A Harsh Truth; Growth and Reality

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When Izuna finally woke up, the first thing he came to notice was that he was staring at a white ceiling which was different from the soft yellow color the walls of his own room possessed. Had he fainted midway to home and some stranger had taken pity on him and carried him to the hospital?

He'd always thought he was being overworked at the academy, just because he was an Uchiha did not mean he possessed supernatural means to achieve a task with twice the speed fo anyone else, but for it to result in him fainting was different altogether.

He'd use this opportunity to blackmail his father into helping him practice taijutsu for a good few weeks at the very least, his father was always weak when it came to him.

Ah. He had forgotten. How silly of him!

The masked man, the eerie and silent Konoha in that one fated day. The gaping hole in his lower body which dripped blood and spilled out organs which weren't meant to come out.

He should've been dead. The laws of nature and man both cited that unless you were Tsunade Senju, you weren't meant to survive such wounds.

A lesser man would've sworn revenge, and he wouldn't have blamed them. But when he had looked into the cold lone eye which clearly belonged to an Uchiha - not because of the eye, but because of the aura he emanated, he knew that if he wanted to seek him out to murder, it would only be him seeking his death.

He had been so close to the cold embrace of death, yet somehow had evaded it. He'd be a mad man to publicly chase a man who had somehow avoided the many sensors who patrolled the village periodically just to avoid people him entering the village.

And Izuna wasn't mad enough to go back into the viper's jaws; for it might just come for him before he did it himself.

Izuna laughed, then stopped. Then laughed some more, no nurse or doctor came to check on him, but he did not mind it. He was only accompanied by the beep of medical machinery which kept him alive - and there was no hole in his body anymore.

Then he cried, for a long time.

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He was forced to check with reality when a man who he both respected and hated appeared in front of him; Hiruzen Sarutobi was not old enough to be considered a grandpa, but he still was older than most shinobi ever hoped to reach. 

Izuna's nostrils flared at the man who had a hand in the tragedy that had befallen his clan. He wasn't sure of it, but there was no way such a massive project had just... been done with the symbol of power in the village being clueless about it.

A man who did not deserve the mantle of the hokage. Yet, a man who had enough power to settle down any talks of treason.

Izuna did not like Hiruzen Sarutobi or his soothing talk, he could go to hell.

He felt lonely.



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