Author Note: Believe it if you want but this is actually an epilogue for Upon A Bloody Dream. Even if it was short, the story was still popular and I'm happy because of that. I was a little surprised when I read some of the review for the first story. Not that I wasn't happy to hear that you thought it was a cross over story but I didn't even have a single thought about it when I wrote it so I want to clear that up now; the golden eyed boy is my original character and so is everything about him. I kept him a mystery because that is how I see him, I myself don't know much about him yet but what I can share with you is that he's way older than he looks. This story takes up months after the first story ended.
Summary: There is a shadow coming closer to Konoha, a melody is filling the air as he draws closer. Destroyed memories are revived and healed wounds are torn open once again. Old hatred is revived and newfound bliss are forgotten. On the brink of insanity once again a battle between future and past starts. The frail pair of hands that hold onto each other are being pried apart by the unforgettable melody that killed them once before. The nightmare didn't end, it never will.
Pairing: None. Not romantically at least. I will have the same standards as the first story, don't argue against me and say you want a specific couple because you won't get what you want in this fiction.
Genre: Mystery, angst, dark, supernatural, shounen, tragedy and much more
Ranting: T, but I would like to say T+ since I feel better with that setting on this story.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
The Bloody Dream... Never Ended
Written by Monkan
Prologue
The wind was blowing rather strongly and the trees were doing their best to not break their branches. The sun was blocked by dark clouds that made it impossible for it to break through. No matter how it tried it would never be able to win over the clouds. It was a simple fact that any one just had to realize. There was always something that anyone couldn't defy. Just as fire and water were eternal enemies. The sun would never shine as long as the clouds were in the way.
Nature created it like this and it was the same with humans. There were something that they could never win over and it was something he knew all to well.
His hand touched the flute inside his coat as he walked down the path toward his next destiny. His golden eyes were dull and watched the ground before his feet's as he walked on and on without thinking about anything. Not worrying about anything.
A long way down the path where he came from laid bodies on the road. Dead to the world, dead to all living creatures. They had attacked him and he had had no choice but to kill them. It was either him or them and since they were so insignificant it wouldn't matter if they died or lived. This was the one thing humankind could never fight and it was death. No matter how long they lived death would always catch up to them. Sometimes it would claim someone young and bring tears to others, the pain that death brought with it was something else that couldn't be escaped. Humans were so weak to many things.
He sang the words to a familiar song under his breath. It had been a long time since he sang it for someone, he had gone to look for a new toy but found no one that could help him. Therefore no one had heard him sing ever since he left this village he was returning to. After what he thought would only be a fleeting interest had changed to something else.
Soon, someone would once again hear him sing. This familiar melody that only few could hear and was just as old as the earth all living creatures lived on. A song he had always sung a song he would never forget. This was the first thing he knew of and it would be the last thing he would hear.
Even if he had escaped death and would always escape it, it was only a small thing compare to what he would never be able to win over.
He stopped walking and looked up at the grey sky. It was going to rain!
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Naruto sat in his room in the hospital. A tray with unfinished food stood on his bed and he seemed to had forgotten it. His innocent blue eyes looked outside as if he saw something no one else could.
A shadow stood behind him, an image identical of Naruto but no one else could see him. He also watched outside into the rain that fell over Konoha. His red eyes glowed in the dull light from the lamp and his muscles, if he had actually had had a body, was tense.
They could both hear it, a melody. They had never heard it before but for some reason it was a frightening but also a pleasant sound. Why? Because it had a sense of familiarity but it also felt like it held a dagger against their throats.
End Prologue
Author Note: All right, I've decided what to make out of this sequel. I took a small pause in the middle of this short prologue and gave it a little thought about how long I would make it. It will be the same as the first story, one short prologue, two long main chapters and one short epilogue. Just like the first story. But I've decided that I will make them into arches with this amount of chapters. Each telling a different but connecting story that will bind them together in the end. But please remember that it will be slow progress when I get to the main chapters and when I finish one arc I have no idea when the next one will begin. The reason I will continue "A Bloody Dream" is because I see possibility in it. Just the simple reason that I will write in short arches instead of a long chapter story will relieve me of stress since I can end the story after any arch I see fit. How long this will last depends on how big interest I pick up and how much I can write.
