Aristocrat
A Cantarella/ Naruto story
Summary: When Chiaro fled Cesare had no more light to protect him from the dark. Almost consumed by it, he spells himself to sleep. To be awaken by new light. Who turns out to be a ninja …
Sun shone through the treetops, creating columns of light. They stood like guards in front of a majestic marble palace. The stone looked old and cracked, most of it hidden from view by vines and leaves
A garden that was once well cared for and shone with aristocratic beauty, now stood rumpled but gorgeous never the less. It's beauty now mach more natural and wild. Rose bushes entwined their branches with olive trees. Old stone benches, choking under their own weight and the weight of time. A fountain, once white and polished- now green and cracked.
The marble palace stood deserted. It had been there for as long as anyone could remember. And for as long as anyone could remember not even one person entered its territory. Even those with strong will and mind turned back before even reaching the garden.
Eventually people started to avoid that place, preferring not to talk about it, rather making up scary stories about a haunted mansion.
Over time generations changed and replaces each other, but the palace still stood there. Mountains rose, oceans came closer and the face of the planet altered. People came into the world with strange powers, wars raged and soon a group of warriors came together to form peace. They choose a secluded part of the world and surrounded it with a barrier, stopping all things from crossing it.
Slowly the closed off part started to drift apart from our world, becoming a new one. Growing new lands, gaining oceans and seas and new continents, unexplored by any.
And near the old mountains still stood the palace, alien in the midst of forests.
Time passed and a village grew not far from the palace. The forest surrounding the mansion was inhibited by dangerous creatures and plants and soon became a training ground called, acutely, The Forest of Death.
In a couple of decades a great demon attacked the village, killing a lot of its people and with them the Hokage. A leader of Konohagakure. Village hidden in the leaves. The hokage saved his people by sealing the Great Fox in a newborn baby, making him the jailor of the demon. Thus condemning him to a life full of hateful glares and beatings. The boy grew alone, unloved and unwanted.
All of that changed when time came to take the second part of an examination for a chuunin exam. The part that took place in The Forest of Death.