Like Ripples In A Pond,
A Tragic Love Story of a Girl Without a Name.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
My name was never important, and never will be.
The only thing that has a name worth mentioning at all is his.
He is everything to me, and I thought he could never hurt me, but he did.
I'm not sure if he knew, knows, or cares, but I lost him.
The boy I loved,
Uchiha Itachi.
I was the loneliest girl that the ninja academy here has ever seen.
Not only that, but probably the weakest, with nothing coming for her,
one of the no-name shinobi whose names are forgotten in time.
To some, kunoichi are already weak, being female, but overall,
I'm weak.
I can't do anything at all, I'm the smartest, but will be one of the no-name shinobi
that can only past the first test and wear the headband to just say,
'I am shinobi.'
But, the genius child prodigy of the Uchiaha clan
befriended me on our first day of school,
and became my only friend.
The Uchiaha house was my picture perfect of a happy family.
And I considered them my second family, more of a family then my own.
Itachi surpassed us, left to higher grades, mastered faster, had more things to tell,
but we were always together.
Itachi wasn't always there to watch his younger brother, so I baby sat him.
Little Sasuke was an enjoyable child.
He smiled, he laughed, he never had to cry.
We would play in the grass, Itachi would join us, and give him a piggy back ride around town.
I was happy,
me and Itachi always had time for each other.
One day, he came over to my house, and asked if he could walk with me.
We walked quietly all the way to the tree with the swing by the academy.
I sat on the swing and he stood, leaning against the tree.
We spent many a day on the tree, playing in the grassing, having fun.
He stood silent until he finally said it.
He told me he was moving up to ANBU rank,
one of the most top ranking ninja.
His dark eyes had something lingering in them and the marks under his eyes were more stressed than usual.
He was anxious, his body just gave off anxiety,
He was holding something in, but he was worried... and scared of what he was going to say.
I asked him to tell me what was troubling him,
and he told me.
He wanted to be my boyfriend.
I was taken aback.
It wasn't that I didn't want to, it would be a dream I never dreamed come true,
but I didn't think he would ever say that.
He swore that he would protect me to the day he died, and swore he would die before me.
I agreed, and the days to follow were the most blissful days I have ever had.
Everyone knew and talked about how they could see us married.
I always blushed, and Itachi blushed slightly to,
but only I could notice.
But my bliss ended one day.
The day he decided it was necessary to kill his clan.
He killed his best friend first, they were closer than most brothers.
I never knew he killed him until after the incident.
One day, my love, Itachi, went and killed his whole clan.
And left Sasuke to live and suffer.
I never knew he would do this,
never thought it was part of him.
The day before he killed them, we were at the swing again.
He told me that he was leaving on a mission and would be gone for sometime.
But he swore once again,
that he would never hurt me, and would one day, marry me.
I was stunned.
He was holding my hands as I sat in the swing.
Then he bent over to my cheek and kissed it.
At that moment,
As I watched him leave,
I was the happiest girl in the world.
But i didn't last till morning.
The news spread like ripples in a pond, and by morning,
I learned what my love did.
I would never trust anyone anymore.
And for a week, I was in hell.
Everywhere I went, there where whispers in the shadows and them saying about how I was the girl who was with the murderer.
My life was a hell, and I couldn't live anymore.
Itachi swore things to me.
He swore he would never hurt me,
protect me,
marry me,
and die before me.
He was wrong.
He hurt me,
I'm not sure how, I was filled with pain,
he could not protect me,
from the cruelness of the people in town,
he could not marry me,
and he died before me.
And now, by the time anyone reads this,
I am dead.
A kunia through the heart,
right on our swing is were I lay.
And Itachi, my love,
if you read this,
you were wrong.
You hurt me,
you couldn't protect me,
you can't marry me,
and I died before you.
But know this,
I love you.
By FearTheFan, A.K.A. Emi-Chan
