Okay yes, I took most of this from the actual MCA English sub, with some tweaking here and there. I feel the shame. But I hope I did it in such a way that it's still enjoyable to read, So uh, please enjoy!
Disclaimer: I DEFINITELY do not own this at all.
Once upon a time, in a little world, there was a monster.
This monster, who spent time unmeasured in the shadows, began to wonder where he had come from, and why?
"Who in the world created me? And why?"
He tried to find others, but he was all alone in the darkness with no one else to be found.
Realizing this, the monster began to walk all alone to escape the darkness.
It wasn't long until the monster learned that it had been his first time experiencing the emotion 'loneliness.'
The lonely monster traveled around the world.
The endlessly sprawling sky.
The deep, clear sea.
And new life constantly being born.
Although the monster had learned many new things in his travels, he was never able to learn about himself.
"Surely the answers I seek must be somewhere in this world."
Believing this, the monster continued his journey day after day.
And then, one day, the monster happened across mysterious creatures called 'humans'.
Humans knew many things and had many languages and many personalities.
"It's possible that these human creatures know who and what I am."
His heart filled with anticipation, the monster eagerly approached the humans.
However, the humans had nothing to teach the monster but pain, fear, and despair.
The humans feared and shunned the monster.
Those who cast stones.
Those who set fires.
They attacked the monster, trying to kill him with whatever means they had at hand.
"Why must I endure such torment?" cried out the monster in pain each time he was injured by humans.
The pain that was born took root deeply in his heart, changing shape, and eventually, the monster's heart came to be packed full of various feelings towards humans.
Sadness, fear, regret...
One by one, the feelings seeped out of the monster's heart as if to protect him and changed the monster's shape.
The monster, his feelings now laid bare, gained many new powers, capable of slaying many humans.
On the first day the monster took human life, by accident no less, he wept.
And on the next day, despite being in self-defense.
And the next, when perhaps, he did mean it.
He continued to cry like a little boy.
How much time had passed as he cried?
His tears still falling, nothing remained of the monster's desire to learn about himself.
Only horror and fear of what he had become.
The monster thought back to the life he had once lived.
"How I wished I had never learned of this world. How much easier would my life had been had I stayed in that darkness, my mind empty of thought? I would hurt no one. and receive no one's hate."
The monster set out, deciding to search for a place where he would come into contact with no one and could be all alone. Surely, no one would be harmed by his powers there.
How long did he walk for?
The monster found a very quiet spot within the forest.
This quiet, tranquil place, where not even the chirping of songbirds could be heard was the most pleasant to the monster.
"I will live out my days here, all alone as I deserve."
Just as the monster was about to close his eyes and surrender himself to the silence, he suddenly heard the voice of a human.
"Are you alone, too?"
A girl had appeared next to the monster. How long she had been there, he did not know.
The girl gave a small scoff at the startled monster.
"Don't come near me! I will harm you," he stated, frightened.
"No, you will not," she replied stubbornly. "If you're alone, do not sit by me. I wish to be alone as well."
The lonely monster fell in love with the girl.
He who had been lonely could not turn his back on she who was equally alone.
"Will you live with me?" smiled the monster to the girl, no longer afraid of harming her.
The girl had been treated cruelly by humans before, so she was afraid of he who was not even human.
"Am I being tricked monster? Will I be hurt?"
The girl's head filled with such worries.
"I will live by myself, monster. Go away and leave me alone," declared the girl to him.
And yet, when the monster did not leave, the girl did not either.
She stubbornly refused to do what she herself stated, and came to stay near the monster the next day and the day after that.
On sunny days, on snowy days, even on stormy days, the girl always watched the monster from afar, the distance between them decreasing with every new day.
When several winters passed and the girl had grown into a young woman, the immense, warm feeling in the monster's heart grew as well.
"Will you live with me?" smiled the monster to the young woman.
The lonely young woman fell in love with the monster.
The monster was given a name.
Happily, happily, he had his beloved call out his name day after day.
For the first time in his life, the monster knew what 'beloved' meant.
The woman gave birth to a child.
Lovingly, lovingly, they called out its name day after day.
For the first time in his life, the monster knew what 'family' meant.
The monster kept a journal.
Merrily, merrily, he wrote in it every day.
For the first time in his life, the monster knew what 'happiness' was.
The woman realized that her beloved wasn't growing any older.
The woman realized she and their child were.
Afraid, afraid, she wept day after day.
For the first time in his life, the monster knew what 'despair' meant, as he watched his beloved cry.
He soon began to fear as well.
In a dream, the monster came upon a serpent.
Slowly, the serpent said to him:
"Master, I feel sorry for you. Perhaps I can grant your wish. Perhaps I can grant what you desire. Perhaps I can teach you the magic that can grant you the eternity you seek."
The monster was taught how to create worlds by the serpent in his dream. However, the serpent hesitated.
"If you create a new world, one that is not like this one, you still may not be able to spend all eternity with your family."
The monster ignored the serpent's warning and, exactly as he was instructed, the monster gathered together all his power and brought into being a new world.
In this newborn, empty world, time would not pass, and no one would grow old.
The monster decided to tell his family about this world he had just created.
"I am sure that this will let us live happily forever. Let's be together forever."
Hearing these words, the monster's family smiled and nodded.
On the day that the monster and his family decided to go to the new world, the monster had an idea which he said to his beloved:
"Before we go, why don't we have a wedding?"
He had only recently learned what that word meant.
When the woman heard those words from him, she was filled with emotions that were a mixture of happiness and shyness.
"I will go to the village to make arrangements and then return."
"Let me go. Even though I have not been to the village in many years, I am excited," insisted the monster.
The woman nodded, smiling.
She and their child saw him off as he left their house.
They waved and waved to her beloved...
"...whom they shortly saw again. They had their small, happy wedding deep in the forest where the monster first met the woman when she was a girl. And all three of them soon left to go into the new world, where the monster was together with his beloved family forever and they lived happily ever after," Ayaka finished.
By then Hiyori had all but dozed off, snoring into her pillow, dreaming of serpents and monsters and happily ever after. With Hibiya of course. No Konoha whatsoever.
The last thing she felt was the warm peck her big sister placed on her forehead as she covered her with the blanket.
What she didn't see was her big sister suddenly stagger and clutch at a dresser on her way out.
She didn't see her grip at her eyes and she didn't see them turn completely red, and not from the lamp light.
Didn't hear Ayaka's voice turn from cheery and sisterly to soft and otherworldly, coming out of her unnaturally.
"But that story didn't end happily ever after, did it Miss?"
The bent-over form that was no longer Ayaka convulsed further, trying to regain control of its mouth.
"B-be quiet-"
More twisting and bending of muscles that should not bend and twist.
"-the 'monster' became alone and sad again at the end, didn't he-
The convulsing turned to near thrashing.
"-BE QUIET."
Whatever part of Ayaka that still had control swung her head around, making sure Hiyori hadn't heard her outburst.
Her sister only turned over under the sheets. Thank goodness.
The thing inside her chose to speak through her mouth again, albeit quieter.
"And that will also be the faith of this small girl in front of you if you continue on this path..."
At that moment the woman's body fell completely limp to the floor. The girl limp in bed did not hear it.
Moments of silence passed, and the woman calmly picked herself from the floor. She rubbed the bags under her eyes, which had turned back to their normal, cold black.
"Shut up, snake."
No response.
Satisfied that she had full control again and that her 'guest' was successfully quieted, she glanced at the clock. Great, now she was late with checking up on Konoha.
Ayaka walked out of the room as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
They may as well not have happened, as Hiyori once again, didn't see or hear or know a thing.
Only the sweet illusion of a dream.