Okay, I've dropped a couple of my other fics for now so I can work on this new one and Miss Understood. Sorry the first chapter's so short, but I've already started the second and it should be out soon. Please review with questions and comments! I laugh at you flames, flamers!
Disclaimer: Don't own it.
My Final Fairytale
Chapter 1: Flames
I ran through the orchard - where, I don't know. But someone – something – was following. There was no noise, and that's what scared me the most. Even my quick footsteps, my hard breathing, my pounding heart; they were silent. Nothingness, but the rows of trees. Row after row, stretching on for an eternity, a never ending garden of fruitless towers.
And then suddenly it did end, at least for a while. For on each side of the clearing the trees continued, branching out into the night and blocking out even the ethereal glow of midnight's full moon. But in this clearing, the moonlight broke through the branches of a tree – just a single one, huge and ancient. It must have grown ages before the choking forests surrounding it. I unconsciously ran my hand along the rough, scarred bark of the tree, the only sanctuary in this darkness, and I was filled with the strange sensations of curiosity and fear. No, not fear…
Excitement.
And then it erupted into flames.
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My name is Temari.
You've heard of me, but you don't know me. No one does. I'm a Kazekage's daughter, a Kazekage's sister, and a powerful Jounin of Suna. I'm also a woman, still a child afraid of the dark. You've met people who've met me, but you've never met me yourself. You never will. I'm strong, tanned, and blonde, with deep green eyes. I'm also outspoken, still strangled by silence.
This is my story.
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My story begins seventeen years ago. I'm twenty now, and it's soon to end. Listen patiently, for I'll be gone by the sunrise.
It didn't start when I was born. It started when I was three, in the depths of that wondrous place I called home. It started with my mother – or her death, at least.