"This is
ten percent luck, twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent
concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent
pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!"
- Fort Minor "Remember the Name"
There are many things in this world that are described through statistics, in fact there are so many things in this world most things are talked about in statistics. For example: only thirty four percent of the population of konoha is shinobi. That's a simple statistic, and not an unusual one… most other villages are also divided along such lines. It's economical that way.
Another statistic is that, within all weapon-based shinobi, only about two percent master more than kunai, senbon, shuriken and their specialty weapon. The two percent are called weapon masters… the other ninety-eight; weapon specialist. Within the grouping 'weapon master,' only a rough fifty percent are expect to survive their first year as a gennin… and a whole ten percent expected to live into their twenties. It's not that surprising that there is so few of them, is it now?
Konoha has one shinobi belonging to the point-zero-zero-one-seven percent of the global population. It does not boast about her, the very definition of a statistic is to be a nameless number. Everything about her is numbers; her one hundred percent accuracy to the four hundred fifty-seven missions she has completed to date and the twenty-three that she had to abandon.
Hell, her mind works in percentages and calculations. For every move she makes, she has already equated the movements needed, at what angles and the amount of strength necessary. In the midst of a fight, moves are picked through their chance of survival; percentage-wise.
If you were to ask a self-titled future Hokage, he'd say that even her name resembled statistics. Two tens: like a perfect score or the multiplicative factors of the greatest possible percentage. It seems only natural for her to be classified and analyzed as numbers.
But then some would say that a person couldn't be described only through numbers and percents. Then again, some believe that shinobi aren't truly people at all… shinobi tend to shed their humanity as soon as they accept their first assassination mission, the other become mentally unstable.
The truth is that nothing can be delineated in its entirety through statistics. Numbers can only represent quantitative aspects, and there's more to life than figures. Life incorporates much more than a ninety-five percent mission completion rate or a seat as one of the thirty-two weapon masters in existence today.
But no matter how incompletely the statistics describe her, they do a hell of a good job describing why her opposition trembles in her presence. Scratch that, most don't even have time to tremble.
AN:
Wow… this thing is barely 500 words… cries… so short!!
Anyways, what do you think of it? Brings out the hypnotism pendulum REVEIW!!
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