Challenge 23: Weekly Quick Fic 8

[eaemilia]

Title: Childhood
Prompt: childhood
Bonus? N
Word Count: 113
Rating: T
Original/Fandom: Naruto
Pairings (if any): none
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con etc): none
Summary: Hashirama's childhood was a brief thing, and he knew the exact day it ended.

Comments

[foxrafer]

This is an interesting look at the perils of being a child soldier. On a very basic level, when a child is forced to fight it obviously does signal the end of their innocence. But I like how it seems that Hashirama almost consciously makes the decision to end his childhood because if he stayed a child he wouldn't survive. The whole situation isn't his choice or his making, but the will to live through the war is definitely his.