White Lilies
by: randomEdwarD
Disclaimer: All characters are part of Naruto, which in turn, is owned by Masashi Kishimoto. Except for original characters that are obviously owned by me. So please don't sue me--cause I'm only a poor 14 yr. Old with no money...;
Inspired by The Kimono She Wore, by blue jeans, an InuYasha fic.
This fic was originally titled as D-E-E-P D-I-V-E---it has been completely rewritten, cause quite frankly it sucked.
This is a Sakura centric fic with a brand new pairing I'm pleased to announce But a fair warning to all--if you don't like kakasaku (Kakashi/Sakura) don't look forward to this...but still read cause reviews make me happy, and even if you do contribute flames--it's the little number at the top that counts, right?
Also this is a massive AU. It sort of runs parallel with the actual manga storyline, but not by much.
Author's note end
Chapter One
She came around to the scent of blood and dust with the nauseating metallic taint in the air.
That and not being able to breathe correctly.
She snapped her eyes open. The vision of mud and blood swam before her eyes. Tired and dazed, she finally realized that something was holding her down. Something ridiculously heavy was pinning her lower back and hips, pressing painfully down on her diaphragm, making it hard to breath. Twisting her head around, she choked on a gasp in horror. A dead man lay prone on top of her.
Her fingers scrabbled in the mud, thrusting her body forward, onto her arms---trying to get up, and then slipping, tearing her nails, coating her arms in bloodied mud. Wide eyed panic and terror rushed adrenalin throughout her body and in a rare show of strength she forced herself out from under the corpse.
Crawling away a few feet she sat down hard and panted. Dragging a muddied hand through filthy petal hair she looked around, and gasped.
She quickly stood and turned in a full circle, eyes showing awe and horror.
She was standing on the edge of a battlefield viewing the aftermath of the battle. Clouds of dust lay upon the ground like mist, covering some of the bodies and making silhouettes of others.
Bodies lay scattered about and others lay clumped together. While still other lay in pairs as if 'best friends till the end' or had simply fallen fighting to the end.
Weapons stuck out of many of them like a parody of silver flowers of the dead
She stepped back unconsciously and heard a metallic clang underfoot. Looking down she saw she had stepped on a metal forehead protector.
...hitai-ate, she recalled dimly.
Staring at the leaf in the middle, she slowly sat down, eyes strangely bright.
"What...?" she whispered brokenly.
And for the first time she started to cry, for she did not know the dirt smudged face that stared back at her with jaded eyes.
And it began to rain.
And amidst her quiet cries---she did not realize she was being watched.
hiiissss
She snapped her head up, rain splattering everywhere. Alarmed she spun on her haunches and a scream tore her throat.
For a moment she stared in entranced horror at the gigantic demon snake with malicious yellow eyes.
It lunged for her at a terrifying speed. With a cry, she barely managed to fling herself to the side. Quickly getting to her feet, she ran to a nearby corpse and pulled out some kunai out of his body.
The snake coiled itself and then struck out again with an angry hiss. Screaming her body responded with years of practice. Jumping backwards with her arms crossed in front of her, pale fingers laced with six bloody kunai. She flung them towards the snake even as she turned her body upon landing.
And then, she decided to show it how fast she could run---by hightailing it out of there towards a nearby copse of trees.
The snake hissed with pain as one kunai lanced itself in its eye. Gulping, the girl redoubled her efforts. Jumping and weaving around dead bodies.
Enraged at the pain the girl had inflicted it---the demon took chase. Much faster than the girl---it easily caught up.
Seeing this pumped another round of adrenalin throughout her body, and allowed her to burst through the trees with renewed speed.
All of a sudden she gave a wail of terror and disappointment as the trees came to an abrupt end. Before her was a sea of waist high weeds. Absolutely no cover...
SNAP!
She screamed when fiery pain erupted in her leg. Blood gushed from two pierced holes in her calf, and then she was flung up in to the sky, into the rain, towards the demon's gaping jaws.
She opened her mouth to give out her dying scream when---
A thunderous sound filled the air. Something between a howl and a roar...And then she was suddenly snatched from the air by something huge and silver, flashing in the raindrops.
She was brought down to the ground gently. She looked up and gasped when she met the proud and fierce gaze of a single golden eye. It broke its stare first, turning to glare at the demon snake, blood pouring out from its punctured eye socket.
She gasped again as her savior was that of a great demon wolf, the size of an elephant. He was pure silver with two horns sprouting from his proud and handsome head, with to full swishing tails. Whit clouds had gathered at his feet and a great scar ran vertically through an empty right eye socket.
She wiped rain and sweat from her face and felt her breath catch at this demon. He was simply magnificent and entirely too terrifying at the same time.
The snake appeared to think so too as it quickly turned and sprang for the copse. But the great beast would have none of this, and so with another of his terrifying howls and a snarl, he lunged after it and snapped his powerful jaws on the snake's neck and tossed it back in the field of weeds, like it was a mere toy. With a hiss the snake slowly rose up only to be met with a ball of lightning from the Wolf's jaws.
Like a dream he came to her, stately and proud and so very knowing. He was not some low ranking demon like the snake, but a true intelligent being, older and wiser than her. He stopped in front of her and lowered his great head. And she threw herself onto his muzzle and sobbed herself out even as the rain fell even harder. He turned his head and gave a slow swipe of his tongue. She dimly realized that the fiery pain in her calf had receded to a dull throbbing pain, and then all was dark.
He gently picked he up in his bone-crushing jaws and leapt away, clouds from his feet streaming like banners.
Haruno Arashi walked down the steps from the Hidden Temple, demure and graceful, and waited between the poles of the Torii. Wind blew her long brown hair back and covered her with obligatory sakura petals. She stared down the path with deep blue eyes. The setting sun's rays made the single earring in her right ear wink and glitter, but if one looked closely you could see that it looked like a fierce golden eye.
She smiled as she saw her great guardian wolf, Kamidake, and a small head of roseate hair.
The girl woke up to find cerulean eyes peering down at her.
"Good morning," came a woman's voice.
She gave a start, and stared at the most beautiful woman she had ever seen. Long flowing brown hair was tied back, and a kind and world-weary face looked at her with deep blue eyes.
Wait! Where was the demon wolf She looked around quickly. Arashi gave a tinkling laugh.
"Kamidake has gone back to guard the Hidden Temple from those who wish ill of it."
Confused she asked, "Kamidake...?"
"Yes, that is his name."
"Oh."
A smile. And she hesitantly smiled back.
"Do you have a name?"
A name, she thought, do I have a name? I...I...can't remember...
"I can't remember...," her lips trembled and tears welled up in her eyes.
A troubled frown appeared on Arashi's face. "Well then, I think I shall give you one---since we can't call you 'girl'."
She paused and thought for a moment.
"I know!"
The girl looked up eagerly, eyes bright.
"How about we call you Sakura, For your hair is a matching color for their petals!"
"S...S...Sakura?"
"Yes!"
"Ummm....ok!" And so, Sakura gave a hesitant smile.
And got a smile in return.
end Chapter 1
Well there's chapter 1---still long and boring, and the first action scene I ever wrote...; but rewritten to satisfaction. FEAR MY EXCESSIVE USE OF ADJECTIVES!!!111ONE
har har.
The demon snake is supposed to be one of Oroichamaru' summoning snakes--I incase you didn't get that...
Now about Arashi...She's not a Mary-Sue, although she seems like one very much so. She's an important figure for Sakura. Like a mother figure as it'll become apparent in the next chapter. :P
Again a reminder that this is a massive AU.
Sorry for any errors I may not have caught---point them out in a review - shameless plug to get you to review
Anyone up to beta read?
Ja ne.
Review Pleaz!!!