Our last enemies were so powerful that even with my power, Madara's, and Yukari's, we were almost obliterated. What more can we do, besides preventing our enemies from trying another strike against us?
Dumbass, all you're gonna do - assumin' they're still out there - is remind 'em that we're here. An' maybe piss 'em off a bit. It took all of us to drive them back last time, remember? You want to go scoutin' around, that's one thing, but if you go get your stupid self killed an' piss those guys off enough that they come back? I'll kick your ass into pudding.
Acknowledging that there are still enemies out there which it took so much effort to drive back is precisely why I am entreating the rest of you to aid me with this endeavor.
If I do nothing, and they return while we are feasting, sleeping, or unawares? Who will survive, then?
[Private to Sasori]ground_breakerAugust 25 2009, 04:30:25 UTC
I don't need to be protected.
[Apparently, he needs to be reminded of that.]
Don't talk down to me. I hate it when you talk down to me. What do you think I did when I was apprenticed to the Godaime Hokage, Sasori? Do you think I didn't learn anything but medical ninjutsu and how to make my punches hurt? You think I never realized why those ANBU I treated all the time got so badly injured?
You really think I'm that stupid.
[Sakura's anger tends to be violent and burning, like fire, flaring out and destroying indiscriminately, but Sasori has somehow provoked her beyond that. She is past yelling, and past punching things, and is deadly, seriously calm.]
In what way do you think I've been complacent? How, exactly, am I not ready to fight again, at a second's notice, if need be? You're not the only one who's a shinobi. But I won't ever consider myself to be an inanimate, thoughtless thing to be used by anyone who happens to pick me up. I'm a woman, just as you are a man. I didn't fall in love with a tool.[She spits the last word like
( ... )
What concerns me is peace. Happiness. The lives of my friends- and you too. Protecting them and my home. What concerns me is the idea of you going to find a damn fight because you think our existence right now is fucking inconsequential!
[Is Naruto angry? Oh yes, Naruto is angry. Naruto is pretty furious and it’s probably audible.]
Konoha stands for peace. Always has. Peace is real so long as people want it. You don’t get to piss on that and call it an illusion when people have bled for it.
You don’t.
We don’t go looking for wars, Nagato. If we have to, we protect ourselves- It’s not our damn right to choose who lives and who dies! No power in the world gives us that right. When someone brings a war to our front gates, that still doesn’t give us the right to decide who lives and who dies.
Have you forgotten everything Jiraiya taught us!? Have you forgotten what he lived for- died for?
You think Yahiko died so you’d have to fight until you died too?
Do you?Do you actually think that? Do you think he died so you could go
( ... )
Some would say I should have already died, rather than live in this disgraceful condition, but I have lived on, and fought on, to spite that opinion that my disability makes me weak . . . and worthless.
But I loathe and fear worthlessness.
I do not intend to lie in bed and suffer mindlessly for the rest of my life.
I have never taken that route, though I suppose it is what some believe I would do best to seek.
If you deny me my ability to be a ninja, then I might as well be giving up.
I . . . might as well be merely weak, and a physical horror. And nothing more.
[A stretch of silence. Naruto is trying not to get angrier. He’s not quite succeeding.]
Do you know what I’d give to see you smile?
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What the hell kind of life do you want for yourself? A life of war? A life of fighting? There’s more to life than that and if you just looked instead of being so damn sure that unless you fight you’re worthless--
That’s bullshit.
You’re not fucking worthless- --do you think I’m worthless?
Gonna ask you that right now.
If I want to be happy, if I think that what you’re doing is dangerous and stupid and if I want something else, then am I worthless to you?
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If I do nothing, and they return while we are feasting, sleeping, or unawares? Who will survive, then?
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[Her tone comes out sharp. She is angry and afraid for reasons she can't fully define.]
I didn't fight so damn hard just to plunge right into another war, and certainly not a pre-emptive one.
And you are not a tool.
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[Apparently, he needs to be reminded of that.]
Don't talk down to me. I hate it when you talk down to me. What do you think I did when I was apprenticed to the Godaime Hokage, Sasori? Do you think I didn't learn anything but medical ninjutsu and how to make my punches hurt? You think I never realized why those ANBU I treated all the time got so badly injured?
You really think I'm that stupid.
[Sakura's anger tends to be violent and burning, like fire, flaring out and destroying indiscriminately, but Sasori has somehow provoked her beyond that. She is past yelling, and past punching things, and is deadly, seriously calm.]
In what way do you think I've been complacent? How, exactly, am I not ready to fight again, at a second's notice, if need be? You're not the only one who's a shinobi. But I won't ever consider myself to be an inanimate, thoughtless thing to be used by anyone who happens to pick me up. I'm a woman, just as you are a man. I didn't fall in love with a tool.[She spits the last word like ( ... )
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What concerns me is peace. Happiness. The lives of my friends- and you too. Protecting them and my home. What concerns me is the idea of you going to find a damn fight because you think our existence right now is fucking inconsequential!
[Is Naruto angry? Oh yes, Naruto is angry. Naruto is pretty furious and it’s probably audible.]
Konoha stands for peace. Always has. Peace is real so long as people want it. You don’t get to piss on that and call it an illusion when people have bled for it.
You don’t.
We don’t go looking for wars, Nagato. If we have to, we protect ourselves- It’s not our damn right to choose who lives and who dies! No power in the world gives us that right. When someone brings a war to our front gates, that still doesn’t give us the right to decide who lives and who dies.
Have you forgotten everything Jiraiya taught us!? Have you forgotten what he lived for- died for?
You think Yahiko died so you’d have to fight until you died too?
Do you?Do you actually think that? Do you think he died so you could go ( ... )
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You would have me sacrifice my desires to placate the desires of everyone else.
And I would, I suppose, spend the rest of my days -- doing what, exactly?
Doing nothing?
That is not the life I want for myself.
That is no life at all, for me.
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Some would say I should have already died, rather than live in this disgraceful condition, but I have lived on, and fought on, to spite that opinion that my disability makes me weak . . . and worthless.
But I loathe and fear worthlessness.
I do not intend to lie in bed and suffer mindlessly for the rest of my life.
I have never taken that route, though I suppose it is what some believe I would do best to seek.
If you deny me my ability to be a ninja, then I might as well be giving up.
I . . . might as well be merely weak, and a physical horror. And nothing more.
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Do you know what I’d give to see you smile?
…
What the hell kind of life do you want for yourself? A life of war? A life of fighting? There’s more to life than that and if you just looked instead of being so damn sure that unless you fight you’re worthless--
That’s bullshit.
You’re not fucking worthless- --do you think I’m worthless?
Gonna ask you that right now.
If I want to be happy, if I think that what you’re doing is dangerous and stupid and if I want something else, then am I worthless to you?
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[Plus he's restless. Give him something to do.]
Doesn't seem right we don't even know where they are right now. I'm up for tracking them down, un.
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