I don't own the Akatsuki, only the OC character I had made up (Red/Valerie).
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Chapter 1: Red
It's been five years since my father died, and ever since, my mother has went a little into lunacy. She got into cults and into jail from drinking and stealing money and digging her own hole with debts. And now, now she's selling her body. She lives in a rundown place someone in the far corners of the Rain village, places normally people don't go and it was just enough to live in, I guess. As for me, as her only child and daughter, I've slowly distant myself from her, I'd visit once a week, and live on the streets. I built my own tree house and do my own errands here and there for the neighbors to get enough money to eat at least. It's not the best life, but it's what I got.
It's not my father's fault though, the Rain village war had taken him away from me, as the war took away many from others too. It was how war was, I was little of course, only eleven, but I've learnt to move on and believe that father is not truly gone; he's here, watching me. He was a good father, while most took him seriously; I was privy to all the silly faces he'd shoot my way when he thought no one was looking. I looked up to him, he was witty, and smart and he didn't care what people thought of him, he had confidence and he wore it like armor. And now, now this man, this little piece of magic in my life had been taken away from me so early. Nevertheless, I had learnt a lot, and his death won't be a waste.
Just like almost every day, the Rain village, was pouring rain. I dragged my legs over to the run down ally that led towards my mother's home; it was two in the morning, and the streets were quiet, only the sound of rain splashing against the wet floor and puddles. It was dark, with a little fog, the ground had cracks, and holes in the ground, the walls didn't look much different from the ground, broken, cracked, and bumpy with stains here and there. I crept into another dark ally and opened the unlock door that led into a one room house. The moment I closed the door behind me, glass smashed into the wall next to my head. I turned calmly towards the culprit, by now I was used to this, the smell of alcohol still lingered in the room, and a smell, a musty smell. I already know who it was that brew that bottle, I already knew who drank from it, and I already knew she recently finished with a client before I came.
There stood my mother, her dirty clothes barely hung on her bony figure, clearly it had been pulled on roughly from how it's over stretched, and torn a bit on the edges. She could barely stand straight without stumbling over. She looked at me with drunk eyes, the same eyes I see every time, hazy, unfocused, filled with hate, distaste.
"You call…yy…yooourself…a …A DAUGHTER!?" she shrieked, pointing one long bony finger at me, and stumbling towards me. I dropped the bag of food in my hand on the floor next to me.
"I brought food" I said quietly, looking at the floor. Before I was able to look up, a smack came across my face, knocking my head to the side. I saw rats at the corner of the room next to me, scuttling away, I'm sure they're used to see this too.
"You …YOU WORTHLESS bitch, 'eaving me, just like…y-your 'tupid father!" I clenched my fist. I didn't care if she insulted me; hit me, but my father? No, I won't allow it. I felt heat rise to my head, but I took a deep breath, to calm myself. "Get out! Get out and never come back again. Go die in a HOLE for all I care!" she tried to hit again but she stumbled over and missed then fell down like an idoit. I pulled up my hood that covered up half my face, opened my umbrella and stepped out walking away with quick strides, splattering water with each step I took.
It's been five years since my hero died, the man I looked up to, and it's been years since I have shed the name he had given me, and taken Red as my new name, it's also been five years since I've thought of leaving the village but something keeps tying me to stay, but finally I think I will. I stalked out of the village gates pausing there as I looked down on my Ninja headband. Instead of crossing it out, I decided to tuck it away into my black, worn out shoulder bag. Staring up at the angry sky, my bright hazel eyes growing in the dark of the night and with one last thunder strike, I walked out, no longer the litter girl of the Rain village, and no longer his little Valerie, but as Red, the lost ninja who's out to find her purpose, and a new place to call home.
Valeria Thorns, left the wet grounds of the Rain village, and there stepped Red, into Ninja world.