This will be the very first time that I am writing a Naruto fiction so please be nice .
The Summer Storm
Plot: Amidst the warring state period, two people were linked together by fate. It was to heal her broken heart and to bring him the true joy of loving someone so hard he could not stay alive. However, both are torn between duties and emotions. Will they ever allow themselves to create another meaning of happiness and live life as it was once again?
She was meant to be treated in a special way, like a princess, like a royalty. She must be treated with utmost respect as her bloodline descended from the goddess Konohana-Sakuya-Hime. She was a daughter of a powerful lord in the country she belonged.
Yet she was treated harshly. She was treated inhumane by the captors as she was the result of tragic loss in war. One they called the spoils of war. The father who had been slain and was soullessly beheaded in front her pure hearted mother. The mother of who nurtured and made them blossomed was quartered to death. The one and only innocent sibling that has yet to be oblivious of the world was burned to death. She remembered the loud cries they made and how much they suffered from the cruelties of these barbaric people. Her heart was unsettled between pure anger and loneliness.
The future with the ones she loved was destroyed in just a day. How can fate be cruel. She hasn't blossomed yet, a young flower that has not yet blossomed. However she aware in her surrounding and understood much of what was happening around. She knew that she was next in line to die. She was prepared to die. She was not scared of dying, however if she is still destined to live, then how? Living in these times were horrendous than darkness swallowing you and having no existence at all.
She can hear the soldiers laughing and bragging of how many people they have killed in process to have their small land. Half of the people she knew were either dead or brought as slaves and some fled away before the war broke out. Only few who sided with her family and only few who stayed by their side because they are all too aware that the clan had few powerful people. They were an easy target to begin with, the only reason they survived was staying incognito which is a certain technique passed down to them every generation to protect the family from incoming enemies.
She guessed that this generation of the clan was unlucky, a powerful clan discovered them. A clan that were godly enough to destroy and create a bloody massacre.
She was glad she was able to see this bittersweet world. It is time to say farewell as she consumed the poison brought to her. For the last time, she was thankful that she did not suffer the same kind of cruel death.
No.
"Why do I still feel alive?"
She can still feel her heartbeat. She can still feel her soul intact with her earth body. She can still speak thru her mind.
More importantly she can still open her eyes and found herself in a very new environment. It was somewhere foreign and unknown to her eyes. She still wore the same tattered white kimono stained with blood that symbolized that she was imprisoned. The ash colored hair she possessed were disheveled and worn loose. Some of her cuts and bruises seemed to slowly heal. She suspects that she had been asleep for days.
The place where she woke was again brought to her senses. It was somewhere unknown and she knew that it was a broken house built with the deep forest. This is a place so far from the turbulent place she had been.
She tried to stand but some of the broken bones she got stopped her. Her strength has not yet fully recovered. In truth she felt tired. Her mind, her heart, her soul, it was all tired. However, she still tried. She was given another chance to live. Why waste it and give life another chance?
She was saved. But who ? Who save saved her. A lot of the clansmen died in action. No one would save a useless tragic princess that cannot protect the ones she love be saved and allowed to live again? When in fact, there's someone needed saving? What can she contribute to the brutal society when gender is taken unequally?
How was she supposed to live again without knowing the capabilities and knowledge needed in the outside world. All throughout 12 years of living, she was sheltered, was spoon fed, was never given a problem, and most probably never experienced what was like living thru the shoes of the ordinary people. The skill she only knew was to read and make flowers grow. She can't even make a living and can't a find a roof for herself. Selling herself was not an option either as it was against her will and even if she's homeless and penniless she still carried the pride of a princess. She still carried the pride of being a member of small clan yet powerful in the field of growing peace and beautifying nature.
What is she going to do now? she cant even move. Her body won't allow her too.
How?
"Mother, father, oh heavenly ancestors, may you help me and grace me with wisdom and strength." She prayed, realizing salty liquids went out of her eyes.
She prayed that someone would help her again. She can't stay like this forever.
The girl once again closed her emerald eyes filled with tears, hoping and praying that someone save her.
And like a wind, she can sense an unknown figure in her presence. Her heart beated rapidly. What if it's trouble again, however instincts were telling her it was help. She can't choose between them.
She can't trust people again easily.
Opening her eyes, those onyx eyes pierced to the emerald ones she possessed. It was a male individual. His physical characteristic possessed of a pale white skin, a medium haircut with fringes that were cut in different lengths, a sharp nose, lips that were pursed in, and those clear onyx eyes that looked promising. His character seemed to fit a noble person and a male belonging to a clan. She cannot be mistaken.
"Please, save me." Those were the first words she told him, the first three words she uttered to say to him without thinking as automatically and carelessly she told to him.
'What was I saying?'
She tightened her grip wondering what would happen next and to her surprise the male figure before her unhesitantly picked her up from her lying down position as she was carried like a babe in his strong arms.
Mysteriously, the arms that held her thin frame was like peace, it reminded her that it is safety.
So, she knew in his presence and in his life she would be someone essential and she was someone to give him feelings of unknown.
AUTHORS NOTE: FIRST CHAPTER EVER AND I THINK THE LONGEST (I GUESS) I'VE WRITTEN SO FAR. THANKS R&R PLS :D
Ps: Still editing this story due to some grammatical error and such. As soon as the series completes I am going to edit everything to correct some wrongs and such. Thank you, arigatou gozaimasu :D