Prologue - Ending the agonizing pain
Hey guys, V-Flash here.
Symbol of despair seems to be well received by you guys, for the most part.
So, let's see how this new one goes. Let's begin, shall we?
All stories have 2 sides, regardless of its subject matter...
On one side, there is the personal one. This...is your own story, the one you unravel yourself and therefore experience.
However...
On the other side lies a great shadow of mystery where both the mind and soul never wander.
In this case, nobody knows the other side of THIS story...and nobody wants to, but I shall tell you all anyway.
I was an exile, an outcast on verge of oblivion...
I was fatally wounded one day while out on a mission. The target for the mission was quickly getting away. Fortunately, I was able to catch up to him and subdue him before he could escape, but I ended up getting nailed in the chest in the process. The attack had pierced one of my lungs and I was losing blood fast, on top of all my other injuries.
I couldn't move. I felt like I was paralyzed. As I lay there in the cold, rain-covered ground, I saw movement out of the corner of my eye. It was the target, but someone else was with him. Whoever this person was, they were helping him off of the floor and began to walk off. They took one glance at me and almost immediately started walking away.
No concern, no hesitation, NOTHING.
They left me to DIE. I thought it was the end. I had no way of calling for help.
It was over.
But then, this...woman appeared.
I saw her silhouette looming over me. I struggled to open my eyes further. All I could make out was her long, raven-black hair and her eyes.
Those eyes, I couldn't avert my gaze as I stared back. I tried to move, a futile attempt to try and get away from whoever she was. As I tried to get my body to move in any way possible, she kneeled down until her face was right in front of mine. The rain was making it hard to identify her, but...
She seemed...familiar, like I had seen her before, but I couldn't remember how or where.
She grabbed both sides of my face and suddenly, her pupils began to morph shape.
The last thing I remembered before I blacked out was smile on her face.
I didn't remember much about what transpired afterwards as I was in and out of consciousness multiple times, among other reasons. Almost everything that happened after she found me still eludes me for a while. Well, most of it, at least...
9 years had passed since the day she found me.
She and I travel together nowadays. We go around, accepting any bounty we come across and split the reward when we turn them in. That's pretty much how we make a living. As we traveled across the nations, turning in bounty after bounty, I asked her about what had happened after she found me that day. It took a little bit of convincing, but she eventually gave in and began told me all about it.
Apparently, she was once part of an organization whose mission was to achieve "true peace" and that I was the catalyst that would bring about that peace.
After I was injured during that one mission, she was sent in to capture me. She then went on about how their leader tried to turn me into a mindless puppet by experimenting on me while I was in his grasp. He and his group weren't successful, but their attempts at lobotomizing me did affect me both physically and mentally, in more ways than one...
In a physical sense, my body was weakened immensely when they, according to her, "ripped something out of me", whatever that means.
My right arm could no longer function either. Because of their experiments, it was rendered useless and since my chakra network would constantly try to force its way through the closed points in my arm, I was in a constant state of agonizing pain. So I severed it to stop that pain from continuing and had a new metal arm as a replacement. There were a few other...modifications here and there that I had received, but that's a story for another time...
Mentally, I ended up losing a significant portion of my memories. Oddly enough, I still retained whatever training I had received up until that point but other than that, most of my past life was wiped from my head. I couldn't remember my shinobi rank, who my teammates were(If I had any), where my home village was...
There were many other things she revealed to me but again, that's a story for another time...
Satisfied with her explanation, I asked her if she knew the two people who left me for dead all those years ago, so that I could get back at them for what they did to me. All she did was give me a sad smile and told me that she knew exactly who they were and, much to my shock, that they were also connected to a place that caused HER a lot of pain back when she was a child, by taking her family away and pitting the blame on her, forcing her to become a missing-nin.
Hearing that made my blood boil. I looked at her in the eyes and promised her that as soon as I find those responsible, that I would strike each and every one of them down, until her pain finally ends.
She hugged my tightly and quietly thanked me for caring about her this much, that I would go so far for her just to make her pain go away.
After that day, I knew what I had to do.
She's the angel who saved me from darkness. She freed me from my pain when she found me that day, so it's only fair that I return the favor.
As to who I am...
You will only know THAT when the sun sets forever...
(Transmission from V-Flash): And that wraps up the prologue! (Sorry if it's really short!)
I hope you guys enjoyed this brief intro. This story is going to run a little different from my other one, in that it starts off after a LOT has happened but as the story progresses, more and more of what's already occurred will unravel, shedding some light on what's to come ;)
Anyways guys, feel free to R/R and I will see you all in the first chapter! V-Flash out. (End transmission)
