DARK LIES BEHIND THE WHITE EYES
by Mileharo Kerran
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A/N: Standard disclaimer applies: Naruto obviously does not belong to me, else this thing wouldn't be fanfiction, heheh. Read, enjoy and review, thanks.
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Prologue
She heard him call her name. There was something in the tone of his voice that made her turn around and face him warily. Perhaps it was the silence of the forest that made it all the more noticeable; after all, he was not a person known to ever have spoken warmly to her, but even this was more than his usual cool politeness.
She looked at the faces of the three people with her, all of them wearing the same expressions of tension, and all of them not quite meeting her eyes, except in that very last moment, when he spoke again in that odd voice.
"Forgive us."
It was her only warning, and at that very last moment, when white eyes met white eyes, the world seemed to stop. They say that at the very last moment before you die, your entire life would flash before your eyes, but she saw none of that. In the back of her mind, she saw the blade sticking out of her middle, the hand holding it slowly being covered with warm blood. Her blood. In the back of her mind, she heard the distant howl of some animal, a cry of pain, a wail of lamentation. In the back of her mind, she felt the pain of her flesh slowly being numbed by the pain of betrayal.
They say that the white eyes saw everything, but right now, she saw too late. Who could have blamed her? She knew they despised her for being weak, and scoffed at her paltry attempts to improve. But she did try, and today's mission was supposed to have been evidence of her determination to become better. She tried so hard to uphold the family's name; she tried so hard to be better for them. That was why she never saw this coming.
All she saw in that very last moment that stretched into forever were his eyes, eyes that were as white as her own. She knew he saw so much more than she ever could with them, and wondered if he could see straight into her very soul.
And in the very next moment, there was only darkness.
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