PROLOGUE
He had known it the moment the chosen had been born.
Had he been any older, the rational, reasonable side of his mind would have protested that it may have been a moment of weakness or the effects of long term loneliness, but his young self that felt the pull, and had reasoned that the heir had been born.
He would be eternally glad for his innocent, naive self.
Earth had been different and very new for him, but the prospect of finally, finally, finding someone of his own blood had fueled his need to deal with his discomfort.
As a baby, he had been told stories of the Haruno clan by his dying mother. The back up the Otsutsuki had planted generations ago would finally bare fruit. From that day, surrounded by the bitterness of a clan long gone, he planned.
He once again felt the pull on the day of a solar eclipse three years later, and he knew it was time. The Village engulfed in mist a majority of every day was easy to sneak into and the sacred grounds of the Otsutsuki simply called for him.
The Haruno Inner was thought to be just like the Uchiha Sharingan or the Kaguya Shikotsumyaku, but he knew exactly what these second presences were.
The leftover traces of a god long gone. It was the proof of the Otsutsuki and their superiority to all other existences, and it was also the proof of the undead link between the Haruno and the Otsutsuki.
The child with the strongest Inner spirit, the strongest trace of god, would become the new head of the Otsutsuki clan.
The Cave of Generations was a sacred location for the Haruno clan. There, the Ceremony of Choosing took place and the child that stepped out of these caves became the heir to the clan. On an eclipse once every generation, children stepped through the stone doors and one came back.
A group of children, ages ranging from three to six, around twenty of them, all with hair as white as snow and small, grasping fingers, were ushered into a cave. None of them complained and the gates were closed firmly behind the last child that had scrambled in.
All the adults could do now was wait and wait they did, as chakra signatures flared and faded for the next few days.
The moment only one chakra signature remained from within the caves, everyone sensed it.
The mind was the domain of the Haruno clan but it did not mean it was theirs, for the Haruno clan had been created for a reason.
All of them heard footsteps, not from within the caves, but that of a new comer, and when they saw a young teen waiting there with his arms crossed, white robes flowing in the wind and empty sockets of eyes staring right at them with a gentle, kind smile on his face, they knew it was time.
In front of the reason of their entire existence, none of them could do anything, and one by one, they embraced death.
The last of them fell just as the cave doors were opened, and a young with with hair pink like a drop of blood on snow and bright green eyes stepped out. She eyed the sea of dead bodies before her and she slowly turned to look at the white haired boy, who merely looked as though he had stepped into a small puddle by mistake and had gotten the smallest of drops of dirt on his clothes.
The teen turned to look at her too, and he was the first to break the silence. "What is your name, girl?"
The girl blinked slowly, and her eyes widened slowly as though she had come to understand something."I am Sakura."
The teen seemed to roll the name around in his head before his smile widened and his dropped into a graceful bow. "Otsutsuki Sakura-sama. I am Toneri. Otsutsuki Toneri, at your service."
No one knew that this had all been planned; from the birth of the clan to its bloody end.
Everything.
After years of waiting, after a countless generations worth of bitterness and wish for revenge, the final piece was put in place.
So, here's a rewrite of the original 'Of Tales Now and Long Ago'.
This version will be slightly less comedic. The general path of the plot will be the same as the previous version, but we've changed over the years and there will be plenty of differences as well.
This chapter was slightly short, but it is only the prologue. The following chapters will be longer. Probably not as long as the original, which had a 5k minimum rule, but maybe around 3k words per chapter. We will do out best.
We hope you enjoy this.
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