Okay! This is just the opening for now! For all those who loved the original story I apologize but it was almost all copied from another fanfic writer. This story had originally been mine that the old owner had used. This is how it was supposed to go. I hope you all like it. To my other readers, Im sorry I have not updated any other story. I have a lot going on and am a little stumped on what to write for the next chapter. I have every chapter all planned, its just the issue of getting it all from my head onto the computer. Thank you all for being so patient.
Kiku "Wolfette does not own Naruto. She does however own me and a few Oc's in the future."
Naruto "Reviews mean love! Believe it!"
Chapter 1 (prologue)
For as long as I can remember, I knew nothing but the dark. Swirling in like smoke, surrounding me inside a choking hold. I knew nothing of the light, of the warmth of the rays of sun, of clarity and peace or all out happiness.
No.
I only knew darkness, the claustrophobic feelings. The Shadows and cold feelings of the dark, smog or smoke like shadows, unrest, contempt, hatred and harsh nightmarish dreams.
Oh, I wish they were just dreams.
I'm scared...
There was never warmth to greet me.
So scared...It's dark...
There was no company to be kept.
I'm alone... so alone...
There was no warm sun shine to grace my face in the morning.
"Hmmm"
There was only them.
... they are sadistic... they are scary...
The voices always purred, sadistic and scary. All filled with lies, hatred, malice, taking pleasure in my pain.
"You thought you could escape me?"
No matter where I tried to go, or how I found the means of escape of this... darkness that now is apart of me, I was always found.
It laugh's and laugh's, echoing all around.
I want to run! I want to hide... Yet I am held down by invisible chains.
I was always forced back, like a dog to it's master.
"All alone with ought a single person to come for you. No one will come."
Alone... alone... No ones coming...
There was nothing for me in this world.
"They have abandoned you like you did them."
Abandoned... forgotten... hated... un-loved... tossed aside...
The ones I thought loved me, they never came. They left me until I was but a shadow of who I used to be, they left me in the clutches of the darkness.
"Your nothing but a monster to them now."
Monster... beast... murderous being so low... blood thirsting demon...
I was filled with great sorrow... That sorrow... turned into rage. The rage turned into white hot agony from abandonment before completely destroying my will to live.
"Your strength has gone, your weak."
Weak... pathetic... waste of space... foolish child...
"Foolish child."
They always laughed, the sound reverberating off the walls and surrounding me in a blanket of hissed words and malice.
"You'll never get rid of me."
It comes back, it always comes back. It never leaves.
"I'll always come back for you. Heheh. You will always be mine."
His. I was his. I was a slave to the master, slave to the monster, slave to him.
It would always be that way, forever in the dark and slowly being consumed by my fears and by my hatred, by my anger. There was nothing anymore, nothing.
Don't look back.
Run! Run!
I had run as fast as my legs could carry me, a small child at the time.
Faster!
There was always his voice, the one who helped me escape that wretched place. I didn't know who he was, the voice inside my head, I only knew that he wanted freedom too.
Tears had been falling down my face as I ran, little feet crunching in the leaves under my bare feet.
*Crunch, crunch, crunch, SNAP!*
I never could remember anything past the meeting of them. Tidbits of memory escaped of blurred faces, people I could not place.
Run child! Run!
I had run with all the might I could muster, trying desperately to ignore the pain in my chest, I had to get away. Any place was better then were they were.
"Run Kiku Run!" A man ran next to her, her tiny tiny hands in his large ones. His face was blurred. "Don't look back!"
"Aniki!" She slipped from his grasp, falling behind.
"Nee-chan no!"
The only memory I could remember, was of a man tying to lead me to safety from something, only for us to fall into a trap and I fell behind. His scream was the last thing I had heard before the memory goes black.
"~Kiku-chan~"
I remember its voice, the horrid sound that sent me barreling into endless fear and nightmares.
"Come back now."
He was almost always eerily calm, cold and calculating. I had never seen him, only ever heard his voice. Though I knew he was there. He was always there, lurking in the shadows like a snake that slithered unseen to the naked eye. It was to late before I realized where I was going, the last thing I could see was his yellow eyes watching as I slipped and tumbled down a hill.
Don't look back!
It was looking back that caused me to fall, tumbling and rolling down that hill. It had felt like I fell forever, tumbling through leaves and bushes, barely missing trees and other miscellaneous things until finally it ended and I smashed into the trunk of a tree and slid into a river.
Swim little one, swim!
I had been so tired... My bodies strength waning.
Don't give up! Fight!
It had been my fault that I fell, looking back that fated day, though, the more I thought on it. I realized if I had not fallen into the river that day. I would never have met the man I would grow to cherish more then anything in the world.
"Whats that?"
"It's a child. Kakashi, scan the area."
"Ah. Be carful Itachi"
"..."
"There was no one there."
"Don't worry, We're going to get you help."
His voice had been so gentle, so soft and welcoming that I let my weary mind shut down.
Who am I you might wonder?
I am Kiku.
I had no last name. None to go by, for the family I previously knew abandoned me. They left me in that dark mans clutches to suffer alone. I hold a demon bird named Karasu whom that man forced inside of me. We got along well enough, after all he was the only reason I was still alive.
I knew nothing of light, nor the warm caress of daylight. Not the soft exhilarating feeling of being loved nor the happiness of friendship.
Until I met him.
"I'm gunna be Hokage one day Believe it!"
A silly blonde haired child that filled the world with sunlight.
Naruto Uzumaki.