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Masks
All people wear masks: the mask of a man or woman. The masks of feigned emotion, exaggerated events and hidden emotions. Shinobi are not exclusive to these masks but of all the people in selection have by no doubt the thickest, and largest collections. 'See beneath the underneath' was an expression fitting for a shinobi, so many masks do they wear and for so long the skin on their faces may have well have grown over the bright white porcelain.
However it is not so, and should not be said as not all shinobi wear masks.
Some never don the masks in the first place, rather then swam themselves in a blanket of painted white they could never escape from they simply reach into them selves to the point they find a switch which they promptly flick off and so masks are not necessary.
But Masks are necessary to the human way of life and those without gain them self a cursed fate to wander the hidden continents forever corroding by the loneliness that eats at the heart. Such is the way of shinobi.
And so the white mask falls into place.
I'm writing quite a lot of these it seems. Masks, ah I wanted to draw a sea of old porcelain styled masks that was the impression I tried to draw across however I think I failed. I was listening to something quite classy as I wrote this: Bohemian Rapsody Solo by Lucia Micarelli on Violin. It's quite dramatic and didn't quite fit the air I was trying to prevail but never mind. It seems nothing ever suits.
In truth I was thinking of Niji when I wrote this, but not just him: large clans such as the Uchiha and Hyuga clan both of which where extremely standoffish and separated from Konohakagure.