Into the Shadows (Naruto fanfiction)

Chapter 1 ✅

You know it's a scary thing, one minute you're a 21 year old in a car accident, and the next everything's dark.

'Am I dead? Is this all death is?' I start to think, but then I started to notice stuff like, a thumping sound, kind of like a drum.

'No, something else, but what? I can hear, but there is something else, I guess like a presence. No like presences, one next to me and several near me, but it feels like the presences have been around for a while now.' The presence next to me gives me a type of security I haven't felt in a long time, almost like I'm safe to be myself.

I could think of nothing else as everything around me starts to compress, and squeeze. Everything thing closes in around me and this other presence. After a few minutes the presence I've felt comfortable with is gone and I'm along in a tiny dark place, and I admit I was scared. All I wanted was to leave. Then the compression stopped.

I don't know how long it's been, but the compression starts up again and I was being pushed...right out and into blinding light. Of course right then and there I knew what was happening, I was being born. I was upset. 'Was I supposed relive my life over and over again?' I didn't want to really cry about it. but with my new conclusion and the pain of the light I started to bawl. I tried to calm down, but I just couldn't. Then I realized that I couldn't breathe, I'm suffocating, I stared to choke, making gasping noises trying to breath, but it hurt too much. It felt like the air has something in it that was just too heavy to breath.

While I was choking, there were frantic voices I didn't understand, like they were a different language. 'So maybe I'm being reborn, I mean I'm not really surprised if that was the case. All I know right now is that no one is speaking English, but fast rapid...Japanese? Oh well I'll get answers if I can stop choking. What was a good trick to keep you calm, counting to 10? Very original but let's try it, 1...2...3...' As I was counting in my head my breathing got better and I really did calm down.

The frantic voices calmed as well and I was wrapped in a pink blanket. I felt like I was flying through the air but I couldn't tell, my eyes are still closed. Then I was placed in someone's arms, this someone has a presence I feel like I've felt before, but not as much as two other presences off to the right of me. I must assume this is my new father that is carrying me and my new mother holding my new older twin sibling. I've yet to know what gender my sibling is.

I was at peace in this mans arms, about to go to sleep when I hear my father speak something. Later I would find out he said my sibling's and my name.

Shikamaru and Tomoko Nara.

After sometime I was awoken by someone gently taking me from my father's arms.

I, of course panicked, I felt safe in his arms and I didn't know where I was. I bawled again luckily I didn't choke but all the same the people, I assume are the nurses, tried to calm me down, but I just wouldn't, couldn't. I wanted to flail my arms but found them tucked tight against me inside the blanket. This resulted in me giving another scream because it's like being in that dark space, the place I never wanted to go back to.

As I kept crying and screaming I also felt a little guilty. I mean, they never asked for this. I'm just giving them more work to do, but I just can't stop. My mind can't comprehend what's going on and I'm always in slight pain from what feels like something clawing inside me, through every part of my being. I also feel the same but slightly purer thing in the air, and I don't like it.

It takes only the night to get used to this strange feeling and so after getting used to it I finally start to calm down a little bit, only because I'm getting used to my environment. But after a while I start to realize another reason why I'm still crying, I want my father, mother and sibling. I still don't feel safe without them.

I'm then picked up and brought into this room, and feel the presence of my mother and father. I'm still crying until I'm put into my mother's arms. I almost stop crying completely, but I was moved and the strange feeling is back in both the air and in my body. I try to suck it up for my new parents and it works, kind of. Tears still leak out of my eyes, but no sound.

My mother is comfortable and familiar in every way, but the beating of her heart is what's most familiar. I may not like being in this blanket, but the sound of her heart is like a lullaby. I'm not scared of the sound even though it reminds me of that dark place but it reminds me that I'm safe.

I want to suck it up and open my eyes. I want to see my mother's face, to know what she looks like, and so I do. Opening my eyes is painful because of the bright lights so I open them slowly. After finally getting them open I look at my mother who is smiling down on me and one of the thoughts that reach me is 'I'm in Naruto.' As I come to this conclusion I mentally start questioning my sanity. Then stop and think 'I'll make sure of this later, nothing to be done about it if it's true.'

Still looking at my mother, I smile and, while still having a day old brain and a 21 year old brain combined, I giggle.

She looks a little surprised, but smiles and starts talking, which I still don't understand. I look over to my father and repeat what I did to my mother. As I'm looking at my father I see he's carrying my older sibling.

He's in a blue blanket, that give it away, my older sibling's a boy. That's pretty much all I can see of him, but I can tell he's asleep. 'His actions and name are the same as in the Naruto world. The longer I'm here for, the more evidence I get that I'm in a totally different universe. If I think about I believe my mother's name is Yoshino and father's name is Shikaku.'

With this new piece of information I start to look around at the people in the room and what they're wearing. The nurses are wearing scrubs.

Mom is wearing a hospital gown. She has dark brown hair tied in a low ponytail with three pieces of hair framing her face with dark eyes.

I then look at Dad again closely, he has his hair up in a spiky ponytail, dark eyes and a goatee. He wears a flak jacket with a meshed shirt underneath it, and a deer skin coat over top. The most noticeable feature on his face is the two scars running below and above his right eye.

As I'm doing this, the adults in the room are still talking in their rapid speech, but I do catch names and sometimes I think their talking to me. But eventually I get bored and fall asleep, listening to the sounds of Mom's beating heart.

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A/N

First I'd like to thank everyone who's reading this. So thanks ❤️

Also if anyone is confused please don't hesitate to ask what I mean or something. I always write like I think and kinda talk so my writing might be confusing to some. I apologize if I did confuse anyone yet and it's only the first chapter 😭

And if anyone wants to make suggestions on what they want next tell me. I may or may not add it in. Sometimes I get on a writing streak and I just have these ideas in my head and it'll bother me if I don't write it down.

Well that's all I got to say for now.

Ja'ne!!

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Edit ✅

The only part I changed was the description of Shikaku Nara and a few grammatical mistakes. Though I still think there are some.