Disclaimer: I won nothing.
Loyal
It a shinobi is anything they're life expectancy of a missing-nin is a a splinter of that of a loyal shinobi.
However the bingo books never seem to have an absence of S-rank missing-nin to fill it's pages. Loyalty is a trait hard to come by even in a world built around it with the most sever punishments.
And it's amazing when you realize the loyal shinobi is both rare and common because half as many missing-nin where betrayed as the ones doing the betraying.
Every shinobi have their own sense of loyalty: to be completely faithful to their hidden village and transform themselves into the perfect ninja, to coast along pushed on only by the stream of overachievers going in a single direction.
It always helps when a shinobi knows nothing other then loyalty to their village: it is everything, the only thing they have ever known, loved been acknowledged by.
True loyalty is a frigtening thing for sure: to be so badly blinded by the thing that all but consumes them that even the truth is lost in the murks puddle of their muddled perception- but such is the price of loyalty.
And such is the price of the loyal shinobi.
I was actually listening to Of Monsters and Men- Little Talks while writing this. I was thinking a little of everyone when writng this: Kakuzu, Shikimaru, Itachi and again, even Naruto. There where a few others I'm sure but I don't want to bore you.