Love thy Enemy

By Kaia Akari

Prologue-

For as long as Kaia Akari could remember, Konohagakure had never been so still as that night. There were no crickets, no breeze, no sound from the village. She hardly was ever frighten of silence, but this kind of silence, was the silence of death. It was so quiet that even her easy breathing sounded loud. She looked over her shoulder at the several houses behind her and saw that several windows were lit up with yellow lights.

She sighed as she stared back towards Konoha that shone brightly with the village's light.

"Kaia?" the deep voice of her father brought her back into reality. "Is something the matter, child?"

"No father." she said standing up and bowed slightly out of respect for the leader of the Akari clan. "I just came out here to get a breather…it's quiet tonight…too quiet."
" Ah yes." said Li Akari with a nod, "But tomorrow is the first day of spring. The night before spring is usually quiet to let plants, trees, and animals, prepare for a busy season. It's when everything thrives in Nature's goodness."
Kaia looked at her father. "Father…do you think…"

She looked down ashamed of herself.

"Do I think what, child?"

" Well…it's really hard to ask you, father, but…"
" Yes?"
" Do you think I can go to the village tomorrow morning?" she asked and Li looked at her. "I-I've never been to the village before…"

Li looked at his only daughter, the same resemblance of her mother, Miyabi. The same dark brown eyes, the long brown hair, the same dimples, the same attitude towards life. The only thing that resembled him was the determination to be the best in what she did best: Assassinate people.
She had his stubbornness to become the best and the best she had become.

At only thirteen years of age, she had become a lethal weapon that was used in combat. Something that he had trained her since she had started to learn to walk at such a young age.

"Yes." he said and she looked at him, trying not to look surprised. "Yes. It's time that you became the teenager you are."

For the first time in a long time, Kaia threw her arms around her father's neck and thanked him.

- Sometime After Midnight-

The sound of broken glass and screams woke Kaia up. She sat up, pulling her kunai out from underneath her pillow. She stepped out in the hall and edged closer to the hall window and nearly gasped out loud. The entire Akari compound was engulfed in flames. She frowned and hurried out.

She ran outside, tripped over one of the many bodies on the ground and crashed to the ground. Pushing herself up, she realized that she had tripped over the body of her 4 year old cousin, whom she baby-sat when she wanted to feel like a teenager.

"Maya…" whispered Kaia, her eyes were wide as she stared at the little girl. She pushed herself up and tried to look around past the flames, but the smoke coming from the fire made her eyes water. She stood up and tried to run past the fire as she noticed more and more of her family laying in the streets dead. "Father! W-Where are you?"
She saw a figure in the distance and her mouth fell open. She started to run towards it when something hit her hard on the back of the head and she fell to her knees. She stretched out her arm towards the figure as darkness surrendered her.
" Father…"