If we Come From Ashes, That Is What We Will Go Back To by Wolf_Hanyou_Shinobi
Summary: The Village was self-serving, it grew without the help of other lands and so, in the end, it perished without help from others.
Categories: General Fiction, OC-centric Characters: Shino Aburame, Chouji Akimichi, Deidara, Sakura Haruno, Kakashi Hatake, Kisame Hoshigaki, Hinata Hyuuga, Neji Hyuuga, Kiba Inuzuka, Jiraiya, Shikamaru Nara, Orochimaru, Rock Lee, Tenten, Tobi, Tsunade, Itachi Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, Ino Yamanaka
Genres: Angst, Dark
Warnings: Death
Challenges: None
Series: Kagegakure, The Village of Tragedies
Chapters: 3 Completed: No Word count: 1593 Read: 4507 Published: 18/12/07 Updated: 23/01/08
Story Notes:
This is the first installment in the stories of Kagegakure, it is also the most important and thus is best told in multiple chapters.
Once upon a time... (prologe) by Wolf_Hanyou_Shinobi
Author's Notes:
The story is supposed to be as it is being told to a group of children, however I don't feel like putting everything in quotations. So only the first chapter will be as such and the following chapters will be as a flashback.
A woman whom looks to be in her thirties sits on a small chair surrounded by children. They are gathered to hear the story she wishes to tell. The top of her head is covered by a black bandanna and she wears simple clothes. The children go queit as she clears her throat and begins to speak...
"Gather around little ones for I have a stroy to tell. The story of a Village and how it's cruel ways led to it's destruction. By telling of their tragedy I hope that history will not repeat itself and none of you grow up to suffer the same fate."
She pauses to look at them, their eager faces shining with intrigue. She closes her eyes as if picturing what she is about to say.
"There once was a Shinobi village, hidden deep within the Land of Demons. This village trained the strongest ninja to ever fight, many of which became Chunnin by their tenth birthday! The leader of this village was known as the Yukaikage and he was a cruel man indeed. His wife was absorbed in herself and material things and they had three children.
The eldest of their children, however, wasn't really fathered by the Yukaikage and the older villagers knew this. You see, before marriage the Yukaikage and his wife had not met and after being married the woman gave birth to a girl child. Now you may wonder, 'What's wrong with that?', well she gave birth only six months after her marriage and it takes nine for babies to be born. The Yukaikage was mad at her but she claimed to have been forced on.
This child was named Nishi Amaya, given her mother's maiden name as her family name and the name Amaya meaning night rain as her hair was ink black streaked with moonbeam silver. She was an outsider by birth...
End Notes:
To be continued
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