The Fallen
Prologue – A Great Fire
I shifted through the rubble of the burned down house. Fire had the effect of ruining things. There wasn't much good that this fire could've had since it almost killed all of the occupants, including myself, I Jounin shinobi. My mind couldn't process, causing me not being able to move my body at all. Panic seized my entire being. Even someone such as I could feel fear and I feared an element, common within almost everyone's being in Fire Country. It makes me feel stupid that I couldn't do anything. Being weak from a serious injury doesn't exactly help either. Nothing helped at the moment.
Looking around a bit more, I kicked at a piece of the ceiling and winced as it cut at my ankle. "That wasn't smart," I sighed, feeling the blood begin to slowly come out of the wound. Something caught my eye and I smiled. Maybe I was wrong.
Reaching down, I grabbed two books and laughed when I saw the cover of the one on top. It was the good old Team 7, back when we were young and thought that love could just randomly fall out of trees. As I tapped my fingers on the cover, I examined it and found it only grayed the the fire and not burned. That was something. My eyes traced over the designs and I smiled a bit at the designs that were drawn throughout the cover, around the picture, some parts actually going through into the backround. It actually made me want to cry. In this great fire, I found something that cost more than a house and was the equality of the lives inside of the house. This was our story, this was our past. Everything just seemed to pour out. In these books were memories, stories, doodles, little tidbits of the past, and just plain out our past as a whole. It wasn't just the team, it was everyone in Konoha.
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I'm in the Uzumaki compound now, just for now. It's nothing much, unless you add the complexity it has, along with the many houses like the Uchiha compound. Yeah, that's what happens I guess when family becomes just that. They grow and the kids just go from little cuties to little devils right before your eyes. That's why you hang out on rooftops so they don't find you.
"They torturing you too?" a voice asked behind me. Looking behind me, I saw my longtime friend Naruto coming up behind me. "I'm their father and they annoy the hell out of me sometimes. I don't know how you girls do it."
This made me laugh. "I don't know either Naru," I replied. The nickname rolled off my tongue so naturally that I jerked my hand a bit. Just like old times.
"You thinking about this aren't you," Naruto stated, tossing a book next to me. Looking down, I smiled again. It was the memory book. "A smartass shinobi with one of the best memory storage I've ever known. That's basically it with every detail."
Taking up the familiar book, I looked down on it. In all the one month since I've retrieved this, I haven't once looked inside and neither has anyone else. Naruto just spends time looking at it as much as he can and Sai looks at it over our shoulders. A certain someone just smiles whenever he sees it. Everyone wants to remember, but they find it very haunting. All the troubles we went through just didn't need to resurface some days ago.
"Maybe you should look at it," my blond friend suggested, sitting down next to me. He voiced everyone's thoughts about it.
"Maybe I will," I said, putting a small finger under the front cover. Opening it, I smiled at the the first page. Pictures of everyone were all around the edges, surrounding something in the middle. Looking at it, I felt my heart beat faster. One of the sayings that one of us have said and thought. It was the most meaningful and here it is.
This is our story and no one will forget it once they become a part of us
This is my project as of right now. I felt like my old Fallen was pretty horribly written so I decided to rewrite this one with more of an actually storyline and stuff. So sit back and enjoy some new stuff. And I'll make this clear: THERE IS NO SAKURA FOR NOW, SHE WILL COME…. Much later.
Music: Top 10 Techno songs by gioiscool33 on youtube
