Naruto: Snow Cold

I had been in that darkness for God knows how long.

I floated in a void, a space of nothing that seemed to go on forever. There was no ground under me, no sky above—just thick, dark emptiness. I tried to reach out for something, anything! But my arms felt light, as if they didn't exist.

I started to panic, unable to use any of my senses, and my thoughts raced, desperate for answers.

"Where the hell even am I? Am I still alive, or am I dead?"

I received no answer—just silence. I was unable to hear even my own heartbeat or breath. It felt like nothing was real anymore. I wanted nothing more than to scream for help, but it was in vain because my voice was lost in the deep, dark void.

"How long have I been here? Am I going to be completely alone like this forever?" I wondered, tired of the loneliness I felt in this cold, stupid void. I had no sense of time. The emptiness pressed down on me, a weight I couldn't handle.

Memories of my family and school life kept flashing through my mind, which was being torn to shreds by the... second? Minute? Hour? Day? I don't know.

As time passed, I began to forget due to the stillness in this heavy void. My memories slipped away like sand. Each moment without any sensation felt like forever, and soon the memories twisted into echoes that mocked me.

I began to hear voices, whispers that kept teasing me, but they were just tricks of my fading mind in an attempt to keep me sane.

But sure enough, I didn't forget about the important things that gave me purpose in my previous life, like music, cooking, my parents, or my school. Not that I'm ever gonna use whatever I learned in school, pfft.

I mentally chuckled at my own joke, slowly realizing that my sanity was fading away.

And so, I began to sing in my head the songs that I so dearly loved in an attempt to preserve my sanity while I floated around in this pure darkness that kept swallowing everything whole.

I sang for quite a while. I was never a great singer, though; I had a pretty bad voice for that, ha.

Desperation and dread hit me soon after I grew tired of singing, and I thought to myself...

Is this all there is after death? Just darkness? Nothingness?

I screamed silently into the void, but the darkness absorbed my cries. I was losing myself, sinking into madness bit by bit with no escape, no light to bring me back to reality.

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"Ahh, poor thing... She could've become someone great. Why did you have to end her life, Truck-kun?"

"Sorry, couldn't help it. I just had to do it since she was distracted, y'know?"

"Did you even consider her life? She would've become a great cook! She had such a bright future, and yet you took it away from her."

"I'm just trying to do my job, alright? You gotta make a living somehow, and I gotta set up the plot for this story."

"Story...? Whatever, you're always spewing out such weird shit. I gotta make it up to her somehow."

"You could send her off to another world."

"Hmmm, actually yeah, let's do that. How about..."

"...?"

"The world of Naruto. I think she'd love to be there, considering her memories."

"Sounds good."

"Alright, here we go!"

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