Flower Myth: Adonis
Note: PLS. READ. Remember I changed it into a Naruto version, meaning mythology my way. Please if you don't like mythology and if you don't like me please don't read and let it be. If you're not going to say anything nice don't even bother giving a review. I just love converting myth to naruto version. Thank you!
Adonis: Sasuke
Aphrodite: Sakura
Persephone: Ino
Zeus: Jiraiya (him because Zeus had loved many women other than the goddess of all goddesses and had a lot of children from other women; Jiraiya on the other hand loves spending time with women.)
Of all the flower myths, this was the most famous of all. Every year all the women in Konoha mourned for him and every year they will rejoice as his flower, the blood red anemone was seen blooming again. The goddess of Love herself had fallen in love with this handsome man. This mortal was Sasuke.
She saw him when he was born and from then on had fallen in love with him and decided he should be hers. He carried her him to Ino, the Queen of the Dead to take care of him for her. But the Ino would not give him back even when Sakura went to the Underworld to get him back for she had loved him too. Neither Goddess would yield and finally Jiraiya had to judge between the two. He decided that Adonis should spend half of every year with each. In autumn and winter he would spend his time with the Queen of the Dead and during spring and summer he would have to stay with the Goddess of beauty. The two goddesses agreed with Jiraiya, so every year it's what they do.
Every spring and summer he was with Sakura all she does was please him and give him the things he wanted. She had given him her all her love, she would even dress like a huntress and follow him through the land and forest. Only in a one sad day, she happened not to be with him as he tracked down a mighty boar. He tired to kill the boar but only managed to wound it. The mighty boar attacked him with its great tusks. Far away up in heaven Sakura heard her lovers groan and flew over him with her winged car. When she found him he was lying on the ground slowly dying. She held him in her arms as his blood flow down his skin and his eyes getting heavier and dim. She kissed him though he didn't know that she kissed him as he died. As painful as his death was , the wound in the goddess's heart became deeper and she would bear it forever for no one could ever heal it and she can never die as much as she wants to die with him. She gave him her last words even though she knew he could not hear her.
"You die, O thrice desired,
And my desire has flown like a dream.
Gone with you is the girdle of my beauty,
But I myself must live who am a goddess,
And may not follow you.
Kiss me yet once again, the last, long kiss,
Until I draw your soul within my lips
And drink down all you love."
All the ones who loved him cried and wept for him. The goddesses and even the Muses. But down in the Underworld he could not hear them nor see the blood red flower that sprang up where each and every drop of his blood had stained the earth.
( If you know the book where I got Sakura's last words then good for you 'cause that's the only myth book that I have.)
