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433. Just Keep On Smiling
Throughout his life, Naruto was always smiling. No matter what happened, or how bad things got, when he was in the village he would always smile. It was a self defense mechanism he learned when he was young. Being an orphan, and a jinchūriki, his childhood had been… difficult.
The villagers had hated and feared him for what was sealed inside him. They enjoyed making him feel miserable, and Naruto learned that by smiling and not showing any outward signs of his discomfort the villagers could not enjoy his pain. This made the torment let up. It did not stop completely but the pain became easier to deal with.
By the time Naruto had found people that cared about him, most of his smiles were fake. By the time the villagers finally accepted him, all of his smiles were fake. He had forgotten how to express true happiness, so he was stuck, always playing the joyful idiot.
932. Watch Out For Weirdoes
Visitors to Kohana, especially ones from civilian villages, tend to leave with the belief that all ninja are insane. This is due largely to the less-than-normal-ninja of the village, there are normal ones, but visitors tend to forget about them because of the more colorful shinobi.
For example, someone who has not received fair warning can be horribly traumatized by Might Guy's and Rock Lee's "Flames of Youth." Occasionally, just the sight of the two of them in spandex has been know to send people into convulsions.
Before his fight with Naruto at the chunin exams, Neji's rants about fate caused several people to try to fling themselves off the Hokage monument, they were stopped by the Anbu and placed on suicide watch.
Anko and Ibiki are scary enough on their own, but get them together on a public street and you can have merchants fleeing the village in droves.
Then there is the leader of the village herself. She drinks, naps at her desk, yells at anyone who wakes her up, and has been know to punch people through walls… It's a wonder anyone goes to Kohana.
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