A Mother’s Sword: Devil’s Analogy Chapter 1

Summary: What would happen if Uzumaki Kushina had not died? What if she’d secretly watched in shadows as her child was bullied? What if she finally snapped? What if…she killed them all?

 

Chapter 1: Prelude to Death

 

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Like an eagle she sat perched upon the rooftop, shrouded in the haunting darkness that night usually brought. Her eyes, nothing but glistening sparks behind a mask, were locked onto a blonde-haired child, watching silently as four other larger children surrounded him. The sparks narrowed into slits as they began striking the smaller boy, their tightly wounds fists crashing into his face over and over again despite his desperate pleas at them to stop.

 

She watched this go on, keeping a mental timer in her head and was just coming around to the six-minute mark when an adult, the orphanage owner, came running out. It was a woman, a woman who, instead of chastising and possibly striking the other children, only grabbed the small blonde boy by the neck of his shirt and dragged him roughly back inside the building.

 

The woman on the rooftop closed her eyes and in doing so became one with the gloom and faded away….