1 It will never be over. [Training/Open/No Kill] Sun Mar 23, 2014 5:17 am
Suzuna
D-rank
Some things are meant to stay in the dark.
Every time Suzuna went to the training grounds, she just wanted to turn around again. “I’m too lazy”, “My parents forced me into becoming a kunoichi”, “I have no talent whatsoever”, “It would be a waste of time anyway” – These were some of the common excuses she liked to use in front of her friends, who would either laugh with her or shake their heads in disapproval.
Among her family, she didn’t need to make up any fake reasons, they knew the truth.
Suzuna let herself plop down on a tree stub, suppressing a melodramatic sigh. If she had it her way, she would have never passed that unnecessary Genin exam… again. She would have never even taken a look at a weapon. But after everything that happened and the web of lies they all had gotten stuck in, living a peaceful life as civilian was impossible. And frankly, she didn’t even have any right to complain. It was her fault.
Brushing these dark thoughts aside, Suzuna decided to do what she’d come here for. The training grounds seemed to be empty this morning; she couldn’t spot anyone else around her. Practising one’s skills alone sounded even more boring. No, not boring, more like… harder for her to switch to happy-go-lucky mode.
Reluctantly, she drew a kunai out of her pouch and faced one of the dummies set up on the training grounds.
“Okay, take that,” Suzuna mumbled without any enthusiasm in her voice before throwing the projectile. It hit one of the dummy’s eyes on the spot. This accuracy frightened her, so that she quickly took out another kunai and missed the target deliberately. “Phew, back to my untalented self.”
Her lips curled up into a cheeky smile, but it didn’t reach her eyes. No matter if she kept lying to herself and everyone around about her abilities, she would never be able to forget what had happened that fateful night. The demons would always lurk inside her… all she could do was shut them out over and over again.
“Is he still there?” she mused unintentionally, knowing that she shouldn’t allow her thoughts to drift to such forbidden topics. “I wonder if he hates us now.”
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