INTROSPECTION IS HIGHLY OVERRATED - REFLECTIONS OF THE GREATEST OF THE NINE
MEMOIRES OF KURAMA
Freedom;
Freedom is the right of all sentient beings….what a trite and infantile statement. It can only come from a naïve and convoluted species known as humanity. A grand deception from a broken reality.
What, do I offend you? Good, but take heed, there is more left for me to say, and should you lack the strength to stomach it then it proves all the more the unworthiness of your existence.
Freedom is a concept born from humanity, one that was created by your failed conditions. But to truly understand it, I must educate you on another failure of humanity.
The concept of time.
Some would tell you that time is an indefinite continued progress of existence, the blending of concepts like past, present and future. Some would also say that time is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare durations or intervals between them and other such.
Pathetic, truly.
If you ask the greatest of the Nine what is time, I shall answer as such; a social construct, engineered by flawed minds with the sole purpose of shackling an equally flawed existence, with the vague notion to achieve some form of legacy, be it for good which I very much doubt, or for ill which I believe is all your kind is capable of.
You disagree? Of course you do. After All how can your mind compute in any other way, since its institution your society gravitates around it like the earth around the great flame. To disavow this truth is to turn your world blind, and devolve into chaos….would such only happen, it would be a dream made real.
But now answer me this; what is time to one of the ageless? The undying? The eternal? To such existence time is irrelevant. Time has no meaning; time has no dominion and as such ceases to be a thing.
Let us turn to the lesser existences. Even the creatures of the world prove that time is inconsequential. No, they prove that time has no value, no meaning. Their world is governed by instincts, unspoken laws written into their very essence; as unchanging as the cold of the deep and as vibrant as the blood of the earth.
But you humans…you mon-keigh.
Nothing is as consumptive or destructive as you mon-keigh. You seek riches and greatness, simply because it exists. And with the knowledge that your years are short, you sink to the deepest of pits in a mad bid to leave behind some vagary of your presence.
The worst part of all this; such flawed twisted logic is infectious, like a cancerous rot, and on this alone I may never forgive your kind.
I am the Nine-Tails, greatest of all the Biju's. I am one of the endless, not even my father could boast such a thing.
And now I have come to know the dark embrace that is time. A pointless concept now has meaning in my own existence.
I have been imprisoned for close to One-Hundred years. Shackled in one form or another against my own will, it was with horror when I first realised I had been counting the terms of my unjust sentence. You cannot possibly imagine how low I have been brought. This stench of shame I sense on me is intolerable.
Instead of this living death, I would rather face oblivion…..
But in understanding Time, I have come to understand and appreciate the other flawed concept; Freedom.
Freedom is not a right; it is the reward for those who fight. And do not contest this; despite what you say, freedom is never easily given, most have taken it for themselves, sacrificing much in the other slim concept called hope to achieve it.
So in truth freedom is for the brave, the daring, the one who would risk it all in a roll of dice, again and again…the rewards vary, either in the sweet release of death, or victory in the rising sun.
I am not yet ready to face death. Why should one of the endless be party to all of human failings…no I do not accept that choice.
I have known time, unwillingly. I will know freedom, as is my right.
These battles against many foes will take its toll on you Naruto. I have come to respect your tenacity, your bravery and your ruthless nature. As strange as it sounds my observations of your existence has, in a small way…..enriched, my existence.
But now, freedom beckons.
And my time….is Now!
