Board Thread:Konoha Missions/@comment-24937485-20160323003438/@comment-24937485-20160324080038

“In the end… I guess I was useful after all.”



Akira said with a soft smile as he fell on the ground. He didn’t feel a thing. Only a sweet sense of lightness as if he were floating on clouds. And warm… he felt warm. The kind of warmth you’d feel in your mother’s arms.

Opening his eyes, he was no longer in the mountain, he was somewhere else completely. Everything was bright; everywhere he looked it felt like he was looking at his home. And then, in the distance, out of a cloudlike mist appeared his adoptive parents; smiling as they held their hands out to him.

Then, from between the adoptive parents appeared a woman with white hair like himself. He had never seen her, he didn’t remember her, but her scent… he had definitely smelled it before. It felt like he knew her… but he had no memories of her. “Who are you.” He continued to repeat as she floated closed to him, finally hugging him in her arms as she kissed his cheek.

“Akira… My son.” Spoke her angelic voice in his head as he just started to cry in her arms, overloaded with emotions. “You have done what you were born for. Your sacrifice will ensure the will of fire lives on past this day. You can put your anger to rest as you must now that the Leaf never abandoned your adoptive father, they did what they could behind the scenes. And tried to help your adoptive mother in many ways but her depression got the better hand. Lay your anger to rest, my son, and sleep now… sleep.”



And with that came Akira’s last breath as he whispered these final words. His body had been completely motionless up till now, where his lips moved to voice a barely audible whisper. “The weapon… I choose… Is love…. Don’t ever let it go… don’t ever fight without it. Love… and you will die a happy man.”



-A few minutes later Zeshin entered the Throne room and looked on in shock as he saw the destruction and the state that the genin were in. One of them was… was dead? Zeshin bit his teeth, feeling the gut-wrenching pain of loss as his eyes teared up while he closed them. “I warned you… Hokage.” He said just soft enough for nobody to hear before putting on a comforting smile the best he could as he walked over to the Genin, storing Akira’s body in a scroll, and made ready to teleport them bac to Konoha when they were ready to go. But before leaving he’d bow to the Lord of the Forge and said; “Know that the blood of our leaves now flows through your steel, master blacksmith.”