Chinatsu POV

Chained to this wall, I stop struggling and stare.

Konoha... he... loved me?

I am guiltily shocked.

I never knew...

And now he's gone.

There has to be another way. There has to be. Or I won't survive. Not like I was going to in the first place. I seriously feel like this snake is draining the power out of me. Or maybe it's the fact that I'm trapped inside myself, but a different version, and evil version... gah, this is hard to explain. So I won't explain it.

The 'other' me is struggling now, like I was. I fight against my chains and hear a sharp snap! Both of my hands are free now, and I'm stumbling into a woman about my height, with long black hair tied in a blood red ribbon, the same color as our eyes. I recognize her.

"You... you were there when I died and got my power... why are you here now?"

"To give you a second chance," She said, extending her hand out to me. "You can save your friends, if you do choose this way."

"What can I choose?" I ask snappily, I'm running out of patience. "Ah~ Sorry..."

"It is fine, my child." She says in a maternal manner. "As for your choices, you can leave the world like this, and be with your friends in the afterlife, living with the fact that you did nothing to save them. Or-" she says the other option.

I don't know, it's risky for both the choices... I don't want to live knowing that I let them all die... but the other choice... "Will I see them again, if I choose the second choice?"

"Of course. All the snakes gather around the queen. The catch is, though, if you choose that choice, you will not be able to remember them. Your memories will gather in your head over time, of course. And that girl, Ayano, will not be there, for she had died twice."

I know what I must choose. "I pick the..."