Song for this chapter: My Last Breath- Evanescence. Yes, another Evanescence song. But this one, again, I am listening to right now, and really suits this chapter.

I scaled the central building using my chakra, and remembered the times I had stood up here with my love, back when this building was my home, as I formed the hand signs. I picked out the chakras of those I seeked, and spread my arms wide;

"Chi Shihai no jutsu!"

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I breathed a sigh, the cold air stinging my lungs. This was it. There was no going back, not now. Not when I had just delivered the blow which would ultimately kill the village.

I slumped to my knees, which then folded to make me sit. Such a wide scale jutsu took a lot of chakra, and on so many people was a strain, too. I could feel all of the chakra signatures and blood traces in the entire village- being thousands- and those that were under the effects of my jutsu were in full scale panic, but could not move. Their pulses were racing, but they could move their mouths to scream or shout. I dropped my head to the ground at the burning fury I could feel from the presence directly below me. He had been too slow to stop me- being the closest, he had felt the effects first. And I was positive he knew it was me.

"I'm so sorry, Gaara..." I sobbed quietly into the concrete roof, then staggered to my feet, leaping towards the clustered signatures that were approaching the northern gate, as ordered. I still had a duty to fulfill.

"Very good, Kaien.." Leader said as he flicked the cheek of one of the frozen guards. I glared at him. "You fulfilled the first part of your mission flawlessly."

"This is not something I can be proud of!" I snarled, "Your emotional blackmail will only hold so long, you bastard!"

He grinned, raising an eyebrow, "Oh, is that so?"

I crossed my arms tightly, dropping my gaze.

"Now come! We have business to attend to." he laughed snidely, his group surging forward.

The march was quiet, but people still noticed, leaving their houses and attempting to ask of our purpose. They were extinguished quickly.

But more followed, one managing to set off the village's alarm systems. Leader grinned menacingly, and I could feel the bloodlust and malicious, killing intent that rolled off of him in waves.

He rose an arm "Surge on, my people! Kill, in the name of Jashin-sama!" He grasped my arm, over the wound on my arm. My blood smeared and dripped from his hand. He glanced at it, and a fiendish smirk crossed his features. "All I need for the final stage is my blood weapon... and Kisuke. Kisuke?"

"Hai, Leader-sama!" That bastard replied. I spat the blood that welled in my mouth at his shoes- the after effects of using the Chi Shihai on such a large scale were rolling on.

I sent a snide look to Leader, "I would have thought you would want me to end this quickly." I muttered, and he grinned, squeezing my arm, digging his fingers into the deep glass wound that had begun to heal. I gasped in pain as he pulled me along, Kisuke keeping pace with us.

"I could not deny Jashin-sama these kills. And the pain of these shinobi is quite exquisite. Listen." He made me pause, and try as I might, I couldn't stop myself from hearing the cries of my comrades and friends as they were tortured due to a selfish decision of mine. Tears flowed from my eyes. "In any case," Leader urged us forward again, seeming to take glee in my suffering, "You're going to need your last bit of chakra for what is next."

I frowned, "I thought I was to be used as your weapon..?" surely he couldn't mean..?!

"You are." His grin broadened as my eyes widened in horror. I yanked my arm out of his grip, causing the flesh to tear more, and fresh blood to splatter from the wound.

"No! I won't do it!" I exclaimed, panicked, "I only agreed to this to save him, I'm not going to help you kill him!"

He admired the substance on his fingers, and it glistened a ghostly red in the moonlight. "The way I see it," he mused, such a smirk on his face that no thought of running to help Gaara never entered my mind, "You have two choices. Either freeze this love of yours while we imprison him... or watch as we torture him until he dies. Which do you prefer?"

I couldn't speak. It evaded me how anyone could be so cruel, so heartless this way. He took his opportunity to grab my wounded arm once again and drag me forward. But not before consuming a small amount of my blood from his fingertips. I glared at him in disgust, in hatred. I've never wished for someone to drop dead right in front of me so much before.

As the Kazekage building drew into sight, my heart was pounding in my ears harder than before, and we ascended into the front room to see the two people I especially didn't want to face, just regaining movement. Agony ripped through my chest at the cold looks in their eyes.

"So it's true." sadness drew into the kunoichi's expression, "It was your jutsu that froze us, Kaien." Temari gritted her teeth, and her voice was distressed and breaking, "How could you betray us like this?! We're your family, and family is supposed to stick together! I know things have been rough, but-"

She was cut off by my love's hand rising. "Temari. Stop." Temari grunted, but straightened up, removing the fan from her back.

"We don't want to fight. Step down peacefully, and this situation can be appeased." Leader spoke, and I narrowed my eyes at him.

"I think the slaughterhouse that your men have created from my village would beg to differ." Gaara responded coolly, and I dropped my gaze to the floor, then shut my eyes, imagining myself back to a few months ago. I had missed the sound of his voice.

"You're right." Leader grinned, "Kisuke! Take the girl!" he exclaimed, then gave a menacing smirk, "I'll handle the young Kazekage."

They darted towards their opponents, and I staggered backwards, into the wall of the office. Gaara's sand rose up to defend him, and Temari quickly burst out to the roof so that she could use her fan more freely, Kisuke following.

"You can't win this fight, Jiji." Gaara spoke, evidently trying to get on Leader's nerves so that his movements would become sloppy with anger. It didn't work.

Leader flung a punch lightning fast, and Gaara's sand stopped it just in time. The sand then shot out towards his enclosed fist, only to be dodged. Leader skidded to a stop beside me, and his gaze turned to mine. Time seemed to slow down as my heart raced and sweat dewed on my forehead.

"I think you'll find it's quite the opposite, Kazekage-sama." his voice was snide. "For I have a secret weapon. Kaien, now!"

I squeezed my eyes tight shut so I wouldn't have to watch my own betrayal, and formed the necessary hand seals. I was stiil hyper-aware, however, of exactly who I was betraying, as I focused on Gaara's blood.

"Chi shihai no jutsu." I whispered brokenly, wishing that I could just crawl into a hole and die.

Kisuke suddenly decended from the roof, black and white fading back into skin, and slapped a strange paper seal on Gaara's forehead. I grasped at my heart. Temari was... dead?

Kisuke smirked as he drew his long spear across Gaara's cheek, drawing blood. I awaited the sand's intervention, but it stayed a sandy puddle on the ground. I gasped as Kisuke consumed the blood, patting his stomach mockingly.

"I've been awaiting this moment for a very long time, Gaara-sama." he said, and I began to dart towards him.

"No! You said you wouldn't-" I froze where I stood as Kisuke formed a hand seal, something burning in my blood.

"Tsk." Leader spoke up. "Didn't you notice the injection Kisuke gave you all that time ago?"

The slash of pain in my arm. Of course. I growled at them.

"You lay one finger on him, and there'll be hell to pay!" I roared, as the blade Kisuke held hovered above his own hand. He slashed it, and made the circle of blood that I had seen so many times. I immediately released my jutsu, but the effects still lingered, and I cussed, panic rising in my stomach. Kisuke's skin turned black and white once again.

"What are you going to do about it?" he sniggered, "You're under the effects of my jutsu."

I pushed against it with all my might, but my limbs wouldn't listen to me. I could only watch helplessly as Gaara's eyes became pained from Kisuke driving the spear through his own leg. Blood dewed on Gaara's, too, and sweat beaded on his forehead as he paled.

This process was repeatedly, Gaara unable to even cry out in pain because of my jutsu. Kisuke was enjoying it immensely, and my rage was building ever more. Until we were interrupted.

A choking noise sounded from Leader, and we all looked to him as he gripped his throat. His heart was racing- I could feel his pulse jumping- and, to my astonishment, it was in time with mine. Blood bubbled over his lip, before he collapsed down dead on the floor. But the blood on his lips wasn't his... it was mine.

"Wha... what happened?!" Kisuke demanded, sounding distressed. I smiled grimly, having figured out what had happened, and feeling the burning fading from my veins.

I grunted, slowly moving my arms. "My blood is evidently a very dangerous thing... he consumed it and tried to use it against me... and died." his eyes widened.

"No!! He can't die- we're immortal!!" anger blazed, and he brought the blade down on his stomach. My eyes widened- a vital point. The last of the burning faded, and I leapt towards him.

"NO!" I screamed, but was too late. I punched him haird enough in the face that he was knocked out, and Gaara fell. I dropped down beside him, as blood seeped from his wounds in a puddle around him. He was dying.

I forged a green glow around my hands, hopelessly trying to heal an unhealable point. "You can't die! You can't! I never got you to forgive me-

"Kaien..." I stopped, and met his teal gaze, stifling a gasp at the warmth. "Kiss me..."

Tears poured down my cheeks, but I leaned down and did as I was told, kissing him with all my might. It's true what they say, you know. Absence really does make the heart grow fonder... But that makes it all the more painful when they leave for good.

His lips became unresponsive, and I leaned back, a choked sob wracking my frame as his heart stuttered to a stop.

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OMG. I KILLED GAARA. I'M A MONSTER. ASDGAJDGSAH D:

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