Summary: A trio of Chunin level ninjas, all originating from different villages appear at the gates of the Leaf Village with information that may shake the foundation of all foreign relations of many villages. Fighting, loving, and dying is all part of life, and events that follow all but deny it.

Prologue 1: The Dark

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Could it really be possible? Could they all really be…no, they can't. This is just a horrible dream, a cruel trick of my mind, something I would soon wake from. Now, perhaps, they will wake, and stand, giving me the relief my heart and mind desperately wished for. But the sad reality of the current situation tugged at my mind. They would never breath again. They were gone, now and forever. Only I was left. Only I had been spared…or perhaps I had been cursed to live on in this horrible memory of my life. Maybe that was it.

But, why? Why now? I know these questions will probably never be answered, as the answer lay dead in the form of mangled, now unfamiliar corpses. I had to get out of here. And I ran. For how long, I do not know, but it felt like an eternity. And at eternity's end was when my life truly shattered. Losing all of them, I may have been able to cope with, but the horror that was unfolding before me was beyond compare.

Maybe it was pure shock or lack of cense, but the creature that stood only a little ways away from me was, I was sure, was my father. He had killed them. He was the reason they would never breath again. My own father...a few simple words that were suddenly drained of all meaning stuck and repeated over and over in my mind.

He wasn't a human. He couldn't be, not anymore, not after what I had just witnessed. No, I refused to believe it. But it was reality, whether I wanted to believe it or not. I no longer looked at him the same, as family. Now, he was to me something inhuman and disgusting. Something I hated, something I wanted dead, something I wanted to kill. To kill. He had to become like them. Unmoving and lifeless…dead. I had to make him like them.

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Sorry that its kinda short…I promise to try and make longer chapters…they just seem so much longer on paper…T-T Anyway, R&R!! Arigato!