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kunoichi_dragonI donât remember exactly what brought me there in the first place, but the other day I found myself walking along the long forgotten paths towards the old training grounds where the team used to meet and practice together everyday. I can't tell you how many years it had been since I stepped foot on the familiar terrain, the grass crunching softly under my feet while the cool breeze caressed my face. I spent a great many years of my young life in that clearing, creating memories I thought I would never remember. But when I spotted the shallow pits made by Neji's Kaiten and the rotting logs that had fallen years before under Lee's swift kicks, it all came flooding back.
If you had told me years ago that this small band of egotistical, hardheaded and stubborn shinobis better known as my team would end up becoming the closest things I'd have to a family, I might have laughed in your face while throwing a few dozen kunais and a handful of shurikens to shred through your chest. Sure we weren't the best of friends back then, I won't pretend that we were. But that didn't take away from what we had: a trust in each other and our skills as a team.
I guess somewhere between then and now, we became more than a shinobi cell...at least they became more than that to me. We were a family. Heh, including all the dysfunctional aspects that comes with the title. We worked as one, a single unit, each playing up our strengths while making up for the other's weaknesses. Together we were perfect. Tch. Sometimes I think we still are. But that's crazy, no one's perfect...right?
-scoffs- I must be going crazy. Lee, I blame you for this. While I understand that duty calls, you've been gone a little too long. Things just aren't the same without your enthusiastic agreements to Gai-sensei's speeches while Neji makes his sardonic comments. But I suppose I can't be selfish about it; I'm not being selfish. I'm just stating how I feel right now. I miss the team, I miss being whole.
But...I guess despite the miles that separate us I still love my boys, I always will. And...I would hope that they still love their 'Blooming Flower' too...
If you had told me years ago that this small band of egotistical, hardheaded and stubborn shinobis better known as my team would end up becoming the closest things I'd have to a family, I might have laughed in your face while throwing a few dozen kunais and a handful of shurikens to shred through your chest. Sure we weren't the best of friends back then, I won't pretend that we were. But that didn't take away from what we had: a trust in each other and our skills as a team.
I guess somewhere between then and now, we became more than a shinobi cell...at least they became more than that to me. We were a family. Heh, including all the dysfunctional aspects that comes with the title. We worked as one, a single unit, each playing up our strengths while making up for the other's weaknesses. Together we were perfect. Tch. Sometimes I think we still are. But that's crazy, no one's perfect...right?
-scoffs- I must be going crazy. Lee, I blame you for this. While I understand that duty calls, you've been gone a little too long. Things just aren't the same without your enthusiastic agreements to Gai-sensei's speeches while Neji makes his sardonic comments. But I suppose I can't be selfish about it; I'm not being selfish. I'm just stating how I feel right now. I miss the team, I miss being whole.
But...I guess despite the miles that separate us I still love my boys, I always will. And...I would hope that they still love their 'Blooming Flower' too...
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Date: 2007-03-18 09:51 pm (UTC)*sends you presents from Suna in the meantime*
<3 I miss you too.
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Date: 2007-03-19 01:12 am (UTC)-presents?- :D
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Date: 2007-03-19 01:43 am (UTC)(There was this old woman peddling what she called "voodoo dolls" - if you put someone's hair in it and stick it with pins, they'll feel something in their corresponding body part. I haven't tried it, but maybe you can test it out on Neji for me :D
I also sent you some cookies. No kunai in these, though...)
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Date: 2007-03-19 01:51 am (UTC)(Voodoo dolls...I think that's more of a superstitious belief, Lee. But I'll test it out just for you. If it works maybe I can figure out a way to make it into an attack for when we go on missions. ^^)
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Date: 2007-03-19 01:55 am (UTC)