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Hey, I posted two chapters today! I missed five days, so I'm going to be posting two tomorrow and the next day. Go back if you missed it! :)
Enjoy!
N is for Normal
Almost no one would say that Ibiki is normal, not the Hokage, not Kakashi, not even his brother. Anko maybe, but Anko was so far from normal herself that it didn't really count for anything. Ibiki knew he wasn't normal, not even close. He was beyond normal.
Out of the eighteen shinobi in the world who had been tortured to the extent Ibiki had, seven had committed suicide. Three had never fully physically recovered, and five ended up going on a homicidal killing spree brought on by paranoia and schizophrenia. The other two had returned to shinobi life only to end up cracking in the next ten years and resigning. If Ibiki had gone with the norm, he would probably be dead or hospitalized.
These breakdowns of other ninja were bothersome, however, since the elders freaked out every time and demanded he be given a psyche evaluation. At the end of every one the various psychiatrists would report that he was, well, not normal, but well-adjusted with himself, his only problem being a slight leaning towards sadism that was more from his job than his imprisonment.
This was all very boring to Ibiki. He knew that even if he wasn't normal, he was happy.
Enjoy!