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'Thoughts'
"Dialogue"
'Entities'
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In the meeting room;
"You've should agree with their decisions. They would like to take care of the girl wellbeing as soon as possible. Then, the Haruno's will no longer pressuring us in that matter."
The meeting room was heated with Tsunade and the Council arguments. The matter regarding Haruno's was a major headache for Tsunade as she refused to budge with her resolve in furthering Sakura's treatment under her care.
"I know they will pressuring us the issues into the matter but right now. The girl is my patient therefore she will be under my care until I decided that she is stable enough to be released!" Her tone was hard and unyielding indicated that she won't back down with her decision.
"I know you starting to care for the girl but you need to consider that the girl is claimed to be the Haruno heiress. It would not do any good if she was kept here any longer! We can't risked for offending one of our benefactors." Kohana, one of the Council argued.
She can see right through Tsunade that the woman herself getting emotionally attached to the girl. The Haruno girl might remind herself of her dead younger brother, Nawaki.
Tsunade clenched her teeth when she knew that the old woman point was valid but her decision was final. Her resolve to guide the girl on her ability was fixed from the moment she treated her.
She felt a connection with the Haruno girl like it was a fate that brought them together under tragically circumstances. She doesn't want to give up yet, unlike the time of her and Nawaki's. 'I will not repeat the same mistakes!'
She knew that the Haruno had their own ulterior motives as from what she heard, Sakura's didn't recognize anything about her own clan. Haruno clan is a distinguished clan although they went unknown to the public eyes or the center attentions of mass media. They chose to be private and their wealth can rival any other famous and well known clan today.
Albeit being small clan, they always strict with their lineage. They forbade their heir or heiress to mingle with common peoples. Protected like a doll kept in glass. The pure blood was all they cared for especially the one who was borne with the divine powers. They called it curse. They believed that the child was possessed therefore it need to be kept away.
At first they shunned and sealed the child who can only see spirits. Separated from the family members, the child will be put in an isolation house. All movements and interactions was supervised. Everything was stifling.
There was a rumour about the heiress of the family ran away from home, eloped with a commoner man. But that's all Tsunade knew because everyone lips was sealed tight, even the maids were forbidden to mention anything about the scandal regarding Haruno heiress. It was a major humiliation for them but they never did anything to search for the girl. It was as if the heiress herself was discarded.
In those community, they were others who hold onto their beliefs about spiritual or supernatural phenomenon. Some of the old clans that still existed until the modern era were still held onto that customs.
In a lockdown house sealed with ofuda with sealing spells pasted on the walls and spritiual barriers rope hung surrounded the building perimeters.
That the custom of Uzumaki's clan, Tsunade knew. They sealed the jinchuuriki, a human sacrifices that had been possessed by the nine tailed fox. Old folks believed that if they could contained the kitsune, the powers they possess will be unparalleled. A lucky charm to gain wealth, powers and influences.
However, every wishes came with a price need to be paid. Sacrifices needed, if not the drawbacks of the wishes itself will turns into curse.
The Council cannot be satisfied with the influences they had over the community. They thrived for the clans as their backups but at the same time all decisions were made by them. They had the powers to rule over the clans. Those are the things that repulsed Tsunade the most. Greedy.
"Okay. This is what I'm going to do." She stared at them hard with unflinching eyes. Her tone held confidence as she stated her resolution.
"I, Tsunade of the Senju clan will take this girl under my wings and she will be attending in Konoha Gakuen. As you all knew, Hiruzen Sarutobi had chosen me as the Godaime principal for the academy. Yet I don't made the final decision until about now. I'm sure he will have no problem with it. Now will you excuse me."
Tsunade stood up and strode out of the room with her shoulders straight followed by Shizune. She doesn't give a damn about being rude to them. At the end, she held the authority above them.
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At Haruno's Household
"I see... the Senju wishes to get involves with our family affairs." A sickly figure spoke softly from the futon where he was sitting, there was a screen that seperates both of the figure and the person he spoken.
The person in black suits sat on seiza style as he reporting to the head of the Haruno clan. Tensed with stiff atmosphere of the room. He looked straight at the screens watching the shadow of the figure behind it.
"Yes, Akaashi-sama. The reports we received after the meeting of the Council and Tsunade Senju was not what we expected it to be. The strong decision made by Tsunade-hime would not be budge even if we pressured the Council."
The room became silent for a while, neither both of them uttered anything. All the decisions making will be decided by the head clan himself.
'Your price will be your sordid soul. Sins will always be a sin.'
Impure heart tainted by the greediness and selfish desire to gain wealth and power. You would do anything to get what you wanted even if sacrifices need to be made.
The Haruno bloods were tainted by those who sins in the past. The dark past cannot be erased thus the future legacy must pay for the price. They'd killed the one who had been possessed by the spirits, buried them alive. The curse kid. A bad luck and a demon container.
Those thoughts poisoned their minds as the real demons were themselves. Blind by the superstitious of old tradition, they punished those who they assumed as a demon. By the time they tried to change their ancient ways, it was to late for them to realize the misunderstandings. The gifted child who they had been misunderstood.
Good spirits turned evil as their precious companion was mistreated by its own kindred. Even Kami-sama was furious by the act of ignorant and foolish humans.
'Only one can purify the tarnished spirits by confessing their sins and regrets.'
"Very well... She will be put under the Senju care for a while. When the times come, when the shinigami came for me. The barriers will be broken.." 'cough! cough!'. The old head clan stopped for a minute as he started to coughing badly.
The person who was sitting on seiza at the other side of the screen stood up and moved to aid the head clan. Before his hand reached the screen to push it aside.
"Stop! Don't move any further!" Akaashi barked out warning.
The hand stopped its movement but the person was still standing near the screen. His expression was blank and never wavered even when the head clan responds harshly.
"Listen well Satoshi, we carried the burden and atonement of our ancestors for their wrongdoings. The past mistakes cannot be reversed as what had been made as a deal. You and her are like stars. Bound together as twins. You share the same blood as her." The head clan stopped talking for a while but then he spoken softly almost hard to hear by Satoshi.
"Like me and my twin sister, Chihiro.."
He never imagined that his sister would be making unpredictable decisions. He knew that she was really in love with a commoner man who she met secretly but then their father set up an arranged marriage for her with another man from a prestigious family.
His twin sister fought with their father as she refused to get married with a man she didn't love. Then their father found out the reason of her refusal. Father was furious and opposed of their secretive relationships. Their father forbade his sister to go out to met that man again.
She was kept locked in an isolation house, highly supervised by the maids and their father's men. He could only watched from afar not knowing what to do. He pitied his sister but at the same time afraid of what he saw lurking at the isolation house. He was sure his sister also can sense it, the dark purple negative energy sometimes came out at the backyards.
There was a dead sakura tree right there and a spells was paste at the center of the tree trunk. No one noticed this tree aside from him and his sister.
One night on a full moon, the elders were anxious about something. They kept asking about his sister conditions at the isolation house. Eventually they all went to check things out. The moment they opened the shoji door of his sister bedroom, his sister was floating in the air with her hands limping at the side.
There was malicious intent swooshed over them in flash. All the elders and his father frozen in terror.
But what the worse for him was he saw rope bindings all over the place and his sister was at the middle of it. Only he can saw what cannot be seen by others.
Flashback"Release my sister!!!!" Akaashi roared to the evil spirit. He don't understand why there were bindings everywhere. Why was it attached to the house?
"Never!! You all must pay the price of your forgotten sin! This girl will be your payment!" Head shot up and eyes wide. She shriek like a banshee.
"Quick the seal! Place it on the floor! Throw the purify salt!!" One of the elders took out a small pouch and grab a handful of salt. Then he threw them at the possessed Chihiro.
"Aaarghhhhh!!!!" She screamed in anguish.
'Ni-sama.. hurts. help me..' a subtle voice could be heard by Akaashi. 'Chihiro!!' Then quickly he noticed the blight formed at Chihiro's figure. Her arms, feet and the left side of her face supporting bluish red splotches. As if she was burned.
"Stop!! Stop it!! You'll hurt her!" He grabbed the arm of the elder who persistently throwing the purify salt at his sister. "What are doing you foolish boy!! That's not your sister! It's the damn demon in disguise!!" His father rebuked him for stopping them.
"No! She was fighting inside! Don't you see you also hurt the real person! Let me talk to her." The elders were skeptical along with his father.
He inhaled deeply and looked at his sister in the eyes. He will do anything to save his beloved sister.
"Please release her! What's your reason? Are we had done something to you?" He questioned the spirit that possessed his sister.
"Chihiro if you hear me, fight it! Fight it! I know you can!"
"You all forgot the sin from the past. I, the god's spirit and guardian of the child you accused and killed will demand this body as the payment of your misdeeds!" The spirit bellowed in anger.
Every living persons in the room shocked at the statement came out from possessed Chihiro's mouth.
"Your really are a demon!! We make no mistakes!!!"
His father shouted refusing to admit their proud ancestors vile actions.
"You!! All of you!! Your pride are the reason of your sin! Never admitted your wrongdoing!" The enraged spirit shrieked at them. Prideful human who refuse to confess their sin, to ask forgiveness. Therefore kami-sama cursed them so they could never asked for it.
'Only the chosen one can dispel their curse with the gifted abilities'
"Please.. please. I will trade my body for my sister. I will carry those burden just I beg you to release her." Akaashi begged to the spirit for a tiny bits of mercy.
The spirit became silent as it listened to Akaashi request. It could see the love he held for his sister, it was sincere and honest.
"Very well human, I will take your body in exchange for her. You will bear the blight, the proves of your clan sin onto your body. She will be free from it."
All the bindings then moved wrapped around him. Including the paper seal which attached to his body. His skins felt like it was being burned. Tears forming at the corner of his eyes as he trying to withstand the pain.
All the elders and his father could not believe he had made a deal with the spirit in exchange for his sister.
After a while, all the energy surrounding them calm down instantly and Chihiro fell back to the floor. Akaashi went unconscious for a week including Chihiro. The twins were affecting each other therefore if one fell ill, the other soon followed.
End of the flashback
Few months after their recovery, Akaashi went to his father and threatening him to expose their dark past to the whole family and mass media. He doesn't care anymore about the family reputation on that time. All he thinks about was to help his sister.
He's the one who help her escapes from the Haruno compound. She always wrote to him updating her new life from where she was married, having a daughter and lastly a granddaughter. His sister already had crossed to another path for the dead. Only he left to the waiting...
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Sakura sat on the hospital bed gazing outside the window. Her mind was preoccupied with what to do after this. She doesn't want to go back to her aunt and cause them trouble for taking care of her again.
She then remembered about what Dr. Tsunade mentioned to her regarding the Haruno clan. She completely clueless and a bit doubtful wanting to trust them. They could be someone pretending to be her family when actually they might harboured an ill-intent towards her.
She hoped that everything will get settled as soon as possible. She would not be left behind of her education. She supposedly starting first year of high school this year.
'Grandma, mama and papa... I wish you guys were still alive. I feel really hopeless right now..'
'NO!' She must be strong from now on and be independent. Everything will be alright. 'Be strong, Sakura!'
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Meanings:
Ofuda - a paper talisman that contains spells to wards evil or any other purpose. It can be varied depends on the person usage.
Well this is it guys. Enjoy and pardon for the poor grammars. Have a nice day.