'How could I have been so blind?' That was the question that demanded attention in Asari Kazue's mind. As time passed and her surroundings continued to shift, that one thing never changed. She never saw the person that she walked outside of Konoha's protective walls to meet again- it was as if he'd become someone else...
"You'd be better off staying away." "I said I never would." In the aftermath of a fight that left their mentor dead, a teammate blind, and their emotions scattered, Hisoka, Hikari, and Miki attempt to pick up the pieces of the lives they knew. One of them wishing to find a way to be the person they were, one attemptin...
Years before Team 7 was formed, Hatake Kakashi was a member of ANBU. During this time he found it hard to find pleasure in anything, the faces of his dead friends haunting his every moment. It was this that caused him to begin to draw a line between himself and those surrounding him. Sometimes, however, lines drawn ar...