Disclaimer: Haha… No…

I'm back to bring you this new story. I was watching Princess Mononoko when I came up with this idea. The roles of my favourite couple -coughsangoandmirokucough- does sort of fit into the roles of the main characters -Ashitaka and San. This story has no plot whatsoever... Or at least, not yet anyway.

Well, what can I say, except for enjoy?

Butterflies

Prologue

"Chichiue! Hahaue!" a little girl screamed out over the roaring fire.

"Run, Sango! Get out of here!" her father cried out. "Save yourself!"

"No! I won't leave you! We'll get you out, you'll see!"

"It's impossible by now! We're trapped under these beams and stones. Just go!" her mother yelled.

Sango stubbornly ran towards her parents in an attempt to save them, but was only stopped when another beam came crashing down onto the pile and onto their heads as the fire ate it loose.

"No, Chichiue, Hahaue!" Sango sobbed out as she watched helplessly.

Gone… They are gone, along with the five-month old child that Hahaue was pregnant with, and a hundred other people. No one is left… except for me.

The blazing fire burned on as she backed away slowly from the pile, tears spilling from her eyes in never-ending streams. She sniffled a bit before she made up her mind and wiped her tears with her yukata sleeve. She quickly ran over to the giant boomerang she was practising with earlier and dislodged it carefully from another pile of burnt splinters. She quickly grabbed the strap for it and made her way around the orange flames and out of the village.

She kept on running and running, deeper and deeper into the forest, and she never looked back to the dead village that had once been her home. Her eyes were filled with tears once again as she distanced herself from the village more and more, until she had blindly and carelessly tripped on a root of a tree, and fell down face down. At that moment, she didn't care that she fell, and so, she remained there motionlessly. Tears continued to pour out from her eyes.

By the time she had realized her stupidity, it was too late. She could hear the footsteps of a youkai crunching through the grass and cutting through the bushes near her as the crows crowed their cries. She waited a few seconds before lifting her head up, facing whatever that had come. She had then found herself staring into a face with a pair of ruby eyes and a diamond-ish black cross-like mark on its forehead.

And yet, the nearby butterflies fluttered and danced on with their little dances without a care in the world as the sun set behind the thick trees.

So there you have it, the prologue of this new fan fiction of mine. Short, yes, but I do think that I have improved my writing skills by just a teeny tiny little bit, compared to what my writing was like in my first fanfic.

Now, will you please review?