[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

Righteous Fury

The wilds beyond Kuwana were quiet. Almost peaceful in comparison to the thrumming humming city so noisy and crowded that it reminded Azarea of a chaotic hive of angry insects. Amidst the crush of the crowds while she did not feel 'safe,' there was an anonymity to allowing ones self to be washed away by the masses. Blending in with the thousands of faces and thousands of lives that made up the competition and it's festivities. It allowed her to go numb. To almost forget that she'd sent the love of her life to an almost certain death. That even now Shigure possibly laid dying and she couldn't even go to him without guaranteeing the loss of both their lives. To almost forget that her teammate remained exiled and afraid to return home because of her own bastard of a Father. His tongue branded like cattle. To almost forget the slowly growing realization pieced together between Tsuki and Shigure's stories and her own childhood memories that there was no possible way her biological Father had been ignorant of her existence. She and her Mother had simply been an inconvenience to him.

She could almost forget... but her heart could not. Anger and pain simmered in her bones deep seated and steady as a rising tide. So when her Kagura's Minds Eye detected a familiar chakra signature and her hive gave a familiar shudder, her Kikaichu reacting in fear and revulsion in a way they only did for one man she didn't fight the pull. Allowing her chakra senses and insects to guide her down the well trod roads, through the cities main gate, and out into the wilderness. Amidst the pale light of the waning moon Toshizou would look up to find his own scarlet eyes glaring back at him from the darkness where Azarea crouched perched upon a branch. Her expression filled with righteous fury.

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[Hatake Toshizō]

"the root of all evil". "A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic, dead or alive." ANGER One more Chuunin Exam, and this time, every single one of his known daughters was participating. As a representative of the Hidden Leaf's Council, he was there to make sure his people wouldn't be harmed, to the best of his capabilities. Last exam almost caused a diplomatic incident of catastrophic proportions, and he was not willing to allow history to repeat itself. Still, life had been rough for him as of late. Not only he had tried - and failed - to reconnect with his eldest daughter, but one of his closest friends had died at the hands of a traitor, and a man he hated more the most in the world. Sitting on top of a rock, just on the outskirts of Kuwana, he held on his hand a pouch with dirt and a seedling. His scarlet eyes were staring deeply at the young plant, the meaning of his friend's name, and he felt his heart sinking. That pain was almost unbearable, but he was not showing it. If anything, his feature showed anger, a feeling that was also taking over his heart. His thoughts betrayed him with scenarios that could never happen, for she had already died. What if I was there? What if I had acted before it got to that point? What if...? What if...? all pointless questions, as they were ultimately unable to change reality. Still, even though his Mind's Eye was close, he could still perceive every single chakra signature in an area of four-hundred metres around him, so he noticed when that familiar presence approached, prompting the man to get up from the rock he was sitting on and turn to face her, his eldest daughter. "You are angry. I understand. Still... What's the point? It's not like your anger can accomplish anything. It won't change anything either." he said, his eyes not as cold as usual. No, they were sad, hurt even, but he kept some dignity, standing tall as he looked at the girl. His words, even though she would assume were directed at her, were but a reflection of the things he wanted to say to himself. The frustration and powerlessness he felt at the terrible, and unbending whims of fate. "You can train a dog with food. You can buy a person with money. But there isn't a man alive that can put down the Will of Fire. Some things will never change. The Will of Fire will never be extinguished" Pre-Chuunin Exams Outside of Kuwana [Aburame Azarea] [375 words]

[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

Bleed

Toshizou's words took root twisting in the worst possible ways in Azarea's heart as the woman's lips slowly peeled back baring her fangs in a silent snarl. Her eyes sharp and wild leaving her looking nothing like the clan she hailed from and every ounce a Hatake, but truthfully since when had she ever appeared to be an Aburame? Her features a mockery to her former clan and a shame to her deceased Mother who had loved the man before her enough to die trying to protect the only piece of him she had left. To try to protect Azarea. Yet as his sentence dug into her mind like raking claws for a moment she wondered if he knew? Wondered how much his spies that dogged her steps had reported. If he knew Shigure lay dying and here she remained trapped. His mockery of her powerlessness was not unexpected... and yet.

"Is that why you marked Tsukimono? To change things?" Azarea challenged her words sharp, clipped, and flung with the same surety as she might flick a kunai. "I would have thought you of all people would understand how sickening and helpless it feels to have to watch your teammate branded like cattle." She spat for even a worm would turn when pressed and she would make this man bleed for his sins. Even if it meant dragging them both down to hell.

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[Hatake Toshizō]

"the root of all evil". "A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic, dead or alive." PAIN Toshizou sighed deeply, shaking his head when she mentioned the name of Tsukimono. "You don't even know what you are talking about. What ever happened between us is none of your concern." he wouldn't expose the secrets of Root to Azarea; his daughter she might be, but she was no longer a Leaf shinobi, much less a member of his organization, and as such, she had no right to know what sort of relationship they shared. She didn't know that, she couldn't know that, but Toshizou was the reason the Inuzuka was even alive, as precarious as his situation may look to an outsider's perspective. Still, when she mentioned Sanae, the hand in which he held the seedling trembled in anger, and his white, sharp teeth visible as he gritted them. "You shut your fucking mouth!!" he roared, his anger laid bare now, an anger that was so alien to someone as cold as he usually was. "You keep talking about shit you have no idea of! With your stupid comparisons!! Hate me as you may, but don't you dare talk about her!!" and when he finally realized he was losing it, he took a deep breath, clenching his free hand into a fist and closing his eyes for a moment. With a deep breathe and a sharp exhale, his tone calmed down, returning to its more natural coldness. "Your friend's seal gave him freedom... Her seal took away hers. And now, because of that stupid weakling of a boy, she is dead. And nothing will change that..." he said as he turned back from Azarea, looking back at the seedling in his hand. The fact that he was hurting this much was the sole reason he even mentioned anything about Tsukimono's seal, as vague as it may be. It was evidence that she had found the sorest spot in his heart, his one source of pain. "You can train a dog with food. You can buy a person with money. But there isn't a man alive that can put down the Will of Fire. Some things will never change. The Will of Fire will never be extinguished" Pre-Chuunin Exams Outside of Kuwana [Aburame Azarea] [323 words]

[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

Pieces of The Puzzle

For all her determination to see Toshizou hurt, to watch the man come undone his iron grip on his temper unraveling, even temporarily, came as a shock to Azarea. She had thought him more tool than flesh. As cold and hard as the edges of the swords he wielded. The hypocrisy that spilled from his mouth like blood setting Azarea's world ablaze with madness. The hum of her hive roaring in her ears as her insects spilled from her sleeves swarming around her as her own control frayed and the overwhelming urge to hurt the man before her took over her senses.

Suddenly it all made sense.

It made sense why Sanae in Azarea's fuzziest earliest memories had always looked at her and her Mother with pity. Why for as much as her own Mother had loved the Hyuuga woman she'd grown with each day where Eri waited watching an empty road to hate the woman. All while hearing of Toshizou's constant visits to see Sanae from the woman's own lips. Why Urashi had stared at her with ill concealed contempt and revulsion when Shigure and her had been caught playing together too close to the Dojo. Why Tsuki's Mother had asked after Azarea's Father day by day and seemed all the more confused and sad when Azarea had assured her Hiroshi was well.

Suddenly it all made sense why her Mother had waited, fought, and bled for a freedom that never came and then sought to claw it from the Aburame's grip with her own two hands. Why so many had compared Sanae and Eri. Each women trapped by tragedy. Because even to Toshi they had been the same. Yet it was clear now watching how the man bared his fangs the pair of them a mockery of one another's appearance, that the Hatake had only ever loved one of the two women.

"Is that what you tell yourself to sleep at night Toshizou? That by branding him you gave Tsuki his freedom?" Azarea questions her words cold and cruel and her smile all teeth and twisted amusement as laughter mad and hollow spilled from between her lips. "My how you sound exactly like the Hyuuga. The Caged Bird seal is as much to protect their members from capture and theft as it is to control them isn't it?" She teases with a bitter sort of malice sinking her claws into the wounds of his heart and seeking to tear it out piece by blackened little piece. She didn't buy that the seal he had placed on Tsuki lacked any sort of control switch for a single second or else the nuke nin would have been able to speak for himself. His words as locked within his throat as the Branch house was in their gilded cage. A cage Shigure may well have died to break them free from. The insult Toshi hurls his way leaving Azarea's vision going red as the woman leaps down from her perch stalking closer to the man with a face full of madness and fury and a smile as wide as a cheshire cats.

"You loved Sanae didn't you Toshizou?" Azarea croons drawing the woman's name out knowing the sound of it on her tongue would drive Toshizou as mad as herself. Like Father like Daughter after all. "You loved her, but the closest thing you could get was a pale imitation and eventually even that wasn't good enough when you had to watch day after day as the boy who wore her face... The boy who could have been your son became everything you ever wanted in a child and grew up playing with the mistake of your misbegotten passions." She spat out as the story unwound before her. The same brilliant mind she'd inherited from her Father piecing together the broken threads. She no longer doubted for a second Toshizou hadn't seen her as inseparable as she and Shigure had been as small children. She wonders if the sight of them had turned the man's stomach with shame.

"Tell me did you date my Mother just to make Sanae jealous? One would have to be blind not to see the comparison. Two young shining Kunoichi bound in marriages to clan heads old enough to be their own parent and forced into a loveless marriage. I wonder if Sanae saw it too? She must have after all." Azarea taunted her laugh cold and cruel and filled with a a pained sort of glee. An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth. Agony for agony.

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[Hatake Toshizō]

"the root of all evil". "A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic, dead or alive." OFFER He didn't bother responding to her inquire regarding his ability to sleep at night for branding Tsuki. In truth, he had branded many people, for all members of Root were to bear the seal, and Tsukimono was no different - or special - in that regard. "You continue to speak of things you have no idea of. Accept your own ignorance." he retorted, his tone showing signs of annoyance, but in truth, he was doing his best not to give in to his anger, for the girl was pushing his limits, limits those only sustained because of their blood tie; others would have already tasted his blade at this point. He didn't even flinch when she dropped from the branch. Now standing closer to one another, they could see their reflection - and likeness - in each other's scarlet eyes. Then, when she smiled from ear to ear, he arched one of his brows, wondering what had crossed her mind, until her next words made his heart sink. His eyes widened, a sign of shock, for she had unveiled the truth he held in a dark corner of his heart. Yes, he loved her, he had always loved her, ever since he was but a child. This forced him to gaze away for a moment. He had lowered his guard since she died, he had allowed himself to be vulnerable, and Azarea was there, ready to feed in that rare moment of weakness in the man known as a Demon. She got part of it right, but the other half was her own projections, her own frustrations and trauma speaking, creating its theories. He looked back at hew, frowning his brows. "Are you done?" he asked with a scoff. "I did like your mother, in my own way. I didn't love her, however. If anything, my mistake was trying to find in her what could never be found. I didn't get together with Eri to try and cause reactions on anyone. But it didn't matter in the end... My life was for the village, and I had not time to dedicate to anything else." his tone returning to the cold, lifeless tone he usually had. "I did believe you would be better of as the Aburame heir. For I had nothing to offer to you then." he added. "You can train a dog with food. You can buy a person with money. But there isn't a man alive that can put down the Will of Fire. Some things will never change. The Will of Fire will never be extinguished" Pre-Chuunin Exams Outside of Kuwana [Aburame Azarea] [390 words]

[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

Choices

"Nothing to offer?" Azarea spat fury boiling in her veins for the man had time and attention, but it had all been only for the good of Konohagakure. The village ever more important then Azarea herself as the admission of guilt spilled from Toshi's own lips. The thought she would have ever become the Aburame clan head now such a hilarious mockery with such realizations laid bare when she had as an ignorant child walked about the village wearing her Father's face. Only a fool would have failed to guess her parentage and Hiroshi had been no fool. Willing to ignore his wife's prior indiscretion for the sake of his son by blood yes, but not so much as to allow such a mockery to lead the clan soon as he had an actual heir in his hands.

If Toshi had offered her Mother even a fraction of the time he spent and paid on Sanae Eri might have died a far happier woman. His words in regards to Azarea's dead Mother as detached as they were cruel. The man struggling to deflect her words, but the Kumo nin would not relent. "And yet you made time to visit Sanae. To dote on her and spit insults at her son. Even if she might have considered you before I doubt she ever would have come to love you then." She hissed as the distance between them closed with each slow steady step. The woman prowling forward with ill intent written into every fiber of her form.

"You stand here mocking my Mother for loving you when the woman you destroyed countless lives for chose slavery, death, and her son over the likes of being with you time and time again." Azarea mocked well aware that for all the horror of the situation had Sanae and Toshi begged and bribed and clawed the Hyuuga would not had spilled blood over the fate of a single branch clan. There was always more branch clan members after all. What was the loss of one in exchange for the gain of having the Hatake and the most promising shinobi in a decade owe them such a grand favor? What was the loss of one in comparison to being able to hold any potential offspring over Toshizou like a noose? Only a fool would fail to grasp how easily the scale could have been tipped had Sanae ever truly wanted him.

But why would she want a man who stared at her children with ill concealed scorn?

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[Hatake Toshizō]

"the root of all evil". "A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic, dead or alive." YOU OWN VENOM One thing was becoming clear to him as well: the fact that she seemed always so eager to defend the heir of the Hyuuga clan. He couldn't see anything remarkable about the boy, who he perceived as weak minded and unskilled. Still, that same boy had the guts to face Urashi and call him out on his treason, something Toshizou considered many times, but always hesitated to act due to the fear of political instability in the village. And yet, that action cost Sanae's life, and it hurt him deeply. "Why do you care so much for that boy? Actually... Never mind... It's quite obvious. Guess the fruit doesn't fall too far from the tree now, does it?" he scoffed. "You talk about things you don't know... But I know what you are doing, you are trying to hurt me, to get back on me because you feel like I abandoned you." he paused, shaking his head. "And I did. I wasn't there for you, I wasn't there for Eri. And I can't say I regret it, because I don't. I made the choices that made sense to me then, and I never wasted time rethinking it, because no matter what I may have choosen today... There is no changing to the past." he stated. "You say she chose... She never had any choice, but regardless of anything, we would never be together. It was never something she desired. And I made my peace with that. I dedicated my life to the Hidden Leaf, and I would do it all over again." his words carrying the resolution of the man who abdicated from pretty much everything. "But I will warn you one last time... Don't speak of her. For you don't know her. Or do you want me to instead talk about the stupid boy, who clearly didn't know the limits of his own power, and got his own mother killed. And his uncles. And his teammates. Careful now... People around that weak boy don't tend to survive very long. Who knows... Maybe he won't make it, and rid ourselves from his presence!" he said in a rather cruel tone. In a way, he was giving her a bit of her own medicine. They were indeed peas of a pod. "You can train a dog with food. You can buy a person with money. But there isn't a man alive that can put down the Will of Fire. Some things will never change. The Will of Fire will never be extinguished" Pre-Chuunin Exams Outside of Kuwana [Aburame Azarea] [388 words]

[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

The Righteous Hand of God

"You mean like yourself?" Azarea spits out cruel fury blazing in her scarlet eyes as she holds Toshizou's gaze, "Let's face it Father you're a death knell to everyone you've ever known and at least Shigure did not guide those close to him down such a thorny path with his own two hands while blinding his eyes and claiming ignorance for the good of the village!" She draws out his title as her sire with distaste her words growing louder until by the end her fangs are bared voice raised in a furious shout. Unwilling and unable to allow the insult to Shigure to pass. The apple didn't fall far from the tree indeed, but at least of the two of them Azarea was certain regardless of how their story ended at least hers and Shigure's had begun. Unlike Toshizou and Sanae's twisted fairytale.

"Because let's face it Hatake-san you don't regret anything." Azarea snaps out hurling the words like shuriken cold and cutting, "You mourn Sanae now, but was her death really so great in the grand scheme of things? What was her life, her happiness, her safety compared to that of the villages? In the coming days, weeks, months how often will you look back and wonder if you could have chosen different only to decide the village needed you more?" She taunts lip curling in disgust.

"My feelings on your involvement in my life or lack thereof are irrelevant. The fact is you did abandon me. The fact is even if she'd never been branded a member of the branch house Sanae would have never chosen you... I may have never known her as well as you think you do, but the fact you stand here insulting her son, weighing the good of the same village who perpetrated her slavery over your own family, and still have the balls to spew your hypocrasy I think would have sickened her." She snarls anger giving way to a righteous sort of calm like the hand of god bright and hot and burning like a light within her chest. A spark of something she'd thought long gone as Azarea's expressions settle. A wave of peace inescapable and inevitable falling over her as her hive quiets.

"It certainly sickens me."

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[Hatake Toshizō]

"the root of all evil". "A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic, dead or alive." MY GRIEF No one ever spoke to him like that. People were afraid of him, of the man known as the Demon of the Fleeting Blossoms. But there she was, throwing some harsh truths in his face, and making him have to ultimately face his own shortcomings, his own failures as a man, a father, a shinobi even. Still, what hurt the most was when Azarea said that Sanae's death didn't matter, for yes, she was but a branch house clan member of the Hyuuga. Her contributions to the village having pretty much seized the moment she was married to the head of the clan, where she was forced into a life of complete servitude to the clan and her role. And the truth of her words hurt him even more, for he wasn't there during the twilight of the Hyuuga because he was once again out on a mission. His first instinct was anger, was wanting to grab the girl by the neck and teach her fear. "She is my daughter..." he thought, and that sole thought preventing him for giving in to his rage, so the next feeling in line was sadness, and that was were his mind was channeled through. He had abandoned her, and Eri, and they suffered because of it. Shigure, as much as he hated to admit, had done more for Sanae than he ever did, even if he wasn't entirely successful. He sighed deeply and sharply, the seedling he was holding fell from his hand, crashing into the ground, breaking the young plant, almost a poetic irony. He turned his back on her, taking a few steps back towards the rock. "You have every right to hate me. I failed you, like a failed your mother." he admitted. "So, if you have nothing else to say, leave me be. Leave me to my grief. Still... Azarea... You are my daughter, like it or not. And as such, I won't let any harm come to you, to the best of my abilities." and he was also saying that to himself, destroying the anger he was feeling towards the girl. "And I don't care about your personal feelings on this matter. It's not something I need your consent for. Now..." he sighed, sitting back at the rock. "He is alive, and he will survive. The Hyuuga boy." he informed her, hoping that would bring her some sort of solace. "You can train a dog with food. You can buy a person with money. But there isn't a man alive that can put down the Will of Fire. Some things will never change. The Will of Fire will never be extinguished" Pre-Chuunin Exams Outside of Kuwana [Aburame Azarea] [409 words]

[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

Trash

As he turned his back on her something inside Azarea snapped as the last guttering edges of her anger gave way to pity and disgust. To know that Shigure would survive eased the weight of her own grief and guilt, but she wasn't fool enough to think she'd ever see the man she loved again as he once was. Death and trauma changed you. Killed pieces of you you hadn't thought could ever die. Azarea could only hope enough of who Shigure once was lived to recognize the broken pieces of herself that would remain after this confrontation. That is if Toshizou was even telling the truth for that matter and not out to once more take from her what little she had for the 'greater good' of his village.

"You are pathetic." Azarea states each word a dagger in the back of the man too cowardly to show her his face. Who was foolish enough to think that because she could not rend his flesh or break his body that she could not do him harm.

"All you stand upon is a pedestal of lies Toshizou. Don't you dare try and justify yourself in absolutes to me when I know how many bodies went into building the moral high ground you try and perch yourself upon." She growls out words cutting and clipped her scarlet eyes filled with a searing disdain. "You've never once protected me in your entire goddamn life or are you truly so naive as to not understand the targets you repeatedly paint upon my back? All while turning a blind eye. Or maybe it was you who posted the bounty?" Azarea quips lip curling with disgust as her eyes dig into the pale what cloth covered shoulders of Toshizou's back. There was blood in the water and if he thought she would leave her kill he was more the fool. His carelessly tossed comment in regards to her being his daughter, being his family, how her emotions and consent didn't matter held a familiar ring to the words. Dredging of old memories of when she was young and she and Shigure stood trembling together before large hands rough and uncaring had dragged the boy away to the Dojo. Harsh words like whips lashing across the Hyuuga's back and filling a then young Azarea with rage. 'You are my son.' 'You will do as your told.' 'Your consent has no bearing on this matter.' She wasn't allowed to visit the Hyuuga compound again after that day. If she'd wished to see Shigure he had to come to her from then on.

"Gods you sound just like Urashi. I don't know why I expected you to be any better then that trash." She spat disdain dripping from every word.

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[Hatake Toshizō]

"the root of all evil". "A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic, dead or alive." TO ATONE He was doing his best not to respond to her anymore, there was nothing good coming of that, just further pain, for both of them. Her claims that he never protected her was a lie, but he also couldn't reveal what he did from the shadows, and how he was already prosecuting the Aburame for putting up a bounty on an allied nation shinobi, which had been officially struck down and made void in the Hidden Leaf and Land of Fire, but they had no control over what they did on foreign nations, even though he had deployed a few operatives to make sure the bounty had been destroyed. Telling her that would be absolutely pointless, she wasn't there to listen to anything he had to say. Still, when she said he sounded like Urashi, he felt his heart sank, and he held his breathe for moment. He would glance back at her, from over his shoulders, eyes wide open, a mix of shock, anger, and also guilt. He wanted to berate her for that, to tell her she was wrong. But was she? He thought of Tokaku, who was turning out to be quite the problematic one, trying to follow in his footsteps as much as possible. And then he thought of Iruhi, the one he had been able to connect the most, to be the closest thing to a father. He turned back away from her, gritting his teeth and clenching his fists. While he held himself at a pedestal, as the one who was protecting the Leaf from the shadows, he had caused a lot of harm to a lot of people, even those of his blood, even those of the blood of his dear friends. He thought of Tsukimono, and how much his sacrifice had been important for the good of the Leaf. He had saved him, but not without conditions, and he was Kaeshi's son. "Your friend... Tsukimono. He is a hero, and a true Leaf Shinobi. Nobody knows that... They can't, not yet. But I hope one day we will be able to clear his name." he said in a low tone. "I'm sorry for the pain I caused you. I can't change what already happened. I can only move forward from here... And atone. Hate me by all means, if it brings you any sort of solace. I have nothing else to say..." he sighed, lowering his head and looking at the broken seedling lying on the ground. "You can train a dog with food. You can buy a person with money. But there isn't a man alive that can put down the Will of Fire. Some things will never change. The Will of Fire will never be extinguished" Pre-Chuunin Exams Outside of Kuwana [Aburame Azarea] [422 words]

[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

Prophecy

"Of course he is." She growled out having never doubted Tsukimono or his love and loyalty to his home for a single second. They had grown up alongside one another after all and she had seen how his love was fiercer then his hate. The fact he would give his life for a place that cared not if he and those he held dear lived or died still left Azarea's heart aching, but she knew one could not force change upon another.

"The Leaf always hurts the ones who love it the most after all." Azarea murmured bitterness and disdain blackening her words like the charred roots that had once tied her to such a place, burned away by her village's own hands. Nothing, but empty ashes left in it's wake as she stares at Toshi's back. His emotions roused only by the words she drove into him like daggers.

When it came to Azarea herself he may as well be made of stone. For in him there was neither love. Nor hate. Only an impassive empty cold bereft of care or malice. Azarea's brows furrowed, her eyes narrowing in anger at how easily he disregarded her. Her presence no more important or threatening than a bug. Only irritating in the moment and soon to be forgotten.

There was nothing for her here. Only disappointment.

"When Tokaku and Iruhi turn their backs on you as you have done to me. When you have burned everything upon the pyre of the will of fire to keep warm those who would see you made into ash. When the Leaf rewards your work with betrayal. When you think you have nothing left to lose and yet with each day the world takes and takes and leaves nothing behind of you, but a bitter shell. When you find yourself without family, without friend, and without purpose in a foreign land only then will you understand." Azarea stated her words as much prophecy as they were curse.

"Come find me then," She orders turning upon her heel to give the man her back as she stalks off into the darkness. "And pray I am a better person than to not offer you the same cold comforts you've fed me."

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[Hatake Toshizō]

"the root of all evil". "A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic, dead or alive." SEEKING POWER Toshizou shook his head. "Don't close your eyes to the reality of the ninja world. It's not just the Leaf... The shinobi world is a world of pain. We are just the ones who shoulder that burden." he commented. Finally, seemed like she was about to be done with him, and in a way, that was for the better. They were not in a position where their interactions could bring anything positive to either of them, and even though he wanted things to be different, they wouldn't be. Not yet at the very least. She was trying to hurt him with her words, but if what she said came true, it was something he was ready to accept. Just like he had neglected Azarea for most of her life, he had neglected the other two girls as well. The only difference is just how much more accepting they were to the notion of having Toshizou in their lives, they were less hurt by the world. The Leaf never rewarded him, so that was something he was also used to. He was never selected to become the Hokage, no matter how much he tried, no matter how much he sacrificed. They called him too passionate, too much of an extremist, a tyrant even. He wasn't there when his father passed away. When she finally said he would look for her when he had nothing else, he sighed. He was sad, but he couldn't show that, and instead he put his mask of ice. "No... You will come for me first, when you need power. For this is something I can offer... And something you could use. It will happen... Sooner rather than later, when you realize just what you will be facing in these exams." he warned her. "You can train a dog with food. You can buy a person with money. But there isn't a man alive that can put down the Will of Fire. Some things will never change. The Will of Fire will never be extinguished" Pre-Chuunin Exams Outside of Kuwana [Aburame Azarea] [304 words]

[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

To Take

The girl paused in her step as she glanced over her shoulder those sharp scarlet eyes glinting in the night as she bares her fangs back at the broken man who dared to call himself her Father. "If I want anything of yours I will take it from you with my own two hands."

Whether that was training or the man's throat torn out between her teeth remained to be seen. As the Kumo shinobi vanished into the night. Leaving Toshizou alone with his thoughts.


[Exit Azarea]

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                           Made by Keen of FBNRP | Word Count: | Hatake Toshizō