Legacy of A Flower: Naruto (remake)

Chapter Seven: The Exile of the Yoshida

Lily's POV

I wake up in a dark room. Everything is cold. I can barely make out a metal door in front of me. I stand up, tracing the walls with my hands. No windows. My breathing becomes unsteady as I realize their is no exit, as the memories of before hit me like a brick.

Once again, I find myself banging on a door that won't open. "Let me out!" I scream. I hit and scream to no avail. "Please! Reed! Let me out! Reed! Reed!"

He never comes. I pound on the door until the sides of my small hands are bruised. I cry and  scream, laying on the floor, kicking the metal door. My limbs, my lungs, my heart; they are all tired. I am tired.

Where am I? I want Reed. I want to be in the rain with my mom. I want to follow Basil into the woods where we'll laugh and argue. I want to hold Clematis even if it is just for a second. I want it all to be the same.

I stay in the empty, dark room for hours. I hug myself to sleep, counting my ribs at times. I can't hear anything, I almost thought this room would collapse and I would see mom die all over again.

Sometimes I will break into sobs, then I'll start banging on the door again. Then, I stop when my hands can't take it anymore. But the sound of my desperate, bruised hands colliding with metal was better than the dark silence.

After what felt like two days of struggling in darkness, the door opens and I see light again. My hair is dried with blood, not just mine.

I see Reed; he's not the same. His eye... His left eye is no longer there. It is hidden by a bandage.

"Reed." I mumble. "Reed..."

I crawl towards him, our breathing filled with grief.  He walks over to me and holds me tightly. I feel his tears on my shoulder and I want to cry with him, but I can't. My body just can't take it anymore.

He holds my head in his huge hands and looks at me. "You have to do what I say, okay? No matter what happens in the hall, I promise you I will take you somewhere safe. You'll be safe even if it means..." His voice cracks and he can't finish his sentence. He is broken and struck with guilt.

He wraps his arms around me once more, lifting me into his arms. "I'm right here for now. I'm here.", He coos but I am not sure if it is to me or to himself.

I caress his hair as he exists the room. I see Caspian, he stares at us with an emotion in his eyes I can't make out.

"Lily Yoshida." He speaks my name coldly. Cedrus is behind him. I wrap my arm around a now-composed Reed weakly. He speaks to me as if I am an adult, "You are a danger to this clan. Yesterday in your fit of rage, you slaughtered twenty-five Yoshida. We've had your trial. You are here by exciled from this clan. Reed will take you to the Leaf, but as of now you will no longer make contact with the Yoshida clan."

My heart feels like it's stopping, and I push out of Reed's hold. "I want to see Basil and Clem." I request.

"No." He shakes his head. "You will leave with Reed immediately."

"Please. Why are you doing this?" I ask, "I didn't mean to hurt anyone."

"But you did. You're more than what the Yoshida can handle at this rate." Caspian answers.

"I'm your daughter."

He shakes his head, "No, you're not."

"You told me once..." I mumble, glaring up at him, "You told me before. You said you love me. I never forgot... When you used to take me to the woods and you told me I was a pretty flower. You said you love me. Why don't you love me anymore?"