Yo! its CJRose here! just wanted to tell ya that this is a shared story with Jess189, we are writing it together, but not nessicarily at the same time, we're just gonna chill and see where this takes us ;P So there will be two POV's. Mine as Ryuu and hers as her own :3 Its Jess189's fault for getting me into naruto and making me think up Ryuu lol and anyways I hope you like it :D
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"Go on darling, it will be fine" my father told me as I struggled to reach him.
"No! daddy I don't want to go! I don't want to leave you and mommy behind! please! help me!" I screamed at them, tears rolling down my cheeks. The six year old me struggled against the big Shinobi that was pulling me away from my parents.
"Be a good girl now sweetie, grow into a big strong ninja for us" my mother smiled at me. How can they be so happy? How can they be so calm when I'm being taken from them?
The night before all of this happened, I had heard my parents talking. Some people of Kirigakure had defied the Hidden Village of the Leafs command, the command to stop our way of making our ninjas. And what with me being only 6, I had no idea what that had meant.
"She wants to be a ninja, she has our blood flowing through her, we have survived our villages old traditions, why shouldn't she?" my father said that night.
"Are you sure dear? I mean its dangerous, she's our daughter."
"We have no choice, Mizuki, they are coming for her at dawn. and you know as well as I do I cant say no to them. Its either she has a chance to live if she gets through the training, or she dies tomorrow."
"....I'll pack her things then"
How? How could they be so cold to me?
"Mommy! please!" I tried one last time before the Shinobi dragged me into the cart. My eyes pleading with her not to let him take me away.
"Be good ok? and do your best!" she smiled to me again, waving to me like I was just going to play with my friends. my heart had the sensation of breaking and I screamed at them as I was put into the cart. the Shinobi patted me on my head and closed the door to the cart. past him I took one last look at my parents, their smiling faces glued into that position it seemed. the Shinobi walked away and let the tent flap of the cart fall, blocking me from seeing my parents. I held onto the wooden bars in disbelief. Why? Why did they let a strange man take me away? What was going on? Where was I going? Was I going to see them again? From the way they were talking, it seemed like I wouldn't see them again for a while.
I curled up into a ball and began to cry, blocking out everything around me. I felt so alone, I had all these questions, I was so scared. suddenly I felt a warm hand on my back, I jumped and turned around, my knees still hugged into my chest. There was a girl in here with me, no not just one girl, but loads of boys and girls my age too. I had not noticed them when I had been put in, and I realised why. most of them were being silent, shell shocked from what had happened. did this mean I wasn't the only one being rounded up? The carriage started to move.
What exactly was happening here?
I looked back to the girl, she had a tear stained face, like most of the children in here. she looked no older then me and she had the bluest eyes I had ever seen, they reminded me of my own. Her hair was a big contrast to mine, a brilliant yellowish blond whereas mine was a raven black. She smiled at me, a small one, but a smile.
"Don't worry, your not alone. My name is Rin, what's yours?" she asked.
"R-Ryuu" I mumbled as I wiped my eyes and nose on my hand, rubbing away the wetness of the tears.
Rin chuckled.
"Ryuu? but I thought that was a boys name?"
"Its my parents sick sense of humour" I said. "Like this is just big sick joke"
Rin's smile faded for a minuet.
"Yeah." she said quietly, hugging her knees into her like me.
"Do you know where we are going?" I asked her. She shook her head sadly.
"No. Len, do you?" She asked, turning to a boy who was sat beside her. Len looked to me, his eyes were like topazes as they shone out from the tears he had shed. His face was dirt streaked and cut up like he had put up a fight. His hair was a dirty blond colour.
"No." he replied. "but its like they're gathering all the kids for something though." he said.
Me and Rin nodded gravely.
"Is it an evacuation for war? Did the Mizukage order this?" I asked them. They both shrugged their shoulders.
"if it was war we would have heard about it, and if it was the Mizukage, why would we be transported in this thing?" Len asked as he kicked the wooden bars of the carriage. a carriage normally used for transporting hay or other materials like that.
Certainly not children.
"Are we ever going to come back?" I whispered, the one million pound question.
Len and Rin both looked at me, and their eyes said something that I already knew in my heart. I put my head in my knees, shuddering slightly.
Again, a warm hand appeared on my arm.
"But its ok, right?" Rin asked as I looked back up to her. "I mean, who needs our parents? leaving us the first minuet they get. we will have each other right? Lets promise to stick together throughout this ok?" She said, looking to both me and Len and putting her hand in the middle of us. Both Len and me looked at Rin, then at each other. We smiled a half smile.
"Promise" we both said and put our hands on Rin's, now eternally bonded to go through anything together, thick or thin.
If only we knew.
if only we knew what was going to come about in the next year.
If only I had not said promise, then maybe, maybe I wouldn't have to think of their smiling faces each time I touched my shoulder, or each time I held my side.
Or each time I fell asleep at night.
