Board Thread:Konoha Logs/@comment-25955740-20160417015710/@comment-24937485-20160421203244



“You dare assume having the right to become Hokage?”

As he stared off in the distance, Ikeru spoke softly while addressing kinshi, speaking with such immense distaste that everyone within earshot fell quiet; a silence that soon spread over most of the crowd.

“When you’ve yet to prove yourself worthy? You dare make such a claim?”

His voice now grew louder as he arose from his seat and towered high above the two Jounin.

“And you, son of Godric, dare say you’ll claim my blood to become next in line?”

Crossing his muscled arms, the Hokage shook his head with such an easily readable sense of disappointment that even those uninvolved felt guilty.

“It seems I do not have the daughter I thought I had. And that the Son I wished for has a great amount of growing up to do. I saw such great futures, but now I see possibilities that are quenched by arrogance and aspirations. Kinshi, it seems my name has spoiled you. You are hereby disowned and no longer part of the Senju clan until you redeemed yourself. Keldran… you’re a century too young to speak with such tongue and millennia too young to make true your claims. You have brought shame onto your clan and father, great shame, and for this there will be a price you will have to pay in the near future or it’ll be your father and clan who are to suffer more dishonor than you have already delivered to their doorstep. Come to my office first thing tomorrow morning.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#141823;background:#F6F7F8">A member of the ANBU appeared beside Keldren, and another beside Kinshin. These masked men didn’t come forth just to ensure that the two hot-headed Jounin would leave, but to ensure they wouldn’t be roasted to a crisp as the anger of Ikeru had been sparked and the man was for from pleased at the display of dishonor on a day such as this. The ANBU would accompany Keldran and Kinshin away from the line of people, however, without giving them a chance to speak back to the Hokage.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#141823;background:#F6F7F8">Then the Wildfire Emperor merely sat down again at which the silence lifted and the festival proceeded as it had before. A quick word was exchanged with the Daimyo who also looked most displeased, whispering something about; “Such a shame that they never heard about the opportunity of a lifetime you were going to offer them, Red.”.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#141823;background:#F6F7F8">Ikeru nodded, but didn’t say anything in return as he waited for the next person in line to approach while thinking about his late wife and what she’d say to him. Being the emotional type, he’d assume her to surely disagree with his battlefield sternness. But he saw no other way. In his day, both Keldran and Kinshi would have been executed on the spot. However, the Hokage knew that those two carried the fate of the village on their shoulders. He wished they could see what he saw, and hoped that the harsh lesson would set in motion a chain of change that’d allow them to become what they dreamed of becoming, and even more.

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