Always with you

Prologue: Nightmares

She was running through the thicket, panic constricting her heart. She swept by trees, dead trees with branches sticking out as if reaching for her. Shrieking in terror she ripped off her sweater as one of the branches clung to it and tried to pull her towards the shadows.

The full moon floated above her head eerily.

She didn't stop running because she could still hear the hoarse deep breathing behind her. She could feel the hot breath against her ear. She turned her head back only to regret it.

Tripping over the wicked roots of the tree, she sprawled on the ground and cried out when the roots wrapped around her tight, like a snake, making it impossible for her to move.

A shadow appeared and she could see the sinister smile playing on its face. The moonlight cast shadows around her and the shadow, giving the area a creepier setting.

"Come on…"

The shadow approached her and smiled.

"No…" She gasped and tried to wiggle away. But the roots held her down tight.

"Come on,"

The shadow crouched down next to her, and began to play with her hair.

"No, get away from me!"

She threw her head from side to side and tried to get up.

"Just the way I like it,"

The shadow's face loomed over hers.

A piercing scream ran through the night.

Haruno Sakura woke up with a start.

She can feel the sweat sliding down her face, perspiration clinging to her pale pallid face. She looked down to herself to see that she was still in her white and pink pajamas. Sakura patted her hands up and down her body to assure herself that she was dreaming. She shuddered and wrapped her arms around herself. She can feel the Goosebumps rising on her flesh.

It was the nightmare again. It seemed so real.

She just couldn't get over the fact…the fact that…

Sakura shook her head viciously from side to side, her long pink hair whipping her face. She tried to get rid of foolish thoughts flying in her head.

Determined to forget her nightmare, Sakura looked at the sinister red numbers flashing from her alarm clock.

2:56 AM

She groaned. She still had a few hours to go before she started school.

A new school

A new start

A new beginning

A new life

Sakura sighed and lay on her side, staring out of the window where the moon hung in the sky. The moon was full and yellow like a lemon.

Like in her dreams….

Her eyes closed, hiding her emerald eyes from the cruel world. Her lips closed and her breathing rhythm fell into pace.

Everything was going to be fine.

Or that's what she hoped.