***THIS STORY HAS BEEN INSPIRED BY THE FILM "PRINCESS MONONOKE" AND THE TV SERIES "AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER". THERE ARE MANY INCORPORATED THEMES FROM THOSE TWO ANIMATED WORKS.
This goes out to all you Sakura lovers, who wish that she wasn't put off as such a weenie. She's way cooler than that. This here is the back story to the upcoming events. Have fun reading, and Don't Forget To Be Awesome!
-Liz
~Prologue~
Long ago, in lands far to the East, there was a land known as Fire Country. At the center of Fire Country was a village known as Konohagakure. From that village came a clan known as the Uchihas. It was a great, wealthy, and powerful clan that had come to be revered and known throughout all the lands.
This clan sought to conquer.
Albeit, the lands to the East had been all but conquered, and those other mighty clans − like the Uchiha − had begun to cease their wandering of lands, only to settle down in villages. This was no puzzlement to the clan's elders. For, if they could not go East, then they would go West.
For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: "Flee, all is discovered." It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and see the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire.
And west did the clan and its elders go, in search of lands of gold to conquer and great wonders to discover. Past the temples of Fire Country and far, far past the great deserts of Wind Country – this is where the clan sought to go.
In those lands far past any civilization of the known, the Uchihas faced mighty, thousand-year-old forests, untouched by man since the beginning of time itself. The trees stood taller than 100 men stacked on top of one another, the water the clear like crystals, the air was crisp, and the sky – oh, the sky – it was a blue that landed somewhere in between cerulean and God-like, pock-marked with clouds the purest shade of white.
In these virgin forests of gigantic stature, Gods of the ancient world ruled and lived together in peace with the only humans to ever walk the earth of the west – the Haruno clan, who dwelled deep in the mountains. They lived among the gods, and thought they walked close to the earth, these people where in tune with the elements around them, and could bend them to their whim. Their skin was pale like the moon and their hair was white like the snow and the clouds.
When a war between the Gods and the Uchihas erupted, the Haruno people where the ones to get stuck in the middle. The Uchihas burned the forests with their ancient jutsu, crumbled the mountains with their might and bloodied the land and the water with their katana and kunai. The Gods cursed their heads as they took the Haruno clan away in chains, back to the East to be slaves.
Since then, the Haruno clan has served under the Uchihas, doing their every bidding on a whim. The Uchihas where harsh to their servants, and saw them as no more than property to be owned. But still, the Harunos and the Uchihas had a strong bond. Whenever a child among the Uchiha was born, he or she would be given a Haruno child, right around the same age, to grow up with. The selection was based off of ancient astrological rituals performed by the clan's elders. The chosen Haruno would then be the Uchiha's servant for all their lives, never leaving his or her side.
There came a time where a one Sasuke Uchiha was born at the end of the seventh month. What a strong, healthy child he was. When the elders of the Uchiha had read the stars to determine Sasuke's servant, it was shocking to find that the one the stars had chosen was a petite, pick haired infant. Such a hair color on a Haruno was not known, and the elders considered taking the child and leaving her out on a mountainside to die.
For some reason unknown, the elders never did leave that little pick haired girl out on a mountainside to die.
Now they have grown together, and faced terror together.
As the Uchiha clan had been wiped out, so had the Haruno clan.
The only survivors had been Sasuke, and his little pick haired servant, Sakura.
Through the years, the two had devised a cover to their master-servant relationship, and Sakura had taken her place among the many shrieking fan-girls, forced to hide her true power.
Forced to be with Sasuke.
Forced to act like a weakling, only to glorify her master.
Forced to be his property.
Forced to obey his every order.
Then, at the academy, the two had been placed on the same Genin squad.
From that moment on, it has been the end's beginning.
May the God-given curse upon the Uchihas be merciful towards this chained girl.
Review and let me know if you're interested to read more! I plan to take this a long way.
Till next time, cheers!
(DFTBA.)