5 Years Later
The thunderous clouds created an atmosphere of terror in the minds of the life below on earth. The sun, with all its glory, with all its fire was hidden behind the lightning and roaring clouds that seemed to be bent on spreading darkness across the lands.
Admist the angry clouds flew the phoenix of fire, not red, but black. It's feather's had lost the royalty. It had turned into a dark phoenix, of dark fire, burning the rain drops to vapors as it flew. Upon its back was the familiar face of Kane Firecaster. His eyes, wet, not by the crying clouds, but because of his crying heart. In his memories resided his lost brother, the brother he hated with all his heart.
"Why? Brooklyn... we could have had a happy life... why? why did you have to be so good?", Kane's heart asked his brother, who according to people's belief, would now be somewhere here in the skies, in a place called heaven. Even the Phoenix could feel the darkness, the hollowness in Kane's heart, so strong it was. His memories were creating his life into his mind.
*FLASHBACK*
"kane! come here my son!", his cheerful mother called him, "look what i brought for you"
"mommy!," the cute little boy smiled as he ran happily to his mother...
how happy our life was.....
"i am proud of you Brooklyn, my son, you bring proud to the whole Firecaster clan.", Kane's father said proudly keeping a hand on Brooklyn's shoulder who beamed with pride himself.
you were my strongest ninja...
walking through the streets, a conversation between the street vendor and his customer caught Kane's attention, "hey did you hear about Brooklyn Firecaster? that boy is amazing isn't he?"
"yeah, i had heard he activated his sharingan at the age of seven!", the shopkeeper replied.
"i am a ninja myself but i cannot even imagine how some people are so gifted with talent and a genius mind.. he has been chosen as the leader of Anbu cops today.. he makes us proud.", the customer said joyfully as if Brooklyn was his relative, in a sense he was, they shared the Firecaster blood.
my role model, everything i aspired to become, were you..
"elder brother! please, teach me the jutsu you promised to teach me..", a seven year old Kane demanded.
"not today little kid, i have a very important mission, for which i have to leave soon for a while," Brooklyn replied poking his brother's forehead with two of his fingers.
"no you're so bad you do this all the time!!," cried Kane.
"hey i promise the next time i will ok?.. now c'mon lets go back", the elder brother made a false promise again as he carried his beloved onto his back
you lied to me every time, but still, i wanted to become like you. i thought you loved me.
The night sky was covered with thick clouds, the moon couldn't spread its light no matter how much it would try. On the window of her lonely Palace, Scarlet sat in a red colored, thin, silk robe starting much below her neck, leaving her shoulders bare, its straps hung at her arms, her knees folded up into the embrace of her arms as she looked outside in the dark. The city looked like just a shadow until it was illuminated by a loud thunderous lightning for a second or so. The sky was crying again, slowly. Its tears came down upon the earth as soft drizzles. Scarlet's eyes could never stop shedding tears as her mind was filled with memories of her love.
*FLASHBACK*
A bright day it was, but not very good, at least, for Kane and Scarlet...
The lovers were enjoying the cool winds of the waters in an attempt to escape the hot land, Dranzer was pleased as ever to be their ride. Flying above the vast sea, Dranzer's speed caused the water below to ripple apart as it flew. Scarlet giggled as she fought with all her strength to stay up while Kane tried to push her down into the water..
"NO KANE!!!.. hahaha.. please! oh... ", Scarlet seemed to be enjoying this as much as Kane did, "whah!!?"
A fast arrow, missing the head, passed through Scarlet's blonde hairs that were flying with the wind. Kane quickly held Scarlet back into his arms as his eyes looked into the direction from where the arrow came.
"where the hell did that come from?", Scarlet asked horrified as she looked around, the arrow having just missed her head.
"there's more to come...," replied Kane who seemed to be lost as he stared at the west. Scarlet's eyes followed his gaze and widened with shock, as they saw several ninjas flying on some kind of bird like creatures she had never seen before. They were grey colored and had no feathers, "turn back Dranzer!"
Dranzer flew upwards as it turned, trying to avoid the numerous arrows that filled the sky all of a sudden as an attack was launched by the ninjas.
"these are the wind ninja!.. we must've gotten into their territory while flying..", Kane explained as Dranzer tried to escape them to safety, catching a few small arrows into its chest and wings.
"there are so many of them!! its raining arrows and in the wrong direction! they should rain down not up!" Scarlet said and saw some ninjas flying above her closing the distance between them slowly, "i didn't really mean it..", she said as she backed into Kane's chest.
"jump down ? from here?", She questioned but rather than answering, Kane just jumped down holding her by her waist with him, they descended upside down towards the sea below (head down legs up). Scarlet's mind soon realized it was under a free fall and she began to scream, no matter what Kane said, nothing could pass her scream and go into her ears. "SCARLET!" Kane screamed, "do you love me?"
"more than yourself" she replied without thinking..
"do you trust me?" he inquired again.
"more than myself", she said, looking into his eyes, forgetting everything.A bright light illuminated the depth of the sea as Dranzer shrieked, it burnt like hell, the arrows could never reach its body, not being able to sustain the heat around the fire bird and Dranzer went on to clear the skies of ninjas as it was now free to burn not caring who else it could burn.
Kane brought his lips to hers and they pressed their lips together, #SPLASH# as they fell into the water, tearing through the sea's chest, they kept falling down deeper, slowing down. Sealing their mouths with each other's they remained for a while under the water, sharing their breaths through their mouths.
*END OF FLASHBACK*
"i trust you.. i love you..", She whispered into the air. Scarlet still remembered how sudden his departure was, at a time when she would never expect. Scarlet waited for him so long after that but he never came back. Today was the day when she had first met him years ago. And she couldn't bring herself to forget him. She didn't want to beause deep in her heart, she had a light of hope, that they will be together.
"scarlet..", the Suchikage whispered as he walked into her chamber towards her, "forget him my dear.. don't cry for him anymore.. you have waited 5 Years.. its a long time.. i am sure, he will come back, but you don't have to wait, not like this."
"Travyan!", Sche cried and ran to him, bursting into tears as she held onto the fatherly shoulders, "we were so happy.. why... did he have to.."
Travyan caressed the back of her head, "things never remain the same princess... change, is tha law of life, change, can bring joy, or sorrow, but we should not fear change, rather, face it, like a bad dream, which will be over soon, and another change, a good one, will replace it."
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The thunderous clouds created an atmosphere of terror in the minds of the life below on earth. The sun, with all its glory, with all its fire was hidden behind the lightning and roaring clouds that seemed to be bent on spreading darkness across the lands.
Admist the angry clouds flew the phoenix of fire, not red, but black. It's feather's had lost the royalty. It had turned into a dark phoenix, of dark fire, burning the rain drops to vapors as it flew. Upon its back was the familiar face of Kane Firecaster. His eyes, wet, not by the crying clouds, but because of his crying heart. In his memories resided his lost brother, the brother he hated with all his heart.
"Why? Brooklyn... we could have had a happy life... why? why did you have to be so good?", Kane's heart asked his brother, who according to people's belief, would now be somewhere here in the skies, in a place called heaven. Even the Phoenix could feel the darkness, the hollowness in Kane's heart, so strong it was. His memories were creating his life into his mind.
*FLASHBACK*
"kane! come here my son!", his cheerful mother called him, "look what i brought for you"
"mommy!," the cute little boy smiled as he ran happily to his mother...
how happy our life was.....
"i am proud of you Brooklyn, my son, you bring proud to the whole Firecaster clan.", Kane's father said proudly keeping a hand on Brooklyn's shoulder who beamed with pride himself.
you were my strongest ninja...
walking through the streets, a conversation between the street vendor and his customer caught Kane's attention, "hey did you hear about Brooklyn Firecaster? that boy is amazing isn't he?"
"yeah, i had heard he activated his sharingan at the age of seven!", the shopkeeper replied.
"i am a ninja myself but i cannot even imagine how some people are so gifted with talent and a genius mind.. he has been chosen as the leader of Anbu cops today.. he makes us proud.", the customer said joyfully as if Brooklyn was his relative, in a sense he was, they shared the Firecaster blood.
my role model, everything i aspired to become, were you..
"elder brother! please, teach me the jutsu you promised to teach me..", a seven year old Kane demanded.
"not today little kid, i have a very important mission, for which i have to leave soon for a while," Brooklyn replied poking his brother's forehead with two of his fingers.
"no you're so bad you do this all the time!!," cried Kane.
"hey i promise the next time i will ok?.. now c'mon lets go back", the elder brother made a false promise again as he carried his beloved onto his back
you lied to me every time, but still, i wanted to become like you. i thought you loved me.
It was a dark alley, in a destroyed village, in a dark night. Kane walked through the alley, looking around at the lifeless bodies. He walked ahead to his home slowly, scared and worried for his family. His mind was full of questions, but the answers did not matter more than his family. He ran to the palace, his home..
"Ma!.. papa!" he called out. The palace had the same scenario like the streets outside, guards dead, lights blown out, silence everywhere. His voice echoed in the thick air. He had never been so scared. When he ran his way back to the village after training for hours in the forest and learning his new jutsu, he thought he would tell his father of his new accomplishment and hopefully he might this time praise him for his hard work. But what he saw when he reached near the palace shook him. As he walked into the King's room to look for his father, he was more than scared and dumbfounded. "Brother! wha...what are you doing? what is happening? who is this man?" he asked as he looked towards the man. "Brooklyn! no!" Kane screamed as he saw his brother slice his hand equipped with a dark jutsu across their father's neck. Their father's dead body fell on the ground besides their dead mother. "NOOO!!!!!" Kane screamed .
And then, you killed... our happy life, our parents, our clan, and you killed yourself, to let me live...
And then, you killed... our happy life, our parents, our clan, and you killed yourself, to let me live...
"brother....why? who is this man.. our parents,...!", Kane's voice was cold, not finding its way out of his throat anymore as he burs into tears. He did not fail to notice the lifeless eyes of his brother which reflected no mercy, no love. Since an year now, he had known his brother to be so, he had changed over time. his relation with their father had turned bitter but never in his dreams Kane could imagine he would go this far. Even their loving mother, he killed...
"This is Diedara.", Brooklyn finally spoke and signaled Diedara to move out. Kane watched Dieadara walk out and asked, "why?"
i asked you the truth.. it was not a play, not one of your false promises, you ... how could you....
i asked you the truth.. it was not a play, not one of your false promises, you ... how could you....
"because i want power. hatred and ruthlessness is the only way. i had to kill everyone to get that power.", Brooklyn replied. "Then i hate you more!", Kane rose up from the floor and ran towards Brooklyn but was punched in the face and thrown back into a wall.
Before he could fall after hitting the wall, a fast Brooklyn caught him by his neck against the wall, watching his mouth bleed.
How could you lie again? how could you keep me in the dark? why could you not trust me with the truth back then?
how could i have missed that tear? i had to know.. i should have seen it.. i should have...
How could you lie again? how could you keep me in the dark? why could you not trust me with the truth back then?
Brooklyn spoke again,
"Kane.. my brother.. i see your love for me dying already. that is good. in time, you will too learn the path to power. I could kill you too little brother. But as always, you are too weak. look at yourself, crying like a girl. I will let you live and die everyday when you remember this night, and realise how much of a weakling you are. but i will leave you with an advice, Hatred, ruthlessness, are the only paths to power, only the stronger has the right to live. Like me, i live because i can, Father couldn't, because he was not strong. i will leave you alive to feel my hatred. When you can hate me with all your heart, when you won't hesitate to seperate my head from my body, that will be the day you can call yourself strong. Until then, run for your life little brother, so that you do not waste this chance that i gave you. Do not forget little brother, always remember, i am your brother, a wall that you have to climb, when you have eyes like mine, come to me", he finished as a tear rolled down his emotion less eyes which was immediately noticed by the little brother.
how could i have missed that tear? i had to know.. i should have seen it.. i should have...
"Grow up kid, i will not leave you everytime. c'mon Zan, tell Diedara your mission cannot be finished because you have to come with me for an important mission. Killing a kid is not our job" Brooklyn pushed back Kane's hand making him fall back on the ground. "wait!" Kane screamed but Brooklyn and his partner disappeared into smoke.
Kane was left alone in the forest with his horrible childhood, the feeling of weakness that he hated, one moment he was all strong and dominant over Zan but Brooklyn once again brought up the weak Kane. The Kane who feared, who cried, did nothing to hide his feelings. The rain drops made their way down his cheeks along with the tears Brooklyn had left. The strong prince of fire sat their in the darkness, 'crying like a girl'.
You wanted me to become stronger, we could do that together.. why brother.. ? why did you not tell me then, when you had one more chance?
*END OF FLASHBACK*
The clouds held back their tears for now, but continued to keep the lands dark, under their shade. Kane stood up on Dranzer's back, letting the winds travel through his dark hair. Looking far ahead into the clouds, Kane talked to his dead brother,"You wanted to make me a hero, in the eyes of those people, people who caused you to kill your parents, who used you, pushed you through hell, for their benifit, and you wanted me to be a hero for those? i cannot understand how you care about them, but walking on your path will be foolishness... i will avenge you, our clan, and regain our royalty, our pride, a
You wanted me to become stronger, we could do that together.. why brother.. ? why did you not tell me then, when you had one more chance?
*END OF FLASHBACK*
The clouds held back their tears for now, but continued to keep the lands dark, under their shade. Kane stood up on Dranzer's back, letting the winds travel through his dark hair. Looking far ahead into the clouds, Kane talked to his dead brother,"You wanted to make me a hero, in the eyes of those people, people who caused you to kill your parents, who used you, pushed you through hell, for their benifit, and you wanted me to be a hero for those? i cannot understand how you care about them, but walking on your path will be foolishness... i will avenge you, our clan, and regain our royalty, our pride, a
Later,
In the land of life…
The night sky was covered with thick clouds, the moon couldn't spread its light no matter how much it would try. On the window of her lonely Palace, Scarlet sat in a red colored, thin, silk robe starting much below her neck, leaving her shoulders bare, its straps hung at her arms, her knees folded up into the embrace of her arms as she looked outside in the dark. The city looked like just a shadow until it was illuminated by a loud thunderous lightning for a second or so. The sky was crying again, slowly. Its tears came down upon the earth as soft drizzles. Scarlet's eyes could never stop shedding tears as her mind was filled with memories of her love.
*FLASHBACK*
A bright day it was, but not very good, at least, for Kane and Scarlet...
The lovers were enjoying the cool winds of the waters in an attempt to escape the hot land, Dranzer was pleased as ever to be their ride. Flying above the vast sea, Dranzer's speed caused the water below to ripple apart as it flew. Scarlet giggled as she fought with all her strength to stay up while Kane tried to push her down into the water..
"NO KANE!!!.. hahaha.. please! oh... ", Scarlet seemed to be enjoying this as much as Kane did, "whah!!?"
A fast arrow, missing the head, passed through Scarlet's blonde hairs that were flying with the wind. Kane quickly held Scarlet back into his arms as his eyes looked into the direction from where the arrow came.
"where the hell did that come from?", Scarlet asked horrified as she looked around, the arrow having just missed her head.
"there's more to come...," replied Kane who seemed to be lost as he stared at the west. Scarlet's eyes followed his gaze and widened with shock, as they saw several ninjas flying on some kind of bird like creatures she had never seen before. They were grey colored and had no feathers, "turn back Dranzer!"
Dranzer flew upwards as it turned, trying to avoid the numerous arrows that filled the sky all of a sudden as an attack was launched by the ninjas.
"these are the wind ninja!.. we must've gotten into their territory while flying..", Kane explained as Dranzer tried to escape them to safety, catching a few small arrows into its chest and wings.
"there are so many of them!! its raining arrows and in the wrong direction! they should rain down not up!" Scarlet said and saw some ninjas flying above her closing the distance between them slowly, "i didn't really mean it..", she said as she backed into Kane's chest.
"jump down ? from here?", She questioned but rather than answering, Kane just jumped down holding her by her waist with him, they descended upside down towards the sea below (head down legs up). Scarlet's mind soon realized it was under a free fall and she began to scream, no matter what Kane said, nothing could pass her scream and go into her ears. "SCARLET!" Kane screamed, "do you love me?"
"more than yourself" she replied without thinking..
"do you trust me?" he inquired again.
"more than myself", she said, looking into his eyes, forgetting everything.A bright light illuminated the depth of the sea as Dranzer shrieked, it burnt like hell, the arrows could never reach its body, not being able to sustain the heat around the fire bird and Dranzer went on to clear the skies of ninjas as it was now free to burn not caring who else it could burn.
Kane brought his lips to hers and they pressed their lips together, #SPLASH# as they fell into the water, tearing through the sea's chest, they kept falling down deeper, slowing down. Sealing their mouths with each other's they remained for a while under the water, sharing their breaths through their mouths.
*END OF FLASHBACK*
"i trust you.. i love you..", She whispered into the air. Scarlet still remembered how sudden his departure was, at a time when she would never expect. Scarlet waited for him so long after that but he never came back. Today was the day when she had first met him years ago. And she couldn't bring herself to forget him. She didn't want to beause deep in her heart, she had a light of hope, that they will be together.
"scarlet..", the Suchikage whispered as he walked into her chamber towards her, "forget him my dear.. don't cry for him anymore.. you have waited 5 Years.. its a long time.. i am sure, he will come back, but you don't have to wait, not like this."
"Travyan!", Sche cried and ran to him, bursting into tears as she held onto the fatherly shoulders, "we were so happy.. why... did he have to.."
Travyan caressed the back of her head, "things never remain the same princess... change, is tha law of life, change, can bring joy, or sorrow, but we should not fear change, rather, face it, like a bad dream, which will be over soon, and another change, a good one, will replace it."
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