"I remember that my mother had always told me the same story after story on the evenings of my birthdays. I remember the way she held me tenderly while looking into the near distance. I remembered she telling me how she wept in despair hearing from the midwife that she had just birthed a girl. It almost seemed as if she had already witnessed my fate from then on. "
It was what was found embedded into the next page that shocked Miya the most.
There was a portrait of the likeness of a woman, whose long strands of the night framed the porcelain alabaster skin bejeweled upon with a pair of radiant serene blue eyes. Even though the woman seemed to be a delicate specimen, Miya knew exactly who she reminded her of.
"How is this possible?" Miya whispered softly.
The shaded man in front of her chuckled in a sinister manner.
"Why does she look exactly like me!" Miya shrieked into the dark.
"I had already told you before...you play an important role in all of what is about to unfold. There are things the elders have kept hidden in the dark. Those secrets contained how history became the way it is today and perhaps even tomorrow and then on." The man standing amongst the shadows spoke.
"What does entrusting this diary to me have to do with anything?" Miya questioned the man before her.
"It contains an inside viewpoint of the past. It will show you things I could not and the elders would not tell you. It will make the present a lot more clearer." those were the words the man left her with before he parted ways.
" I know that it is already too late to change the outcome, but I do hope that my tale will shed some light on the details which will be left out in the records. This will be the story of how I met the two greatest men of my life and how together they changed the world."
As Miya took a closer look at the bottom of the picture, there in an elegant handwriting was the name Shizumi.It was then that Miya knew the owner and author of the book. Both the Sandaime and the Godaime had commented on the similarities in both appearance and personality which were strikingly similar in them. The Lady Shizumi was known for being the Nidaime's unrequited love.
"Still, I do not regret loving Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju from my childhood till my final last breath."
