Oh my gosh, I can't believe I'm finishing this. I haven't updated this in, like, two years...XDD I'm horrible.

ALRIGHT, LET'S SEE IF YOU GUYS LIKE MY NEW WRITING STYLE (?).

Now that Neji and Tenten are dead, I suppose the angst will die down a bit? Hard to say.

The Demon Within

Chapter 5: Interrogation

He struggled with the chakra-infused ropes restraining him against the large chair. His face was bruised from the repeated slaps coming from the hokage standing angrily in front of him. Some ANBU members and her faithful assistant, Shizune, stood nearby in case something unexpected happened.

"What did you do, you son of a bitch!" Tsunade grabbed his collar and, once again, tried to force him to answer. "Tell me and I'll let your death be slightly less slow and painful!"

He chuckled and spit out some blood onto the floor. "Please. Don't underestimate me, I can handle this kind of torture just fine."

Tsunade slapped him hard across the face. "You bastard! If you don't want to explain, then why don't you brag? Tell us exactly how you sent those kids to their deaths!"

He smirked, the idea was much more appealing to him than a confession and he had to be realistic, he wasn't get out of this situation alive. "Alright, fine. You want to know what happened, I'll tell you."

All the shinobi and kunoichi in the vicinity stood still and stared at him, as if the man had just spit fire in their direction. He actually said yes. It'd been more than a few hours since the "questioning" started and he would finally say something. Tsunade stepped back and sat in a chair directly across from the brazen man, waiting for him to speak.

His smile got wider before he continued speaking. "That girl's father was a nuisance. He tried to get in the way of me learning this technique, and fortunately, he failed. I sent a "demon", as you call them, into his brain. It took over within a few days, the man not knowing what was happening, and he ended up killing just himself."

He paused and chuckled more.

"After I heard what happened to him, I knew I wanted to perfect the technique. I wanted my victims to feel bloodlust for others, not just themselves. Just think, if that stupid man had killed his wife, too, then that Hyuuga boy would still be alive, since the girl never would've existed. Such a pity."

Tsunade felt the anger inside her continue to grow, but she held back. "And?"

He smiled again. "The girl, Tenten, was it?, her cousin was next. He felt the need to "avenge" his uncle's death, pathetic boy. He was barely a shinobi, nothing difficult to take care of. Not to mention I got him to murder his own grandmother along with himself, my technique was being perfected by this Tenten's family. They were the perfect little lab rats."

Tsunade shifted in her chair. "What did you do to Tenten?"

His laugh was loud and it echoed throughout the room. "It'd been years since I'd last used it on a shinobi from her family. The opportunity was so enticing I had to go all-out with her." He closed his eyes and took a breath before continuing. "She was a weak fighter. Even weaker than her father. But her aim was undoubtedly the best I'd ever seen, so she wasn't too weak to manipulate. I beat her down, gave her a little..."demon", and left her there. Luckily the creature didn't see fit to take over her body until well after she was back home."

"So if I hadn't sealed it than it would've taken over sooner?" Tsuande asked.

"Undoubtedly. And so you are the one who sealed it..." he seethed. "You tried to sabotage my perfect jutsu! The technique I've been perfecting all my life...you won't see the last of it, you cow!"

She punched him before he even got the word "cow" out of his mouth. "Shut your mouth and finish this explanation! I can't wait to see your body dead and in the ground!"

Shizune spoke up. "Um, Tsunade-sama, weren't we going to cremate him?"

Tsunade thought for a second. "Oh, yeah." She turned back towards Kisho. "Let me rephrase that: I can't wait to see your body dead and being burned to ashes!"

He laughed heartily. "That's fine! Do what you will! But my technique will live on! Now do you want to know what happens next, you bitter old hag?"

She ignored the remark and sat back down. "Keep going."

"I followed her to Konoha so I could see the technique in action, it'd be my first time watching it and I was excited, but then I saw that stupid bird thing on her arm." He sneered. "At once I saw how she acted around the Hyuuga boy and I turned myself into him, getting her to go with me. She fell into my trap easily and I removed the stupid "curse seal", and knocked her out. I suppose the actual Hyuuga boy found her after that, but I was busy."

Tsunade scoffed and Kisho smirked before starting up again.

"Then, I don't care to know the details, I think she and the boy were on a date. I found them, and she had a new seal. Well I couldn't just leave her safe and out of harm's out like that, now could I? All you people made it very troublesome to witness my own technique in action. I grabbed the girl and the Hyuuga ran after, so I just knocked him out. He wasn't as tough as everyone says. So I took the girl back to her house and waited for her to wake up before threatening her life. I know for a fact that the demon will take over indefinitely if the host's life is in danger."

Tsunade squirmed in her seat again.

"Then the boy showed up, what a hero. I still got a kunai in her stomach and one to her throat, so I knew the "demon" would awaken some time soon. I was knocked out for a moment or two after the Hyuuga punched me repeatedly, but I woke up and followed them to...this building." He rolled his head to look around the room, noticing that they hadn't moved him much since Tsunade had knocked him out earlier.

He continued. "When I got there, a medic nin was hurriedly rushing towards your office. I asked him what he was doing and he said some kunoichi needed the hokage immediately. I just assumed what he was talking about, killed him, and stole his "medic nin" clothes. He was an absolute weakling. You may want to train your medics better, Miss Hokage-sama."

She scowled.

"Obviously I didn't get you just yet. I wanted to watch what would happen, and I did. Her body started glowing, a fantastic sight. I couldn't tell you exactly why it was happening, but that was the demon escaping her body through her hand. It's aura wrapped itself around her arm and the rest of her body until she was completely covered in the purple light, and she was gone. The demon had taken over her body completely, she was out of control. Or, at least, that's what was supposed to happen." He growled menacingly. "After the stupid boy said something, I wasn't paying attention to that, she got control of her body back. Temporarily, at least. Pathetic! I still need to perfect this technique, when a few simple words can give a little kunoichi the willpower to take her body back! It's insulting!"

Tsunade massaged her temples. "These, demons, what are they?"

He smirked. "The departed souls of shinobi from the Fifty Years War of the Hidden Village of the Dragon." (1)

Tsunade held her face in her hands. "Also known as...the Heartbreak War."

He raised an eyebrow. "What?"

"That war took place so long ago that kunoichi didn't exist yet, only male nin. All the females were left behind to take care of the village." She shuddered. "And that war was a massacre. Only one man lived through the battle, and he died not long afterwards. It was absolutely gruesome."

Kisho frowned. "What does this have to do with anything?"

"All the women of the village's boyfriends, husbands, brothers, fathers...they all died in that war. And the women committed mass suicide soon afterwards, knowing that they couldn't defend the village and they didn't have the heart to anymore, either."

He still didn't understand why she was saying this.

"It means, the words that brought Tenten's mind partly back to her body...were..."

"I love you."

--END--

(1) - I don't usually do these types of things anymore. Anyhow, made this up. It would no longer exist for obvious reasons.

UM-! Took me over three years to finish this? I hope somebody it satisfied with the ending. I hear lots of people enjoy angst XD I know I do [even though I'm personally not a fan of death!fics, I'm sure somebody out there is].

I don't really write Naruto fanfiction anymore, but maybe I'll write one again. You never know!

Byebye!