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Chapter One: When Lighting Strikes
"Damn weather…" Tera swore under her breath. Her clothes were soaked, not to mention she was in a bad mood. She had just gotten told that another one of her family was killed. Whoever the Hell it is, is asking for a BAD wake up call… She thought to herself. She looked across the street. A familiar face came to place through the pouring rain. "Hey! Sakae!" she called out. Sakae turned, her brown hair flying in wet locks, her green eyes scanning the area, to see who had just called out her name.
"Who's there?" she asked.
"Dude, you looked like you just saw a ghost!" Tera said, running across the street.
"It's amazing…I can barely see! How do you survive with that cloth on your eyes?" Tera chuckled.
"You get used to it…"
"Hey! I was just gonna pick up Katon and Kiymori at the Ramen shop! Wanna come?" Sakae asked.
"Sure!" Tera said putting Sakae under her umbrella she had with her. "Which way?"
"This way!" Sakae said, pointing to the East. Tera followed, with an eerie feeling she was being followed…
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"Tsunami-nee-chan! Tora-chan! Wait up!" Nara called out, running outside with her rain coat on. Her long black bangs turned into one big black clump.
"Come on, Nara! We promised Keiko, Rider, and Beauty that we'd be there by now!" Tsunami called back, her black bands as wet as her younger sisters'. Nara ran towards her friends quickly.
"We have to pick up Ayame and Osono along the way, too. Remember?" Tora added her green eyes barely visible. Nara sighed.
"I'll be right there, you guys go on ahead." Tora arched and eyebrow.
"Are you sure? Osono will be worried…" Nara nodded her head.
"Yeah! Go on ahead!" She smiled. Tora sighed and walked along with Tsunami to the place where Ayame and Osono would meet them both. Nara ran to the Gates, knowing that someone would be there. The girl's long red hair covered her eye, hiding something. The girl on the bench sighed.
"Heh…What's the point in being here in this village?" she asked herself.
"Sasora-sama!" Nara called out. The girl named Sasora looked up. She remembered the first time she saw the little girl. Helpless and crying…
Flashback
The young girl cried. Why did the kids pick on her? What did she do to them? Nothing the black haired 5-year-old understood that's for sure. She ran deep into the woods and found a meadow to share her tears upon. She covered her face with her little hands. Her tears fell like rain drops, splashing as they hit the grass hearing her tale of woe.
"Here…" said a voice. The little girl looked up. There, in front of her, was a red-headed girl, holding out her hand! The crying girl had never experienced such friendship before!
"U-Um…"the girl stuttered, backing away a little. "A-Are you g-going to h-hit me?" The red haired girl laughed.
"Of cores not, silly goose!" she said. "I wanna play!" She held up a yellow ball. "Wanna play pass?" she asked in a friendly tone. The other girl looked up, unaware what to do. "Come on! It's easy! All you do is sit and roll the ball to me!" She put the ball that the girls feet then stepped back a couple of steps. "Now you try!" The little girl was nervous and pushed the ball away from her. "Good! Now, I'll pass it to you, and you pass it back!" The red head gently pushed the ball back. The black haired girl caught it and smiled.
"I-I think I-I get Th-this game!" she said happily. The red head smiled.
"Good! That's great!" She passed the ball back to the girl. "By the way, my name's Sasora!" She smiled.
"I-I'm Nara…" she the other. She smiled and cried a tear of joy, hiding so Sasora would not see it.
She had a friend.
End Flashback
But that next day, Nara did not come back to the tree where they had first met. Nara was sold by whoever was taking care of her into a slave house. Sasora couldn't take the pain that day…It was also the day she, too, got kidnapped by Orochimaru and taken away from her parents.
"Hey, Sasora-sama?" Nara was standing in front of her in the rain. "Is something wrong?" Sasora shook her head, as to snap out of her daze.
"What…? Oh, yeah, I'm fine, Nara." She smiled and fake smile.
"Please don't do that to me anymore." Nara said. Sasora looked up.
"Do what?"
"No more fake smiles. No. I'm your friend, I want only the truth."
Sasora sighed. "I was just thinking about the first time we met…"
"Please, Sasora-sama, don't feel bad anymore…" She smiled. "I'm here, alive and well! Come on!" She held out her hand like Sasora did when Nara met her for the first time. "Tora-chan and Tsunami-nee-chan are having a party! I'm sure they won't mind you come!"
"Are you sure? I don't want to be any trouble…"
"Stop it! I will slap you!" Nara giggled, it was a joke. "You're no trouble! Come on!" She ran through the rain, Sasora taking the lead and stopping a few times for Nara.
I forgot…She's not as strong as everybody…Sasora thought to herself. Nara, among the kunoichi and shinobi that were her friends, was not the strongest one. She had always messed up, never had any confidence in herself, therefore not having the faith to complete the mission. Sasora felt bad for her. Having a demon that nobody but Nara and Sasora could hear. Her demon, whom name was Yodono, was always saying how she was weak, and how she didn't deserve anything she had. Chopping down the confidence someone else had built for her and smashing it into little bits.
"I'm sorry for keeping you waiting, Sasora-sama…"
"It's okay…Ready?"
"Yeah…" Nara tried her hardest to keep up with Sasora.
She always tries her hardest…She really wants to change herself…was all Sasora could think while running to Tora's house.
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"Osono! Ayame!" Tora called out in the old fortune tellers shop. Osono looked over. She waved.
"Hey guys!" Ayame called, rigging out her ice blue hair. "It's raining HARD…" Osono nodded. After all, she couldn't speak.
"What are you guys doing in here? You were supposed to meet us at the park!" Tsunami testified. "If it wasn't for Tora's Enzerugan, we probably never would have found you!"
Now, Tora Higerashi, of the deceased Higerashi Clan, had a certain Kekkai Genkai called the "Enzerugan". It was very similar to the also deceased Uchiha Clan's Sharingan. But, this certain Kekkai Genkai could copy other bloodline limits. Tora sighed.
"It's raining cats and dogs out there, isn't it, my pretties…" said an old woman's voice. They all turned. It was the owner of the shop, whom people called Lady Physic. Her hair was up in a gray bun and a mass of knots she hadn't bothered to comb out. Osono did hand signs, indicating that she was speaking.
"You gave me a scare, Lady Physic." her hands told the woman.
"I do that a lot…" she responded.
"You guys, not to be rude, but we have to go. I don't was Rider destroying my house…AGAIN…." Tora said. As she and Tsunami were going to walk out with their party, Lady Physic interrupted:
"I wouldn't go outside tonight…" Tora turned.
"What are you talking about?" she asked.
"The Dark Prophecy…Tonight…"
"Um…Can you tell us?" Ayame asked, impatiently.
"Go to where you're at, and don't go outside…" At the, Lady Physic went into the back room, leavening the four girls there.
"…Well that was weird…" Ayame said, after breaking a few minutes silence. Tora nodded and went outside, the little bell ringing after the door opened.
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"Yo! Katon! Kiymori!" Sakae called out, running for protection from the rain. Katon turned a noodle in his mouth. Thank God he wasn't wearing his Akatsuki cloak and headband. The Kohona ninja's would've killed him by now.
"Hey! Sakae!" he said, his blue eyes looking at her. Sakae smiled when she was under the tarp. "Man it's RAINING…Hello Kiymori!"
"Hello…" Kiymori responded, not bothering to look at any of them with his white eyes. Tera had always had, what you might say, a "crush" on Kiymori, but she never let him know.
"Hello, Kiymori, Katon." Tera said, walking in and closing her umbrella. Katon looked over Sakae's shoulder.
"Hey! Tera! How's it goin'? Are you going to Tora's party, too?"
"Yeah…That's where I was headed…Until I met this rut…" she said kidding, pointing towards Sakae.
"HEY!"
"So…Sakae was supposed to meet you here?" Tera asked.
"Yeah. Why?" Katon asked.
"Because it took us a millennium to fins you! Jeez, it's so hard to see what's in front of you!" Sakae complained.
"It's insane…" the shop keeper muttered under his breath.
"What's insane?" Kiymori asked, hearing the shop keepers tone.
"We haven't had rain till…Well, a very long time ago. Now…" he said, shaking his frying pan at the kids. "…You be careful. Last time we had this much rain a couple of ninja's died on us." As they paid and left, Sakae got worried.
"Ninja's died?! Wow…It kinda gets me worried…" Sakae stated worriedly.
"It's probably just some tale the guy cooked up to scare us." Tera said.
"Yeah, Sakae! It's okay!" Katon said, smiling.
And yet…Kiymori thought to himself. I sense something with…bloodlust…It's following us!
A pair of yellow eyes appeared from the bushes looking at the four ninja's, the disappeared.
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YAYZ! CHAP 1 IS FINISHED! OK…more is on the way! I hope all of u liked it! have a good day!
