LC; I am so bored.
Naruto; Why do you always write MORE when your bored?
LC; I don't know. I just do.
Sasuke; That would be like asking the sun why it rose in the morning instead of night.
Naruto; I was just curious.
LC; Enough of this confusing prattle! On to this story!
Disclaimer; I do not own Naruto and have run out of topic to talk to him about in Author Space. My life is pathetic.
Chapter 1: Some rules, her thoughts.
Growing the way she had she supossed it wasn't a surprise how she had turned out. Looking at her reflection in the mirror she went over all the things she believed in.
Rule 25: A shinobi must never show their emotions.
She wore her heart on her sleeve and never lied about it. She trusted unexplicably and loved unconditionaly. She would never think of harming one of her precious people.
She always grew stronger by drawing on her emotions in battle.
Rule 32: A shinobi must never sympathize with the enemy.
Yet so often she found herself doing just that. So many times she knew, in another time, they could have been friends.
There were so many examples of this too, Haku, Gaara, Sasuke, she could see herself in all of them.
Rule 50: To a shinobi the kunai is everything and love is nothing.
She rarely fought with kunai, and placed love as the highest priority in her life. To her it was backwards. The kunai was an object, touchable, so therefore it was everything. However, it took that which was nothing, life, something that could be felt but not touched. Something that could not be seen.
To her, love was nothing, intangible, with no physical form at all. For that reason, she saw it as meaning everything. It was something that could be seen but held no form. It could be felt, but not touched.
Rule 1: A shinobi is a tool.
This one was confusing. Yes, shinobi were tools, no they were not mindless. A shinobi, she guessed, was a sentient tool.
A shinobi served those it deemed worthy of serving and could turn their blade to their weilder as well as any enemy. They were a double edged weapon that could harm the holder as grievously as their foe.
Natsuko Uzumaki gazed into the mirror and saw her blonde hair, forever remaining unruly and cut short in what might be a cute bob if it would ever stay down. She saw blue eyes that she knew many associated with the sky. She personally thought of them like the ocean, with infinite depths.
She saw the six whisker marks, her marks of the jinchuriki. She thought they made her look exotic.
Rule 48: The shadows are the most important part of a shinobi.
Yet without the sun, a shadow could not be cast. So for there to be shinobi, there must be something for the shinobi to fight for.
They fought for their 'sun' the thing that brightened their day and brought a smile to their faces. Maybe it was a spouse or child? Maybe just the village in general? Whatever it was, the shadows that made the shinobi, the protectors, could not be made without the sun, the thing they protected.
Rule 31: A shinobi must be ready to die for their village.
She thought that rule above all others was both ingenius and stupid. Genius because many shinobi did die for their home. Stupid because it was the ones that lived that suffered.
She thought above all others', that a shinobi must be ready to live for their village. To live after the sun had been blown out and after their comrades had died and their hands been stained with blood.
Rule 160: A shinobi must unquestioningly follow their kage.
This one she could identify with, but it was also this one that she hated above all others. As a kage, you sent your soldiers out on missions, some suicidal.
A shinobi had to accept every mission given. Even though they had the option to say no, no one would refuse their kage. Natsuko knew that this rule was the most important, she knew why.
A shinobi must be ready to follow their kage, even to the gates of hell.
END OF CHAPTER, NOW GO AWAY!
LC; Okay, chapter one of Rules for the Masses is complete!
Naruto; Whatever, at least this one is bearable.
Sasuke; Why am I here again? You never make me the star, so you obviously don't like me.
LC; I do like you but I like Naruto better. He is the star of the whole series!
Sasuke; *Grumble grumble*