AN: Hey everyone! Its been a while. I got the idea for this fanfic when I was bored. So I hope you enjoy it and read and review! Also, this is Alternate Universe. It doesn't go according to the manga. I don't know there ages and birthdays so I'm making some things up.
Possible Pairings: Sasuke/Sakura Naruto/Hinata
Summary: Three young children. Three traumatized pasts. What will happen when they meet? Who will save them? Are they Konoha's enemies…or allies?
Who Are We?
Chapter 1 – Death
Death was all around him. He could only see the dead. On the walls, blood was dripping down just like tears of blood as he continued on his way to the door.
His aunts…
His uncles…
His cousins…
Dead.
His father and mother…
'No…please don't be….'
'Dead…'
He watched as his own hands pushed open the door and opened up to show him his parents lying in a pool of their own blood.
"Welcome home, little brother."
'Run…'
'I need to keep running…'
'I can't let them catch me…'
'The man will kill me for sure…'
He ran and ran. He turned the corner and continued to run. He couldn't see anything clearly. Everything was passing by as a blur. What did he want? He didn't have money and he hasn't done anything to him…so what did he want?
He slowed to a stop when he realized that it was a dead end.
"Stupid demon. Did you think you could run forever?"
'No…'
'Why!'
'I thought…families were supposed to love each other…'
'Please…'
'Don't find me…'
Thoughts clouded her mind as she crouched, shivering in the small, cramped cupboard. She heard footsteps walk past quickly. When she was certain that nobody was near, she crept out. Unfortunately, she was wrong.
"Well, well. It seems our dear little cousin has decided to come out of the cupboard. Lets take her to father. I saw him chasing her a while ago."
With that said, her cousins dragged her out to where her uncle was.
"Welcome home, little brother."
"Big brother. Why…what…happened?" He could hear his own voice quivering as he asked the question.
"Our clan is weak Sasuke. I was merely testing my powers."
"No…big brother, stop lying. You wouldn't kill mother or father. You…wouldn't…"
"I did. However, you do not need to worry about dieing yet. There is something I must do first."
He took out a large scroll which was placed roughly on the table and opened it.
"Do you know what this is, Sasuke?"
There was no answer for Sasuke was frozen solid. Fear etched on his face.
"Many years ago, there was a great demon which attacked our ancestors. They could not defeat that demon until Uchiha Mana sealed it into this scroll. The demon could be sealed into a young child and nothing bad would happen. However, it was said that if the host died, then whoever possessed the demon next would have unlimited power."
Without saying another word, Itachi opened the scroll and bit his thumb. Then, he drew a line on the scroll and slammed his hand onto Sasuke, around the area of his neck. (A/N: It's where the curse seal is.)
Pain…
It was everywhere. It hurt. He couldn't move.
Pain…
He wanted to die…
He wanted to escape…reality…
When he opened his eyes, he was lying on the floor. Itachi had disappeared and he was alone. Alone with the dead. He left. He couldn't stand looking at all those faces. All that blood…
He stopped when he felt something grab onto his legs.
He looked down and saw his cousin. Blood was all over his hands and he could see a large wound on his cousin's leg.
"You demon. I'll kill you!"
And his cousin lunged.
He didn't understand.
'What's going on?'
He dodged the attack and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"How could you? How could you kill everyone?"
"I didn't. It was Itachi."
"If so, then why are you still alive? I don't see Itachi. It must have been you."
He was growing tired now. He hasn't even started at the Ninja Academy yet and his cousin was a Chuunin.
He kept dodging from side to side. Luckily, his cousin was injured or he would be dead by now.
When his cousin gave one last cry and came at him, he grabbed the nearest thing to him and held it up.
'SPLURT!'
Blood…
It was raining blood.
He had killed.
His first kill.
He had killed his cousin.
At the age of 5 Uchiha Sasuke made his first kill.
He turned and ran.
"Stupid demon. Did you think you could run forever?"
He…was trapped.
He watched as the man came closer…and closer.
"What…do you want…from me?"
"I want you to pay. I want you to pay for everything I lost because of you."
"What have I done?"
The man was so close now. He could smell his breath. It smelt like sake. The man…was drunk.
"You! You're asking me what you've done?"
"Yes…I…don't remember doing anything to you."
The man laughed. "Oh, of course you don't know. After all, it was made a kind of law. No one was to talk about it. YOU weren't supposed to know. But I think I can tell you, after all you're going to be dead by the time they find you."
He grew more and more confused as the man kept talking. 'What law? What is this drunken man saying?'
However, before he could open his mouth, the man had started talking.
"5 years ago the Nine tailed fox demon, Kyuubi, attacked Konoha. Many were killed. My wife and daughter included. It's because of that demon that I am alone. And YOU! You are that demon. That demon is you!"
Finished with what he was saying, the man lunged.
He ducked under the man's swinging arms and crashed into a trash can. When he turned around, the man was ready to pounce. He felt his hand touch something.
'Must be a handle of something, probably a bat or saucepan. If Iswing this at him then I might be able to escape.'
With his eyes closed, he swung.
When he opened his eyes, it was all…
RED.
BLOOD RED.
Blood was on the man's shirt.
Blood was on the knife.
Blood was on his hands.
He, who swore he would become Hokage, had just killed a civilian.
He, Uzumaki Naruto, at the age of 5 made his first kill.
He took one look at the body…and ran.
"Well, well. It seems our dear little cousin has decided to come out of the cupboard. Lets take her to uncle. I saw him chasing her a while ago."
With that said, her cousins dragged her out to where her uncle was.
She struggled and struggled, but was no match for her three cousins. As they neared the door to her uncle's room, she felt shivers run down her body.
'KNOCK! KNOCK'
The door opened and her uncle opened the door. When he saw her, his face split into a wide grin. A tainted grin. A malicious grin.
Her cousins gave her one last shove before walking away.
Her uncle grabbed her hand before she could try and escape.
"Well, well. My dear niece has decided to stop hiding has she?" He questioned, licking his lips.
She tried not to cry. She tried not to show any weakness.
'I can't cry. I can't show my weakness. If I do, they'll call me weak again.'
She stood there quietly with her head bowed. Then, slowly, she opened her mouth and spoke.
"Why does everyone hate me?"
Her uncle laughed. "Because, you are not human. No, in fact, you are a demon. Years and years ago, your great, great, great, great, great grandfather fell in love with a celestial maiden. That woman was said to have extraordinary powers. However, when the clan disagreed on them being together, she was killed. But because she wasn't human, her soul occupied the body of another. It is said that she will keep changing hosts until she gets the most powerful host."
He stopped and bent down to her eye level. "You are her. You are her new host. She has killed many, and you will become just like her. Lets see just how powerful this celestial maiden really is."
She jerked her hand away and moved back. Her hand reached into the pouch she had around her waist. Her hand grabbed the handle of one of the new toy kunais she had gotten as a present from her parents.
As her uncle came closer and closer, she shut her eyes and threw the kunai at him.
'This won't do much, but it will give me an opportunity to escape.'
However when she her nothing but a thump, she realized something was wrong.
She opened her eyes and saw her uncle dead on the ground.
Dead…
Her uncle was dead.
She had just killed.
Her first kill was her uncle, a family member.
A member of the family she was supposed to love.
Haruno Sakura, at the age of 5, made her first kill.
She took one last look at the body and ran out the door.
He ran and ran. He didn't know how long he had been running for. All he knew was one thing.
'I need to get away from here.'
As he neared some bushes, he saw a Cherry Blossom tree with two figures standing near it. A boy and a girl. He was in no mood to be with others, but when he saw their sad and depressing moods he thought it better to join them.
She ran. She ran past her cousins and out of the house. She ran, to the only place she knew which could give her comfort…
the cherry blossom tree.
She collapsed as soon as she arrived at the tree and her tears started spilling. She was startled when some of the surrounding bushes moved. Out of it came a boy. He looked around her age and had golden yellow hair and cerulean blue eyes. However, what caught her attention the most was the unhappy, scared and petrified atmosphere around him.
He looked up and caught her eye.
He didn't know where he was going. He just needed to get away from that body. As he ran, he tripped and fell into some bushes. When he stumbled out, he saw a terrified girl with pink hair and emerald green eyes.
She was scared stiff and didn't move. He slowly inched towards her and, with a soft voice, asked her, "What's wrong? Are you ok?"
She shook her head and tears started to fall again.
At that moment, another boy stepped out of the bushes. He turned and stared at him. This boy looked about his age and had dark onyx eyes with dark black hair.
"Hey…what's wrong?" The boy asked softly.
"I don't know…" He replied.
Then, the girl spoke up.
"I'll tell you what happened to me, if you two tell me what happened to you."
He shifted. He didn't want to tell them what happened. Out of the corner of his eye, he could tell that the other boy was bothered too. However, when he saw the girl and her tear filled eyes, he relented.
"So…who wants to go first?"
When none of them answered he knew he had to go first. They all sat down and he started his tale.
"Ok then. I'll go first. I was going home, when I decided to take a short cut. I turned into an alley and bumped into a drunken old man. The man started chasing me so I ran. I ran and I ran but whenever he could, he would hit me. Then I met a dead end and he said some stuff. He said that I was a demon. That I was the Kyuubi. I don't understand…it's too confusing. Then, when he was going to pounce on me and beat me, I grabbed a bat and hit him. Except it wasn't a kunai I grabbed, it was a kitchen knife and I had sliced the man. There…there was blood…everywhere…"
He shivered as he remembered the blood.
This boy…he had gone through just as much as her. Believing that she could trust these to boys, she opened her mouth ready to tell her story.
"My mother and father had to go on a mission and so they put me at my uncle's place. No one in my family likes me except for mother and father. My uncle was very mad today, because one of my cousins had broken his favourite fuuma shuriken. So, he wanted to take his anger out on me, by beating me. I ran and hid in the cupboard but got caught by my cousins. They took me to my uncle and he told me that I had a demon in me. A celestial maiden. He was going to hit me again, so I thought I could throw one of my toy kunais at him, but I threw a real kunai and killed him. This morning, I might have gotten my toy kunais confused with my father's real kunais. Then, I ran. I didn't know what to do…"
And her tearsstarted to flowout faster this time.
He stared at her and the other boy. They had told him their story so it was only fair that he tells them his.
"I was going home after playing in the park. When I got home, all my family members were dead. Only my older brother was alive. He had killed them all. Then, he did some seals or something and did something to me. I think I fainted. When I woke up, he was gone. I walked out and one of my cousins was alive, but he thought that I had killed everyone. He tried to kill me and so I grabbed the closest thing and held it in front of me. But that thing was a kunai and I ended up killing him."
The three of them sat there in silence. Finally, the dark haired boy stood up.
"Where are you going?" The girl asked.
"I…need to leave. I heard that they will capture you if you killed someone. I don't want to get captured."
As he turned to leave, the yellow haired boy stood up too.
"Wait. I'm coming too. I killed someone too. I don't want to be captured."
The boy nodded and the two left.
After a few minutes, they heard a voice calling to them. They turned and saw the girl chasing them.
"I want to come too. I killed my uncle. Mother and father will hate me too now."
The yellow haired boy grinned and said, "Ok. But before we leave, lets tell each other our names."
"Haruno Sakura." The girl.
"Uchiha Sasuke." The dark haired boy.
"I'm Uzumaki Naruto!" The yellow haired boy.
With that said, the three of them headed towards the gates.
A/N: So…what do you think? Like it? Hate it? Please tell me. This is the longest I have ever written, and I know they seem a bit out of character but they're still young. I hope you enjoyed it, and I will try my best to update soon, but currently school is very hectic.
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