Lights Down Low

Asami Himura is a Menace in the Making & Does not Care About CANON

Full Title: Asami Himura is a Menace in the Making & Does not Care About CANON

TW: mentioned/implied child neglect, starvation, and unfair treatment. Mention of parental loss, severe burns, and trauma

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"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are,

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.

When the blazing sun is set,

And the grass with dew is wet,

Then you show your little light,

Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.

Then the traveler in the dark

Thanks you for your tiny spark,

He could not see where to go

If you did not twinkle so.

In the dark blue sky you keep,

And often through my curtains peep,

For you never shut your eye

Till the sun is in the sky.

As your bright and tiny spark

Lights the traveler in the dark,

Though I know not what you are,

Twinkle, twinkle, little star."

Jane Taylor

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The new restaurant was called JiHikarro, named after their parents. Ji-ro for Jiro, after their father. For their mother, Hikaru inspired Hikar.

It was one of the only ways they could truly honor their deceased parents.

Asami promised herself, though, that she would bring honor to them by becoming a Shinobi who is always willing to help, even in the face of danger.

Because if someone had been willing to help, her parents would still be alive.

Nobody should ever have to go through what happened to her.

Nobody should have to be carried through the flames and smoke by a panicked older brother, burns covering her back and shoulders in forever scars. Nobody should have to hear their parents screaming, trapped in a spot that only a shinobi could reach.

And nobody should have to watch the building collapse before the people capable of stopping it could arrive.

Nobody.

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Itachi and her older brother had become fast friends.

Every Friday, the Uchiha Heir entered their restaurant, sitting at a table in the corner, and waited.