Annime: I think this will be just for drabbles I come up with willy-nilly and I'll just upload them as chapters.
Chiro: Annime doesn't own SRMTHFG or anything belonging to someone else.
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Chiro always felt it. No one had to tell him. No one had to even give him a hint.
He knew that if Mandarin wasn't evil he wouldn't be there. He would be in the city doing what normal boys did…or as close as he could get to it. He wouldn't have the monkey team as a family.
He knew that they took him in at first because they felt they had to.
He also had a feeling, at the very beginning, that he would be thrown aside when everything was said and done.
When he had found out Mandarin was the wisest, the smartest, and strongest of the monkey team, his heart had fell.
He knew that if Mandarin were ever to turn back from his evil ways that he could easily be the leader again.
He wasn't wiser than Mandarin.
He wasn't smarter than Mandarin.
He wasn't stronger than Mandarin.
He wasn't better than Mandarin.
At least, that's what he told himself.
He never knew what the team wanted.
Did they want him to be like Mandarin?
Did they want him not to be like Mandarin?
Confusion taunted him as he would lay awake at night. Pain would flood through him as thoughts came to his head.
And, when he was captured once, he finally figured something out.
The team was soon there and they were all fighting Mandarin together, including Chiro.
"Oh, boy," Mandarin had taunted. "Don't you know why you are the new leader?"
Chiro was silent. A hard expression painted on his face.
"It's because I can't be. If I were any less evil, I would be the leader. And you…you would be somewhere in the city, lonely."
Chiro didn't say a word, and the whole team noticed this. Chiro's muscles tightened, but he never moved.
Mandarin smirked. "In comparison, you are weak, stupid, and ignorant, to me."
Chiro was still silent.
"You have a huge place to fill in their lives."
"No," Chiro finally replied. "I'm not going to set myself so low to where I have to fill someone else's space. I refuse to. If I'm going to be in some sort of place, it will be my own."
Mandarin was startled by the boy's sudden determination.
And, Chiro had finally learned something that day.
Even though the team will always love Mandarin deep down, they loved him too.
He is their family because they want him to be.
And he can't be a leader if he fears to be like another.
And he can't be a leader if he wants to be just like another.
There was nothing to compare; nothing.
He was Chiro.
He was Mandarin.
They had two different personalities.
Chiro learned that it was no good to compare.
Because it just wasted his time.
Annime: Whatcha think?
Chiro: You need to stop writing so many stories.
Annime: This isn't a story. It is the start of a drabble series. It will always say complete and it won't be updated as much as the other stories of mine.
Chiro: Ok, ok.
Otto: Please review!