Year 0
When she jumped off the school's roof, eyes shut as a blazing heat tore through her, she didn't think that she would wake up screaming. She didn't even go out screaming.
Ayano Tateyama is one very confused teen- no, perhaps— with more effort than usual she struggled to lift her arms. A murmur and blankets are all she can hear and feel as she was lifted. An uncomfortable itch was developing, what was it- she could see it, tendrils of blue everywhere— and promptly closed her eyes. Voice raw, she hesitantly opened her eyes.
Date: August 15th, XXXX
Uchiha Ayano is born.
Year 2
"Ayano!" "Ayano." "Ayano-chan." "Aya!"
New voices called to her every day. From baby to now. Voices she can never recognize. Eyes that held contempt, love, peace, sadness and, she smiled to herself, happiness.
She may not know them, but they do know her.
"Ayano-chan, it's time for dinner!" Coal-coloured eyes blinked and she waddled over in her little dress and lifted her small pale arms to her mother. Or her new mother.
Ayano smiles brightly, giggling as her mother, with ease despite her swelling belly, moves her into a high chair.
A mother's love is nice.
Year 4
In the middle of the night, she never would expect her father coming home—finally—covered in bandages.
Peering through the door, she frowned, watching her mother (with her oh-so-quiet footsteps) rush over and embrace him. What was the cause of such wounds? Why was he covered in them—bloodbloodblood its everywhere alloverme itsinmymouth it hurtsithurtsihurts— and opened the door a bit wider, alerting the two from their embrace.
"Ayano-chan?" The man smiles stiffly at her and opens up an arm. Her mother is calling her over.
She forgets about the bandages and rushes over to her mother.
The baby in the other room starts to cry. And the moment is lost to panicked shuffling and muttered words.
Obito-chan is so loud that the other baby a few doors down starts to cry.
Mother apologizes the next morning.
Year 5
Mother and the man—her father— left for a mission. She thinks it has something to do with the village and the Hokage.
Whenever she sees the people on the roof with the same symbol, she has to wonder about it.
Mother says that they're Genin, new shinobi. She then proceeds to talk about the various things they do and who they work for while playing cat's cradle with her.
Even on those rare occasions when her mother takes her out into the other districts- the Uchiha districts specifically and she just stares in wonder at all the different people hopping all over the place. The Uchiha symbol, a red and white fan, proudly flashing brightly on their backs.
But those days are over. Mother and Father won't come back. No snake can help them, after all, it's not August 15th.
She cried with Obito, who didn't understand much or even coherently knew their parents.
The Uchiha clan soon started to give them an allowance and a fellow clan member to look over them.
She wouldn't remember it, but she had stared determinedly at a red eye with three tomoe in it and a malicious glint to it, holding her baby brother away from its influence.
It would be at the age of 9 that she finds comfort in another, victim to a snake of misfortune as well.
AN: Just a small drabble series as I rewrite my other stories.
Characters so far:
`Ayano Tateyama/Uchiha
`Obito Uchiha
