Past Regrets
Prologue
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Kirigakure no Sato is no place to grow up. It's a dog-eat-dog world. Kill of be killed. Every corner you turn, a new hazard is underway. Caution is not an option. There were uncountable gangs that were around for no reason but to kill. No ally is trust worthy. Your friend is a foe in nearly every case.
There are no heroes in the Village Hidden in the Mist. There are no saviors. It's every man for himself. The only ones who care to defend the others are families, though there are hardly any families that dare to venture there.
The people that journey to Kirigakure no Sato are that of outlaws and rogues, bounty hunters and bounty heads. The village's disheveled ruins were frightening. There was an uptown and there was a downtown. Uptown was crumbling and the downtown was a garbage dump.
The Village Hidden in the Mist is no place to grow up, making it the most unexpected and best place to raise a child. If it were an ordinary child, it would have been killed within days. If it were an ordinary child, no one would rear it here. If it were an ordinary child, it would never have been taken into the village. Tetsu, however, is no ordinary child.
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Naruto © Masashi Kishimoto