‘ s’ easy fer you to say Kakashi-Sensei. it’s like you know what the most inconvenient thing to say is so ya say it anyways. ‘ fists clump dirt damp with sweat as he huffed and huffed. frustration settled in as the relentless onslaught of demands and expectations found their way to his objectives. if he were to be Hokage, wouldn’t he have to stomach much much worse than this? the thought meddled in his mind for quite a while as he stared down at the ground below, knees now caked in earth. ‘ i know i have ta keep movin’ , but sometimes it’s just tough y’know? like i know i’m walkin’ and i know i’m headed somewhere but the destination sorta looks like it’s gettin’ further and further as i go along. it’s fuckin’ annoying!’ a growl leaves him as he looks ahead, seeing not the path but the outline of his future. it was all so mangled. even making it this far was a miracle, when he looked back he saw nothing but that scared lonely child trying to look ahead, and before him would be a hazy representation of what would be his future self, taking pity on his accursed self. ‘ how the hell am i supposed t’ do that when the road isn’t even complete? ‘