Divine: Outcasts

by Light of the Heavens

When a group of outcasts find each other, they find the one thing they have never had; a family. But when something threatens to tear them apart, they seek out the help of a man who is whispered of in only the darkest of lands. This will not follow canon at all. Naruto and OC centered. NarutoxHinata, OCxOC. Rated M for violence and gory descriptions.

Divine: Outcasts

Prologue

Pain

I knew it; it was too good to be true. I should have listened, why was I so stupid! The pain is unbearable…I can't stand it. I can't look back, how could anybody be cruel enough to even do that!

The landscape blurred past in my blind rush. Branches slashed and tore at my clothes, the skin on my back and chest raw and ragged from multiple beatings. My lungs screamed in protest from lack of air, my legs numb from blood loss. Yet I ran, far from the hate, far from the torture.

I could tell that I would never be able to see out of my left eye again. The blood leaking from the cut that spanned the left side of my face was entering my right eye and my vision was slowly dimming. Without realising it, my pace was slowing, bumping from tree to tree, trying to keep my balance, constantly pushing forward.

I could no longer see, could no longer feel, but somehow I continued my pain filled journey. Everything around me seemed to fade away, I was alone in on this massive earth. The sounds of birds were gone; the feel of the grass beneath me vanished. I was floating, the only thing as my company was my labored breathing.

I don't know how long I lay there, my head feeling as if it had joined the clouds. I'm young, but even I could tell I was dying. I sighed in relief.

'Finally, I will have peace.'

But it looks like fate had other plans. A new sound invaded my senses and I was no longer alone. It was as if I was standing on one end of a tunnel and the sound was on the other. They sounded like voices, they were happy, laughing with each other.

I smiled slightly…happiness…I would have that soon.

Then they're voices became anguished. I frowned. I didn't want them to be anguished or sad. They were happy before, they should continue to be happy. I could still hear them, but they were getting farther and farther away, their cries getting more panicked.

'Why are you upset…you should be happy. Be happy, like you were before. If you could be happy before, then you have no reason to be upset. You don't have the right to be upset!' Just be happy…please.'

And I knew no more.