shooting down the sky [p]

[くすり]

My red, blistered, fingers tugged more at that already taut string. I gazed up, aiming to bring down the very sky itself. My arm quivered and as I exhaled my breath left my lips slowly while the arrow was loosed. With no sound at all it buzzed upwards, point first into the ivory clouds that hung over me, but no matter how many arrows I knocked and shot, they always.... always came back. Fate had always been something i'd believed in, my very name was a representation of that. My brother Ashura was amazing. The same age as me, the same blood, nearly the same features, yet no matter how far my arrow traveled.. no matter how hard I tried to catch up. I'd always be left behind, with him looking back at me. I had accepted this fate, I was resigned to it. That was until I learned of my mother and fathers true origins, who they were.

[/i], I'd whisper, leaning my head back, allowing my black hair to trickle over from my cheeks and forehead. The Nidaime Mizukage- a powerful Hozuki. She was a strong woman with ambition, yet here I stood.... talent-less. My father, an obscured and scrutinized man named Kouketsu Uchiha. Both my brothers possessed the same power, they were both strong, yet my only saving grace was archery. The one thing that kept me going, but now... it wasn't enough. I wanted to be more.. do more, see more. Ashura was still traveling the world, whislt I sat caged within Konoha's walls. Imprisoned by my own weakness.
[/ul]Ever since I got word from Ashura of our leneage, the question of "why" haunted me.It was the thought in the back of my mind while I trained, the nightmares of my dreams, the manifestations of my anxieties. I was ruled by this fear of becoming less than what I should be. i had powerful, influential figures for parents, yet I had not the special abilities to change the world. To gain authority. My name was a lie.... "Unemei" I repeated softly in a tone that lacked any trace of emotion. For so long it defined me, it was the one thing I understood, yet why when the truth was revealed did I feel these things? I've been uneasy, and the trembling in my right arm won't stop.

Drawing an single arrow, I nocked it slowly, applying as much pressure as humanly possible. My bow croaked from the pressure, the string, at its very limits. I was a fool. I wanted to follow Ashura... I wanted to be nothing, simply because he was blessed with all the talents- a genius i wanted to be nothing. I accepted such a destiny, but what I honestly and earnestly desired was something much more grand. I wanted to be ahead of Ashura and I wanted him to look back at me as I offered my hand to him. I was gonna become stronger, it was my fate. I'd come this far off the subtle ambition i'd ignored already. there was no sense in stopping.

No. Not now! I'd pull harder with this thought in mind, my fingers turned red, and blood dripped from my hands onto the string, turning it red. My ambition, my desire, my regret, my feelings, my respect, my love, my fear, my yearning.... I'd filled this single arrow with all of it and it hollered at me, begging to be loosed upon the blue sky. This was my way of making myself a promise. To never be jealous of what I wasn't born with... to never loath. Fate could be changed and I was destined to alter mines. I let go of my finger, allowing the arrow to spiral upwards, its ascension showed no sign of stopping, it pierced the the blank sky; the sun set and nights curtain fell upon the world.

"Unmei Uchiha.... sister to Ashura Uchiha and Ota Hozuki. Daughter of Masumi and Kouketsu."

I was going to do great things, and no longer hold myself back. I wasn't going to always look at Ashura's back. Thats what I thought

when

I

shot

the sky down.

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