The Life After

よん (shi) - Reality

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If one thing was for sure, it was that I sucked at learning the kanji. Being accustomed to only 26 alphabets of the English language, I was going insane drawing standing lines and sleeping lines for another year of my life.

It was seriously annoying.

But now, being four years old and well versed in Japanese, I could now read and write easily. Mebuki still doesn't know about my tutor and friendship with the Nara's. Kizashi wasn't around much. Mebuki told me he's a merchant and has to travel around for trading which seemed fun. 

Mebuki however, was extremely overprotective of me which began to irk me. Its one thing to be protective when I'm young, but she can't take control on every aspect of my life.

I guess my rebel age started ten years too early. 

She wanted me to stay away from ninjas, with the exception of Ino. 

I wanted to know more about this world. About this occupation. I didn't know if I wanted to be a ninja. Hell, I was only curious but the way Mebuki was against it made me want to follow a ninja career out of spite. 

Moreover, those dreams...

Last year, around Christmas my dreams became so bad I woke up crying in bed as my parents sought to comfort me. I had dreams of death, white eyes and a few symbols, one which I could identify Konohagakure. 

Two days later, on December 27th a young girl by the name Hinata Hyuga was almost kidnapped by Kumogakure or whatever the fuck that was and my dreams stopped. 

I ignored it, but a part of me knew that it was too good to be true. 

Too many bizarre things happened to me in life, and I wasn't going to ignore the signs. 

But for now, I'd just focus on explaining my furious mother at how I was invited to a birthday party held by Shikamaru on 22nd September with Ino's a day after.

When I first met the Nara's on the swing set a year and half ago, I was sort of fascinated. Ino was too girly and loud for my tastes. Compared to her, Shikamaru was calm and the both of us bonded over our love of sleep. 

I introduced him to cloud gazing and he seems pretty fond of it. 

Shikaku was that cool dad who'd let me do anything I want as long as Yoshino wouldn't get to know anything. I liked laid back people in general and for obvious reasons, we got along well.

However, Ino was getting jealous that I was spending more time with a Shikamaru. So I decided to play with the both of them as a group, thinking that Shikamaru's lazy character would influence her. 

She had us up and running, playing ninja with her in no time. 

Shikamaru had a new friend he said he'd introduce to me at his birthday. I am skeptical as to who it is. Once I formed a friend group, I didn't want new members joining in.

I don't like change much but for Shika's sake I'll do it.

"Explain now, Sakura." Mebuki's voice jolted me out of my daydream. Putting on a brave front, I looked up at her.

"Shikamaru Nara is my friend and I want to attend his birthday party."

"And how is he your friend? Don't you know they are a ninja clan?"