Diseased Minds

[Iltanesh]

"When I get tired, or you do," I reply, invigorated by the run.

[Hatake Kakashi]

"It's been a long time," Kakashi, his face and hands hidden behind navy blue wrappings, leans on the back of the couch where Fasica sits. "I've been watching but I hadn't seen you. I thought you might be dead or something. How's things?"

((Post to Fascia))

[Jace]

"Sounds good but i was thinking we should slow down so we can talk? If that is alright with you?" As i keep my speed even with his.

[Iltanesh]

"Sure," I say, slowing my pace.

[Kaieka]

"Oh, you don't look too good, all covered in blood, albeit nice blood. Poor thing. Perhaps we should let you rest awhile to gain some of your strength. Our purpose here is not to kill, Mr. Richardson, only to get very close and to stay there for a very, very long time.

Oh, but mere cutting cannot contain enough of what is pain...
Let's just evolve a little before saying goodnight. A taste, if you will, of what is to come; my very own little teaser."


I place one finger squarely on his chest and begin to press down, rocking it back and forth ever so slightly until I hear a symphony of the tiniest little cracks.

I smile and withdraw my finger. A few broken ribs would give a clue to the events of tomorrow.

I take the small, broken, semi-conscious body and chain it back to the wall, the shackles hard to fasten because of the slickness of the blood, but I succeed.

"Goodnight, Mr. Richardson."

[Frank Richardson]

As her finger hits his chest he screams in pain. He's only half acting when he does this, for it certainly hurts. Especially his right lung... a few shards hit his lung.

He's standing up, falling forward and being supported by the chains. His last image before slipping into the sweet release of unconsciousness is the back of Kaieka's heel. Then, nothing but black... until the nightmares came.

[Fascia]

"I had thought much the same thing about you, Kakashi. But life lingers on for even those such as ourselves, and life is uneventful."

I turn around and look at the man who has come and gone so many times in my life, the father of my child.

"Ever mysterious, ever disappearing and reappearing, eh Kakashi? ... The life of a Shinobi. Does it never grow wearisome?"

[Hatake Kakashi]

"It did. I have been waiting. Time is no longer a worry for me. I have spent the last month in the nether, watching the world turn from all sides at once. I have learned much.

But I have never found anything I thought could make life enjoyable. Not like it was for that short time when we were lovers and raising Illidan together. I think that was the only time in my life I was happy."

[Fascia]

I turn and face the room.


"And yet you left."

[Hatake Kakashi]

"Ran, would proably be the more correct term. And took Illidan with me." Kakashi sighs, the wrappings around his head rustling when he does, "I thought you were going to give Illidan to Kaschei."

[Fascia]

"I hardly know myself what I was thinking or what I would have done. I must not have been created for motherhood.

I do not allow my mind to dwell on it. The thoughts would have consumed me if I had let them. Left alone with only my thoughts and nothing else... sometimes it is hard to escape them.

You left me so utterly alone, Kakashi.
I am not the same woman now, as I once was.
I feel brittle and empty, the fire of my former days has all but disappeared. It is hard to live a full life when there is no longer any hope to the life you live.

I'm sure all of this sounds terribly unattractive to you. I have fallen so far. I can see why you didn't come back for so long."

[Hatake Kakashi]

"I wasn't sure until just recently that you would not turn me in. And besides, you are not the only one who's been alone. I've spent a year in the nether, alone. I was waiting but I waited so long that I simply got used to the place. Eventually, I did not want to leave. A danger I did not see before hand. It has had... unexpected results." He gestures with a wrapped hand at his hidden face. "But seeing you once more reminded me of old times and I left the nether. It wasn't until I returned here that the changes became known to me."

[Fascia]

"And our son, where is he?"

I turn once again to face Kakashi.

"You took him when you left. If you were alone in the nether, where is Illidan? Where is our son?"

[Void]

Locking this now.