Bouquet of Flowers
Prologue
Lotus
At dawn I asked the lotus, what is the meaning of life?' Slowly she opened her hand with nothing in it.
- Debra Woolard Bender
When girls are young they may find themselves being compared to flowers.
Pretty girls tend to be compared to roses and tulips while ugly ones were degraded to weeds or at most dandelions.
Sato Yui was often compared to a weed. It wasn't surprising to Yui as the long ink black fringe that covered the top half of her face and the way her baggy hand-me-downs hung off her skinny figure were things people didn't class as 'pretty'. The fact that she was unsociable and straightforward was also something that Yui knew took part in her nickname but unlike most girls she actually liked the title of weed. To Yui weeds were the true beauties of the grassy fields. They were the things that brought out the beauty of the flowers surrounding them…the true 'flowers' that hid in the shadows…
Her unique thoughts and standoffish attitude made Yui the person she was and as the years passed and Yui reached her 25th birthday the raven haired woman found herself lying in a cold hospital bed with an empty flower vase gathering dust beside her.
At the age of 25 Yui had lost her family, was abandoned by her friends and succumbed to the fate of a slow and painful death.
Acute lymphocytic leukemia was the diagnosis of her doctors and by her test results Yui was not expected to live to see her 30th birthday…
It was the 5th month after her 27th birthday that Yui listened to her steadily beating heart slowly quicken and welcomed the dark abyss as it consumed her,.
Yui had laid in that darkness for what seemed like months until she was pushed out of it and into the blinding light of the familiar sun. For months she used her fuzzy vision and dull hearing to observe her new surroundings and on the first year since she had been reborn into the world Yui was finally able to identify her new identity as 'Uchiha Shizuko' and the world she had been reborn into as 'Naruto'.
