Life isn’t always like the stories proclaim it to be. Life is a harsh, cruel reality from which there is no escape. There are no better times. There is no hoping, or wishing, or wanting. It is simply a task set out for you. Survive one day, begin the next. Don’t think about the future. In a shinobi’s life, there isn’t such a thing. Tomorrow is a vague possibility – if you’re lucky, it might just come.

The days of the shinobi nations have come down to conflict, constant bloodshed and war. Our leader is power hungry; driven by an insatiable hunger for dominance. I’ve lost, completely, the reasoning behind why we follow him; why we continue to die at his will. His will which has infested into a twisted, sick plot threaded together by insanity. Maybe it’s because this is the only life we know; fighting, killing, dying. Follow your Kage’s orders. That’s the shinobi code. Everything else doesn’t matter.

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