itsjustdust | Kunai the Sixth: [Video/Action for Goldenrod]

[Oddly enough, the gear is set down on the table, his goggles mostly obscuring the rest of the room where his Charmander and newly evolved Servine are off to one side having some sort of staring match. The voice that came over the line was indisputably human though, and thoughtful.]

I've been in this place for nearly a month now. A lot has happened in that month. I've met family, I've met friends, and I've realized that my life wasn't as much of a failure as everyone always liked to tell me it was back home.

My teammate, the one I died for, and yes, I died before I woke up here, very thoroughly and messily I might add, apparently changed his entire life based on a few things I said to try to be more like me. He even uses a phrase I screamed at him once as a motto I've heard. I kind of want to see what he's like without being so bitter, but that clearly won't happen unless he shows up here.

But... Everyone else forgot about me. I'm just that guy that gave my famous teammate his Sharingan, an eye for the unaware, and I'm not even known for my own name. My baby cousin, the one here, hadn't ever heard of me. That's my own fault, in some ways, I died before he was born, but did I really do nothing worth mentioning after my demise?

It was a war, and a lot of people die during wars, I know that, and I know I've made a huge difference in the world just by a final set of actions, but... I'll never see it. I'm not sure it's satisfying.

I'm afraid to ask if anyone but that teammate made it out of the war. What if no one knows? What if no one wants to say?

But I'm drifting off topic here.

What I wanted to say was that I don't think that just pokemon change from level to level. A whole different personality to go with a whole new body, right? How many people feel like that happened to them too?

So yeah, a lot of things happened since I got here, good things, bad things... but who else feels like they were changed in some permanent way just by getting here?

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Sure is a deep question from someone who has only been here for a month.

[he's answering it anyways.]

I guess this world's kinda helped me settle down to a more dull routine after all the shit I've been through.

...

Not that dull is bad, of course.

[The gear was picked up and turned to face a rather puzzled teenager.]

I gotta admit I find it kind of weird that people seem to think you need a long time for things to change. Where I'm from, change happens in an instant, be it good or bad. People who fight it usually don't end up leading happy lives.

Or they end up dead, right?

[it's a familiar concept to him, but to hear it coming from someone who is probably younger than him is a bit worrying.]

[He looked pleased to be understood so quickly and grinned.]

Exactly.

've been in those kind of situations before, just didn't expect someone looking like you to be living a live like that.

I'm a shinobi, have been for years. I've been on or around the war front for a couple years of that, since I made Chunin. I'm a midrank soldier, you learn things in that kind of position.

Well, you know what they say, the closer to conflicts you get, the more experienced you are in surviving and adapting to new things.

[not that he likes admitting that, but still-]

Man, your world must be pretty damn messed up to have young kids running around in the battlefield.

[He's just going to say that, yeah.]

Hey! We keep genin off the battlefront. They do home stuff mostly, village maintenance and stuff to keep them safe. They don't have the training to dive straight into battle without getting killed.

...

Even if other countries think we coddle our shinobi, we have the best, because we do it right.

...It'd be better that way, to be honest.

[letting children go off to war never did sit right with him after all.]

Exactly. We wait for them to have the maturity to handle it. I got my promotion at eleven myself, so I've been around the warzone for a few years now, but Sensei held my teammate back for years after he hit chunin because he decided he didn't want to let him at the battlefield when he didn't have to.

...He must've been really good, huh.

[there's just a matter-of-fact look on his face.]

Yeah, he was the top genius of my year. It really sucked that I got compared to him all the time.

Well, the only way you can stop that is to train harder, or just plain outright beat him at his own game.

[that's what he sort of did with Kira, at least.]

Orrr die. I picked that option apparently but I heard he tried to be more like me after so I'll take it as a win.

Well, being an inspiration could also work, I guess.

[so unfazed by this morbid discussion.]

It's not super likely I'll ever see him again so I'll take what I can get you know? [Wry smile.]

Just don't let it get all the way up into your head.

[Shrug.]

'nyways, name's Shinn Asuka, if you need something to call me by.

Can do. [He smiled] Same here. If you need something, just ask for Obito, yeah?

Will do.

[There's actually a smirk from him as he said that.]

Perfect! See you then~!

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