The Price to Live

by Azurebubble

She was close to death, but she lived. Given that chance by an unknown being, now that she has been given this chance of life once more. What path will she choose, as there is nothing but death and war in the era she lives. Also, what is with this feeling of dread as if she knows there are people and things she should avoid and the voice she hears. A/N: Pairings undecided for now.

1. Chapter 1

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

Prolouge

Death is the one thing no one can escape. We all live, we all die, some longer than others, some with a good life others with a bad one.

-No please, I don't want to die. I want to live. Darkness surrounded her, there was no light. She was scared, because she could feel it pulling her further in.

Others would rather live than to die, while others just wish to end it. To not exist and live in their reality.

-To live or to die...it's all the same. I still see it all. The cruelness of living, of existing. Why must I continue to exist...Why must I be punished with this father.. She had been punished, god was punishing her for her choices. It wasn't her fault she wanted to be free.

-I don't want to die please! Anyone! It seemed hopeless to beg, she could already begin to see her existence fading.

Yet, we have no choice in the matter for death will take us and receive our souls. Where we go from there, it's hard to say, we live and die all the time. In the end we are all the same, death is not prejudice against anyone.

-Please...please...I want to live… Her weak plea seemed to go unanswered and she felt her hope fading. However, she soon felt the existence of another and soon heard a voice.

-You wish to live? Pah, such ignorance.

-Yes! I want to live, I want to grow old, and have a family. I want...to never die…She said the last part weakly as she felt the unknown existence seem to judge her.

-A foolish desire everyone lives and dies. Such is the way of the life…

-But I want to live… She wanted to see the world, to find a peaceful place to live.

-Why do you want to live? Don't you know how cruel and painful it is to live, but death is no better either. Or rather, the realm we are now in is know better, you will still be able to sense and even see things. Even now their is pain, suffering, betrayal, one sees all that, at least one such as I, have noticed that. Not many do anymore, content with letting the darkness take them.

-I don't...care. I will do anything to live..There was no answer to her response but she soon felt herself being pushed out of the darkness. Then she saw light.

-Very well, you will live but at a price. Do not take this for kindness of pity, simply a way to achieve a goal of mine. Once you awaken, I'm certain you shall wish you were still in this realm like the others.. Foolish child, death will eventually reclaim you.. The voice said as the being too was being pushed out of the darkness.

In the middle of a rubble, that was once a home there lay the body of a child. A small five year old child, her once unmarred skin was now cut, and bloody, her own long onyx colored hair, splayed around her in a mess. Her plain earth colored, kimono, tattered and splayed around her.

The child once had pale, but healthy skin, now it was only pale, signifying that she had been dead for a while, or on the edge of death as her chest made no signs of moving.

No one, was there to see the changes taking place, as the childs once onyx hair, changed to a light brown, unmarred skin, becoming unblemished once more, and the gasp of breath the child took as she opened her eyes.