In Water Valley Village
"Satsuki, it's time to get up." I opened my eyes and saw that it was dad who was talking to me. He was already in his Jonin clothes for the day. His medium length black hair was spiked up with gel and he had his Water Valley Village headband wrapped around his right arm. I could see a reflection of myself in Dad's light blue eyes. He has a mission this afternoon. I hope everything goes well. I smiled.
"Good morning," I greeted sleepily. He chuckled.
"Good morning. If we want to get your morning training in, you'll want to get up." He said before leaving my room. I sat up and yawned a bit before stretching. It was my birthday last week and Mom, Dad, and I spent it together for once. Dad usually had to do missions around my birthday which would require him to be gone for a long time. Luckily Iwase-sama didn't have a mission for him this time around. Iwase-sama is the Village Chief. We don't have a Kage like the rest of the Great Nations. As I got ready for the day, I started to think about the village. We're a pretty small village, but the more missions we take in the more money we get. We're only a few miles south of the Hidden Waterfall Village. I go to the ninja academy here in addition to the things Dad teaches me. It's a very small school and there aren't a lot of students. There are about six ninja families in this village and the rest of the kids in this village don't possess enough chakra to do ninjutsu. That didn't stop them though. Most of them are learning taijutsu from Kouta-sensei, including myself. Kouta-sensei specializes in taijutsu but he can do ninjutsu and genjutsu too. Also, Kouta-sensei is my homeroom teacher. He's very strict and doesn't tolerate what he calls foolishness. Basically, if you don't take his class seriously, you'll get yelled at and punished for it.
I don't find it very fair, but there isn't anything I can do about that. Kouta-sensei is good friends with Dad, but that didn't change anything for me. He treats me just like all the other students. I'm glad though. I don't want kids picking on me because they know that Kouta-sensei is good friends with Dad. I finally made it into the kitchen where Mom and Dad are talking and eating breakfast. "Good morning, Mom." I greeted her smiling.
"Good morning, Satsuki." She said smiling warmly at me. She has a really pretty smile. She has long black hair and green eyes. Her head reaches Dad's shoulder. She is really kind and warm and cares a lot about Dad and I. She does a lot of work in the village's fabric store by making clothes. Every once in awhile she'll help out at the flower shop and I like to go with her. Dad in his free time likes to help with carpentry around the village and spends time at the academy teaching students how to throw kunai and shuriken. "I hear your friend, Kaori, fainted in class yesterday." Mom said looking concerned.
"She's okay, Mom. I talked to her last night before I came home. She said she just had a dizzy spell. The doctor said she was just dehydrated." I said shrugging. "So her mom is making her carry around a water bottle now."
"That's good news." Dad said smiling. We quickly eat breakfast and finally Dad and I continue my training. Today Dad and I are going to go for a run and then Dad is going to teach me the Water Clone jutsu. I'm so excited. Last week he taught me the Hidden in the Mist jutsu and the week before that he showed me the Hidden in the Water jutsu! He said I was doing great and was proud of me for mastering them so quickly and I'm not even a Genin yet! I'm supposed to graduate from the academy in a few months time. We stopped in a clearing by a lake and took a breather by sitting down in the grass. "Okay, let me show you how to form the signs." Dad said standing up. I stood up eagerly. He showed me the tiger seal. I mimicked him. "Good job. Now all you do is focus your chakra and say, Water Style: Water Clone Jutsu!" And suddenly water swirled around the air next to him and became a perfect copy of Dad.
"Wow! That looks awesome!" I said jumping up and down while flailing my arms around. He laughed.
"Why don't you give it a try?" He said smiling at me.
"Okay! Here goes!" I said before making the tiger seal. I focused my chakra and then. "Water Style: Water Clone Jutsu!" I felt the water form but then it fell and soaked my feet. "Aw."
"Don't be discouraged. This is only your first try. I'm sure you'll get the hang of it the more you practice." He said rubbing the top of my head. I smiled.
"Okay!" I said excitedly.
"Oh, it's time for you to go to school." He said looking towards the direction of the house. I sighed.
"Okay," I said pouting. He chuckled.
"Don't worry. My mission shouldn't last more than a day or two. So we can work more on this when I get back, okay?" He said hugging me.
"Okay, Dad." I said hugging him back. I went back to the house, grabbed my school bag, and ran all the way to the school.
"Hey, Satsuki!" I heard a voice greet me from next to me. I looked over and saw Kaori with her short brown hair and blue eyes. Her water bottle was strapped to her bag which was flailing in the wind as she ran next to me. I smiled.
"Good morning, Kaori." I greeted her.
"Running to school again?" She asked grinning.
"You know it!" I said grinning back. After school, Kaori and I decided to play on the playground with a few kids from our class and as the sun was about to set, Mom came to pick me up. I waved to the other kids and walked home with Mom.
"Since Dad isn't going to be home, what do you want for dinner?" She asked me as we turned the corner to house.
"Hm..." I said frowning. "I want whatever Mom makes! Because everything Mom makes is delicious!" Mom laughed.
"Okay, I'll surprise you then." She said smiling at me. We finally made it home and were surprised to see Dad was sitting in the kitchen. He looked troubled about something.
"Dad, what's wrong? Why are you home? I thought you had a mission." I asked confused. He smiled.
"I did have a mission. I was only gone for a few hours, but silly me went and injured myself." He said pointing to his right leg.
"What's wrong?" I asked frowning.
"Dear, what happened?" Mom asked worriedly.
"I damaged the nerves in my right leg, so I can't run or walk on it properly." He said looking sad.
"So you can't do ninjutsu anymore?" I asked worriedly. He smiled sadly.
"I'm afraid so, sweetheart." He said looking down at the table. I ran over to him and hugged him.
"It's okay, Dad. I know you did your best." I said smiling. He chuckled.
"Thank you, Satsuki." He said hugging me back. Weeks pass and the only thing Dad can do for the village is continue with the carpentry wherever it's needed. People start to talk about what happened to Dad and apparently an enemy ninja from the Hidden Sound Village was the one who damaged his leg. I was really getting tired of kids and adults alike talking bad about my dad. He did his best and that's all that should matter right? Why are they being so mean to him after he protected our village so bravely? One evening, Dad pulled me aside. "Satsuki, I want you to have this." He said handing me a black necklace with a blue pendant on the end.
"It's so pretty!" I said smiling widely. "Thank you Dad! I love it!" I hugged him and he hugged me back.
"I'm glad you love it." He said smiling. "Keep it safe and keep it with you always. Think of it as me watching over you when I'm not around."
"Why wouldn't you be around?" I asked confused.
"I didn't mean it like that." He said chuckling. "I just found it today and thought it would look very pretty on my little girl."
"Thank you, Dad." I said smiling. After dinner, Dad tucked me into bed and I fell asleep rather quickly. I was very tired from working on the Water Clone Jutsu earlier. Dad said I was getting better at it. A loud noise woke me up in the middle of the night and I got up to investigate it. I heard Mom scream and immediately found her and Dad in the kitchen. Only they weren't alone. Two men were in there as well surrounded by a lot of broken wood and glass. The one thing that caught my eye was the headbands on their heads. They were Sound ninja!
"What do you want?" Dad asked them as Mom ran over to me and hid me behind her.
"We believe you have something of ours." One of the Sound ninja said glaring at Dad.
"What you're looking for isn't here." Dad said glaring at them.
"Then we'll burn down this entire village to look for it if we have to." The other Sound ninja threatened. I was scared and stepped back until I was up against a wall. What were these ninja going to do?
"It's not in this village either!" Dad said frowning.
"Then we'll take you so you can show us!" The first Sound ninja said before knocking Dad out. "We'll be borrowing him." And then they were gone!
"Dad!" I cried out as tears welled up in my eyes. "Mom, what do we do?"
"Shh, it's going to be okay." Mom said sitting in front of me and hugging me.
"What if they kill him?" I whispered.
"They won't. Kouta-san won't allow it." She said sounding determined. I nodded and we just sat at the kitchen table until either Dad came back or something happened. A few days pass and finally something happened. The Sound ninja brought Dad back, but he wasn't breathing anymore. His body was bruised and battered and from the looks of it, he was probably stabbed to death. I cried nonstop for days. Iwase-sama arranged a funeral for Dad and then it was as if Dad never existed to these people. Nobody talked about him or what happened that night and it made me angry. I yelled at a few adults and that ended up with me getting slapped for it. And then everyone started talking bad about Dad, like he never did anything for the village. The other kids, including Kaori, started throwing rocks at me and calling me names because they believed everything the adults said about Dad. I kept the necklace Dad gave me and Mom gave me his headband. She said she wanted me to remember him as he was before he had his leg injured. Finally after having a mental breakdown, Mom decided that enough was enough and we moved to the Hidden Leaf Village.
Okay, sooooooo I made up my own village guys (I even made up an emblem for them!)! I hope this chapter does it justice in explaining what the village is like and what not. Also, I'm sorry the name of the village is so lame . I'm obviously not that creative. I mean my original name for this story was Mystic Blue, but then I used a book title generator and got inspiration from one of the generated titles and now it's The Sun's Shadow! But yeah, um... I tried to write this once already and ended up re-writing it. So this is the re-write version and I've definitely gotten farther in this version than I did in the original! I hope you like this story :3 Literally this is only the second time I've tried to write a Naruto fanfic. The first time was when I was in high school and it was crap. Actually, now that I think about it. This re-write is a re-write of my first Naruto fanfic, because it was supposed to be a romance between an OC and Shikamaru. Honestly, I cringe every time I think about it. It was HORRIBLE. But yeah. Um, I'm going to go and let you get on with your life! Thanks again for reading and let me know what you think! :D
I changed my avatar picture to a picture of what the emblem for the village is. Go easy on me, I made it in Paint lol
