Kabuki is boring. Life is good. The evening was not wasted.

An observation bears statement for the record: "Happiness" and "satisfaction" are as transitory as pain and sorrow. The difference is that the memory of the latter, when properly approached, grants us courage, and the memory of the former gives us hope. Despite my well earned confidence, and my many accomplishments, my hope was all but gone. ( Read more... )

Emotional turmoil is something I have never known well how to cope with. I am alive, yet the price, as always, is higher then the gain. All that remains to me is my purpose: rebuild the Shido, protect Konoha. Of this and this only am I certain. I have given everything of myself to it. Is it too much to hope I might keep something for myself? But no ( Read more... )

Beep. beep. beep. beep. beep. beep. beep. etc. etc. etc.

I have just come from my psychological profiling session with Reiko-san. I am not impressed. Uchiha Rena, I would speak with you, when you are not otherwise occupied.

Anbu aptitude reviews required a test of blades between Uchiah Rena and myself. It was an interesting opportunity, and one I should have sought a long time past.

A moment of odd uncertainty there. Why would she ask about video games? Surely she knew I must refuse. No-one I have ever met has so constantly confounded my comprehension.

I have decided that today I will begin a two week training "camp" for Naoru, which will include extensive instruction in the standard shinobi tools, as well as intensive focus on ninjutsu technique and theory, but the main focus will be as always the blade, and it's use. These past years I have found myself devoted more and more to the art of the ( Read more... )

The evil of alcohol is matched only by the extremity of my stupidity.

It has long been a repeated argument of the Shido that some must die so that others may live. For generations my ancestors cowered behind the shield of that aphorism, believing themselves, as farmers and pacifists devoted to the work of sustaining life, to be the obvious benefactors of it. We claimed ourselves the sole counter balance to the bloody ( Read more... )

Yesterday was an unusual day. After training I allowed myself to be lured to the Karaoke bar, and eventually found myself in a drinking contest with Squirrel-san. Sadly, I won. Someday this will not be the case ( Read more... )