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Haphazard [Part 13]

'I don't even know what to think of this anymore... *Sigh* I knew there was something wrong with whatever they were teaching but like... Dear lord... Then again I can't really blame them. It did achieve some sort of peace. Not only that, it takes time to achieve the peace that they were hoping for. Especially in their times, someone even having the idea of peace must have been shocking.'

Veronica sighed yet again and thought back to how she had come to very bad conclusions after overthinking for a whole night.

The first hokage, he was probably a war criminal. Not only that, he hunted down the innocent tailed beasts and sealed them inside people and claimed that these beasts were natural disasters of some sort. He took away their freedom and made many jinchuuriki have such a bad life. Or maybe, she guessed, it were some other people who did that.

The second hokage, he was a fine leader but he had sown the seeds for the Uchiha's hatred although that wasn't his purpose. He failed to notice that not only Danzo but also Hiruzen had a dark side to them and that Hiruzen wouldn't be able to handle all of this mess by himself. He might have been the best hokage of the first three. He also couldn't prevent war from happening even though the whole purpose of the village was to stop war.

The third hokage, he's just... Well, Veronica understand why can't do a lot of things but he let himself get caught up in the council mess and forgot that he was the hokage. He could do anything he wanted. He not only didn't help the Uzumakis but also had gone through with the Uchiha massacre plan. He could've easily handled the situation by giving them more credit and raising the publics opinion about them when the rumors had just started. As a leader he should've been able to see that coming at least. Or maybe at least come to a better solution then having Itachi go rogue. He couldn't even handle Naruto, he gave him up in the orphanage and didn't check that he was being left out and bullied. He couldn't handle Orochimaru and let Danzo continue his ways. The three legendary sanin, well, they weren't really all that legendary.

Jiraiya neglected naruto and his duties as his god parent and never got serious about teaching him. He wasted all of Naruto's potential by just teaching him the rasengan and nothing else. Tsunade was never a good hokage and never will be because of her mental state. She was a coward but she also never bothered clean up some of the mess left behind by Hiruzen or take steps to improve the quality of the village. She just left things as they were and well, drinking while working has never been a good thing. Although they both were very good shinobi but in other matters... They were still idiots.

Although Veronica hadn't expected them to be perfect, she at least wanted them to be mature enough to not let other people suffer because of them and maybe, at least try to not hurt others. She did still respect them since she was able to have some-what peaceful days now thanks to them and if she was in their situation then she might have just been worse and ruled over all of the others like a dictator instead.

I'm not even going to get mad anymore, I just have to learn to expect the lowest from people, even the ones I thought the highest of.

Sighing, she decided to meditate (taking deep breaths and calming all her senses not Chakra building and sitting in a lotus position) and tuned out the rest of what the teacher had been teaching her. She usually never missed class and payed attention but she already knew everything and didn't feel like listening to her teacher go on and on about how great of a village Konoha was and how some animals bred.

Soon enough classes were over. Deciding to go straight back home, she informed her friends and just said she was tired when they asked why. She could see Shikamaru clearly not buying her excuse but didn't bother to say anything. He would ask her if was really that curious and Veronica wasn't in the mood to humor his thoughts.