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Deferred Memories- Kurenai's story
Kurenai never thought that she was a very good sensei. The whole entire reason she agreed to lead a squad of genin was because Kakashi and some others had convinced her that it would be good for her confidence. At the time, Kurenai merely snorted, rolled her eyes, but agreed anyways. She never knew that it would end this way.
Kurenai soon became proud of her team. Very proud. She often would brag to the other jounins about how her team would spend their time together and have fun. She would inform them that her students would arrive early to train together, regardless of weather conditions. In short, Kurenai was one very happy jounin instructor.
It was a shock when they started to fall apart. By then, Kurenai already had a new genin squad, but she would still watch her old team, just for the sake of it. But after a while, Kurenai started seeing Hinata change and mature. She would see Kiba's eyes cloud over when Hinata would look in his direction, but saw past him, never looking at him. Shino didn't look like he changed much, but inside, Kurenai guessed that he was like the rest of them: older, wiser, different.
Kurenai wiped the moisture at her eyes as she placed some flowers at the three tombstones. It was funny that a sensei would end up outliving her students.
"If only I can go back, back before you guys broke, before our team stopped being a team." Kurenai whispered, kneeling down. But she was too late, too late to fix the past mistakes.
Kurenai stood up, this time letting all her tears fall to the ground. When she stood, she noticed something.
They were identical, slabs of stone, with bundles of flowers in front of them. They were side by side, just as they should be. And they were together... forever.
Team 8 was more of a team in death than they ever had been in life.
Here is the last story to complete this series. Yes, Kiba, Hinata and Shino die : ( I killed them, sadly. Did the ending work?
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Achillea
