Suffocate

Prologue


The moonlight hung high above her head while she's running viciously through the woods. Her feet were heavy and her right side of her body was soar and painful. She knows that the farther she ran, the farther away she became from him. He has been haunting her mind, her dreams when she slept, and her every thought of escape. He has prevented that, and still she wonders like a lost and confused animal. Suddenly, her body became weak, and she fell to her knees. Darkness has been following her for years, and at last, she can escape from it. As the shadows crossed over her eyes, she felt her body hit the hard, cold ground, and she could hear the distant thunder, and the last thing she felt were the rain drops falling from the sky and landing upon her...


She awoke in a dark room, her head hurting, and somehow it felt like she was spinning. When she stared into the darkness, she somehow remembered a pair of crimson eyes watching her, waiting for her to wake up. She questioned herself, trying to prevent herself from falling asleep, knowing he would be there to rape her mind once more. But somehow, the blackness comes and goes, and she awakes to the light of the sun streaming through an open window, and to the sound of an excited voice.

"Are you alright?"

She sat up and spoke, but she was surprised to see a boy smiling at her. His wild, spiky blond hair matted around a metal and black head band with a leaf symbol carved in the center. His wild blue eyes seemed to scan her, and she noticed three lines cut across his face to resemble whiskers. He looked so strange, yet somehow...familiar.

"Are you alright?" he asked again. She didn't know how to answer, so she rubbed her arm, which she noticed was bandaged. How did she get this way? She didn't remember anything, and everything before she woke up was a blank. She turned to the boy...

The boy approached her and smiled.

"Hi, I'm Uzumaki Naruto. What's your name?" he spoke, brushing back a few black strands of hair from her face. She thought hard of her name, which somehow, she must've forgotten, and then a flower came to mind. A beautiful flower, falling from the trees.

"Micamura Rika," she spoke. The boy smiled, and notices the girl's silver eyes and the cold, blank stare that they held, similar to snow.

"It's nice to meet you, Rika!"

She smiled, but a sharp pain started to spread from her right side, and she winced in pain. What was going on? What was happening to her? Where was she?