"I need some air, order me the duck Yakisoba. Call me when it arrives." I hurry out of the small restaurant, trying to get hold of my emotions. I walk into a dark alleyway and slump on the floor not sure what what to do with myself now. I slowly move my hand to big gaping scar on my stomach and try to get my emotions in check as warm tears roll slowly down my soft face. I curse under my breath as I remember the pledge I made just before entering the village, I still remember the day it happened.
Flashback
Suddenly I sense a huge chakra source at the boundary closest to our clans area, it filled with empty dark houses its inhabitants long dead after the massacre. "Father." I shout "do you feel that?" I pant from exhaustion from the training my father just set me. "Kurayami, you must listen to me. Go with Atsuko and hide the clans in the shrine furthest away from here. Do not argue with me, now go." I can feel the chakra source quickly moving towards our house, it becoming more obvious it was coming towards us the closer it got. "But father, I can't leave you here, I can help."
"No, Kurayami, you are my daughter, I will protect you and Atsuko with my life." He nods to Atsuko as she grabs me by the waist, forcefully dragging me away from my father. "Nooo" I scream as I leave my father behind to fight. I get dragged away to the familiar streets that we own, fighting Atsuko, trying to get out of her strong grip. She soon shoves me into the small shrine and locks the door leaving me in the darkness, sprinting to the now raging fight between my father and the mystery chakra source. I shiver in the cold looming space as I crumble onto the ground realising the fate of my family. Wet tears flow down my face as I realise that I can't do anything to help my family. My clan put seals on the shrine to protect it from ever getting broken, we think of it as a symbol. Even though we might get cut down, we will still always be known and our shrines will forever remind the ninja world of the infamous Raito clan. Suddenly, I feel a large rise in chakra and then nothing. The familiar chakra sources who I once knew as my father and sister were...gone. I freeze in shock at the sudden rush of memory's flooding into my head, I clutch my head in pain at the flood of information which has just been released into me. Suddenly I find a memory that I wish I never remembered.
Flash back (in a flash back)
"Are you my...mother?" I kneel down in front of the person named my mother, another fresh wave of tears flowing down my face. "My little girl, all grown up." She grabs my hands and holds them near her heart. "How I longed for this day to come, I haven't seen you since you were three weeks old, when you were taken away from me." A look of hatred crosses her face but then soon softens when she looks back at me. "I know you must hurt from what I put in you, but you must be strong, Kurayami, remember I love you. Now be the light in the darkness, my little girl. No cant's all cans, remember that and I will always love y-" her voice is cut short as her breath stops and her body slips back onto the rubble.
"Wait, mum, no you can't die. I need you here not dead." I hold her body close as I look into her deep hazel eyes and her flawless skin. Suddenly I get pulled away from her, my little six year old body squirming in my fathers iron grip. "No, I want my mother, I want her back now." he drags me to a small training field exclusively for our clan.
"Now, Kurayami, everything that just happened with your mother you will not remember until I die. It's a special type of genjutsu that will erase your memory on what just happened and I will replace with something else that will explain what happened during the massacre, understand. So I want you to remember that I will always love you." Suddenly a flash of pain appears on my belly and as soon as it appeared it left.
Back to the flashback
I feel nothing, all my emotions gone after the scene that just appeared before me. All that is playing in my head is her face, my mothers face. Suddenly a huge gust of air opens the door to the shrine, slamming it onto the ground with the pressure. I slowly turn my fragile body to face that chakra source, the one that killed my father, sister and my mother. His boots clomp down the street as a black cape with red clouds flaps in the wind. I shakily stand up and slowly shuffle out of the shrine, trying to keep my head held high. I can feel myself getting angrier by the minute, my fists curl up into a tight ball by my side and a red chakra spills out of my body surrounding me in a tight circle. "Look what you have done." I scream at the man, my body being taken over by something deep inside of me. My eyes turn red and my pupils into black slits, my auburn hair lifts up making my green highlights rise above my head and split into two sections making it look rather like ears. I struggle to fight the darkness trying to wash over me. "Hello, four tails, it's been a while hasn't it. Six years to be exact." Then all went black.
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"I promise never to be weak or cry again."
End flashback"Hey" I slowly lift my head to meet Hayate sensei,
"go away." I turn my head away from him and start brushing the cheeks off my face, but the more I try to brush them away the more come. Hayate sensei crouches in front of me and slowly starts brushing off my tears one by one. "I will always be there for you Kurayami, remember that, whether I am dead or you don't want me to. I will always be there for you." I slowly look up at him as more tears well into my eyes.
"Why are you so nice to me? You know what's inside of me, you know what I did to the hidden rock village yet you still try to help me." All he does is chuckle softly
"Do you not get it, Kurayami you are so clueless sometimes, I need you. You are like my daughter to me, you are the little girl I always dreamed me and Yugao would have. But now it seems that little girl has been given to me sooner than I expected." Small tears well into his eyes as he still slowly brushes off my tears. "Now let's go, your soba is waiting for you."
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Team 101: The beginning (Naruto fanfic)
FanfictionKurayami Ratio has a secret inside of her that no-one knows apart from her and a mystery ninja who killed her whole clan and family. After the only people left in her clan get killed she flees to the leaf village where she thinks she can be protect...