31 Days of Mischief

December 3, 2013

Tooth had been more than happy to help North take care of Jack. She grew very fond of the boy.

Bunny wasn't so keen on taking care of the boy. Especially as a tot, but even he had to admit he was adorable.

Sandy enjoyed having Jack with him. The small boy loved to touch his golden dream sand. Though he fell asleep quickly because of that.

North smiled. Maybe having Jack as a child, uh, correction, toddler of a child, would be good for them. He looked at Sakura, who was rubbing her Sennen Band. Where had he heard that term before?

"Sakura?" Tooth asked, "Can you tell me what a Sennen Band is?"

Sakura chuckled and nodded, "I guess it's story time. But, it is very tragic. So... Sandy?"

Sandy nodded and sent Jack to sleep. Tooth had a few of her fairies follow Phil. They would watch over him.

"I guess I should start at the beginning," Sakura sighed, "it happened long before North, Bunny and Tooth were alive or Guardians. It all started in Ancient Egypt..."

FLASHBACK/SAKURA'S STORY!*

It was about 5000 years ago, in the land of Egypt. I was only four when it happened. My clan didn't really connect to the rest of Upper Egypt, which is where it was located. We praised Sekhmet. We prayed to Osiris and Seth. We loved Bastet and Ra. Isis was our protector. We were fighters. Of course, we also had our leaders. You weren't born as one, like the Pharaohs, rather you were chosen. You had to lead wars if you were chosen, you had to plan funerals, you had to take care of everyone. I was only four when I was chosen. In twelve years, I would take over along with a good friend of mine. I called him Tozouku. His true name was Akefia, but only I ever knew that. He was from Kuru Eruna. Of course, the bands that symbolized our leadership, were unique. They looked like the crown ornaments of a Kings headwear.

Of course, rumor spread about them and soon, soldiers from the Upper part of Egypt came in search of them. They wanted them for their Pharaoh and future Queen, should he ever wed. We refused to give it to them. The minute we did, everything we held close, everyone we loved, everything was gone in a matter of minutes. I had managed to get my own band and choker. I couldn't Akefia's in time. It wasn't long before the whole town was deserted. My own family, dead. My friends, gone. Everything was gone.

No one should have gone through what I had, and I knew it would happen again. It wasn't until I was six that I had to relive the horror of my home getting destroyed. I had followed a few soldiers into Kuru Eruna, and to my greater horror, I saw everyone, well almost everyone, being slaughtered. Their flesh, blood and bones tossed into a couldron of gold. When the last person was shoved in, they had poured the golden red mixture into seven molds. These were the Sennen Items. Tozouku. Akefia. He never forgave them. He only ever spoke in kindness to me, because he knew if he could trust anyone, it would be me. A thief works only with a thief. As we both were. The King and Queen of Thieves. We both thrived in darkness, as it was our only comfort.

"Sakura," He told me ten years later, he had turned 18, and I 16.

"Yes, Tozouku?"I replied.

"One day, I promise everything will be better..."

I just wish I knew that that would be our last day together.

Tozouku had been captured the next day. I had followed them, and arrived in time to see his Ka locked in stone and his own spirit locked in the Sennen Ring. The Pharaoh, Atemu, was also going through the same thing, but with his Sennen Puzzle.

I ran as fast as I could until I reached the Nile. I wouldn't let this ruin what Akefia and I had planned. Of course, someone else had another idea.

"Sakura..." A regal voice called to me. I knew who it was. And it frightened me.

"Ra?" I said, barely over a whisper.

"My Daughter, your heart wells in darkness and sorrow. If I act now, your sanity will not leave you as it did Akefia."

"HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT?!" I yelled in anger, I was about to strike at him, a stupid move, but I gave into the darkness of my heart. It wasn't until golden vines wrapped around me that I dropped the dagger and staff I had also manage to save from my home into the Nile, letting the drift away. I could only stare as Ra took my band and choker.

"From seven to nine, a spirit becomes two. One trapped in eternal darkness, the other in eternal light." He chanted, as he did, I screamed in pain. It felt as if every part of me was being ripped to shreds, "Sakura. As Akefia and Atemu, your soul will be locked in here."

He held up both my band and choker.

'H-how?' I wondered.

"In this," he held up the choker, "your innocence and sanity will lie. One day, they shall be reborn as one. And in this," he held up the band, "your own soul will lie."

"NO!" I cried and then everything went dark. As my soul left my body, I started to change. My eyes gained a red-tint. They got harder. I cried as two wings burst from my back. My hair, once brown, had turned blue. Then violet. Then red. Then back to brown. I figured out that I could change it at will.

'You will thank me some day...' Were Ra's last words.

I didn't know what to do. So, I welcomed the darkness. And it became a part of me.

5000 years later, Sakura Yami was born. She resembled me in every way. She became my innocence. She had turned what had been left of my sanity, into pure hyperness. I was glad I was able to create a new one over the millenias.

Then, on her fifth birthday, her parents gave her my band and choker. She slipped the choker on and that was enough to get me to appear. She feared me for a while, until I showed her I was her protector.

END FLASHBACK/STORY!

"Kura started to grow up and in time, her own powers came. The staff and dagger landed in the hands of an old friend of mine. She had run away from her village because she was going to be sacrificed instead of another girl. Kura became trapped in light as a child, gaining her wings. Her eyes became tinted in violet and her hair became like my own... The Sennen Items aren't around, and I'm still waiting to hear from Akefia..."

Sakura sighed and walked out.

The others just sat there.

'I thought she seemed familiar,' Sandy signed, 'she used to stay up for long periods of time. She feared the darkness once. But then, she began to embrace it. I believe Ra did the right thing, but to be locked in darkness for 5000 years...'

"I'm going to check on Jack..." Tooth muttered.

She flew towards his room and saw him in Sakura's arms.

"I always wanted this," Sakura said, "Akefia and I had it planned. But... it will never happen. So having Kura around... it was a blessing."

"I'm sorry you had to go through that..."

"Don't be... I deserved it. And... I am grateful for it. Goodnight Toothiana."

Sakura handed Jack over to Tooth and flew off.

"Oh Jack, this has been a hard day. You spent years alone. Sakura was locked away for a long time. She lost everything. You spent years trying to find what was missing, never getting an answer. I am so sorry we weren't there. But no anymore. Never again..."

Kura: Review!

*Based off of Yu-Gi-Oh! Ancient Egypt

There are seven Sennen, or Millennium, Items.

The Puzzle

The Ring

The Eye

The Ankh

The Rod

The Tauk

The Scales

They were created in Kuru Eruna, home of TKB, Thief King Bakura, or as I prefer to call him Akefia.

Sakura's background story is related to this because we hold Items of our own, that weren't created by Akefia's people. Literally. Sakura's relationship with Akefia is that they had both lost so much, yet still had one thing. Each other. Their plan was to take over Egypt. Akefia would take the Upper half and Sakura the Lower half. They were going to get married later on and raise a family, but that changed when Akefia, Atemu and Sakura were locked away in their Items. Though, Sakura's wasn't an item at the time. When Kura, a.k.a me, is born, Sakura's innocence and sanity are put into her soul. Instead of gaining her sanity, Kura turns it into energy. I become Sakura hikari, or light, and Sakura becomes my yami or darkness.

Kura: If anyone has any questions, feel free to PM me.