I decided to make a new first chapter. For anyone new, hello! This story is a work in progress, so bear with me. It's bad, but I hope you stick around! Please read a few chapters into the story before reviewing, things happen and I get a little frustrated sometimes when people just review the first chapter and criticize something in it, when the thing they criticized comes up as a plot point later of is dealt with in some way. Really, you can do what you want, I can't stop you ^_^ This is a SasukeXOC, so there are going to be different opinions. SasukeXOC IS possible, if you look at it the right way. It's like a balancing act, between keeping Sasuke In character and making a good OC. It's really difficult and there isn't much room regarding OCs and time frames, but I attempted it anyways! I failed, though XD anyways, onto the story!
Darkness laid thick over the land of Snow, clashing with the sparkling white blanket that covered the ground. The snow stretched out into the horizons, seemingly endless.
The night sky blazed with all the glory that the sun denied it, cold stars sprinkling deep purple and a full moon creating a gentle light. Everything was silent, so silent it was deafening.
In this silent, still landscape, something moved. Or rather, someone.
It was a child, around the age of nine or ten. She was very small, with a dirty, ripped cerulean blue coat and messy gray hair. She had green eyes that seemed to glow in the dark. Most odd of all was two black wolf ears tipped in white that jotted from her head, and a fluffy black tail that trailed behind her.
She moved through the snow with the ease of experience, but with an air of desperation.
If I don't get out of here by sunrise, they'll know I'm gone and come for me… she thought in an urgent tone.
Nadada will come after me and kill me… I need to get to the land of fire. I can't believe I trusted them…
She felt torn. Her belly fluttered with fear. She felt like she shouldn't be running away from the people she served, her pack, but in reality, they weren't her pack. Not after she found out what they did, who they really were.
The ninja controlling the land of snow were evil. They were wicked, seeking money and power. She couldn't stand working for them. More out of pain and loneliness than out of moral righteousness.
All she had wanted was to become strong, to have comrades to call her pack and to have the strength to defend them. After that night, she was resolved to become strong and amount to something, not a cowardly pup barking helplessly.
It was hard, suppressing her fear. She had no real strengths besides her speed- she hardly had any taijutsu knowledge and only knew a few of the basic Justus of the land of snow. Even using one of those was too much of a strain on her chakra.
She kept moving, her heart ramming against her chest in fear. The snow began to fade, then gave way to barren rock. Eventually, as the sun began to break from the distant horizon and cast a weak opening light on the ground, she reached the border between the land of snow and the land of fire.
Normally one would have to have taken a boat to get from the land of snow to the land of fire, but where Nadada and the others had been sent too, along with her, was past the sea and the closest to the land of fire she would ever get. So she left that night. She could have waited for the next night, when they would be moving to a village even closer to the northern tip of the land of fire, but She was too scared to wait.
Her stomach growled and her legs shook with hunger, but she didn't want to stop. Not till she reached the lead village.
As she climbed over the uneven, cold rocks, she began thinking. She didn't have a name, really. Nadada called her dog, but not only was the name offensive to her, but it wouldn't work. She knew she needed a name for when she reached the village, something to be known by.
She couldn't think of anything, nothing came to mind. She reached a forest and tried to take inspiration from it, but that didn't work either. She kicked at the soft forest floor, ears against her head.
Eventually she reached a stream. The water flowed smoothly, the luminous surface reflecting all of the greens of the forest . When she looked at her reflection, she could see the outline of a dark wolf, with sharp teeth and emotionless eyes of ice.
She looked away, feeling a deep fear root itself on her veins. She shivered, though she felt no cold. Her body temperature had become unusually cold in her time in the land of snow. She had begun to wonder if she really had ice flowing though her veins.
Her thought train froze, and she remained still. Ice….
She smiled softly. That's it! Ice! That's my new name, meh!
She looked up, feeling a cool breeze make its way through the trees. Leaves fell off of the arched branches and danced in the wind.
Ice watched them intently. I… I don't know what's going to happen… But I'm never going to let that happen again. Even if I'm weak, I'll become strong enough to make sure I'm never left lonely again… At least, I hope I will…
Here you go. I'm actually a little disappointed with this, but I thought it would help shed some light on her name and motivations. You'll learn more about Ice and her background in the rest of the story! Since I wrote this before the next chapter, which was originally chapter one, there way be a shift in writing style. Also, when I was writing that chapter, along with most of the begging chapters, all of the you're's were changed to normal your's. It's not an oversite, look at the later chapters, it's just a formatting thing. Originally the program I wrote in wouldn't upload to fanfiction, so I had to transfer it to another program to upload it. There are also other issues that some from this. And most of the grammar mistakes are my oversite, remember these first few chapters are old. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed, and please remember to review! It helps motivate me, and with 20 chapters now, I think I should have more reviews! It makes me feel like I'm wasting my time… Anyways, hope you enjoyed, and have a nice day!