Summary: First of several connected prompts. See below for notes.
Word count: 1.8K
Read it as part of my Shades of Konoha: Onyx and Jade series on FFN or AO3
Flirting with Death
2. That Day
She was only nine or ten when it happened.
She was wandering through the woods after a heavy rain, and had stopped to watch the swollen creek rush under the old stone bridge.
She’d been warned like all of the children were warned (or twice as much, by her reckoning, because she was a visitor and apparently couldn’t be expected to keep such warnings in her head) the rainy season brought the rapids, and she dutifully promised to stay away from them. She contented herself with letting her mind wander, coaxed by the calm of the woods and the white noise of the creek.
She didn’t know what made her look up – maybe she had heard something – but when she did, she spotted the boy on the other bank.
He was dressed in dark clothing and leaning against a tree with his arms crossed, just watching her.
She frowned at him and called out in challenge.
“Well? What are you looking at?”
He blinked once or twice before looking around.
“What’s the matter?” she crossed her arms. “Too rude to answer?”
His stand-offish air melted into incredulity.
“You can… see me?”
“Of course I can see you,” she scoffed. “You aren’t that far away.“
Flirting with Death: That Day
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