Waking up in a new world
She remembered dying. She remembered it much clearer than she would've liked to.
She fell down her roof.
It was an accident. Nothing unusual in her world.
She didn't think she'd be waking up again. But she did. In a much smaller weaker body than her own. With hair of the color red Like her blood which pooled when she finally hit the ground, and a new mother Why did she look so much like her own mother? who had not eaten in days now.
She wondered just how long her new mother would survive at this rate And ignored the fact that she herself should've been long dead. Whenever they would find anything eatable, the mother would give it to her. She'd accept, if only to keep the woman happy. Her mother's name, she'd learned was Izuna.
The woman had looked at her daughter in amusement as the young girl stared at her in disbelief and shock.
It had become increasingly harder to make her daughter react to things. Her face would become blank if she wasn't doing anything, and although she would still easily smile when Izuna would talk to her, the woman found her smile different. She couldn't tell the exact difference, but she found it similar to the smiles she would see when her father and mother would talk. For some reason, her smile made her feel like she'd let her daughter witness too much of the world's darkness.
"Come on, Sumu-chan. We should get going now."-Izuna
The girl nodded and got up, slowly putting away the fruits she'd found in a storage seal Izuna had made. She still didn't believe that things like this were possible She didn't want to believe she was in a ninja world.
Ten days passed by, she understood by now that her mother was not going to settle down anywhere. She also understood that the Uzumaki clan's island, Uzushio, had perished after being attacked by some villages banding together to destroy the clan. She had scoffed out loud when she realized that. The so-called ninja were terrified of a single clan, which wasn't even that large in number. Another thing she'd learned was that her mother was strong. Izuna had told her that she was considered a seal master in Uzushio. After finding that out, the girl had asked her mother to teach her everything she knew.
Izuna, of course, had happily said yes. It was probably to continue her village's legacy, now that she thought about it.
'Well, this is fine as well.'
She quietly followed the woman through the forest. It looked beautiful yet so terrifying to her. They'd been staying here for 2 days now. According to Izuna, they would move after another 2 days. She didn't ask why that was so, to which Izuna was thankful. She could already tell her new mother needed some time to rest. Her mother had many different injuries, probably from escaping Uzushio, and had to run while carrying her most of the time. It would make sense that she was tired and needed rest.
Focusing back on her mother, she had a sinking feeling of something being very wrong. The smell suddenly surrounding them was familiar. She tried to ignored the images of her own death that reappeared in her mind. Her breathing quickened as she ran up to her mother to hold on to her leg. She didn't realize when her arms had started to shake.
Her mother smiled down at her once to reassure her, before she picked her up and ran.
"M-mom... What's going on?"
She knew the answer yet she still asked her mother.
Her mother did not answer her.
Her mother ran for what seemed like hours, her feet had started to bleed by now. The girl frowned as thought to tell her mother to get new shoes for herself rather than buying things for her the next time they stopped by a town. The girl still wanted to believed that everything was going to be fine. They would disguise themselves again in the next town that came, and get some food from a local shop and rest there for the night before going to another town. Everything was going to be completely fine.
She wouldn't lose her family again.
The shadows had come closer than ever before. Her mother was exhausted. Izuna was panting as she hurriedly looked around the forest.
She watched quietly as her mother put her down in a small cave, hidden by some rocks and plants. She could barely fit her tiny body in there. She opened her mouth to ask what was she doing, only to be shushed by her mother. Frowning, she watched as the woman placed a lot of seals in the cave, before turning to face her.
"Sumu-chan... You know how to activate this seal right?"-Izuna
She looked at the paper in her mother's hands.
"You taught me how to do it..."
Her voice was barely above a whisper, her arms still shaking. Her mind was racing as she tried to focus on her mother's face. Her mothers smile softened as if to comfort her.
The smile did more bad than good.
Her breathing quickened again as she felt tears form in her eyes.
"When I go-" -Izuna
"You can't... You can't go!"
The child was ready to scream, Izuna sighed as she shushed her child some more and continued what she was saying.
"I will have to go. When I go, you find a safe place to stay at, ok? I've taught you how to hide your hair color, right? You'll do exactly as I taught you and activate the seal on your clothes... When... When you find a safe place, y-you'll activate this seal. You'll learn all that you need to know ok...?"-Izuna
Her mother's voice was shaking, as though she was ready to cry at any point of time. The girl nodded, her eyes wide and shaking as she stared up at her mother, and reached out to hold on to the woman. She knew that she would still leave. She knew that she shouldn't have gotten attached. She knew that she would never be her true mother. She knew and yet she still cried in the arms of her mother one last time.
Was it really that selfish of her to wish that this time her family wouldn't leave her? She just wanted to stay with her mother.
The woman left and never came back.
Her dead body was hung up as both a prize and a warning.
The little girl watched in horror as she looked at the bloodied body of the woman she called her mother. She couldn't do anything She didn't do anything. Aisha's mother Her real mother flashed before her eyes as she saw her mother's body. She didn't realize she was trembling.
A sob escaped her lips as she ran back to the forest. She wanted to go home.
'Please... Let me go home... Please...'
She cried for the second time since she came in this new world.
Days passed by as she once again made her to the town, this time, she'd already made a grave for her mother. Already cried her eyes out. Already made sure to get her mind to work properly again. She would not let the legacy of her mother and her clan die out. She would not let the people who killed her mother have the satisfaction of knowing that they'd made the Uzumaki clan die out. The least she could do for her mother and her clan was to make sure their will, their legacy did not die out.
She would live in this world.
Even if she was losing herself in grief, it was what she owed to the people who protected her life with their own.
Sakumo Hatake was dead.
The body had been found his six year old.
The said six year old, had still been asked to live in the same house which his father and he lived in before. Which might not have been a bad thing if his father had not committed suicide in that place.
The kid could still see smell the blood. The image of this father laying there on the cold floor, drowning in his own blood, was still fresh. He could feel the cold blood on his hands when he'd tried to wake up his father.
Shaking from the memories, he dreaded going anywhere the study.
Quietly sitting on the kitchen floor, his sobs were the only sound present in the empty place.
Was this his fault? If he could've just stopped his father from going on the mission then everything would've been fine. If he'd just been normal then his father would've spent more time with him. If he could've just stopped him. If he hugged his father when he knew he crying. If he just comforted him then, then everything would've been fine. It must've been his fault, right?
He then remembered all the people whispering about his father.
Maybe his father was too loving and he should've chosen the village instead of his teammates.