~Chapter 1~

Blood….blood is….everywhere.

I stared straight ahead with my wide, frightened ten-year-old eyes brimming with tears and reflecting fear and despair. My entire clan. Slaughtered. I’m only alive because of the stray puppy being caught in the fence…. I thought, flashing back to the small black furry puppy with a six sided white star on its head, a white underbelly and muzzle with three stripes on its fluffy tail.

That dog is currently in my jacket, trembling in fear as well. He had kept flowing me after I insisted it run home. I then asked if he wanted to stay with me and I knew my parents would let me keep him after I told them what happened.

But….they’re all dead.

In fact, I was standing right next to my parent’s corpses at this very moment, seeing their life blood pooling around them. Why would someone kill my entire clan?! I screamed inside my head.

I saw a shadow up ahead suddenly and my head snapped up, my right eye burning instantly as the red hue of it glowed brightly. I could see them. There were four men, all with headbands from the Hidden Rock Village. No wonder….my clan was a powerful asset to Konohagakure; even if we did not actually live inside the village or the Land of Fire, people of our clan were ninja.

And this stupid Third Shinobi World War is what killed my entire clan….these stupid boulder brains. I’ll kill them all. At that last thought my eye felt like it had just exploded and I could sense everything within a ten mile radius-the amount of land our clan lived on. I could sense all of my friends, families, teachers, and everyone’s dead body. Along with the hundred Rock Ninja that was there.

“There’s one left. Little girl, approximately eleven, white and red hair, one red eye and one gold. Four six, ninety pounds. Beside the bakery.” I heard one whisper into a headset and all the Rock Ninja started to converge on me as I paid them no mind, whispering to my new puppy.

“How ‘bout you stay in my jacket and don’t watch this?” I whispered to him and he nodded like he understood me before burrowing into my thick black jacket. Good thing it wasn’t my favorite, because it was about to turn red with the blood of my enemies.

As the first one attacked I looked up, drawing the hidden sword attached to my back with such speed it was like a flash before the man fell behind me in two separate, even halves.

I looked up, my features one of a Hinome clan member. My teeth naturally sharper than most at the canine area, one of my eyes blood red while the other is gold, the only natural eye color in the clan, the white-and-red hair. And of course….the markings that varied on the member. I looked down as my arms started to burn to see thick, black, tribal-looking markings appear on my skin. My face also burned and I looked down at the blood on the ground, my parent’s blood, to see my face reflected off of it with the light of the full moon. Black rings surrounded both of my eyes like eyeliner with a fang like mark on each one going down to my chin and facing inwards. At the corner of my eyes near my nose a swirly and diamond-like pattern was there.

I smiled down at my reflection, noticing my pupils were slit like a cats, also a normal thing.

Looks like I finally gained my kekkei genkai. I thought before all the Shinobi launched at me at once. A good two hundred. Pah, eight-hundred were dead on the ground because of my clan. They think a simple two hundred can kill a girl who is fueled with anger and a need to avenge her clan? If they do, they’re idiots.

I sliced through all of them, feeling the extreme strength from my unlocked ability radiate from me. After this battle, I would train to become strong. That way I’m even more powerful while using this eye.

“She’s like the rest of the things were!” One guy hissed only to have my body leap in front of him and my hand slice right through his skin of his chest and emerge out his back with his heart gripped in my fist.

I gave a demonic smile before jerking my hand back and ripping it out of his body.

A grin slowly appeared on my face as I went back to slicing and chopping and ripping at every enemy that came near me. I had moved away from my parents bodies though and to the main square. Somehow, that had remained free of bodies. I refused to desecrate the ones of my fallen brethren.

“You’re the last one.” I told a blond-headed one with an evil grin. He looked completely frightened. And….I disappeared.

He let out a shaky breath before a squelching sound burst through the empty village of the Hinome clan. My entire forearm from wrist to elbow was lodged into his brain, my hand sticking out right at the center of his forehead. I removed it as his body froze, becoming lifeless as he fell to the ground, dead.

I chuckled, looking around me. That’s what they deserved. I heard the sound of breathing twenty feet away in an alley and I appeared next to it, my speed enhanced greatly. Below me was my younger sister who was only eight years old and hugging the pink rabbit she’s had since birth to her blood soaked chest. Blood was seeping from her lips and I could see the large rip in clothing on her front from where a blade had attacked her. I stared down at her, tears pricking at my eyes as she looked up, fear in her eyes for a second before going to relief then fear again. But not of me.

“Nee-chan, is t-that y-your blood?” She wheezed out. At the shake of my head she let out a breath of relief.

“It’s the enemies. I killed them all once I saw what happened. I was busy rescuing this guy.” I zipped my hood down some so the puppy could poke its head out. Imouto looked at the puppy, her dulling eyes brightening for a second.

“You saved him? That’s good, he’s s-so cute….w-what’s his name?” She coughed out.

“Whatever you want it to be.” I told her, smiling at her warmly. I knew she would die soon. And I couldn’t do anything about it. Too much blood was lost already.

“Name him after me, okay?” She said, her voice stronger for a moment as if she was fighting with everything she had for these next few minutes.

“Alright, Chi.” I told her, squatting down to ruffle her long, blood-soaked white hair. She smiled at me weakly and then looked my body over once more as I wiped some blood off my arms and face. It was coated so thick you couldn’t see any of my markings. Her eyes widened though when I had cleaned enough off.

“Y-you go your kekkei genkai too? I got mine e-earlier. I beat you Nee-chan.” She stuck her tongue out in a teasing manner, her left blood-red eye burning brightly as black stars appeared on her cheek bones and a flow-y pattern went down her arms like vines with hearts and flowers attached.

I looked down at her with pride, kissing her forehead as I felt the last of her life force being sucked away from just doing that. But I knew that was her last wish, seeing her kekkei genkai and finally beating me at something. She always tried but couldn’t. Even when I tried letting her win. “You finally beat me, Chi. Tell mom and dad I said I love them, alright Imouto?” I whispered. She nodded once, humming an okay before her body became lifeless, her soul leaving the flesh.

I stood up, looking down at her with sadness. I looked around, seeing bodies everywhere. No….I won’t leave my clan like this.

I picked up Chi’s body, making sure her bunny (she had called it Sakura) was still hugged to her chest with limp arms.

I carried her body out towards where the clan training ground was. It was a huge clearing that should do nicely.

I laid her body down, my fingers lightly touching her cheek before I disappeared. I worked until dawn, the sun starting to rise. I had moved every body of every clan member and placed them in rows of a hundred, making six rows and had them all next to their families or loved one. Everyone knew everyone in the clan. We knew who was with whom without even paying attention.

I stepped back, bowing my head as I did the sign of the tiger. The ground slowly sunk down six feet underneath each and every body, then flames erupted from each one. I put my hands together in a prayer that they moved on to the next life safely, tears going down my cheeks as I made the sign of the dog and all five hundred and forty-three holes filled in with dirt.

Only one space was left open on the top row, right between my sister and mother. That place was reserved for me. The other fifty-six places left in the sixth row were for those that were out of the village during this….destruction. My clan had exactly six-hundred members. The six-hundredth being born only last week.

She was also dead. Wrapped in her parents arms like they were shielding her.

I whispered six words before turning around: ‘Rest in peace. All of you.’

I made the sign of the ox and gravestones shot out of the ground, writing inscribing on all of them what I thought of each person. Everything I loved about them. Even the most crabbiest and rude old lady that was my neighbor, Mrs. Kyoko. She insisted we put Mrs. in front of her name, to show respect. But I knew it was to keep the memory of her deceased husband alive. Even though she was a nasty old prune, I remember every last day of the month that she would bake the best cookies ever for Chi and I to scrounge on after training.

All of them. I put at least one thing on each under their name and their birth and death dates.

My head slowly turned up and I began walking towards a small clearing-where the bodies of the Rock Ninja lay.

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Authors Note

So….how do you like the new story? It was sad, I know….
Sorry for the shortness! It will pick up soon.
Peace!
~Mew
P.S. I know I should be focusing on Storm Bird and Pocky and Anime but....I like Naruto Fanfics better T.T