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REDEMPTION
by cypher1990
Amidst the growing tensions between the Northerner's and Southerner's of Westeros a farmer and his daughter are struggling to survive. The House of Lannisters had raided their little farm and stripped everything they could for the war effort against the Rebellion leaving the pair with little to nothing. Soon after that a tall man and his own daughter crossed paths with the kind pair as they took them in a feed them with what little they had but unbeknownst to them, the tall man would betray them and steal everything they had despite his daughters protest leaving a bloody and bruised farmer and his daughter watch as they left them.
two weeks had passed as the kind farmer and his daughter struggled to stay alive with the pain of hunger tearing through their bodies.
The kind farmer laid his daughter to sleep as he quietly made his way the fireplace where he collapsed to his knees and prayed to anyone who listen, tearing where falling on his gaunt face hoping that his pray would be granted.
"Please i beg you, have mercy on my Sally; If anyone can hear my plea I beg you, save her."
Unbeknownst to him someone was listening as the fire in front of him flared and embers flew around the praying man. The kind farmer stood and dried his tears as he made his way to his bed. As he laid down he looked to his left at his precious daughter with pained eyes as he began closing his eyes as he dreaded the reality he was faced with and the realisation of what he might have to do to end his daughters suffering.
As he was drifting of into the comfort of rest he was suddenly awakened by the sound of knocking on their front door waking the pair.
"Sally hide" the farmer whispered as Sally weakly crawled under his bed and hid.
As the farmer struggled his way to the door he was not prepared for what was coming as a trio of bandits smashed through the door.
"Well what do we have here boys" A thick bearded man holding a rusty dagger said to the two brutes him.
The farmer looked at them with fear, " Please I beg you, please leave; we have nothing left here."
The bearded man looked at the farmer with a puzzled look, "We?"
The farmers eyes widened as the bandits spotted Sally hiding under her fathers bed.
"Well hehehe I wouldn't call THAT nothing," he said as he licked his lips. "We'll take good care of that one."
One of the men from behind the bearded man gleefully responded, "Bout time we got a another one, that last one didn't last very long."
Then the other chimed in, "Yeah because you slit the throat of that bitch because she was screaming too much." making the other man roll his eyes as they focused on Sally.
The farmers eyes widened as he rushed to his daughter screaming at them to stop.
The bearded bandit simply laughed as he grabbed the farmer and stabbed him in the gut making the farmer screaming in agony.
"Father!" Sally screamed as her father collapsed onto the floor.
"You're coming with us" The leader shouted as he reached under the bed grabbing her arm, Sally screamed as she bit down hard on his arm.
"ARGH! You little cunt!" The bearded man forcefully dragged a screaming Sally from under the bed as her pleading father was begging them to leave her alone.
As the group of bandits made their way out of house a cloaked figure was standing in the doorway with three pointed pieces of metal in their hand.
"PUT THE GIRL DOWN NOW!" Shouted the cloaked figure making the trio laugh.
"What are you gonna do about it, you don't have a weapon besides three little pieces of metal. Fuck this, boys kill this fucker and grab whatever he has on him!"
As the two charged at him they threw two of his metal pieces tore right through the two bandit's necks, immediately causing them the crumble to the floor as they suffocated as their lungs flooded with blood then shortly died.
The bearded bandit looked in horror as he stared at the cloaked man.
"What the fuck did you do fucker!"
"They attacked me and I defended myself. Now release the girl or you will suffer the same fate as these two."
"No fucking way cunt" The bearded bandit said as he held the bloodied rusty dagger to Sally's throat making her look at the cloaked figure with teary fearful eyes.
"Then you leave me no choice." The cloaked man said as he lifted his eyes to meet the bandits, "Sharingan" the cloaked man whispered as the bandit froze at the sight of the mysterious man's eyes as they morphed from black to blood red with weird patterns on them.
Then suddenly the cloaked man spoke with a biting chill that ran through the bandits body. "Tsukuyomi"
The bandit found himself in some sort of hellish landscape as the cloaked figure stood in front of him.
"WHERE IN SEVEN HELLS AM I?!" The bandit said as he soiled himself.
"Where indeed vile criminal, unfortunately for you I won't tell you but what I can tell you is that by the end of this, you're gonna be begging for the release of death."
The cloaked figure then suddenly disappeared into a flock of crows as they circled around the bandit, Every crow around him had they same red eyes making the man scream in terror and the flock began descending upon him and piece by piece began pecking the man to death are the tore him apart over again. Every time the man begged for his life the punishments became harsher, if it wasn't crows then it was the cloaked figure himself stabbing him to death over and over again. Hours and Day's passed as the bandit was tortured to death. Even the cloaked man was merciful as he saw the man's mind unthether and collapse under the punishment leaving an empty husk that had no humanity left.
"I now release you from your torment, may whatever god you pray to have mercy on your soul."
In the blink of an eye the bandit released Sally and collapsed onto the ground dead.
Sally was shaking as she looked at the cloaked man as his eyes returned to normal.
"w-Who are you?" She said with tearful, fear riddled eyes.
The man's eyes softened as she stared at the little girl infront of him.
"It's okay little one I won't hurt you, I'm here to help you." He said as he tried to ease the girl's fear.
Then suddenly a weak voice got his attention and saw the young girls father lying on the floor, "Sally" When she heard her father she immediately rushed to his side and the cloaked man followed her.
"Please help him" Sally pleaded to the man who saved her.
Upon close inspection of the wound he saw that the wound the farmer suffered was fatal and as the looked back at the young girl he solemnly shook his head as Sally started crying again.
"I'm sorry...There's nothing I can do for him." the man softly spoke to the girl.
"Sally listen to me, I need to speak with this man; please wait by the fireplace."
"But"
"Sally please, this is important."
Sally slowly nodded as she made her way to the fireplace.
The kind farmer now looked at his daughter's savior with a pained worried expression. "I..I...Thank you for saving my daughter, but I must ask what brought you here?"
"You did"
"I did?"
"Yes, I heeded the pray you made in front of the fireplace."
"What is your name sir?"
The man smiled, "I'm no knight but my name is Itachi"
The farmer looked curiously as he'd had never heard of a name like that. But the pain ripping though his body from his wound made wince as he tried to speak.
"Itachi, we know I'm dying and there's nothing that can stop it...Please as a last request, please take care of my daughter, I don't know why but I believe I can trust you..."
Itachi looked at the man, 'Should I tell him that I came here with the intention of looking after his daughter?' Itachi paused for a moment then told him a
"truth".
"You can trust me, your daughter will be okay. I will care for her." Itachi said making the farmer smile in the knowledge that his little girl has a chance in this god forsaken world.
"please can you get my daugh..." the kind farmer coughed in pain.
Itachi knew and nodded, "Of course."
Itachi walked to Sally and told her to see her father. Itachi not wanting to ease drop waited. A few minutes passed as Sally walked back to Itachi with puffy red eyes over her malnourished face.
"Itachi. my father wants to see you again." she whispered as Itachi made his way to the dying father.
"tttThank you iiiItachi" the man said as he was barely clinging to life.
Itachi looked with sadness as the man was barely holding on. "I want to grant you a gift, you'll allow it." he said to the dying farmer.
The kind farmer was simply nodded as he was too weak to speak.
"Please don't be afraid, I pray this brings you comfort."
"Sharingan"
Itachi's eyes gazed into the farmers own tired eyes as he cast a illusion on him.
The farmer got to live a lifetime of happiness in a mere moment, He had visions of him working his little farm with his daughter and wife, he got to see his little girl grow up to be a beautiful woman and he got to see her little wedding with friends and family. He even got to see his grandchildren as they rushed up to hug him and his wife.
He felt like he lived a life and more, with one final vision was of him lying in bed, Old and weak but with a look on his face that he was content and was ready to go and see his wife again, he was surrounded by his daughter and her family wishing him a safe journey to the afterlife.
And with that he closed his eyes forever...
The kind farmer was dead.
Itachi grabbed a bed sheet off the bed and laid it on top of his body and gave a quick pray to wish him peace.
he turned and walked to Sally who was crying and he knelt down to meet her face to face.
"I'm sorry little one"
Sally although quiet was sobbing even harder when she suddenly ran into Itachi wrapping her little arms around him.
"Did your father tell you about me little one?" Sally nodded as tears were still pouring out.
"I'm going to look after you now okay and I promise that I will keep you safe okay." Itachi said as he wrapped his own arms around crying girl.
"I need you to do something for me, go gather what clothes you have into a bag okay" he said as he patted her head.
"Okay.." Sally said as she sniffed and wiped her tears away from her face.
Itachi watched as she gathered her things while he made a shadow clone in secret tasking the clone to dig a grave for her father outside. As the clone got to work he helped sally pack her clothes and things.
"Itachi was it...Um why are you helping me?"
"Sally I'll explain it a soon but for now don't worry about it okay." Itachi said as he patted her head making her nod.
A few minutes went by when Itachi's clone dispersed notifying that the grave was ready. Itachi looked at sally with sad eyes, "Sally before we go...We're going to bury your father and put him to rest." He said making tears well up in the little girls eyes. "Do you have everything Sally?"
Sally sniffed and nodded.
Itachi then walked towards her fathers body and made sure he respectfully wrapped proper in blankets as he lifted him prompting Sally to follow him outside towards the grave outside behind the small house.
As he laid her father down there was a brief paused when Itachi looked at Sally, "Do you want to say a few final words?"
Sally's nodded as tears were flowing.
"I..um...I'm sorry father, I know you tried your best everyday ever since mother pass on, You were always so kind, even to complete strangers...I never blamed you for anything that happened. I love you so much daddy...what you said to me before your final moments i'll never forget." Sally thought about her fathers final words to her.
'This world is cruel and unfair sometimes, but you must never submit or succumb to it's evil and wicked ways, rise above it.' then she also thought about her fathers thoughts about Itachi 'You can trust him Sally, there's something about him that you can trust.' She wondered if that was true but ignored that as she thought about how he saved her.
Sally turned to the man who saved her a nodded that she has said her piece. Itachi nodded and began to fill the grave.
Itachi looked at Sally who looked exhausted from hunger and everthing that had happened tonight, "Sally you're no condition to walk so i'm going to carry you as we go okay but for now you need to eat." Itachi grabbed a strange roll of paper and made weird handsigns as he slammed his palm against the paper and to Sally's shock a cloud of smoke exploded from the paper and revealed food she had never seen before.
"These are rice balls Sally, these are for you." Itachi said as Sally cautiously grabbed one and bit down and to her surprise it was delicious as she scoffed them down making Itachi slightly smile.
'Lord of Light, Sage of the Six Paths I promise to protect this child, This is my new life, this is my redemption.
Chapter 1 completed:
Thank you for reading this, The Lord of Light and Sage of the Six Paths will be explained and also as to why Itachi is in Westeros to protect and raise Sally.
I wrote this as everytime I rewatch Game of Thrones I get upset with what happens to the farmer and his daughter. Itachi is looking for redemption. Just to clarify Itachi is at full strength and ability. This is not canon, I just like to write stories the way I like to.
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