stupid. Instead, they used the vulnerabilities present in the wielders of such superhuman powers, their humanity.


    horrible knowing just how many corpses we had passed. More often than not, I found that they were Anbu, or more accurately, the Anbu that looked too young to be anywhere near as experienced as they should have been.


    had to be crazy, I decided.


    pointless. So many lost lives that I had been a part of was just beyond what I thought my homecoming would be.


    chaos.


    death. I was trying to balance the guilt on my shoulders and move on, but I just couldn''t take my eyes away from the whole thing.


    needed to move. I needed to do something. So, I stepped forwards, finding Itachi watching me with one eye and scanning the battlefield with the other. Plans to run away were long gone. This was madness, but no one deserved this. "I-I''ll go to Kakashi and Itsuki. You''re faster on your own."


    could have been stopped.


    not the time to argue."


    definitely the time to argue!" Itsuki yelled, blocking a barrage of kunai by swinging the axehead of Kabutowari in front of him. "Jiraiya-san told me not to tell the kid if he arrived!"


    chilled me to my core.