Early Summer

by Yumiko Haruno

Reliving the fire burning down all that was ever known and ensnaring her in a time loop of constant illusion… She will come to accept. For them she was nothing but inside the loop she was someone… She would have to decide. ( A/N: Modified). [Alternate Timeline]

5. Chapter 5

5 (I)

The dark void was filled with clustered little stars that were spread across the empty space above. One by one they winked, glistening like the memories they shared, somehow horrifyingly brightening the blood covered ground.

Arms were stretched around her—its purple glow dimming while two more secured her in place. She felt an arm snake across her waist and felt the other retreat back, its electric charge vanishing.

Crystal shards were scattered in the air frozen with chakra. The person in front of her locked their eyes with her own, watching dark red blood trail down from rose colored lips.

Her knees felt weak at the sensation of the person's arm around her. The proximity. The way those cool narrowed eyes stared at her own paling jade eyes—it reminded her of the end of this era.

Of the end of them.

And the end of

The Three Way Alliance.