A/N: Hi! I'm ObsidianYetOnyx and welcome to my first fanfic! Waaahh, may I apologize for any grammatical errors here. 'Cause English is really not my native tongue. And please, NO FLAMES. Flaming will be ignored. (No use for flaming then, ne?) But if you want to have some improvements, please say so in a more polite manner. Okay, enough of the babbling. On with the story!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto ar anything mentioned.
Prologue
When I was seventeen, my life changed forever.
Whenever I tell the story from this part in my life, they look at me weirdly as if trying to know what happened in that part of my life that changed me so much from the block of ice I once was. Their imagination going mad on how one woman changed it all and how I was able to change due to my stubbornness.
My story cannot be summarized by mere words. It's not something to be easily understood quickly. Even though fifty years have gone, I can still remember that time from the tiniest details. The people who still live here who were there in that time understood my decision for they underwent the same thing: falling in love.
I am already sixty-seven years old. Even though I am very old, I can still remember everything. Old man as I was, I often relive that moment in my head. Every time I do this, I feel a mixture of sadness and joy. There are time when I wish I could just roll back the clock and be young once again. But then I realize all the joy would fade, too. What I can do is to love and cherish these memories of mine and let them guide me in my life.
As I went outside, I look to the heavens. It is twilight. The sunlight scattered to the atmosphere making it ambient. As I glance around, I notice that the Sakura trees are blooming reminding me of my beloved. Sighing sadly, I zipped up my jacket for the temperature of Konoha is cool.
I went to a bench and there I sat. As I inhale, the memories are coming all back to me. The clock begins to move counterclockwise as I close my eyes. I watched myself grow younger as if watching a flashback in my life. My hair changes from gray to raven. My face, smoothen to that of a young man. My old body returns to its muscular form of fifty years ago. Like my body, my mind begins to change. My innocence returning and my wisdom from all of these years forgotten.
Everything around me changes like my body. There are more trees, the wide road now narrow, and more trees. Men wore hats and women wore dresses. People looking over others windows, the churches always the focus of the town, and the ocean always the center of labor. People didn't give a damn about money family background even education. And luck isn't that important.
As I exhale, my eyes open and pause. I am standing outside the chapel. As I stare at the door, remembering who I was.
My name is Sasuke Uchiha, and I am seventeen year old again. A person who once got lost in life yet found the way.
I am about to tell you my story, and I promise not to leave a single detail. So, shut up and listen.
It all started with a girl named Sakura Haruno…an astronomer, a good actress, believer in God and…
a believer in me.