ANBU who was exactly similar in both height and body type, but different. She's not Eri.

He should just kill her and begone with it. It seemed the ANBU had no desire to let him leave, and took him as nothing but a harmless individual, but she'll soon regret coming at him with that assumption. He was anything but. He turned his entire body around, his cloak fluttering and spinning as he did, and his mask revealing a glimmer of crimson from it. "I've already decided to spare you once. Leave me be or pay the price." What? He didn't want to say that...but he did. His mouth took over for itself and spoke, but what he wanted to do was attack her directly and kill her. He wanted to feel alive, alive for Eri, alive for revenge, and simply alive.

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He paused as she uttered his name. How did...she...know? He didn't move, or to be more accurate, he was frozen and couldn't move. Was she someone of his past? Sora? Was she Sora ANBU? Was she here hunting him down? Did she want the Black Phantom! DID SHE WANT TO KILL HIM!!!! His mind spun, and under his mask his cold indifferent face turned into a vicious scowl. Until...the silver haired ANBU identified herself. Eri...Identified herself as Eri. He didn't believe it, he couldn't. Then, she begun to remove the mask. The mask that would expose the truth, if she really was Eri. Time seemed to stop for him as he hand pulled the mask away revealing barely anything. Albeit it seemed as if time had stopped, it was simply his Sharingan utilizing it's ability to seemingly slow down perceptual capabilities to enhance predictions.

"Zaizen-kun...you know I'm dead...right?" Eri appeared behind the silver haired ANBU, and begun to walk through the ANBU and towards him. "I'm dead, no matter what you want to believe. And she, she's simply an Illusion. She's not real. Kill her, and her lies." He stopped, deep in thought for what seemed like hours or days but only a split second of mental thought in reality. "Die."


He inhaled, and spat out a huge ball of fire towards the ANBU. "That's right. Kill her. Kill Rina. Kill them all, all for me." Eri's voice could be heard, and all Zaizen could do was smirk as the ball left his lips.

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The fireball that raged towards False-Eri blocked her from his view, and so, when she'd moved towards to behind, he didn't notice. In truth, it's more he didn't want to. He had the highest reflexes and reaction time ever, trained meticulously through continuously effort, and he knew he would see her movement if he wanted to follow her, but subconsciously he didn't and so consciously, he didn't. However, she did appear behind him, and grabbed him from behind. He, once more, stood frozen where he stood and couldn't react. "N..n...no." His words drifted off, and as did his reasoning and thoughts.

"Zaizen-kun!" A voice screamed where the flames burned harshly from his fireball and the grassy area. This would attract attention soon enough. However, right now, he saw within that burning field a shape all to similar to him calling out his name. "ZAIZEN-KUN! SAVE ME!" His eyes expanded in panic, and the hug was ignored, with insane speed, he twisted around and struck False-Eri's temple with his right elbow. He would follow up, if hit, or not, with grabbing her shoulder with his left hand and swing her around him and off towards a tree with all his might. The moment she was off him, he'd Shunshin into the fire and feel the heat onto his skin. "Eri! WHERE ARE YOU!" The left sleeve of his cloak would ignite onto fire as he continued to search around for the ghost he knew didn't exist.

"Eri!" He shouted with tremendous panic in his voice. "You've saved me, unlike before. However, now you need to leave. Leave now, before you can't avenge me." Zaizen was ludicrously happy at her presence showing up before his sights that he ignored the flames that burned his left sleeve and spreading.  He jumped up and away into the branches of the trees, and stopped for a second. "Don't follow me, or I will kill you." Again, words he didn't feel the need to say, but as if someone else was saying them. Yet, despite him saying that, he didn't move.


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