Another day in the academy. Watanabe Ai had spent most of the day in class, but today she couldn’t help but gaze out the window with a blank expression. There was just something melancholy about everything. She couldn’t quite pin down the source of that feeling. Classes came and went and finally she was dismissed by the bell. She went back to the track for some extra practice but her heart just really wasn’t in it today. Finally she found a shady spot that had a bench and set down outside of the school. The shadow of the waning sun cast upon her from the walls of the school. Ah.. Thats when she remembered. Today was her birthday.
She briefly remembered all the spent birthdays of years past and couldn’t help but remember the wonderful parties. The activities like apple dunking and gold fish scooping. She smiled briefly as she recalled her father… Ah… thats it. They were all dead now. In her mind’s eye she watched the people of her hometown vanish one by one until it was just her brother. Such a dutiful man. He was working his hardest and didn’t have time for her birthday. She hadn’t really made a lot of friends in Cloud either, so she was really beginning to doubt if she would be able to pass the loyalty test for the genin exam.
Did that mean that all of this time she had just been training to be a killer for no reason? What’s more...she had been training to be a killer this whole time! To take lives… just like those bandits had - but not for gain. Yes. That was the difference. She had trained hands and this wasn’t for gain, it was simply so that she could protect the things she loved. She thought back to her chance encounter with Tatsuo and couldn’t help but think about possibly becoming a medic instead. His brief bout with her had piqued her interest as he demonstrated what jutsu could do on joints of a big girl like her.
She hadn’t been expecting presents or anything of the sort. Its just that she didn’t think she would feel this lonely not having someoen to spend the day with. She leaned back on the bench and looked over the field of the school. She missed her family and her friends back in the south, but that place didn’t exist anymore. She cupped her hands and placed them over her face as she tried to focus instead on what she wanted for the future.
To defend the weak? She didn’t have a reason like that to go on… it was more like, revenge on those bandits. Hmm… Maybe that was too much of a dream to accomplish.
She briefly remembered all the spent birthdays of years past and couldn’t help but remember the wonderful parties. The activities like apple dunking and gold fish scooping. She smiled briefly as she recalled her father… Ah… thats it. They were all dead now. In her mind’s eye she watched the people of her hometown vanish one by one until it was just her brother. Such a dutiful man. He was working his hardest and didn’t have time for her birthday. She hadn’t really made a lot of friends in Cloud either, so she was really beginning to doubt if she would be able to pass the loyalty test for the genin exam.
Did that mean that all of this time she had just been training to be a killer for no reason? What’s more...she had been training to be a killer this whole time! To take lives… just like those bandits had - but not for gain. Yes. That was the difference. She had trained hands and this wasn’t for gain, it was simply so that she could protect the things she loved. She thought back to her chance encounter with Tatsuo and couldn’t help but think about possibly becoming a medic instead. His brief bout with her had piqued her interest as he demonstrated what jutsu could do on joints of a big girl like her.
She hadn’t been expecting presents or anything of the sort. Its just that she didn’t think she would feel this lonely not having someoen to spend the day with. She leaned back on the bench and looked over the field of the school. She missed her family and her friends back in the south, but that place didn’t exist anymore. She cupped her hands and placed them over her face as she tried to focus instead on what she wanted for the future.
To defend the weak? She didn’t have a reason like that to go on… it was more like, revenge on those bandits. Hmm… Maybe that was too much of a dream to accomplish.