Asuma
Cold, cold rain pours down, hiding bitter unbidden tears. Three team-mates, three students, three of the family: They sit eyes downcast. No greater pain than to loose the one that protected them nurtured them and pushed them on to greatness. All are silent, even the blonde, this is no time for her dramatics. The bag of crisps has been put away, the familiar munch, grind of teeth now silenced like their Sensei. No sarcasm comes from the chuunin leader; he was his teacher's first chuunin, something that only he cherished.
Alone in her empty apartment, watching the rain fall through dirty windows, his only love waits for the news that she knows will come, the stem has broken the flower has fallen. She twists her hair, gently so gently, in her mind she screams, she cries, she laments his death. Nothing would give her greater relief than to see his bearded face, to watch that familiar curl of smoke rise into the air around his much loved head. Shinobi do not cry, they show no emotions, Shinobi are tools. They live and die as tools. Yet he died as a hero, and he lived as the hero of her heart.
Would it matter to the citizens of Konoha that the Sandaime Hokage's son was dead and gone? Did it matter that he died like his father to protect the village from evil? Maybe a select few would gossip for a while, fake shock at the news of his death but when their friends move on would they not go back to normal life, no thought for the lost ninja? They would get on with their lives, no cares for those who had given theirs to keep them safe.
But so goes the life of a ninja, like the Salvia flowers: short, tragic and passionate. Shinobi are those who bring fire to the dark. Shinobi are the light of the villages, they're pride, they're power, and they're the downfall of humanity. So why do they small children flock to the academy? Why do the genin, chuunin, jounin and Anbu still strive on? Is it their duty, their lust for revenge or their burning desire to be someone special, someone great? Maybe the world will never know, maybe Shinobi do not know themselves.
Remember Sarutobi Asuma, a great ninja. A perfect example to the end, cry for him and cry for the Shinobi who will die like him. Remember Sarutobi Asuma, not as a name, not as a ninja but as a man who sacrificed everything to protect the world he loved.
Asuma was a character that never really affected me, until the latest Manga arch. I sat there looked at the screen, I thought that they wouldn't kill another character would they? Like his father he affected me most when he was gone. Sarutobi Asuma was a great character, Kurenai wont have him to match up with anymore!! If anyone else feels that they shouldn't have killed him feel free to moan at me!
Sorry if it was crap but I was pretty much writing in a hurry!