Scandalous Travellers
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Written by: Sakura0chan
Beta: blairwitch :)
Won't anybody come take me home?
Take me by the hand, take me somewhere new.
Together chasing our dreams… our dream to be finally free.
Hi, my name is 01291. Yes, that's my name. I'm just a number on a piece of paper, nothing more, nothing less.
When I was younger, I was told I was something special, something irreplaceable. It was mother who usually told me. But all that changed. My life changed drastically as my parents died.
It was a tragic death. I remember their faces, splattered with crimson blood. I saw my mother and father fight against some men in dark clothes wearing masks. It was then my dad did something really scary. He punched one of them and the bad guy was thrown backwards. I opened the door slowly and my mother screamed, "GO AWAY!", but I stayed. I watched as my dad tried to protect me.
SPLASH. His blood flew down on the fresh polished floor. One of them sliced his throat. My mother was killed a second later by a large sharp edge of a chair which had been bashed into her causing her fall down.
I looked at the blood on the floor and it was shining. It seemed to smile at me, really, it smiled. I got so furious that I hit the door on my left making it crack. The door was the first victim. After that, I killed all the men that were still alive.
First of all I was afraid. I never felt so much power pulsating through myveins, but suddenly, I did. That was when I was 7.
Power.
Protecting and destroying.
I held it in my hands.
Now, I'm 17 and currently attending High School. I have friends, too.
But there was this special thing that made me odd. Since then, they used to hate me, used to abdomen me, ignore or beat me up.
I don't know it myself, but I have something inside me, I can't deny it.
Let me take you to the part of my life where it all changed so drastically.
Flashback:
I was running around on the soccer field playing with some of my classmates when I sidestepped one of the opponents and scored a goal.
"Sakura-chan!" a girl exclaimed, that was awesome!"
I gave her a kind smile as she looked at me in awe.
"Look .. the ball went right through the net! That was a hell of a shot.", a boy said. I looked at the ripped net and shrugged.
We started running again, until one of our friends fell down hard. I could even hear his bone shatter. Somewhere, something inside of me began to grow.
We all ran to the boy who was now crying out in pain, and tried to stop him from moving his broken wrist.
Slowly, I felt the urge to help him. I gasped as I felt suddenly really weak.I saw a green light coming from under my pale palms. Sweat poured down my face but I felt that he was okay now and stopped, flopping down on to the ground.
When I looked up after few seconds, I stared in to the terrified faces of my friends causing them to run away a second later.
Two weeks later I got a letter from a lab on the end of the town. If I didn't want to be executed, I had to go there everyday. So I went. I remember the screaming coming out of some rooms.
So I slowly became the number 01291. Whenever someone saw me and asked me "What's your name, miss?", I'd always answer 01291.
Whenever I said my name, they repeated the number deep in thought and watched me with those looks. "You're THAT child.."
I became a voice without a face.
It was like a grudge. When I returned home in the evening I was weak and my new family didn't make it better; they avoided me.
So I fled.
Flashback end.
Now 10 years later, I'm still a number. Student number 20330 or something like that, written down in one of the High School computers.
Just numbers. 20330, 01291... numbers.
Numbers without a face.
I lived on my own in a little flat near a river. In the evening I used to work in a café which paid just enough for the rent. I avoided everyone and lived by myself.
Now I was sitting in the classroom, in the back row like always. I was pretty smart and I knew it. Suddenly the door opened, revealing 5 dark clothed men.
"Excuse me?", the teacher yelped in shock.
"#01291, we came to get you.", one of them said in a cold voice.
My classmates looked around, trying to find out who was 01291. I stood up slowly and I felt the eyes of everyone stab me because they couldn't understand me.
I laid my hand down on the table, it crumbled under my touch.
"No, I won't." I said with a monotonal voice.
"Should we get you by force?", on of them asked.
I nodded and he ran at me. I only stood there.
"Not here.", I said disappearing out of the school. I saw my whole class staring at me.
The first one ran again so I let him come close enough before I started punching him. The bluish glow over my hands told me that I was ready.
He was down in a minute so another came after me with daggers. I dodged them as best as I could and pulled out a kunai I bought from a weapon shop to defend myself.
The second and third one went down in a split second. I was panting hard bynow and I know it weakened my body.
After a hard fight I managed to fight a guy who had a gun – he was toostupid to use it correctly, else I would be dead now.
I walked home limping slightly because of a wound on my waist, the blood slipping through my fingers as I made it into the house, as I collapsed on my comfy bed.
After an hour of sleep, I was able to heal myself as I watched the greenish light under my hand again.
I wanted to stop being a number, I didn't want to be 01291 anymore, I was fed up with it. I packed my most important stuff and ran out into the sun set like my life depended on it and I knew it did. I didn't know how long I ran until I
found a big highway. I waved at a car who parked two meters away from me.
I knew hitchhiking was dangerous, but at the moment staying at home was more dangerous than this.
My eyes knitted as I opened the door of the car.
"Where are you driving to?" I asked.
It was a young woman, maybe 28 or younger, her hair was black and up in a ponytail. She had dark eyes which were somehow cold and made me shiver.
"Konohagakure.", she said.
This town sounded so far away. Perfect.
"Could I drive with you?", I asked her.
"Are you on the run? Don't you think your parents would be sad?" she asked.
"No, I don't have parents anymore and I want to get there because my grandmother lives there," I lied smoothly, faking a smile.
"Well .. then .. I'm Anko," she said hesitating.
"I'm…" I paused. No I wasn't a number anymore. I was fed up with running and hiding. I wanted to leave my past behind me and not thinking about it anymore. I wanted to start a new life with new opportunities. Maybe
they wouldn't find me and I could finally live a life in peace.
I saw Anko waving her hand in front of my face.
"You coming?" she asked.
"Hai. My name is Sakura, Sakura Haruno.", I smiled and got in.
Goodbye 01291.
And so, I became a traveller without trust, love and a clue.
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This is the Beta'ed version. :)
Done. Sorry, I know it's short but it's just the beginning. Hope you'll like it.
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