White Dragon of the Leaf~

(14) return.

coming home

 is one of the 

most beautiful things

 -andre reiu 

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months continued to pass then soon it was once again december 'so its been two years.....' i said to father who signed 'that it has been fledgling' he replied and i sighed. i looked at the letter in my hand with mixed feelings.i had just come back from fighting in a small platoon with the five, or without me, the four. i was named third in command of the main forces once i got back then a month later this shit happens.  

 the fourth hokage has been named and us shinobi who have been in the war for a long time have been ordered to come home for the inauguration and to show our support along with vowing our allegiance to the new hokage. minato namikaze. and because of that of course i was called back home. 'home....i wonder if its changed.i mean, i know i've changed. sora died in this war and drakaida was fully born. however what am i really going back to?'

i put down the letter and looked at my scrolls in which i've been living in for the past two years, on the dot. 'two years, so much can change in two years. i'm just happy i don't share a birthday with the twins'. not only have i changed on the inside but as well as on the outside, i've grown a small figure, my chest has been growing rapidly since i turned ten, my nails are slightly longer and i have to continuously file them down to a decent length. 'i miss ketsueki', anyways. my snow white hair is now down to my butt while my snake like golden eyes are much brighter. i've grown a few inches and now stand at five two. 

i grabbed my scrolls and put them in my shuriken pouch then turned around and exited the third in commands tent in which my replacement will be now staying, i walked out and down the small bloodied streets of the main camp for some time until i saw the large group of mostly traumatized shinobi and older shinobi who've been in the war since i have or before hand. 

most of these shinobi have been in the war since it started. i walked past the shinobi who bowed as i passed and walked to stand next to shikaku's other side as hiashi hyuga stood on his right while i was on shikaku's left. shikaku looked at me and i nodded then he turned to the large group of shinobi and addressed them with the boring 'well be going home, blah blah blah' all that shit.

we turned around and i went to the front of the line on the same side of shikaku and we took off for the hidden leaf village, well be home soon...............

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home, its odd coming home once you've been away for so long. home becomes this place you dream of coming back to, the place you have to defend so one day you can go back, the place you love with all your heart and wish to be but can't.

but when your able to come home. 

nothing else matters. like the moment when our squad approached the borders of the hidden leaf. i was running next to shikaku and hiashi, because of the war i was able to always have my sensor skill on so i was easily able to sense the large crowd of people and shinobi waiting for us at the gates of the village. 

as we neared we saw the crowd and i saw kushina waiting there, i smiled to myself quickly then went stone faced once again. we ran quickly and soon we approached the gates, the three commanders (me being the third) stopped in front of the crowd then turned around to our both excited and terrified shinobi.