The Will Of Fire

by destinyowldreamer

A series of one-shots about the Rookie Nine, The Sand Siblings, Team Minato, and the "adventures" of Might Guy and Kakashi Hatake when they were kids! Focusing mainly on Team 7 and sometimes branching off into the Akatuski and Team Taka! (Or Hebi whatever) (Rated T for a little blood and slight violence)

4. Poems

Chapter Four: Poems

A/N: Hey guys! Sorry it took me so long to update! This is a bunch of poems about four characters from Naruto! Thank you to my one reviewer! I hope you enjoy this chapter!

A Brother's Mercy

Perfect

What does it mean?

Is it a useful thing?

Can it save the bloodied hands that can never be clean?

People know me

Or they think they do

They could never guess what I've been through

I was too late to hear the screams

But the bodies in the streets will forever haunt my dreams

It was done by the person

Who was closet to me

He insured that I would never be free

I've tried to let go

I've tried to move on

But every smile I see just reminds me what's gone

I have a best friend

He feels my pain

But now I've shut the door and left him out in the rain

There's a girl who loves me

But I can't love her back

All I am able to see is a plan of attack

To kill the person who wiped out my whole family tree

He left me alive

Apparently that's mercy

How so?

I don't see

My eyes are unique

Like no others

Although I've been told

They look quite like my brother's

My own big brother

Left me so alone

And now almost nine years later

I've never been farther from home

The Flight Of A Flower

I'm named after a flower

Pink, pristine, and oh so perfect

I have a goal in mind

But with so much competition

I have to wonder

Is the prize really worth it?

The "prize" or person whose caught our affection

Is smart, dark, and brooding

But he never notices us

Or pays us any attention

I'm ugly

I know

So why would he ever look at me?

But now I've been assigned to a squad of three

Maybe now he'll want to be closer to me

I have to prove myself

Ninjas have to be perfect right?

But to do that I have to help my friend step out of the darkness and into the light

We've been through adventures

We've been through hardships

But all that time we've only strengthened our friendships

I'm finally happy

I'm finally free

The boy that I like

Is finally paying attention to me

My crush has bright red eyes

With them nothing can catch him by surprise

But they're also heavy, dark, cold, and empty

As if someone turned out the lights

Before he was ready

I love him with all of my heart

I do

But now when he looks at me

He just stares right on through

But now that he's gone

The darkness having completely closed him in

He left us here

He left ME here

Wondering

Wondering

What I did wrong?

For most except our team

He's out of sight he's out of mind

But for me

All I can remember is his smile that was kind

He's made his choice

The others say

Move on

Stop moping

Don't let this get in your way

But I won't move on

And I won't let go

Not when our friendship was just starting to grow

My remaining teammate stands beside me

I know I can rely on him

Even if he's the only one

Together we'll make sure the job gets done

Maybe I can't count on anyone else

Fine

We'll just have to save him ourselves

I know that he's out there

I know he's not far

And I will follow him forever

Because it is to him that I have given my heart

I'm a healer

I've trained hard I've trained long

But now confused as I am

All I have left is this broken up song

But I will stand strong

I will stand tall

But I will never let my teammates fall

A flower am I?

I think you'll learn that I'm no longer so fragile

I've fought long and I've fought hard to be strong and agile

I've fought through wars

And I've earned my scars

And I've learned to be smart

And now I'm fighting with all of my heart

So maybe I am a flower

I stand through the storms

But remember everyone

This flower has thorns

The Story Of A Fox

There's a story I must tell you

One about a fox

After the night it attacked

To me no one talks

They turn away and whisper

As I walk through the streets

I don't know why they hate me

But their feelings are clear

So why do I stay here?

Where no one will meet my eyes?

I wonder

Would anyone care

If tomorrow I died?

Would people be happy?

Would people be pleased?

Would they smile and cheer

Because they were finally free of me?

I've been alone so long

Is it something to do with where my parents have gone?

I know everyone loved them

And thought they were amazing

It was people like my parents that they began to need

But with me no one will look deeper than the face

Is it me they're afraid of?

Or something that dwells just beneath?

I have a rival at school

He's smart, popular, and cool

He's different from the others

He never whispers or shouts

He's always slipping away through the back way out

I heard some kids talking

The other day in class

About a massacre

A massacre that only HE survived

And I thought maybe

Just maybe

He could know how I feel

Although I didn't know it yet

We'd both been victims of so much evil

Maybe we could be friends

Best friends in fact

If it hadn't been for two separate attacks

That took our parents

And chances at families and friends

Maybe just maybe we could pretend

That we're alright

After all it's better to walk with a friend in the darkness

Then to walk alone in the light

Truth

All of my life I've stood alone

Every day I come back to an empty home

My father saved a life and paid for it with his own

People seemed to think he did the right thing

But when he killed himself

I wasn't ready to hear the church bells ring

I'm at the top of every class

Every test I always pass

I reached a high rank at an early age

But sometimes I find it difficult to turn the page

I live in the shadow

Of someone who's dead and gone

Sometimes it's difficult for me to move along

I became captain of my team

Everyone in the village held me in high esteem

But they could never know the horrors I've seen

On one of our earliest missions

My best friend died

And for the first time in years

I wasn't ashamed that I cried

I'd lost an eye earlier that day

So my friend gave me his

Saying that with it I would never lose my way

And then we were forced to watch him die

As the light faded from his remaining eye

Almost two years later

My other teammate left

And I was left broken

At the sight of her death

I stood up to my ankles

In blood that wasn't my own

As once again

I was left all alone

Years later I was assigned to a new team

We were assassins and spies

And after each mission we had to cut all ties

Or someone could end up getting a nasty surprise

A mask covered my face

And the eye from my friend

And I just realized that friend rimes with pretend

I've pretended for as long as I can remember

That I'm alright

I'm intelligent and strong

People rely on my choices because they know I'm never wrong

But I know better

I know I'm not always right

Because the truth of the matter is

The light has long since faded from my life

A/N: Hey guys…..was that really cheesy? Anyways, if you couldn't tell the order goes Saskue, Sakura, Naruto, and then Kakashi. Please review!