Chapter 1: Home sweet home
The sun shone down on this warm spring day, with the blue sky glowing above me as I started my short walk home. It takes me fifteen to twenty minutes to get home, depending on how lazy I'm feeling on the day and today that's what I feel. Lazy. Fluffy white clouds drifted across the sky at a slow pace and I looked up at them and wondered if it were possible to jump up to one and sit on it. Like angels in church paintings. Not that I am religious or anything, I'm really not into the whole "there is someone looking at us all right now who will decide if you go to heaven or hell when you die," kind of thing. I don't think its right to have one being in control and especially if that thing is controlling what I do because I really wouldn't stand for it.
Pushing those thoughts away and looking back I find that the road to my house has been blocked off and there are police cars everywhere. Officers on mobiles and walkie-talkies standing around the borders of the crime scene tape, keeping an eye on the ever growing crowd of news reporters that were nosing around waiting for something to happen. Notepads and pens at the ready. Cameras pointed at the scene some filming while others snapped the occasional picture. As I get closer I could smell evidence of a fire and I wrinkled my nose at the stench that was taking over the air as I kept my pace towards my house. "Properly that old geezer from down the road set fire to his roses again and someone called the fire department. I swear this is the third time this week!" I think as I approach the cordoned off street. When my home came into view I stopped dead.
The frame of the house was all that stud of my once caring home and my stomach clenched in fear of what had happened and why. I started walking towards the police tape once more but at a slower pace as I observed what remained of the building. You could see right through it and to the garage we had in the back and the melted remains of a car inside. My brain processed this and I thought "that's dad's car. Didn't he say he was staying at home today because of falling off that ladder yesterday? Didn't mom say she was coming home from work early to drive him to the hospital? Didn't Shawn feel really sick today and stay at home with dad?" These and so may other questions and doubt rushed through my mind as I reached the yellow tape and raised it over my head before stepping under it.
One of the officers rushed over at seeing me do this. He was young with a clean shaven head and pressed soot that screamed "I'm a new policeman itching for a proper interrogation!" with a skip in his step and a gleam in his eye, he came up to me. "Sorry young lady, but this whole area is under complete investigation so I will have to ask you to go home. I'm sure your parents are worried about you being late home form school so run along back to your mommy and daddy now," he said in a cheerful 'I'm better then you so do as I say' kind of voice, and I flinched at this as he shooed me off, but I wasn't going to budge before I new the truth of what had gone on here. So I looked him straight in the eye and said, "I would love to officer but you have taped off my street and I cannot get home without coming through here." He blinked at this, obviously not expecting a civilised reply from me.
"OK fine. Then let me escort you home so that you don't get stopped by any of my colleagues on the way. So go ahead and lead on." He replied holding his head high in the air and gesturing for me to lead the way. So I set off down the road, eyes glued to the remains of this once proud building that used to hold so much happiness, but is now nothing more then a pile of rubble. When we reached level with the skeletal building I stopped in front of my former house and pointed saying "I live there, now would you please tell me what happened to my house and also were my family are."The officer paled at this and started to tremble, looking at me with wide, frightened eyes. "SARGE!!" he shouted and a man with greying hair and a beer belly came up to us and said "What is it Ben? I'm kind of busy working the crime scene and who is this girl? I told you not to let anyone in here."
"S-sorry sarge but she said she lived here so I let her in and she led me to said house and now clams she lives here." The rookie officer that's named Ben rushed out in a panic. The sarge's eyes widened and he turned them onto me as I looked away, my gaze landed on one of the charred plant pots we had at the front of the house and if I remember right, this one had the tulips in we planted on the weekend. "Oh God...." the sarge replies in a shaky voice, staring at me like I'm some sort of alien. "I think you better come down to the police station with me young miss. I have something to tell you and I don't think your going to like it." I guessed as much. I think I can guess what has happened already. The three body bags are a dead give away as they are placed in an ambulance and me in a police car and as we went are separate ways, I said a silent goodbye to the family I would not be seeing ever again.
Sorry this first chapter is a bit short but am trying to make it longer!
I will get the the naruto world bit as soon as I can so just be pacient!!
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