>>5800857You had arrived at your house. It was flatly annihilated… You could see what the ANBU had meant by there being collateral damage. It was in a state of wreckage similar to as if someone had taken a giant sword to slashing the building to pieces, and then had set it ablaze, only to put out the blaze with a sudden rainstorm.
You dig through the ruins to see if there was anything salvageable.
First, your sister’s shrine. You do find broken pieces of it, but it’s missing anything of note. Your mom must have looted it before retreating.
Second, scrolls or other various useful stuff belonging to your mother… Nope. Nothing. Must have taken everything important with her when she fled. You feel a vague sting of fear as if she were going to lurk outside the village in ambush… But enemies lurked in waiting for all ninja. She may find ou again one day, or any number of other hostile missing-nin could find you first from sheer happenstance. Nothing really mattered.
You sit down on a broken fencepost and meditate on where to go from here: Probably just take Lord Hokage’s advice. Finally just give up on mom, this woman called Harumi, or Death’s Whisper. Just put it behind you. Focus on the real future ahead of you and not the future you had always secretly hoped for. The future you could build with your own hands, and not the future that was in Harumi’s but left to wither and rot with neglect.
New forest growth would come and consume this place. It would be unmade, in time… But in the back of your mind it keeps occurring to you what a waste this home was.
A waste.
A waste of love that could have been.
A waste of family that should have been.
A waste of time, building this home.
A feeble thing.
So weak in structure that it could be unmade down to its roots in a single day.
… You need to get your mind off this… Something fun that wasn’t ninja bullshit for once.
>Commit to hanging out with Naoki tonight.>Commit to hanging out with Masami tonight.>Screw it, hang out with both your teammates tonight.>Reach out to someone else from the academy, like a different classmate or maybe even Juro.>What do you want to do? You could just rely on whoever you pick having their own ideas. 