of death and other fateful things
fate is a tricky thing to manipulate.
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A stranger arrives before the new year's morning. Dressed in blue and black, he comes like a storm (a superior storm that demolishes and scourges the world over). The stranger gifts like a disease, wipes the countryside clean and wholly good.
Indra.
And declares himself as the victor of the Conquering Hero.
And a woman shields her children with her arms, invokes water-gods and goddesses and sweeps his armies from the fields.
Shachi.
—
A stranger turns impatient and commands a purging. For the safety of my little brother, he says, you betrayed me and still dare to not hand him over.
He takes their children. The woman cries and kills him in his sleep.
(A man he was, a stranger he became.)
—
A thousand years passes and the woman and the stranger meet again.
She calls herself Sakura, and he is Sasuke.
And when they first touch, there is the underlying belief of past lives and past deals. And there is vindication to be paid (the girl tosses her head proudly). The boy takes a gamble and reaches for her hand.
Explains.
Another lifetime goes by unnoticed.
—
When they meet for the third time (millennia into the future) they resemble something weirder than bizarre, almost animalistic and wanting.
(They are always hungry.)
But now, she nods and accepts. Stranger than strange, fate is mocking.
a/n: this idea stuck in my head for a really long time now. i imagined sakura to be the reincarnation of shachi, the wife of indra, and how that would change the dynamic between her and sasuke later on. because kishimoto was influenced by hindu/buddhist religions i tried to draw parallels between how indra is potrayed in naruto and how the religion depicts him (the same goes for shachi).