Everything in the garden was a shade of blood red, and in the middle stood an enormous rose bush with it's bleeding petals scattered about it. She had only wandered here in search of food, on the way to her relatives in the next village. She didn't even remember her original family, but had grown up comfortably and happily with the old owner of her village's bookshop. He had died too, but before he had, he had told her where she had other family, other people to take care of her, until the age of marriage. This girl had wondered why she should even wait for it, it was almost upon her. But then again, the thought of marrying repulsed her so, that she willingly gathered her things, and started the long journey. Even a little time to herself was better than none.
She reached out to touch the flower, and pick just one...
A clawed hand immediately snatched hand over, it's grip iron and it's fur white as snow. She looked up, into the eyes of a wolf, the eyes of a beast.
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He gave her no time for words, just stole the girl from her spot and racing faster than thought or sound to a tower, a tower with a cell inside, and he quickly threw her in there. She cried out, but he left her as quickly as he had come, left her in darkness.
"...Hello? Uhh...hey wake up, we're here to er...help, dattebayo! Master was really rough..." said a talking, walking candlestick. Beauty assumed she was hallucinating, and rolled over to hide from the visions.
"Naruto, she doesn't think you're real." said a talking, walking clock. Were there fumes in this dank, dark chamber?
"WHAT! Of course she does, dattebayo! I am clearly real."
"...You're a candlestick that talks."
"...SO?"
When the talking clock acknowledges the talking candlestick, it is definitely time to check out the situation. She slowly rose from her sleeping position, using the wall as her support.
"Ah...you've decided to make sure you're not hallucinating." Drat, it's an all-knowing clock, a clock that can read her mind. And were those bugs moving around inside it? She squashed the impulse to scream, to call back for the monster, because no matter how fluffy his fur was, he had put her in here. The candlestick and clock had not. Right.
"Who are you?" said the candlestick.
"What are you?" said the beauty.
"I'm...complicated." said the candlestick. "Let's start with names first."
"I'm Shino." said the clock. "And he's Naruto."
Beauty remembered something.
"Isn't your name supposed to be Clocks..omething? And isn't his name supposed to be...?"
"...No." said Shino.
The candlestick...Naruto came over to her, and nudged her knowingly. "Best not to ask him about anything...and he's likes being mysterious anyway, dattebayo. We don't really get along."
"...I heard that."
"What's your name?" said the candlestick, ignoring Shino. It was jumping up and down eagerly, its bounce almost mesmerizing.
"Mine...? My name is..."
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Naruto © Masashi Kishimoto
Notes for the Reader
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