I wish I could have seen your smile... one last time... That cheesy smile of yours that always made me laugh no matter how hard the times. Your stupid grin that you would always give me because you always liked to live in the moment; those times, even though I will never say it out loud, were always special to my heart. I will admit that you were never really given much credit for almost anything.
I would see you every day with sweat on your brows, taking whatever task you had in the most serious way possible. It didn't matter if that specific mission was to chase a cat with your comrades, or to pick potatoes for a farmer far out into the fields, you still made every day and every mission count to the fullest. Even then, with all your hard work, people didn't really think much about you, but of course you proved them wrong. You flew through the ranks without me and became a wonderfully strong jounin. I believe that everyone was shocked the day that you earned your well deserved rank. I of course, always knew that you were something special...
You knew your weaknesses from the start, and you built everything from the bottom up. You are what you are today because you never looked back. However, it would have been nice if you glanced back once in a while. Sometimes, I think that you didn't even remember I was always there behind you to catch you when you fell...
