Yamashita Ayama

I grew up in Konoha, watching and loving our village’s hero, "The White Fang of Konoha." As I grew up, I knew I wanted to be just like him, and I did everything i could to model myself after him. He was my idol and the center of all my attention.....until that night. The night the white fang killed himself, a part of me died. I was devastated. As the years went by, I began to watch his son, always too scared to go and talk to him just as i was scared to speak with his father Sakumo. As I watched him through the years, Kakashi inspired me again, and made me want to be more than just the mere Chunin that i was. I completed the Jounin exams, but just barely, having had many troubles throughout it and i even had to destroy an entire settlement at one point. After I achieved the title of Jounin, I was placed on a team with my best friend. He was a member of the Hyuga clan, and he helped me become the ninja I am today. He also introduced me to the love of my life. She was the third member on our team, and she was as lovely as she was beautiful. We dated for a few months and were soon to be wed, until HE came along. We were sent on a simple mission outside of the village, my fiancée and I, but we were given a "comrade" to help us. He was a member of the village’s Uchiha clan, and we were a little uneasy. The orders were given though, so we accepted them and went about the mission. As soon as we exited the village’s borders, the Uchiha struck down and killed my love, without me even having time to react. I lost myself. My fury took over, and I lost control. This Uchiha just used us as an excuse to get out of the village so he could go rogue, and he killed the love of my life like it was nothing. We had an epic battle, one that I will never forget, but in the end, I stood the victor. As my trophy of victory, I extracted his eye, and replaced one of my own with his. I had obtained the legendary sharingan. I sat there and cried for some time afterwards. When I finally got my composure back, I buried my fiancée’s body, and destroyed the uchiha’s. I slowly walked back to the village, completely forgetting the mission, and everything else. My world had been shattered twice now, and I was not sure I could recover this time. As I approach the border to the village, my Hyuga friend stops me. He was there with 9 others. They were all the people who I had left, all the people who were near and dear to me. He sat there for a long time, staring at me in horror. He asked me if it were true then. I asked him what he was talking about. He explained to me that word had reached the village that I had gone rogue and killed an Uchiha and took his eye. Someone had apparently happened to come by during the fight between me and the Uchiha and saw us, but he didn’t know the whole story. I told my story to my friends. They believed me and seemed relieved of it. But then, they told me the orders that had come from the Hokage himself. I was declared a missing nin and orders were to kill me on sight. I couldn’t believe it; the village that I had spent my whole life protecting and devoted everything to, had shunned me just like that, and was trying to kill me. They didn’t even know the whole story! Having just been after my fiancée being killed, I snapped. I lost sight of everything, except for my own life. I asked them if they would join me if I decided to leave then, since I was declared missing nin already. They agreed, and we set off. My Hyuga friend was a sensory ninja, and he informed me that 4 other ninja were chasing us, and closing the gap pretty fast. I sent 4 of my team, along with one of my Akamichi friends I had with me to go eliminate the threat. They agreed and went off accordingly. We traveled for just a few more minutes before we heard great explosions and felt monstrous vibrations through the land. My friend informed me that all the men I sent were dead, but now only 3 ninja were following us. I couldn’t believe what I had heard. Four ninja had taken out five of my guys, and one of them being an Akamichi. The rest of my men trembled, but I ordered three more to go off to go fight them. They stopped and just looked at me. I told them that if they didn’t do it, I would kill them on the spot. With fear and sadness in their eyes, they leapt to where the other ninja were, but it was very quick before they were brought down. I knew there was no way for them to beat the hunter nin after us, but at least they could stall them. All that was left was me and my Hyuga friend. We stopped. We knew that we had to make a stand, and that there was no more running. The three hunter nin appear before us. I asked them to wait, and to hear me out so maybe I could explain the story of what really happened. The leader of the squad threw a kunai straight at my heart. I was ready. I was going to stand there and take it, and have all of this pain go away. I would take it so I wouldn’t have to think about the loss of my idol, the loss of the love of my life, or the loss of all the friends that I just sent to die. I closed my eyes and expected to feel the kunai pierce my skin. I then heard a sound I will never forget. The sound of the kunai hitting flesh, the explosion of blood from the wound, and a thud on the ground. The only thing was, I didn’t feel the kunai, I didn’t have any wounds. I opened my eyes to find him lying there. My friend since childhood. The one who had always been there for me. The one person who taught me to love others, and the one who showed me to the other true love of my life. He lie there, dead at my feet. No sounds, no movements, no last words. I fall to my knees, balling like a baby, wrapping my arms around his body and sobbing into his chest. I couldn’t do anything else. This was my fault. I was supposed to die, not him. He shouldn’t have done that. I was the reason that he died. In my eyes, it was me who killed him. I hear the leader give the orders to kill me, but was interrupted by the third member in the squad. He was apparently the actual leader, and the current head of the squad was just a front. The third member approached me, and said the one thing that changed everything for me. “You will come back with us alive, and you will speak with the Hokage. He will decide your fate.” I will never forget that man. Uchiha Abraxis. He was the leader of the Hunter nin Squad, and he is the reason I am still alive today. He said that as soon as he saw me give up and cry over a ninja of the Hidden leaf like that, that he knew there is no way I could have betrayed the village in cold blood like the report stated. They took me back to the Hokage. I Kneeled down in front of him and explained all that had happened. Everything from the battle with the Uchiha all the way up to them bringing me back, every single detail, not even leaving out the fact that I knew my comrades would die if I sent them to fight the hunter nin, but did it anyway. Sarutobi sat there for some time. It seemed years to me. All I saw was him staring at me as he puffed on his pipe. He finally let out a big sigh and stood me up. He thanked me for being honest, and told me that all that was done is now over with. He accepted me back into the village but made sure no word ever got out about what had happened that night. I agreed as he explained to me what was going to happen. He would publicly call off the missing nin hunt, and accept me back into the village. He stated that the villagers would still not trust me for some time though, and that the Uchiha would always hate me for having the sharingan. After this, he sent me home with the papers of my acceptance back into the village. I showed back up the next morning after the announcement had been made to ask the Hokage what I was to do now that I was back. He said that he would assign me to lead a Genin squad. He said that three had just graduated the academy and needed a Jonin leader. I accepted and headed over to meet them. The rest of this story is still unwritten.

Training, teaching my three Genin, reflecting on my life