A/n: What's up y'all? I'm back with the fourth installment in my Mer de Mons series. It's almost over. Wether or not that's a good thing or not I don't know, seeing as how I'm hardly getting any feedback. Oh well, hopefully I'll capture more of an audience with the next fic that I do, which, by the way, could be out as soon as sometime this month, but certainly no later than next month. Reviews are appreciated, as always, and flames are welcome so long as you explain the issues you have with the piece. I can't improve my writing skills without y'alls input and critiques. So, feel free to pick the things apart all you want, all I ask is that you also include what you think I could do to make it better.
To Lithiyum: I'm flattered by your review, and in case you didn't get my e-mail I'd love for you to post this on a C2. If you could either tell me which one in a review or in an e-mail I'd appreciate it. Thanks
To all other reviewers: Thank you so much for the encouragement and compliments.
Oh, and one last thing, take these lyrics very figuratively. The song has lots of terms that have sexual meanings, but I am using them here to represent Sasuke's lust to gain enough power so that he can kill his brother, I am not using them in their literal sense. Just thought I'd say that to avoid any possible confusion.
"Text" - speech
'Text' - thoughts
Text - lyrics
"If it's power that the Uchiha brat wants, then it's power I shall offer him," says Orochimaru to his lapdog Kabuto grinning cruelly, "after all we want him to come willingly so that we don't have to damage my new body."Kabuto merely returns the corrupt smirk.
Run desire run
Sexual being
'I'm still so freaking weak! Hell, even the dobe is able to beat me,' thinks Sasuke as he trains alone, and judging from the number of demolished training dummies, he's been at it for quite a while. 'I'll never be able to kill my bastard brother at this rate, and as long as I have those two holding me back, I can't do a damn thing about it.'
Run him like a blade
To and through the heart
"Niisan? What are you doing? Why are you hurting mommy and daddy," implored a shocked eight year old Sasuke, the severity of the situation not quite registering due to his young age and shell shock from seeing his older brother kill off their parents.
"Ototo," said Itachi, grinning menacingly, "go, run and cling to life. Grow up living with in agony, knowing that if you had only been stronger you could have prevented this from happening. Make yourself strong oto, the next time we meet I will not let you go freely." Itachi's red sharingan eyes seemed to glow, giving him the appearance of a creature sent straight from the bowels of hell itself.
No conscience
One Motive
Cater to the hollow
'God! Why am I so fucking WEAK!' screamed Sasuke in his head, 'I can't let my clan down, I will avenge them. I will gain the power to send Itachi back to the depths of hell and I don't care how I get it. All that matters is that I am able to avenge my family.'
Screaming feed me here
Fill me up again
Temporarily pacify this hungering
"How are you going to get him to believe that you are actually willing to grant him the power that he seeks," asked Kabuto, "you don't really expect him to take you at your word, do you? Somehow I don't think that he is quite so foolish as to just accept an offer like that from someone he has never met without question."
"It's quite simple," replied Orochimaru, "I'm going to give him a curse seal, that way he'll experience some power first hand, and I'll lure him in with promises of even greater power. Kukkuku, his thirst for revenge will do the rest for me."
So grow
Libido throw
Dominoes of indiscretions down
"SASUKE-KUUUUUNNNN!" yelled one of his many fan-girls.
"Shit," was his only audible response before he took off in the opposite direction. 'How in the hell am I supposed to get any stronger here when I have to deal with these kinds of distractions every freaking day?'
Falling all around
In cycles
In circles
Constantly consuming
Conquer and devour
It was the second test of the chuunin exams, and team seven was trying to deal with a completely unexpected problem; the appearance of Orochimaru, and the fact that he had more or less kicked their collective asses without too much trouble.
'What am I gonna do,' thought Sasuke, 'he's so much stringer than us, there's no way I can defeat him. God, why do I have to be so fucking weak, I can't even protect my own team.'
"I know what it is you seek Sasuke-kun," said Orochimaru, "and I can give you the power you seek. Join me and I will make you strong enough to avenge your family." After he uttered those words his neck stretched toward Sasuke and he bit down on the young nin's neck, in a manner reminiscent of a vampire, causing a small seal to appear.
"What did you do to him," Sakura screamed.
"Oh, I just gave him a little going away present," the snake sannin responded right before vanishing.
Cause it's time to bring the fire down
Bridle all this indiscretion
(("Shut up dobe," said Sasuke after one of Naruto's challenges, "you're not worth my time."))
'But he was worth my time, I never realized just how strong he actually was. After all, I choked when we were facing Orochimaru, but he, he didn't hesitate for even a second,'thought Sasuke, remembering how he treated Naruto in the past, 'but I will become stronger, I will exceed him, I can't let dead-last pass me up any more than he already has.'
Long enough to edify
And permanently fill this hollow
'Can I really do it,' he wondered, 'can I really betray my village, my team, and, dare I say it, my friends all for the sake of power? Power that was promised to me by the likes of him?'
It was then that the pain in his neck flared up.
'Of course I can, power is power, it doesn't matter how I get it or where it comes from,' he thought, his tone becoming much darker and more ominous, 'as long as I am able to kill Itachi-teme-niisan and avenge our clan, then I don't care what else that snake-shit has planned for me. I can always kill him too. Noone will stand in my way.'
Screaming feed me here
Fill me up again
Temporarily pacifying
Sasuke snuck out of Konoha in the dead of night. He was almost free when he was confronted by Sakura. Her words almost convinced him to stay, but the pain in his neck flared up again, reinforcing his will to leave. So he moved quickly behind her embraced her, kissed her cheek lightly and whispered softly in her ear, "Arigato, Sakura-chan." Her world immediately faded to black after that.
Feed me here
Fill me up again
Temporarily pacifying
After quite a long chase, they were now facing each other. One, hated by the residents of the village he was fiercely loyal to, and the other a traitor that was loved by the village he betrayed.
"You can't stop me dobe, don't even try," said Sasuke.
"You idiot, do you even realize what you're leaving behind," responded Naruto, "you have everything you could ever want handed to you an a silver platter. Everybody in Konoha practically worships the ground you walk on. Yet when some asshole comes along and promises to hand you the power to kill you're brother, you come running like some mindless little fucking drone."
"Don't you dare try to question my choices, you have no clue what kind of hell I've been through in my life, you couldn't possibly understand how I feel."
"Bullshit! How can you say that when you have no clue what I've been through, or why the villagers hate me like they do. And this power that the snake-fucker is offering you, it's not even really yours. At least your brother, cold traitorous bastard though he may be, earned his power. You're so damn weak you have to go crawling to that shit-eating snake-bastard begging him to hand you power, power that will never truly be yours anyway."
Sasuke was shocked, and almost broke down again, but that pain in his neck practically exploded, much worse than any time before, immediately dispelling the doubts that had begun to form.
"I grow tired of this idle chatter dobe, lets settle this once and for all."
"So, it comes down to this huh. I didn't want to fight you Sasuke, but if that's the only way that you'll listen to me, then so be it."
The air around the two seemed to take on a life of it's own and time itself seemed to slow down as the pair charged at each other kunai drawn, rasengan chidori at the ready.
A/n: I'm gonna leave it there. I know it may piss some of y'all off, but you'll live. As allways, RR.