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Leap of Faith. [Asuma & Natsumi] [May. 29th, 2009|12:53 am]
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From: [info]fallen_natsumi
2009-05-28 07:51 pm (UTC)

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Natsumi had learned to swim in Konoha River in the hottest days of summer, when the clear water was warm as blood and the current ran lazy as a sunning snake. This wasn't swimming. The current caught her in an iron grip and threw her into rocks, pounded her with sadistic glee until she clawed her way free, and then tumbled her under the surface again. She found the surface, half on accident, and choked on air and water; then the river threw her against the canyon wall and she lost the breath she'd gained. There was a vise around her ribs, squeezing tighter and tighter; a fire lit in the bottom of her lungs, and she couldn't breathe or see or be anything but water--

She hit the cliff again, and somehow desperate fingers found the strength to cling. Chakra came a moment later. She wormed her way up the slick wall, sealing herself to the stone like a limpet with the ragged threads of dredged-up chakra, and sobbed for breath. Two of her fingers slipped. They were crooked, already swelling; she could barely force any chakra through.

She couldn't feel the pain.

Oh gods, she was going to freeze to death even if she didn't drown. One week into her ANBU career and she'd managed to kill herself twice. Was that a new record? Presumably they'd find her body--ANBU was good about that--and carry what they could home, but she couldn't remember how they would tell her parents. Did the Hokage do it? Would Asuma, if he made it back alive?

She glanced up, and saw only froth and fog and dark granite walls. He was probably still fighting up there. Three enemies, she'd taken out one, and the boy with the blades wouldn't cut the bridge while his leader was still on it...

Hope strangled despair. "Asuma!" she screamed. Her voice shook with cold. Not fear, she told herself. Not fear.

She wasn't a very good liar.