"Shizune"
I'm only a young girl, so naïve
How am I to know my master?
I am here, just here to learn
Not to meddle in, not to worry
But she is not only my superior
She is my friend, my older sister
A gambler down on her luck
Her cares light yet so fake
Masking the shadows in her heart
I know her as well as a little sister
And I cannot see her fall into darkness
My hands cannot heal this profound despair
So now hope lies in her painful memories
And the manifestation of her dreams
The boy whose spirit never gives up
"Yakuushi Kabuto"
Don't see past this smirking façade
Don't understand the heart that I hide
Because I am truly torn
Raised in the peaceful place I never belonged to
An unwilling traitor on home soil, just a pitied child
But now I can choose where my home lies
And become the betrayer I always was
Glassed eyes deceivingly kind and gentle
But the blood in me boils malevolently
Supreme loyalty belongs to the mage of serpents
Even if his black mark hasn't sunk into my neck
However, do you question this devotion?
So do I…for reasons you will never know
I am an enigma, the holder of all secrets
And perfectly content to remain as one
"Uchiha Itachi"
I cannot—no I will not turn back
The days when the prodigy was abandoned
Disillusioned and misunderstood
You can never understand me
Already fallen into the black abyss
No hand can save me but the hand of Death
Love and warmth was there, now gone
Regret has consumed my soul
Numbing my whole corpse of feeling
My murmured words frozen into chips of ice
Resentment will be the one to bring me down
Encompassing hatred that surpasses mine
My brother's hand is the death I will gladly embrace
Or else there will be no ground to the pit
Insanity will continue, eyes of blood unclosing
Author's Note: This will be the final chapter until my muse suddenly pops up more poetry. I didn't do Kisame because I found him too minor to do and I couldn't get his ulterior motives. I hope this serves as a nice (maybe temporary) ending to these sets of err…so-called poetry. Though I don't think Itachi's psychotic poem can be considered nice. ^^;
To Derenhelm Jade Skywalker – I'm so sorry for making you wait so long. *major sweatdrop* I had forgotten this work for a long time. But I thank you for reminding me, for without that I wouldn't have considered making a last chapter. I truly hope you enjoyed his poem. He was really hard to understand because his thoughts were so…as if he couldn't come to decision about himself.
To Anna-chan – I've always appreciated your feedback because you've been there since the beginning of my writing for Naruto fanfiction. I feel I've grown along with the stories I've written, and Inner Reflections was the start of it all. As a kind reader, you've never failed to leave a review of encouragement to the stories that sprouted in this community, and now have grown into nice green plants because of it. And you are a wonderful writer who can capture feelings in the simplicity of words, especially in your Neji story. I hope to see you and more of your work.
