13 years ago, 14th of December:
A heavy snow is falling in the cold night when a large group of masked ninjas enter a house after one of them kicked the door open. A couple in their mid-late twenties stand up, ready to fight. The man tells his wife:
-Babe, you and the girls get outta here...
-I'm getting them out but I'm coming back for you... she says.
The brown haired woman with green eyes starts to run in the other direction until a ninja throws a few kunais in the back of her legs. then her husband, a tall blond man with blue eys attack that smae ninja. In her bedroom, a small 3 year old girl gets up after being woke up by the noises coming from the living room. She silently walks to the living room and is horrified when she sees her father being decapitated by a katana.
-Daddy! she screams.
A ninja sees her and attempts to throw a kunai at her but the mother tackles him, causing the kunai to cut only a small gash in the girl's wet because of tears cheek. The mother turns around to her daughter and says:
-Kimito! Take your sister and run...!
Kimito runs to her sister's bedroom where the brown haired and wide blue eyes baby is,laying, covered in a black and purple blanket. She takes the 3 months old baby in her arm and starts to run toward the back door. Then the same ninja that killed their father blocks their way. He lifts the bloody katana to kill them but the mom stops him and fights him. She manages to stab him, but he stabs her back right before Kimito closed her eyes. Then the wounded ninja goes to kill the girls when a pale blond haired girl with blue eys tackles him to the ground. The 8 year old girl stabs him sveral times in the face with a kitchen knife.
-Yuki!, Kimito says.
Yuki realizes that the house is on fire, probably set by the other ninjas, so Yuki takes Mina, grabs Kimito's hand and starts running in the large field without looking back. Once they're so far away that they can't see the burning house. She then kneels down, crying when Kimito asks:
-Others too?
-Yes...All of them. We...We're the only ones left...
There's a big silence until the baby starts to cry. Yuki takes the baby in her arms and says as soft as she can:
-Shh! They'll find us. Please be quiet, it'll be fine...Mina.
At a public park, a little before the sun shows up, a 1 year old Mina is sitting on a picnic table while Yuki is on a swing. Then she gets up and asks:
-Are you coming now? I wonder why you wanted to be here anyways.
-No!, Mina answer while looking east ward. Coming...! Coming!
-What's coming?
-Sun!
Just then the first sunshine popped out from behind the hill. In a sigh, Yuki leaves then comes back at noon, only to find Mina looking at the sun leaves Mina a sandwich then goes back at the orphanage. Now it's sunset and Mina is still in the park. then, the sun dissapears and Mina asks:
-It come back?
-Yes. It'll be back tommorrow and every single other day. ,Yuki says while taking Mina's hand. Now come.
-Bye Sun! See ya tommorrow!
While walking in the city's streets with her cousin, Mina turns around and sees her reflection in the glass. She stares at the shades around her eyes, due to her insomnia. Many children call her a freak because of those, and a small group of kids tease her, also because of Mina's remaining family. Once again, a question pops out in Mina's mind, so she asks:
-Yuki? Why I can't sleep you others?(Traduction: Why can't I sleep like you or other kids?)
She didn't expect a response. At every question of this kind, Yuki remembers the night that was two days before her birthday. The day their family got murdered.
**Beginning of Flashback, 14th december**
As Yuki starts to walk again with the baby in her arms and Kimito following beside her, a white shaped that looked terrifying came in front of her and Yuki suddenlty felt like her ebergy was being drained. The feeling stoped when a dark black shape came between her and her attacker. The black shaped, a human shape just like the white one, turns around and Yuki lets go of a scream when she realizes what it is. Death. It takes Mina from her hands and, despite being very hard to see because of the light, the white shape dissipates and goes into Mina's small body, Then, a seal appears on Mina's body. Despite being fully awake, Mina hasn't let go a single sound.
**End of Flashback**
-Because, you're special..., Yuki finally asks.
Yuki never explained what happened there to Mina, and Kimito didn't remember that night. Since that night Mina had to be keeped awake at all times to prevent the white side of Death, the white shape, to take over. Once Yuki is sleeping, Mina sneeks out of the orphanage to go do one of her favorite things. She arrives to a large field and starts to walk across it. as she walks, many fireflies starts to flay in every directions due to the sudden activity. Mina suddenlty feels a precense behind her. She turns around and sees the black shape. Death. The only thing is, Mina doesn't know who it is. It hands her a pendent with a black ying-yang on it. Mina looks at it then at Death. She takes it and asks while looking at it:
-That mine?
But Death isn't there anymore. mina execute a few 360s searching for it, but nothing. The only sound around is the one from the crickets. Mina looks at the pendent, then put it on. Not even a second after doing so, she falls to the cold ground, alseep. She wakes up from her dream in the morning, then runs at the orphanage. It was apparently still early and she could make it there before Uncle Jeff wakes up, but that's not why she was running. She arrived to the room she shared with her sister and cousin, and looked in the mirror. She gasped when she saw that the shades were almost invisible. Her blue eyes looked more blue and beautiful than she could ever remember.
-''Was that my guardian angel?...'' she thinks.
Mina was now 2 years old, and even without the shades around her eyes, the other kids kept annoying her. Right now, as she walks her way to the forest, some 5 year old boys come to pick on her. she doesn't know their name, but she hates them, and they apparently knew hers. They just don't bother to use it:
-Hey! Whatcha doing freak?
Of course in every gang, there's a leader, and the boy who just said that is this gang's one. Mina, who now had a complete vocabulary, replys:
-I'm not a freak!
-Yes you are...! the boy says.
-Am not!
-Yes you are!
-Prove it!
-...Well, your sister is a crazy dangerous freak so you're one too.
-That's a lie! You're so stupid!
She turns around and starts to walk away in anger. Then, the boy says:
-Well at least I have parents!
She turns around and glares at him in an expression that mixed anger, hatred and sadness. Later that week, she's walking close to a park, and hears the voices of the boys that she despised so much. She hears a boy say:
-Come on, hit it!
-''They must be on an other kid...'' she thinks.
When she arrives to the source of the sound, she sees that they aren't tourmenting a kid. It's not a human either. It's a 45 cm long black snake. Mina had heard that they enjoyed ''playing'' with animals, but she never knew if it was true. Mina couldn't believe it. Those guys really started to gain Mina's hate. then, witgout thinking, she grabs a rock about the size of her fist and throws it to one of the hits him right on the head, hard. he turns around and Mina starts to, well, something between scream and talk, but more, she creams:
-Won't you pathetic bunch of guyspick on someone you're size for once? Or better, don't pick on anyone!
-Oh really? one of them says.
-Yes!
Mina was angry, which made her look mad, and dangerous. She grabed another rock, only bigger this time. The gang knew she would put it to good use, so they left. Mina goes to the snake and asks while reaching for it with her right hand:
-Are you ok?
In a defence mode the snake stikes at Mina and inserts his fangs into one of Mina's fingers. Mina doesn't flinch because she felt no pain. She lifts him up to her eyes and sees it has blue eyes, like hers. She also sees a small wound close to his head.
-Don't worry, I ain't gonna hurt'chya! she says. I'll put a band aid on that!
He lets go of her and she puts a small pink band aid ,with small blue flowers, on its wounds. She also puts one on her finger, where the snake bit. The snake ''crawls'' on her arm, making her giggle.
-Do you have a name? she asks.
He nods ''no''.
-I'll call you Hebi then! My name is Mina.
She walks to the orphanage with him on her shoulders, then says:
-I guess we're friends!
There's no point in explaining how the people at the orphanage reacted when they saw the snake, nor the way Yuki felt about a snake sleeping beside her cousin...
Two months had passed by since Mina and Hebi became friends, now they're best and only friends. Tonight was one of the nights Mina couldn't sleep at all and Hebi was outside in a park with her, talking, because now Hebi could speak through his thoughts.
-Hebi! Guess what? she says.
-''What?'', Hebi answers.
-I'm moving out of the orhanage soon. In the ninja world! I could be normal there!
-''Nice, you,re lucky...! Well...In a way. Anyways, where exactly?''
-A little outside of Ko-nowa, no, Konoha...Haha, I'm still not used to that name...
A week after moving, Mina was walking while coming back from some sort of grocery store, when she hears a girl screaming:
-I'M NOT CRAZY!
Curious to know who was argueing, she follows the screams and find a girl about Kimito's age walking away from a park in anger. She invited her to her house and while Mina was cooking rice she asked:
-Why did these kids say you were crazy?
-Because, last time I went there I tied a girl to a picnic table and tried to cut her, but Kakashi stopped me... ,Sab says.
-''Maybe she is crazy...'', Hebi tells Mina.
-I see, well, I've never been tied to a picnic table before so I wouldn't know how that girl felt. Though I don't see what's wrong with being crazy..., Mina says.
-Seriously?, Sab asks.
-Yes...
-You're weird...
-Thank you.
-But that wasn't-...Never mind...
Ok, the next chapters will be probably be written like this:
"Person talks..." says the person.
"Other asnwers" says the other.
Get what I mean, because the style I was using until now was the french style, which is very different.