waking up on the day of her inauguration was a very weird, very disorientating feeling. it felt like she woken up to a new world, as if she’d been taken out of her natural habitat & plunged into a very strange, very foreign new place & told to survive, just survive, without any help, any instruction how to possibly go about anything. she felt very, very small for someone who was supposed to be the biggest, baddest, debatably most important person in her village. it was terrifying, but very humbling, & as she went through her morning, through the ceremony & through the much too confusing & overwhelming lectures she’d been given on her duties as the newly appointed mizukage, it stayed with her.
when she was finally left alone to climb the stairs to her office in peace, to gather her thoughts before she was to complete weeks worth of piled-up paperwork, they said, she’d come to accept that this mildly terrifying, humbling feeling was something that wasn’t simply going to just go away. not now, not while she felt she was new as a newborn & just as naive, as helpless, but there was a small, hopeful part of her that said maybe, possibly, when she’s fully realized her dreams for this village & she’s grown comfortable in her position, maybe it’d finally go away. & that was enough, & it gave her strength to climb the last step. walk down the wide, concrete hallway, & open the doors to her new office with more force than what was truly necessary.
she thought she’d be alone. she was prepared to be alone, but seeing the man seated by her desk, she realized that’d been a fools dream. her shoulders dropped with exhaustion, & she sighed, but soon her back was steel & rim rod straight, a small, but inviting smile curling painted lips skyward. she wasn’t alone, but at least, she thought, she was among friends.
“ --- ah, pardon my manners, i wasn’t aware some one was already here. i’m terumi mei. you are? ”
vaporwave
kianamaiart
andulkaphoto
izzy806
ellievsbear
pixelskylines
areudirty
