Naruto's Legacy

It happened three generations ago. The last Great Shinobi War erupted. The changes that the citizens of the five Great Shinobi Countries saw had been set in stone the day that Gaara of the Desert asked the other Kages that famous question.

When did you forsake yourselves?

Those words, all alone, had been the most powerful weapon in his possession. More even than the ferocious tailed beast that once made a home out of his body. Those words started the peace that Naruto Uzumaki and his beloved teacher, Jiraiya, dreamt about.

It bound the nations together and formed an alliance unlike any that had ever been seen throughout those hundreds of years of pain and death.

Many thought it remarkable that it happened. Others thought it ironic . . . because in the end it took one of the most brutal wars to have ever raged to bring it to reality. It was typical, but still very, very special in its own way.

In that war, Naruto Uzumaki carved his name into history. Thirteen letters so deep that not even the vastest sea could fill them and hide them from view. Gaara paved the way for the five countries to unite and Naruto stitched the alliance together with the feats he accomplished thereafter.

Alongside Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto vanquished the villain that threatened to govern the world with the power of the moon, and then . . . then he rendered himself onto the people of the five countries by putting his feelings aside.

For Sasuke Uchiha, there had been no path to return by. In Naruto's single greatest personal defeat, he killed the last son of the Uchiha clan, he killed his only brother and finally gained an understanding, if slight, of the pain that had turned Sasuke's heart into a vile thing.

The result? None other than peace. Relative peace, at least. Unfortunately, as long as man existed in numbers there would always be murder. But as the sun shone brightly high in the sky, as the wind caressed the branches of the trees, and as the hearts of the people of the five countries pounded with life, the battlefields of old remained deathy silent.

Such was Naruto's Legacy.

Yet . . . the regrettable fact that it is always easier to bring about war than it is to bring about peace is absolute. There will always be those who will seek to see the world in ruins, to see lives torn asunder, and to see those battlefields covered in blood once again.

And there will always be those who will sacrifice everything to preserve . . .

Naruto's Legacy.


Author's Note: I do not own the Naruto brand.