What concerns me is peace. Happiness. The lives of my friends- and you too. Protecting them and my home. What concerns me is the idea of you going to find a damn fight because you think our existence right now is fucking inconsequential!
[Is Naruto angry? Oh yes, Naruto is angry. Naruto is pretty furious and it’s probably audible.]
Konoha stands for peace. Always has. Peace is real so long as people want it. You don’t get to piss on that and call it an illusion when people have bled for it.
You don’t.
We don’t go looking for wars, Nagato. If we have to, we protect ourselves- It’s not our damn right to choose who lives and who dies! No power in the world gives us that right. When someone brings a war to our front gates, that still doesn’t give us the right to decide who lives and who dies.
Have you forgotten everything Jiraiya taught us!? Have you forgotten what he lived for- died for?
You think Yahiko died so you’d have to fight until you died too?
Do you?Do you actually think that? Do you think he died so you could go
( ... )
[Kisame, by all rights, is a calm, steady, level-headed man. He's polite, he's generally kind unless there's reason not to be, and he's usually surprisingly friendly and pleasant, difficult to ruffle. But there's a hard, flinty edge to his words now, sharp and hot like a freshly forged knife-edge, almost snarled.]
[He remembers, all too vividly, the horrifically brutal, bloody pogroms carried out in Kirigakure. Men, women, children, the elderly, infants no more than hours out of the womb.... So many people put to death for the accident of their birth. So many.... It's made him wake up in a cold sweat before more than once, the knowledge that it was only a matter of fortunate timing that he was born during the throes of civil war, that he was needed to fight for his village and country, that he was not simply killed as soon as the light of day fell on him. It's something that has weighed on his conscience more heavily than the death of almost any humans he's killed, this cold-blooded slaughter of the
( ... )
[backdated to shortly after Kisame actually tagged, real-time-wise]callmelegionSeptember 7 2009, 08:02:54 UTC
I understand, Kisame. Worth is determined by what you believe yourself to have.
You do not have to concern yourself with me in this respect, because I am a man of purpose.
The purpose I have in mind is peace, and protecting what is valuable from war. War destroys. And human beings will always attempt to begin wars. Humanity is foolish. I realized someone must assume a position of power -- to ensure that this endless bloodshed is halted.
And that must be me.
And will be me.
Whatever I may think of myself, this is what fate has allotted for my designated role. To understand your role -- your purpose -- ensures that all else will fall into place.
Power is thinking for yourself.
I will not be swayed by these doctrines of Konohagakure, if they do not match the destiny I have in mind for my own life. To be swayed from your own opinions or the purpose of your life and destiny is indeed weak, and this would create a worthless creature of me, but I believe so long as I maintain an opinion of my own, I have a voice
( ... )
What concerns me is peace. Happiness. The lives of my friends- and you too. Protecting them and my home. What concerns me is the idea of you going to find a damn fight because you think our existence right now is fucking inconsequential!
[Is Naruto angry? Oh yes, Naruto is angry. Naruto is pretty furious and it’s probably audible.]
Konoha stands for peace. Always has. Peace is real so long as people want it. You don’t get to piss on that and call it an illusion when people have bled for it.
You don’t.
We don’t go looking for wars, Nagato. If we have to, we protect ourselves- It’s not our damn right to choose who lives and who dies! No power in the world gives us that right. When someone brings a war to our front gates, that still doesn’t give us the right to decide who lives and who dies.
Have you forgotten everything Jiraiya taught us!? Have you forgotten what he lived for- died for?
You think Yahiko died so you’d have to fight until you died too?
Do you?Do you actually think that? Do you think he died so you could go ( ... )
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I explain what I want.
What I need.
And why I need it.
And all I hear is: there is, or must be, some other way.
And why should I want some other way, when I already know what I desire?
You say I am drawing a line, but if I turn against my own desires, then whose desires am I turning towards? Yours, obviously.
You say I am drawing a line, but these are my desires you are asking me to give up.
Mine.
Yes, I am drawing a line, because I have a right to my own desires.
I have a right to claim them, and identify them as unique to me.
Konoha does not own claim over my heart, and soul.
Unless you are telling me it does.
Unless you are telling me I must needs be a slave, and give up everything I wish for now.
And I would hope you are not telling me that.
So you say I am not listening.
I say: What are you trying to tell me?
What is your conclusion?
You disagree with me.
What of it?
Do I not still have the right to do as I feel I must?
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If I had a desire…
If what I desired right now, more than anything else, was to cut off Madara’s head, to cut off Konan’s.
Right now.
[And he ignores the twist in his stomach on saying that.]
Would desiring it give me the right to do that?
...
If someone else desired to take my head, right now.
Would desiring it give them the right to do that?
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I want to see you happy.
If you need to do this, then I’m going with you.
You have to understand that. I’m not leaving you. If you go, then I go.
But I don’t agree with you.
I think you have the right to do what you feel is right, but not if it hurts others. And I think what you wanna do will hurt others.
I want to find something e-
…a common ground.
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But that doesn't mean that I want you to shut up. And it doesn't mean that I don’t love you.
And it never means that I won’t try. Or that I won’t listen. Or that I won't try to listen!
Even if you think I’m not.
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[Kisame, by all rights, is a calm, steady, level-headed man. He's polite, he's generally kind unless there's reason not to be, and he's usually surprisingly friendly and pleasant, difficult to ruffle. But there's a hard, flinty edge to his words now, sharp and hot like a freshly forged knife-edge, almost snarled.]
[He remembers, all too vividly, the horrifically brutal, bloody pogroms carried out in Kirigakure. Men, women, children, the elderly, infants no more than hours out of the womb.... So many people put to death for the accident of their birth. So many.... It's made him wake up in a cold sweat before more than once, the knowledge that it was only a matter of fortunate timing that he was born during the throes of civil war, that he was needed to fight for his village and country, that he was not simply killed as soon as the light of day fell on him. It's something that has weighed on his conscience more heavily than the death of almost any humans he's killed, this cold-blooded slaughter of the ( ... )
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You do not have to concern yourself with me in this respect, because I am a man of purpose.
The purpose I have in mind is peace, and protecting what is valuable from war. War destroys. And human beings will always attempt to begin wars. Humanity is foolish. I realized someone must assume a position of power -- to ensure that this endless bloodshed is halted.
And that must be me.
And will be me.
Whatever I may think of myself, this is what fate has allotted for my designated role. To understand your role -- your purpose -- ensures that all else will fall into place.
Power is thinking for yourself.
I will not be swayed by these doctrines of Konohagakure, if they do not match the destiny I have in mind for my own life. To be swayed from your own opinions or the purpose of your life and destiny is indeed weak, and this would create a worthless creature of me, but I believe so long as I maintain an opinion of my own, I have a voice ( ... )
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