The Dance of Life
Summery: Dances are quite uncommon in Kahona, so when one occurs everyone goes. When Lady Tsunade plans a special dance for all of the ninjas of Kahona everyone is hyped up and exited, that is except for Mara. She's terrified of going to dances! Why is Mara so afraid? Can a close friend help Mara over come her fears?
Warning: There will be cursing, violence, and rape within this story. (Rating: PG – 13)
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters. Just my OOC character(s). (I know, every gets tired of seeing these things. But I'd rather put it in to be safe rather than have my story deleted and having to start all over again)
(Names from (except for Mara)
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Chapter 1 – The Invite from Lady Tsunade
"Gai Sensei, why did you call all of us? Did we get a last minute mission again?" I questioned him as I stood next to my team mates with a rather annoyed look on my face from being disrupted from my spar with Tenten.
Gai Sensei has been notorious for pulling last minute missions up unexpectedly and making us do them. Everyone, but Lee, got quite annoyed with the fact that he did it.
Gai Sensei let out a small chuckle.
"I wouldn't consider it a mission, but if you want you can. No, the real reason I called our group meeting is that Lady Tsunade made an announcement earlier today about this!" He said as he flashed a note in front of us.
Silently and quickly, I grabbed the note from him and began reading it quietly.
"…Well, what does it say?" Lee questioned with a beaming smile on his face.
Neji and Tenten just stood there waiting.
I let out a small sigh. I knew I was going to regret reading this later.
"It says:
Dear Kahona Ninjas,
In honor of all your hard work, I have decided to hold a dance. The date is set for a week after the Chunin exams. The location is set to be at the mansion of Lady Yoshimoto Hana on the north end of Kahona. Everything will be provided. Please dress in your nicest clothing. This dance is mandatory and you are to have a date.
Good day,
Lady Tsunade"
(Ooc: I know, that was badly written. But I'm not the greatest when I comes to connecting to Tsunade's personality )
"That's only a month away!" Shrieked Tenten as she noticed how close the Chunin exams were.
"I don't honestly see what's so big about these dances anyways," Neji stated as he just stared off into the clouds.
"Well, we're all going and that's final," Implied Gai Sensei with a stern, but happy, look on his face.
"Yosh!" Said Lee as he jumped up with excitement, ready for his first dance.
This would be the second dance in my lifetime. Flash backs of last one slowly flooded out from the back of mind.
Flash back to three years ago
"For being ten, you're a good dancer," my boy friend, Akihiko, as we danced to a slow song.
This was a business ball being hosted at Yoshimoto mansion for my father and the company he worked for. It was said that this ball was a celebration for a new branch that was built in another country that I never heard of at the time. Being ten, I didn't really care much about what was going on in the world.
"Thank you Akihiko," I replied with a small blush on my face as the song ended. "…Well, I should go and find my father.
Right as I turned around and began to walk off, I felt someone grab me by my hand and jerk me back.
"Wait, before you go, I want to show you something," said Akihiko as he began to drag me off into an empty corridor.
"O…okay," I managed to stutter, trying to understand what he was doing.
Suddenly Akihiko pulled me into an empty room far from the ballroom. By this time I was getting worried.
"A…Ak… Akihiko, what are you doing?" I said nearly in a whisper as he locked the door and turned out the lights.
"Just having a little fun," He said whispering in my ear while unzipping the back of my dress.
"Akihiko no!" I screamed as I started struggling, struggling for my life …
"Mara…Mara…Mara!" I could here as the flashback was cut short.
"Mara, is something wrong?" I could hear worry in Tenten's voice.
I didn't notice how bad I was shaking or how bad I was crying.
"I'm sorry," I said as I roughly wiped at the tears that flowed down my face. "I…I got to go."
I turned and started running. To where, not even I could have known at the time. I just wanted to get way…away from the memories.
"Mara, where are you going?" I could hear Gai Sensei call out to me.
"Just let her be," I could faintly hear behind me as I continued running.
(Ooc: That was Neji saying "let her be")