Forever Remembered
Prologue:
A Memory That Can't Be Forgotten
It was December seventeenth and the whole village of Konohagakure was covered in a foot of snow. The worst part about the sparkling whiteness, it hid dangerous, barely frozen over rivers and lakes. No one knew where the below freezing waters started or ended when the snow was at an even level every where you looked. It was even more dangerous when running from people who wanted to beat you down to the point of death.
This was the particular case for a young eight year old blonde haired boy. His crystalline blue eyes shining with fearful tears as he heard the pounding of his heart in his ears. His lungs burned from the freezing cold air as he gasped for breath, his pursuers still on his trail. He wasn't paying close attention to where he was going, all he wanted was to get away, hide away from the pain that he knew would be coming if he slowed down even a little.
Shouts from his pursuers full of anger and hatred for the young boy they were after were heard along with their relentless footsteps hitting the ground. His fear rose with every second that passed as more tears blurred his vision. Barely able to see where he was going he couldn't tell what was solid ground and what was a frozen over death trap. Still he kept running, heart racing, lungs gasping for air, legs and arms going numb from running for almost an hour straight now.
The young boy was scared, terrified of what they would do to him if he was caught. For his entire life people have hated him, ignored him, shunned him for something that was never his fault. He hated how his life was so full of pain he didn't deserve, he hated the fact that he was always alone and no one cared if he lived or died. Thinking to himself made the small blonde lose track of where he was going and that is when it happened.
The next step he took was all that was needed to do it. He heard a loud crack which made the young blonde freeze in place. Still panting for air he looked over his shoulder and saw that his pursuers had stopped chasing him, that's how he knew something was wrong. It was too late though, the ice had cracked even more under the light weight of the eight year old. Exhausted from running he could no longer move. It seemed to happen within seconds. The ice broke away and the young blonde fell through into the freezing waters below.
It was the coldest, most painful thing he had ever experienced in his entire eight years of life. He wanted to scream out for help but when he tried ice cold water filled his mouth and lungs making it impossible. He tried to swim back to the surface but he couldn't find the hole he fell through and his small body was going into shock from the below freezing liquid depths. Finally he gave up trying to save himself and began to sink deeper and deeper into the dark depths of the lake.
His vision began to blur as he slowly lost consciousness but before everything went completely black he saw a figure in the water above him. The young blonde thought it was just his imagination creating hallucinations but he continued to watch the dark silhouette as it reached out for him. The blue eyed eight year old lost consciousness completely just as he felt something wrap around his wrist.