I was too young to see all of my friends & family's death. The pain, the destruction, the blood… oh, god the blood.

It was June 18, 2003. I'm only 5 years old, having some fun with some of my friends. All was well in a day in Kazawage Village. The children playing with their friends, teenagers with their education, and the parents loving, caring, or even protecting the village. That was my dad at the time. He was a guard for the villages entrance, just waiting for someone or something to attack the village, and whenever something would come up, he would take care of it. There was nothing he couldn't defeat.

June 25, 2003.

It was just a normal day to end the day of school with, but beginning a three day weekend.

"Thank goodness." I thought.

I walked home where I was as usual, greeted from my mother. But today, she had some sort of a worried look on her face.

"Hi, Mom." I greeted.

"Um, son… we…" She started.

"We need to talk."

She led me to the living room to talk. Confused, I followed along and sat on the seat of the couch next to her. I expected to hear about something that wouldn't really bother me as much, but this… this was different.

My father was labeled missing.

"He has been missing for a week now."

"A whole week? When do you know he'll be back?" I asked.

"Hard to know sweetie. The militia said it may take at least another 2 weeks or so for him to come back.

I got off the couch and went up to my room, and slumped my face in the pillow. I never wanted to come back out of my room.

But only hours later, my life changed forever.

Boom…

I opened my eyes to see what that sound was.

Boom.

I put my ear towards the window.

BOOM!

The sound knocked me back, and scared me out of my bed. I kept hearing more explosions to finally realize what was happening. The village was being attacked.

"SWEETIE! WHERE ARE YOU?!"

I didn't want to come down, but I did anyway. I went up to my mother's arms as she picked me up.

We're getting out of here. I know a city close-"

BOOM!

An explosion hit us. I flew up in the air and landed down on my stomach. My vision was blurred, my ears were muffled, and pain flowed my entire body.

"…tie… et… ty."

I heard a voice.

"Swee… ge… ity."

The voice got clearer.

"Sweetie… get to… the city."

It was my mother. She wanted me to get to safe territory, and the city was the only place she knew. So I rand and instantly felt a sharp pain on my left side. Apparently, something cut deep into my side and caused major bleeding. I got to the woods which led to the city. When I got there, I realized that I was lost. My side was burning in bale and major bleeding. Because of this, I dropped to the ground and looked up into the sky. But then heard a scream.

Bang!

I knew exactly who that was given to. Everyone else was dead from all of the explosions.

My mother had just been murdered.

Tears flowed into my eyes, as I looked into the night sky.

"I'm dead." I said aloud.

I passed out.