I don't own Naruto or the idea for this story, but the story is mine.
Warnings: Open-ended-ness, this story doesn't tell who is in it, just that they are a girl in a ninja team, cliffhanger ending
There's a photograph on the table next to my bed. The photograph shows good times… the three of us and our sensei at the end of a successful mission… those good times are gone now… we've all moved on, got lives, families and finishing the duties of the one that came before us. I like thinking about the good times, my teams arms fighting alongside me, I always felt safe fighting with them and next to them.
I never had to be perfect with them, I just wanted to be. They saw me, the me I wanted others to see…not just a girl but a team mate, and a fighter. They saw me the way I wanted to see me, with all my flaws out and still saw me as good enough. It's been along time since I have been good enough to people, something I do is always wrong, and I'll never get anything right. I just want the feeling back that I can be right, that I am smart.
People think I come home and spend the night washing my hair or going out to parties, when all I really do when I get home is look at the photograph by my bed and remember the people I want to be with … the two that are beside me in the picture and a million miles away from me now.
As I walked in to my home from a mission, my legs took me into my room where my eyes fell on the photograph. Battered and bruised, I gave a small smile to the faces looking at me. I laid down on my bed covered in the evidence on the mission, aching all over and blood running down my body, I held the picture to my chest and fell down in to the darkness.
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