I just spent like, two hours looking through old community posts.
I was THIS close to responding to things in character.

Part 1: The Basics
1. What is your full name?
Shido Shinme
2. Where and when were you born?
In my mother's bedroom of the Shido Estate, just outside Konoha, some time ago.
3. Who are/were your parents?
My father was Shido Kan, a farmer, and my mother was Shido Sakura, also a farmer. they lived good lives.
4. Do you have any siblings? What are/were ( Read more... )

At Naoru's request, I have arranged for her to undertake the genin test at the academy at her earliest convenience. These days have been full of many things, and I have been busy, but nothing is so important as family. I must devote greater time to them. Naoru grows with every passing day, and I could not be more proud of her.

1: I would have been blind a thousand years had you not condemned me to a life of open eyes.  In payment of this debt, I have accepted to carry the burden of the consequences of your boon. So long as it is within my power, your life will be blessed ( Read more... )

Through events of which you are all no doubt in part aware, I am greatly weakened. Naoru will survive, or perhaps better to say her chances of continued survival are roughly equivalent to the rest of ours ( Read more... )

Naoru is gone. Her departure into the arms of some urchin has torn a piece out of me that I cannot be without. I had thought my strength sufficient to whether such storms, but this is the danger of love: rejection. I still love you, very much. I will return as soon as I can.
             -Your love,
                           Shido Shinme

**the Shido ( Read more... )

There are things that should never be done without due consideration. It has become clear, however, that I love Uchiha Rena, and that will never change. She has consented to become my wife. I could not be happier.

My return to Oshin proved more shocking then the original. It saddens me greatly that Keito Nakaakan's laboritories, and dojo have been utterly destroyed. I could have learned much of him and perhaps of his continued work by studying there. The rest of the Keito Clan that is not slain by the same stroke, including Nakamura-dono, will bear a bitter ( Read more... )

It is good to have family. It was a pleasant use of an afternoon, and something long absent from my experience. Not since I was very, very young have I felt so satisfied.

I am loosing my edge. I can feel it. The cold precision of my thought is muddied, my dedication given in too many directions. Clarity fades. It is not unpleasant, but the ( Read more... )

As it effects my skill level directly and therefor is of great import for any whose duty it is to select the members of a team, or for any who might be placed in charge of such a team, I believe it important to announce that my connection with the chakra of plant-life is restricted in the wake of my near death. While I can still perform the Mokoton ( Read more... )