Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Wishes Upon Cherry Blossoms ❯ The Past tells All ( Chapter 3 )

Hey everyone!! It's me again, Nira-Chan (I decided to change my pen name because I didn't like having it be the same as the main character for one of my fanfics. So my new pen name is…Nira-Chan. I got this name off of a quiz and I liked it so I'm using it). I just have a few notes for you to read before you read chapter 3 of Wishes Upon Cherry Blossoms. First off I decided that this chapter is going to answer a lot of questions like: What happened to Kira's mother? What's up with her necklace? Ect. Second because this chapter is mostly answering questions it might get a little boring cause it's mostly flashbacks and doesn't have a lot of other characters in it and I wanna show you guys more of Kira and Mitsukake when they were in the academy. But don't worry the other chapters are going to get a lot more interesting after this boring one cause the plot is starting to unfold. Finally, I'm an ass lol. For some odd reason I thought Sasuke was 13, but when I looked it up I found out that he's 12. So I realized that having a 14 year old love a 12 year old is kinda creepy, so I'm lowering Kira's and Mitsukake's age by one year. So now Kira is 13 and Mitsukake is 16, and Kira's parents died when she was 11. Everything else is still the same. SORRY!!

~Sincerely

Nira-chan

The Past Tells All

 

Beep Beep Beep

Kira's alarm clock rang announcing that it was time to wake up-not that she slept very much that night.

Beep Beep

Kira flung her arm over to her nightstand and turned the alarm off.

“Hmm…one hour.” Kira said as she sat up in her bad and grabbed the necklace that hung from her neck

She began to reminisce of the events that had taken place that night.

Begin Flashback:

Kira burst into the Hokage's office to find the old man still at his desk.

“Lord…Hokage! He's back!” Kira held up the letter

The hokage jumped up out of his chair and ran over to the girl.

“Kira let me see that!”

Kira handed him the letter and sat down on the ground to catch her breath. She wiped her tears away with her pajama sleeve. The Hokage unfolded the letter and began to read. As he was reading the letter he walked over to his desk and sat down. His eyes moved from line to line taking in everything that the letter said.

`So it is true, Yukiro has returned to continue what his grandfather started, to finish off all descends of traitors that once belonged to the cloud mercenaries.'

“Assistances!” (A/N- I'm not sure if the Hokage has assistances or not, and if he does I don't know their names)

“Yes Lord Hokage?” four leaf ninjas appeared in a puff of smoke in front of the hokage

“One of you bring Kakashi Hatake here, while the other three alert the ANBU that we have a situation on our hands. Tell them-for now- there is no need to report to me. Just tell them to keep a sharp eye out for foreign ninjas.”

“Yes sir.” Four puffs of smoke appeared and when it cleared the four ninja were gone

Kira is still sitting on the floor, with her head in her hands. She has caught her breath but didn't want to stand up.

“Kira, you don't know what's goingon do you? I don't even think you fully know why Yukiro is after you.”

“You're right, I don't know much about this Yukiro person. All I was told was to wear this necklace at all times and if I ever hear of or meet a man named Yukiro, I should tell the Hokage right away.”

“You were just a young girl when your father diedand your mother lost all of her memories. It was decided that you were to be told as little as possible until I felt you needed know the whole story.”

“Well do you feel that I need to know the whole story now!”

Poof. Kakashi appeared in the doorway

“Good, just in time. Take a seat.” The Hokage pointed to a chair

Kakashi walked over to the seat and sat down. He glanced in front of him to see Kira sitting on the floor.

“So he's back.”

“Damn it! Can't one of you tell me who this man is and why he's after me!”

“Well I'll start.” The Hokage said, “It all started before you born. Your grandfather was a member of an elite team of mercenaries. The group started out as a team of highly skilled ninjas that went around killing rogue ninjas and threats to their village.In return for their services they were paid by their village. But soon things got out of hand. Their methods of killing became cruel and they began killing anyone who got in their way of destroying their target-even innocent people. Their village left them no choice but to fire them and threaten to behead them if they continued their murderous ways. The leader at the time was Yukiro Kuranaga, the present Yukiro's grandfather.”

“Oh I get it they kept the same name.”

“Yes. And he was furious when he wastold they were fired. Outraged and bloodthirsty, he made a pack with the members he had, at that time it was close to 50. Their mission was simple, they would become rogue ninja themselves and travel village to village killing anyone they wanted and stealing whatever they wanted. But the punishment for leaving the group was: not only would you be killed but your descendents would also be destroyed.”

“My grandfather must haveleft then, right?”

“Correct. He met your grandmother here-in the village hidden within the leaves. And it was with her he made the fateful decision to leave the Cloud Mercenaries.”

“But this makes no sense! My grandparents died when I was seven-from old age!”

“You're right they did. That's because shortly after your grandfather left,the group faced a hard battle. Onethey lost. Yukiro and many of his true followers were beheaded. Others fled and made a life for themselves. But the apple didn't fall far from the tree. While Yukiro's son didn't resurrect the group his grandson did. For the past five years he has been gathering up followers and filling his grandfather's shoes. For the time being he has only concentrated on killing the descendents of the traitors.”

“That pendent you're wearing was your grandfather's. It's the mark of the Cloud Mercenaries. Half a man half a cloud. I gave it to you two years ago when your father died, and told you to wear it at all times because if Yukiro had ever sent one of his flowers after you they would see you wearing that and they would think you had pledged allegiance to their group and they wouldn't attack you.” Kakashi said, “Although it's useless now. Yukiro has come after you himself.”

End Flashback

Kira flung the covers off her and placed her feet on the cold floor.

Those two have been part of this since the day I received the news about my parents. I still remember it like it was yesterday although two years have past.

Begin flashback:

“It's about your parents, the mission went horribly wrong.”

“Wha…”

“Kira your father is dead. And your mother…well she's lost all of her memories. She can't even remember who she is.”

“What? I don't believe you! You're lying!”

“Kira!” one of the jounin went over and put their hands on Kira's shoulders

“You're wrong!”

“Kira listen to me! You're father is gone but there is still a good chance your mother will regain her memory!”

“NO! Leave me alone!”Kira yelled as she broke free from the jounin's hold, “Move!” she pushed the jounin that was standing out of her way. She ran out the door and away from her house.

“Should we go after her?”

“No, I imagine she needs to be alone. Let's go report to the Hokage. He'll send someone after her.”

Kira ran for a long way, she ranthrough the rain and ignored the fact that she had no shoes on and that every time her feet hit the ground mud splashed up onto her legs. Finally she reached a cliff overlooking the forest, when she saw there was no where else to run she collapsed on the ground scattering mud onto her whole body. She curled up into the fetal position and began to sob heavily into her arm. The sounds of her cries were lost in thenoise of the thunder and rain. A little while later whenthe rain began to slow down Kira lifted her head up and glanced at her surroundings. She slowly stood up and went over to a rock that was sticking up from the ground and sat down, her feet sunk a few inchesinto the earth. Kira rested her head on top of her knees.

`I have no clue where I am. This is great. Well now I need to be rational. What did those jounin say about my mom? Her memories are gone? What's that mean?” Tears began to flow from Kira's eyes, `And I know what happened to my dad…'Kira began to cry again, `Screw being rational!'

“So you're here.”

Kira quickly lifted her head and turned around to see who was behind her, it was the Hokage.

“You have to be strong. You have the potential to be a great ninja. You just have to know that you're not alone.”

“Hokage…”

“I heard one of my academy students went missing, and I just had to help look for her. You don't know where she might be, would you?”

“No!” Kira turned back around and put her head back on her lap. The Hokage walked over to Kira and placed his hand on her shoulder.

“Ah…” Kira looked up at the Hokage with tear filled eyes

He bent down so that he was eye level with Kira and said, “You're not alone. You don't have to cry alone. There are still people who care about you.”

Tears began to well up in Kira's eyes until she could no longer hold them in. She began to cry again, and the Hokage wrapped his arms around her and they stayed that way until she clamed down.

“Why don't we get you back home?”

“Okay.”Kira dried her eyes and stood up, once up her legs felt like jello and it was hard for her to stand up

“I think I can arrange a ride for you.” The Hokage said noticing her struggle, “Kakashi if you will.”

A 24 year-old Kakashi Hatake appeared from behind the tree line of the forest. He walked over to Kira and the Hokage and when he was next to Kira he bent down to give her a piggy-back ride.

“Get on.” He said with a smile

Kira got onto Kakashi's back and they back to Kira's house.

“Thank-you.”

“You're welcome.”

`Wow I ran a long way! Oh look cherry blossoms! I bet they'll be so pretty when they bloom!”

Soon they arrived at Kira's house. Once again she thanked them and watched as they walked back towards town. She stood in the doorway and looked up at the clearing sky.

“I have to be strong, just like the Hokage said.”

End flashback:

It had been two years since that fateful day Kira received the news about her parents and went to what is now her secret spot. Kira is still sitting on the edge of her bed, she got up and walked over to her closet, and yet another memory flashed into her mind.

Begin flashback:

Kira stood amongst a crowd of people wearing black. She looked forward and saw Kakashi and the Hokage looking at five pictures of people. One of the pictures held the familiar face of her father. She was at the funeral for her father and the other four jounin who died on that mission. She glanced around at the people around her. Woman and children were crying others like her were dried eyed. There were no smiles on people's faces.

“Kira.” A 13year-old Mitsukake walked up to Kira and held her hand.

“Hey Mitsukake.” Kira looked at her best friend

“It's okay you know.”

“I know. But I've done all the crying I want to do for now.” She looked up at the sky

“Come on let's go get our flower.”

“Alright.”

Together they walked hand-in-hand to get a flower and place it on the table in front of the caskets that were under a sheet.

Later that day:

Kira and Kakashi were talking alone in a room when Mitsukake walked in.

“Mitsukake you should leave.”

“Why? What are you guys do…Kira! He's way too old for you!”

“Mitsukake! Shut up! That's not what I'm doing!”

“He can stay if he wants to.” Kakashi said

“I'm staying.”

“Are you sure you want to stay Mitsukake? What you're about to hear my cause you to carry anunwanted burden.”

“If it has to with Kira, I'm going to stay.”

“Okay.”

“Kira first things first. As you know your father is dead. The Hokage believes he and your mother were targeted and the other four jounin were just killed because they were there.”

“Targeted?” Mitsukake asked

“Yes,by a rogue ninja named Yukiro. Kira the Hokage and I believe it's in your best interest to wear this necklace at all times.” Kakashi held out a necklace withhalfaman halfa cloud pendent attached to a black string. Kira took the necklace from Kakashi and put it on, “And if you ever hear of a man named Yukiro go see the Hokage or come see me right away. Got it?”

“Ya. But why?”

“I can't tell you that yet.”

“Okay.What about my mom? What happened to her?”

“Your mother no longer knows who you are or evenwho she is. What we believed happened is your mother saw something so horrible on that mission that it caused her to literally lose her mind. She's only suffering from what we believe is temporary amnesia. She should regain her memories soon, and be able to return home.”

“That's good.”

“You can both go now.”

“Alright, see you later Kakashi-sensei.” Kira said as she started to walk towards the door, when she realized Mitsukake wasn't following her she turned around and said, “Aren't you coming Mitsukake?”

“You go ahead. I'll meet up with you later.”

“Oh, okay.” Kira walked out the door and headed down the road towards her house, leaving Mitsukake and Kakashi alone in the room

“Alright Kakashi, tell me what's really going on. It's obvious you didn't tell Kira the whole story but I demand to know the whole story.” (A/N: Kira didn't hear this part but I wanted to put it in)

“Why?”

“Because Kira means more to me than anything and I would like to know if she's in danger so I protect her!”

“Fine. You see…”

End Flashback:

Kira was dressed in her usual outfit. It is: her skirt is ankle-length in the back but in the front where her legs are there are pieces of the skirt missing so it looks like a mini skirt but with a strip of fabric that also reaches her ankles in the middle of the mini skirt front. Her skirt is light pink. Her shirt is light purple with half sleeves, and light blue buckles running down the whole shirt (A/N: like what Neji has on his shirt). Under her skirt she has black spandex shorts on.

At the bridge:

“Hey Kira what took you so long?” Naruto asked because she was the last one out of the four genin to arrive at the bridge

“Slept in I guess.”

I'll tell them what's really going on with me soon. I hate lying to my new friends.

 

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