Write your name.
Nara Shikanai.
Age: 7
Birthdate: September 22nd
Clan: Nara
Father: Nara Shikaku
Ninja registration code:
What. I rose my hand and Hound looked at me.
"If I don't know my registration code, what should I do?" I asked sheepishly.
"Yeah, I wanna know that too." Kiba barked in.
"You seriously don't know?" a boy, who I haven't met before, asked with disdain.
"Uh, yeah, we just got it not long ago." I retorted. "First-year over here, punk." I leaned a little forward, so the boy, who was standing two seats in front of me, on my right side, could see my smirk. He got angry.
"Who are you callin-"
"Silence!" Hound barked and I felt terror go through me. Oh, so, that's how killing intent feels like. But I was a fighter and even in my late-life if I felt terror I just got stronger. I felt adrenaline being pumped into me. I smirked at the boy, who was looking afraid, clearly affected by the killing intent streaming in the air from Hound.
"So, you shut up that easily?" he looked at me and I felt every ANBU and children look at me, some with incredibility, others with doubt. "Thought so, scaredy-cat." I snorted. I saw Hound come closer and looked down at me, I looked up, adrenaline getting the best of me, I saw his eyes, one dark grey, one sickening blood red. I had to back down, I knew it, if I showed more guts I'd just end up punished or dead. He'd kill me if ordered and we both knew that. So, I looked down, lowering my head, acting like I actually got scared. He didn't move, he stood there and watched me, his killing intent freezing the entire class. I felt frightened, but I could not help it, I got a rush at feeling afraid, and he saw it on me, he should have done something there and then, but he only stood there. Why didn't he punish me? Why didn't he kill me? I felt my adrenaline slowly fading and I felt the terror creeping back into my heart.
"All those who don't know their numbers leave the dedicated place blank." another ANBU commanded and I nodded hesitantly. "But make sure you learn them, those numbers are who you are." I looked up.
I was only a number.
I had no name, no personality, no family, nothing in the eyes of a superior. I was a number, a tool. Nothing. I was nothing in their eyes.
They began getting the completed files and finally, we were allowed to go home. I stood up and headed straight out, I didn't stop to say a word to anyone, Shikamaru ran after me and he took my right hand, I felt a slight tremble in his hand as well, but he was far better holding it together than I was. I let him take me home.
When we arrived, mother and father waited for us, but after seeing the state in which we were in they didn't say a word to us, letting us open up only if we wanted to. I went straight to our room and laid down on my bed. Burying my head in the pillow, I let it all out.
I began crying.
Mother came in and she began rubbing circles on my back, but my tears didn't stop. I had to write that I would give up my family! For fucks sake, who asks that question from a seven-year-old?! But I should be older! I should have my real mother next to me! Then I wouldn't have to worry about everyone and my own life! What did I do to deserve this? Was I that bad of a person?
I cried it all out, all my current and past life.
I passed out from exhaustion, and when I woke up it was dark, I moved and I saw Shikamaru asleep in his own bed.
"…what did they think? Traumatize children? They want loyal shinobi or psychopaths?" I heard father's voice and I turned, but then pain erupted and my head began to ache.
Did they want loyal shinobi or psychopaths?
They managed to make a loyal shinobi into a psychopath.
I smiled at the thought, my head throbbing with pain, and smiling I felt tears roll down my face, chuckling slightly I touched a tear and bought my hand in my mouth. It tasted salty, but then I wondered.
How would others' tear taste like?
So, Shikanai gets a breakdown, but how much will that affect her in the long run? We'll see ;) A little bit of twist over here and there, this is the first chapter that shows, that maybe Shikanai's personality is not that one-sided or just as simple.
I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter!
And I still don't own Naruto.
And we get a little bit of a clash between her and Kakashi, maybe they'll stop talking, who knows? This part of the story is really important, it's what makes a little bit of shift not just in her, but in other characters as well.
I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter!
nyuszika9510: Annak örvendek erősen, remélem továbbá is tetszeni fog! :)
VaneM: Thank you! I actually got better, and I think it's over, I can finally breathe (mostly) normally. Hmm. You think that the council will keep their tabs on her, interesting. But I can't divulge anything, the story will reveal everything...eventually XD