So, I apologize for the long period of…nothing. I have had an incredible bout of writer's block. It's no excuse, though. Anyway, I got off my lazy ass and…cringed. My writing on this story is HORRIBLE! Did I not know how to describe something? I'm slightly ashamed. So, as therapeutic recovery for both me and this poor, neglected story, I'm editing all the chapters. Keep your fingers crossed, people, that these will be better than the original.
Anyway, please enjoy the newly reborn Fate.
The night was completely dark. Thick, eerie clouds encompassed the moon, leaving none of its usual cool light on the sleepy ground. Following their pale mother, the stars also hid, as if trying to escape the one traveling below them.
There was an unnatural sort of silence that seemed to scream into itself. There was no crunch of leaves or grass as the lone figure trudged along. He breathed too softly to hear, and even his clothing made no sound as it rubbed against itself.
Sasuke Uchiha was as quiet as a ghost as he made his way toward the Sound Village, which had recently become his new home. His lifeless eyes of the darkest coal stared unseeingly ahead of him, distracted in his odd lack of thought. His mind was blank, trying block out the details of what he'd just allowed himself to do. Trying to protect his fragile from the pure inhumanity of the truth. Sasuke, to his horror, and, unfortunately his sick satisfaction, had killed another human being for the first time that evening.
Suddenly the silence that accompanied Sasuke was broken, and he stopped, his mind racing to try and pinpoint exactly what that sound was. It happened again, and he understood. The sound of fragile leaves crunching came somewhere from the right of him. He spun to face that direction just in time to see several shadowy figures emerge from the trees. Black cloaks and white masks that resembled an animal. Anbu from one village or another. Which one didn't matter, but the fact that they had surrounded him completely within the few seconds it had taken for him to realize his presence certainly did.
The leader of the anbu, what seemed to be a man that hid his face with a Tiger mask, stepped forward. "Sasuke Uchiha," he said, asking for confirmation with his tone. When he received none from the stoic raven, he leaped forward, katana raised to strike. There was a loud clank of metal hitting metal as the Uchiha slid his own katana from its sheath on his back to parry the attack. The two began to fight, moving so precisely that it seemed choreographed, like a deadly dance. One misstep and someone would be dead.
Sasuke ducked under a slash that was meant for his head. Instead, the blade became lodged in the tree behind him with a heavy thunk. He silently thanked his luck, and took the opportunity to kick upward, his foot connecting with the underside of the masked man's chin. He flew backward, and a loud CRACK resonated through the clearing as the side of his head hit a rock that was protruding from the ground not far away.
After a moment of stunned silence on the black op's part, another anbu, this one with a bird's mask, walked over to Tiger Mask. He bent down and placed two fingers over the vein in Tiger Mask's neck. "…He's dead…" he murmured.
Those two words were like a gun marking the start of a marathon. Everything went to hell. The knowledge that their leader was so horribly murdered brought out a rage throughout the remaining Anbu, and they charged toward Sasuke, each fully intending to bring back his head to their village.
Outwardly Sasuke remained calm, but two words kept running through his tired mind.
'Oh shit…'
Sasuke's opponent, a burly man with the mask of a bear, brought his monstrously large sword high above him, intending to skewer the young man before him. However, in doing so, he left himself wide open to attack. Sasuke thrust his katana upward, straight into the man's chest.
The Anbu made a few gurgling noises, and then fell. 'This was easier than I thought it'd be,' Sasuke thought to himself. He fought down the wave of nausea that he got after taking a life, and tore off a piece of the dead Anbu's cloak to use to wipe off his precious katana. He then turned to survey the damage done.
The early morning light was beginning to seep through the thinning clouds, and allowed Sasuke to see. Red stained the ground. The grass, the trees, even his formerly white clothing. Bodies littered the ground. It looked like something you would see in hell.
Sasuke shook his head, allowing himself to be a sad, horrified teenager for just a moment. Then, mask back in place, he looked blankly up into the sky. "It's…all for you, aniiki…"
Sasuke's body jolted in shock and pain suddenly, and with wide eyes he slowly looked down. Protruding from his chest was the tip of a sword, dripping with his own blood. The sword had missed his heart, but his current condition, the wound would be fatal. He sluggishly turned his head to look behind him and see who his killer would be.
It was the bear man he'd just defeated. The man had used his last bit of life and energy to reach up and stab him from behind. "If…" he began hoarsely, "If we must…go to hell… then we're taking you with us…" He yanked the katana from the Uchiha's back, fell forward, dead.
Sasuke stared down at the hole in his chest, horrified. "But, I haven't…reached my goal! I can't…" his words left off and he fell backward in what seemed to be slow motion. He hit the ground painfully, and watched the sky for a moment. "I can't…die…yet…" His voice trailed off as his eyes began to close.
End.
A/N: I hope you enjoyed Fate 2.0's prologue. Please tell me if this is better than the original, I would really appreciate it. Also, I reaaaalllyyyy need a beta, if anyone would be interested.
I would again like to apologize for my over the top absence. I can't say that it won't happen again, since I'm sort of lazy and am prone to writer's block. But I do promise to try not to fall back into my funk again. I don't want to dissapoint you all.
Thank you for faithfully sticking with me, and I'll have chapter two's rewrite up soon. I promise.
~Black-ice-alchemist
