Sorry about not having a disclaimer or anything on the prologue, but I just figured out how to post heh heh.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything from the Naruto manga or anime. I do own Nadi, Kitla, their village (not telling!), and the two demons inside them. As well as the plot.
Key: bold means thoughts, Italics means flashback, and normal means the story.
Chapter One: The Journey Begins!
"Are we there yet?" a young woman asked. In response, someone came up behind her and bonked her on the head.
"Nadi, we're nowhere close." Nadi turned to see a girl with butt-length light purple hair.
"But we've been walking for hours!" Nadi complained, fixing her now
knotted chestnut hair. It was true that they had been walking all day through the forest.
"Are we EVER going to get there Kitla?"
The girl with the purple hair turned irritated gold eyes on Nadi's seemingly innocent emerald ones. "Just keep walking." Nadi pouted and began walking again. As the minutes ticked by, her entertainment soon shrank, and her boredom grew. And Kitla knew that a bored Nadi always spelled trouble "Talk to me." Nadi looked at her, confused. "Huh?"
"Your bored right? Talk to me about something." She could almost feel Nadi's evil grin.
"How about our clothes?" Ugh, what is it with this girl and clothes? "Fine." She looked in the lake water beside her to see that Nadi was doing her victory dance.
"First off, where did you get your clothes Kitla? The emo-market or something?" A vein grew in Kitla's head. Never again will I talk to her about clothes! Kitla was wearing black combat boots, a red t-shirt, and a black leather skirt that went just under her knees. Under all of this was black fishnet. She also had black fingerless gloves. Her make-up consisted of red eye-shadow and clear lip-gloss, and her hair was in a high ponytail.
"Well, where did you get yours? Used and Trashed?" Nadi stopped with tears in her eyes.
"I don't look that bad!" She was wearing a torn jean skirt, black sandals, a ripped white t-shirt, and a black bandana with green flames on it. Before Kitla could even reply, she had started to run into the bush. Kitla smacked herself on the forehead. Great, now what? In response, a loud crash and a yelp echoed through the forest. Sighing, Kitla took off in the direction of the sound. When she reached her destination, she stopped and admired the hilarious scene in front of her.
While running, Nadi had obviously tripped, again, and fallen in the river beside her. On her head. What Kitla saw now, was the bottom half of Nadi's body was in the air, while the other half was submerged in calmly walked over and, taking a hold of an ankle, flipped her friend right side up. Coughing and sputtering, Nadi managed to drag herself out of the river, refusing help from she reached dry ground she promptly sat facing away from her "friend", who just sat down behind with a sweat drop.
She took a deep breath and said,
"I'm sorry, okay? I'm just not having a good day. Could you forgive me?" The girl in front turned around quickly and folded her arms.
"On one condition." Kitla grimaced. What could she be thinking?
"What?" Nadi smirked and said, "When we reach Konoha, you have to die your hair black. Permanently." Kitla looked at her lavender hair with regret before answering. "Okay." The young girl in front of her smiled and gave her a hug.
"Then forgiven, forgotten." Kitla smiled slightly and wrapped her arms around her best friend's shoulders.
Night
The two girls were sleeping in a large, leafy tree. Well, one was. After a few minutes of complaining, Nadi had basically passed out. Kitla could never sleep when there was a full moon. The wolf demon she carried yearned to howl on those nights. So she had come up with a solution that both demon and carrier enjoyed. Kurotsuki, the demon, would send her images of her past, and Kitla would write a song based on it. Tonight, the image was…A crow chasing a butterfly over a patch of clovers with a crimson sky. Kitla frowned. What kind of song would that be? She blinked. As the idea entered her mind, she quickly grabbed her notebook and wrote the lines down. When she finished the song she stretched and jumped out of the tree. Waking Nadi without a valid reason had quickly become taboo. Instead, she ran to a small meadow and sat down. Laying the lyrics down in front of her, she cleared her throat and began.
"I painted your room at midnight,
So I'd know yesterday was over
I put all your books on the top shelf,
Even the one with the four leaf clover
Man, I'm gettin' older
I took all your pictures of the wall,
And wrapped them in newspaper blankets
I haven't slept in what seems like a century,
And now I can barely breathe
Just like a crow chasing the butterfly,
Tender eyes lost in the summer sky
When you and I were gettin' high as outer space,
I never thought you'd slip away,
I guess I was just a little too late
Your words still stay, unmake me
Your lullabies won't let me sleep,
I've never heard such a haunting melody
Oh, it's killing me,
You know I can barely breathe
Just like a crow chasing the butterfly,
Tender eyes lost in the summer sky
When you and I were gettin' high as outer space,
I never thought you'd slip away,
I guess I was just a little too late
Just like a crow chasing the butterfly,
Tender eyes lost in the summer sky
When you and I were gettin' high as outer space,
I never thought you'd slip away,
Like a crow chasing the butterfly,
Tender eyes lost in the summer sky
When you and I were gettin' high as outer space,
I never thought you'd slip away,
I guess I was just a little too late
Just a little too late
When Kitla was done singing, she smiled to herself. She felt Kuro's pacing stop, and she yawned, silently decided that it was time for bed. She ran back to the tree and placed her book and pencil in her weapons pouch. She then jumped on to a branch above Nadi and drifted to sleep.
Hey everybody! So how was my first chapter? Comments and flames are appreciated.
Kit-chan
P.S. The song was "The Crow and the Butterfly" by Shinedown.