Disclaimer: Naruto isn't mine

A final breath is drawn

Tension in the air is thick

As in an instant the candle of life

Reaches the end of the wick

Women bow their heads

A son looks away

His father lies there dead

While he kept his tears at bay

And then a three year old did tug

On that man's robes so hard

Opening his mouth to wail

About feelings he couldn't discard

The father struck the child

Said, "You've no reason to cry"

The bleeding boy looked at him

Too young to ask why.

From then on out he made no sound

When he was saddened or hurt

Thinking of his grandfather

Buried beneath the dirt

It started with the life of one

Progressing then from there

Until only his brother was left

Their eyes locked in a stare

The ones who had hurt him

Could not live to do so again

And so he kept the one alive

Who wasn't way back then

He said "live with hate"

As he turned and walked away

Leaving his brother then

As he'd been on that day

I ask you to consider now

The reason Uchiha's don't cry

Surely you must realize

There was more than meets the eye