The Beauty of Imperfection

Prologue

I walk slowly and evenly along the beaten dirt path that I knew so well. This was it. Two years. Two years later and I was returning. Home? 

I squint my eyes slightly. Home. I don't think I have a home. I have a house. But I don't think I have a home.

I'll be seeing my... family? Do I have a family?

My mind goes to two young boys and another man who--despite his age-- just didn't have the innocence to be called a boy. My frown deepens. 

I did have a family. We just weren't related by blood.

And one of them was dead.

I think of my mother. Of my father. Would I return to their house? Strangely enough, I felt no need to. Father no longer scared me-- not so much because I was no longer a coward, but because I had nothing he could take away from me, he had nothing he could do to me.

No, I decided. I wouldn't be returning to their house.

I had received a few letters from my sister. Somehow, despite my near constant travelling, they had found me. Hideaki had rented an apartment for herself soon after her eighteenth birthday; about a month after I left Konoha. Though I received and read letters from both Hideaki and Shun, I didn't reply.

I needed to grow stronger. And I didn't need distractions for that.

Strangely enough, I had also received a letter from Kiba of all people. It was rather rude, mocking how I was still a genin while he had been promoted to chunin. I read it over several times. That could have been me. That could have been me and Shun and Daisuke. After rereading the letter for the umpteenth time I had stood, crumpling it, and went back outside to train despite the fact it was already dark.

Because I needed to grow stronger.

That's all that mattered now.

It was time to go back.

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