--- The Ties of Destiny ---
Chapter 1Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
Italic: thoughts/ dreams/ flash back
The scent of blood is heavy in the air, everything's red, coated with blood, with "their" blood, her whole clan lying there lifelessly, in front of her eyes in different angles. Her family, her shelter was gone within the same night.
Their blood forming rivers floated around her. It is raining, raining with blood. Her tears mixed in with the hush rain, her older brother standing there, with an expressionless and unreadable face on.
Their killers standing there as if nothing happened, and then disappeared into the darkness of night, leaving nothing for her to live for any longer.
Moments before, with the last ounce of their energy, her parents told her not to seek revenge for them. "Don't forget that everyone has a reason… and a purpose… to live and to die……… live ……and continue living… with all … your… emotions…live with pride…protect… what you believe…in ………run and …be ………… happy."
With those last words, her parents past away. Even when they are dying they thought about her, and her future. A puff of smoke escaped the air, and signaled the arrival of Atatsuki. The faces of the Atatsuki members are blurring to her, but their threatening words hang thick in the air.
" Come with us, and your pathetic sister would not get hurt, but if resist your head and hers will be on the floor, and even if you resist we will kill to get what we want and need, so you will just be costing trouble for your self and your sister."
The disappearance of her brother woke her up from her daze. She looked around in surprise and alarm, but her brother is nowhere in site.
Her brother threw away his whole life just to save her, just to save her. How pathetic she feels right now. She is weak…she isn't able to protect what's important to her, she can only watch from afar while her family dies, while others fights her battles for her.
That is when the information of her clan's death sank into her brain, so she ran, ran and never looked back.
She arrived at the house of her best friend (Rei), fortunate for her, her other friends: Ryn, Kenji, and Ken were there as well.
With out question they left with her, they left their family behind for her, they left the village they were born in behind.
They were five years old, and earned weird gazes wherever they went, after all they were only children who would have expected them to be of any harm? Many attacked them because of their ignorance, but they got what they deserved when they fought for their life. Many died at the hands of five years olds, because of a simple stupidity, because they over looked their age for their skills.
During those fights, her best friend Rei and her never engaged in, after all they are not used to death at their own hands.
Thirteen years old Ten-Ten woke with a shutter, she has not had that dream in a long time, what made her have that dream? She looked over at the bed next to her. Her best friend is sleeping with a peaceful aura around her.
It had been 8 years since they left their village, and she is going back, going back to the village that hunts her in her dreams, the village that her friends and her had left 8 years ago.
Author's note: Please vote for whom will ten-ten end up with at the end, and how long would you like this story.
