Chapter 9: The Meaning of the Prophecy

~ In Tenten's Room~

"So?" Sakura asked. "Is that all the lines?"

"Yeah…" Tenten said.

"Okay," Sakura replied with a sigh of relief. "You read the sentence and then I will read the meaning. Then check to make sure it makes sense. Remember after this, we must finish this process that the puppet users were trying to do. You don't want to die, you have to do a lot of work."

Tenten smiled before answering, "Okay. Here is the first one.

'the way this works is just a prophecy, so all that die will hate this mostly, but as you understand, you might really stand!"

"Well, the first one basically explains itself, but whatever. The jutsu is learned through a prophecy, so that when people die from it, they will hate the prophecy. If the person reading the prophecy understands what it means, that person might actually survive the curse of the jutsu. Is that pretty much it?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah, pretty much. This is the second line.

'Your life is short, ever since you read this, but nobody cares, and that is it!'" Tenten told Sakura.

"So um… that is… Once you started reading the prophecy, your lifespan became short, but nobody cares that your life became short, and there is nothing else to that part.

Right?" Sakura asked.

"That's as close as we can get it to be. Okay, third line.

'The way life goes is just a riddle, as none of you will ever get it, but I shall say the way you live, is the only way, out of the curse!'" Tenten recited.

"Erm… when doing the jutsu, life is a riddle. There are mysterious things that you don't know. The person supposes that nobody will ever figure out the riddle. The only way to get out of the curse from the jutsu, depends on how you lived," Sakura said. "But we don't know which way of life is the correct one that will get us out of the curse!"

"That is yet a mystery to solve, but let's first finish this. Line four.

'The riddle itself, is just evil, while you are probably just to nice, too ever survive this way of life!'" Tenten stated.

"The jutsu's riddle of life is nothing, but evil. Most people are probably too nice to survive the curse of the riddle, so they will die," Sakura said frowning. "That's sad…"

"Yeah… Fifth line.

'As you die you shall remember, all your sad times… maybe never.'" Tenten said, releasing a … at the end that resembled the words fading.

"If you don't survive you might die. While you are dying, you should remember all your sad times, but if you are just too positive and you are just too happy that you saved someone, you might not. But most people will." Sakura said, reading off of her notebook.

"Sad times? That's… just a memory of your whole life, but in the dark! Like, no light at all… anyhow, sixth line!

'So on the prophecy goes, as you live on, don't blame me, but those who are weak, might die tomorrow, as they are so unsure.'" Tenten stated.

" This one also basically explains itself, but yeah. The prophecy continues to go on, as you continue to live. Do not blame the prophecy, but some people could die tomorrow, when they have no clue at all. Those are the weak ones," Sakura read.

"dying…" Tenten murmured. A quick flashback came to her. When he died…

"Tenten?" Sakura asked.

"Oh, sorry! Yeah, let's continue…" Tenten said.

Sakura sat there for a moment and then said, "Oh! I am really, really sorry, but I must go! Here, you can check from the notebook yourself," Sakura said hurriedly as she ran outside to go somewhere.

'I'll do the rest tomorrow…' Tenten thought.

Then Temari through the door and said, "Sorry about running outside. Thank you for not running after me and disturbing me."

"Oh," Tenten said.

Tenten went to her bed and Temari went into her sleeping bag after they had both brushed their teeth and so on. They also shared a few things.

Temari told Tenten that she had also wrote down what she thought the prophecy meant. Tenten nodded her head and turned around. She was tired and decided to just fall asleep and do her other duties the next day.

On the other hand, Temari couldn't sleep. She woke up on the bench and just picked up her belongings and rushed into Tenten's room, so she had just slept. She started thinking about the prophecy, but later on, she too, fell asleep. It sure had been a tiring day.