Jamie was starting to really get bothered by monkey's and also began having issues with how everyone just made things seem so easy all the time. As he found a secluded spot by the river side he carefully got on top of the rock and began to meditate in peace, no large scary men, no giant monkey kings and no beautiful girls. Just Jamie, the rock and the ever flowing river.

Jamie began to think about Rippa, the leader of the village. This man seemed to have everything under control remaining calm like he could never make a mistake. When they met he had this beautiful lady who was so well prepared, he wondered if it was under the Hokage's orders or if she was simply that good at her job. Did she simply know what she had to do, how it had to be done and when. The skill with the crossbow was so good that even though it was a piece of garbage the Hokage still managed to hit dead center, he probably did not even need the cross bow and could have just thrown it in there with his hands alone.

Deep in thought Jamie felt like he had no hope of becoming the Hokage and he was not really interested in sitting in that chair. He began to wonder if the Hokage was forced to sit in that chair every day until something big happens to force him to get up. He began to wonder if being Hokage meant being the man in the chair.

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Jamie was sitting on the stone as the wind blew through his hair and the river rushes as some splashes crash upon the rock. The water hits against Jamie as he begins to think deeply on what he should do and what he wanted to do, having seemed to forgotten his dreams like illusions fading into the night.

Jamie still remembers it like it was yesterday, the blood on the grass fields and the lifeless bodies of the men whose lives he had helped take. They did not breathe, they did not move for they would never again be with the world of the living. Losing their loved ones, they could have been older brothers as a young little sister or brother would cry. Waiting with there small toys and empty feelings as there was no way to replace a life lost. He wondered if they were fathers, with children and wives crying over them and without anyone to provide for their family any longer. Cast out into the darkness as they suffer on the streets with no future in sight. Jamie began to wonder when he started caring about others, he knew it was what he had to do. However Jamie was not yet ready for something this painful to his heart as his eyes were beginning to fill with tears, tears his brother would never know.

A wolf near the river side began to howl as the moon finally rose as the boy fell asleep on the stone, a song that no human would understand. A song of the full moon's sorrow.

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Jamie thought he could hear a song as he was sleeping as the howl of the moon began as he had a dream of a lullaby.

"Lost little boy, asleep in the cold winter night"
"Lost like a moon, that has lost its light"
"Without the moon, we plunge into darkness"
"Alone you cry, in sorrow and sadness"

Jamie was not sure what he was hearing as he felt a bit dizzy as he did not seem to fear the voice that sang to him, like a voice in a distant memory as it began to continue its lullaby

"Lost little boy, shivering in the cold snow"
"Lost like a wolf, captured by the rivers flow"
"Without the tears, without feelings to show"
"Lost in the river, somewhere one should never go"

Jamie felt like water was taking him away as he began to wonder what it was that he was feeling now. With a few more splashes and the sound of rushing water when Jamie finally woke up he realized he must have stayed on the rock too long and fell asleep as he was being carried down stream. He had no idea where he ended up as he was looking for something to grab onto as he reached out, the current was too strong and he had nothing else he could do as he came crashing into a rock as he floated down the stream not to be heard from for a while.

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Training was definitely too intense as Jamie needed to learn a cold hard lesson. In this world where one had friends and enemies all around, there was one thing he would soon understand. He really enjoyed friendship and wanted to fit in with all the other kids in the Inazuka clan, it would forever be a dream as he felt like Shippo was pulling away from him. It was time for him to grow up and be wise about what the real problem was, he was weak and he could not really take care of himself. He had to let go of his childish wishes and open up his eyes to the truth of the world. He had to leave this world behind, he had to leave this fantasy and embrace reality before it became too late. Jamie trusted so many, he forgave many as he came across a choice he did not want to have to make.

Jamie decided to take his first step on his own path, the decision to make his own destiny and find his way in this lost world. To light a path in this world so that he could see the future once again as he reached out his hand calling to the sky, the dragon would unleash its breathe as the dreams were overtaking him, lost in the world of Jamie, lost in a world only he knew as he would pass out on the rocks at the bottom of the stream as he closed his eyes.

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