The Eclipse

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All over the land of fire, even though it was midday- the sun was turning black. A chill spread across the land, the shadows began to dance. A scream rippled through the village hidden in the leaves, Amani collapsed to the ground. Her eyes were turning black as a vision filled her.

Before her, the land began to crumble. The sun was blocked out entirely as a great tree climbed up to the sky. She watched as people fell asleep, they became encased within a strange cloak. Amani reached out, her eyes filled with tears as she saw her brother turning to ash. The images flickered slightly and she now found herself watching a young girl, around the age of fourteen. The girl had black hair and green eyes, a strange shadow seemed to move around her, Several tails wrapped around surrounding ninja. The strange girl was whispering something but Amani could not hear her.

As Amani came back to her normal state of mind. She looked up at the sky, the moon was about to cover it. The light was being blocked out. Amani reached out to to Neji and clung to him. Neji had not seen that expression on his younger sister for several years. The look of fear. He saw how her seal was pulsating and turning a different shape. The crescent moon was forming into a black sun.

Kiba was watching the sky when he felt it, a dark sense of forboding. He ran back to the Hyuga compound. He needed to make sure that his beloved was alright. She had endured so much already that the thought of her even having a bump on her head was enough to make him speed up. Akamaru followed closely, he could smell a different scent mixed in with the female ninja. Amani was crying into her brothers chest when Kiba arrived. He dashed to her and looked at her with worry. Something about her scent was different, darker even.

Amani looked up at him slowly and took a breathe. She studied his face, his soft eyes filled with concern. Her arms reached out for him. The pounding in her chest began to slow to a soft beat. Kiba wrapped her in a loving embrace and held her ther. He could sense that she needed his touch, his warmth. Neji watched the two lovers embrace and got to his feet as he watched the sky. He activated his eyes and saw how a dark chakra seemed to surround it. He stumbled back and looked at the chakra surrounding his sisters seal, they both were the same.

Hiachi looked at his nephew and did the same thing, he frowned before kneeling down to her. "Tell me child, what did you do?", he asked.

Amani looked up at her uncle confused before she touched her mark. She looked at Kiba then at her stomach. "I don't think it was me... it was Minarinn", she whispered.

Neji  and Kiba looked at her confused. Neji then remembered that she had a daughter. "Bunny who is Minarinn?", Kiba asked her.

Amani looked down with tears forming in her eyes once more, she touched her heart and then looked at him. "Minarinn is my daughter", she whispered. Kiba blinked as the shadows seemed to form around her. They took on forms and began to tell her story.

"You see, when I was on my mission, horrible things happened- though you can guess that by looking at my body. One of those things were though, I was raped... many times. I fell pregnant and when I gave birth I went to a temple. We spent a while there before I had to leave. It was for the best that I would leave Minarinn there, she was safer", she whispered.

She was afraid that Kiba would reject her but instead he held her closer. He felt the anger in his chest, anger that he could not have protected her, that  she had endured such suffering. "I will love you forever Bunny, and I will protect you and your child with my life", he spoke. "Though how could a child cause that to happen to the sky".

Amani closed her eyes as she tried to remember the vision she had. The way that strange shadow had danced around her daughter. "I think she has some creature around her, something within the shadows", Amani frowned.

Suddenly the entire sky turned black, a song could be heard throughout the village.

Naruto curled up as the song became a high pitched scream. He could feel the fox twisting within him. His shadow began to take on the form of the nine tailed beast, his chakra poured into the shadow. As everyone looked up at the sky, they could make out the outlines of several shadow beasts. Tails wrapped around the moon and pulled it away from the sun. After a while the song stopped and the darkness faded away, leaving all who witnessed it confused and afraid. Amani could feel a piece of her humming with chakra. Her seal now a black sun, her eyes glistened with a black substance before turning back to green.

"So it has come, the beginning of it all. From cursed to eclipsed. Your seal has changed its form and now it has become a shadow", a voice spoke clearly. Kiba went into a protective stance as a beautiful woman with black hair entered.

Amani instanlly kneeled to the woman, causing her lover and family to look at her confused.

"Priestess. How may I  serve you?", Amani asked. Neji watched closely as the woman seemed to smirk smuggly.

"Now child your time will come, I have come to collect something from you first. Or more so someone", the woman said as she raised her hand.

She cast a strange chakra to those around her, causing them to fly to the wall of the compound. A shadow keeping them in place. Amani gasped at this attacked and went to attack the priestess when the priestess smirked and had a strong shadow hold her down.

"From your seal, I will release the high shadow priestess that is trapped within you. Then you shall be but a husk of your former self... a shadow", she laughed and pulled at the seal. It began to shine as Amani screamed. Kiba struggled against the shadow, just after he had sworn to protect her with his life.

All that he could do was watch helplessly as his soulmate cried out. He watched as a shadow was pulled from her body. Amani began to cough blood as the world around her began to die. The priestess smiled one last time before disapearing with the shadow. He broke free and ran towards Amani who looked up at him with a sad smile.

"Kiba... I feel so cold", her eyes turned pure black and her skin became even paler. She looked at her beloved sakura tree that was now a decaying heep of branches and wood.

Neji ran to his sister and checked her chakra flow. She was not dying but instead she was changing once again. He saw how a new flow opened up and watched it closely. Whilst her chakra flowed in a black shade, this new flow was golden and bright.

"I am sorry I could not protect you Amani", Kiba whispered. Amani reached up to him and kissed him softly. The love that seemed to linger in her black eyes was so innocent and pure. Neji noticed how that action caused the golden chakra to fight against the black within her.

"Child... what is happening to you", Hiachi asked his niece.

Amani looked up at the sky and sighed. She could feel it now, a piece of her soul was gone, and in its wake was a shadow.

"I am the cursed, the eclipsed... the shadowed".

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