Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
My Other Self
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Pain.
For a while it seemed like pain was the only thing consuming me and for the entirety of my existence. Following the seemingly unending pain was a sense of fading and loosing oneself.
Through these I was able to sense a jolt of panic followed by fear and desperation.
What is pain? What does it mean to exist?
As I fade away into nonexistence I sense one last feeling—determination.
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When I first became aware of my existence I felt another being linked to myself. It felt like myself but different at the same time. At first there was only the sense of being aware of the other me but after an undeterminable amount of time I was able to communicate with the other me by sending and taking in other me's emotions.
As more time passed, other me and myself started to become aware of another who was with us.
The third felt like warmth.
Other me and myself were unable to communicate our emotions to the third but we could feel the thirds emotions. The third was comforting to us.
As more time passed we found the presence of the fourth.
Unlike the other me and the third, the fourth was not always with us. It seemed like the third and the fourth had a way of communicating with each other that was different to mine and other me's sharing of emotions.
Hearing. Speaking. So that's what it is.
The third and fourth beings liked to talk to us. They love us. What is love?
Other me is restless. I prefer to stay where I am unless third or fourth talks to us. I feel great warmth from third and fourth, is this love?
I am starting to understand third and fourth a bit more with time. Third refers to itself as kaa-chan while calling fourth tou-chan.
Kaa-chan… Tou-chan…
Kaa-chan and Tou-chan have been talking more with us and then a fifth came as well. Tou-chan calls the being sensei.
What is a book?
Something is bothering Kaa-chan and Tou-chan. Kaa-chan has been stressed and as more time passes, Kaa-chan gets more anxious.
What is time?
Other me has been more restless than usual. It is probably because there is less space to move than in the beginning.
Kaa-chan is in pain.
What is going on?
I feel like other me is moving away from me. Don't leave me, other me. At least Kaa-chan and Tou-chan are here…
Something has happened. I'm not sure what it is but Tou-chan and Kaa-chan are worried. From what I can still feel from other me, other me is scared. Tou-chan why are you leaving?
Something is wrong. Kaa-chan and I have been brought somewhere by another being. Kaa-chan is scared. Kaa-chan, what's wrong?
It hurts!
It hurts!
It hurts!
I feel like I am being pulled to pieces, or like something is being ripped through me.
Why does it hurt so much?
Kaa-chan feels weak. I'm scared. Things are going to fast. Please, let me out.
I can feel other me. I can feel other me's emotions wrapping around me and I feel a bit better.
What is happening?
Pain!
Kaa-chan and Tou-chan, why does it feel like you are fading away? Why do you feel so sad?
Kaa-chan and Tou-chan are gone but why does it still feel like they are with me?
I can't breath.
What is breathing?
Other me…
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Where am I?
My sense of self feels different. Slowly, I open my eyes.
What are eyes?
The first thing I see is red.
What is red?
My eyes move and take in what is in front of me. A creature with red hair is holding me close with another blond haired creature partially behind the first.
The blond creature brushes a finger gently over my cheek. Why do the red creature and blond creature feel so sad?
Why do they feel like Kaa-chan and Tou-chan?
"Hello there my little Minako-chan. Your Kaa-chan and I have been waiting to meet you."
Kaa-chan?
So the red creature is Kaa-chan? So the blond must be Tou-chan.
Kaa-chan runs a few fingers through my hair and says, "It seems that both Naruto-chan and Minako-chan have taken after your coloring."
Pressing a kiss to side of Kaa-chan's head, Tou-chan smiles down at me and responds, "Yes that is true with Naruto-chan but look, there is a bit of red there in Minako-chan's hair color. Either way, Minako-chan is just as beautiful as her Kaa-chan."
I feel tired.
Kaa-chan and Tou-chan look down at me with gentle, loving smiles as I let out a yawn and slowly blink my eyes.
"We love you Minako-chan. We love you so very much. You and your onii-san, we will always be with you."
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With one last blink, I shut my eyes and let the nothingness take me.
Hope you all enjoyed this one-shot/possibly first chapter.
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You can skip this unbolded part if you like, it's just my ranting about by time away from Naruto.
For the past few days I have had various Naruto related plot bunnies hopping around in my head after getting back into the Naruto series after about 4 to 6 years of having nothing to do with it that was rekindled after coming across and reading a well written crossover involving a Fem!Harry for a HP/Naruto crossover taking place in the Naruto universe. I can't remember what story was exactly but I enjoyed what I had read and it brought me back to the Naruto series and to reading Naruto fanfiction.
Honestly, I had fallen from the Naruto series a bit after Shippuden was released in the US (partially because my interests shifted to more Shojo themed series and I didn't want to spend the money on anymore Naruto manga for a while. ) That being the case, most of what I know about the series if from pre-Shippuden apart from reading things on the wiki. But part of me was like, I own books 1-45, how long is this series going to go on for?! so yeah…
I also had fallen from reading Naruto fanfiction because several years ago it all seemed to be the same thing, some girl with a secret/dark past/last of clan/etc. , was obsessed with the color black, while having multiple wordy descriptions about how the female character (and therefore the author) hated the color pink, and so on and so forth. Let's just say that it got very annoying. Around the time I stopped reading Naruto fanfiction I was maybe about 16-17 years old and it seemed like everyone who was posting regularly (at that time) was about 13-14 years old (and if they weren't a young teenager, then they're writing certainly didn't seem like they were older).
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So yeah! This is a little idea that resulted from my various plot bunnies that seemed to make more sense.
I may continue on with this and make this into a larger story, or a series of (I think they're called) "drabbles" (?), or I could just leave this as a one-shot that can be left to the reader's imagination.
If you would like to see this story continued then please let me know by leaving a review.
Let me know what you thought about it, did you like it? Hate it? Thought it needed more work? I'd like to hear your opinion.
If several people would like me continue on with this as a story I would see about typing more up, so long as I am not acting lazy and using my free time to read fanfiction and play video games.
Note:If you all would like for me to continue with this than updating should not be a problem (in theory) I only have one class left for this semester so I have plenty of free time.
PS: I also have recently obtained an account on AO3 so I may be posting this story there as well.
Purely Scarlet