Sin of the leaf – prologue
The date was October 24th 2004 and I was fast asleep in my bed while my mum and dad were in the other room. I was awoken by the sound of mother screaming and the sound of fire roaring in the background. I ran out towards her voice and what I saw horrifies me. Father was impaled by his own sword which he used to protect himself with, cuts littered his body and where his arm and leg used to be mere stumps remain. A puddle surrounded him making it look like he was floating in the ocean, his once pristine white gown now turned scarlet by his own blood. I once again heard mother scream and as I turned I saw her being beaten severely by the ones who did this. They wore dark forest green vests and had metal head bands which showed they were ninja and by the symbol they were from the leave village.
I rushed forward in an attempt to protect her but they easily batted me away like I was a mere insect not worth fighting. My body slammed into the wall making the resounding crack echo around the room. Light flashed into my vision and pain erupted from my arm as I hit the wall I tried moving it but a new wave of pain flowed into me. I looked down at my arm and my eyes widened at the state of it, the arm was twisted at an awkward angle and one of the bones pierced its way out of the arm. I felt hot tears running down my face as I tried to hold in a scream that I knew was going to come out if I moved again and when I saw them moving towards me dragging my screaming mother behind them I felt fear the like I have ever know which paralyzed me from moving. Mother kept trying to beg them to leave me alone and she will cooperate with them but they just laughed and said they were going to take both of us. When they got close enough to kick me they dropped her and let her crawl towards me before kicking her hard in the stomach making her yelp in pain.
They ignored her and threw her away from us before proceeding to kick me over again as I tried to pathetically to protect myself. As I tried to ignore the pain and the blows I concentrated on mother to see her forming handsigns in a blur of movement for a technique no one in my family has used for generations. When they sensed her chakra spike they turned and made a surprised sound when they saw her kneeling on the ground covered head to toe in glowing red seals that seemed to pulse with energy. They pulled out their weapons and cautiously moved towards her letting me curl into a ball to try and forget the pain but what they didn't expect was that she jumped forward and punch the closest one so hard that he dropped to the floor bleeding from multiple cracks in his head. She quickly moved as someone who was skilled in speed and agility and grabbed the kunai he was carrying before it hit the ground and launch it into the throat of one of the others. Turning to the last two she held one hand sign and to me it looked like her blood solidified into something but she disappeared before I could tell what it was. She reappeared behind one of them and his throat and along his chest erupted with blood and his friend could only watch as she stabbed him in his heart by a kunai she took.
I called out weakly to her tasting copper in my mouth from where I had bitten my tongue when they were kicking me. She dropped the kunai and started walking towards me staggering on the first few steps which showed she was incredibly weak. When she did reach me she picked up my damaged body and cradled me in her arms humming my favourite song '' lillium'' which plays from my music box that she got me. I looked at her and she looked a lot older and visibly drained of all her energy as she smiled weakly at me which comforted me by a small amount that she wasn't traumatized to not smile. She leaned down to me to kiss my forehead and whisper the words '' im sorry '' before muttering something I couldn't understand before I could ask what for. The seals on her hummed and pulsed like a heart pumping blood and her skin open along her arms and back in placed allowing blood to flow through them. I could only watch on in shock, horror and completely powerless as she became weaker and weaker and the blood formed tentacles with bladed tips. As I stared into her eyes as they began to lose life she said '' I love you'' before pushing the blades into my body.
The only thing I felt to begin with was the blades cutting open my skin and forcing their way into me. The second was that I was getting hotter and hotter until it felt like my blood was boiling which only got worse as I felt the bones in my arm break over and over again which made the bone go back into my arm as it was put back together. My head pounded like a drum sending shocks through my body each time. I must have screamed for hours before I passed out embracing the darkness I knew would give me solitude against the pain.