Prologue: There is no Life i know...
The man smiled. For the first time in many months, he would be meeting his lover. Although he is shrouded by the darkness, a band upon his head gleams, a sybol engraved on it. as he peers around, every once in a while, his eyes turn red, a strange design in them.
After he waits for another ten minutes, the one for whom he is waiting for finally arrives.
Cloaked in a white robe, a woman walks towards the man, her blank eyes racing about her surroundings, aware of the dangers that could befall her. Even beneath the robe, her large belly betrays her pregnancy. The slight brezze that comes up ripples her her long black hair and she pulls the robe all the tighter. Around her head is the same headband as the man's, though not as scarred and scratched.
As the man steps out of the shadows, the woman cries out softly in joy. The man's black hair reaches his shoulders, and the fan on the back of his shirt betrays him as one of the Uchiha. The woman walks faster, not bothering with the robe anymore. When they reach each other, they embrace passionately.
"We need to leave." the woman whispers urgently, clearly terrified. The man simply chuckles. "no. i have arranged it. The child.." he starts.
"No, you don't..."
"...Will be safe..."
"...It's about the..."
"...And we can marry..."
The woman seems to lose her temper. "You don't understand!!" she yells. The man looks at her in wonder. "Quiet!" he tries to sush her, but the woman continues. "The night i...realized...i was...pregnant...the...the dragon..." she stutters, but the man shoves her away after hearing the word 'dragon'.
"what...?" he asks angrily. The woman kneels down, shuddering. "the child...is the vessel in which...in which the dragon resides now..." she whispers, starting to cry The man, shocked, backs away a step. "Why did you not tell me?" he hisses. The woman looks up at him, tears streaking her face. "because...you would have forced me to get rid of it..."
The man glares at her, but she continues. "I...am leaving to the sand village in the morning...where the child will be raised up alongside another spirit-possessed child.." she says softly, "Besides...you have Itachi...and Sasuke to look after..." she trails off, sobbing. The man's face is expessionless, his eyes flashing. "Another one...another...creature...like the fox child..." he murmers, barely being heard. The woman stands up, walks to the man and takes his hand in hers. the man kisses her before jerking away and whispers, "I'm sorry..."
The woman looks at him questioningly before a large windmill shuriken hits her square in the back. She cries out in terror and pain as several other men, clad in black with masks, appear. The man looks away as a man with a red and white white mask approaches the woman. She looks forst at the men in masks, then, as she falls to the ground, at her lover. His face is expressionless, except for a single tear. He walks away just as one of the men yanks the woman up by her hair. She screams right before her throat is slit with a kunai.
The men quickly, and quietly, dissapear into the forest.
As dawn approaches, two men, identical to eachother, come upon the body of the woman. their eyes are exactly like hers.
"Hiashi..is that..." one says softly.
"Yes...i think so, Hizashi..." the other, Hiashi says, moving the woman's hair away from her face. Hizashi kneels down. "Natsuki..." he whispers as Hiashi inspects her corpse.
As he reaches her midriff, he gasps in shock. "Hizashi!!" he cries out. Hizashi rushes towards him. Hiashi points to Natsuki's stomach. Slowly, Hizashi placs his hand on the enlarged belly. He holds it there for a moment before jerking away quickly. "The child is still..." he murmers before Hiashi quickly brandishes a kunai. "Careful!" Hizashi warns as Hiashi slices Natsuki's stomach open. Hizashi looks on as Hiashi produces a quiet, but wriggling, baby girl. the Brothers look at her as she barely opens her eyes. Her black and red hair is startling enough, but as she looks at her saviors, her blank left eye shines clear, but her red eyes gleam with the power of the Sharingan.
