Have you ever heard an animal scream?
It's a horrifying, gut wrenching sound that engraves itself into your soul.

As Juro screamed, I knew I'd remember it until the day I died. I had never heard him make a sound like it before and I doubted that I would again.

The scroll was solidifying in his brain and there was only going to be one way to get it out once it was back to its original form.

"I have to go get it." I said without looking at Itachi.

"What? What is causing him to scream like that? What do you have to go and get?" Although his voice was becoming stronger, he still needed rest. His eyes were bleeding, he was done for today. There is nothing else I could, or would, ask him to do.

"It's the scroll in his mind." I started to cry again, unable to hold back my years at the sound of his screams. "Literally"

"Physically?" He asked cautiously

"Yes. I'm going to have to reach in and grab it. There isn't any other choice."

"You will need help." It wasn't a question.

"I will. But not from you. You have already put yourself in enough danger. Go, heal and recover your chakra. I'll be okay. I'll find Kakashi. Juro won't be able to do much until the scroll has finished forming." And I didn't know how long that would take.

I was going to obliterate Rokumo when I found him. Nobody responsible for this will be walking away from me alive.

"Be careful Yuuki. "

"I will be Itachi. Now go."

He kissed my forehead again before we headed our separate ways.

-KAKASHI-
"You know, for an insane loudmouth, you don't exactly scream 'mastermind' to me." I panted. "It's more like you're under the instruction of someone else."

Rokumo gave a chuckle. "Very clever Kakashi Hatake. You may be correct, and you may not be correct. But who am I to say such things? I would never." I had managed to injure him enough that half of his face was exposed to the light, and his cloak was a few rips away from coming off. "You see, they did this to my face."

I felt obliged to look at the horrendous facial scarring. All that was revealed look like it had been burnt, and that it had left permanent blisters on his skin. "They left my eye, but only because they wanted me to look in the mirror and be reminded what they do to 'disrespectful slaves'. I don't own any mirrors now. My face is gone. Gone gone gone! I learnt my lesson!"

"They?" So maybe two or more people were running this. From the sounds of it, they would be people with experience of torture, or at least of disfigurement. They would also have to have experience with tracking and hiding their chakra, as well as being combat efficient. There was only one class of ninja that I knew of capable of that. "They are ANBU ex ops, aren't they?"

Rokumo slammed his hands over his mouth. "No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no...." He started with a yell and before ending up mumbling to himself.

I knew then that I was on the right track.

All of a sudden, we heard Juro screaming. Something has either gone okay, or very, very wrong.

Was Yuuki alright? I had to get there as soon as po-

"IMPOSSIBLE!" Rokumo yelled, startling me.

"What is?" I asked, narrowing my eyes at him. Was this a distraction?

"That sly bitch! How could she have possibly have done it? How could she have figured it out?"

Something had gone our way then. Finally. I knew she had it in her. She figured out the riddle. "You messed with someone she cared about, now you're going to have to face her wrath." I shrugged. "I have no doubt that she will find you soon, and then, you won't have a choice but to talk." I found a rock to sit on and wait.

I could feel her coming. So could Rokumo.

He started to panic.

Then he started to beg. "Please! I'll tell you everything I know! Just don't let her kill me!"

"Don't try to run. That will just end up pissing her off even more." I chuckled. She was on the warpath. At the rate she was coming, she would be here within 30 seconds. If she was moving that quickly she would have to be physically fine. Mentally....I wasn't so sure about mentally, if Juro was anything to go by.

"Please!" A man that had previously been so full of confidence - no, arrogance - was now on his knees in front of me begging for his life.

"Even if I could help you, what makes you think I would?" I asked coldly. "You seem to forget Rokumo, that Yuuki is my family. I love her. I'd do anything to protect her. You are a person who has harmed my family. And for that, you will surely pay."

A low growling emerged from the bushes seconds before she appeared, like a ghost out of a horror story.

She was so full of rage, so similar to Juro. I almost felt sorry for Rokumo, because, at this moment, Yuuki was scary to me.

"YOU!" She hissed at him. "You are the cause of all his pain! My pain! Our pain! How dare you? Who the hell do you think you are? Some leader of some bullshit group? I don't see your followers anywhere." As she marched forward, he was scrambling backwards, trying to stammer out words of self defense.

"No! No it's not my fault! He made me do it!" He squealed.

She growled again, almost inhuman. "I don't give a flying fuck who made you do it. You should have known to fear me more than him. You're going to be the one paying the price, and in this equation, I am judge, jury and excecutioner." By this time, she had almost passed me and almost reached Rokumo, who was, at this point, in tears, fearing for his life.

I grabbed her arm gently as she went to go by me. Her head flashed in my direction and her eyes narrowed. "What?"

I looked in the direction we could hear those tormenting screams. "Juro?"

Her eyes softened and she shook her head. "I don't know." She whispered. Her eyes hardened and she snarled. "Let me go, Kakashi. He need to pay for what he did to him."

"Don't lose control yet. I don't want to see him breathing anymore than you-"

"So get OUT OF MY WAY!" She snapped, taking her arm from my grip and speeding to Rokumo, yanking him off the ground and pinning him to a tree. "You have no idea Rokumo. None. Juro is me. I am him. We are two halves of the same. This is not just Juros pain. It's ours. Imagine having someone there for most of your life, sharing your thoughts, your every breath. You don't. Understand, just how much it hurts hearing him scream."

I felt a pang of pity run through my body. I had not yet acknowledged just what they shared. I'll not soon forget it. I couldn't compete with what they had, and I would never try. She was right. They are one and the same and you couldn't have one without the other.

At the same time I realised - she will never be the same if this doesn't go the way we plan.

-YUUKI POV -
As I had Rokumo pinned, all that was running through my head is how much he would deserve to die. With the unfriendly face of the person who hated him the most being the last thing he saw.

I tightened my grip and he began to gasp. "Wait! Wait! I can tell you everything!"

"No." I said coldly. "I don't need you to tell me anything. If anyone ever tries to touch me or mine again, I'll make them wish that they had never been born. I'll make them beg for death. I don't care if I need to take on the entire planet, I'll do it, and I'll kill them all. Do you understand me?"

He nodded frantically.

I tightened my grip some more and he squealed, starting to squirm. If he had met me before I met Kakashi, I would have killed him on the spot. However, I could feel Kakashis eyes staring at me, burning a hole in my back.

I dropped Rokumo, but didn't drop my glare from him as he gasped for breath, the blue tint draining from his face, making way for his normal skin tone.

"You pass on a message for me." I growled. "Tell your boss I'm coming for them. That I'll find him, and when I do, I'm not going to be merciful."

Rokumo nodded. "O-Of course." He slowly got to his feet, swaying slightly from the lack of oxygen he was recovering from. "I...I...I am free to go? Me? You're letting me free?"

"Don't you ever let me see you anywhere ever again, or I will finish what I started, do you understand me?"

A squeal and he started running away.

Turning around, I found Kakashi looking at me with a question on his face.

"What?"

"You're just...letting him go?" He asked, confused. "You cannot be serious, after everything he's done?"

I scoffed. "Of course I'm not just letting him go. You really think after what he did, I'd let him off that easily? No way." I laughed. "I'm just giving him a head start to make the hunt more fun. Give him a false sense of security before I find him, rip out his intestines and make him eat them."

Kakashi gulped.

No, I wasn't my past self.

Now, I was worse.

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Back after a year urgh I suck.

I do have a very good excuse(s) - Ive been working two jobs, studying, as well as having to look after my animals, one of which is a young horse that is currently being broken into saddle and taking up a lot of my time. (Adulting sucks if you can't tell) 

The next chapter has been written and I am in the process of typing it up so itll be up hopefully before the end of the week.

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