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She lives in between worlds.
Levitating in a dark dimension - that is where she is.
Surrounded by mirrors.
Billions of mirrors.
Each one representing, reflecting a life. A short, fragile human life.
By breaking a mirror she could kill, destroy one's very existence.
She never did.
She was a spirit, a guardian of memories.
She never forgot, not even one person whose life she observed through those beautiful mirrors.
Disappearing.
It was something normal by that time. Simple...a part of a routine, of life if you will.
Humans are born every day, every hour. Born to live their lives, die and years later be forgotten.
She never forgot.
She remembered all of them. It was how she lived- observing humans with sparkly eyes, truly fascinated by their different looks, decisions, behaviours, opinions.
Something changed though.
For 21 years now, she's been in front of this one mirror. Following yet another human through his days.
He was different.
He was the kindest, sweetest, bravest human she had ever seen.
His choices did, but also did not make any sense to her.
He wasn't like anyone she ever saw.
He never chose a shortcut, he never complained, he suffered alone, the girl being the only person to witness his pain and his bitter, bloody tears.
He had a name.
Yes.
Humans always did.
She knew his name.
Yes.
A name of a brave soldier, of a modest, mysterious hero.
A name, humanity will come to know as the name of a saviour.
A name of their guardian angel, hiding in the shadows.
His name was beautiful and she didn't dare use it, for she had never really met him, it would be impolite.
She called him crow.
He was dark, mysterious, he always knew everything as if he was watching the world from the sky.
He was strong.
Strong enough to resist every storm life sent him.
Crow.
An incredible human indeed.
For 21 years, she has been there, watching every move he made.
Every next step fascinated her more than the last.
But somewhere along the way she fell in love.
In love with a human?
Hah...a ridiculous thought indeed. Such a thing is impossible.
Nonsense.
To her it wasn't.
She had been there.
Every day, every minute of his life his suffering.
He didn't deserve it.
None of it.
He didn't deserve to be hated, pushed away, tortured...used.
He didn't deserve to suffer.
But the world is a cruel place.
Life is unfair.
He knew it all too well and so did she.
He let it all happen. Followed the path life had carved for him.
He created a plan according to it.
She couldn't watch it, watch him sacrifice himself.
So she decided, on that bloody, rainy day, the day his cold, limp body fell to the ground, the last of air leaving his lungs.
The day he died.
She decided for this human she would go against her kind disobey her brethren and break all the rules.
She would crush tradition, forget the laws, rip open worlds, dimensions, the fabric of time and space.
For this one human she would change the world.
Ahh, such an interesting little human this boy.
To seduce a powerful spirit, without even being conscious of it.
To escape death and be born again in a world created for him and him only.
Such a lucky, special human this boy.
His name?
What is his name, you might ask..
Uchiha Itachi