Read the poem to the end, before judging please and thank you. :)
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, the show or the character. (Not yet; *laughs evily*)
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How do you measure the life of a man?
In minutes? In seconds? In moments? In plans?
How do you measure the life of shinobi?
In missions? In jutsu?
How do you measure your life when death is at hand?
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A new life is born. A new child is named. A new destiny formed. A new chance for pain.
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They call them terrible, for they act out, but what's so terrible about a child?
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They know it not, but their future is planned. They've been measured and tested by their clans.
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Take them to parks, let them make friends. Watch as their childhood starts—just to end.
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Why did we send them to school so young? Oh yes, war; where it all went wrong.
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We'll teach them math and science abound, not that they'll understand what it's about.
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It's been a year, let's start them on knives. They may be but children, but they've sold their lives.
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It's martial arts now, they've got the coordination…hopefully it will be enough to save them.
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Genjutsu's next, the skill of the mind. Talk about the blind leading the blind.
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We are up to Ninjutsu, just teach them a few. Evasion might save them; they don't have time to learn something new.
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Graduation day, time to enter the world, they've lived a decade the rest they must earn.
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No longer a rookie, no better for it…took a C-rank today; those aren't tears—it's rain.
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Starting to learn how to fend for themselves.
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Since when was it okay to kill a child?
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Felt both death and promotion, when will it end?
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That was only the beginning my friend.
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Learned something 'useful' today, it is honorable to be KIA.
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A year since they've died, why am I still alive?
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Why do you look at me with praise? So I'm a jounin who will that save?
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I've made it a decade, on my own strength…would it be wrong to quit while ahead?
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I had my first sip of sake, it won't drown that A-rank away.
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I found a way out of my predestined life, raising a child would be the least of my crimes.
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Was I this innocent, so long ago? Was it possible I too had hope?
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He cries and screams, and yet I just smile, how can I not love the life of my child?
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The clan came today with plans pre-made…I couldn't let them take little Kakashi away.
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It's been 25 years, I think as I die.
What do I have to measure them by?
Minutes, seconds, moments, plans,
None of those matter when death is at hand.
The only choice I ever made was giving birth to a child
Who was just taken away…
To share in my fate.
A/N
Not much is known about Kakashi's mom other than the fact that she died younger than Kakashi was in Shippuden (which is 30) and was not present in much of his life. Having her die in child birth is cliched, so I went for a different path; killed by the clan for trying to keep Kakashi from being a Shinobi. It may be unrealistic but meh it fit my morbid poem :P
Thanks for reading, review please!
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