Chapter 10: Reading the Prophecy: Understood, Completed
It was Sunday morning and Temari had gotten up, for she couldn't really sleep. Tenten was still in her bed, so Temari decided to cook. She looked inside the cabinets on top of the kitchen and found some ingredients. And so she began to cook… soba noodles. She then remembered that soba noodles were Neji's favorite food. Wow… Tenten really could remember those she cared for. She started to giggle yet again, at the thought of Tenten not wanting to say Neji's name.
She then turned around to see Tenten getting up.
"What are you laughing at?" Tenten asked curiously.
"Eh… nothing," Temari replied.
"I know you are hiding something," Tenten said as she stood up and walked towards Temari. She then stood there and looked at Temari.
Temari started waving her hands around randomly and said, "What are you looking at?" She knew that Tenten would do something like the face palm, but she didn't want Tenten to throw another temper tantrum.
"Well, we need to get to work," Temari stated, trying to change the subject.
"Fine, but next time you start giggling randomly, I will make sure to find out," Tenten answered.
"O-okay… jeez…" Temari replied backing away. "Don't need to throw another temper tantrum…"
"Yeah, yeah whatever…" Tenten replied. She started to eat her soba noodles but then she stopped and a tear rolled down her face.
"Still not over him?" Temari asked. But then suddenly, deep inside her heart, a hole opened. She herself was not really over Shikamaru either. Even though he died, when people make fun of him because he was smart, but still died, she would start having a dark aura… somehow. She was surprised that she hadn't gotten over him because at first, she thought that there was no way they could be together again. She thought that either he was dead or she was dead. (Reincarnation jutsu) Or, they were both alive, but Shikamaru was being controlled. She didn't want to do either one of the jutsus, so she never knew that she would still care for him. She thought that there was no hope at one point too.
"Temari…" Tenten said. "Why do you keep going somewhere else these days? Come on… you're always dreaming somewhere out there…*sigh*."
"Well, according to you, it is time to start working, so I will. But I don't know about you…" Tenten then said, walking out of the kitchen.
"Let's see… where did I end off…" Tenten mumbled. "Oh, yeah… seventh line…" "What is it? 'Why must you live this way of life, where the pattern is just a riddle?' hm… The Prophecy says that nobody deserves to have to live the kind of life where the way the life is, is all just a trick/ curse?" Tenten read. "Close enough…" she muttered.
"Next line…" Tenten said, getting cut off by Temari.
"Can I help? Yesterday I also got all the meanings… well, what I think is the meanings…" Temari said.
"By yourself?" Tenten asked.
"Yeah… Anyhow, I think we could check our meanings," Temari suggested.
"Sure… but Sakura and I already did the first six lines… so… just tell me if it has the same meaning," Tenten replied. " Is the first one like 'The Jutsu is learned through a prophecy, so those that when people die from it, they will hate the prophecy. If the person reading the prophecy understands what it means, they might actually survive the curse of the jutsu!" Tenten read.
"Yep, that's like it," Temari answered.
"Next one, this is for the second line. ' 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.'" Tenten read, once again.
"Um… yeah, pretty much," Temari replied.
"You know, this prophecy thing is getting irritating," Tenten stated.
"Yeah… very troublesome," Temari said.
"Haha, Shikamaru = troublesome," Tenten laughed.
Temari then looked down and a dark aura surrounded her.
"He…he died…" Temari muttered.
Tenten covered her mouth and then noticed why Temari always laughed at her not wanting to say his name. It was fun, but you wouldn't want others to do it to you… Tenten felt ashamed of herself.
"S-sorry…" Tenten said, not wanting to speak any more.
Temari then looked up and said sorry, too.
"Why do you say sorry? I should be the one…" Tenten said, tilting her head in a questioning way.
"I made you unhappy. Isn't that a bad friend?" Temari asked, faking a smile.
"Okay then, if you say so…" Tenten said, unsure about what was going on. "Let's continue…"
"Line three," Temari reminded her, as she fumbled through her words in her notebook.
" Oh, did you get some thing like, '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.'" Tenten asked
"Yeah…" Temari replied.
"Okay, line four… '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.'" Tenten read.
"Mmm Hmm," Temari said.
"Next line… '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.'" Tenten stated.
"Yup," Temari replied, obviously getting bored.
"Line six, '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.'" Tenten said.
"Okay, now we do line seven to the end," Temari said. She then read the line seven meaning that Tenten wrote and nodded. "Okay, line eight," She said.
" The prophecy line eight is… 'When life is death, and death is nothing?'" Tenten read.
"When no one can live because when they live, they are dead, and when they think they die, they actually perish," Temari replied.
"Okay, line nine. 'You must live on the way it is, but in the future, it might change.'" Tenten stated.
"When you are in the curse of the jutsu, you must live on with the conditions, but afterwards, if you don't die, the customs could change," Tenten answered.
Tenten nodded and said, " Line ten, 'Life may be life, and death may be death.'" She then let out a sigh at the end.
"The curse will disappear and while you are living life, you are. You think you are dying and you are, not perishing," Temari read.
"Next, line eleven. 'The way life was formed to be. And maybe the life was meant for one, but spread and all got covered.'" Tenten stated.
"The curse could have been made to torture one person, but then it spread and all the jutsu users (for that jutsu) got the curse," Temari said, exasperated.
"Next…" Tenten said, annoyed. "Line twelve… 'When the world was diseased, when the world was hurt, when we couldn't see the future, we still had hope.'" Tenten read.
" When the world had no offenses, no defenses, and everyone was hurt, the people still worked hard, and thought they could make it through," Temari said.
"Line thirteen, 'And maybe, just maybe, the one who will read this, may be from the time where the world is free.'" Tenten read, once again.
" The person who reads the prophecy may be from the time where the world had freedom and was happy. That is actually true…" Temari answered.
" Line fourteen. 'When the world is not hurt, when the world is not sick, when the world can see what awaits them.'" Tenten said.
"Well… don't we already no what this means? Just the opposite of line twelve," Temari stated.
"Okay… line fifteen, 'And if that is so, maybe you'll understand.'" Tenten read.
" If we come from that time, we might understand the way of the jutsu," Temari said.
" Line sixteen, 'Understand why this jutsu might not work out.'" Tenten stated.
"We might understand why the jutsu won't work out well," Temari said.
"Line seventeen, 'Maybe you'll understand, why this prophecy is the key to the jutsu.'" Tenten read.
" We might understand what the prophecy has to do with the jutsu," Temari said.
"Line eighteen, 'The jutsu is just a jutsu, but the way you can learn it, is through this prophecy, not your everyday training.'" Tenten read.
" The jutsu is a jutsu, but it is not normal. You don't learn it through training, you learn it through the prophecy," Temari replied.
"Yeah pretty much. Read the meanings again, but this time, altogether," Tenten said.
"Okay, here goes, nothing.
'The Jutsu is learned through a prophecy, so those that when people die from it, they will hate the prophecy. If the person reading the prophecy understands what it means, they might actually survive the curse of the jutsu. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. The Prophecy says that nobody deserves to have to live the kind of life where the way the life is, is all just a trick/ curse. When no one can live because when they live, they are dead, and when they think they die, they actually perish. When you are in the curse of the jutsu, you must live on with the conditions, but afterwards, if you don't die, the customs could change. The curse will disappear and while you are living life, you are. You think you are dying and you are, not perishing. The curse could have been made to torture one person, but then it spread and all the jutsu users (for that jutsu) got the curse. When the world had no offenses, no defenses, and everyone was hurt, the people still worked hard, and thought they could make it through. The person who reads the prophecy may be from the time where the world had freedom and was happy. When the world has offenses, when the world has defences, when nobody is hurt, and when the world knows what might happen. If we come from that time, we might understand the way of the jutsu. We might understand why the jutsu won't work out well. We might understand what the prophecy has to do with the jutsu. The jutsu is a jutsu, but it is not normal. You don't learn it through training, you learn it through the prophecy," Temari stated.
"Okay," Tenten replied. "Now, we must figure out how to still survive after reincarnating them."