senjuhashirama:
"You're just deceiving yourself."
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Shizune balled her hands into tight fits. The words of her master's own grandfather, not only stung but deeply penatrated to her heart. The one thing she was trying so hard to avoid. Years and years of running and hiding from it; the truth...
She wanted to believe, to have hope!
Maybe one day she'll be worthy of the legendary Sannin!
Someday she will be able to be strong!
She tried so so hard! Was it really all for nothing?
"So...What?" She seethed.
"SO WHAT HUH?! SO WHAT IF IT'S ALL FOR NOTHING?!" Her eyes started to burn a bit as she was holding back tears. "THIS IS MY LIFE! MY DECISION TO MAKE! IF I WANT TO LIE TO MYSELF THEN I'M GOING DO THAT!" She shouted at the first hokage. "AND YOU-! YOU JUST-! BUTT OUT!"
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senjuhashirama:
He took a step back, careful. Not because he was afraid, but because he respected her pain.
"Shizune, that bonsai is gone. It's been gone for at least ten years. You've been watering something that can't return. But that doesn't mean your effort was meaningless. Just because it can't grow doesn't mean you can't grow. And it doesn't mean you can't become everything you want to be."
He looked at the bonsai. Shizune was keeping alive the pot rather than the piece of wood.
