After recovering from that suddenly awkward "anxiety attack",
Wahei stood laying on his desk and get back on his place - "
Hey, Kiddo-, are y' okay?" the boy nodded to nothing - apparently - but as soon as his eyes stared to the board to check the next fight, he frozen again. It must've been a coincidence, right?
Nara Yoru would face
Waruichi Asuna, the quiet lady who happened to be his roommate during the exams. Another
Kiri shinobi fighting the
Leaf. - "
Hey, you don't have nothing to worry about. Okay? This lady is your roommate and the other one is your teammate. Things are under control. Try to keep your breath and calm down" - "
Hehe - it's useless, Pride, he can't hear us right know" - "
Weird having you showing up like this, Boss, what's up?" - "
The boy and I have a connection, and that feeling he just had... it was a crystal clear sign for me to get closer" - "
Do you mean?.." - "
Precisely. Fear is about to get awaken. We are pretty much one step closer to the MissingNo protocol".
As soon as the battle started,
Wahei's mind focused over that match, like a fly hypnotized by the light. He instinctively activated his
Byakugan so he could follow up closely to them. First move came from
Asuna, and she was not joking around. She send her silk to ensnare
Yoru and contain his movements and chakra. - "
This silks are deadly dangerous. Watch for it, Yoru-san!" -
Wahei felt this drop of sweat rolling from his temper to his cheek.
But
Yoru know better and used an smart move to get close enough to her and attack with an explosive tag - "
This tags shouldn't even be allow..." - too late.
Yoru movement were completely miscalculated and backfired at him. The tag exploded pretty close to him. - "
WHAT THE--" -
YORU-SAN! - albeit confused of what really happened,
Wahei watched his friend get severely damaged - specially for being a medic and can quickly understand the extension of it - all he could do right away is
shout out very loud. As his body flied over due to the explosion,
Asuna somewhat skidshed for her sake using her armor as protection.
-
STOP THIS FIGHT! YORU IS SEVERELY DAMAGED! - his tone taken by despair, his eyes locked in
Yoru quickly finding a way to heal him up. But his heart frozen by the same embrace of
death he felt before. The
sensation. That
phantom pain chasing him... - "
No, what is this feeling? I don't have time for this. Yoru-san needs my help" - "
Take... a better look" - the boy's mouth begged for mercy. He forfeits. But for some reason, it wouldn't stop as the
Leaf Trio wished for. -
STOP IT! HE GAVE UP FIGHTING! PLEASE!!! MAKE IT STOP! - the tears rolled over his eyes and the tone of despair raised even more, as the proctor ignored
Yoru's request, as did her opponent. Why wasn't anyone doing anything to stop that?
If the situation itself was hard to believe, noticing
Asuna's threads grabbing
Yoru again and holding him tightly,
Wahei's voice just vanished as he realizes the whole sensation he was feeling was related to that very moment.
Asuna slowly tied him up, covering his mouth to shut him up and getting him completely vulnerable - Please... - he said in the peak of his efforts, drenched in tears and sobbing -
PLEASE! Have mercy on him! -
fear, that's what he has been feeling since the day
Doc. Kazuhira took him out of his water tube. The same
fear that carried him to that very moment, chasing him like a ghost.
Asuna not only ignore his forfeiting, but the whole vulnerability she got her opponent into, as well the proctor apparently failed to understand his complete inability to move out of her deadly trap. It wasn't a match, anymore. It was about to become a murder scene. Just like that, for anyone around to see. - "
This fight is over... so why... why aren't them doing anything to stop it" - "
I've told ya', you fool. They are your enemies. And you repeatedly shown mercy and cared for them. You willingly decided to die for them. You're naive. You're pathetic. You're weak" - "
NO, Envy! You're wrong! I must break the cycle of hatred. My mother and Natsu entrusted me with this burden" - "
OPEN YOUR EYES, YOU FOOL! This is only a bullshit your mother told you to prevent you to became who you really are. They gave you this eye to misguide you from your path, but yet you can't see nothing."
As
Asuna walked towards
Yoru,
Wahei was getting quite flashes he didn't recognize most. He also lived his former team assassination. Specially him having to kill her own partner, putting her out of her misery. Ending all the suffering. Ending all her
fear. - "
So. Do you remember who you are now, brat?" - a strong pain in his head, as the threads were molded into sharp deadly blades - "
Do you remember why they choose you to control over us, kid?" - they slowly danced in the air, like serpents waiting for the final blow - "
Do you realize why she brainwashed you, my love?" - and so they were moving towards his chest - "
To make you forget about who you really are" - slowly and slowly - "
And what you were made for?" - until finally reaching their
target.
"
Every sin of this rotten world blossom from mankind weakness, as a fake sensation of strength". - "
Why are you telling me those things?" - "
Envy from jealousy, Greed from lack of belongingness, Pride from lack of self-assurance, Lust from lack of self-esteem, Gluttony from social insecurity, Sloth from self-preservation, and Wrath from sadness." - "And all of these feelings" - "Are created and sustained by fear." - "The fear of assuming how emotionally fragile we really are" - "Fear of taking part and responsibility" - "Of not being capable of doing what it needs to survive" - "Most of all, fear of meaningless extinction" - "So I was put on control, because I fed your strength..." - "And we protect you from being weak" - "So, who really is Wahei?" - "Wahei is the mask Doc. Kazuhira put after brainwashed you from your real purpose" - "My real purpose?" - "To destroy the ninja system from inside out" - "So, who am I, really?" - "I think you already know, but our creator named you..." - "Fear".Wahei snapped out, as his veins popped out strongly from his temper, as the
byakugan watched closely
Asuna murdering
Yoru, with the
Mist Village as accomplices. His heart beat exploded, and his soul has been taken by anger. - "
I can finally feel it. My real self getting back!" - The boy throw the desk behind him, and strike several punches over the glass behind him, engulfed on blindly
rage. -
STOP IT! - his tone has changed, but
Asuna kept piercing him in cold blood murder. His neck and heart for a final blow, as his life was finally taken, with no heart beat. It was official,
Yoru was dead. His life has been taking away in cold blood murder.
The boy punched and kicked violently the bunker but nothing happened. Not even the sound of his voice reached the arena. He was caged like and animal, very close to lose it. - "
Wahei, you can't let them fool you" - that voice snapped him out of rage, as his body froze again, and tears back to roll in her eyes - "
Mom?" - like
Natsuo, it was time to
Doctor Kazuhira Ahmia's herself show for his aid - "
This is really you?" - "
Natsuo sealed part of his chakra in this eye to protect you from phisical threats. But I had to do it to protect you from other selfs" - "
So Wrath was right... You really brainwashed me. You raised me to believe I was someone I wasn't all this time?" - "
I did what I needed to do to protect you" - "B
ullshit! You did that to protect this rotten world! Because you knew I would end up trying to destroy everything you loved. Then you filled my head with all bunch of crap so I would live up an impossible legacy until I die hopelessly!" - "
You need to trust me. I don't have much time to explain" - "
There is nothing to be explained!" - "
WAHEI! Put your shit together or I swear to all that is sacred I will beat your sorry ass!" - "
I'm not scared of you, mom. Because I know you're dead. You died to give me this eye. But do you know what? I don't need a fucking byakugan. I needed someone to be there for me. To teach me right from wrong! I live most of my cognitive life floating in a tube, afraid from what could have happen. Comfortable in the dark and scared because I knew every time the light turned, someone would make experiments over my brain. And the only thing left was the fear of spending the rest of eternity being treated like an animal... but then... then you showed up. Take me off of that tube... treated me like your really son just to fill a void... and then you left me... by dying over..." - "
I know you're pissed. But try to understand my side" - "
I WAS AFRAID, MOM! A synthetic child, scared and abandoned in this fucking world, condemed to chase the shadow of your legacy!" - "
I WAS AFRAID TOO! Mother's knows best, but they don't know everything. We make mistakes. I might've made a mistake. But I went through hell in Earth just to get you into a better place. So don't put shit out of me as if you were a replacement for my dead son. So yes, I brainwashed you so you wouldn't turn into a psycho freak and got killed right away from intelligence' forces, discharged like a freak' animal. Yes, I did that and I would do that again and again if that meant your safety and I'm sorry if you don't understand how mother's love work, but that's kind of my job so stop bitching around over it! You want to become a doctor and don't know shit about emotional control? What the fuck is wrong with you?" - "
I'm sick of being scared. I'm sick of not knowing how to be human, and what I was suppose to be doing." - "
There is nothing more human than crying over to your mother every now and then, you fool" - "
Why? Why your hug is so warm? You're dead. Natsuo is dead... all my life is fake and a lie... Wahei never really existed. I'm... a fraud... people were right... my dream was utopic." - "
Our bodies are dead, but our spirits live inside you. If your life were a lie, why would have you been accepted as a Konoha Shinobi? Why your file recognizes you as Kazuhira Tsukuru Wahei? And Shigure-san, is your friendship with him another lie? You have made yourself a life, and got really good friends around. You were programmed, but I gave you free will. I allowed you to become human. And so you did. So please, don't choose vengeance. Live up to your friends memories. Prove them wrong! Show this world that mankind can be united as one. Choose to be Wahei, like you've always been".
When he opened his eyes again. What just happened?
[Match End]."From the very moment we're thrown into this world, we're fated to bring each other nothing but pain, suffering and misery. I was also blindly obsessed with a trivial and irrational need for vengeance. But I was left behind. Alone. Forgotten. Abandoned. Forsaken. But now, the fog has been truly lifted. One can never run from its ghosts. And that’s exactly all that I am. A lost memory. An undying shadow, in this world of light. From now on, I’ll have to live up to this semi-charmed kind of life. Regardless of this phantom pain. This is my fate. This is my Destiny. It’s not the light which will guide us through the darkness, but the darkness that shall guide us through the light. Never forget. Always remember."
Ra-Ri-Ru-Re-Ro (らりるれろ).