not quite what you asked for *wince* Part 1murinaeJuly 12 2010, 01:59:11 UTC
Um ... yeah. Not quite what you asked for, but going along with your theme of "waiting for Hikaru". Heh. Please forgive me?
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Mitsuko had always known that waiting was the hardest part,
Civilian life in a hidden village, after all, was all about the waiting and the what ifs. Necessity and practicality mandated that a packed bag was kept next to the door just in case that night was the night that some other hidden village decided to unleash giant snakes or some other tailed horror against the populace.
Sometimes, it wasn't even the monsters or beasts that were the worst.
Mitsuko had lived through the Leaf raids, after all. Occasionally, the enemy's intelligence squad did not provide the correct information to its agents. Or perhaps, in the night and in unfamiliar territory, a enemy nin would mistake one house for another house.The ease in which they killed the occupants was often the only thing that clued in the assassins that they had made an error. Civilians got used to going to bed and waiting to see if they would wake up and go on with life, as it was, during a ninja war.
Then, without warning, the nature of the waiting changed.
The wars ended. Life went on and with it, the old jobs of keeping the populace fed, the roads in good condition, the schools and hot springs open.
There was still a lot to do for both shinobi and civilians in peace times. Especially for civilians in peace time. It was a good time to have kids. Raise a family.
The schools still held evacuation drills (and there was still a bag next to the door in all their homes), but it had also gotten to a point where she caught normal kids playing at "ninja" outside of school.
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Mitsuko had always known that waiting was the hardest part,
Civilian life in a hidden village, after all, was all about the waiting and the what ifs. Necessity and practicality mandated that a packed bag was kept next to the door just in case that night was the night that some other hidden village decided to unleash giant snakes or some other tailed horror against the populace.
Sometimes, it wasn't even the monsters or beasts that were the worst.
Mitsuko had lived through the Leaf raids, after all. Occasionally, the enemy's intelligence squad did not provide the correct information to its agents. Or perhaps, in the night and in unfamiliar territory, a enemy nin would mistake one house for another house.The ease in which they killed the occupants was often the only thing that clued in the assassins that they had made an error. Civilians got used to going to bed and waiting to see if they would wake up and go on with life, as it was, during a ninja war.
Then, without warning, the nature of the waiting changed.
The wars ended. Life went on and with it, the old jobs of keeping the populace fed, the roads in good condition, the schools and hot springs open.
There was still a lot to do for both shinobi and civilians in peace times. Especially for civilians in peace time. It was a good time to have kids. Raise a family.
The schools still held evacuation drills (and there was still a bag next to the door in all their homes), but it had also gotten to a point where she caught normal kids playing at "ninja" outside of school.
Her generation hadn't done that at all.
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