Hey guys! So this is my very first story ever and I'm really excited. I'd really appreciate it if you guys would review and tell me what you think. The next two chapters might or might not seem a little slow, but they are necessary to get the story set up, so bare with me.
I'd like to give a special thank you to Mandi2341 who edited my story for me. Thanks Mandi2341!
Also, in this story the main character is going to be my OC. BEFORE you leave because you read the words "main character" and "OC" in the same sentence, please just read my first chapter before you decide you hate it just because it's about an OC. Thanks! Now, without further ado...
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I only own the various OC's I make up.
Screams and smoke filled the air. Clan members ran around in a panic trying to escape. Tongues of fire licked at the houses. An adolescent girl ran out of a burning house pulling a young girl behind her. They ran into the nearby forest to hide.
"Wait here, Kimiko. I'm going back to look for Guren. Whatever you do, don't get caught" said the older girl soothingly as the younger girl forcefully shook her head at the idea, "Don't worry, I'll come back soon. I promise," were her last words to her younger sister before she ran back into the smoke.
"Mikomi! Don't leave me! Please!" Kimiko yelled after her sister.
Slowly the screaming began to die down, and the night sky only grew darker with the suffocating smoke. Mikomi still had not come back yet. Suddenly Kimiko's older cousin Guren stumbled out of a burning house and collapsed to her knees with a dazed expression and tears in her eyes.
Kimiko was just about to run to her, when an earsplitting shriek pierced the air followed by the sound of shattering crystal. Kimiko froze and looked towards the house, while Guren gazed deadly at the house.
At that moment both Kimiko and Guren knew Mikomi was dead.
Kimiko collapsed in to the fetal position and started whimpering. When she was finally able to look back out at the traumatic scene, she saw a lone man with a strange purple rope tied around his waist, step out of one of the smoldering clan houses unscathed.
She saw him bend down and whisper something in Guren's ear, before he continued walking away. To Kimiko's distress, Guren got up, turned around and ran after him.
As she peeked out of her hiding spot one last time, the man glanced at her and Kimiko gasped as she saw the face of the man that had slaughtered her friends, her family, and her clan.
It was the most terrifying thing she had ever seen in her short life. The man's skin was deathly pale, with a thin face and long black, stringy hair. But the thing that scared her most was his golden, snake-like eyes that looked inhuman and deadly.
She stared at the man for what seemed like forever to her, but was only a second in reality before the man looked away.
She watched as her cousin ran eagerly after the man that had taken so much from her, from them. When both figures had been out of sight for about ten minutes, Kimiko exhaled and fell to the ground shuddering.
"You didn't come back," she whispered. "You promised! Why didn't you come back?" She chanted as she sat under the giant tree with her arms around herself, "You promised..."
As night slowly transitioned into dawn the fires began to subside and the sky began to clear. Kimiko slowly began to slip into a deep, restless sleep full of nightmares of what had occurred that night, and of the face of the murderer of her clan.
As she tossed and turned on the forest floor, she began to cry out in her sleep.
"No! No! Mikomi! No! Come back! You didn't come back...MIKOMI!"
As the lone, silver-haired anbu traveled through the forest, on his way back home from an S-ranked mission, he began to see signs of a fight.
He was about to investigate more when he heard a loud shout.
"MIKOMI!"
He ran as fast as he could towards the shout, and when he got to the clearing, he saw the remnants of a massacre. Houses had been burned to the ground, and bodies had been left to rot. The air around the site was silent except for the occasional crackle of embers that hadn't quite died yet.
As his ears adjusted to the deafening silence, he began to hear whimpers and looked around for their source, only to find a little girl covered in ashes and dirt, who looked no older than seven or eight, flailing around in her sleep.
As he approached her and bent down to pick her up, she was startled out of her sleep and awoke in a panic.
"Get away! Stay away from me!" she sobbed.
"Shh. Shh. It's okay. You're safe now. My name's Kakashi. I'm going to take you to a safe place."
The sound of the man's calming voice comforted Kimiko, and when he went to pick her up again, she relaxed into his arms and fell in to a slightly more restful sleep.
The last things she saw as she dozed off were the burned remains of her home, and the cat mask of the man who was going to take her to some place safe.
So If you guys liked my story and want to keep reading it, I'd appreciate it if you would go to the poll in my profile and vote on if you want this to be cannon or non-massacre. Just so you know, if it is non-massacre, I will make tobi his own character, NOT Madara. Mostly for comic relief stuff I think.
I hope you guys enjoyed my story! VOTING CLOSED
This chapter is based on a flashback near the middle-end of Naruto Shippuden episode 92. Just incase you're interested.
