AnimeCrasherz: A new SasuHina idea that I got while reading +Anima. It centers on the few Naruto characters that appear here –mostly about Hinata and Sasuke- and if you've read Witch Child you can see a little bit of the events and elements of that story here, too.
It's sort of based on the story of some of the first pilgrims going to America, but without Indians and with a bit of fantasy. Oh yeah, and in this story Itachi doesn't kill Sasuke's family. He might as well not exist. Sasuke's entire family died of some illness.
This counts for the entire fic: I do not own Naruto or Witch Child.
Now Enjoy!
Adventure 1: The Voyage
That day, my father could have told me that we were going to go live with the elven people and I would have been just as surprised.
Ever since the passing of my mother I had known that my father wanted to get away. He had wanted to move to a new house, a new village. There were too many memories here, the memories of my mother's life, her death, the death of her stillborn son...
But America? My father wanted to take Hanabi and I to America?
Most knew little of the new world, and I knew even less than they. It was a hotter place than here, I heard, pure wilderness inhabited by savages. Why would my father want to go there? I would never understand. But for now, I credited his decision half on the senility I was sure was taking over his mind now, half on the desperation to start a new life, for him and Hanabi and I, before he lost the one he lived now.
That night after we heard the news, my sister and I lay awake in the bed we shared, whispering out of fear of waking father.
"I'm scared, sister." Hanabi's voice trembled and was hoarse as she spoke. "What if we do not live?What if we don't survive the voyage, or if we get there then what if we don't survive the winter, or worse, what if it is true what they say about the savages-"
"Shh! Don't speak that way!" I had to quiet her down, she was scaring me too. "We have God, and we have eachother, and that's all we need. Besides, what have we got to lose? This life is barely one to keep."
"You're right..." she said, and yawned. She still seemed doubtful, but there would always be fear.
"Good, now go to sleep. We have to rise early tomorrow."
But she was already slumbering away, her dreams in a land somewhere else. I dreamt that night too, not about shipwrecks and savages, but of loneliness and the plague of tragedy that followed the Hyuuga name wherever it went.
When we awoke the next day, a carriage waited outside, ready to take us to the coast where the ship that would sail us to our new life awaited.
The morning was foggy and chilly, causing Hanabi and I to shiver in the darkness outside of our house. We walked briskly to the carriage, carrying what little belongings we could pack in the bags we took with us. When we entered the carriage and sat as it began to move forward, there was an uneasiness in the air that made me want to disappear right then.
I looked out the window at the seemingly black forest, the virdency dense and tall. As the carriage rumbled I bounced slightly in my seat. The slight shaking was hypnotism. Soon, my sister and I were under the spell of the cold, early morning and the uneven road, and we had fallen asleep.
I felt the carriage come to a stop, and that must have awoken me. As we stepped out of the carriage I immediately recognized the salty mist in the air and the smell of dead fish. I looked up, and saw that it was noticeably lighter; we must have slept for hours. We were here.
My shyness caused me to stick close to my father and younger sister, so close that I almost hid behind them. I watched them hand off their luggage, and I followed. I continued to follow very closely behind them as they walked up to the enormous piece of wood that lead up to the deck of the towering ship.
My eyes roamed over the tall masts, the white sails and the men that shouted, ran, and jumped around obeying the captains orders. But there was no time to stand there and gawk, Father and Hanabi had already begun walking up towards the ship. Hurrying over to them, I continued to stare at the things going on the ship.
As I looked around, a certain sailor caught my eye. He had ebony hair, and shone with a blue sheen in the sunlight. His eyes were darker than his hair, black coals set in the unusual white of his skin. He seemed more serious than the other sailors, not laughing and joking. And the happy skip in his step was missing, unlike the other sailors, too.
I saw a few more people, a lazy seeming sailor with a black ponytail, and a cute blonde one whose bright cerulean eyes caugh mine for a second so that I blushed crimson and looked away.
And that was the last I saw as my family and I disappeared belowdecks, to the space that we would be squeezed into for the entire voyage.
There was no turning back now.
AnimeCrasherz: Setting up the new story!
Like I always have to ask, should I continue this?
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