Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. You know the routine.
I love Kakashi! – normal
I love Asuma! – Kurenai thinking
The Princess and the Rogue – His and her fairytale
Chapter 2 – Inside the Wall of Briars
Kurenai woke up in the small house that was built in a forest that was giant enclosure. Some of the trees have been cleared away and was re A young lady of sixteen, she was already annoyed of the walls that surrounded her. Nothing would please her more than to somehow escape from her prison. But it truly can't be said that she didn't try. Her nursemaid Tsunade and her assistant Shizune, both raised in a country of ninjas always had a good supply of weapons lying around.
At the age of ten, Kurenai found a huge stash of them hiding in a loose floorboard under Shizune's bed (she was trying to hide from Tsunade to avoid a scolding after eating all of her precious chocolate). After finding them, she used a few kunais to try and hack away the briars but with no avail. She was then rewarded by an even bigger scolding by Tsunade, although she felt that her words were said halfheartedly. Well, she's been locked here with me all her life. She probably wants to leave too…
As years went by, Kurenai tried to kill the briars so she could safely climb the wall. She tried everything she could. She hacked away at the briars, only to receive numerous cuts from its many thorns; she tried adding rat poison from the cellars to the soil, but the briars grew nonetheless. Exasperated, she slashed the briars viciously but the briars still thrived, thorny as ever.
Now, Kurenai still slashes at the briars, not because she wants to escape but because there's nothing better to do. Tsunade, seeing that there was no point in stopping her taught her some shinobi tricks and over the years, Kurenai mastered them. In fact, she was almost as strong as Shizune (but she had much to learn before she surpasses Tsunade).
So on went her monotone life of slashing at briars and when she was tired, she lay down on the grass watching the birds fly freely in the sky. I wish I were a bird…She yawned sleepily in the shade of a tree underneath the afternoon sun. Little did she know that outside the walls that she longed to escape, there was one person who longed to come in…
TBC